![]() ![]() ![]() "Author LynDee Walker sure knows her way around a plot twist. Bonus: Includes book club discussion questions. Part of the Henery Press Mystery Series Collection, if you like one, you'll probably like them all! Front Page Fatality is the first book in the Nichelle Clarke Headlines in Heels humorous mystery series. Armed with a notebook, a hunch, and her favorite stilettos, Nichelle races to splash these shady dealings across the front page before this deadline becomes her last. Then an ordinary accident story turns extraordinary when evidence goes missing, a prosecutor vanishes, and a sexy Mafia boss shows up with the headline tip of a lifetime.Īs Nichelle gets closer to the truth, her story gets more dangerous. ![]() Crime reporter Nichelle Clarke's days can flip from macabre to comical with a beep of her police scanner. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() ![]() ![]() Jennifer Egan created a work of disorganised chaos, with a lot of careful planning and disruption to the standard novel format. ![]() ![]() The best review I can give is that knowing less will only lead to greater enjoyment. Part of me wants to write about some of the specifics as I’ve seen included in other reviews but if you see this before you’ve either read the book or another review of the book - do yourself a favour and go in blind. Time is shown as passing far too fast, or far too slow, or being stop/start, or feeling like the enemy and the friend - what is so fascinating about this book is that it simply makes you feel human. Tone, style and the focus of the narrative all change only held together by that inevitable power that connects us all: time.Īlthough each story jumps back and forward in time we end as we start with the same characters albeit with a life’s journey in front/behind them. As she jumps from chapter to chapter and story to story, you can at times feel like you’re reading a list of vaguely connected short stories written by entirely different people. I’m so glad I came to this book with no knowledge or expectation part of the beauty of it is the journey you’re taking on while getting to know its protagonists with no ‘why’, ‘why’, ‘where’ or alternative plot devices pushing you to the end. If I was asked to write the cover summary for A Visit From The Goon Squad I would struggle. ![]() ![]() ![]() His work has also appeared in popular outlets including The Atlantic, National Affairs, National Review, The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and US News & World Report. Hess is often published in scholarly outlets, such as American Politics Quarterly, Harvard Education Review, Social Science Quarterly, Teachers College Record, and Urban Affairs Review. As an educator, political scientist, and author, Dr. He teaches or has taught at the University of Virginia, the University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown University, Rice University, Johns Hopkins University, and Harvard University. ![]() Hess was a high school social studies teacher. Since 2001, he has served as executive editor of Education Next. ![]() He is the author of Education Week's popular blog "Rick Hess Straight Up," and is a regular contributor to Forbes and The Hill. ![]() Hess is a resident scholar and the director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he works on K-12 and higher education issues. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Neither Paige nor Cole can decide whether to strangle or kiss each other as the tension builds. And Paige sure as hell never pictured herself falling for a man that matched her in stubbornness. He was never supposed to be in the middle of a national scandal. But does that help really have to come from the sexy and equally confident Cole Parker?Cole Parker is an FBI agent in Lexington, Kentucky. Paige is a proud, independent woman, but even she knows that she must find help to stay alive. ![]() Paige Davies just made two of her best friends ever, and she doesn't know if they will live to see the next morning.The third book in the Bluegrass Series picks up with Paige Davies trying frantically to save the lives of the two women that she has come to love as sisters, knowing she might be the next target. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jack and May’s thrillingly hilarious adventure combines all the classic stories fractured as a broken magic mirror into one epic novel for the ages. Will there be happily ever after Dont miss the fractured-fairy tale conclusion to the. Mostly because May s grandmother might just be the long lost Snow White. Read Once Upon the End by James Riley available from Rakuten Kobo. At the end of the 1950s, a little-known songwriter decided to capitalize on the. Yeah, what’s that about? May does need help though a huntsman is chasing her, her grandmother has been kidnapped, and Jack thinks it s all because of the Wicked Queen… Belong 2 Michael Jackson Teddy Riley: Written and recorded in 1999. In fact, May doesn’t even believe in magic. Who’d want to rescue a snobby, entitled princess anyway? Especially one that falls out of the sky wearing a shirt that says ‘Punk Princess,’ and still denies she’s royalty. by James Riley Will there be happily ever after Dont miss the fractured-fairy tale conclusion to the action-packed and humor-filled Half Upon a Time. ![]() After all, his father’s been missing ever since that incident with the beanstalk and the giant, and his grandfather keeps pushing him to get out and find a princess to rescue. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() More recently he has adapted Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novels Kidnapped and Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde in Graphic Novel format with artist Cam Kennedy. Outside the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic, Grant is well-known to Batman fans following a lengthy run on various incarnations of the title. With over 300 2000 AD stories to his name – not to mention over 250 Daily Star Judge Dredd strips – Alan Grant’s prolific creative record speaks for itself. Outside of 2000 AD his credits include Star Wars, Lobo, The Punisher and the critically acclaimed A History of Violence. ![]() His creations include Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog, Ace Trucking, Al’s Baby, Button Man and Mean Machine. John Wagner has been scripting for 2000 AD for more years than he cares to remember. ![]() ![]() By his third year in medical school, he realized that he loved writing much more than medical practice, and he began publishing under his own name, starting with the novel The Andromeda Strain in 1969. He studied medicine at Harvard, but spent a lot of his time writing fiction books, publishing them under the pseudonym Andrew Lange. ![]() Originally, Crichton wanted to become a medical doctor. "And we are fools if we forget that and think, even for a moment, that we know it all." "Life is a profound mystery," he wrote in a commentary on his book The Lost World. He is sometimes considered the inventor of the techno-thriller genre, and his stories often explore the relationship between humans, technology, and power. ![]() Michael Crichton is a science fiction author with an extensive and well-recognized body of work. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His books have been translated into numerous foreign languages including German, Italian, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Turkish, Croatian, Bulgarian, Yiddish, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Portuguese, Czech, and French. Salvatore’s original hardcover, The Two Swords, Book III of The Hunter’s Blade Trilogy (October 2004) debuted at # 1 on The Wall Street Journal best-seller list and at # 4 on The New York Times best-seller list. His books regularly appear on The New York Times best-seller lists and have sold more than 10,000,000 copies. Salvatore enjoys an ever-expanding and tremendously loyal following. As one of the fantasy genre’s most successful authors, R.A. ![]() ![]() ![]() He realises it is too late after he distracts his frail mother, Diana, from controlling her new Jaguar on the road. Paralysed by anticipation, Byron fears missing the split-second change. His smug classmate, James Lowe, has just informed him that two seconds will be added to the year – but the change in time will not be announced by the government or any other authority. ![]() It is 1972 in the conservative English countryside, and Byron Hemmings is finishing up the school year at the elite Winston House. In two juxtaposed stories, Joyce highlights the harrowing nature of routine, and the sacrifices we make to reach seeming perfection. What is the value of two seconds? For one inquisitive eleven-year old Byron, it is “the difference between something happening and not happening.” Rachel Joyce’s second novel Perfect explores the meaning of time in its most condensed form: how even just a moment can completely shatter a person’s life. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Darius was suffering from chronic neck pain following a car accident in 2010. ![]() “The results of medical examinations have confirmed that Darius’s death was an accident caused by chloroethane, which is used to treat pain and that tragically lead to respiratory arrest,” a statement read. His death was also ruled an accident by the examiner.Ĭampbell Danesh’s family said he had been suffering from chronic pain at the time of his death, following a car accident in 2010 in Spain that left him with a broken neck. ![]() An autopsy carried out by the Southern Minnesota regional medical examiner’s office found “toxic effects of chloroethane” as well as “suffocation” as contributing factors. ![]() |