![]() Is all fair in love and war? In reality, probably not. Recommend for those that enjoy a good engrossing story with strong characters.īook Club Talking Points: Some decisions are impossible to reverse and equally impossible to live with - such as deciding to keep a baby that is not yours. This is a compelling debut with a strong sense of time and place and enough plot twists to keep you turning pages. Opposing forces are at play throughout this well written, well-plotted story as Tom struggles with his morally wrong decision. Instead, he and his wife Isabel, decide to keep the baby and raise her as their own. Tom Sherbourne, a lighthouse keeper on a remote island in Australia, makes a decision not to report an unusual event - a boat that washes ashore with a dead man and a living baby girl. ![]() ![]() ![]() PBR Book Review: (by- Linda ) This is a book about decisions that haunt and love that consumes. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The mystery and suspense were so well-crafted that I found myself constantly questioning everyone’s motives. ![]() From start to finish, I was completely immersed in the eerie and isolated world of the characters. That’s the kind of enveloping atmosphere that permeates every page of this novel. Imagine being stranded in a desolate, snow-covered landscape, where the biting cold creeps into your bones and the howling wind is your only companion. When members of the group start turning up dead, it becomes clear that someone is picking them off one by one. They are quickly hit by a snowstorm, and as they become trapped in the resort, tensions rise and secrets are revealed. The story follows a group of tech entrepreneurs who have gathered for a corporate retreat. ![]() Ruth Ware’s “One by One” is a gripping thriller that takes place in the beautiful yet treacherous setting of a luxurious ski resort in the French Alps. ![]() ![]() ![]() Īccording to Kirkus Reviews, "Berendt does great justice to an exalted city that has rightly fascinated the likes of Henry James, Robert Browning, and many filmmakers throughout the world. Upon this book's release on September 27, 2005, it entered 's Top Ten Bestsellers list and was number one on the New York Times Best Seller list. The book also tells the story of many American and English expatriates who went to live in Venice, from Daniel Curtis, who owned Palazzo Barbaro where Henry James and John Singer Sargent were guests, to the poet Ezra Pound, who lived the last part of his life in Venice with his long-time mistress Olga Rudge. Soon afterwards he created glassworks dedicated to the memory of the fire, in his own rendition of how the opera house burned. It is a compelling look at an otherwise inaccessible community of people who inhabit one of the worlds most beautiful cities, a city steeped in art, history. Seguso lived directly behind La Fenice and witnessed the fire. ![]() ![]() The opera house burned again while the second renovation was ongoing.Īmong those interviewed is Archimede Seguso, a renowned Venetian glassblower of the twentieth century. The book explores local reactions to the fire, from the American "Save Venice" Foundation to Venice's bureaucratic government. The book tells the story of some interesting inhabitants of Venice, Italy, whom the author met while living there in the months following a fire which destroyed the historic La Fenice opera house in 1996. ![]() The City of Falling Angels (2005) is a non-fiction work by John Berendt. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story makes fun of Asians having slanted eyes, jokes about Russian names ending in ‘sky’ or ‘ski’, and depicts Africans as funny looking black monkeys in tutus. ![]() However, in each of these adventures to different countries, Dr.Seuss does not fail to include racist and stereotypical remarks about people living in these countries. The concept of gathering animals (sometimes people) from all over the world would make the ideal zoo kids could only dream of. For instance, the children’s book “If I Ran the Zoo” is undeniably racist, but the racism is hidden beneath the grand idea of traveling around the world to bring different and rare animals. ![]() However, many people are oblivious to the racist depictions within his literature for children. Dr.Seuss is widely known for his racist political cartoons of the Japanese and sometimes Germans (Hitler, nazis, etc.) during World War II. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The four pieces included here-THE TRANSFER, THE INITIATE, THE SON and THE TRAITOR-plus three additional exclusive scenes, give readers an electrifying glimpse into the history and heart of Tobias, and set the stage for the epic saga of the DIVERGENT trilogy. 1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth comes a companion volume to the worldwide bestselling DIVERGENT series, told from the perspective of the immensely popular character Tobias. With her it might become possible to be Tobias once again.įrom No. With her, the way to righting their world might become clear. The first new initiate who jumps into the net might change all that. Two years later, Four is poised to act but the course is still unclear. ![]() ![]() And his decisions will affect future initiates as well as uncover secrets that could threaten his own future-and the future of the entire faction system. Newly renamed ‘Four’ he discovers that initiation is only the beginning.įour must claim his place in the Dauntless hierarchy. Tobias’s transfer to Dauntless is his chance to begin again. Two years before Beatrice Prior makes her choice, the sixteen-year-old son of Abnegation’s faction leader does the same. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tensions in the Colonies are great and local feelings run hot enough to boil Hell’s teakettle. Yet even in the North Carolina backcountry, the effects of war are being felt. Having the family together is a dream the Frasers had thought impossible. It is 1779 and Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children on Fraser’s Ridge. Now the American Revolution threatens to do the same. Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1746, and it took them twenty years to find each other again. but it is the most dangerous time to be alive. ![]() The past may seem the safest place to be. #1 bestselling author Diana Gabaldon returns with the newest novel in the epic Outlander series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What's interesting here is that the two opening stories involve plots and characters that would be used both in later comic stories as well as in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. ![]() Then we get a Nick Fury solo tale as he takes a "vacation" in Scotland. Next the newly reformed SHIELD, now directly under the UN, comes up against Leviathan. This collection contains the first eleven issues of the SHIELD revival series from 1989 first up is the return of SHIELD as a group calling itself the Death's Head Commandos, which Nick could swear he took care of during WWII, returns with a personal vendetta against the Howler. Things are never really that simple, though, are they? Of course, as terrorist organizations begin to pop up more frequently, one which seems intent on going after Fury personally, Nick is brought out of retirement with a small team of SHIELD agents for what should be one last mission. Here we have the revival of SHIELD after the Nick Fury vs SHIELD limited series which saw the good Colonel shut down the organization after it had been infiltrated and corrupted by the Deltites (too much to go into here, read the story if you want to know more). Picked this one up used from one of the local comic book shops. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Farmer’s book popularized the modern recipe format, and it was a fitting guide to food and home life in a modernizing country. ![]() Farmer’s recipes were gratifyingly precise, and unprecedentedly replicable, perfect for Americans with newfangled gadgets like standardized cup and spoon measures, who worked in relative isolation from the friends and family who had passed along cooking knowledge in generations past. They also appreciated her methodical approach to cooking, which spoke to the unique conditions they faced. Home cooks in the United States loved the tastiness and inventiveness of Farmer’s recipes. It introduced cooks to recipes like hamburg steaks and French fried potatoes, early prototypes of hamburgers and fries, and fruit sandwiches, peanuts sprinkled on fig paste that were a clear precursor to peanut butter and jelly.Īmericans went nuts for the 567-page volume, buying The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book in numbers the publishing industry had never seen-around 360,000 copies by the time author Fannie Farmer died in 1915. But it added a forward-looking bent to older kitchen wisdom, casting ingredients such as cheese, chocolate, and ground beef-all bit players in 19th-century U.S. Published in 1896, it was filled with recipes for such familiar 19th-century dishes as potted pigeons, creamed vegetables, and mock turtle soup. The first edition of The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book-now known as The Fannie Farmer Cookbook-reads like a road map for 20th-century American cuisine. ![]() ![]() ![]() Search the world's most comprehensive index of full-text books. The full, though very short, life of a honeybee fills the pages of this remarkable picture book.įrom her making her way out of her chamber, through her daily life to her poignant death, this book follows the life of Apis Mellifera, European western honeybee. In any case, I really liked this book and still dream of finding my own Shangri-La fountain of youth. Hailed by the Times Literary Suplement as a book that helped "both form and define the mood of its time," it speaks to any generation that has been irrevocably changed by by: Note: The book’s advertisement on the back of the book claims “five ancient Tibetan rites” but the book actually includes a sixth rite. Testament of Youth is both a record of what she lived through and an elegy for a vanished generation. ![]() These books are aimed at kindergarten and nursery age children, but also great for early grades learning to read. ![]() The book contains Supercow, Gecko on the Wall, Bugs by Numbers, and Writing on the Wall. This book contains four of our early reader books in one easy to download file. ![]() ![]() ![]() Inspiring, full of passion and utterly heart-warming, these non-religious readings are perfect for both a civil ceremony or church wedding. These wedding readings are the most popular ones on Hitched for a reason, but will still feel personal at your wedding. How Do You Introduce a Wedding Reading?.How Many Readings Can You Have at a Wedding?. ![]() As well as searching high and low for the best wedding readings around, we've also spoken with wedding celebrant Andrew D Scott to answer your wedding reading questions. Whether you're after funny wedding readings, unique wedding readings from films and TV shows, a romantic wedding poem or a religious bible verse about love, our round-up has you covered.ħ0 of the Best Wedding Readings For Every Kind of Coupleįrom pop-culture and Friends quotes, to Lord of the Rings poems and religious verses - somewhere in this list is the perfect wedding reading for you. Whatever kind of ceremony you’re having, you’ll find the best wedding reading for you among our vast selection. Whether you’re having a religious or civil ceremony, one of the things that lets you stamp your personality on the day are your wedding readings - it allows you to show your guests who you are as a couple. ![]() Choosing the best wedding readings for your special day can be tricky. ![]() |