![]() Returning from South America, Arthur Hastings meets with his old friend, Hercule Poirot, at his new flat in London. A reviewer in 1990 said it was "a classic, still fresh story, beautifully worked out". One reviewer said it was "a baffler of the first water", while another remarked on Christie's ingenuity in the plot. The novel was well received in the UK and the US when it was published. ![]() The murders follow an alphabetical order, starting with a victim whose initials were A. The initial premise is that a serial killer is murdering people with alliterative names. Murders the third-person narrative is supposedly reconstructed by the first-person narrator of the story, Arthur Hastings. This approach was previously used by Agatha Christie in The Man in the Brown Suit. The form of the novel is unusual, combining first-person narrative and third-person narrative. ![]() The book was first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 6 January 1936, sold for seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) while a US edition, published by Dodd, Mead and Company on 14 February of the same year, was priced $2.00. ![]() Murders is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, featuring her characters Hercule Poirot, Arthur Hastings and Chief Inspector Japp, as they contend with a series of killings by a mysterious murderer known only as "A.B.C.". ![]()
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![]() One thing’s for sure: magic doesn’t make dating and love any easier. ![]() But there are old secrets and looming threats that could snatch away their happily ever after, again. When old feelings make a reappearance-along with Violet’s magic-they both realize there’s nothing fake about their feelings. But when the two of them are forced by arcane Supernatural Laws to find mates, Violet and Lincoln agree to fake-date their way to a fake-mating in order to conjure themselves some time. Magic-less witch Violet Maxwell wants nothing to do with alpha wolf shifter Lincoln Thorne-the man who broke her fragile, teenage heart. ![]() A fake relationship between a magic-less witch and a wolf shifter turns to more in the start of a bewitching new paranormal rom-com series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 'Mick Herron is an incredible writer' Mark Billingham Once a spook, always a spook, and even being dead doesn't mean you can't uncover secrets.ĭickie Bow might have tailed his last target, but Lamb and his crew of no-hopers are about to go live. On Dickie's phone Lamb finds the last message he ever left, which hints that an old-time Moscow-style op is being run in the Intelligence Service's back-yard. ![]() But he's not an obvious target for assassination in the here and now. He was in Berlin with Lamb, back in the day. ![]() Dickie Bow was a talented streetwalker once, good at following people and bringing home their secrets. 'The new king of the spy thriller' Mail on Sundayįrom the Intelligence Service purgatory that is Slough House, where disgraced spies are sent to see out the dregs of their careers, Jackson Lamb is on his way to Oxford, where a former spook has turned up dead on a bus. *Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman* ![]() ![]() ![]() They become good friends but events take a turn when Aunt Dete decides that Heidi must stay in Frankfurt and learn to earn a living. ![]() He refuses to send Heidi to school and allows her to roam the pastures with a young goat herder, Peter. Known to all as “Alm-uncle” Heidi's grandfather is good-hearted but mistrustful of the villagers. The lonely, embittered old man lives like a hermit on the mountain-top and has nothing to do with the people in the village below. She leaves Heidi with Heidi's grandfather, who lives in the Swiss mountains. Aunt Dete is a career-woman who though she loves Heidi, does not have the time or resources to look after a child in busy Frankfurt. It tells of Heidi, a little Swiss girl whose parents' sudden death leaves her to be brought up by her aunt. Heidi The Girl from the Alps by Swiss children's author Johanna Spyri was published in two parts in 1880. Heidiland, a theme park, is one of the big attractions in Zurich. Since it first came out, it has captured the hearts of children (and adults) all over the world, been extensively filmed, televised and staged and translated from the original German into more than 60 languages. ![]() Filled with descriptions of the magnificent Swiss Alps, the lives of the simple country folk who live in their picturesque peaks and valleys and the gentle and innocent days of childhood, Heidi by Johanna Spyri is a book that no child should miss reading. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Dirtbag, Massachusetts, Fitzgerald, with warmth and humor, recounts his ongoing search for forgiveness, a more far-reaching vision of masculinity, and a more expansive definition of family and self.įitzgerald's memoir-in-essays begins with a childhood that moves at breakneck speed from safety to violence, recounting an extraordinary pilgrimage through trauma to self-understanding and, ultimately, acceptance. But before all that, he was a bomb that exploded his parents' lives-or so he was told. He's been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, a biker, a prince of New England. pulling no punches on the path to truth, but it always finds the capacity for grace and joy." - Esquire, "Best Memoirs of the Year"Ī TIME Must-Read Book of the Year * A Rolling Stone Top Culture Pick * A Publishers Weekly Best Memoir of the Season * A Buzzfeed Book Pick * A Goodreads Readers' Most Anticipated Book * A Chicago Tribune Book Pick * A Book You Should Read * A Los Angeles Times Book to Add to Your Reading List * An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Month Winner of the