Wildwood meloy5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Within that heart lives a seventh grader, Prue McKeel, who resides with her parents and her baby brother, Mac, in a Portland neighborhood near a great tract of wilderness Meloy has imagined into being: “As long as Prue could remember, every map she had ever seen of Portland and the surrounding countryside had been blotted with a large, dark green patch in the center, stretching like a growth of moss from the northwest corner to the southwest, and labeled with the mysterious initials ‘I. ![]() Now the band’s singer, Colin Meloy, has written a fantasy adventure set, appropriately, in the green heart of the city. It’s a town where the bookish, bewhiskered, occasionally bowler-hatted band members of the Decemberists can play perfect homegrown rock. Portland, Ore., is an analog town, a city of bicycles and bookstores and Douglas firs and old pubs with splintery wooden bars and hulking industrial-era bridges. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She married Gervas Huxley in 1931 and travelled widely with him in America, Africa and elsewhere. In 1929 she joined the Empire Marketing Board as a press officer. ![]() She was educated at the European School in Nairobi and at Reading University where she took a diploma in agriculture, and at Cornell University, USA. Biography: Elspeth Huxley was born in 1906, the daughter of Major Josceline Grant of Njoro, Kenya, where she spent most of her childhood.She wrote novels, detective fiction, biography and travel titles, and her books include The Mottled Lizard (1962), The Challenge of Africa (1971), Livingstone and His African Journeys (1974), Florence Nightingale (1975), Scott of the Antarctic (1977), Nellie: Letters from Africa (1980), Whipsnade: Captive Breeding for Survival (1981), The Prince Buys the Manor (1982), Last Days in Eden and Out in the Midday Sun: My Kenya (1985). She was on the BBC General Advisory Council from 1952 to 1959, when she joined the Monckton Advisory Commission on Central Africa. ![]() Elspeth Huxley was born in 1906, the daughter of Major Josceline Grant of Njoro, Kenya, where she spent most of her childhood. ![]() Book dread nation5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() What’s that saying? Out of the frying pan and into the fire-yep, that sounds like Jane’s situation in a nutshell. Every Miss Preston’s girl knows walls won’t keep out the dead forever. And all the while, a massive horde is gathering outside the city’s defenses. Gideon Carr, the Baltimore mayor’s son and self-appointed scientist, has a certain degree of influence over Nicodemus and wants Jane to vouch for his shambler vaccine so he can innoculate the town. Other (white) survivors of Summerland blame Jane for murdering the Sheriff (true) and causing the town to fall (false) and want her to hang. The road there is not without its own dangers, but even once inside the safety of the walls, malice lurks around every corner. ![]() Summerland has fallen, and there’s a horde of shamblers on Jane and Katherine’s tails as they try to get their small band of survivors safely to Nicodemus, a purported free settlement for people of color. ![]() Relationship Status: ‘Til Death Do Us PartĬareful, Sweetie: spoilers! This is the last book in the Dread Nation series, so if you haven’t read the previous one, you should probably hop back in the TARDIS and go curl up in the library by the pool with the first book before continuing.Ĭan’t you just picture Jane and Katherine standing for their portraits like this if they, ya know, had the time to take them? Of course Jane has her weapons and didn’t bother to clean up, and of course Jane is looking like she stepped straight out of 1880s Vogue. Bonus Factors: Wild, Wild West, Friendship ![]() Kenneth branagh next poirot5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() If a script is already completed for a third Poirot film, we might hear more story details sooner rather than later. Given that Death on the Nile was set in 1937, I can only assume this third film would be post World War II (1945 or later). It’s yet to be confirmed which Agatha Christie novel is being adapted for this film, but it’s been hinted that this is one of Christie’s lesser-known novels and it will be set in post-war Venice. ![]() A report from The Hollywood Reporter confirms that we haven’t seen the last of the mustachioed detective, as a third Agatha Christie film is in the works, and indeed according to the report the script is already complete. It’s been confirmed that a third Agatha Christie film is being developed by Kenneth Branagh, in which the actor and director will return as famed detective Hercule Poirot.