![]() Robert Barnard: "Posthumous collection, containing several good Marple cases previously only available in the States.
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![]() ![]() ![]() View popular breastfeeding and parenting books and leafletsīooks for breastfeeding supporters and health professionals: There is a brilliant index that makes it easy to use. It combines the practical experiences of generations of breastfeeding mothers with up-to-date research and comprehensive information about the normal course of breastfeeding. The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding is written and published by LLL International. You can also buy many of these books from LLLGB Shop along with our full range of leaflets.Īll books available in our Group Libraries or sold in LLLGB Shop have been reviewed and approved by LLLGB to ensure they contain accurate information and are a good fit with our philosophy of mothering through breastfeeding.īy choosing to buy from LLLGB Shop you can have the satisfaction of helping to support LLLGB since any profits generated go direct to the charity to support our work. Most LLL Groups have a comprehensive library of books on breastfeeding and parenting available for loan to members. ![]() ![]() A fast-paced family saga that's perfect for a day at the beach. This delightfully funny novel about four siblings and how their shared inheritance has led to their current stage in life is soon to be a major motion picture. You'll be captivated by the implausible but plausible premise of an American royal family akin to one from a soap opera. When it comes to the royals, this book is for you if you are a fan of Harry and Meghan or Kate and William. ![]() Singapore's glittering financial hub is the setting for this biting satire on the city's inflated beauty standards and the clash of old traditions with new money. Sarong Party Girls by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tanįor Emma, this vivacious debut represents the best of contemporary Asian culture. Humorously depicting the saga of an immigrant family and American capitalism, this novel is sure to make you smile. ![]() Like Crazy Rich Asians, I found this to be one of the most engrossing books I've read in a long time. For those who enjoyed the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy and are looking for a new book to read about the opulent lifestyles of the rich, this list of books similar to Crazy Rich Asians will satisfy your appetite. ![]() ![]() ![]() Liberal economists adore it, weirdo tech billionaires are entranced by it, and legions of 13-year-old nerds succumb to its ultra-rationalist siren every year.īut these beloved stories took roughly 80 years to receive the big-budget visual treatment they deserve for a reason. The Hugo Awards voted Foundation as the field’s Best All-Time Series in 1966, and no Worldcon has dared to revisit the verdict since. Goyer-the mastermind behind Apple’s extravagant TV adaptation, which wraps up its first season today-declared Foundation “the greatest science-fiction work ever written,” he was not indulging in prerelease hyperbole so much as reciting the official record. Certainly nothing from the academy can approach its popular influence. ![]() Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series is perhaps the definitive expression of mid-century American liberalism. This article contains spoilers through the first season of Foundation. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sky Raiders immediately pulls you in and takes you on a fast-paced ride. Readers follow Cole's adventures through the Outskirts as he struggles to stay alive and figure out a way to help his friends. Sky Raiders introduces us to The Outskirts, a magical and dangerous place made up of five kingdoms. Cole and his unsuspecting friends visit what promises to be a spooky haunted house, only to find that the dangers within are more real than they ever could have imagined. That being said, he also has a strange talent for creating increasingly unique ways for his heroes to enter these strange new worlds (think hippopotamus!!) and Sky Raiders is no exception. Well, my fears were completely unfounded-I loved it! Mull has a talent for imagining unique and complex worlds-he has a fantastic imagination. ![]() I love, love, love Brandon Mull's Fablehaven and Beyonders series, so while I was extremely excited to read this new series, I was also a little afraid that there was NO WAY Five Kingdoms: Sky Raiders could entice me the way the others had. ![]() ![]() ![]() If he can find it in time, he might stand a chance.