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The last summer by judith kinghorn7/6/2023 ![]() But soon the winds of war come to Deyning, as they come to all of Europe. Though her parents disapprove of their upstairs-downstairs friendship, the two are determined to see each other, and they meet in secret to share what becomes a deep and tender romance. Clarissa is drawn to Tom Cuthbert, the housekeeper's handsome son. In July of 1914, innocent, lovely Clarissa Granville lives with her parents and three brothers in the idyllic isolation of Deyning Park, a grand English country house, where she whiles away her days enjoying house parties, country walks and tennis matches. ![]() I was almost seventeen when the spell of my childhood was broken.It was the beginning of summer and, unbeknown to any of us then, the end of a belle epoque. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Mi-ja is the daughter of a Japanese collaborator. Throughout this time, the residents of Jeju find themselves caught between warring empires. The Island of Sea Women takes place over many decades, beginning during a period of Japanese colonialism in the 1930s and 1940s, followed by World War II, the Korean War, through the era of cell phones and wet suits for the women divers. As the girls take up their positions as baby divers, they know they are beginning a life of excitement and responsibility-but also danger.ĭespite their love for each other, Mi-ja and Young-sook find it impossible to ignore their differences. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village's all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook's mother. ![]() Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends who come from very different backgrounds. "A mesmerizing new historical novel" ( O, The Oprah Magazine) from Lisa See, the bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and devastating family secrets on a small Korean island. ![]()
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Marco polo the travels7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Medieval depiction of a crocodile from Marco Polo’s time, c. He went on to add that “their mouth is big enough to swallow a man at one gulp.” The sheer fascination is clear when reading The Travels, although some historians and naturalists have disputed whether this really was a crocodile he was describing, or whether he used some generous poetic licence and sprinkled in some descriptions from Chinese mythical dragons. ![]() He came across the reptilians and described them as “loathsome creatures”. ![]() That is what Marco Polo had to do when he was on his travels in a place he called Kara-jang, which we now know as Yunnan Province, China. However, imagine describing a crocodile to people who had never even heard of one, let alone seen one. We may now think of crocodiles as something we would only see in a wildlife documentary on television, or in a zoo or safari park. Marco Polo’s Encounter with Crocodiles Mosaic of Marco Polo, displayed in the Palazzo Doria-Tursey, Genoa, Italy, 1867, via ![]()
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Rough ride by paul kimmage7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Perhaps that's why more retired riders haven't written about their experiences. ![]() This book ended more than a few friendships, as the author details in the preface. Kimmage took a lot of heat for his unabridged look into the world of cycling and breaking the code of omerta that exists in the peloton. The deceit and the corruption are astonishing. Taking amphetamines, not to win, but merely to keep up in crits with pre-determined outcomes. But most interesting to me was the behind the scenes look at the rather unglamorous and frankly dangerous life of a professional domestique. Kimmage rode the Tour de France three times and the Giro once. However, this was book was an enthralling page turner about the life of an obscure professional cyclist in the mid-1980s. Irishman Paul Kimmage is not going to be winning any awards for writing any time. ![]()
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Starlight by Richard Wagamese7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() With astonishing scenes set in the rugged backcountry of the B.C. Starlight was unfinished at the time of Richard Wagamese’s death, yet every page radiates with his masterful storytelling, intense humanism, and insights that are as hard-earned as they are beautiful. He wants revenge and is determined to hunt her down. But Emmy’s abusive ex isn’t content to just let her go. Starlight takes in Emmy and her daughter to help them get back on their feet, and this accidental family eventually grows into a real one. Frank Starlight has long settled into a quiet life working his remote farm, but his contemplative existence comes to an abrupt end with the arrival of Emmy, who has committed a desperate act so she and her child can escape a harrowing life of violence. ![]() A profoundly moving novel about the redemptive power of love, mercy, and compassion–and the land’s ability to heal us. NATIONAL BESTSELLER The final novel from Richard Wagamese, the bestselling and beloved author of Indian Horse and Medicine Walk, centres on an abused woman on the run who finds refuge on a farm owned by an Indigenous man with wounds of his own. ![]() You can read this before Starlight PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Starlight written by Richard Wagamese which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Starlight by Richard Wagamese ![]()
