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![]() Now the two must survive the Congo, Wolfe must rescue his niece and nephew, and the mystery involving the war between Wolfe and Noah Blackwood, renowned wildlife tycoon, begins to come to light. Thanks to a mishap involving a chimpanzee, a miniature poodle, and the twins' own desire to find their parents, they are stranded in the jungles of the Congo. However, Wolfe ends up mounting an expedition to find the twins' parents himself, and plans to return them to their boarding school. ![]() The two discover that their uncle is in fact a cryptozoologist, dedicated to finding the mysterious beasts of the world such as the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, and other oddities. ![]() Travis Wolfe, an anthropologist based on Cryptos Island. When their parents cannot be found, Marty and Grace are sent to live with their mysterious uncle Dr. ![]() It is also a continuation of the three-part Jacob Lansa series, consisting of Thunder Cave (1997), Jaguar (1999) and The Last Lobo (2001), and the book Sasquatch (1998), set at the same time as Jaguar.Īt its heart are twins Marty and Grace O'Hara, children of two photojournalists who go missing in the South American jungle. ![]() Cryptid Hunters is a four-part series of young-adult fiction written by Roland Smith, beginning with the original book published in 2005 and followed by Tentacles (2009), Chupacabra (2013) and Mutation (2014). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Why Did I Ever is divided into 536 very short chapters, and Robison uses a similar structure in her latest novel, One D.O.A., One On the Way: it has 225 very small sections, divided into nine chapters. We can attest that occasionally the words do stop flowing, and it’s scary, but in retrospect it’s hard to call Robison’s experience a “block.” She did write, on index cards, and those cards became the novel Why Did I Ever, which won the LA Times Book Prize for fiction in 2001. This was followed by two more collections, two novels, and then, in the ’90s, a bout of writer’s block. ![]() She prefers “subtractionist,” according to a 2001 interview in Bomb Magazine, because “that at least implied a little effort.” After publishing short stories in several magazines, including The New Yorker, back when magazines other than The New Yorker still published short fiction, she published her first story collection, An Amatuer’s Guide to the Night, in 1983. Mary Robison is widely considered to be a charter member of the canon of literary minimalists. ![]() ![]() But giving into temptation comes at a cost, and they must decide if love is worth the risk of losing their one chance for redemption. Soon, they’re unable to deny their growing desire for each other. ![]() As their hunt for the truth leads them into danger, Marcus finds Esme isn’t cold and calculating as he’d assumed but fire and brimstone, with courage and determination to match his own. She doesn’t trust Marcus but can’t deny the handsome devil makes her wonder if she does indeed possess a heart, one he could very easily steal. Harboring secrets, Esme Lancaster has her own reasons for wanting to discover who’s behind the conspiracy that’s still afoot. His search forces him to turn to a woman he despises for her unforgiveable betrayal-a woman known as the heartless harlot. Vowing to return honor to his family, he seeks to expose the others involved in the treasonous plot and bring them to justice. When his father, the Duke of Wolfford, is hanged for an assassination attempt on Queen Victoria, Marcus Stanwick is stripped of everything. For Edward the embers of desire sparked on that long-ago night are quickly rekindled. ![]() With each passing day, she falls more deeply in love. ![]() Bolder, more daring, and more wickedeven if he does limit their encounters to kisses. In the thrilling third book in New York Times bestselling author Lorraine Heath’s Once Upon a Dukedom series, the dashing son of a disgraced duke teams up with a sultry beauty to thwart an assassination plot against Queen Victoria. After her husband returns from a two-month sojourn, Julia finds him changed. ![]() ![]() ![]() Homecoming, Kate Morton, Simon & Schuster (4)ģ. The bestseller lists are compiled by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited from information provided by BookNet Canada’s national sales tracking service, BNC SalesData.ġ. In non-fiction, the week’s publishing success story is “Outsider,” Ottawa-based Brett Popplewell’s story of an elderly superathlete named Dag Aabye and his life in the remote reaches of British Columbia. 7) with a science-fiction story perfect for our AI-focused times, about three robots - an android, a nurse machine and a small vacuum - and one human. “Happy Place” is said to be edgier than Henry’s previous outings, following three girlfriends - each with a secret, natch - over the course of one week.Īnother debut on the Original fiction list is “In the Lives of Puppets,” by T.J. 1 on the Original fiction list following strong reviews in the American press (it is tempting, though possibly unkind, to think of her as the thinking woman’s Colleen Hoover). “Happy Place,” Emily Henry’s fourth adult romance debuts at No. