![]() Just as she did in Clementine, Sonia Purnell uncovers the captivating story of a powerful, influential, yet shockingly overlooked heroine of the Second World War. Virginia Hall was one of the greatest spies in American history, yet her story remains untold. This spy was Virginia Hall, a young American woman-rejected from the foreign service because of her gender and her prosthetic leg-who talked her way into the spy organization deemed Churchill's "ministry of ungentlemanly warfare," and, before the United States had even entered the war, became the first woman to deploy to occupied France. In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. ![]() ![]() The never-before-told story of one woman's heroism that changed the course of the Second World War ![]()
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![]() When a male writer creates a female character who's beautiful, sexy and often not wearing many clothes, I'm a little leery. Not a sports bra, but a bra and not for any real reason. I was iffy about this book when they introduced the main character driving down the road just wearing a bra. ![]() However I found The Univited so frustrating and borderline offense that I feel the need to explain my feelings. ![]() ![]() Rarely do I actually write a review for a 1 star book. But Mimi has just arrived, so who is responsible? And more alarmingly, what does the intruder want? Part gripping thriller, part family drama, this fast-paced novel plays out in alternating viewpoints, in a pastoral setting that is evocative and eerie - a mysterious character in its own right. The house is fairy-tale quaint, and the key is hidden right where her dad said it would be, so she’s shocked to find someone already living there - Jay, a young musician, who is equally startled to meet Mimi and immediately accuses her of leaving strange and threatening tokens a dead bird, a snakeskin, a cricket sound track embedded in his latest composition. So when her artist father, Marc, offers the use of his remote Canadian cottage, she’s glad to hop in her Mini Cooper and drive up north. Mimi Shapiro had a disturbing freshman year at NYU, thanks to a foolish affair with a professor who still haunts her caller ID. ![]() Who is the uninvited? This twisty page-turner from a master of suspense plumbs the unsettling goings-on at a picture-perfect woodland cottage. ![]() ![]() It’s a story of falling in love, loss, grief, and what life there is in the deep, deep sea. Our Wives Under The Sea is the debut novel from the critically acclaimed author of salt slow. Living in the same space but suddenly separate, Miri comes to realize that the life that they had might be gone. ![]() Memories of what they had before – the jokes they shared, the films they watched, all the small things that made Leah hers – only remind Miri of what she stands to lose. Our Wives Under The Sea is the debut novel from Julia Armfield, the critically acclaimed author of salt slow. It’s a story of falling in love, loss, grief, and what life there is in the deep, deep sea.Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns. To have the woman she loves back should mean a return to normal life, but Miri can feel Leah slipping from her grasp. Named as a book to look out for by Guardian, i-D, Autostraddle, Bustle, Good Housekeeping, Stylist and DAZED. Our Wives Under The Sea is the debut novel from the critically acclaimed author of Salt Slow. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded on the ocean floor, Leah has carried part of it with her, onto dry land and into their home. It soon becomes clear, though, that Leah may have come back wrong. ![]() ![]() Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep sea mission that ended in catastrophe. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gerald the giraffe really wants to dance but he has crooked knees and wibbly wobbly legs. Giraffes Can’t Dance by Giles Andreae and Guy Parker-Rees What’ll they do?! This will be a silly, rhyme-filled time. They each try to make it up to him, but their plans backfire and Bear ends up even grumpier than before. In this one, Bear is trying to hibernate but Moose, Sheep, Lion and Zebra keep walking him up with their games. This series of bear books is one I often favour for storytimes. So tired, in fact, that he doesn’t realize his much-needed glasses are on his head and gets lost as he burrows his way home. Morris Mole works at Gordon Ratzy’s restaurant until his body aches and his eyes are tired. ![]() ![]() This book is vibrant, wacky and very fun. Will Flo’s bigger panda friends find a way to appreciate her slow, floppy ways of being? (Yes, and it’s very winsome with its hipster gramophone art). Due to her size, everything takes her longer and that frustrates the other pandas. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Blehm, a snowboarder and journalist, deftly interweaves the story of Morgenson’s lifelong devotion to wilderness with a riveting account of the hunt for him." - National Geographic Adventure Magazine ![]() ![]() “Just try to put down The Last Season, Eric Blehm’s gripping detective story about the disappearance of Sierra super-ranger Randy Morgenson. Blehm blends his love of the mountains (he was a competitive snowboarder and winter sports writer for years) with serious journalism skills to produce a deeply layered, meticulously researched, greatly entertaining read.” - San Francisco Chronicle “Part detective story, part sensitive biography and part Park Service procedural, Blehm’s book probes the mystery of Morgenson’s disappearance. A potent testament to the enduring power and allure of wild spaces. ![]() “Blehm recounts the search for Morgenson with a thriller’s pacing. "As Jon Krakauer did with Into the Wild, Blehm turns a missing-man riddle into an insightful meditation on wilderness and the personal demons and angels that propel us into it alone.” - Outside magazine ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She is the mother of two young adult sons. Her creative writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a Lambda Literary Award. She is a past winner of an American Psychological Association dissertation research award, and she has published in professional and literary journals. in clinical psychology, and an MFA in creative writing. She holds a master's degree in educational psychology, a Ph.D. Ross is the pen name for an award-winning writer and school psychologist with three decades of experience working in public schools in Northern California. Her compelling and lyrical story of raising-and launching-her son is one of anguish as well as joy, and what she learns along the way will help other families who are living this perplexing, remarkable, and humbling journey of parenthood.