Agatha oddly the secret key5/23/2023 Liam isn’t as passionate about being a detective as Agatha, but he does enjoy solving puzzles and cracking codes. He has black rimmed glasses, dark hair which is always immaculate. She likes vintage clothes, floral dresses, trench coats and wears DM shoes. She has chestnut brown hair, worn in a bob. With her Oddlow Agency detective company and her best friend Liam Lau at her side, she’s perfectly poised to solve the mystery of what’s going on.Īgatha Oddlow. Agatha was named after Agatha Christie. Thirteen‐year‐old Agatha Oddlow (or Oddly, as other people like to call her) is a bold, determined heroine, and the star of a stylish new detective series. Using her room full of beloved sleuthing novels and operating from detective headquarters in a cottage in the middle of Hyde Park, she’s on the case! No case is too odd for Agatha Oddly!Īgatha is perfectly poised to solve the mystery of what’s going on - not least because she has a secret key that gives her access to a whole hidden side of London!īut just who can she trust when no one is quite who they seem… Now you can join her on her first big mission, by flicking through the pages of new book Agatha Oddly: The Secret Key.Ĭases don’t come much bigger than saving the City of London from some strange goings‐on! Agatha Oddly has been a detective for as long as she can remember – she’s just been waiting for her first big case.
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Vera by stacy schiff5/23/2023 I knew nothing about Vera Nabokov when I started this book and I left it feeling like I had known her personally. It is this book’s greatest strength that Schiff manages to paint a vivid picture of Vera in all her wonderful contradictions regardless. This is never more true than in a case like this, where the subject wanted to be unknowable, even while alive (“I am always there. Stacy Schiff’s Véra is a triumph of the biographical form.Ī biography written after its subject has died must necessarily be an approximation. Véra, both beautiful and brilliant, is its outsized heroine, a woman who loves as deeply and intelligently as did the great romantic heroines of Austen and Tolstoy. Set in prewar Europe and postwar America and spanning much of the twentieth century, this telling of the Nabokov’s fifty-two-year marriage reads as vividly as a novel. Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita, Pale Fire, and Speak, Memory, wrote his books first for himself and secondly for his wife. Vladimir Nabokov, brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time. Hailed by critics as “monumental” (Boston Globe) and “utterly romantic” (New York magazine), Véra, the story of Mrs. Verdict: Fascinating, incredibly well-researched picture of a brilliant and frustrating woman. The city of mirrors5/23/2023 I absolutely devoured The Passage, loving every minute, picked up The Twelve as soon as it was available, and the only reason I didn't do the same with City of Mirrors is that I was rather busy getting married. "A fun zombocalypse" was what I thought I was going to get, however if you're reading this review and have probably already read the first two volumes in the trilogy, you'll know that describing Justin Cronin as "a fun zombocalypse" is rather like describing A Christmas Carol as "a bit of a ghost story". One day in 2011 I was looking around for something to read and decided I ought to make an inroad on the huge pile of books I'd picked up at random on a whim from authors I'd not tried before. Justin Cronin was an author I ran into by accident. Clarke also won the Nebula Award of the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1972, 19, the Hugo Award of the World Science Fiction Convention in 19, and in 1986 became Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America. Campbell Award for his novel Rendezvous With Rama. He is past Chairman of the British Interplanetary Society, a member of the Academy of Astronautics, the Royal Astronomical Society, and many other scientific organizations.Īuthor of over fifty books, his numerous awards include the 1961 Kalinga Prize, the AAAS-Westinghouse science writing prize, the Bradford Washburn Award, and the John W. He is best known for the novel and movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, which he co-created with the assistance of Stanley Kubrick.Ĭlarke was a graduate of King's College, London where he obtained First Class Honours in Physics and Mathematics. He spent the first half of his life in England, where he served in World War Two as a radar operator, before emigrating to Ceylon in 1956. Sir Arthur Charles Clarke was one of the most important and influential figures in 20th century science fiction. Child of Mine by Ellyn Satter5/22/2023 Mott Children’s Hospital, who was not involved in the study. Jenny Radesky, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Michigan Medicine C.S. “I hope these findings don’t stress out women with autoimmune conditions too much,” said developmental pediatrician Dr. Prior research has linked autoimmune disorders in mothers with autism, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and tics or Tourette’s syndrome in children, he said, but this is one of the first studies to examine their role in ADHD. Neurodevelopmental disorders such as ADHD, learning disabilities and autism are caused by disruptions in fetal brain development during pregnancy, Nielsen said. The attack can result in “a ‘multi-organ’ disorder such as lupus, or an ‘organ specific’ disorder such as autoimmune thyroid disease (Hashimoto’s thyroiditis or Graves’ disease),” Nielsen said via email. The study was published Tuesday in JAMA Pediatrics. “Autoimmune diseases are disorders where the immune system incorrectly ‘attacks’ the body,” said study author Timothy Nielsen, a research officer and doctoral student at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead Clinical School of the University of Sydney. Expectant moms with autoimmune disorders such as psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis are more at risk of having babies with ADHD, a new study found. Chaos gleick5/22/2023 EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION for this brilliant collection of Porter's large format color photos. It was a finalist for the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. He