5/24/2023 0 Comments The ghost of crutchfield hall book![]() ![]() Loathing because she was man and spiteful and obviously had not benefitted morally from dying.Writing: 5 out of 5 starsPlot: 4 out of 5 starsCharacters: 4.5 out of 5 starsReading Immersion: 4 out 5 starsBOOK RATING: 4.375 out of 5 stars Read more Pity because she was most certainly dead and not about to go dancing with anyone. He was wrong.I looked at her with both pity and loathing. A spiteful thing, she were."Uncle said the dead did not return. ![]() Her throwed a ball right in front of that wagon and Nero gone after it. It is available now in hardcover, ebook, and CD, and will be available in September in paperback.QUOTES (from an eGalley may be different in finished copy):"It were her fault, ye know. ![]() If you have a middle reader in your house, boy or girl, get this one. This is one of those that could be a favorite middle reader for years to come. ![]() I loved the eGalley so much that I have ordered a copy for the shelves. Take a little girl named Florence Crutchfield, formerly of Miss Medleycoate's Home for Orphaned Girls in London, mix her with a long-lost kindly uncle, a puritanically mean spinster aunt, a sickly cousin named James, and another cousin in malevolent ghost form, and what do you get?A wonderfully creepy Poe-esque middle reader that will even entertain adults, The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall is certain to be a favorite. ![]()
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5/24/2023 0 Comments Queenie korda![]() ![]() Oberon was actually the daughter of an Indian mother and British engineer who worked on the railroads - a fact the actress was able to hide by weaving an elaborate made-up past, even going as far as having her mother pose as Oberon's maid or "nanny." In Princess Merle (Coward, McCann, 1983), biographers Charles Higham and Roy Moseley, intrigued by Merle Oberon's evasiveness when questioned about her early life, unearthed Oberon's birth certificate in Bombay, not in Tasmania where Oberon claimed she was born to English parents traveling through Australia. It has everything, in fact, except an editor's touch, which is amusing since Korda himself is the editor in chief of the very house which, through an affiliate, is publishing the 650-page Queenie.īut a novel packaged as a blockbuster with a huge paperback sale is not insignificant, and predisposed readers may find Queenie's multitude of sins deliciously sinful - the chocolate box of poison that Korda left out of his celebrated Charmed Lives. Queenie, a very thinly disguised portrait of film star Merle Oberon, suffers - or flourishes, depending on your point of view - from ladle after ladle of Hollywood necrophilia and Dallas/Dynasty wish-fulfillment fantasy. ![]() ![]() WITH MICHAEL KORDA, nothing succeeds quite like excess. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Rosalind Franklin by Brenda Maddox![]() ![]() “A gripping yet nuanced account … a magnificent biography.” - The Independent “Maddox does an excellent job of revisiting Franklin’s scientific contributions while revealing her complicated personality.” - Library Journal ![]() “Able, balanced and well researched.” - Science “In this sympathetic biography, Maddox …illuminates her subject as a gifted scientist and a complex woman.” - Publishers Weekly “An excellent biography … Maddox’s account of Franklin’s last years and premature death is moving and poignant.” - Women's Review of Books “A sensitive, sympathetic look at a women whose life was greater than the sum if its parts.” - New York Times Book Review ![]() “Thoughtful and engaging.” - Chicago Tribune “Brenda Maddox has done a great service to science and history.” - San Francisco Chronicle Book Review “Lively, absorbing and even handed … What emerges is the complex portrait of a passionate, flawed, courageous women.” - Washington Post Book World ![]() “Maddox does justice to her subject as only the best biographers can.” - Los Angeles Times Book Review In 1962, Maurice Wilkins, Francis Crick, and James Watson received the Nobel Prize, but it was Rosalind Franklin's data and photographs of DNA that led to their discovery.īrenda Maddox tells a powerful story of a remarkably single-minded, forthright, and tempestuous young woman who, at the age of fifteen, decided she was going to be a scientist, but who was airbrushed out of the greatest scientific discovery of the twentieth century. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Le fanu in a glass darkly![]() It turns out the Doctor has a strong belief in the occult, and in this time period provided an unusually sympathetic ear to those with diabolic tales of terror.Īn English clergyman named Jennings confides to Hesselius that he is being followed by a demon in the form of an ethereal monkey, invisible to everyone else, which is trying to invade his mind and destroy his life. The book contains five stories all based around the posthumous papers of Dr. (I guess you know where our priorities are.) Everyone knows that Victorian Gothic horror is best read after midnight anyway. The only way I can get back to sleep is to sit and read in the antique rocking chair, under the glass balled chandelier, in what was once my dining area, but has been converted to a reading nook. I go through restless sleeping patterns that wake me up sometime between 1:30 and 2:30AM. ![]() I read this book predominately in the middle of the night. When not reading the book I kept the book facing down. Every time my eyes inadvertently met his gaze I felt like I was being mesmerized. I read the Folio Society edition of this book and that red-eyed demon monkey was on the front cover. "What a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems to me, only, that our illusions change as we go on but, still, we are madmen all the same." ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After being hospitalised for a suicide attempt, Yoli constantly visits Elf in her hospital bed, and the sisters are forced to confront their grief and how they deal with it differently. Elf is a skilled concert pianist and has depression. She often feels pressure from her daughter Nora, encouraged by her ex-husband, as Yoli refuses to sign the divorce papers. Yoli is a struggling and self-doubting author and undergoing a divorce. Yoli and Elf also have their mother Lottie ( Mare Winningham), their aunt ( Mimi Kuzyle), and Yoli’s daughter ( Amybeth McNulty), but at its core, All My Puny Sorrows is about two sisters at odds with one another. While left unexplained, the film suggests that his involvement in the Mennonite Church influenced their father’s suicide. Based on the novel by Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows tiptoes the line between disheartening family drama and dark comedy, yet the film’s touching honesty allows the contradictions to succeed.