5/11/2023 0 Comments The lost apothecary book![]() ![]() Meanwhile in the present, Caroline is making a solo journey to London in the wake of her husband’s infidelity. Nella’s work is solitary for good reason, until she meets Eliza, a 12-year-old whose curiosity transforms her from unlikely client to unlikely friend. In 1791 London, Nella works in her apothecary shop with a very specific purpose: making discreet poisons to help women rid themselves of the dangerous men in their lives. ![]() In Penner’s case, the risk pays off in a spellbinding way. With The Lost Apothecary, first-time novelist Sarah Penner takes that risk, weaving together the tales of three women separated by more than two centuries but united through pain, fear and hope. When an author threads a story with multiple perspectives that span years, they run the risk that readers will prefer one character’s voice over another, creating a divide in investment that’s difficult to bridge. ![]()
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5/11/2023 0 Comments Harold wilson by ben pimlott![]() ![]() His published account of these events had overtones of George Orwell's Homage To Catalonia as it discussed the tensions between socialists and communists in the Portugal that had recently overthrown a rightwing dictatorship after more than four decades. ![]() A memorable episode at this time was his first-hand witnessing of the Portuguese revolution in the autumn of 1975. ![]() He stayed until 1979, and also took his PhD there. An academic career clearly beckoned and, in 1970, he was appointed to a lectureship at Newcastle University. Bill Clinton was one of his fellow students. Born on American Independence Day, Ben was educated at Rokeby school, in Wimbledon, south-west London, Marlborough College and Worcester College, Oxford, where he took a degree in politics, philosophy and economics and a BPhil in politics. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Maid for love by marie force![]() "With the McCarthy's of Gansett Island, Marie Force makes you believe in the power of true love and happily ever after. He soon realizes his plans for a hit-and-run visit to the island are in serious jeopardy, and he just may be "maid" for love.īook 10.5: Chance for Love, A Gansett Island Novellaīook 12: Kisses After Dark Book 13: Love After DarkBook 14: Celebration After DarkBook 15: Desire After Dark ![]() ![]() When Mac accidentally sends Maddie flying over the handlebars, badly injuring her, he moves in to nurse her back to health and help care for her young son. He's back in town to help his father with preparations to sell the family resort and has no intention of staying long. Then she's knocked off her bike on the way to her housekeeping job at McCarthy's Resort Hotel by Gansett's "favorite son," Mac McCarthy. Maddie Chester is determined to leave her hometown of Gansett Island, a place that has brought her only bad memories and ugly rumors. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Roux asylum series![]() ![]() The ghosts of the asylum warden Daniel Crawford and famous murderer The Sculptor, seem to have some unfinished business that they would like to take care of and Dan is the key to creating “peace” in this forgotten feud. ![]() As Dan learns more and more about what went on behind the doors of the warden at the asylum, he starts to realize that he is dealing with much more than some spooky stories. ![]() With his new friends Abby and Jordan, Dan discovers an office full of old documents and pictures left behind from the asylum, all revealing the horrors that happened in the rooms below the dorms of the college. As soon as he arrives, Dan is sucked into the whirlwind of dark secrets left behind with the closure of the old insane asylum that once resided on the campus grounds. So when he goes to a summer program at New Hampshire College Prep to take a few college classes and escape all the kids at his high school who don’t care about school, he doesn’t expect anything that goes on at this old Asylum-turned college full of dark secrets. Once they came, they never left.” – Madeleine Roux, Asylumĭan Crawford needs a break… and badly. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments The warehouse rob hart movie![]() ![]() ![]() Not to say there’s any fun in being right. Even better if you barely left the office. We may not be housed in giant, city-sized live-work facilities, but most of us are now living at our jobs.Īnd hasn’t that been the whole point of the 21st century economy? Forcing you to come in sick, making you accept unpaid overtime and check your e-mail on the weekends-it was all about making it so you were always working. Instead of the slow march of climate change and the steady drip of private interest trumping public good, it was a pandemic that ground the economy to a halt in a matter of weeks. Turns out the only thing I got wrong was the inciting incident. I wanted to examine that through the lens of a thriller. I was driven by the idea that capitalism was a corrupt and broken system that needed to be torn down. I worked on this book over a period of several years, most of which was spent scouring the news and reading tea leaves. I didn’t realize that would mean seven months after it hit shelves. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments The namesake nair![]() ![]() ![]() Curious to know what the movie's about? 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5/10/2023 0 Comments One last stop book cover![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe it's time to start believing in some things, after all. She's literally displaced in time from the 1970s, and August is going to have to use everything she tried to leave in her own past to help her. August's subway crush becomes the best part of her day, but pretty soon, she discovers there's one big problem: Jane doesn't just look like an old school punk rocker. Jane with her rough edges and swoopy hair and soft smile, showing up in a leather jacket to save August's day when she needed it most. ![]() Dazzling, charming, mysterious, impossible Jane. But then, there's this gorgeous girl on the train. And there's certainly no chance of her subway commute being anything more than a daily trudge through boredom and electrical failures. She can't imagine how waiting tables at a 24-hour pancake diner and moving in with too many weird roommates could possibly change that. For cynical twenty-three-year-old August, moving to New York City is supposed to prove her right: that things like magic and cinematic love stories don't exist, and the only smart way to go through life is alone. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Rules by cynthia lord summary![]() As aįamily, look for words and actions throughout the book that tear the two apart and those that make their friendship stronger.Īsk your child who is telling the story. ![]() ![]() What is their relationship like at the end of the story? Talk about the events that led to this. ![]() How does Catherine and Jason’s friendship change in the book? With your child, reread the scene where Catherine first meets Jason (starting on page 18) and compare their interaction with the scene at the dance on pages 193-197. 89 Catherine says, “But the best part of being at a friend’s house is I can be just me and put the sister part of me down.” What does Catherine mean when she says this? How is Catherine’s role as a big sister different than other kids with younger siblings? As a family, talk about how Catherine feels and responds to her responsibilities for David. How do the events in the chapter connect with the rule? How does the author separate the sections of the book? As you read each section, talk with your child about why the author chose its title. Here are some examples to get you started:įlip through the pages of the book and talk about how the author structures the story. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Solomon northup descendants![]() With details such as Eliza's sale substantiated by the historical record, the narrative provides an exceptional window on the world of the slave trade and illuminates the efforts of one man to navigate his way back to freedom. Northup's autobiography, Twelve Years a Slave, was published in 1853, just one year after Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, and sold more than thirty thousand copies in three years. ![]() Ford also purchased Eliza, but her children were sold to other buyers. Coffin Northup returned to Sandy Hill on January 21, 1853, and reunited with his wife and children. His shipmate Eliza, listed as "Drady Cooper," and her children are the final entries on that manifest. After being sold from Freeman's slave pen to planter William Ford, Northup spent twelve years illegally enslaved on central Louisiana sugar and cotton plantations. Solomon Northup returning home to his family, Twelve Years a Slave (1853), engraved by Nathaniel Orr, published by Frederick M. The ship left Richmond on April 27, 1841, and arrived in New Orleans three weeks later, on May 24, carrying a cargo of forty-one men, women, and children, including Northup, who is listed as "Plat Hamilton" on line 33 of the ship manifest below. Renaming Northup "Platt Hamilton," Birch created a fictitious backstory for Platt before shipping him south via the brig Orleans to his partner Theophilus Freeman in New Orleans. In 1841 Solomon Northup, a free black New Yorker, was kidnapped in Washington, DC, and sold to slave trader James Birch. ![]() |