The likeness book7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Cassie is a character - the eternal lost child - you can really care about. “Tana French puts a clever twist on every lonely child’s fantasy of leading a parallel life when she creates an alternate identity for her detective in THE LIKENESS. The Likeness nearly pitch-perfect follow-up to her 2007 debut thriller, In the Woods.” The Likeness: A Novel (Dublin Murder Squad #2) The Likeness is a supremely suspenseful story exploring the nature of identity and belonging. Suddenly, Cassie is back undercover, to find out not only who killed this young woman, but, more importantly, who she was. The victim looks exactly like Cassie and carries ID identifying herself as Alexandra Madison, an alias Cassie once used as an undercover cop. In the “compellingˮ ( The Boston Globe) and “pitch perfectˮ ( Entertainment Weekly) follow-up to Tana French’s runaway bestseller In the Woods, Cassie Maddox has transferred out of the Dublin Murder Squad-until an urgent telephone call brings her back to an eerie crime scene. “Required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting.” - The New York Times ![]() New York Times bestselling author Tana French, author of the forthcoming novel The Searcher, is “the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years” ( The Washington Post) and “inspires cultic devotion in readers” ( The New Yorker). ![]()
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Sister souljah new book 20217/8/2023 ![]() Hell is the same as any hood and certainly the Brooklyn hood she grew up in. ![]() Will she blow Winter’s head off? Can Winter dodge the bullets? Or will at least one bullet blast Winter into another world? Either way Winter is fearless. ![]() Simone, Winter’s young business partner and friend, is locked and loaded and Winter is her target. But Winter is not the only one with revenge on her mind. She’s eager to pay back her enemies, rebuild her father’s empire, reset his crown, and ultimately to snatch Midnight back into her life no matter which bitch had him while she was locked up. Still stunning, still pretty, still bold, still loves her father more than any man in the world, still got her hustle and high fashion flow. ![]() The long-anticipated sequel to Sister Souljah’s million copy New York Times bestseller The Coldest Winter Ever. ![]() ![]() His arrival on the first night suggests something is not quite right when he sees a woman out in the frozen mists, standing alone in the marshes. Until he is invited to spend Christmas with his guardian in a large and desolate country house. One that would be unbelievable if it weren't true! Michael's parents are dead and he imagines that he will stay with the kindly lawyer, executor of his parents' will. Michael Vyner recalls a terrible story, one that happened to him. Book Review: The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Ca. ![]()
Big red lollipop by rukhsana khan7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Sana scurries after it and eats that too. With all my might, I throw it across the room. ![]() “Look! I didn’t eat all of your lollipop! I left the triangle for you!” Sana runs to the fridge and brings back the triangle stuck to the stick. “She ate my lollipop! The greedy thing! She ate it!”Īmi says, “For shame! It’s just a lollipop! Can’t you share with your little sister?” “Are you trying to get your little sister again?” ![]() Sana runs behind Ami, where I can’t get her.Īmi puts her hands on her hips. Quick as a rat, she scoots through my legs and runs around and around the living room, the dining room, the kitchen, yelling, “Ami! Ami! Help! Help!”Īmi comes out, rubbing her eyes. I hear a sound in the front of the hall closet. All that’s left of my lollipop is a triangle stuck to a stick. In the morning, I get up early to have it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Their meetings with Nishino, sometimes by accident, are usually the catalysts for change, at least temporarily, and it is usually the women who end the relationships. In ten stories about the loves of Nishino, a man whose primary purpose in life is to seduce and “love” the women he meets, author Kawakami introduces his lovers, women who appear to be in charge of their lives, living independently. In this story collection, however, the author blurs the lines between reality and imagination in new ways, drawing the reader further into her plots, themes, and characters. One thing a reader can often count on in a book by Hiromi Kawakami is that her main characters will be independent, but deliberately “ordinary,” and that her plot lines will also be unpretentious and solidly realistic. ![]() He was detestable – both to men and women.” But Nishino did all of these things with ease. Things so insignificant that no man could pull them off. Calling on the phone at the desired time. “A man who could satisfy a woman’s desires that even she was unaware of, who could draw them out from deep within her heart – that was Nishino. ![]() The golden enclaves book buy7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Instead, someone else has picked up the project of destroying enclaves in El's stead, and everyone she saved is at risk again with a full-scale enclave war on the horizon. Peace and harmony have enveloped all the enclaves of the world. Instead of killing enclavers, she saved them, and now the world is safe for all wizards. And what's more, she didn't even have to become the monstrous dark witch she's prophesised to become to make it happen. The one thing you never talk about while you're in the Scholomance is what you'll do when you get out - not even the richest enclaver would tempt fate that way.