![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() 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. Crime queen Holly Jackson brilliantly utilises each character’s personality to create tension and a sense of urgency that will have you hooked and keep you guessing until the last page." Jess, Dymocks Catalogue Coordinator " Five Survive will have your heart-racing, then breaking, then racing again, as six friends must confront their darkest secrets while being hunted by a sniper in the woods. Buried secrets are forced to light and tensions within the group reach deadly levels. One of the group has a secret that the sniper is willing to kill for.Īs a game of cat-and-mouse plays out, the group desperately tries to get help. He’s watching them and he knows exactly who they are. And as the wheels are shot out, one by one, the friends realise that this is no accident. Until the RV breaks down in the middle of nowhere. The brand new, explosive crime thriller from Holly Jackson, best-selling, award-winning author of the Good Girl’s Guide to Murder trilogy.Įighteen year old Red and her friends are on a road trip in an RV, heading to the beach for Spring Break. ![]()
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![]() I am also a bit over the wondrousness of Shipley Farm and those who live there. He is a wonderful man and it was lovely to watch him discover sex and intimacy. I even bought his falling in love at first sight with Lark. His voice rings true and authentic and his life, as he tells it, is engaging and unusual. I didn’t know her and I found her hard to care about. (And the way her kidnapping experience played out didn’t seem viable.) She stayed stuck in the pages for me. ![]() She’s now back, struggling with PTSD, and trying to make peace with what happened there.īut although the book is written in alternating first person, I couldn’t quite apprehend Lark. The heroine, Lark (she’s the best friend of May for those who’ve read the books), comes to the farm to recover from being kidnapped for ransom while working for a non-profit in Guatemala. For starters, the premise of this book didn’t work for me. I’ve liked the hero, Zach, in the other books and love the “virgin hero” trope.īut, it was not to be. ![]() I’ve liked the other two books in the series despite my normal “eh” response to most New Adult. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Fixing up her late aunt’s house was proving to be a bigger job than I could handle in the feelings department and I didn’t like it one little bit. What I hadn’t counted on was meeting Harper, a perky city girl just begging to be kissed. Give up dating for at least a year, but maybe the rest of adulthood. But after my girlfriend cheated on me with my (ex-) best friend, I knew I had to do it. Why? Because I think they’re stupid and 99.9% of people break them within six weeks. ![]() I’ve never made a New Year’s resolution until this year. ![]() Unfortunately, he does not offer to date me, which is a crying shame because he’s exactly what I didn’t know I was looking for. He offers to help with renovations so I can rent it as a side hustle once I find a job and move back to Boston. That is, until I run head-on-literally-into Jackson Montgomery, local hometown superstar and the best contractor in town. The only silver lining is a rundown old house my estranged aunt left to me in Starlight Bay, Massachusetts. Fired from my job and dumped by my boss-boyfriend at the same time (lesson learned the hard way, don’t even start), I’m forced to adopt the ‘New Year, New You’ mantra whether I want to or not. New Year’s Renovations (Man Of The Month Club Starlight Bay 1) By Kara Kendrick ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He hopes she will be his girl.īut two other men have determined to catch her and one is a dangerous gangster who is part of Al Capone's gang. He’s captivated by the sight of innocent Bethany, sitting in the park surrounded by butterflies. His job plunges him into the harsh underworld of gangsters, bootleggers, and fast women. One of Al’s men is quite taken with Bethany and wants to make her his girl.ĭetective Paul Tollick chased butterflies when he was young. Little does she know Al Capone has rented the entire fourth floor of the Arlington where she is staying with her family, and Suki, the flapper who befriends her, is one of the gang’s molls. ![]() If her aunt and uncle have their way she will return engaged to his new business partner. Her life has been controlled, from the clothes she wears to the food she eats as her aunt and uncle have kept her-and her inheritance-very close. Bethany, excited to be celebrating her eighteenth birthday at the Arlington Hotel, can’t wait to cut her long hair into a bob and to raise her hemline and learn to do the Charleston. Bethany and her aunt and uncle have gone to take the baths hoping to cure her aunt of her illness. Hot Springs Arkansas in the 1920’s is where the wealthy go to “take the baths” for medicinal purposes and where gangsters lay down their Tommy guns while on vacation. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cabinet see the Elevator dock with the Space Hotel, and fear it contains hostile agents of a foreign or extraterrestrial government, while the space shuttle containing the hotel staff and three astronauts approaches the Space Hotel. Gilligrass, Vice President Elvira Tibbs, the president's best friend, chiefs, and the U.S. In the White House, President Lancelot R. Grandma Georgina was very stubborn so she grabbed Mr Wonka by his coattails and she yanked him backwards. As a result, the Elevator goes into orbit, where Wonka docks them at a Space Hotel. ![]() The height to which the Elevator ascends frightens Charlie's family sending the Elevator in the wrong direction. The story picks up immediately where the previous book left off, with Charlie and his whole family aboard the flying Great Glass Elevator, en route to the Chocolate Factory which Mr. ![]() ![]() ![]() Masterful, clever, and ruthlessly suspenseful, Magpie Murders is a deviously dark take on vintage crime fiction. But the more Susan reads, the more she realizes that there's another story hidden in the pages of the manuscript-one of ambition, jealousy, and