![]() ![]() With each passing day, Annie’s current life and the memories of her old life begin to blur. In fact, nothing is the same as Annie remembers. ![]() Glendy Vanderah, bestselling author of Where the Forest Meets the Stars and The Light Through the LeavesĪ Day Like This is the story of Annie Beyers, a wife and mother who wakes from an accident to learn that her daughter never existed. This book is bursting with heartache and love, and with tremendous empathy for its genuine and likeable characters-including a beloved house. A Day Like This is smart, poignant, and poetic, the story itself like the main character’s life, a blossom that unfolds in fascinating layers.” “When we fantasize about different paths we might have taken, we usually think about how our lives would be better-but how much would we have lost to arrive there? In her gorgeous debut, Kelley McNeil explores the question through a brilliant premise that kept me captivated hour after hour. ![]()
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![]() ![]() You won't regret it! An absolute must-read!. I don't get a chance to read very often, but I make time for her books because they are so vivid and evocative that I get lost in the scenes in a way that doesn't happen for me very often. Click here to subscribe Audible Free Trial ad. Tied together by missing jewels, there is danger, romance and mystery-and also a wonderful paranormal element that, no surprise, really speaks to me. Lover Unveiled (2021) You can get any two books from list for free with your Audible Free Trial Subscription. Suzanne Belperron, one of the great innovators of jewelry design, and a personal icon of mine, is depicted with painstaking accuracy (thanks to extensive research) in the forties- and our contemporary heroine, Violine Duplessi, carries the story into the eighties. Following two story lines, one set in 1986, and the other in occupied France in 1942, there is a expert interweaving of historical fact and the kind of fiction that is so well constructed and executed, that it feels like real life. Following two story lines, one set in 1986, and the other in occupied France in 1942, there is a expert interweaving of historical fact and the kind of fiction that is The Jeweler of Stolen Dreams is a book that resonated for me- and also haunted me. The Jeweler of Stolen Dreams is a book that resonated for me- and also haunted me. ![]() 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sam then stuck rigidly to the authorized version. In Thud! we learn that the next day Young Sam said "Buglit!" (an attempt at Ron's distinctive "Buggrit!") and Sybil pointedly never raised the subject. He therefore attempts to rework the story into what he calls the 'Vimes street version', about a search for "daddy" through the city, encountering such characters as Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler, Foul Ole Ron, and the Patrician. Sam eventually decides that this is a daft way to look for a cow, and that Young Sam should, in any case, be getting taught about Ankh-Morpork rather than animals he will only see on a plate. The book describes the search for a cow, in which various animals that are not cows are identified by the noise they make. The book is written as a children's picture book and tells the story of Sam Vimes reading the picture book Where's My Cow? to Young Sam. This looks slightly similar to the Carnegie Medal sticker on the paperback of The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents. The cover bears a gold sticker reading " OOK! The Ankh-Morpork Librarians' Award - Children's Winner". Where's My Cow? was released on 23 September 2005, to coincide with Thud!. It is based on a book that features in Pratchett's Discworld novel Thud!, in which Samuel Vimes reads it to his son. ![]() Where's My Cow? is a picture book written by Terry Pratchett and illustrated by Melvyn Grant. ![]() ![]() ![]() In addition to A-to-Z descriptions of apple varieties, both extant and extinct, Calhoun provides a brief history of apple culture in the South, and includes practical information on growing apples and on their traditional uses. Illustrated with more than 120 color images of classic apples from the National Agricultural Library’s collection of watercolor paintings, Old Southern Apples is a fascinating and beautiful reference and gift book. ![]() Representing our common orchard heritage, many of these apples are today at risk of disappearing from our national table. This masterwork reflects his knowledge and personal experience over more than thirty years, as he sought out and grew hundreds of classic apples, including both legendary varieties (like Nickajack and Magnum Bonum) and little-known ones (like Buff and Cullasaga). ![]() ![]() Author Lee Calhoun was one of the foremost figures in apple conservation in America. Out of print for several years, this newly revised and expanded edition now features descriptions of some 1,800 apple varieties that either originated in the South or were widely grown there before 1928. A book that became an instant classic when it first appeared in 1995, Old Southern Apples is an indispensable reference for fruit lovers everywhere, especially those who live in the southern United States. ![]() ![]() ![]() Writing to her lawyer from prison, she struggles to explain the events that led to her incarceration. What she doesn’t know is that she’s stepping into a nightmare-one that will end with a child dead and herself in prison awaiting trial for murder. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten-by the luxurious “smart” home fitted out with all modern conveniences, by the beautiful Scottish Highlands, and by this picture-perfect family. ![]() But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss-a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. When she stumbles across the ad, she’s looking for something else completely. Westaway comes this thrilling novel that explores the dark side of technology. “This appropriately twisty Turn of the Screw update finds the Woman in Cabin 10 author in her most menacing mode, unfurling a shocking saga of murder and deception.” - Entertainment Weeklyįrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lying Game and The Death of Mrs. I daresay even Henry James would be impressed.” -Maureen Corrigan, author of So We Read On “A superb suspense writer…Brava, Ruth Ware. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's up to them to save their best friends forever after from a curse that threatens to give their school-and their lives-a very unhappy ending. Lizzie Hearts, Wonderland's future queen, Cedar Wood, daughter of Pinocchio, and Madeline Hatter, heir to the Mad Hatter's Hat and Tea Shoppe, seem to be the only ones who haven't completely lost their heads. The students transform into animals and objects, palace mice talk, and the beautiful green grounds on campus fade to black-and-white. When a mysterious being from Wonderland begins to infect Ever After High with a strange magic, everything goes topsy-turvy. Now no one's destiny is certain, not even for the most royal of them all, Apple White. But when Raven Queen came along, things became fairy, fairy confusing. Shannon Hale is an American author primarily of young adult. At Ever After High, everyone is expected to sign the Storybook of Legends, pledging to follow in their fairytale parent's footsteps. Wonderlandiful World (Ever After High, Book 3). ![]() ![]() He has also written scripts for comic books and animated television shows, including Batman, and his short story, ‘Incident On and Off a Mountain Road’ was adapted as the first episode of the first season of TV’s Masters of Horror series. The series began with Savage Season in 1990 and Captains Outrageous (2001) is the most recent title in the on-going saga. ![]() The author of Act of Love, The Nightrunners, Cold in July, Blood Dance and The Drive-In series, he is also known for his novels about two unlikely friends, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine, who live in a town in East Texas and find themselves solving a variety of often violent or macabre mysteries. Lansdale is the author of more than thirty novels in all genres, including Crime, Western, Horror and pulp adventure. ![]() Texas-born Mojo storyteller and scriptwriter Joe R. Shadow Writer - The Official Paul Kane Website ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They were also directly responsible for major advances in rocketry, medical treatments, and the U.S. Many of these men were accused of war crimes, and others had stood trial at Nuremberg one was convicted of mass murder and slavery. So began Operation Paperclip, a decades-long, covert project to bring Hitler's scientists and their families to the United States. These were the brains behind the Nazis' once-indomitable war machine. government faced many difficult decisions, including what to do with the Third Reich's scientific minds. In the chaos following World War II, the U.S. The “remarkable” story of America's secret post-WWII science programs ( The Boston Globe), from the New York Times bestselling author of Area 51. ![]() ![]() The way that O'Connor takes the myth, stays true to it, but adds his own interpretation of aspects is what makes his graphic novels unique. I am such a fan of George O'Connor's style of art and his storytelling capabilities as I've loved the two other Olympian graphic novels that I've read and I love this one as well. And saying that, this graphic novel is by far my favorite version of the story. I love how clever the Greeks were to have such an elaborate tale to account for the seasons that we all experience. What I Think: Persephone's myth is one of my favorites. This graphic novel is not only about Hades, but about Demeter and Persephone as well. Summary: In O'Connor's fourth installment of the Olympians graphic novel series starts with the journey into the Underworld after death but reveals itself to be about the myth of Persephone's abduction and the consequences that follow such. ![]() |