![]() Tori thinks it’s the perfect answer to their debt problems, but she and her mom aren’t the only ones interested. ![]() The catch? Contestants have to live as in colonial times: no modern conveniences, no outside help, and daily tests of their abilities to survive challenges of the time period. ![]() But an unusual opportunity arises in the form of a bizarre contest run by an eccentric relative: Whoever can survive two weeks in the Archibald Family’s colonial manor will inherit the property. ![]() Thanks to her mom’s poor financial planning, they are in danger of losing their business and their home. But as much as Tori loves having fun, she sometimes wishes her mom would act a little more her age. Not many girls have a mom who’d take them to a graveyard for hide-and-seek or fill the bathtub with ice cream for the world’s biggest sundae. Tori Porter is best friends with her mom, and most of the time it’s awesome. ![]() Formerly titled Colonial Madness, a mother-daughter duo take part in a bizarre family challenge in hopes of winning a fortune in this “light, fun read” ( Booklist) that’s Gilmore Girls meets The Westing Game! ![]()
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After numerous attempts to write books and plays, he finally abandoned his career in the book trade in 1983, and returned to his childhood home to write Sarum. Educated locally, and at the universities of Cambridge, and Stanford, California, he worked in political research, bookselling and publishing. Informationen zum Autor Edward Rutherfurd was born in England, in the cathedral city of Salisbury. A wonderful, epic story that tells the history of the greatest city in the world, from Roman times to the present day. ![]() ![]() Deeply affecting, utterly fascinating and blazing with love and intelligence' Financial Times Read more I couldn't stop reading' Mark Haddon, bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time 'This beautiful book is at once heartfelt and clever in the way it mixes elegy with celebration' Andrew Motion This is a book about memory, nature and nation, and how it might be possible to reconcile death with life and love. H is for Hawk is an unflinchingly honest account of Macdonald's struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk's taming and her own untaming. She bought Mabel for £800 on a Scottish quayside and took her home to Cambridge, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals. Years later, when her father died and she was struck deeply by grief, she became obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. **SELECTED BY CARIAD LLOYD ON BBC TWO'S BETWEEN THE COVERS**Īs a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer, learning the arcane terminology and reading all the classic books. Deeply affecting, utterly fascinating and blazing with love and intelligence' Financial Timesĭiscover the number one bestselling phenomenon that is a powerful and profound mediation on grief expressed through the trials of training a goshawk. ![]() **WINNER OF THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE ÉTRANGER** **WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION** ![]() ![]() ![]() After Danny makes a shocking discovery about the Brotherhood's final aims, he and his friends lead a group of townspeople on a dangerous journey across a ravaged Idaho, hoping to build a better society of their own, and fulfill the dreams they had in what once was the United States. But that freedom comes with considerable costs, from Danny's disturbing flashbacks to the war, to the Brotherhood of the White Eagle, whose "security" for Freedom Lake looks more like outright thuggery. CB: Greetings and welcome, Shane Your cover for Divided We Fall is so full of motion, depth, shadow and light. The Feds have taken the fight to other fronts, and Danny and his friends are free of U.S. Now, in this third book, the Second Civil War has come to an end in Idaho. In a YA trilogy like no other, Trent Reedy has raised the most primal questions of our national existence: Do we owe our greatest loyalty to our friends? Our state? Our country? Our party? How do we reconcile our individual rights and common needs? What keeps us all united - and what happens if we fall apart? ![]() Trent Reedy brings his action-packed, provocative trilogy about the second American Civil War to a stunning and stirring close in The Last Full Measure. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Roberts is in peak form with this combination of historical romantic suspense and contemporary ghost story.Roberts has cleverly crafted an enticing tangle of times and relationships…To add to the pleasure, tastefully choreographed, highly erotic scenes are seamlessly woven into a novel that exemplifies storytelling at its finest.”- Booklist “Roberts spins a tale of bayou passions old and new in her latest romantic suspense sh setting.Satisfying.”- Publishers Weekly Only the companionship of alluring Angelina Simone can distract him from the mysterious happenings in the house, but Angelina has her own surprising connection to Manet Hall-a connection that will help Declan uncover a secret that's been buried for a hundred years. Local legend has it that the house is haunted, and with every passing day Declan's belief in the ghostly presence grows. He sees visions of days from a century past and experiences sensations of terror and nearly unbearable grief. But the days spent in total isolation in the empty house take a toll. ![]() Ever since he first saw Manet Hall, he'd been enchanted-and obsessed-with it.