Going forth from his little cottage at 221B Flea Street, Inspector Mantis, accompanied by his trusted colleague Doctor Hopper, solves "The Case of the Missing Butterfly," "The Case of the Caterpillar's Head," and three other antennae-bending mysteries puzzling the populace of Victorian Bugland. Follow Inspector Mantis, of brilliant mind, supersensitive antennae, and iron grip, and his faithful sidekick Doctor Hopper, an accomplished violinist and long-jumper, along with a bevy of buggy bandits, as they solve entomological cases with clever sleuthing. Now in its third printing: a collection of five detective stories with an all-insect cast of characters.
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EMTs and their respective ambulances, along with law enforcement arrive. But the morning after, Nolan is discovered dead in the upper floor by a junior. The party continued to rage throughout the night. "Let's do this," Ava says as the five girls head towards Nolan. They look at the crowd, where Nolan is greeting his guests heartily and already playing with girls' hearts. Caitlin asks if she's backing out, but Mackenzie and the other girls say no. Mackenzie can't believe they're going to do what they're going to do next. All voice their distaste and hatred for Nolan, until Mackenzie gets a text from her new friend Caitlin. Parker, Ava, Caitlin, Julie, and Mackenzie are all at Nolan Hotchkiss' house for the biggest party of the year, only in their different social circles with their respective friends. So who did? Unless they find the real killer, and soon, their perfect lives will come crashing down around them. But when Nolan turns up dead in the exact way they'd discussed, the girls suddenly become prime suspects in his murder. They'd never actually go through with it. They come up with the perfect plan to murder Nolan-jokingly, of course. At first, the girls think they have nothing in common until they discover that they all hate the same person: handsome womanizer Nolan Hotchkiss, who's done things to hurt each of them. Ava, Caitlin, Mackenzie, Julie, and Parker are all driven to be perfect-no matter the cost. 7/6/2023 0 Comments Simon blackburn think summaryValues represent a specific kind of desire that you are prepared to make public and insist upon from others.īlackburn goes on to say that the idea that ethics is about promoting welfare and avoiding suffering is a commonplace of every moral philosopher, not a discovery of science (as he claims Sam Harris has it): "Where the moral philosophers find the going difficult is in having an adequate conception of human flourishing." But "as to whether you need nothing but science", "I don't agree with Sam about that and neither do the other three speakers we've heard so far."īlackburn grounds this in the traditional fact/value distinction but focuses on the functions of mental states rather than on ontology: where beliefs represent the world as it is, desires and concerns represent it as one would like it to be. There is no doubt, he notes, that "science can inform our values" (and I would add that this goes trivially for many other types of knowledge). In a debate with Patricia Churchland, Peter Singer, Sam Harris, and Lawrence Krauss, Simon Blackburn explains why Harris simply has it wrong on whether science can provide substantive guidance on morality: 7/6/2023 0 Comments The residence kate browerOver the course of the day, they gather in the lower level's basement kitchen to share stories, trade secrets, forge lifelong friendships, and sometimes even fall in love. These dedicated professionals maintain the six-floor mansion's 132 rooms, 35 bathrooms, 28 fireplaces, three elevators, and eight staircases, and prepare everything from hors d'oeuvres for intimate gatherings to meals served at elaborate state dinners. Full of stories and details by turns dramatic, humorous, and heartwarming, The Residence reveals daily life in the White House as it is really lived through the voices of the maids, butlers, cooks, florists, doormen, engineers, and others who tend to the needs of the President and First Family. No one has insight into their true character like the people who serve their meals and make their beds every day. America's First Families are unknowable in many ways. Highly recommended!" - Douglas Brinkley, editor of The Reagan Diaries A remarkable history with elements of both In the President's Secret Service and The Butler, The Residence offers an intimate account of the service staff of the White House, from the Kennedys to the Obamas. The stories about Kennedy, Reagan, Clinton, and Obama are irresistible. The anecdotes are fresh and the analysis cogent. "Kate Andersen Brower's The Residence is one of those rare books that is both elegant portraiture and highly readable, important White House history. 7/6/2023 0 Comments The eyre affair series orderI tried to call him (Tamworth) at the beginning of the third week but was put through to a trained denialist who flatly refused to admit that Tamworth or SO-5 even existed. The fact that time travel is common place and it is possible to travel ‘into a book’.Ī loveably loyal, flawed and feisty heroine named Thursday Next, a SpecOp-27 (Literary Detective Division of Special Operations) with a genetically flawed dodo as a pet. The wit, wordplay and satire on display as Jasper Fforde develops and then consistently deploys an alternate history in which appreciation of literature is high in the social conscience and something all the popular people are doing. What is so great about The Eyre Affair? Why has Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next series achieved almost cult-like status? The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde is wacky, zany and addictive – candy in a book. After having read all the rave reviews and The Eyre Affairbeing billed as ‘a book for book lovers’ I had high expectations. It took me far too long to get around to reading my first Jasper Fforde novel, the first in his Thursday Next Literary Detective Series. Disclosure: If you click a link in this post and make a purchase, I may earn a small commission. 