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![]() ![]() Every library is a liminal space the Midnight Library is different in scale, but not kind. The invention of the library as the machinery through which different lives can be accessed is sure to please readers and has the advantage of being both magical and factual. It’s an absorbing but comfortable read, imaginative in the details if familiar in its outline. The narrative throughout has a slightly old-fashioned feel, like a bedtime story. By the time it comes, in fact, only one choice still seems possible. ![]() The ending is satisfying but not surprising. At just the right moment, not too soon and not too late, Nora makes her final decisive move, taking us into the last section of the book. There is likewise a danger that such a recursive plotline will tire the reader. It can be hard to keep a reader’s energy invested in a depressed and somewhat listless character, but Nora is smart and observant she remains good company. The issue of the many Noras temporarily displaced from their own root lives is somewhat troubling. Into this ever-popular genre, Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library is a welcome addition. ![]() ![]() ![]() And one troubling shadow hanging over Claire’s otherwise blissful relationship-the strange mystery surrounding Jack’s first wife. There are other, newer disturbances, too. ![]() In the majestic cliff-top villa owned by the wealthy Compton family, up-and-coming artist Claire Hunter will marry handsome, charming Jack Compton, surrounded by close family, intimate friends…and a host of dark secrets.įrom the moment Claire sets foot on the island, something seems amiss. Jutting from sparkling turquoise waters off the Italian coast, Isle Isola is an idyllic setting for a wedding. Ellison’s breathtaking new novel invites you to a wedding none will forget-and some won’t survive. Ellison outdid herself- what an ending!” -Catherine Coulter, #1 NYT bestselling author of VORTEX.įast-paced and brilliantly unpredictable, J.T. ![]() ![]() It takes several attempts on Mace’s life, and several saves by Vira, before Mace and Kippy realize someone is tracking him. It’s then that he unwittingly makes himself a target for a determined killer. But, he’s attacked while in the house, and his attempted killer dies. Mace rescues a woman who has been imprisoned there, and saves Vira from her fate. He breaks into the house where Vira’s victim lives. ![]() The order is given to put her down, but Mace is desperate to save the young dog. Vira has an uncanny ability to find bodies, but then she attacks a man who is in the crowd watching the police at a crime scene. He’s also the one who discovers Vira’s unique abilities. However, as much as Kippy would like to have the puppy, Mace Reid, a dog trainer, is the one who is given the dog. Officer Kippy Gimm rescues a golden retriever puppy from death by carbon monoxide poisoning. Even better, there’s a likable, aw-shucks hero, and a remarkable dog.Ī serial killer, a rookie police officer, and a trainer of cadaver dogs converge, but it’s Vira who is the star of this fast-paced book. It’s an intense, sometimes graphic, novel about a serial killer. ![]() ![]() You’d be right with The Finders, Jeffrey B. When Margaret Mizushima and Paula Munier blurb a book, it’s natural to expect a mystery featuring a dog. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Author continued for about three hours in a profound sleep, at least of the external senses, during which time he has the most vivid confidence, that he could not have composed less than from two to three hundred lines if that indeed can be called composition in which all the images rose up before him as things, with a parallel production of the correspondent expressions, without any sensation or consciousness of effort. In consequence of a slight indisposition, an anodyne had been prescribed, from the effects of which he fell asleep in his chair at the moment that he was reading the following sentence, or words of the same substance, in ‘Purchas’s Pilgrimage:’ ‘Here the Khan Kubla commanded a palace to be built, and a stately garden thereunto: and thus ten miles of fertile ground were inclosed with a wall.’ In the summer of the year 1797, the Author, then in ill health, had retired to a lonely farm house between Porlock and Linton, on the Exmoor confines of Somerset and Devonshire. From The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and The Vision of Sir Launfal (by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and James Russell Lowell). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For example, he spent many years living in Italy while working on The Agony and the Ecstasy. Stone additionally did much of his research "in the field". ![]() Stone's main source for Lust for Life, as noted in the afterword, were Van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo. During their lifetime, Stone and his wife funded a foundation to support charitable causes they believed in. The Stones lived primarily in Los Angeles, California. Stone enjoyed a long marriage to his wife and editor on many of his works, Jean Stone. When at home, Stone relied upon the research facilities and expertise made available to him by Esther Euler, head research librarian of the University of California at Los Angeles, to whom he dedicated and thanked, in addition to many others, in several of his works. In the 1960s, Stone received an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Southern California, where he had previously earned a Masters Degree from the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences. In 1923, Stone received his bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley. ![]() ![]() ![]() The job offer he extends is only until she gets back on her feet-he has no intention of keeping her. ![]() ![]() But now what? She’s alone and broke, with only a wedding dress to her name.