![]() Noted for clever and surprising twists of plot, many of Christie's mysteries feature two unconventional fictional detectives named Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. Some of her most famous titles include Murder on the Orient Express, Mystery of the Blue Train, And Then There Were None, 13 at Dinner and The Sittaford Mystery. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language with another billion in 44 foreign languages. In her lifetime, she authored 79 crime novels and a short story collection, 19 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott. ![]() She wrote her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1920, launching a literary career that spanned decades. One of the most successful and beloved writer of mystery stories, Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie was born in 1890 in Torquay, County Devon, England. ![]()
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5/28/2023 0 Comments Blood Work by Holly Tucker![]() ![]() Anesthesia was unknown, so readers may squirm at the author’s detailed descriptions. Tucker focuses on events during the 1660s when individuals in London and Paris performed a flurry of transfusions. Renaissance anatomists corrected other ancient errors, but they worked from dead bodies, so it was 1628 before Englishman William Harvey correctly described the circulation of the blood, a controversial finding hotly debated for years. ![]() Pregnant Fictions: Childbirth and the Fairy Tale in Early Modern France, 2003) explains how ancient authorities taught that digested food becomes blood, which seeps into the heart and burns, and that breathing blows off fumes from the heart’s furnace. Tucker (History of Medicine/Vanderbilt Univ. Lurid and often gruesome scientific history of blood transfusions in 17th-century France and England. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Kylie scott repeat![]() Evelyn realizes that she really likes David. that is the question. While at David’s home away, the couple starts to get to know one another. Eve and David go away for a bit to get away from the crowds and decide what to do. Once the media catches wind of this its even more crazy. He married her for a reason, he fell for her right away, and now he doesn't know what to do about it. David isn't happy that Evelyn doesn't remember anything. Getting married to a rockstar she just met on her 21st birthday is not part of that plan. the next morning she wakes up with a ring on her finger and a tattoo on her ass. The last thing she remembers is taking shots after midnight. ![]() So she goes to Vegas with her best friend. This book begins with Evelyn going out for her 21st birthday, she wants to get a little wild, have a little fun. Either way, the story held my attention and I really enjoyed this 1st book in the series. First, I read this book on my kindle app and I decided to try it in audio. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments The right stud ilsa madden mills![]() ![]() With a suitcase in one hand and a hammer in the other, he wants to move in and renovate my old house while he films his new show.īut my roommate has secrets, and they threaten to rip our blossoming friendship - and possible love - apart. You see, my sexy mystery man is none other than Jax Roland, the drop-dead gorgeous home improvement star of The Right Stud, and he’s got an offer I can’t refuse. What I don’t expect is for him to show up the next day in my kitchen! ![]() I resolve to forget about his perfect lips (and chest of steel) and instead focus on turning my Granny’s old beach house into a profitable B&B. She collects magnets and rarely cooks except to bake her own pretzels. Men are all snakes in the grass, and I don’t need a new one anyway. Ilsa Madden-Mills New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Ilsa Madden-Mills writes about strong heroines and sexy alpha males that sometimes you just want to slap. ![]() ![]() Tall, Blond, and Handsome walks into that bar, I know he’s the hook-up I need to get over stupid Cheater Kyle.Ī few stolen kisses in a dark hallway, and I’m pretty sure we’re headed for a home run - until he disappears without a trace. “The best way to get over your sh**ty ex-fiancé is to get under a shiny new stud…”Īs soon as Mr. ![]() ![]() ![]() Stacy is currently a marketing and communications professional for an independent school and writes an award-winning freelance parenting column for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. She also served as a writing, marketing and community engagement strategist for nonprofits, using her skills to help family, youth-centric and literacy organizations better tell their stories. ![]() She went on to build a freelance writing career through which she penned articles for national publications such as AARP’s Bulletin, Heart & Soul magazine and. Her sole nonfiction book, Who Speaks To Your Heart? gives women practical tips and inspiration on how to connect more deeply with God.īefore becoming an author, Stacy was a newspaper reporter for 14 years, primarily at the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia. Other recent titles include Lead Me Home (recipient of a Publisher’s Weekly starred review) Coming Home (a 2012 Target stores Recommended Read) and The Someday List, an Essence magazine bestseller. It is the third novel in her Winds of Change series, but is a stand-alone title that does not have to be read in order. ![]() Her latest book, Finding Home, was released in March 2016. Her women’s fiction novels feature themes related to issues most women grapple with – personal growth, self-esteem, faith, forgiveness, friendships and family. Stacy Hawkins Adams is an award-winning author and journalist. She has penned 10 books – nine fiction titles and one nonfiction spiritual devotional book. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Secrets and lies nicky james![]() Heavy: An American Memoir Kiese Laymon (Scribner).Hers is an intense story of how she went from being birthed and schooled at home to earning her PhD from Cambridge University. In this searing, vividly told memoir, Westover writes of growing up in a survivalist, religious fundamentalist family in the isolated Idaho mountains. Educated: A Memoir Tara Westover (Random House).This bold, innovative collision of form, tone, and style ingeniously juxtaposes Alice’s dreamworld alongside Amar’s harsh reality, marking Halliday as a singular talent. ![]() ![]() Asymmetry Lisa Halliday (Simon & Schuster)Ī young book editor named Alice embarks on a relationship with an older, prize-winning novelist in Manhattan an Iraqi-American economist named Amar is detained at Heathrow on his way to visit family in Iraq. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Trish Trash #1 by Jessica Abel![]() ![]() Other contributions include an intro by Jim Steranko (Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.) and an afterward by comics historian Tom Andrae. Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson (the Major's granddaughter and noted comics historian) will contribute a historical essay that provides an in depth look at the formation of National Allied Publications and the man behind New Fun, New Comics, and other memorable original comics that predated DC Comics' inception. Before Batman and Superman were even a glimmer in Bill Finger and Jerry Siegel's eyes, Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson created National Allied Publications, which would then go on to become DC Comics one of the largest comic publishers in the world. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Sarah adams the cheat sheet![]() Oh, and did I mention we have to date publicly for three weeks until after the Super Bowl because we signed a contract with…oops, forgot I can’t tell anyone about that!īottom line is, now my best friend is smudging all the lines and acting very un-platonic, and I’m just trying to keep my body from bursting into flames every time he touches me. Our friendship is going swimmingly until I accidentally spill my beans to a reporter after too much tequila, and now the world seems to think Nathan and I belong together. Except, I can never admit it to him because he clearly doesn’t see me that way, and the last thing I want is for things to get weird between us. (I’m not crying, I’m just peeling an onion.) Nothing but good old-fashioned, no-touching-the-sexiest-man-alive, platonic friendship for us! Everything is exactly how I like it! Yes. The first step is admitting, right? Except I can never admit it to him because he clearly doesn’t see me that way, and the last thing I want is for things to get weird between us. ![]() ![]() Hi, my name is Bree Camden, and I’m hopelessly in love with my best friend and star quarterback Nathan Donelson (as is half of America, judging by the tabloids and how much the guy dates). Is it ever too late to leave the friend zone? The Cheat Sheet Sarah Adams 3.75 139,851 ratings17,725 reviews Is it ever too late to leave the friend-zone Hi, my name is Bree Camden, and I’m hopelessly in love with my best friend and star quarterback Nathan Donelson (so is half of America, judging by the tabloids and how much the guy dates). ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments White Belt by Faye McCray![]() ![]() ![]() No Mirrors in My Nana’s House by Ysaye Barnellįrom Amazon: A little girl discovers the beauty in herself–and the beauty of the world around her–not by looking in the mirror but by looking in her Nana’s eyes. Written in a reassuring tone with a jazzy beat and illustrated with graceful, realistic watercolors, this book captures an important rite of passage for boys and celebrates African-American identity.Ģ. But with the support of his dad, the barber, and the other men in the barbershop, Miles bravely sits through his first haircut. Like most little boys, he is afraid of the sharp scissors, the buzzing razor, and the prospect of picking a new hairstyle. Bippity Bop Barbershop by Natasha Anastasia Tarplyįrom Amazon: In this companion book to the bestselling I Love My Hair, a young boy, Miles, makes his first trip to the barbershop with his father. ![]() Our children deserve to be celebrated! Here are 20 empowering children’s books every parent, grandparent and teacher should have in their collection.ġ. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments The Wife by Sigrid Undset![]() ![]() ![]() Catholic critics seem to have forgotten her. Yet today, who has heard of her? Feminist critics, who might be expected to champion her, dislike her Catholicism. Undset (1882–1949) won the 1928 Nobel Prize for Literature for her novels, primarily the historical trilogy Kristin Lavransdatter, and the tetralogy The Master of Hestviken, sagas of life in medieval Norway. I have another friend who thanks me to this day for introducing him to Sigrid Undset. It should have been common ground for us. “You should have told me about her earlier,” my friend said to me. from The Bridal Wreath by Sigrid Undset, translated Tiina Nunnally But I didn’t realize then that the consequence of sin is that you have to trample on other people.” “I’ve done many things that I thought I would never dare do because they were sins. “You didn’t dare because it was sin,” said Fru Aashild. But it’s not good when you think something’s not right because you don’t dare do it.” “ Do you remember, Aunt, you once told me that it’s a good thing when you don’t dare do something if you don’t think it’s right. ![]() |