5/12/2023 0 Comments Catching the sun tony parsonsThe most gripping part of the book involves the Tsunami of 2004 it took a while to get there (at least 100 pages) but as the events unfolded, I was hooked. The plot has a easy pace that allows you to relax at the end of a hard day to the depiction of a beautiful Thai sunset. Unfortunately, after reading it I found I liked it, but it didn’t give me that great book rush.Ĭatching the Sun is a very ‘comfortable’, even somewhat un-challenging book to read. I really wanted to love this book, like really love it – the cover is beautiful and I had gotten raving reviews from a good friend. Phuket is all the Finn family dreamed of – a tropical paradise where the children swim with elephants, the gibbons sing love songs in the jungle, the Andaman Sea is like turquoise glass and this young family is free to grow.īut both man-made disaster and the unleashed forces of nature shatter this tropical idyll for Tom Finn’s family. Synopsis: When Tom Finn is almost jailed for confronting two burglars in his own home, this taxi driver takes his young family to live on the tropical island of Phuket, Thailand.
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5/10/2023 0 Comments City spies forbidden cityNo feature or quirk someone would notice or remember. There was nothing remarkable about his face. IT WAS DARK, AND AS Paris looked out at the traffic, he caught a glimpse of his own reflection in the window. Meanwhile, Sydney’s embedded as a junior reporter for a teen lifestyle site as she follows the daughter of a British billionaire on tour with the biggest act on her father’s music label to uncover what links both the band and the billionaire have to a recent threat from an old Soviet missile base.įrom a daring break-in at one of London’s most exclusive homes to a dangerous undercover mission to a desperate search and rescue operation on the streets of Beijing, the City Spies have their work cut out for them on their most dangerous mission yet. The sinister Umbra has their sights set on recruiting a North Korean nuclear physicist by any means necessary, and the City Spies plan to keep an eye on his son by sending Paris to the chess prodigy’s tournaments in Moscow and Beijing. Smith’s Spy School for Girls.Īfter taking down a mole within their organization, the City Spies are ready for their next mission-once again using their unique skills and ability to infiltrate places adults can’t. In this third “thrilling” ( Kirkus Reviews) installment in the New York Times bestselling series from Edgar Award winner James Ponti, the young group of spies help a fellow agent in another international adventure perfect for fans of Spy School and Mrs. 5/10/2023 0 Comments The bride goes rogue joanna shupeBut when a mysterious lover at a masquerade turns out to be his would-be fiancée, Preston's resolve begins to crumble. 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So there I was, in her room, as the late afternoon summer sun filtered through the Navajo hemp curtains, deeply and fatally immersed in the far-flung exploits of this young heroic man, Michel Strogoff, Courier to the Czar! This same room had always traditionally doubled as a nursery, so my kid sister was relocated to my parents’ room for the duration. She could sense that deeply and profoundly. My grandmother always took the spare room when she came - not actually much of a big deal for the First Lady of Tooele, Utah - the mayor’s wife!īut our enormous love for her made up for it. My dear grandmother had come all the way from Utah, by train, to see us all - and especially her baby granddaughter, my sister, who’d been born in the previous October. well, this less of a review than a series of rambling reminiscences -Ī wonderful illustrated version of a fantastic odd-book-out odyssey by that idol of our long-forgotten childhoods, Jules Verne. 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