![]() Aboard, Jackie shoots Simon and on the same night, Linnet gets shot in the head as she sleeps. In a twist, Hercule Poirot, while vacationing in Egypt, happens to board the same steamer as the trio does. Jackie is angry and decides to show up everywhere the newlyweds visit, just to harass them. Linnet secretly starts dating Simon, where their relationship eventually becomes known, and their subsequent marriage. He finds himself in the middle of two murder mysteries as he sails up the Nile River.ĭeath on the Nile features Linnet Ridgeway, and her best friend Jacqueline (Jackie) de Bellefort, who is engaged to Simon Doyle. Hercule Poirot is an investigator who hails from Belgium, and known for solving many difficult cases. The title is a depiction of the murder cases that happen while Hercule Poirot vacations in Egypt. ![]() ![]() Christie?s story is inspired by a trip she took to Egypt, where this is reflected in the setting of the story and the main characters. ![]() Death on the Nile is a fictional story by best-selling author, Agatha Christie, under her Hercule Poirot novel series. ![]()
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![]() ![]() “Don’t tell anyone - anything,” Cristian’s parents tell him. ![]() Spies are everywhere - classmates, neighbors and even family members could be informers. “Complaining aloud could get you arrested as a ‘political agitator,’” Cristian notes. Ceausescu’s reign is enforced by the Securitate, secret police officers who ferret out and handle dissenters. In the name of “equality,” the government has seized all the country’s resources, which means citizens like Cristian lack even basic necessities like food and electricity. For years, the Communist dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu has strictly controlled Romania’s citizens. The novel takes place in Bucharest, Romania, in 1989. agent in my computer” is watching us and so on.īut for Cristian Florescu, the 17-year-old protagonist of Ruta Sepetys’s new historical novel, “I Must Betray You,” the idea of surveillance isn’t a meme it’s a reality. ![]() ![]() Facebook is tracking us Alexa is listening to us “the F.B.I. The belief that we’re all being spied on all the time is so common nowadays that it has become a meme - a joke about the proliferation of tech. I MUST BETRAY YOU By Ruta Sepetys 319 pp. Welcome to YA/NYT, a monthly column in which we recommend one new young adult book that you won’t want to miss. ![]() ![]() Then she lands herself a job as a senior X-ray technician at Sydney’s Royal Queens Hospital, because she’s a clever lass. Straight up, she decides to chuck in her handsome fiancé, who has good prospects, because she’s tired of being a virgin and he won’t even kiss her properly. On ‘Friday, January 1st, 1960 (New Year’s Day)’ she starts a diary (‘What a good idea this diary is!’ – and that goes for both us). I discovered that the young woman is called Harriet Purcell and has curly dark hair and ‘seductive breasts’. This evening, after turkey pastizio for dinner (must do that again next year!), I settled down with Angel Puss. Was astonished to discover it was published as long ago as 1977 and sold ten million copies worldwide! I got the 1987 title, The Ladies of Missalonghi (TLOM), instead, it being the shortest of the few books on the shelf. ![]() ![]() Last week I tried to borrow The Thorn Birds from Glebe Library. ![]() ![]() The dust jacket précis reveals that this novel is ‘exhilarating’ and ‘takes us back to 1960 and Sydney’s Kings Cross – and the story of a young woman determined to defy convention’. Ugh: today I realised Colleen McCullough’s latest book (her fifteenth), Angel Puss, which ABR sent to me several weeks ago, needs to be read, reviewed and dispatched by January 3. ![]() ![]() What follows next is a tale of good vampires, bad vampires, romance, and laughter. The book offers a fresh perspective in that the vampires are human, more or less and not supernatural like movies imply so her cross, star of David, or crescent moon broach won’t ward him away. How Your Body Makes It Through a Very Bad DayRichard Walker. “It’s ok,” he tells her, “I’m a private detective, here to protect you”. Goebel, Metallurgy: An Introduction to the Study of Physical Metallurgy 1922. We meet Lance Blogett stalking Carol and using a rope with a metal claw to climb up the fire escape ladder and enter her open window, giving her a heart attack. The authors writing style is full of puns and humor. ![]() Bad vampires, on the other hand, sip to the point of killing the individual simply for the fun of it. You see, the good vampires only need a bit of blood to survive and take it from a willing individual. Instead, it was neither! The author sets his story in modern day times and is outlining the difference between good vampires and bad. When I read the title of this book I expected either another Twilight-like saga or a scary tale that would keep me up at night. ![]() ![]() ![]() Per the companies' definitive merger agreement, Darden will acquire all of Ruth's outstanding shares for $21.50 per share in an all-cash transaction with an equity value of approximately $715 million. Other Darden fine-dining chains include Capital Grille and Eddie V’s. Ruth’s Hospitality Group has more than 150 steakhouse locations worldwide and will expand Darden’s portfolio to 10 chain restaurants with the sale, t he company announced Wednesday. The company that owns Ruth’s Chris Steak House is selling to Darden Restaurants, breaking a drought for restaurant acquisitions in the aftermath of COVID, high inflation, a turbulent stock market and growing fears of a recession. Correction: An earlier version of this story included a restaurant chain that is no longer