7/8/2023 0 Comments Unhinged book ag howard![]() ![]() (3) Then we have to deal with the possessive, insecure and aggressive Jeb way more than we did last time. After listening to the first hour or two, I found myself wondering if was worth listening to her over reacting and being generally overly dramatic. ![]() (2) The way Alyssa behaves is to cliche, and it's exhausting. Negative: (1) There is too much of teen angst/drama. I love the voice of Morpheus and I want him to come visit me in my dreams and read me bedtime stories. Thankfully, Morpheus is persistent in his request, and that's our jumping off point for this book. Making out with your boy toy is more important than saving Wonderland from all its suffering? Gosh. ![]() Start Book 2: Morpheus comes to the human realm to ask Alyssa to come back to save Wonderland from disaster she doesn't want to go because she wants to talk to/be with Jeb. After the first book, we've learned that Alyssa has become the Queen of the Red Court and Jeb does not remember his trip down the rabbit hole where he risked his life to save Alyssa Morpheus, her childhood friend, is forever manipulative, and we're never sure if he loves Alyssa or is using her. ![]()
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7/8/2023 0 Comments The magpie lord series![]() Having heard her wax lyrical about it, how could I resist? Especially when Amy Rae Durreson–another of my favourite fantasy m/m romance writers–chimed in. Early in the year, she was full of excitement because Amazon was offering The Magpie Lord for free. ![]() If you know Memory from In the Forest of Stories, you might know she’s very vocal about what she likes. Evil pervades the house, a web of plots is closing round Crane, and if Stephen can’t find a way through it, they’re both going to die. But Crane’s dangerous appeal isn’t the only thing rendering Stephen powerless. Soon Stephen is falling hard for the worst possible man, at the worst possible time. Besides, the earl is unlike any aristocrat he’s ever met, with the tattoos, the attitude–and the way Crane seems determined to get him into bed. Unfortunately, it’s his job to deal with supernatural threats. ![]() Magician Stephen Day has good reason to hate Crane’s family. He’s also inherited his family’s enemies. ![]() But with the mysterious deaths of his father and brother, it seems the new Lord Crane has inherited an earldom. Genres: Historical fiction, fantasy, romance (m/m), erotica.Īvailable: Samhain Publishing (print and electronic) ~ Amazon ~ Book Depository ~ Booktopia ~ KoboĮxiled to China for twenty years, Lucien Vaudrey never planned to return to England. Published: September 2013 by Samhain Publishing ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments Heist society book 1![]() So what if it's a spectacularly impossible job? She's got two weeks, a teenage crew, and hopefully just enough talent to pull off the biggest heist in her family's history-and, with any luck, steal her life back along the way. Caught between Interpol and a far more deadly enemy, Kat’s dad needs her help.įor Kat, there is only one solution: track down the paintings and steal them back. With its glamorous international settings, intriguing suspense, complicated cons and even more complicated romance, Heist Society is stealing the hearts of Ally. Only a master thief could have pulled this job, and Kat's father isn't just on the suspect list, he is the list. Kat’s got two weeks, a teenage crew, and hopefully enough talent to pull off the biggest heist in her family’s historyand, with any luck, steal her life back along the way. But he has a good reason: a powerful mobster has been robbed of his priceless art collection and wants to retrieve it. ![]() Soon, Kat's friend and former co-conspirator, Hale, appears out of nowhere to bring Kat back into the world she tried so hard to escape. Unfortunately, leaving “the life” for a normal life proves harder than she’d expected. When Kat turned fifteen, she planned a con of her own-scamming her way into the best boarding school in the country, determined to leave the family business behind. Heist Society (A Heist Society Novel (1)) Carter, Ally Published byLittle, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2011 ISBN 10: 1423116615ISBN 13: 9781423116615 Seller: Gulf Coast Books, Memphis, TN, U.S.A. For her seventh birthday, Katarina and her Uncle Eddie traveled to Austria…to steal the crown jewels. ![]() ![]() When Katarina Bishop was three, her parents took her on a trip to the Louvre…to case it. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Being Mortal by Atul Gawande![]() ![]() We need homes, hospitals and carers that champion autonomy and meaning and options that don’t involve spending our last days on moon-shot treatments or in ICUs (intensive care units). We need policies that encourage geriatric training and awareness and hospice. ![]() Solution? New ways of thinking – as governments, as institutions and individuals. ![]() Despite the second being worthless without the first. The homes and hospitals that have stepped in are modelled on big medical institutions, prioritising treatment and safety and convenience over autonomy and meaning and wellness.Īs a result, we too often trade end-of-life quality for end-of-life quantity. The problem, until recently, is that our choices for getting help have been limited. ![]() This slow decline comes with gradually decreasing independence (we rely on more people to help us with more things). Medicine has become much better at treating disease.Īs a result, whether from old-age or sickness, more and more of us are dying gradually instead of losing our lives in one swoop. Gawande’s Being Mortal is taken up with well-written, engaging case studies while the breakdown of his arguments is quite simple: ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Stalingrad by vasily grossman![]() Stalingrad is a magnificent novel not only of war but of all human life: its subjects are mothers and daughters, husbands and brothers, generals, nurses, political officers, steelworkers, tractor girls. ![]() But it will also be the cradle of a new sense of hope. The battle for Stalingrad - a maelstrom of violence and firepower - will reduce it to ruins. The city stands on a cliff top by the Volga River. The war will consume the lives of a huge cast of characters - lives which express Grossman’s grand themes of the nation and the individual, nature’s beauty and war’s cruelty, love and separation.