![]() ![]() Promising to reveal in time what he knows of the plot against her, the baron offers her temporary sanctuary in the care of his friend Stoker - a reclusive natural historian as intriguing as he is bad-tempered. But fate has other plans, as Veronica discovers when she thwarts her own abduction with the help of an enigmatic German baron with ties to her mysterious past. As familiar with hunting butterflies as she is fending off admirers, Veronica wields her butterfly net and a sharpened hatpin with equal aplomb, and with her last connection to England now gone, she intends to embark upon the journey of a lifetime. ![]() ![]() After burying her spinster aunt, the orphaned Veronica is free to resume her world travels in pursuit of scientific inquiry - and the occasional romantic dalliance. As the city prepares to celebrate Queen Victoria's golden jubilee, Veronica Speedwell is marking a milestone of her own. ![]()
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![]() Most importantly, it's about moving forward. It's about desperately seeking for something that will never be restored, and of making the best of the worst of situations. ![]() It's about the lengths people go to to feel part of a community and to get rid of everything that they have bottled up inside. Lakota Woman makes you go through the pain of being stripped from your identity of losing everything, from your family to your traditions to your sense of security, and trying to find someplace to belong to. As I went about reading it, I felt ashamed to be white, yet it still allowed me to have hope and to embrace my ancestry, no matter how painful and cruel it might have been. The content of her story leaves one speechless and full of yearning. Mary Crow Dog's choppy english makes the reader feel as if someone were actually narrating the happenings, and even makes you feel as if it were your own story. It captivates you from the very first sentence, and leaves you stapled into the pages throughout the entire story. This book, if anything, is an astonishing piece of art. ![]() There is not a moment in the reading that you didn't feel what she was recounting, be it repulsion, empathy, disgust, desire, or even hope. If there's something to be said about Lakota Woman is that it's a story so well told that it becomes a life experience for the reader. ![]() ![]() ![]() So no one hailed him over ship's comm when he was out here. Killeen disliked using implied falsehoods-he was no more irritable in the morning than at any other time-but it was the only Though children might still rush up to him and blurt out a question, lately there had alwaysīeen an adult nearby to tug the offending youth away. He had carefully built up a small legend about his foul temper just after he awoke,Īnd it was beginning to pay off. The Family was getting better at leaving him alone in theĮarly morning, he had to give them that. Inside Argo there was always the rustle of movement, the rub of humanity kept two years in the narrow though admittedly pleasant confinesĪnd worse, when he was inside, someone could always interrupt him. ![]() It was the only place where he could feel truly alone. The Aspect name and logo are registered trademarks of Warner Books. Published in arrangement with Bantam Spectra. Information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, just months after Cat’s death, Chuck finds that he can’t let go of her things-her favorite towel, the sketchbooks in her desk drawer-as he struggles to pack for a trip he can’t imagine taking without her.Įlla Burke delivers morning newspapers and works at a bridal shop to fill her days while she anxiously awaits news-any piece of information-about her missing daughter. Set in a close-knit Pennsylvania suburb in the grip of winter, A Quiet Life follows three people grappling with loss and finding a tender wisdom in their grief.Ĭhuck Ayers used to look forward to nothing so much as his annual trip to Hilton Head with his wife, Cat-that yearly taste of relaxation they’d become accustomed to in retirement, after a lifetime of working and raising two children. ![]() From the author of A Little Hope -a Read with Jenna Bonus Pick-comes an enormously powerful and life-affirming novel about three individuals whose lives intersect in unforeseen ways. ![]() ![]() ![]() To begin with, I was surprised Falconer had even released another Olivia title. “Something is not right!” to quote Miss Clavel. We must have read it at least a half-dozen times the first day, but with each recitation, I had the growing feeling that something about this book was missing a part of what made the first five installments so special. So we snatched up our copy of “Olivia Goes to Venice,” which debuted at the end of September. “Just two Olivias tonight, Mommy,” she’ll say, a plea she picked up from Olivia herself. We’ve been reading the same five copies of Olivia’s various adventures every night since Eloise was old enough to ask for a book by name. I wasn’t far behind her I was thrilled at the idea of introducing a new story line to our nighttime ritual. ![]() Eloise nearly jumped out of her stroller when she saw the stack of books at Borders bearing the trademark Olivia title – oversized, all-caps letters gleaming in red and white. ![]() ![]() Funded by a Ukrainian oligarch, the conference had become an occasional stopover for the gladhanding global elite. Snyder had come to speak at an annual conference, Yalta European Strategy (YES), which was founded in 2004 to promote ties with Europe. You could get a haircut at a barbershop, or hear standup at a comedy club, or sunbathe on the shores of the Dnieper River. Life, while not normal, was regaining some of its prewar rhythms. The first months of the war had gone relatively well for the Ukrainians – a fact that surprised many observers, but not