![]() Moreover, although the victim was not well liked, no one in the village seemed to have a strong enough motive for the murder. Unfortunately, since the victim was killed in the Village Hall which was open and not far from the Fayre grounds, anyone could have had access to the murder scene. Because of his background and his familiarity with the villagers, Max is asked to help the police with their investigation. While looking for peace after a traumatizing experience in MI5, his calm existence in the village of Nether Monkslip is interrupted by a suspicious death during the annual Harvest Fayre. As a former MI5 agent turned Anglican priest, he has a professional background that makes his investigative skills quite believable. While no one recognizes hidden evil as well as Christie's Miss Marple, Malliet's Max Tudor is no slouch. That murderous intent exists in such a bucolic setting somehow makes the evil even more intense. ![]() ![]() First, a confession: As an incurable Agatha Christie fan, I am immediately prone to liking a murder mystery that takes place in a small English village. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Naturally, the dog is a Great Dane the woman, a self-described “cat person.” While this sounds like the perfect plot for the farce that will be next week’s sentimental television movie, the novel, fortunately, isn’t that at all. ![]() The premise appears straightforward: a woman who lives in a five-hundred-square-foot pet- unfriendly apartment has lost her friend and literary mentor, and now someone must take his dog. The inside jacket promised “a moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog.” Having just lost our beloved dog, Wrigley, and deep in grief, I was both drawn to this dog-centric novel with its beautiful cover and a little afraid to read it. O the books we need find us? A few months ago, I purchased a used copy of Sigrid Nunez’s seventh novel, The Friend. ![]() ![]() It all started in 2005 with a story that I've shared here in my blog: How I Ended up in India After Quitting My First Job.īut let me first tell you about this book.Īutobiography of a Yogi is the life story of a real Indian yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda. I dreamed about learning yoga from the masters and to have an ashram life experience. It awoke in me a deep connection, probably from past lives. ![]() This book was my introduction to the life of the Indian yogis and it's probably one of the reasons why I decided to follow this path. What a beautiful spiritual journey that was. While reading this book, together with Yoganandaji, I traveled back in time to the India of more than 100 years back. Everything in this book resonated with me. All those incredible stories of Indian yogis and their mystic powers were more than inspiring. The first time that I read this book I was fascinated. It's one of those books that you can read again and again and always discover something new.Įvery spiritual seeker, regardless of their path, seems to have at one point or another come across this book. ![]() ![]() Autobiography of a Yogi, a book that changes people's lives, is a classic among the spiritual books of the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Isaiah's optimism, drive, and loyalty to friends and family make him a hero to cheer for." -Publishers Weekly, Starred Review Baptist's debut novel explores the indomitable spirit of a ten-year-old boy and the superhero strength it takes to grow up. He could use those powers right about now! Plus, his classmate Angel has a few good ideas of her own-once she stops hassling Isaiah.Īnd when things get really tough, there's Daddy's journal, filled with stories about the amazing Isaiah Dunn, a superhero who gets his powers from beans and rice. Good thing Isaiah can count on his best friend, Sneaky, who always has a scheme for getting around the rules. His little sister, Charlie, asks too many questions, and Mama's gone totally silent. But it's a lot harder than his dad made it look. Adapted from a story that first appeared in Flying Lessons & Other Stories and perfect for fans of The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson. A coming-of-age tale about a boy who discovers a love of poetry after finding his late father's journal. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a year in which they learn about politics and popularity, love and loss, and what it means to be a misfit. Starting with Addie’s refusal to say the Pledge of Allegiance and her insistence on creating a new political party to run for student council, the Gang of Five, as the four friends call themselves, is in for the year of their lives. And surviving seventh grade looks like it’s not going to be easy. They’re used to being called names, but they know they’re better than the names they’re called.