5/29/2023 0 Comments The jewel fish of karnak![]() ![]() ![]() Another warning from Pharaoh they failed to heed.Ī wet Jewel Fish, as Jackal and Ibis soon discover, is not a good thing, and the look on the thieves' faces as they realise they've really mucked things up this time, is. ![]() Not only that, they are chased to the river by the Crocodile Prince whereupon the be-sacked Jewel Fish gets. Of course, being quite stupid and greedy thieves, the duo fail to heed the Pharaoh's warning, and snaffle some extra treasure for themselves. Keen to escape punishment, the two head off for Karnak and quite quickly find the Jewel Fish amongst the considerable treasure of the Crocodile Prince. Caught red-handed, they are taken to the Cat Pharaoh who promises them pardon if they travel to Karnak in search of the Jewel Fish once stolen from the Pharaoh by the Crocodile Prince. Jackal and Ibis are petty thieves who steal a trinket from the marketplace of Asyut in Ancient Egypt. ![]()
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5/29/2023 0 Comments The moon and more by sarah dessen![]() ![]() Can she ignore the pull of the happily familiar world of Colby?Įmaline wants the moon and more, but how can she balance where she comes from with where she's going? But she also clings to the deep roots of her loving mother, stepfather, and sisters. Emaline is attracted to the bright future that Theo and her father promise. Theo's sophisticated, exciting, and, best of all, he thinks Emaline is much too smart for Colby.Įmaline's mostly-absentee father, too, thinks Emaline should have a bigger life, and he's convinced that an Ivy League education is the only route to realizing her potential. But now, in the summer before college, Emaline wonders if perfect is good enough.Įnter Theo, a super-ambitious outsider, a New Yorker assisting on a documentary film about a reclusive local artist. ![]() ![]() He and Emaline have been together all through high school in Colby, the beach town where they both grew up. Luke is the perfect boyfriend: handsome, kind, fun. ![]() ![]() ![]() Bridget lives with longtime beau Eric in San Francisco and feels herself settling down but growing restless. Tabitha has married longtime boyfriend Brian and moved to Australia her messages are intermittent before she drifts out of their lives completely for two years. Without the magic of the pants to hold them together, and with the demands of their individual lives pulling them in different directions, the once strong sisterhood has become a shadow of its former self. Ann Brashares resumes the story of lifelong best friends Tabitha, Bridget, Lena and Carmen ten years after the fourth "summer of the pants" in which the pants became lost forever. ![]() I've always had a soft spot for the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, so you can imagine my curiosity and excitement when I saw the latest book, Sisterhood Everlasting, on Kobo's new releases page. Let's just say my Kobo account on my iPad has seen plenty of action in the last few weeks. I have a million things on my to-do list and plans with dozens of people, but somehow I still manage to read. Something funny happens to my spare time during the summer months. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments The Huntress by Kate Quinn![]() Yet one target eludes him: a vicious predator known as the Huntress. Transformed by the horrors he witnessed from Omaha Beach to the Nuremberg Trials, British war correspondent Ian Graham has become a Nazi hunter. When she is stranded behind enemy lines, Nina becomes the prey of a lethal Nazi murderess known as the Huntress, and only Nina’s bravery and cunning will keep her alive. When the Nazis attack the Soviet Union, she risks everything to join the legendary Night Witches, an all-female night bomber regiment wreaking havoc on the invading Germans. In the aftermath of war, the hunter becomes the hunted…īold and fearless, Nina Markova always dreamed of flying. ![]() ![]() From the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling novel, THE ALICE NETWORK, comes another fascinating historical novel about a battle-haunted English journalist and a Russian female bomber pilot who join forces to track the Huntress, a Nazi war criminal gone to ground in America. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Playback by raymond chandler![]() ![]() ![]() Read more deadly cocktail of blackmail, lies, mistaken identity - and murder. But one dead body later and what started out as a lazy afternoon's snooping soon becomes a. But she's easy on the eye and Marlowe's happy to do as he's told. And wherever Miss King goes, trouble is sure to follow. That costs seventy-five.' Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is mixing business with pleasure - he's getting paid to follow a lovely mysterious redhead called Eleanor King. ![]() 'I know it sounds corny, but I could drill you and get away with it.' 'Okay,' I said thickly. Playback finds Marlowe mixing business with pleasure - getting paid to follow a mysterious and lovely red-head named Eleanor King. Stalking the tawdry neon wilderness of forties and fifties Los Angeles, Raymond Chandler's hard-drinking, wise-cracking Phillip Marlowe is one of the world's most famous fictional detectives. