The Third Twin by Ken Follett5/24/2023 Berrington Jones, Jeannie's arrogant and intimidating boss, is a world-renowned authority on biotechnical engineering. Jeannie is convinced of Steve's innocence, yet her judgment may be clouded by her growing emotional attachment to him. Logan is unaware of the existence of a criminal twin brother in jail. Then Jeannie stumbles upon the beginnings of a stunning revelation. Logan's genetic tests reveal no violent behavior patterns. When Jeannie's research assistant, Lisa, is raped, Steve Logan, a young law student who is one of Jeannie's research subjects, is identified in a police lineup as Lisa's attacker. But Jeannie's breakthrough project is threatened by the appearance of a sudden impossibility-identical twins born weeks apart to different mothers at separate locations. An accomplished and headstrong researcher, Jeannie has developed a sophisticated software program to identify identical twins reared apart. The study of twins and the genetics of aggression totally consumes research scientist Jeannie Ferrami.
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In the graphic novel will mcphail5/24/2023 McPhail laces his middle-class, not-quite-adult life with satire. follows Nick, a city-dwelling illustrator who mixes his own projects with ad agency work and strikes poses in coffee shops and craft-beer bars, while feeling like there must be something more to existence. This clever, thoughtful debut graphic novel shows that he can produce extended narratives with just as much panache as his single-panel cartoons. He started drawing for Private Eye while still at university, and sketches regularly for the New Yorker his Instagram feed is a parade of sharp ideas. Will McPhail’s funny, shrewd cartoons often feature animals – amorous crocodiles, sly mice and bickering lizards – and cast a curious eye on human behaviour. 1928 winnie the pooh first edition5/24/2023 Shepard, pictorial endpapers (free endpapers somewhat toned), top edge gilt, remainder rough-trimmed (a few light spots), original salmon cloth gilt, spine faded, two related advertisement slips loosely inserted, 8vo, housed together in a blue cloth slipcase with ribbon-pull The House At Pooh Corner, 1st edition, Methuen, 1928, illustrated throughout by E.H. Now We Are Six, 1st edition, Methuen, 1927, half-title and final page partially toned, p.65/66 with small spot centrally, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, remainder rough-trimmed, original red cloth gilt, spine a little faded and lightly rubbed at ends, 8vo Shepard, pictorial endpapers (some toning and light spotting), top edge gilt, remainder rough-trimmed, original green cloth gilt, spine ends and corners very lightly rubbed, 8vo Winnie-the-Pooh, 1st edition, Methuen, 1926, illustrated throughout by E.H. Shepard, presentation copy with original publisher's ink presentation stamp at foot of title, some toning to half-title and (blank) free endpapers, stitching slightly showing in places (but firm), top edge gilt, remainder rough-trimmed (with light spotting), original dark blue cloth gilt, spine very slightly darkened and a little rubbed at ends, 8vo When We Were Very Young, 1st edition, Methuen, 1924, illustrated throughout by E.H. A complete set of first editions of the Winnie-the-Pooh Stories, 1924-1928, comprising: Warrior Girl by Pauline Chandler5/24/2023 She persuaded him to give her a horse and armour, and then led his army of 5,000 men to a famous victory against the English at Orleans. Believing she heard the voice of God calling her to help her king in his war against the English, she left her childhood home to meet Charles VII, who was afraid to take up his crown. Joan of Arc was born in the small French town of Domremy in 1412. So my chosen heroine being French and fighting the English doesn’t really matter to her story, since the war between the French and the English is just a dramatic backdrop that helped make her who she was. But to me history is all about the characters. that’s historical fact and it casts us in the UK as the baddies, and I suppose if you're just looking at the historical plot then that's true. Yes, I know she fought to defend her homeland against the English invaders. And lest you think I am being horribly unpatriotic in this Jubilee year, I happen to believe Joan/Jeanne’s nationality is not really important to her story. So, without further ado, let’s meet Joan… or Jeanne, to use her native French name. Oryx and crake sparknotes5/24/2023 The plot details different areas of their lives in different time-frames, including what happened to them before they came apart of a religious group called The God's Gardeners, their time in The God's Gardeners and where they are after the waterless-flood has hit the Earth. This story has two main characters: Toby and Ren. This book is the second in the MaddAdam series though you do not need to read the first book (Oryx and Crake) to read this one. The group anticipates the coming of a waterless-flood that is going to come and wipe out the human race so that the Earth can heal and rebuild from the destruction and unbalance that humans have caused it. The Year of the Flood is a dystopian novel that follows two main characters that are connected through a religious group called The God's Gardeners. Paulette jiles new book5/24/2023 The child seems artificial as well as malign.