![]() ![]() Vivid, terrifying dreams of a young woman Cel's never met, but feels strangely drawn to. There's an apartment onsite she's required to live in, she only works in the middle of the night, and she definitely gets the impression that there's more to the museum than Abayomi and her new boss, Holly Park are letting on.Īnd then strange things start happening. But Cel is desperate to feel useful, and Abayomi Abiola, the Logan Museum's chief curator, is desperate to hire a new archivist.Ĭel soon realizes the job is unlike any other she's had. The Logan Museum is a mysterious old building practically covered in skulls, and also the new workplace of Celeste "Cel" Walden, a librarian who was let go from her previous job after a mental breakdown. ![]() Everything you need to know is in the archives. ![]()
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![]() Once the inheritance is secured, Maud will be disposed of-passed off as mad, and made to live out the rest of her days in a lunatic asylum. ![]() One day, the most beloved thief of all arrives-Gentleman, an elegant con man, who carries with him an enticing proposition for Sue: If she wins a position as the maid to Maud Lilly, a na#65533 ve gentlewoman, and aids Gentleman in her seduction, then they will all share in Maud's vast inheritance. ![]() Sucksby's household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves-fingersmiths-for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. A pulsating story."-The New York Times Book Review The Handmaiden, a film adaptation of Fingersmith, directed by Park Chan-wook and starring Kim Tae-Ri, is now available. "Oliver Twist with a twist.Waters spins an absorbing tale that withholds as much as it discloses. ![]() ![]() I love how Joe Solomon always pair Cammie with Zach, it's like he wanted them to get together form the beginning. A part of me wants to see them in book six but most likely we wont. The sad part for me is that you never see them again in the books. Grant is kind of the love interest for Bex and Jonas is for Liz. At first Cammie doesn't like Zach at all but that changes little by little as the book goes on. Cammie is kind of heartbroken over her breakup with Josh in the last book, and it probably didn't help when she saw him in town with his new girlfriend (but that's okay because she has Zach now). I love how he knows a lot about Cammie and she knows nothing about him and she's like "How do you know that?" and he just points to himself and says, "Spy." I love it when he does that! We find out later on in the books that Zach is a very important character, but I'll talk more about that in another book review. ![]() In case you can't tell, I LOVE Zach! He is hot, cocky, awesome, did I mention he's incredibly hot? Because he is. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a story of a world transformed-and reclaimed-one square acre at a time.Īnd yet, after surviving punishing storms and the devastating loss of fifth-generation Diffley family land to suburban development, the Diffleys faced the ultimate challenge: the threat of eminent domain for a crude oil pipeline proposed by one of the largest privately owned companies in the world, notorious polluters Koch Industries. One of the first certified organic produce farms in the Midwest, the Diffleys’ Gardens of Eagan helped to usher in a new kind of green revolution in the heart of America’s farmland, supplying their roadside stand and a growing number of local food co-ops. ![]() In telling her story of working the land, coaxing good food from the fertile soil, Atina Diffley reminds us of an ultimate truth: we live in relationships-with the earth, plants and animals, families and communities.Ī memoir of making these essential relationships work in the face of challenges as natural as weather and as unnatural as corporate politics, her book is a firsthand history of getting in at the “ground level” of organic farming. The romance of farming washed away a long time ago, but the love? Never. ![]() It’s “as big as a B-size potato.” As her bombarded land turns white, she and her husband Martin huddle under a blanket and reminisce: the one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds the eleven-inch rainfall (“that broccoli turned out gorgeous”) the hail disaster of 1977. When the hail starts to fall, Atina Diffley doesn’t compare it to golf balls. ![]() ![]() ![]() You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. ![]() Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. ![]() Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. ![]() ![]() The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Impassioned, informative and always amusing, this is an essential listen for anyone who loves language. Looking into the future, she wonders if ?emoticons? will put colons, commas and apostrophes on the endangered species list. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss 4.1 (64) Paperback (Reprint) 18.00 Hardcover 17.99 Paperback 18.00 eBook 13.99 Audiobook 0. Talking to writers and experts like Fay Weldon and David Crystal, she discovers the origins of the comma in Greek drama and Gregorian chant, considers the case for ?semicolonic irrigation? and asks how a writer?s choice of punctuation expresses his tone of voice. She accompanies the founder of the Apostrophe Protection Society through Berwick Street Market on a hunt for the ?greengrocer?s apostrophe?, enters the classroom to hear how children learn punctuation, and finds out whether anyone punctuates text messages. The spirited and scholarly 1 New York Times bestseller combines boisterous history with grammar how-to's to show how important punctuation is in our world-period. This is the radio series that started it all: five programmes in which Lynne Truss explores changing fashions in punctuation. The runaway success of Eats, Shoots and Leaves brought millions of grammar geeks out of the closet and made it cool to care about punctuation. The BBC Radio 4 series that inspired the bestselling book Eats, Shoots & Leaves. ![]() ![]() ![]() But what starts as a leisure cruise will lead to acts of treason and sheer terror on the high seas, bringing two countries to the brink of war, two strangers closer than they ever thought possible and two dangerous gods stirring from centuries of slumber. Selly has no desire to escort a spoiled prince anywhere, and no time for his entitled demands or his good looks. But any plans to follow him are dashed when a handsome stranger with tell-tale magician's marks on his arms commandeers her ship under cover of darkness: He is Prince Leander of Alinor, and he needs to cross the Crescent Sea without detection so he can complete a ritual on the sacred Isles of the Gods. ![]() So when her father leaves her high and dry in the port of Kirkpool, she has no intention of riding out the winter at home while he sails to adventure in the north seas. Magic, romance, and slumbering gods clash in the start of a riveting fantasy series spanning gangsters' dens, forgotten temples, and the high seas from the New York Times bestselling author of the Illuminae Files and the Aurora Cycle. ![]() ![]() ![]() The two soon formed a close relationship. Humphrey Carpenter, JRR Tolkien - A BiographyĮdith was 19 years old, Ronald was three years younger. She was remarkably pretty, small and slim, with grey eyes, firm clear features and short dark hair. Tolkien and his wife Edith Tolkien is etched with the names Beren and Lúthientwo characters from a fantastical. Ronald and Hilary Tolkien were living at Mrs Faulkner's at 37 Duchess Road in Birmingham. JHoughton Mifflin Harcourt The Oxford gravestone shared by J.R.R. But it was in this house that she met Ronald Tolkien in 1908. So he found her a room at Mrs Faulkner's where she, in fact, could hardly practise piano. Having left the school she could have become a professional pianist, however, her guardian was not sure about what to do with her future. After her mother's death she was sent to a girls' boarding school that specialized in music. She was a talented musician and could play the piano very well. ![]() ![]() Even if Edith knew her father's name she never passed it on to her own children.Įdith was brought up in Handsworth by her mother and the mother's cousin Jenny Grove. Edith's mother never married and the father's name was not mentioned on the birth certificate, though France's family knew who he was. Frances Bratt's family owned a boot and shoe manufacturing business. ![]() Her mother Frances Bratt, then aged thirty, probably went to Gloucester from her home in Wolverhampton in order to avoid scandal, because the baby was illegitimate. Tolkien and the inspiration for Lúthien.Įdith Mary Bratt was born in Gloucester. Edith Bratt (January 21, 1889-November 29, 1971) was the wife of J. ![]() ![]() ![]() For times when flights do have entertainment on the seats, having an iPad with kids is still a good idea so that children aren’t bumping and tapping too hard on the seat neighbor. ![]() ![]() I wish I traveled with my iPad because it would have been much more enjoyable to watch something on a larger screen.Īlso, if you are traveling with kids, an iPad is a great way to keep them entertained. Luckily, I had my phone, and I was able to watch something on it because I had downloaded some videos. When my movie finished, I wasn’t able to watch anything new! On a recent flight of mine, the touch capability on the in-flight entertainment screen stopped working, and I couldn’t change the brightness of the screen. Or, if you get really unlucky, your entertainment center might not work. It’s typical for some types of airplanes to not have any entertainment on the backs of the seats. ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Utterly gripping’ Janet Street-Porter, Independent ‘Undisputed Truth, is the American dream writ large in raw detail: think Citizen Kane scripted by the writing team of The Wire’ New Statesman Tyson’s life reads like an Elmore Leonard thriller’ Telegraph ‘A gripping and indecently enthralling autobiography. ‘A fallen hero mauled by excess’ Evening Standard ‘Completely riveting’ Janice Turner, The Times ‘Sensational… Fascinating… An epic tale’ Daily Mail ‘Savagely compelling… A voyage through the great American underbelly’ Telegraph ‘Might be the most soul-baring book of its genre ever written’ Washington Post If you think you know all about Mike Tyson, read this book and think again. ![]() Co-written with Larry Sloman, author of Antony Keidis’s best-selling memoir ‘Scar Tissue’, this is a visceral, and unputdown-able story of a man born and raised to brutality, who reached the heights of stardom before falling to crime, substance abuse and infamy.įull of all the controversy and complexity that you would expect from a man who delighted as much as he shocked, this is a book that will surprise people and reveal a fascinating character beneath the exterior of violence. In this, his first, autobiography, ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson pulls no punches and lays bare the story of his remarkable life and career. ![]() In this no-holds-barred autobiography, Tyson lays bare his demons and tells his story: from poverty to stardom to hell and back again Love him or loathe him, ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson is an icon and one of the most fascinating sporting figures of our time. ![]() |