![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Brendan, better known as Captain to his friends, first sees Piper it’s while she’s unloading her fancy suitcases from the back of a cab and with a look of disgust on her face. At least she won’t be alone, her sister Hannah sets aside everything to go with her. A small fishing village, Westport, where she apparently also owns a bar. The solution her step-dad and mom think up? For her to spend several months in the town where she was born and her father died, a place she doesn’t know and a father who she barely remembers. Which is how she lands in jail and in trouble. After a bad breakup and fearing the social media fall-out of being dumped, she ends up in a hotel pool (illegally) with a couple hundred of her acquaintances drinking, partying, and shooting off fireworks. Meet Piper Bellinger- a sparkly, bright, 28-year-old party “it” girl who grew up with a rich step-father in Los Angeles and seems to spend her days shopping and Instagramming. I just want everyone I know to add it to their TBR right away and read it on release date so we can all gush together. You know that feeling you get when you read and great book and get all excited and MUST TELL EVERYONE? I had that feeling reading It Happened One Summer. It caught me by surprise in the best way possible. ![]()
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![]() When a person dies there are seconds when the heart still squeezes, not yet knowing it is time to stop. ![]() But it was on the cusp of being something terrifying, so that added stress really set a darker, higher stakes tone for the book. It wasn't really horror, but horror-adjacent, as I never found any of it SCARY. I won't say more about the plot, because spoilers, but I definitely recommend this book to readers of sci-fi/space thrillers who like a little bit of potential horror mixed in. You get depth and developed characters, but it never sits down or goes so slow that you get bored. ![]() The pacing is fast, but not so fast that it blows past the story. haunted in a science fiction technical kinda way. It's an almost-horror sci-fi thriller novel, set in space, on an abandoned spacecraft. But I'm so glad I finally picked it up! Once I got sucked in, I couldn't put it down! I read huge chunks every sitting! ![]() I put off reading it, fiddlefarted around, avoiding it. I was ambivalent about this one when I accepted the ARC. ![]() Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review. ![]() ![]() 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, a historical novel with a ten-thousand year story, set in the area around the ancient monument of Stonehenge, and Salisbury. Educated locally, and at the universities of Cambridge, and Stanford, California, he worked in political research, bookselling and publishing. ![]() Since then he has written five more bestsellers: RUSS Francis Edward Wintle, best known under his pen name Edward Rutherfurd, was born in the cathedral city of Salisbury. Four years later, when the book was published, it became an instant international bestseller, remaining 23 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List. ![]() Francis Edward Wintle, best known under his pen name Edward Rutherfurd, was born in the cathedral city of Salisbury. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Martinez brothers allegedly used a vast network of dispatchers and distributors to serve customers large and small with knowledge that a substantial amount of drugs were going to New Hampshire. The investigation focused in on an “extensive and organized” drug-trafficking organization led by the two men from Lawrence, Mass., the Martinez brothers, Sergio and Raulin. ![]() CONCORD, NH – For now, the deadly drug pipeline between Manchester and Lawrence, Mass., has been cut off.Īpril saw the culmination of a year-long drug investigation by multiple agencies, bringing in a huge haul for law enforcement officials – 45 people arrested in two sweeps netting 30 kilograms (more than 60 pounds) of fentanyl, plus two guns and $500,000 in cash.Īuthorities announced the results of the investigation April 25 during a news conference held at the U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Piketty explores the material and ideological interactions of conflicting social groups that have given us slavery, serfdom, colonialism, communism, and hypercapitalism, shaping the lives of billions. Markets, profits, and capital are all historical constructs that depend on choices. Our economy, Piketty observes, is not a natural fact. He exposes the ideas that have sustained inequality for the past millennium, reveals why the shallow politics of right and left are failing us today, and outlines the structure of a fairer economic system. In this audacious follow-up, Piketty challenges us to revolutionize how we think about politics, ideology, and history. ![]() Thomas Piketty’s bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century galvanized global debate about inequality. The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But, while this might have been a career that he excelled at, it was also something that he was not entirely comfortable doing. He was known for years as one of the best at tracking targets and eliminating them once they were found. Marion “Doc” Ford started his career working for a small covert government agency as an agent and assassin. This is now a Doc Ford series that follows his