![]() ![]() ![]() Send NetGalley books directly to your Kindle or Kindle app Cancel 1. "Readers will be plenty worried about Laz’s future….cheer for Laz’s next longshot chance. This title was previously available on NetGalley and is now archived. He describes his younger self as a classic second-stringer: I was too slow and too short for basketball I was too small for football, a little too chicken to hang in there against the best fastballs. "Acclaimed sportswriter Deuker deftly weaves baseball action into a solid coming-of-age tale, as Laz navigates the class divide when the well-off Thurmans take him in when he switches schools." - School Library Journal Carl Deuker is a celebrated author of top-flight sports writing matched to uncommonly perceptive coming-of-age stories (Kirkus Reviews). An entertaining visit to the ballpark." - Kirkus Reviews ![]() Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. "Deuker weaves an interesting plot dealing with socio-economic inequality and drug use into a cast of varied characters. Golden Arm is written by Carl Deuker and published by Clarion Books. Even readers who don’t like baseball will be riveted to this human-interest, underdog story." - Booklist (starred review) ![]() ★ "With short, fast-paced chapters, Deuker’s realistic novel pits poverty, friendship, teamwork, self-reliance, and supportive adults against wealth, privilege, overambition, and overbearing helicopter parents. ![]()
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(1984, Palanca Grand Prize 1988, 1991)ĭekada '70 (1983, Palanca Grand Prize 1988, 1991) Project Pawai, An Adventure In The Far East (1995) Salamanca (2005, Palanca Grand Prize 2006) Please report dead links to the webmaster. Some links will take you out of the Survey of Philippine Literature website. Titles with links indicate available excerpts. CLICK ON THE LOGO TO GO BACK TO THE FICTION INDEX | The novels are arranged alphabetically according to author's surname. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After he confronts his wife, she goes missing, leaving him more confused than ever before. When British suburban dad Adam Price ( Richard Armitage) is approached by a baseball-capped woman in her 20s ( Hannah-John Kamen), she tells him that his wife ( Dervla Kirwan) may have faked her miscarriages, and to get his children’s DNA tested. The Stranger is pure, unadulterated Harlan Coben fun. The setting alone adds a fresh dynamic to the constant bait-and-switch of a Coben mystery. That being said, the show still serves up a healthy portion of episode-to-episode shockers and twists. This 5-part miniseries is a much more serious take on the Coben formula than most adaptations, focusing more on honest reactions than on pure shock value. ![]() A precarious series of coincidences link the two tragic days, bringing Guillaume and his best friend (who has his own demons to stave off), into the underworld of the riviera in search of his girlfriend, and ultimately, the truth. The episodes flash between present-day Nice, when Guillaume’s stunning girlfriend vanishes off the face of the earth, and Nice ten years ago when Guillaume’s ex-girlfriend and brother are shot and killed on the same night. ![]() Tackling the classic thematic material of Coben - lost loves, betrayals, family secrets - Gone For Good is the seductive tale of Guillaume ( Finnegan Oldfield), a social worker in the south of France. ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite this he promises to keep her beloved safe. 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It has been reimagined to come to the Playhouse Theatre in London’s West End from 27 November 2019 to 29 February 2020 starring James McAvoy. ![]() Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac is a classic love story gone wrong. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Pompeii still does not give up its secrets quite as easily as it may seem. ![]() Recently, Pompeii has been a focus of pleasure and loss: from Pink Floyd s memorable rock concert to Primo Levi s elegy on the victims. ![]() At the Suburban Baths we go from communal bathing to hygiene to erotica. She resurrects the Temple of Isis as a testament to ancient multiculturalism. From sex to politics, food to religion, slavery to literacy, Beard offers us the big picture even as she takes us close enough to the past to smell the bad breath and see the intestinal tapeworms of the inhabitants of the lost city. She explores what kind of town it was?more like Calcutta or the Costa del Sol?and what it can tell us about ordinary life there. In The Fires of Vesuvius, acclaimed historian Mary Beard makes sense of the remains. But the eruptions are only part of the story. Destroyed by Vesuvius in 79 CE, the ruins of Pompeii offer the best evidence we have of life in the Roman Empire. Yet it is also one of the most puzzling, with an intriguing and sometimes violent history, from the sixth century BCE to the present day. 1 The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found Mary Beard Click here if your download doesn"t start automaticallyĢ The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found Mary Beard The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found Mary Beard Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million people each year. ![]() ![]() ![]() And also to vindicate