![]() ![]() One of his contributors was exceptionally prolific and punctual and after (I think) seventeen years of contributions Dr Murray desired to meet the dedicated and productive Dr William Chester Minor. Dr Murray was in charge of the project and advertised for volunteers to contribute examples of words from an incredibly ambitious range of existing works- words in action, so to speak. Oh! I hear you say, doesn’t sound that interesting! But wait until you hear the details. ![]() It concerns the production of the multi (twelve, I think) volumed publication of the first Oxford English Dictionary in the second half of the nineteenth century. I don’t know how I missed this book when it was published in the 1990’s – probably I was knee deep in children’s literature at the time – but what an interesting story it is. Reviewed by Moira McAlister December 2020 The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester ![]()
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![]() You should know in advance that this a about BDSM, so if you have any problem with that topic it probably isn’t for you, but i on the other hand LOOOOVE the master of the Shadowlands. This Story is about Master Z nad Jessica, he is the owner of the Shadowlands and she is an accountant, and that is as vanilla as it gets. It felt iffy to me, i don’t Know the story seemed kind of wired, but after a few lines I was so hooked, you can’t belive how!! This one was a ride … because a didn’t even imagine was it was about, I mean knew it was BDSM, but I didn’t knew how much I was going to like the story. ![]() This one i read a while back, but thought i should review, first because it’s a good series, second because the first book it’s FREE on AMAZON and third because more people should know about it. After he discovers her interest in BDSM, he can’t resist tying her up and unleashing the passion she hides within. But the little sub who has wandered into his club intrigues him. ![]() Master Z hasn’t been so attracted to a woman in years. ![]() But she’s a professional woman–an accountant–and surely isn’t a submissive…is she? At first shocked, she soon becomes aroused watching the interactions between the Doms and their subs. Her car disabled during a tropical storm, Jessica Randall discovers the isolated house where she’s sheltering is a private bondage club. BOOK:Club Shadowlands (Masters of the Shadowlands #1) ![]() ![]() ![]() Dizzy fetches Janina to survey the crime scene. One day, the police chief-whom Janina simply refers to as the Commandant-is found dead in his car by Janina’s friend Dizzy. Janina sends letters to the police stating the theory that animals may have killed Big Foot out of vengeance. The police begin to investigate the death but are unconvinced that it is a homicide. Janina is a devout believer in astrology, and she thinks that maybe she can use Big Foot’s horoscope to determine his cause of death. Janina loves animals, and Big Foot was an avid hunter. The deer was one that Big Foot hunted, killed, cooked, and ate. Janina is horrified but is also somewhat glad that Big Foot is dead. One day, Janina’s friend and neighbor-whom she calls Oddball-tells her that he has found their neighbor-whom Janina calls Big Foot-dead in his cabin. ![]() She used to have two pet dogs, but they went missing. Janina is a semi-elderly woman who lives alone in a cabin in the woods. The novel opens in modern-day Poland in an unnamed village near the Czech border. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Tokarczuk, Olga. ![]() ![]() I have a feeling I'm not going to be very popular by posting this review, everyone seems to love this book so far and I feel more disappointed in myself and my tastes than the novel or the author. Code Name Verity is an outstanding novel that will stick with you long after the last page. Harrowing and beautifully written, Elizabeth Wein creates a visceral read of danger, resolve, and survival that shows just how far true friends will go to save each other. But will trading her secrets be enough to save her from the enemy? On each new scrap of paper, Verity battles for her life, confronting her views on courage and failure and her desperate hope to make it home. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution.Īs she intricately weaves her confession, Verity uncovers her past, how she became friends with the pilot Maddie, and why she left Maddie in the wrecked fuselage of their plane. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she's living a spy's worst nightmare. When "Verity" is arrested by the Gestapo, she's sure she doesn't stand a chance. ![]() ![]() The other has lost the game before it's barely begun. One of the girls has a chance at survival. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. 11th, 1943 - A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. ![]() ![]() Parvana was an 11 year old girl, who was kicked out of school, when that Talibans came. ![]() The novel was followed by three sequels, Parvana's Journey in 2002, Mud City in 2003, and My Name is Parvana in 2012. The book has received several literary awards, including the Peter Pan Prize and the Middle East Book Award in 2002. The title of the book refers to the role of the protagonist, 11-year-old Parvana, who is forced by circumstances to be the breadwinner for her family in a war-torn Taliban-era in Afghanistan.