Īll My Puny Sorrows follows the Von Riesen women, former Mennonites who left the church after the unexpected suicide of their father ( Donal Logue). Michael McGowan’s All My Puny Sorrows follows the sisterly bond of Yoli ( Alison Pill) and Elf ( Sarah Gadon) Von Riesen as the pair navigate trauma and tragedy. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments 13 gifts by wendy mass![]() ![]() What Tara doesn't know is that this charmed town has something big in store for her on her 13th birthday. Read more after all, so she might as well make the best of it and perhaps even attempt to break out of her shell (in a non-criminal manner). Its not a sequel and the story completely stands alone, but you will appreciate the 'in jokes' if youve read Finally. 13 GIFTS is a Willow Falls book, meaning that the characters from 11 Birthdays and Finally are back. Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary. My 13-year-old daughter turned me on to Wendy Mass when she first started reading her books 4 years ago. Tara thinks it's a good time to start over she'll be turning 13. Wendy Mass - 13 Gifts (Willow Falls) - 9781407146843 - KOG0000365. Her parents decide that instead of going on holiday with them that summer, she must go and stay with her aunt, uncle, and bratty cousin Emily in Willow Falls. ![]() ![]() Clean copy with minor shelf wear When Tara steals the school mascot, a goat, in order to make some friends with the popular crowd, she gets herself in a heap of trouble. What she doesn't know is that this charmed town has something big in store for her on her 13th birthday. When Tara is sent to stay with her cousin in Willow Falls, she thinks it's a good time to start over she'll be turning 13 after all, so she might as well make the best of it. Text Complexity Lexile Level: 720L ATOS Reading Level: 4.5 AR Quiz Numbers Quiz 146272, 13. Description for 13 Gifts (Willow Falls) Paperback. Name Pronunciation with Wendy Mass Grade 4-8 Genre Science Fiction / Fantasy Year Published 2011. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Hostage taker by stefanie pintoff![]() ![]() Still, those seeking a light late-summer read will be satisfied. In the hushed quiet of early morning Manhattan, in front of the towering brass doors of Saint Patricks Cathedral. ![]() Pintoff tosses out crumbs of mystery related to Eve’s stepfather that may be developed in further installments, but references are too cryptic to engage most readers. What starts as a shooting outside of Saint Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan revolves into a dangerous and complex hostage situation. Their efforts are undermined by Eve’s ambitious, politically motivated boss and a church hierarchy that values the building over people’s lives. The HOSTAGE TAKER by Stefanie Pintoff, a new riveting urban contemporary series, featuring Eve Rossi negotiator FBI agent for an intense suspense roller-coaster crime thriller ride. ![]() Over the next hours, Eve and her Vidocq team-a group of criminals who chose law enforcement rather than prison-confront a hostage taker who has shown his willingness to kill and wired the historic cathedral with explosives. Patrick’s Cathedral and requests as negotiator FBI agent Eve Rossi, who’s on bereavement leave following her stepfather’s death. On the day of the Rockefeller Center tree lighting, a man barricades himself and an unknown number of hostages inside St. Simon Ziele) shifts to present-day Manhattan. With this entertaining but superficial series opener, Edgar-winner Pintoff ( Secret of the White Rose and two other historicals featuring Det. ![]() ![]() Forsyth, he is adept at adding spice to received wisdom and popularizing the findings of academic linguists. While this isn’t an original insight on the part of Mr. But if you mess with that word order in the slightest you’ll sound like a maniac.” Forsyth explains that, in English, adjectives follow the pattern opinion-size-age-shape-color-origin-material-purpose-“so you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. Yet I have to admit that, until reading Mark Forsyth’s “The Elements of Eloquence,” I had never paused to analyze with any precision the way in which we customarily sequence adjectives. ![]() Instead, she said, he should have written “great green dragon.” Instinctively we agree with Tolkien’s mother. When his mother read it, she remarked that his reference to a “green great dragon” was a mistake. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Wild beauty a novel![]() ![]() The cousins are fiercely protective of one another, and it's clear they struggle with their individual desires and what they believe is best for their whole family. Estrella and her cousins are stuck in their ancestral home, tending a sunken garden and making sure they don't fall in love - lest that person disappear forever. Mature teen readers familiar with magical realism will appreciate the sensuous language and the emotional romance.Ī gorgeously written tale of family curses, feminism, and true love, this is an ideal choice for fans of magical realism and romance. ![]() The violence includes a few disturbing, upsetting recollections: about a disaster that kills many people and destroys part of a town, and the assumed death and disappearance of a couple of characters. There's not much strong language except for a few insults (a few about effeminate or perceived-as-gay men). It explores various themes of family, forgiveness, secrets, redemption, and love. A beautifully written story about a family of women who can grow flowers with their hands, the book takes place in an unspecified period and place. ![]() ![]() Parents need to know that Wild Beauty is the third magical realism novel by award-winning young adult author Anna-Marie McLemore. Adults drink and smoke (cigars and cigarettes) individually and at meals/parties.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. ![]() ![]() ![]() Warum Frauen im Sozialismus besseren Sex haben und andere Argumente für ökonomische Unabhängigkeit. ![]()
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