![]() ![]() ![]() In the first, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead, she’s in post-Katrina New Orleans, trying to solve the Case of the Green Parrot, the murder of a socialite district attorney. ![]() In each of Gran’s books DeWitt is living in a different city, and they all flash back to her childhood in Brooklyn. I was getting a reputation as a good detective but impossible to deal with. Sometimes I solved crimes, helping out other detectives when they needed it, going undercover where they couldn’t. I went from place to place, earning money when it was easy and acquiring it by other means when it wasn’t. “Since I’d left Brooklyn I’d been traveling around the country, taking it in a little bit at a time. In recounting her history, DeWitt communicates both her skill and her penchant for getting into trouble: ![]() Prone to excessive drinking, cocaine use, and popping pills (which she steals from everyone whose medicine cabinet she has access to), DeWitt is a brilliant fuckup, an extraordinary detective with a long menu of issues. As a character, DeWitt is alternately full of bluster and a complete mess. In the primary case in the book, The Case of the Infinite Blacktop, DeWitt searches for the person who tried to kill her in a car accident in Oakland, California. In the third of Gran’s Claire DeWitt books, The Infinite Blacktop, we see DeWitt delve deeper into mysteries she’s been trying to solve for years, as well as taking on a couple of new cases. ![]()
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![]() Having risen by his wits to a profitable legal career and ownership of a comfortable house in the city, he is indebted to his monarch’s machinery. ![]() Shardlake, a great brain in a twisted body (he’s a hunchback), can’t say no. A lawyer sent down previously to lean on Scarnsea’s abbot about a possible signing over of the monastery to the crown lost his head. Thomas Cromwell, Henry’s powerful and ruthless vicar general, has charged Shardlake with the investigation of a grisly crime on what should be holy ground: the Benedictine monastery in Scarnsea, Sussex. Matthew Shardlake, a lawyer operating on the fringes of the rapacious Tudor court, has been handed a case that may advance his career but is more likely to sink it. ![]() A brilliant lawyer investigates murder in a monastery that’s under attack by Henry VIII’s greedy forces of secularism. ![]() ![]() Nika & William’s stories meet up at the staples with the last panel of each being a mirrored perspective view of one another. It doesn’t stop there, the 2 stories mirror each other in page/panel structure (for instance the 1st page of both is a 12 panel grid, the 2nd a half-splash taking up the left half of the page with 4 stacked panels on the right, and so on). ![]() The most obvious manifestation of the storytelling is the flip-book format with the book in one direction focusing on the scientist Nika Temsmith in the year 3797 while in the other direction it focuses on the soldier turned explorer William Pike in 1921. ![]() With Trillium he has taken his storytelling up a notch and is telling a story involving different time periods and time-travel by physically manifesting them in the book in a way that enhances the experience of reading the story. Jeff Lemire is a master storyteller with a very unique art style and a wonderful sense of story flow. Rating: 5/5 – A delicately interwoven Sci-Fi story ![]() ![]() If they can nail their presentation without killing each other, they’ll both come out ahead. Then he learns he’ll be working with his brother’s whip-smart, stunning-absolutely off-limits-ex-fiancée. Marketing expert Max Hartley is determined to make his mark with a coveted hotel client looking to expand its brand. There’s just one hitch… she has to collaborate with the best (make that worst) man from her own failed nuptials. But despite that embarrassing blip from her past, Lina’s offered an opportunity that could change her life. Mia Sosa delivers a sassy, steamy #ownvoices enemies-to-lovers novel, perfect for fans of Jasmine Guillory, Helen Hoang, and Sally Thorne!Ī wedding planner left at the altar? Yeah, the irony isn’t lost on Carolina Santos, either. One of Oprah Magazine's 22 Romance Novels That Are Set to Be the Best of 2020 ![]() "A romantic comedy that's fun and flirty, young and fresh." – Popsugar (22 of the Best Books This Winter Has to Offer) ![]() ![]() ![]() She grows to know that she is wonderfully, uniquely made created for purpose. It shows Azira accomplishing amazing things as she grows up and it shows the confidence she has as she grows up to be a young woman full of grace who is able to stand firm in her gifts and beliefs. Most importantly, it shows not just how Azira comes to love her hair, but to love herself. ![]() ![]() Not only does Williamson and Rodney do an absolutely lovely job of explaining the nuances of black girl hair and the amount of time and energy it takes to take care of this gift the Lord gave them, it does a wonderful job of showing the cultural importance of their hair. ![]() Hello world! I’m a gift from above! I already know that I am loved!Ĭrowned with Glory shows Azira and her hair, in various stages, from wrapping her hair for bedtime, to sitting in the stylist chair for hours getting braids and Bantu knots to dancing with a pretty headband in her hair, in all its natural, glorious beauty. Crowned With Glory, by Dorena Williamson and illustrated by Shellene Rodney, is a beautiful tribute to the magnificent hair that God gave little black girls everywhere, and to the beautiful souls on whom he placed it upon their heads. This rhyming picture book follows little Azira from birth, and through the years as she grows up. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Lewis was responsible for creating the ‘splatter’ film genre of horror, and his films are considered cult classics.” ![]() His family appreciate the outpouring of love that is coming in, but ask for privacy during this difficult time,” Lewis’ representative, James Saito, said. Herschell Gordon Lewis passed away peacefully in his sleep last night. “It is my sad duty to report that my close friend and mentor Mr. ![]() Herschell Gordon Lewis, the filmmaker behind pioneering gore films such as 1963’s “Blood Feast” and 1964’s “Two Thousand Maniacs!” died Sunday at age 87, a spokesperson for the filmmaker told TheWrap. ![]() ![]() 'It takes real talent to make a reader laugh and cry. What happened to Anna to send her so far from all that she loves? And what happened to her marriage that her husband won't talk to her? And Aiden, for some reason, seems unwilling to get in touch. Marian Keyes is the international bestselling author of Watermelon, Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, Rachel's Holiday, Last Chance Saloon, Sushi for Beginners, Angels, The Other Side of the Story, Anybody Out There, This Charming Man, The Brightest Star in the Sky, The Mystery of Mercy Close, The Woman Who Stole My Life, The Break and her latest Number One bestseller, Grown Ups. She's covered in bandages and she's lying in her parents' Good Front Room dreaming of leaving Dublin and getting back to New York.Īnd most of all, back to her husband, Aiden.īut her family have other ideas (not to mention the usual problems that beset the Walsh sisters). There was a chance he mightn't be there but I had to give it a go because there was one thing I was certain of: he wasn't here.'Īnna Walsh is officially a wreck. 'I had to go back to New York and try to find him. ![]() The abridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Marian Keyes's thoroughly entertaining Anybody Out There, read by the actress Niamh Daly. ![]() ![]() Wu and Sanxing examine the artifact and realize it is a key to the tomb of the Snake Empress. Zhang, who has not aged since his encounter with Hendrix, also watches the video. Hendrix orders his team to examine video from media reports of the moth incident, confirming the artifact's link to Tamutuo. Wu discovers an artifact before moths force them to flee the tomb. The two stumble across a hidden chamber, whose inscriptions relate the tale of Iron Mask, a craftsman forced to design the tomb of the Snake Empress, ruler of the ancient kingdom of Tamutuo in what is now the Gobi Desert. ![]() In his twenties, Wu explores a tomb from the Warring States period when he is confronted by his uncle Wu Sanxing. As a young boy, Wu sneaks into a temple and tries to steal a relic, but is stopped by a figure in a bronze mask. Wu Xie is born to a family of grave robbers. ![]() In the present day, a writer arrives at a warehouse to interview antiquities dealer Wu Xie, who relates his story. Zhang Qiling intervenes, defeating Hendrix, and is tasked by the local elder with averting a catastrophe to humanity. In the Himalayas, European antiquities hunter Hendrix and his soldiers terrorize the local people in search of a clue to the Chinese secret of immortality. The film was released in China by Le Vision Pictures on August 5, 2016. ![]() It is based on the online novel series Daomu Biji written by Xu Lei. Time Raiders ( Chinese: 盗墓笔记) is a 2016 Chinese fantasy- action- adventure film directed by Daniel Lee and starring Jing Boran and Luhan. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Raven's Exile" won the Whiting Foundation Writer's Award as well as the Spur Award, presented by the Western Writers of America. "My husband and I took a series of river trips, with lots of quiet time to observe." "I had written a lot of notes on that beautiful and very wild canyon," she told the Deseret News in Salt Lake City in 2000. ![]() ![]() ![]() The idea for the book came after she saw Desolation Canyon in eastern Utah as part of that trip. Bureau of Land Management who patrolled the river for a time. She explored it with her husband, Mark, a ranger with the U.S. "Raven's Exile: A Season on the Green River" (1994) recounts her experiences traveling the river through Utah, Colorado and Wyoming. Meloy used the Southwest as the setting and subject for what she referred to as "land-based literature." In her three highly regarded collections of essays, Mrs. "On a simple walk along a riverbank with Ellen, she'd pick up things none of the rest of us got," he said. Her essays called attention to the beauty of her state, even for longtime residents, Lebeda said. "Ellen was very well- known in the state." "The literary community of Utah is in shock," said Guy Lebeda, literature coordinator for the Utah Arts Council in Salt Lake City. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Things are looking cheerier than ever, until Becky's parents announce they're moving to ultra-trendy Shoreditch-unable to resist the draw of craft beer and smashed avocados-and ask Becky if she'll host this year. But Becky still adores the traditions of Christmas: Her parents hosting, carols playing on repeat, her mother pretending she made the Christmas pudding, and the neighbors coming 'round for sherry in their terrible holiday sweaters. ![]() Life is good, especially now that Becky takes time every day for mindfulness-even if that only means listening to a meditation tape while hunting down online bargains. "Sophie Kinsella keeps her finger on the cultural pulse, while leaving me giddy with laughter."-Jojo Moyes, author of The Giver of Stars and The Last Letter from Your Lover 'Tis the season for change and Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) is embracing it, returning from the States to live in the charming village of Letherby and working with her best friend, Suze, in the gift shop of Suze's stately home. Book Synopsis The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher and Love Your Life returns with a festive Shopaholic adventure filled with holiday cheer and unexpected gifts. ![]() |