Marie Benedict is a lawyer with more than ten years' experience as a commercial litigator at two of the country's premier law firms. What is real, and what is mystery? What role did her unfaithful husband play, and what was he not telling investigators?Ī master storyteller whose clever mind may never be matched, Agatha Christie’s untold history offers perhaps her greatest mystery of all. With her trademark exploration into the shadows of history, acclaimed author Marie Benedict brings us into the world of Agatha Christie, imagining why such a brilliant woman would find herself at the center of such a murky story. The puzzle of those missing eleven days has persisted. Eleven days later, she reappears, just as mysteriously as she disappeared, claiming amnesia and providing no explanations for her time away. Her husband and daughter have no knowledge of her whereabouts, and England unleashes an unprecedented manhunt to find the up-and-coming mystery author. Investigators find her empty car on the edge of a deep, gloomy pond, the only clues some tire tracks nearby and a fur coat left in the car - strange for a frigid night. In December 1926, Agatha Christie goes missing. Marie Benedict, the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Only Woman in the Room, uncovers the untold story of Agatha Christie’s mysterious eleven day disappearance.
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The king, angered Polynesia's deception, pursues Doctor Dolittle as he rushes towards the Land of the Monkeys. Chapter 6: Polynesia and the KingĪfter a less than pleasant encounter with the King of Jolliginki, Polynesia helps the doctor gain his freedom. Dolittle introduces himself to the natives before embarking on the next leg of his journey. As the doctor and his passengers prepare to go ashore, a stowaway is discovered aboard ship. Dolittle's maritime travels come to an abrupt end. Dolittle prepares for a voyage to Africa. Chapter 4: A Message From AfricaĪfter receiving an urgent message regarding an epidemic, Dr. Intending to be married, Sarah leaves Puddley-on-the-Marsh. A visiting crocodile further exacerbates the doctor's money troubles. Chapter 3: More Money TroublesĪs time passes the good doctor's collection of animals only continues to increase. Amongst the animals, word spreads of a new doctor with a special ability. Chapter 2: Animal LanguageĪ suggestion from the Cat's-meat-man prompts John Dolittle to undertake a new venture, starting with the understanding of the animal language. John Dolittle, a knowledgable doctor in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, finds that his love of animals is taking a toll on his finances. Stokes IntroductionĪn introduction by Hugh Walpole. The Story of Doctor Dolittle is the first of his Doctor Dolittle books, a series of children's novels about a man who learns to talk to animals and becomes their champion around the world. What I Would Like to See: Their friendship is nice, so I’m content with the direction of their relationship. I’ve seen middle school couples that were more mature than these two.īut I like them as friends! I’m glad they reconciled at Croatoan. Their break-up, initiated by Claire, was textbook passive-aggression. She replied by clamming up and refusing to talk to him. Bek was an oppressive tool and nagged Claire constantly, crushing her spirit. Although Claire and Bek were together for over a year, it was a bad year. Though I did write this fun fancast article if you’d like some ideas on who I think should play each role!Ĭontent Warning: In addition to spoilers for the “Ice Planet Barbarian” Series, I occasionally use salty language to describe the events of the books. Disclaimer: The “Ice Planet Barbarians” franchise is the property of Ruby Dixon. Life and Fate juxtaposes bedrooms and snipers' nests, scientific laboratories and the Gulag, taking us deep into the hearts and minds of characters ranging from a boy on his way to the gas chambers to Hitler and Stalin themselves. Interweaving a transfixing account of the battle of Stalingrad with the story of a single middle-class family, the Shaposhnikovs, scattered by fortune from Germany to Siberia, Vasily Grossman fashions an immense, intricately detailed tapestry depicting a time of almost unimaginable horror and even stranger hope. A book judged so dangerous in the Soviet Union that not only the manuscript but the ribbons on which it had been typed were confiscated by the state, Life and Fate is an epic tale of World War II and a profound reckoning with the dark forces that dominated the twentieth century. Holy Thorn of Glastonbury, St Peter Port: Toucan Press, 1979, an account of the legends associated with Glastonbury’s holy thorn. Since 1975 he has produced some 130 publications on plant-lore, including: He has collected, and written about, plant folklore for over four decades. He was from 2011-4 a vice-president of the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland, and is unofficial botanical recorder for Tooting Common in the London Borough of Wandsworth. On his 75th birthday, in March 2022, he retired from this post. After 10 years as chairman of the Trustees of the South London Botanical Institute in September 2014 he was elected president of the Institute. He remains a Scientific Associate at the Museum, where he mainly helps with the curation of its lichen collections. From 1965 to 2007 he worked as a botanist at the Natural History Museum, London. Roy Vickery was born in March 1947 in rural west Dorset. When you don’t know what matters most, anything makes sense. When you know what matters most, everything makes sense. Make sure every day you do what matters most. When people look back on their lives, it is the things they have not done that generate the greatest regret.People’s actions may be troublesome initially it is their inactions that plague them most with long-term feelings of regret. More than anything else, expertise tracks with hours invested. The ONE Thing