Now those who were closest to her have gathered, each a possible suspect in her disappearance.įrom the poison garden kept by Malcolm’s sister to the high towers of the family castle, the island’s atmosphere is full of shadows, and danger lurks around every corner.ĭetermined to discover Rosamund’s fate, Veronica and Stoker match wits with a murderer who has already struck once and will not hesitate to kill again.… Lured by the promise of a rare and elusive butterfly, the intrepid Veronica Speedwell is persuaded by Lord Templeton-Vane, the brother of her colleague Stoker, to pose as his fiancée at a house party on a Cornish isle owned by his oldest friend, Malcolm Romilly.īut Veronica soon learns that one question hangs over the party: What happened to Rosamund? Three years ago, Malcolm Romilly’s bride vanished on their wedding day, and no trace of her has ever been found. A bride mysteriously disappears on her wedding day in the newest Veronica Speedwell adventure by the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey series.
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But this is only the beginning…Īfter being dragged to join the school’s PTA in the new term by an annoyingly kind-spirited neighbour, Mummy is stuck with organising the Christmas Fayre and pleasing all the overly disapproving parents. After frantically booking sports camps, child minder slots, not to mention time off work, Mummy is exhausted. It’s every parents’ nightmare – the start of the school holidays – and instead of sitting in the sun, reading a book over a cold, crisp glass of Pinot Grigio, Mummy has two bored moppets to attend to. Why Mummy Swears is the much anticipated new novel from Gill Sims, author of the hilarious Why Mummy Drinks and online sensation Peter and Jane. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Will the girls be able to find their holiday spirit in time for Christmas? And a disastrous sledding accident causes both Emma and Jess to completely change their holiday plans.īetween squabbles, injuries, and blizzards, everything seems to be going wrong. but when the West Coast causes homesickness for their former life in Laguna Beach, the family begins to question what state they should call home. Cassidy and her family fly back to California to visit Cassidy's sister Courtney. On a Christmas cruise with their families, Megan and Becca fight over the dashing son of the ship's captain. This Christmas season, join the girls of the mother-daughter book club for a variety of holiday-themed adventures! Becca, Megan, Emma, Cassidy and Jess have plenty of reading material to bring on their trips, too, because the book club is tackling the Betsy-Tacy series before their next meeting on New Year’s Eve.īut unfortunately, nothing goes quite as planned for any of the girls. 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Drawn to two young men from town, Kya opens herself to a new and startling world but when one of them is found dead, she is immediately cast by the community as the main suspect. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" haunted Barkley Cove, isolating the sharp and resilient Kya from her community. She reconsiders having a family again using several of her frozen embryos. She dedicates herself as a music therapist and unexpectedly develops a romantic relationship with a female guidance counselor. Where the Crawdads Sing tells the story of Kya, an abandoned girl who raised herself to adulthood in the dangerous marshlands of North Carolina. A woman struggles for ten years to become pregant, but seven months in, the child is stillborn, and her distraught husband leaves her. From the best-selling novel comes a captivating mystery. So who's really being scientific and who isn't? This question too is one Gaddis explores, in ways that are certain to spark interdisciplinary controversy.Written in the tradition of Marc Bloch and E.H. They don't much resemble what happens in the social sciences, where the pursuit of independent variables functioning with static systems seems increasingly divorced from the world as we know it. Their approaches parallel, in intriguing ways, the new sciences of chaos, complexity, and criticality. In doing so, they combine the techniques of artists, geologists, paleontologists, and evolutionary biologists. Like cartographers mapping landscapes, historians represent what they can never replicate. What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book. 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