ĭetermined to restore the mansion to its former splendor, Declan begins the daunting renovation room by room. #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents a novel set deep in the bayou of Louisiana-where the only witness to a long-ago tragedy is a once-grand house…ĭeclan Fitzgerald had always been the family maverick, but even he couldn't understand his impulse to buy a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans. ![]() ![]() ![]() As Doc observes, the species in the tide pool live in symbiotic relationships with one another and the health of the total environment is intricately affected by the proper functioning of those individual relationships among the species. Steinbeck sets Cannery Row against the Great Tide Pool, where Doc often goes to collect specimens. One of the unique aspects of Cannery Row is the intricate manner in which the setting influences the characters and their relationships. Ocean View Avenue was renamed Cannery Row in 1953 in celebration of the novel which made it famous and sparked a new tourism industry in the area. Cannery Row was vibrant and profitable prior to WWII before the pilchard population was decimated and the canneries were forced to close. ![]() ![]() Cannery Row is set on what was at the time called Ocean View Avenue in Monterey, California during the height of pilchard canning in the 1940s. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A powerful literary work, Douglass' final autobiography shares the stories of his 'several lives in one.' Beginning with his war against 'the hell-black system of human bondage,' Douglass bears witness to his personal experiences of mind-body-and soul-destroying tragedies. Securing his self-liberation at twenty years of age in 1838, he went on to become the most renowned antislavery activist, social justiceĬampaigner, author, orator, philosopher, essayist, historian, intellectual, statesman, and liberator in U.S. ![]() 'It will be seen in these pages that I have lived several lives in one: first, the life of slavery secondly, the life of a fugitive from slavery thirdly, the life of comparative freedom fourthly, the life of conflict and battle and, fifthly, the life of victory, if not complete, at least assured.'First published in 1892, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass Written By Himself is the final autobiography written byįrederick Douglass (1818-1895), a man who was born into slavery in Talbot County, Maryland. 'It will be seen in these pages that I have lived several lives in one: first, the life of slavery secondly, the life of a fugitive from slavery thirdly, the life of comparative freedom fourthly, the life of conflict and battle and, fifthly, the life of victory, if not complete, at least assured.'First published in 1892, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass Written By Himself is the final autobiography written byįrederick Douglass (1818-1895), a man who was born into sl. ![]() ![]() ![]() I love this series. I recommend this fully." Amazon reviewer It's sweet, innocent, a little clumsy, realistic. Whilst this is a stand-alone book with a full romance arc and a HFN, you might enjoy reading the series from the first episode, Winter Arrives, /B00H2WE94. Snow Blind is the 5th novella from the Secrets in the Snow series about a Scottish snowsports school The stand-alone novella has approximately 30,000 words or 125 pages This is a clean romance with 'closed door' scenes, suitable for ages 16+ ![]() ![]() He has to decide whether to run away and mend his aching heart, or stay and give love one final chance. When a competition gives Callum the chance to shine, he's torn. But so far, life hasn't emulated fiction and her love-life has been a non-starter. Working for White Cairns Ski School in Scotland, he's found the love of his life - but she has him placed firmly in the 'friend zone' and it's easier to make her laugh than risk telling her how he really feels.ĭebbie McNeill knows that if she can just pass her instructor exams and lose a few extra pounds of weight, she's bound to meet her tall, dark and handsome Mr Right - just like in the romance novels she loves to read. ![]() She thinks he's joking.Ĭallum Johnstone discovered early on that when you're challenged in the height department, humour is the easiest way to deflect unwanted attention. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nine Coaches Waiting starts with Linda Martin’s arrival in France. ![]() That, by the way, made me lose access to my library books for a while so what I’ve learnt from this whole episode is that it’s troublesome to keep switching stores.īut anyway, no regrets for all the trouble I went through to read this because it was an excellent book! It’s full of drama and mystery and I enjoyed every single minute of it. However, because the Singapore library does not stock her ebooks (only paper copies) and because Kobo Singapore was trying to charge me almost USD10 for one title, I didn’t manage to buy this until recently, when I realised that I could buy from Kobo France. My friend – the friend that asked me to come along to Eze when I first arrived in Nice – has been recommending books by Mary Stewart to me since I met her. ![]() |