Close friends and neighbours in the community apparently heard nothing, and Cummins’ distraught ex-husband, Barry, and teenage son, Tyler, both have strong alibis. Judge Julia Cummins seemingly had no enemies, and there was no forced entry to her property. Together with the prospect of working with a new partner, Frederica White, Amos knows that this case will take all of his special skills to solve.Īs darkness falls, evil comes to light. He’s in crisis following the suicide of a close friend and receipt of a letter concerning a personal issue which could change his life forever. Memory man FBI agent, Amos Decker, returns in this action-packed thriller to investigate the mysterious and brutal murder of a federal judge and her bodyguard at her home in an exclusive, gated community in Florida.
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Along with numerous beguiling photos of uncommonly expressive rabbits, kittens and puppies, Antics and Faces feature exotics, such as the orangutan, the horned toad and the aptly-named porcupine fish, while Wild Animals rounds up undomesticated creatures. Captions, set in smaller type, provide additional information, although it's frustrating that only general identifications are supplied (what kind of owls, what type of fish are seen here?). Arcs of boldface type introduce the images, mostly posing questions (``Can a bloodhound smile?''), but sometimes simply commenting (the phrase ``Have a nice drive!'' haloes the glamorous baby-blue vintage Cadillac shown in Things on Wheels ). Big, arresting color photo silhouettes dominate the pages of these four Big Picture Paperback books from a Dorling Kindersley imprint. The novel is imbued with an old-school feminism of a kind currently unfashionable. French Braid is the opposite of reassuring. It is a moving meditation on the passage of time. French Braid is a novel about what is remembered, what we’re left with when all the choices have been made, the children raised, the dreams realized or abandoned. Instead, French Braid offers something subtler and finer, the long view on family: what remains years later, when the particulars have been sanded away by time. Five decades into her career, one gets the sense that Tyler is no longer quite so interested in the details. The younger Garretts are drawn haphazardly, or not at all. There are simply too many years to cover, too many children and grandchildren to keep track of. But while her earlier novels were heavy on domestic details, vividly evoking the texture of daily life, French Braid is less fully imagined, the characters less developed. For Tyler fans, this is familiar territory: the quotidian frictions and rewards of family life in white, middle-class Baltimore. But what other secrets will they uncover along the way, about Copper Point… and about each other? To secure their happiness, they’ll have to change the administration’s mind. Simon doesn’t want to stay a secret, and Hong-Wei doesn’t want to keep himself removed from life, not anymore. Ann’s has a strict no-dating policy between staff, which means their romance is off the table… unless they bend the rules.īut a romance that keeps them-literally-in the closet can’t lead to happy ever after. Wu is flirting with him, and Simon is flirting back. Simon wasn’t ready for the new surgeon to be a handsome charmer who keeps asking him for help getting settled and who woos him with amazing Taiwanese dishes. His plans, however, don’t include his outgoing, kind, and attractive surgical nurse, Simon Lane. Ashamed of letting his family down after all they’ve done for him, he plans to live a quiet life as a simple surgeon in this tiny northern town. Hong-Wei Wu has come to Copper Point, Wisconsin, after the pressures of a high-powered residency burned him out of his career before he started. and nothing can stand in the way of this romance.ĭr. The brilliant but brooding new doctor encounters Copper Point's sunny nurse-next-door. With the doomsday asteroid looming, Detective Hank Palace has found sanctuary in the woods of New England, secure in a well-stocked safe house with other onetime members of the Concord police force. "A genre-defying blend of crime writing and science fiction."-Alexandra Alter, The New York Times But with time ticking away before the asteroid makes landfall, Hank's safety is only relative. The explosive final installment in the Edgar Award winning Last Policeman series. It’s hard to read a Fletch book without conjuring up this twit he played the character twice back in the eighties and now he’s linked forever in my mind with McDonald’s character. That is when he’s not “entertaining” his future mother-in-law and visiting with the good Inspector Flynn and his family.