![]() Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. ![]() ![]() It seems to be a love story until the night of the Cotton Drifting Festival when the story takes a turn for the worst. In this procedural mystery based on a popular Japanese video game, Shion takes control of Keiichi's life. As Keiichi spends more time with Shion, however, Rena grows more accusatory. But through Shion, Keiichi is able to see a quieter, more feminine side of his best friend, even if it is all an act. Keiichi' s never heard of this 'twin sister' before and suspects it' s just another one of Mion' s pranks. When Keiichi spots tomboy Mion working at a maid cafe, he can hardly believe his eyes But it' s not Mion after all - it' s her identical twin sister, Shion. The second and final volume of the Cotton Drifting storyline (itself the second 'Question Arc' of the Higurashi series if you're just getting started, check out the Higurashi When They Cry: Abducted By Demons Arc) picks up just as the cute and funny story started by the first volume takes a dark twist into a gruesome and bloody tragedy. But Oyashiro-sama' s curse is poised to strike anew in Hinamizawa village. You' ve already met Keiichi Maebara and his mischievous friends in the Abducted by Demons Arc. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The youngest of three children of the Miller family. She atuhored The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theater. Of the most enduring figures in crime literature, she created Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. According to Index Translationum, people translated her works into 103 languages at least, the most for an individual author. ![]() Her books sold more than a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. This best-selling author of all time wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in romance. More than seventy detective novels of British writer Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie include The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), and And Then There Were None (1939) she also wrote plays, including The Mousetrap (1952). Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Promise me this by cathy gohlke![]() Then comes the fateful night the Titanic hits the iceberg. He shares his food as well as his plans and dreams to start a new life in New Jersey and send for Annie as soon as possible. Within just a few days at sea, Owen discovers Michael and takes him into his quarters. ![]() He muses that in a ship that size, he could hide away and escape from his abusive uncle. Michael picks up another job making deliveries to the Titanic. Owen has compassion on him, shares his food, and gives him odd jobs until time to leave. But he removes her from Aunt Eleanor’s house to a school until he can send for her.Īs Owen gets ready to sail on the Titanic in a week, he meets a young street kid, Michael Dunnagan. ![]() He can’t take Annie with him yet, which makes her furious. ![]() Now Owen has trained himself as a gardener and is about to set off for a new life in New Jersey with their aunt and uncle on their father’s side. In the novel Promise Me This by Cathy Gohlke, Owen and Annie Allen have been raised by their manipulative Aunt Eleanor in England ever since their parents died. ![]() ![]() ![]() Each book is wrapped in acid-free paper, within a rigid bio-degradable cardboard mailer and a waterproof fully-recyclable mailing envelope. Safe & Sustainable Packaging: All of our books are shipped in eco-friendly packaging. Further Information: We are always happy to provide additional images or detail on request. ![]() About This Book: A selection of ghost stories, including "The Bewilderment of Snake McKoy" by Nancy Spain, "The Restless Rest- House" by Jonathan Curling, "Autumn Cricket" by Lord Dunsany, "One Grave Too Few" by Cynthia Asquith, "The Chelsea Cat" by C.H.B. Despite these defects, this is a very good and sound reading copy. There is a closed tear to the rear cover, and also a neatly repaired closed tear to the front. The covers are clean and bright, with a price sticker to front cover. ![]() ![]() ![]() The characters are fascinating, the tone lush and romantic, and it’s all wrapped up in a mystery with twists and turns one likely won’t see coming. Though a bit slow to start, once "Velvet Was the Night" gets going, it’s hard to put down. ![]() The simmering danger of the story results in an enthralling tale that’s as fun as it is mysterious. Like Maite, Elvis also longs for a life different from his own and takes solace in the music of the time. What transpires brings her to the attention of Elvis, a young member of the Hawks – a group tasked with roughing up said student dissidents, who are also on the hunt for the missing Leonora. After agreeing to feed and watch over her neighbor Leonora’s cat, Maite falls deeper into the former’s world of left-wing student protesting and political activism after her disappearance. Stumbling into the fold is Maite, a lonely, quiet secretary whose only love is a comic book called "True Romance" and the records she plays when at home, mostly alone. “Velvet Was the Night,” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments This golden state marit weisenberg![]() ![]() There was a lot of respect to be had when you came off as being invulnerable. ![]() ![]() As Van works through his own reasons for not being able to sleep, both of them are pulled into a mystery that threatens to turn their quiet neighborhood into a darker place than they realized. Ingrid tells herself this is just temporary, but soon, she and Van are up every night together, increasingly intertwined in helping each other put pieces of memory together. They tentatively begin “not sleeping” together every night but still living separate lives by day. Then one sleepless night, she sees Van outside her window…looking right back at her. The only thing she remembers about the moment before the dive is seeing Van, her neighbor, former best friend, and forever crush, on the sidelines. Now housebound and sedentary on doctor’s orders, Ingrid can’t sleep and is haunted by the question of what triggered her uncharacteristic