![]() ![]() ![]() I hadn’t smoked in over a week-I’d promised myself that this time I meant it, I’d quit for good. I stood outside the entrance and reached for my cigarettes in my pocket. “i wanted to help people, I suppose.” i shrugged. i remained conscious of maintaining eye contact as i trotted out a rehearsed response, a sympathetic tale about working part-time in a care home as a teenager, and how this inspired an interest in psychology, which led to a postgraduate study of psychotherapy, and so on. I could feel the other members of the panel looking at me. She gave me a small smile-as if to reassure me this was an easy question, a warm-up volley, a precursor to trickier shots to follow. She was in her late fifties with an attractive round face and long jet-black hair streaked with gray. Indira was consultant psychotherapist at the Grove. “What drew you to psychotherapy, do you think?” asked Indira Sharma, peering at me over the rims of her owlish glasses. That’s the truth-though it’s not what I said during the job interview, when the question was put to me. And I became a psychotherapist because I was fucked-up. The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband―and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive. ![]()
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5/30/2023 0 Comments A heart adrift a novel![]() ![]() ![]() But she longs to find something worthwhile to do with her life.Captain Henri Lennox has returned to port after a lengthy absence, intent on completing the lighthouse in the dangerous Chesapeake Bay, a dream he once shared with Esmée. Having reached her twenty-eighth birthday, she is reconciled to life alone after a decade-old failed love affair from which she's never quite recovered. Chocolatier Esmée Shaw is fighting her own battle of the heart. It is 1755, and the threat of war with France looms over colonial York, Virginia. Having reached her twenty-eighth birthday, she is reconciled to life alone after a decade-old failed lov. ![]() ![]() Ultimately, as rendered in Anna Quindlen's mesmerizing prose, Every Last One" is a novel about facing every last one of the things we fear most, about finding ways to navigate a road we never intended to travel, and about living a life we never dreamed we'd have to live, but find ourselves brave enough to try. What happens afterwards is a testament to the power of a woman's love and determination, and to the invisible lines of hope and healing that connect one human being with another. When one of her sons becomes depressed, Mary Beth focuses on him, only to be blindsided by a shocking act of violence. Mary Beth Latham has built her life around her family, around caring for her three teenage children and preserving the rituals of their daily life. ![]() In this breathtaking and beautiful novel, the #1 New York Times" bestselling author Anna Quindlen creates an unforgettable portrait of a mother, a father, a family, and the explosive, violent consequences of what seem like inconsequential actions. The latest novel from Pulitzer Prize-winner Anna Quindlen ![]() ![]() ![]() You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. ![]() This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. ![]() We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Ngaio marsh enter a murderer![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He was actually on his way to Frantock, and in colossal form at the very thought of it. At twenty-five he had outgrown that horror of enthusiasm which is so characteristic of youth-grown-up. NIGEL BATHGATE, in the language of his own gossip column, was definitely intrigued about his week-end at Frantock. The Accused Was Charged CHAPTER ONE And There Were Present… “It’s time to start comparing Christie to Marsh instead of the other way around.” - New York Magazine Read moreĪ Man Lay Dead, Enter a Murderer, The Nursing Home Murderġ6. ![]() The Nursing Home Murder: A Member of Parliament has unexpectedly died on a visit the hospital, and any number of people could be suspects, including a sour surgeon, a besotted nurse, a resentful wife, and a cabinet full of political rivals . . . This volume includes three books in the classic detective series from the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master:Ī Man Lay Dead: During a country-house party between the two world wars, servants bustle, gin flows, and the host, Sir Hubert Handesley, has invented a new and especially exciting version of that beloved parlor entertainment, The Murder Game . . .Įnter a Murderer: A policeman in the audience sees an all-too-real death scene on a London stage in a mystery “good enough to satisfy the most critical reader of detective stories” ( The New York Times). The first three Inspector Roderick Alleyn novels from “a peerless practitioner of the slightly surreal, English-village comedy-mystery” ( Kirkus Reviews). ![]() ![]() ![]() Trusted by parents, teachers and librarians, and beloved by children worldwide for generations, The Very Hungry Caterpillar and other timeless storybooks come to life in colorfully creative products designed to inspire very hungry young minds. The World of Eric Carle nurtures a child’s love of literature and learning, encouraging imaginative play and exploration. The World of Eric Carle encourages playful learning. ![]() University Games’ Briarpatch division is America’s leading preschool game and puzzle line, with 25 years of innovative and exceptional learning games. Players spin the spinner and seek matching letters with images inspired by The World of Eric Carle. He is known as the Very Hungry Caterpillar, who loves eating, and so he begins to look for some food. One Sunday morning, a caterpillar hatches from an egg. Counting skills are reinforced as players move around the board. The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a children's picture book designed, illustrated, and written by Eric Carle, first published in 1969. This game introduces children to the alphabet by teaching them the difference between big and little letters. ![]() The letters and corresponding image cards are inspired by The World of Eric Carle. Do you know your ABCs? In the Spin & Seek ABC Game, players spin the spinner and seek for letter cards that match their space. The Very Hungry Caterpillar is having an anniversary, and it’s a big one! Celebrate the beloved book’s 50th anniversary with The Very Hungry Caterpillar Spin & Seek ABC Game. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments One past midnight stephen king![]() But for small businessman Sam Peebles, who thinks he may be losing his mind, another enemy is hiding there as well-the truth. : "The Library Policeman" is set in Junction City, Iowa, an unlikely place for evil to be hiding. Alone, that is, until a figure named John Shooter arrives, pointing an accusing finger. : "Secret Window, Secret Garden" enters the suddenly strange life of writer Mort Rainey, recently divorced, depressed, and alone on the shore of Tashmore Lake. Only eleven passengers survive, but landing in an eerily empty world makes them wish they hadn't. : "The Langoliers" takes a red-eye flight from LA to Boston into a most unfriendly sky. "Stephen King is a master storyteller, and you will never forget these stories," raves the ![]() This collection, nominated for a Locus Award, is guaranteed to keep readers awake long after bedtime, and features an introduction and prefatory notes to each novella by the author. ![]() ![]() Movie release, Stephen King's brand is stronger than ever. Starring James Franco and the highly anticipated The Bram Stoker Prize-winner for Best Fiction Collection-four chilling novellas from Stephen King that will "grab you and not let go" ( ![]() Includes the story "The Sun Dog"-set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Bonhoeffer ethics![]() ![]() A church-state conflict between the Confessing Church and the Nazi state, primarily over spheres of influence.The German Christian Movement (or “German Christians”) worked to align the Protestant church with the new Nazi regime ideologically and organisationally, while the Confessing Church, in which Dietrich Bonhoeffer was active, resisted this alignment. A struggle between two factions in the Protestant churches - the German Christian Movement and the Confessing Church. ![]() Historian Matthew Hockenos has argued that the church struggle involved “three interwoven dimensions”: What is often called “the church struggle” ( Kirchenkampf) refers broadly to the situation of the Christian churches in Germany from Hitler’s rise to power in 1933 to the end of the Second World War in 1945. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And, as ever, the Rabbi is the quickest draw in the West-when it comes to pulling out bits of Talmudic insight to fit any occasion, that is. He encounters the return of "Big Milt" and Wolfie Wasserman (the most feared father-and-son outlaw team east of Nevada), and investigates another bold crime by the sweet-faced Bad Bubbe. These adventures combine Jewish and American folklore by creatively retelling comic Jewish folktales and setting them loose on the western frontier of the 1870s.Īs his fame grows throughout the Rocky Mountains, Rabbi Harvey meets new characters-including the luckless gold miner Abigail-and faces a slew of new challenges. Part Wild West sheriff, part old world rabbi, Harvey protects his town and delivers justice, wielding only the weapons of wisdom, wit, and a bit of trickery. In this follow-up to the popular The Adventures of Rabbi Harvey: A Graphic Novel of Jewish Wisdom and Wit in the Wild West, the Rabbi returns to the streets of Elk Spring, Colorado. Rabbi Harvey is Back with Ten Hilarious New Adventures ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments The sound and the fury text![]() June Second, 1910: this section follows the events of the last day of Quentin's life, as he makes meticulous preparations for his suicide. He has a specific order to the day's events, and when Luster interrupts this order, he howls. He can smell the change in Caddy when she is young and pure she smells like trees to him, and when she begins to have sex she no longer smells like trees. He also remembers her precocious sexuality, which led to her pregnancy and marriage, taking her out of his life. He remembers, for example, the night his grandmother (Damuddy) died, when Caddy climbed a tree to look in the parlor windows, showing her siblings her muddy drawers. ![]() At the same time he relives memories of his youth, most of which have to do with Caddy. April Seventh, 1928: Benjy accompanies Luster as he searches for a quarter to go to the circus that night. ![]() |