shows up time and again in the lives of the successful because it’s a fundamental truth. As the founder and chairman of the board of the global real estate corporation Keller Williams Realty, Inc. It can be a virtuous cycle all the way to extraordinary results. Gary Keller’s nonfiction book The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results (2012) conveys Keller’s business, life principles, and advice on goal setting, prioritization, focusing, and discovering purpose. Better results generally lead to more enjoyment, and more passion and more time is invested. That time spent eventually translates to skill, and when skill improves, results improve. Passion for something leads to disproportionate time practicing or working at it. It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects. But Perez isn't going to let a witch-hunt get in the way of his investigation, even when it emerges that another girl who went missing 19 years ago lived in the same house as Catherine. The villagers have already reached their conclusions. Catherine dropped in on Magnus in his shack the previous day, for cake. Except he's not sleeping at the moment, no one is. This one is caged, perhaps so it doesn't peck out Magnus's eyes when he sleeps. On the hill up above, an eccentric old loner called Magnus Bain (non-prof Brian Cox, the standout performance along with the coastline) lives alone in his croft with his own pet raven. They haven't gone for her eyes yet thankfully – I thought they pecked out the eyes perhaps it's just lambs' ones they like. Unless they're crows of course, in which case it's a murder? Also apt. Is that an unkindness of ravens, or a storytelling? Both fit. The body of Catherine Ross lies on the beach with the flood tide lapping at her feet and ravens pecking at her flesh. Celtic Noir is the new Nordic Noir, don't you know? Actually they're pretty much Vikings up there in Shetland anyway, aren't they? It's actually further north than any of those Scandi cop shows, same latitude as the tip of Greenland. Also of The Killing, The Bridge, Wallander etc. There is something of Insomnia about Shetland – murder and mysterious northern mist. 2: THE DOLL S HOUSE, celebrates its 30th anniversary with all all-new edition! Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. The second installment of Neil Gaiman s seminal series, THE SANDMAN VOL. Rose's journey is watched closely by the King of Dreams, for whom she becomes both an intriguing mystery and a deadly threat. Rose's journey is watched closely by the King of Dreams, for whom she becomes both an intriguing mystery and a deadly threat. Featuring a brand-new cover and collecting issues 9-16 of the original run of The Sandman, The Doll's House follows a young woman named Rose Walker as she discovers the singular nature of her identity. Featuring a brand-new cover and collecting issues #9-16 of the original run of The Sandman, The Doll's House follows a young woman named Rose Walker as she discovers the singular nature of her identity. New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman's transcendent series SANDMAN is often hailed as the definitive Vertigo title and one of the finest achievements in graphic storytelling. Illustrated by talented artists, the series is a rich blend of modern and ancient mythology in which contemporary fiction, historical drama, and legend are seamlessly interwoven. From the #1 New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman! One of the most popular and critically acclaimed graphic novels of all time, Neil Gaiman's award-winning masterpiece The Sandman set the standard for mature, lyrical fantasy in the modern comics era. With breathless pacing and relentless suspense, Reece ruthlessly targets his enemies in the upper echelons of power without regard for the laws of combat or the rule of law. Now, with no family and free from the military’s command structure, Reece applies the lessons that he’s learned in over a decade of constant warfare toward avenging the deaths of his family and teammates. But when those dearest to him are murdered on the day of his homecoming, Reece discovers that this was not an act of war by a foreign enemy but a conspiracy that runs to the highest levels of government. Making a hit TV show is just like a military operation. On his last combat deployment, Lieutenant Commander James Reece’s entire team was killed in a catastrophic ambush. Its The Terminal List by Jack Carr Report by report, well lead a sortie through the pages of Carrs military thriller to give you an uncompromising insight. A Navy SEAL has nothing left to live for and everything to kill for after he discovers that the American government is behind the deaths of his team in this ripped-from-the-headlines political thriller that is “so powerful, so pulse-pounding, so well-written-rarely do you read a debut novel this damn good” (Brad Thor, #1 New York Times bestselling author). Still, the tenuous tie they are forming is put to the test as they encounter danger after danger and must rely on each other. But it is not long before he must admit that Tempe’s skill in the wilderness rivals his own. It’s a welcome way station for settlers and frontiersmen traveling through the wild Cumberland region of Kentucke–men like Sion Morgan, a Virginia surveyor who arrives at the inn with his crew looking for an experienced guide. If I may apply the topographical wording of “north northwest” to the genre, this novel is “historical historical romance”, with slightly more emphasis on the drama and history, though the romance that unfolds slowly is heartfelt and central to the story.Īfter fleeing Virginia, Temperance Tucker and her family established an inn along the Shawnee River. Laura Frantz is on my #mustread author list because her stories always paint epic pictures of individuals in American history in a prose-like, lyrical, immersive style. Author Laura Frantz returns to her Kentucky roots with her new novel A Moonbow Night. |