ĭespite the undeniable attraction between them, Keegan can see that Izzy’s scared and alone. Four hours later, she finds herself on a tiny island outside of Seattle, walking into a random Irish Pub and locking eyes with the sexiest bartender she’s ever seen. She may have loved her groom a long time ago, but standing there about to take her vows, she realizes it’s not right. Isabella Harris ran out on her wedding, and she’s not even a little bit sorry. Until she comes running through his door, soaking wet and in a princess gown. Bringing a woman into his life for anything but a pleasant, short-term romp isn’t even on his radar. He’s happiest when he’s pulling taps and filling drink orders, so long as he can keep an eye on his family and ensure that all is well. Keegan O’Callaghan has been told he’s married to his pub. From New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Kristen Proby comes ESCAPE WITH ME, an all-new stand-alone novel in her beloved WITH ME IN SEATTLE SERIES! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Brittney Morris sparks a connection with the help of two balcony herb gardens, Jennifer Yen writes an unconventional romance that starts with a fortune reading and a take-out order, and Natasha Preston steals hearts when a girl meets up with the boy next door in a storybook oak tree. There's roommates-to-enemies-to-something more from Rachael Lippincott, a tale of a girl with a mask-making business and her potentially famous crush from Erin Hahn, and a music-inspired meet cute from Sajni Patel. A collection of original contemporary love stories set during life in lockdown by some of today's most popular YA authors.Įrin Craig "delivers" on a story about a cute pizza delivery boy, Auriane Desombre captures a girl trying to impress her crush on TikTok, and Bill Konigsberg takes readers along on daily walks where every step brings two boys closer to love. ![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, after the 1950s, Hitchcock only returned to London as his primary setting with his grisly penultimate film, Frenzy (released in 1972). ![]() Thus, the setting was altered to Philadelphia (by way of Pittsburgh), instead of Marnie’s original primary location of London (by way of Manchester). After all, it was practically as though Graham had handed him the opportunity to “keep it local.” But by this time in Hitchcock’s career, he had turned decidedly “Hollywood,” favoring his productions to take place in the U.S. Willing, as most books are to, go deeper and darker than the movie adaptation, Hitchcock and his screenwriter, Jay Presson Allen, made some rather surprising changes to the film version.įor starters, it seemed particularly unlikely that Hitchcock, of all people, would opt to amend the setting from England to the U.S. In this case, Winston Graham’s 1961 novel of the same name. But, like most Hitchcock fare, this story was not spawned, precisely, from his own mind, but that of an author’s. Marnie might be one of the most problematic Alfred Hitchcock movies of all-time, which is really saying something as there are so many affronting cinematic masterpieces in his canon. ![]() ![]() ![]() Covers show slight insect damage and minor soiling, spine a bit soiled, otherwise a very good copy in a quarter blue morocco slipcase with chemise and with the bookplate and signature of actress LENA ASHWELL (1872-1957) on the front pastedown First edition, ONE OF 30 COPIES on Japanese vellum.įirst edition, retaining the understandably rare thin plain jacket. Mason 372 Cinnamon-colored cloth, vellum spine. An excellent association copy of an essential Wilde rarity. His plays were so very brilliant, and I had seen this when I was in Lady Windermere's, so I felt that he was a friend and in desperate trouble." Later, during WWI, she is known to have pioneered the organization of entertainments on a large scale for the British troops in France. ![]() ![]() the atmosphere of London was horrible and cruel. ![]() of Hertfordshire Press, 2012), Ashwell was particularly troubled by the news of Wilde's arrest, and wrote later: ". According to her biographer, Margaret Leask (Lena Ashwell: Actress, Patriot, Pioneer. This copy comes from the distinguished library of the actress LENA ASHWELL (1872-1957), who as a young actress toured in Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan in 1891, later becoming actor-manager of the Savoy Theatre. First edition of Wilde's legendary poem, written while he was imprisoned, in its rarest state - being one of only 30 copies printed on Japanese vellum. First edition, ONE OF 30 COPIES on Japanese vellum. ![]() |