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Buzz kill by beth fantaskey7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() I love how excited she can get about pie, ugly dogs and the prospect of becoming “Sir Millie” at Sir Loin’s Steakhouse for consuming a 60 oz porterhouse in one sitting. She was just so refreshing and un-self-consciously quirky, with her love of philosophy and social awkwardness and habit of speaking her mind. ![]() ![]() I can’t remember the last time I was this charmed by a character. My favorite part of this book, hands-down, was Millie Ostermeyer. Here’s what goes down: when head coach Hollerin’ Hank turns up murdered and her father is implicated, high school senior Millie Ostermeyer taps into her journalistic skills and goes on the hunt for a killer. Reviewed by Melissa Rader (Library Staff) ![]()
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The Bride Test by Helen Hoang7/5/2023 ![]() With Esme’s time in the United States dwindling, Khai is forced to understand he’s been wrong all along. She’s hopelessly smitten with a man who’s convinced he can never return her affection. Esme’s lessons in love seem to be working…but only on herself. Seducing Khai, however, doesn’t go as planned. When the opportunity arises to come to America and meet a potential husband, she can’t turn it down, thinking this could be the break her family needs. When he steadfastly avoids relationships, his mother takes matters into her own hands and returns to Vietnam to find him the perfect bride.Īs a mixed-race girl living in the slums of Ho Chi Minh City, Esme Tran has always felt out of place. ![]() ![]() His family knows better-that his autism means he just processes emotions differently. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny, but not big, important emotions-like grief. ![]()
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The dark tower series7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Budget concerns led the movies being scrapped, and while Imagine’s Brian Grazer had hoped to land the series at HBO, that too never came to pass.įast forward to 2015: Sony and MRC joined Imagine to revive The Dark Tower, again with plans for both films and a TV series. In 2010, Universal and Imagine announced an ambitious set of three feature films and a companion TV series, with Ron Howard set to direct the first one and Akiva Goldsman adapting King’s work. The Dark Tower has a fraught Hollywood history that spans more than a decade. The Dark Tower, however, is carved out of the Amazon deal (and was at Netflix as well), which could allow Flanagan and Macy to shop the project to other outlets if they choose. Intrepid Pictures recently signed an overall deal with Amazon Studios after several years with Netflix, which produced two seasons of The Haunting, Midnight Mass and The Midnight Club, along with the forthcoming Fall of the House of Usher. 'When Harry Met Sally,' 'Iron Man,' 'Little Mermaid,' 'Hairspray,' 'House Party,' 'Carrie' Enter National Film Registry ![]()
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Cair by eryn hawk7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() It’s tragedy and heartbreak just waiting to happen. ![]() Luca can't enter the Fae realm, and Cair’s time in the mortal lands is drawing to an end, so while the attraction between them is irresistible, their situation is impossible. Cair tries to guard his heart, but fate has other plans and, despite his best intentions, he finds himself falling for the pretty little human. He's content with that until he meets Luca-his soulmate-and hires him to work in his high-end lounge. Falling for the boss is a bad idea though, right? Cair Haryk is only a visitor to the human world and, between his position in the Fae kingdom and a bargain he made years ago, he can never remain. He should be intimidated, but instead, Luca finds himself utterly captivated. The humans and the supernaturals mostly keep to their own kind, but Lucacurious and desperate for workcrosses the border and finds himself employed by a tall, stupidly handsome Fae with killer horns. The humans and the supernaturals mostly keep to their own kind, but Luca-curious and desperate for work-crosses the border and finds himself employed by a tall, stupidly handsome Fae with killer horns. My rating: 4/5 Stars Synopsis: Twenty-five-year-old Luca Elliot lives in a city divided. ![]() □ BLURB □ Twenty-five-year-old Luca Elliot lives in a city divided. ![]()
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An Earl Unmasked by Rachel Ann Smith7/4/2023 ![]() She entered Dickinson’s life in the summer of 1850, which the poet would later remember as the season “when love first began, on the step at the front door, and under the Evergreens.” Susan Gilbert had settled in Amherst, to be near her sister, after graduating from the Utica Female Academy - one of a handful of academically rigorous educational institutions available to women at the time. ![]() (Amherst College Archives & Special Collections, gift of Millicent Todd Bingham, 1956) ![]() The only authenticated photograph of the poet. (This essay is drawn from my book.) Emily Dickinson at seventeen. I devote more than one hundred pages of Figuring to their beautiful, heartbreaking, unclassifiable relationship that fomented some of the greatest, most original and paradigm-shifting poetry humanity has ever produced. ![]() Throughout the poet’s life, Susan would be her muse, her mentor, her primary reader and editor, her fiercest lifelong attachment, her “Only Woman in the World.” ![]() Four months before her twentieth birthday, Emily Dickinson (December 10, 1830–May 15, 1886) met the person who became her first love and remained her greatest - an orphaned mathematician-in-training by the name of Susan Gilbert, nine days her junior. ![]() |