![]() ![]() ![]() “Ingeniously plotted…gorgeously written” –Shelf Awareness “Historical kinda-fiction, a thriller wrapped in romance, mystery, and some fascinating conjecture.” –Goodreads The question is, why? Why destroy another woman’s marriage, why hatch a plot years in the making, and why murder? How was Nan O’Dea so intricately tied to those eleven mysterious days that Agatha Christie went missing? less …Ĭreate + Cultivate- Most Anticipated book listīookish: Most Anticipated Books for Feb list London, 1925: In a world of townhomes and tennis matches, socialites and shooting parties, Miss Nan O’Dea became Archie Christie’s mistress, luring him away from his devoted and well-known wife, Agatha Christie. ![]() ![]() The greatest mystery wasn’t Agatha Christie’s disappearance in those eleven infamous days, it’s what she discovered. In retrospect, it’s frightening, but I daresay in the moment it feels sweet. It takes over your body so completely, it’s like a divine force, grabbing hold of your will, your limbs, your psyche. It’s a particular feeling, the urge to murder. “A long time ago, in another country, I nearly killed a woman. Nina de Gramont’s The Christie Affair is a beguiling novel of star-crossed lovers, heartbreak, revenge, and murder-and a brilliant re-imagination of one of the most talked-about unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The book delves into how the family aggressively marketed the drug and how it quickly became a major contributor to the opioid epidemic, which has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths in the United States. The book begins by tracing the history of the Sackler family, who made their fortune by developing and marketing Ox圜ontin, a highly addictive opioid pain medication. Written by award-winning author Patrick Radden Keefe, the book is an investigation of the rise and fall of one of the most powerful and secretive families in America, and how it was all built on a family tradition of deception and lies. Published: 2021 Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty is a deeply reported and shocking exposé of the Sackler family and their role in the opioid epidemic. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you want to take it one step further, record your observations with your child. What does this object feel like, smell like, how does it sound, what does it look like, and if appropriate, what does this object taste like. You can pick anything from play dough or food or the couch or an ice cube, anything you can think of really. Pick something in your home to explore with all of your senses as well. Each animal used a different sense to know that the rain was coming. ![]() Rain introduces the idea of using all of your senses to explore your surroundings. As they’re retelling, see if your child can correctly remember which animal used which of their senses to know that the rain is coming. Retelling a story helps your child refine their understanding of the story, and helps them to develop concepts about words and books. Practice this Comprehension Strategy- Retelling :Īfter you read Rain ask your child to take a turn and read the story to you. Use your senses and explore the rain with the animals. Once the winter and rain are over, the hot dry land is transformed into a whole new landscape. Each animal can tell for a different reason, zebra can see it, rhino can feel it, and porcupine can smell it. Winter isn’t always about snow! In the bright and bold Rain, written and illustrated by Manya Stojic, the animals in the hot dry land all sense that the rain is coming. ![]() ![]() For a man who irons his socks and runs on tight schedules, her sunny chaotic energy makes zero sense. Like the flowers she plants all over town, Hallie is a burst of color in Julian’s grayscale life. Until he finds an anonymous letter sent by a woman from his past.Įven as Julian wonders about this admirer, he’s sucked further into Hallie’s orbit. She’s eccentric, chronically late, often literally covered in dirt-and so unbelievably beautiful, he can’t focus on anything else. But having Hallie gardening right outside his window is the ultimate distraction. On sabbatical from his ivy league job, Julian plans to write a novel. One wine-fueled girls’ night later, Hallie can’t shake the sense that she did something reckless-and then she remembers the drunken secret admirer letter she left for Julian. But the grumpy professor isn’t the teenager she remembers and their polar opposite personalities clash spectacularly. ![]() Now the prodigal hottie has returned to Napa Valley and when Hallie is hired to revamp the gardens on the Vos estate, she wonders if she’ll finally get that smooch. ![]() Hallie Welch fell hard for Julian Vos at fourteen, after they almost kissed in the dark vineyards of his family’s winery. CLICK TO PURCHASE Vine Mess, Book 1 From the publisher:įrom Tessa Bailey- #1 New York Times bestselling author, TikTok favorite, and “the Michelangelo of dirty talk” ( Entertainment Weekly)- comes a steamy small town rom-com about a starchy professor and the bubbly neighbor he clashes with at every turn… ![]() ![]() Aniara is a book of prophecy, a panoramic view of humanity’s possible fate. A malfunction knocks the craft off course, taking these would-be Mars colonists on an irreversible journey into deep space. ![]() ![]() Aniara is the story of a luxurious space ship, loaded with 8,000 evacuees, fleeing an Earth made uninhabitable by Man’s technological arrogance. Story Line’s description: "The great Swedish writer Harry Martinson published his masterpiece, Aniara, during the height of the Cold War – right after the Soviet Union announced that it had exploded the hydrogen bomb. All of these editions are out-of-print and pretty hard to find. It was reprinted in the US by the now-defunct Story Line Press. In 1991, the Swedish publisher Vekerum brought out a new English translation by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjoberg. The poet does this not once, but time and time again, relentlessly and in many ways.“ ![]() Theodore Sturgeon said: "Martinson’s crowning achievement is the communication at last of galactic immensity, something heretofore reserved to intuition or the highly exclusive speech of abstract mathematics. This edition of Aniara: A Review of Man in Time and Space by Nobel-Prize winner Harry Martinson was “adapted from the Swedish by Hugh MacDiarmid and Elspeth Harley Schubert.” Knopf published the same translation in 1963 and then Avon reprinted it as a paperback in 1976. MacDiarmid is the giant Scottish modernist poet and Schubert translated many books from Sweden, and I bet their version is idiosyncratic and wild. People continue to not read space poetry. ![]() |