New England Book Award for Nonfiction ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This immediately raises a question, although is it easily missed, coming so early in the poem. In the opening verse, the narrator places us in woods outside a village. Fortunately, Frost can be enigmatic, so if we want to make sense of this poem, we must be prepared dig a little. However, if a literary work does not address the human condition in some way, and has only creamy charm to commend it, it must be considered inconsequential. The poem makes few demands on the reader: the structure and rhyme scheme are conventional, the poem is short, as are the word and line lengths, and it contains no literary references or allusions. It stands equal to Wordsworth's Daffodils, inasmuch as it is picturesque and enormously popular. ![]() As such, it is superbly crafted, and with few blemishes. Taken at face value, Robert Frost's Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening is a pastoral poem describing a rider's pause on a journey to admire some scenery. ![]() ![]() ![]() This functionality is provided solely for your convenience and is in no way intended to replace human translation. You have requested "on-the-fly" machine translation of selected content from our databases. Winschel, like all good historians, is a master storyteller, and he paints a vivid portrait of Grant's successes. flag flew over the state capítol building in Jackson. Winschel calls Union operations Grant's blitzkrieg, as he led his army northeast and then west into Mississippi. Grant's inland campaign, but are particularly focused on the Union army's crossing the Mississippi and winning battle after battle. The first three chapters of the book are an overview of U. This latest collection of his essays underscores the evolution of his approach to the campaign from master of minutiae to perspicacious analysis. Terry Winschel is a nationally recognized authority on the Vicksburg campaign, having become intimately involved with the subject through his work as historian at the Vicksburg National Military Park. Triumph and Defeat: The Vicksburg Campaign, Volume 2. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Who knew lemon and cardamom could be best friends? If you don’t have cardamom or don’t like it, skip it or use cinnamon instead. It’s delicious! I loved the added lemon and cardamom.It’s relatively simple to make and in one bowl! No appliances needed.Best things about this mixed berry crisp? Frozen mixed berries work great! This ensured some whole flakes as well as some crushed ones. Before, they all got smooshed during this step. Since the cornflakes were such a nice texture, I also made sure to add some whole flakes to the crisp topping after rubbing the butter in. The crisp was a little sweet for me and I think I hit a nice note of sweet and sour. So, I decided to make this again with mixed berries instead and it was so much better! I also dialed down the sugar a bit too. Also, cooked blueberries don’t have much complexity in flavor. They cook down to a sort of gelatinous, mushy texture that I don’t particularly love. While I love eating blueberries, I didn’t enjoy this berry crisp as much with only blueberries. The recipe actually calls for blueberries only. The first time I made this recipe, I followed it to the letter. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What she finds is dangerous: a love she never expected, a river that turns to fire at midnight, a gorgeous cousin who isn’t what she seems, and very real enemies who want both Eight and Barrie dead. With the help of sun-kissed Eight Beaufort, who knows what Barrie wants before she knows herself, the last Watson heir starts to unravel her family's twisted secrets. Stuck with the ghosts of a generations-old feud and hunted by forces she cannot see, Barrie must find a way to break free of the family legacy. But she finds a new kind of prison at her aunt’s South Carolina plantation instead - a prison guarded by an ancient spirit who long ago cursed one of the three founding families of Watson Island and gave the others magical gifts that became compulsions. When her mother dies, Barrie promises to put some mileage on her stiletto heels. One ancient curse.Īll her life, Barrie Watson has been a virtual prisoner in the house where she lives with her shut-in mother. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sure it had its cute moments, but Finley and Arthur had to start from square one, ignoring all that happened over Christmas. The only issue I really had with this book was that we didn’t get any more of the romance than the first book, which in my opinion defeats the point of a sequel. Not that it wasn’t good and I’m definitely not complaining that we got more of Arthur and Finley, but…idk. The characters feel real and no one is “a stupid teenager” for the sake of being a stupid teenager. ![]() There are a lot of YA contemporaries that make me feel like maybe I could actually age out of YA contemporary soon, but this series is not one of them. I got choked up at some of the advice Esha gave Finley close-ish to the end, and it had other really meaningful moments as well. But at least this was written well and didn’t feel one dimensional? I just really liked the dynamics in this and how everything developed. ![]() Even Bronwyn, who is your classic mean girl, felt well done. I also appreciated that every character felt very real. ![]() I liked seeing the “after happy ever after” kind of plot, and it made me ship Arthur and Finley way more by the end of this one than I even did by the end of the first book. Such an incredibly sweet duology! I honestly didn’t understand why it needed a sequel, because the first book was great as a standalone, but book 2 actually turned out to be worthwhile. ![]() |