![]() But if she’s wrong about what she saw…she’ll be making the biggest mistake of her life.Ĭompulsive, creepy, and inspired by some of our darkest fairy tales, Little Darlings will have you checking-and rechecking-your own little ones. As everyone around her celebrates their return, Lauren begins to scream, These are not my babies.ĭetermined to bring her true infant sons home, Lauren will risk the unthinkable. Little Darlings by Melanie Golding Book Review Little Darlings Author Melanie Golding Publisher HQ Pages 336 Released 2nd May 2019 ISBN-13 978-0008293673 Format ebook, paperback, hardcover, audio Reviewer Stacey Rating 4 Stars I received a free copy of this book. The infants look like Morgan and Riley-to everyone else. ![]() But when they’re found, something is different about them. And one bright summer morning, the babies disappear from Lauren’s side in a park. Everyone, from her doctor to her husband, thinks she’s imagining things.Ī month passes. Yet when the police arrived, they saw no one. ![]() ![]() But she knows what she saw: that night, in her hospital room, a woman tried to take her babies and replace them with her own… creatures. And they’re right with newborn twins, Morgan and Riley, she’s never been more tired in her life. “Mother knows best” takes on a sinister new meaning in this unsettling thriller perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman, Grimms’ Fairy Tales, and Aimee Molloy's The Perfect Mother.Įveryone says Lauren Tranter is exhausted, that she needs rest. ![]()
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Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Holmes demanded loyalty and could turn on people "in a flash"Ĭarreyrou writes that Holmes "demanded absolute loyalty from her employees and if she sensed that she no longer had it from someone, she could turn on them in a flash." ![]() The portable device, which she claimed could diagnose a wide range of diseases with just a few small drops of blood, was not introduced to the public until 2016, after the company had already been forced to void two years of results from its previous blood-testing device, the Edison, due to inaccuracy.Ĥ. That's the show-stopping description Holmes assigned to the miniLab at her company's 2011 Christmas party. Holmes described Theranos' miniLab device as "the most important thing humanity has ever built" Even worse, Carreyrou writes that Holmes' "administrative assistants would friend employees on Facebook and tell her what they were posting there."ģ. Theranos employees describe a paranoid atmosphereĬarreyrou reports that some Theranos employees suspected Theranos' IT team of spying on them and reporting back to Holmes with their computer activity. ![]() ![]() ![]() The late Pope’s words came shortly before The First Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, in 1990, which itself warned that “anthropogenic climate change will persist for many centuries.” ![]() “The resulting meteorological and atmospheric changes range from damage to health to the possible future submersion of low-lying lands.” This is one in an ongoing series of featuresĮxploring climate communications to various faith communities. “Industrial waste, the burning of fossil fuels, unrestricted deforestation, the use of certain types of herbicides, coolants and propellants: all of these are known to harm the atmosphere and environment,” he said. ![]() John Paul II’s message on that day pointed to a worldwide ecological crisis, and while it did not mention climate change by name his references were clear. On January 1, 1990, Pope John Paul II delivered his World Day of Peace message to Catholics around the world, and for that year’s address he lamented a “widespread destruction of the environment.” World peace, he warned, was threatened not only by arms, conflict, and injustice, but by “a lack of due respect for nature.” ![]() The Catholic Church hierarchy, beginning with the Pope more than two decades ago, has framed climate change as a moral issue involving ‘the future of God’s creation’ and one best viewed through four principles guiding Catholics’ worldview. Media requests for Jeff Masters and Bob Henson. ![]() ![]() But if Tessa follows her heart now, will it be. She’s never felt so intensely for anyone, so exhilarated by someone’s kiss-but is the irrepressible heat between her and Hardin worth all the drama? Love used to be enough to hold them together. This cycle of jealousy, unpredictable anger, and forgiveness is exhausting. Tessa knows Hardin loves her and will do anything to protect her, but there’s a difference between loving someone and being able to have them in your life. And rather than being understanding, he turns to sabotage. ![]() The one person she should be able to rely on, Hardin, is furious when he discovers the massive secret she’s been keeping. ![]() ![]() Revelations about first her family, and then Hardin’s, throw everything they knew before in doubt and makes their hard-won future together more difficult to claim. Just as Tessa makes the biggest decision of her life, everything changes. AFTER WE FELL.Life will never be the same. Tessa and Hardin’s love was complicated before. Experience the internet's most talked-about book for yourself from the writer Cosmopolitan called “the biggest literary phenomenon of her generation.” Based on the After books by Anna Todd (which originally started life as Harry Styles Wattpad fanfiction), the big-screen series is made up of four films: After (2019), After We Collided. Book 3 of the After series-newly revised and expanded, Anna Todd's After fanfiction racked up 1 billion reads online and captivated readers across the globe. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "This story is so magical and transportive that I fully expected the book would know the moment I'd finished ― within hours, no less ― and promptly unravel into a pile of jewels and silks in my hands. “In a tale as exquisitely crafted as one of Alizeh’s own garments, Mafi weaves a spell of destiny and danger, forbidden love and courtly intrigue, magic and revolution.”