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Myron Bolitar is back. His fiancé is in Angola, his parents have retired to Florida, and he now owns his childhood home. Life is going well. Enter Suzze T.
This second in Todd’s Ian Rutledge mystery series, finds the Scotland Yard inspector investigating two apparent suicides and one accidental death of three siblings. The family and people of the Cornish village are satisfied with the coroner’s verdicts regarding the deaths and do not welcome Rutledge in their midst.
Stolen is written as a letter from Gemma, a sixteen-year-old Londoner, to her kidnapper Ty, who is nine years her senior. Gemma is abducted from the Bangkok airport while waiting for her connecting flig
As a non-Christian reader, I found Isaacs’s memoir more whiney than snarky. That’s not to say that I didn’t enjoy some aspects of the book. But I found myself wondering why Isaacs repeatedly makes bone-headed personal and professional choices based on what she thinks God wants her to do. And then claims to have been “torched by God”.
The Culinary Institute of America brings us a gorgeously photographed new Italian cookbook. Italian Cooking at Homeby Gianni Scappin, Alberto Vanoli, and Steven Kolpan is filled with mout
Some authors are like home, you know that they are always going to be there for you. When you are sad, or happy, or nostalgic, you can always pick them up and enjoy them. I am pretty picky about what books get space on my bookshelves. To get on the shelf they have to meet one of two criteria: 1. I know I will reread them. 2. I want to be able to loan them out to friends. So you know if it is on my shelf, it has got to be good. I have a few authors who's entire compendium is on there, and I want to share them with you today.
This is a collection of 12 short stories. Twelve different science fiction authors were asked to predict what the future may hold in fifty years (This book was published in 1991). Well known authors such as Bruce Coville, Ann McCaffrey, and Jane Yolen contributed short stories. I was intriqued by several of the stories.
Much Ado About (Censored) is the story about excessive centership when a class decides to read Shakespeare in the local high school. "The National Cutlery Council objects to the depiction of swords as deadly weapons."
Skin Hunger is the story of two people, centuries apart. Sadima, a girl with strange abilities in an era where magic is forbidden, and Hahp, an unwanted child sacrificed to a school of magic where only one can survive to graduate. Alternating chapters tell each of their stories
Myron Bolitar is back. His fiancé is in Angola, his parents have retired to Florida, and he now owns his childhood home. Life is going well. Enter Suzze T.
This second in Todd’s Ian Rutledge mystery series, finds the Scotland Yard inspector investigating two apparent suicides and one accidental death of three siblings. The family and people of the Cornish village are satisfied with the coroner’s verdicts regarding the deaths and do not welcome Rutledge in their midst.
Stolen is written as a letter from Gemma, a sixteen-year-old Londoner, to her kidnapper Ty, who is nine years her senior. Gemma is abducted from the Bangkok airport while waiting for her connecting flig
As a non-Christian reader, I found Isaacs’s memoir more whiney than snarky. That’s not to say that I didn’t enjoy some aspects of the book. But I found myself wondering why Isaacs repeatedly makes bone-headed personal and professional choices based on what she thinks God wants her to do. And then claims to have been “torched by God”.
The Culinary Institute of America brings us a gorgeously photographed new Italian cookbook. Italian Cooking at Home by Gianni Scappin, Alberto Vanoli, and Steven Kolpan is filled with mout
Skin Hunger is the story of two people, centuries apart. Sadima, a girl with strange abilities in an era where magic is forbidden, and Hahp, an unwanted child sacrificed to a school of magic where only one can survive to graduate. Alternating chapters tell each of their stories