Pregnesia by Carla Cassidy7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Repossessions were usually done in the middle of the night when hopefully the deadbeat was sleeping and there was less of a chance of a confrontation.Īs the third partner of Recovery Inc., it wasn't unusual for Lucas to be repossessing some kind of vehicle. ![]() Still, it was repaying a favor that had him standing on the street on a cold November night at two in the morning. Lucas didn't believe in favors, giving them or getting them. ![]() He was about to repossess the two-year-old Buick in the driveway, and he didn't know if there might be a crazy man with a rifle in one of those darkened windows ready to protest the repossession. Although everything was silent and it appeared the occupants of the house were sleeping, Lucas knew this was the most dangerous time in the job he had to do. Lucas Washington stared at the darkened house across the way from where he stood on a quiet residential Kansas City street. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Jac's efforts put her in the path of her estranged lover, Griffin North, a linguist who has already begun translating Ren le Florentin's mysterious formula. ![]() ![]() ![]() She becomes obsessed with Ren le Florentin's work- particularly when she discovers the dying breaths he had collected during his lifetime. But while mixing herbs and essences under the light of flickering candles, Ren doesn't begin to imagine the tragic and personal consequences for which his lethal potions will be responsible.Ī renowned mythologist, Jac L'Etoile-trying to recover from personal heartache by throwing herself into her work-learns of the sixteenth-century perfumer who may have been working on an elixir that would unlock the secret to immortality. In France, Ren becomes not only the greatest perfumer in the country, but also the most dangerous, creating deadly poisons for his Queen to use against her rivals. Traveling with the young duchessina from Italy to France, Ren brings with him a cache of secret documents from the monastery where he was trained: recipes for exotic fragrances and potent medicines-and a formula for an alchemic process said to have the potential to reanimate the dead. From the internationally bestselling author, a lush and imaginative novel that crisscrosses time as passion and obsessions collideĪn orphan named Ren le Florentin is plucked from poverty to become Catherine de Medici's perfumer. ![]() Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell7/4/2023 ![]() The time transcending soul’s journey and human coexistence conveyed through the symbol of a comet-shaped birthmark is explored with the novel’s embedded narrative structure making it an ontological grand narrative, a term introduced by Jean-François Lyotard to define a unique kind of metanarrative which “sees” an inner connection between events related to one another. ![]() Therefore the object of this BA paper is the novel’s embedded narrative structure and its major themes of rebirth and predacity with relation to the contemporary aesthetic and cultural mentality beyond postmodernism. David Mitchell’s novel Cloud Atlas (2004) explores the intricacies of time-transcending human connections by introducing six seemingly unrelated narratives in a recursive, multi-layered narrative structure. ![]() The gruffalo sound book7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() Press the twelve sound buttons in the pages of the story to make Julia Donaldson's classic tale of The Gruffalo come alive! Listen to Snake hiss and Owl hoot! Hear Mouse's tummy rumble and the Gruffalo growl in this magical, interactive story sound book. The year’s outstanding debut authors for children: shortlist for the 2023 Branford Boase Award announced. ![]() Celebrate Grandparents Day with 50 great kids books about grandparents.Anxiety & Wellbeing - 80 Books to Help Children Nurture Good Mental Health.Jacqueline Wilson - our Guest Editor of the Month.Branford Boase 2023 – what the judges had to say about the shortlist.Read Hour returns for its third year in the UK with Moomin Characters.In its 20th year, the shortlist for CLiPPA (CLPE Children’s Poetry Award) reflects the wealth of talent in children’s poetry.13 Children's Books Featuring Poverty and Homelessness.30 enticing chapter books for children who are newly independent readers.60 kids books about grief to explain death to children and help them grieve.LGBTQI+ Children's Books celebrating Pride in London and Pride Month this June.Sophie Cameron - our Author of the Month.Best kids books for getting children walking for National Walking Month and Walk to School Week.Shortlist announced for the 2023 Klaus Flugge Prize for the most exciting newcomer to children’s picture book illustration. ![]() ![]() She would have to discuss with a solicitor in less than ten minutes how she could best contact the husband she’d walked away from two years ago…and her baby. She sat back and crossed her legs, taking a deep breath. ![]() Within moments a waiter had come to take her order for Earl Grey tea. She found an empty seat and sank into gratefully. And she felt old-a lot older than her twenty-seven years. It was gone, and with it-Her step faltered again as a slicing pain ripped through her, stunning her with its intensity, with its rawness, its newness…even though it was old. Her expressive full mouth tightened as she looked for a seat, willing herself not to let the rising panic overwhelm her. She was completely oblivious to the several appreciative looks she drew, with her dark red hair and flawless creamy skin, which contrasted with her ever so slightly awkward grace as she moved. This kind of hushed luxuriousness reminded her of too much and made the skin on the back of her neck prickle. She should have picked a more down-at-heel hotel. It had been so long since she’d been in a place like this. ![]() Even though she was well dressed, well enough to look as if she belonged here, she felt as though everyone must surely be able to see under her skin to the very heart of her, that beat so unsteadily. ROWAN CARMICHAEL faltered slightly as she stepped into the minimalist lobby of the small boutique hotel. ![]() She