7/6/2023 0 Comments Kat falls dark life series![]() ![]() A dystopian, sci-fi with a somewhat fresh setting of the sea floor. However, this is actually a highly entertaining book on its own merit. "Okay, so I'm just going to have to get over the fact that just about every YA book coming out is part of a series (or maybe just the ones that I am reading). Together they face dangerous sea creatures and venture into the frontier town's rough underworld to discover the secret behind the outlaws' eerie abilities called Dark Gifts. ![]() When outlaws attack the pioneer settlement, Ty teams up with a girl from the "Topside" who's come sub-sea to search for her brother. ![]() 16-year-old Ty and his family live on an ocean floor homestead. A thrilling futuristic adventure set deep undersea which follows the settlers of the world's first subsea settlement FORMAT: 6 Unabridged CDsNARRATOR: Keith Nobbsĭark Life is set in the near future when global warming has caused the oceans to rise and reduced America to half its former size. ![]()
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7/6/2023 0 Comments The manipulated man book![]() She offers him an embroidered handkerchief, which he politely refuses. Five minutes later the job is done and the punctured tyre properly stowed. Since she cannot find a jack, he fetches his own, together with his other tools. He does not ask if she is capable of changing the tyre herself because he knows - she is about thirty, smartly dressed and made-up - that she is not. To prove his determination, he asks for her jack. The driver sees what is wrong at a glance and says comfortingly, "Don't worry. Recognising this standard international sign of woman in distress ("weak female let down my by male technology"), a station wagon draws up. Without wasting a moment she prepares to fix it: she looks towards the passing cars as if expecting someone. ![]() She gets out and finds her left front tyre flat. The lemon-coloured MG skids across the road and the woman driver brings it to a somewhat uncertain halt. ![]() ![]() ![]() He smoothly weaves together hundreds of exclusive interviews (in fast-paced, short chapters) to create vivid, full-blooded portraits. ![]() ![]() As he demonstrated in his 2002 bestseller, Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot, Taraborrelli is adept at illuminating political intrigue and complex family dynamics. Before her tragic car accident death in 1982, Grace found contentment in the life she chose. But the subjects of Monaco objected and forced her to withdraw. The prince encouraged her to accept Alfred Hitchcock's offer of the lead in Marnie. Never planning to stop making films, she bowed to her husband's wishes and soon her loneliness and boredom were replaced by severe depression. After failed romances with married co-stars (Ray Milland and William Holden) and turning down a marriage proposal from Oleg Cassini, Kelly met Rainier, the prince of a popular Mediterranean resort town who was searching for a princess he hoped would become "the manifestation of all that we hope for and dream about in Monaco." Nine months after what was called "the wedding of the century" (watched by 30 million TV viewers) in 1956, Grace gave birth to the first of their three children. ![]() The "happily ever after" marriage of Grace Kelly to Prince Rainier III of Monaco is explored and demythologized in this fascinating, compelling and well-researched royal biography. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Jonah's Giant by Rowan McBride![]() ![]() ![]() So my advice to you is to read both stories simultaneously in order to achieve perfect balance. Usually, the majority either likes or dislikes my book, so the rating is either over 3 or under it.Īnother interesting thing I noticed was that a lot of readers felt Cody was cold and Just Perfect was generally unromantic, while many readers of One Good Year believe the story was too sentimental and overly romantic. ![]() Last I checked, the ratings on GoodReads have been across the board, resulting in a weird, perfect aggregate rating dead center at 3 stars. Reader reviews are also filtering in, but I don’t know what the protocol is on quoting those so I won’t post any here. Pretty snazzy, yeah? She said a lot of other great things, which you can read at. … This is definitely a book worth reading for its lack of conventionalism alone.” The first official review for Just Perfect is in! Serena Yates, of QMO Books, wrote “The characters and their roles are flipped around, turned inside out and any preconception you may have had will go out the window when you read this. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Macdonald Fraser then devoted several years of his life editing these papers, adding scholarly introductions and notes. Some time in the late 1960s, author George Macdonald Fraser came across the Flashman papers – detailed accounts of his eventful life written by Flashman in his old age, in inimitable style. And, despite all his efforts to keep out of trouble, he found himself witnessing some of the most momentous events in history, and even taking his part in them. Despite being a coward and a bully and an all-round bad egg, he was accidentally mistaken for a hero, and became famous throughout the British Empire. ![]() After expulsion from Rugby School, he led a colourful life. While Thomas Hughes, the author, presents the novel as a fiction, Flashman was real enough. We may think that Flashman, the vicious and cowardly bully in Tom Brown’s Schooldays, was a fictional character. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ’Tis not the affair of a city, a county, a province, or a kingdom but of a continent-of at least one-eighth part of the habitable globe. “The sun never shone on a cause of greater worth. “The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind” was its astonishing and inspiring claim about the fate of thirteen infant colonies on the edge of the world. In the winter of 1776, John Adams read “Common Sense,” an anonymous, fanatical, and brutally brilliant seventy-seven-page pamphlet that would convince the American people of what more than a decade of taxes and nearly a year of war had not: that it was nothing less than their destiny to declare independence from Britain. ![]() ![]()
7/5/2023 0 Comments Zombie Lake by Javan Bonds![]() Javan Bonds is the author of the newly released Zombie Lake, Book One of the post-apocalyptic zombie series STILL ALIVE. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() ![]() Welcome aboard, friend, to Zombie Lake.New edit released 12-24-2017 syncing with Audible version Coming Soon! Join us on this wild ride where the fish bite, the Zombies bite.sometimes life bites. The Expert, The Tech, The Oracle, The Sacrifice, The Old Friend plus many more. As reality mimics fiction an ever growing cast of crazy characters play out their role carving out an island sanctuary in a plague ridden world. The new comer, Smokes, will change Mo’s view of this zombie infested world forever. But when a lone survivor stumbles upon Mo and Crow they gain a new crew member but also find much needed direction. ![]() They fish and watch the monsters roam the night seeking untainted flesh and leaving a disgusting mess in their wake. ![]() Mo and his only surviving shipmate, Crow, are surviving. Hordes of naked, blue, biting zombies have flooded the now dead Alabama lake town. Mo Collins, the reluctant Hero, has sailed around the country on board the replica pirate ship, the Viva Ancora and now he finds himself only miles from his childhood home. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments The eleventh hour picture book![]() ![]() As a child, I spent hours upon hours studying the pictures, firstly solving the big mystery and then searching for all the hidden clues that are outlined for us at the back of the book.Ī story with a timeless, irresistible whodunit twist, this is sure to entertain any child with an inquisitive mind. Buy New Learn more about this copy US 16. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. The reader is invited to guess the thief. ![]() In the vein of a murder mystery, but with a child-friendly theme, this is my all-time favourite Base book. An elephants eleventh birthday party is marked by eleven games preceding the banquet to be eaten at the eleventh hour but when the time to eat arrives, the birthday feast has disappeared. As the reader progresses further through the book, however, a series of clues hidden carefully in the intricately detailed drawings make themselves more apparent. Someone has stolen it! But who? All present deny the charge, and so there is a mystery to be solved.Īt first glance, this is a charming rhyming tale accompanied by the inimitable illustrations of Graeme Base. But, to everyone’s shock, all the food, so carefully prepared by Horace, has disappeared. Sack races, snakes and ladders, cricket, tennis and tug o’ war, amongst others, are enjoyed by all.Īnd then comes time to eat the feast. ![]() But, alas, they cannot partake in it until The Eleventh Hour: the moment Horace turns eleven. Eleven types of food and a day of fun planned with so much care.Īs the guests arrive, including the pig, the rhino, the mouse and the giraffes, they are shown the feast of cakes and treats and lemonade. About: It is Horace the elephant’s eleventh birthday, and he prepares a great feast for his friends. ![]() ![]() ![]() Overall messages are positive about learning from mistakes, moving on from the past, finding ways to be your best self, and encouraging people to be and do better by learning compassion from the arts. Strong ties of friendship and family are stressed. Teens of age in the fantasy world drink "frostberry" wine and nectar, but not to excess. A character becomes addicted to drinking the blood of magical beings. Profanity is limited to "crap" and "s-tty," once each. There are a few kisses, flirting, and affectionate behavior. Pain from a magical transformation is described in detail. Other violence is in the fantasy realm or in the past and includes cutting a magical being to sell its blood, a stabbing, child abandonment and death, and a child murdered in the past. ![]() ![]() There are some depictions of self-harm from a character picking at a fingernail until it bleeds and reopening the wound several times, including brief descriptions of the distraction or relief she finds in the pain. Parents need to know that Star Daughter is a fantasy based on Hindu mythology and astrology. ![]() |