![]() ![]() ![]() Everything about Ginny will change this summer, and it's all because of the 13 little blue envelopes. But the most surprising thing Ginny learns isn't about Peg. Traveling from London to Edinburgh to Amsterdam and beyond, Ginny begins to uncover stories from her aunt's past and discover who Peg really was. Armed with instructions for how to retrieve twelve other letters Peg wrote-twelve letters that tell Ginny where she needs to go and what she needs to do when she gets there-Ginny quickly finds herself swept away in her first real adventure. ![]() The letter included $1000 cash for a passport and a plane ticket. This letter was different from Peg's usual letters for two reasons: 1. But that was before she received the first little blue envelope from Aunt Peg. New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson's funny, heartbreaking, and utterly romantic tale gets a great new cover! Ginny Blackstone never thought she'd spend her summer vacation backpacking across Europe. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Standing in the young mother’s way is Evan Meade, the boy’s guileful and mean-spirited father, who hires a child recovery specialist when the efforts of the embattled local sheriff, Monroe Rossi, fail to track them down. Told in prose that is both stripped-down and overpowering, Gilbert shapes the everyday conflict of child custody into a stunning search for sense of worth. In A Lovely, Indecent Departure, the riveting and emotionally-charged debut from Steven Lee Gilbert, a promising new voice in literary thrillers, comes the captivating story of a mother’s love and desperation set amidst the heart wrenching landscape of an international parental abduction. When a district court awards custody of Oliver to his father, she abducts the five year old and flees to Italy where with her family’s help they disappear into the fabric of her native homeland. ![]() Anna Miller wants only one thing, her son, and she will do anything to keep him. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Razorland series![]() Praise for Ann Aguirre and the Razorland series : Read all the books in the Razorland series. But through stormy seas and strange lands, she will become stronger than she ever knew.Īguirre impresses again with a tale that is sure to delight young adult readers who like strong heroines and high-stakes adventure. She shouldn't allow him close, as such a relationship is both alien and forbidden. Szarok is strange and beautiful, like a flower that blooms only in the dark. Tegan will battle incredible odds while aiding Szarok, the Uroch vanguard, who has ventured forth to save his people. Their company seems set, but fate brings one more to their number. ![]() Millie Faraday, the kindest girl in the free territories, also yearns to outrun her reputation, and warrior-poet James Morrow would follow Tegan to the ends of the earth. Ann Aguirre's dystopian YA saga continues with this companion fourth volume in the Razorland series Since the war ended, Tegan has dreamed of an epic journey, so when she has the opportunity to sign on as ship's doctor, she can't wait. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments The 9 billion names of god![]() ![]() It is never explained how he did this, but everyone in the world seems to know about it and that he is responsible. In 2014 I read a story by Gordon Eklund (I said I was Sorry Didn't I?) in which the unnamed protagonist apologizes for causing the end of the universe. ![]() This not the first story I've read where all the stars go out for some reason. The point I'm trying to make is that the fading stars at the end of the story would have to have died out thousands of year previously if they were all to start going out at the same time as the last name came out of the computer. The physics of the story make it impossible to happen the way that it did, and I don't want to get into the metaphysics because I try not to get into discussions about religion. Of course, the two stories are more fantasy than science fiction. It reminds me of Issac Asimov's "The Last Question", another SF tale about God and the end of the universe. ![]() Clarke who I've always thought of a hard science writer. A fun little story but a little weird for Arthur C. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments The return of sherlock![]() ![]() The following year he married Jean Elizabeth Leckie, whom he had first met and fallen in love with in 1897. She suffered from tuberculosis and died on 4 July 1906. In 1885 Conan Doyle married Louisa (or Louise) Hawkins, known as "Touie". He completed his doctorate on the subject of tabes dorsalis in 1885. Following his graduation, he was employed as a ship's doctor on the SS Mayumba during a voyage to the West African coast. His first published story appeared in " Chambers's Edinburgh Journal" before he was 20. While studying, Conan Doyle began writing short stories. This required that he provide periodic medical assistance in the towns of Aston (now a district of Birmingham) and Sheffield. He then went on to Stonyhurst College, leaving in 1875.įrom 1876 to 1881 he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. ![]() It also names Michael Conan as his godfather.Īt the age of nine Conan Doyle was sent to the Roman Catholic Jesuit preparatory school, Hodder Place, Stonyhurst. His baptism record in the registry of St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh gives 'Arthur Ignatius Conan' as his Christian name, and simply 'Doyle' as his surname. They were married in 1855.Īlthough he is now referred to as "Conan Doyle", the origin of this compound surname (if that is how he meant it to be understood) is uncertain. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, a talented illustrator, was born in England of Irish descent, and his mother, born Mary Foley, was Irish. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born the third of ten siblings on in Edinburgh, Scotland. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() *AVOIDANT people equate intimacy with a loss of independence and constantly try to minimize closeness. *ANXIOUS people are often preoccupied with their relationships and tend to worry about their partner's ability to love them back. According to attachment theory, every person behaves in relationships in one of three distinct ways: In Attached, Levine and Heller trace how these evolutionary influences continue to shape who we are in our relationships today. Also central to attachment theory is the discovery that our need to be in a close relationship with one or more individuals is embedded in our genes. Attachment theory forms the basis for many bestselling books on the parent/child relationship, but there has yet to be an accessible guide to what this fascinating science has to tell us about adult romantic relationships-until now.Īttachment theory owes its inception to British psychologist and psychoanalyst John Bowlby, who in the 1950s examined the tremendous impact that our early relationships with our parents or caregivers has on the people we become. ![]() Heller reveal how an understanding of attachment theory-the most advanced relationship science in existence today-can help us find and sustain love. In this groundbreaking book, psychiatrist and neuroscientist Amir Levine and Rachel S. ![]() ![]() ![]() The characters are easy to empathise with and the mystery surrounding the disappearance of Faye’s husband and child is an excellent plotline that maintains your interest from start to finish. There are enormous twists and turns in the book which I won’t reveal. These emotions are so strong and so easy to imagine which makes a powerful connection with the reader. But Jake and Dylan don’t return from their trip and Faye is frantic… Wow, what a book! The fear of not knowing where your child is, the worry of whether your husband is hurt (even dead) or has left you, the frustration of feeling such despair and being unable to abate it. ![]() ![]() His wife Faye is upset that her plan for a happy holiday has gone awry and agrees they can abandon it all and head back home once Jake and their son Dylan have been dolphin watching. A trip to his childhood town with his family is supposed to be a birthday treat for Jake but from the start things do not go well. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Ligotti teatro grottesco![]() The established distinction between the natural and the supernatural is an essential component of any horror story. The ghost is not only in the machine, but it is made by it. The ghost is not in itself frightening, or any more frightening than an aggressive human would be, and it only acquires its horror from a setting in which it does not belong and cannot be explained. James would then proceed to slip a ghost into this hitherto safe and predictable reality. James, for example, evoked a clockwork world in which a lonely bachelor would, say, go to the seaside to play golf. Horror writers have traditionally accepted a distinction between humdrum reality and a more potent unreality. Thomas Ligotti’s Teatro Grottesco (2006) is based upon a fundamental error, which is at once aesthetic and philosophical. ![]() ![]() ![]() In just a few pages, I felt like I knew the characters and had a sense of the city where they were. This is the first time I’ve read anything by Julian Winters, and I feel like I’ve been missing out. Here’s what I thought about some of my favorites from UP ALL NIGHT: “Under Our Masks” by Julian Winters ![]() Lots more of them have been on my TBR list for a long time, so I was excited to read this collection in order to sample some of those authors and some new ones, too. I’ve read stories by about a third of the authors with stories in this book. ![]() ![]() McManus, Anna Meriano, Marieke Nijkamp, Laura Silverman, Kayla Whaley, Julian Winters, Francesca Zappia. Jackson, Amanda Joy, Nina LaCour, Karen M. Jackson, Nina LaCour, and Brandy Colbert, as they take readers deep into these rarely seen, magical hours.įull contributor list: Brandy Colbert, Kathleen Glasgow, Maurene Goo, Tiffany D. Stay up all night with these thirteen short stories from bestselling and award-winning YA authors like Karen McManus, Tiffany D. It’s a time for breaking up, for falling in love-for finding yourself. Adults are asleep, and a hush falls over the hum of daily life. As the hours tick by deeper into the night, the familiar drops away and the unfamiliar beckons. When everyone else goes to bed, the ones who stay up feel like they’re the only people in the world. Published JAmazon | Bookshop | Goodreads About Up All Night Up All Night: 13 Stories Between Sunset and Sunrise ![]() ![]() The movie won Helen Hayes an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as an elderly stowaway and was nominated for nine other Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Cinematography, and Best Costume Design for designer Edith Head. ![]() The film was a commercial success and surpassed Spartacus as Universal Pictures' biggest moneymaker. It takes place at fictional Lincoln International Airport near Chicago. The film is about an airport manager trying to keep his airport open during a snowstorm, while a suicide bomber plots to blow up a Boeing 707 airliner in flight. Produced on a $10 million budget, it earned over $128 million. It is also the first of four films in the Airport film series. Based on Arthur Hailey's 1968 novel of the same name, it originated the 1970s disaster film genre. ![]() Airport is a 1970 American air disaster– drama film written and directed by George Seaton and starring Burt Lancaster and Dean Martin. ![]() |