If you are a fan of authors like Mark Edwards, John Marrs and Lisa Stone, you'll love this heart-pounding thriller. The Operation is a tense and utterly compelling psychological thriller which will have you gripped from page one. Will he admit to his failings and lose everything, or plead ignorance and let an innocent girl die? Dylan Young is the author of the acclaimed psychological thriller, The Appointment. Manon knows the first 72 hours are critical: you. Over the airwaves come reports of a missing woman door ajar, keys and phone left behind, a spatter of blood on the kitchen floor. Detective Sergeant Manon Bradshaw tries to sleep after yet another soul-destroying Internet date the low murmuring of her police radio her only solace. He needs to delve into the past for answers. Mid-December, and Cambridgeshire is blanketed with snow. When harrowing images of the kidnapped woman start to appear on his phone, along with a demand from her abductor that Jake confesses to a crime he has no recollection of committing, he is forced to act or face terrifying consequences. But when a leaked video of him and the missing woman arguing goes viral, the social media reaction is vicious. If your life was on the line, how far would you go? Surgeon Jacob Thorn isn’t worried when the police interview him over nurse Katy Leith’s disappearance.
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After introducing herself to the young woman, Fountain learns that the young woman is far more mysterious than she initially appears: she is living under an assumed name and has been sent to France by her distant father and ordered to remain in hiding there until after her upcoming birthday. The young woman lives alone, never receives visitors, and wanders around outside at night, which seems innocent enough, but this attracts Fountain’s interest. Fountain is renting a house in the French Riviera while she writes her latest manuscript when a young woman moves in next door. The story opens simply enough with Molly Fountain, a mystery novelist who had served as a secretary in British intelligence circles during the war, wondering who her mysterious new neighbor is. Though it doesn’t involve any of the protagonists of his earlier Black Magic novel (THE DEVIL RIDES OUT), TO THE DEVIL, A DAUGHTER is explicitly set in the same setting, with some of the events of RIDES OUT briefly alluded to in DAUGHTER. TO THE DEVIL, A DAUGHTER is one of Wheatley’s “Black Magic” novels (one of eleven out of his 60+ novels) recently reprinted by Bloomsbury. Long before William Peter Blatty’s THE EXORCIST ushered in a new-found fascination with the Devil, Satanism, and all things occult in the 1970s, Dennis Wheatley was penning occult thrillers that attracted readers by titillating them with tales of Satanic cults committing unspeakable acts in service of the Devil. Meanwhile, Julius is testing his fate in Las Vegas, working at a local casino where tourists watch atomic tests from the roof, and falling in love with Henry, a young card cheat. And so she begins slipping off to the Del Mar racetrack to bet and eavesdrop, learning the language of horses and risk. The air is rich with the tang of salt and citrus, but the limits of her new life seem to be closing in: She misses her freethinking mother, dead before Muriel's nineteenth birthday, and her sly, itinerant brother-in-law, Julius, who made the world feel bigger than she had imagined. Muriel is newly married and restless, transplanted from her rural Kansas hometown to life in a dusty bungalow in San Diego. have the aura of realms." - The New York Times Book ReviewĪ lonely newlywed and her wayward brother-in-law follow divergent and dangerous paths through the postwar American West. The spaces she creates for her characters. Named a Most Anticipated Book of Fall by The New York Times, Real Simple, Electric Literature, and more. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. He doesn’t yet understand why Solvi and his men tried to kill him, but he suspects it has something to do with his stepfather Olaf, who shows no sign of giving up the lands he has held in trust for Ragnvald since marrying his mother. When he is dragged from the sea by a fisherman, half-drowned, he clings to this vision in his mind. Sinking into the fjord, suspended between life and death, Ragnvald has a vision of the great hall of the sea-goddess Ran, where a golden wolf comes to find him. Twenty-year-old Ragnvald is returning home from a successful raiding season in Ireland in the service of the viking Solvi when, to his horror, he is attacked and thrown overboard. Focusing on the stories of a brother and sister fighting to realise their destinies, it’s an engaging tale spiced with the beliefs of medieval Scandinavia. Based on the sagas of Harald Fairhair written by Snorri Sturluson in his Heimskringla in the 13th century, it looks back to the Norway of the late 9th century, a fragmented peninsula of petty kings and ruthless raiders. This rollicking tale of Viking adventure opens with oar-dancing in the first sentence, which boded very well for the rest of the story. Debut author Caroline Kepnes’ use of second person narrative makes the story feel even more unsettling, as Joe’s words are all directed at “you.” The book challenges you by making you empathize a little with Joe, even though he’s so off the rails. YOU takes you inside the mind of a stalker and the obsessive way he follows his prey. It is so intense and addictive, but at the same time so painful and you just want it to end! I’ve never been so relieved to reach the end of a book. Whoa Nelly, this book! The first word that comes to mind to describe it is unrelenting. In YOU, Joe is a New York bookseller who develops a dangerous fixation on a young woman who enters his shop. But there’s more to Beck than her oh-so-perfect façade, and their mutual obsession quickly spirals into a whirlwind of deadly consequences. So when her boyfriend, Benji, mysteriously disappears, Beck and Joe fall into a tumultuous affair. Joe needs to have her, and he’ll stop at nothing to do so.As he begins to insinuate himself into her life-her friendships, her email, her phone- she can’t resist her feelings for a guy who seems custom-made for her. Beck is everything Joe has ever wanted: she’s gorgeous, tough, razor-smart, and sexy beyond his wildest dreams. When aspiring writer and recent Brown graduate Guinevere Beck strides into the bookstore where Joe works, he’s instantly smitten. So, are you in Naples, Glennon?