![]() ![]() Identifying the murderer, according to the author, depends wholly on discerning the psychology of the suspects. At the end of the evening, Mr Shaitana is discovered murdered. The four detectives and four possible suspects play bridge after dinner with Mr Shaitana. The book features the recurring characters of Hercule Poirot, Colonel Race, Superintendent Battle, with the crime writer Ariadne Oliver making her first appearance in a Poirot novel. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. Cards on the Table is a detective fiction novel by the English author Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 2 November 1936 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Until grimoires and magical texts started circulating online, the gloamists were relatively secret, hiding their work for centuries. Shadow magic only recently became common knowledge, because, of course, the internet. ![]() She bartends at a seedy club, but her old life still lingers in the periphery-she is never far from the world of the gloamists, magicians with sentient shadows that can do their bidding. Twenty years later (which feels fantasy-level surreal to say), I got to delve back into the world of magic and mundane with Black’s first adult novel, Book of Night.Ĭharlie Hall has a talent for trouble she is a skilled thief and con-artist, but a string of bad decisions and terrible relationships have led her to leave her life of crime. ![]() It was my first foray into urban fantasy. The story of a changeling girl living in modern suburban New Jersey and rediscovering the world of fairies that she came from sucked me in, and I have never forgotten the feeling of grit and teen angst and dark magic. I was 13 years old when I first read Tithe, Holly Black’s first novel. In our Book of Night book review, we venture into a world of shadows and murder with a gutsy con-artist. ![]() ![]() ![]() Winter is determined to dislike her rival, but soon finds Hannah isn't what she expected at all. But there's a catch: first, they have to live together for ninety-two days. When Winter's estranged father dies, he leaves her one last surprise: she and Hannah, a perfect stranger, will inherit a building together. She would rather drive toothpicks under her fingernails than cuddle, and she certainly doesn't want to share her space with anyone. She's an aloof workaholic who's built walls of ice around herself. 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The Communist manifesto / Karl Marx prefaces by Marx and Engels annotated text, sources and backgrounds, the Communist manifesto in the history of Marxism, interpretation, edited by Frederic L. ![]() ![]() ![]() Enjoy the second book in the iconic series. More than eighty years since we first met Mary Poppins, this original, classic story is still charming readers and transporting new fans into the mysterious world of everyone's favourite magical nanny. Read more a whole host of wonderful adventures with her. Travers (1899-1996) was a drama critic, travel essayist, reviewer, lecturer, and the creator of. ![]() Ex-library book with some tears and marks. Mary Poppins Comes Back (Paperback) About the Author. The first omnibus edition of the first two Mary Poppins titles wonderfully illustrated throughout by Mary Shepard. ![]() Just when Jane and Michael Banks thought she was gone forever, Mary Poppins floats back into their lives on the end of a kite string, bringing. 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I was intrigued by The Madman's Daughter when I was reading reviews, and in fact, I placed a hold for myself at the same time I ordered it for the BPL Teen collection. But thankfully, it ended up being very enjoyable. It was the only "work" I did on vacation. Okay, so I am trying to get into the groove of this reading more YA lit thing, so over my recent vacation, I nixed the plan of reading The Twelve and instead brought along The Madman's Daughter by Megan Shepherd (and a whole bunch of New Yorker back issues). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The language isn’t beautiful for the sake of beauty every image and metaphor hits its target with dead-on precision. It’s the kind of writing that blurbs and endorsements like to call “lyrical,” but don’t let that scare you off. Seriously, I can’t believe more people aren’t talking about this one, because it’s so funny, so candid, and so magnificently written. But you never pity her, because you see the outline of her future self waving on the opposite shore, and you know the fumblings and disappointments are necessary stepping-stones. Your heart breaks for Triinu as she deals with the agonies of unrequited love, intolerance, and a painfully recognizable high-school bully. Stetz-Waters pulls off something really special here: she takes a familiar story-skeleton and fleshes it out with characters that feel both specific and relatable–so much so that the book becomes a page-turner even though it’s character-driven. WHY YOU’D LIKE IT: You know how sometimes you’re reading a book, and every other sentence sends a tiny dart of bittersweet recognition into your heart and/or brain? That’s how it is with this little gem. IN A SENTENCE: In 1989 Oregon, witty and honest Triinu comes of age, comes out, and struggles with bullies, religion, and first-love heartbreak. THE BOOK: Forgive Me If I’ve Told You This Before by Karelia Stetz-WatersĬATEGORIZATION:YA novel / lesbian coming-of-age ![]() ![]() ![]() It serves as a manual of regulations enabling the holy King to set up his earthly throne among the people of his kingdom. Leviticus Leviticus receives its name from the Septuagint (the pre-Christian Greek translation of the Old Testament) and means "concerning the Levites" (the priests of Israel). ![]() ![]() The book lays a foundational theology in which God reveals his name, his attributes, his redemption, his law and how he is to be worshiped.
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