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments An unkindness of ghosts characters![]() It is inoculation against pervasive, enduring disease. ![]() I love it like I love food, I love it for what it did to me, I love it for having made me feel stronger and more sure in a nightmare world, but it is not a happy book. But that might give the wrong impression: that it is a happy book, a book that makes a body feel good. I want to say about this book, its only imperfection is that it ended. "What Solomon achieves with this debut-the sharpness, the depth, the precision-puts me in mind of a syringe full of stars. ![]() Nominated for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Debut Novel Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and the Lambda Literary Award. įinalist for the 2018 Locus Award, John W. ![]() One of the 100 Most Influential Queer Books of All Time, selected by BooklistĪ Best Book of 2017: NPR, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Bustle, Bookish, Barnes & Noble, Chicago Public Library, Book Scrolling. One of the 50 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time, selected by Esquire One of the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of the past decade, selected by NPR ![]() ![]() Becky’s only consolation is to buy herself something… And lately Becky’s been chased by dismal letters from the bank letters with large red sums she can’t bear to read and they’re getting ever harder to ignore. Her job writing at Successful Savings not only bores her to tears, it doesn’t pay much at all. The only trouble is that she can’t actually afford it not any of it. Becky has a fabulous flat in London’s trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous socialite friends, and a closet brim*ming with the season’s must haves. ![]() ![]() Meet Becky Bloomwood, America s favorite shopaholic a young woman with a big heart, big dreams and just one little weakness. Millions of readers have come to adore New York Times best selling author Sophie Kinsella’s irrepressible hero*ine. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Leta blake slow heat![]() ![]() He wants a partner, not someone who’s subservient to him. ![]() Whether it be his father, his youth, Vale’s experience, or their secrets. Jason wants his Omega and refuses to let anything keep them apart. Vale has huge secrets which could very negatively affect his life and he’s not sure if he can trust a very young Alpha to protect those secrets or trust him not to take away his autonomy. Vale is an older omega who’s content with his current life until Jason unexpectedly imprints on him in a very public manner. ![]() Jason attends the Alpha training school where Vale is a professor. With a few small exceptions, I absolutely loved this story! The Alpha/Beta/Omega trope isn’t one I typically seek out but I’m glad I did this time. But Jason isn’t giving up his destined mate without a fight. ![]() Fighting their strong sexual urges, Jason and Vale must agree to contract with each other before they can consummate their passion.īut for Vale, being with Jason means giving up his independence and placing his future in the hands of an untested alpha – as well as facing the scars of his own tumultuous past. When Jason Sabel, a much younger alpha, imprints on Vale in a shocking and public way, longings are ignited that can’t be ignored. He’s fulfilled by his career, his poetry, his cat, and his friends. An unbonded omega in his mid-30s, he’s long since given up hope that he’ll meet a compatible alpha, let alone his destined mate. Professor Vale Aman has crafted a good life for himself. A lustful young alpha meets his match in an older omega with a past. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Siobhan davis condemned to love![]() ![]() Not even when she discovers the guy she was crushing on as a teenager is a cold, calculating killer with dark impulses and lethal enemies who want him dead. The memory of Ben’s hands on her body is seared into Sierra’s flesh for eternity. ![]() ![]() Although it comes at a high price, saving Sierra is his only choice. The Vegas trip is about strengthening ties, but he won’t allow his associates to ruin her perfection. Until it suited his father to drag him into a world where power, wealth, violence, and cruelty are the only currency.Ĭelebrating her twenty-first birthday in Sin City should be fun for Sierra Lawson, but events take a deadly turn when she ends up in a private club, surrounded by dangerous men who always get what they want.īen can’t believe his ex’s little sister is all grown up, stunningly beautiful, and close to being devoured by some of the most ruthless men he has ever known. Will one life-altering night unite or destroy them?īennett Mazzone grew up ignorant of the truth: he is the illegitimate son of the most powerful mafia boss in New York. Her teen crush is now a ruthless killer and powerful mafia heir. ![]() ![]() May 4 Oshi no Ko Anime Posts Behind-the-Scenes Documentary. ![]()
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