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Rosie dunne cecelia ahern5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Rosie was excited at the idea of going to Boston University so she can be reunited with Alex, but her perfect plan fall into pieces when something unexpected happened in her life. As they grew up into teenagers, Alex and his family had to move from Dublin to Boston -and Alex will be continuing his studies to become a doctor there. ![]() They do a lot of things together and share everything with each other. You have to follow through on some things." Rosie Dunne and Alex Stewart has been best friends since they were very young. There aren't many sure things in life, but one thing I do know is that you have to deal with the consequences of your actions. It is so easy to lose your way, to lose direction. "Life is funny, isn't it? Just when you think you've got it all figured out, just when you finally begin to plan something, get excited about it and feel like you know what direction you're heading in, the paths change, the signs change, the wind blows the other way, north is suddenly south, and east is west and you're lost. ![]()
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2666 bolano5/9/2023 ![]() Probably not through the latest lost work to surface, “The Third Reich,” a moody and uneven novel about a German war-games champion published by FSG at the end of last year. If you’re a Bolaño neophyte, this must look intimidating. The job they did of sifting through his unpublished writings in the immediate aftermath of Bolaño’s death in 2003 can’t have been especially thorough, for every other week, it seems, they find themselves tripping over another stout stack of papers, which, on closer inspection, turns out to be a new thousand-page opus on pornography, obscure minor poets, and the end of the world. You have to question the detective skills, to say nothing of the clerical skills, of Roberto Bolaño’s literary executors. ![]()
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Mrs bridge book5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() The companion novel Mr Bridge, telling the story from the other side of the marriage, is also available in Penguin Modern Classics, with an introduction by Lionel Shriver, author of We Need to Talk About Kevin. Connell illuminates the narrow morality, confusion, futility and even terror at the heart of a life of plenty. In a series of comic, telling vignettes, Evan S. And yet she finds modern life increasingly baffling, her children aren't growing up into the people she expected, and sometimes she has the vague disquieting sensation that all is not well in her life. ![]() She spends her time with shopping, going to bridge parties and bringing up her children to be pleasant, clean and have nice manners. Mrs Bridge, an unremarkable and conservative housewife in Kansas City, has three children and a kindly lawyer husband. This edition has an introduction by Joshua Ferris, author of Then We Came to the End and The Unnamed. Connell's Mrs Bridge is an extraordinary tragicomic portrayal of suburban life and one of the classic American novels of the twentieth century, influencing books such as Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections. ![]()
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All the bright places book5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() * Note: The main character dies by suicide at the end of book. Inspired by a tragic event in the author’s own life, All the Bright Places ends with Finch’s suicide by drowning, and Violet’s struggle to rebuild her life after. Suicide, attempted suicide & suicidal ideation (theme)*.But as Violet’s world grows, Finch’s begins to shrink. And it’s only with Finch that Violet can forget to count away the days and start living them. And when they pair up on a project to discover the “natural wonders” of their state, both Finch and Violet make more important discoveries: It’s only with Violet that Finch can be himself-a weird, funny, live-out-loud guy who’s not such a freak after all. When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it’s unclear who saves whom. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister’s recent death. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him. Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. ![]()
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Dogtripping by David Rosenfelt5/9/2023 ![]() Meanwhile, at the police station, the passerby is identified as Matthew Jantzen, and he’s wanted for murder. Three things happen at once: Andy yells, Laurie runs to stop the abuse, and so does a closer passerby, who so thoroughly beats the owner that both are arrested when the cops arrive.Īndy scoops up the dog and takes him to the Tara Foundation, the dog rescue organization that’s always been his true passion. Across the street, a man is mistreating his dog. When out for one of their strolls, their simple ritual isn’t so simple anymore. ![]() By this point in their marriage, it’s routine. ![]() Lawyer Andy Carpenter and his wife, Laurie, enjoy walking their dogs, Tara and Sebastian. Lawyer Andy Carpenter and his golden retriever, Tara, work to free a man who risked it all to help a dog in need ![]()
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![]() ![]() From the start, confusion ruled her life. In a highly readable, well-researched biography, subtitled The Restless Life of a European Eccentric, Veronica Buckley analyses the complex reasons for Christina's extravagantly quixotic gesture. She realized it too late, when there was no turning back. A Queen without a crown, and with begging bowl in hand, was of little account on the European stage. ![]() The second, seven years later in 1660, shows her wary and disillusioned. In the first, painted a year before she abdicated, a young woman of 26 stares confidently from the canvas, bright-eyed and proud. We can see what it cost her in the two portraits reproduced in this biography. For a woman who relished power as much as Queen Christina, to renounce the throne of Sweden seems singularly perverse. ![]()
