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Maniac of New York by Elliott Kalan5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Together, forming a classic buddy-cop duo, they investigate how to deal with Harry and they better work fast because he has only started his killing spree. She asks for the help of Zelda Pettibone, a disgruntled officer with a fair share of past regrets. But his role is also a bit different from the other characters mentioned.Īfter Harry killed 493 people and caused a massacre in Times Square, Gina Greene volunteers herself to be the new director of the Maniac Task Force. In our day and age, with so many sequels and remakes, everyone knows the basics of slasher flicks like Halloween and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, so – in a way – we are already familiar with Harry, our Jason-like serial killer. It already warns you the story will be filled with the kinds of violence and gory deaths characteristic of the slasher genre. Elliott Kalan and Andrea Mutti open up Maniac of New York: The Death Train with the above image. ![]()
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How to hide a lion by helen stephens5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() The writing style is excellent, with accessible vocabulary, and a good flow to the plot. They'll love seeing a child getting one over on her parents, albeit in a gentle and ridiculous manner. It was beautifully silly in a way that will particularly amuse young book fans. ![]() Her parents wouldn't see things as she does, so Iris decides to hide the lion around the house. ![]() That's exactly what Iris does when a lion wanders into town. They're so gentle that a little could have one as a pet. Longlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2013 There are nods to classic picture books, and How to Hide a Lion sits comfortably alongside all of them. Summary: An amusing tale of a young girl hiding a lion in her house. ![]()
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A wonderlandiful world5/29/2023 ![]() Lizzie Hearts, Wonderland's future queen, Cedar Wood, daughter of Pinocchio, and Madeline Hatter, heir to the Mad Hatter's Hat and Tea Shoppe, seem to be the only ones who haven't completely lost their heads. The students transform into animals and objects, palace mice talk, and the beautiful green grounds on campus fade to black-and-white. Now no one's destiny is certain, not even for the most royal of them all, Apple White.When a mysterious being from Wonderland begins to infect Ever After High with a strange magic, everything goes topsy-turvy. But when Raven Queen came along, things became fairy, fairy confusing. ![]() ![]() There are spoilers in the summary below for previous books!Īt Ever After High, everyone is expected to sign the Storybook of Legends, pledging to follow in their fairytale parent's footsteps. ![]()
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Butts by Heather Radke5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() A woman’s butt, in particular, is forever being assessed, criticized, and objectified, from anxious self-examinations trying on jeans in department store dressing rooms to enduring crass remarks while walking down a street or high school hallways. It is a body part unique to humans, critical to our evolution and survival, and yet it has come to signify so much more: sex, desire, comedy, shame. ![]() Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big, too small, or anywhere in between, humans have a complicated relationship with butts. ![]() “Lively and thorough, Butts is the best kind of nonfiction.” - Esquire, Best Books of 2022Ī “carefully researched and reported work of cultural history” ( The New York Times) that explores how one body part has influenced the female-and human-experience for centuries, and what that obsession reveals about our lives today. “Winning, cheeky, and illuminating….What appears initially as a folly with a look-at-this cover and title becomes, thanks to Radke’s intelligence and curiosity, something much meatier, entertaining, and wise.” - The Washington Post ![]()
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Verita by Tracy Rozzlynn5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() This review was written for LibraryThing Member Giveaways.-Full, non-spoiler review courtesy at Book & Movie Dimension a Blog-įor a science fiction read Verita was quite an impressive novel.īrett Bradbury has the regular American life of not going without until the day her parents die. I am excited to pick up the second book in the series and look forward to more books by Ms. Brett was extremely likeable, and I found myself rooting for her. This was a very interesting world with a fascinating premise. When their team goes out to explore the surrounding area, Ryan and Brett are caught in a flash flood and washed up miles and miles from their compound. ![]() She also has an attraction to Ryan, a fellow scientist on her team. Inexplicably, she finds herself attracted to Brody, a jock-type guy that she would normally avoid at all costs. When she wakes on Verita, she quickly learns that she has been chosen to be a scientist. While frozen, she is taught a skill, preparing her for working on the new planet. Within weeks, she finds herself cryogenically frozen and sent to a new planet. With no one to turn too, when a mysterious man shows up offering her the chance of a lifetime, she jumps. ![]() When Brett's parents are killed in a plane crash, she finds herself alone in a group home. ![]()
