![]() ![]() He disappears and is presumed dead, and their mother suffers an apparent breakdown. But their lives quickly unravel as their father's lucrative catering business collapses. ![]() Set in west Philadelphia in the early sixties, Tempest Rising tells the story of three sisters, Bliss, Victoria, and Shern, budding adolescents raised in a world of financial privilege among the upper-black-class. (Set in west Philadelphia in the early sixties, Tempest Ri.) Diane McKinney-Whetstone's Tumbling is a poignant, exquisitely rendered story of the ties that bind us and the secrets that keep us apart. Suddenly and unexpectedly a family, Herbie, Noon, and their two girls draw closer - until an outside threat reawakens a fire in Noon, causing her to rise up and fight to hold her family and her community together. Then one day an infant girl is left on their doorstep, and later Ethel blesses them with her five-year-old niece. But their marriage remains unconsummated because of a horrible incident in Noon's past, so each seeks comfort elsewhere: Noon in the warm acceptance of the neighborhood church Herbie in the arms of Ethel, a jazz singer. Noon and Herbie are deeply in love and living in a tightly knit African American neighborhood in South Philadelphia during the 1940s. ![]() (Noon and Herbie are deeply in love and living in a tightl.) ![]()
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![]() ![]() Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead, must defend London from both supernatural ailments and a bloodthirsty cult Greta Helsing inherited her family's highly specialized and highly peculiar medical practice. As terror takes hold of the city, Greta must use her unusual skills to stop the cult if she hopes to save her practice and her life"-īook Synopsis The first book in a delightfully witty fantasy series in which Dr. Although barely making ends meet, this is just the quiet, supernatural-adjacent life Greta's been groomed for since childhood-until a sect of murderous monks emerges, killing human and undead Londoners alike. ![]() Helsing treats the undead for a host of ills-vocal strain in banshees, arthritis in barrow-wights, and entropy in mummies. ![]() About the Book "Greta Helsing inherited the family's highly specialized, and highly peculiar, medical practice. ![]() ![]() They did not want us to shoot inside Taco Bell lest we reveal secrets.” “Which seemed to upset Taco Bell to no end. “We were taking pictures inside the Taco Bell,” he explains. Later, over a trio of far more salubrious Baja-style fish tacos at 230 Forest Avenue in downtown Laguna, Winslow tells Jean, his wife of 28 years, about his taco troubles. ![]() He has no intention of eating the thing, which is just a prop for the surreptitious photo shoot. “I'm just trying to buy a taco.”įor the purposes of this story, Winslow is attempting to purchase a Doritos Locos Taco, a national sensation that's really nothing more than a steaming clod of cheesy beef dumped inside a stale, orange shell. “What are you complaining to me for, dude?” an innocent Winslow asks. ![]() “I told you already-no photos inside the restaurant,” the manager whines. ![]() The fat guy working the cash register is giving him the stink-eye, and the restaurant manager is waving his arms in the air. It's a Tuesday morning in late June, and there's a photographer nearby snapping pictures of Winslow. This is what Don Winslow is probably thinking as he stands in line at the Taco Bell at 699 S. ![]() ![]() ![]() In early 2011 Brown’s Berlin gallerist Max Hetzler presented recent works of the British artist at a comprehensive solo exhibition. "Brown is usually described as a Mannerist." In his works Brown makes reference to artistic strategies from the renaissance to the present, adopts themes and pictures of both living artists such as Georg Baselitz or Howard Hodgkin, as well as works of great established artists of art history, such as Rembrandt or Dali, whom he uses as a foundation for his reinterpretation. Not in the sense of a previously seen shot with similar themes, but more like a déjà vu, that was shot by Far Wolf, an effect which is part of the concept of the artist, who was born in 1966 in Hexam. When looking at the work of Glenn Browns one is inevitably reminded of something previously seen. ![]() ![]() ![]() there is something hidden among the margins of white paper and black ink-true sorcery that only Sarah Addison Allen can master. This book is more than the sum of its parts. If I could rent a condo in the Dellawisp for the summer I’m certain I’d never leave. And soon enough, the other residents of the Dellawisp become a found-family that Zoey never expected. The other residents who live in the Dellawisp are a curious mélange of outcasts, ghosts, and birds, but on the first night, when one of her neighbors is found dead, Zoey’s quiet summer becomes something quite extraordinary. ![]() A cobblestone, horseshoe-shaped building called the Dellawisp-named after a variety of local birds-becomes Zoey’s unlikely home. The story begins when eighteen-year-old Zoey arrives at her deceased mother’s home on the island of Mallow, which is known for its marshmallow confections. This book casts an unmistakable spell on its readers, and Allen writes with prose that feels like pure alchemy, as if each sentence were a summoning of autumn air and long-forgotten magic. Other Birds is the story we all need right now, lyrical and heartbreaking and layered with hope. ![]() ![]() I wanted to read this book slowly, absorbing each word carefully, yet I found myself rapidly thumbing through the pages with tears in my eyes. When you find an author you love, and they publish a new book after many years away, cracking open the first page is like sinking into the arms of an old friend. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tenaciously researched and written with passion and wit, Hidden Agendas will change the way you see the world. ![]() From the invisible corners of Tony Blairs Britain to Burma, Vietnam, Australia, South. In this powerful book, journalist and film maker John Pilger strips away the layers of deception, dissembling language and omission that prevent us from understanding how the world really works. He also celebrates the eloquent defiance and courage of those who resist oppression and give us hope for the future. £15.39 36 Used from £1.73 10 New from £15.39. ![]() Unchallenged, it operates to protect its interests with a cynical disregard for people - shaping, and often devastating, millions of lives.īy unravelling the hidden histories of contemporary events, Pilger allows us to read between the lines. In this powerful book, journalist and film maker John Pilger strips away the layers of deception, dissembling language and omission that prevent us from understanding how the world really works.įrom the invisible corners of Tony Blair's Britain to Burma, Vietnam, Australia, South Africa and the illusions of the 'media age', power, he argues, has its own agenda. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ruthless people quickly introduce Liam Callahan, the handsome, rich, ruthless, and exotic heir of the Irish Mafia group. Ruthless people is set in modern-day Chicago. Part 1: Storyline of Ruthless People by J.J McAvoy ![]() Part 4: Concluding Remarks On Ruthless People By J.J McAvoy.Part 3: Selected Chapters from Ruthless People By J.J McAvoy.Part 2: Main Characters of Ruthless People by J.J McAvoy.Part 1: Storyline of Ruthless People by J.J McAvoy.You can read Ruthless people alternative here! I have read a considerable number of media romance books in the past, and I can say without mincing words that Ruthless People is one of the best I have ever come across. Ruthless people is so beautifully and perfectly written that it seems like you are engrossed in the storyline right from the very beginning. Each chapter brings a new twist and introduces new conflicts, good enough to keep us all hooked. A beautiful book in all regards, Ruthless People By J.J McAvoy is one mafia book you wouldn’t want to take your eyes off. ![]() ![]() ![]() No one man is strong enough to claim Odysseus' empty throne-not yet. But now, years on, speculation is mounting that her husband is dead, and suitors are beginning to knock at her door. Penelope was barely into womanhood when she wed Odysseus. None of them has returned, and the women of Ithaca have been left behind to run the kingdom. Seventeen years ago, King Odysseus sailed to war with Troy, taking with him every man of fighting age from the island of Ithaca. Breathtaking." - Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne ![]() "North brings a powerful, fresh, and unflinching voice to ancient myth. ![]() But on the isle, it is the choices of the abandoned women-and their goddesses-that will change the course of the world. Beyond Ithaca’s shores, the whims of gods dictate the wars of men. This is the story of Penelope of Ithaca, famed wife of Odysseus, as it has never been told before. ![]() ![]() Like who does that door belong to? Where do it led to? But come to find out, it’s the knights door. While Valentina was getting the school tour from Sofia, they stopped at a door with no sign and Sofia told her to never go in there, I thought all kinds of things. ![]() ![]() If you had to be someone rich and famous to get into Evergreen Academy, How to Valentina get in when she is poor? Like I’ve stated before is her father who she doesn’t know really rich? Who is her dad? Why don’t the mom, Olivia, want to talk about her dad? Is he someone famous or is he rich?Īt first, I thought baby Adam was Valentine’s son, but he is her baby brother. I like that the author made the main character, Valentina, come from nothing. ![]() I love the way the author writes, I just wish she described the characters more. This book is one of those ones that you just can not put down. ![]() ![]() ![]() Anna is unsure about making friends with the village kids, and aware how different-and in some ways more fortunate-her life is by comparison (she never goes hungry). In Go Well, Anna Hibiscus! and Love from Anna Hibiscus!, Anna visits the village her grandparents left years before for the city where they all live now. ![]() Her new experiences make her feel uncertain-does her family think she’s changed too much? But the aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents with whom she lives along with her parents and younger brothers in “amazing Africa” soon reassure her with their welcome and warmth, while a newly hatched chick bonded to Anna leads to amusing antics. In Welcome Home, Anna Hibiscus!, Anna has returned from visiting Granny Canada, her maternal grandmother. The return of Anna Hibiscus is cause to rejoice with these four new paperbacks for newly independent readers or reading aloud. You're Amazing, Anna Hibiscus! (Anna Hibiscus Book 8) Illustrated by Lauren Tobia. ![]() |