![]() Readers will experience the sheer grit of the Rangers who scaled Pointe du Hoc and the astonishing courage of the airborne soldiers who captured the Merville Gun Battery in the face of devastating enemy counterattacks. The charismatic, unforgettable cast includes the first American paratrooper to touch down on Normandy soil the glider pilot who braved antiaircraft fire to crash-land mere yards from the vital Pegasus Bridge the brothers who led their troops onto Juno Beach under withering fire and the French commando, returning to his native land, who fought to destroy German strongholds on Sword Beach and beyond. ![]() ![]() The Institute for the Study of War and Democracy with generous support from the Strake Foundation is delighted to again host best-selling author Alex Kershaw.īeginning in the predawn darkness of June 6, 1944, The First Wave follows the remarkable men who carried out D-Day’s most perilous missions. Alex Kershaw presents “The First Wave: The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II.”ĥ:00 p.m. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Stunned, Nora forms the Secret, Book, and Scone Society, a group of damaged souls yearning to gain trust and earn redemption by helping others. But before he can keep their appointment at Miracle Books, he’s found dead on the train tracks. When a visiting businessman reaches out to Nora for guidance, she knows exactly which novels will help. That’s Nora’s special talent-prescribing the perfect novel to ease a person’s deepest pain and lighten their heaviest burden. ![]() If none of that works, they often find their way to Miracle Books, where, over a fresh-baked “comfort” scone from the Gingerbread House bakery, they exchange their stories with owner Nora Pennington in return for a carefully chosen book. Strangers flock here hoping the natural hot springs, five-star cuisine, and renowned spa can cure their ills. Miracle Springs, North Carolina, is a place of healing. From New York Times bestselling author Ellery Adams comes the first in an intriguing new series set within a quirky small-town club where the key to happiness, friendship-or solving a murder-can all be found within the pages of the right book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maintaining the British Accent would have been better and more appropriate. However, her American accents were painfully terrible because they were historically inappropriate for two daughters living in 5th Avenue Mansions in Manhattan. I like her British accents quite well, except for a few chronic mispronunciations (regardless of American/British pronunciation styles). ![]() This really helps you feel a part of the world she created. LK is particularly skilled with connecting different generations in her story lines. One of the things that I love about LK (and a few others) is the inter-connection between the different novel series. I loved having the history of Jenner's connected to the Wallflowers and Craven's- and this first introduction of Cam from the Hathaway series. The story was engaging, and I finished in within a day while doing tasks around house. ![]() This story is excellent- I loved the two main characters, particularly since they are in so many of LK other stories. Excellent story with pronunciation Issues ![]() ![]() ![]() The only thawing in Anya’s mien occurs when she relates a fairy tale about a peasant girl who meets a prince and their struggles to live happily ever after during the reign of a tyrannical Black Knight. ![]() The girls know neither their mother’s true age, nor the answers to several other mysteries: her color-blindness, her habit of hoarding food despite the family’s prosperity and the significance of her “winter garden” with its odd Cyrillic-inscribed columns. Anya saw her daughters as merely incidental to her grateful love for their father Evan, who rescued her from a German prison camp. ![]() Meredith, heir apparent to her family’s thriving Washington State apple enterprises, and Nina, a globetrotting photojournalist, grew up feeling marginalized by their mother. A Russian refugee’s terrible secret overshadows her family life. ![]() ![]() This was ultimately not necessary 20th Television was able to secure approvals to make the show without any extra incentive. OG Percy Jackson fans, rejoice! Major return to our childhood!īack in 2019, when Riordan and Disney first began exploring the idea of a new Percy Jackson adaptation, Riordan pitched the idea of a new Percy Jackson novel or novels, which Disney Publishing could release when the show came out, in the hopes that it might convince Disney to commit to the live-action movie or TV series adaptation. ![]() It is also the first book to focus exclusively on the original trio – Percy, Annabeth and Grover – since The Lightning Thief in 2005. ![]() The new book is set after the Heroes of Olympus series, but before the Trials of Apollo, and is the first, first-person, Percy Jackson POV full-length novel since The Last Olympian in 2009. ![]() It’s official! Rick Riordan, author of the world-famous Percy Jackson series Heroes of Olympus series, Trials of Apollo series, Kane Chronicles, Magnus Chase series and more, has announced that Percy Jackson and the Chalice of the Gods, the sixth book in the Percy Jackson series, is coming out on September 26, 2023! IMAGE VIA RICK RIORDAN The Hermes cabin are not pulling a prank. ![]() ![]() ![]() She writes of monsters that watch over you, or at the very least, have not devoured you yet. She writes of curiosity, like an unfillable gap, a hole one could fall into and never find the bottom. She writes of home and roots, and of choosing not to be anchored at all, but be borne aloft, free. In sumptuous, illusory, and entrancing prose, Tesh writes of the sweetness of being known of love that comes so softly of people whose banked, quiet presence is like a palm pressed to your back, a steady pressure that dulls the edge of loneliness for a while. Silver in the Woods is a novella that absolutely delights the senses. But that's exactly what Silver in the Woods accomplished for me. It's not very often that I read a story and a wild desire grips me to walk into the woods, to walk and walk and walk until I find someplace quiet and silent and still where all the world can disappear, and my misery can be turned into smoke, like dawn fog wicked away by the sun. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Briscoe keeps the plot rolling, but her steamy story is still Peyton Place with a new color scheme. Meanwhile, Baroness Veronique Valentine, a rich newcomer, plots mischief behind the facade of a beautiful smile and charming manner. For his part, Patrick struggles to make a home for his teenage daughters, Lee, rough and street smart, and Julliette, a snob still hurt by her parents' divorce. Much to the social-climbing Jolene's annoyance, her ex-husband, Patrick, has become involved with Pearl Jackson, a successful hair salon owner. High-ranking government employee Jolene Brown, one of Bradford's former lovers, feels she's too good for Brian, the office painter, with whom she's having an affair. Return to Book Page Not the book you’re looking for Preview Can't Get Enoughby Connie Briscoe Can't Get Enough (P.G. Grand dame Barbara Bentley, a recovering alcoholic, is enjoying a new career in real estate and the attentions of her colleague, Noah Woods, who makes her wonder why she bothers to stay with her philandering husband, Bradford. Problem:It’s the wrong bookIt’s the wrong editionOther Details (if other): Cancel Thanks for telling us about the problem. Lust, greed and revenge continue to drive the well-to-do African-American residents of suburban Silver Lake, Md., in Briscoe's entertaining sequel to P.G. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But the explanation, as it happens, is not so simple. “You guys give a whole new meaning to the phrase ‘once removed,’ ” James says, and wonders if “some deep dark secret” might explain why Serena rarely sees her aunt Alice or her uncle David, Nicholas’s father. ![]() Serena Drew, a 20-something Baltimore grad student traveling with her boyfriend, James, thinks she recognizes her cousin, Nicholas Garrett, in the crowd at a Philadelphia train station in 2010, but she can’t say for sure because she hasn’t seen him for years. Tyler ( Redhead by the Side of the Road) returns with a dry and well-crafted look at a family that inexplicably comes apart over several decades. ![]() ![]() ![]() Born into, in his words, an upwardly-mobile, middle class Jewish family, his drive and intelligence lead him to quickly become successful in academia in the field of psychiatry. Ram begins the book with his story, his transition from Harvard professor Richard Alpert to sort of go-anywhere spiritual guy Baba Ram Dass. Third section contains a bunch of guidelines for living a better life, with very practical advice on how to meditate, use mantras, do yoga etc. ![]() The second part is the part that features drawings and quotes about life and enlightenment that you don’t really read so much as wander through I suggest really taking your time and letting everything sink in. The first section is an easy read since it just tells his story. But that makes the book sound much longer than it is, as over half of the book features artistic pages that rarely have more than a few sentences on the entire page. I usually like to mention the page count here, which Amazon tells me is 416. This includes an autobiographical account of his early psychedelic years and his time spent with his Guru in India, pages of random enlightened sayings and artwork, and a guidebook for implementing spiritual practices in your life. Former Harvard psychiatry professor Richard Alpert describes his spiritual transformation into Baba Ram Dass. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maureen was sure that Garry was the source of this information. Garry was a sex god, everyone fancied him, said Liz, she had been lucky to get him. It didn't matter what the subject was, she always brought it back round to her and Garry. "Before I met Garry I used to go dancing . . ." "Oh, I know, I know," said Liz, back-combing her blond hair with her fingers. Eight long months of emotional turmoil had passed as suddenly as a fart. But on Monday night she woke up and looked at him and knew it was over. ![]() She remembered a time when she would watch him sleep, his eyes fluttering behind the lids, and she found the sight so beautiful that it winded her. She fell in love despite Elsbeth, despite his lies, despite her friends' disapproval. His voice was soft and when he spoke her name she felt that God was calling or something. When she first met Douglas she knew that this would be a big one. In the street below, art students were winding their way up to their morning classes. Her flat was at the top of Garnethill, the highest hill in Glasgow, and the craggy North Side lay before her, polka-dotted with cloud shadows. ![]() ![]() M AUREEN DRIED HER EYES IMPATIENTLY, LIT A CIGARETTE, WALKED over to the bedroom window, and threw open the heavy red curtains. ![]() |