![]() ![]() Not only is Courtney stuck in another woman's life, she is forced to pretend she actually is that woman and despite knowing nothing about her, she manages to fool even the most astute observer. Who but an Austen addict like herself could concoct such a fantasy? ![]() In this Jane Austen inspired comedy, love story, and exploration of identity and destiny, a modern LA girl wakes up as an Englishwoman in Austen's time.Īfter nursing a broken engagement with Jane Austen novels and Absolut, Courtney Stone wakes up and finds herself not in her Los Angeles bedroom or even in her own body, but inside the bedchamber of a woman in Regency England. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Readers will marvel at the long fur of the Angora rabbit, which grows at the rate of an inch a month and is used like wool to make cozy sweaters. There's the sweet-natured Chinchilla Giant, renowned for its girth, weighing in at up to 16 pounds, and the Netherland Dwarf, who comes in a rainbow of rabbit colors and is small enough to nestle in the palm of your hand. We meet the English Lop, the oldest known domestic breed of rabbit, dubbed "King of the Fancy" by rabbit aficionados, who boasts ears up to twelve inches long. ![]() This charming, visual hop along the bunny trail also includes fun-to-read details about each breed, such as its origins, coat, and behavior, as well as distinctive and downright adorable characteristics. Funny Bunnies celebrates the many snuggly virtues of these adorable companions with 75 color photographs of 30 different breeds. Here we have a bevy of bunny beauty with everything from fuzzy tails to floppy ears to stylish coats to Belgian hare styles. ![]() ![]() Without their help NOVA would cast much dimmer light. To Bernard and Iva Kay ACKNOWLEDGMENT The author gratefully acknowledges the invaluable aid of Helen Adam and Russell FitzGerald with problems of Grail and Tarot lore. ![]() KATIN: The scholar who loved the silent moons of the universe above all the powerful suns and gaudy planets. SEBASTIAN: A golden-haired man who traveled the stars with his Tarot-reading mate and six blacktaloned beasts. IDAS and LYNCEOS: Twins from the outer colonies, one black, one albino. Von Ray's obsession drew aimless souls into the vortex of his madness - wandering adventurers who would plug into any ship that promised escape: MOUSE: A young gypsy, he created blindingly beautiful visions on the syrynx, an instrument of sensor projection. ![]() DELANY - August, 1968 A passion for vengeance drove Captain Lorq Von Ray to dare what no mortal had ever done - to sail through the splintering core of a disintegrating sun. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hurt, anger, and bitterness have Noah throwing back the curtain, showing the world his every secret. Luke's Medical Center.Labels no longer counted. Until a single call and a tragic accident changes everything. No matter how many times Noah picks up the phone, fear stops him from saying all the words he's avoided. With Troy gone, Noah can't find his footing, but neither does he have the words to fix the things he's broken. In a momentous year for giving back, Humble’s Stand with Ukraine all-for-charity bundle, which featured more than 100 pieces of digital content and games, raised more than 20 million for Razom. That is, until the day Troy has had enough. ![]() Each time he finds a reporter's mic underneath his nose, Noah can't stop himself from pushing Troy farther away, making Troy the dirty secret. With the career he's always dreamed of having in his hands and the man he's always loved in his bed, Noah thinks everything is golden.īut nothing could prepare Noah for how being the star player would change his life. After signing a contract with the Blue Fires, Noah heads to New Orleans, ready to start his new life as a pro hockey player. There is no one else he can picture spending his life with. ![]() Noah has been in love with his best friend, Troy, for as far back as he can remember. That is, until he loses his true everything. ![]() ![]() ![]() The man has entered our folklore."- The New York Times Book ReviewĪ grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of America's greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time. "It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. He never expected that between courses of haute cuisine he and Archie would be compelled to detect a killer with a poison touch-a killer preparing to serve the great detective his last supper. As guest of honor, Wolfe was lured from his brownstone to a posh southern spa to deliver the keynote address. ![]() But that's exactly what's on the menu at a five-star gathering of the world's greatest chefs. The secret ingredient is poison.Įveryone knows that too many cooks spoil the broth, but you'd hardly expect it to lead to murder. ![]() When the target for killing shifts to himself, the great detective must close this case quickly or his next meal may be his last. As Nero Wolfe prepares to speak at a gathering of the world's great chefs, one is found indelicately murdered. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I also marvelled at mentions of a bioweapon Wuhan-400 and looked it up, here's what Wiki says: "The novel mentions a bioweapon that in earlier editions is named Gorki-400 after the Soviet city of Gorki in which it was created. After over 105 novels and a number of novellas and collections of short stories, and over 450 million sales of his work, one can overlook a book not reaching one's expectations. ![]() Dwyer", "Leigh Nichols" and "Brian Coffey". Koontz has used a number of pseudonyms eg "David Axton", "Deanna Dwyer", "K.R. These could have given a very strong book. a medley of things, viz a "showgirl" turning into a successful director/ producer of a musical, the setting of Las Vegas/ casino, strong emotions like mother's love that transcends death, deep government conspiracy, high octane (not really) chase, intelligence agents, telekinesis and telepathy, snow clad mountains and hidden labs, etc. Hence, the filmy nature of the book, i.e. The book was conceived as a tele series, which never saw the light of day. It's an Okayish book, that seemed like the script of a movie! I wasn't too far away from facts. The book was published in 1981 by #Koontz, under the pseudonym Leigh Nichols. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The discovery of wolf scat containing alien DNA leads the group to believe that perhaps a wolf/dog hybrid has been introduced to the island. Giant wolf prints are found, and Anna spies the form of a great wolf from a surveillance plane. Soon after Anna's arrival, the wolf packs under observation begin to behave in peculiar ways. She's lodging in the island's bunkhouse with the famed wolf study team, along with two scientists from Homeland Security, who are assessing the study with an eye to opening the park in the winters-an act that would effectively bring an end to the fifty-year project-so that the area can be manned to secure the scrap of border with Canada. It is January, and Park Ranger Anna Pigeon is sent to Isle Royale in Lake Superior to learn about managing and understanding wolves, as her home base of Rocky Mountain National Park might soon have its own pack of the magnificent, much-maligned animals. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I?m a loose thread to them?but somehow, I?m becoming more than that too.I?m becoming an obsession.A temptation.A craving.And no matter how much I try to deny the terrifying attraction that pulses between us, I know if I don?t find a way out of When they drag me from the blood-soaked bed, I?m certain they?re going to kill me too.They don?t? but they don?t forget about me, either.These three dangerous brothers will do anything to make sure I keep my mouth shut about what I saw, even if it means stalking my every movement. My parents are dead, my adoptive mother is a drug addict, and the mean girls on campus mock me for my scars.So when I end up desperate for money and out of options, I agree to sell the one thing I have left: my innocence.On the night I?m meant to give my body to a brutal Russian mobster, three men storm into the room like dark shadows and kill him before he can claim me. Until they saw me.My whole life, no one has had my back. Twisted Game (Filthy Wicked Psychos, #1) by Eva Ashwood ![]() ![]() ![]() According to NASA, it makes up about 27%, while 68% of the universe is dark energy. Dark matter, for example, does not account for three-quarters of the universe. Whatever the case, a lot of the “information” Tokarczuk presents in her book is just flat-out wrong. (She marvels at the online, collaborative encyclopaedia more than once in Flights.) It seems that Tokarczuk did a fair bit of consulting of Wikipedia and who knows what other sources to create her book. ![]() ![]() It’s a collection of loosely connected stories (many of them inconclusive), anecdotes, facts, a lot of pseudo facts (information that masquerades as having a foundation in reality), ruminations, and attempts at playfulness, cleverness-some of them self-conscious or self-referential. As advertised, it is not a traditional or conventional novel-perhaps not a novel at all. This is a fragmented, chaotic, and even careless book roughly organized around the topics of travel and anatomy. I’d like to have more to show for my time than I do. While I don’t exactly regret reading it-which is something, I suppose, I was far less impressed with it than most. This is a book that demands a lot of mental work and, at slightly more than 400 pages, a considerable time investment. ![]() ![]() While Agatha Christie acknowledged that her grandmother had been a huge influence on the character, she writes that Miss Marple was "far more fussy and spinsterish than my grandmother ever was. Christie never expected Miss Marple to rival Poirot in the public’s affections but since the publication of The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930, Marple's first full length novel, readers were hooked. ![]() It was first published in the December 1927 issue of Royal Magazine. Miss Marple first came into being in 1927 in The Tuesday Night Club, a short story pulled together into the collection The Thirteen Problems. ![]() |