7/6/2023 0 Comments Sadie courtney summers reviewMeanwhile, the podcast episodes are broken up by the story of Sadie and what she actually did. He is hesitant to dive in at first as he doesn’t think that there is much of a story there, but he quickly becomes obsessed with finding the missing girl.Īs the story continues, we follow West as he picks up clues here and there and gets closer to figuring out what exactly was going on. In this tale, we follow West McCray who is a a radio personality that overheard Sadie’s story at a local gas station while on another assignment. Let’s dive in! My Thoughts on Sadie by Courtney Summers I’m so glad that I was finally able to get to it! I was gifted a copy of this book for my birthday from my friend Heather, but unfortunately the book fell down my TBR list. Sadie by Courtney Summers is a YA mystery that follows two story lines one of a podcaster as he worked to unravel the story of a missing girl, and the other about life of the girl that goes missing. 7/5/2023 0 Comments Karen m mcmanus books in orderOne of Us is Back (Trade Paperback / Paperback)įrom international bestseller, Karen McManus, comes the explosive third and final thrilling instalment in the acclaimed One of Us. Everyone has secrets, right? What really matters is how far you'll go to protect them. He dies 24 hours before he could post their deepest secrets online. And outsider Simon, creator of the notorious gossip app at Bayview High, won't ever talk about any of them again. Prom queen Addy is holding together the cracks in her perfect life. Bad boy Nate is one misstep away from a life of crime. Sports star Cooper only knows what he's doing in the baseball. Yale hopeful Bronwyn has never publicly broken a rule. The international bestselling YA thriller by acclaimed author, Karen M. One Of Us Is Lying: TikTok made me buy it (Paperback) 7/5/2023 0 Comments The strength in what remainsUltimately Kidder admits that he cannot follow Deo emotionally into the "place beyond horror" to which Deo returns as he confronts his past, and in this sense we are at least partly relieved of that journey.ĭeo has harboured a childhood ambition, and this is what saves him. Kidder's attempts to render it accessible to the reader make for difficult, though compelling, reading. His recovery is a long and wrenching process. Eventually he gains entry to pre-medical studies at Columbia University and medical studies at Duke. Though haunted by nightmares and sleeping rough in New York City, Deo meets a number of kind strangers who give him shelter, kindness, and access to what he says will heal him most – books. His story is riveting and profoundly moving and the success of the clinic – the Village Health Works – is among its most rewarding aspects. For Deo, a recovery from the trauma of his past has fueled his unrelenting pursuit of his childhood mission to build a village medical clinic in regional Burundi. The hero, Tutsi medical student Deogratias Niyizonkiza (Deo), survives the genocides of 1993, and then homelessness and isolation in New York city. W hat lessons can foreign aid take from post-genocide Burundi? This is not the question that Tracy Kidder's Pulitzer Prize winning novel asks, but within the narrative of Strength in What Remains there are important lessons in development effectiveness. Bio of a Space Tyrant by Piers Anthony, a 6 book series following the rise of a refugee to becoming the Tyrant of Jupiter Halcyon Drift by Brian Stableford, about a corporate dystopia and a pilot who hooks up his body to merge with his ship (a bit blase now but less so then, especially as I had read far less at the time) Necrotech by KC Alexander, a brutal and obscene body-mod cyberpunk dystopia (the sequel of which, Nanoshock, has a superbly offensive opening sentence) Venus Equilateral by George O Smith, 1940s stories based around a three mile long space station at the L4 point in space, a bit like Babylon 5 meets DS9 in the era of vacuum tubes The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner, about the eco collapse of the US in the 1980s (10 years after it was written) and which William Gibson called a "brilliant novel" Neuromancer by William Gibson, plus the follow-ups (all the Sprawl) are very good too Hyperion by Dan Simmons, excellent SF with a feel of the Canterbury Tales about it Saga of the Exiles by Julian May, which merges science fiction with folklore/fantasy in Pliocene Earth Unfortunately, Charlie soon discovers that developing feelings for Cain is inevitable, and that those feelings may not be unrequited-but losing him when he finds out what she’s involved with will be more painful than any other sentence awaiting her. After all, Charlie Rourke doesn’t really exist-and the girl pretending to be her can’t get distracted by romance. And though her fellow dancers seem eager to nab their sexy, sophisticated, and genuinely caring boss, she’s not interested. Taking her clothes off for men makes her stomach curl, but Charlie tells herself that at least she’s putting her acting and dancing skills to good use. Twenty-two-year-old Charlie Rourke needs a lot of money, really fast, in order to vanish before it’s too late. But being around Charlie challenges Cain’s self-control.and it’s been a long time since any woman has done that. Cain abides by a strict “no sleeping with his staff” rule. And then blond, brown-eyed Charlie Rourke walks through his door, and things get really complicated. With long hours, a staff with enough issues to keep a psych ward in business, and the police regularly on his case, twenty-nine-year-old Cain is starting to second-guess his unspoken mission to save the women he employs. Owning a strip club isn’t the fantasy most guys expect it to be. When a gorgeous young dancer walks through his door, a strip club owner must decide whether to follow his rules or his heart in the third novel by the author of One Tiny Lie and Ten Tiny Breaths. |