![]() ![]() I’ve been wanting to read Bone Gap for a really, really long time so I was crazy excited to see it finally picked up in the UK and it was definitely worth the wait.īone Gap is one of the most beautifully written books in a really long time. And it is stranger than you can possibly imagine. But as we, like Petey, follow the stories of Finn, Roza, and the people of Bone Gap - their melancholy pasts, their terrifying presents, their uncertain futures - the truth about what happened to Roza is slowly revealed. Petey Willis, the beekeeper's daughter, suspects that lurking behind Finn's fearful shyness is a story worth uncovering. He knows she was taken, ripped from the cornfields by a man whose face he can't remember. After all, it isn't the first time someone's slipped away and left Finn and Sean O'Sullivan on their own.įinn knows that's not what happened with Roza. So when young, beautiful Roza goes missing, the people of Bone Gap aren't surprised. Everyone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps - gaps to trip you up, gaps to slide through so you can disappear forever. ![]()
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7/8/2023 0 Comments The sundown motel goodreads![]() ![]() Not that I have anything to share anyway. We’re chaste, we’re untouched, and even if we weren’t, no one would know, because we keep our mouths shut. Could there be some dark secret that binds them all together? Or is this the work of a murderous madman? As the mysterious sender stalks these nine strangers, they find themselves constantly looking over their shoulders, wondering who will be crossed off next… Continue reading → So why are they all on the list, and who sent it?įBI agent Jessica Winslow, who is on the list herself, is determined to find out. A frightening pattern is emerging, but what do these nine people have in common? Their professions range from oncology nurse to aspiring actor, and they’re located all over the country. Then, a father is shot in the back while running through his quiet neighborhood in suburban Massachusetts. ![]() They dismiss it as junk mail, a fluke–until very, very bad things begin happening to people on the list.įirst, a well-liked old man is drowned on a beach in the small town of Kennewick, Maine. ![]() None of the nine people know or have ever met the others on the list. Nothing else, just a list of names on a single sheet of paper. ![]() Nine strangers receive a list with their names on it in the mail. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain When her close friend since childhood murders his adoptive parents and kills himself, 17-year-old Lynn is haunted by the tragedy.ĭavid Garrett's already difficult family life falls apart when his mother is diagnosed with clinical depression, and he and his sister get sent to Aunt Jenn in Desolation Sound, British Columbia, but when they steal a dinghy and try to escape the situation turns dangerous. A homeless boy, running from the police with a fifteen-year-old, drug-addicted prostitute, her boyfriend who just killed his own parents, and a baby, gets the chance to make a better life for himself. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments Mist bound daryl kho![]() ![]() You’re still in there and we’re going to pull you back out.” Scratching, clawing, banging from behind those misted windows…from where no one could hear you scream? Was he gasping for air? Was he screaming for help? Or, instead of a window, was he underwater, trapped beneath a frozen lake, desperately trying to break through the layers of ice? Was he struggling, reaching out to her – her – a distant murky shadow from the surface out above? ![]() Were his windows just misted over? Was Grandpa actually inside, standing behind the clouded glass, knocking back at her, calling out to her, behind the fogged-up frames? “Eyes, she had been told, are windows to the soul. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments Burpo heaven![]() ![]() Is Colton’s story for real? Alternatively, is he an intuitive and gifted storyteller with parents who gullibly misconstrued their child’s fantasy for reality? What are Christians to make of these stories?ĭr. Colton’s story was eventually published as a book coauthored by his father Todd and Lynn Vincent entitled Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back, which has since become a no. ![]() Colton also alleges to have interacted with deceased family members whom he had never met before, namely his great grandfather “Pop” who died over a half-century earlier (85–92, 120–23), and a sister who passed away as the result of a miscarriage (93–97, 127–30). Colton, for example, purports leaving his body and seeing his father praying in one hospital room with his mother praying on the phone in another room (pp. In March of 2003 at the age of four, while undergoing an emergency appendectomy, he purports having a three-minute out-of-body experience, which included a voyage to heaven and a vision of Jesus Christ.Ĭolton’s father, Todd, who serves as a Wesleyan minister, became convinced his son had an extraordinary out-of-body experience because of the boy’s unexplainable knowledge of certain facts. ![]() Many wrestle with the question of life after death however, Colton Burpo believes heaven is for real. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Addicted a novel by zane![]() ![]() It may also not surprise you to learn that, like so many other writers of adventure, sex, and romance, the woman dubbed “the queen of erotica” does not much resemble her protagonists. It may not surprise you to learn that, late last year, she came out with a line of Zane-branded sex toys. “Don’t you think that’s cute-Zane on Main?” “I thought of that name because every town has a main street,” she told me. She has hatched plans for a bookstore and a lingerie line and has discussed an idea for a restaurant chain she would call Zane on Main. ![]() ![]() This past February, she launched Zane’s Literary Salon, a satellite-radio show. Last year, one of her novels was turned into a major motion picture. She has been named executive producer of two shows on Cinemax, including Zane’s Sex Chronicles, which at the time was the network’s top-rated adult series. As a pioneer of the gritty genre publishers euphemistically call “urban fiction,” she heads her own imprint at Simon & Schuster. ![]() In all, more than 5 million of her books are in print.Īlong the way, the author of The Sex Chronicles, Dear G-Spot, and The Hot Box has become a one-woman erotica cottage industry. She has landed more than a dozen books on the New York Times bestseller list. She has invented characters like Soror Ride Dick and described them as they partake in weekend-long mega-orgies, have sex at mattress stores, and lick unlikely foodstuffs off unnameable body parts. The author known as Zane has published 39 books. ![]() ![]() Thankfully, these 53 books of short stories and excerpts from novels demonstrate the strength of this type of writing in Canada, though I would like to see more published. It can be a daunting challenge that not everyone can meet. ![]() In fact, I defy anyone to write a short story, with adequate character development and plotting to sustain the attention and interest of readers of youngCanLit. Just as picture books are certainly not easier to write just because they are shorter (a caution to those wannabe writers who are convinced anyone can toss off a picture book!), short stories are definitely not lesser works of story-telling. ![]() Not every reader or student is interested in reading full-length novels, and short stories offer the perfect alternative, with shorter reads that pack a punch in fewer pages. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Stanley christmas adventure![]() ![]() These CDs allow him to listen to the charming activies and antics of Flat Stanley again and again. ![]() My grandson (6 1/2) was already familiar with the stories as his parents had read two of the titles. Invisible Stanley (Flat Stanley) Jeff Brown. CDs of 4 very popular Flat Stanley series chapter books read by author Jeff Brown. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 02:16:45.394651 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA193001 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary External-identifier Stanleys Christmas Adventure (Flat Stanley Series) by Jeff Brown, Macky Pamintuan (Illustrator) 4.2 (23) Paperback (1ST HARPER) 5.99 Paperback 5.99 eBook 5. Flat Stanley: the original and classic family adventure, illustrated by Rob Biddulph. ![]() ![]() ![]() I can't count the times I've asked, "Why me?" I'm sure you've done the same thing. When bad things happen to good people, like you and me, our first reaction is shock. That's normal, but usually it's not healthy. Too often you view things through your emotions instead of reason. One of the problems with being single is your thinking gets twisted. Barely hanging on: Perception or reality? Now I'm going to share those lessons with you. Other times I handled the situation better. Sometimes I made dumb, painful decisions. I couldn't see them right then, but I've had decades to reflect on those turning points. Looking back, I can see patterns in how I made it through. ![]() I thought it was the end, and yet, here I am today, safe and sound. You work for a solution, pray for one-even beg God-but nothing changes. We all go through crisis periods in life, those times when things pile up and there seems no way out. Barely hanging on? That's how many singles describe themselves. ![]() ![]() ![]() Increasingly lonely and isolated, she became prey to her own crippling insecurities, which plunged her into the deepest depressions. But as Albert ascended into the scientific stratosphere, Mileva was relegated to domestic duties. In the beginning, theirs was a relationship of shared studies, experiments, ideas and mutual inspiration. But she had the added misfortune of falling in love with the most celebrated genius of the modern era, Albert Einstein. A brilliant woman born in the late 19th century, her aspiration to be a physicist was always going to the thwarted by gender discrimination. “Few stories in the history of science are as heartbreaking ,” claimed the New Scientist. ![]() On this day in 1948, Mileva Maric died alone and unknown in Zurich aged seventy-two. ![]() |