![]() ![]() With temperatures rising everywhere she turns, Del Sol's normally cool-minded sheriff is finding herself knee-deep in drama and danger. This one's got Levi, Sunshine's sexy, almost-old-flame, and a fiery-hot US Marshall. Add to that the trouble at her daughter's new school, plus and a kidnapped prized rooster named Puff Daddy, and, well, the forecast looks anything but sunny.īut even clouds have their silver linings. But a teenage girl is missing, a kidnapper is on the loose, and all of this is reminding Sunshine why she left Del Sol in the first place. Sheriff Sunshine Vicram finds her cup o' joe more than half full when the small village of Del Sol, New Mexico, becomes the center of national attention for a kidnapper on the loose.ĭel Sol, New Mexico is known for three things: its fry-an-egg-on-the-cement summers, strong cups of coffee - and, now, a nationwide manhunt? Del Sol native Sunshine Vicram has returned to town as the elected sheriff - thanks to her adorably meddlesome parents who nominated her-and she expects her biggest crime wave to involve an elderly flasher named Doug. ![]()
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In this unflinching and lyrical book, Chang meets her grief and creates a powerful testament for the living. Loss, and the love for the dead, becomes a conduit for self-expression. ![]() These poems reinvent the form of newspaper obituary to both name what has died (‘civility,’ ‘language,’ ‘the future,’ ‘Mother’s blue dress’) and the cultural impact of death on the living. Rather, she distilled her grief during a feverish two weeks by writing scores of poetic obituaries for all she lost in the world. The breakout collection about grief, loss and living from award-winning Asian American poet Victoria Chang, whose star is. ![]() ![]() After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s definitely one of my top 10 ( 5!) reads of 2021, if not the best book I’ve read this year. It breaks the modern rules of writing-there’s head hopping galore, there’s multiple POVs, there’s everything and sadness and life and death and just. Its scope is huge and the cast varied, while at the same time it’s as intimate as staring at your own face in the mirror. ![]() Or maybe my soul? I dunno, but this book has shattered and healed and shattered something again and then healed it once more. What makes a violin special is not its fragility, but its resilience But it’s all going to end if she doesn’t bring that soul to hell… She’s brought six, but time is running out on number seven…then she hears the music in the most unlikely of places, and begins to rediscover hope and donuts and happiness, and worlds beyond her own. Deliver seven prodigies, and get her music back. Shizuka Satomi was once the best violinist in the world-until she lost her talent and made a deal with the devil. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She's Hopelessly Smitten With A Man Who's Convinced He Can Never Return Her Affection. Esme's Lessons In Love Seem To Be Working.but Only On Herself. Seducing Khai, However, Doesn't Go As Planned. 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For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a bookĪnd to carry with us the author’s best ideas. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a More via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become Memorable and interesting quotes from great books. ― Flannery O'Connor, quote from The Violent Bear It AwayīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, ![]() The words were as silent as seed opening one at a time in his blood.” GO WARN THE CHILDREN OF GOD OF THE TERRIBLE SPEED OF MERCY. He threw himself to the ground and with his face against the dirt of the grave, he heard the command. 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He felt it rising in himself through time and darkness, rising through the centuries, and he knew that it rose in a line of men whose lives were chosen to sustain it, who would wander in the world, strangers from that violent country where the silence is never broken except to shout the truth. ![]() “He felt his hunger no longer as a pain but as a tide. ![]() ![]() ![]() That he might have taken a wife, as was customary, and might have had a family wider than the iconic figures of his parents Mary and Joseph has for two millennia been dismissed by Christian thinkers as unfounded and heretical. ![]() Little is known about the 33 years of the life of the Hebrew religious philosopher, social activist, and political agitator known today as Jesus Christ, save the last three years of his public ministry. In creating a first-person narrative of the wife of Jesus, veteran novelist Sue Monk Kidd acknowledged that The Book of Longings (2020) was controversial, even incendiary. ![]() ![]() ![]() "It's a mug's lag" and they are also able to prevent the attempt to kill the Duke and Duchess of Battersea. The children are kidnapped, shipwrecked, and saved to find out the True Facts of their birth revealed by a telltale tuft of hair Justin is just as glad not to be a lord. Then there's Sophie, also an outcast from the Poor Farm, now in service to Lady Battersea, along with his new friends- Justin, presumably the Battersea heir, and Dido Twite, barely kept alive on a diet of fish porridge. He comes up to London to live with the Twites (Hanoverian plotters) whose celler is an arsenal, and they may account for the disappearance of his friend, Dr. ![]() Anyway, from its beginning to its happy, happy ending the saga of Simon, nobody's boy from Globber's Poor Farm, continues. It's right on the spoor to The Wolves of Willoughby hase, that parody of the Victorian novel which amused many adults and still bemused others as to its suitability for younger readers who might not have the reading background to get the point. ![]() ![]() ISBN-13: 978-0940322882 Summary: Tété-Michel Kpomassie was a teenager in Togo when he discovered a book about Greenland-and knew that he must go there. Winner of the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire in 2003Īn African in Greenland Tete-Michel Kpomassie, 2001 Some publications: "Chemins de croix", "Atterissage," "Cola cola jazz," Canailles et charlatans", Un rêve d’Albatros"… He lives between Lomé and Bordeaux in France. His works explores the political and historic memory of African peoples through themes like slavery, dictatorship and racial and cultural métissage. He is professor of theater and literature at University of Lomé, Togo. Novelist, playwright and short story writer, he has published more than ten books. Born in Togo, 1966, Kangni Alem Alemdjrodo holds a PhD in French, Comparative and French African Literature of University of Bordeaux III, France. ISBN-13: 978-2906067820 Summary: Kangni Alem (full name Kangni Alemdjrodo) b. ![]() ![]() That may be something trivial for most people, but for my parents, coming from this black hole of the Holocaust, that sense of continuation was a desire or fantasy, and I guess that was projected on to me.” “It was a time at which I could look back and see my past, and look forward and see my future. “The seven good years were the years in which I was able to be both son to my father and father to my son,” explains Keret. Joseph, who is called on for an interpretation, explains that seven years of abundance are coming to Egypt, followed by seven years of famine. One night, the Pharaoh has a vision of seven fat-fleshed cows and seven lean and ugly cows standing by a river. ![]() ![]() T he title of the Israeli writer Etgar Keret’s new collection of essays, The Seven Good Years, comes from the biblical story of the Pharaoh’s dream. ![]() |