5/29/2023 0 Comments Carolyn keen![]() ![]() Not until 1980, when she testified in a court case involving the Stratemeyer Syndicate and its publishers, did it begin to become commonly known that Benson wrote the text of the first Nancy Drew books, following the outlines provided by Edward Stratemeyer. While Benson never hid the fact that she wrote the text for the Nancy Drew books, the Stratemeyer Syndicate made it a practice to require that its writers remain anonymous and listed Carolyn Keene as the author of the Nancy Drew series. ![]() Benson received a flat fee of $125 from the Stratemeyer Syndicate for each book for which she was the writer. The Hardy Boys, The Bobbsey Twins, Tom Swift, and Nancy Drew were among the series created through the Stratemeyer Syndicate. In addition, the Keene pen name is credited with the Nancy Drew spin-off, River Heights, and the Nancy Drew Notebooks. Stratemeyer created the characters and developed outlines of the plots for a variety of children's series and the Syndicate hired ghostwriters to turn them into books. Carolyn Keene is the pseudonym of the authors of the Nancy Drew mystery stories and The Dana Girls mystery stories, both produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate. The Stratemeyer Syndicate was established by author and entrepreneur Edward Stratemeyer for the purpose of developing children's book series. ![]()
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5/29/2023 0 Comments The crippled god by steven erikson![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They welcome the coming conflagration of slaughter, for it shall be of their own devising, and it pleases them to know that, in the midst of the enemies gathering against them, there shall be betrayal. Drawing upon an alien power terrible in its magnitude, they seek to cleanse the world, to annihilate every human, every civilization, in order to begin anew. Awaiting Tavore and her allies are the Forkrul Assail, the final arbiters of humanity. A woman with no gifts of magic, deemed plain, unprepossessing, displaying nothing to instill loyalty or confidence, Tavore Paran of House Paran means to challenge the gods - if her own troops don't kill her first. One final act remains, if it is in her power, if she can hold her army together, if the shaky allegiances she has forged can survive all that is to come. Tormented by questions, the army totters on the edge of mutiny, but Adjunct Tavore will not relent. Savaged by the K'Chain Nah'Ruk, the Bonehunters march for Kolanse, where waits an unknown fate. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Grown ups marian![]() Keyes knows how to make serious issues relatable - and get a few grownup laughs, too' GUARDIAN 'Hilarious, alternately heartwarming and heartbreaking. Grown Ups has an almost Austenesque insight into character. BUT WHERE ARE THE GROWN-UPS?This book has been printed with four different colour designs: blue, green, pink and orange.Ĭovers are assigned to orders at random so we are unable to accept specific requests. Three very different women tied to three very different men.Įvery family occasion is a party - until the day the secrets spill out. Married to brothers Johnny, Ed and Liam Casey. Like reading the cleverest cream cake of words' CAITLIN MORAN_ MEET JESSIE, CARA AND NELL. Funny, tender and completely absorbing!' GRAHAM NORTON 'SUCH a treat. 1 BESTSELLER FROM MARIAN KEYES 'Magnificently messy lives, brilliantly untangled. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Game by barry lyga![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Because the asylum holds the key to a terrifying past. And not just any asylum-a last resort for the criminally insane.Īs Dan and his new friends, Abby and Jordan, explore the hidden recesses of their creepy summer home, they soon discover it's no coincidence that the three of them ended up here. But when he arrives at the program, Dan learns that his dorm for the summer used to be a sanatorium, more commonly known as an asylum. An outcast at his high school, Dan is excited to finally make some friends in his last summer before college. Asylum is a thrilling and creepy photo-novel perfect for fans of the New York Times bestseller Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.įor sixteen-year-old Dan Crawford, New Hampshire College Prep is more than a summer program-it's a lifeline. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Medieval europe by chris wickham![]() ![]() Yet distinguished historian Chris Wickham has taken up the challenge in this landmark book, and he succeeds in producing the most riveting account of medieval Europe in a generation._x000D_x000D_Tracking the entire sweep of the Middle Ages across Europe, Wickham focuses on important changes century by century, including such pivotal crises and moments as the fall of the western Roman Empire, Charlemagne's reforms, the feudal revolution, the challenge of heresy, the destruction of the Byzantine Empire, the rebuilding of late medieval states, and the appalling devastation of the Black Death. Yale University Press Medieval Europe by Chris WickhamĪ spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages_x000D_x000D_The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period-one not easily chronicled within the scope of a few hundred pages. