![]() A gripping opening sentence teases O'Dea's dark side ("A long time ago, in another country, I nearly killed a woman"). What drives someone to murder? What will someone do in the name of love? What kind of crime can someone never forgive? Nina de Gramont’s brilliant, unforgettable novel explores these questions and more.ĭe Gramont (The Last September) offers an intriguing new theory of why Agatha Christie disappeared for 11 days in this superior thriller, which places the woman Christie's husband, Archie, was having an affair with at the time here the fictional Nan O'Dea at its center. Then acts of unspeakable cruelty kept them separated. She and the man she loved were a star-crossed couple who were destined to be together––until the Great War, a pandemic, and shameful secrets tore them apart. It began decades before, in Ireland, when Nan was a young girl. Nan’s plot didn’t begin the day she met Archie and Agatha. Soon, Nan became Archie’s mistress, luring him away from his devoted wife, desperate to marry him. ![]() ![]() In every way, she became a part of their life––first, both Christies. In 1925, Miss Nan O’Dea infiltrated the wealthy, rarefied world of author Agatha Christie and her husband, Archie. ![]() "Sizzles from its first sentence." - The Wall Street Journal ![]() Why would the world's most famous mystery writer disappear for eleven days? What makes a woman desperate enough to destroy another woman's marriage? How deeply can a person crave revenge? ![]()
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![]() Often times, the Yin-Yang relationship seems to be the most interesting. Being able to develop characters that are so different and yet so perfect for each other is not only a challenge, but it’s also one wickedly wild ride. ![]() He doesn’t own a watch and she believes in being on time-always! To give away all of their differences would be to spoil the book for you, but penning their story really drove home the fact that the Yin-Yang relationship is one of my absolute favorite to write. They are, for all intents and purposes, complete opposites. One of the best compliments I’ve received when it comes to Rules of Entanglement is not only that readers love how different my hero Jax is from my heroine Vanessa, but how well they work as a couple. 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Gates says, "We can work on a local, national, and global level to build the technologies, businesses, and industries to avoid the worst impacts of climate change". ![]() Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions.īill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about climate change and what makes him optimistic that the world can avoid the most dire effects of the climate crisis. ![]() ![]() ![]() Named Poet Laureate of the United States in 2019, she lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she is a Tulsa Artist Fellow. She is the author of nine poetry collections and one previous memoir,Ĭrazy Brave. ![]() Joy Harjo is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. ![]() "I turn and return to Harjo's poetry for her breathtaking complex witness and for her world-remaking language." ![]() "Show the remarkable progression of a writer determined to reconnect with her past and make sense of her present, drawing together the brutalities of contemporary reservation life with the beauty and sensibility of Native American culture and mythology.Alive with compassion, pain and love, this book is unquestionably an act of kindness." How We Became Human explores its title question in poems of sustaining grace. This collection gathers poems from throughout Joy Harjo's twenty-eight-year career, beginning in 1973 in the age marked by the takeover at Wounded Knee and the rejuvenation of indigenous cultures in the world through poetry and music. 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Lizzy wants nothing more than to sell the farm and return to her life in New York, until she discovers a journal Althea left for her-a Book of Remembrances meant to help Lizzy embrace her own special gifts. ![]() But when her beloved grandmother Althea dies, Lizzy must return and face the tragedy still hanging over the farm’s withered lavender fields: the unsolved murders of two young girls, and the cruel accusations that followed Althea to her grave. Eight years ago, she left the land that nine generations of gifted healers had tended, determined to distance herself from the whispers about her family’s strange legacy. A novel of secrets, memory, family, and forgiveness by the bestselling author of When Never Comes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Cardinal Seán's BlogĬardinal Seán Patrick Cardinal OMalley, OFM Cap. 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Z's Blog brings you clear, straight commentary on Catholic issues, liturgy and life. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this first book in a new fantasy-adventure series, the New York Times bestselling author of Jackaby takes readers on a journey of monsters, magic, and discovery. ![]() The boys must leave their sleepy town and risk their lives in the Wild Wood, journeying through the Deep Dark to reach the goblin horde and uncover who they truly are. When they are thirteen years old, a mysterious message arrives, calling the brothers to be heroes and protectors of magic. Tinn and Cole are raised as human twins, neither knowing what secrets may be buried deep inside one of them. ![]() Too perfectly: Kull cannot tell them apart, so he leaves both babies behind. The first book in an action-packed fantasy adventure series featuring witches, shape-shifters, and other creatures of fairytale and folklore, including two brothers - one human and one a goblin changeling - on a life-changing quest into the Oddmire. By the time he turns back, the changeling has already perfectly mimicked the human child. After laying the changeling in a human infant's crib, the goblin Kull is briefly distracted. But when the night arrives to trade a human baby for a goblin one, something goes terribly wrong. To renew it, goblins must perform an ancient ritual involving the rarest of their kind-a newborn changeling. A captivating series opener." - Booklist, starred review Magic is fading from the Wild Wood. I can't wait for the next one." -Adam Gidwitz, author of the New York Times bestseller A Tale Dark and Grimm "Set in a magical world filled with incredible creatures from folklore, this fast-paced fantasy will keep readers turning the pages. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Spanish Daughter by Lorena Hughes Photo: Kensington Books ![]() This list is not exhaustive as there are more books that will be released later in the year but for now we’ve got you covered with 15 books by Latinx authors we are highly anticipating in 2022. So cue up your favorite bookstore‘s web site and get ready to hit that pre-order button. Expect some more empowering stories in 2022 from some of our favorite authors including Elizabeth Acevedo, Reyna Grande, Sonia Manzano, and Crystal Maldonado. This past year brought us some powerful reads including For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts by Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez and the Latinx anthology Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed. Books lovers get ready because 2022 has some amazing libros coming from Latinx authors and we cannot wait. ![]() ![]() ![]() With the help of a boy named Shem, who is on a quest of his own, Serena travels deep into the mountains, where precious gems are mined, and across barren plains, where white-clad Trident Riders are terrorizing anyone who is not Gorgio. ![]() The Gorgios are even worse, trying to take the child away.Ī run-in with social services, aptly nicknamed the Cruelty, launches Serena on a journey that is at once an escape and a quest to reunite her family. The sisters get no help from the Yulang, because Willow’s child was born out of wedlock and the family has been declared outcast. By birth they are half Yulang, half Gorgio, but are accepted by neither race. In a society similar to ours in some ways and very different in others, 16-year-old Serena and her older sister, Willow, struggle to get by in a tough, crime-infested urban neighborhood. Awards: Andre Norton Award Nominee (2005). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So your sippy cup doesn't get instantaneously refilled? So Mommy won't let you play with the suffocating plastic bag? So you have to stop wearing diapers and be potty trained? Don't throw a fit! Keep walking along and singing your song because it's all good.Īnd since it's impossible to teach this lesson without cool jazz, the book includes a downloadable version of the author reading the book and singing Pete's songs with musical accompaniment. I think chilling out is certainly something I want my child to learn. One reviewer felt that this book does not teach children appropriate problem solving skills. Despite getting his brand new shoes in a variety of stain situations that would challenge a Tide commercial, Pete the Cat keeps "walking along and singing his song, because it's all good". If cool jazz wrote a children's book, this is it. ![]() |