5/28/2023 0 Comments The Turn of the Key by Ruth WareIt wasn’t just the girls, who turned out to be a far cry from the immaculately behaved model children she met at her interview. It wasn’t just the constant surveillance from the cameras installed around the house, or the malfunctioning technology that woke the household with booming music, or turned the lights off at the worst possible time. Writing to her lawyer from prison, she struggles to explain the unravelling events that led to her incarceration. What she doesn’t know is that she’s stepping into a nightmare-one that will end with a child dead and herself in prison awaiting trial for murder. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss-a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary.Īnd when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten-by the luxurious "smart" home fitted out with all modern conveniences, by the beautiful Scottish Highlands, and by this picture-perfect family. When she stumbles across the ad, she’s looking for something else completely.
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Though King performs the lion’s share of this series, which includes over 20 novels plus novellas and short story collections, she occasionally shares narrator duties with C. Her excellent timing and spot-on “Joisey” accents ooze attitude and eye rolls - winning fans and accolades, including an Earphones Award for four installments: Eleven on Top, Twelve Sharp, Smokin’ 17, and Takedown 20. Narrator Lorelei King’s got New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum’s number! King delivers screwball dialogue and wild-and-wacky antics as smoothly and naturally as, well, a used car salesman delivers his shtick. (Insider tip: Give the titles a listen in numerical order. Meeting her zany family and friends, cagey criminals (including local mobsters), and tangled love interests - while trying to keep up with the twists and turns of her chases - make for fun, pause-resistant listens. In this rip-roaring, madcap series, best-selling author Janet Evanovich follows the only-in-Jersey adventures of Stephanie Plum, bounty hunter.ĭivorced and laid off, Stephanie Plum “forces” her cousin Vinnie to give her a job as a bounty hunter in her hometown of Trenton, New Jersey. 5/28/2023 0 Comments The stranger rm hollandGriffiths, the bestselling author of the Ruth Galloway and Magic Men mystery series, wisely chose to set her first standalone mystery on a campus similar to West Dean College in West Sussex, where she teaches creative writing. You don’t know me.” When another teacher is found slain, this time inside the notorious Holland House, Detective Sergeant Harbinder Kaur believes Clare is the link between the two deaths, prompting the teacher and her teenage daughter, Georgia, to flee Sussex on a sleeper train to Scotland. When Clare seeks solace in her daily diary, she finds a chilling message written by another hand: “Hallo, Clare. Holland, whose historic home remains a landmark on the school’s campus. Ella’s death eerily mimics the plot of Clare’s favorite Victorian ghost story, “The Stranger,” by author R.M. English teacher Clare Cassidy is deeply troubled after the murder of fellow teacher and friend Ella Elphick. 5/28/2023 0 Comments Zamyatin myYevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin was born in the provincial town of Lebedian, some two hundred miles south of Moscow. And so I felt that I - not generations of people, but I myself - I had conquered the old God and the old life, I myself had created all this, and I'm like a tower, I'm afraid to move my elbow for fear of shattering the walls, the cupolas, the machines." (from We, trans. "And then, just the way it was this morning in the hangar, I saw again, as though right then for the first time in my life, I saw everything: the unalterably straight streets, the sparkling glass of the sidewalks, the divine parallelepipeds of the transparent dwellings, the squared harmony of our gray-blue ranks. In the English-speaking world We has appeared in several translations. The book was considered a "malicious slander on socialism" in the Soviet Union, and it was not until 1988 when Zamyatin was rehabilitated. Yevgeny Zamyatin (Russian: Евгений Замятин, sometimes also seen spelled Eugene Zamiatin) Russian novelist, playwright, short story writer, and essayist, whose famous anti-utopia (1924, We) prefigured Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932), and inspired George Orwell's 1984 (1949). 5/28/2023 0 Comments Queen of the tiles by hanna alkafWith Trina, the Scrabble Queen herself, gone, the throne is empty, and her friends are eager to be the next reigning champion. It might be even though Najwa’s trying to change, she’s not ready to give up Trina just yet.īut the same can’t be said for all the other competitors. Perhaps it wasn’t the best idea to choose the very same competition where said best friend, Trina Low, died. When Najwa Bakri walks into her first Scrabble competition since her best friend’s death, it’s with the intention to heal and move on with her life. Noun: a substance that speeds up a reaction without itself changing They Wish They Were Us meets The Queen’s Gambit in the world of competitive Scrabble when a teen girl is forced to investigate the mysterious death of her best friend a year after the fact when her Instagram comes back to life with cryptic posts and messages. 5/27/2023 0 Comments Animal farm propaganda essayThroughout the story, there are many types of propaganda that can be recognized in various real life situations. Soon, nobody questioned the authority and the pigs were nearly the exact same as the humans. Power got to Napoleon’s head, the pig that took leadership, and he began to execute animals for things they never did. Later, everything started to go downhill. For a while, things were better than they were before. They proved the other farms, Pinchfield and Foxwood, wrong by living in a communist society where everyone receives equal treatment. Months later, the animals executed the revolution against the humans on their farm. Old Major, an old prize-winning boar taught them about a dream he had about animals living without humans, and the animals followed. The story begins in Manor Farm, where many of the animals are mistreated, neglected, and malnourished. It’s a fiction book written by George Orwell in 1944. The book Animal Farm is a metaphorical fairy story portraying Stalinist Russia. Middle Build – Investigation ensues, along the lines of typical motive and opportunity.The victim’s sister, Josie, identifies her as Ruby Keene, a dancer who performs at a resort hotel. Marple agrees to help and examines the body before the superintendent arrives. Bantry calls in her good friend Miss Jane Marple to help solve the mystery and restore her husband’s reputation.
