![]() ![]() “There’s something about this house… It feels weird… the house sort of feels alive.” As Dylan’s behaviour becomes increasingly challenging, Kelda seeks answers in the house’s mysterious past. Inexplicable things happen in the house, Kelda cannot shake the feeling of being watched and Dylan is plagued by nightmares, convinced he can see figures in his room. ![]() For Kelda it’s the perfect rural home for her young son Dylan after a difficult few years.īut when Kelda finds a death mask concealed behind one of the walls, everything changes. That’s how the estate agent described the old toll house on the edge of the town. _ The past isn’t always dead and buried.Ī house with history. The spine-tingling ghost story everyone is raving about. Genre: Ghost Story, Suspense, Thriller, Historical Fiction, Horror Fiction ![]()
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Hans Rosling ( Swedish pronunciation: 27 July 1948 – 7 February 2017) was a Swedish physician, academic and public speaker. ![]() ![]() ![]() Grierson Awards - Best Science Documentary: 2011 Ĭassava, Cyanide, and Epidemic Spastic Paraparesis: A Study in Mozambique on Dietary Cyanide Exposure (1986) The World's 100 Most Influential People: 2012 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ebert sometimes has difficulty “separating the fascinating from the mundane,” but he’s an engaging narrator, leading readers through his happy Midwestern upbringing, his discovery of newspapers in college, and his out-of-the-blue assignment to the Sun-Times’ film desk at age 25. It helps to have lived a mostly charmed life, said Craig Seligman in. ![]() A “chatty, upbeat, and structurally loose” affair, it’s “wholly free from the complaining and self-pity so popular in memoirs these days.” The influence of the blog, which includes some of “the best writing he’s ever done,” can be felt in his new book. Today Ebert is also a hugely popular blogger, having taken to the medium after cancers of the jaw and thyroid eliminated his ability to eat, speak, and drink. The Chicago Sun-Times film critic has been a major cultural figure for more than 35 years, thanks to various editions of the television show on which he and co-host Gene Siskel turned film criticism into a thumbs-up/thumbs-down exercise. Roger Ebert may have “the most famous thumb in America,” said John Powers in NPR​.org. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hosea Khan spews dangerous words of treason: What does peace matter if innocent lives are lost to maintain it? As Arika is exposed to new beliefs, she realises that the laws she has dedicated herself to uphold are the root of her people's misery. ![]() But everything changes when a new student arrives. After ten gruelling years of training, she is on the threshold of taking her place of privilege far from the fields. Although Arika Cobane is a member of the race whose backbreaking labour provides food for the remnants of humanity, she is destined to become a member of the Kongo elite. Everyone must obey the law - in every way - or risk shattering the fragile peace and endangering the entire human race. After World War III, Earth is in ruins, and the final armies have come to a reluctant truce. The Record Keeper is a visceral and thrilling near-future dystopia examining past and present race relations. ![]() ![]() Keri Ann has relied on herself so long, dealing with her family’s death and the responsibilities of keeping up her family’s historic mansion, that boys and certainly the meager offering of eligible boys in Butler Cove, have never figured into her equation. He doesn’t count on meeting Keri Ann Butler. ![]() ![]() Jack hopes the sultry southern heat in this tiny coastal Lowcountry town will hide him not only from the tabloids and his cheating girlfriend, but his increasingly vapid life and the people who run it. When his co-star and real-life girlfriend is caught cheating on him with her married and much older director, A-list hottie, Jack Eversea, finds himself in sleepy Butler Cove, South Carolina. Emilia Pisani of Simon & Schuster (judge) says “Great southern flavor!” and “Jack is an alluring leading man!”Īn orphaned, small-town, southern girl, held hostage by responsibility and self-doubt.Ī Hollywood A-list mega-star, on the run from his latest scandal and with everything to lose.Ī chance encounter that leads to an unlikely arrangement and epic love affair that will change them both forever. Eversea, a love story, is a Winter Rose Contest FINALIST 2013. ![]() ![]() ![]() He has a history of run-ins with Dad for telling wild stories. The narrator of the book, a young boy who encounters a horse and cart on the way home from school. ![]() Oceanhouse Media published this book to be used as an app on Iphones, Ipod touch, Ipad and android apps. ![]() It centers on themes of childhood imagination and how whimsical behavior is stifled by adult society, following the protagonist Marco as he concocts an elaborate scene out of a horse-drawn cart so he will have something to tell Dad, the unseen antagonist, when he gets home from school. Seuss, published in 1937 by chance, after Seuss nearly burned the manuscript in defeat following an alleged 27 publishing house rejections, but happened to run into an editor friend, Mike McClintock. Marco, Dad, Sergeant Mulvaney, the Mayor, the AldermanĪnd to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, originally titled A Story That No One Can Beat, is the first book by Dr. Please continue at your own risk.