![]() ![]() ![]() One of the other disappearances is none other than Lila’s husband, a popular high school teacher. This makes the third mysterious disappearance as of lately. Lila lives with her husband in a small college town where a college student has just gone missing. If the razor-sharp writing of Hillier combined with twisty plots is what you love, then check out Pretty Little Wife by Darby Kane. If you’re like many other readers and binge her books the week they come out, then check out some of these stories that fans of Jennifer Hillier will have no problem sinking their teeth into!ĭon’t miss our Casting (Book) Club of Things We Do in the Dark > From the chilling Freak and Creep duology to the harrowing serial killer thriller Jar of Hearts up to her latest unsettling, Things We Do in the Dark, Jennifer Hillier is someone you make room for on your bookshelf. Combining gritty and eerie plots with diverse and true-to-life characters, it’s impossible to put down a Hillier novel once you pick it up. If you’re a fan of thrillers, then Jennifer Hillier is a must-read author. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() What parts of our identities get lost when we boil all of our ideas down to 280-character tweets that offend no one? When we think of people as brands and corporations as people, how does that effect our ability to actually connect with others or even with ourselves? But beyond that, it can erode our relationships with other people, with time, and with the environment around us. Yes, at the most basic level, social media and the news cycle take away our ability to reflect and think deeply about what’s actually happening underneath the status updates and headlines. ![]() The bulk of this book is about the things that we are unable to do when our attention is tied up in social media or the news cycle. There is really no how-to in this book, and I don’t think Odell’s work here can be even halfway summarized with buzzwords like “mindfulness” or “digital detox” or whatever. Instead it’s a really well-researched book on some abstract and sometimes seemingly esoteric concepts: the self, attention, bioregionalism, what it means to refuse/resist in place, and the effects of late stage capitalism on all of the above. The title is misleading as this is not at all a how-to on unplugging or leaving social media (for that, maybe read Cal Newport’s Digital Minimalism or Catherine Price’s How to Break Up With Your Phone). First, I understand the negative reviews of this book. ![]() ![]() Placing the New England culinary experience in the broader context of British and American history and culture, Stavely and Fitzgerald demonstrate the importance of New England's foods to the formation of American identity, while dispelling some of the myths arising from patriotic sentiment. Focusing on the traditional foods of the region-including beans, pumpkins, seafood, meats, baked goods, and beverages such as cider and rum-the authors show how New Englanders procured, preserved, and prepared their sustaining dishes. Featuring hosts of stories and recipes derived from generations of New Englanders of diverse backgrounds, America's Founding Food chronicles the region's cuisine, from the English settlers' first encounter with Indian corn in the early seventeenth century to the nostalgic marketing of New England dishes in the first half of the twentieth century. ![]() Living with a Disability or Chronic Conditionįrom baked beans to apple cider, from clam chowder to pumpkin pie, Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald's culinary history reveals the complex and colorful origins of New England foods and cookery.Your Library Staff Offer Their Favorites-AUDIOBOOKS.Audie Awards Winners & Finalists: 2004-2021.It's All Greek to Me No More - Great Courses and Pimsleur Audio.Find and Listen to a Classic That You Missed.Fairy Tale, Myth, and The Hero's Journey.Project Gutenberg Mysteries and Thrillers. ![]() ![]() Project Gutenberg Great Fiction Classics. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I cuts up your meat." She fussed as Missy knelt upon the bench besides her, her face haloed with curls. "Landsakes, you’re going to drive her foolish, the both of you," said Sare over Missy’s rising protests, the lamplight colouring their faces like apricots as she sat at the table with them. "Pass me the meat, Sare, I haves a bite of winter," said Job, long and gangly, his oversized features sombre as he pulled into the table besides them. "Yup squashberries, partridgeberries, raspberries-all chomped together-like eating summer," said Clair. "No it don’t-do it, Mommy?" protested Missy. That evening, at supper, Clair turned to her sister, Missy, a good six years younger than she, and said, "Mmm, tastes like berries." "Wait, Clair wait right there," her mother called out and, snatching a frying pan off the stove, met her at the door. "Don’t drop it," he cautioned as she lifted the flesh, still trembling in her hands, and ran to the cabin door, trailing a bloodied path behind her. ![]() Laying the knife to one side, he slid his hands inside the warmth of the carcass and pulled out the liver, pulsating purple in the afternoon sun, and threw it quivering upon a rock. Crouching beside him Clair watched as her father, Job, pricked the tip of his knife through the hide of a young caribou, then drew it slow and easy across its belly, the hide singing back, and the blood spilling warm over his hands, staining scarlet onto the snow. ![]() ![]() ![]() Alternately funny and moving, it is a wide-ranging tale in which character after character turns out not to be what he - or she - seems. ![]() Against a background of high adventure, this minuet of a novel dances from the farthest limits of the solar system to Earth's own Outer Mongolia. On the colony of Triton, the government is handicapped to the point where individual freedom is. our own Earth! High wit in this future comedy of manners allows Delany to question gender roles and sexual expectations at a level that, 20 years after it was written, still make it a coruscating portrait of the happily reasonable man, Bron Helstrom - an immigrant to the embattled world of Triton, whose troubles become more and more complex, till there is nothing left for him to do but become a woman. Delany presents a dystopian future wrapped up in the ideal of freedom. Delany Other Kathy Acker Wesleyan University Press Interplanetary war, capture and escape, diplomatic intrigues that topple worlds. Delany's 1976 SF novel, originally published as Triton, takes us on a tour of a utopian society at war with. Trouble on Triton HFS Books Paperback / softback 326 Pages 17.95 USD Add to Cart Electronic book text 326 Pages 13.99 USD Add to Cart Trouble on Triton An Ambiguous Heterotopia By Samuel R. ![]() ![]() “In a story as exciting as any science fiction adventure written, Samuel R. