![]() ![]() 'Fans of high-drama fiction with a dark edge, like Karen McManus's One of Us Is Lying or Gretchen McNeil's #murdertrending, will be hooked.' - School Library Journal 'Set against a Northern California private school backdrop, the sensational plot is riddled with twists that come at a furious pace.A suspenseful page-turner.' - Kirkus Reviews Everything will be totally and utterly perfect. ![]() And as long as Delilah understands that they're meant to be, everything will be okay. ![]() His sweet, perfect Delilah isn't so perfect after all.īut that's okay, Logan's not unrealistic. Logan prefers to be called a 'romantic.' They're meant to be together he just needs to wait for the perfect moment to sweep her off her feet.Įxcept, during one of his watching-okay, spying-sessions, he witnesses Delilah kill her abusive stepfather. And Logan knows this for a fact, because he spends all of his free time looking through her social media profiles and watching her every move. ![]() ![]()
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![]() ![]() With the storm cutting off access to and from the hotel, the longer Laure stays missing, the more the remaining guests start to panic. And when they wake the following morning to discover his fiancee Laure has vanished without a trace, Elin's unease grows. Though it's beautiful, something about the hotel, recently converted from an abandoned sanatorium, makes her nervous - as does her brother, Isaac. Arriving in the midst of a threatening storm, Elin immediately feels on edge. But she's taken time off from her job as a detective, so when she receives an invitation out of the blue to celebrate her estranged brother's recent engagement, she has no choice but to accept. An imposing, isolated hotel, high up in the Swiss Alps, is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. A must-read.' Richard Osman 'An eerie, atmospheric novel that had me completely on the edge of my seat.' Reese Witherspoon EVERYONE'S IN DANGER. ![]() This spine-tingling, atmospheric thriller has it all- an eerie Alpine setting, sharp prose, and twists you'll never see coming. AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK 'The Sanatorium will keep you checking over your shoulder. This is the chilling debut from the hottest new talent in crime fiction. ![]() High in the Swiss Alps, a luxury hotel opens in what was once a sanatorium, but the new design can't hide the building's dark history for long. ![]() ![]() ![]() Truss touches on varied aspects of the history of punctuation and includes many anecdotes, which add another dimension to her explanations of grammar. ![]() There is one chapter each on apostrophes commas semicolons and colons exclamation marks, question marks and quotation marks italic type, dashes, brackets, ellipses and emoticons and hyphens. Petersburg who, in 1905, demanded to be paid the same rate for punctuation marks as for letters, and thereby directly precipitated the first Russian Revolution": she added this dedication as an afterthought after remembering the factoid when reading one of her radio plays. ![]() Truss dedicates the book "to the memory of the striking Bolshevik printers of St. Her goal is to remind readers of the importance of punctuation in the English language by mixing humour and instruction. In the book, published in 2003, Truss bemoans the state of punctuation in the United Kingdom and the United States and describes how rules are being relaxed in today's society. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation is a non-fiction book written by Lynne Truss, the former host of BBC Radio 4's Cutting a Dash programme. ![]() ![]() Reminiscent of Frankenstein and the tales of the Brothers Grimm, this debut novel by MarcyKate Connolly stands out as a compelling, original story that has the feel of a classic. As they become friends, Kym learns that Ren knows about the missing girls, the wizard, and the evil magic that haunts Bryre.Īnd what he knows will change Kym's life. Ebook 415 pages 6 hours Monstrous Show full title By MarcyKate Connolly and Skottie Young 3. They would not understand that she was created for a purpose: to rescue the girls of Bryre.ĭespite her caution, a boy named Ren sees Kym and begins to leave a perfect red rose for her every evening. Monstrous by MarcyKate Connolly, Skottie Young - Ebook Scribd Enjoy millions of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, and more, with a free trial Only 11.99/month after trial. ![]() Her father says they would not understand her wings, the bolts in her neck, or her spiky tail-they would kill her. Kym's bravery shines, as she fights against the menacing forces in Bryre and also struggles to figure out where she, a self-described monster of a girl, belongs. ![]() MarcyKate Connolly has created a fresh and wildly inventive dark fairy tale about Kym, a protagonist as sweet as she is strong. Yet night is the only time that Kymera can enter this dangerous city, for she must not be seen by humans. 'From its first line, Monstrous had me in its grip. ![]() Because of his curse, girls sicken and disappear without a trace, and Bryre's inhabitants live in fear. ![]() The city of Bryre suffers under the magic of an evil wizard. ![]() ![]() A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB CHOICE, AND A BEA BUZZ PANEL PICK. Working to uncover secrets, reveal motives, and find answers, Nora must revisit parts of herself that she would much rather leave buried where they belong: in the past. THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER. Wondering not “what happened?” but “what have I done?” she tries to piece together the events of the past weekend. But as the first night falls, revelations unfold among friends old and new and a haunting realization creeps in-they are not alone in the woods.įorty-eight hours later, Nora wakes up in a hospital bed injured but alive, with the knowledge that someone is dead. It spreads across the bleached wood floor And that’s when I wake up. I am kneeling in the blood trying to stop it but I can’t. When reclusive writer Leonora is invited to a hen party in an eerie glass house deep in the English countryside, she reluctantly agrees to make the trip. Read In a Dark, Dark Wood online free by Ruth Ware - Novel80 In a Dark, Dark Wood I dream of blood, spreading and pooling and soaking me. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sometimes the only thing to fear.is yourself. Until, out of the blue, an invitation to Clare’s hen do arrives. What should be a cozy and fun-filled weekend deep in the English countryside takes a sinister turn in Ruth Ware’s suspenseful, compulsive, and darkly twisted psychological thriller. Not since Nora walked out of school one day and never went back. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The penultimate verse returns to the theme of the effects of war which is one of his preoccupations, and I shouldn’t have, but couldn’t suppress a giggle at Banks’s turn of phrase in the line below:Īh, that old napalmic ‘whoosh’, Greek fire, / Protestors burning in / The square, trees of smoke rooted in flame / High above the desert… ![]() ‘Damage’ is a rambling eight page, three section poem with a women called Esther Mercure, who reminded me of the Beatles’ Eleanor Rigby, it has a bonfire on a beach which transmutes into war and gun fire, a lost child who never was (or maybe was – I couldn’t be sure) and a blind match-seller at the train station. The poems here are presented chronologically with the first being from 1973 when Banks was 19 and a student. With apologies to MacLeod, I’ve only had time this week to dip into Banks’s poems. Did Banks consider poetry a young man’s game perhaps? Or did his novels with the actual initial writing part taking around three months of most years after he started not give him time? We don’t know… As MacLeod writes in his introduction, Banks stopped writing poetry in 1981, he doesn’t know why. Banks’s first published work in 1977 was a poem: ‘041’ – more on that below, and he included a few more in some of his novels either entire as the pair that bookend one of his Culture novels, Use of Weapons, or in snatches as in The Crow Road and A Stone of Stone. ![]() ![]() Schweblin skilfully directs our unease until it mirrors that of her protagonist’s. Schweblin’s characters are often unsettled by their home environment or envious of others’ domesticity She is suspicious of the pair and dislikes it when her husband befriends the boy. They trigger memories of Lola’s dead son who “had not grown any taller than the kitchen cabinets”. Her ordered existence – facilitated by her longsuffering husband of 57 years – is disrupted when a single woman and her young son move in next door. Lola is sick and her memory is failing: “she wanted to die, but every morning, inevitably, she woke up again”. The most striking of the seven tales, Breath from the Depths, is also the longest. Her latest collection (published in Spanish in 2015 and meticulously translated by Megan McDowell) focuses on the domestic in disarray. ![]() Argentinian writer Samanta Schweblin is perhaps best known for her novel Fever Dream, adapted for Netflix in 2021, but her short stories are equally celebrated. ![]() ![]() ![]() The pair agree to share the rent of a flat Holmes has found. ![]() In precarious health and even more precarious financial straits, heâs looking for cheap lodgings when a friend introduces him to Sherlock Holmes. John Watson, a medical doctor who has recently returned to London after suffering serious injury and illness as part of the Army Medical Department deployed to Afghanistan. It attracted little public attention at the time, but interest in Holmes continued to build with the subsequent series of short stories Doyle wrote featuring the austere, analytical detectiveânow one of the most well-known characters in all of English literature.Ī Study in Scarlet is told from the point of view of Dr. It was published in 1887 in a popular magazine, Beetonâs Christmas Annual. Standard EbooksĤ3,734 words (2 hours 40 minutes) with a reading ease of 71.55 (fairly easy)Ī Study in Scarlet is the novel which first introduced Arthur Conan Doylesâ iconic characters Sherlock Holmes and Dr. A Study in Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle - Free ebook download - Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. ![]() ![]() Man and dragon set out together on a voyage across half the world, accompanied by their comrades and the Chinese emissaries, on a ship commanded by Laurence’s old friend Riley. It is proposed therefore that Temeraire should travel to China accompanied by his crew, with no firm agreement about what should happen when he gets there, and how his awkward association with Laurence is to be handled. The Chinese demand Temeraire’s return, but when it becomes clear that he has no intention of being separated from Laurence, the original plans have to be amended. Ambassadors have been dispatched, led by the Emperor’s own brother, the prince Yongxing, while the British government and their Admiralty minions scramble to avoid compounding the offence. Word has reached the Chinese that their prized Celestial dragon – intended as a gift to Napoleon himself – has fallen into the hands of a lowly naval captain a diplomatic insult that cannot be allowed to pass unchallenged. Laurence and Temeraire are both in London, separated by the orders of the Admiralty. As this second instalment in the series opens, things are in an altogether more sombre key. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, their notoriety has brought its own problems. At the end of Temeraire, we left the eponymous dragon and his companion Laurence at a moment of triumph, having thwarted Napoleon’s dastardly attempts to mount an aerial invasion of Britain. ![]() ![]() ![]() It forces you to hide from everyone out of fear that someone might see through your controlled exterior to the festering, flesh-eating disease that lurks just under the skin. ![]() "There is no lonelier place than living with an eating disorder. Starving herself and terrified of being 'outed' by the press, Portia lived a Hollywood nightmare for years. But behind her success, Portia was plagued by self doubt, depression, anorexia and bulimia. Finding early success in the Australian film Sirens, Portia went on to star in the hit television series Ally McBeal, as well as the cult hit Arrested Development, launching her Hollywood career - and eventual high-profile marriage to Hollywood mega-star Ellen DeGeneres. Born Mandy Rodgers just outside of Geelong, Portia de Rossi is one of Hollywood's most intriguing and talked about stars. ![]() |