Cosmo Topper is a mild mannered and respectable bank manager whose whole life has been ordered down to the last detail, until one day he feels drawn by a strange impulse, to break free and buy a sportscar that was owned by a local couple. The only problem is that the previous owners of the …
A "true crime" book about band The Shivers, the rise and then the big, tragic fall: from their early days, the blood soaked riots at their concerts, to the day, at the height of their fame, lead singer Lily Lawless confessed to a murder ten years before... The band agreed to finally break their silence …
Jesse returns to the small town he grew up in, Blacknot NC, when a mysterious text offers him more information about his mother's death. 18 years ago, her body was found by the river, surrounded by mysterious ritual objects, and with baby Jesse wailing beside her. While the cause of death was nominally heart failure, …
"Proven Strategies, Profound Results." Emotional regulation and emotional intelligence are two of the most important skills for a happy, successful life. In Marc Brackett's latest book, he makes the point that these skills are the cornerstones of our lives, key to career, friendship, love, etc. And yet, these are not skills that are often talked …
Continue reading Dealing With Feeling: Use Your Emotions To Get The Life You Want by Marc Brackett
"The forgotten founding mothers of the Fairy Tale and the stories that they spun". This pretty book sets out to tell us the personal stories and some of the output of Les Conteuses, a group of literary women in the French Upper Classes, who wrote in the era from 1690 to 1709, and who wrote …
Continue reading Women Of The Fairytale Resistance by Jane Harrington
(Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori)Following the massive loss of life of WW2, women helped the war effort by being artificially inseminated. With the biological need for sex eliminated, it started to be considered unclean and incestuous, though people still marry to raise children and people vent their romantic feelings on commercialized romantic cartoon characters. As …
In Aberdeen, Scotland, DI Logan McCrae is working with a skeleton crew, as officers across the board are decimated by the flu, while he's investigating the bombing of a motel that was full of immigrants and holding down the fort at the station too. But things are about to get really crazy when a body …
Continue reading This House Of Burning Bones (Logan McCrae bk #13) by Stuart MacBride
A stay-at-home dad, who feel emasculated by his workaholic wife and lack of career, is drawn into the case of a drowned man when the death is ruled an accident. He suspects foul play because the man was someone he knew before being laid off from his job in finance, a Wall Street investor, and …
Harry Bliss is a cartoonist who has drawn covers and images for the New Yorker, has illustrated over 25 childrens books and created a book with Steve Martin. In this book, he shares essays, journal entries, cartoons and artworks from his life, talking about a range of subjects from losing his beloved dog Penny after …
On the 13th October, 1972, a plane going from Uruguay to Chile carrying a rugby team crashed in the Andes, leaving the survivors to try to survive for weeks, unsure if anyone was or could come to rescue them. Intense cold, hunger, thirst and despair gripped the team, as they resorted to eating the dead …
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