![]() ![]() Murky bogs, stormy moors, haunted woods, and supernatural beings add to the intensity and sinister atmosphere. ![]() Readers must constantly guess who is manipulating whom as secrets and lies mount in an effort to claim the inheritance-by any means necessary. ![]() Reluctantly agreeing to work together to piece together their pasts, Piper and Quinn discover a bond forged through shared dreams of darkness, an inheritance, and a family curse. The twins’ mutual curiosity and suspicion instantly set a mood of intrigue in this thriller, which alternates their perspectives in short, first-person chapters. Quinn wants to know all about the father she never had Piper wants to know Quinn’s mysterious background. Because Isobel kept them separated, the 17-year-olds first meet at her funeral. Her identical twin, Quinn, was raised by their eccentric, fortuneteller grandmother in remote Dartmoor, never attended school, and only saw their mother, Isobel, sparingly. Piper has led a posh life in Winchester, England, with loving parents, popularity in school, and boyfriend Zak (the only character of color) at her beck and call. When identical twins tell each other lies, the result could be deadly. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Features new covers by Clowes, and "Behind the Eightball": the author’s annotations for each issue, heavily illustrated with art and photos from his archives. This is a two-volume, slipcased facsimile edition of the Daniel Clowes comics anthology it contains the original installments of Ghost World, the short that. It includes more than 500 pages of vintage Clowes: seminal serialized graphic novels, strips, and rants, such as "Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron," "Ghost World," "Pussey," "I Hate You Deeply," "Sexual Frustration," "Ugly Girls," "Why I Hate Christians," "Message to the People of the Future," "Paranoid," "My Suicide," "Chicago," "Art School Confidential," "On Sports," "Zubrick and Pogeybait," "Hippypants and Peace-Bear," "Grip Glutz," "The Sensual Santa," "Feldman," and many more. Now, Fantagraphics is collecting every single page of these long out-of-print issues in a paperback edition. From 1989 to 1997, he produced 18 issues of what is still widely considered one of the greatest and most influential comic book titles of all time. The beloved comic book series Eightball made Daniel Clowes' name even before he gained fame as a bestselling graphic novelist (Ghost World, Patience, David Boring, Ice Haven) and screenwriter. ![]() ![]() ![]() it is a testament to her own sense of inner strength and personal conviction that DEBORAH does not placate to such vulgar myth-making when describing her relationship with her late husband. ![]() ![]() IAN's suicide and his battles with epilepsy have colored his legacy with an aura of mystique and intrigue similar to that of KURT COBAIN, AMY WINEHOUSE, JIM MORRISON, JANIS JOPLIN, JIMI HENDRIX and the list goes on. IAN CURTIS and the music of JOY DIVISION have resonated in the generations since their demise. ![]() but whats interest is that partners like DEBORAH CURTIS, widow of IAN CURTIS (frontman of MANCUNIAN POST-PUNKS legends JOY DIVISION), provide the support and sacrifice, both emotional and financial, to make such artistic fantasies a reality. maybe it is because the ethos of ROCK N ROLL is prone to promote a juvenile escapist fantasy that by design does not include more adult themes like responsibility, maturity and accountability. TOUCHING FROM A DISTANCE: IAN CURTIS & JOY DIVISION ( FABER & FABER, 1995) by DEBORAH CURTIS is a unique memoir in that it tackles an uncommon subject in the world of music biographies: wives and family. ![]() ![]() The different timelines can easily work if they had been grouped together in larger sections. There isn't even so much as a space between the paragraphs to the let the reader know that Shreve is switching between past and present. Blah blah we're in the present now blah blah so I hope you were paying attention. The problem is that it goes something like this: The book flashes between the present, a letter written in the 1800s and descriptions of events from the 1800s. Reminders every two pages that she's jealous. The regular reminder in every chapter that the husband is a poet and (surprise!) liked to drink. ![]() ![]() The same island described a million times. ![]() How is it possible that it moves soooo slow that forty-six pages felt like a hundred? I realized I was skimming pages, something I only do when I'm really bored with a story, so I checked what page I was on. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ✥ Paranormal PI, Witches, faeries, magic, Nulls, Black Magic, ghosts, shade, gargoyle, monsters, Aetheric energies, Chinese hairless dog, sorcerers, Faerie (land), Death, Faerie, mortal–paranormal politics, glamour, Winter Queen, voices from the dead, unaffiliated fae, glamour-infused drug, ![]()
