![]() ![]() But he'd rather go back to Iraq than face his next assignment: protection detail for federal judge Liz Michaels. Marshal Jake Taylor has seen plenty of action during his years in law enforcement. Vanished is the exciting first book in the Private Justice series: Three justice seekers who got burned playing by the rules now have a second chance to make things right. But she can't get anyone to believe her story-except a handsome former police detective, now a private eye, who agrees to take on the case.From the very first page, readers will be hooked into this fast-paced story full of shocking secrets from fan-favorite Irene Hannon. But she can't forget the look of terror she saw on the person's face in the instant before her headlights swung away. No injured person lying on the side of the road. ![]() When she comes to an hour later, she is alone. ![]() ![]() A dazed Moira is relieved when a man opens her door, tells her he saw everything, and promises to call 911. Though Moira jams on her brakes, the car careens across the wet pavement-and the solid thump against the side of the vehicle tells her she hit the person before she crashes into a tree on the far side of the road. When a confusing detour places her on a rural, wooded road, she's startled by the sudden appearance of a lone figure caught in the beam of her headlights. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() This is set far, far into the future, where the known "universe" is ruled by the "Coalition", after overthrowing the previous "Empire". The new cover is a big improvement and looks much more "sci-fi-y", though it's still on the bland side and shows a somewhat sanitized version of the rough, dusty (and that's a huge understatement!) surface of the book's main setting, a mining settlement called Newburg, and none of the rough and tumble of that underworld where all the action takes place. It just doesn't do the sophisticated writing justice. One look at the old edition cover and I realized why, lol. ![]() ![]() ![]() I don't normally pass up lesfic sci-fi offerings, as they're as rare as the perfect black opals everyone in the book is lusting after. When the opportunity to read the revised version of this book came up, I wondered why I hadn't gotten my hands on the original edition. ![]() ![]() She begins it with a memory of being drunk at a Passover dinner when she is 8 and heads from there into the serious business of becoming intentionally lost. And though knowledgeable about many subjects, too often she draws connections among them that are difficult for the reader to follow.Ĭonsider the first essay, "Open Door," as a test of whether you are on her wavelength. One thing we learn about Solnit from her personal essays is that being lost often involves the act of leaving: leaving home, leaving lovers, leaving "the conversation, the obligation." Attentive to physical detail, she creates evocative imagery throughout the book. ![]() From her own history she recalls childhood wounds, missing grandmothers and failed love affairs. She sweeps through topics as disparate as endangered species, Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, punk rock, butterflies and ruined buildings. ![]() ![]() In nine loosely related essays Solnit draws metaphorical maps of deserts and of some urban spaces as well. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments The bitten leslie esdaile banks![]() ![]() ![]() She attended University of Pennsylvania Wharton School, where she earned her undergraduate degree and then attended Temple University's School of Communications and Theater, earning her masters in fine arts. ![]() The couple divorced and she remarried, to Al Banks, in 2000. She married Michael Esdaile, they had one child, a daughter, Helena Esdaile. Leslie Ann Peterson was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She won several literary awards, including the 2008 Essence Literary Awards Storyteller of the Year. She wrote in various genres, including African-American literature, romance, women's fiction, crime suspense, dark fantasy/horror and non-fiction. Banks, Leslie Banks, Leslie Esdaile Banks and L. ![]() Leslie Ann Esdaile Banks ( née Peterson Decem– August 2, 2011) was an American writer under the pen names of Leslie Esdaile, Leslie E. Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for Paranormal Fiction (2009) Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (Bachelor's degree)Īfrican American literature, crime suspense, dark fantasy/ horror, non-fiction, romance, women's fictionĮssence Literary Awards Storyteller of the Year (2008)īest 50 Women in Business Award for the State of Pennsylvania (2008) ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Hi pizza man by virginia walter![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nino loves helping his father in his small family pizzeria. Bring your appetites, your masks, and don’t forget the pizza! So to cheer him up we’ll throw him a pizza party. Anyway, the problem is no one will let Raccoon have any. Delicious, gooey, cheesy, salty, pepperoni covered…sorry, we got off track. Secret Pizza Party by Adam Rubin, illustrated by Daniel SalmieriĪll Raccoon wants is pizza. Steig used to play with his own daughter, this story will have your own children begging to be made into a pizza too. So his dad decides to cheer him up by making him into a pizza. It’s raining outside and Pete is in a bad mood because he can’t play ball with the guys. ![]() Ĭhildren’s books about pizza Pete’s A Pizza by William Steig Perfect for Halloween - and all year round. Can they stop the rampaging pizza and overcome their crippling fear of the neighborhood kids? A saucy tale of common ground, and uncommonly good pizza, bringing diverse neighbors together. Two mild-mannered witches accidentally bake up big trouble for their neighborhood. Please welcome my guest author today, Jennie Palmer, with her list of great pizza picture books! The Wompananny Witches Make One Mean Pizza by Jennie Palmer Can’t get enough of pizza? Gobble up these children’s books about pizza, perfect for toddlers and young children! ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Diástole by Emilio Bueso![]() ![]() ![]() Then came the launch of Diastole (2011) and of Zenithal (2012), with which Bueso built a good reputation as a writer of dark stories and earned him the Celsius Novel Prize, among other distinctions. By 2007 he had already published his first independent novel: Closed night. However, he began to meddle on his own in creating horror stories. His university training was as a computer systems engineer, becoming professor of Operating Systems at the Jaume I University of Castellón.