įor her research, the author spent several months interviewing women and girls in refugee camps in Pakistan, and used these interviews as the basis of her depiction of life in Afghanistan. As of October 2013, the English-language edition of the book has had a run of 39 editions. ![]() The Breadwinner, also known as Parvana, is a children's novel by Deborah Ellis, first published in 2000. ![]() ![]() ![]() (AGH! AGH! AGH! – an idiot screams his mindless anguish amid the rubble. Children, too, of Eve, forever building Edens – and kicking them apart in berserk fury because somehow it isn’t the same. Be born then, gasp wind, screech at the surgeon’s slap, seek manhood, taste a little godhood, feel pain, give birth, struggle a little while, succumb: (Dying, leave quietly by the rear exit, please.) Generation, regeneration, again, again, as in a ritual, with blood-stained vestments and nail-torn hands, children of Merlin, chasing a gleam. We march in spite of Hell, we do – Atrophy, Entropy, and Proteus vulgaris, telling bawdy jokes about a farm girl name of Eve and a traveling salesman called Lucifer. We have your bloody hatchets and your Hiroshimas. ![]() We have your Babylons and your Pompeiis, your Caesars and your chromium-plated (vital-ingredient impregnated) artifacts. We have your eoliths and your mesoliths and your neoliths. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Over time, Ian has grudgingly accepted that going anywhere without his partner simply doesn’t work. Ian’s always resisted all kinds of tied down, but having no home–and no one to come home to–is slowly eating him up inside. But the power and control that brings Ian success and fulfillment in the field isn’t working anywhere else. ![]() As a marshal and a soldier, Ian’s expected to lead. ![]() Miro’s cultivated blind faith in the man who has his back… faith and something more. In the past three years of their life-and-death job, they’ve gone from strangers to professional coworkers to devoted teammates and best friends. These traits serve him well with his hotshot partner, Ian Doyle, the kind of guy who can start a fight in an empty room. You can read this before All Kinds of Tied Down (Marshals, #1) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.ĭeputy US Marshal Miro Jones has a reputation for being calm and collected under fire. Here is a quick description and cover image of book All Kinds of Tied Down (Marshals, #1) written by Mary Calmes which was published in July 3, 2014. Brief Summary of Book: All Kinds of Tied Down (Marshals, #1) by Mary Calmes ![]() ![]() ![]() Decades later, matters come full circle as Judith and Atara choose what matters most. ![]() Finally, when she does, desperate choices have been made by both husband and wife. The years pass but Mila doesn’t conceive. ![]() When Mila and Josef marry, Atara abandons her family and disappears. Stern’s daughter Atara starts to question her father’s beliefs and expectations, including limited education for women, and also researches a dark episode of Holocaust history involving Mila’s parents and a revered Hasidic rabbi whose escape from Europe may have come at a very high price. Rabbi Stern later rescues Josef and sends him to the U.S. Then the clock turns back to Transylvania in 1939, where Josef witnesses the murder of his family and is taken in by a Catholic farmer, and Mila is saved by Josef when her parents are murdered too. Orphaned during the Holocaust, two ultra-orthodox Jews bound by love and faith are driven apart by the same forces in a sensitive consideration of tradition and commitment.įrench-raised Markovits’ English-language debut opens in Manhattan in 2005 with the meeting of two women: Atara, who, like the author, fled her Hasidic family to avoid an arranged marriage and Judith, the granddaughter of Atara’s adopted sister, burdened by a cataclysmic secret. ![]() ![]() ![]() Digging into an unsolved double murder from the height of the Satanic Panic in southern California, Chandler buys the house the murders were committed in and begins to work: recreating the scene, conducting local interviews, collecting artifacts. The novel is narrated-mostly-by Gage Chandler, a true crime writer undertaking an ambitious new project. While I expected bloody twists and turns, the kinds of twists and turns this novel threw at me were intoxicating. The novel is intensely (if circuitously) invested in the condition of narration-who is speaking, why are they speaking, what are they getting out of it? It’s a picture of someone refusing to tell a story they’re already committed to tell, that they’re complicit in and profiting from. It’s keenly attuned to how people change, how we bring our pasts with us, how the spaces we enter shape us, sometimes unexpectedly, sometimes violently. John Darnielle’s latest novel, Devil House, is a fascinating hybrid of gothic horror, the true crime format, and something stranger. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If I go way back to the books that I read as a young girl and which still echo in my heart and head, I’d say my favorite is The Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell. It’s like trying to choose my favorite breath of oxygen. ![]() I am having a nervous fit right now trying to come up with my favorite all-time book ever. It’s good to know what you love to do and are wired to do, because you can skip out on meaningless jobs that can’t ever satisfy you.īeyond your own work (of course), what is your all-time favorite book and why? And what is your favorite book outside of your genre? High school especially showed me what I was good at and what I loved, and likewise it showed me what I wasn’t so good at and would likely not enjoy as a life pursuit. Looking back, I’d say what shaped me the most is learning – discovering – what I was already wired to do, and that is write. What was the greatest thing you learned at school? What’s one thing that readers would be surprised to find out about you?Įven though I am comfortable with public speaking and attending big book events and meeting people, I’m a bona fide introvert who is happy when the mega event is over and I can retreat into a quiet corner with a glass of wine and a novel and maybe have just one other person sitting there beside me who sits there and lets me read. ![]() |