![]() ![]() The case goes unsolved and ex-cop Bill Hodges is out of hope when he gets a letter from a man who loved the feel of death under the Mercedes’s wheels…īrady Hartsfield wants that rush again, but this time he’s going big, with an attack that would take down thousands-unless Hodges and two new unusual allies he picks up along the way can throw a wrench in Hartsfield’s diabolical plans. ![]() Then the lone driver backs up, charges again, and speeds off, leaving eight dead and more wounded. The stolen Mercedes emerges from the pre-dawn fog and plows through a crowd of men and women on line for a job fair in a distressed American city. Mercedes is a rich, resonant, exceptionally readable accomplishment by a man who can write in whatever genre he chooses” ( The Washington Post). In a high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from murdering thousands. WINNER of the EDGAR AWARD for BEST NOVEL and #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! ![]()
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![]() ![]() “Black folk were spoils of war, if they were more than a nuisance,” Morrow writes, “and their greatest value was in not being available to serve the Confederacy. ![]() Roanoke, and a handful of other settlements like it, were considered “contraband camps” by the Union. As Morrow notes in an afterword, she didn't learn about this history until researching the novel. Readers may be familiar with Roanoke Island's mysterious history during the colonial period, but few are aware that it was home to a colony of free, formerly enslaved people during the Civil War. In the wake of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, the Marches have settled on Roanoke Island, along North Carolina’s Outer Banks. ![]() ![]() However, the experiences faced by Morrow’s March sisters-formerly enslaved young Black women-are drastically different from those of Alcott’s more sheltered white family. Like Alcott’s novel, So Many Beginnings takes place during the American Civil War. Morrow ( A Song Below Water) proves up to the challenge of remixing Louisa May Alcott’s most famous work: Little Women. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Gorgeously illustrated, brilliantly innovative…” “The very hungry caterpillar literally eats his way through the pages of the book-and right into your child’s heart…” The Horn Book Guide Volume VI, Number 1 July-December 1994 “Carle’s classic tale of a voracious caterpillar who eats his way through the days of the week and then changes into a beautiful butterfly has been reissued in a sumptuous twenty-fifth anniversary edition with a shiny, silver-coated cover and wonderfully thick, durable pages.” – by Judith Rovenger, Sesame Street Parents, July/August 1994 Caterpillar also brilliantly displays Carle’s ability to integrate a concept (days of the week), scientific information (the life cycle of a caterpillar), and an appealing story. Carle uses clever cutout pages to depict a caterpillar eating his way through the calendar week. “This early work by a premier author marked an exciting breakthrough in the traditional children’s book format. Striking pictures and cleverly die-cut pages offer interactive fun. This all-time favorite not only follows the very hungry caterpillar as it grows from egg to cocoon to beautiful butterfly, but also teaches the days of the week, counting, good nutrition and more. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Anderson… gave me sexy Matrix vibes and I was in love…. Kal Anderson has serial killer amazing vibes like my favorite boyfriend Cole in the Sinners Duet and from the first line had me COMPLETELY HOOKED… I am now and forever obsessed with him and I don’t care who knows. The story is told through the two perspectives of Kal Anderson and Elena Ricci who are the PERFECT Hades and Persephone I could ever possibly want. This idea has been used so many times and a lot of those times, it has been poorly executed… (Yes… I’m looking at you, Touch of Darkness, sorry not sorry.) So why should I pick up this book… I mean it has pomegranates on the cover, how more Hades and Persephone can you get? You might think to yourself… UGH not another Hades and Persephone retelling…. HOWEVER… This one was sooooo damn good and there were so many reasons why. I’ve read a couple this month and last month and I wasn’t completely sold on them or I just DNF them all together… So real talk… Dark romances have NOT been hitting right lately…. ![]() Shattered her virtue and devoured her soul like a succulent pomegranate.Įmbedded my evil as deep as I could possibly get and tried to set her free. Goddess of springtime, lover of poetry, angel of my nightmares. Imprinted his crimson fingerprints on my psyche and tried to set me free. Usurped my fiancé and filled the cracks in my heart with empty promises. Harbinger of death, keeper of souls, frequenter of nightmares. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I was never able to fully connect with the characters, which was a shame because I really did like them. It was well written and had a decent flow but the story itself felt a bit rushed and sort of uneventful. ![]() While I very much enjoyed the premise of this story, I felt its execution fell a little flat. If only he can convince Emma to take a chance on him. Perhaps it's time he took a chance on love. But spending time with Emma, as she shows him the ropes of caring for his daughter, is wearing down his defenses. All he wants is to be the father his daughter needs, to make up for not being there for her and her mother. Wealthy nightclub owner Dillon James has been used for his name and money one too many times, so when he comes face-to-face with Emma Stanton and her gorgeous lips, he's determined to keep things light. Now, not only must she break the news of her sister's tragic death to Dillon, but she must risk the only family she has left and tell him he's the baby's father. But that hadn't stopped him from sharing a kiss with Emma that had