The other me by sarah zachrich jeng6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Most of our events can be watched live on the Murder By The Book YouTube page, which can be found HERE. When it’s time for the event to begin, you should be able to refresh the page until the live video shows up as a new post. ![]() Sarah lives in Florida with her family and an extremely hyper rescue dog. She had a brief career as an aspiring rock star before she came to her senses and went back to school to become a web developer. Sarah Zachrich Jeng grew up in Michigan and always had a flair for the morbid and mysterious (for her dad's thirty-fifth birthday, she wrote a story entitled The Man Who Died at 35). The rest of her time is spent writing, or thinking about writing, and juggling family life and sport. A keen sportswoman, she works in fund management in London, where she lives with her husband and two sons. She graduated from Oxford University, where she obtained a doctorate in theoretical physics. Lexie Elliott grew up in Scotland, at the foot of the Highlands. ![]()
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Sloe Ride by Rhys Ford6/7/2023 ![]() When Rafe hears the Sinners are looking for a bassist, its a chance to redeem himself, but as a crazed murderer draws closer to Quinn, Rafes willing to sacrifice everything-including himself-to keep his quixotic Morgan safe and sound. A recovering drug addict, Rafe spends his time wallowing in guilt, until he finds himself faced with his original addiction, Quinn Morgan-the reason he fled the city in the first place. ![]() A couple of cement trucks momentarily filled Quinn’s peripheral vision, and he fought down the panic clamping his jaw. ![]() ![]() Rafe Andrade returned home to lick his wounds following his ejection from the band he helped form. The car’s tires fought to catch at the road, but the truck’s hit was enough to push Quinn to the side. He dreamed of a life with books instead of badges and knowledge instead of law-and a life with Rafe Andrade, his older brothers bad boy friend and the man who broke his very young heart. Quinn Morgan never quite fit into the family mold. Especially when dead bodies start piling up and theres not a damned thing you can do about it. Book Synopsis Sequel to Tequila MockingbirdSinners Series: Book Four It isnt easy being a Morgan. ![]() About the Book When a crazed murderer draws closer to Quinn, Rafes willing to sacrifice everything-including himself-to keep him safe. ![]() Volcker keeping at it6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() He vibrantly illustrates the crises he managed alongside the world’s leading politicians, central bankers, and financiers. Told with wit, humor, and down-to-earth erudition, the narrative of Volcker’s career illuminates the changes that have taken place in American life, government, and the economy since World War II. That extraordinary feat was just one pivotal episode in a decades-long career serving six presidents. The extraordinary life story of the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, whose absolute integrity provides the inspiration we need as our constitutional system and political tradition are being tested to the breaking point.Īs chairman of the Federal Reserve (1979-1987), Paul Volcker slayed the inflation dragon that was consuming the American economy and restored the world’s faith in central bankers. ![]() Flea scar tissue6/7/2023 ![]() Things became even more unstable when his mother remarried to a troubled jazz musician, Walter Urban Jr (now deceased). By the time he was seven, Flea’s parents divorced and his father moved back to Australia, causing the boy to feel abandoned and unmoored. When he was five, his father’s work necessitated the family move to Rye, a northern suburb of New York City. ![]() The first part of the story centers on impressionistic perceptions from his first four years of life in Melbourne, Australia, where he was born Michael Peter Balzary. To capture the fractured nature of it, Flea divided his book into brief, blunt chapters, in the process creating a rhythm for his prose as curt and distinct as his bass playing. “Eventually, I became entranced with the idea of getting under the narrative, to find out the ‘why’ of my early life,” he said. “I thought I would just write about the band because who would be arrogant enough to think anyone would care about my childhood?” he said.īut, given the amount of violence, drug use and sometimes useful adventure in his past, this clearly wasn’t just any childhood. ![]() Not that this was Flea’s original game plan. ![]() Little Bets by Peter Sims6/7/2023 ![]() What do Apple CEO Steve Jobs, comedian Chris Rock, prize-winning architect Frank Gehry, and the story developers at Pixar films all have in common? Bestselling author Peter Sims found that all of them have achieved remarkable results using a surprisingly similar approach: methodically taking small, experimental steps. Fast paced and as entertaining as it is thought provoking, Little Bets offers a whole new way of thinking about how to break away from the narrow strictures of the methods of analyzing and problem solving we were all taught in school so that we can navigate uncertain situations and unleash our untapped creative powers. ![]() Jeanette winterson's the passion6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Her