Smells the Dead by E.J. Stevens7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() "If you love ghosts, Goths, and a little bit of YA romance, you will want to check this book out. "I absolutely loved every last delicious page of She Smells The Dead!" To make matters worse her crush on Garrett is going unrequited, Yukis friend Emma is on a rampage against bee oppression, and annoying Calvin Miller mysteriously disappears. Yuki is being visited in her dreams, and she suspects that her friend Calvin is involved in something strange. "This series is like Nancy Drew meets the Winchester Brother's from Supernatural." The smell impressions are becoming stronger. Stacey, Flippin' Fabulous: A Reader's Record ![]() "She Smells the Dead provides something new and fresh to the YA realm." Will Yuki be able to focus her powers in time to save the lost soul who is haunting her? Meanwhile, who will save Yuki from following the spirits into the light? To make matters worse her crush on Garrett is going unrequited, Yuki's friend Emma is on a rampage against bee oppression, and annoying Calvin Miller mysteriously disappears. ![]() ![]() The smell impressions are becoming stronger. Her ability to sense spirits of the dead isn't glamorous like the ghost hunting on television. It's the beginning of senior year and Yuki's psychic awareness of ghostly spirits is threatening to ruin her life. She Smells the Dead is the first book in the YA Paranormal Spirit Guide series by E.J. ![]() Tomorrow's Lies by S.R. Grey7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() So what do you do when you’re trapped and there’s no way out? Unfortunately, this new home they live in, one that promised to be a haven for unwanted kids, is more like a living hell. He becomes determined to show Jaynie there is more to life than hurt and pain. There Jaynie meets a gorgeous, albeit rough-around-the-edges, boy who is dealing with the repercussions of his own turbulent past.įlynn O’Neill is immediately taken with this new, fragile girl. But before that can happen, she must make it through the next few months at one final foster home. All she wants is to be free of everyone and everything. Now Jaynie counts the days till she turns eighteen and can go out on her own. After all, why did her own mother abandon her? And following a harrowing experience at her first foster home, Jaynie’s worst fears are confirmed, leaving her feeling worthless and shattered. Still, Jaynie always knew she was broken in some way. ![]() Dumped in to the state foster care system at age fourteen, Jaynie spent three years treading water, just trying to get by. Jaynie Cumberland has no idea how to trust again, so she’s given up on trying. ![]() When today’s promises become tomorrow’s lies, how can you believe in anything. ![]() Earth's Last War by Glenn Van Dyke7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() The next 3 days, we shot that same scene 65 times. ![]() Then came the clothes and voila, I became one of Jabba the Hutt's bad guys. I was taken to wardrobe and sized for clothes, then sent to makeup, where I spent 3 hours being turned into a lizard, reptilian looking creature. It was now down to 2 of us and my heart was beating. Even a simple audition was like a dream come true.Īrriving on set, in San Rafael, there was 4 guys for 3 parts. Like so many people around the world I had been swept up in the phenomenon of the original Star Wars movie. It was for a bit part in Return of the Jedi. I'd just joined an agency in San Francisco, and a week later I received a phone call to go to Lucas Studios for an audition the next day. ![]() I dabbled a bit in Hollywood back in the early 80's. My 3 days on Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. ![]() Atocha station novel7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. From the author of the bestselling novels Leaving the Atocha Station and 10:04, here is a dazzling collection of award-winning poetry - available for the first time to readers beyond the US. No Art confirms Ben Lerner as one of the most searching and ambitious poets working today. ![]() Here, cliches are cracked open and made new, made strange, and formal experiments disclose new possibilities of thought and feeling. No Art is an exhilarating argument both with America and with poetry itself, in which online slang is juxtaposed with academic idiom, philosophy collides with advertising, and the language of medicine and the military is overlaid with echoes of Whitman and Keats. This book brings together for the first time Ben Lerner's three acclaimed volumes of poetry, along with a handful of newer poems, to present a decade-long exploration of the relationship between form and meaning, between private experience and public expression. ![]() Veronika decides to die novel7/3/2023 ![]() To her surprise, Veronika finds herself drawn to the confinement of Villete and its patients, who, each in his or her individual way, reflect the heart of human experience. The story follows Veronika through the intense week of self-discovery that ensues. While the overdose didn’t kill Veronika immediately, the medication has damaged her heart so severely that she has only days to live. Naturally Veronika is stunned when she does wake up at Villete, a local mental hospital, where the staff informs her that she has, in fact, partially succeeded in achieving her goal. She takes a handful of sleeping pills expecting never to wake up. So, on the morning of November 11, 1997, Veronika decides to die. ![]() Inside her is a void so deep that nothing could possibly ever fill it. In his latest international bestseller, the celebrated author of The Alchemist addresses the fundamental questions asked by millions: What am I doing here today? and Why do I go on living? Twenty-four-year-old Veronika seems to have everything she could wish for: youth and beauty, pleny of attractive boyfriends, a fulfilling job, and a loving family. ![]() You can read this before Veronika Decides to Die PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Veronika Decides to Die written by Paulo Coelho which was published in 1998–. Brief Summary of Book: Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho ![]() |