![]() ![]() When she stumbles upon a clue to the unsolved apothecary murders that haunted London two hundred years ago, her life collides with the apothecary’s in a stunning twist of fate-and not everyone will survive. Meanwhile in present-day London, aspiring historian Caroline Parcewell spends her tenth wedding anniversary alone, running from her own demons. But the apothecary’s fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious twelve-year-old, makes a fatal mistake, sparking a string of consequences that echo through the centuries. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientele. “A bold, edgy, accomplished debut!” -Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice NetworkĪ forgotten history. March 2021 Indie Next Pick and #1 LibraryReads Pick Named Most Anticipated of 2021 by Newsweek, Good Housekeeping, Hello! magazine,, Bustle, Popsugar, Betches, Sweet July, and GoodReads! ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() But, for kids this might teach them how not to be. Education to me is how a person gets rich. She was truly upset for what she had done to her. Her friendship with was important to her. ![]() People need to be judged by the kind of person that they are, which is what Emily finally figures out at the end. My niece loved the book but I think she finally realized at the end that everything in life should not revolve around material things. Getting everything that you want and being able shop and buy anything wherever you want, does sound like alot of rich and spoiled kids today. Even though she loses her friends for a short time and Ruby does embarrass her at Kimmie's party, I really don't think that she learns the true meaning of friendship and hard work. Unfortunately, there are too many kids whose values are like those of Becks, Mac and her other friends. The characters in this book are true to life. I read this book along with my niece for a literature project she is doing in the seventh grade. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But don’t let that stop you from reading her books which I like to call Female FantasyRomantasy. ![]() She is really an accomplished builder of fantasy worlds but looking at her covers mostly I get the impression of a chincy romance novel. Wilson has some of the cheesiest covers ever. I’m just going to come out and say it C.L. enjoys relaxing with her family in sunny Florida and daydreaming of a world where people exercise in their sleep and chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream is a fat burning food. When not torturing her characters mercilessly, C.L. Wilson is the honored recipient of the PEARL award from Paranormal Romance as the best new author of 2007, and winner of the 2009 PEARL award for best Romantic Fantasy novel. Praised for exceptional worldbuilding and lyric prose, her critically acclaimed novels have regularly appeared on bestseller lists including the USA Today, the New York Times, and Publishers Weekly.Ĭ.Ls novels have won numerous industry and reader-selected awards including, s Best Paranormal debut of 2007, the Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence, two National Readers Choice awards, the Colorado Award of Excellence, and the Holt Medallion. Wilsons unique blend of pulse-pounding action, sweeping epic fantasy, and passionate romance has made her books a favorite read for romance and fantasy readers alike. ![]() ![]() Moving with the military can be rough on children, especially when they have to leave people, or even pets, behind. These are both great books for showing the love and pride of having a military parent. Both books lightly touch on deployment, saying that sometimes mom or dad has to go away for a while but that’s ok because superheroes do too. So, while some moms have the super healing power of being a medic, instead of a sidekick the dad has a battalion. A varied group of children list off what their dad or mom does in the military, in comparison to a superhero. “ Hero Dad” and “ Hero Mom” by Melinda Hardin focus on the wide variety of jobs that military parents can have. Our Children’s department has several titles focusing on military families to help explain to children what their caregivers’ jobs are, as well as help them cope with deployments. This month for ReadMHK, we’re focusing on military life. ![]() The Manhattan Public Library serves a wide variety of patrons, including many military families from nearby Fort Riley. Books for Children Dealing with Military Lifeīy Alex Urbanek, Collection Services Librarian ![]() ![]() It’s modernized, too Amphitryon lives in an Airstream, driven from his palace by a “totalitarian cracker.” (It’s not hard to imagine whom Carson might have been thinking of there.) Although they have taken refuge at an altar, Lykos is so irreligious as to plan to burn out Amphitryon, Herakles’ wife, and their kids, “obliged to close our lids / before we’d like.” The chorus invokes V.I. ![]() With a collagelike text incorporating drawings and sketches, some with splashes of color, Carson works a few plot points of the original, which contains about 1,425 lines as against Carson’s few score. ![]() As with all tragedies, much of the context is provided by a chorus-here, of old men who, though wise, can’t do much about the situation. In Herakles, staged in 416 B.C.E., Euripides imagined the demigod returning home to Thebes to find his household under assault by usurper Lykos, who is bent on eliminating the royal house of Amphitryon. Classicist and poet Carson produces a scrapbooklike rendering of a lesser-known Greek tragedy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Their romance is recurring throughout the series. There is an underlying romantic theme between Kate Burkholder and the character of John Tomasetti. Although portrayed as a tough character, Kate is surrounded with interesting and dependable characters. Author Linda Castillo has done an excellent job writing police procedures that Kate did the most readable and engaging manner. She is reserved but very efficient in her work. Due to her Amish background and outstanding records as a cop, she was assigned as the Chief of police in the town.