![]() ![]() ![]() Written for the General Market (G) (I) (V) Eligible for Amazon Prime Reading on Kindle: Contains little or no sexual dialogue or situations, or strong language. He just has to find them before his past catches up with him. But as the tally of missing persons increases, Winter closes in on the unlikeliest of suspects. Afraid that his girlfriend, fellow agent Maggie Keeley, will be dragged into a high-stakes political game, he delays his decision. Unable to convince his boss that Blackston's disappearance is anything other than a lost hiker, Winter joins forces with a local police officer to continue the search.Īs the clues mount, a dark figure from Jeremy's past emerges with an ultimatum - one that could force him out of the Bureau. While investigating Blackston's recent activities, FBI Agent Jeremy Winter stumbles upon a string of missing persons within state parks. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Charlie tells people my PhD is about him and while this is wildly inaccurate (another trope of the big brother) it is also sort of true because I research representations of Down syndrome in narrative fiction. ![]() ![]() He occasionally puts me in a headlock and calls me names, but when he introduces me to his friends they all know who I am because he talks about me often. Like all big brothers, Charlie is as impressed by me as he is unimpressed. He quizzes my partner about his intentions and hits on most of my friends. ![]() He watches over me, teaches me how not to suck on the playstation, takes me out for coffee. I’m not sure if I worried more, or less because my big brother Charlie has Down syndrome.Ĭharlie is amazing but he’s amazing in the same way most big brothers are amazing. What if I wasn’t a very good mum? What if my career suffered? What about my life in general, would I still have time to read and write and walk the dogs? What about money, could I even afford a kid? I worried about the birth itself and what nappies to buy and which car seat to get… But, mostly, I worried that my daughter would have Down syndrome. When I found out I was pregnant with my daughter last year my first thoughts were all negative ones. ![]() ![]() ![]() HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Though the ballet was not immediately a success, it has become immensely popular since the late 1960s and is performed every year during the holidays by ballet companies around the world. ![]() It has been adapted numerous times, most notably for the ballet scored by Pyotr Ilyich Tchikovsky in 1892. Hoffmans timeless and whimsical tale has become a Christmas classic since it was first published in 1816. Under the cover of darkness, the Nutcracker comes to life, along with an evil Mouse King with seven heads, introducing Marie to the magical world of toys, and the brave Nutcracker who will change her life forever.Į. On Christmas Eve, Marie finds a Nutcracker doll among the familys gifts and is charged by her parents to take special care of it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() H Is for Hawk is a genre-defying debut from one of our most unique and transcendent voices. White’s 1951 classic, The Goshaw k, which I once called a book about excruciatingly bad falconry but also added the best book on falconry, its feel, its emotions. It is not only a bird book but a book about T. Fierce and feral, her goshawk Mabel's temperament mirrors Helen's own state of grief after her father's death, and together raptor and human "discover the pain and beauty of being alive" (People). Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk is the best book on the goshawk yet, and may be the best on falconry from the inside. The instant New York Times bestseller and award-winning sensation, Helen Macdonald's story of adopting and raising one of nature's most vicious predators has soared into the hearts of millions of readers worldwide. Macdonald's book contains references to other literary works, locating. The text uses lyrical and descriptive language to depict the beauty of nature. H is for Hawk depicts Macdonald's struggles through grief after the loss of her father. Louis Post Dispatch, Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top 10), Library Journal (Top 10), Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Slate, Shelf Awareness, Book Riot, Amazon (Top 20) H is for Hawk is a 2014 text by author and naturalist Helen Macdonald. ON MORE THAN 25 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR LISTS: including TIME (#1 Nonfiction Book), NPR, O, The Oprah Magazine (10 Favorite Books), Vogue (Top 10), Vanity Fair, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, San Francisco Chronicle (Top 10), Miami Herald, St. One of Slate's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years ![]() One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year ![]() ![]() ![]() OHHH."Īfterward, she was almost shy, or as shy as Ygritte ever got. "If you love me all so much, why are you still dressed?" she whispered. "I love your skinny legs, and what's between them." He knelt to kiss her there, lightly on her mound at first, but Ygritte moved her legs apart a little, and he saw the pink inside and kissed that as well, and tasted her. I love your teats." He kissed them, one and then the other. I love your mouth, and the way you kiss me. Does that make it even luckier? He pulled her close. Her legs were skinny and well muscled, the hair at the juncture of her thighs a brighter red than that on her head. He had never seeen how beautiful she was. He had been in her half a hundred times by now, but always beneath furs, with others all around them. She stood before him naked as her name day, and he was as hard as the rock around them. “I know I want you," he heard himself say, all his vows and his honor all forgotten. ![]() ![]() Charlotte decides to file a wrongful-birth lawsuit against Piper. ![]() After a vacation at Disney World goes horribly awry, the O’Keefes spiral apart. Although Willow is precocious intellectually and for the most part a joy to be around, her illness is, inarguably, a drain on family finances and emotions. Charlotte abandoned her career to care for Willow 