![]() ![]() Marta, an undocumented immigrant hiding from ICE in her unit. ![]() When a harrowing accident-or is it an accident?-occurs in the building, each character is forced to consider their life circumstances: Serge, a mentally unstable but brilliant street photographer who lives in his unit Zach, the storage facility owner and an ex-drug dealer, who purchases Serge’s undeveloped photographs and discovers they contain clues to the mysterious accident. In Metropolis we meet six unforgettable characters who never would have met if not for their rental units at Metropolis Storage Warehouse. Shapiro, a gripping novel that follows six mysterious characters whose lives intersect when a tragedy occurs at the storage facility where they all rent units. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I have always loved stories with a lot of action and pulse-pounding suspense. I’d like readers to close the book feeling introduced and intrigued with a new kind of leading lady in the action thriller genre: a Ghanaian Black woman who knows how to save herself…and others she’s not being paid to kill. What do you hope readers will take away from this book? Yasmin Angoe recently spent some time with The Big Thrill discussing her latest thriller, HER NAME IS KNIGHT: ![]() Before she can reclaim her life, she must leverage everything she was and everything she is to take him down and end the cycle of bloodshed for good. Nena can’t resist the temptation of vengeance-and she doesn’t want to. Meanwhile, she learns a new Tribe council member is the same man who razed her village, murdered her family, and sold her into captivity. Tasked with killing a man she’s come to respect, Nena struggles to reconcile her loyalty to the Tribe with her new purpose. She emerges from the experience a changed woman, finally hopeful for a life beyond rage and revenge. Now an elite assassin for a powerful business syndicate called the Tribe, she gets plenty of chances.īut while on assignment in Miami, Nena ends up saving a life, not taking one. Stolen from her Ghanaian village as a child, Nena Knight has plenty of motives to kill. ![]() ![]() ![]() from University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and an M.D. ![]() His 2016 book The Gene: An Intimate History made it to #1 on The New York Times Best Seller list, and was among The New York Times 100 best books of 2016, and a finalist for the Wellcome Trust Prize and the Royal Society Prize for Science Books.Īfter completing secondary school education in India, Mukherjee studied biology at Stanford University, obtained a D.Phil. The book was listed in the "All- Time 100 Nonfiction Books" (the 100 most influential books of the last century) by Time magazine in 2011. He is best known for his 2010 book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, that won notable literary prizes including the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, and Guardian First Book Award, among others. Siddhartha Mukherjee ( Bengali: সিদ্ধার্থ মুখার্জী born 21 July 1970) is an Indian-American physician, biologist, and author. The processing and presentation of viral antigens (1997) Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction (2011) The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. ![]() ![]() The narrative takes readers from Revolutionary France to the Scottish Highlands, from Victorian England to the canals of Venice, reading like an engrossing historical novel. For the first time, Romantic Outlaws brings together a pair of visionary women who should have shared a life, but who instead share a powerful literary and. Although these two women never really knew each other, their lives were so closely intertwined and eerily similar that it seems impossible to consider one without the other: both became writers both fell in love with brilliant but impossible men and were single mothers who had children out of wedlock both struggled to negotiate their need for love and companionship with their need for independence. Wollstonecraft published the first full articulation of women's rights in 1792, risking her reputation and sometimes her life in pursuit of her radical goals, while her daughter Mary Shelley wrote the masterpiece Frankenstein in 1819, and famously professed her love to the poet Percy Shelley on her mother's grave. Romantic Outlaws is the first book to tell the story of the passionate and pioneering lives of Mary Wollstonecraft English feminist and author of the landmark book, The Vindication of the Rights of Women and her novelist daughter Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein. In Romantic Outlaws, Charlotte Gordon reunites the trailblazing author who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and the Romantic visionary who gave the world Frankenstein two. ![]() Charlotte Gordon's new work is a fresh look at the lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, who together comprise one of the most illustrious and inspiring mother-daughter pairs in history. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In contrast, I had never before, as far as I can remember, read CURTAIN, and I have resolved to look for David Suchet's adaptation. I have actually read SLEEPING MURDER before, and seen TV adaptations, so the story was not new, and I had a vague memory of how it resolved. Secondly I think the writing style is actually Christie at her peak, and a little better than in CURTAIN, Poirot's last case. Jane Marple is old but not as old as she is in NEMESIS. The first thing that struck me is that this doesn't really feel like Miss Marple's "last case". ![]() ‘perfect’ crime committed many years before. Worse, she felt an irrational sense of terror The owner of a seaside villa is plagued by strange feelings about its past…Īfter Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen.ĭespite her best efforts to modernise the house, she only succeeded inĭredging up its past. Publisher: HarperCollins Masterpiece ed edition (October 14, 2010). ![]() ![]() ![]() When the writing is hard and the words are flat, I'm not very pleasant to be around. When my work is going well, I wake early in the mornings, hoping it's time to get up. A novel for adults, because it's longer, takes a year or more. I spend from three months to a year on a children's book, depending on how well I know the characters before I begin and how much research I need to do. Tending to other writing business, answering mail, and just thinking about a book takes another four hours. ![]() On a hard-writing day, I write about six hours. It's as though pressure builds up inside me, and writing even a little helps to release it. I'm not happy unless I spend some time writing every day. By the time I graduated with a BA degree, however, I decided that writing was really my first love, so I gave up plans for graduate school and began writing full time. I had my first short story published when I was sixteen, and wrote stories to help put myself through college, planning to become a clinical psychologist. Telling stories, anyway, if not writing them down. ![]() I guess I've been writing for about as long as I can remember. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tiggy-Winkle", "The Tale of The Pie and The Patty-Pan", "The Tale of Mr. The stories inside are: "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", "The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin", "The Tailor of Gloucester", "The Tale of Benjamin Bunny", "The Tale of Two Bad Mice", "The Tale of Mrs. The tales are arranged in the order in which they were first published and a section at the end of the book contains four additional works by Beatrix Potter that were not published in her own lifetime. This complete and unabridged collection contains all 23 of Beatrix Potter's tales in one deluxe volume with all their original illustrations. ![]() This is a perfect gift to introduce children to the world of Beatrix Potter, "The Complete Tales" is a timeless and classic essential for any nursery shelf. ![]() ![]() ![]() "It's the best graphic novel I've ever read. There's a reason they coin a phrase, "you can't go home." Welcome to Killadelphia. ![]() But the mystery goes even further when Jimmy's investigation leads him to uncover the source of the outbreak is long-thought dead President of the United States John Adams-a man secretly biding his time as he builds an undead army to start a new and bloodier American revolution. The city that was once the symbol of liberty and freedom has fallen prey to corruption, poverty, unemployment, brutality. When a small town beat cop comes home to bury his murdered father-the revered Philadelphia detective James Sangster Sr.-he begins to unravel a mystery that leads him down a path of horrors and shakes his beliefs to their core. About the Book Originally published in single magazine form as KILLADELPHIA #1-6.īook Synopsis Featuring the show-stopping talents of Spawn series artist JASON SHAWN ALEXANDER, and the writer behind such hit shows as Wu-Tang: An American Saga, Marvel's Runaways, and Starz's American Gods-RODNEY BARNES. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Listen online or offline with Android, iOS, web, Chromecast, and Google Assistant. Get instant access to all your favorite books. Urn:oclc:60667819 Republisher_date 20130702213928 Republisher_operator Scandate 20130701175844 Scanner . Cousin Kate audiobook written by Georgette Heyer. OL17731371W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 95.06 Pages 326 Ppi 650 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1402223552 In Cousin Kate, one of Georgette Heyer's later books (written in 1968, 46 years after her first book, The Black Moth, was published), Georgette tried a Gothic spin on one of her historical romances, with distinctly mixed results. ![]() ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:08:07 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA1139724 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City London DonorĪlibris Edition 5th printing. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The terror of exposure, of reality and confrontation. His fiction is impressionistic, psychological, and "courtly," but it has one pervasive emotion to it: unease - discomfort, awkwardness, and a lurking shame buried in intentional secrecy. He was not one for terror, or even horror. ![]() His ghost stories – like “The Shining” or “The Witch” or “The Bobadook” are today – receive a great deal of shade from the mainstream horror community for being too intellectual, too abstract, and too psychological. And this is as far as most people go with James. Deeply infatuated with their uncle, the governess hopes to save their souls, but each effort seems to drive them further away into the waiting arms of evil. His most famous spook story followed a naïve (and possibly insane) young woman who was the governess to two children who were probably molested by their previous servants, and who may or may not be haunted by the ghosts of those libidinous menials. The very first literary ghost story that I ever read was “The Turn of the Screw.” I had loads of books about hauntings, phantom hitchhikers, cryptozoology, and supernatural folklore, but Henry James was the first writer who engaged my intellect as well as my imagination. ![]() |