![]() ![]() Stuart and Jake have a somewhat rushed romance, but all in all, I really enjoyed this novella.Ī charming, straightforward romantic novella with an unlikely plot arc: finding Bigfoot. I found this a bit scary but in a good way. Stumbling across the semi-naked stranger, he helps Stuart by sharing his sleeping bag with him and bringing him and his dog home the next day.īut the strange sightings do not end there, as the creatures have a weird interest in Stuart's house in the woods. Jake is researching Sasquatch ever since he was bitten by one during his Park Ranger duties. Trying to escape from them he runs into a stranger in the middle of the woods. Stuart chases him, wearing only a bathrobe, and tries to bring him home, but he finds himself surrounded by creatures that look strangely like Sasquatch. One night, Thor hears a noise outside and furiously starts barking and vanishes in the woods hunting whatever it is that startled him. Stuart is a romance writer who purchased a lonely house deep in the woods of New Hampshire where he lives with his German shepherd Thor. ![]()
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5/24/2023 0 Comments The scarlets madeleine roux![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The door shut slowly but with a hard snap at the end, as if to say she was leaving them alone but wasn’t happy about it. ![]() “Oh, I wouldn’t worry.” Roger-his dear old dad-managed a wry laugh. “Of course.” Cal could just imagine her rolling those beady eyes of hers. “This is the third time, Roger,” Professor Reyes was saying. It wasn’t exactly comfortable, but it was better than keeping his eyes open and feeling the light pierce straight through to the back of his skull. His head pounded, that sour taste in his mouth making his stomach turn. Maybe you should ask better questions, lady. The way she rolled her eyes when she posed a question and no hands went up. His mouth tasted sour and the world spun, everything skewed and fuzzy. His cheek stuck to the desk a little as he jerked his head up. When Cal woke up, the classroom was empty. Excerpt from Warden Crawford’s journal, spring 1953 It will be bigger, yes, and accordingly it will consume me that much more. I crave and dread to know what I will want then. When I achieve this-if, not when-it will surely cease to be the core of my longing. I myself desire a legacy that reaches beyond my own small life, perhaps even into immortality. The things we want are only thus because we cannot have them. There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Light Up New York by Natalie Grant![]() ![]() So, what happens when sibling rivalry, random acts of kindness, and a little mystery all meet up at some of the most famous sights in New York City? In London Art Chase, join the Glimmer Girls on an international adventure as they travel to London to watch their mom-famous singer Gloria Glimmer-perform. ![]() ![]() Miss Julia immediately starts planning a sightseeing trip for the sisters that will be better than all the rest, but plans never turn out exactly as they imagine when the Glimmer girls are involved. In Light Up New York, travel with the Glimmer Girls to the Big Apple! Gloria has been asked to perform a concert in Times Square and the whole family joins her. ![]() This collection includes the first three books in the series-a perfect gift for the Faithgirlz in your life! In Miracle in Music City, join the Glimmer Girls as they embark on an adventure in their hometown of Nashville, Tennessee! There's a bit of mystery to solve for Mia, Maddie, Lulu, and the nanny Miss Julie too, when the main item in a benefit auction goes missing. From Grammy-award winning musical artist Natalie Grant comes the Glimmer Girls! You'll meet 10-year-old twins Mia and Maddie and their sidekick little sister, LuLu, as they embark on international adventure and mischief thanks to their famous mom who travels all over the world singing beautiful songs. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Going bicoastal dahlia adler![]() Instead, alternating chapters chronicle Nat’s life in L.A., where she and her fellow intern-a frustratingly charming boy-bicker constantly, and in New York, where she learns that the redhead is cooler than Nat imagined. ![]() Adler ( Home Field Advantage) forgoes forcing Nat to make a choice by structuring the book across two simultaneously occurring timelines. to patch up their relationship and staying with her dad in N.Y.C., where she’s been attempting to drum up the courage to make a move on the cute redheaded girl she keeps seeing around the Upper West Side. But when her mom offers Nat a summer internship, she’s torn between going to L.A. Nat’s relationship with her mother has been strained for three years, ever since her mom moved from New York to California to pursue a life-changing career opportunity. White, Jewish 17-year-old Natalya Fox must make what she feels is an impossible decision in this summery, Sliding Doors–inspired rom-com about risk-taking and second chances. ![]() ![]() ![]()
