Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm Library: Stillwater Public Library Audience: Adults Categories: Books, Authors, and Writing Online:Įvent URL will be sent via registration email. If you are new to Zoom, see these instructions on how to get started. Most captivating of all are the fish owls themselves: careful hunters, devoted parents, singers of eerie duets, and irrepressible survivors in a harsh and shrinking habitat. Owls of the Eastern Ice with Jonathan Slaght Author & biologist Jonathan Slaght joins Todd this week to talk about his new book Owls of the Eastern Ice and his incredible story about the elusive Blakiston’s fish owls in the Russian Far East. American researcher and conservationist Slaght takes us to the Primoriye region of Eastern Russia, where we join a small team for late-night monitoring missions, on mad dashes across thawing rivers, drink vodka with mystics, hermits, and scientists, and listen to fireside tales of Amur tigers. The Times Nature Book of the Year 2020 - A breathtaking portrait of Russias. Jonathan Slaght will join us on Zoom to discuss his work, Owls of the Eastern Ice. Buy Owls of the Eastern Ice by Jonathan C Slaght for 26.00 at Mighty Ape NZ. Wilson Science Writing Award finalist 2020 Slaght makes the people, wildlife and landscape of the Russian Far East come alive. The Times of London Nature Book of the Year 2020 Exhilarating and clear-sighted, Owls of the Eastern Ice is an impassioned reflection on our relationship with the natural world and on what it means to devote ones career to a single pursuit.Smithsonian Magazine Best Science Books 2020.National Book Award for Nonfiction Longlist 2020.
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The anthology contains two Edogawa Ranpo adaptations. The brilliance of the cult is that it tries to crystallize, through killing and stitching, relationships that should be organic and flexible to be healthy. The climax of the story takes place during Coming of Age Day, a national holiday that honors all the young people that turned 20 that year, that end up transformed into naked ragdolls, a pile of discarded (but very social!) dead toys. This might be the perfect COVID-19 horror story (alongside The Licking Woman, a self-descriptive title if there ever was one), as it's about a shut-in hikikomori whose social anxiety saves him from a cult targeting anyone that's being social, killing the offenders, stripping them down and sewing them together. Billions Alone has some absolutely spectacular panels of massive amounts of people stitched together. I do usually cut and trim once I finish, but I need to finish first.” “ The Winds of Winter is going to be a big book,” Martin wrote on his blog earlier this year, by way of explanation for what Esquire called "the most public case of writer’s block in human history." Martin went on to add that the book "could be bigger than A Storm of Swords or A Dance With Dragons, the longest books in the series to date. The collective novel series is titled A Song of Ice and Fire.) (A clarifying point here: the HBO series based on the novels is named Game of Thrones, after the first novel. Martin's epic fantasy series have been hanging on for more than a decade since the last novel, A Dance with Dragons, was released in 2011, and the author has been pushing the next book's release date back ever since. Nobody understands the waiting game quite like Game of Thrones fans. Sal prides himself on being an excellent magician, but for this sleight of hand, he relied on a talent no one would guess except maybe Gabi, whose sharp eyes never miss a trick. She is determined to prove that somehow, Sal planted a raw chicken in Yasmany's locker, even though nobody saw him do it and the bloody poultry has since mysteriously disappeared. Gabi, student council president and editor of the school paper, is there to support her friend Yasmany, who just picked a fight with Sal. Sal is in the principal's office for the third time in three days, and it's still the first week of school. How did a raw chicken get inside Yasmany's locker? When Sal Vidon meets Gabi Real for the first time, it isn't under the best of circumstances. I liked the back-and-forth between the two timelines and I appreciated how Eve telling Charlie about her time as a spy aligned with the chapters from her point of view later on. That’s to say that this story is straight forward, nothing hidden or sneaky in the plot. I had to stop reading this book in the middle to power through another and it was easy to pick it back up where I’d left off. Until a young American barges in uttering a name Eve hasn’t heard in