5/12/2023 0 Comments Ottoline and the yellow cat book![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Monroe makes a bizarre gumshoe, with fellow cast members, canines included, just as wacky. An entertaining alternative for chapter-book readers. Monroe (think Gomez Addams’ hairy Cousin Itt) investigates the disappearance of several pampered pooches, only to discover the dognapper isn’t exactly after canine company. In an oversize trenchcoat, Mr. The story, a lightweight mystery at best, begins by introducing calm, curious, detailed-obsessed young Ottoline, who, along with sidekick Mr. ![]() The pictures here simply add texture to the words they accompany-but what a delight they are. Award-winning British cartoonist Riddell (the Edge Chronicles, with Paul Stewart) illustrates in pen and ink, enhanced by crosshatching and a smattering of bright red, to concoct a cast of quirky characters and amazingly detailed backdrops on which they interact. A quirky mystery-adventure which is perfectly packaged and highly collectable. This “novel” is probably more pictures than text. It’s not, however, a graphic novel in the sense of a sequential telling nor does it follow the model Brian Selznick used so effectively in The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007), where art replaced text to further the story. Ottoline (who luckily has a diploma from the Who-R-U Academy of Disguise) and Mr Munroe go undercover - and expose an ingenious scam masterminded by furry feline crook, the Yellow Cat. ![]()
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5/12/2023 0 Comments Love Bites by Ry Herman![]() ![]() Its depictions of depression and trauma are heartfelt, and its message of hope is hard to resist. But how do you build a life together when one of you is already dead? Angela has sharp and deadly teeth.Īngela and Chloe might just be perfect for each other. ![]() Trouble is, Angela can only come out at night. Suddenly, home alone is the last place Chloe wants to be. ![]() In Angela's eyes, Chloe can see a future. student whose smile makes her heart pound. Then she meets Angela, a smart, beautiful astronomy Ph.ĭ. So when she's bullied into a night of dancing by her busybody aunt and finds herself in a goth club, on her own, in a strange part of town, she isn't looking for anything more than to pass the time until she can leave. Two years after a painful divorce, Chloe is still struggling to leave the house, paralysed by anxiety and memory. Tender and unforgettable, Love Bites is a laugh-out-loud, queer romance with a surprising paranormal twist. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Laurelin paige books![]() ![]() ![]() Each has something the other wants - all they have to do is pretend to like each other well enough to tie the knot. She wants access to her trust fund and can only get it once she marries. Elizabeth Dyson, the bride-to-be in question, is on board with the plan. But wild nights and owning an extensive collection of women's panties don't carry the thrill they once did, so when his business partner Donovan suggests an outrageous plan to allow them to take over their competition, Wes takes him up on the offer. Read full overviewĪ New Duet in the Dirty Filthy Universe from NYT Bestselling Author, Laurelin Paige. ![]() But wild nights and owning an extensive collection of women's panties don't carry the thrill they once did, so when his business partn. A New Duet in the Dirty Filthy Universe from NYT Bestselling Author, Laurelin Paige. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His projects travel with him in many instances. Gates's latest effort is a multimedia digital encyclopedia of African culture, Encarta Africana. For twenty years he and his colleagues have gathered fragments of a culture, amassing more than forty thousand texts for the Black Periodical Literature Project and enough material for fifty-two volumes on African American Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century for the Schomburg Center in New York. He has unearthed old periodicals, edited dictionaries and anthologies, and written a dozen books. Gates, this year's Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities, has been untiring in his quest. ![]() "I've always thought of myself as both a literary historian and a literary critic," says Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "someone who loves archives and someone who is dedicated to resurrecting texts that have dropped out of sight." ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments London edward rutherfurd summary![]() ![]() ![]() From there on in almost every chapter, famous figures come into the story: from King Louis IX, Philip Augustus, Villon, and Richelieu to many others in the last third of the nineteenth-century (Gustave Eiffel, Claude Monet, gallery owner Paul Durand-Ruel, among others) and the twentieth century (Coco Chanel, Marc Chagall, Ernest Hemingway, and Charles de Gaulle, to name just a few). On the very first page he launches into a lightning-quick survey of Paris history– from the Parisiis’ home on the Seine and the Romans’ town of Lutetia to the medieval city of Gothic churches and dark narrow lanes and then to the “new” Paris of “classical spaces” and the renovated city of Haussmann -all in 2 ½ pages. Though principally a storyteller, Rutherfurd assumes the role of historian explicitly at the outset of thenovel. Along the way, the author tells about Paris in Wikipedia-like briefings, usually delivered by one of the characters explaining the historical background to another. From generation to generation, their personal lives unfold in the context of major public events, some of them not in Paris (or even in France). ![]() The novel is above all the story of a handful of French families, representing different types and strata of society over the centuries since the late Middle Ages. Paris is not a principal character or a subject that is developed in any systematic way, although the city is the setting of much of the story. With a title like that, you might assume that this novel is about Paris. Charles Rearick University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Emeritus ![]() ![]() But when her great aunt dies, Maggie inherits everything and reluctantly returns to tidy the place up before selling. Orphaned as a child, Maggie Walker never called Wirra Station home. When the two clash, enough sparks ensue to light a Christmas tree. Farming tycoon Max Ramsey does, and he doesn’t like company, Christmas, and most of all, Sarah. The only problem is, Harold no longer owns it. Sarah’s committed to her stellar modelling career in New York, but Harold, who served as a Grandpa to her when she needed him most, wants one last Christmas in his beloved Waratah Bay Homestead. ![]() ![]() They return home, but before Coop knows it, he’s putting his hand up as Lacey’s fake baby daddy.