![]() I have included a copy of the synopsis below: The bureau owns her. Danger in the Shadows, is actually a prequel to the O’Malley Series. Urn:oclc:748362848 Republisher_date 20120517123338 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120516123919 Scanner . The O’Malley Series by Dee Henderson is a definite read This 7 Book Christian Suspense/Romance series kept me interested in both plot and character development throughout every book. The contrast of the reclusive Sara who needs security due to a death threat versus Adam who is a public sports figure in the public all the time is just great. It is one of the few books I read again every year. ![]() ![]() ![]() OL16784698W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 95.12 Pages 330 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1414310552 Danger i n the Shadows is considered the prequel to Dee Hendersons OMalley Series. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:21:21 Boxid IA150801 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Sisters, OR Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary External-identifier ![]()
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![]() I now live in Texas and was missing New England. It seems like this very New England thing to write about. Candlepin bowling is the kind we do in Massachusetts. Where does your interest in bowling come from? “Bowling gave you something to think about besides your regrets,” you write in your new novel, in which Bertha, your main character, builds a bowling alley. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and holds the James A Michener chair in creative writing at the University of Texas, Austin. She has received many grants and fellowships, including from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. E lizabeth McCracken is a novelist and short-story writer and the author of six books including The Giant’s House, Niagara Falls All Over Again, Thunderstruck & Other Stories, and the forthcoming Bowlaway, a family saga set in 20th-century America. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At first it’s just a chaste kiss-a single bead’s worth-and a promise for more.įor the Bargainer, it’s more than just a matter of rekindling an old romance. When Callie finds the fae king of the night in her room, a grin on his lips and a twinkle in his eye, she knows things are about to change. ![]() And everyone knows that sooner or later he always collects.īut for one of his clients, he’s never asked for repayment. He’s a man who can get you anything you want. Only then will the beads disappear.Įveryone knows that if you need a favor, you go to the Bargainer to make it happen. Only death or repayment will fulfill the obligations. For the last seven years she’s been collecting a bracelet of black beads up her wrist, magical IOUs for favors she’s received. Callypso Lillis is a siren with a very big problem, one that stretches up her arm and far into her past. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At a time when standardized testing businesses are raking in huge profits, when many schools are struggling, and students and educators everywhere are suffering under the strain, Robinson points the way forward. Now, the internationally recognized leader on creativity and human potential focuses on one of the most critical issues of our time: how to transform the nation’s troubled educational system. Ken Robinson is one of the world’s most influential voices in education, and his 2006 TED Talk on the subject is the most viewed in the organization’s history. Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That’s Transforming EducationĪ revolutionary reappraisal of how to educate our children and young people by the New York Times bestselling author of The Element and Finding Your Element. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If even the espionage carried out by Susan Hyde, sister of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, during the turbulent decades of civil strife in Britain can escape the historiographer's gaze, then how many more like her lurk in the archives? Nadine Akkerman's search for an answer to this question has led to the writing of Invisible Agents, the very first study to analyse the role of early modern women spies, demonstrating that the allegedly-male world of the spy was more than merely infiltrated by women. It would be easy for the modern reader to conclude that women had no place in the world of early modern espionage, with a few seventeenth-century women spies identified and then relegated to the footnotes of history. ![]() ![]() The acting in this film is wonderful - the actors are true Dickens characters, from Robert Newton (Sikes), Alec Guinness (with some wild make-up, as Fagin), and young John Howard Davies (Oliver), to all of the minor roles. While some details have been necessarily changed for cinematic purposes, the world of the film is all Dickens. Dickens' own great writing made the original succeed, and this screen version succeeds because it too is done masterfully. The story of the young orphan Oliver, caught among a band of thieves while longing for a home of his own, is one of Dickens' most melodramatic, a story that loses all effectiveness and believability