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![]() A body has been found on the beach nearby: a man with a tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to death. Now, as he turns and walks away again, he receives a call from one of his team. On the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community he grew up in, he lost his family too. In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his estranged father's funeral takes place. ![]() ![]() "Ann Cleeves is one of my favorite mystery writers."-Louise Penny From Ann Cleeves-bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows-comes the first in a gripping new series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meg: I heard Robert Beatty say that this one (#3) is by far his favorite and I think the more developed themes of self-sacrificing friendship in this novel make me want to choose it as my favorite … but I’m still going to go with book #1. There’s more mystery surrounding who and what Serafina is, and the plot moved faster. Natalie: The first book is my favorite of the three. ![]() SO WHICH BOOK OF THE THREE IS YOUR FAVORITE? I did think this one was a little more “mystical”/New-Age-y than the previous two. It’s gripping and a little darker than the other two, but in a similar fashion still gives you something good to fight for. Meg: Once again, I read this in a sitting. ![]() It was fun to read it so close to Halloween. But I have been reading a lot of fantasy lit lately, and I think maybe I overdid it in the supernatural. Natalie: This one didn’t land for me quite like the other two. Within the first few pages, I found myself asking, “What in the world is going on here?” In that respect, Beatty does not disappoint.” ![]() ( Serafina and the Black Cloak & Serafina and the Twisted Staff ):ĪB: I thought Beatty continued to do an excellent job of hooking the reader. OVERALL THOUGHTS OF THIS THIRD BOOK COMPARED TO THE OTHER TWO 3 reviewers reflecting on the 3 Serafina books – and how book #3 compared to the others. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The jacket is Very Fine and unclipped (£12.99). 1) HALF A WAR: This is a LIMITED EDITION, UK first edition hardcover of this title published by Harper Voyager in 2015 AND SIGNED BY JOE ABERCROMBIE & NUMBERED 194/250 COPIES. The copyright page has the number '1' present to confirm the first edition state. The book is Very Fine with straight spine, sharp corners and firm spine ends. 2) HALF THE WORLD: This is a LIMITED EDITION, UK first edition hardcover of this title published by Harper Voyager in 2015 AND SIGNED BY JOE ABERCROMBIE & NUMBERED 218/250 COPIES. ![]() *** I am offering a set of UK SIGNED LIMITED first editions of the Shattered Sea trilogy: 1) HALF A KING: This is a LIMITED EDITION, UK first edition hardcover of this title published by Harper Voyager in 2014 AND SIGNED BY JOE ABERCROMBIE & NUMBERED 216/250 COPIES. IF YOU DO NOT INTEND TO PAY THE EXTRA POSTAGE WHEN I REQUEST IT, DO NOT BUY THESE BOOKS BECAUSE I WILL CANCEL YOUR ORDER AND NOT DEAL WITH YOU AGAIN. *** IF YOU LIVE OUTSIDE THE UK YOU WILL BE REQUIRED TO PAY THE FIRST £50 OF POSTAGE TO COVER AIR MAIL WITH TRACKING AND INSURANCE ON THREE HEAVY BOOKS. ![]() ![]() ![]() Queen’s Gambit is now one of the most popular shows to ever hit Netflix. With a story that's mostly fiction (based on the book of the same name by Walter Tevis) but somewhat based in reality, a stunning lead turn from an incredibly talented performer in Anya Taylor-Joy, and visually breathtaking direction throughout from Scott Frank, The Queen's Gambit proves that the best sports art isn't always about the first sports that come to mind.Īnd that proof was in the viewership pudding. High-level chess tournaments, and the personal and professional drama that surrounds a contender's rise to the top might not sound like the most thrilling premise for a TV show, but Netflix's The Queen's Gambit manages to run with it, bringing those themes and more together to make one of the very best things on television in 2020. Still, there's precedent for a "limited series" turning into a traditional "series.". ![]() Netflix specifically calls the show a "limited series," which usually means there are only plans for one season.The Queen's Gambit, a 7-part limited series, has become a surprise hit for Netflix. ![]() ![]() ![]() |a Initial Bemis load m2btab.test019 in 2019. It is the eleventh in a series of linked novels centering on private investigator Elvis Cole and his partner Joe Pike. ![]() |a Private investigators |z California |z Los Angeles |v Fiction. ![]() |a Cole, Elvis |c (Fictitious character) |0 |v Fiction. As the body count rises, Pike s biggest threat might come from the girl herself, a lost soul in the CIty of Angels, determined to destroy herself unless Joe Pike can teach her the value of life. "With the help of private investigator Elvis Cole, Pike uncovers a web of lies and betrayals. |a Joe Pike, an ex-cop, ex-Marine, ex-mercenary, is coerced into protecting Larkin Barkley, a hard-partying young heiress whose life is in danger after becoming a hunted witness in a secret federal investigation. ![]() ![]() In this vivid and disturbing book Cecil Woodham-Smith provides the definitive account. The continuing impact on Anglo-Irish relations was incalculable, the immediate human cost almost inconceivable. The Great Hunger is the story of one of the worst disasters in world history: the Irish potato famine of the 1840s. ![]() It may not have been the result of deliberate government policy, yet British ?obtuseness, short-sightedness and ignorance? and stubborn commitment to laissez-faire ?solutions? largely caused the disaster and prevented any serious efforts to relieve suffering. The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America. ![]() International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. The unclipped dust wrapper has a hint of edge wear and is almost imperceptIbly sunned to the spine but is still near fine condition, it has now been covered in clear, removable brodart protective film. ![]() ![]() This copy is bright, tight, white and square. This copy is in fine, unmarked condition bound in green cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. ![]() ![]() Maybe you’re savvy to these things, and you were already saying, “Why don’t you just fire up the propane heater?” I thought the same thing, pal, okay, and once again the answer to the question is “death by technology update.” If it had been just a propane furnace that had a pilot light I could even light manually, we would have been golden. ![]() The trickle charge from the Expedition to the Airstream batteries while we drove was not nearly enough to overcome the severe depletion I had laid on the system while it was parked at our house. Ha ha! What a dependable captain I was turning out to be. And let me now also remind you that we had no goddamn electrical power. It was November 15 and we were in the high desert, closer in feel to Flagstaff than Phoenix, so it was in the ballpark of 36 degrees outside. We might as well have been in any parking lot anywhere, for all the good this place was doing us. On that first night, however, I’ll repeat, we had no hookups. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lively and humorous pictures work together with text told from Brianna’s perspective, as she struggles to reconcile her ambivalence about the performative aspects of this event with questions of her commitment to life as part of a Jewish community.īrianna’s account of her bat mitzvah unfolds in flashbacks, beginning with her mother’s original attempt to convince her that the ceremony should be part of Brianna’s future. Brianna’s questions about the meaning of the religious ceremony form the core of the book, but Libenson also integrates concerns about friendship, family conflicts, and financial realities into her compelling coming-of-age story. Becoming Brianna, the most recent book in the Emmie & Friends series of diverse graphic novels, explores the joys and difficulties of middle school through the lens of Brianna’s upcoming bat mitzvah. ![]() ![]() ![]() Their fling is only for the summer they both say, but very quickly what was a summer fling turns into something more, but will secrets and misunderstandings be what keeps them apart or bring them together?The HeroLeo, is a organic farmer and for years has been cultivating the land. As Roxie keeps bumping and stumbling over farmer Leo, chemistry is fiery hot. And she literally bumps in a sexy farmer with the most brilliant green eyes she has ever seen before. So she reluctantly agrees to stay for the summer to take over her mother's diner. But without a job, and living in California she knows that she will have to do it. Now she is out of a job, and even though her mother needs her home, the last thing that Roxie wants to do is come back to that small town. ![]() SummaryRoxie Callahan can't believe that she lost her job over "butter" of all things and lost all of her clients in LA, because of one client who screwed her over with all of her other clients. ![]() |