![]() ![]() He borrowed a clinical term to describe the paranoid style’s aggressive, exaggerated, suspicious, “conspiratorial fantasy” qualities and crusading mentality. Hofstadter saw “the paranoid style” as one that secularises a religious good-versus-evil view of the world, drawing on anti-intellectual legacies in American political discourse. Part of the explanation can be understood through what historian Richard Hofstadter identified decades ago as the paranoid style in American politics. ![]() The grandiose sense of self, the slippery relationship with facts, haste to blame and humiliate others, to win at any costs, and the incandescent rage at being confronted or corrected are narcissistic characteristics Trump has exhibited in this campaign.īut how does Trump get away with the type of campaign he’s running? Why, if he’s a narcissistic demagogue, has he found an audience who respond to his politics? What is the paranoid style? Perhaps this is why, when Clinton claims Trump is not fit to be president, it’s not surprising he comes back harder, manipulates the truth, makes unfounded claims and appeals to extreme emotions. Some have argued Trump is the last political hope for angry white men, an opportunistic populist demagogue who appeals to the disaffected in America’s polarised politics, and a narcissist. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Whose body dorothy sayers![]() Bunter and Parker (a detective inspector) act as pretty good foils to him and the relationship dynamics work. ![]() I still don’t quite understand how a thirty-ish-year-old man (according to the biography in Wikipedia) can act so childishly at times but on the whole, he’s pretty amusing and charming. What he finds is that this case seems to be connected to a wholly different one – the disappearance of a rich man named Levy (though the body is not of him) and with the help of faithful Bunter, starts to join the dots. Through a series of connections, Lord Peter Wimsey is called to investigate. The first book in the Lord Peter Wimsey series, Whose Body starts when a corpse wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez is found in Mr. ![]() According to Goodreads, I gave three stars to the first Lord Peter Wimsey book I read, four stars to the next, and I think this is either a four or five star read (it’d be 4.5 if Goodreads let me give half stars, but they don’t so we’ll just have to see what my mood is when my cursor is hovering over the rating). ![]() I think I’m warming up to Lord Peter Wimsey. ![]() ![]() ![]() Publishers Weekly, starred review Don't miss Just Our Luck, another stunning book by Julia Walton. ![]() But as the miracle drug begins to fail, how long can he keep this secret from the girl of his dreams? Echoing the premise and structure of Flowers for Algernon, this is a] frank and inspiring novel. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Charlie Plummer, AnnaSophia Robb, and Taylor Russell Fans of More Happy Than Not and The. When Adam meets Maya, a fiercely intelligent girl, he desperately wants to be the normal, great guy that she thinks he is. ![]() The teen drama is set to debut nationwide. An experimental drug promises to help him hide his illness from the world. LD Entertainment and Roadside Attractions have reteamed to release of the feature adaptation of Julia Walton’s YA Novel Words on Bathroom Walls. His hallucinations include a cast of characters that range from the good (beautiful Rebecca) to the bad (angry Mob Boss) to the just plain weird (polite naked guy). Julia Waltons releasing story is a great instance of mental disorder dealt with authentically in literary works. Adam is a pretty regular teen, except he's navigating high school life while living with paranoid schizophrenia. When you can't trust your mind, trust your heart. Now a Major Motion Picture starring Charlie Plummer, AnnaSophia Robb, and Taylor Russell Fans of More Happy Than Not and The Perks of Being a Wallflower will cheer for Adam in this uplifting and surprisingly funny story of a boy living with schizophrenia. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lydia sees ghosts and hears voices who try to convince her to do bad things. But as Lydia starts to fall for John, disturbing things begin to happen at Willow Hall. While Catherine detests the countryside, Lydia and her younger sister, Emeline, relish the fresh air and the less constricting society they also enjoy the acquaintance of their father’s new business partner, John Barrett. ![]() ![]() Now 18, her family is forced to move from Boston to Willow Hall estate in New Oldbury, Mass., to escape scandalous rumors concerning her older sister, Catherine. Ten years ago, Lydia Montrose unwittingly summoned a dark power from within herself to torment a neighborhood bully. Fox spins a satisfying debut yarn that includes witchcraft, tragedy, and love, set in 1821 New England. ![]() |