Snyder – and by September, Kyiv was no longer in imminent danger of occupation. Air raid warnings blared from phones in pockets and handbags. There were sandbags everywhere, concrete roadblocks and steel “hedgehogs” designed to stop Russian tanks. ![]() On disembarking at the Kyiv-Pasazhyrskyi station, he found the city transformed by war. In the decades that followed, Kyiv had grown bigger and more interesting, and Snyder, who is now 53, had become an eminent historian of eastern Europe. ![]() ![]() Snyder knew the city well: he’d been visiting since the early 1990s, when he was a graduate student and the newly post-Soviet Ukrainian capital was dark and provincial. L ast September, seven months after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Yale historian Timothy Snyder took a 16-hour train ride from Poland to Kyiv. ![]() ![]() In fact, when I started listening to this series I was listening to Stephen King's The Dark Tower series and waiting for the Song of Susannah. OK - I normally read / listen to fantasy and science fiction. And rising political icon Nicolae Carpathia seems to be at the center of it all. Buck suspects secret meetings between international power brokers are somehow connected. Theories abound, from Christian Rapture to alien abduction. Among the passengers still left is star reporter Cameron "Buck" Williams, who just got the assignment of a lifetime: find out what happened and why. Rayford and the others left behind must deal with mass chaos on top of personal loss. Pilot Rayford Steele is contemplating adultery with a young flight attendant when over 100 of his passengers simply vanish, leaving vacated clothes and bewildered companions. ![]() Narrator Richard Ferrone's unusually deep and hypnotic voice will keep you right in the middle of this not-unimaginable end of the world nightmare. ![]() ![]() ![]() What would happen if millions of people around the world suddenly disappeared one day? In this fascinating apocalyptic thriller, best-selling Christian inspirational authors LaHaye and Jenkins pool their considerable talents to answer that question. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Cleverly taking inspiration from the title of another book (We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver), Bridges not only tells us about his upbringing and journey into stand up comedy, but throws in his views on controversial issues such as benefits and immigration. Ever since being introduced to him on ‘Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow’ in 2009, I have loved his self-deprecating humor and his ‘realness' not being ashamed of his working class roots and even building his early routines off of them.įame is known to change people and not always for the better, but in this book, Bridges shows himself to be a humble man with an affection for his family that is obvious when he talks about them. I’m not sure anybody else could capture Kevin Bridges quite as well as Kevin Bridges. ![]() This is one autobiography that I am eternally grateful did not have a ghost writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With such hyper-focus on Eileen as a character, a great bulk of the novel doesn’t really have a plot. With all said and done, I can now characterize the novel as a meticulous dissection of the lead character and her life, performed in retrospect by the narrator herself. While I could recall some details of the summary from when I first purchased my digital copy, as well as people tacking “mystery” and “thriller” to it on Goodreads, I had only a vague notion of what was in store for me. While at this point I’m no stranger to how Moshfegh’s fiction plumbs the depths of human suffering, I was surprised with just how much of a slow burn this novel was. The story follows her life over the course of several days, leading up to the fateful Christmas Eve when her life changes forever. Between working as a secretary in a youth prison and caring for her callous, alcoholic father at home, Eileen lives a life of misery and self-loathing, fantasizing about leaving her hometown forever. Set during a bitter winter in 1964, the story follows Eileen Dunlop, a disturbed 24-year-old woman living in a nowhere town in Massachusetts. Eileen is a 2015 novel by Ottessa Moshfegh, the author’s first full-length book of fiction, which won her the PEN/Hemingway Foundation award in 2016. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is one special group of men that K C Wells has gifted us with. As in all the books, Shaun's friends from the other 4 books came through for him. ![]() "Cat", Nathan's big yellow kitty also provided some moments. Nathan's mother was a riot! Loved that woman. There were lots of tears on both sides on the printed page but there were also moments of laughter. Big, beautiful and black and has seen the price Shaun pays for his dedication. K C Wells has done a phenomenal job of making Shaun’s story come to life and making us.the readers.care. It's a very sad story since you also know how Shaun's dad's story is going to end.you just don't know when. Aaron is happy for his friends who’ve found love, but he’s starting to feel as if he’s an endangered species a single guy. ![]() It had only been a short time since his mother had died so Shaun was barely holding on.and then he gets some help when Nathan, a nurse, is sent to help while Shaun works and continues to spend what he knows will soon be the last days with his dad. Aaron isn’t looking for love, but it finds him and it has a few surprises in store. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search. Shaun was obviously a dedicated son that was working and trying to help his father through later stage Alzheimer's. Wells See the best price to sell, buy or rent books by the K.C. Really different storyline than the other 4 books. ![]() |