Ĭhevy Chase, with that smug, smirking frat boy face, almost ruined this book for me. With the police on his tail and a few other things to do beside prove his own innocence, Fletch makes himself at home in Boston, renting a van, painting it black, and breaking into a private art gallery. And Flynn wasn’t entirely convinced that the nineteenth-century Western artist Edgar Arthur Tharp really occupied most of Fletch’s thoughts. He wasn’t exactly uncooperative, but it wasn’t like he was entirely forthcoming either. Inspector Flynn found him a little glib for someone who seemed to be the only likely suspect in a pretty clear case of homicide. But when he arrives in his apartment to find a dead body, things start to get complicated. His Italian fiancée’s father had been kidnapped and presumably murdered, and Fletch is on the trail of a stolen art collection that is her only patrimony. The flight from Rome had been pleasant enough, even if the business he was on wasn’t exactly. Friends groups raise money for improvements to their library through memberships, used book sales and other activities. There is a “Friends of the Library” group for most branch libraries and departments of the Central Library. You can support the Los Angeles Public Library in several ways: With more people than ever before using the library-a record 17 million last year alone-your support helps the Library provide people with the resources they need to succeed and thrive. Through its Central Library and 72 branches, the Los Angeles Public Library provides free and easy access to information, ideas, books and technology that enrich, educate and empower every individual in our city's diverse communities. The Los Angeles Public Library serves the largest most diverse population of any library in the United States. That’s not to say that it’s a bad book in anyway, it’s just that I didn’t find myself sucked into the characters, location, and story in the way that I’ve come to expect from Christie’s work. This is actually the first Christie novel that I struggled to get into. Whether Murder in Mesopotamia is actually a staple of Best of Christie lists or not, it didn’t really work for me. Plus, the book did feature on the Roland Lacourbe list of top impossible crime novels, although I’ve come to learn that isn’t exactly a guarantee that a novel will in fact feature an impossible crime. The title definitely stands out, with the reference to Mesopotamia being a bit more memorable than, say, Easy To Kill or The Secret of Chimneys, and maybe my mind draws a bit of an association with the “exotic travel” titles like Death on the Nile or Murder on the Orient Express. I’ve always been under the impression that Murder in Mesopotamia is one of Christie’s big novels, although I’m not sure how that thought formed. Then there was the physical descriptions of a number of the characters, there was a huge discrepancy between how the tv version and the book version look, for example instead of Orry’s arm (in the book) it was his leg in the mini-series. For example, where are Francis LaMotte or Cooper Main in the tv version, they are after all just as important to the story as Orry and George. Now I sit here wondering what I was thinking not pick up the book again sooner because the mini-series has truly distorted what I remembered. I even got my Husband to read it at one point, he read all three and he isn't a big reader so I get really excited when I find books that suck him in. Personally, I think I made the right choice 30 years ago, because reading this book was an amazing experience. When I first picked up North And South I was supposed to be doing research for a psych paper at Portland Community College, needless to say I got a shit grade because I really wasn’t crazy about psych and preferred the book. Don’t get me wrong I love many of those actors, just not for North And South. By reading the books I get visit with the real characters of the story not the so called ‘made for TV beautiful people’ that replaced them. I chose to revisit North And South again to reconnect with the whole story because the producers of the mini-series cut a few key characters out of the story and physically altered other characters there by taking away a lot from the story. The book's usefulness is enhanced by a practical essay on apple growing by Harry Baker, fruit officer for many years at the Royal Horticultural Society and one of Britain's foremost authorities on apple growing.įirst published in 1988 as The English Apple and still the most trusted and sought-after book for apple identification in the UK. The Apple Book Sanders, Rosie Published by Frances Lincoln (2010) ISBN 10: 0711231419 ISBN 13: 9780711231412 New Hardcover Quantity: 1 Seller: Front Cover Books (Denver, CO, U.S.A.) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description Condition: new. Marginal line drawings in cross-section complete a comprehensive guide to identification and a source of inspiration for apple growers. She shows the apples together with their blossom, twig and leaf and has written a detailed description recording their shape, colour, aroma, flavour and season as well as something of the history of each variety. Touch device users, explore by touch or with swipe gestures. When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. In 144 sensuously detailed watercolours she depicts the unrivalled range of form, colour and texture which characterize such varieties as Beauty of Bath, Peasgood Nonsuch, Cox's Orange Pippin and Egremont Russet. A 10 minute film about the making of The Apple Book, by Rosie Sanders, second edition published 2010 by Frances Lincoln, London. Rosie Sanders, often described as the best painter of the world's most famous fruit, has devoted years to researching The Apple Book and submitting the apples to hour upon hour of meticulous observation. |