![]() They certainly didn’t stop at one’s house to pick one up and they certainly weren’t for private use. Stagecoaches were a form of public transportation. Promise Me Again by Annette Lyon (3.5 stars) I have to admit to being “that” person, but I was really bugged by the rental of a whole stagecoach to transport 2 people. Sweet and light-hearted tale of unselfish sisterly love. Which makes the HEA more believable and wonderfully sweet. Even though this is a novella, it feels as though Cassie and Roland take the time to truly get to know one another. Hastings finds that he enjoys her company immensely. Cassie is the less refined of the two and as her true personality comes to the fore, Mr. Unfortunately, Vivian has become ill and asks Cassie to switch places, just until she feels better. Stories: The Two Bells of Christmas by Joanna Barker (4.5 stars) Vivian and Cassie Bell are twins and are at a house party so that the elder twin, Vivian, can try to win the hand of the young, rich and handsome Mr. Three short Regency novellas (clean romance) ![]()
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7/4/2023 0 Comments Submarine novel joe dunthorne![]() ![]() Thus, when he discovers that his affable dad is quietly struggling with depression, Oliver marshals all the daytime-TV pop-psychology wisdom at his command–not to mention his formidable, uninhibited powers of imagination–in order to put things right again. “It’s in my interests to know about my parents’ mental problems,” he reasons. His objectives? Uncovering the secrets behind his parents’ teetering marriage, unraveling the mystery that is his alluring and equally quirky classmate Jordana Bevan, and understanding where he fits in among the pansexuals, Zoroastrians, and other mystifying, fascinating beings in his orbit. ![]() ![]() At once a self-styled social scientist, a spy in the baffling adult world surrounding him, and a budding, hormone-driven emotional explorer, Oliver is stealthily (and perhaps a bit more nervously than he’d ever admit) nosing his way forward through the murky and uniquely perilous waters of adolescence. The dryly precocious, soon-to-be-fifteen-year-old hero of this engagingly offbeat debut novel, Oliver Tate lives in the seaside town of Swansea, Wales. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Iron kissed![]() ![]() Mercy’s loyalty is under pressure from other directions, too. Now it’s up to Mercy to clear his name, whether he wants her to or not. A series of murders has rocked a fae reservation, and Zee needs her unique gifts, namely her coyote sense of smell, to sniff out the killer.īut when Zee is accused of murdering the suspect Mercy outed, he’s left to rot behind bars by his own kind. ![]() So when her former boss and mentor, Zee, asks for her help, she’s there for him. Though Mercy can shift her shape into that of a coyote, her loyalty never wavers. But Mercy’s bark-and bite-are not so harmless any more. ![]() Being a lowly “walker” in a world of vampires, werewolves, and fae once kept her safe. “Expect to be spellbound”* by Patricia Briggs’s #1 New York Times bestselling series starring Mercy Thompson. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments The Rise of Kyoshi by F.C. Yee![]() The Dawn of Yangchen is the third novel in the Chronicles of the Avatar series and the first to focus on the life of Avatar Yangchen. The Dawn of Yangchen Main article: The Dawn of Yangchen The book is comprised of 27 chapters, a prologue, and an epilogue, and 352 pages. It picks up almost two years after the events of The Rise of Kyoshi, and follows Kyoshi as she attempts to keep peace across the four nations, confronting a mysterious threat from the Spirit World. The Shadow of Kyoshi is the second novel in the Kyoshi duology. The Shadow of Kyoshi Main article: The Shadow of Kyoshi ![]() The first installment of the Kyoshi duology is comprised of 32 chapters ad 448 pages in its hardcover edition. The Rise of Kyoshi takes place 396 years prior to the events of Avatar: The Last Airbender and it follows Kyoshi through her teenage and young adult years, mapping her journey from a girl of humble origins in Yokoya Port to the merciless pursuer of justice still feared and admired centuries after her death, as well as touching upon her bisexuality. ![]() ![]() The Rise of Kyoshi Main article: The Rise of Kyoshi ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments The pearl book john steinbeck![]() ![]() Never wealthy, the family was nonetheless prominent in the small town of 3,000, for both parents engaged in community activities. The observant, shy but often mischievous only son had, for the most part, a happy childhood growing up with two older sisters, Beth and Esther, and a much-adored younger sister, Mary. "I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer-and what trees and seasons smelled like." "I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers," he wrote in the opening chapter of East of Eden. As a child growing up in the fertile Salinas Valley -called the "Salad Bowl of the Nation" - Steinbeck formed a deep appreciation of his environment, not only the rich fields and hills surrounding Salinas, but also the nearby Pacific coast where his family spent summer weekends. ![]() His mother, the strong-willed Olive Hamilton Steinbeck, was a former teacher. ![]() His father, John Ernst Steinbeck, was not a terribly successful man at one time or another he was the manager of a Sperry flour plant, the owner of a feed and grain store, the treasurer of Monterey County. John Steinbeck was born in the farming town of Salinas, California on 27 February 1902. Steinbeck in 1909 with his sister Mary, sitting on the red pony, Jill, at the Salinas Fairgrounds. