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Both also work hard to develop a sense of mystery and wonder there are far more plot hooks in A Friendly Town than there are resolutions, and I got the feeling that the book hardly even scratches the surface of Topsea's secrets. Both take place in universes filled with Fortean/Lovecraftian weirdness, but are actually less about their settings, and more about the bonds of friendship and love that develop and grow even in the strangest surroundings. The closest parallel I can think of to A Friendly Town That's Almost Always by the Ocean is actually a work for adults: the podcast/book/theatrical production series Welcome to Night Vale. Fortunately, he's developing a group of friends who can help him through, even in the strangest of circumstances. On top of that, Davy is trying to work through his emotions regarding the recent loss of his father. His locker at school is at the bottom of the swimming pool, the mail is delivered by seagulls, and everyone seems to believe that dogs are a myth. Davy Jones and his mother have just moved to the town of Topsea, and Davy is having a hard time adjusting to his strange new surroundings.
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Snapper by Brian Kimberling6/7/2023 “Reading Brian Kimberling’s debut novel, Snapper, is a fascinating and disorienting experience. Vogue: “Strongest Debut Fictions of the Spring” O, the Oprah Magazine: 10 Titles to Pick Up Now Reviews NPR's Best Books of the Year 2013 And at the center of it all is Nathan, creeping through the forest to observe the birds he loves and coming to terms with the accidental turns his life has taken. Around them swirls a remarkable cast of characters: the proprietor of Fast Eddie’s Burgers & Beer, the genius behind “Thong Thursdays” Uncle Dart, a Texan who brings his swagger to Indiana with profound and nearly devastating results a snapping turtle with a taste for thumbs a German shepherd who howls backup vocals and the very charismatic state of Indiana itself. He drives a glitter-festooned truck, the Gypsy Moth, and he is in love with Lola, a woman so free-spirited and mysterious she can break a man’s heart with a sigh or a shrug. Nathan Lochmueller studies birds, earning just enough money to live on. A great, hilarious new voice in fiction: the poignant, all-too-human recollections of an affable bird researcher in the Indiana backwater as he goes through a disastrous yet heartening love affair with the place and its people.
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The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov6/7/2023 A good thing, the thing that’s brought him here – those words, those signs, each with a profound connection to his life. He feels for the bag slung over his shoulder, mechanically runs his fingers over the hard edges of the rectangle it contains, thickened like scars under the skin, and he remembers, slowly, what’s inside – that heavy, friendly form. He slips on the left one it’s warm and fits him perfectly, as though hand and glove have known each other many years. He stares perplexed at the sturdy boots sticking out from underneath his cassock, at the tattered front of his faded woollen overcoat, at the gloves he’s holding in his hands. He can’t remember rising, or getting dressed, or whether he’s had breakfast. He’s used to getting up at dawn, but today he feels just half awake and has no idea how he even ended up here, alone in an ocean of fog. The vicar forane is standing on the porch of the presbytery, waiting for his carriage. It’s early morning, near the close of October.
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Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who founded the suffrage movement at the 1848 Seneca Falls convention to Victoria Woodhull, the first female candidate for president to Sojourner Truth and her famous speech, "Ain't I a Woman?" to Alice Paul, who was arrested and force-fed in prison, Conkling combines thorough research with gripping storytelling to bring the battle for the right to vote to vivid life. In this expansive yet personal volume, author Winifred Conkling covers not only the suffragists' achievements and politics but also the private journeys that fueled their passion and led them to become women's champions.įrom Susan B. Ratification of the 19th Amendment was the culmination of an almost 80-year fight in which some of the fiercest, most passionate women in history marched, protested, and sometimes broke the law in to achieve this huge leap toward equal rights. On August 18, 1920, American women finally won the right to vote.
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The witch family by eleanor estes6/6/2023 edition, Audio CD in English - Unabridged edition The Witch Family (Apedition) Open Library It looks like youre offline. And Amy and Clarissa are about to find that out, when Old Witch magics them into her world of make-believe-made-real, in "a very special book that is certain to give boundless pleasure-at any time of the year" (The Horn Book). The Witch Family by Eleanor Estes, April 1, 2007, Listen & Live Audio, Inc. Old Witch tries to be good, but anyone would get up to no good in a place as lonely as the glass hill. So, drawing a rickety old house upon a barren glass hill, they exile Old Witch there with a warning: She better be good, or else no Halloween But to give Old Witch some company, they draw her a Little Witch Girl and a Weeny Witch Baby. Amy and Clarissa have decided that Old Witch is just too mean and wicked. Old Witch likes nothing better than to fly around on her broomstick, crying "Heh-heh " and casting abracadabras. This story of two girls trying to banish a witch is full of wonderful fun, excitement. This story of two girls trying to banish a witch is "full of wonderful fun, excitement, and humor" (Library Journal). Author(s): Eleanor Estes Edward Ardizzone (Illustrator) Fiction. Author(s): Eleanor Estes Edward Ardizzone (Illustrator)
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I’ve seen this book literally everywhere and there are lots of positive reviews for the series. I’ve been waiting for ages for the completed trilogy. But when it comes to the Wicked, nothing is as it seems. Wrath claims to be on Emilia’s side, tasked by his master with solving the series of women’s murders on the island. Then Emilia meets Wrath, one of the Wicked-princes of Hell she has been warned against in tales since she was a child. Devastated, Emilia sets out to find her sister’s killer and to seek vengeance at any cost-even if it means using dark magic that’s been long forbidden. Emilia soon finds the body of her beloved twin…desecrated beyond belief. One night, Vittoria misses dinner service at the family’s renowned Sicilian restaurant. I’ve been waiting for ages to read this trilogy!Ī quest for vengeance that will unleash Hell itself…Įmilia and her twin sister Vittoria are streghe – witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution.