īetween her past and her present position as Chief, Kate Burkholder is a superb character, flawed but certainly believable. She became a highly respected and competent police officer. Years away have made Kate a more experienced person. Years after, a 30-something Kate returned to her home place, a small town in Ohio called Painter’s mill. As an Amish, this decision caused an estrangement between her and her family and the community she grew up with. This lead to some questions and doubts she had with their faith and ultimately led to her leaving the Amish community when she turned 18. When she was 14, she was sexually attacked by a fellow church member. Kate Burkholder grew up in an Amish community. Castillo is known for her romantic novels and the series is her first step away from the genre. ![]() The Kate Burkholder series is written by best-selling Linda Castillo. ![]() ![]() ![]() Shapiro's novel The Art Forger, is using her considerable skills to forge art for a reproduction company. ![]() And so it is not surprising that Claire Roth, in B.A. Martin writes of Lacey, "She started converting objects of beauty into objects of value." This one statement encapsulates the role of art fraud in our lives drawn to objects of beauty, we are inclined to turn them into objects of value. Though she's not particularly likable, her story is riveting, and through her tale, readers are treated to a glimpse of the highbrow art world in New York and internationally. From Sotheby's to a private dealership to her own gallery in Chelsea, Lacey moves without a moral compass, making decisions based on what is best for her-and her alone. In Steve Martin's Object of Beauty, narrator Daniel Franks tells the story of Lacey, a beautiful, manipulative and cunning woman working her way up the ranks in the high-class art world of New York. ![]() ![]() ![]() This charismatic bird has long been valued by farmers as a tenant with a healthy compulsion for vacuuming up pests. In fact, since the bird’s summer diet consists largely of insects gleaned from the ground, the nestbox may simply be the best vantage-point from which to hunt. ![]() This dedication, as well as its approachability, have long endeared the bluebird to his human admirers. And perhaps its habit of perching atop the box reminds us of a loyal sentry posted on his turret. Both father and mother are devoted parents, sometimes making more than a dozen trips each hour back and forth to the nest to feed their young. For one thing, the cavities it chooses are often just 4 to 6 feet off the ground-right at our eye-level. ![]() ![]() While for most birds, a nest is rarely more than a place to lay their eggs, the bluebird’s domesticity seems more than a little human. Ready to house-hunt with the bluebird? Sporting an orange bib and “carrying the sky on his back” (Thoreau again), the bluebird appears beside a nestbox or a woodpecker hole, inspecting inside, outside, above and below, or taking a perch nearby and singing a little song, as though testing the acoustics. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Shadows: A Vampire Huntress Legend (Vampire Huntress Legends #11) (Paperback): ![]() ![]() The Darkness: A Vampire Huntress Legend (Vampire Huntress Legends #10) (Paperback): The Cursed: A Vampire Huntress Legend (Vampire Huntress Legends #9) (Paperback): The Wicked: A Vampire Huntress Legend (Vampire Huntress Legends #8) (Paperback): The Forsaken: A Vampire Huntress Legend (Vampire Huntress Legends #7) (Paperback): The Damned: A Vampire Huntress Legend (Vampire Huntress Legends #6) (Paperback): The Forbidden: A Vampire Huntress Legend (Vampire Huntress Legends #5) (Paperback): The Bitten: A Vampire Huntress Legend (Vampire Huntress Legends #4) (Paperback): The Hunted: A Vampire Huntress Legend (Vampire Huntress Legends #3) (Paperback): The Awakening: A Vampire Huntress Legend (Vampire Huntress Legends #2) (Paperback): This is book number 1 in the Vampire Huntress Legends series. ![]() ![]() The JU 87G-1 version carried two 37mm flak cannons in under wing pods. In 1942~45, its main work was close support on the Russian Front where it was an exceptional tank killer. But, during the Battle of Britain the slow STUKA with its fixed landing gear was slaughtered by Allied fighters and was withdrawn to attack targets which were not heavily defended. ![]() In Poland, the Low Countries and France, the JU 87 was extremely effective and it repeated its success in Greece, Crete and parts of the Russian front. ![]() The JU 87 STUKA (the word for dive bomber) flew for the first time in 1935, and it entered production in 1937 with large landing gear wheel pants and full equipment for dive bombing, including a heavy bomb crutch that swung the missile well clear of the fuselage before release.ĭuring the Spanish Civil War, without serious enemy fighter opposition, the JU 87 proved ideal for the mission, able to dive very steeply at relatively slow speeds with an automatic pull-out device, yielding excellent accuracy. With new molds and highly detailed decal set, Academy has masterfully reproduced the extended wingtip version of the JU-87 that was personally flown in combat by Hans-Ulrich Rudel, the most decorated Luftwaffe pilot of WWII. ![]() |