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Darkest mercy7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Aislinn tends the Summer Court, searching for her absent king and yearning for Seth. It is a desperate bargain he makes to strengthen his court against the coming war. ![]() ![]() Violence seemed more inevitable by the day and the Summer Court was not yet strong enough to face conflict, so Keenan made a dangerous deal with the water fey. Torn between his new queen and his old love, Keenan left Huntsdale to wander aimlessly but after centuries of leading his court it was not long before the reality of being Summer King became too pressing. The Summer King is missing the Dark Court is bleeding and a stranger walks the streets of Huntsdale, his presence signifying the deaths of powerful fey. The fifth and final breathtaking instalment in the darkly seductive and best-selling WICKED LOVELY series, about the collision of mortal and faery worlds. ![]()
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Horace rumpole books7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Delivery with Standard Australia Post usually happens within 2-10 business days from time of dispatch.You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. ![]() ![]() Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]()
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A Maiden's Grave by Jeffery Deaver7/7/2023 ![]() This sounds almost laughable but Deaver paints a brilliant picture with the scenery and his characters which I have found to be more grabbing than in any of his previous books. This story kicks off in an unusual way with a bus of deaf girls being taken hostage by three escaped convicts after trying to save people who had been involved in an apparent car crash. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. 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. ![]() If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]()
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The sandman the doll house7/6/2023 ![]() They are often in competition with older brother Dream, in part because their realms kind of overlap. This episode introduces us to Desire’s twin, Despair. We’re juggling multiple story lines and endlessly teasing the twists to come. But now form (Netflix) and content ( Sandman) have come together. ![]() That means a sense of endless narrative and a stylistic sameness that tends to replace color with shadow. No matter how prestige-y, streamers are ultimately in the business of making content to fold laundry to. The things that work best in comics - a contained story, a unique style, vivid colors and textures - all go against the Netflix style. If your episode doesn’t end in a cliffhanger, Netflix will most likely make you insert a cliff, then make you hang off it. In fact, the boundaries between episodes are intentionally blurred to keep you bingeing. Like HBO or the CW before it, Netflix has developed its own house style, for better or worse. ![]() ![]() The Doll’s House is the first big serialized arc, and it makes for much more satisfying Netflix-style TV than the previous stories. Now we’re cookin’ with gas! Sandman the comic series always went back and forth between long, seralized arcs and unique, stand-alone issues. ![]()
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![]() The first and second seasons were titled Dragons: Riders of Berk and Dragons: Defenders of Berk respectively. The television series based on the events of the first film, DreamWorks Dragons, began airing on Cartoon Network in September 2012. A live-action reboot from Universal Pictures is in development and scheduled for release on March 14, 2025. The franchise also contains five short films: Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon (2010), Book of Dragons (2010), Gift of the Night Fury (2011), Dawn of the Dragon Racers (2014) and How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming (2019). It consists of three feature films: How to Train Your Dragon (2010), How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019). How to Train Your Dragon (abbreviated HTTYD) is an American media franchise from DreamWorks Animation and loosely based on the eponymous series of children's books by British author Cressida Cowell. ![]() How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. ![]()
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The high window book7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Chandler usually managed to avoid those failures. ![]() Any work of mystery that has to have a lengthy explanation at the end of it to explain what happened is usually a failure. It is not a particularly interesting way of doing things. After all that back and forth, Marlowe explains what happened. They just happen 1,2,3 and each time Marlowe goes back to his client, a port drinking shut-in, only to have her refuse to answer his questions. Sure there are the murders and the mysterious young woman who is kept as a virtual slave in the house of his Marlowe’s client, but there isn’t any tension to them. ![]() Still, it feels a bit sanitized, as if the real dark side of LA had been overlooked. It has the usual collection of reprobates and self destructive lowlifes. In theory that should make for a better reading experience. Chandler’s The High Window is shorter and less robust than his other novels, but it is one of the few that I have not seen in a movie version (one exists from 1944 but it isn’t considered a particularly good film). ![]()
