![]() ![]() All is going as planned-until the pair is caught red-handed. So when Uncle Mick receives a tip about a safe full of jewels in an empty house, he and Ellie can't resist. Breaking into the homes of the rich and picking the locks on their safes may not be condoned by British law enforcement, but with World War II in full swing, Uncle Mick's locksmith business just can't pay the bills anymore. "Filled with wry humor, tight suspense, and a delightful cast of characters." -Alyssa Maxwell, author of the Gilded Newport mysteriesįIRST RULE: DON'T LOSE YOUR CONCENTRATION.Įlectra McDonnell and her family earn their living outside the law. ![]() The first in the Electra McDonnell series from Edgar-nominated author Ashley Weaver, set in England during World War II, A Peculiar Combination is a delightful mystery filled with spies, murder, romance, and the author's signature wit. ![]() Listen While You Run - Audiobooks for Workouts.Press Play! Always Available Audiobooks.Til Death Do Us Part: Marriage Thrillers. ![]()
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![]() This is the opening paragraph of the book and it’s all you need to know about what is going to happen, about what is happening, about what has happened. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death- cup mushroom. ![]() I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. The last time I felt it was reading Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle. But sometimes, the wonder is still there. ![]() I think it’s one of the reasons I read so much fantasy and science fiction these days, as these genres provide a short-cut to that feeling of difference. It gets more and more difficult to feel the same overwhelming, heady excitement about books that I used to. You know the type: precocious, slightly awkward, unseen by boys, always, everywhere reading – hungry for something different, other places, other lives. ![]() As long as I can remember, I have been one of the Reading Girls. ![]() One of my first memories of myself is me reading on the veranda at my grandparents’ place – I must have been four, possibly five. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Sappho stung with love![]() His original poems have appeared in such journals as Arion, Dark Horse and Poetry Magazine.ĬAROL ANN DUFFY is a British poet, playwright and freelance writer. After travelling and doing research in Greece on fellowship, 2003â∴, he earned his PhD in 2006. ![]() He entered graduate school for Classics in 1997 at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. ![]() She is renowned as the first woman poet in literary history.ĪARON POOCHIGIAN attended Moorhead State University in Moorhead, Minnesota, 1991â∶, where he studied under the poets Dave Mason, Alan Sullivan and Tim Murphy. Though little of her poetry survived the Middle Ages, archaeological excavation has recovered numerous fragments. After her death she became a figure of legend and, in the Hellenistic period (323â∱46 BCE), was canonized as one of the nine lyric poets worthy of study. Though a poet of considerable range, she is best known for amatory poems focusing on adolescent females. A native of the island of Lesbos, she resided in its largest city, Mytilene. SAPPHO was born after 630 BCE and died around 570. Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments Contents ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Girls to the Front by Sara Marcus![]() ![]() Explorations of femininity and gender were just as wide‐ranging in the 1990s, with the advent of fields like motherhood studies spearheaded by scholar Andrea O’Reilly who created Demeter Press, the first feminist press focused exclusively on motherhood. For this strain of feminism, “intersectionality” (coined by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw in the late 1980s) becomes an important term for thinking through how different social categories-gender, race, class, sexuality (dis)ability, and so on-come together to create a system of privilege or disadvantage for any individual. ![]() With the advent of sex‐positive third‐wave feminism in the 1990s, notions of femininity and feminism shift, in reaction to the growth of fields like masculinities and transgender studies, but also in response to the activism of women in the previous decade to broaden the inclusivity of feminism. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Goodnight moon book pages![]() One of them being that it glamorizes rape. The author uses rape as a plot driver, which is fundamentally wrong on many levels. The issue is the way she looks at other females and does not engage with them in civil conversation she always insults (directly or indirectly) Also, the author uses the protagonist's sexual abuse story as a way to gain pity and glorify the abusive relationship she is about to enter into. Befriending men and only men is not an issue, for I only really have male friends. ![]() Sam says things like "I have more balls than you," and "you're dating a twig who doesn't even make up for it with boobs." Sam only befriends guys, while alienating and dismissing any female. I was shocked to read this book that contains the most misogynistic female main character, which is supposed to play this feminist icon. ![]() I enjoy reading books written by people who think differently to me. I was expecting to go into this book and read from an annoyingly feminist perspective. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Eve curie madame curie![]() “While her husband headed UNICEF, she played a very active role in the organization, traveling with him to advocate for children and to provide support and encouragement to UNICEF staff in remote and difficult locations,” said UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. ![]() During his leadership, which spanned 17 years from 1965 when UNICEF received the Nobel Peace Prize to 1979, Eve Labouisse was known as the 'First Lady of UNICEF' and travelled to many developing countries that were receiving the agency's assistance at that time. Her late husband, former UNICEF chief Henry Labouisse, passed away in 1987. Labouisse was 102 at the time of her death on 22 October. ![]() The United Nations Children's Fund ( UNICEF) today mourned the death of Eve Curie Labouisse, a widow of the agency's former Executive Director and staunch humanitarian who supported the agency throughout her long life. ![]() ![]() Ichmad is a gifted boy who works to keep his family together amid the senseless cruelty and overwhelming hardship that is everyday life under Israeli occupation. Amal is killed in the first three pages of The Almond Tree, and that heartbreak is only the first of many catastrophes to rock this young hero in his painful coming-of-age journey. ![]() As the household prepared for a holiday celebration the toddler climbed out of her crib to follow a red butterfly into their field-which Israel has designated a “Closed Area.” Ichmad guides his “baba” using a map he drew as he watched Israeli soldiers plant mines in the family’s land. We first meet 7-year-old Ichmad Hamid in 1955, as he guides his father through a field of landmines in the West Bank of Palestine to retrieve what’s left of the boy’s tiny sister Amal. ![]() Get the book here! Reviewed by Delinda C. ![]() By Michelle Cohen Corasanti, Garnet Publishing, 2012, paperback, 348 pp. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments The cellar book natasha preston![]() ![]() Lucky for me, the sequel is already out so I don’t have to wait. Although I love a nice clean ending that wraps everything up, there were some unanswered questions. Other than the great plot, I loved how fast-paced this book was. Although the idea of a kidnapper isn’t unique, this set-up is different from anything I expected. The next book in the series is You’ll Always be Mine. It is the first in the series which is why there are a few loose ends at the end. The book is told from the perspective of the protagonist Summer, her boyfriend Lewis and the kidnapper, Colin. But flowers can’t survive long cut off from the sun, and time is running out…” Goodreads Spending months inside the cellar of her kidnapper with several other girls, Summer learns of Colin’s abusive past, and his thoughts of his victims being his family…his perfect, pure flowers. No family or police investigation can track her down. “Nothing ever happens in the town of Long Thorpe – that is, until sixteen-year-old Summer Robinson disappears without a trace. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and if this is one of her worst, then I can’t wait to see what’s in store as I binge-read through her collection! Synopsis This wasn’t her best-rated book on Goodreads, in fact it had much lower ratings than all her other books. ![]() The Cellar by Natasha Preston is the first book by this author that I have heard so much about. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Shadow kiss a graphic novel![]() Books with markings of any kind on the cover or pages, books marked as "Bargain" or "Remainder," or with any other labels attached, may not be listed as New condition. ![]() New: A brand-new copy with cover and original protective wrapping intact. ![]() A great purchase if Mead's novels are popular or for beefing up graphic novel collections with fun, easy reads.-Mariela Siegert, Westfield Middle School, Bloomingdale, IL Otherwise, this version is smooth and easy to comprehend. The narrative picks up right where the last entry left off, and it can be confusing for those who have not read the previous titles: many plotlines are in continuation, and it's difficult for teens to understand the characters' motives if they are not aware of past dilemmas. The characters are consistently well drawn, and the flow of the panels is appealing to the eye. The full, rich colors and enticing artwork will have fans and newcomers alike picking up this volume. Many would like to get their hands on the royal, and this tale highlights that danger as well as some new surprises. This third installment, tells the continuing story of Rose (a Dhampir) and Lissa, her best friend and a Moroi princess, who has the gift of channeling magic from the earth. ![]() Mead's "Vampire Academy" books (Penguin), which showcases a world of vampire royalty and the Dhampirs, half-vampire/half-humans, who must protect them at all costs. Gr 9 Up-This is no Twilight rip-off, but a graphic novel adaption of a popular series that paranormal aficionados will love. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments The Future of Us by Jay Asher![]() “Thirteen Reasons Why” won multiple awards: California Book Award, Best Books for Young Adults, Selected Audiobooks for Young Adults, Borders Original Voices Finalist, Barnes & Noble – Top 10 Best Books for Teens, International Reading Assoc. ![]() His second novel, “The Future of Us” (co-written with Carolyn Mackler), has sold in 15 foreign markets, and is being developed as a movie by Warner Bros. ![]() Netflix released a series based on the novel, with Selena Gomez as an executive producer on March 31, 2017. “Thirteen Reasons Why “, his debut novel, spent over two years on the New York Times children’s hardcover best-seller list, with foreign rights sold in over 30 countries and more than one million copies in print in the U.S. Jay Asher is the author of the young adult novels “ The Future Of Us ” (2012) and “ Thirteen Reasons Why ” (2007). ![]() |