īesides, they’ve always had each other when times got tough. « “Howe tells the truth about the pain and anger caused by jeers and name-calling in a fast, funny, tender story that will touch readers.” - Booklist, starred reviewīobby, Skeezie, Addie, and Joe are “the misfits.” Bobby is fat. ![]() An upbeat and reassuring novel that encourages preteens and teens to celebrate their individuality.” - Publishers Weekly ![]() ![]() ![]() Alex then takes a bath and Sasha goes through Alex’s wallet. ![]() Afterward, Sasha and Alex return to her apartment and have sex. After a brief confrontation with the woman Sasha stole from, Sasha returns the wallet and admits she has a problem. She recounts a date she went on with a man named Alex, during which she steals a wallet in the restaurant’s bathroom. In the novel’s first story, “Found Objects,” Sasha meets with her therapist, Coz, with whom she is working to overcome an addiction to stealing. ![]() Several characters appear in more than one story, and through the ways in which they appear at different points in time, their narratives become clear. The novel is also split into two parts-A and B-which echoes the two sides of an album. Instead, they leap through time, showing slices of different time periods occurring between the late 1970s and the 2020s. The stories, as they appear in the novel, do not follow a traditional chronology. Each chapter stands as a self-contained story, but as a whole, the individual episodes create connections that form a cohesive narrative. A Visit from the Goon Squad is unconventional in the way its narrative unfolds. ![]() ![]() ![]() The walk will probably last between 2-3 hours. As the walk is well subscribed, I wanted to let you know that this is now a paying Car Park, costing one pound per hour. Parking is available in the adjoining Thorncombe Wood Car Park (NGR SY 724922). I’m very much looking forward to welcoming you all on this walk which will be starting from outside the Hardy Visitor Centre at 10.00 am. Please see the message below from walk guide Dr Tony Fincham: *** There is a parking fee applicable at the Thorncombe Woods Visitor Centre car park of £1 per hour *** *** Could all attendees who are also members of the National Trust please bring your membership card with you for entrance into the Bockhampton Cottage Gardens! *** Lunch afterwards may be purchased at the Visitor Centre. The weather is unpredictable in April and there could be sections of mud. ![]() Please ensure you wear appropriate clothing and footwear. This walk is free but knowing numbers in advance would be greatly appreciated. Led by THS Vice-Chairman Dr Tony Fincham. Meet outside the Hardy Visitor Centre, beside Thorncombe Wood Car Park (NGR SY 724922) at 10.00 am. The Return of the Native - A Walk Follow in the footsteps of Eustacia Vye Sunday 16th April, The Hardy Visitor Centre, 10.00amĪ 3-4 mile walk on Egdon Heath in the footsteps of Eustacia Vye, visiting Rainbarrow, Mistover Knap & Blooms-end, with plentiful appropriate readings. ![]() ![]() ![]() The newly opened park spaces feature three pedestrian bridges, two small sections of restored intertidal wetland and an expansive system of rainwater retention ponds, all interwoven into a lush landscape of freshly planted lawns and hundreds of new trees. ![]() Though just 2.7 acres in size, these new pieces of parkland are a complicated feat of engineering, and a major environmental justice victory for the Bronx. Ten days ago, the city and local community groups cut the ribbon for the final sections of this waterfront green space on the Bronx River. ![]() After more than 20 years of cleanups and construction, Starlight Park is now open to the public. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a unique and elegiac meditation on grief, memory and longing, and of the redemptive power of stories and nature. Ghostland is Parnell’s moving exploration of what has haunted our writers and artists – and what is haunting him. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn and Graham Swift’s Waterland to the archetypal ‘folk horror’ film The Wicker Man… James, Arthur Machen and Algernon Blackwood to the children’s fantasy novels of Alan Garner and Susan Cooper from W. ![]() He explores how these landscapes conjured and shaped a kaleidoscopic spectrum of literature and cinema, from the ghost stories and weird fiction of M. Ghostland is Parnell’s moving exploration of what has haunted our writers and artists and what is haunting him. ![]() In Ghostland, Parnell goes in search of the ‘sequestered places’ of the British Isles, our lonely moors, our moss-covered cemeteries, our stark shores and our folkloric woodlands. For comfort, he turned to his bookshelves, back to the ghost stories that obsessed him as a boy, and to the writers through the ages who have attempted to confront what comes after death. In his late thirties, Edward Parnell found himself trapped in the recurring nightmare of a family tragedy. ‘An exciting new voice’ Mark Cocker, author of Crow Country ‘A uniquely strange and wonderful work of literature’ Philip Hoare SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE 2020 ![]() ![]() ![]() What Zachary finds in this curious place is more than just a buried home for books and their guardians-it is a place of lost cities and seas, lovers who pass notes under doors and across time, and of stories whispered by the dead. Bewildered by this inexplicable book and desperate to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded, Zachary uncovers a series of clues-a bee, a key, and a sword-that lead him to a masquerade party in New York, to a secret club, and through a doorway to an ancient library hidden far below the surface of the earth. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. ![]() ![]() ![]() Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a mysterious book hidden in the stacks. Named a best book of the year by The Guardian, Good Housekeeping, Real Simple, and The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world-a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea. ![]() |
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