![]() ![]() The residents are in shock after the suspicious death of a baby and tension is growing due to the ongoing miners’ strike. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. The author of In Too Deep delivers a gripping, devastating and utterly absorbing thriller of a shocking. A gripping look at a community in turmoil, struggling through a miners strike and now rocked by a childs murder It’s the summer of 1984 and there is a sense of unease on the troubled Sweetmeadows estate. ![]() Haunted by a personal trauma she can't face up to, Clare is shadowed by nine-year-old Amy, a bright but neglected little girl who seems to know more about the incident than she's letting on.Īs the days go on and the killer is not found, Clare ignores warnings not to get too close to her stories and, in doing so, puts her own life in jeopardy.Ī gripping thriller perfect for fans of Angela Marsons, Mark Edwards and B A Paris ![]() Journalist Clare Jackson follows the story as police bungle the inquiry and struggle to contain the escalating violence. ![]() The residents are in shock after the suspicious death of a baby and tension is growing due to the ongoing miners' strike. It's the summer of 1984 and there is a sense of unease on the troubled Sweetmeadows estate. 'Deeply compelling, quietly threatening.' -Caro Ramsay I found myself thinking of the characters long after the book had ended.' -Emma Kavanagh ' This Little Piggy is a gripping, devastating and utterly absorbing read. Bea has a rare ability to create the true atmosphere of a place and time, and to take the reader there.' -Rachel Abbott ![]()
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![]() ![]() Teeming with fascinating characters and electrifying intrigue, Brad Thor does it again and proves why he is known around-the-world as a master of thrillers. Use of Force (Scot Harvath Series 16) by Brad Thor 4.5 (52) Paperback 17.99 Paperback 17.99 eBook 9.99 Audiobook 0.00 Large Print 18.99 Audio CD 14. ![]() Hired on a black contract, Harvath provides the deniability the United States needs, while he breaks every rule along the way. Where was he headed? What was he planning? And could he be connected to the “spectacular attack” they have been fearing all summer? In a race against time, the CIA taps an unorthodox source to get answers: Navy SEAL turned covert counterterrorism operative, Scot Harvath. ![]() ![]() Identified as a high value but missing terrorism suspect, his name sends panic through the Central Intelligence Agency. From the #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Brad Thor comes “his very best” ( The Washington Times) thriller, following covert operative Scot Harvath as he is called upon to stop an ISIS-led plot to destroy the Vatican.Īs a storm rages across the Mediterranean Sea, a terrifying distress call is made to the Italian Coast Guard. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As with Wilde's own work, Sorrow is practically personified and recognized as making Joy that much sweeter and more meaningful than a simple pleasure who has no recognition or acknowledgement of pain. I've been reading a lot of Oscar Wilde lately, and though Beagle doesn't reference him as being an influence, and in fact is quite the opposite of WIlde in his attitude regarding the worth of fairy tales, the writing is strikingly similar and I think Wilde would have appreciated both versions of The Unicorn. I loved reading his introduction and afterword it provides a beautifully rich context for both this first iteration and the Last Unicorn book/movie fans know and love. I have to admit the thought crossed my mind to "lose" it and pay the library for it, but of course I won't do that! I'm so glad the Abilene Public Library had what Austin did not, and I'll happily keep the good karma going to ensure as many copies of this treasure can be enjoyed by as many people as possible. What a treat! I had to request this through interlibrary loan, and the copy I received is a pristine First Edition, number 87 of 1000 signed by the author, with beautifully embossed end papers. ![]() ![]() Modeling is a tough job, and Edie's agent, Helen Le Baron ( Susan Anton), has been giving her pills to make it through the day. She is a down home type of girl who would like nothing better than to make a little money and then return home to take care of her family and perhaps become a vet. Edie a small town girl from the midwest who works for her. According to Al, Sam's job is to keep up and coming model Edie Landsdale ( Marjorie Monaghan) from dying of an overdose of drugs and alcohol. Sam leaps into the body of high-fashion photographer Karl Granson. The episode, which was written by Chris Ruppenthal and directed by Michael Zinberg, originally aired on NBC-TV on October 19, 1990.Īs Karl Granson, a well-known fashion photographer, Sam must protect a female fashion model from overdosing on illicit drugs. One Strobe Over the Line was the fourth episode of Season 3 of the TV series Quantum Leap, also the 35th overall series episode. ![]() Sam, as a fashion photographer, must keep model Edie Landsdale from overdosing on drugs and alcohol in "One Strobe Over the Line" in Season 3 (ep.#4). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Along the way, he reveals a truth that is more than skin deep-the power of food to bring the kin of the enslaved and their former slaveholders to the table, where they can discover the real America together. As he takes us through his ancestral culinary history, Twitty suggests that healing may come from embracing the discomfort of the South's past. He sifts through stories, recipes, genetic tests, and historical documents, and visits Civil War battlefields in Virginia, synagogues in Alabama, and black-owned organic farms in Georgia. Twitty travels from the tobacco and rice farms of colonial times to plantation kitchens and backbreaking cotton fields to tell of the struggles his family faced and how food enabled his ancestors' survival across three centuries. Twitty takes listeners to the white-hot center of this fight, tracing the roots of his own family and the charged politics surrounding the origins of soul food, barbecue, and all Southern cuisine. ![]() In this unique memoir, culinary historian Michael W. ![]() Southern food is integral to the American culinary tradition, yet the question of who "owns" it is one of the most provocative touchpoints in our ongoing struggles over race. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Rich characterization, exquisite worldbuilding and rock-solid storytelling make this a fantasy of unusual intelligence and depth. Beginning with The Winners Curse, Kestrel’s story is a romance made up of high stakes, secrets, and the risk of losing everything she loves. ![]() As war ravages their countries, their love is put at even higher stakes as they must choose between each other or their loyalties to their homes. Kestrel buys Arin on an impulse and, despite the two’s vastly different backgrounds and their impossibility of being together, they fall in love. The Winner’s Trilogy – Marie Rutkoski’s young adult fantasy The Winner’s Trilogy follows 17-year-old Kestrel, a general’s daughter in an empire that revels in war and enslaves the people it conquers, and Arin, a slave. ![]() ![]() For those who do wish to experience the entire Riyria saga, two reading options exist: ![]() Although part of a series, it's designed to thrill both new readers looking for fun, fast-paced fantasy and Riyria veterans wishing to reunite with old friends. ![]() Now they must venture into an ancient corner of the world to save a mysterious woman who knows more about Royce than is safe and cares less about herself than is sane.įrom the best-selling author of The Riyria Revelations comes the third installment of The Riyria Chronicles. Things have gone well enough until they're asked to help prevent a murder. Three years have passed since the war-weary mercenary Hadrian and the cynical ex-assassin Royce joined forces to start life as rogues-for-hire. When the last member of the oldest noble family in Avryn is targeted for assassination, Riyria is hired to foil the plot. ![]() ![]() ![]() You have to have some mechanical understanding to write good steam-punk. Not that I’m any good at writing steam-punk. I wrote a story when I was younger that is totally steam-punk, before I’d ever heard of it. Extra bonus– a love triangle with Sicarius’s son.īut mainly this series is about action, and hilarious characters (Maldynaldo the butt-kicking male escort), and steam-punkiness, though the author says she didn’t know what steam-punk was when she wrote it. ![]() But I love it… Sicarius and Amaranthe! The assassin and the ex-cop (or the book’s version thereof). It takes several books before you even realize there’s a relationship going on. I’m not into romance novels, at all, so I like it when there is very subtle romance. ![]() I might have read all of the additional side stories (it’s so awesome that she writes those). Okay, so I might be a little bit obsessed with this series. ![]() ![]() Walsh and continued writing prolifically. After returning to the United States in 1935, she married the publisher Richard J. Her views became controversial during the Fundamentalist–Modernist controversy, leading to her resignation. From 1914 to 1932, after marrying John Lossing Buck, she served as a Presbyterian missionary, but she came to doubt the need for foreign missions. She graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, then returned to China. She and her parents spent their summers in a villa in Kuling, Mountain Lu, Jiujiang, and it was during this annual pilgrimage that the young girl decided to become a writer. ![]() As the daughter of missionaries and later as a missionary herself, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in Zhenjiang, with her parents, and in Nanjing, with her first husband. īuck was born in West Virginia, but in October 1892, her parents took their 4-month-old baby to China. In 1938, Buck became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China" and for her "masterpieces", two memoir-biographies of her missionary parents. ![]() She is best known for The Good Earth, the best-selling novel in the United States in 19 and which won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (J– March 6, 1973) was an American writer and novelist. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve only read the first book in that series and seen slightly more than the first season of the sexified television adaptation, so while I’ll probably notice any real broad strokes the two have in common, Jenny Trout’s already written up a very helpful list of just how much E.L. As has been pointed out by others by now, 1) the characters and plot are pretty similar to Fifty Shades of Grey, and 2) the characters and plot are pretty similar to, uh, Winston Graham’s Poldark, of all things. Of course, “new” is surprisingly up for debate. Much to my – assuming my local bookstore is to be believed – horror. ![]() |