if not told with great skill. Dickens' world comes alive through the acting, writing, and settings, making it not only a faithful realization of the atmosphere of the original, but also a joy to watch. ![]() David Lean's adaptation of "Oliver Twist" is the perfect screen version of a wonderful novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() From the dime store paperbacks of the 1860s to the modern, LGBTQ+ takes on the genre today, westerns as a genre have come to symbolize a uniquely American take on the art of storytelling. ![]() The western is a genre with a long history of stories that hit at the heart of how Americans have envisioned themselves and their relationship to the West and the frontier. This firmness has led to the idea that westerns are one thing and one story, at least by those not familiar with them. More than any other genre, the lines of what makes a book a western don’t seem to blend as effortlessly into different writing categories. For many, the hallmarks of the genre, with its focus on themes of adventure, justice, and the mythologizing of American culture, are the reason why they either love it or avoid it. Readers are either devoted consumers of the genre or never see themselves picking up a western book. ![]() Unlike other genres where, for example, fantasy elements might make their way into a science fiction story, readers tend to view westerns in more black and white terms. What, exactly, is a western novel? Westerns loom large in the literary imagination, whether the word conjures up images of cowboys and gunslingers, a dusty saloon, or what I like to call the “shirtless adventure men” category of romance novel covers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout, she challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths, yet so little respect for Jewish lives unfolding in the present. In these essays, Horn reflects on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the mythology that Jewish family names were changed at Ellis Island, the blockbuster travelling exhibition Auschwitz, the marketing of the Jewish history of Harbin, China and the little-known life of the "righteous Gentile" Varian Fry. Often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewish culture-and increasingly in response to a recent wave of deadly antisemitic attacks-Horn was troubled to realise what all of these assignments had in common: she was being asked to write about dead Jews, never about living ones. ![]() Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. ![]() ![]() People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present Dara Horn € 24.99 If not in stock, the expected delivery time to our store for this item will be 7-10 working days. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Agent: Vicky Bijur, Vicky Bijur Literary. AFTER I'M GONE actually got quite good at this point, and the outcome of who done it was very clever. The treat was late in coming as it came toward the end of the book as Sandy was wrapping up the investigation. Not every entry is top-notch, but anything from Lippman is worth reading. Whenever I hear Laura Lippman, I normally know I am in for a real treat. Booksellers will relish “The Book Thing,” in which PI Tess Monaghan, Lippman’s series lead, catches the man stealing inventory from indie bookstores-and discovers his extraordinary use for the books. Another standout is “Five Fires,” in which a jealous small-town deli worker is determined to find the arsonist setting nearby fires, but her schizophrenia conceals the shocking truth about the crimes. She takes matters into her own hands, with frightening results. She tries to trivialize it as an example of Phil’s “delight in being new to someone, anyone,” but soon realizes this affair runs as deeply as the first. Her first personal essay collection, My Life as a Villainess, features stories about motherhood, her family. Then Liz finds a burner phone in the laundry basket with incriminating texts on it. Laura Lippman is best known for her crime fiction and her Tess Monaghan series. ![]() In the edgy “Slow Burner,” a married couple, Liz and Phil, engage in metaphorical fisticuffs after healing from the husband’s infidelity a year previously. Bestseller Lippman ( Dream Girl) displays her uncanny understanding of human nature and all its foibles in this worthy collection of 12 stories involving deceit, violence, and psychological mayhem. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When we eat, insulin goes up, signaling the body to store some food energy as body fat. There’s nothing wrong with that – that is simply its job. And the main hormone we need to know about is insulin. So, the main problem of obesity is not necessarily the calories we eat, but how our bodies use them. Whether the calories we eat are burned as energy or stored as body fat is also tightly controlled by hormones. Whether we urinate a lot or a little is tightly controlled by hormones. Whether our heart beats faster or slower is tightly controlled by hormones. Every single physiologic process is a tight orchestration of hormonal signals. In your body, nothing happens by accident. Just following up on our post from last week – Robert – I wanted to share with you my single best weight-loss tip. ![]() |