![]() An unlikely pair, the two develop a fast intellectual friendship, curious to many but accepted by all, including Ransome’s ailing wife, Stella. William Ransome, desperate to keep his flock from descending into outright hysteria. Cora’s fascination with the fabled Essex Serpent leads her to the Rev. Soon she becomes captivated by the local rumor of a menacing presence that haunts the Blackwater estuary, a threat that locks children in their houses after dark and puts farmers on watch as the tide creeps in. ![]() The curious party decamps to muddy Essex, where Cora dons an ugly men’s coat and goes tramping in the mud, looking for fossils. Eschewing the advice of her friends, Cora retreats from London with her lady’s maid, Martha, and strange, prescient son, Francis. ![]() Widow Cora Seaborne knows she should mourn the death of her husband instead, she finally feels free. The unlikely friendship between a canny widow and a scholarly vicar sets the stage for this sweeping 19th-century saga of competing belief systems. ![]()
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Hannah Morrissey's Hello, Transcriber is a captivating mystery suspense debut featuring a female police transcriber who goes beyond the limits to solve a harrowing case.Įvery night, while the street lamps shed the only light on Wisconsin’s most crime-ridden city, police transcriber Hazel Greenlee listens as detectives divulge Black Harbor’s gruesome secrets. "Hannah Morrissey's Hello, Transcriber is a captivating mystery suspense debut featuring a female police transcriber who goes beyond the limits to solve a harrowing case."- ( Baker & Taylor)Īn aspiring writer working as a police transcriber in Wisconsin’s most crime-ridden city believes her eyewitness intel will make for a great book when her neighbor confesses to hiding an overdose victim’s body in a dumpster. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her inexplicably perfect beauty and aristocratic upbringing pique Justin's avid curiosity – and his desire – though her true nature holds more danger than anyone realises.Īs their investigation unfolds, Justin and Mae find themselves in the path of terrible danger. Justin's unexpected return comes with an even bigger shock: his new partner and bodyguard, Mae, is a praetorian, one of the elite and deadly supersoldiers of the RUNA. Suddenly, Justin is sent home to the Republic of United North America (RUNA) with a peculiar assignment – to solve a string of ritualistic murders steeped in seemingly unexplainable phenomena. In a futuristic world nearly destroyed by religious extremists, Justin March is a former investigator of religious groups who was sent into exile after a failed job, a fate that has left the brilliant servitor bitter and free to indulge his addictive personality. The truth is, when you banish the gods from the world, they eventually come back – with a vengeance. Gameboard of the Gods delivers all the elements that have made her bestselling Vampire Academy series a breakout success: sexy, irresistible characters romantic and mythological intrigue and breathless action and suspense. ![]() From the international bestselling author of Vampire Academy, comes the first book in Richelle Mead's new adult series, the Age of X. ![]() ![]() After the Harlem Renaissance, Ringgold's childhood home in Harlem became surrounded by a thriving arts scene – where figures such as Duke Ellington and Langston Hughes lived just around the corner. ![]() They raised her in an environment that encouraged her creativity. Ringgold's mother was a fashion designer and her father, as well as working a range of jobs, was an avid storyteller. : 24 Her parents, Andrew Louis Jones and Willi Posey Jones, were descendants of working-class families displaced by the Great Migration. ![]() The American People Series #20: Die (1967)įaith Ringgold (born Octoin Harlem, New York City) is an American painter, writer, mixed media sculptor, and performance artist, best known for her narrative quilts.įaith Ringgold was born the youngest of three children on October 8, 1930, in Harlem Hospital, New York City. The American People Series #18: The Flag is Bleeding (1967) ![]() ![]() The sky’s no longer the limit on what Robin and Marian can do, as long as they manage to do it together. Their paths should never, ever cross, but before they know it, they are thrown together on a quest that requires legendary bravery, quick-witted escapes, and the ability to get along with each other. Robin and Marian have lived very different lives in very different places. She has no idea what life would be like outside of her home, until a mysterious invitation forces her to leave everything behind. But that hasn’t stopped her from making her own adventures and trespassing in some places her parents definitely don’t want her to see. Marian was raised to be a very powerless girl in a very powerful family. Then a strange delivery arrives at his doorstep, and the past is suddenly very present. He lives on an isolated outpost in the middle of nowhere and has no idea why his parents disappeared years ago. A he said/she said series with a prince and princess twist.Rapunzel is having the ultimate bad day. There are two sides to every story - even fairy tales. Robin has a bad habit of getting into trouble, and a better habit of getting out of it (barely). Rapunzel: The One with All the Hair Books by Wendy Mass. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And for Serapio and Naranpa, both now living avatars, the struggle for free will and personhood in the face of destiny rages. For the Clan of Matriarchs of Tova, tense alliances form as far-flung enemies gather and the war in the heavens is reflected upon the earth. How do you live when legends come to life, and the faith you had is rewarded? As sea captain Xiala is swept up in the chaos and currents of change, she finds an unexpected ally in the former Priest of Knives. ![]() ![]() The Meridian: a land where magic has been codified and the worship of gods suppressed. The sun is held within the smothering grip of the Crow God’s eclipse, but a comet that marks the death of a ruler and heralds the rise of a new order is imminent. Teek saying The great city of Tova is shattered. There are no tides more treacherous than those of the heart. USA TODAY Bestseller Return to The Meridian with New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Roanhorse’s sequel to the most critically hailed epic fantasy of 2020 Black Sun -finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Lambda, and Locus awards. ![]() ![]() ![]() Days filled with foraging, rest, and communication evoke the full lives these nonhumans lead. ![]() Searls’ poetic translation immerses the reader in forest life, putting us ground level with the animals, for better and worse. For a slim book, Bambi carries great allegorical heft-political, ecological, and existential-and is also a moving meditation on attention and solitude. This fall, a reissue from New York Review Books Classics-translated by Damion Searls, with an afterword by Mark Reitter-offers readers another look at this enduring coming-of-age story. A new translation by Jack Zipes emerged from Princeton University Press earlier in the year. ![]() This year marks one hundred years since a Viennese newspaper first serialized Felix Salten’s novel Bambi. ![]() ![]() And nothing ticks off a killer more than a portly ex-pop star who's sticking her nose where it doesn't belong. ![]() That is, until the dead body of a female student from Heather's residence hall is discovered. So Heather makes the decision to take on yet another new career: as spunky girl detective!īut her new job comes with few benefits, no cheering crowds, and lots of liabilities, some of them potentially fatal. Now that the glamour and glory days of endless mall appearances are in the past, Heather's perfectly happy with her new size 12 shape (the average for the American woman) and her new job as an assistant dorm director at one of New York's top colleges. who owns the brownstone where she lives - even when more students start turning up dead in equally ordinary and subtly sinister ways. Yet no one wants to listen - not the police, her colleagues, or the P.I. The cops and the college president are ready to chalk the death off as an accident, the result of reckless youthful mischief. ![]() That is, until the dead body of a female student from Heather's residence hall is discovered at the bottom of an elevator shaft. Now that the glamour and glory days of endless mall appearances are in the past, Heather's perfectly happy with her new size 12 shape (the average for the American woman!) and her new job as an assistant dorm director at one of New York's top colleges. ![]() That was before she left the pop-idol life behind after she gained a dress size or two - and lost a boyfriend, a recording contract, and her life savings (when Mom took the money and ran off to Argentina). ![]() ![]() The short chapters make it difficult to put down. Plot/Pacing: The story moves at a quick pace and is very suspenseful (though I worry it may feel less suspenseful for kids who may not have a lot of background knowledge on WWII). And since we don’t get to spend much time with each character due to the short length of the book, this just goes to show how strong the characters in this story are because you really do feel connected to all of them. Each character serves a purpose in the story and contributes to Annemarie’s development. It’s a relatively short book, but it packs a punch. All of the minor characters are great too. The book is set during WWII, so she was forced to rapidly go from an innocent child to a mature and brave one in a very short amount of time. ![]() The main character, Annemarie, grows a lot throughout the story. Bravery means doing the right thing even if it scares you.Ĭharacter Development: The character development in this book was really well done. “It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything” Soon Annemarie is asked to go on a dangerous mission to save Ellen’s life. When the Jews of Denmark are “relocated,” Ellen moves in with the Johansens and pretends to be one of the family. It’s now 1943 and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching through town. Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think of life before the war. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this thrilling sequel to Airborn, a Michael L. Pursued by others who want the Hyperion and will stop at nothing to get it, and surrounded by dangerous high-altitude life forms, Matt and his companions are soon fighting not only for the Hyperion but for their very lives. Armed with the Hyperion’s coordinates, which only he possesses, Matt, heiress Kate de Vries, and a mysterious young gypsy board the Sagarmatha, an airship fitted with the new skybreaker engines that will allow them to reach the Hyperion, 20,000 feet above the earth’s surface. Stand alone or series: Book 2 of the Matt Cruse trilogyįormer cabin boy Matt Cruse, now a student at the prestigious Airship Academy, is first to identify the Hyperion, the private airship of a reclusive and fabulously wealthy inventor that disappeared forty years ago with its owner. ![]() |