![]() ![]() ![]() And as Maisie delves deeper into the killings of the dispossessed from the "last war," a new kind of refugee - an evacuee from London - appears in Maisie's life. Within days, in a London shadowed by barrage balloons, bomb shelters, and the threat of invasion, another former Belgian refugee is found murdered. Francesca Thomas has an urgent assignment for Maisie: to find the killer of a man who escaped occupied Belgium as a boy, some twenty-three years earlier during the Great War. ![]() At the moment Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain broadcasts to the nation Britain's declaration of war with Germany, a senior Secret Service agent breaks into Maisie Dobbs' flat to await her return. Dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. N2 - A first edition (stated with complete numberline) hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket. ![]()
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Baxter does a stellar job of integrating details about the nascent forensic science of the time, questions about the role of expert witnesses in jury trials, and the insatiable public hunger for salacious details about the case." - Publishers Weekly "Australian historian Carol Baxter melds true crime and science in the gripping The Peculiar Case of the Electric Constable. "Fans of Erik Larson's true-crime thrillers will be pleased by this gripping account.With a novelist's flair for drama, using details that were painstakingly extracted from the historical record, Australian popular historian Baxter recreates the life of suspect John Tawell. ![]() Restore Me by Tahereh Mafi7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Every single line of it was so annoying, and nothing about them reuniting was unique. Like, Lifetime Movie Network called and they want their script back. The reunions sucked because the stakes felt so low and I never felt any adrenaline or excitement about their reunion. 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This book's two halves are competing to be the worst half: the first half is SO boring and over-explained with no plot points, and the second half is the characters calling themselves by new names with cliche and annoying dialogue. ![]() Definitely not 4 or 5 stars, but I don't know if I could go lower. ![]() The darkest magic by morgan rhodes7/7/2023 ![]() Until, that is, he realizes that she is a spirit, and he is the only one who can see or hear her. ![]() Maddox Corso, Ancient Mytica: Maddox Corso doesn’t think much of it when he spots an unfamiliar girl in his small village. Worlds collide in this suspenseful, page-turning Falling Kingdoms spin-off series, which explores a whole new side of Mytica-and an even darker version of its magic.Ĭrystal Hatcher, Modern-day Toronto: It’s a normal afternoon in her mother’s antique bookshop when Crys witnesses the unthinkable: her little sister Becca collapses into a coma after becoming mesmerized by a mysterious book written in an unrecognizable language. Modern-day sisters discover deadly ancient magic in book 1 of this Falling Kingdoms spin-off series! ![]() ![]() A Book of Spirit and Thieves ( Spirits and Thieves #1) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His Deptford Mice series is packed with complex, fleshed-out characters to equal just about anything in grown-up literature, and his Wyrd Museum trilogy is a terrifying clash between good and evil with a body count to rival George RR Martin. As a child I read every Robin Jarvis I could get my hands on – I loved his dark, supernatural fantasy stories. Even my beloved Roald Dahl books didn’t seem so funny anymore.īut the books I’d loved most in my younger days retained their magic. James liked the Hardy Boys, but I couldn’t work out what had attracted me to one detective story after another when they were so lightweight and formulaic. As a boy I’d loved Tom’s Midnight Garden, but we baled out after four chapters. ![]() What if rereading these stories with adult eyes revealed their flaws, tarnishing the memories I’d carried for decades? I’d first read them as I was starting to discover who I really was, and while part of me was thrilled at the idea of revisiting them, I was also a little worried. I’ve been reading stories with James ever since he was a toddler, but these books were special. ![]() The wait by devon franklin7/7/2023 ![]() Practitioners of The Wait use the waiting period to work on self-improvement, to ensure they are putting forward the best version of themselves when it comes time to meet, date, and marry the person God has in mind for them. Maintaining patience and clarity through delayed gratification enables a person to see the plan God has for his or her life, even though God's plan doesn't always align with how the person envisioned his or her own future. They first met while working in the film Jumping the Broom in 2011. Photo by Leon Bennett/FilmMagic Does Meagan Good have kids with DeVon Franklin The couple was married for almost a decade, but they do not have any children. While