5/24/2023 0 Comments The memoirs of ulysses s grant![]() ![]() Grant’s autobiography is devoted almost entirely to his life as a soldier: his years at West Point, his service in the peacetime army, and his education in war during conflicts foreign and domestic. Washburne, provide a fascinating contemporary perspective on the events that would later figure in the Memoirs. Many of them are to his wife, Julia, and offer an intimate view of their affectionate and enduring marriage others, addressed to fellow generals, government officials, and his congressional patron Elihu B. This Library of America volume also includes 174 letters written by Grant from 1839 to 1865. Acclaimed by readers as diverse as Mark Twain, Matthew Arnold, Gertrude Stein, and Edmund Wilson, the Personal Memoirs demonstrates the intelligence, intense determination, and laconic modesty that made Grant the Union’s foremost commander. Grant wrote his Personal Memoirs to secure their future, and in doing so won for himself a unique place in American letters. Stricken by cancer as his family faced financial ruin, Ulysses S. Twenty years after Appomattox, the Civil War’s greatest general fought his last campaign against death and time. ![]() Buy the Grant and Sherman volumes in a boxed set and save $20. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Lisa jewell i found you reviews![]() ![]() Something about him makes Gray uncomfortable-and it’s not just that he’s playing the role of protective older brother. Their annual trip to the quaint seaside town is passing by uneventfully, until an enigmatic young man starts paying extra attention to Kirsty. ![]() Twenty-three years earlier, Gray and Kirsty are teenagers on a summer holiday with their parents. Then the police tell her that her husband never existed. When her new husband fails to come home from work one night she is left stranded in a new country where she knows no one. Meanwhile, in a suburb of London, twenty-one-year-old Lily Monrose has only been married for three weeks. Against her better judgment, she invites him inside. He has no name, no jacket, and no idea how he got there. In a windswept British seaside town, single mom Alice Lake finds a man sitting on the beach outside her house. ![]() ![]() A young bride, a lonely single mother, and an amnesiac man of dubious origin lie at the heart of New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell’s next suspenseful drama that will appeal to fans of Liane Moriarty and Paula Hawkins. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Justin cronin the city of mirrors![]() A true last stand that builds and comes with a bloody, roaring payoff you won’t see coming, then builds again to the big face off you’ve been waiting for." "This really is the big event you’ve been waiting for. The writing is sumptuous, the language lovely, even when the action itself is dark and violent." Thrilling in every way it has to be, but poetry just the same. extremely collectible print run that is a tiny fraction of the hundreds of thousands of copies of the edition you'll see in bookstores - and you will NOT see our edition in chain bookstores!.deluxe oversized design with a fine binding.at least ONE DOZEN black & white interior illustrations by Jill Bauman.Special Features Exclusive to this Collector's Edition: One last time light and dark will clash, and at last Amy and her friends will know their fate. His fury will be quenched only when he destroys Amy-humanity's only hope, the Girl from Nowhere who grew up to rise against him. The anguish that shattered his human life haunts him, and the hatred spawned by his transformation burns bright. ![]() ![]() The survivors are stepping outside their walls, determined to build society anew-and daring to dream of a hopeful future.īut far from them, in a dead metropolis, he waits: Zero. The Twelve have been destroyed and the terrifying hundred-year reign of darkness that descended upon the world has ended. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments White magic book elissa washuta![]() ![]() Her second book continues the story of her survival of so many traumas, both internal and external. ![]() White Magic takes the same form as Washuta’s first memoir, My Body is a Book of Rules, a series of linked lyrical essays chronicling rape, abuse, psychiatric diagnosis and treatment, and the complexities of being a Cowlitz person raised away from her tribal community. I am responsible for my words in support of it, which calls for me to be as brave as Washuta. It took me months to read White Magic because the audacity of it scared me, as a Native writer and book reviewer. ![]() Do you think I understand everything in this book? If I don’t, can you?” (Epigraph Footnote #4) Anyway, I just ask because this is my book. “When you don’t understand the meaning of something you read, whose fault is it? Yours or the writer’s? It has to be someone’s fault. White Magic by Elissa Washuta (Tin House 2021) ![]() ![]() ![]() KAREN MENUHINġ920's, Cozy crime, Traditional Detectives, Downton Abbey - I love them!Īt 60 I decided to write, I don't know why but suddenly the stories came pouring out, along with the characters. Murder at Melrose Court is the first book in the Lennox series. Major Heathcliff Lennox, ex-WW1 war pilot, six feet 3 inches, tousled, dark blond hair, age around 30 - named after the hero of Wuthering Heights by his romantically minded mother - much to his great annoyance. But then the murders begin and it snows and it all becomes very complicated. Major Lennox finds a body on his doorstep - why on his doorstep? Was it to do with the Countess? Was it about the ruby necklace? Lennox goes to Melrose Court home to his uncle, Lord Melrose, to uncover the mystery. Title: Murder at Melrose Court: A 1920s Country House Christmas Murder ![]() |