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Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Please respect the rights of the author and do not file share. They cannot be sold, shared or given away as it is an infringement on the copyright of this work. When distrust turns to understanding and passion, can Dale and Rebecca, two women bound by fate, make a family neither expected?ĮBooks are not transferable. Now pregnant for a second time, she’s horrified when Jake brings home the woman he believes is his other mother. Thanks to an anonymous egg donor, infertility didn’t stop her from having her son Jake. Rebecca Harper bears the emotional scars of her father’s crimes, and now she has two rules: never let anyone get too close, and never admit weakness. Then one day a ten-year-old boy turns up, claiming to be her son, and her simple ordered world turns upside down. Now in her mid thirties, she’s restless and can’t work out why. Self-made business owner Dale McGuire has always enjoyed two things in life: women and fast cars. The book is also excellent for reading levels from pre-kindergarten to first grade. Goodnight Moon is a short board book with 30 pages appropriate for children aged infants to three years old. The drawings also include a view of the night sky and the moon through the window. The little rabbit’s bedroom is represented in the book as a pleasant and warm atmosphere with muted tones and gentle textures. Hurd’s pictures, filled with soothing hues and delicate lines that inspire a sense of comfort and security, bring these objects to life. The young rabbit and different objects in his bedroom, such as a red balloon, a cow jumping over the moon, and a small toy house, are among the characters in the book. The simple and repeated content of the book, together with Hurd’s gorgeous pictures, creates a quiet and pleasant setting for young children to unwind before bed. At each page turn, the young bunny says goodnight to the moon, stars, red balloon, and even the gentle old lady muttering hush. The plot follows a little rabbit as he gets ready for bed, saying goodnight to everything in his room and around him. This iconic book, written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd, was initially published in 1947 and sold over 48 million copies worldwide. Goodnight Moon is a cherished children’s book whose calming and rhythmic style has captured generations of young readers. The start of her sloppy lack of editing.ģ. I don't like how this book isolates itself from non-Catholic fans as I already explained.Ģ. But there were certain things I definitely did not like.ġ. The plot itself isn't too bad and for the most part Lestat still behaves like himself (unlike that being in Blood Canticle). Anne Rice, today, hints that it was all real. For a while it's unclear whether Lestat really went on this journey or if he had some sort of break down or was tricked by powerful spirits in an elaborate illusion. An eye got ripped out but he manages to get it back later. Lestat goes on a journey of Heaven and Hell and comes back quite worse for ware. Now for a lot of people it seems Lestat exists in a solely Catholic mythos, completely segregating the non-Catholic fans who had liked to imagine Lestat in their reality. People of any religious background could see Lestat existing in their own real world. There was no certainty as to who or what created the universe, just like our world. The character of Lestat existed in a world that could easily be our own. I just feel it would have been better if Anne Rice wrote this as a stand alone novel without using her pre-established characters. The Devil tells his side of things to a vampire. It's not so much that Memnoch The Devil has a bad premise. 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During your trial you will have complete digital access to FT.com with everything in both of our Standard Digital and Premium Digital packages. Highly recommended for both public library collections and personal or book club reading lists, The Hamilton Affair is all but impossible to put down.Ĭobbs's depiction of Hamilton will endear him in the hearts of readers and shed light on one of the most misunderstood figures in American history and the woman who shared his life. captivating historical novel from cover to cover, vividly recreating Hamilton's dramatic and inspirational life story. It's a bouquet to obsessed, but this well-written novel is enough to keep the lay reader satisfied, too.Īuthor and historian Elizabeth Cobbs' fictionalized spin on the life of the founding pops and his better half, Eliza Schulyer, is a juicy answer to Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton. Think of it as a terrific companion to all things Hamilton.Ĭobbs' novel presents a thoroughly researched portrait of the Hamiltons that makes you feel like you are in the room where it happened. Elizabeth Cobbs' superb novel about the many lives and perils of Hamilton and his wife Eliza adds delights and insights that are as fascinating as they are fun. The Hamilton Affair promises to turn up the heat even further. Historic scholarship and creative music have suddenly turned Alexander Hamilton into one of the hottest of the nation's Founding Fathers. "I cried twice and smiled plenty."-Olivia Atwater "An unabashedly offbeat adventure."-Freya Marske "Truly outstanding romantic fantasy."