5/23/2023 0 Comments The night olivia fell![]() This book was about a mother who would stop at nothing to learn the truth about what happened to her precious daughter, Olivia. This book is definitely in my top 10 reads for this year. I can’t wait for her next book to come out. ![]() This is Christina McDonald’s debut book and she really nailed it. Wow, just wow!!!!!! That ending had me in tears for hours. With flashbacks of Olivia’s own resolve to uncover family secrets, this taut and emotional novel asks: how well do you know your children? And how well do they know you? Was Olivia’s fall an accident? Or something far more sinister?Ĭhristina McDonald weaves a suspenseful and heartwrenching tale of hidden relationships, devastating lies, and the power of a mother’s love. Heartbroken and grieving, she unravels the threads of her daughter’s life. When the police unexpectedly rule Olivia’s fall an accident, Abi decides to find out what really happened that night. ![]() And then Abi sees the angry bruises circling Olivia’s wrists. ![]() Not only is Olivia brain dead, she’s pregnant and must remain on life support to keep her baby alive. In the small hours of the morning, Abi Knight is startled awake by the phone call no mother ever wants to get: her teenage daughter Olivia has fallen off a bridge. ![]() From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Do No Harm and Behind Every Lie comes an emotionally charged domestic suspense novel about a mother unraveling the truth behind how her daughter became brain dead. ![]()
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The custom is best known in England but has also been recorded in Ireland, Wales, Germany, Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Bohemia and the United States. Little is known about the origins of this practice, although there is some unfounded speculation that it is loosely derived from or perhaps inspired by ancient Aegean notions about bees' ability to bridge the natural world and the afterlife. If the custom was omitted or forgotten and the bees were not "put into mourning" then it was believed a penalty would be paid, such as the bees leaving their hive, stopping the production of honey or dying. Telling the bees is a tradition in many European countries in which bees would be told of important events in their keeper's lives such as deaths, births, marriages and departures and returns in the household. Detail of Charles Napier Hemy's painting The Widow (1895) ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Upside down nr walker![]() ![]() Upside Down is a page turner tale of two young men who's still want to believe that they deserves to be happy in the end, no matter what their preferences in the bedroom, or not. I loved Jordan and his blabbering awkwardness, and his favorite word that make people cringe, lol. Jordan and Hennessy are likeable and adorable two asexual young men that by fate, found each other. And of course, NR Walker never disappoint me. ![]() ![]() I had a bad experience once with one book in particular, how in my eyes, the Happy ending relationship was never actually a happy ending for both of MCs.īut this is Nic Walker and I dig in as soon as this book appeared on my kindle. ![]() I had a giddy feeling every time some authors mentioned that their new character(s) are Ace (asexual). Upside down at all, but maybe it’s now-for the first time in his Maybe Hennessy can convince Jordan that his world hasn’t been turned Hennessy is struck by this guy who’s trying to find where he belongs. He starts his own in Surry Hills, where he meets first-time-attendeeĪ little bewildered and scared, but completely adorable, Leaving his North Shore support group behind, His beingĪsexual had seen the end of a lot of his romances, but he’s determined Lang moved to Surry Hills after splitting with his boyfriend. ‘asexual’ might explain a lot, it turns his world upside down. Socially awkward, a nervous rambler, an introvert, an outsider. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Sc gwynne comanche book![]() We get to know a number of fascinating personalities on both sides of this conflict, are appalled by the brutality on both sides, and eventually over decades, see how the inevitable end of this war evolved into the ultimate domination of white American culture over the world the Comanches had commanded for over a century in Texas, and parts of Oklahoma, New Mexico and Kansas. The story begins with one of the early raids and “depredations” of the Comanches upon settlers on the frontier in the 1830s, and then tracks the continued war between the anglo culture in Texas and eventually, the ham-fisted US Federal government efforts to tame the Comanches, the most violent and warlike tribe in the Americas. Summary in 3 Sentences: Empire of the Summer Moon provides the history of the Comanche wars in Texas and the southern plains in the 19th Century, using the life of one particularly notable Comanche Warrior as a lens through which to look at the many dimensions of the Comanche culture and the collision it had with the white settlers intent on claiming Texas for themselves. ![]() While reading it, I wasn’t surprised that it was a finalist for the Pulitzer prize in History. Why this book: Given to me as a gift several years ago, and then when the SEAL reading group I’m in chose to read a book regarding Native American culture/history, I figured it was a good time to read it. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments The cost of hope by amanda bennett![]() ![]() ![]() Foley, at a raucous, late-night cocktail party. Bennett, then a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, meets her future husband, one Terrence B. ![]() The memoir opens in Peking (it was still Peking in those days), China, in 1983. Bennett, a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, uses the short, punchy syntax of her trade to propel the story along. However, it is the words in the title, cost and hope, that immediately resonate with the oncology community at large-patients with cancer hang on the hope of a cure, and doctors increasingly worry about how the rising cost of care might hamper their ability to treat patients. After all, cancer is not only a disease, but also a very personalized destination, sometimes to a dark and isolated place. ![]() Bennett’s opening sentence implicitly foreshadows her husband’s death. “It almost always begins in darkness, my memory’s trip back to China where Terrence and I meet.” So begins Amanda Bennett’s moving new memoir, The Cost of Hope, the story of an intensely devoted marriage, cruelly shortened by the cancer that killed her husband. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a bit predictable but still enjoyable. ![]() ![]() Overlooked and underestimated, Aurelie, Daisy, and “La Fleur” take advantage of being ignored in order to help France win the war. And in post-World War II Paris, Barbara Langford travels to the Ritz, desperate to find out the secrets that her deceased husband kept about the war, specifically about a member of the Resistance nicknamed “La Fleur.” As the reader progresses, the three storylines become intertwined as family secrets, betrayal, and misunderstandings are revealed and romance blossoms for all three women.Īll the Ways We Said Goodbye explores female heroines of World Wars I and II. In World War II Paris, Daisy is part of the French resistance even though her husband is siding with the Nazis, and she fights to save Jewish refugees. First, in World War I France, Aurelie leaves the Ritz to rescue a sacred family relic and, in the French countryside, she ends up closer to the Germans than she ever could have imagined. Described as a novel of the Paris Ritz, the narrative is divided into three parts. Williams, Willig, and White return with their third jointly written historical fiction book, All the Ways We Said Goodbye. Written by Beatriz Williams Karen White Lauren Willig ![]() All the Ways We Said Goodbye: A Novel of the Ritz Paris ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Her smoke rose up forever![]() ![]() The stories included in this anthology span a wide range of sci-fi settings, from present day ("The Last Flight of Doctor Ain" and "The Women Men Don't See") to established outer space operations ("And I Have Come Upon this Place by Lost Ways" and "We Who Stole the Dream") to scientific or space exploration ("The Man Who Walked Home," "The Girl Who Was Plugged In," and "Houston, Houston Do You Read?"). ![]() She also wrote under the name Racoona Sheldon, a persona also represented by a pair of stories included here. Her Smoke Rose Up Forever Įxecutive Summary: This collection of 18 short stories and novellas spans the publication career of Alice Bradley Sheldon, who wrote chiefly under the pseudonym "James Tiptree, Jr." until her identity (and gender) was revealed. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Bare book by jackie phamotse![]() She wanted designer shoes, beautiful dresses and weaves and asked how she could fulfil all of this when she hadn’t started working. But building a life in a big city doesn’t come easy and Treasure watched the tall buildings, fancy cars and well-dressed men and women zoom past as they drove north through the city. Welcomed by Lintle with open arms and a warm heart, Treasure was confident that all would be well. Her friend, Bianca, encouraged her to become a model and pursue her dreams and with the intent of supporting herself, Treasure left home and moved into a flat in Braamfontein with another friend, Lintle. Home, however, wasn’t where she wanted to be as she longed for uncomplicated friendships and her dysfunctional family couldn’t offer her that. ![]() A tell-all book about the dark underworld of blessers and slay queens.Īfter finishing Grade 12 at a boarding school in the Free State, Treasure Mohapi moved back home to Westonaria, a town in the west of Gauteng. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Scott snyder omnibus vol 2![]() ![]() ![]() He is also the creator of The Creech, a Sci-Fi/Horror comic published by Image Comics. Other popular comics work includes Marvel Comics’ X-Force and Quasar (as well as a slew of one-shot titles). Prior to that, he was best known for his 80 issue run on Image Comics' Spawn, created by Todd McFarlane. Greg Capullo is a self-taught Illustrator and the current artist on the best-selling and highly acclaimed Batman series for DC Comics. ![]() He teaches at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence University and lives in New York with his wife, Jeanie, and his son, Jack Presley. He has also been published in Zoetrope, Tin House, One Story, Epoch, Small Spiral Notebook, and other journals, and has a short story collection, Voodoo Heart, which was published by Dial Press. His works include Batman, All-Star Batman, Batman: Eternal, Superman Unchained, American Vampire, and Swamp Thing. Scott Snyder is a #1 New York Times best-selling writer and one of the most critically acclaimed scribes in all of comics. ![]() |