decades, and launches them both on a mission to find the truth…no matter where it leads. Thirty years later, haunted by the betrayal that ultimately tore apart the Alice Network, Eve spends her days drunk and secluded in her crumbling London house. Sent into enemy-occupied France, she’s trained by the mesmerizing Lili, code name Alice, the “queen of spies”, who manages a vast network of secret agents right under the enemy’s nose. A year into the Great War, Eve Gardiner burns to join the fight against the Germans and unexpectedly gets her chance when she’s recruited to work as a spy. So when Charlie’s parents banish her to Europe to have her “little problem” taken care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London, determined to find out what happened to the cousin she loves like a sister.ġ915. She’s also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Her perfect husband wouldn’t be so moody and ill-mannered, and while Phillip was certainly handsome, he was a large brute of a man, rough and rugged, and totally unlike the London gentlemen vying for her hand. The beautiful woman on his doorstep was anything but quiet, and when she stopped talking long enough to close her mouth, all he wanted to do was kiss her… and more.ĭid he think she was mad? Eloise Bridgerton couldn’t marry a man she had never met! But then she started thinking… and wondering… and before she knew it, she was in a hired carriage in the middle of the night, on her way to meet the man she hoped might be her perfect match. Sir Phillip Crane knew that Eloise Bridgerton was a spinster, and so he’d proposed, figuring that she’d be homely and unassuming, and more than a little desperate for an offer of marriage. It is my hope that we might decide that we will suit, and you will consent to be my wife. We have been corresponding now for quite some time, and although we have never formally met, I feel as if I know you.įorgive me if I am too bold, but I am writing to invite you to visit me. Genres: Chicklit, Historical Fiction, Humour, Love & Romance Also by this author: The Viscount Who Loved Me, An Offer From a Gentleman, Romancing Mister Bridgerton, When He Was WickedĪlso in this series: The Viscount Who Loved Me, An Offer From a Gentleman, Romancing Mister Bridgerton, When He Was Wicked ‘Perhaps it hasn’t one,’ Alice ventured to remark. I can’t tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit.’ ‘You’re thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. She had quite forgotten the Duchess by this time, and was a little startled when she heard her voice close to her ear. You can see the moral message of a Victorian children’s story coming a mile off, but Carroll not only avoids such heavy-handed moralising, but actively criticises the very idea: (Curiously, the phrases ‘mad as a March-hare’ and ‘grinning like a Cheshire cat’, by the by, both appear in The Water-Babies.)īut for all of their passing similarities, the chief difference between Carroll’s novel and Kingsley’s – and, indeed, between Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and 99% of the children’s fiction produced at the time – is that Carroll refused to use his story to offer his young readers a moral. In many ways the tale of a child slipping underwater into an alternate world of fantasy, where the Victorian world is curiously inverted, foreshadows Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, although Carroll came up with his story independently, before Kingsley’s novel was published. The book tells the story of the boy chimney-sweep, Tom, who goes beneath the water and becomes a ‘water-baby’. Carroll’s was by no means the first portal fantasy novel of this kind: two years earlier, in 1863, Charles Kingsley’s The Water-Babies had appeared. View On Amazon Genres similar to Age-Gap Romance Novels What are reverse age gap romance books?.Age Gap Books: Frequently Asked Questions.Genres similar to Age Gap Romance Books.So grab a glass of wine and settle in, because this is going to be a wild and romantic ride! Table of Contents These books are sure to give you all the feels and leave you with a smile on your face – and who knows, you might just find your own happily ever after in the pages of these delightful stories. So whether you’re a fan of silver foxes or dashing young bucks, get ready to swoon as we dive into the world of age gap romance. From steamy May-December affairs to charming tales of older heroes finding love with younger heroines, these age gap romance books prove that age is just a number when it comes to matters of the heart. Love knows no bounds – not even age! 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