![]() ![]() Sayers, Parisian gangsters and Continental blackmailers, The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective is both a portrait of a woman ahead of her time and a deliciously salacious glimpse into the underbelly of 'good society' during the first half of the twentieth century. With walk-on parts by Dr Crippen and Dorothy L. ![]() Much of West's work was connected with divorce, missing persons and blackmail cases but she was an accomplished self-publicist and had risen to prominence as 'London's Lady detective' by the 1920s. Interweaving tales from Maud West's own 'casebook' with social history and extensive original research, Stapleton investigates the stories Maud West told about herself in a quest to uncover the truth. West worked as a draper's assistant before founding her detective agency in London in 1905, her office was in Albion House on New Oxford Street. Who was Maud? And what was the reality of being a female private detective in the Golden Age of Crime? ![]() The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective is a portrait of a woman ahead of her time and a deliciously salacious glimpse into the underbelly of good society during the first half of the twentieth. And - as historical researcher Susannah Stapleton reveals - she was a most unreliable witness to her own life. Maud West ran her detective agency in London for more than thirty years, having starting sleuthing on behalf of societys finest in 1905. Her exploits grabbed headlines throughout the world but, beneath the public persona, she was forced to hide vital aspects of her own identity in order to thrive in a class-obsessed and male-dominated world. Maud West ran her detective agency in London for more than thirty years, having started sleuthing on behalf of society's finest in 1905. ![]()
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6/12/2023 0 Comments Kyle kirrin shadeslinger book 3![]() Grab a sample of book 1, Magic and the Shinigami Detectiveand see for yourself. Intriguing mysteries.īut – as always – don’t take my word for it. I finished the last book a week ago but I keep thinking about it.īasically a portal fantasy where the main character portals into a steampunky/fantasy not-Earth world and uses her FBI training to help the local magical examiner solve a series of cases. Manning now but I’m going to recommend Honor Raconteur’s Case Files of Henri Davenforth series this month. Shadeslinger The Ripple System, Book 1 (A Fantasy LitRPG Series) By: Kyle Kirrin, Portal Books Narrated by: Travis Baldree Length: 21 hrs and 32 mins 4. I’m still burning through books – 174 so far this year, 41 in August. Even if I had it done, Tom Tylerson is working on a long term project and wouldn’t be available to narrate until mid 2023 at the earliest. ![]() It’s going slowly because I have zero focus, but I’m using more and more brain on it. I’m picking away at the first new Ishmael book. I’m still not able to eat normally, but I’ve stabilized my weight loss. ![]() ![]() ![]() They're not always connected to the public sewer system.” That means the plastics could end up in the water people use for drinking or irrigating crops. ![]() But, says Enck, “some of these facilities might be discharging directly into groundwater. “But we easily could have found so many smaller than that.”ĭepending on the recycling facility, that wastewater might next flow to a sewer system and eventually to a treatment plant that is not equipped to filter out such small particles before pumping the water into the environment. “It completely shocked me just how tiny the majority of them were,” says Brown. In two of the sample points, approximately 95 percent of the microplastics were under 10 microns, and 85 percent were under 5 microns. And these researchers were finding a lot of particularly small particles. So this is likely a significant underestimate. Plastic particles can get way smaller-like nanoplastics that are tiny enough to enter individual cells-and they grow much more numerous as they do. ![]() But a critical caveat is that the team only tested for microplastics down to 1.6 microns. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Match me if you can lindzee![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was how much he reminded her of another boy, who’d worn an almost identical smile after winning his own trophy his senior year. But it wasn’t his constant fidgeting that distracted her. A first place trophy hid most of his torso, and a lopsided grin revealed metal braces with florescent blue bands. Lauren Reynolds, Tulsa One News, didn’t notice those things, even if plain old Lauren did.īeside her, a teenage boy with shaggy brown hair shifted from foot to foot, threatening to blow her concentration more than the entire crowd combined. Individual conversations pulled at her concentration, and she fought to block them out. ![]() The muggy convention center ballroom overflowed with laughing teenagers and their proud parents. Her tailored suit jacket stuck to her back, the heat still stifling in mid-August despite the air conditioner working overtime. Where was a good tornado to chase when she needed one? She held her smile for the last shot, grasping the microphone so tightly that her hand ached as she stared straight into the camera and fought the urge to run. What were the odds that, out of all the rookie reporters at Tulsa One, she would end up covering the state science competition? Lauren should have called in sick to work today. “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” Join Lindzee’s newsletter and get free access to exclusive content! You’ll also be the first to hear about new releases, free books, and sales. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Her Secret by Shelley Shepard Gray![]() ![]() The narrative begins with the clues (primarily the solar system abundance pattern), the constraining physics (primarily nuclear and particle physics), and the thermonuclear burning in the Big Bang itself. ![]() Our current understanding is presented systematically and quantitatively, by combining simple analytic models with new state-of-the-art computer simulations. A central theme is the evolution of gravitationally contained thermonuclear reactors, otherwise known as stars. This book investigates the question of how matter has evolved since its origin in the Big Bang, from the cosmological synthesis of hydrogen and helium to the generation of the complex set of nuclei that comprise our world and our selves. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Teach Me by R.A. Nelson![]() ![]() ![]() Tuesday Nights in 1980 By Molly Prentiss.Quidditch a través de los tiempos By Kennilworthy.Gracie's Angel (Salt Lake City, Utah, 1918) By Lau. ![]() ![]() War Of The Realms (Valkyrie, #3) By Kate O'Hearn.Domination & Submission By Michael Makai.An Unforgettable Rogue (Rogues Club, #2) By Annett.R.A Nelson s work was selected as a finalist for National Public Radio s list of the Best Young Adult Fiction Ever Written He was chosen a Horn Book Newcomer and his books have been nominated to the YALSA Best Books for Young Adults list and recognized by the Parents Choice Awards, the New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age list, Booksense Kid Picks, the Miami Herald Best Books of the R.A Nelson s work was selected as a finalist for National Public Radio s list of the Best Young Adult Fiction Ever Written He was chosen a Horn Book Newcomer and his books have been nominated to the YALSA Best Books for Young Adults list and recognized by the Parents Choice Awards, the New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age list, Booksense Kid Picks, the Miami Herald Best Books of the Year, Best Books of the year, and others Nelson is a recipient of NASA s prestigious Silver Snoopy Award for outstanding support provided to the Space Shuttle program Teach Me has been optioned by Protagonist Films for a feature film His website is ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Eleanor and park audio book![]() Park's upbringing is happy and sheltered in comparison, but he's got his own set of issues. This is roses and sunshine compared to Eleanor's home life, though, where her stepdad, Richie, is a violent alcoholic who keeps Eleanor's household in a state of constant terror. Eleanor, new at school, stands out in a crowd: She's got fiery red hair, a curvy body type, and a thing for wearing men's clothing, so from day one, she's targeted by bullies at school and on the bus. ![]() This book isn't just the fireworks, rainbows, and violins of first love, though Rainbow Rowell's 2013 Eleanor & Park deals with issues like bullying, discrimination, and domestic violence. Just like Shakespeare's unlucky R & J, our heroes are destined to be torn apart, but along the way they share something incredible. ![]() Their romance happens in the wrong place at the wrong time, but together, Eleanor and Park are anything but wrong. A pair of star-crossed lovers swap cassettes, and try to keep their comic books pristine.Įleanor & Park is the story of two outsiders who fall in love, but if you think you've heard this story before, think again. Two misfits on the bus to school, in fair Omaha where we lay our scene. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments The iron daughter![]() My body ached and my arms burned from clinging to the horse for so long. Behind us, the wiremen poured down the slope in a glittering flood. When we finally hit the ground, the horses landed with barely a jolt and immediately plunged into the forest. We fell for what seemed like an eternity. I screamed as my horse gathered its legs underneath it and leaped into empty space. Ash kicked his steed into motion, and mine followed, charging for the edge of the rise. Far, far in the distance, I saw where the snow-covered treetops met the writhing gray mist of the wyldwood.Ī raven circled us, giving a harsh cry as it passed overhead as the first of the wire-fey clawed its way to the top. The other side of the slope fell away into the same break-neck drop. If we can reach it, we might have a chance.” ![]() Ariella and I used it as a hunting lodge. ![]() “There’s an abandoned fort on the edge of the wyldwood. “Not here.” Ash shook his head and pointed down the other side of the slope. I looked down at the approaching swarm, and my voice squeaked with terror. “They’re faster than us, and will overtake the horses long before we reach a trod. “We can’t outrun them,” he announced, and I caught the faintest hint of fear in his voice, which only made me more terrified. I grabbed for its mane as Ash whirled his steed around, his face grim. It clattered down the slope, arms and legs flailing, but the other fey leaped over the body or skittered aside, and kept coming. The spear hit one directly in the face, punching through the wires and tearing it from the hill. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Dave mckean arkham asylum![]() ![]() Or Holy Histrionics, Batman, I’d rather have listened to an opera… He divides his time between his homes in Los Angeles and Scotland. He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Supergods, a groundbreaking psycho-historic mapping of the superhero as a cultural organism. In his secret identity, Morrison is a "counterculture" spokesperson, a musician, an award-winning playwright and a chaos magician. In addition to expanding the DC Universe through titles ranging from the Eisner Award-winning SEVEN SOLDIERS and ALL-STAR SUPERMAN to the reality-shattering epic of FINAL CRISIS, he has also reinvented the worlds of the Dark Knight Detective in BATMAN AND ROBIN and BATMAN, INCORPORATED and the Man of Steel in The New 52 ACTION COMICS. ![]() Since then he has written such best-selling series as JLA, BATMAN and New X-Men, as well as such creator-owned works as THE INVISIBLES, SEAGUY, THE FILTH, WE3 and JOE THE BARBARIAN. Grant Morrison has been working with DC Comics for twenty five years, after beginning his American comics career with acclaimed runs on ANIMAL MAN and DOOM PATROL. ![]() ![]() Sarah has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Post, the Philadephia Inquirer, and on The Today Show. The site specializes in reviewing romance novels, examining the history and future of the genre, and bemoaning the enormous prevalence of bodacious pectorals adorning male cover models. By evening she dons her cranky costume, consumes yet more caffeine, and becomes Smart Bitch Sarah of By day she's mild mannered and heavily caffeinated. ![]() " Sarah Wendell is a transplanted Pittsburgher currently living in New York metropolitan area. See search resultsfor this author Sarah Wendell(Author) 3. The site specializes in reviewing romance novels, examining the history and future of the genre, and bemoaning the enormous prevalence of bodacious pectorals adorning male cover models. Everything I Know about Love I Learned from Romance Novels Paperback Import, 4 October 2011 by Sarah Wendell (Author) Visit Amazon's Sarah Wendell Page Find all the books, read about the author, and more. ![]() By evening she dons her cranky costume, consumes yet more caffeine, and becomes Smart Bitch Sarah of Smart Bitches, Trashy Books. Sarah Wendell is a transplanted Pittsburgher currently living in New York metropolitan area. ![]() |