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The Elephant's Girl by Celesta Rimington6/29/2023 ![]() This book is so stinking sweet, I almost cried. Can Lex summon the courage to hunt for who she really is–and why the tornado brought her here all those years ago? Despite the wind’s protests, Lex decides to investigate Nyah’s message and gets wrapped up in an adventure involving ghosts, lost treasure, and a puzzle that might be the key to finding her family. But during their first training session, Nyah sends her a telepathic image of the woods outside the zoo. Now that she’s twelve, Lex is finally old enough to help with the elephants. With no trace of her family, Lex grew up at the zoo with her foster father, Roger her best friend, Fisher and the wind whispering in her ear. When she was a toddler, a tornado swept her away from everyone and everything she knew and landed her near an enclosure in a Nebraska zoo, where an elephant named Nyah protected her from the storm. I had to read the story about The Elephant’s Girl and I’m so glad I did because I think this is a new favorite.”Īn elephant never forgets…but Lexington Willow can’t remember her past. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Elephants are so special to me, for very personal reasons, so the title of this book was an auto-listen (audiobook). ![]()
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Eleanor oliphant6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() I had very wrong expectations when I started this book. The only way to survive is to open your heart. Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is the smart, warm, and uplifting story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes. And it is Raymond’s big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living. ![]() Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy.īut everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. ![]() Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. “Take a Peek” book reviews are short and (possibly) sweet, keeping the commentary brief and providing a little peek at what the book’s about and what I thought. ![]()
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John matherson books6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() But "the New Regime" is already tyrannizing one nearby community. He and the people of Black Mountain protest vehemently. ![]() ![]() That hope quickly diminishes when town administrator John Matherson learns that most of the young men and women in the community are to be drafted into the "Army of National Recovery" and sent to trouble spots hundreds of miles away. When a "federal administrator" arrives in a nearby city, they dare to hope that a new national government is finally emerging. FORSTCHEN is the New York Times bestselling author of One Second After, among numerous other books in diverse subjects ranging from history to. After months of suffering starvation, war, and countless deaths, the survivors of Black Mountain, North Carolina, are beginning to recover technology and supplies they had once taken for granted, like electricity, radio communications, and medications. The novel cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should readĮnds, two years since nuclear weapons were detonated above the United States and brought America to its knees. One of the first moments at which the book's main character, John Matherson, is surprised by his own behavior is on Day One, when he refuses to give rides in his mother-in-law's car to a group of people, including Makala Turner, who are stranded on the highway. ![]()
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Miles morales vol 7 beyond6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() The Taskmaster is one of the most lethal combatants in the Marvel Universe, and his deadly array of skills makes him more than a match for Spider-Man and Starling! But is this a team-up.or a date?! Miles must race the clock to save his romantic life - and maybe his actual life! Plus, the return of an old friend: Riri Williams, the armored prodigy called Ironheart! Elsewhere, momentous events in the world of Peter Parker will have dire effects for both Miles and his metamor. ![]()
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The goblin emperor6/29/2023 ![]() Orphans with no family to claim them and no funds to buy an apprenticeship. He has been given an apprentice to teach, and he has stumbled over a scandal of the city-the foundling girls. ![]() ![]() Celehar’s life as the Witness for the Dead of Amalo grows less isolated as his circle of friends grows larger. The second book in The Cemeteries of Amalo trilogy. ![]() The first book in the spin-off The Cemeteries of Amalo trilogy, covering Thara's life in Amalo as he continues to work there as the sole Witness for the Dead on appointment from the Archprelate. But when his father and three sons in line for the throne are killed in an "accident," he has no choice but to take his place as the only surviving rightful heir.Ī short story set after The Goblin Emperor but just a month after Thara Celehar takes up residence in Amalo and before The Witness for the Dead, Vineän Brenhazin petitions Thara for help with discovering the birth father of Lora Selezh.Ī short story set after Thara takes up residence in Amalo and before The Witness for the Dead, Aiveän Zemerin worries about the future of her ward, and goes to petition Thara for help. The youngest, half-goblin son of the Emperor has lived his entire life in exile, distant from the Imperial Court and the deadly intrigue that suffuses it. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() I started working on 1599 in 1988 and didn’t publish it until 2005. With relatively little information to work with from the beginning and end of Shakespeare’s life, how do you piece together his life? How Elizabethan playwrights did it without caffeine-neither coffee nor tea were available yet in England-makes that achievement even more remarkable. Thomas Dekker either wrote or collaborated on ten plays that same year. But we do well to remember that playwrights turned out plays then fairly quickly. The pressure of drawing audiences to his company’s new theater, The Globe, must have had something to do with it as well in 1599. He seemed to have written plays in inspired bursts. ![]() Shakespeare somehow managed to finish Henry V, write As You Like It and Julius Caesar in quick succession, and draft Hamlet in the course of that year. How did Shakespeare, an actor himself, find the time to write such masterful works? ![]() In your book 1599, you focus on a year in Shakespeare’s life in which he wrote five plays. Cultural Compass spoke with Shapiro about his research, the sparse data on Shakespeare’s early life, and his favorite play. Shapiro specializes in Shakespeare and Elizabethan culture and is the author of Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare and 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare. James Shapiro, a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, speaks Thursday night at the Ransom Center about Shakespeare’s “life” as currently written. ![]()
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Vampire mountain book6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Darren's biggest challenge, following a run-in with a crazed grizzly bear and a foolhardy confrontation with a rare, Xena-like vampiress, comes in defending his maker, the one who inexplicably violated the proscription against blooding a child. ![]() The road is perilous, of course, and getting to their destination is only half of the problem. The peregrinators are accompanied by a pair of ugly, speechless Little People who carry an ominous message for the council from their "old as time itself" master, Mr. Having tracked a horror-movie-stereotype vampire in their previous adventure, Darren and his master, Larten Crepsley, take another hiatus from the bizarre circus of the series title to make a pilgrimage to the Halls of Vampire Mountain to meet with the generals and princes in charge. Grade 5-8-Darren Shan, the loquacious vampire's assistant, narrates another blood-and-guts tale. ![]()
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Books about sackler family6/29/2023 ![]() The source of the family fortune was vague, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing Oxycontin, a blockbuster painkiller that was a catalyst for the opioid crisis - an international epidemic of drug addiction which has killed nearly half a million people. The Sackler family is one of the richest in the world, and their name adorns the walls of many famous institutions - Harvard the Metropolitan Museum of Art Oxford the Louvre. ![]() I've been thinking about it nonstop ever since I finished it.' - Malcolm Gladwell The gripping and shocking story of three generations of the Sackler family and their roles in the stories of Valium, Oxycontin and the opioid crisis. ![]() a masterclass in compelling narrative nonfiction.' - Elizabeth Day, The Guardian '30 Best Summer Reads' 'If you haven't read it already, you really should. ![]() The inspiration behind the Netflix tv series Painkillers, starring Uzo Aduba and Matthew Broderick Winner of the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards 2021: Winner, Memoir & Autobiography Empire of Pain is the story of a dynasty: a parable of 21st century greed 'One of those authors I will always read, no matter what the subject matter, which is why I gobbled up Empire of Pain. ![]()
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Leone ross popisho6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The Caribbean word ‘poppy show’ has its etymology in ‘puppet show’, meaning a foolishness, or silliness, so spending my time in isles called Scilly felt amusing and apt. For spatial research, I walked around the edges of the Isles of Scilly, that wonderful archipelago off Cornwall, explaining the developing plot to a Scillian pheasant who strutted beside me for an hour, getting a bit stuck in a peat bog and barely ducking a small and furious plane. Atmospherically, it reminds me of Carriacou, one of several small Grenadine islands I visited during childhood. My novel takes place in Popisho, a fictional Caribbean-esque archipelago hiding somewhere in the expanse of the Indian Ocean. To a friend? “There’s magic, specifically Black people with magic, a fascinating journey over a single day, a chef addicted to moths, a bunch of similes I really like, and a whorehouse…”Īre there any locations that have a special connection for the book? ![]() I also wanted to have some fun – I hope the novel makes people laugh and cry and think.Ĭan you describe This One Sky Day in one sentence? But I do know I wanted to talk about addiction and second chances at love. I can’t remember anymore – I wrote it over a 15-year period. What inspired you to write This One Sky Day? Describe in three words how it feels to be longlisted for the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction. ![]()
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The Thief of Always by Clive Barker6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() However, some sinister hints are dropped, such as the collection of children's clothes in the attic, the foreboding lake with child-sized fish behind the House, and mentions of a fourth member of Rictus's family called " Carna". Griffin and her seemingly sentient cats, and two of Rictus's "siblings". Harvey quickly befriends the incumbent residents of the house: two other kids named Wendell and Lulu, kindly caretaker Mrs. There are four seasons a day, every night is Christmas, and the House grants any wish, all made possible by a man called Mr. ![]() Until a shady figure named Rictus appears in his room and offers him a stay at the " Holiday House", a paradise where kids don't age or ever have work. Ten-year-old Harvey Swick is unsatisfied with boring, day-to-day life he is sick of dealing with school, homework, nagging parents. It deals with temptation, growing up and mortality, and it has a few good helpings of horror, as expected of Clive Barker. The Thief of Always is a fable written by Clive Barker that may read like a children's book, but it's just as enjoyable for adults. ![]() |