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Book sweet bean paste![]() You can trace its origin back to the Edo Period over 300 years ago. Tai means “sea bream” and yaki means “grilled/baked”. Origin and Why is Taiyaki Shaped Like a Fish? Each taiyaki cone is crafted to fill your Instagram feeds. You can customize your ice cream flavor-from matcha and black sesame swirl to chocolate-and finish with red bean filling, a wafer stick, and mini mochi. ![]() ![]() In the US, you can find Taiyaki NY, a specialty shop with a few locations in New York and a few other places that serve taiyaki as handheld ice cream cones and topped with soft-serve ice cream. In Tokyo, there is croissant taiyaki, where they combine croissant dough with tasty fillings. Most recently, this traditional treat has been reimagined by trendy shops across the world. In Japan, you can also find taiyaki shops that specialize in making pastries. ![]() It is a quintessential food at Japanese street fairs and festivals and is made in a fish-shaped iron mold resembling tai (red sea bream). More Japanese Street Snacks You’ll LoveĮasily recognizable by its whimsical fish-shaped, taiyaki (鯛焼き) is a waffle-style cake/snack filled with sweet red bean paste ( anko), and sometimes with other fillings such as custard, chocolate, Nutella, or cheese. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments The penelopiad book![]() ![]() In a splendid contemporary twist to the ancient story, Margaret Atwood has chosen to give the telling of it to Penelope and to her twelve hanged Maids, "What led to the hanging of the maids, and what was Penelope really up to?" In Atwood’s dazzling, playful retelling, the story becomes as wise and compassionate as it is haunting, and as wildly entertaining as it is disturbing. When Odysseus finally comes home after enduring hardships, overcoming monsters and sleeping with goddesses, he kills her suitors and-curiously-twelve of her maids. ![]() Left alone for twenty years when Odysseus goes off to fight in the Trojan war after the abduction of Helen, Penelope manages, in the face of scandalous rumours, to maintain the kingdom of Ithaca, bring up her wayward son, and keep over a hundred suitors at bay, simultaneously. ![]() In Homer’s account in The Odyssey, Penelope-wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy-is portrayed as the quintessential faithful wife, her story a salutary lesson through the ages. ![]() 7/3/2023 0 Comments Rebecca schaeffer novel![]() In order to prove herself, Ness cons her way into what's supposed to be a simple job for the organization - only for it to blow up in her face. Ness will do anything to avoid becoming another victim, even if that means lying low among the Friends of the Restful Soul, a questionable organization that may or may not be a cult.īut being a member of this maybe-cult has a price. Whether that means becoming a Nightmare that's monstrous only in appearance, or transforming into a twisted, unrecognizable creature that terrorizes the city, no one is safe. ![]() ![]() Because in Newham, the city that never sleeps, dreaming means waking up as your worst fear. ![]() Gotham meets Strange the Dreamer in this thrilling young adult fantasy about a cowardly girl who finds herself at the center of a criminal syndicate conspiracy, in a city where crooked politicians and sinister cults reign and dreaming means waking up as your worst nightmare.Įver since her sister became a man-eating spider and slaughtered her way through town, nineteen-year-old Ness has been terrified - terrified of some other Nightmare murdering her, and terrified of ending up like her sister. ![]() ![]() She applies, and is hired as a mathematician. One day she sees an advertisement for jobs at the NACA. Married with children, Dorothy comes from a middle class black family, well-respected and well-known by other black families in town. In the summer of 1942, Dorothy Vaughan, a math teacher, is also working in a miltary laundry room in order to earn extra money and to support the American war effort. Langley hires some black female computers, but places them in a segregated office called West Area. ![]() Further, Jim Crow laws are still in place in the South, which means that Hampton is a segregated place. At the time, mathematicians, who are commonly called “computers,” are almost all women. In 1943, in the midst of World War II, the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in Hampton, VA seeks to hire hundreds of junior physicists and mathematicians to help in the war effort by supporting engineers in performing aeronautical research as part of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (the NACA). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 9780674986763 The Habsburg Empire 74.5000 NZD InStock /shop/books/non-fiction/history/general /shop/books/non-fiction /shop/books/non-fiction/history /shop/books A EuropeNow Editor's Pick "Judson's reflections on nations, states and institutions are of broader interest, not least in the current debate on the future of the European Union after Brexit." "Spectacularly revisionist Judson argues that the empire was a force for progress and modernity This is a bold and refreshing book Judson does much to destroy the picture of an ossified regime and state." ![]() Judson rejects conventional depictions of the Habsburg empire as a hopelessly dysfunctional assemblage of squabbling nationalities and stresses its achievements in law, administration, science and the arts." "This is an engaging reappraisal of the empire whose legacy, a century after its collapse in 1918, still resonates across the nation-states that replaced it in central Europe. Lucid, elegant, full of surprising and illuminating details, it can be warmly recommended to anyone with an interest in modern European history." If his account of Habsburg achievements, especially in the 18th century, is rather starry-eyed, it is a welcome corrective to the black legend usually presented. ![]() A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year ![]() |