īut that impossible dream has somehow come true for El and her classmates. Saving the world is a test no school of magic can prepare you for in the triumphant conclusion to the Sunday Times bestselling trilogy that began with A Deadly Education and The Last Graduate. ![]() The black prince murdoch7/7/2023 ![]() But you know what? Lincoln apparently still didn’t have it as bad as 45, even despite the the hole someone literally put through his head. Plot summary The Black Prince is remarkable for the structure of its narrative, consisting of a central story bookended by forewords and post-scripts by characters within it. The Black Prince is part of a great efflorescence of experimental historical fiction over the past few decades, of which Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall is the most commercially successful example. The name of the novel alludes mainly to Hamlet. ![]() How about Lincoln? Trump conceded that Lincoln was “vilified” as well. The Black Prince is Iris Murdoch 's 15th novel, first published in 1973. But no, the former guy does not believe Andy J. Was it Andrew Jackson? “They said such horrible things ,” Trump claimed, failing to note that those horrible things might have to do with Jackson’s history of ethnic cleansing. Speaking to Mark Levin for an interview that aired Sunday night on Fox News, the ex-president decided, for some reason, to rank US presidents according to who had been treated most unfairly. ![]() Which makes his recent comments about the 16th president pretty bizarre (and yet, still trademark Trump). ![]() ![]() Now, Donald Trump doesn’t know a lot- basic English, science, math, and large parts of history, in particular, elude him-but we’re guessing he does know how Lincoln was killed. And, of course, the fact that the 16th president of the United States was famously assassinated by actor John Wilkes Booth while taking in a play with his wife. There are a few things that most people tend to think of when they think of Abraham Lincoln. ![]() ![]() ![]() While these questions are thousands of years old, the method of using scientific inquiry to get answers is relatively new.īack in ancient times, we used gods to explain the world’s natural phenomena. As long as we’ve been around, we’ve been pondering the big questions: why are we here? Are we alone in the universe? Is there a creator? One of the defining characteristics of human beings is our curiosity. why we are incredibly lucky to be here. ![]() why our “reality” might not be the only one and.why there is no such thing as free will.In this summary of The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, you’ll also learn They will help explain how we know what we know, and hint at what’s still left to discover. This book summary will guide you through a brief history of scientific development. Be it the interactions of the largest bodies imaginable, like stars or galaxies, or the movements of tiny subatomic particles, scientists are always learning more. In between, science has made great leaps in understanding how the world around us works. Not only does science have an excellent idea as to how the universe was formed, it has also offered us a pretty clear indication of how it might end. If you were to ask a bronze-age “scientist” how the universe began or how it runs, he’d probably answer that it was all the work of various gods. When it comes to our knowledge of the physical world, humanity has made remarkable strides over the last few millennia. ![]() Jack maggs book7/7/2023 ![]() Here, for example, he pins down both the body and soul of a household servant: "Miss Mott was lean and sinewy and there was nowhere much for such a violent shiver to hide itself. In addition, his eye for physical detail-and the ways in which such details open small or large windows onto character-is on par with that of Dickens. Carey, however, more than withstands the test of time, alluding to the formality of Victorian prose without ever bending over backward to duplicate it. Of course, rewriting a page-turner from the past offers some major perils, not the least of them being comparisons to the original. ![]() So, too, is the post- colonial spin that Carey puts on Dickens's material: this time around, the prodigal Maggs is perceived less as an invading alien than a righteous (if not particularly welcome) refugee. The names, it's true, have been tinkered with, but the book's literary paternity is unmistakable. ![]() Jack Maggs is a variation on Great Expectations, in which Dickens's tale is told from the viewpoint of Australian convict Abel Magwitch. ![]() In this novel, however, Carey has set himself an even more complicated task-reinterpreting not only a vanished era but one of that era's masterpieces. ![]() As a novelist, Peter Carey is hardly a stranger to the 19th century: his Oscar and Lucinda was a veritable treasure-trove of Victoriana. ![]() Keep the Faith by Candy Harper7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Only Isobel and one other student raised their hands. In one of her first classes, her professor asked if anyone believed in heaven and hell, in Genesis, etc. She had been raised in a Christian home in Toronto, Canada, and when she went off to a secular college, her parents took care to drill her in arguments against modernism and other affronts to truth that she would encounter there. ![]() ![]() In By Searching she shares how she came to know the Lord. I feel the same, but by presenting her story I’m ultimately promoting His grace and work. She herself would probably be loathe to read that sentence, as she wouldn’t want her name to be promoted, but rather the God who worked in and through her. ![]() Her name is well-known in some areas but not as well known, perhaps, as some of the house-hold names of classic missionary biographies, so I want to keep her story before people. But I always enjoy reading them again, going over what’s familiar and being reminded of what I’d forgotten. I’ve read her books By Searching: My Journey Through Doubt Into Faith and In the Arena (as well as her others) several times and know some parts of her story as well as my own. I first heard of Isobel Kuhn either in college or in the church where we were members when we first married, where there was an emphasis on reading missionary biographies. ![]() |