Key to Love by Judy Ann Davis7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() "This book is filled with family, friendships, small town atmosphere,mystery, ulterior motives, a sweet boy, and a dog. Goodreads: /author/show/4353662.Judy_Ann_Davis Review: Her titles include: Under Starry Skies, Key to Love, Sweet Kiss, Up on the Roof and Other Stories, and Four White Roses. and RomanceWriters of America, and divides her time between Central Pennsylvaniaand New Smyrna Beach, Florida. When JudyAnn is not behind a computer, you can find her looking for anythinghumorous to make her laugh or swinging a golf club where the chucklesare few. Over a dozen of her short stories haveappeared in various literary and small magazines, and anthologies, andhave received numerous awards along with her novels. She holds a degree inJournalism and Communications and has written for industry and education throughout her career. Judy Ann Davis began her career in writing as a copy and continuity writerfor radio and television in Scranton, PA. ![]()
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![]() But from the deftly staged opening onward, Stiller makes the most of his comic timing and, especially his underappreciated skills as a dramatic actor. This updated Walter Mitty, written by Steve Conrad but no doubt sharpened by Stiller, is preceded by the 1947 adaptation starring Danny Kaye (not to mention Billy Liar) and might suggest a nerd-breaking-out-of-his-shell romcom. But what lifts this studio comedy, Stiller’s fifth feature as director, is its sincere ambivalence about fulfillment in the age of iPhones and image saturation. 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The Riddle of the Labyrinth tells the story of the three people most responsible for the unlocking of Linear B. ![]() This prompted a classicist to remark, “Whichever is regarded as the greatest personal feat or the most important in it’s consequences, there can be no question which of them belongs to the rarest category of achievement.” Five decades of mystery were ended, but the story of the decipherment has taken on a life of its own. When his theory was confirmed by another set of tablets from Pylos, a Mycenaean city on mainland Greece, the story ran on page one of the Times of London next to a story about Edmund Hillary’s summiting of Mount Everest. ![]() In 1952 a thirty year old architect named Michael Ventris went on a BBC radio broadcast and proclaimed that he had deciphered the meaning behind the “Linear Script B” tablets from Knossos on Crete. ![]() Freedom to Kill by Paul Lindsay7/8/2023 ![]() Browbeating Tony Bonelli, an FBI records clerk with multiple sclerosis and a chip on his shoulder, into helping him, Devlin goes up against the Freedom Killer armed only with a psychological profile, the Bureau's formidable database, and the hope that he'll be able to narrow the list of suspects from a quarter of a billion to one. 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New Orleanian, political scientist, and according to Cornel West, "the greatest democratic theorist of his generation" - takes up the urgent task of recounting the granular realities of life in the last decades of the Jim Crow South. ![]() They leave behind a collective memory of segregation shaped increasingly by its horrors and heroic defeat but not a nuanced understanding of everyday life in Jim Crow America. A narrative account of Jim Crow as people experienced it The last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear. ![]() The sunbearer trials genre7/7/2023 ![]() With the odds stacked against them, Teo is determined to get himself and his friends through the trials unscathed – for fame, glory, and their own survival. ![]() But for the first time in over a century, Sol chooses not one, but two Jade competitors: Teo – and Xio, the thirteen-year-old child of the god of bad luck. As a Jade, it’s unlikely he’ll be chosen to compete in the Trials, and even if his best friend Niya competes, she’s a born-and-bred Gold semidios with unparalleled abilities. ![]() Teo, the seventeen-year-old trans son of the goddess of birds, isn’t worried. ![]() Only the most powerful and honorable will be chosen. “Welcome to The Sunbearer Trials, where ten semidioses compete in a series of challenges with the highest of stakes in this breathtaking, Mexican-inspired fantasy from Aiden Thomas, the author of the New York Times-bestselling Cemetery Boys. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nothing occurred to mar her contentment until her father suffered a mild heart attack, but he appeared to recover well from it. Marianna and John became good friends, and Marianna had no plans for her life beyond remaining at the Hall and looking after her father and aunt. John Evans, recently of Cambridge, to assist him with the writing of a book on medieval architecture. The Duke was an enthusiastic medieval scholar and had hired a secretary, Mr. Lady Marianna lived happily at Burnham Hall with her father, the Duke of Worthington, and his widowed sister, Lady Lucy Mannering. Temporary Bride by Julie Tetel Ĭomplete Alphabetical Retro Read List * * * Browsing Retro Read titles (newest first) * * * Book reviews by author Rakehell's Widow by Sandra Heath / Wilson ![]() Miss Caroline's Deception by Anne Douglas Lord Margrave's Deception by Diana Campbell Lord Freddie's First Love by Patricia Bray ![]() Regency Content Regency Retro Reads Review 251 - 300Ĭamilla's Conscience by Sandra Heath / Sarah StanleyĮligible Miss Elliott by Victoria Hinshaw ![]() The red queen by philippa gregory7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Publication date 2010 Topics Elizabeth, Queen, consort of Edward IV, King of England, 1437?-1492 - Fiction, Edward V, King of England, 1470-1483 - Fiction, Richard, Duke of York, 1472-1483 - Fiction, Richard III, King of England, 1452-1485 - Fiction, Edward V, King of England, 1470-1483 - Fiction, Richard, Duke of York, 1472-1483 - Fiction, Edward V, King of England, 1470-1483, Elizabeth, Queen, consort of Edward IV, King of England, 1437?-1492, Richard, Duke of York, 1472-1483, Richard III, King of England, 1452-1485, Beaufort, Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby, 1443-1509 - Fiction, Henry VII, King of England, 1457-1509 - Fiction, Queens - Great Britain - Fiction, English fiction - 21st century, Fictional Works, Queens, Historical fiction, English fiction, Great Britain - History - Edward IV, 1461-1483 - Fiction, Great Britain - History - Richard III, 1483-1485 - Fiction, Great Britain - History - Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485 - Fiction, Great Britain, Great Britain - History - 1399-1485, Lancaster and York - Fiction, Great Britain - History - 1455-1485, Wars of the Roses - Fiction Publisher New York : Simon & Schuster Collection inlibrary printdisabled internetarchivebooks Digitizing sponsor Kahle/Austin Foundation Contributor Internet Archive Language EnglishĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:01:39 Boxid IA1814821 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() Throne of glass 47/6/2023 ![]() ![]() And she will fight for her people, enslaved to a brutal king and awaiting their lost queen's triumphant return.Ĭelaena's epic journey has captured the hearts and imaginations of millions across the globe. 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This cast of characters, each with their own palpable desires, orbit one another until their paths come crashing together. Plus, government recruit Carmen Farooq-Lane aims to prevent the apocalypse by hunting down dreamers. Ronan’s older brother, Declan, works to keep his siblings safe at the expense of pursuing any passions of his own. Simultaneously, art forger and dreamer Hennessy seeks a solution to a life-threatening hitch in her powers. ![]() Ronan Lynch can pull objects from his dreams but as blowback from his powers complicates his life (including his relationship with Adam), Ronan follows cryptic clues from a voice in his dreams to learn the scope of his abilities. ![]() Dreams are reality and the apocalypse is nigh in this spinoff from the Raven Cycle series. ![]() |