![]() ![]() Because shortly after that, somebody starts killing people. But looks can be deceiving and soon Nell and Gabe are squaring off over embezzlement, business cards, vandalism, dog-napping, blackmail, Chinese food, unprofessional sex, and really ugly office furniture, all of which turn out to be the least of their problems. The only thing that's going his way is that his new secretary looks efficient, boring, and biddable. His detective agency is wasting time on a blackmail case, his partner has decided he hates watching cheating spouses for money, and his ex-wife has just dumped him.again. ![]() ![]() Gabe McKenna isn't doing too well, either. Weighed down by an inexplicable divorce and a loss of appetite for everything, Nell is sleepwalking through life until her best friend finagles a job for her with a shabby little detective agency that has lots of potential and a boss who looks easy to manage. ![]()
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![]() Striking a masterful balance between the personal and the political, this ambitious and eloquent account brings a group of remarkable people-and their tumultuous era-to vivid life. Interwoven with these and other historical events are immersive accounts of the correspondents’ extramarital affairs, divorces, bereavements, and literary endeavors. Drawing on extensive archival material, Cohen vividly describes the privation Knickerbocker saw in Russia under Stalin’s Five-Year Plan Thompson’s 1931 sit-down with Hitler, whom she called “the very prototype of the Little Man” Sheean’s marveling at the “dogged defiance” of ordinary Spaniards during the Spanish Civil War and the Gunthers’ witnessing of the 1934 July Putsch in Austria. ![]() Influenced by Freudianism and anti-colonialist struggles, they fashioned “a new kind of journalism, both more subjective and more intimate,” Cohen writes, and stimulated a growing American interest in foreign affairs. ![]() Knickerbocker, Vincent “Jimmy” Sheean, Dorothy Thompson, John Gunther, and his wife, Frances, covered the fall of empires, the spread of communism, and the rise of fascism. ![]() Stationed in European capitals, with forays to Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, H.R. Northwestern University historian Cohen ( Family Secrets) delivers an evocative portrait of a tight-knit coterie of American journalists who reported from the world’s hot spots from the 1920s through the 1940s. ![]() ![]() ![]() Forced to flee their planet before it was destroyed by Chaos, their specialist scouting role has earned them the nickname ‘Ghosts’, along with any dangerous mission their commanders choose to throw at them. Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt and the men of the Tanith First and Only are at the heart of this struggle. At the forefront of this conflict are the Imperial Guard – untold numbers of ordinary soldiers fighting to preserve the Emperor’s holy realm. In the blood-soaked Sabbat Worlds Crusade, the massed ranks of the Imperium battle the dark forces of Chaos for dominion. ![]() Story arcs take shape, characters rise and fall and shock abound. It’s in these stories that the Gaunt’s Ghosts series becomes a true classic. 21.99 Add to wishlist THE STORY In the Chaos-infested Sabbat system, the massed ranks of the Imperial Guard stand shoulder to shoulder as they counter an invasion by heretical forces. 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Hopkinson currently teaches in the Creative Writing department at the University of California, Riverside. Nalo Hopkinsons new collection mixes up her Afro-Caribbean influences with classic literature and historical fantasy. The cool part about it is, the writing is pretty good!” ( Locus, September 2013) Her view on these dark periods can be both realistic and humorous: ∻ut every so often I’ll go through an old notebook or find a file I don’t recognize and open it up, and there’s a page or two of writing that I did during that time that I don not remember. She spent years too sick to read or write, and was sometimes homeless. Though she has published multiple works, Hopkinson has faced many obstacles, including suffering from anemia and fibromyalgia. Her novel, Midnight Robber, was a New York Times Notable Book and she has also received the Spectrum, Sunburst, Campbell, and Prix Aurora awards. Hopkinson won the Warner Aspect First Novel contest for Brown Girl in the Ring, as well as the John W. Her groundbreaking science fiction and fantasy features diverse characters and the mixing of folklore into her works. ![]() World Fantasy Award-winning author Nalo Hopkinson was born in Kingston, Jamaica and also spent her childhood in Trinidad and Guyana before her family moved to Toronto when she was sixteen. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tayo thinks back to his return from the Veteran’s Hospital in Los Angeles where he felt like a white spirit and couldn’t keep any food down. Tayo tells a story about Corn Woman scolding her sister, Reed Woman, who then takes the rain away in her anger. The ranch where Tayo lives in New Mexico, unlike the wet Philippines, is suffering from a drought that came because, Tayo believes, he prayed for the rain to stop while he was in the jungle during the war. One memory in particular bothers Tayo – he was unable to execute a Japanese soldier in the Philippines during World War II because he saw his Uncle Josiah in the Japanese uniform. Tayo, a Pueblo man, wakes up in his spare ranch house, dreaming deliriously of different scenes from his life. ![]() Stories are the only way to fight off illness and death and stand up to evil. The novel opens by describing Ts’its’tsi’nako, the Thought-Woman, who is telling this entire story. ![]() ![]() ![]() This deluxe gift edition of the internationally best-selling first book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, lavishly illustrated by series artist John Rocco, is a must-have for Riordan fans. But to succeed on his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the true thief: he must come to terms with the father who abandoned him solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of betrayal by a friend and unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves. Now Percy and his friends have just ten days to find and return Zeus’s stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. Zeus’s master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy’s Greek mythology textbook and into his life. Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school. Percy is unsure of his identity and insecure about his life. A collector-worthy edition of the bestselling novel, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Lightning Thief, featuring a full color illustration on every page. The Lightning Thief begins with the narration of the protagonist, Percy Jackson. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She sold her first book to Ace in April 1980 and it was published in 1982. She was a founding member of The Scribblies, along with Pamela Dean, Emma Bull, Will Shetterly, Steven Brust and Nate Bucklin, in January 1980, "to which belonged for five extremely productive years." She finished her first book in 1978 while working as an accountant and financial analyst. Wrede graduated from Carleton College in 1974 with a BA in biology and obtained an MBA from the University of Minnesota in 1977. She is known for her Enchanted Forest Chronicles series for young adults, which was voted number 84 in NPR's 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels list. Patricia Collins Wrede ( / ˈ r iː d i/ born March 27, 1953) is an American author of fantasy literature. 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Gamache tries to see the good in everyone he encounters and takes the troubled and frustrated under his wing. Luckily, those who stand with him are incredibly loyal. Despite this, Gamache has made many enemies during his years in the Sûreté. Setting: Quebec and Three Pines in CanadaĬhief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec is a kind, complex man who isn’t ashamed to say, "I’m sorry", "I don’t know", and "I need help." He is an enjoyable character who embraces his flaws and you care for him even more because of these flaws. Location in library: Mystery section, shelved under MYS PENNY After book 6, Penny includes the translations for these sentences in the dialogue but don’t let that discourage you from reading the first 5 books! Nothing vital to the plot is in French, and can easily be understood through context. These books are set in Québec, so you will frequently run across simple French sentences. There's not much violence or sex, but there is strong language. ![]() These books are excellent mysteries that both classic and cozy-mystery readers will enjoy. ![]() |