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The trespasser by tana french7/5/2023 ![]() That was the gaffer getting all up in our grille.Ī gaffer is a boss or foreman. The OED says the origin is uncertain but cites the theory that it’s an alteration of box-standard, an old term for the hollow column or standard for a machine, with bog meaning a lavatory or toilet. Something bog-standard is something ordinary, basic, or unexceptional. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) says thicko is a shortening of thickhead, a stupid person.īreslin’s planning on working a long shift, for a bog-standard case. ![]() Thicko Skanger, skanger, or scanger seems to be the Irish slang equivalent of the British chav, a disparaging term for a young, presumably uneducated person with a brash sense of style and manner. ![]() ![]() I put on the Thicko Skanger act too, now and then, but I do it for suspects, not for my own squad. Welcome to the third installment of “Five words from …” our series which highlights interesting words from interesting books! Up now is Tana French’s The Trespasser, a crime thriller that’s chock-full of excellent Irish slang. ![]()
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Ancestral night book7/5/2023 ![]() This and a lot more comprises story of Elizabeth Bear’s Ancestral Night.īear’s novels, for me, always really focus on characters. ![]() ![]() Oh and there is a sexy space pirate is determined to get Haimey and that technology by any means necessary. He Is rather determined, though, with a tenacity that Prince Corwin of Amber might admire. “Mantis Cop” Cheeirilaq is also soon on the case, and if he is ally, Javert, or has an agenda of his own, Haimey doesn’t know. In a race to find what the piece of technology that attaches to Haimey means and what it can really do, Haimey and crew have a long ranging adventure ahead. ![]() When Haimey and company find an ancient ship, and some even weirder tech that is derived from a rather distressing source, their find is interrupted by interlopers. Along with her business partner Connla, their spaceship’s AI, Singer,and a pair of cats, they make a living in the far future by finding ancient wrecks, and salvaging information and items of interest. ![]()
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Frangipani célestine hitiura vaite7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Of course Leilani falls in love too young, which is just one of the family troubles Materena weathers with patience-and passion. ![]() ![]() Materena decides to send her to a good Catholic school, but if Leilani makes her a grandmother before she's 40, she's going to scratch out her eyes. Materena instructs Leilani in all the folk knowledge of Tahiti-e.g., "To get rid of unwanted guests without hurting their feelings, broom around their feet"-but she can't answer all Leilani's impossible questions ("Who started the French Revolution? What's the medical term for the neck?"). Girls are a curse," say some island women, but Matarena is delighted with her baby, Leilani, who soon grows into a free-spirited, curious, and sometimes troublesome girl. "Girls hurt their mother from the day they come into this world. What will she do? Move on-until Pito moves back, of course. With her combustible husband missing after a minor domestic squabble, Materena learns she's pregnant with a daughter. ![]() In this whimsical, charming novel (her first to be published in the U.S.), Vaite introduces readers to proud "professional cleaner" Materena Mahi, one of the spunkiest, wisest, lovingest women on the island of Tahiti. ![]()
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The gift by cecelia ahern7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Sometimes you have to be unravelled in order to find out who you really are. ![]() This is a story about people who not unlike parcels, hide secrets.They cover themselves in layers until the right person unwraps them and discovers what’s inside. He sees what is truly important in life yet at the same time he learns the harshest lesson of all. His very presence unsettles Lou and how does Gabe appear to be in two places at the same time?Īs Christmas draws closer, Lou starts to understand the value of time. Intrigued by him and on discovering that he could also be very useful to have around, Lou gets Gabe a job in the post room.īut soon Lou begins to regret helping Gabe. On his way into work one early winter morning, Lou meets Gabe, a homeless man sitting outside the office building. When at home with his wife and family, his mind was always someplace else. ![]() In between dreams, he ran through the events of the day while making plans for the next. He always had two places to be at the same time. Everyday Lou Suffern battled with the clock. ![]() |