![]() ![]() Haunting by Bly Manor meets Shining with “the return of living dead” vibes: this brilliant and extra creepy gothic horror novel scared the living daylights out of me! ![]() All is not well at Lovelace House, and Marin must unravel its secrets before they consume her. But as Marin settles in, she can’t escape the anxiety that shadows her. Evie Hallowell is every bit as strange as her younger sisters, and yet Marin is quickly drawn in by Evie’s compelling behaviour and ethereal grace. Then Alice’s eldest daughter returns home unexpectedly. Thea buries her dolls one by one, hosting a series of funerals, while Wren does everything in her power to drive Marin away. ![]() Marin accepts and soon finds herself minding Alice’s pecular girls. Alice offers her a nanny position at Lovelace House, the family’s coastal Maine estate. The Sleeping House was very much awake … Days after a tragedy leaves Marin Blythe alone in the world, she receives a surprising invitation from Alice Lovelace, an acclaimed horror writer and childhood friend of Marin’s mother. BLY MANOR meets MEXICAN GOTHIC in this haunting romance about a dark family lineage, the ghosts of grief, and the lines we’ll cross for love. ![]()
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6/12/2023 0 Comments Under lock and skeleton key review![]() After a disastrous accident derails Tempest Rajs career, and life, she heads back to her childhood home in California to comfort herself with her grandfathers Indian home-cooked meals. The intrigue of hidden rooms and secret staircases. Under Lock and Skeleton Key layers stunning architecture with mouthwatering food in an ode to classic locked-room mysteries that will leave readers enchanted. ![]() The New York Times Book Review A Lefty Nominee for Best Mystery Novel Known for her wonderfully addictive characters, multiple award-winning author Gigi Pandian introduces her newest heroine in this heartfelt series debut. ![]() ![]() About the Book Known for her wonderfully addictive characters, multiple award-winning author Gigi Pandian introduces her newest heroine in this heartfelt series debut. ![]() ![]() The Unreal and the Real is a collection of some of Ursula K. ![]() Le Guin - selected by the author, and combined in one volume for the first time. ![]() |a "A collection of short stories by the legendary and iconic Ursula K. Introduction - The ones who walk away from Omelas - Semley's necklace - Nine lives - Mazes - The first contact with the Gorgonids - The Shobies' story - Betrayals - The matter of Seggri - Solitude - The wild girls - The fliers of Gy - The silence of the Asonu - The ascent of the North Face - The author of the Acacia seeds - The wife's story - The rule of names - Small change - The poacher - Sur - She unnames them - Jar of water. Introduction - Brothers and sisters - A Week in the country - Unlocking the air - Imaginary countries - The Diary of the rose - Direction of the road - The White donkey - Gwilan's harp - May's lion - Buffalo gals, won't you come out tonight - Horse camp - The water is wide - The lost children - Texts - Sleepwalkers - Hand, cup, shell - Ether, Or - Half past four. ![]() |a Originally published in two editions in 2012 by Small Beer Press. |a The unreal and the real : |b the selected short stories of Ursula K. ![]() |a YDXCP |b eng |e rda |c YDXCP |d BTCTA |d BDX |d OCLCQ |d DMM |d MR0 |d OCLCF |d WEA |d ZLM |d CZA |d YDX |d CLU |d TXKYL |d E3V ![]() ![]() Kahakauwila is the daughter of a Hawaiian father and German-Norwegian (American) mother and grew up in Long Beach, California. These six stories are suffused with a bittersweet sadness for what could have - or should have - been, for words unsaid, emotions unexpressed, and customs misunderstood. Dellinger’s photo is the perfect visual for Kahakauwila’s stories about the real Hawaii: beyond the tourist images and fantasies of Hawai’i lies a real place, where island residents live and love, dream and die, and struggle desperately against economic, cultural, and ethnic forces beyond their control. ![]() ![]() The cover photograph of Kristiana Kahakauwila’s This is Paradise depicts a miniature hula dancer on a car’s dashboard through the dirty windshield we can see blurry headlights in a nighttime street scene. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Mary balogh ravenswood series![]() For the duchess and the dark lord each have startling secrets to reveal, and when all is said and done, neither will be able to say which one fell in love first, who tamed whom, and who has emerged from this game of hearts with the stronger hand. Hannah will fit the bill nicely.īut once these two passionate and scandalous figures find each other, they discover that it isn’t so easy to extricate oneself from the fires of desire - without getting singed. ![]() Rumored to be living the free and easy life of a sensualist in his country estate, he always chooses recent widows for his short-lived affairs. ![]() To the shock of a conventional friend, she announces her intention to take a lover - and not just any lover, but the most dangerous and delicious man in all of upper-class England: Constantine Huxtable.Ĭonstantine’s illegitimacy has denied him the title of Earl, so now he denies himself nothing. Now the old duke is dead and, more womanly and beautiful than ever at 30, Hannah has her freedom at last.Īnd she knows just what she wants to do with it. ![]() Born a commoner, she has been Duchess of Dunbarton ever since she was 19 years old, the wife of an elderly duke to whom she has been rumored to be consistently and flagrantly unfaithful. Mary Balogh (Author), Rosalyn Landor (Narrator), & 1 more 1,908 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 8.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial The handsome and charismatic earl of Stratton, Caleb Ware, has been exposed to the ton for his clandestine affairsby his own son. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments First comes like by alisha rai![]() ![]() They start talking and she gets a little crush. She starts getting DMs from the account of a Bollywood actor, Dev. ![]() TS: Congrats on your new book! Can you talk about the story a little bit?