his mother, by seeing the mission through to its treacherous end. Devin Gray is a counter surveillance expert and a former FBI agent. It has aspects of both political and military thrillers as well as a conspiracy thriller. Now it's Devin's mission to destroy a covert network poised to deliver a fatal blow to the future of the United States. Riveting Reviewed in the United States on DecemVerified Purchase Steven Konkoly’s first book in the Devin Gray series is disconcerting, suspenseful, and action-packed. As an alternative, the Kindle Book and Audible narration are included with a Kindle Unlimited membership. Details Select delivery location In stock. What he uncovers, clue by clue, is a conspiracy more widespread and insidious than anyone could have imagined. Details Or fastest delivery Tomorrow, October 28. With the help of longtime friend and former Marine helicopter pilot Marnie Young and a loyal team of covert operatives Helen summoned just before her death, Devin is propelled into a high-stakes chase across the country. Others, including Devin, believe she was chasing delusions. ![]() ![]() Helen Gray, a paranoid and disgraced former CIA officer, believed she was on the verge of preventing a national catastrophe-a mission worth dying for. Devin Gray (3 book series) Kindle edition by Steven Konkoly (Author) Kindle Paperback Stopping the most dangerous conspiracy to ever threaten America means believing the unthinkable in an explosive novel by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Steven Konkoly. Countersurveillance expert Devin Gray is unwittingly thrown headfirst into dangerous new territory after the death of his mother. Stopping the most dangerous conspiracy to ever threaten America means believing the unthinkable in an explosive novel by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Steven Konkoly. ![]() ![]() I was as curious about her part of the world as she was about mine. I worried about what was going to happen when Christina realized that men would be killing each other to prove themselves to her and that she would be forced to marry one of the five winners.įollowing my orders from Khan, I stayed with her for two full days and was only replaced by guards when I needed to shower or use the bathroom.ĭuring the night, I pushed the sofa in front of the door and slept on it.ĭuring the day, Christina and I read, walked in circles, and talked a lot. Other more radical theories speculated that women would soon submit to men again and that every Northman would be allowed to have as many as four wives per man. Some news sites speculated that women had finally seen the light and soon more brides would follow. 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As if gently by the hand, Author Kirstie Myvett strolls us through the streets of this history-rich city while introducing us to the life and times of Praline Lady. This captivating story takes us back to 19th-century New Orleans. Jude's to help support the fight against childhood cancer. Praline Lady written by Kirstie Myvett and illustrated by Kameko Madere, published by Pelican Publishing. ![]() Loretta was a faithful steward of God with the belief that if you "put God first, He will grant the wishes of your heart."Ī loving mother and grandmother of two Loretta was devastated to think of children going through anything similar. She asked her family to establish this fund at St. She made friends and admirers worldwide through her shop and her long-standing record as a food vendor at the city's biggest festivals. She was 66. Lovingly referred to as the" Praline Queen," Loretta was the chef and owner of the historic Loretta's Authentic Pralines in New Orleans, LA, becoming the first African-American woman to own and operate a praline company. Harrison passed away on Wednesday, February 16, 2022, following a battle with breast cancer. ![]() ![]() He also discusses the fatal attraction of heroic failure, once a self-deprecating cult in a hugely successful empire that could well afford the occasional disaster: the Charge of the Light Brigade, or Franklin lost in the Arctic. In exploring the answers to the question: 'why did Britain vote leave?', Fintan O'Toole finds himself discovering how trivial journalistic lies became far from trivial national obsessions how the pose of indifference to truth and historical fact has come to define the style of an entire political elite how a country that once had colonies is redefining itself as an oppressed nation requiring liberation the strange gastronomic and political significance of prawn-flavoured crisps, and their role in the rise of Boris Johnson the dreams of revolutionary deregulation and privatisation that drive Arron Banks, Nigel Farrage and Jacob Rees-Mogg and the silent rise of English nationalism, the force that dare not speak its name. 'A wildly entertaining but uncomfortable read. 'Best book about the English that I've read for ages' Billy Bragg. 'Hugely entertaining and engrossing' Roddy Doyle. 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Yet Elizabeth is surprised by her passion for her powerful new husband. But when her father gives her hand to Thomas Howard, third Duke of Norfolk, the spirited young woman must sacrifice all for duty. As Queen Catherine's maid and daughter of the Duke of Buckingham, the future seems bright for Elizabeth Stafford. ![]() |