![]() ![]() If he keeps track of her every move he’ll know just when to come to her rescue…A spellbinding, darkly twisted audiobook about desire and obsession, and the complicated lines between truth and perception, Our Kind of Cruelty introduces Araminta Hall, a chilling new voice in psychological suspense. Our kind of cruelty by Araminta Hall, May 08, 2018, Macmillan Audio edition, preloaded digital audio player. If Mike watches V closely, he’ll see the signs. He knows they’ll be blissfully happy together.It doesn’t matter that she hasn’t been returning his emails or phone calls.It doesn’t matter that she says she’s marrying Angus.It’s all just part of the secret game they used to play. Booktopia has Our Kind of Cruelty, The most addictive psychological thriller youll read this year by Araminta Hall. He’s found the perfect home, the perfect job, he’s sculpted himself into the physical ideal V has always wanted. ![]() V taught him about love, and in return, Mike has dedicated his life to making her happy. Mike’s love story.Mike Hayes fought his way out of a brutal childhood and into a quiet, if lonely life, before he met Verity Metcalf. In short: I loved it, right down to the utterly chilling final line." -Gillian Flynn, New York Times bestselling author of Gone GirlThis is a love story. "This is simply one of the nastiest and most disturbing thrillers I've read in years. ![]()
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![]() ![]() And she won’t rest until she can defy the evil powers that are still a threat to herself, Jean-Paul, and the ancient vine-witch legacy in the rolling hills of the Chanceaux Valley. To stay on and help the vines recover, she’ll have to hide her true identity, along with her plans for revenge against whoever stole seven winters of her life. But Elena knows a hex when she sees one, and the vineyard is covered in them. Vigneron Jean-Paul Martel naively favors science over superstition, and he certainly doesn’t endorse the locals’ belief in witches. ![]() And the vineyard she was destined to inherit is now in the possession of a handsome stranger. Now, after breaking the spell that confined her to the shallows of a marshland and weakened her magic, Elena is struggling to return to her former life. Then the skill of divining harvests fell into ruin when sorcière Elena Boureanu was blindsided by a curse. For centuries, the vineyards at Château Renard have depended on the talent of their vine witches, whose spells help create the world-renowned wine of the Chanceaux Valley. ![]() ![]() ![]() They meet up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, during the annual International Hot Air Balloon Festival, a spectacle that must be seen to be believed. She decides to accept an offer to be interviewed about her experience in Texas by a reporter who followed her story. ![]() ![]() Much to her dismay, Helicity ends up in the spotlight-first in a good way after surviving the hurricane and rescuing the dog-but then social media turns on her, and she finds herself in the eye of a completely different kind of storm.Back at school, Helicity struggles to maintain her focus-long rides on her horse, Raven, help, as do a few weekend trips with her mom. They leave Andy and their dad behind, as Andy is finally going to get the help he needs in an addiction rehabilitation facility. She somehow manages to keep herself safe, and to even rescue a lost dog in the process.After a day in the hospital, she, her mom, and Sam make the two-day drive back. Chasing Helicity: Through the Storm (Audio CD / Audio)īy Zee, Ginger Read by Schorr, Katie Director Mattler, Jaymeīattered, bruised, but alive, Helicity Dunlap rides out a hurricane in the Bolivar Peninsula Lighthouse in Texas. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I was made to feel quite old when the barista at the local coffee shop had never heard of either book or movie. Perhaps the best known of action writer Alistair MacLean’s books (he also did Where Eagles Dare and Ice Station Zebra), it was made into an Oscar-winning (and notoriously loud) movie in 1961. But a small team of specialists might be able to scale the unclimbable cliffs, get past the elite Alpenkorps troops, infiltrate the impenetrable fortress and blow up the invincible guns. Unfortunately neither sea nor air attacks will work on the Navarone fortress due to its unique position, and a mass amphibious assault would take too long. The British Navy wants to pull them off, but the only route that can be taken goes right past–the guns of Navarone. There are more than a thousand British soldiers trapped on a small island off the Turkish coast, and the Germans are sending a huge force to smash them. Book Review: The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean ![]() ![]() You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. 