Īfter the delayed release of Death on the Nile, many were wondering if this was the last we would see of Kenneth Branagh as Poirot. ![]() Alcatraz evil librarians series5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() the Evil Librarians seriesĪt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Or so he thinks, until he learns the hard way that the mansions and elegant tree-lined streets of the city can be even more dangerous than the dusty plains of the Roughs. Now he must reluctantly put away his guns and assume the duties and dignity incumbent upon the head of a noble house. ![]() After twenty years in the Roughs, Wax has been forced by family tragedy to return to the metropolis of Elendel. ![]() The Dark Talent is the fifth action-packed fantasy adventure in the Alcatraz vs. This series has definitely become one of my all-time favorites I love the humor, wit. Alcatraz Smedry is on a mission to save the day In his final adventure in the series by bestselling adult fantasy writer Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz has a lot to prove and, as always, little time in which to do it. ![]() Waxillium Ladrian, a rare Twinborn, can Push on metals with his Allomancy and use Feruchemy to become lighter or heavier at will. (Alcatraz vs the Evil Librarians: Book 4). Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity,with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds. This discounted Mistborn ebundle includes: Alloy of Law, Shadows of Self, The Bands of Mourningįrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn: Wax & Wayne series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action. ![]() Honeycomb by joanne harris5/7/2023 ![]() Catharine’s College, Cambridge, and in 2013 was awarded an MBE by the Queen. Her work is extremely diverse, covering aspects of magical realism, suspense, historical fiction, mythology, and fantasy. In 2000, her 1999 novel Chocolat was adapted to the screen, starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. Joanne Harris is an Anglo-French author, whose books include fourteen novels, two cookbooks, and many short stories. The tales are beautifully illustrated by the renowned illustrator of Stardust, Sandman, and The Book of Earthsea, Charles Vess. ![]() ![]() These are just a few of the weird and wonderful creatures who populate Joanne Harris’s first collection of fairy tales.ĭark, gripping, and brilliantly imaginative, these magical tales will soon have you in their thrall in a uniquely illustrative edition. The toymaker who wants to create the perfect wife the princess whose heart is won by words, not actions the tiny dog whose confidence far outweighs his size and the sinister Lacewing King who rules over the Silken Folk. ![]() Harris and legendary artist Charles Vess in a collaboration that’s been years in the making. Full of dreams and nightmares, Honeycomb is an entrancing mosaic novel of original fairy tales from bestselling author Joanne M. The beauty of stories you never know where they will take you. A lushly illustrated set of dark, captivating fairy tales from the bestselling author of The Gospel of Loki with the illustrator of Stardust, Charles Vess. ![]() A merry little meetcute5/7/2023 ![]() I just love that her job and her size is not the sum of who she is, and it isn't a shameful part of her. She is an all around wonderful person - who happens to work in porn. They make it clear that Bee went through a journey to find her self-esteem and her love for herself. They didn't just make her immediately confidant. Julie and Sierra wrote her in a way that didn't gloss over her plus-size status. Plus-size, and loves herself and her body. It was cool, and unique, and just an all around entertaining read.īee is amazing. We as the reader get a nice, fluffy Christmas story, but the best part is the real, behind the scenes Christmas love story. The whole idea of adding porn stars and behind the scenes staff of porn, asking them to keep their jobs secret, and working on one of these movies? Brilliant and funny. As someone who loves romance, I sure do HATE Hallmark and Women's Network romance movies, so I haven't seen one in a long time. You get a simple, chaste kiss, and that's it. Because lets me honest - Hallmark movies are as wholesome and family friendly as they come. The situations Bee and Nolan get themselves into throughout the book lead to some laughs, and even the side characters who are part of the industry add a little something to the awkwardness of the situation they landed in. Which makes it all the more wonderful, and hilarious. It blends the very popular Hallmark wholesome Christmas movies with the adult entertainment world - in secret, of course. The story in A Merry Little Meet Cute is great. ![]() |