journey through twenty-one volumes. In 1990, White released the first book, Sanibel Flats starring the character of Doc Ford. ![]() He did this for thirteen years on Sanibel Island. He is also trained to be a boat captain and was a light-tackle fishing guide during this time. He graduated from high school in 1968 and started his career working as a journalist for the Fort Myers News-Press. Randy Wayne White grew up in small-town Ohio and later moved to Iowa. ![]() ![]() also, hard 2 grasp I dont live in a world where cyborgs r real and normal. ![]() It was AN AMAZING EXPERIENCE, I still miss the characters and I like to wonder how they are now. It got me through the beginning of Covid and I am SO glad I dont have to live my live never hearing it. EVEN BETTER, if u havent heard or read it yet, I suggest Meyer's other series The Lunar Chronicles. The characters became so real to me, saying goodbye at the last word of this last book was hard but I will always remember the adventure I was on while listening to this series. They tend to come off as cheezy and I admit, the main renegades or the main 2, rather, captain chromium and the dread warden, were a bit cheezy but they won me over after the first book. ![]() I'm not usually the type who likes super heros. Marissa Meyer did an AMAZING job at keeping me on my toes and I loved every bit of the entire experience. The entire series became so personal and so close to me after the first few minutes of listening. ![]() ![]() ![]() “They spoke to you at an age when you would most readily believe them, some of you being children and adolescents, and they won their case by default, as there was no defense,” Socrates says. He fears this slander more than he fears what Meletus and Anytus have said about him, since his unknown accusers have been working for a long time to “persuade” the people of Athens to distrust him. Socrates says many people have spoken ill of him over the years, and so he decides to address their accusations first. As such, he says, he has decided to speak as he normally does, using simple, straightforward language. In fact, he asks the jury to excuse his manner of speaking, since he is seventy years old and has never appeared in court. Indeed, Socrates insists that although his detractors have warned the jury about his cunning rhetorical trickery, he is not an accomplished orator. However, he notes, these accusers-who include Meletus and Anytus-have not spoken the truth. “I do not know, men of Athens, how my accusers affected you as for me, I was almost carried away in spite of myself, so persuasively did they speak,” he begins. ![]() Plato’s Apology-a transliteration of the Ancient Greek word apologia, meaning “defense”-is supposedly a historical record of the speech Socrates gave to the Athenian jury after being accused of “corrupting the young and of not believing in the gods in whom the city believes.” Socrates begins his apologia by commenting on how his accusers have spoken about him. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He is plagued with doubts for the whole evening, but under implicit pressure from both Hélène’s parents and the guests, Pierre finally proposes to her in a private moment. Pierre attends Hélène’s name-day party, where the other guests expect him to propose to her. However, Pierre cannot overcome his physical attraction to the young woman. Pierre doesn’t like this idea – he thinks Hélène is vacuous, he doesn’t want to be bound to Prince Vassily’s family, and there are disturbing rumors about an incestuous relationship between Hélène and her brother Anatole. Anna Pavlovna Scherer encourages Pierre to pursue Vassily’s beautiful daughter, Princess Hélène Kuragin. Although diplomacy doesn’t interest him, the hapless Pierre accepts the job and moves back to Petersburg, where he will live with Prince Vassily until his own house is redecorated. Prince Vassily volunteers to manage Pierre’s affairs, and gets the younger man a diplomatic job in St. Part 3 moves away from the battlefield and back to mainland Russia.Īfter Pierre Bezukhov receives his inheritance, everyone fawns over him. ![]() ![]() Milton entered international competition in 1985.ĭuring his competitive career, Milton achieved many international victories, and became the first horse outside the racing world to win more than £1 million in prize money. ![]() Stephen Hadley, known later as a FEI TV show jumping commentator, rode Milton for a short time, before he became a mount of the world-renowned international rider John Whitaker. She trained him until her death in 1983, after which many offers were made to her parents to buy the gelding, who had already proven his talent. When Milton was young, Caroline Bradley, who had ridden Marius to international success, told her parents he would be her Olympic mount. His lines included successful sportshorses in both paternal and maternal lines, his sire being an international level and his dam a Grade A national level jumper. He was a grey gelding and stood 16.2 hands (66 inches, 168 cm) high at the withers.įoaled in 1977, Milton was by Dutch Warmblood Marius, out of Irish Draught Aston Answers. Marius Silver Jubilee, better known as Milton (16 February 1977 – 4 July 1999) was a successful showjumping horse ridden by John Whitaker. Aston Answer ( Irish Draught Sport Horse)Īny Questions ( Anglo Arabian x Thoroughbred)Ĭaroline Bradley, then after her death, Tom & Doreen Bradley (her parents) ![]() |