The Wait is centrally focused on remaining celibate until marriage, its lessons in delayed gratification can apply to other aspects of the self, including career, self-discovery, relationships, and spirituality. He penned his New York Times best-seller book The Wait with Meagan. The Wait is a self-improvement strategy that has its foundations in delayed gratification, a challenging concept in a culture dominated by instant gratification. Summary of DeVon Franklin & Meagan Good with Tim Vandehey's The Wait describes the ways a celibate mindset can impact various facets of life, including a person's relationship with God. ![]() Musashi miyamoto eiji yoshikawa7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() The book tells the story of the samurai Miyamoto Musashi (1584–1645), the greatest Japanese warrior ever, starting from his first battle– that is the Battle of Sekigahara, in 1600 – up to the duel that made him famous in the whole world. In this wonderful, international classic novel, we can live the life of one of the greatest warrior of all times and also find our true self. ![]() There will be nothing but hardship, and it won’t get easier as it goes along. If you chose to bind your life to mine, you’d never be happy. I want to spend every moment of every day working to improve myself. I want to dedicate myself to training and discipline. I stayed in that musty hole for three years. Additional info Author Eiji Yoshikawa Title Musashi Info Kodansha America, 2012 Additional info 984 pages - £30.00 ![]() Waterstones the starless sea7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Sweet Sorrows, however, describes the magical library on the other side of the door, and the Starless Sea upon which it sits. Afraid to discover magic isn't real, he demurred to go through it. One day he finds in the library a book called Sweet Sorrows with no author or publication information, and is amazed to discover that among its fairy tales and textual snippets, it also tells stories about him, and especially of an incident when he was a child, and came across a magical door. The modern narrative follows Zachary Ezra Rawlins, who is a graduate student at a New England university. The Starless Sea does not have a linear plot, but rather is a pastiche of a modern narrative, folk tales, mysterious biographical snippets, stories within stories within stories, and the made-up history of the fantastical world within which it takes place, all interlocking and intertwining. The novel reached number three on The New York Times Best Seller list, and was also a Los Angeles Times and Sunday Times bestseller. ![]() ![]() It is her second book, following the best-selling The Night Circus, which was published in 2011. The Starless Sea is a 2019 speculative fiction novel by Erin Morgenstern. ![]() Squeaky Wheels by Suzanne Kamata7/6/2023 ![]() Six years ago, we launched the Evergreen Book Medals to commemorate world-changing books published since the year 2000. ![]() Squeaky Wheels: Travels with My Daughter by Train, Plane, Metro, Tuk-tuk and Wheelchair, by Suzanne Kamata (Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing)Ī Counting of Crows: A Memory Journal for Women Elders, written and illustrated by Betsy Kuhn (Betsy Kuhn Fine Art)Ī Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution, by Marianne Williamson (Harper One) Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks, by Diana Butler Bass (Harper One) These four books were chosen as exceptional stand-outs from the rest of the medalists. Note that we have expanded the mind-body-spirit trio to include “action,” in recognition that "living well" includes standing up for what we believe in and striving for a better community, society and planet. To visit the 2019 Living Now press and medalist page, with press release, blurbs, etc. ![]() To view the regular category medalists, click here. ![]() 2019 evergreen & mind-body-spirit-action winnersĬongratulations to the winners of the 2019 Living Now Book Awards!īelow you will find the winners of the Mind-Body-Spirit-Action honors, followed by the Evergreen medalists. ![]() Cynthia bond author7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Young Ruby Bell, “the kind of pretty it hurt to look at,” has suffered beyond imagining, so as soon as she can, she flees suffocating Liberty for the bright pull of 1950s New York. ![]() The epic, unforgettable story of a man determined to protect the woman he loves from the town desperate to destroy her, this beautiful and devastating debut heralds the arrival of a major new voice in fiction.Įphram Jennings has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long braids running through the piney woods of Liberty, their small East Texas town. The newest Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 selection: this special ebook edition of Ruby by Cynthia Bond features exclusive content, including Oprah’s personal notes, highlighted within the text a reading group guide and audio clips read by the author (supported devices only). ![]() |