Īnne K. The diagnosis propels her more deeply into her life's work with children on the spectrum. Although one child in 68 is diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder, psychologist Anne Ross is stunned when she learns her son has Asperger's Syndrome. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jenny Casey is a former Canadian special forces warrior living on the hellish streets of Hartford, Connecticut, in the year 2062. Elizabeth Bear builds her future nightmare tale with style and conviction and a constant return to the twists of the human heart. From Elizabeth Bear comes a near-future tale about a woman who was engineered for combat in a world that’s running out of time. "A gritty and painstakingly well-informed peek at a future we'd all better hope we don't get. And she needs to gain control of the game before a brave new future spins completely out of control. Join us Augfor our third virtual antiquarian book fair Preregister now for Biblio.live and get 10 to use at the fair. This, coupled with her childhood tendency to read the dictionary. Suddenly Jenny Casey is a pawn in a furious battle, waged in the corridors of the Internet, on the streets of battered cities, and in the complex wirings of her half-man-made nervous system. 9780553587500 Elizabeth Bear was born on the same say as Frodo and Bilbo Baggins, but in a different year. A government scientist needs the perfect subject for a high-stakes project and has Jenny in his sights. Racked with pain, hiding from the government she served, running with a crime lord so she can save a life or two, Jenny is a month shy of fifty, and her artificially reconstructed body has started to unravel. Now the former Canadian special forces warrior lives on the hellish streets of Hartford, Connecticut, in the year 2062. very impressive debut."-Mike Resnick Once Jenny Casey was somebody's daughter. She was engineered for combat-in a world that is running out of time. ![]() ![]() Boys will like this retelling of a children's classic. Illustrations are done in mixed media, mostly in a collage style, and have a clunky, metallic look to them. The reunited family goes for drive at the end, but it's clear from the picture that not everyone is assembled as they were before. Dudley rebuilds his brothers from the parts and makes a car from Wolfgang's remains. After he sinks, his parts start floating to the top. Dudley invites him in, and Wolfgang becomes trapped. He uses Slick's vain streak to gain entrance to his castle and breaks him down for parts. Wolfgang tricks Rod into opening the door and dismantles him on the spot. Dudley orders 12 truckloads of mud and happily nestles down into the oozing pile. He wants their parts for enhancing himself. One day their mother sends them out into the world with enough resources to acquire their own factories, big and strong enough to keep Wolfgang the Recycler at a distance. ![]() ![]() Rod is big and yellow with a clock in his stomach. ![]() ![]() ![]() She starts by telling a little about her grandparents, uncles and other relatives, and then introduces her self as a baby, as a child unwanted at first by her father. Elena Gorokhova writes about her life in this book, about how it was growing up in Russia during the 60's and 70's. ![]() This book was even better than I'd expected. It is an elegy to the lost country of childhood, where those who leave can never return. Through Elena’s captivating voice, we learn not only the stories of Russian family life in the second half of the twentieth century, but also the story of one rebellious citizen whose curiosity and determination finally transport her to a new world. In the battle between a strong-willed daughter and her authoritarian mother, the daughter, in the end, must break free and leave in order to survive. Elena is controlled by the state the same way she is controlled by her mother, a mirror image of her motherland: overbearing, protective, difficult to leave. Born with a desire to explore the world beyond her borders, Elena finds her passion in the complexity of the English language-but in the Soviet Union of the 1960s such a passion verges on the subversive. Elena Gorokhova’s A Mountain of Crumbs is the moving story of a Soviet girl who discovers the truths adults are hiding from her and the lies her homeland lives by.Įlena’s country is no longer the majestic Russia of literature or the tsars, but a nation struggling to retain its power and its pride. ![]() ![]() ![]() Happy (mostly) with his life as it is, Cicero has been able to put off his superiors. And a Familiar is trapped by the bond until the Witch dies ….Ĭicero is under increasing pressure to bond with one of the Witch police officers. In this world, Familiars have no rights while no longer slaves, it is still not unheard-of for Familiars to be forcibly bonded to a Witch, whether or not their magic is fully compatible. Cicero is a Familiar with the MWP, a shape-shifting human whose ability to access the magical forces of the universe makes him simultaneously valued and oppressed. The various boroughs of New York are preparing to unify into one greater City of New York - and the Metropolitan Witch Police are busy keeping the peace. ![]() To whit: it is near the end of the nineteenth century. Even better, she took one of the supporting characters from the novella, and gave him his own story. As such, I was thrilled when I learned that she would be spinning off her novella “The Thirteenth Hex”* into a full series. ![]() I have not read a single one which did not completely enthrall me: great characters, terrific world-building, plenty of action, and lots of angsty romance. I have to confess: I love Jordan L Hawk’s books. ![]() |