5/22/2023 0 Comments Author of the paris architect![]() ![]() ![]() "Asks us to consider what we owe one another and just how far we will go to make things right." - Florida Sun-Sentinel "A terrific thriller, made all the better by our knowledge that stuff like this really happened." - Minneapolis Star-Tribune But when one of his hideouts fails horribly, and the problem of where to conceal a Jew becomes much more personal, and he can no longer ignore what's at stake.īook clubs will pore over the questions Charles Belfoure raises about justice, resistance, and just how far we'll go to make things right. Soon Lucien is hiding more souls and saving lives. ![]() He sorely needs the money, and outwitting the Nazis who have occupied his beloved city is a challenge he can't resist. All he has to do is design a secret hiding place for a Jewish man, a space so invisible that even the most determined German officer won't find it while World War II rages on. In 1942 Paris, architect Lucien Bernard accepts a commission that will bring him a great deal of money – and maybe get him killed. "A gripping page-turner.a riveting reminder of sacrifices made by history's most unlikely heroes." -Kristina McMorris, New York Times bestselling author of Sold on a Monday and The Ways We HideĪn extraordinary book about a gifted architect who reluctantly begins a secret life of resistance, devising ingenious hiding places for Jews in World War II Paris. ![]()
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5/22/2023 0 Comments Acorna books in order![]() ![]() But within one sacred shrine Acorna discovers shocking information that may lead to Aari.or to disaster. Racing to save the Temple Cats from a deadly disease, Acorna uncovers a plot to destroy the sacred felines and exploit Makahomia's people, and finds herself leading a small band of rebels determined to stop the conspiracy - a quest that takes them into the hidden sanctuaries of that world. Three space miners, Gill, Calum, and Rafik. Beautiful and barbaric, Makahomia has been blockaded for years to protect itself - and the Federation. First of a projected series from the authors of a previous collaboration, PartnerShip (a 1992 mass market). But a crash landing brings the crew to the exotic jungle world of Makahomia, home of the mysterious Temple Cats. Now Acorna, joined by Captain Becker, Mac, Nadhari, and RK, sets off on a mission to save her beloved Aari. ![]() But the expedition has unlocked a larger mystery about the origins of the Linyaari people - one that has led Aari, Acorna's lifemate, into a dangerous journey through time and space. Acorna's people, the Linyaari, have started to reclaim their homeworld from the ravages of the brutal alien Khleevi. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Field of blood denise mina![]() She also worked for a time in a meat-processing factory. Mina left school at 16 and worked in a variety of low-skilled jobs, including as a barmaid, kitchen porter and cook. Because of his work, the family moved 21 times in 18 years: from Paris to The Hague, London, Scotland and Bergen she has also professed an affection for Rutherglen, her mother's home town. Biography ĭenise Mina was born in East Kilbride in 1966. The second, The Dead Hour, was filmed and broadcast in 2013. Mina's first Paddy Meehan novel, The Field of Blood (2005), was filmed for broadcast in 2011 by the BBC, starring Jayd Johnson, Peter Capaldi and David Morrissey. Described as an author of Tartan Noir, she has also dabbled in comic book writing, having written 13 issues of Hellblazer. ![]() She has written the Garnethill trilogy and another three novels featuring the character Patricia "Paddy" Meehan, a Glasgow journalist. Denise Mina (born 21 August 1966) is a Scottish crime writer and playwright. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Vengeful by ve schwab![]() This is simply a rundown because there are a lot of books and a lot of news out there and I’ve done my best to put it together for my fellow Schwab fans. There are a lot of steps to a finished film. She frequently reminds her fans that film production moves slowly and that option is just that, an agreement between an author and a potential film producer for the rights to purchase a screenplay. Several of Schwab’s books have been optioned for film or television. I met her in 2018 and my soul nearly left my body. and YA and middle grade books under Victoria. ![]() ![]() and Victoria Schwab are the same writer she publishes adult books under V.E. To alleviate confusion, at least in the United States, V.E. Schwab is the author of over a dozen books, all of which have been published since 2011, so…she is basically NONSTOP. ![]() ![]() ![]() With graduation around the corner, Maeve is ready to put her lonely school days behind her and move on with her life. When her life is at its hardest, Maeve can always slip into Mauve, her fursona, and be “the happy one,” the bubbliest, friendliest artist in her community-it’s even how she made her best friend, Jade. At home, Maeve Stephens has to tiptoe around her hoarder mother’s mood and mess. Online, MauveCat (a cool, confident, glittering pixie cat) has friends and a whole supportive furry community that appreciates her art. Please note this roundup only features titles that were not previously featured in past International Asexuality Day/ Ace Week posts, so make sure to check those out too for even more recs! Books to Read Now A Furry Faux Paw by Jessica Kara Happy International Asexuality Day! Today we’re celebrating books with main characters all along the ace spectrum, so check out these titles and find your perfect next read! As usual, all links are affiliate and earn a percentage of income for the site, so please use them if you can! ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Smile raina![]() Despite all she has endured, the results are far from perfect. The moment-of-truth comes when Raina is finally freed from her brace-faced prison. ![]() Of course she adrift and lonely for a while, but Raina makes new friends soon enough. She realizes no friends are better than those friends. In a particularly wonderful moment, Raina rebukes her long-time "friends" who do nothing but tear her down and tease her. ![]() (As if puberty isn't traumatic enough!) Follow this lost heroine as she battles pimples, overcomes destructive friendships with hypercritical mean girls, endures painful oral surgeries, and finally finds her way to feeling at home in her own skin when she reaches high school. This one misstep plunged her into a four-year ordeal of painful procedures, torturous surgeries, not-to-mention a perpetually changing appearance at a time when every kid is having a crisis of confidence. Then, while horsing around with her friends, she fell, and knocked out her two front teeth. In sixth grade Tanglemeier got braces to fix a run-of-the-mill overbite. The author tells of her own particular journey of adolescent woe which came in the form of a seemingly endless tangle of dentists, endontists, periodontists, orthodonists, with their promises to perfect her not-so pearly whites. ![]() Graphic Novelist Raina Talgemeier knows this all too well she is the Odysseus of modern dentistry. Poet Ogden Nash said, "Some tortures are physical/And some are mental,/But the one that is both/Is dental." ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments I Owe You One by Sophie Kinsella![]() So when a handsome stranger in a coffee shop asks her to watch his laptop for a moment, she not only agrees-she ends up saving it from certain disaster. The way Fixie sees it, if she doesn't take care of her father's legacy, who will? It's simply not in Fixie's nature to say no to people. ![]() Fixie Farr has always lived by her father's motto: "Family first." And since her dad passed away, leaving his charming housewares store in the hands of his wife and children, Fixie spends all her time picking up the slack from her siblings instead of striking out on her own. ![]() NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "A gem of a novel."-Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Spark of Light and Small Great Things From the author of Surprise Me comes an irresistible story of love and empowerment about a young woman with a complicated family, a handsome man who might be "the one," and an IOU that changes everything. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Thirteen storeys jonathan sims![]() ![]() I still think most of the statements down here aren’t real. ![]() I have… I’ve always believed in the supernatural. But, but even before that… Why do you think I started working here? It’s not exactly glamorous. Have you ever taken a look at the stuff we have in Artefact Storage? That’s enough to convince anyone. I mean for god’s sake John, we’re literally hiding from some kind of worm… queen… thing, how, how could you possibly still not believe!? You tear them to pieces like they’re wasting your time, but half of the “rational” explanations you give are actually more far-fetched than just accepting it was a, a ghost or something. Do what? Push the sceptic thing so hard!? I mean, it made sense at first, but now? After everything we’ve seen, after everything you’ve read! I hear you recording statements and y-you just dismiss them. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Conjure women review![]() Spanning eras and generations, it tells of the lives of three unforgettable women: Miss May Belle, a wise healing woman her precocious and observant daughter Rue, who is reluctant to follow in her mother's footsteps as a midwife and their master's daughter Varina. ![]() I was transported." Amy Bloom, New York Times bestselling author of White Houses and AwayĬonjure Women is a sweeping story that brings the world of the South before and after the Civil War vividly to life. ![]() It took me into the hearts of women I could otherwise never know. LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times - NPR - Book Riot A mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing - and for the conjuring of curses - are at the heart of this dazzling first novel ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Seven days in may by kim izzo![]() ![]() Sydney has other adventures in mind she is drawn to the burgeoning suffragette movement, which is a constant source of embarrassment to her proper sister. Brooke is engaged to marry impoverished aristocrat Edward Thorpe-Tracey, the future Lord Northbrook, in the wedding of the social calendar. ![]() Erik Larson, bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vileįor readers of Kate Williams, Beatriz Williams and Jennifer Robson, a captivating novel of love and resilience during the Great War, inspired by the author’s family history.Īs the First World War rages in continental Europe, two New York heiresses, Sydney and Brooke Sinclair, are due to set sail for England. ![]() “In this, her third novel, Kim Izzo renders the last voyage of the Lusitania in such terrifyingly accurate detail that we readers cannot help but feel we too are aboard that doomed ship-and in Winston Churchill’s ultra-secret lair, Room 40-as the ineluctable forces of history converge.” ![]() |