![]() The third of Lauren St John's heartwarming White Giraffe series, in which Martine and Ben must save the world's rarest leopard. ![]() Above all it's is a heart-warming story, full of charm and atmosphere, and Martine's sheer delight in her giraffe friend and the fantastic landscape which is theirs to explore. This is the beginning of her mysterious and magical adventures - her discovery of her gift of healing and a secret valley that she travels to with the giraffe, where she'll find clues about her past and future. One night Martine, lonely and feeling slightly rebellious too, looks out of her window and see a young albino giraffe - silver, tinged with cinnamon in the moonlight. There are secrets about Sawubona (the reserve) just waiting to be revealed, and rumours too about a fabled white giraffe - a trophy for hunters everywhere. But she has an ally in Tendai - one of the keepers on the reserve, from whom she learns the lore and survival techniques of the bush, and in Grace - who instantly senses there is something special about Martine. ![]() Her grandmother seems strangely unwelcoming and Martine has a difficult time settling in at her new school, where she is conspicuously an outsider. When she is eleven years old, Martine is orphaned and sent to live with her grandmother on a game reserve in South Africa. ![]()
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Let there be no doubt, this ``young sultry, big, brown-eyed, voluptuous, wholesome, intelligent, spiritual, ghetto girl'' has opinions. It must be hard being right all the time, but controversial rapper and black activist Sister Souljah doesn't mind, judging from her remarkably smug, occasionally uplifting memoir. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is book #4 in the popular Lost Kings MC series, but it can be read first or as a stand-alone. Tattered on My Sleeve is a full-length novel at over 145,000 word Once Wrath learns the dark secret that’s been fueling Trinity for years, he’ll stop at nothing to prove they’re meant to be together and that she’s worthy of the love she keeps denying. Discover the English Audiobook at Audible. The way they hurt each other over the years is intense, raw, frustrating and sometimes dark.Ĭan they move past their horrible pasts to become better people and ultimately forgive each other? Tattered on My Sleeve as its meant to be heard, narrated by Noelle Bridges, Troy Duran. Wrath and Trinity's story is a heart-breaking, soul-crushing, tear-your-heart-into-pieces story. Their connection was instant and explosive. When long-buried secrets are finally revealed, Wrath will stop at nothing to fix their relationship and make Trinity understand she belongs to him. It's not even a typical MC Romance.Įight years ago, the Lost Kings, MC was recovering from turmoil within the club Wrath and Trinity met. Warning: This is not a "typical" romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her novel Devil Water concerns James, the luckless Earl of Derwentwater and his involvement with the Jacobite rising of 1715. Most of her novels have been recently republished, several with forewords by Philippa Gregory. Two of her books are classics in their genre and continue in their popularity to the present Katherine, the story of Katherine Swynford, the mistress and eventual wife of John of Gaunt, and their children, who eventually became the basis for the Tudor and Stuart families of England, and Green Darkness, the story of a modern couple plagued by their past life incarnations. Dragonwyck (1941) and Foxfire (1950) were both made into Hollywood films. Her historical novels were noted for how extensively she researched the historical facts, and some of them were best-sellers. She is interred at Putnam Cemetery in Greenwich. ![]() She was the daughter of English-born naturalist and pioneer of the Boy Scouts of America, Ernest Thompson Seton and Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson. ![]() ![]() Anya Seton (Janu(although the year is often misstated to be 1906 or 1916) - November 8, 1990) was the pen name of the American author of historical romances, Ann Seton.Īnn Seton was born in New York, and died in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. ![]() ![]() When that mysterious figure makes his way into the Baxter Building, interrupting one of Ben Grimm’s midnight Dagwood sandwiches, the Thing realizes that he knows this figure having encountered him in the aforementioned Fantastic Four #51 when the figure attempted to take Ben Grimm’s powers and place in the team to get at Reed Richards. This is the story of the Fantastic Four and what happens on a dark and rainy night in the Baxter Building. Ross uses that familiarity to throw us into his story. Four intrepid adventurers facing the unknown together, a family forged through the mysteries of the world around them– that’s what we know of these characters. With that opening image, Ross shows us just what kind of story he is going to tell a “classic” Fantastic Four story that builds on the work of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, equal parts homage and exploration of those early Marvel texts. ![]() But this new story begins with a ragged figure standing outside of the classic Baxter Building, Ben Grimm and his family’s home. Alex Ross’ story begins much like Fantastic Four #51 where the Thing was mysteriously pulled toward a stranger’s residence. ![]() ![]() 6 min read Fantastic Four: Full Circle by Alex Ross (Abrams ComicArts)įantastic Four: Full Circle opens on a rainy night, focused on a monster or a man standing alone in the rain. ![]() ![]() ![]() The first book in Pittacus Lore's Lorien Legacies series, I Am Number Four, is now a major Disney motion picture. I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: The Fallen Legacies is the next ebook exclusive mini instalment in the heartstopping Lorien Legacies series. Pittacus Lore is about to become one of the hottest names on the planet' Big Issue 'Set to eclipse Harry Potter and moody vampires. 