![]() Teenager Carlisle hoped to follow them onto the stage, spending a pivotal summer studying ballet in New York City and living with James while her father managed a company upstate. Robert, James, and Carlisle’s mother, Isabel, had all been involved in professional ballet. The narrative shifts between 2016 and Carlisle’s adolescence during the start of the AIDS crisis, tracing the steps that led to her father’s decision to cut her out of his life. As she prepares to return to their apartment in New York’s West Village, Carlisle grapples with lost relationships and old wounds. She hasn’t spoken to her father, Robert, in nearly 20 years. ![]() In this novel about devotion, art, and love in many forms, fortysomething Carlisle is working as a freelance choreographer in Los Angeles when her father’s husband, James, calls to tell her that her father is dying. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Richard Osman is back with everyone’s favorite mystery-solving quartet, and the second installment of the Thursday Murder Club series is just as clever and warm as the first-an unputdownable, laugh-out-loud pleasure of a read. Can our four friends catch the killer before the killer catches them? And if they find the diamonds, too? Well, wouldn’t that be a bonus? You should never put anything beyond the Thursday Murder Club. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim are up against a ruthless murderer who wouldn’t bat an eyelid at knocking off four septuagenarians. ![]() Then, as night follows day, the first body is found. He has been accused of stealing diamonds worth millions from the wrong men and he’s seriously on the lam. The Bullet That Missed, the third installment in the Thursday Murder Club series, is forthcoming!Įlizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim-the Thursday Murder Club-are still riding high off their recent real-life murder case and are looking forward to a bit of peace and quiet at Cooper’s Chase, their posh retirement village.Īn unexpected visitor-an old pal of Elizabeth’s (or perhaps more than just a pal?)-arrives, desperate for her help. ![]() “It’s taken a mere two books for Richard Osman to vault into the upper leagues of crime writers. The second gripping novel in the New York Times bestselling Thursday Murder Club series, soon to be a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg at Amblin Entertainment ![]() ![]() ![]() With both her pride and her heart at stake, she is determined to prove her brother wrong-even as her plans spiral delightfully out of control. 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Patience’s elder brother, a former military man, bemoans his sister’s antics-but when he accuses her of incurable frivolity, it is simply more than she can bear. ![]() Unfortunately, the free-spirited young woman is anything but proper. Lady Patience Kendrick was born to a life of privilege, and with the London Season looming, she finds herself facing unprecedented pressure to adhere to the rules of society. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is all-seeing, after all, and her powers are unexplainable. Queen Victoria ought to be able to help him, if she can communicate with mice. Soon he's running for his life, looking high and low through the grand precincts of Buckingham Palace to find out who he is and who he might become. ![]() ![]() There he's called "Mouse Minor" (though it's not quite a name), and he doesn't make a success of school. And who were his parents? His Aunt Marigold, Head Needlemouse, sews him a uniform and sends him off to be educated at the Royal Mews Mouse Academy. The smallest mouse in London’s Royal Mews is such a little mystery that he hasn't even a name. Fans of The Tale of Desperaux, A Little Princess, and Stuart Little will all be captivated by this memorable story of a lovable orphan mouse on an amazing quest. Newbery Award-winning author Richard Peck is at his very best in this fast-paced mystery adventure. Synopsis: Handpicked by Amazon kids’ books editor, Seira Wilson, for Prime Book Box – a children’s subscription that inspires a love of reading. ![]() ![]() A past heartbreak who will be present at the annual midnight grape-harvest festival, and no magic in the world or incantation powerful enough could get Violet to attend. ![]() January means ice wine season in the Niagara Falls region, but the festivities leave Charming Books owner Violet Waverly cold, still reeling from a past heartbreak. Fans of Sofie Kelly and Heather Blake, prepare your bookshelves! Niagara region booksellers Violet Waverly and Grandma Daisy sleuth the slaying of a sommelier whose book signing turned into her sayonara. USA Today bestselling author Amanda Flower is back with the third in her more-charming-than-ever Magical Bookshop mystery. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is the right of the Doranen king alone to learn it, and his duty to maintain his kingdom's agriculture with it. The most important type of magic is known as " WeatherWorking," which controls the weather precisely for the entire kingdom, as well as the magical force supporting Barl's Wall, and keeping it up. In this world, the people of Dorana possess the ability to perform magic, believing that it is their right alone. The second books follow Asher's children, Rafel and Deenie, as they go to save Lur once again, beyond the mountains, some time after the fall of Barl's Wall. The first two books follow Asher of Resthaven, an Olken fisherman looking to make his fortune, and his unlikely friend, the Doranen Prince Gar. The Awakened Mage note also known as Innocence Lost in countries outside of North America and the UK. ![]() As of 2011, there are five note the first two are a duology the second two are a sequel duology, but are under the title "Fisherman's Children" books in the series proper: Kingmaker, Kingbreaker is a series of adult Fantasy novels by Karen Miller. ![]() ![]() ![]() Guest Post I feel like in these stories the concept of found family and friendships are really important. They may not be “Academy material,” and they may not get along, but they’re the only ones left to step up and fight. On the run and framed for atrocities they didn’t commit, Nax and his fellow failures execute a dangerous heist to spread the truth about what happened at the Academy. Nax and three other washouts escape-barely-but they’re also the sole witnesses to the biggest crime in the history of space colonization. So it’s not exactly a surprise when he’s kicked out of the elite Ellis Station Academy in less than twenty-four hours.īut Nax’s one-way trip back to Earth is cut short when a terrorist group attacks the Academy. Hotshot pilot Nax Hall has a history of making poor life choices. ![]() England, I knew I had to jump at it! I really enjoyed England’s book, The Disasters, ( Review), and wanted to be able to shed any spotlight I could! One of the things I loved was the found family in the book and so I knew I wanted to ask about the personal meaning and significance of found families to England. ![]() ![]() When I had the chance to host a guest post for author, M.K. ![]() ![]() ![]() While some of the poems stood out, some didn’t hit any chords. The book is a collection of simple and profound Haiku–three line structured poems and Tanka –five line structured poems. Reading the book was more or less the same roller coaster ride for me. ![]() It’s this beautiful thing poetry does where it leaves you feeling overwhelmed while it might not make sense to another. I mean it had it’s time but it still made me emotional to hear that something i have so many memories attached to was out there lying somewhere ready to get destroyed and I had no idea about it. Aparantly the people we had passed it to had given it away as well. Reminded me of when a few days back my uncle told me he saw my childhood study table at a scrap shop. ![]() Krishna’s book: No Urgency to Be Home, a peice from the book quickly found a place in my heart.Īnd her bedtime stories too Neha R. ![]() ![]() The English translations of titles are generally taken from the published volumes of the Collected Papers. ![]() The Schilpp numbers are used for cross-referencing in the Notes (the final column of each table), since they cover a greater time period of Einstein's life at present. ![]() Complete references for these two bibliographies may be found below in the Bibliography section. Each publication is indexed in the first column by its number in the Schilpp bibliography ( Albert Einstein: Philosopher–Scientist, pp. 694–730) and by its article number in Einstein's Collected Papers. Įinstein's scientific publications are listed below in four tables: journal articles, book chapters, books and authorized translations. Despite his reservations about its interpretation, Einstein also made seminal contributions to quantum mechanics and, indirectly, quantum field theory, primarily through his theoretical studies of the photon. He also made important contributions to statistical mechanics, especially his treatment of Brownian motion, his resolution of the paradox of specific heats, and his connection of fluctuations and dissipation. ![]() First page from Einstein's manuscript explaining general relativity.Īlbert Einstein (1879–1955) was a renowned theoretical physicist of the 20th century, best known for his theories of special relativity and general relativity. ![]() ![]() ![]() Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves.Īided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. ![]() When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania. ![]() *A very special hardcover edition, featuring foil stamp on the casing and custom endpapers illustrated by the author.* From the Nebula and Hugo award-winning author of The Twisted Ones, comes What Moves the Dead, a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poes classic The Fall of the House of Usher. Kingfisher, the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones, comes What Moves the Dead, a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's classic "The Fall of the House of Usher." What Moves the Dead is an expert reimagination of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher, integrating some of the most haunting and memorable elements of the classic gothic tale. A Barnes & Noble Book of the Year FinalistĪ Goodreads Best Horror Choice Award Nomineeįrom T. ![]() |