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The present owners, Stephen and Janine Sykes, who bought Hill Top in 2012, have converted the garage/barn-end into a holiday cottage. They both loved the house, and the buzzards, redstarts and deer by which it seemed to be surrounded… ‘ Arthur Ransome celebrated his eightieth birthday there, although by then ‘…he was confined to a wheel chair on the upper floor of the house.’ Repairs and alternations took longer than expected, and it was not until November 1963 that they moved into their home, Hill Top, Haverthwaite, near Newby Bridge. In the Epilogue to Arthur Ransome’s autobiography, Rupert Hart-Davis wrote: ‘In 1960 the Ransomes bought the little derelict farmhouse in the Lakes which they had rented for the last four years as a holiday cottage. Hill Top, the 17th century farmhouse at Ealingsheath, a tiny hamlet near Haverthwaite in Cumbria, where Arthur and Evgenia Ransome lived in the 1960s enjoys lovely view across the Lakeland fells. ![]() ![]() ![]() After calling Bea to no avail, despite the late hour, Clare and Matt go to her penthouse home only to find it vandalized and Bea unconscious. ![]() Madame’s best friend, Bea Hastings, has a prize-winning rooftop solarium where she raises this particular bee and has a huge crop of lavender for them. When Matt Allegro, Clare’s ex-husband and co-manager of The Blend, gathers a few dead bees, they smell like lavender, and Clare knows where they came from. ![]() From there they trace them to a vent on the roof where swarms are surrounding the warm vents. They trace them down to the warm roasting room in the basement where even more have gathered. Suddenly they notice a few bees in the room. Written by Cleo Coyle (Alice Alfonsi, Marc Cerasini)Ĭlare Cosi is introducing her barista staff from the Village Blend, the coffee house owned by her ex-mother-in-law Madame DuBois, with a new blend of coffee full of flower and honey notes. ![]() ![]() ![]() That’s why many of the thank-yous I receive end with this plea: Running is a dance, and it takes a while to learn the steps. The power to step outside and explore the world on your own two feet, running wherever you want, for as long as you want, whenever you feel like it. It’s a story of transformation, of the climb from defeat, to hope, and finally, to power. ![]() Born to Run may come across as a rock’m-sock’m adventure story, because let’s face it that’s what you get when a mysterious loner called Caballo Blanco, the White Horse, holds a fifty-mile footrace against a legendary tribe right under the nose of two murderous drug cartels.īut at its heart, Born to Run is something very different. I’m still in their shoes – even when I’m not wearing any. EVER SINCE BORN TO RUN CAME OUT, I’ve gotten messages from all over the world, many saying exactly the same thing:īecause I was in their shoes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ben is a local man who knows everybody and perhap scares too much, while Diane is a stranger wherever she goes and is perhaps too cold-blooded when they find themselves rivals for promotion, and colleagues on a difficult case, breaking strain is going to be reached sooner or later. Stephen Booth's first novel Black Dog is an impressive portrait of two sorts of policing. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() As the investigation twists and turns, Ben and Diane discover that to understand the present, they must also understand the past – and in a world where no one is entirely innocent, pain and suffering can be the only outcome. ![]() ![]() But what could be more important than finding Laura’s murderer?īen Cooper, a young DC living with tragedy, has known the villagers all his life, but his instinctive feelings about the case are called into question by the arrival of Diane Fry, a ruthlessly ambitious DC from another division. Even her parents are holding something back. But it’s retired lead miner Harry Dickinson who finally discovers Laura’s body, and he seems bent on obstructing their investigation. When smart, sexy teenager Laura Vernon goes missing one long, hot summer in the Peak District, local police mount a full-scale search operation. Dark, intense and utterly compelling, Black Dog is an extraordinary thriller from the most promising new author to emerge in the genre in recent years. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He has won several Harvey and Eisner Awards. His work ranges from such mainstream titles as Batman, Star Wars, and Conan to adaptations of classic operas and a Jungle Book series. He is well-known for his graphic novel adaptations of Neil Gaiman's Coraline and Sandman: The Dream Hunters, as well as his Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde series. Craig Russell lives in Kent, Ohio, and has spent forty years producing graphic novels, comic books, and illustrations. ![]() He is Professor in the Arts at Bard College. Originally from England, he now lives in the United States. He is the winner of numerous literary honors, including the Hugo, Bram Stoker, and World Fantasy awards, and the Newbery and Carnegie Medals. Neil Gaiman is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, Anansi Boys, The Graveyard Book, Good Omens (with Terry Pratchett), The Ocean at the End of the Lane, and The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains the Sandman series of graphic novels and the story collections Smoke and Mirrors, Fragile Things, and Trigger Warning. ![]() |