![]() That's how Jacqueline Winspear keeps her Maisie Dobbs series so fresh."- New York Times Book Review ![]() "History comes alive when a character you think of as a friend is in the thick of the action. Yet when a final confrontation approaches, she must acknowledge the potential cost to her future-and the risk of destroying a dream she wants very much to become reality. Maisie's investigation leads her from the countryside of rural Hampshire to the web of wartime opportunism exploited by one of the London underworld's most powerful men, in a case that serves as a reminder of the inextricable link between money and war. As news of the plight of thousands of soldiers stranded on the beaches of France is gradually revealed to the general public, and the threat of invasion rises, another young man beloved by Maisie makes a terrible decision that will change his life forever. ![]() Maisie Dobbs-one of the most complex and admirable characters in contemporary fiction ( Richmond Times Dispatch)-faces danger and intrigue on the home front during World War II.ĭuring the months following Britain's declaration of war on Germany, Maisie Dobbs investigates the disappearance of a young apprentice working on a hush-hush government contract. ![]() Finalist for the Inaugural Sue Grafton Memorial Award ![]()
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![]() Hecht's The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism and Anthropology (Columbia University, 2003), won the Phi Beta Kappa Society's 2004 prestigious Ralph Waldo Emerson Award. Jennifer Michael Hecht is the author of award-winning books of philosophy, history, and poetry. ![]() Just as belief has its own history featuring people whose unique expressions of faith have forever changed the world, doubt has a vibrant story and tradition with its own saints, martyrs, and sages. ![]() Early Greek philosophy is represented, along with Eastern critical wisdom, Roman Stoicism, Jewish and Christian skeptics, medieval Islam, the rise of science, and the existantialists. This remarkable book touches on a wealth of knowledge. ![]() This is an account of the world's great intellectual virtuosos, who are also humanity's greatest doubters and disbelievers, and their attempts to reconcile the seeming randomness of the universe with the human need for meaning, Jennifer Hecht champions doubt and questioning as one of the great and noble, if unheralded, intellectual traditions. In the compelling book Doubt, a brilliant young writer and historian of ideas shows how the dialectic between faith and doubt, belief and radical questioning, religion on the one hand and philosophy and science on the other has been the driving force in intellectual and religious history. ![]() ![]() Now Haakon faces the hardest choice of his life. Haakon's cunning and strength hold the power to seal many fates, including Thor's-which is already imperiled due to a grave illness brought to him at the first prick of warfare. A decades-old feud with the neighboring farm has wrenched them into the fiercest confrontation on Blackbird Mountain since the Civil War. When the winds bear him home after four years away, Haakon finds the family on the brink of tragedy. Not even the beautiful Norwegian woman he's pursued can ease the torment. Having fled the Norgaard orchard after a terrible mistake, Haakon sails on the North Atlantic ice trade, where his soul is plagued with regrets that distance cannot heal. Haakon-whose selfish choices shattered her trust in him. ![]() ![]() Yet while Thor holds her heart, it is his younger brother and rival who haunts her memories. That the Lord saw her along the winding journey and that Aven now carries Thor's child are blessings beyond measure. ![]() Orphaned within an Irish workhouse, then widowed at just nineteen, she voyaged to America where she was wooed and wed by Thor Norgaard, a Deaf man in rural Appalachia. In this stunning sequel to The Sons of Blackbird Mountain, Aven and Thor's love story continues-and an age-old feud endangers the Norgaard family in ways no one could have ever imagined.Īven Norgaard understands courage. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But with a looming deadline and a bad case of creative block, Meg doesn’t have time for Reid’s questions-unless he can help her find her missing inspiration. A year later, Reid has tracked Meg down to find out how she knew that his meticulously planned future was about to implode. Meg may have thought no one would spot it, but she hadn’t counted on sharp-eyed, pattern-obsessed Reid. Knowing the upcoming marriage of Reid Sutherland and his polished fiancée was doomed to fail is one thing, but weaving a secret word of warning into their wedding program is another. She has another skill too: reading signs that other people miss. Meg Mackworth’s hand-lettering skill has made her famous as the Planner of Park Slope, designing custom journals for her New York City clientele. In this warm and witty romance from acclaimed author Kate Clayborn, one little word puts a woman’s business-and her heart-in jeopardy. The romance is so perfect it made me ache." -Alisha Rai, Bustle Kirkus Best Fiction Book of 2020 PopSugar Crazy Popular Books of 2020 Amazon Best Romance of the Month Top Ten Best Romances of 2019-Entertainment Weekly Kobo Best Romance of the Year Bustle 17 Best New Books Of December 2019 SheReads’ Most Anticipated Books of 2020 HelloGiggles 8 Best New Books To Read In December One of the most beloved romantic comedies of 2020, Love Lettering is a heart-melting and touching story that fans of Tessa Bailey, Jen DeLuca, and Emily Henry cannot miss. It’s funny, sweet, and beautifully written. ![]() ![]() ![]() And so Phyllis will have to make a harrowing choice, before its too lateis there ever enough blood in the world to wash clean generations of injustice? Still, the ghosts from her past are always by her sideand history has appeared on her doorstep to threaten the people she keeps in her heart. Ten years later, Phyllis LeBlanc has given up everythingnot just her own past, and Dev, the man she loved, but even her own dreams. The dangerous magic of The Night Circus meets the powerful historical exploration of The Underground Railroad in Alaya Dawn Johnson's timely and unsettling novel, set against the darkly glamorous backdrop of New York City, where an assassin falls in love and tries to fight her fate at the dawn of World War II.