īB: Glennon’s in Naples, Florida, I’m in Houston, and we’re both wearing our matching pajamas, and we’re really hoping that you’re in your Untamed pajamas, snuggling up with someone who is equally fierce and listening to us today. Glennon and I are both physical distancing because of COVID-19. Let’s talk to Glennon.īB: Today is the Glennon Doyle Untamed pajama party. She is an activist, she’s a thought leader, she’s the founder and president of Together Rising, which is an all-woman led non-profit that has revolutionized grassroots philanthropy, raised over $25 million for women, family and children in crisis. Glennon’s also the author of the number one New York Times bestseller, Love Warrior, and another New York Times bestseller, Carry On Warrior. She’s a writer, she’s an activist, she’s the founder of Together Rising, and she is the author of a brand new book that just came out called Untamed, which will shake you up and set you free. I’m Brené Brown and this is Unlocking Us.īB: I’m really excited about today’s podcast because I am talking to Glennon Doyle, my friend. She had been told to come rescue three teenagers and had assumed one of them would be her boyfriend, Percy Jackson. A chariot appears in the sky, driven by two teenagers: Annabeth and Butch. Hedge saves Leo but is taken away by the storm spirit. He catches her before she hits the canyon floor and manipulates the air to lift them back to the surface. When the ventus throws Piper over the side of the canyon, Jason jumps off to save her. Jason is impervious to the lightning the ventus uses to attack him. He throws Leo into the side of the canyon and taunts Hedge, who has taken off his disguise and has revealed himself as a faun, a creature that is half-man and half-goat. Before Jason and his friends enter, one of the other campers turns into a ventus, or storm spirit. The storm worsens, and Hedge orders the campers into the safety of a museum. The coach also tells Jason that he’s never seen Jason before that morning. A storm begins to brew over the canyon, and the teens’ chaperone, a gruff coach named Hedge, asks if Jason caused it. The campers will spend the day learning about the area. His supposed best friends, Piper - a beautiful girl - and Leo - a brilliant mechanic with ADHD - explain that they are campers at Camp Wilderness, a place where troubled teens are sent. Unfortunately, he has no memory of who he is or how he got on the bus. Jason wakes up on a bus full of teenagers his age, 15- and 16-year-olds. Ezekiel’s matchmaking cousin is only too happy to arrange a discreet rendezvous for their conspiracy-a greenhouse. But naturally, he thinks, she could never fall in love with someone like him. When she asks for his assistance in assessing Lord Averdale’s interest in her, Ezekiel is crushed. But in Lady Eddie, he discovers a kindred spirit. Cross-pollination he understands the fairer sex not at all. And she may have found the perfect person to help her achieve that goal.Įzekiel Blackwood is a botanist as well as Lord Averdale’s nephew and heir. She’s even willing to enter into that loveless union, if only to escape her mother’s stifling and increasingly desperate dominance. If she can’t attract the available-though considerably older-Lord Averdale, she may be doomed to spinsterhood. London, 1815: Lady Mildred Weller (Eddie to her friends) has few prospects for marriage. A bashful botanist and a reluctant debutante are about to discover that there may be a science to seduction after all. I’d eagerly await the next morning to see how much progress she made on my costume the night before. Gosh, I can still hear her sewing machine humming in the background as I fell asleep at night. I’d love to make clothes for my kids, or be able to sew Halloween costumes like my mom. I really wish now that I’d taken her up on the offer to learn how to sew over the years. Hardly anyone else in my class ever had a DIY Halloween costume.īut it wasn’t until I sat up at night when my kids were in bed making my daughter’s chicken costume, that I realized how special it was, and truly appreciated all the hours and time (and love!) that my mom poured into making those costumes for me, my brother, and my sister- year after year. Once I was school aged, I thought it was pretty neat to have a homemade one-of-a-kind costume. Growing up, my mom always made my Halloween costumes. I found the best directions for making a chicken costume on Martha Stewart’s website and decided to make it for my daughter. Well, I FINALLY got to see my chicken costume dream realized!!! I went back to Pinterest and searched the internet for that cute DIY Halloween chicken costume idea. Years ago on Pinterest, I was searching for a DIY halloween costume idea and after seeing a toddler dressed up in a homemade chicken costume, I dreamed of having a child who would someday wear this, too. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. A native of Massachusetts, he lives outside New York City with his wife and two sons. He is also the author of Extreme Fear: The Science of Your Mind in Danger. A licensed pilot of gliders and light airplanes, he has also written for New York, the New York Times, Time, Businessweek, Esquire, Details, and many others. Jeff Wise a science journalist specializing in aviation and psychology. Here he distils the fruits of exhaustive research and arrives at a conclusion that upends our understanding of what humans are capable of, both technologically and morally. The Aircraft Communication Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS), which. It reached a cruising altitude of 10,700 metres (35,000 feet) at 1:01 AM. Officials and independent experts were stunned by their failure, but Wise predicted it four years ago. Flight 370 took off at 12:41 AM local time. In his follow-up to "The Plane That Wasn't There," named the Best Kindle Single of 2015, Wise walks readers through the many developments that have taken place in the meantime and explains why despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars and searching an area of seabed the size of Great Britain, authorities were unable to locage the plane's wreckage. The most complete and technically informed account to date of what happened to missing Malaysian airliner MH370.Five years after a state-of-the-art Boeing 777 vanished into the night over the South China Sea, renowned science and aviation author Jeff Wise offers a compelling and detailed account of what happened that night and in the months and years that followed. |