![]() Dan O’Malley checks all the boxes: single, romantically indifferent to her, completely trustworthy. To avoid imminent disaster, she must marry immediately it is essential that the person she chooses have no romantic feelings for her whatsoever and be completely trustworthy.įortunately, she knows exactly who to ask. But now, Kat’s silver spoon past has finally caught up with her, and so have her youthful mistakes. Determined to live a quiet life, Kat Tanner changed her identity years ago and eschewed her family’s legacy. And three: She knows how to knit.īeing a billionaire heiress isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. ![]() One: She’s determined to make good decisions. ![]() There are three things you need to know about Kat Tanner (aka Kathleen Tyson.and yes, she is that Kathleen Tyson). ![]()
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![]() ![]() She becomes increasingly nervous, but never afraid. On her way home, she meets some spooky things: clothes that move and have their own sound effects. She lives in a cottage in the woods, and goes out collecting things in the forest. Meet the Little Old Lady: she is independent and brave, and perhaps a little witchy looking. To kick off spooky season, I wanted to start with a Halloween classic that I just added to my home library. Today is the first day of fall, and do you know what that means? The official start of spooky season! Fall is definitely my favorite season, both for the spooky fun leading up to Halloween and the cozy feeling that comes after when we start to hunker down before winter. Book: The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams Illustrated by Megan Lloyd ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It wasn’t wealth or power that Minos sought from Athens, however It was a tribute – seven Athenian youths and seven Athenian maidens brought every year across the waves to Crete to sate the appetite of the monstrosity that had threatened to shatter my family with shame but instead had elevated us to the statue of legends. It begins with her explaining why her father MInos, King of Crete, has a feud with Athens after his son was killed there. ![]() Saint’s debut novel is a feminist retelling with Ariadne narrating her own story. So I was delighted to discover that Ariadne’s story goes beyond the labyrinth. If I’d known that the Titian painting to your right was called Bacchus and Ariadne, (as used on the cover of 1993 album God Shuffled His Feet by the Crash Test Dummies), it would also have been clearer. I mean, I’d heard of Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, but had never associated it as being that Ariadne, which of course it is. ![]() Strange, although loving a Greek myth, I’d never realised there was more to Ariadne’s story beyond helping Theseus outwit the labyrinth to kill the minotaur. ![]() ![]() ![]() Obviously, the settings were the same, and the eloquence of the characters and the writing style were similar, but the plots themselves were very different which I greatly appreciated. I was also expecting this book to be similar to The Greenglass House, mainly because they’re both mysteries in old hotels… so ya know, the similarities are there on a surface level. However, I was really glad to find out that this was just one big mystery that Elizabeth was solving. I was anticipating a lot of little mini-mysteries throughout the story guiding the characters through the plot. ![]() Review: Based on the synopsis I had read of this book, I was expecting a book similar to the Lemoncello or the Book Scavenger series. Working with her new friend, Freddy, Elizabeth works to uncover the truth before she is stopped by the evil forces at work at the hotel. This is where she finds a curious book filled with mystery that promises to reveal the secrets of Norbridge’s family and the Winterhouse Hotel. She enjoys the fun winter activities is intrigued by the mysterious owner, Norbridge Falls but most of all, she falls in love with the massive library housed within the hotel. Summary: Elizabeth Somers has been sent away all alone to the remote Winterhouse Hotel for Christmas break. ![]() ![]() She senses Violet prefers Fox, but Fox insists it's all in her head. Blythe struggles with Violet from the beginning, Blythe is exhausted, and motherhood proves far tougher than she anticipated. Soon, they have their first child, a girl named Violet. ![]() The book ends by implying that Gemma suspects Violet has now harmed Jet.īlythe and Fox Connor are a couple who meet in college and get married at 25. Throughout the book, it's not clear if Violet is innately bad, if Blythe is a bad mother (Blythe comes from a line of bad mothers) or if it's all in Blythe's head. Fox has a son, Jet, with his new wife, Gemma. ![]() When their infant son Sam is killed, Blythe blames Violet. Blythe thinks Violet is violent and lacks empathy, but Fox thinks Blythe's insufficient love for Violet is the problem. The one-paragraph summary of this book: Blythe and Fox have a daughter, Violet. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s definitely subtle horror, but horror none the less! It was a little too slow for me at the beginning, but then it picked up till the very end. ![]() I listened to this book on audio and I really enjoyed it! I had seen the old movie several years ago, so I remembered the bare bones of the story. Silently, subtly, almost imperceptibly, alien life-forms were taking over the bodies and minds of his neighbors, his friends, his family, the woman he loved-the world as he knew it.