-India Holton Set in a world full of magic and demigods, donuts and small-town drama, this enchantingly quirky, utterly unique fantasy is perfect for fans of The House in the Cerulean Sea and The Invisible Library. But can their blossoming romance survive the fated discovery that their pen pals are their worst nightmares-each other? As the dangers from Tanria grow closer, so do the unlikely correspondents. If only Hart knew he’s been baring his soul to the person who infuriates him most-Mercy. Much to his surprise, an anonymous letter comes back in return, and a tentative friendship is born. She’s been single-handedly keeping Birdsall & Son Undertakers afloat in defiance of sullen jerks like Hart, who seems to have a gift for showing up right when her patience is thinnest.Īfter yet another exasperating run-in with Mercy, Hart finds himself penning a letter addressed simply to “A Friend”. It’s an unforgiving job, and Hart’s got nothing but time to ponder his loneliness. Hart is a marshal, tasked with patrolling the strange and magical wilds of Tanria. If you ever wished for an adult romance that felt like Howl's Moving Castle, THIS IS THAT BOOK."-Helen Hoang, author of The Kiss Quotient "A uniquely charming mixture of whimsy and the macabre that completely won me over. In the 13,000 years since the end of the last Ice Age, some parts of the world developed literate industrial societies with metal tools, other parts developed only nonliterate farming societies, and still others retained societies of hunter-gatherers with stone tools. We all know that history has proceeded very differently for peoples from different parts of the globe. Only by grasping the richness and diversity of the entire ecosystem can we begin to dismantle our assumptions about the value of others and realize that people from different groups fared differently in history not due to their innate abilities but due to a complex cluster of environmental and geopolitical forces. His Pulitzer-winning 1997 book Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies ( public library) is a foundational text illuminating the conditions that led to inequality in the modern world and combating the broken logic that perpetuates these toxic beliefs.Īt the heart of Diamond’s work is the notion that in order to understand any one society, we must contextualize it in the larger ecosystem of humanity and therefore must understand all societies. September 10, 1937) has done more than anyone since Margaret Mead to decondition the Eurocentric approach to history and debunk the biological fallacies on which the monster of racism feeds. By bridging the fields of anthropology, evolutionary biology, behavioral ecology, geopolitics, and social science, trailblazing scientist Jared Diamond (b. They are in the movie, or they seem to be, trying to coax the kids to remove their blindfolds, for example, and appearing as manifestations of a person’s worst nightmares. Early on there are rumours of people who have learned to live with the creatures but these are unsubstantiated. Looking through a video camera doesn’t help and nor does looking at them in the mirror. If you look at them, you go mad and kills yourself and maybe others. In the 12 years since the end of Bird Box, which is the time when the majority of Malorie is set, the creatures haven’t gone anywhere and in fact they have increased in number meaning living among them is an absolute necessity. Well that we don’t know specifically but we do know more about them. Here’s how it answers your pressing questions. This follow up reveals plenty more info about the world of Bird Box. The movie was a great success for Netflix, and now a sequel has been published, titled Malorie which followers her character and the two children 12 years after the end of Bird Box. In it, Sandra Bullock’s Malorie must try to shepherd two children to safety in a world populated by creatures it is fatal to look at. Josh Malerman’s Bird Box was published in 2014 to much acclaim and the 2018 Netflix movie based on it caused quite a stir. Spoilers from the start for Bird Box, both the book and the film, and Malorie, the book. 19 Piri Reis and his sources.21 Legacy of a lost civilization?. Fingerprints of the gods / by Graham Hancock.-1st American ed. Cook Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hancock, Graham. Printed in the United States of America Line illustrations by R. New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland THREE RIVERS PRESS and colophon are trademarks of Crown Publishers, Inc. First American hardcover edition published by Crown Publishers, Inc., in 1995. Originally published in Great Britain by William Heinemann, Ltd., an imprint of Reed Consumer Books Ltd., in 1995. Published by Three Rivers Press, a division of Crown Publishers, Inc., 201 East 50th Street, New York, New York 10022. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS Copyright © 1995 by Graham Hancock All rights reserved. Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODSįINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS Also by Graham Hancock Journey Through Pakistan Ethiopia: The Challenge of Hunger AIDS: The Deadly Epidemic Lords of Poverty African Ark: Peoples of the Horn The Sign and the Seal: A Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant The Message of the Sphinx (with Robert Bauval)įingerprints of the Gods Graham Hancock Photographs by Santha Faiia Three Rivers Press New York |