strict Pentecostal Evangelist upbringing provides the background to her acclaimed first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, published in 1985. She was adopted and brought up in Accrington, Lancashire, in the north of England. Novelist Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England in 1959. In her unique and mesmerizing voice, Winterson blends reality with fantasy, dream, and imagination to weave a hypnotic tale with stunning effects. ![]() ![]() In Venice’s compound of carnival, chance, and darkness, the pair meet their singular destiny. Set during the tumultuous years of the Napoleonic Wars, The Passion intertwines the destinies of two remarkable people: Henri, a simple French soldier, who follows Napoleon from glory to Russian ruin and Villanelle, the red-haired, web-footed daughter of a Venetian boatman, whose husband has gambled away her heart. The Passion is perhaps her most highly acclaimed work, a modern classic that confirms her special claim on the novel. Jeanette Winterson’s novels have established her as one of the most important young writers in world literature. "Winterson is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent deeply abides." - Vanity Fair First published to great acclaim in 1987, this arresting, elegant novel from Jeanette Winterson uses Napolean’s Europe as the setting for a tantalizing surrealistic romance between an observer of history and a creature of fantasy. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Cat And The King – Nick Sharratt The Cat And The King You’re A Bad Man, Mr Gum – Andy Stanton and David Tazzymanġ. The True Story Of The Three Little Pigs – Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith Tough Guys (Have Feelings Too) – Keith Negley ![]() Sleep Well, Siba & Saba – Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl and Sandra van Doorn The Paper Dolls – Julia Donaldson and Rebecca Cobb The Monster Crisp-Guzzler – Malorie Blackman and Sami Sweeten The House At Pooh Corner – A.A Milne and E.H Shepard Dogs In Space: The Amazing True Story of Belka and Strelka – Vix Southgate and Iris Deppe The Dinosaur’s Packed Lunch – Jacqueline Wilson and Nick Sharratt ![]() Absolute DC by Darwyn Cooke6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() That DC chose to make this tale available in its premier Absolute format is no surprise it’s one of the best comics of the last two decades, effortlessly tweaks the origins of the DC Universe and built up so much word-of-mouth momentum from its unheralded release as a six-part mini-series that its over-sized slipbound re-release was a formality.įor those of you not aware of what the Absolute format is, it’s quite simply as good as it gets the finest stories printed on the finest paper. ![]() DC – The New Frontier is a comic lover’s dream comic, a daring project that reinterprets the unchecked ambition and four-colour inventiveness of the 1950s. ![]() Book the sorrows of young werther6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Goethe took great interest in the literatures of England, France, Italy, classical Greece, Persia, and Arabia and originated the concept of Weltliteratur ("world literature"). He also long served as the privy councilor ("Geheimrat") of the duchy of Weimar. ![]() The author of the scientific text Theory of Colours, he influenced Darwin with his focus on plant morphology. With this key figure of German literature, the movement of Weimar classicism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries coincided with Enlightenment, sentimentality (Empfindsamkeit), Sturm und Drang, and Romanticism. ![]() Other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. People laud this magnum opus as one of the peaks of world literature. and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Works span the fields of literature, theology, and humanism. George Eliot called him "Germany's greatest man of letters. A master of poetry, drama, and the novel, German writer and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe spent 50 years on his two-part dramatic poem Faust, published in 18, also conducted scientific research in various fields, notably botany, and held several governmental positions. ![]() Robin lafevers courting darkness6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() But with her sisters on the run from their evil brother and under the watchful eye of her one true friend (and love) at court, the soldier known as Beast, Sybella stands alone as the Duchess of Brittany’s protector.Īfter months of seeking her out, Sybella has finally made contact with a fellow novitiate of the convent, Genevieve, a mole in the French court. Sybella, novitiate of the convent of Saint Mortain and Death’s vengeance on earth, is still reeling from her God’s own passing, and along with him a guiding hand in her bloody work. When you count Death as a friend, who can stand as your enemy? Set in the world of the beloved His Fair Assassin series, this smart, sensational follow up to Courting Darkness is perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Holly Black. Two assassins will risk absolutely everything-even their own divinity-to save the people and the country they love in this lush historical fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Robin LaFevers. ![]() St Joseph's University (Brooklyn Voices Series). ![]() |