Ĭaptain Kidd takes up the task of transporting Johanna to her relatives. She considers herself Kiowa and refers to herself as Cicada. Johanna Leonberger is a 10-year-old child, who was captured by a Kiowa raiding party when she was 6 years old after they had killed her parents and her sister. He is content with life and enjoys his time travelling alone all over giving readings.Īfter a reading in Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a girl, Johanna, to her relatives in San Antonio. Captain Kidd is an elderly widower with two grown daughters who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them. Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd is someone who travels through northern Texas and gives readings from newspapers to audiences who pay. News of the World is a story about a senior gentleman and a 10-year-old girl, set in 1870. For a small book (200-something pages) it packs a huge punch. Tree of smoke johnson5/24/2023 We can hear Twain in his biting irony, Whitman in his erotic excess, not a little of Dashiell Hammett too in the hard sentences he throws back at his gouged, wounded world. David Gates, The New York Times Book Review. Chris Offutt "The God I want to believe in has a voice and a sense of humor like Denis Johnson's." Jonathan Franzen "Prose of amazing power and stylishness." Philip Roth Once Johnson gets his hooks into you- it takes about two sentences it's. Vince Passaro, "Newsday" "Denis Johnson has delivered his masterpiece. David Gates, "The New York Times Book Review An amazingly talented writer. Once Johnson gets his hooks into you it takes about two sentences. Her writing has been described as ‘gripping romantic sci-fi’ by the Wall Street Journal and ‘a strange, witty, compulsively unpredictable read which blows most of its new YA-suspense brethren out of the water’ by Entertainment Weekly. Her other novels include The Next Together series, the dyslexia-friendly novella series The Watchmaker and the Duke and serialised online novel An Unauthorised Fan Treatise. The Quiet at the End of the World was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize and STEAM Children’s Book Award. Her books have sold over two hundred thousand copies worldwide in seven languages. She works as a consultant on climate storytelling for museums, production companies and publishers, with a focus on optimism and hope. Lauren is the founder of the Climate Fiction Writers League, and member of the Society of Authors’ Sustainability Committee. She is a RLF Royal Fellow at Aston University, freelance editor and screenwriter. Lauren James is the thrice Carnegie-nominated British author of many Young Adult novels, including Green Rising, The Reckless Afterlife of Harriet Stoker and The Loneliest Girl in the Universe. **I don't respond to messages on here - email me at laurenjamesauthorgmailcom or send an ask on Tumblr instead*** Mr mercedes audio books5/23/2023 Describing the novel for an interview with USA Today, published on September 18, 2013, King said that while it was started prior to the Boston Marathon bombings, Mr. Mercedes and inspired by a true event about a woman driving her car into a McDonald's restaurant, it was originally meant to be a short story just a few pages long. Background information ĭuring his Chancellor's Speaker Series talk at University of Massachusetts Lowell on December 7, 2012, King indicated that he was writing a crime novel about a retired policeman being taunted by a murderer. The novel won the 2015 Edgar Award for Best Novel from the Mystery Writers of America and Goodreads Choice Awards for 2014 in the "Mystery and Thriller" category. Mercedes was published, and End of Watch in 2016. It is the first volume in a trilogy, followed in 2015 by Finders Keepers, the first draft of which was finished around the time Mr. He calls it his first hard-boiled detective book. Mercedes is a novel by American writer Stephen King. Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam5/23/2023 They tell them that something has happened – but they don’t know what. In the middle of the night, the owners of the AirBnB show up, an old black couple in their 60s, G.H. Clay and Amanda have rented a house outside New York for a summer vacation with their two children, Archie and Rose. We are cautious of the other – are they a bringer of peace, or a bringer of disease?Īlam’s dystopian novel does not necessarily speak of a global pandemic – yet many of the themes he explores throughout his novel echo in our contemporary society. Making friends, finding new people, connecting with the humans around us has been complicated and compromised by a virus that has completely and utterly overtaken the world. With all of these things comes worry and dread of the other. Do we work from home or live at work now? I can’t quite tell the difference anymore. Suddenly what brought us comfort feels cramped, small, and totally foreign to us. But the home has transformed into something else. One might argue, for many people around the world we are spending too much time at home. And I say this because we do not feel safe and homely. To borrow the German word from Freud, it feels unheimlich meaning in a direct translation ‘not homely’, rather than the English translation of uncanny. Published in October 2020, we were already in the full swing of a global pandemic and divisive U.S. Rumaan Alam’s novel Leave the World Behind comes at a time of unrest, uncertainty, and fear. |