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver![]() Since 2010, the company has developed and sold more than fifty-five novels for adults, young adults, and middle-grade readers. Oliver co-founded Glasstown Entertainment with poet and author Lexa Hillyer. ![]() Chester. She has written one novel for adults, Rooms. White Read-Aloud Award nominee for her middle-grade novel Liesl & Po, as well as author of the middle-grade fantasy novel The Spindlers and The Curiosity House series, co-written with H.C. It debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017, garnering a wide release from Open Road Films that year. ![]() Before I Fall was adapted into a major motion picture starring Zoey Deutch. ![]() The film rights to both Replica and Lauren's bestselling first novel, Before I Fall, were acquired by Awesomeness Films. She is also the New York Times bestselling author of the YA novels Replica, Vanishing Girls, Panic, and the Delirium trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, and Requiem, which have been translated into more than thirty languages. Lauren Oliver is the cofounder of media and content development company Glasstown Entertainment, where she serves as the President of Production. ![]() ![]() Even with too much on her shoulders, the feisty redhead has the power to set him off, crack him up, or bring him to his knees.Īll he has to do is resist falling for her through one kitchen remodel, and everything will be fine. At this point in his life, professionalism has to be his top priority.Īt least until Millie becomes Luc's client. Since his father handed him the reins to the family business, every day is a test to prove himself. ![]() The Mexican-American contractor is just trying to do his best. And, really, what's ten years with no sex? No men. ![]() A life of celibacy is her best defense-at least until the kids are grown and can take care of themselves. And twenty-four-year-old Millie refuses to let that happen to her-again.Įspecially now that she's responsible for raising her brothers and sister. He's mexican heritage and be prepared, there'll be a lot of spanish words. To top it off, she believes her family carries a curse. Meet Millie, she's a 24 year old vet and the guardian of her three minor siblings. Going to the altar knocked up is pretty much a family tradition. Kind of Cursed by Stephanie Fournet is a stand alone contemporary romance. ![]() Every woman in Millie Delacroix's family is cursed-kind of.īirth control just doesn't work for them. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Paths of glory book humphrey cobb![]() With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. A chilling portrait of injustice, this novel offers insight into the tragedies of war in any age.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. When the attack fails, an inquiry into allegations of cowardice indicts a small handful of lower-ranked scapegoats whose trial exposes the farce of ordering ordinary men to risk their lives in an impossible cause. ![]() Humphrey Cobb's protagonists are Frenchmen during the First World War whose nightmare in the trenches takes a new and terrible turn when they are ordered to assault a German position deemed all but invulnerable. The anti-war masterpiece that became an iconic motion picture-now with a foreword by the creator of the acclaimed HBO(tm) series The Wireįamiliar to many as the Stanley Kubrick film starring Kirk Douglas, Paths of Glory explores the perilous complications involved in what nations demand of their soldiers in wartime. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Broken by nicola haken![]() I’m met with a curious glance by a young, impeccably dressed, woman behind the long reception desk as I pass through the revolving glass doors. The first day in any new job is always daunting, but stepping into my first role in a publishing house pushes a further stab of pressure into my gut. ![]() A rush of peace, contentment, washes over my dying body, cleansing my soul as I drift into the serene darkness, embracing the shadow for the first time in my life.īeads of nerves roll around in my stomach as I walk into Holden House, the tallest building in the centre of Manchester. My body starts to tremble and I lie back in the bathtub, closing my eyes. As I watch my tormented life seep from my body in thick, red spirals, a small smile crawls onto my lips. Today, I welcome the pain as it slices into my wrist, knowing it will be the last time. ![]() ![]() Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. There are no more pieces left to try and put back together. ![]() ![]() We wake upĮach time my world has fallen apart and come together again I was deeply changed….as if I’d been asleep and suddenly woke up. And yet each time things did come together again. ![]() Earthquakes, war, poverty, divorce, death of parents and two husbands, cancer. ![]() Wondering if there’s any way to breathe again, to survive. I have surely experienced things falling apart in my life big time. And economic consequences that are still murky. My heart aches when I think of all the people around the world whose lives have been deeply affected by illness and death. The pandemic is things falling apart on a big scale. The falling apart can be devastating and the coming together fabulous! Is it true that things really do come together and fall apart over and over and then you die? I think it is true, and that’s why Chodron, a Buddhist nun, encourages us to accept that reality. The sentence after the above quote, from Chodron’s priceless book When Things Fall Apart, is,“It’s just like that.” Yikes. Then they come together again and fall apart again.” - Pema Chodron ![]() " The truth is that things don’t really get solved. ![]() |