5/12/2023 0 Comments A Dark Night Hidden by Alys Clare![]() This is the first in a series of medieval mysteries set in the Weald of Kent.Īt the end of a dark and dreary market day, Goody Anne’s inn at Tonbridge is finally settling down for the night. AUTHORBIO: ALYS CLARE lives in Tonbridge, England, in the area where Fortune Like the Moon is set. But the shocking truth of Gunnora’s death is an elusive and far more dangerous prize. Their one precious piece of evidence is a gold, rubied cross. ![]() With the help of the worldly, beautiful Abbess Helewise, Josse ferrets out an array of suspects. But when Josse d’Acquin, the king’s knight, arrives from France to investigate, he discovers treacherous currents of lust, greed, and anger flowing closer to the Abbey, and in the haunted Weald of Kent, whose woods hide strange secrets… Felons have been released from English prisons at the command of the new king, Richard Plantagenet, and suspicion centers on them. Thus the body of Gunnora, a young nun from Hawkenlye Abbey, is found with her throat cut. ![]() Sunlight shone on the dark crimson blood, making it shine like a jewel… IN A SACRED PLACE, UNHOLY PASSIONS LEAD TO MURDER… ![]()
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5/12/2023 0 Comments Elizabeth by Robert Stephen Parry![]() ![]() ![]() WARNING - content in these findings may be distressing to readers. If an inquest was held, the findings may include comments or recommendations made by the coroner relating to public health and safety, the administration of justice or ways to prevent similar deaths. Inquest findings (since 2004) as well as non-inquest public interest matters (since 2012) are available below.įindings are published on this website when an inquest was held or a coroner otherwise orders they be published in the public interest.Ī finding is the document handed down by a coroner at the end of an investigation into a death. Queensland Civil Administration Tribunal (QCAT)įindings and upcoming inquests - Coroners Court.Queensland Civil Administration Tribunal. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments The spanish tragedy play![]() ![]() ![]() The playwrights, then, use variations of the internal and external play alternately to comment on the illusory nature of plays, to clarify and reflect on the motions of the main play as well as its audience, and to blur the line between reality and illusion. Paradoxically, the further removed the audience becomes from the active play-in terms of how many frames separate them-the closer the audience comes to the characters, watching them behave as they (the audience) do. They exhibit many levels of play within the main plot and outside it, including the explicit internal play and dumb shows, larger frames, and characters that become actor, playwright, or audience figures. ![]() Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, William Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream and Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist are deeply meta-theatrical plays, concerned with the ways in which plot, actors, and audience interact to create drama. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Fairest book lunar chronicles![]() ![]() The nice thing about this book is that if you've started it and aren't getting into it, it's only 220 pages long. not to mention that throughout the entire book, the main character is obsessing over a guy who's in love with and married to another woman, and when she's not doing that, she's trying to take power from her sister and eventually her niece in deceitful and evil ways (which was to be expected because she turns out to be a villain in the rest of the series but I know there are a few people who prefer to read about people with a bit of decency in them). ![]() I was 15 when I read this book and the sexual part of the book made me feel awkward. I was really expecting better, especially since I have loved the rest of the series up to this point. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Kate atkinson started early![]() ![]() Whatever she goes on to write, she leaves Jackson Brodie at a suspenseful and pivotal moment. "A wonderful stylist.but she was never confined to the crime genre, has written in assorted other modes and excels at them all. ![]() ![]() She skips through the difficult steps required to balance the reader's need for satisfying (and surprising) resolution with a realist's view of human nature and the messiness of real-life criminality" - Daily Telegraph ![]() Her playful sense of humour dances round the darkness of her themes. "As ever, Atkinson's prose is diamond-cut to twinkle and slice by turns. An irrepressible exuberance shines throughout.folds past and present together with Atkinson's customary flair.extraordinary combination of wit, plain-speaking, tenderness and control" - Guardian "The wonder of Atkinson's novels has been their joie de vivre, extraordinary given the high incidence of violent death. And yet Atkinson also gives us humanity, insight and entertainment.a story that deserves to be read for decades to come" - Henry Sutton, Mirror Indeed, it's one of the finest British novels, in any genre, to have emerged for years.sharp and dexterous, subtle and stylish, very funny and at time extraordinarily cutting.This is very much a state of the nation novel - far sharper and more observant and satirically understanding than anything else out there at the moment. "Crime has given Atkinson the freedom to write an ambitious, panoramic work, full of excitement, colour and compassion" - Sunday Times With Dickensian brilliance, Kate Atkinson creates plots peopled with unlikely heroes and villains. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments The meat racket![]() ![]() ![]() (Tyson, according to a book I read this week, produces 2 billion eggs per year to be hatched and transported to contract farmers, who then raise them to slaughter weight.) When you think how quickly rabbits reproduce, these little mammals might even give Tyson chickens a run for the money. I've only ever eaten rabbit once, and it had many little bones to pick out, but apparently they're going with raising the ginormous variety-so presumably the bones are easier to locate and remove. If you have other anti-rabbit tricks, besides throwing boots or investing in a BB gun, do share.