24/7. Now age six, Willow, still toddler-sized, cannot walk, play or even turn over in bed without risking a compound fracture. At 27 weeks, another ultrasound reveals that Charlotte’s daughter has sustained several fractures in utero, a sign that she suffers from osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), a rare congenital defect that causes brittle bones and severe complications (including scoliosis, respiratory problems and years of costly orthopedic interventions). Eighteen weeks into the pregnancy, during a routine ultrasound, Piper, looking for signs of possible Down syndrome, discounts the import of the fetus’s unusually transparent cranium. ![]() ![]() Charlotte’s best friend Piper unwisely agrees to be her OB-GYN. Although she has a daughter, Amelia, by a previous relationship, she and her new husband, police officer Sean, wanted a child of their own. In another issue-driven novel, Picoult ( Change of Heart, 2008, etc.) explores the impact of “wrongful birth” litigation on an ordinary New Hampshire family.Ĭharlotte O’Keefe, a prominent pastry chef, was thrilled when she conceived at age 38 without resorting to fertility treatments. ![]() ![]() However, it was a box office flop, grossing $13 million against a production budget of $32 million. It was also named one of the best films of 2022 by the American Film Institute. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised the screenplay and the performances of Kazan and Mulligan. She Said had its world premiere at the 60th New York Film Festival on October 13, 2022, and was released in the United States on November 18, 2022, by Universal Pictures. During post-production, editing was completed by Hansjörg Weißbrich and the score was composed by Nicholas Britell. Filming took place in New York with cinematographer Natasha Braier. The book was optioned in 2018, and the film was announced in 2021 as a co-production between Annapurna Pictures and Plan B Entertainment. ![]() Patricia Clarkson, Andre Braugher, Jennifer Ehle, and Samantha Morton co-star, with Ashley Judd appearing as herself. ![]() The film stars Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan as Twohey and Kantor, respectively, and follows their New York Times investigation that exposed Harvey Weinstein's history of abuse and sexual misconduct against women. She Said is a 2022 American biographical drama film directed by Maria Schrader and written by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, based on the 2019 book of the same title by reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve been so excited for the release of this book ever since I heard about it. To save him, Enne will need to surrender herself to the city… As Enne unearths an impossible secret about her past, Levi’s enemies catch up to them, ensnaring him in a vicious execution game where the players always lose. Their search for clues leads them through glamorous casinos, illicit cabarets and into the clutches of a ruthless mafia donna. ![]() Enne’s offer of compensation, however, could be the solution to all his problems. Levi is also only one payment away from cleaning up a rapidly unraveling investment scam, so he doesn’t have time to investigate a woman leading a dangerous double life. Unfortunately, Levi is not the gentleman she expected-he’s a street lord and a con man. ![]() ![]() But when her mother goes missing, Enne must leave her finishing school-and her reputation-behind to follow her mother’s trail to the city where no one survives uncorrupted.įrightened and alone, her only lead is a name: Levi Glaisyer. Enne Salta was raised as a proper young lady, and no lady would willingly visit New Reynes, the so-called City of Sin. ![]() ![]() ![]() And the sights, sounds and smell of conflict – the wounded, the gunfire and the smell of smoking shells – pervade the writing, communicating the brutal, relentless and wearying reality of war. We follow him on long marches through France we read about the painful blisters on his feet, the endless digging of trenches, the many marches to the next village and about finding somewhere, anywhere, to sleep and march again. His account begins with him leaving his wife and family to join his unit just before war is declared. Here we have the experience of one soldier, written in a straightforward manner with, as Michael Morpugo puts it in his introduction, ‘no high flown poetry or prose’. The diary reflects what must have been the day to day experience of tens if not hundreds of thousands of men. The text is the soldier’s own but the illustrations are Barroux’s. ![]() The jottings in the notebook relate the soldier’s experience of the first two months of the war, August and September 1914. Author-illustrator Barroux rescued the notebook of an unknown French soldier of the First World War from rubbish cleared from the basement of a house in Paris. This striking graphic novel came about in an interesting way. Line of Fire: Diary of an Unknown Soldier Author: Barroux ![]() ![]() ![]() With unforgettable imagery and a powerhouse woman at the helm of the tale, this revamped myth is one to get on your bookshelf." - School Library Journal, starred ![]() "Burton tackles an old myth with unflinching honesty to reclaim Medusa’s story as one of self-love and bravery. An 18-year-old Medusa wrests control of her own story in this necessary reimagining of the Greek myth for YA readers." - Shelf Awareness, starred review "A fiercely feminist undercurrent fuels Medusa's unflinching voice. Exquisitely told, Medusa stole my heart from its first fierce lines.” - Mary Watson, author of THE WREN HUT “This book is a beautiful excavation, uncovering the girl beneath the gorgon, the power within the punished. “Medusa is absolutely stunning and easily my read of the year – sheer perfection from start to finish, both in words and art.” - Catherine Doyle, author of THE STORM KEEPER series The book tackles pain and trauma without flinching, but its message is ultimately one of joy and hope.” - Madeline Miller, author of THE SONG OF ACHILLES Burton's text and Lomenech Gill's art are a perfect match, offering a powerfully feminist, elegiac, and original twist on this old story. ![]() |