'Tense, keeps you wondering' Sunday Times Publication Order of I Am Number Four: The Lost Files Books. 'Tense, exciting, full of energy' Observer This is the tale of those ill-fated members of the Garde. Now, for the first time, we hear their accounts of what happened - how they discovered their powers, how they hid from the Mogadorians and when they started running for their lives. Their stories have never been told - until now. The perfect companion book to the 1 New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: The Legacies is the first. Before Number Four, three members of the Lorien Garde were captured and killed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "It's making sure the restaurant is getting the right body in the doors, whether that's customers that visit frequently or have a higher average spend per cover. "It's not just about getting bodies in the door anymore,"Allison Page, SevenRooms co-founder and chief product officer, told CNBC. Her characters are strong, intense, and gut-wrenchingly real with a little bit of sass on the side. SevenRooms stands apart from Resy and OpenTable in the amount of customer data it shares with restaurants to identify diners who will spend more money for a more premium experience. The Revenge: An Insiders Novel (The Insiders Book 3) Tijan (4) £3.94 Product description About the Author Tijan is a New York Times bestselling author who writes suspenseful and unpredictable novels. The Insiders - TIJANS BOOKS Book one: The Insiders Bailey is as normal as could be, with a genius IQ and a photographic memory. If you've recently struggled to secure a reservation at a buzzy restaurant, it may be more than just bad luck stopping you from dining at the hottest spots in town. Booking sites like SevenRooms and Resy are strategizing with restaurants to promote premium reservations and give special access to diners who are willing to pay more, CNBC reported. ![]() In a time when reservations are typically made through a third-party site rather than over the phone, restaurants are using data to target customers who spend more on dinner and regularly book tables. ![]() Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]() ![]() “There’s nothing particularly psychological about the role in our production,” he says. Indeed, Davison danced the role more than 20 years ago with Denver’s David Taylor Dance Theatre, and Rudolf Nureyev loved playing Drosselmeyer when he was at the height of his powers and still dancing the Prince in “Nutcrackers” both in Europe and Canada.ĭavison sees Drosselmeyer as a magical - albeit somewhat whimsical - character. ![]() “And sometimes he’s danced by the director of the company - as in the case of George Balanchine, whose full-length ‘Nutcracker’ added to the early fame of the New York City Ballet half a century ago.”īut Drosselmeyer does not have to be old. “In most companies (Drosselmeyer) is danced by an older dancer - even by someone who is retired,” says Davison, who is on stage in his second season in the role. ![]() ![]() ![]() The New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, in a 2020 report, laid out the damaging legacy of redlining in furthering New Jersey’s racial wealth gap. Trident discriminated against Black and Hispanic families applying for mortgages and refinanced loans in the greater Philadelphia area, including South Jersey and Delaware, authorities said. agreed to pay more than $20 million to settle with the Justice Department. Two months earlier, Philadelphia-based Trident Mortgage Co. ![]() ![]() In September, Passaic County-based Lakeland Bank, which operates numerous branches in North Jersey, settled for $13 million with the Justice Department after the bank allegedly "failed to provide mortgage lending services to Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in the Newark metropolitan area" between 20, a Justice Department statement said. Lakeland, Trident Mortgage settle redlining cases Department of Justice at Seton Hall University Law School, officials and activists said redlining's impact persists to this day in the Garden State, as evidenced by recent settlements against two lenders in the region. Redlining - in which banks refuse to provide mortgages and other financial services to people of color based on where they live - has an ugly history in the U.S., dating back at least to the 1930s.īut the practice hasn't gone away, even in modern-day New Jersey. ![]() ![]() ![]() This time the name of the game is Zathura and the battling Budwing boys are in for the ride of their lives.Zathura unleashes intergalactic challenges that require even the quarreling Budwing brothers to work as a team. Jon Favreau, book, film Zathura: A Space Adventure directed by Jon Favreau was originally released in 2005. Now after twenty years, Chris Van Allsburg is ready to reveal what happens when Danny and Walter roll the dice. On the twentieth anniversary of Jumanji, Van Allsburg picks up right where his Caldecott Medal book left off, with similarly terrifying. ![]() |