In this timely and timeless speculative novel, award-winning author Kelly Barnhill boldly explores rage, memory, and the tyranny of forced limitations. Watching her beloved cousin Bea become dangerously obsessed with the forbidden. It’s taboo to speak of.įorced into silence, Alex nevertheless must face the consequences of this astonishing event: a mother more protective than ever an absentee father the upsetting insistence that her aunt never even existed and Was it their choice? What will become of those left behind? Why did Alex’s beloved aunt Marla transform but her mother did not? Alex doesn’t know. In the first adult novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Ogress and The Orphans, Alex Green is a young girl in a world much like ours, except for its most seminal event: the Mass Dragoning of 1955, when hundreds of thousands of ordinary wives and mothers sprouted wings, scales, and talons left a trail of fiery destruction in their path and took to the skies. "Completely fierce, unmistakably feminist, and subversively funny." -Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry
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West with Giraffes, a novel by Lynda Rutledge, gripped my attention from beginning to end. And an arty heartbeat too – which extends to the wealth of festivals and events that are testimony to the creative vibe of the region. There are many exciting things to do for all the family. There’s a vibrant buzz in places like Cheltenham, Cirencester, Tewkesbury, Stroud and Witney. One of the delights of visiting the Cotswolds is exploring the different areas, each with its own identity, yet all with those defining Cotswold features: golden stone and rolling hills, the ‘wolds’.Įxplore quintessentially English villages of honey-coloured stone take in splendid, lively market towns visit some of the country’s greatest palaces, castles and country houses marvel at the natural world in acclaimed reserves and at some of the most famous arboretas in Britain walk through breath-taking landscapes along historic trails or make a splash in our lake-land area with its own inland beach. The Cotswolds covers a huge area – almost 800 square miles – and runs through five counties (Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Wiltshire and Worcestershire). A short break or even an extended holiday in the Cotswolds will leave you wanting more and you’ll be booking your next Cotswolds holiday as soon as you return home! Welcome to the Cotswolds, a very special, very wonderful place. Michael’s-on-the-Cliff and his good friend Doctor Pendrill had dinner together at the Vicarage every Monday evening and that this little ceremony they’d followed for fifteen years included a discussion of the detective books they’d read during the previous week, I knew this book would be a winner.Įach week the two bachelors took turns choosing six books from the library which were sent up to the Vicarage on a Monday. When I read that the Reverend Dodd, Vicar of St. All ambling along just as it had done for the last fifteen years. In the centre of the hearth-rug, placed with exact precision between the two arm-chairs, was a small wooden crate. A reading-lamp cast an orange circle over the seat of his favourite chair and gleamed, diluted, on the multicoloured book-backs which lined most of the room. Behind him a big log fire crackled in the open hearth. The Vicar, who was fond of bodily comfort, sighed with the profoundest satisfaction. Nightfall was released 17 years after the last book was released, just before the TV series made its debut. This is the first book in the “newer” installments of the Vampire Diaries. Quote:Įlena startled both of them by flying up so quickly that Stefan had to grab her by the waist to keep her from shooting toward the ceiling. There is a strong Power growing in Fell’s Church, one that is trying to take over the children for malevolent purposes. Now she’s back! Elena Gilbert doesn’t exactly remember who she is, or what the world is like, but that doesn’t stop the word from moving on from Elena Gilbert. Warning: Cliffhanger (Welp, this is going to take a while isn’t it?) Blurb:Įlena Gilbert died. She knows he is falling more in love with her each day. Every morning, her lush presence tempts him beyond all reason and every night she promises with her eyes - and her body - that the hours before dawn could be spent in unbridled passion instead of restless sleep - if only he'd let her share his bed. So, she charms her way into his life by gaining his trust and living in his house. Her goal is to ruin his reputation and cause a scandal that would be the talk of all London. 'Lisa Kleypas is the best' Sarah MacLean Can Lady Sophie seduce the most eligible man in London? Lady Sophia Sydney would do anything to ensnare the unattainable Sir Ross Cannon. The second novel in the sensational Bow Street series from New York Times bestselling historical romance author Lisa Kleypas - perfect for fans of Sarah MacLean, Julia Quinn and Eloisa James. The new millennium brought other challenges to the Black Death-bubonic plague link, such as an unknown and probably unidentifiable bacillus, an Ebola-like haemorrhagic fever or, at the pseudoscientific fringes of academia, a disease of interstellar origin. Aware that fourteenth-century eyewitnesses described a disease more contagious and deadlier than bubonic plague ( Yersinia pestis), the bacillus traditionally associated with the Black Death, dissident scholars in the 1970s and 1980s proposed typhus or anthrax or mixes of typhus, anthrax, or bubonic plague as the culprit. In spite of enduring fascination with the Black Death, even the identity of the disease behind the epidemic remains a point of controversy. Despite growing understanding of the Black Death’s effects, definitive assessment of its role as historical watershed remains a work in progress. Its gruesome symptoms and deadliness have fixed the Black Death in popular imagination moreover, uncovering the disease’s cultural, social, and economic impact has engaged generations of scholars. From its arrival in Italy in late 1347 through its clockwise movement across the continent to its petering out in the Russian hinterlands in 1353, the magna pestilencia (great pestilence) killed between seventeen and twenty-eight million people. The Black Death was the largest demographic disaster in European history. |