![]() Frank tells her he’s been in prison for the last eighteen years, arrested for armed robbery. Kate gets the license number, follows and confronts him and discovers he’s her estranged father, Frank Galvin who disappeared when she was six. Still recuperating, she sees a man in a car parked on the street watching her apartment. While she is in the hospital recuperating, a mysterious stranger leaves a bouquet of flowers in her room. Kate McGraw, the lone female on the US Marshals fugitive task force, is on the trail of homicidal bank robber when she is shot by a drugged-up ex-con. A quick disclaimer that the synopsis on the back varies slightly from the Amazon description and both are subject to change before the final edition. The book was provided in exchange for an honest review, all opinions are my own. Thank you so much to Rare Bird Books for the advanced copy of Sweet Dreams by Peter Leonard. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Jenny and Riley have been constants throughout each other’s lives. Riley loaned them the money to try one last round, which was successful. For Jenny, much is riding on this pregnancy, as she and her husband are in debt from trying to conceive through in vitro fertilization. Jenny knows Kevin, knows he couldn’t be a racist monster and would never shoot that boy on purpose. As Jenny struggles with her husband’s actions, the potential indictment, online harassment, and death threats, she wishes her best friend, Riley, could be there for her. Jenny Murphy is in the last months of pregnancy when her husband, a police officer, is involved in the murder of an unarmed Black boy. This study guide refers to the hardcover version published by Atria, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Published in 2021 in a time of racial protests, particularly after the murders of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery, the novel uses its characters to help humanize the complicated and lasting implications of race. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kat, the shrewd, self-reliant scrounger, manages to supply his friends with beans and beef. Franz Kemmerich, Paul's friend, dies after the amputation of his leg. In its place, they evolve a strong comradeship, which bolsters and protects them far better than the now useless information they learned in school. The soldiers, recalling Platoon 9's brutal basic training in Klosterberg, abandon their idealism as a result of the sadistic tutelage of Corporal Himmelstoss. ![]() A letter from Kantorek calling them "Iron Youth" stirs Kropp's anger. Franz Kemmerich, his leg amputated, faces imminent death. Paul and his comrades have acquired a bit of battle experience, including the loss of Joseph Behm, the first of their group to die. Paul Bäumer, a sensitive teenager, serves as central intelligence, the prototypical young infantryman whose youth is snatched away by the brutality of war.īehind German front lines between Langemark and Bixschoote in 1916, only eighty of the original one hundred fifty soldiers of the Second Company remain fit for duty. The record of several schoolmates who represent a generation destroyed by the dehumanization of World War I's trench warfare, All Quiet on the Western Front tells of their enlistment in the army at the urging of their teacher, Kantorek, whose wisdom they trusted. ![]() ![]() ![]() “…it is also necessary to keep a very sharp look-out for fear our liking for some one person makes us uncharitable, or even unfair, to someone else. (b) However, affection can be an obstacle to charity It is, therefore, normally a duty to encourage our affections – to “like” people as much as we can (just as it is often our duty to encourage our liking for exercise or wholesome food) – not because this liking is itself the virtue of charity, but because it is a help to it” “Natural liking or affection for people makes it easier to be “charitable” towards them. In the same way Christian Love (or Charity) for our neighbours is quite a different thing from liking or affection” “I pointed out in the chapter on Forgiveness that our love for ourselves does not mean that we like ourselves. ![]() ![]() It is a state not of the feelings but of the will that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people” Originally it had a much wider meaning… Charity means “Love, in the Christian sense.” But love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. ![]() “‘Charity’ now means simply what used to be called ‘alms’ – that is, giving to the poor. “Charity” has a broader meaning than its current usage. Lewis’ “Mere Christianity”… Notes & Quotesġ. ![]() ![]() This business classic written by longtime New Yorker contributor John Brooks is an insightful and engaging look into corporate and financial life in America. 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Ballet Shoes is a 2007 British television film, adapted by Heidi Thomas from Noel Streatfeilds 1936 novel Ballet Shoes. But after five years go by and Gum fails to return, Sylvia's money starts to run out. At first, the girls lead privileged and sheltered lives. All three girls are left in the care of Gum's niece Sylvia in London. BALLET SHOES is the story of Pauline, Petrova and Posy Fossil, three very different girls, each adopted as an orphaned baby by the eccentric explorer, Gum. A beautiful hardback edition of the beloved children's classic BALLET SHOES, with a vibrant new cover - the perfect gift for all children's book or dance enthusiasts. ![]() ![]() The much-loved children's classic, beautifully reissued. ![]() ![]() ![]() This subversive novel shows that even the heroes may succumb to brutality as the world descends into a desperate scramble for the last shred of what it means to be human: survival. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Maine's savage portrayal of society on the brink of ruin is a cruel forerunner of a more pessimistic science fiction of the 1960s. A savage portrayal of society on the brink of ruin. A vicious plague sweeps the Earth causing panic, destruction and giving rise to questions about a government's duty to its people. Maine's savage portrayal of society on the brink of ruin is a cruel forerunner of a more pessimistic science fiction of the 1960s. The pandemic draws nearer to Britain shelters are hastily constructed across the country, but for whom? As the death toll booms and the populace finds themselves sacrificed for the sake of the elite, the cry for revolution rings out amidst the sirens. The world governments look on callously, until the shadow of the Hueste virus begins to sweep across the rest of the globe. A vicious plague has broken out in China and spread to Japan. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Well, forget that - I was hooked from teh first page! This is an amazing narravtive. I had a long business trip and planned to scan In the Field of Grace while on the road. How can God forge love, passion, and new hope between two such different people? He tells himself he is only being kind to his cousin Naomi's chosen daughter when he goes out of his way to protect her from harm, but his heart knows better. Long since a widower and determined to stay that way, Boaz finds himself irresistibly drawn to the foreign woman with the dark, haunted eyes. While everyone considers Ruth an unworthy outsider, she is shocked to find the owner of the fieldone of the wealthiest and most honored men of Judahis showing her favor. She is destitute, grief-stricken, and unwanted by the people of God. Ruth arrives in Israel with nothing to recommend her but Naomi's love. She forsakes her abusive parents and follows the woman she has grown to love as a true parent, her late husband's mother, Naomi. Ruth leaves her home with a barren womb and an empty future after losing her husband. Two women. All alone. With no provision…Can they find hope in a foreign land? ![]() ![]() ![]() For updates on upcoming book releases, author posts and more, join Amy at 5 stars! Her newest release, What the Wind Knows, is an Amazon charts and Wall Street Journal bestseller. Her fantasy novel, The Bird and the Sword, was a Goodreads Book of the Year finalist. ![]() Her books are now being published in two dozen languages, truly a dream come true for a little country girl.Īmy Harmon has written eighteen novels including the USA Today Bestsellers, Making Faces and Running Barefoot, as well as The Law of Moses, Infinity + One and the New York Times Bestseller, A Different Blue. 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