The little stranger novel6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() 'How this house likes to catch us out,' Mrs Ayres says. ![]() More than once the characters talk of the parkland as an enchanted sleeping forest – and there is a chilling, fairytale feel to the place. Cars battle through brambles and trees to reach the house, entire rooms – wasted chambers - and floors are closed off and unused. The gardens are choked with weeds ('an ancient ha-ha it's sides so … overgrown it was more truthfully … a boo-hoo'). If, like me, you love stories in which the house is as much a character as the people, you will enjoy the descriptions of the dilapidated Georgian mansion. Post World War II, both the house and family are in decline – cracks are appearing in walls, relationships, psyches. Hundreds Hall, the loneliest house in Warwickshire has been home to the Ayres family for two centuries. ![]() When was the last time you couldn't put a Booker nominated novel down? Sarah Waters, author of acclaimed novels Fingersmith and The Night Watch has written a chilling psychological ghost story that kept me guessing until the very last page. Summary: The haunting tale of an aristocratic family's decline. ![]()
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Wish me luck margaret dickinson6/12/2023 ![]() The young couple are determined to grab their happiness where they can, but is it a kind Fate or a cruel one that has brought them together when secrets from the past threaten their future?Īway from their families, there is fun and laughter, the aircrews determined to make the most of every day, every minute, but whenever they fly off into the night on a bombing raid, Fleur must keep watch until the early hours praying that Robbie's plane comes back. Dymocks wishes to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which our stores across the nation work and gather. When Fleur's mother hears Robbie's name she becomes hysterical and bans him from her home. Read OctoAn 11-Story Monarch Mural, What Landscape Architects Wish You Knew, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Marianne North, Margaret Owen, Emily Dickinson, The Daylily by Peat and Petit, Plants to Cut Back, and A Fancy from Fontanelle by with a free trial. The two girls become good friends, but Ruth, already hurt by the loss of one of the pilots, does not approve of wartime romances.Īnd Ruth is not the only one to disapprove. Posted to a newly-built Lincolnshire airfield, Robbie as a wireless operator on bombers and Fleur as a R/T operator in the watch office, their only escape is to the little cottage in the nearby village where Fleur is billeted with another WAAF, Ruth. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wish Me Luck is an engrossing WW2 romantic saga by Margaret Dickinson, and sequel to Without Sin.įleur Bosley didn't believe in love at first sight, at least not until she bumped into Robbie Rodwell on a railway station in the blackout of wartime Britain. ![]() The cold vanish jon billman6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The Olympic National Park alone – where Jacob Grey went missing – contains 640 million acres of federal land much of it forest. That people go missing in large numbers in American national parks comes as no surprise when you consider the sheer size of them. What of those mysterious episodes where people seemingly ‘disappear’ into nowhere – particularly within the ‘great outdoors’ such as North America’s National Parks? Jon Billman’s The Cold Vanish considers some of these strange disappearances and the result is a moving and wide-ranging travelogue as the author journeys in the company of a driven and clearly heartbroken father on a search for his missing son, Jacob Grey. The Cold Vanish: Seeking The Missing In North America’s Wildlands by Jon Billman. ![]() ![]() ![]() There is a conspiracy against him, and a Machiavellian revolution already underway that will have bloody consequences of its own. In Trujillo's gaudy palace, treachery and cowardice have become a way of life. Rafael Trujillo, the depraved ailing dictator whom Dominicans call the Goat, controls his inner circle with a combination of violence and blackmail. ![]() ![]() Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic - and finds herself reliving the events of l961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million. In The Feast of the Goat, this 'masterpiece of Latin American and world literature, and one of the finest political novels ever written' ( Bookforum), Mario Vargas Llosa recounts the end of a regime and the birth of a terrible democracy, giving voice to the historical Trujillo and the victims, both innocent and complicit, drawn into his deadly orbit. ![]() Goddess of filth v castro6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Despite the building’s structural deficiencies, the former hospital is revealed as an important hub of spiritual energy. When we meet Vale, she abruptly leaves a church retreat to visit her half-sister in rural Florida where she is drawn to an old tuberculosis sanitorium laden with ghosts and decay. Engaging in witchy practices her family considers evil, she is challenged to accept her true self. ![]() Vale’s character is grounded in the questioning of her Catholic upbringing and desire to carve her own path in the world. Gaby Triana writes a haunting story of self-discovery in her novel, Moon Child, which focuses on Valencia-Vale to her friends-a Cuban-American teen on the cusp of adulthood. These reviews highlight women-POC and white-and their personal horrors that are intensified by the supernatural. From those stories, horror is used to reflect on and discuss sensitive social and cultural issues. But horror has many authors and storylines to share with readers beyond the straight white male. ![]() ![]() While these movies and books have made a lasting impression on the genre, they are often dominated by a straight white male view-demonizing and objectifying not only marginalized communities but cis het white women as well. When most people think of horror, they may think of Stephen King or the bloody slasher movies from the ’80s. ![]() Empath judy dyer6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Understanding the potentials of your energy and abilities.You will discover strategies and coping skills such as: It will also open new doors of opportunity for you to live your life abundantly. This book will usher your spirit to embrace the many blessings of being an empath. In Empath: A Complete Guide for Developing Your Gift and Finding Your Sense of Self, you will find the loving and gentle ways Judy Dyer offers to guide a new empath through their journey. So, where do you start in understanding how to embrace your gift and channel this hypersensitivity into something beautiful? The constant reception of other people’s emotions can cause a roller coaster of stress and anxiety.