![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s not that the author doesn’t have intriguing ideas about her characters, she does - but she always backs away at the last moment when faced with the prospect of actually developing them into something substantial. While her non-fiction books are dodgy and poorly sourced enough that switching to fiction was probably a wise move, ironically, her fiction suffers greatly from her tendency to cling to the established record (or her take on it, which isn’t always the same thing.) This extremely disappointing novel, which weighs in at a substantial 530 pages, leaves the reader with a frustrating sense of being perpetually stuck in first gear. Alison Weir has written numerous popular histories centered around the Tudor era and recently has expanded to writing novels based on the same. ![]()
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![]() "So I started a blog to answer my own question about what makes a tomboy stylish." "Something clicked in my head," Mettler says. Crew, where you can find a "schoolboy blazer" on the streets, where the Breton sailor stripe shirt trend won't go away and on the runways, in Scott Sternberg's neo-preppy Boy by Band of Outsiders collection and in the 1970s-inspired trouser and oversized button-down shirt looks by Phoebe Philo at Celine. Indeed, in recent years, men's wear-inspired fashion for women has gone mainstream. Maybe, Mettler thought, there was something to her lifelong fascination with Belgian loafers, tattered Lacoste polos and Barbour jackets. That changed when she started reading street fashion blogs like the Sartorialist and A Cup of Jo, and saw comments from readers who couldn't get enough of Alexa Chung and Lou Doillon's "tomboy style." "It was a nightmare for my parents to get me into a dress for a stretch of years."Īs she became a teenager and young adult, she pushed that side of herself away. "I was a definite tomboy when I was a kid," she says. ![]() For years, L.A.-based author Lizzie Garrett Mettler thought "tomboy" was a dirty word. ![]() ![]() ![]() Author photo and bio on rear panel is clean. There is also a two-inch ragged tear at bottom of front panel near spine with horizontal creases extending across jacket to front flap. Color pictorial jacket is clean but moderately edngeworn with short tears, several creases and small chips. Cover is clean, extremeties lightly rubbed. Toning to two facing pages in book thanks to an old news clipping, now removed, pages otherwise near fine. A clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy. Endpapers printed with map of the "Cruise of the Caine." VERY GOOD+in GOOD+ dust jacket. ![]() Bound in navy blue cloth hardcover with silver stamping on spine. Unclipped dust jacket has $3.95 on front flap - rear flap and back panel refers "City Boy" rather than "The City Boy," indicating this is not the first printing,though it is early - possibly the second. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. ![]() ![]() Stott, has arrived with a few enchanted sweets of his own. ![]() In addition, the ice cream truck driver, Mr. Chocolate balls that make you a master of disguise. White, owner of the Sweet Tooth, and soon learn about the magical side effects of her candies: Rock candy that makes you weightless. In this start to the series, four young friends-Nate, Summer, Trevor, and Pigeon-meet the grandmotherly Mrs. Welcome to the Sweet Tooth Ice Cream & Candy Shoppe, where the confections are a bit on the.unusual side. And so begins The Candy Shop War, a trilogy from the #1 "New York Times "bestselling author of the Beyonders and Fablehaven series. ![]() Magical candy that gives kids superpowers? Sweet The possibility of evil overtaking the world? Not so tasty. Reading Level: 5.0 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 14.0 Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Friendship ![]() Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure - General Binding Type: Prebound - See All Available Formats & EditionsĬlick for more in this series: Candy Shop War ![]() ![]() ![]() He needs the help of her stunning, sassy wedding planner who he finds both irritating - and undeniably tempting.Ĭan Seth persuade Brooke to unplan a wedding? And, more importantly, how will he convince her that the wedding she should be planning. Seth Tyler wishes he could write a blank cheque and be done with his sister Maya’s wedding, but micromanaging the event is his only chance at proving that Maya’s fiancé is a liar. Until she meets the uptight businessman who’s holding the purse strings. ![]() With a fresh start in New York and her first Wedding Belles bridal client, things are looking up. For fans of Jill Shalvis, Julie James and Rachel Gibson.