followed her through the years. She and Dillon had grown up together-he was her sister's best friend. They can't forget the past, but is it enough to create a future? When an accident leaves her guardian to her six-month-old niece, Emma Stanton must return to her small hometown of Hastings, Montana to find the one man she's spent the last eight years trying to forget. ![]() ![]() ![]() Often associated with the subjective experience of agency, choice and concentration System 2: allocates attention to the effortful mental activities that demand it, including complex computations. Examples: Detect that one object is farther than another detect sadness in a voice read words on billboards understand simple sentences drive a car on an empty road.System 1: operates automatically and quickly, with little or no effort, and no sense of voluntary control Kahneman defines two systems of the mind. The book covers three areas of Daniel Kahneman’s research: cognitive biases, prospect theory, and happiness. Thinking, Fast and Slow concerns a few major questions: how do we make decisions? And in what ways do we make decisions poorly? 1-Page Summary 1-Page Book Summary of Thinking, Fast and Slow ![]() ![]() The question is, can he convince her she can have it all? And have him? Forever? Jack is now fighting to save his relationship with Keri Ann, even as his crazy life threatens to tear them apart. And his hands have been tied to try and stop it. Jack knows he let the only ‘real’ thing that ever happened to him slip through his fingers. And how can she can ever trust him again? But being Jack’s latest tabloid accessory isn’t on Keri Ann’s career agenda, no matter how much she is attracted to him. ![]() ![]() Suddenly Jack is back, and his explanations for why he left seem more and more plausible, and his declarations more seductive. In the wake of his betrayal and abandonment, Keri Ann has had to pick up and move forward with the life she was supposed to live and has put off far too long. She thought she knew a Jack that was very different to the man adored by fans the world over. Keri Ann Butler’s life changed on the night she met movie star, Jack Eversea. ![]() Blitz Sign-Up: Forever, Jack by Natasha BoydĪ feisty small-town girl and the Hollywood star who broke her heart ![]() ![]() The assassins cornered her, outnumbered her five to one, and then in a flash she was surrounded by burning shadows-shadows the people recognized. Undefeated, she's good enough that people have started to talk following a failed hit on her by Maestro assassins, people have started to hope.Įveryone saw it. Got a right hook like the Capenna main line and a jab like a jackhammer. She's a fighter, a boxer, one of the best to ever do it. ![]() There's a star down there in the boxing rings, a name lifted by the cheering crowds of New Capenna's deepest borough: Jaxis, the Troublemaker. ![]() New Legends Jaxis, the Troublemakerĭemons rule New Capenna, but word from the Caldaia is that won't be true for long. ![]() While not all their tales can be told in the Streets of New Capenna stories, here you'll find brief backstories of those legends you'll encounter. New Capenna brims with the powerful and the industrious, the corrupt and the courageous, each with a story and a destiny that shapes the city. ![]() ![]() It’s sure to be a hit with Riordan’s legion of fans.Ĭons: Having no background in Indian mythology, I struggled to keep track of the many different characters and their relationships with one another. ![]() The format is similar to Riordan’s books, with a misfit protagonist who discovers her demigod status and has a string of adventures with mythological creatures. Pros: This is the first book in the new Rick Riordan Presents imprint of Disney-Hyperion (the next two, on Korean and Mayan mythology, are due out in September). Includes an extensive glossary of Indian mythology. ![]() It’s clearly not over at the end, though two mysterious new kids are introduced, and it looks like Aru will be off on another adventure in April 2019. She meets up with Mini, a girl who is also one of the Pandava, and together they manage to defeat a large number of monsters and other mythological beings to fulfill their quest. To undo the spell, Aru is sent on a mission, where she learns that she is a reincarnation of one of the Pandava brothers from Indian mythology. ![]() She lights a lamp her mother has warned her never to touch, and unleashes the Sleeper, an evil being who freezes time for everyone around Aru. Aru has a hard time fitting in at school, so when three somewhat nasty kids from her class show up at the museum on a vacation day, Aru can’t help showing off. ![]() Summary: Aru Shah lives with her mother, director of the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pull up a stool, grab a cold one, and get ready to spend some time at The Rooster Bar. And leaving law school a few short months before graduation would be completely crazy, right? Well, yes and no. But to do so, they would first have to quit school. Maybe there’s a way to escape their crushing debt, expose the bank and the scam, and make a few bucks in the process. And when they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a shady New York hedge-fund operator who also happens to own a bank specializing in student loans, the three know they have been caught up in The Great Law School Scam.īut maybe there's a way out. They all borrowed heavily to attend a third-tier, for-profit law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs. But now, as third-year students, these close friends realize they have been duped. Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. ![]() #1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham’s newest legal thriller takes you inside a law firm that’s on shaky ground. The Rooster Bar by John Grisham: 9781101967690 : Books 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER John Grisham’s newest legal thriller takes you inside a law firm that’s on shaky ground. ![]() |