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A Man's Heart by Debbie Macomber5/9/2023 ![]() Over the next dozen years, her romance novels achieved much success, as was evidenced by her winning the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award, The Holt Medallion, and Walden Books' Best Seller award. She had a relatively late start in writing, breaking into publishing in 1982 when she was already forty years old. ![]() ![]() How can one woman handle it all?The answer lies with a God who holds the keys to yesterday, today, and tomorrow-and to the heart of the one man whom Jules could ever love. And disturbing memories stirring up a growing relationship with her sister. A promise to a dead friend and two needy little lives. But when cancer takes the life of her best friend, Jules finds herself caring for her friend's two small children as well as the Blue Bayou.A drought-stricken farm. And now Pop is gone, leaving Jules with his struggling Washington State potato farm with a sister excluded from his will and with a heart wounded by the sacrifice she has made on behalf of her father.It looks like strengthening her relationship with her sister and improving the prospects of the Blue Bayou farm will be Jules' chief concerns. Now the man Jules loves best can't stand the sight of her.Only for Pop could Jules have made such a sacrifice. ![]() Jules broke off her wedding to Cruz practically at the altar. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Arthur Phillips returns with a unique and thrilling novel that will leave readers questioning the nature of truth at every turn. He will do almost anything to return home to his wife and son. The perfect man for the job, Ezzedine is the ultimate outsider, stranded on this cold, wet, and primitive island. ![]() Belloc enlists Mahmoud Ezzedine, a Muslim physician left behind by the last diplomatic visit from the Ottoman Empire, as his undercover agent. With time running out, London confronts a seemingly impossible question: What does James truly believe? It falls to Geoffrey Belloc, a secret warrior from the hottest days of England’s religious battles, to devise a test to discover the true nature of King James’s soul. He has every reason to claim to be a Protestant, but if he secretly shares his family’s Catholicism, then forty years of religious war will have been for nothing, and a bloodbath will ensue. The queen’s spymasters-hardened veterans of a long war on terror and religious extremism-fear that James is not what he appears. The leading candidate is King James VI of Scotland, but there is a problem. ![]() Potential successors secretly maneuver to be in position when the inevitable occurs. There is so much to love about Arthur Phillips newest novel 'The King at the Edge of the World'. ![]() It is a capital crime even to think that Elizabeth will ever die. Queen Elizabeth’s spymasters recruit an unlikely agent-the only Muslim in England-for an impossible mission in a mesmerizing novel from “one of the best writers in America” (The Washington Post) The year is 1601. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Additionally, the Southern medical records stored in Richmond also disappeared in flames a few weeks later. Unfortunately, those valuable documents were burned near Waynesboro, Virginia, in the spring of 1865 when Yankee cavalry captured the baggage wagon and gave no thought for the poor historians a century and a half later. McGuire kept journals and papers detailing his experiences in the Confederate service. This game of hide and seek with historians probably isn’t the good doctor’s fault. However, the details gleaned from comrades’ accounts and his own writings from other battles allow us to partially reconstruction Dr. In the history books, he appears and then he’s gone, leaving readers with only a few facts and too many questions. ![]() Hunter McGuire do at Gettysburg? The medical director of the Second Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia is elusive to historians seeking to understand his role in the medical situation at Gettysburg. What does a medical director do during a battle? More specifically: what did Dr. ![]() Today, we are pleased to welcome back guest author Sarah Kay Bierle. ![]()
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![]() The well known RAI Congress Centre and Albert Cuyp street market are all within walking distance. Public Transportation is easily accessible from the B&B. There are trendy shops, restaurants, and museums like the Rijksmuseum and van Gogh museum around the corner. Xaviera and her charming husband are the hosts who speak 5 languages at this colorful bohemian B&B in Amsterdam's Goldcoast. Sex without humor does not exist for her. More about Xaviera > Xaviera hosts Amsterdam B&B ![]() With her energetic speeches and conferences (Dutch & English) full of humor and wisdom she knows how to share happiness and humor with her public in a naughty way, but never vulgar. ![]() Xaviera herself, happily married since 11 years, has all the more reason to be "happy". Xaviera has a fast mind and patient ear to listen to peoples problems, especially since she wrote a world-famous monthly sex advice column for Penthouse for 35 years. The most famous madame of the world's oldest profession, author, Penthouse columnist, legend, performer, raconteur, and theatrical entrepreneur. ![]() |