![]() Abducted, drugged and left for dead on a sinking boat, she's barely rescued in time by Coast Guard Investigative Services special agent Gage Sessions, an old friend. Marine biologist Sadie Strand is back in her coastal hometown to prove her best friend was murdered - but searching for evidence almost costs Sadie her life. He's done everything to keep her from getting under his skin - now he must stop those who want to put her six feet under. Linc Colson trusts two things: his instincts and his Rottweiler K-9 partner, Star - and certainly not the pretty face he's assigned to monitor. Her serial killer brother's escaped - and it's single mum Zoe Sullivan who's under suspicion! Sgt. But while the handsome, guarded agent vows to protect her, someone will keep killing to ensure the truth never rises to the surface. Assigned to protect Sadie and connect three complicated cases, Gage risks his life time and again to make sure the woman he once loved survives. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Interview Jared Diamond discusses Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel in detail, and says that his next book should be complete in about five years. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sherry emigrated from China at age 13 and English is her second language. ![]() The Magnolia Sword, her 2019 release, is the first young adult retelling of the original Ballad of Mulan in the English language. Her books regularly receive starred reviews and best-of-the-year honors from trade publications, including such outlets as the New York Times and National Public Radio.Ī Study in Scarlet Women, A Conspiracy in Belgravia, and The Hollow of Fear, the first three entries in her gender-bending Lady Sherlock historical mystery series, are all NPR best books of the year. Thus far she has published romance, fantasy, mystery, young adult, and three books inspired by the martial arts epics she grew up devouring. USA Today-bestselling author Sherry Thomas decided years ago that her goal in life is to write every kind of book she enjoys reading. ![]() ![]() But as tensions rise and secrets are revealed, one of them unexpectedly ends up dead on New Year’s Eve. If you loved “The Guest List,” you’ll definitely want to check out Lucy Foley’s other book, “The Hunting Party.” In this atmospheric thriller, a group of seven friends gather in a remote hunting lodge for New Year’s Eve. ![]() Readers will realize just how important perspective is as they travel through Alicia Berenson’s life, where even the most unassuming people threaten to turn her world upside-down. Enter psychotherapist Theo Faber, who is determined to unravel the mystery of what happened on the night of the murder. When renowned artist Alicia Berenson is accused of murdering her husband, she refuses to speak a word. ![]() “The Silent Patient” is a popular psychological thriller that keeps you guessing until the end. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is not a very special episode of Blossom. ![]() I have causes too, but let's pace ourselves, ADHD. They cannot sink into the scene if the author intrudes to demonstrate that BDSM culture is harmless or lesbian kisses or whatever his pet subculture-cause of the moment. Secondary characters, while fun, are the novel.) Every character imparts wisdom or lectures about subcultures or magic minutiae. Look, readers complain about invincible, tree-swinging superheroes and Joe Schmo protagonists solving triple homicides, but shadowing Tammy Tattoo or the BDSM twins is no substitute, especially since Francis takes an instructive tone. Who cares about a serial killer? 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The research is in: Academic achievement begins on the first day of life with the first word said by a cooing mother just after delivery. ![]() ![]() The founder and director of the Thirty Million Words Initiative, Professor Dana Suskind, explains why the most important-and astoundingly simple-thing you can do for your child’s future success in life is to talk to him or her, reveals the recent science behind this truth, and outlines precisely how parents can best put it into practice. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sophocles wrote three tragedies about Oedipus’ family, though they were never written or performed as a connected trilogy. The motif of the irreplaceability of a brother – as opposed to that of a husband or child – points to familiarity with Herodotus’ Histories, in which text we find a similar argument.Īntigone Gives Token Burial to the Body of Her Brother Polynices by Jules-Eugène Lenepveu, c. It is not certain whether any other versions centered around the denial of burial to Polyneikes as the Antigone does, but it seems to have been Sophocles’ innovation. There existed different versions of the same myth, as authors chose to focus on different aspects of the material. Aeschylus too composed a trilogy about the tragic history of the Theban family, of which Seven Against Thebes is the only surviving play. Several ancient epic poems known as the Theban Cycle, now lost, dealt with the family history of the house of Oedipus. ![]() The basic subject material of the Antigone is drawn from Greek mythology. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Engrossing and deeply satisfying.” - Jen Doll, author of Save the Date Read Excerpt “Full of love and humor, and delicious in too many ways.” - Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author On the eve of the most talked-about wedding of the century, Bex looks back on how much she’s had to give up for true love… and exactly whose heart she may yet have to break. Nick is wonderful, but he comes with unimaginable baggage: a complicated family, hysterical tabloids tracking his every move, and a public that expected its future king to marry a Brit. But it’s adventure-seeking Bex who goes to Oxford and meets dreamy Nick across the hall – and Bex who finds herself accidentally in love with the heir to the British throne. Her twin sister Lacey was always the romantic, the one who daydreamed of being a princess. An American girl finds her prince in this “fun and dishy” ( People) royal romance inspired by Prince William and Kate Middleton.Īmerican Bex Porter was never one for fairy tales. ![]() ![]() The Magician's Land is an intricate thriller, a fantastical epic and an epic of love and redemption that brings the Magicians trilogy to a magnificent climax, confirming it as one of the great achievements in modern fantasy. To save them he will have to risk sacrificing everything. He uncovers the key to a sorcerous masterwork, a spell that could create magical utopia, a new Fillory - but casting it will set in motion a chain of events that will bring Earth and Fillory crashing together. But all roads lead back to Fillory, and his new life takes him to old haunts, like Antarctica and the Netherlands, and buried secrets, and old friends he thought were lost forever. ![]() But he can't hide from his past, and it's not long before it comes looking for him.Īlong with Plum, a brilliant young undergraduate with a dark secret of her own, Quentin sets out on a crooked path through a magical demimonde of grey magic and desperate characters. ![]() With nothing left to lose he returns to where his story began, the Brakebills Preparatory College of Magic. Quentin Coldwater has been cast out of Fillory, the secret magical land of his childhood dreams. ![]() The stunning conclusion to the New York Times best-selling Magicians trilogy. ![]() ![]() Today, it turns out, is the day Timby has decided to fake sick to weasel his way into his mother's company. But before she can put her modest plan into action-life happens. She will initiate sex with her husband, Joe. 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