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And is it really true, despite the Bible’s assurances to the contrary, that “dead men don’t rise”? ![]() And the whimsically inscrutable Lo Spettro wants a sign of loyalty from Leoni before he delivers the goods: “You must kill and be seen to kill.” The opening flashes forward to 10 days later and presents Leoni executing Leo Falcone and Gianni Peroni, a pair of heavies sent to Reggio to tell Emmanuel Akindele, the Nigerian immigrant who operates the Zanzibar on behalf of the 'Ndrangheta, that he needs to take out an insurance policy on the dive bar, with the first payment due immediately. Although Lo Spettro’s daughter, Lucia Bergamotti, is clearly drawn to Maso Leoni, her brother Rocco is suspicious, territorial, and unpleasantly peremptory in his brutality. ![]() For all his efforts, the deal is still perilous. ![]() So arrangements are made for Costa to masquerade as Tomasso Leoni, a “minor criminal” from Guelph, Canada. But it’s clear that despite his offer, approaching him will be a dangerous proposition. The gang leader who prefers to be known as Lo Spettro won’t say why he’s suddenly willing to give up his family to the Questura. Whatever Rome police detective Nic Costa’s been doing in the unusually long break since his last outing ( The Fallen Angel, 2011), it hasn’t prepared him for the ups and downs he faces when he goes undercover with the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta. ![]() ![]() ![]() The woman on duty, U, who reads all the letters, sympathizes with him and offers him companionship. ![]() After his evening walk, D-503 arrives to find a letter waiting for him. He reflects that his diary has become a “fantastic adventure novel” instead of the sober record he first intended (99). In the morning he begins his routine, feeling increasingly alienated. Afterwards D-503 claims his scratched fingers are proof he fell down the tunnel, but a co-worker informs him he hurt them on a sanding wheel.ĭ-503 is tortured by dreams of a blade on I-330’s throat. I-330 arrives and escorts him back to the world above. Eventually he awakens and comes to a door, where the surprised doctor answers his knock. He blacks out, describing the attack as a “temporary death” (94). When he sees S-4711, D-503 flees into a wardrobe and finds himself in a series of secret tunnels. At the Ancient House, D-503 kisses the old caretaker in a rush of joy before exploring the house. Suddenly he sees the muzzle and yellow eyes of a beast on the other side and wonders if the animal could be happier than he is. Following the doctor’s orders, D-503 walks along the Green Wall separating the city from the wilderness outside. ![]() ![]() ![]() The other workers say it’s a regular thing in that line of work. ![]() They’ve eaten through his new boots and have now attacked his feet. It’s from the chemicals he stands in all day. It’s a graphic novelisation of Upton Sinclair’s famously grim expose of American immigrant working experiences. You can see this book is not a barrel of laughs. Then there’s the guilt of our main man here Jurgis Rudkus who can’t get a decent enough job to keep a roof over his family’s heads and when his foot gets injured by a rampaging steer in the section where he’s shovelling up intestines all day long it starts going downhill rapidly. And kind of making a mental calculation along the way – now, is this guy and his Lithuanian family toiling in the stockyards and factories of Chicago in the 1890s worse off or better off than the inhabitants of the workhouse in Oliver Twist or the Mexican street kids in Bunuel’s film Los Olvidados or the prisoners banged up in the gulag in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich or the slum dwellers of Mumbai in Behind the Beautiful Forevers or the Okies in The Grapes of Wrath? How do they score on the miseryometer? Then there’s the guilt in sitting in my leafy suburb reading about the grinding misery of the poor and downtrodden. Come and get it, it's free!įor me, I feel the usual guilt when I whizz through a big graphic novel in just over an hour knowing full well that it probably took the artist two or three years hard labour to make it. ![]() ![]() ![]() You had some nice grapes in your lunch last week. "But I could read 'The Fox and the Grapes.' I think you'll enjoy that one, Keiko. "Oh, noooo!" Keiko put her head back down and groaned. "I won't read 'The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing,' then, because I believe that one ends with the wolf eating the lamb-" "Not about anybody dying!" Keiko implored, raising her head. He was the creator of all of these fables. Aesop was a man who lived a very long time ago. She folded her arms on her desk and then laid her head down on her arms. "Nobody cares if a grasshopper dies!" Tyrone said. "It's a dumb grasshopper! It's only a grasshopper! Just a grasshopper!" Malcolm, who had been rolling paper into balls while he listened to the story, tossed a little paper pellet at Keiko. But the grasshopper had none, and found itself dying of hunger." Pidgeon said, reading the final page of the book she was holding, "because the ant had worked very hard, he and his friends had food all winter. ![]() |