ĭiscovering her fiancé is a con man moments before they exchange vows devastates LA celebrity wedding planner Brooke Baldwin. Sex and the City meets The Wedding Planner in To Have And To Hold, the first sizzling contemporary romance in Lauren Layne’s The Wedding Belles series about three ambitious wedding planners who can make any bride’s dream come true. To Have and to Hold (The Wedding Belles #1) ![]() ![]() Set in the years 1628-1630, the main story is accompanied by a rich and most accurate description of the historical background - the warfaring cities, the plague, and the oppressive Spanish rule over Northern Italy during that time. Thus threatened and prevented from being married, the couple is separated, and the narration follows each of them on their struggle to unite again. Don Rodrigo menaces the priest who was to perform the wedding ceremony, who then refuses to do his duty. ![]() However, despite their great attachment, they are prevented from marrying by the cruel Don Rodrigo, who has himself cast an eye on the beautiful and pious Lucia. ![]() The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi) presents a caleidoscope of individual stories, which are all tied together by the story of Lucia and Renzo, two young persons of humble origin that are deeply in love with one another. ![]() ![]() LibriVox recording of The Betrothed, by Alessandro Manzoni. ![]() ![]() People can switch between these worlds at will and, when they die there, they are not truly dead instead, they merely return to the »real world« – same as at night when they sleep. That’s why world designers construct »alternative realities«, such as landscapes populated by dinosaurs, life at court in the Middle Ages, and surfing and chilling out on a beach. "In the not too distant future, the world is an inhospitable place: droughts, storms, floods. CliFi Thriller (Climate Fiction): Climate change & virtual reality.That‘s why Jana needs to solve the crime, she’s responsible for stopping the destruction. ![]() In times of climate change, VR is the only safe place for humankind. Until one day, a dead body is found, in both, ’Virtual Reality‘ and the real world. ![]() ![]() Jana, is this world‘s designer and person in power, she’s satisfied with her masterpiece. An idyllic fishing village with beautiful nature and, every now and then, a breeze of fresh air from the nearby sea. Kerrybrook is Jana‘s favourite virtual escape. Where do we go when Nowhere is the only destination left? ![]() ![]() ![]() Nadia May nails not only Helen, but every single one of the characters, male/female, gruff/sophisticated, reserved/hysterical. On the way, she and Roger Mifflin have many adventures of their own, enjoyable conversations, meet delightful people, and, well, just make this one of the flat-out best audible experiences I've ever had. This absolute charmer of a book is told from the point of view of Helen McGill, a woman getting on in years (thirty-nine.oh, my!), who, for the first time in her life, does something for herself: namely, buys the Parnassus book mobile in an effort to keep it away from her book loving, suddenly-famous-author brother and goes on the road herself. ![]() ![]() And it's pulled by a fat horse named Peg (short for Pegasus), followed by a spry dog named Bock, and led by the intrepid Helen McGill and the feisty Roger Mifflin. ![]() ![]() ![]() Also included is a lengthy biographical profile of Edward Oliver Tilburn. The second story, “The Whitechapel Horrors,” is a short tale, published anonymously in two American newspapers, shortly after the murder of Mary Jane Kelly in November 1888. Oliver, and originally published in 1889 by the Eagle Publishing Company. The first story, "The Whitechapel Mystery A Psychological Problem (“Jack the Ripper”)," is a novel authored by N. Both of these stories have Jack the Ripper being an American, who traveled from New York City to London to commit the murders, and the Ripper commits his crimes while under the influence of hypnotism. The two stories collected here were published during the time of the Jack the Ripper killings, and they are among the earliest fictional accounts dealing with the Whitechapel murders. This is the second volume in the "Hypnotism in Victorian and Edwardian Era Fiction" series, published by Themes & Settings in Fiction Press. ![]() ![]() They discovered that the plant communities in Acadia have changed dramatically over that time-one out of six species no longer occur in the park, many have declined in abundance, and several nonnative species have arrived and are becoming more common. In the 2000s Craig Greene, Glen Mittelhauser, and colleagues resurveyed the plant inventory begun by the Champlain Society members in 1880. ![]() In partnership with the local Mount Desert Island Historical Society, these efforts have been collected and digitized and will continue to grow over the years. ![]() Their records continued to be used and referenced today to examine the impacts of climate change and other influences on Acadia's natural environment. Their citizen science (science that involves the participation of people who are not “professional scientists”) largely inspired the protection of Acadia as a national park. In the 1880s, a group of Harvard College students spent summers on Mount Desert Island the Champlain Society did some of the first recorded detailed inventories of plants, birds, fish, geology, and waters of the island. Members of the Champlain Society at camp during one of their summer field sessions on Mount Desert Island.Ĭourtesy of Northeast Harbor Library The Champlain Society ![]() |