![]() Her books include the One of Us Is Lying series, which has been turned into a television show on Peacock, as well as the standalone novels Two Can Keep a Secret, The Cousins, You'll Be the Death of Me, and Nothing More to Tell. 'A fantastic murder mystery, packed with cryptic clues and countless plot twists. McManus is a 1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author of young adult thrillers. ![]() 'Tightly plotted and brilliantly written, with sharp, believable characters, this whodunit is utterly irresistible' - HEAT 'McManus keeps the juicy subplots ticking over and drip-feeds reveals as clinically as an IV tube.' - THE GUARDIAN 'Given that her high-school-based murder mysteries read like bingeworthy Netflix dramas, it's easy to see why queen of teen crime Karen McManus is a bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic.' - THE OBSERVER When the game takes an even darker turn, suddenly no one at Bayview High knows who to trust.īut they need to find out who is behind the game, before it's too late. ![]() Not now someone has started playing a sinister game of Truth or Dare.Ĭhoose truth? You must reveal your darkest secret.Ĭhoose dare? Well, that could be even more dangerous. ![]() It's been a year since the events of One Of Us Is Lying.īut nothing has settled for the residents of Bayview. The sequel to the international bestseller One of Us is Lying. ![]()
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![]() However, deep inside me, I was looking for something else, something more. ![]() ![]() “These were the goals I had been taught to achieve, and part of me aspired to them, instinctively. Of course, like all his friends, he wants to succeed, but not necessarily with the same goals of being married and having money, children, and a house… He had just spent a year in the military and, after several years of study, obtained an MBA from Stanford’s excellent business school.Īt the age of twenty-four, the young man has doubts. Summary and book review of “ Shoe Dog“: In this autobiography, Phil Knight, tells the incredible story of Nike, the company he founded and directed from 1964 to 2004: the entrepreneur brings us along his inspiring journey, from the first 50 dollars borrowed from his father and the few athletic shoes stored in the trunk of his car to the fortune and the worldwide reputation of his brand.īy Phil Knight, 2018, 550 pages Book review and summary of “ Shoe Dog” :ġ962: Phil Knight returns to his parents’ in Oregon, his native region, after 7 years of exile. ![]() ![]() Welcome back to Books That Can Change Your Life ! Since it is not your first visit here, you must want to receive The 3 Vital Principles To Succeed in Life, backed by science : click here to get if for free ! □ ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s no denying the smoldering fire between them-and trying to put it out would be the greatest folly of all. But the harder she tries to manage the stubborn rake, the harder it is to ignore his seductive charm and raw magnetism. In spite of her lack of theatrical experience-and her fiery clashes with Asa-Eve is determined to turn Harte’s Folly into a smashing success. ![]() He’s not about to let an aristocratic woman boss him around. As the garden’s larger-than-life owner, he’s already dealing with self-centered sopranos and temperamental tenors. But when she agrees to control the purse strings of London’s premier pleasure garden, Harte’s Folly, she finds herself butting heads with an infuriating scoundrel who can’t be controlled.īawdy and bold, Asa Makepeace doesn’t have time for a penny-pinching prude like Eve. Prim, proper, and thrifty, Eve Dinwoody is all business when it comes to protecting her brother’s investment. ![]() ![]() “He was always acting out some idea of himself, as if he were living his whole life in front of a mirror.” Pyrrhus is strange, cruel, and pathetic, and described as a “weedy little sapling struggling to survive in the shadow of a great oak.” A man that’s always going to fall short in the shadow of the “greatest” warrior ever to live, and always going to be watched and judged. ![]() Andromache is the same, yet more timid and tired. That is their lives now.īriseis is reliving her past horrors of being Achilles’s war prize, being groped and raped, while still reeling from her family’s and people’s massacres. Rape is a common occurrence and has lost the shock factor that it had in the beginning. Dryly and tragically, she thinks, “The walls of Troy have well and truly been breached.” Especially comical, considering that Briseis is carrying Achilles’s baby, which protects her from the harm afforded to the other women. We watch Andromache go through what Briseis did before her, replaying her character arc and strife. More women for the spoils of the Greek army, as Briseis thinks while sympathising with the Trojan Andromache over being raped by Pyrrhus, thinking that she was once not so long ago in her place being raped by Pyrrhus’s father, Achilles. ‘The Women Of Troy’ is the sequel to Pat Barker’s incredible novel, ‘The Silence Of The Girls,’ and it leaves us exactly where we were left on the final page. ![]() ![]() ![]() Praise for Jack Carr: 'This is seriously good. ![]() In his most visceral and heart-pounding thriller yet, Jack Carr explores the darkest instincts of humanity through the eyes of a man who has seen both the best and the worst of it. Unbeknown to them, the Russian mafia has set their sights on Reece in a deadly game of cat and mouse. Half a world away, James Reece is recovering from brain surgery in the Montana wilderness, slowly putting his life back together with the help of investigative journalist Katie Buranek and his longtime friend and SEAL teammate Raife Hastings. Loved it!' Chris Hauty, bestselling author of Deep State Deep in the wilds of Siberia, a woman is on the run, pursued by a man harboring secrets - a man intent on killing her. ![]() ∗∗SOON TO BE A TV SERIES STARRING