5/27/2023 0 Comments Certain preyHe has two children, Roswell and Emily, and one grandson, Benjamin. He is the principal financial backer of a major archeological project in the Jordan Valley of Israel, with a website at In addition to archaeology, he is deeply interested in art (painting) and photography. He's also the author of two non-fiction books, one on plastic surgery and one on art. From 1990 to the present he has written thriller novels. Paul Pioneer-Press from 1978-1990 in 1980, he was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, and he won the Pulitzer in 1986 for a series of stories about a midwestern farm crisis. He was a reporter for The Miami Herald from 1971-78, and then a reporter for the St. Army from 1966-68, worked as a reporter for the Cape Girardeau Southeast Missourian from 1968-1970, and went back to the University of Iowa from 1970-1971, where he received a master's degree in journalism. In 1966, he married Susan Lee Jones of Cedar Rapids, a fellow student at the University of Iowa. He then spent four years at the University of Iowa, graduating with a bachelor's degree in American Studies in 1966. He attended the public schools in Cedar Rapids, graduating from Washington High School in 1962. John Sandford was born John Roswell Camp on February 23, 1944, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 5/27/2023 0 Comments Dukes of ruin angel lawsonAs I mentioned, this is a very character-driven book, so we got to know these four really well. They all have suffered from trauma, and it is interesting to see how they deal with it so differently. She was much more equipped to handle herself. In many ways, this book is darker than the Lords’ first book, but I think it somehow didn’t seem as dark because Lavinia is such a strong woman. Unlike in the Lords series, most of the guys don’t have a history with Lavinia, so there is a lot of building that. The first book in the Dukes section of the series is very character-driven. This one is a whole new frat, so new cheaters and a new story, and both were amazing! You can read more on my disclosures page.ĭukes of Ruin is the 4th book in the Forsyth University series. Goodreads This post contains affiliate links. The Dukes are known for winning with their fists, but transforming Lavinia Lucia from the Kings’ captive to their unwilling Duchess will be their biggest match yet. They certainly never thought she’d rise to be their Queen.īut they aren’t the only Royals in Forsyth. The Lords never expected Story Austin to walk back into their life. The crowns of Forsyth Royalty aren’t built with jewels. 5/27/2023 0 Comments Tears of silenced misty griffinTo all abuse survivors out there, please be encouraged, the cycle of abuse can be broken. After reporting the bishop I left the Amish and found myself plummeted into the strange modern world with only a second-grade education and no ID or social security card. After I was assaulted by the bishop I knew I had to get help and one freezing morning in early March I made a dash for a tiny police station in rural Minnesota. As Misty recalls, "Amish sexual abusers are only shunned by the church for six weeks, a punishment that never seems to work. A few years later, Misty was sexually assaulted by the bishop. Going to the police was severely frowned upon. Misty was devastated to once again find herself in a world of fear, animal cruelty and sexual abuse. When Misty reached her teens, her parents feared she and her sister would escape and took them to an Amish community where they were adopted and became baptized members. They also knew that no rescue would ever come because only a couple of people even knew they existed and did not know them well enough to care. Their step-father kept a loaded rifle by the door at all times to make sure the young girls were too terrified to try to escape. Misty and her sister were kept as slaves on a mountain ranch where they were subjected to almost complete isolation, sexual abuse and extreme physical violence. "When Misty was six years old her family started to live and dress like the Amish. |