7/8/2023 0 Comments The lingering sji holliday![]() ![]() Twenty-three years later, a familiar face walks into the bookshop where Jo works, dredging up painful memories and rekindling her desire for vengeance. But with Claire suffering memory loss and no evidence to be found, nobody believes Jo’s story. “Something happened to Claire and Jo in Black Wood: something that left Claire paralyzed and Jo with deep mental scars. I love that this author brings something new and fresh to every book she writes! Synopsis: Black Wood by SJI Holliday Both books were completely different and Black Wood was also impossible to compare to the others. ![]() My second read by the author was The Lingering. Since then I have bought all her books and have been reading the heck out of them. SJI or Susi Holliday has been one of my favorite authors ever since I read Violet. ![]() I finished Black Wood by SJI Holliday a few days ago and I am already reading the sequel. ![]()
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7/8/2023 0 Comments Letters of a woman homesteader![]() ![]() ![]() She is always helpful and is constantly looking for a good adventure. She has her own goal of becoming a woman homesteader in a time when few believe that a woman can do the job on her own. Elinore's character comes out clearly in the letters she is jovial, energetic and determined. ![]() They are largely short stories written by a woman who was once a writer for the Kansas City Star. Coney found the letters so fascinating and amusing that she decided to have them published in the Atlantic Monthly, which made them rather famous. The letters are all genuine, with only the smallest alterations and tell of Elinore's experiences in Wyoming between 19. So she became the housekeeper for a Wyoming rancher, a Scotsman named Clyde Stewart. When Elinore's husband died in a railroad accident, she held down odd jobs until she heard about the possibility of getting her own homestead and being self-sufficient. Letters of a Woman Homesteader is a compilation of letters written by a young woman named Elinore Rupert, a widow with a small daughter named Jerrine, to her former employer, Mrs. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments Road of bones golden![]() Only, when Teig and his team reach their destination, they find an abandoned town, save one catatonic nine-year-old girl-and a pack of predatory wolves, faster and smarter than any wild animals should be. Hundreds of thousands of people worked to death and left where their bodies fell, consumed by the frozen elements and plowed beneath the permafrost road.įascinated by the history, documentary producer Felix "Teig" Teigland is in Russia to drive the highway, envisioning a new series capturing Life and Death on the Road of Bones with a ride to the town of Akhust, "the coldest place on Earth", collecting ghost stories and local legends along the way. Known as the Road of Bones, it is a massive graveyard for the former Soviet Union's gulag prisoners. A narrow path where drivers face such challenging conditions as icy surfaces, limited visibility, and an average temperature of sixty degrees below zero, fatal car accidents are common.īut motorists are not the only victims of the highway. ![]() Surrounded by barren trees in a snow-covered wilderness with a dim, dusky sky forever overhead, Siberia's Kolyma Highway is 1200 miles of gravel packed permafrost within driving distance of the Arctic Circle. An American documentarian travels a haunted highway across the frozen tundra of Siberia in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden's Road of Bones, a "tightly wound, atmospheric, and creepy as hell" (Stephen King) supernatural thriller. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though the mortality rate in this family sometimes challenges credibility, playwright and actress MacDonald's ambitious first novel displays a remarkable assurance of style, pacing and plotting as unexpected twists propel a complex story that builds inexorably to tragedy. But the bitter fruit of illicit passion will continue to take its toll on Kathleen's survivors. After Kathleen's death during childbirth and his wife's suicide a few days later, James forbids any mention of Kathleen's name. Piano tuner James Piper dotes on his beautiful and musically talented eldest daughter, Kathleen, almost to the exclusion of everyone else, including his Lebanese wife and his other daughters. Both feverishly intense and darkly humorous, the drama of the Piper family emerges amidst a backdrop of racial tension and social change in Canada during the first half of the 20th century. Not a single line is superfluous in this richly layered tale of the secrets within several generations of a Canadian family. ![]() ![]() ![]() Just the opposite: his lust for Samantha had made it easier to terminate the rivalry from her boyfriend. On a professional level, she had not stopped him from ‘suiciding’ the computer nerd who blew the gaff on the Service’s exemplary kidnapping of a Persian dissident on the streets of some provincial seaside resort in England. He imagined poison in the bottom of the cup calling to him, offering him a quick fix for his cancer. Franco could not tell whether the aroma wafted there from the cup or from trees in the garden of the nursing home. ![]() He sniffed: notes of lemon and almond tickled his nostrils. ![]() A thimbleful of black slime Samantha would have called it, back in Franco’s halcyon days. Joshua’s Nursing Home, Frascati, Italy, March 2040.įranco Tira stared into the cup of coffee his Persian visitor had set in front of him before leaving. To discover more work by Bryan Murphy, visit: The characters are products of the author’s imagination. This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, places or events is purely coincidental. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Orange manga volume 1![]() ![]() Balancing most of the sad parts out are the other characters in their circle of friends. Kakeru and Suwa don’t actively compete with each other to win Naho’s heart and are actually great friends, which is such a breathe of fresh air but also all the more heartbreaking. ![]() Just by reading this, you may think that this series is just another cliché (yes, there are some which is expected) melodramatic manga, but before you write Orange off, consider this: the love interests don’t dislike each other. ![]() Thus, having regrets so great that it still clings onto their shoulders a decade later and have led them to become so determined in changing the past to better the future. With a perfect balance of fluff and angst, Orange is a story of friendship and love-a story where the characters have loved and lost. ![]() Genre(s): Manga, Contemporary, Romance, Drama, Slice-of-Life, Shoujo, Sci-FiĪt first glance, Orange may seem like your typical slice-of-life high school romance/drama shoujo manga wherein the heroine has two love interests after her, but once you read the entire series, you’ll know exactly why Orange is one of the most beloved shoujo manga out there. 3 Things About This Book : ALL THE FEELS | The Powder of Friendship! | Parallel Universes | ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Get a life by chloe brown![]() ![]() Though Red thinks Chloe is privileged and snobby and Chloe finds Red to be equally grating, they ultimately develop a friendship when Chloe offers to build a website for Red to showcase his artwork. ![]() ![]() When Chloe moves out of her family mansion and into an apartment building, she immediately clashes with Redford “Red” Morgan, the building’s superintendent, and an artist with some pretty heavy emotional baggage. But Chloe has a plan and an utterly adorable to-do list: to help her to, quite literally, “get a life.” Things like “do something bad,” and “have meaningless but thoroughly enjoyable sex.” Though she’s close with her family, her illness has made it difficult to have a social life. You’ll laugh and cry (and WHOAH there are some very steamy sex scenes… don’t give this to your teenager!)Ĭhloe Brown is chronically ill-after getting pneumonia years ago she has fibromyalgia and is always tired and sick. It’s a complex story about two very real, very vulnerable, very likable characters. And while you will be able to devour it within an afternoon (and it IS a sweet romance), it’s so much more than that. At first blush, Get a Life, Chloe Brown looks like a real breeze of a read. ![]() ![]() Brady-along with the expert Body Coaches at TB12, the performance lifestyle brand he cofounded in 2013 with Alex Guerrero-explain the principles and philosophies of pliability, a paradigm-shifting fitness concept that focuses on a more natural, healthier way of exercising, training, and living. In this new edition of The TB12 Method, Tom Brady further explains and details the revolutionary training, conditioning, and wellness system that has kept him atop the NFL at an age when most players are deep into retirement. ![]() The first book by NFL legend Tom Brady, the 7-time Super Bowl champion with the New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who reached unimaginable heights of excellence into his forties-a gorgeously illustrated and deeply practical “athlete’s bible” that reveals Brady’s revolutionary approach to sustained peak performance for athletes of all kinds and all ages. ![]() ![]() The #1 New York Times bestseller by the 7-time Super Bowl champion ![]() ![]() ![]() Vincente Minnelli (“The Band Wagon”/”Tea and Sympathy”) directs one of the greatest musicals ever made, one that’s still as fresh as a newly picked daisy. “Still as fresh as a newly picked daisy.” (Lon Smith, Jr.), Tom Drake (John Truett), Marjorie Main (Katie the Maid), June Lockhart (Lucille Ballard), Harry Davenport (Grandpa Prophater), Robert Sully (Warren Sheffield), Chill Wills (Ice Man) Runtime: 113 MPAA Rating: NR producer: Arthur Freed MGM 1944) Anna Smith), Lucille Bremer (Rose Smith), Joan Carroll (Agnes Smith), Leon Ames (Mr. Finklehoffe cinematographer: George Folsey editor: Albert Akst music: George Stoll cast: Judy Garland (Esther Smith), Margaret O’Brien (‘Tootie’ Smith), Mary Astor (Mrs. ![]() (director: Vincente Minnelli screenwriters: from the book by Sally Benson/Irving Brecher/Fred F. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "This is comic book storytelling at its absolute finest. ![]() “Readers will thrill at seeing one of the DC Universe’s best mythologies begin to return to its former glory”-WASHINGTON POST “The talk of the comic book world.”-USA WEEKEND This volume collects: Green Lantern Rebirth #1-6, Green Lantern Corps Recharge #1-5, Green Lantern #1-25, Green Lantern Corps #14-18, Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps Special #1, Green Lantern Secret Files 2005 #1, Tales of the Sinestro Corps: Superman Prime #1 and Green Lantern/Sinestro Corps Secret Files #1. And the cosmos will never be the same as Sinestro wages his war against the Green Lanterns with his newly founded, Sinestro Corps! About Green Lantern by Geoff Johns Omnibus Vol. ![]() But as the Torchbearer Kyle Rayner is about to find out, the adventure of epic and mythological proportions is about to begin as the former Lantern returns to the land of the living to atone for his sins. It's been years since the the death of Hal Jordan and the end of the Green Lantern Corps. The New York Times best-selling and critically acclaimed series GREEN LANTERN written by Geoff Johns begins here! Green Lantern by Geoff Johns Omnibus Vol. Green Lantern by Geoff Johns Omnibus Vol. The New York Times best-selling and critically acclaimed series Green Lantern written by Geoff Johns begins here Its been years since the the death of Hal. ![]() |