ĭecember 21st, 1937 by Vanguard Press, Inc., New York Warning! This page contains content that can be seen as mature or inappropriate for younger audiences. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Anna Solomon's The Book of V., these three characters' riveting stories overlap and ultimately collide, illuminating how women's lives have and have not changed over thousands of years. Anna Solomon is the author of The Book of V., forthcoming from Henry Holt on May 5, 2020, Leaving Lucy Pear, and The Little Bride, a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize, and the curator of unkemptreallife on Instagram. When an innocent mistake results in devastating consequences for her people, she is offered up as a sacrifice to please the King, in the hopes that she will save them all. But one night he demands a humiliating favor, and her refusal to obey changes the course of her life-along with the lives of others.Įsther is a fiercely independent young woman in ancient Persia, where she and her uncle's tribe live a tenuous existence outside the palace walls. Vivian Barr seems to be the perfect political wife, dedicated to helping her charismatic and ambitious husband find success in Watergate-era Washington D.C. Now, in her rented Brooklyn apartment she's grappling with her sexual and intellectual desires, while also trying to manage her roles as a mother and a wife in 2016. ![]() And a writer, maybe? Or she was going to be, before she had children. ![]() For fans of The Hours and Fates and Furies, a bold, kaleidoscopic novel intertwining the lives of three women across three centuries as their stories of sex, power, and desire finally converge in the present day. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Steadman Skellig – David Almond The Sun and the Void – Gabriela Romero Lacruz Unraveller by Frances Hardinge Wolf Road – Alice Roberts Leonard Little Mermaid – Studio Fun My Heart Was A Tree – Michael Morpurgo My Little Pony – Sam Maggs Once Upon A Time In The North – Philip Pullman The School for Good and Evil – Soman Chainani Shakespeare’s First Folio: 400th Anniversary Facsimile Edition – British Library of London Skandar Book 3 by A. ![]() McKillip The Ghost Ship – Kate Mosse The House of Fortune – Jessie Burton The Ice Children – M.G. 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May 28: If You’ll Have Me – Eunnie Immortal Longings – Chloe Gong Powerless – Lauren Roberts Which Way Round the Galaxy – Cressida Cowell ![]() ![]() ![]() Themes: prepping, alternative lifestyles, disability, crime, loneliness, enemies to lovers, forced proximity, fish out of water, opposites attract, abduction, Stockholm syndrome, family issuesĮrotic content: Scorching hot, emotional, explicit scenes “When Taron looped the heavy metal collar around the slender neck and closed the padlock, his body throbbed with the excitement of knowing he owned this boy. One that isn’t right, yet tempts him every time Colin’s pretty eyes glare at him from the cage. ![]() It’s only when he finds out the city boy is gay that an altogether different option arises. Colin doesn’t deserve death for setting foot on Taron’s land, but keeping him isn’t optimal either. The last thing Taron needs is a nuisance of a captive. ![]() He deals with his problems on his own, but the night he needs to dispose of an enemy, he ends up with a witness to his crime. But what seems like his worst nightmare might just prove to be a path to the kind of freedom Colin never knew existed. ![]() He ends up taking a detour into the darkest pit of horror, abducted by a silent, imposing man with a blood-stained axe. What he doesn’t realize is that it’s the last time he has a choice. On impulse, he decides to take a different route. Like every other weekend, Colin is on his way home from university, but he’s taunted by the notion that he never takes risks in life and always follows the beaten path. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jack Slay, Jr., wakes the dead with a discordant holiday marching band in ""The Education of Edie Mac."" Karen Schwind's ""Healing the Sick"" revives the living with a powerful laying on of hands. Toni Cade Bambara's ""Christmas Eve at Johnson's Drugs N Goods"" seeks the true spirit of the season in the most commercial of settings, while Erskine Caldwell casts a darker shadow across the season of lights in ""We Are Looking at You, Agnes."" Christmas magic works its spell in a number of tales. ![]() Lillian Smith practices ""peace on earth and good will to all"" in her memoir of a Depression-era Christmas dinner shared with men from a local chain gang. Waiting to be unwrapped are scenes of Georgia Christmases past and present. From the Blue Ridge Mountains to the seaport Savannah, the landscapes, characters, and holiday traditions described by these writers are uniquely Georgian. Penned by distinguished and emerging writers, the works in Christmas Stories from Georgia span over two centuries of the state's storytelling. ![]() |