―Cassandra Clare, #1 NYT bestselling author of The Last Hours Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo, Tomi Adeyemi, and Sabaa Tahir, this is the explosive first book in a new fantasy trilogy from the New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-nominated author, Tahereh Mafi. But he could never have imagined that the servant girl with the strange eyes, the girl he can’t put out of his mind, would one day soon uproot his kingdom – and the world. The crown prince, Kamran, has heard the prophecies foretelling the death of his king. To all the world, Alizeh is a disposable servant, not the long-lost heir to an ancient Jinn kingdom forced to hide in plain sight. ![]() ‘An exquisite fantasy’ – STEPHANIE GERBER ‘Mafi's diamond-bright lyrical voice weaves a tale that is gilded in magic’ – ROSHANI CHOKSHI TikTok sensation author Tahereh Mafi’s first novel in this brand new epic, romantic fantasy series. ![]() This Woven Kingdom: the brand new YA fantasy series from the author of TikTok Made Me Buy It sensation, Shatter Me – BookaliciousMY ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I wasn’t quite sure what to expect with a novel about the circus, but I decided to jump in and just experience the book, and I’m incredibly happy that I did! I’ve wanted to read something by the duo that is Becca and Krista Ritchie for a while now, so on a time crunch, I figured that their standalone novel Amour Amour would be the perfect place to start. Thora wants to perform with him, but when someone like Nikolai attracts the spotlight wherever he goes-Thora fears that she’s destined to be just background to his spellbinding show. But getting closer to Nik means diving deeper into sin city and into his dizzying world. For one, they may be partners in the future–acrobatic partners, that is. ![]() That’s what Nik calls their “non-existent” relationship. When Thora unknowingly walks into the crosshairs of Nikolai’s after-show, her audition process begins way too soon. Confident, charming and devilishly captivating, 26-year-old Nikolai Kotova lives up to his nickname as the “God of Russia.” ![]() Thora knows she’s out of her element the second she meets Amour’s leading performer. The best aerial technique won’t land 21-year-old Thora James her dream role in Amour-a sexy new acrobatic show on the Vegas strip. I give it all to someone, and they give it all to me.” The circus is based one-hundred percent off trust. “Every day,” he says lowly, “I hold a person’s life in my hands. ![]() ![]() His father wants him to become a “good Christian, loyal to the King and master of fertile lands” so he sends him to Barcelona where Diego’s fencing master indoctrinates him into “La Justicia,” a secret society that fights against oppression. ![]() During his Shamanic journey, he is saved by the fox, “zorro,” who becomes his spiritual guide. Raised in two worlds, Diego learns Okahué (justice, dignity, courage, honor and respect) from his grandmother, White Owl, a shaman and healer. Zorro, born in California, is the son of Gray Wolf, a Shoshone woman warrior, and Captain Alejandro del La Vega, a Spanish Aristocrat. My New Mexico town is named Socorro or “help,” which is what the Indians first provided their conquistador guests who traveled from Spain through Mexico, New Mexico and on to California, the setting for “Zorro,” Isabel Allende’s adventure novel about heroes and powerful women.ĭiego de La Vega, a.k.a. The site is a short distance from my home along the Camino Real, the “royal road” of commerce. In 1592 Spanish invaders built San Miguel Mission on top of graves of Piro Indians they slaughtered. ![]() courageous characters so real we can suspend reality. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, by aligning ourselves with this force and working with the nature of reality rather than struggling against it, we can cultivate both inner peace and outer harmony. ![]() This ineffable reality is referred to as Tao and is not possible to describe or define in words. In a nutshell, the core message of the Tao Te Ching is that life has a certain rhythm to it - a certain flow. It is the most translated book in the world, second only to The Bible. Like most ancient texts that have endured the test of time, the Tao Te Ching has quite a lot of useful and thought-provoking things to say, which is why it continues to be relevant to modern people. So Tao Te Ching can be translated roughly as The Book of The Way and How to Live It. The word Tao means The Way, Te means virtue or morality, and Ching means classic book. The Tao Te Ching is the foundational text of the Chinese philosophy of Taoism, which dates back to the 4th century BCE. ![]() ![]() ![]() Damon Lindelof (LOST, HBOs WATCHMEN) Another hit graphic novel from the award-winning creators of PULP, MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN JUNKIES, CRIMINAL, and KILL OR BE KILLED - a must-have for all Brubaker and Phillips fans! And look for the next standalone book in the Reckless series in October! Review Quotes PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - Ghosts of the 1960s and 70s haunt this bruising second entry in Brubaker and Phillipss bloody-knuckled L.A. No one does crime fic like Brubaker and Phillips, and their collaboration has never felt more new. ![]() until a missing woman shows up in the background of an old B-movie, and Ethan is drawn into Hollywoods secret occult underbelly as he hunts for her among the wreckage of the wild days of the 70s. Its 1985 and things in Ethans life are going pretty well. ![]() About the Book Its 1985 and things in Ethans life are going pretty well, until a missing woman shows up in the background of an old B-movie, and Ethan is drawn into Hollywoods secret occult underbelly as he hunts for her among the wreckage of the wild days of the 70s- Book Synopsis The next book in the red-hot Reckless series is here! Bestselling crime noir masters Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips are back with another new original graphic novel featuring troublemaker-for-hire Ethan Reckless. ![]() |