![]() ![]() Reconstructing Amelia is about secret first loves, old friendships, and an all-girls club steeped in tradition. Until she gets an anonymous text: She didn’t jump. ![]() And clouded as she is by her guilt and grief, it is the one she forces herself to believe. At least that’s the story Grace Hall tells Kate. And for Kate.Īn academic overachiever despondent over getting caught cheating has jumped to her death. By then it’s already too late for Amelia. But Kate’s stress over leaving work quickly turns to panic when she arrives at the school and finds it surrounded by police officers, fire trucks, and an ambulance. Amelia has been suspended, effective immediately, and Kate must come get her daughter-now. In Reconstructing Amelia, the stunning New York Times bestselling debut novel from Kimberly McCreight, Kate's in the middle of the biggest meeting of her career when she gets the telephone call from Grace Hall, her daughter’s exclusive private school in Park Slope, Brooklyn. ![]()
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![]() ![]() And why is Lady Diana called the Madonna of the Sleeping Cars? Because she boards trains in search of her next sponsor-and is always successful. Gerard must face spies, old and new loves, secret police and all the hazards to hygiene that a true gentleman abhors. The adventures of poor Gerard are interspersed with Dekobra's encyclopedic knowledge of the world just after the Russian Revolution, and how badly it has shaken Europe. She and her secretary, Prince Gerard Séliman, the perfect gentleman, must find a way to regain the fortune that Lady Diana needs to preserve her way of life. Originally published in French and translated by Neal Wainwright, the novel details the travails of Lady Diana Wynham, faced with the prospect of financial ruin. ![]() Such was its popularity upon publication in 1927 that Dekobra's prose style earned its own adjective, dekobrisme. One of the long-lost novels is The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars by Maurice Dekobra. 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Though it is tempting to take the Athena Parthenos to Athens to use as a secret weapon, the friends know that the huge statue belongs back on Long Island, where it might be able to stop a war between the two camps. The Roman legion from Camp Jupiter, led by Octavian, is almost within striking distance. The demigods are having more frequent visions of a terrible battle at Camp Half-Blood. ![]() She needs their blood-the blood of Olympus-in order to wake. They must be stopped before the Feast of Spes, when Gaea plans to have two demigods sacrificed in Athens. Her giants have risen-all of them-and they're stronger than ever. Though the Greek and Roman crewmembers of the Argo II have made progress in their many quests, they still seem no closer to defeating the earth mother, Gaea. ![]() About the Book Bonus content included: Preview of The hidden oracle.īook Synopsis The breathtaking conclusion to the mega-bestselling Heroes of Olympus series by Rick Riordan, now with fresh and exciting new cover art by Nilah Magruder. ![]() ![]() ![]() As the repercussions of this comprise a deadly threat to the nation’s security, it sends shockwaves through the corridors of the NSA.Įven as Susan scrambles to find Ensei’s secret partner, she is puzzled, angry and scared that Commander Strathmore has inexplicably sent her boyfriend David, an ordinary university professor, on a dangerous mission to Spain to retrieve this unbreakable code’s key. ![]() Codenamed the Digital Fortress, it is an unbreakable code created by an ex-NSA cryptographer, Ensei Tankado, who had threatened to make it available for public use if the NSA didn’t make TRANSLTR’s existence known to the general public. She arrives to the shocking news that TRANSLTR, the NSA's incredibly fast and infallible code-breaking machine against which even the best computer encryption software is useless, has at long last come face to face with its nemesis. One weekend, the NSA’s top cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, gets an urgent call from her boss, Commander Strathmore, to come to work. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kinderman's investigations lead him to a mental asylum, where there are a number of suspects, including a psychiatrist and one of his patients. The slayings have a blasphemous side to them, including a child being crucified and a priest's beheading. A police detective, Lieutenant Kinderman, investigates a series of murders that have all the hallmarks of a long dead serial killer who was shot by police the body was never recovered. The storyline of the novel mixes horror and whodunnit. The more common quotation of the incident, sometimes called the Gerasene Demoniac, comes from The Gospel of Mark:Īnd he asked him, "What is thy name?" And he answered, saying, "My name is Legion: for we are many". Jesus asked him, saying, "What is your name?" And he said, "Legion", because many devils had entered him (Luke 8:30). The Gospel of Luke describes Jesus traveling in the land of Gadarenes, where he encounters a man possessed by demons: Blatty based aspects of the Gemini Killer on the real life Zodiac Killer, who in a January 1974 letter to the San Francisco Chronicle had praised the original Exorcist film as "the best satirical comedy that I have ever seen". The book was the focus of a court case over its exclusion from The New York Times Best Seller list. ![]() Like The Exorcist, it involves demonic possession. It was adapted for the film The Exorcist III in 1990. Legion is a 1983 horror novel by American writer William Peter Blatty, a sequel to The Exorcist. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Who writes especially well about science for a lay audience? It’s Hudson’s memoir of growing up in the pampas of Argentina in the mid-19th century and contains the most gorgeous descriptions of flora, fauna and landscape that I’ve ever read. But a book I love that receives very little attention these days is “Far Away and Long Ago,” by W.H. That’s a tall order, because I don’t know what books most people have read. What’s your favorite book no one else has heard of? ![]() Good books are not completed until they are read by a reader, and each reader completes the book in a different way. If we are the reader, we are bringing our own life experiences to the scene and using those experiences to help create the scene. If we are the writer, we are listening to our characters speak, not telling them what to say, but listening. As long as the place is quiet, I can be anywhere, because after a few minutes I have disappeared into that magical realm where we lose awareness of who we are, where we are, our bodies, even time. I like to be in a quiet and serene space, without phones ringing in the background or other distractions. My ideal reading experience is the same as my ideal writing experience. Describe your ideal reading experience (when, where, what, how). “Crime and Punishment,” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “Bleak House,” by Charles Dickens. Are there any classic novels that you only recently read for the first time? ![]() “A Gentleman in Moscow,” by Amor Towles, “At Random,” by Bennett Cerf, “The Pope at War,” by David I. ![]() ![]() She was going to fly down to Florida from Connecticut, and meet me here, in Siesta Key, at my uncle’s wedding. They’ll be pissed.”īrooklyn and I had this whole thing planned out. I can’t call and tell them I don’t have a way to get back to Connecticut. But her mom had read some article about Title Nine that had gotten her all riled up. It was pretty ridiculous, since Brooklyn is totally unathletic, and no girls were even trying out for the wrestling team. One time last year she came down to our school screaming about women’s equality on the wrestling team. My mom said she wouldn’t as long as I talked you out of it, but you never know what my mom’s going to do. I mean, what if my parents call your parents?” And honestly, Peyton, I kind of think you should just forget the whole thing. My parents found out, and they’re freaking out. ![]() “I’m so sorry, but there’s no way I can come now. ![]() “I’m sorry,” my best friend, Brooklyn, says on the other end of the line. The bushes are prickly, there are bees floating around, and the ground is kind of wet. I’m crouching behind some bushes outside the Siesta Key Yacht Club, which is not comfortable. “Are you sure there’s no way you can come?” I say into my phone. ![]() All we hear about these days is how we’re supposed to be strong women and not depend on anyone else and blah blah blah. ![]() ![]() ![]() Staying out of her bed that’s the hard part. The wild sex might require the use of an air conditioner. Warning: This title contains a sexy movie star and a sassy redhead who know exactly how to heat up the sheets. Now if only he can convince Maggie that a bad boy might just be good for her and the best thing that’s ever happened to both of them. Ben soon finds out that one week with the fiery redhead is definitely not enough. In exchange, he’ll give her what she wants. He won’t accept her apology, but what he will accept is a place to hide out in her arms. What he gets is a scorching hot makeout session with a gorgeous, naked redhead. Ben, determined to lay low after another scandal, has checked into the hotel for some much needed sleep. But when she shows up at the hotel expecting to hop into bed with one man, she accidentally ends up with quite another: Ben Barrett, Hollywood’s most notorious bad boy. This weekend is one of those rare times, and she’s more than ready for a few nights of stress busting sex. ![]() She’s got the perfect arrangment, though a lover she meets three or four times a year. ![]() right man? Between her waitressing job, volunteer work, and college clas*ses, there are never enough hours in the day for Maggie Reilly. ![]() |