stage fright. When seventeen-year-old competitive diver Ingrid freezes up and sustains a head injury at a routine meet, her orderly life is turned upside down. Think The Summer I Turned Pretty with flashes of Rear Window ! Summary: A sharp and romantic novel about two suburban teens who can’t sleep uncovering the secrets of their neighborhood by night. ![]() Rep: biracial (Japanese, white) love interest, Indian-American side characterĬW: recreational drug use, concussion, emeto (from the concussion), alcohol poisoning, mentions of death of a parent, predatory relationship between a coach and a student (off-page) ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments The 39 steps john buchan![]() In 1914, German spies are everywhere in London. Powell later reprised the role in the ITV series Hannay which ran for 13 episodes from 1988 to 1989. ![]() It is known for the Big Ben sequence near the end, inspired by the film My Learned Friend (1943) starring Will Hay, although this is its most fundamental deviation from Buchan's original story, which reaches its culmination in a coastal location in Kent. It also introduces a different meaning for the "thirty-nine steps", although unlike its filmed predecessors it returns to Buchan's original notion of being an actual staircase. The early events and overall feel of the film bear much resemblance to Buchan's original story, albeit with a few changes such as the re-casting of Scudder as a more immediately sympathetic character and the introduction of a love interest. It is generally regarded as the closest to the novel, being set before the Great War. This version of Buchan's tale starred Robert Powell as Richard Hannay, Karen Dotrice as Alex, John Mills as Colonel Scudder, and a host of other well-known British actors in smaller parts. ![]() It was the third film version of the 1915 novel. ![]() The Thirty Nine Steps is a British 1978 thriller film directed by Don Sharp, with screenplay by British playwright Michael Robson, based on the novel The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan. $10 million (outside US as at April 1980) ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Infamous by Minerva Spencer![]() ![]() ![]() He still seems intrigued, but Celia has acquired a shocking secret along with her hard-won humility. As a youth, Richard was infatuated with Celia. Then there is Richard, the studious boy Celia used to ridicule, who is now gorgeous, wealthy, and more-than-a-little famous. When Celia is forced to attend a society wedding as a companion to an elderly guest, she must confront the clique she once commanded the gentleman she'd once hoped to marry-who is now wed to a girl Celia relentlessly taunted and the powerful man who ruined her life a decade before-and is threatening to do so again. Once the reigning beauty of her social set, Celia-whom the newspapers dubbed Lady Infamous-has fallen on hard times and is practically destitute, her reputation in shreds. romance readers need this splendid book!” -USA Today bestselling author Vanessa Kelly Jackson won’t want to miss this smart and stirring new holiday love story from the acclaimed author of Outrageous. Bridgerton fans and readers of Scarlett Scott, Darcy Burke, and K.J. ![]() ![]() ![]() Bill kills Vallon, as witnessed by Vallon’s young son, Amsterdam (who grows up to become Leonardo DiCaprio). ![]() The story, which went through many drafts and several additional writers, begins with a showdown between the Irish gang, the Dead Rabbits, led by Priest Vallon (Liam Neeson), and the anti-immigration Natives, led by the meat cleaver-wielding Bill “The Butcher” Cutting (Daniel Day-Lewis). Scorsese optioned The Gangs of New York and his friend, Jay Cocks – the critic-turned-screenwriter – finished the first draft of the script in 1978. It’s something of a spiritual prequel to his contemporary gangster films, but oddly of-its-time, too – even Scorsese succumbed to post-millennium stylings. Now, 20 years since its release, Gangs of New York is a curious entry in Scorsese’s body of work. The film – starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Cameron Diaz – was finally released on 20 December 2002, after decades of delays, a vast reconstruction of Lower Manhattan in Rome, and a series of spats between Scorsese and his since disgraced producer, Harvey Weinstein. It would ultimately take 25 years to put Scorsese’s grand vision on the big screen. Based on a cult favourite book by Herbert Asbury, the film would be an epic tale about Five Points slum in 19th-century New York and the gangs who terrorised its streets. The ad announced a film that was about to go into production: Gangs of New York, from the hot thirtysomething director of Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese. ![]() In June 1977, a two-page ad was published in the Hollywood trade magazine, Daily Variety. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Seraphina by rachel hartman![]() ![]() There’s a lot to enjoy in Hartman’s debut, from the admirably resourceful heroine and intriguing spin on dragons to the intricately described medievalesque setting and emphasis on music and family. As Seraphina navigates the complicated politics of a court where human-dragon relations are growing ever more fragile following a royal murder, she has to come to terms with her true nature and powers, the long-dormant memories her mother hid within her, and her growing affection for charming prince Lucian. Along with the distinctive scales she keeps hidden, she has a mind filled with misshapen personalities whose nature she doesn’t quite grasp. Read reviews of all the Seraphina books and how to read Seraphina in order. Sixteen-year-old Seraphina, assistant to the court composer, hides a secret that could have her ostracized or even killed: she’s half-dragon, against all rules and social codes. ![]() In this complex, intrigue-laden fantasy, which establishes Hartman as an exciting new talent, readers are introduced to a world in which dragons and humans coexist in an uneasy truce, with dragons taking human form, dwelling among their former enemies, and abiding by a strict set of protocols. ![]() |