has been called "one of the great science writers of all time." Gleick is also the author of Chaos: Making a New Science (1987), which is about chaos theory. (He was also a Harvard-trained engineer & M.D.!) James Gleick (born 1954) is an American author and historian of science. Eliot Porter (1901 - 1990), famed American nature photographer noted for his detailed and exquisite colour images of birds and landscapes. Near square quarto (11 1/4" x 10 3/8") light gray-blue cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover, archival polyester-protected photographic dust jacket (price-clipped) depicting seaweed by Eliot Porter, profusely illustrated with select color photos by Porter, light gray endpapers, 125 pages + Sources for Further Reading. Philip II by Geoffrey Parker5/22/2023 In 2005, Prince Charles married Camilla Parker Bowles, whom he had known for more than 30 years. Tragically, Princess Diana died in a car crash in Paris, France, on August 31, 1997. The couple had two sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, before their marriage ended in divorce in 1996. After graduating from Cambridge in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, Charles went on to serve in the British Army, undergoing training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.Īfter his military career, Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer in a lavish ceremony at St. He later attended Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied archaeology and anthropology. Prince Charles was educated at Gordonstoun School in Scotland, where his father, the Duke of Edinburgh, had also been a student. In 1956, at the age of eight, he became a cub scout. From the age of five, he attended Hill House School in West London and later went on to attend Cheam School. He was baptized in the palace’s Music Room by Archbishop of Canterbury Geoffrey Fisher. King Charles III was born on November 14, 1948, at Buckingham Palace in London, England. Charles is the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and has been heir apparent since 1952. King Charles III (born Charles Philip Arthur George November 14, 1948) is the current reigning monarch of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, having ascended to the throne on September 8, 2022, following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II. The madding crowd book5/22/2023 Indeed, it is caprice that prompts her to send an anonymous valentine to a neighboring landowner, Mr. Her farmhands have reservations about the abilities of this woman, whom they think is a bit vain and capricious. She intends to manage the farm by herself. Bathsheba inherits her uncle's farm, and it is she who employs Gabriel as a shepherd. Chance has it that in the search he spies a serious fire, hastens to aid in extinguishing it, and manages to obtain employment on the estate. Oak's flock of sheep is tragically destroyed, and he is obliged to seek employment. Perceiving her beauty, he proposes to her and is promptly rejected. The first to appear is Gabriel Oak, a farmer as ordinary, stable, and sturdy as his name suggests. Bathsheba Everdene has the enviable problem of coping with three suitors simultaneously. Payback's a Witch by Lana Harper5/22/2023 Talia had let herself be charmed, only to discover that Gareth was also seeing Linden-unbeknownst to either of them. On her first night home, Emmy runs into Talia Avramov-an all-around badass adept in the darker magical arts-who is fresh off a bad breakup. She's determined to do her familial duty spend some quality time with her best friend, Linden Thorn and get back to her real life in Chicago. Her self-imposed exile has a lot to do with a complicated family history and a desire to forge her own way in the world, and only the very tiniest bit to do with Gareth Blackmoore, heir to the most powerful magical family in town and casual breaker of hearts and destroyer of dreams.īut when a spellcasting tournament that her family serves as arbiters for approaches, it turns out the pull of tradition (or the truly impressive parental guilt trip that comes with it) is strong enough to bring Emmy back. She hasnt been home to the magical town of Thistle Grove in years, which has a lot to do with a complicated family history and a desire to forge her own way in the world, and only the very tiniest bit to do with Gareth Blackmoore, heir to the most powerful magical family in town, casual breaker of hearts and destroyer of dreams. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina meets The L Word in this fresh, sizzling New York Times bestselling rom-com by Lana Harper.Įmmy Harlow is a witch but not a very powerful one-in part because she hasn't been home to the magical town of Thistle Grove in years. Harpers novel follows Emmy, a witch who returns to her magical hometown and teams up with two other witches to get revenge on a man who broke their hearts only to end up entranced by one of. Marvel civil war mark millar5/22/2023 In fact, Millar even once enjoyed dark superhero films, until he saw Zack Snyder's Man of Steel, which was so grim, so gritty, so dark, that even Millar - Mark Freaking Millar - was forced to reevaluate his superhero worldview. This isn't the first time Millar has incredulously panned a comic book movie for being too dark. I really hope this bleakness doesn't extend into their two Avengers pictures because what made that first Avengers work was the light as well as shade and I'll be sad if that's all lost like it was in this picture. It's interesting the Russos have a background in comedy because it's really missing in these otherwise well-made pictures and very, very missed. The movie in question was Captain America: Civil War, which, ironically enough, is based in large part on ideas from the comic he himself wrote in 2006 (though, in fairness, if a comic he writes doesn't get a movie deal before the first issue comes out, he probably stops paying attention).Ĭivil War had a good opening twenty mins, but then I honestly can't remember what the movie was about. Millar, whose movie pitches comic book ideas tend to ask questions like "what if Batman was the Joker," taking an already dark character and making him even darker, apparently felt that one Marvel movie in particular was a little too "bleak" for his tastes. |