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Heavy Duty Attitude by Iain Parke5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() When Vernon maneuvers to negotiate a deal with the father, he makes a critical error. The perpetrator of the beating is a local thug from a crime family whose patriarch holds sway over the town, with the police in his pay. Ashamed, they refuse to talk about him or visit, but when a close friend warns Vernon that Caleb has been savagely beaten, he has no choice but to act to protect their only child. ![]() ![]() In an isolated town on the coast of southern Australia, Vernon Moore and his wife, Penelope, live in retirement, haunted by an unspeakable act of violence that sent their son, Caleb, to serve time in prison and has driven the couple apart. For fans of Cormac McCarthy, Phillip Meyer, Fargo, and Justified, a gritty rural noir thriller about family, drugs, and the legacy of violence. ![]()
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Founding mothers book5/28/2023 ![]() The late #1 New York Times bestselling author Cokie Roberts brings us women who fought the Revolution as valiantly as the men, often defending their very doorsteps.ĭrawing upon personal correspondence, private journals, and even favored recipes, Roberts reveals the often surprising stories of these fascinating women, bringing to life the everyday trials and extraordinary triumphs of individuals like Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Deborah Read Franklin, Eliza Pinckney, Catherine Littlefield Green, Esther DeBerdt Reed, and Martha Washington-proving that without our exemplary women, the new country might have never survived. Reading Length provides a calculation for the word count of this book, find out how long it. While much has been written about the men who signed the Declaration of Independence, battled the British, and framed the Constitution, the wives, mothers, sisters and daughters they left behind have been little noticed by history. Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation has 384 pages. ![]() Legendary journalist Cokie Roberts' New York Times bestseller, Founding Mothers, is an intimate and illuminating look at the fervently patriotic and passionate women whose tireless pursuits on behalf of their families-and their country-proved just as crucial to the forging of a new nation as the rebellion that established it. ![]()
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![]() Denying him, she flees, struggling to forget his searing, possessive kiss. Wroth provides her with the perfect opportunity to torment her sworn enemy-for with his new heartbeat comes a consuming sexual desire that can only be slaked by her. Coldly interested only in the power his Bride will bring, he can hardly believe when Myst the Coveted awakens him body-and soul.įamed throughout the world as the most beautiful Valkyrie, Myst has devoted her life to protecting a magical jewel and to fighting the vampires. Nikolai Wroth, a ruthless Vampire general, will stop at nothing to find his Bride, the one woman who can “blood” him, making his heart beat and filling him with strength. ![]() ![]() ![]() Discover a dark and wicked new world in Kresley Cole’s remastered tale “The Warlord Wants Forever,” the first scorching installment in her #1 New York Times bestselling Immortals After Dark series. ![]()
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Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Review #2 Three to Get Deadly audiobook in series Stephanie Plum How could you not love that? The mystery is not a convoluted as her first two novels, but does have quite an element of surprise. When will she learn to carry her gun and keep it loaded? On the plus side, Rex, her guinea pig has a major role. ![]() Stephanie really should be a bit sharper by now. Such over reaching and the consistent, shall we say “dimness” of Stephanie is why I only gave this novel four stars. She takes one very funny scene way, way, over the edge and sort of ruins the enjoyment I took into it up until that point. ![]() ![]() My only complain about the book is Evanovich works a little too hard at humor. And she has lines like, “this job is so boring, you could do it in a coma.” Yeah, I have had jobs like this. Lulu, the hooker Stephanie became involved in during the first book, is a major character here. Evanovich nails “the burg.” Love the atmosphere and the asides she puts into her characters mouth. First, in the issue of full disclosure, I need to say I was a newspaper reporter in Trenton many, many years ago. It is only the third Stephanie Plum novel I have read, but it is probably the most enjoyable. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is what science fiction and fantasy can do. Becky Chambers, in the introduction to the Folio Society edition It is a whole other accomplishment, for an author of fiction, to write a true story.” It is one thing to write a good story, or a great story. That’s what I see as Le Guin’s ultimate triumph with this book-not the impact it had on me, not the impact it had on the genre, not the exquisite prose that sings with every step. “Perhaps it is enough to say that The Left Hand of Darkness is relevant, full stop. Charlie Jane Anders, in the afterword to the 50th anniversary edition As Genly Ai says on the very first page, ‘Truth is a matter of the imagination.’” ![]() And every detail in the book has little stories embedded inside it, and these stories keep intersecting and building on each other every time I revisit them-until you start to realize that everything is made of stories. There are so many wonderful ideas and stark emotional moments, and Le Guin’s language always startles me with its sheer power and wonder. “ The Left Hand of Darkness surprises me again every time I reread it. ![]() |