įour Past Midnight: The flat surface of a Polaroid photograph becomes for fifteen-year-old Kevin Delevan an invitation to the supernatural. But for small businessman Sam Peebles, who thinks he may be losing his mind, another enemy is hiding there as well-the truth. ![]() ![]() Three Past Midnight: " The Library Policeman" is set in Junction City, Iowa, an unlikely place for evil to be hiding. Alone, that is, until a figure named John Shooter arrives, pointing an accusing finger. Two Past Midnight: " Secret Window, Secret Garden" enters the suddenly strange life of writer Mort Rainey, recently divorced, depressed, and alone on the shore of Tashmore Lake. Only eleven passengers survive, but landing in an eerily empty world makes them wish they hadn't. One Past Midnight: " The Langoliers" takes a red-eye flight from L.A. The collection won the Bram Stoker Award in 1990 for Best Collection and was nominated for a Locus Award in 1991. It is his second book of this type, the first one being Different Seasons. ![]() Four Past Midnight is a collection of novellas written by Stephen King in 19 and published in August 1990. ![]() ![]() ![]() The fictional setting is more modern than Alcott's or Nesbit's, although not clearly contemporary with Birdsall's writing. Nesbit's The Story of the Treasure Seekers. The National Book Award citation compares the novel to Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and E. The novel was inspired by the kind of stories the author read when growing up, The remaining books in the series are The Penderwicks at Point Mouette, The Penderwicks in Spring, and The Penderwicks at Last. Both The Penderwicks and its sequel The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (Knopf, April 2008) were New York Times Best Sellers. This was Birdsall's first book published and it inaugurated the Penderwicks series, whose fifth and final volume was published in 2018. ![]() ![]() The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy is a children's novel by Jeanne Birdsall, published by Knopf in 2005. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this instalment of Festivus Pimpage, we’re dipping our feet back into the fantasy waters with Jen Williams’ most epic The Winnowing Flame Trilogy. I will miss hanging out with Tor and Noon and Vintage and Aldasair and Berne, and what I wouldn’t give to see Kirune, Vostock, Helcate, Jessen and Sharrik soaring through a Sydney sky (Jure’lia notwithstanding, of course). Read this trilogy, like go right now and buy them, order them from your library… whatever you need to do to get it in your eyes. I could go on and on about the world-building and the divine prose, the connections between the characters and their war beasts, but I could never do it justice. The relationships between them all, and how they just make each other better without wanting to make the others better. Oh, how I will miss Vintage’s wit and optimism, Berne and Aldasair’s deep love, Noon’s bad-assery, and Tor being, well, Tor. It’s damn clear I loved not only The Poison Song but the entire The Winnowing Flametrilogy (which now sits top shelf in my bookcase with other books that tore out my heart and handed it to me). Why? Why is it over? Whhhhyyyyy… WHHHYYY? No, nope, na-ah. ![]() So, in keeping with my short-arse reviews this year, I give you whiny bitch: The upside of this is that it stopped me from leaving a world and characters I could spend forever reading. It’s been a while since my last review, but I entered a bit of a reading slump about halfway through Jen Williams’ The Poison Song because… well…. ![]() ![]() ![]() They’re so easily bingeable and addicting it’s hard to put them down. Though, I do think that just about every JLA book/series. Being back in this world is so much fun and I forgot how addicting it is. You can check out my review for White Hot Kiss if you haven’t already. She’s offered a tantalizing taste of what has always been forbidden, finally getting what she has always wanted, but with hell literally breaking loose and the body count piling up, the price may be higher than Layla is willing or able to pay. Rock bottom is only the beginning once Layla’s powers finally start to evolve. And she can barely think about Roth, the forbidden demon prince who understood her in ways no one else ever could. ![]() ![]() Suddenly, the Warden clan that has always protected her is keeping dangerous secrets. Her best friend, Zayne, is forever off-limits thanks to her mysterious power of a soul-stealing kiss. Layla Shaw is trying to pick up the pieces of her shattered life. Title: Stone Cold Touch (The Dark Elements #2)īOOK TWO OF THE FANTASTICAL DARK ELEMENTS SERIES ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I knew I should have read this book slowly. In this world of magic and deception, it’s hard to tell her allies from her enemies in the race to find her parents before their time runs out. In her quest, she encounters all manner of Fae, but the scariest is Lukas, the mysterious, imposing faerie who offers to help her find her parents.īut there are powerful forces at work, and Jesse is about to become a player in a dangerous game that could decide the fate of everyone she loves. Jesse’s only concern is how to pay for college, but that changes the night her parents disappear.Įquipped with her parents’ weapons and her own smarts, Jesse enters the dangerous world of bounty hunting in search of her mother and father. Jesse James is a normal eighteen-year-old, even if her parents are the best faerie bounty hunters in New York. ![]() |