![]() ![]() Soon, they want a safe place to store all the books. ![]() She gets the town excited to read and write, also. When the library is destroyed, a book-loving girl makes her own Free Library by writing her own books and sharing them with the townspeople. Nia and the New Free Library by Ian Lendler, illustrated by Mark Pett She sneaks into his hideout, disguised as a plumber, uses books to distract the guards, rescues the captured ninjas, and subdues the moths with …a story! It’s up to Lyric McKerrigan (secret librarian) to stop him. Lyric McKerrigan, Secret Librarian by Jacob Sager Weinstein, illustrated by Vera Brosgolīecause librarians can save the day… Doctor Glockenspiel is threatening to have his giant moth army eat ALL the world’s books. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Despite her feelings, Kelly doesn’t think she wants to marry another active military man, and Joe doesn’t want to start a family knowing he’ll be an absentee father. ![]() Joe and Kelly’s relationship enters new territory as they try to determine whether marriage is in their future, or if they can ever go back to being just friends. All this time, Kelly and Joe have been the best of friends, until Kelly blurts out that she loves him in a moment of crisis. Joe Baker, was injured during the same mission and feels the guilt of Nick’s death. Kelly Jacobs lost Nick, her Navy SEAL husband, three years ago in a “training accident,” which she knows means he was killed during a top secret mission. True Devotion by Dee Henderson is an old-fashioned love story, which takes place against a background of modern-day treason and nuclear espionage. ![]() ![]() ![]() Heartbreaking and lushly imagined, Shelter celebrates the love between two sisters and the complicated bonds of family. Even as the sisters struggle to understand how their mother could abandon them, they keep alive the hope that she is fighting her way back to the daughters who adore her and who need her so desperately. With deep compassion and sparkling prose, Frances Greenslade’s mesmerizing debut takes us inside the devastation and extraordinary strength of these two girls as they are propelled from the quiet, natural freedom in which they were raised to a world they can’t begin to fathom. Then her worst fears come true: Not long after Maggie’s tenth birthday, their father is killed in a logging accident, and a few months later, their mother abruptly drops the girls at a neighbor’s house, promising to return. But at night, Maggie-a born worrier-would count the freckles on her father’s weathered arms, listening for the peal of her mother’s laughter in the kitchen, and never stop praying to keep them all safe from harm. Seasons in their tiny rustic home were peppered with wilderness hikes, building shelters from pine boughs and telling stories by the fire with their doting father and beautiful, adventurous mother. For sisters Maggie and Jenny growing up in the Pacific mountains in the early 1970s, life felt nearly perfect. ![]() ![]() At the party, Steve learns that the mine payroll has just been deposited in the bank and passes the information along to Red and Idaho. The gang sends Steve to assay the bank and, while posing as a potential investor, he meets banker Andrew Grant and his daughter Ellen, who invite him to a party at their house that night. After escaping with the money, the four meet Idaho, a prison acquaintance of Red's, who suggests they rob the bank in the town of Remington. Intimidated by his uncle, Steve consents and joins ranch hands Smokey and Whopper in a raid on the town bank. ![]() Red tells Steve that his father has been murdered by the sheriff's posse and proposes they retaliate by robbing the banker in charge of the foreclosure. The next day, Tom's son Steve returns home after an unsuccessful attempt at securing a loan. Hearing the gunshots, Red's brother Tom rides into the mêlée to stop the firing, but is hit by a stray bullet and killed. When Sheriff Saunders of Cedar Fork comes to foreclose the mortgage on the Lazy H ranch, quick-tempered rancher Red Haggerty defends his land at gunpoint. ![]() ![]() ![]() Finlay Donovan Is Killing It is not a copy of that show by any means but it does have a lot of the same vibes and there are a few similarities here and there between the characters. Good Girls is one of my all-time favourite shows and since its (unfortunate) cancellation, I’ve been missing it a lot and I would say that this book definitely filled the void. It was a comparison that I couldn’t ignore. I’d actually seen Finlay Donovan Is Killing It here and there but it was a couple of comments comparing it to the show Good Girls that had me finally picking it up. The pacing is great and because that mystery is never overcomplicated, it means the plot moves along at a wonderful pace and the entire book is entertaining from start to finish. ![]() The story is great and hilarious