Īmid the whir of city life, a young woman from Harlem is drawn into the glittering underworld of Manhattan, where shes hired to use her knives to strike fear among its most dangerous denizens. ![]() Jemisin, New York Times bestselling author of The Fifth Season Juju assassins, alternate history, a gritty New York crime story.in a word: Awesome. N.K. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a book I've been wanting to write for several years, since I discovered what an epidemic (a tragic epidemic, at that) kidnapping became during the desperation of the Great Depression. The Listener is about the kidnapping of two children and is set in New Orleans in 1934. This gritty depression-era crime thriller is a complex tale enriched by powerfully observed social commentary and hints of the supernatural, and it represents Robert McCammon writing at the very top of his game. ![]() One day, Curtis Mayhew's special talent allows him to overhear a child's cry for help (THIS MAN IN THE CAR HE'S GOT A GUN), which draws him into the dangerous world of Partlow and LaFrance. and he can sometimes hear things that aren't spoken aloud. What those friends don't know is that Curtis has a special talent for listening. In a different part of town, Curtis Mayhew, a young black man who works as a redcap for the Union Railroad Station, has a reputation for mending quarrels and misunderstandings among his friends. Joining together they leave their small time confidence scams behind to attempt an elaborate kidnapping-for-ransom scheme in New Orleans. ![]() Angel-faced John Partlow and carnival huckster Ginger LaFrance are among the worst of this lot. ![]() In the midst of this misery, some folks explored unscrupulous ways to make money. Businesses went under by the hundreds, debt and foreclosures boomed, and breadlines grew in many American cities. ![]() ![]() Since then, Samuel has been a part of productions such as Heathers: The Musical (The Mitchell Old Company), Three Winters Green (Lambert House Enterprises) and Relative Merits (Lambert House Enterprises). ![]() He reprised his role as Andy in the national tour of The 91-Storey Treehouse (CDP Theatre Producers) which was nominated for 'Best Production for Children' at the 2021 Sydney Theatre Awards. Upon graduating, he made his professional stage debut playing Andy in The 78-Storey Treehouse (CDP Theatre Producers), touring nationally in 2018. Samuel studied at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), graduating from the three-year Bachelor course in 2016. From an early age, he always had a love for performing, predominantly through music. Samuel was born and raised in the coastal town of Port Macquarie on the New South Wales Mid North Coast. ![]() 2023 Australian Tour Samuel Welsh - Billy ![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe it’s because I lived in Florence, Italy for three months in 2014 – Florence will always be “Firenzi” to me now : )Īs I said, Steven Saylor starts at the beginning (1,000-757 B.C.), and travels all the way through history until 44 B.C., basically ending with the fascinating story of Julius Caesar, Anthony and Cleopatra. I don’t completely understand the “Anglicization” of other countries’/cities’ names (is there a reason we can’t say “Roma”?), so first off I like that Steven Saylor went with “Roma” instead of Rome for his title. ![]() For those who have visited or will visit Rome, Italy, or have an interest in the history of Western civilization, this New York Times Bestseller, “Roma” (2007), could be a book for you! Author Steven Saylor starts at the BEGINNING with Remus and Romulus being raised by the mythical “she-wolf” (prostitute?), and then ultimately bringing about the founding of the powerful once-empire, now capital city of Italy, Rome. ![]() ![]() Drawing on a vast and diverse archive in theory, testimony, and image and on such thinkers as Karl Marx, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. ![]() Throughout the twentieth century, argues Left-Wing Melancholia, from classical Marxism to psychoanalysis to the advent of critical theory, a culture of defeat and its emotional overlay of melancholy have characterized the leftist understanding of the political in history and in theoretical critique. For the political left, the cause lost was communism, and this trauma determined how leftists wrote the next chapter in their political struggle and how they have thought about their past since. ![]() The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War but also the rise of a melancholic vision of history as a series of losses. ![]() ![]() ![]() First of all, the book really immerses you in the world of magic. The World We Knew and The Dovekeepers are both spectacular, and I’m so happy to say that Magic Lessons really doesn’t disappoint. Hoffman’s books are always some of my favorites. I’ll try to limit my spoilers, but beware that there may be one or two! Just a note, I haven’t read Practical Magic, or Rules of Magic, but this is kind of the prologue to the prologue, so it has no previous required readings. ![]() Love is the only thing that matters.Ī HUGE thank you to Simon & Schuster CA for sending me this as an ARC! I am a huge fan of Alice Hoffman, and I was beyond excited when I saw this book up on their ARC list. And it’s here that she learns the rules of magic and the lesson that she will carry with her for the rest of her life. Here she invokes the curse that will haunt her family. When Maria is abandoned by the man who has declared his love for her, she follows him to Salem, Massachusetts. It is here that she learns her first important lesson: Always love someone who will love you back. ![]() Under the care of Hannah Owens, Maria learns about the “Unnamed Arts.” Hannah recognizes that Maria has a gift and she teaches the girl all she knows. ![]() Synopsis: Where does the story of the Owens bloodline begin? With Maria Owens, in the 1600s, when she’s abandoned in a snowy field in rural England as a baby. ![]() |