įor months, Soviet forces are driven back inexorably by the German advance eastward, and eventually Stalingrad is all that remains between the invaders and victory. As war approaches, the Shaposhnikov family gathers for a meal: despite her age, Alexandra will soon become a refugee, Tolya will enlist in the reserves, Vera, a Nurse, will fall in love with a wounded pilot and Viktor Shtrum will receive a letter from his doomed mother which will haunt him forever. Hundreds of miles away, Pyotr Vavilov receives his call-up papers and spends a final night with his wife and children in the hut that is his home. ![]() ![]() In April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini plan the huge offensive on the Eastern Front that will culminate in the greatest battle in human history. The Sunday Times best seller and now a major Radio 4 drama. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Witch week![]() The shoes as a whole became what is called a Black Forest gateau. "The spikes were turned into cherries," said Nirupam. To explore more correspondences and recommended spells to do on a Monday, check out the Monday Magic Spells Collection. Light your white or silver candles and appeal to deities of the moon for the best effect. "He must have a digestion like an ostrich!" The first day of the workweek is the perfect time to focus on magick for new beginnings and a fresh start. He wobbled along on the mop rather awed at the thought of iron spikes passing through Dan's stomach. He didn't have the heart to explain all the trouble Nirupam had caused him. So much had happened to Charles that particular day, that he could not remember Dan seeming anything at all. ![]() You may have noticed that he wasn't quite himself the next day." I knew Dan was so greedy that he would eat it all himself. I turned those shoes into a chocolate cake. He says I have no right to be so large and so weak," Nirupam said resentfully, "and I was hating him for it, when I took the boards up and found a pair of running shoes, with spikes, hidden there with the food. The couple Sibal Ganju (70) and his wife Bavni Devi (65) were dragged by some. An elderly couple was beaten to death allegedly for practising black magic in Latehar district earlier this month. Dan Smith made me get up the floorboards and get the food out. 17 hours ago &0183 &32 Witch hunting remains a major problem in Jharkhand, with an estimated 60 to 70 killings committed over suspicion of practicing witchcraft every year. ![]() "You know that night all our shoes went into the hall," said Nirupam. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her newest identity switch has made her an AIR (alien investigation and removal) agent and sends her on a mission to capture a group of otherworldly warriors. With only skin-to-skin contact, she can change her appearance, assume any identity. Can they find the key that will finally allow them to slake the overwhelming desire burning between them? New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Gena Showalter puts a daring spin on a tale of huntress and hunted.and concocts a sensual chemistry that is positively explosive. Soon desperate for closeness, Murdoch and Danii will do anything to have each other. Yet the exquisite Danii is part ice fey, and her freezing skin can't be touched by anyone but her own kind without inflicting pain beyond measure. ![]() ![]() Murdoch Wroth will stop at nothing to claim Daniela the Ice Maiden - the delicate Valkyrie who makes his heart beat for the first time in three hundred years. Now in mass market, two sizzling paranormal stories to delight the senses and tantalize the imagination! Kresley Cole, #1 New York Times bestselling author, delivers a breathtaking tale of a brutal vampire soldier about to know love for the first time.and a Valkyrie aching to be touched. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Stephen king cell review![]() ![]() He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. ![]() Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. ![]() Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Den halves arv by Julie M. Day![]() ferie midt i skoleåret διακοπές στη μέση του τριμήνου vacaciones a mediados del trimestre semestrivaheaeg ميان ترم loma congé de mi-trimestre חוּפשַת אֶמצַע שׁלִיש आधे समय का polugodište koji se odnosi na polugodište (három)negyedévi (szünet) tengah tahun ajaran miðannarfrí (vacanza a metà di un trimestre) 学期半ば (の) 학기 중간쯤의 semestro vidurys brīvdienas semestra vidū semestra vidus- separuh penggal halverwege studiesemester, halverwege studietrimester ferie, midtterminferie połowa semestru په نيمه كي meio do período vacanţă la jumătatea semestrului каникулы в середине четверти semestrálne voľno kratke počitnice sredi semestra polugodište mittermins- วันหยุดกลางภาคเรียน yarıyıl tatili 半學期 короткі канікули کسی اسکولی سال کے درمیان آنے والی چھٹیاں kỳ nghỉ giữa học kỳ 半学期 ˌhalf-ˈtime noun We get a week's holiday at half-term ( also adjective) a half-term holiday. (the period when students are given) a holiday about the middle of a term. Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. ![]() ![]() ![]() Two maps and several pages of photographs are included. The annotated bibliography is very useful as it provides not only books for additional reading but a summary of each chapter. And, much of the book features recollections of the participants involved with the various events described in the book and gives the reader a vivid glimpse of what life was like in Berlin during the 1920s. Author Otto Friedrich makes frequent use of the diaries of Count Henry Kessler and Joseph Goebbels. ![]() Topics covered include the abdication of the Kaiser, the mutiny of the German navy in Kiel, the Spartakus uprising, the creation of the Weimar Republic, Albert Einstein, the assassination of Walter Rathenau, inflation, the Jews in Germany, Anti-Semitism, the Dada movement in art, architecture, music, Joseph Goebbels, the Berlin theatre, film, Marlene Dietrich, Adolf Hitler, the Nazi party, and many other topics. ![]() Before the Deluge is a panorama of the political, economic, scientific, and cultural events in Berlin between the end of World War I and the beginning of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich in 1933. ![]() |