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Pillars of the Earthis the first novel in Follett’s Kingsbridge series, the books that follow are equally as enticing occurring during other notable events in history and involve descendants of some of the characters from Pillars. We get absorbed in the lives of the many, many characters linked to it’s creation over the intervening years in what becomes an epic story of struggle, love, deceit and revenge. The country is on the brink of a civil war but in the midst of it all, a spectacular cathedral is under construction in the fictional town of Kingsbridge. In Ken Follett’s critically acclaimed novel, we are catapulted back into Medieval Britain somewhere between the sinking of the White Ship and the murder of Thomas Beckett. It’s easy to become so immersed in books like The Pillars of the Earth that you start to believe the alternative narratives they weave of well known historical events and of the stories we thought we knew so well. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He has returned because his father had died of cancer, his mother had long ago abandoned the family, and he is the only one to care for his precocious, eight-year old brother Billy. The novel opens in June of 1954 with a warden driving Emmett Watson home on early release from Salinas, a juvenile detention center to which he’d been sentenced for the accidental manslaughter of a young man who struck his head when knocked down by Emmett, retaliating for insults to his family. The adolescent characters have dreams toward which they strive, despite the cards dealt them in life, and while not saints, evidence principles and loyalties not evident in Kerouac’s dissolute young adults who still act the like immature adolescents. ![]() Towles allows this journey to unfold rather than pursue the frenetic pace of Kerouac. I will say straight out that I think this is one of the best road novels I’ve ever read–leaving Kerouac’s On the Road in the metaphorical dust. Summary: A westward trip of two bereaved brothers to start a new life is interrupted when two prison friends of the older brother turn up and hi-jack their plans. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So begins the story of two sisters suddenly and violently separated by war. One day Hana sees a Japanese soldier heading for where Emi is guarding the day’s catch on the beach. In White Chrysanthemum, Hana and her little sister Emi are part of an island community of haenyeo, women who make their living from diving deep into the sea off the southernmost tip of Korea. In 2002 Bracht visited her mother's childhood village, and it was during this trip she first learned of the ‘Comfort Women’ captured and set up in brothels for the Japanese military. Mary Lynn Bracht is an American author of Korean descent who grew up in a large ex-pat community of women who came of age in post-war South Korea. An immersive read in the vein of The Kite Runner and Memoirs of a Geisha about Korean history. ![]() ![]() ![]() After giving the room a decent time to see whether customers would overcome their pride and frequent it in greater numbers (they did not), he turned part of it into a light-filled optical illusion for children called Wonderland. To his chagrin, however, business was slow as customers were reluctant to be seen in a place that had the stigma of poverty. Ten years later, Edward leased a building on the arcade’s western flank, knocked out a wall and opened what he called a ‘‘Shilling Room’’ where, in order to attract cash-strapped shoppers, no article was priced above one shilling. It was a triumph of advertising and a triumph of presentation, and business had never been better. ![]() The crowds continued to pour into the arcade for the remainder of the Spring Racing Carnival. Indeed, such was the congregation wishing to enter the arcade’s brass portals that police had to be called to control them, and staff were instructed to sell coins at threepence each to those in the queues. ![]() Not only did non-racing readers turn up, but half the Flemington crowd as well. Intellectual non-racing people are invited there instead of going to the races.īut it worked. ![]() It is the finest sight in Melbourne and the grandest book shop in the world. He risked censure from the race crowd with a provocative ad in The Herald:Ĭole’s new book arcade will open on Cup Day. ![]() ![]() He graduated from Queens College in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in economics and education. He was born in New York City, New York in 1947. ![]() In 1977, he created his most famous character, Cam Jansen, originally fe David Abraham Adler is an American children's author. Adler's next project, a series of math books, drew on his experience as a math teacher. In that same year, a question from his then-three-year-old nephew inspired Adler to write his first story, A Little at a Time, subsequently published by Random House in 1976. For the next nine years, he worked as a mathematics teacher for the New York City Board of Education, while taking classes towards a master's degree in marketing, a degree he was awarded by New York University in 1971. David Abraham Adler is an American children's author. ![]() |