![]() ![]() But just as he follows the first leads to the missing girl, the French onslaught on Portugal begins and the city of Oporto bes a bloody scene of carnage and disaster as it falls into the hands of the enemy. Travelling with a small British contingent, Sharpe is on the lookout for Kate Savage, the daughter of an English wine shipper, who has gone missing a few months before. The world-renowned Sharpe series is now available with gorgeous packaging for a new generation of readers A few years after Richard Sharpes heroic exploits on the battlefields of Trafalgar, Sharpe finds himself once again in Portugal, fighting the savage armies of Napoleon Bonaparte, as they try to bring the whole of the Iberian Peninsula under their control. Book Synopsis New York Times Bestselling Author Newly Reissued Richard Sharpe returns to the battlefields of the Iberian Peninsula, where he and his men bravely fight the French invasion into Portugal in 1809. ![]() ![]() About the Book History comes dangerously alive in this New York Times bestseller as Sharpe returns to the battlefields of the Iberian Peninsula, to battle against Napoleons invasion. ![]()
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![]() ![]() There was less mean girl stuff going on, and that made me super happy. Lizzie and Dante do make a few appearances and I felt like Lizzie was an overall better friend in this book. The whole gang is there along with a few new characters, and the book is so readable. This is more about Ellie coming into herself as her own person. So Into You is totally Ellie’s story, which means that there was not as much focus on romance as there was in the first book. She reminded me of myself in high school- pretty much the same as my high school self actually. So Into You completely changed my opinion of series that do this! I loved So Into You! Ellie is cute, super sweet and a people pleaser to the core. ![]() ![]() I knew book 2 was going to be about Ellie, so I thought I would give it a shot because she seems so sweet. I loved Lizzie and Dante from book 1 and I wanted to see more of them. But I am going to let you in on a little secret- I didn’t used to be the biggest fan about series that each book focused on a different character. I really enjoyed the first book in this series, Fall for You. ![]() ![]() It does a flawless job capturing the emotional cycle and inner-thoughts of someone who deals with it, somehow, someway. This is a movie that should be a must-see for anyone who knows someone dealing with a stroke or some other kind of physical ailment. ![]() While it is relentlessly sad, it is powerful and incredibly moving all the way through. The acting is very good, although that is not what is most impressive about the film, which is how it is told through Amalric's character's perspective, showing just how much of a struggle something like this can be. What director Julian Schnabel has constructed is an unnerving, extremely personal masterpiece in struggling to overcome an affliction, and the self-doubts, guilt, anger, and fleeting hope one encounters along the way. ![]() ![]() One of the most stunning emotional knockouts recorded in cinematic history concerning an editor (Mathieu Amalric) who suffers a massive stroke, but remains determined to write his memoirs of his experiences through communicating with the only part of his body that isn't paralyzed, one of his eyes, to an aide. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s always there, waiting for the right moment to strike.Īnd just like that, the darkness never truly left me. You drown in it, suffocate until you are breathless. There usually comes a time when the darkness becomes too much and you succumb to it. Part 1 should be read before, to fully understand the story. This book contains dark-and sometimes violent-depictions of the world of organized crime, sexual assault, and suicide, and some events might be triggers for some readers. Not intended for readers younger than 18. I am raising a flute of champagne-To you. You never stopped begging for the next chapter. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to locales, events, business establishments, or actual persons-living or dead-is entirely coincidental. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of the author’s rights. No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission. ![]() ![]() ![]() how about those with depression and not having the financial and emotional support he had? And those depressives with young kids to look after? And provide for ? ![]() I agree with other reviewers that point out the privileged position the author was living when depression stroke. I didn’t find particularly interesting reading lists ( famous people with depression, depression symptoms from the nhs website, “how to live” tips, which include potentially dangerous advice: no drug in the world will make you feel better than being kind to people(!) - and we are talking about a mental disease here, right?) I don’t know how it got so many great reviews! For those trying to answer the book title, I would not recommend this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() "The Books don't know everything," she insists at