With danger increasing for everyone MJ loves, will the clock run out before they solve the mystery? Find out how MJ and Josh-swirling in a whirlwind of mystery and suspense-lean on their mutual faith to find answers, courage, forgiveness, healing … and wholesome romance. Frustrated with the county sheriff’s investigation, MJ and Josh partner to follow clues that lead to a kidnapper who demands a bizarre ransom. She claims a driver ran down and abducted her friend Kelsey. He can’t believe his bad luck when MJ, the woman who plagues the nightmares of his military service in Afghanistan, shows up in his hometown. But peace is elusive in a rural Oklahoma town full of secrets.Īfter losing his wife and children in a fatal car crash, Josh Rivers doubts he deserves a second chance at love. Running from flashbacks of a life-altering attack in Afghanistan, MJ takes refuge with her mother, managing Peach Blossom Orchard. The clock is ticking for her pleading friend on the other side of the ravine. Hands push Marie Jessica (“MJ”) Goodrich from a rural roadway into an icy creek. Love and danger spar in this thrilling romantic suspense novel.
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Here the other half of the novel comes into play: scientists have discovered a sort of wormhole leading to a 1959 version of Paris, one where history followed a very different course, as the failed Nazi invasion of France did not develop into World War II and scientific progress seems to have been halted. Verity Auger is a Thresher archeologist trying to recover the vestiges of the past from ice-encrusted Earth and she is enrolled by her superiors for a very peculiar mission – not exactly on Earth but on a weird facsimile of it. Humans have divided into two factions, the Slashers, who embrace technology to the point of integrating it into their bodies, and the Threshers, who use technology but refuse to undergo such merging. 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Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Finding time to sit and read is still a little bit beyond me at the moment. “An up-all-night read.”- The Detroit NewsįINALLY!! Back to reviewing following a long absence due to a difficult pregnancy and a huge bout of newborn induced sleep deprivation! I haven't had much of a chance to do anything except rock a screaming baby lately, so its so nice to be able to read a book. “You’ll want to lock the doors while you’re reading.”-Minneapolis Star Tribune For she’s the only woman who has what it takes to stop the killer. Now she faces the most difficult role of her career-and her life. But the FBI’s ace profiler of serial killers is the last person Kate wants to work with, not with their troubled history. When Peter pulls strings, Special Agent John Quinn gets assigned to the case. Her superiors are interested only because the latest victim may be the daughter of Peter Bondurant, an enigmatic billionaire. Not even she can tell if the reluctant witness is a potential victim or something more troubling still. But she isn’t talking.Įnter Kate Conlan, former FBI agent turned victim/witness advocate. He has already claimed three lives, and he won’t stop there. He performs his profane ceremony in a wooded Minneapolis park, anointing his victims, then setting the bodies ablaze. Librarian’s note: This is a previously-published edition of Stella Gibbons was born in London in 1902. 'One of the finest parodies written in English.a wickedly brilliant skit' Robert Macfarlane, Guardian Wodehouse and the comic aplomb of Evelyn Waugh's Scoop' Independent Cold Comfort Farm has the sunniness of a P. 'Screamingly funny and wildly subversive' Marian Keyes, Guardian 'Very probably the funniest book ever written' Sunday Times Cold Comfort Farm is a sharp and clever parody of the melodramatic and rural novel. As the sukebind flowers, Flora takes each of the family in hand and brings order to their chaos. There is Judith in a scarlet shawl, heaving with remorse for an unspoken wickedness raving old Ada Doom, who once saw something nasty in the woodshed lustful Seth and despairing Reuben, Judith's two sons and there is Amos, preaching fire and damnation to one and all. When she is orphaned at twenty, she decides her only option is to descend on relatives - the doomed Starkadders at the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm. 'We are not like other folk, maybe, but there have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm.'Sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste has been expensively educated to do everything but earn a living. A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas and one of the best-loved comic novels of all time, Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World' A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection. Neither is the country or city he lives in nor his wife or son, who are all referred to in generic terms – his lover is always “the pretty girl” no matter how old she grows. Written as a self-help book, he addresses his protagonist as ‘you’. Like Hamid’s previous novels, this too is narratively unconventional. If the story is slightly overfamiliar, the way it is told is most certainly not. To this end, she could be Daisy to his Jay Gatsby: the yearning for wealth and position is caught up in a yearning for her. Embedded within this tale of smooth self-invention is a not-so-smooth love story: a pretty girl and sometime lover is just out of his reach and the desire to win her over is partly what motivates his upward climb. Mohsin Hamid’s third novel is a classic rags-to-riches story told in experimental form.Īn Asian boy hailing from the harsh terrain of village life pulls himself up by his bootstraps to become a hotshot water industrialist in the city. The Browns soon find that Paddington is a very unusual bear. He had travelled all the way from Darkest Peru with only a jar of marmalade, a suitcase and his hat. The Browns first met Paddington on a railway station – Paddington station, in fact. “A bear on Paddington Station?” said Mrs Brown in amazement. PayPal accepted, any questions please get in touch. This copy comes with a signed letter from Michael Bond. The original dust jacket has benefitted from some very minor professional restoration. Binding is firm, there is some minor scuffing to boards. There is foxing to roughly 20 pages, (the worst affected are in the photographs). There is a previous owner inscription to front pastedown. A Bear Called Paddington - 1st - with signed letter by Michael Bond. He soon meets a federal marshal who is tracking the outlaws and allows Silas to join him. Silas decides that the pony will be able to lead him to his father.Īnd thus begins Silas’s journey with Pony and Mittenwool. But the decision is made easier when the pony with the strange markings that had accompanied the strangers, all black with a white head, returns to his house without a rider. Such is Palacio’s writing that we are rapt with Silas’s dilemma as he must decide whether to follow his father, who was basically kidnapped by three men with guns who called him by another name, or stay put in their house as his father had instructed him he must. It’s filled with action from the first page, where we meet Silas Bird, his father, his dog, and his best friend, a ghost he calls Mittenwool. In “Pony,” Palacio forces us to think about love, loss, and the connections that bind us to each other. Each story is beautiful in its own right, and “Pony” is one that will not be quickly forgotten. Palacio reminded me a bit of another middle grade book about a pony, “ Some Kind of Courage” by Dan Gemeinhart, the stories are quite different apart from being historical fiction with both boys having a horse that they love dearly. |