![]() Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. This time around, she'll be the one in the driver's seat.and she plans on driving him wild. ![]() He wants her back? He'll have to work for it. If Logan expects her to roll over and beg like all his other puck bunnies, he can think again. She's not a charity case, and she's not the quiet butterfly she was when they first hooked up. A sexy encounter with freshman Grace Ivers is just the distraction he needs, but when a thoughtless mistake pushes her away, Logan plans to spend his final year proving to her that he's worth a second chance.Īfter a less than stellar freshman year, Grace is back at Briar University, older, wiser, and so over the arrogant hockey player she nearly handed her V-card to. ![]() For this hockey star, life is a parade of parties and hook-ups, but behind his killer grins and easygoing charm, he hides growing despair about the dead-end road he'll be forced to walk after graduation. College junior John Logan can get any girl he wants. ![]()
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![]() “Different languages, different food, different customs. 216 tree rings worth of time and wishes! But this year could be Red’s last! So Red along with a few furry friends set out to make sure one little girl’s wish comes true. From sad to silly! This beautiful, kind hearted, optimistic, “buttinsky” of a wishtree has lived in the neighborhood for a long time. ![]() Little rags, ribbons, and slips of paper cover Red’s trunk and branches with wishes of all kinds. Every year in May, people come from all over to whisper and tie their wishes, hopes, and dreams to Red’s limbs. Not everyone is welcoming, and Red’s experiences as a wishtree are more important than ever.īook Review: Wishtree by Katherine ApplegateĪ giant wishtree named Red guides us through this sweet story. Red is the neighborhood “wishtree”-people write their wishes on pieces of cloth and tie them to Red’s branches.Īlong with her crow friend Bongo and other animals who seek refuge in Red’s hollows, this “wishtree” watches over the neighborhood. Red is an oak tree who is many rings old. Narrator: First Person from Red’s point of viewīook Summary: Wishtree by Katherine Applegate ![]() ![]() ![]() Theme: Intolerance Versus Diversity, Children’s Bravery and Wisdom Versus That of Adults ![]() ![]() ![]() Gabriel Webb is one of the few people to see her softer, tender side.
![]() ![]() The reality of this possible fate is movingly touched upon and Miss Pettigrew’s desperation provides an engine both for the plot and our engagement. ![]() The titular heroine Miss Pettigrew is a down on her luck governess, a spinster of 40 in 1938 who needs a job if she is to avoid the workhouse. We were intrigued to learn that the book’s author Winifred Watson had to wrangle with her original publisher Metheun to get it published in the first place: she had made her name writing steamy rustic romances (of the kind mocked in Stella Gibbons’ Cold Comfort Farm) and they were not at all sure about this adventure with a nightclub hostess that was more cocaine and comedy than passionate romance in a rural setting. ![]() Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, our June choice, has been described by the novelist Tracy Chevalier as “irresistible, a perfect mix of wistfulness and joy, substance and froth.” As much as we like a fizzy escapist novel, it is the grit that really makes all the charm of Miss Pettigrew so pleasurable. It can be quite easy at the moment to feel like we live in dystopian times which is why this month we were in the mood for fiction that is anything but. ![]() ![]() ![]() The duel between the two women intensifies, as does their mutual obsession, and when the action moves from the high passes of the Tyrol to the heart of Russia, Eve finally begins to unwrap the enigma of her adversary's true identity. ![]() As Eve interrogates her subject, desperately trying to fit the pieces of the puzzle together, Villanelle moves in for the kill. ![]() In a hotel room in Venice, where she's just completed a routine assassination, Villanelle receives a late-night call.Įve Polastri has discovered that a senior MI5 officer is in the pay of the Twelve, and is about to debrief him. I was so excited to read and review this book, after just finishing watching "Killing Eve"Ī thrilling duel between Villanelle, an elite female assassin, and Eve Polastri, the MI6 agent who is tasked with hunting her down. Thank you so much to Net Galley, The publishers and the author for an ARC copy for review. ![]() ![]() ![]() Copies made of more durable materials inevitably fail to capture all the subtleties of the writer’s voice, and are thus shunned. Because the act of reading requires physical contact with the soft, malleable surface, each time a text is read, it is also damaged and some aspects of the original irretrievably lost. ![]() For the Allatians, reading is literally hearing the voice of the past.