greed-and that soon it will lead to murder. There will be dead bodies, a cast of intriguing suspects, and plenty of red herrings and clues. When Susan receives Alan's latest manuscript, in which Atticus Pünd investigates a murder at Pye Hall, an English manor house, she has no reason to think it will be any different from the others. So successful that Susan must continue to put up with his troubling behavior if she wants to keep her job. Alan's traditional formula pays homage to queens of classic British crime such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers. His editor, Susan Ryeland, has worked with him for years, and she's intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pünd, who solves mysteries disturbing sleepy English villages. Alan Conway is a bestselling crime writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Written in a variety of Southern black dialects, the stories range from a few paragraphs each to several pages, and cover a range of topics. Unlike Hamilton who compiled her stories as retellings in her own voice, Hurston’s stories are all written down exactly as she heard them. Hurston understood that, and for that reason her anthropological collection of folk tales is truly something to behold. That’s the beauty of black oral storytelling each story is unique to the person who tells it. The beats might remain the same - but it wouldn’t really be the story we've come to love. Imagine if someone wrote down Tiffany Haddish’s hilarious swamp tour story for publication, but in the process “fixed” the grammar, phrasing, and added in some flourishes of their own for creative effect. ![]() ![]() Copies of the book (as well as of Erotic Stories, for the uninitiated!) will be on sale at the event. ![]() The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters follows the three estranged Shergill Sisters from Britain to India, in a quest to carry out the last rites of their mother. In her debut novel, Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows, for instance, Jaswal delves deep into the secrets and prejudice within a Sikh community in London. Intrigued? Those are the stories of award-winning Singaporean novelist Balli Kaur Jaswal, author of four books: Inheritance, Sugarbread, Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows and, most recently, The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters. Her work has been devoured both locally and internationally – with Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows selected as the March 2018 pick for Reese Witherspoon’s bookclub, Hello Sunshine.ĪWARE will be hosting Balli on 4 July for a conversation about her latest work, as well as the feminist ideas that underpin all her writing, with its focus on sexuality, gender roles and race. Courtesy of Harper Collins Balli Kaur Jaswal's books don't always deal with the easiest of subject matter. In 1971, a teenage girl disappears from her home, coming back a different person. A young girl searches for clues in her mother’s cooking. Corazon, Donita, and Angel are Filipina domestic workerspart of the wave of women sent to Singapore to be cleaners, maids, and caregivers in its decadent homes. ![]() ![]() ![]() A self-described “modern woman” teaches a creative writing class to Sikh widows. Three estranged sisters take a pilgrimage to India. ![]() ![]() ![]() This definitive biography presents the picture of the unusual man in an exciting era.". Tod saw astonishing changes in the west, from the bitter warfare between the Hudsons Bay Company and the NorWesters, to settlement by pioneers and the conventions of the polite colonial society. He was also a lifelong and loyal friend to many of his fur-trade colleagues, especially John Work, the Ermatinger brothers and James Murray Yale. A spirited and prickly man he was a free thinker, impatient with authority and distrustful of many of his superiors. Belyk relates the stories of ghosts, both friendly and fearful. The ghost of a scuba diver who still haunts the former British Columbia powerhouse where he met his death. ![]() Posted all over the Companys vast territory York Factory, McLeod Lake, Fort Alexandria, Island Lake, Fort Kamloops he spent most of his years in New Caledonia. In his latest book in a series of western ghost story collections, Spirits of the West, Robert C. ![]() These true stories will persuade the reader to turn on one more light during the long, dark. Belyk relates the stories of ghosts, both friendly and fearful, who haunt museums, hotels, pubs, houses, and many other locations throughout western Canada. Born in a Scottish village in 1794, Tod spent 40 adventurous years working for the Hudsons Bay Company and in his later years, served on the first Legislative Council of the fledgling colony of Vancouver Island. In his latest book in a series of western ghost story collections, Spirits of the West, Robert C. "Canada's western wilderness was the scene of fur trader John Tod's extraordinary life. ![]() ![]() On 14 October 2011, the authors issued a partial retraction of their paper that touched on issues with some of their figures. On 1 July 2011, Science’s editors issued a “statement of concern” about the paper. Numerous attempts failed to replicate the study, and the research itself came under increasing scrutiny for sloppy methods and its reliance on misleading or manufactured figures. However, as with so many other potentially groundbreaking studies, nobody - including many of the same researchers involved with the original study - was able to replicate its results. ![]() The paper received substantial international coverage. Her team alleged to have demonstrated an association between a newly discovered retrovirus called "xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus" (XMRV) and the poorly understood condition known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), suggesting a potential viral cause for CFS. In 2009, biologist Judy Mikovits, who was then the research director of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome-focused Whittemore Peterson Institute (WPI), published a paper on what she and many others thought to be a major scientific breakthrough in the prestigious journal Science. ![]() |