5/29/2023 0 Comments Paradise Valley by C.J. Box![]() ![]() With no allies, no support, and only her own wits to rely on, Cassie must take down a killer who is as ruthless as he is cunning. And in the same way that two streams converge into a river, Kyle's disappearance may have a more sinister meaning than anyone realizes. His books have been translated into twenty-seven languages. Kyle's grandmother begs Cassie to find him and, with nothing else to do, Cassie agrees-all the while hunting the truck driver. Box is the author of more than thirty books, including the Joe Pickett series and the Cassie Dewell series, and a story collection. At the same time, Kyle Westergaard, a troubled kid whom Cassie has taken under her wing, has disappeared after telling people that he's going off on a long-planned adventure. Disgraced, she loses her job and investigation into her role is put into motion. But the plan goes horribly wrong, and the blame falls on Cassie. Working for the Bakken County, North Dakota sheriff's department, Cassie has set what she believes is the perfect trap and she has lured him and his truck to a depot. ![]() a hunt for a serial killer known as the Lizard King whose hunting grounds are the highways and truck stops where runaways and prostitutes are most likely to vanish. For three years, Investigator Cassie Dewell has been on. ![]()
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5/29/2023 0 Comments Unsolved patterson![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Among his notable literary collaborations are The President Is Missing, with President Bill Clinton, and the Max Einstein series, produced in partnership with the Albert Einstein Estate. He has created many enduring fictional characters and series, including Alex Cross, the Women's Murder Club, Michael Bennett, Maximum Ride, Middle School, and I Funny. Until it's the perfect time to strike.Ībout The Author James Patterson is the world's bestselling author and most trusted storyteller. To FBI special agent Harrison "Books" Bookman, everyone in the FBI is a suspect - particularly Emmy Dockery (the fact that she's his ex-fiancee doesn't make it easier).īut someone else is watching Dockery. And the killer is somehow one step ahead of every move Dockery makes. But this many deaths can't be coincidence. The victims all appear to have died by accident, and have seemingly nothing in common. She's young and driven, and her unique skill at seeing connections others miss has brought her an impressive string of arrests.īut a shocking new case - unfolding across the country - has left her utterly baffled. ![]() Book Synopsis In this follow-up to the #1 bestselling thriller Invisible, every perfect murder looks like an accident, but as bodies start to pile up across the country, two FBI agents realize that something horrible is happening.įBI agent Emmy Dockery is absolutely relentless. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments The camel club series![]() ![]() ![]() In The Camel Club, best-selling author David Baldacci paints a frighteningly vivid portrait of a world that could be our own very soon, and the few people who have a chance to stop the chaos. It's an event that may well be the catalyst for the long-threatened Armageddon between two different worlds, and all that stands in the way of this apocalypse are five unexpected heroes. Soon the Club must join forces with veteran Secret Service agent Alex Ford, who becomes an unwilling participant in one of the most chilling spectacles to ever take place on American soil. Yet never in Stone's wildest nightmares could he imagine the conspiracy the Camel Club is about to uncover.Īfter witnessing a shocking murder, the Club is slammed headfirst into a plot that threatens the very security of the nation, full of stunning twists, high-stakes intrigue, and global gamesmanship rocketing to the Oval Office and beyond. Day and night, Stone and his friends study wild conspiracy theories, current events, and the machinations of government, hoping to discover some truth that will hold America's leaders accountable to its citizens. ![]() He has no known past and has taken the name "Oliver Stone". Their simple goal is to find the "truth" behind their country's actions. ![]() It exists at the fringes of Washington, D.C., has no power, and consists solely of four eccentric and downtrodden members whom society has forgotten. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Saul Leiter by Saul Leiter![]() ![]() ![]() “Lots of people we think of as the famous photographers, particularly American photographers of the time, their photos are about something, quite overtly,” Mr. He was largely self-taught, and his work resembles no one else’s: tender, contemplative, quasi-abstract and intensely concerned with color and geometry, it seems as much as anything to be about the essential condition of perceiving the world. Leiter was considered a member of the New York School of photographers - the circle that included Weegee and Arbus and Avedon - and yet he was not quite of it. “The images he made communicated the sense of rhythm and movement and being caught up in the city.” “He is one of the most important early color photographers of the 20th century,” Lisa Hostetler, the newly appointed curator of photography at George Eastman House in Rochester, said in an interview on Tuesday. “I’m not carried away by the greatness of Mr. “What makes anyone think that I’m any good?” he says in Mr. Leiter bemused, bothered and at most slightly pleased. ![]() ![]() It has been shown at film festivals throughout the United States and Europe, including the DocNYC festival in Manhattan this month.Īll this left Mr. A feature-length documentary, “ In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons in Life With Saul Leiter,” by the British filmmaker Tomas Leach, was released this year to glowing notices. ![]() ![]() ![]() Champ is trying to do right by his mom and younger brothers, and dreams of reclaiming the only home he and his family have ever shared. Grace is just out of a drug treatment program, trying to stay clean and get her kids back. The Residue Years switches between the perspectives of a young man, Champ, and his mother, Grace. In his commanding autobiographical novel, Mitchell writes what it was to come of age in that time and place, with a break-out voice that's nothing less than extraordinary. In the '90s, those streets and beyond had fallen under the shadow of crack cocaine and its familiar mayhem. Jackson grew up black in a neglected neighborhood in America's whitest city, Portland, Oregon. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction Finalist for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Mitchell S. ![]() Winner Whiting Writers' Award Winner Ernest J. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Curious by R.G. Alexander![]() ![]() Are you reading this? Do you see them on the cover? Guy parts will touch. Two men getting kinky, talking dirty and doing the horizontal mambo. ![]() Lately even more.Since Jeremy isn't into collars and Owen isn't into men, it seems like his fantasies will remain just that forever.until one night when Owen gets curious.Warning: Contains explicit m/m nookie. Though the bisexual comic book artist has known Owen Finn for most of his life-long enough to know that he is terminally straight-he can't help but imagine what things would be like if he weren't.Owen is far from vanilla-as a dominant in the local fetish community, he sees as much action as Jeremy does. Alexander,Finn Factor, Book 1.Are you Curious?Jeremy Porter is. ![]() Burn With Me Make Me Burn Bone Daddy In the Big Easy, there’s a legend women long for: a sexual voodoo spirit who can fulfill their darkest fantasies. From New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author R.G. And two magical, otherworldly sexual dynamos fighting at her side and for her affections. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Text me when you get home book![]() ![]() ![]() I'd leave the office with orders for surgery and a phone filled with texts from friends: "Text me when you get home. EXCLUSIVE: ABC has put in development Text Me When You Get Home, a single-camera comedy based on Kayleen Schaefer’s book, from American Housewife writer-producer Lauren Caltagirone. I cracked it open in the exam room at OB-GYN's office after a friend drove me to the appointment. The Twitterverse led me to Schaefer's book at the time I needed it most. I've consciously turned my focus to lifting up and supporting other women in my personal and professional cohorts as counterbalance to all of this chaos. ![]() And most recently, health setbacks have prompted more questions about womanhood and expectations to have children than I expected to consider at this age. I've struggled watching one of my closest mentors move on to a job that was perfect for her in a newsroom halfway across the country. In the past year, I've felt endlessly exhausted by too many dates with mediocre men and the harrowing, seemingly never-ending reports of harassment and worse. Not since reading Rebecca Traister's All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation have I so fervently recommended a book to friends. Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship by Kayleen Schaefer Published by Penguin Audio Genres: Book Clubs, Essays, History, Humor, Non-fiction Your Local Book Store, Amazon Today is the last of my summer nonfiction reviews, but it’s a bit unusual. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Beloved toni morrison cover![]() ![]() ![]() Morrison's main inspiration for the novel was an account of the event titled "A Visit to the Slave Mother who Killed Her Child" in an 1856 newspaper article initially published in the American Baptist and reproduced in The Black Book, an anthology of texts of Black history and culture that Morrison had edited in 1974. marshals broke into the cabin where she and her husband had barricaded themselves, she was attempting to kill her children-and had already killed her youngest daughter-in hopes of sparing them from being returned to slavery. Garner was subject to capture under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, and when U.S. The narrative of Beloved derives from the life of Margaret Garner, an enslaved person in the slave state of Kentucky who escaped and fled to the free state of Ohio in 1856. Set in the period after the American Civil War, the novel tells the story of a dysfunctional family of formerly enslaved people whose Cincinnati home is haunted by a malevolent spirit. ![]() Beloved is a 1987 novel by American novelist Toni Morrison. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Middlemarch 1871![]() ![]() Robert had been married previously, with two children (a son, also named Robert, and a daughter, Fanny), and Eliot had four full-blooded siblings as well: an older sister, Christiana (known as Chrissey), an older brother, Isaac, and twin younger brothers who died in infancy. ![]() Her father, Robert Evans, was an estate manager for a nearby baronet, and her mother, Christiana, was the daughter of the local mill owner. Notable Quote: “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”Įliot was born Mary Ann Evans (sometimes written as Marian) in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, in 1819.Wallington's, Misses Franklin's, Bedford College Partners: George Henry Lewes (1854-1878), John Cross (m.Eliot’s realist portrait of Middlemarch society charts the respective marital fortunes of Dorothea Brooke, Tertius Lydgate and Fred Vincy, against a backdrop of. Parents: Robert Evans and Christiana Evans ( née Pearson) George Eliot’s novel Middlemarch (187172), subtitled ‘A Study of Provincial Life’, follows the lives of the inhabitants of a small Midlands town in the early 1830s.Born: Novemin Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England.Also Known As: George Eliot, Marian Evans, Mary Ann Evans Lewes. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Night pleasures book![]() I liked learning about the other hunters, the types of hunters, the goddess they serve (and what's the story between her and Acheron?), and how getting their souls is different for each individual. Quite a few characters were introduced that I'm guessing have had or will have their own story and I'm interested enough to want to read them. While I thoroughly enjoyed the creation of vampires mythos that the author illustrated, I did feel like I was dumped in the middle of a story. It's almost like they were fated, although there was no mention of this. ![]() He feels connected to her in a way he's never felt before and she feels emotions for him that are unexplained. However, when the most powerful daimon ties him to Amanda, a seemingly ordinary human who belongs to a family of extraordinary humans, Kyrian starts to question everything he knows. He had condemned himself to a lonely existence. When Kyrian died so long ago, he gave up his soul to become a Dark Hunter in Artemis's army against evil. ![]() So blindly in love that he didn't see the truth of who he was in love with until he was tortured to death while staring into her cold eyes. ![]() He was so in love with his wife that he ignored the warnings of his father and his friends. He was also a human being who was feeling the flush of young love. He was also a prince, destined to inherit a grand kingdom. Over two thousand years ago, he was the general of the Grecian army, holding back the invasion of the Romans. ![]() |
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