īut there is a cost to the beauty of the Allatian book. A speech sounds like a speech, a lament a lament, and a story re-creates perfectly the teller’s breathless excitement. It is simultaneously a score and a recording. Unlike books written in alphabets, syllabaries, or logograms, an Allatian book captures not only words, but also the writer’s tone, voice, inflection, emphasis, intonation, rhythm. “The Allatians believe that they have a writing system superior to all others. ![]() ![]() ![]() A small town engulfed in an unnameable madness. The depths of a prison camp where the tormentors suddenly become the tortured. An attic storing an heirloom left behind as a warning to the living. A summer cabin on a lake which witnessed an untimely death. Places that are just as real, but rarely visible. "Have you ever wondered what was behind a closed door? When visiting someone's home for the first time or when in a building you had never previously entered? The seemingly ordinary ligneous entryway with its peeling paint in an old house might hold secrets at which one could barely guess…ĭoorways to the Unseen presents six short stories to the reader which touch worlds beyond their daily reality, entering places seldom experienced. ![]() Doorways to the Unseen: 6 Tales of Terror and Suspense is a horror short story collection from author James Dermond. ![]() ![]() "Bite me, Raith," Karrin said, although the loose slicker billowing around her hips did feel uncomfortably like a parasail. "I thought vampires were stylish," Karrin said, pulling it on. "Here," he said, tossing it to her, "take this." "Suit yourself," he said with a shrug, and, rummaging in the storage area under the steering console, came up with the ugliest yellow rain slicker she'd ever seen in her life. ![]() "How about I go up top and have a look around?" Thomas said, "How about 20 Questions instead?" Above the steering console, a pentacle necklace identical to Harry's dangled from a small hook, spinning slowly with the boat's movement, but leaning unmistakably in the direction of their heading. Rain and sleet lashed the windshield of the wheelhouse, sheeting the glass with ice. "White Court vampire who's about to get ventilated with a P-90." The vampire just flashed a brilliant white grin at her and continued, undaunted. "Don't make me draw on you, Raith," Karrin said, tucking a hand beneath her shoulder holster. ![]() This story is licensed under the Creative Commons as derivative, noncommercial fiction. Plus, canon hypothermia, how could one resist? (And by "one" I mean "me".)ĭisclaimer: The Dresden Files is copyright (c) Jim Butcher. Because Thomas and Murphy on a fishing boat in the middle of a Lake Michigan winter gale was too awesome not to write. ![]() Rating: PG no pairings (except possible canonical hints of Harry/Murphy) ![]() ![]() ![]() Tiny Habits for generosity focuses on helping people make a habit of helping others. ![]() This knowledge will also serve you well in your mission-driven work. With Tiny Habits, you will learn how to successfully practice new behaviors in your own life. They ask people to give, volunteer, attend a meeting, sign a petition, join a board, vote, recycle, and more. In order to succeed, most nonprofits need to convince people to do something: a behavior. How can Tiny Habits be used for social good? You can revise any recipe so it fits better in your life.Įdith Asibey is a Tiny Habits Coach. Focus on habits that you really want and that seem really easy to do. What’s more, Tiny Habits quickly builds people’s motivation, confidence, and hope. The method has already helped thousands of people successfully acquire new habits. ![]() ![]() ![]() Many went in directions that I didn’t expect.Įach story holds humanity at its forefront while illustrating the various shades of human nature. Liu does a good job creating an immersive reading experience where you want to keep reading to learn how each story comes together. It’s all tied together by a middle story that is more lighthearted than the rest. The stories are arranged in a well-balanced and orderly manner which created a natural transition between them. They are a mix of hard and soft science fiction and although I listened to the audiobook, the length of each story appeared to be around 40-50 pages after looking into it. ![]() I think there is a story here for everyone. Liu has quickly become one of my favorite science fiction writers. The Wandering Earth by Cixin Liu is a collection of ten brilliantly written sci-fi stories that completely resonated with me on both an emotional and intellectual level. With a melancholic and keen understanding of human nature, Liu’s stories show humanity’s attempts to reason, navigate, and above all, survive in a desolate cosmos. Liu’s fiction takes the reader to the edge of the universe and the end of time, to meet stranger fates than we could have ever imagined. These ten stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners, are a blazingly original ode to planet Earth, its pasts, and its futures. A short story collection from New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu. ![]() |