įirst published in 1955, this classic thriller of the ultimate alien invasion and the triumph of the human spirit over an invisible enemy inspired the acclaimed 1956 film, directed by Don Siegel and starring Kevin McCarthy, one of Time magazine’s 100 Best Films. Miles Bennell discovered an insidious, horrifying plot. On a quiet fall evening in the small, peaceful town of Mill Valley, California, Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. Urn:lcp:redstationaharry00adri_0:epub:b0b3ec5f-4848-4454-8690-e6fcf9051ea6 Extramarc OhioLINK Library Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier redstationaharry00adri_0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t21c4d740 Invoice 11 Isbn 9780727869395Ġ727869396 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition ![]() His Red Station (2010), which introduced former MI5 agent Harry Tate, was a clever, more sinister version of Mick Herron’s Slough House series, and the four books which followed it were good old-styled spy novels with exciting shoot-outs and betrayals. Urn:lcp:redstationaharry00adri_0:lcpdf:62648f9f-ec15-4248-b102-6d30f621be85 Adrian Magson is one of my favourite current writers of action spy novels. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 03:21:39.520359 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1109616 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Sutton, Surrey, England Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1st world ed. ![]() ![]() start shooting in Georgia next month, Winfrey predicts that The Color Purple will change their lives, as it once did hers. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Halle Bailey, Corey Hawkins, and H.E.R. When Fantasia Taylor, Colman Domingo, Taraji P. Winfrey strikes those same jubilant tones as she unveils for Vanity Fair the full cast of actors who will bring The Color Purple musical to the big screen for its latest incarnation. Joy, love, and hope are also interwoven throughout-the lifelines these women cling to amidst the gale-force brutality. It all originates from Alice Walker’s classic 1982 novel about Black women from the rural South during the early part of the last century, trying to survive and thrive under unspeakable, ever-present cruelties. Those are the exact words she uses to describe the upcoming film based on the Tony-winning Broadway musical, which was based on the 1985 Steven Spielberg movie that gave the media icon her first big acting break. ![]() “This ain’t your mama’s Color Purple,” says Oprah Winfrey. ![]() ![]() Ever since the American writer published Under the Tuscan Sun in 1996, the small Italian town of Cortona where she. “For my part,” Mayes writes, “these gifts give me a chance to feel at home in the world.” This rich testament to the pleasures of wanderlust and permanence is a gift as well. Frances Mayes has grown used to watching crowds of people photograph her house. As she meanders through her memories, poignant takes on transience and mortality mingle with tributes to the people who bring her homes their vitality: friends, family, and Italian neighbors who drop off gifts of fresh ricotta, wine, eggs, zinnias, and tomatoes. Elsewhere, temporary dwellings induce reflections on life changes: cooking lessons at Simone Beck’s “honey-colored house” in Provence, for example, inspired Mayes to enroll in graduate school and begin a career as a teacher and writer. ![]() (“As much as you own an old house and garden,” she ruefully muses, “it owns you”) Bramasole, the Tuscan villa in Cortona, Italy, immortalized in her hit 1996 memoir Under the Tuscan Sun and her childhood Georgia home, a place that conjures memories of her mother’s cooking (the mouthwatering recipes for which are sprinkled throughout). ![]() ![]() ![]() She examines the question through an evocative tour of her homes: there’s Chatwood, with its demanding yet rewarding rose garden in Hillsborough, N.C. Novelist Mayes ( See You in the Piazza) delivers a soulful meditation on “what home means, how it hooks the past and pushes into the future” in her spellbinding latest. ![]() ![]() ![]() Virgil portrays the roman concept of honor as being bound in the duty to the state and the people, where heroic exploits are done for the sake of oneÆs countrymen and the good of the republic. ![]() HomerÆs portrays the Greek concept honor as being markedly individualistic, focused on heroic exploits for the sake of being remembered throughout the ages. Thus, the Iliad and the Aeneid, while at first glance being relatively similar, really portray two radically different conceptions of honor. While Achilles is consumed with his personal honor, Aeneas conception of honor is bound in his duty to his people. Where the two epics differ markedly is in their treatment of the heroÆs honor. Both epics are focused on the exploits of a man who is half-god and half-mortal: in the Iliad, the Greek hero Achilles is the focal point of the narrative in the Aeneid the Roman hero Aeneas is the principal actor. They form part of the foundation from which the entire western classical tradition was erected and are considered to be among the worldÆs canonic masterpieces. The Iliad and the Aeneid are undoubtedly two of the greatest epics ever written. ![]() |