and the mystery is genuinely interesting. When someone tries to hire her, it creates a catalyst for a series of events as Finlay falls down a bit of a rabbit hole. The book follows Finlay, a novelist who is overheard while discussing her next book with her agent and is mistaken for a contract killer. In fact, it made me love it even more to discover that not only did it meet those expectations but it succeeded them. I had some pretty high expectations for this one and I’m so pleased that it worked out. Finlay Donovan Is Killing It was my first 5-star read of 2022. ![]() ![]() It attaches itself over one eye, acting as both a regular eye, and an eye into the Realm of their choice. These Realms are accessed by way of a 'Smarteye' which is part bionics and part electronics. By creating 'Realms' that span the course of history, the future, and any destination that can be imagined, those who dwell within the Pods manage to stimulate themselves with a rich and diverse environment. In the Pods, the populations use technology to escape their confined environment. As a result, a large portion of the population chose to live in self contained city sized Pods. It is a story in which world is plagued with air that is seething with electrically charged storms charring any place where they meet land. ![]() "Under the Never Sky" by Veronica Rossi is a futuristic look at a world in which the population is divided between those who live in Pods, and those who survive under the sky. ![]() ![]() In historical terms we know very little about Spartacus the man - partly because most contemporary Roman historians were keen to obliterate his memory and prevent him from attaining mythic status. ![]() The first of two epic novels which tell the story of one of the most charismatic heroes history has ever known - Spartacus, the gladiator slave who took on and nearly defeated the might of Rome, during the years 73-71 BC. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. 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He is a wonderful cook and a talented writer, so enjoy his Tortilla, a fall scene from Maine, Steve's incredibly helpful annotated instructions - and thanks for reading! What could be better?Īs a fitting grand finale, I've called upon my friend Steve Caro, in England, to share one of his specialities. I've enjoyed this assignment tremendously, as it combines two of my favorite creative activities: writing and cooking. The archive will remain up, however, so all the recipes from the past few years are there for the taking. This will be the last new post for Meal Monday on. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jesus and the Eyewitnesses also taps into the rich resources of modern study of memory, especially in cognitive psychology, refuting the conclusions of the form critics and calling New Testament scholarship to make a clean break with this long-dominant tradition. To drive home this controversial point, Bauckham draws on internal literary evidence, the use of personal names in first-century Jewish Palestine, and recent developments in the understanding of oral tradition. The author challenges the assumption that the accounts of Jesus circulated as 'anonymous community traditions', asserting instead that they were transmitted in the name of the original eyewitnesses. 'Jesus and the Eyewitness' argues that the four Gospels are closely based on the eyewitness testimony of those who knew Jesus. ![]() ![]() After their father abdicated, they left the grand palaces, but in exile they remained cooped up inside houses, reading and going for walks in gardens. For aside from a stint Tatiana and Olga spent working as nurses during World War I, the sisters remained segregated from the worst excesses of Russian reality almost until the very end of their lives. In Four Sisters, however, acclaimed biographer Helen Rappaport, puts them centre stage and offers readers the most authoritative account yet of the Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia. ![]() A striking feature of the book is how relatively sheltered the sisters’ lives remained even after the Russian Revolution. It’s as if 100 years from now an author were to collate contemporary news reports about Prince William, Kate Middleton and their son into an epic tome viewing early 21st century history from the point of view of regal domesticity.īut it’s not all pointless. There is a lot more of this in the book, a great accumulation of it. We also learn that on a trip to England in 1910, Olga and Tatiana bought some postcards and also “treated themselves to some perfume from Beken & Son’s pharmacy.” ![]() ![]() Maria and Anastasia, however - gasp - wore their hair down. How unscintillating are the details Rappaport includes? We learn that at a ball given on her 16th birthday, Olga wore her hair up, as did her sister Tatiana. ![]() |
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