Good as dead susan walter5/12/2023 ![]() "Susan Walter's Good as Dead had me holding my breath through every thrilling twist and turn until the downright explosive ending. Bruce Cameron, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Dog's Purpose and A Dog's Courage From the daringly original premise to the shocking climax, you'll never see the plot twists coming until you turn the page. "Susan Walter's debut novel is so full of surprises it should come with a warning label. Publisher: Amazon Publishing ISBN: 9781542029025 Number of pages: 272 MEDIA REVIEWS As carefully constructed lives begin to crumble, how far will everyone be willing to go to bury the truth and protect the people they love? ![]() ![]() Told from alternating points of view, Good as Dead draws together an unlikely group of people bound to one another by a crime, a cover-up, and compounding deceptions. Because Holly and Savannah aren't the only ones in the neighborhood with something to hide. But when their sudden appearance in privileged Calabasas, California, piques the curiosity of neighbors, the price becomes greater than they imagined. Holly and her daughter, Savannah, will want for nothing, beginning with a luxury dream house-all for the price of their silence. Then a fixer for the high-powered guilty party approaches Holly with an offer she is in no position to refuse. In one violent moment, a hit-and-run accident turns Holly's life upside down. ![]() ![]() It all starts with a promise from a stranger: We'll take care of everything. ![]()
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How to be a stoic by massimo pigliucci5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() He shows how stoicism teaches us the importance of a person's character, integrity and compassion. Massimo Pigliucci explores this remarkable philosophy and how its wisdom can be applied to our everyday lives in the quest for meaning. ![]() Whenever we worry about how to be happy, we are worrying about how to lead a good life. ![]() Stoicism teaches us to acknowledge our emotions, reflect on what causes them and redirect them for our own good. ' In this thought-provoking book, Massimo Pigliucci shares his journey of discovering the power of Stoic practices in a philosophical dialogue with one of Stoicism's greatest teachers.' RYAN HOLIDAY, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE OBSTACLE IS THE WAY AND THE DAILY STOIC ![]() The soul of an octopus by sy montgomery5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Since then Sy has practiced true immersion journalism, from New England aquarium tanks to the reefs of French Polynesia and the Gulf of Mexico, pursuing these wild, solitary shape-shifters. Sy Montgomery's popular 2011 Orion magazine piece, "Deep Intellect," about her friendship with a sensitive, sweet-natured octopus named Athena and the grief she felt at her death, went viral, indicating the widespread fascination with these mysterious, almost alien-like creatures. ![]() About the Book "An investigation of the emotional and physical world of the octopus"-īook Synopsis Finalist for the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction New York Times Bestseller "Sy Montgomery's The Soul of an Octopus does for the creature what Helen Macdonald's H Is for Hawk did for raptors." - New Statesman, UK Starred Booklist and Library Journal Editors' Spring Pick "One of the best science books of the year" - Science Friday, NPR A Huffington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year One of the Best Books of the Month on Goodreads Library Journal Best Sci-Tech Book of 2015 An American Library Association Notable Book of the Year In this astonishing book from the author of the bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig, Sy Montgomery explores the emotional and physical world of the octopus-a surprisingly complex, intelligent, and spirited creature-and the remarkable connections it makes with humans. ![]() A moveable feast by ernest hemingway5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Each chapter is short and vignette-like, comical, bitchy and warm. This edition is punctuated with photographs, both of the manuscript and of the author and his contemporaries in Paris, including James Joyce and F Scott Fitzgerald. Ezra Pound always admired the work of his friends, "which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgment", and Wyndham Lewis "just looked nasty", with eyes like "an unsuccessful rapist". We discover that he did not get on with Ford Madox Ford, and initially failed to tell Hilaire Belloc apart from Aleister Crowley. Hemingway's recollections are at times almost gossipy. As well as providing a glimpse of her life with her "companion" Alice Toklas, Hemingway lets the reader in on some of Stein's bizarre views on male homosexualityand her thoughts on thriftiness. It is as if Hemingway had taken note of Gertrude Stein's penchant for repetition Stein is a frequent visitor to the young writer. The writing is casual and affectionate, the prose engaging and easy to read, despite his liking for sinewy sentences strung together with conjunctions. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Cara has a beautiful face, and the confidence and humour to make herself look ridiculous. “The way we manipulate and read self-portrait images, or ‘selfies’, in the last five years has far more in common with the activity of the 16th-century portrait artists and audiences than any art movement since the birth of photography,” he says. Yeo makes lots of pithy points about the status of portraiture today, saying that Delevingne is synonymous with selfies. Nine new portraits of the 21st-century muse go on show from today in a 60-piece retrospective dedicated to the UK artist (20 March-30 June) at the Museum of National History housed at the spectacular Frederiksborg Castle. Model Cara Delevingne (she has famous eyebrows) takes centre stage at a Renaissance castle outside Copenhagen thanks to Jonathan Yeo. ![]() Illumicrate a darker shade of magic5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() There was also a set of dust jackets for all three books if you’re not that into the naked look.On top are some acrylic figures of the characters and one of the author too, which I thought was a cute idea and they’ll look good on a shelf to decorate.Normally I am not crazy about posters but I somehow really like this one. Essen Tasch hanging poster, this makes me feel like I’ve been to it and got a memento poster to hang on my wall.The artwork is by Laia Lopez and the quote typography design on the other side is by Chatty Nora. Then we have a booksleeve inspired by Lila’s and Kell “dance”, it’s a good size and slightly plastified so really nice.Underneath most of the goodies is a Four Londons blanket by Yoshi Yoshitani, which I like a lot (usually the blankets are gorgeous). ![]() Contents booklet, mostly it lists what each item is and who the artist/companies behind it are.And of course, as per usual, it was packed full of goodies (so much I struggled to fit it all on my usual table), so let’s see what it had starting at the bottom right and going clockwise: Any Illumicrate Collections box tends to be really good, so when they announced A Darker Shade of Magic being a box, I jumped at it and got it. ![]() Simply magic by mary balogh5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() And as he moves closer to the truth, Peter is certain of one thing: he will defy the mysteries of her past for a future with this exquisite creature-all Susanna must do is trust him with the most precious secret of all. Now more determined than ever to keep her by his side, Peter begins to suspect that a tragic history still haunts Susanna. Simply Magic: Simply Quartet, Book 3 Audible Audiobook Unabridged Mary Balogh (Author), Rosalyn Landor (Narrator), & 1 more 432 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 8.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. ![]() until a sensual game of thrust-and-parry culminates in a glorious afternoon of passion. But the more he pursues, the more Susanna withdraws. and to the secrets she guards so desperately.įrom the moment they meet, Peter is drawn to Susanna’s independence, dazzled by her sharp wit-he simply must have her. Instantly she knows: this brash nobleman poses a threat to her heart. With his knowing smile and seductive gaze, Peter acts the rake but he stirs something in Susanna she has never felt before, a yearning that both frightens and dazzles her. Peter Edgeworth, Viscount Whitleaf, is utterly charming-and seemingly unaware that they have met before. and instantly feels the icy chill of recognition. ![]() On a splendid August afternoon Susanna Osbourne is introduced to the most handsome man she has ever seen. ![]() Tessa dare diana highwood5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() but during stolen, steamy moments in the smithy, his strong hands feel so right. By birth and fortune, they couldn't be more wrong for each other. The only man who makes her heart pound is the village blacksmith, Aaron Dawes. At least that's what her mother has loudly declared to everyone in Spindle Cove.īut Diana's not excited by dukes and lords. But Dianas not excited by dukes and lords. ![]() The premise alone is hilarious- to avoid her London season, Madeline invents a suitor, Captain MacKenzie, and writes to him. Review: This was my first Tessa Dare book, and I couldn’t have picked a better one to start with. ![]() Take a trip to Spindle Cove in New York Times bestselling author Tessa Dare's gorgeous and sexy Regency romance.īeautiful and elegant, Miss Diana Highwood is destined to marry a wealthy, well-placed nobleman. Beautiful and elegant, Miss Diana Highwood is destined to marry a wealthy, well-placed. Trigger Warning: PTSD, death of a child (mention). ![]() The beating heart edgar allan poe5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() You should have seen how wisely I proceeded -with what caution -with what foresight -with what dissimulation I went to work! I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold and so by degrees - very gradually -I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever. I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture -a pale blue eye, with a film over it. It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. ![]() ![]() How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily - how calmly I can tell you the whole story. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. TRUE! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses - not destroyed - not dulled them. ![]() Hidden figures book book buy5/10/2023 ![]() Yes, the state of Virginia had dehumanizing Jim Crow laws in place in 1962, but you won’t understand their viciousness unless you read the book. Plus the administrator who dramatically knocked down the sign was fictional. Plus Mary’s story of walking to another building to find a restroom marked colored is entirely different from the movie. ![]() That she used the white facilities, and the time someone did complain she just ignored them. More and more I’m doubting the validity of seeing stories “based on the truth” or “inspired by true events.” I’m worried that such views of history are closer to Kellyanne Conway’s “alternative facts.” On the other hand, does it really matter that the bathroom story actually happened to Mary Jackson and not Katherine Johnson? Even when Johnson has said she didn’t feel segregated at her Spaceship Controls Branch at Langley. Watching Hidden Figures and then reading Hidden Figures reveals the limitation of fiction, in particular, in films based on real people. ![]() By signing up you agree to our terms of use Thank you for signing up! Keep an eye on your inbox. ![]() |