Ross Macdonald's real name was Kenneth Millar. And in the character of Lew Archer, Macdonald redefined the private eye as a roving conscience who walks the treacherous frontier between criminal guilt and human sin. Between the late 1940s and his death in 1983, he gave the American crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity that his predecessors had only hinted at. If any writer can be said to have inherited the mantle of Dashiell Hammet and Raymond Chandler, it was Ross Macdonald. The Underground Man is a detective novel of merciless suspense and tragic depth, with an unfaltering insight into the moral ambiguities at the heart of California's version of the American dream. What he uncovers amid the ashes is murder-and a trail of motives as combustible as gasoline. As a mysterious fire rages through the hills above a privileged town in Southern California, Archer tracks a missing child who may be the pawn in a marital struggle or the victim of a bizarre kidnapping.
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5/21/2023 0 Comments Ghost Hunting by Jason HawesWeird things were happening all over Scott's house. Still, stupid was better than another word he could think of that started with the letter s. Stop acting like a stupid wimp, Scott told himself. He couldn't bring himself to turn the doorknob and go back into his room. Actually, whatever was causing his stomach to churn felt a whole lot bigger than butterflies. His hands and feet felt like heavy bricks. There's nothing to be afraid of, Scott Briscoe thought.įor the last five minutes, maybe more, Scott had been standing in the hall just outside his own bedroom. However, the authors have fictionalized the stories, and any similarity to actual events or people, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the authors. The events in this book are based on real investigations by the authors, Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson. The Little, Brown name and logo are trademarks of Hachette Book Group, Inc. Visit our website at Little, Brown and Company is a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. The GHOST HUNTERS logo © 2004 by Pilgrim Films and Television, Inc. GHOST HUNTERS ® is a registered trademark and service mark of Pilgrim Films and Television, Inc., in the United States and other foreign countries. Copyright © 2010 Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson 5/21/2023 0 Comments This is not a book by keri smith(And of course theyll be invited to do a bit of harmless wrecking!) About The Author Keri Smith is a bestselling author, illustrator, and thinker. Kids will discover that reading can engage all five senses, and that what they themselves bring to a book is an important contribution. This picture book is an invitation to honor your own vision and to welcome imperfection. Keri Smith has helped millions of people free their creativity and find their own voice with her interactive books, and now she brings that sensibility to children and to the act of reading. We are all part of the books we read, because our individual reactions, ideas, and emotions make the book whole, and these things are changing all the time. What if there were a book that changed every time you read it? Actually, every book does this. Book Synopsis An Indie Next List Selection Keri Smith, creator of the mega-bestselling Wreck This Journal, now brings her imagination and inspiration to children with this picture book that explores the very active experience of reading. In fact, three of every four people worldwide "are experiencing a deteriorating environment for freedom of expression," the Article 19 report notes. Today, according to a tally by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), 64 journalists remain missing and 250 are in prison.Īnd a new report by the United Kingdom-based charity Article 19 - named for the article in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that enunciates the right to seek and receive news and express opinions - concludes that freedom of expression is at its lowest point in a decade, and declining. Since my release in November 2008, 626 journalists worldwide have been killed while doing their jobs. (I was released a couple of weeks later in a prisoner exchange.) But the US government's willingness to help find me, a Canadian journalist who had been kidnapped while on assignment in Afghanistan, represented some semblance of a safety net for people doing a dangerous job.Įleven years later, that safety net is gone - and journalists are in more danger than ever. The negotiators were unable to secure that concession. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Allies by alan gratz summaryDee jolted, then swung into the side of the ship with a thump. Dee dropped like a stone toward the cold black water of the English Channel.Ī hand shot out and caught the pack on Dee’s back. At the same instant, a gap opened up between the huge transport ship he was leaving and the little motorboat he was supposed to be climbing into. He scrabbled for a handhold, but the weight of his pack and his rifle dragged him down. Just before dawn on the English Channel A-HUNTING WE WILL GOĭee Carpenter’s foot slipped off the wet ladder and his stomach lurched into his throat. Read an excerpt from Alan Gratz's upcoming novel Allies below. On June 6, 1944, Allied forces stormed the shores of German-occupied France in the largest military endeavor in history. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France, which changed the course of WWII. Balsan is an unsnobbish and amused observer of the intricate hierarchy both upstairs and downstairs and a revealing witness to the glittering balls, huge weekend parties, and major state occasions she attended or hosted chronicling her encounters with every important figure of the day-from Queen Victoria, Edward VII and Queen Alexandra to Tsar Nicholas and the young Winston Churchill. She was the real American heiress who lived long before Downton Abbeys Lady Grantham arrived. A new edition of Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan's memoir-the story of the "real" Lady Grantham of Downton Abbey Consuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful, and heir to a vast fortune. She was also in love with an American suitor when her mother chose instead for her to marry an English Duke. She sailed to England as the Duchess of Marlborough in 1895 and took up residence in her new home-Blenheim Palace. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Clarity kim harringtonThe love triangle reveals itself within the first few chapters. I'll start with the bad so we can end up on a good note. Wow, did I have mixed feelings about this book. It's a nice normal summer where Clare only has to worry about keeping her remorseful cheating ex at bay and Perry has only to consider which tourist girl to bed next, until tragedy strikes and Clare and her gifts are pressed into service in an investigation of the first murder to take place in Eastport in years, a murder for which her womanizing brother has become the primary suspect. Perry's a medium who can sense the presence of dead loved ones, Starla is a telepath who can read the thoughts of her customers, and touching recently touched objects communicates visions of the past to Clare herself. You see, she, her older brother Perry, and her mother Starla all have some form of psychic gift, and they make their living selling readings to the tourists that frequent the Cape Cod town where they live. Okay, so, Clarity "Clare" Fern has kind of an unusual family life. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Relish knisleyRelish also surpasses French Milk in content and tone…Lucy is older now she’s far more positive, knowledgable and has developed a better sense of humour. A feast for the eyes while you read about a feast for the soul. First of all, it’s in colour, so it’s already winning. I loved Lucy’s style of drawing from the very first time I opened French Milk and enjoyed the book immensely…but Relish is far more pleasant. It makes you search your mind to uncover your own food related memories those you experienced in your childhood and adulthood (so far!) and I found it charming and inspiring from cover to cover. Relish is the kind of book that puts you in a great mood instantly. While it’s clear from reading French Milk that Knisley has a deep appreciation for food, you don’t really understand just how much until you move on to Relish and uncover far more about the talented New York illustrator. Reading page after page about Lucy’s lifelong relationship with food (her Mother is a chef, her Father a gourmet) her passion for all things gastronomic practically leaps off the pages. Having read French Milk in one afternoon curled up by the fire, I devoured Relish in more or less the same amount of time. In my opinion, there’s really no better thing to celebrate. Lucy Knisley’s second book, Relish (my life in the kitchen) is a brightly coloured and wonderfully illustrated celebration of food. 5/20/2023 0 Comments Force of Law by Jez MorrowNot that he is letting understand it to Tom, the object of his affection no, like it’s to be expected from a tycoon, Law tries to win Tom over with expensive gifts, travels in private jets, picnic on private islands (or similar location)… but in the end Tom is not a bitch, even if Law calls him that, not exactly a good strategy to win if Tom was a woman, but Tom is not a woman, and so Law plays his ace, his Lamborghini Diablo, and of course, Tom who is a mechanic, where he didn’t fall for money, his head over heels for a sporty powerful car… the old motto that what you drive represents what you are. But there is one thing that Law seems unable to find, true love. Force of Law in particular is like one of those old category romances, the spicier lines of the serials, those little romances where first comes sex and then love, but the reader knows that is only a turn of the tables and in the end, both elements, love and sex, will be in the story.Įven Jez Morrow’s main character, Lawrence “Law” Castille, is like one of those serial romance heroes, big and wealthy tycoon, a man who has never to ask, since everyone and everything is ready at his feet. Elisa_rolle I like Jez Morrow’s books, even if her characters are far from being realistic. 5/20/2023 0 Comments Emily sands egyptologistHere are just a few of Egyptology's special features: an extravagantly gilded cover, featuring a raised Horus hawk pendant with three encrusted gems, a playable game of Senet-ancient Egyptian checkers-including board, pieces, original-style dice, and rules, a souvenir booklet showing how to read simple hieroglyphs, a scrap of textured "mummy cloth", a facsimile of the gilded mummy mask of King Tut, a gilded eye-of-Horus amulet with a "jewel" at the end. But luckily, her keen observations live on in the form of a lovingly kept journal, full of drawings, photographs, booklets, foldout maps, postcards, and many other intriguing samples. Alas, Miss Sands and crew soon vanished into the desert, never to be seen again. Who can resist the allure of ancient Egypt-and the thrill of uncovering mysteries that have lain hidden for thousands of years? Not the feisty Miss Emily Sands, who in 1926, four years after the discovery of King Tut's tomb, led an expedition up the Nile in search of the tomb of the god Osiris. Based on real Egyptology, each chapter covers a different place in Egypt. Purports to be the journal of Emily Sands during her travels in Egypt in 1926 to find the lost tomb of Osiris. |