Ĭhristmas at Waratah Bay by Marion Lennox Her brother’s best friend, Cooper Grainger, has been watching out for Lacey but he’s tired of cleaning up her messes. But Lacey is deeply homesick and impulsive enough to try anything-even faking a pregnancy. Though fashion student Lacey Weston is desperate to leave the city and go home to Jumbuck Springs, her older brothers are adamant she finishes school first. Escape to the glorious Australian Outback and the Montana countryside with the help of legendary Australian romance authors Amy Andrews, Marion Lennox, Kelly Hunter, and Alissa Callen in these four stellar romances! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Covering 300,000 square miles stretching from Canada through Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa, the prairie wetlands are one of Earth’s most important, yet little-known, ecosystems. ![]() ![]() Wings Over Water is a joint venture of the Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation, which works to secure the future of hunting, fishing, and land management Ducks Unlimited Inc., Wetlands America Trust, and Ducks Unlimited Canada, the world’s largest nonprofit organizations dedicated to conserving North America’s disappearing wetland and waterfowl habitats and the National Audubon Society, the world’s oldest nonprofit environmental organization dedicated to bird conservation. Wings Over Water celebrates the prairie wetlands of North America and the birds that live and breed in this critical habitat. Wings Over Water immerses readers in this awe-inspiring, essential region, using more than 300 breathtaking photos and inspiring essays from some of North America’s foremost conservationists to shine a spotlight on these critical breeding grounds and the need to protect them. More than half of all North American migratory waterfowl and 96 species of songbirds breed and nest there, and more than 60 percent of the continent’s ducks are hatched there. A beautiful, photo-rich companion book to the internationally distributed IMAX film of the same name, Wings Over Water celebrates the prairie wetlands of North America and the birds that live and breed in this critical habitat.Ĭovering 300,000 square miles stretching from Canada through Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa, the prairie wetlands are one of Earth’s most important, yet little-known, ecosystems. ![]() ![]() ![]() His love for the theatre may be traced back to his membership in L'Equipe, an Algerian theatre group, whose "collective creation" Révolte dans les Asturies (1934) was banned for political reasons. He also adapted plays by Calderon, Lope de Vega, Dino Buzzati, and Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun. But his journalistic activities had been chiefly a response to the demands of the time in 1947 Camus retired from political journalism and, besides writing his fiction and essays, was very active in the theatre as producer and playwright (e.g., Caligula, 1944). The man and the times met: Camus joined the resistance movement during the occupation and after the liberation was a columnist for the newspaper Combat. Of semi-proletarian parents, early attached to intellectual circles of strongly revolutionary tendencies, with a deep interest in philosophy (only chance prevented him from pursuing a university career in that field), he came to France at the age of twenty-five. ![]() His origin in Algeria and his experiences there in the thirties were dominating influences in his thought and work. Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a representative of non-metropolitan French literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Most importantly, she prefers country life to London, so he’s free to continue his life as usual. When Wyatt’s solicitor finds Miss Fredericka Hale, Wyatt considers this little hiccup solved. However, if Wyatt doesn’t marry by week’s end, he’ll lose a sizable inheritance from his grandmother. But distance cannot keep them from their powerful attraction.Īt the top of his game in London, the Duke of Wyatthaven has no interest in marriage. He'll help her, and in return, they’ll lead separate lives. So when the handsome Duke of Wyatthaven shows up with a proposal, she accepts. The last thing Fredericka wants is a hurried-up marriage to a man she doesn’t know-much less love, but she’ll do it for the children. Fredericka is powerless to stop her, but having a husband might sway the ruling. She’s been caring for her deceased sister’s three young children, and now a childless cousin has petitioned the court for custody. Yours Truly, The Duke is the first novel in the historical romance Say I Do trilogy about dukes needing to wed to tap into their wealth by New York Times bestselling author Amelia Grey.įredericka Hale needs a husband, and fast. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments This man confessed book![]() ![]() Jesse Ward has confessed his love for Ava O’Shea and the two are now in a relationship. The novel picks up where the previous book, This Man, left off. Jodi Ellen Malpas’s third novel in the This Man series, The Man Confessed, was published on September 29, 2014. ![]() ![]() If you’re looking for a romance novel that is sure to keep you entertained from beginning to end, then This Man Confessed is definitely the book for you. Can they overcome the obstacles that are thrown their way? When his past comes back to haunt him, their relationship is put to the test. Jesse is a man with a dark past, and Ava is the only one who knows about it. The two have a passionate and intense relationship that is put to the test when Jesse’s past comes back to haunt him. The story follows Jesse Ward, a wealthy businessman, and Ava O’Shea, a student who is trying to make her way in the world. This is the third book in her This Man trilogy, and it’s just as steamy and sexy as the first two. If you’re a fan of romance novels, then you’ll definitely want to check out This Man Confessed by Jodi Ellen Malpas. ![]() |