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![]() Christopher Bauer and his wife, Hannah, have been struggling with infertility for years. One word to sufficiently describe this book: DISTURBING!!!ĭr. But as Janie’s behavior threatens to tear Christopher and Hannah apart, the truth behind Janie’s past may be enough to push them all over the edge. Hannah knows that Janie is manipulating Christopher and isolating him from her, despite Hannah’s attempts to bring them all together. Unable to bond with Janie, Hannah is drowning under the pressure, and Christopher refuses to see Janie’s true nature. Janie is fiercely devoted to Christopher, but she acts out in increasingly disturbing ways, directing all her rage at Hannah. But Janie is no ordinary child, and her damaged psyche proves to be more than her new parents were expecting. ![]() When Janie, an abandoned six-year-old, turns up at their hospital, Christopher forms an instant connection with her, and he convinces Hannah they should take her home as their own. ![]() ![]() Christopher and Hannah are a happily married surgeon and nurse with picture-perfect lives. A page-turning debut of suspense about a young couple desperate to have a child of their own-and the unsettling consequences of getting what they always wanted. A Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestseller. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Long Way Down” was a finalist for the National Book Award.ĭe Luca is an Oscar nominee whose credits include the “Fifty Shades” trilogy, “The Social Network,” and “Moneyball.” Legend is best known for his work as a singer and songwriter, but he has also racked up some major film credits, appearing in the likes of “La La Land” and “Soul Men,” and winning the Academy Award for best original song in 2015 for writing “Glory” from the film “Selma.” Reynolds’ novels include “All American Boy” and “As Brave as You. He thinks about how he might do it as he goes home. He is seeking revenge on the man who murdered his brother. The main character named Will is a 15-year-old who lives in an unknown city in 2007. ![]() ![]() Another dash of unorthodoxy: the book unspools in free verse and is set in an elevator. This is the nail-biting story in a book called a Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds and published in 2017. The story takes place in 60 seconds, as a young man struggles to decide whether or not he’s going to murder the guy who killed his brother. Jason Reynolds’ book, which has an unusual premise, was a hit with young adult readers. Universal has optioned the rights to “Long Way Down,” beating out several other studios for the chance to make a movie based on the best-selling novel.Īs part of the package, Michael De Luca will produce alongside John Legend for their respective banners, Michael De Luca Productions and Get Lifted Film Co. ![]() ![]() When my son asks if I’ll rent the spare bedroom to his new friend from work, I figure, why not? The house is too quiet since my twenty-five-year-old baby moved out. Orphan & Gilded Cage (Both An Age Gap Romance) by Matilda Martel ![]() Go Hex Yourself Kindle Edition by Jessica Clare If he wants my library, he’ll have to go through me.Ī prospect that seems more and more appealing by the moment. The billionaire who wants to take my community’s last remaining service away isn’t going to win today. I’m sick of high-handed, bossy men telling me what to do. It only takes one meeting to help me realize that the building isn’t what I want anymore. It was supposed to be a simple acquisition.īut the current librarian is making it anything but. This sassy librarian isn’t going down without a fight. This bossy billionaire needs rid of one building. Join Read Me Romance Headquarters on FB: ![]() There's a 15% off code for Read Me Romance listeners: LNFPRMR Get wrapped up in this sugary sweet, hot and steamy, over the top, roller coaster ride of fate, true love & second chances. When they meet again sparks fly and maybe, a punch or two and Grant & Athena realize they have a lot more in common then they originally thought. ![]() Their first meeting doesn’t go quite according to plan. Grant Winters rules his corporate domain with an iron fist and has no time for distractions, like reporters from dried up media outlets. ![]() Athena Anderson is young ambitious journalist fresh out of grad school & excited about her first assignment for Capital Exchange Magazine. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Such work is terribly salient, for lives are at stake. By such inspection, the oversights of development theories might be uncovered and corrected. Much of Sen's development writings engage or draw on investigations of this form. The policies, practices, analyses, and measures that guide development institutions can be scrutinized to uncover which truly aim at human freedoms, and how true their aim might be. In approaching development, the chain of exploration can also be reversed. Sen's philosophical writings propose the expansion of human capabilities and freedoms as an objective for social arrangements, and argue that this objective satisfies certain considerations better than Rawlsian primary goods or utility measures. Put differently, human freedom is partly ‘human’-made. ![]() Human capabilities are partly created or undermined by development policies, markets, and other social arrangements. ![]() |