ĭue to the high sensitivity of feelings of those around them, an empath can end up caring for the needs of everyone else but their own. Often, empaths who are new to the understanding of their gift find it difficult to control the sources of overwhelming feelings. ![]() You may or may not have realized - but you carry the great blessing and power of being an empath. ![]() Have you ever felt the weight of the world on your shoulders? Do you live through your every day feeling waves of others’ emotions crashing into you? ![]() The immortalists chloe benjamin6/11/2023 ![]() We first follow Simon, a 16-year-old who finally feels free to embrace his homosexuality when he moves to San Francisco with his sister Klara. In a sense, they’re all living with urgency but afraid they’re not making the most of the time they have. But with the curse of knowing their end date, it might have shaped their personality more than expected. And it is true that each of them exhibit selfishness and arrogance at times. Prior to reading this novel, a user on Instagram warned me that the characters aren’t exactly likable. The four siblingsīenjamin creates flawed characters in the Gold siblings. But would that change if suddenly we find out the hour of our passing? This is what The Immortalists is about. ![]() We know everyone will pass at some point but worrying about that future conflicts with living in the present. For more about the synopsis, click here.Įvery beginning has an ending. The premise revolves around the question: if you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life? The four Gold children each find out their date from a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. ![]() Hard Head by Damon Suede6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() The unrequited love is so wrenching final union is so earned and worthwhile.” This book is sexy, fun, hot, interesting and the best book of my summer … Man, I couldn’t put it down … Talk about captivating! … I’m not going to tell you anything else except that you gotta buy it and read it!” “Four out of four stars! HOT! HOT! HOT! Damon Suede has a surefire hit on his hands with Hot Head. Suede’s unique, fascinating voice … Wildly entertaining and fresh … I just could not put this book down.” All of the usual formulas apply: friends-to-lovers, gay-for-you, out-for-you, gay-for-money, all of this with the hottest, most steamy homoerotic sex scenes I’ve read, and yet… the story is about none of that and so much more than that … If you are ready to be scorched, read it!” “This is not your run-of-the-mill gay romance. Damon Suede and his unique and authentic voice … A raw, emotional, very hot, worth-every-penny read! Awarded the Golden Nib: for books that knock our socks off!” Not only is there hot sex, but it is hot, emotional sex …The one thing this book has that no other does is Mr. “Magical and beautiful even when it gets down and dirty. “Up front, this is one of the best M/M romances I have read lately … The story is simple but hot as hell … It had that level of romanticism that makes your heart ache good … I strongly recommend this novel to all romance lovers.” ![]() A Romantic Times “Favorite Firefighters in romance” on ![]() ![]() ![]() She is a graduate of New College, Oxford. Shelina was named by The Times newspaper and the UK Equalities Commission as one of the UK's 100 most influential Muslim women, and most recently she was named as one of the 500 most influential Muslims in the world. She is a trustee of the Windsor Fellowship which encourages minority ethnic students to excel in education and employment. She is a creator and organizer of social and cultural events for young British Muslims, as part of creating a new British Muslim culture and identity, and the host of the annual ‘Eid in the Square’ event which is held in Trafalgar Square. She has travelled with the British Foreign and Commonwealth office to Darfur, Egypt, Saudia Arabia, Indonesia, Qatar and Turkey under its programme to build links with British Muslims and encourage dialogue. She has her own award-winning blog which is now four years old at .uk. ![]() She also writes for the Times Online, the National (based in the UAE) and has written for the Guardian and Comment is Free. She writes regularly for EMEL magazine, a leading glossy Muslim lifestyle magazine. ![]() Shelina Zahra Janmohamed is the author of "Love in a Headscarf", a humorous and irreverent memoir about growing up as a Muslim woman. ![]() Immanuel kant three critiques6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Timothy Sean Quinn, The Review of Metaphysics, "On Critique of Judgment : Pluhar maintains a fine, even tone throughout. Those who have found the prospect of teaching the third Critique daunting will admire its clarity. James Jakob Fehr, Kant-Studien, On Critique of Judgment : Pluhar maintains a fine, even tone throughout. In point of fact, accuracy of translation stands in no direct relation to literalness it is much more a product of meticulous textual reading and skilful writing, and in this respect Pluhar has no modern equals in English Kant translation. Pluhar consistently resists the tendency to translate woodenly word-for-word. ![]() Equally important is the fact that Pluhar has given the original a very close read during the act of translating. the virtues of his text are manifold his translation exhibits an incontrovertible mastery of both English and German. On Critique of Pure Reason : The text rendered by Pluhar is the work of an expert translator. ![]() |