part of Darden's portfolio. ![]() ![]() Women had only won an equal right to vote ten years before Woolf wrote Three Guineas. Only in 1928 did Britain grant universal suffrage to all adults over the age of 21. Women gained the right to vote only in 1918, and that was in a highly provisional fashion, open only to women over the age of thirty who had a university degree, were householders or married to householders. As Woolf notes in Three Guineas, the movement's progress was incredibly slow. Despite protests and reforms movements in response, the women’s suffrage movement did not get going in earnest until forty years later. Though it succeeded in doing so for men, it legally debarred women from voting by specifically limiting suffrage to men. ![]() Only a little more than a hundred years earlier, in 1832, Parliament passed the Great Reform Act, which was intended to renovate the electoral system and expand suffrage. The first thing to understand is the fragility and newness of women’s rights when Woolf wrote Three Guineas. Written in 1938, Three Guineas should be read in the context of women’s rights, the rise of fascism, and Woolf’s intellectual commitments at that time. ![]() (Wikimedia Commons) The British political movement became known informally as “the suffragettes.” ![]() Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), c. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sunday evening, that scene came to the Shubert Theatre during the North American tour of Jesus Christ Superstar, which stopped in New Haven Friday through Sunday. Already, Esposito knew who was missing from that stage-and could feel the tears coming. In the mezzanine, educator Rob Esposito watched as Judas (Elvie Ellis) made his way onto the stage, a blood-curdling cry trapped somewhere between his gut and his throat. Only after a moment did it reveal itself as a glowing, giant crucifix set on its back. On stage, Emma Cook raised her hands, limbs pliant and electric, her body bouncing up and down a platform. Lights came up, the low and hazy purples of a bruise. Robert Esposito Photo.Ī shock of electric guitar undulated over the Shubert Theater, bathing the house in something sharp and voltaic. Bottom: Henry Green in Jesus Christ Superstar at Cooperative Arts & Humanities High School. Photo by Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade, Courtesy of the Shubert Theatre. Top: Jack Hopewell and the company of the North American Tour of Jesus Christ Superstar. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, after spending 27 years on the other side of the world, Clen is back on Nantucket, and Dabney has never felt so confused, or so alive.īut when tragedy threatens her own second chance, Dabney must face the choices she's made and share painful secrets with her family. Never, that is, except in the case of herself and Clendenin Hughes, the green-eyed boy who took her heart with him long ago when he left the island to pursue his dream of becoming a journalist. But there's no arguing with her results: With 42 happy couples to her credit and all of them still together, Dabney has never been wrong about romance. Some call her ability mystical, while others, her husband, celebrated economist John Boxmiller Beech, and her daughter, Agnes, who is clearly engaged to the wrong man, call it meddlesome. In this moving story about losing and finding love again, a woman sets out to find the perfect matches for those closest to her.įorty-eight-year-old Nantucketer Dabney Kimball Beech has always had a gift for matchmaking. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Each book in this series contains gothic elements, occult or paranormal references, and steamy, open door sex scenes. The Haunting of a Duke is the first of six book in the Dark Regency Series. She made him believe in spirits, but can she make him believe in love? Emme and Rhys find passion and peril as they join forces to solve the mysteries at Briarleigh. When Emme's life is threatened, Rhys becomes her protector. But Emme never imagined she would fall in love with the brooding duke.īranded by society as a possible killer, Rhys is suspicious of Emme and her alleged "gift." Then a late night encounter creates awareness of her other, more attractive, aspects. Emme knows why the Dowager Duchess of Briarleigh invited her to a house party-to investigate whether the duke, Rhys Brammel, murdered his wife years ago. The Haunting of a Duke is perfect read for Halloween or any time of the year for those who like their romance served up slightly darker.Ĭommuning with spirits has been both gift and curse to Emme Walters. Welcome to Briarwood Park, an English manor house filled with spirits, its halls stalked by a bloodthirsty madman, and a brooding duke accused of the most wicked crime of all. A steamy Regency romance full of spicy thrills and spooky chills. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm so proud of this because it took me forever to do! This is probably one of my favorite pieces so far and I love the concept of just using pinks and blue tones as the basis for the piece. It took me a while to do this one because I was so busy, but I'm definitely going to take time when I feel stressed to do this while I watch a movie or TV. I messed up a little bit on one of the color patterns, but I really like the design the more I look at it. ![]() I used fine, fine tip Sharpies and Crayola color pencils. This image took me about four days to color. The end result or even just completing small portions of the page makes me truly happy to see that I've participated in bringing a simple image to life. I've started my journey into adult coloring and so far have discovered that it's a relaxing process. ![]() |