ĪR: First comes Like is about an influencer Jia. Let me check it out." Then I started making videos and talking to people on there and before I knew it, I was sucked in. So it was just sort of a, "Oh, I'll see what this app is all about. ![]() I was a theater kid in school so I loved the idea of putting on little skits and doing things that make me happy. I have also been making a lot of TikTok videos. I'm just staying indoors and, you know, staying safe. TIFE SANUSI: There's a lot going on right now, how are you doing?ĪLISHA RAI: It's been a bit of a wild start to 2021, but we're hanging in there. In the book, Rai explores online dating, conservatism and fake dating in a thoughtful and sensitive manner.Īhead of the book’s release, Shondaland spoke with Rai to talk about her new book and representation in romance novels. She falls hard for him, but there’s a problem. ![]() In First Comes Like, Rai’s latest book, Jia, a Muslim beauty influencer, is so focused on her career that love is the last thing on her mind - until she gets a DM from Dev, a former Bollywood superstar. “I think it is important for us to show different people falling in love and getting what they want and deserve,” Rai tells Shondaland. ![]() ![]() George Walter is Lecturer in English at Sussex University. This edition also contains notes and biographies. ![]() George Walter's introduction discusses the role and scope of First World War poetry anthologies, and how the canon has changed over the years. This collection has been arranged thematically, moving through the war's different stages from conscription through to its aftermath, to offer the reader a variety of perspectives on the same common experiences. ![]() Including famous verses from Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen pieces by less well-known writers such as Gilbert Frankau and Osbert Sitwell works by women describing the emotions of those at home and the anonymous lyrics of soldiers' songs, The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry offers a blend of voices that is both unique and profoundly moving. This anthology reflects the diverse experience of those who lived through the war - bringing together the words of poets, soldiers and civilians affected by the conflict. ![]() Unrivalled for its range and intensity, the poetry of the First World War continues to have a powerful effect on readers. Reflecting the voices of poets, soldiers, the families they left behind and their comrades who would never return, The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry, previously published as In Flanders Fields, is edited with an introduction by George Walter in Penguin Classics. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Plain City by Virginia Hamilton![]() ![]() ![]() Their style is simple, at least in relation to the discourse of writing for more mature audiences.The texts imply an audience of child readers-or at least, of readers younger than their writers-and address them in terms that make their being younger a matter of significance, something that leads these readers to require special forms of address and special kinds of content.I arrived at the items on this list through a process of closely reading the texts of the five stories. I chose them as a diverse group of nevertheless representative examples of mainstream children’s literature in English The Hidden Adult includes descriptions of how I chose them and why I believe they might be representative of frequently found characteristics of children’s literature, and offers considerations of reasons why I might or might not be wrong about that. This list, which appears at the end of the first chapter of my book The Hidden Adult: Defining Children’s Literature, emerged from a close reading of just five English-language stories for children: ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments The 5th wave the last star![]() Now a major motion picture starring Chloe Grace Moretz And the author gives us a major dose of girl power as well, pairing Cassie and Ringer for an uneasy alliance that providesthe best moments in this fantastic series thought-provoking and satisfying conclusion. "Rick Yancey sticks the (alien) landing in the action-packedfinale to his What Yancey does beautifully is reveal the human condition. Yancey's writing is just as solid and descriptive as in the first two books. ![]() T]he ending provides both satisfaction and heartbreak. Yancey has capped off his riveting series with a perfect ending. ![]() It s a satisfying end to an impressive trilogy, true to the characters and the world Yancey created. Yancey doesn t hit the breaks for one moment, and the action is intense, but the language always stays lyrical and lovely. Yancey s prose remains achingly precise, and this grows heavier, tighter, and more impossible to put down as the clock runs out this blistering finale proves the truth of the first two volumes: it was never about the aliens. In these last days, Earth s remaining survivors will need to decide what s more important: saving themselves. Betrayed first by the Others, and now by ourselves. And all 7.5 billion people who used to live on our planet. They came to wipe us out, they came to save us.īut beneath these riddles lies one truth: Cassie has been betrayed. ![]() They want the Earth, they want us to have it. They re down here, they re up there, they re nowhere. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Paper towns book![]() ![]() His name was RobertJoyner, who was thirty-six years old and a lawyer. Margo told Quentin that she did an investigation about the dead man. That night, Margo Roth Spiegelman was standing outside Quentin’s window when Quentin was just aboutto sleep. ![]() Because Quentin’s parents were both therapists, they soothed Quentin to make him feel better. After they came back to each their houses, Quentin’s parents called 911. Quentin urgedMargo to step back and go home to tell their parents. The dead guy’s blood was printed in Margo’s purple sneakers. However, on the other hand, Margo took two small steps forward, observing the dead body. Quentin took two small steps backward because he was afraid that the dead man might wake up and attack him. When they were nine, they were hanging out in the park, and Margo pointed out to something near the oak tree. They became neighbours when they were two years old. He lives next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman, who he is deeply in love with. Quentin lives at a subdivision of Orlando, Florida called Jefferson Park. ![]() |