CHRIS PRATT∗∗ 'Carr writes both from the gut and a seemingly infinite reservoir of knowledge in the methods of human combat. ![]() ![]() ![]() Quentin Tarantino directed one scene as a special guest. It works so well because Rodriguez is such a big fan of Miller’s work. I think it might be one of the best screen translations of a book ever. It’s impressive how true to the source material this movie is. The visual style is great and stays faithful to the books and almost all of the dialogue is quoted word for word from the books as well. He gives it his trademark style, but keeps it feeling like Sin City and not “The Robert Rodriguez version of Sin City”. Robert Rodriguez is the man behind the movie and is my second favorite director of all time. I really like the visual style and the narrative is always interesting. ![]() Now I have actually read a couple and they are good. I saw the movie before I had ever read any of the books. Miller is most famous for Sin City but has done other stories like The Dark Knight Returns, 300 and Hard Boiled (unrelated to the John Woo film). ![]() Sin City is based on the graphic novel series of the same name by Artist Frank Miller. ![]() ![]() ![]() The only place that seemed truly different was owned by a man named Mr. I hoped that in walking around after dark I might witness a murder, but for the most part our neighbors just sat in their living rooms, watching TV. But here, when you looked out the window, you saw other houses, and people inside those houses. It just wasn't the right time.īack in New York State, we had lived in the country, with no sidewalks or streetlights you could leave the house and still be alone. It was more of a "see you later" situation, but still I adopted my mother's attitude, as it allowed me to pretend that not making friends was a conscious choice. Our next house was less than a mile away, and the short journey would hardly merit tears or even good-byes, for that matter. Within a year we would move again and, as she explained, there wasn't much point in getting too close to people we would have to say good-bye to. My mother made friends with one of the neighbors, but one seemed enough for her. ![]() ![]() When my family first moved to North Carolina, we lived in a rented house three blocks from the school where I would begin the third grade. ![]() ![]() Although it took forever to re-sight the fence, neither of us panicked until we heard voices, urgent but low. The rust-colored one dropped his head and pawed the ground while the winner loped off in an arc, nudging the mares before him.Īs we elbowed back through the grass looking for the dug-out place, avoiding the line of parked trucks beyond, we lost our way. Nearby, colts and mares, indifferent, nibbled grass or looked away. The neighs were not as frightening as the silence following a kick of hind legs into the lifted lips of the opponent. One was rust-colored, the other deep black, both sunny with sweat. They bit each other like dogs but when they stood, reared up on their hind legs, their forelegs around the withers of the other, we held our breath in wonder. Their raised hooves crashing and striking, their manes tossing back from wild white eyes. The reward was worth the harm grass juice and clouds of gnats did to our eyes, because there right in front of us, about fifty yards off, they stood like men. ![]() The grass was shoulder high for her and waist high for me so, looking out for snakes, we crawled through it on our bellies. But when we saw a crawl space that some animal had duga coyote maybe, or a coon dogwe couldnt resist. ![]() The threats hung from wire mesh fences with wooden stakes every fifty or so feet. Like most farmland outside Lotus, Georgia, this one here had plenty of scary warning signs. ![]() ![]() We shouldnt have been anywhere near that place. ![]() ![]() In Hearn's vivid retellings of classic Japanese folk tales-the spirit world swirls frighteningly close to human reality, the border between the two often being no more than a thin fog of dreams. Strange and wondrous creatures abound in these tales, including human-faced Heiké crabs who embody the spirits of dead warriors, and the jikininki, or man-eating goblins, that feed nocturnally on funeral offerings. The twenty "ghostly sketches" Hearn gathered for his classic collection, Kwaidan (or "strange stories"), span the supernatural spectrum from grisly accounts of revenge from beyond the grave to haunting visions of beautiful snow spirits who bring quiet death in the night. These are just some of the haunting tales culled by distinguished American scholar, translator, and journalist Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) during years of travel and study in his adopted land of Japan. *A samurai turned priest does battle with the floating severed heads of ravenous goblins. *A woman on her deathbed coerces a promise from her betrothed to wait for her reincarnated return, no matter how many years it will take. *A man terrified of the ghost who haunts his nights seeks help from a priest, who inscribes his body with protective holy texts. ![]() ![]() ''Rabbit at Rest'' is certainly the most brooding, the most demanding, the most concentrated of John Updike's longer novels. ![]() As Rabbit's doctor has informed his wife, ''Sometimes it's time.'' But in the nightmare efficiency of late 20th-century medical technology, in which mere vegetative existence may be defined as life, we are no longer granted such certainty. The final word of so many thousands is Rabbit's, and it is, singularly, ''Enough.'' This is, in its context, in an intensive cardiac care unit in a Florida hospital, a judgment both blunt and touchingly modest, valedictory and yet enigmatic. ![]() With this elegiac volume, John Updike's much-acclaimed and, in retrospect, hugely ambitious Rabbit quartet - ''Rabbit, Run'' (1960), ''Rabbit Redux'' (1971), ''Rabbit Is Rich'' (1981) and now ''Rabbit at Rest'' - comes to an end. ![]() |