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Kristin cast house of night books6/5/2023 Things at the House of Night are not always what they seem. As Zoey tries to make new friends and maybe find a hot boyfriend (or two), she comes up against all kinds of evil, from the perfect-looking, super-popular girl with not-so-faultless plans, to the mysterious deaths happening at the House of Night and all over Tulsa. Although Zoey has awesome new powers, it's hard to fit in when everyone knows you're special. Find each of my standalone books as well as all of my series in reading order along with release date information. The series follows Zoey Redbird, a 16 year-old. Available & Upcoming Books Kristin Cast Book List Available & Upcoming books. She has been Marked as special by the vampyre Goddess, Nyx. House of Night is a series of young adult fantasy novels by American authors P.C. Just ask Zoey Redbird shes become an expert on suckiness. Cast (Author), Kristin Cast (Author) (2,854) Life sucks when your friends are pissed at you. It's tough to begin a new life, away from her parents and friends, and on top of that, Zoey finds she is no average fledgling. Untamed (House of Night, Book 4): A House of Night Novel by P. She has to leave her family in Broken Arrow, OK, and move into the House of Night, a boarding school for other fledgling vampyres like her. Marked : House of Night : Book 1 - Kristin Cast Betrayed : House of Night : Book 2 - Kristin Cast Chosen : House of Night : Book 3 - Kristin Cast Untamed. Cast and Kristin Cast's the House of Night with the first four titles of the series collected in a beautifully designed boxed setīestselling book series that follows 16-year-old Zoey Redbird as she is Marked by a vampyre tracker and begins to undergo the Change into an actual vampyre.
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After a few moments of silence, the crowd gave her a standing ovation. At the end of the song, the spotlight went out and she left the stage. She made it the last song in her set, with the club lights dimmed. She tried it out at a party and was amazed at the reaction it got. He sang the song, ‘Strange Fruit,’ for Billie, who didn’t think much of it, but he wanted her to sing it at the club. Songwriter Abel Meeropol visited the club’s owner with a song he had written in response to seeing a disturbing photo of some racial violence in the South. Annoyed that Artie Shaw, the bandleader, didn’t speak up for her, she quit singing with him and was asked to sing at the Café Society, a new club where black people could sit anywhere they wanted. She could perform at the Blue Room in New York, but was told she couldn’t speak with the customers or wander around the hotel, where people might think she was a guest. October 1938, New York City: This time, Billie’d had enough.Īlthough she was happy to be working steadily with a popular band, Billie Holiday was frustrated there were still so many restrictions put on her because of her race.
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The bourne supremacy book6/5/2023 Also recommended by those who have seen The Bourne Identity are the Jackal movies- The Day of the Jackal (1973) (1973) and The Jackal (1997) (1997)-in which a professional assassin codenamed "Jackal" is sent on secret missions. Two cops attempt to intercept a big heroin shipment coming from France in The French Connection (1971) (1971). In Bullitt (1968) (1968), a cop searches for the killers of a witness that he was supposed to be protecting. In The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) (1996), lost memories of herself as a top-secret agent begin to surface in an ordinary housewife. There's Three Days of the Condor (1975) (1975), in which a CIA researcher must outwit hit men bent on killing him. In The Transporter (2002) (2002), an ex-special forces operator, now working as a goods transporter who asks no questions, breaks the rules and peeks at his latest cargo. For other movies that feature special agents facing deadly complications, try xXx (2002) (2002), in which an athlete is recruited by the government to infiltrate an underground Russian crime ring. The later sequels are The Bourne Legacy and Jason Bourne-Bourne being missing from the former. Of course, see The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Ultimatum, the other two movies in the initial Bourne trilogy.
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Dan somehow has to travel back in time to investigate. The discovery that the robot household appliances he invented have been mass produced is no surprise, but the realization that, far from having been stolen from him, they have, mysteriously, been patented in his name is. Suddenly, the lure of suspended animation, the Long Sleep, becomes irresistible and Dan wakes up 30 years later in the 21st century, a time very much to his liking. When Dan Davis is crossed in love and stabbed in the back by his business associates, the immediate future doesn't look too bright for him and Pete, his independent-minded tomcat. The discovery that the robot household appliances he invented have been mass produced is no surprise, but the realization that, far. |