one point. When you read her books, you feel like you can do anything. ![]() What is even more unusual is her writing style: where most vintage patterns resemble nothing so much as the Rosetta Stone, EZ wrote clearly, wittily, engagingly. Largely self-taught, she invented or discovered or otherwise put together an astonishing number of techniques, patterns, and recipes for garments - which wouldn't be particularly unusual, except that what makes Zimmermann different is that she wrote a load of them down. ![]() Born in the UK, swiftly relocated to the US, EZ (as she is affectionately known) revitalised knitting, and especially the genre of books associated with getting better at it. Knitters - social knitters, at least - know Elizabeth Zimmermann. This is because it is fantastic, in every respect. I dip into it every few months it's dog-eared and scribbled in, and I've lent it out to at least two other new-ish knitters (usually just after I've taught them to knit for themselves). I have read Knitting Without Tears cover-to-cover twice in the four-ish years since I got my own copy of it. Niche review time! I wish it weren't so niche, actually - I think KWT has an awful lot to recommend it, and not just to knitters. ![]() ![]() ![]() “It seems they changed their mind after reading the manuscript!” “Until now the position of the two children was that it would not be published,” said Jaime Abello, director of the Gabo Foundation. ![]() The tale of Ana Magdalena Bach, a middle-aged woman who has an erotic affair while visiting a tropical island to lay flowers on her mother’s grave, was allegedly the first chapter Márquez was working on.īut after the internationally acclaimed author affectionately known as Gabo died in 2014, it was believed the work would remain unseen as his family was thought to be uncomfortable publishing an unfinished work. Speculation has surrounded the unpublished title ever since 1999 when García Márquez published a short story in the Colombian magazine Cambio. “I had heard rumours of some manuscripts, but nothing more than rumours. “No?! A Gabriel García Márquez book?” said Juan Moreno Blanco, a professor at the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia, who was lost for words at the news. ![]() ![]() The first clue, an anonymous diary, includes not only indecipherable handwriting but puzzling technical drawings and chemical formulas as well. ![]() Fearing its occupants may be trapped in the blazing building, they rush to the rescue – and unexpectedly fund themselves confronted with a mystery that seems to be insoluble. ![]() ![]() Nancy and her friends, George and Bess, are returning from a country carnival when they witness the explosion and burning of a beautiful country mansion. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hearn develops each character with exquisite care, the month-by-month narration ratcheting up the tension as Grace’s belly swells and the minister casts about for scapegoats. The spikily independent Nell’s conscientiousness brings her into contact and conflict with the minister’s daughters: Grace, unmarried and pregnant, and Patience, her simple sister, whose imperfect apprehension of the tensions swirling around her form an eerie counter narrative, taken down during the 1692 witch panic of Salem Village. At one margin of her world lurk the piskies and fairies that represent the old ways she follows at the other, the forces of modernization in the forms of the Puritan minister and the English Civil War. The year is 1645, and Nell, the village “cunning woman’s” granddaughter, has been learning the healer’s trade, desperately hoping to conceal her grandmother’s increasing senility until she is able to take her place. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I also missed more interaction with the Virgin River characters who I love. ![]() Robyn Carr seems to know a lot more about food. (The pronunciation of dressage was also irritatingly incorrect.) She should take a lesson from author Diana Gabaldon (Outlander) and do a little more research. There is no way someone who rode barrels for awhile as a kid will look like they have been riding dressage their whole life. There were all kinds of crazy, dangerous interactions with horses that were just stupid and full of misinformation. I was disappointed that the author didn't at very least take time to find out the differences in horse colors, or the differences between harnesses, bridles halters and other tack. There are horse whisperers, there are many that are well known, but they use actual techniques not mind reading. This honest look at marriage examines the. I especially disliked the representation of the author's version of a "Horse Whisperer". From 1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr comes the story of four friends determined to find their stride. It also stopped where it could have been more interesting. I looked forward to the Native American aspect of it but it just wasn't as good as some of the others. ![]() I just felt this particular book in the series was a little shallow and fell short. Let me start by saying that I love this series and this author. I'm a horse lover and wanted to love this one. ![]() |