Ī co-worker mentioned someone's brainstorm: this organization is raising rabbits for meat. I wonder how many home gardeners are also card-carrying PETA members.Anyway, here's hoping the plastic owl my husband put out by the pea plants last year does its voodoo again. Q: What's exponentially worse than seeing a rabbit in your yard?Ī: Seeing two rabbits in your yard. Worse yet, my animal-loving daughter spied a second rabbit by the deck. And he's been holding his little rabbity breath for the moment when my husband puts in the seedlings and plant starts, so he can gnaw them down to the roots and put some variety in his diet. He looks a little the worse for wear, but I imagine that's because he's had to survive on grass and the neighbor's flowers alone, for the past few months. Yesterday we spied this fellow in the yard. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments In the book the giver![]() ![]() But there are similarities: The story follows Kira, a young girl who lives in a dystopic society where the strong prey on the weak. ![]() Of the quartet, this book bears the least relation to The Giver. After Lois Lowry published The Giver in 1993, she wrote three more books - starting with Gathering Blue in 2000, Messenger in 2004, and Son in 2012 - to form “The Giver Quartet.” These aren’t sequels in the proper sense, but they do eventually answer the question: What happened? Vulture read the rest of the series to give you the lowdown and to find out whether they’d be worthy of a franchise treatment. For a kid, it was deep.īut what happens at the end of the book? Jonas runs away from the community with a baby, Gabriel, in his arms, but it’s entirely unclear from the last scene - where he’s sledding downhill toward sounds of music - whether this is a death metaphor or a happy ending. ![]() ![]() This was a book that made you think about bigger ideas like “society” and “free will” and “totalitarianism.” Okay, maybe not “totalitarianism” per se, but it certainly impressed ideas about what suppressing individualism does. The story was about a boy named Jonas living in what seemed like the perfect world where there was no hunger, war, or poverty, who then slowly realizes that it’s one deprived of choice, spontaneity, and most memorably, color. So you were in fourth or fifth grade when you had to read The Giver - that book with a gnarly, bearded old guy and a bright-gold medal slapped on the cover. ![]() ![]() ![]() With a pervading sense of optimism and warmth, A Psalm for the Wild-Built inaugurates an exciting series from one of science fiction's brightest stars.” - Shelf Awareness, starred review “The gentle touch with which Chambers handles her material makes the book's loftiest philosophical aims feel grounded. “ A Psalm for the Wild-Built begins a series that looks optimistic and hopeful, pursuing stories that arise from abundance instead of scarcity, kindness instead of cruelty, and I look forward to seeing where it goes from here.” -NPR Praise for Book 1: A Psalm for the Wild-Built “As charming and heartwarming as the first.” - Buzzfeed “ hopeful glimpse at what our future might look like.” - Booklist “Thoughtful, with a gentleness that is as encompassing as any action-filled work.” - Library Journal, starred review It’s both truly comforting and endlessly thought-provoking. Quiet and contemplative, empathic and warmhearted, this masterful sequel builds on the themes of the first volume to posit a more sustainable, more caring way of life. “ lightly drawn but profound meditation on belief, entropy, and the nature of need and want that once again demonstrates Chambers’s prowess as both a storyteller and a thinker. ![]() A Goodreads Most Anticipated Summer Read! ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s now or never for Kev to make his move. Meantime, an attractive, seductive suitor has set his sights on Win. Can she remember the man he once was? Then, Win returns to England… only to find that Kev has hardened into a man who will deny love at all costs. So Kev refuses to submit to temptation… and before long Win is torn from him by a devastating twist of fate. ![]() But this handsome Gypsy is a man of mysterious origins-and he fears that the darkness of his past could crush delicate, luminous Win. Kev Merripen has longed for the beautiful, well-bred Winnifred Hathaway ever since her family rescued him from the brink of death when he was just a boy. ![]() You can read this before Seduce Me at Sunrise (The Hathaways, #2) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Seduce Me at Sunrise (The Hathaways, #2) written by Lisa Kleypas which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Seduce Me at Sunrise (The Hathaways, #2) by Lisa Kleypas ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Sacred Woman by Queen Afua![]() ![]() She is a gift from the most high,” London said in her review of Sacred Woman.Īs a single mother of three children, she acknowledged the balance required to be a healer, entrepreneur, and mother. I will forever be grateful for one of my master teachers, my spiritual mother. Queen has assisted me in healing and connecting deeper into my soul. “With following her program I learned what real food does to my body temple, how I can heal myself and create a peaceful life after grief and loss. Read More: ‘A Black Lady Sketch Show’ season 2 to premiere in April Issa Rae, Gabrielle Union to guest star Queen Afua accompanied London last year to speak to a group of women affected by gun violence and has spoken with her openly about grief and motherhood. Lauren London publicly heralded the holistic healer as her “spiritual mother” who helped her find healing after the death of her partner, Grammy award-winning rapper Nipsey Hussle in 2019. “I’ve always been thinking about global healing, global connecting, and how we can spread wellness,” she said. ![]() ![]() A post shared by Queen Afua Afua has cultivated a loyal following for more than 40 years and she has “devoted her life to fighting diseases by teaching people how to understand and utilize the power of food, self-care, and holistic healthy choices as an empowering lifestyle,” according to her biography. ![]() |