![]() ![]() ![]() And the detective handling the case - a certain Harry Bosch - is convinced the killer must be one of Vincent's clients. The only problem is that Vincent was murdered, shot at close range in his office garage. If Mickey could find the magic bullet and win that one against the odds, he'd really be back in the big leagues. Not only that, but Vincent was about to go to bat for Walter Elliott, the Hollywood mogul accused of brutally slaying his wife and her lover, in a trial that promises big fees and an even bigger place in the media spotlight. Jerry had left instructions that Mickey should inherit all of his clients - putting Mickey's stalled career back on track at a stroke. When down-at-heel lawyer Mickey Haller gets the news that his old colleague Jerry Vincent has died, he also gets an unexpected windfall. BUT THE CONTENT OF THE BOOK IS IN GOOD CONDITION. Description: NOTE: THE EDGES AND PAGES ARE STAINED DUE TO AGE. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But when one of her dance partners accidentally leaves behind a gruesome souvenir, Ji Lin may finally get the adventure she has been longing for.Įleven-year-old houseboy Ren is also on a mission, racing to fulfill his former master’s dying wish: that Ren find the man’s finger, lost years ago in an accident, and bury it with his body. Quick-witted, ambitious Ji Lin is stuck as an apprentice dressmaker, moonlighting as a dancehall girl to help pay off her mother’s Mahjong debts. “A sumptuous garden maze of a novel that immerses readers in a complex, vanished world.” - Kirkus (starred review)Īn utterly transporting novel set in 1930s colonial Malaysia, perfect for fans of Isabel Allende and Min Jin Lee The Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her association with the Joker keeps her protected from Gotham's worst, and she is unwilling to give up that protection, until one day she hears her roller derby friends mocking her fixation with the Clown Prince of Crime. Wallowing in misery and trying to find out who she is outside of her psychopathic lover, Harley sloppily engages in all the usual breakout rituals: cutting her hair, joining a roller derby team, going out partying at the local mob-owned dive, breaking thugs' legs - doing everything but telling people that she and the Joker are broken up. The beginning of Birds of Prey finds Harley Quinn broken up with the Joker and kicked out of his gang. Margot Robbie's breakout character from Suicide Squad finally gets a movie all to her own, and despite its title, Birds of Prey is very much Harley's movie. But mostly, it's having too much of a blast to notice. A pulpy, kaleidoscopic funhouse ride that feels simultaneously high-stakes and low-stakes all at once, Birds of Prey is as cheeky, irreverent, and erratic as its central character, Harley Quinn - to both its benefit and its detriment. Birds of Prey just wants to have fun, and damn to hell anyone who won't let it. ![]() ![]() ![]() I find this ending unsatisfying but realistic. I would add as supporting evidence the fact that she did not even attempt to reconnect over a long series of funerals for the first hundred. ![]() Sax hallucinated her and his later enhanced memory was just an echo of the hallucination. No mystery to solve, just a grim and abrupt end. Hiroko was killed in the initial attack and "disappeared" the way secret police have done time and again. My own view, sadly, is that Coyote had it exactly right. To be honest, I am not sure where he was going with that, because it was hard to read it and not think of Hiroko (one final tease for the reader perhaps). She might have been a nod to the other false Hirokos like the one on Earth. I don't think the Asian woman referenced at the end could be Hiroko, because she would have been recognized. It is significant that Hiroko had reached mythic status, sometimes being seen in two places at once. I think it's safe to say Robinson intentionally left it unanswered, though he I believe he had a most likely outcome in mind and tipped it off. ![]() ![]() ![]() I found this book eerie, suspenseful, and very hard to put down. I would have loved to see Addy explore the house a little more, it is a huge 3 story house and we only get to go into a few rooms. The story did take a while to fully develop but for me that only heightened the suspense. As a cat owner myself I cringed at the choices Addy faced trying to keep her cat and herself safe. I liked that he played a role throughout the entire story. I absolutely loved the characters, I especially enjoyed the cat. She shows up at the house unprepared for how isolated it is, she also has no money or supplies due to taking care of her mother. ![]() She has just lost her mother, and has no place else to stay. I thoroughly enjoyed this! We follow Adrienne (Addy) and her loyal cat Wolfgang, as they move into a large house that was left to Addy by a previously unknown relative. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Possibilities is a tender and darkly funny story about the fracturing and healing that takes place within a family after tragedy. Then a girl named Kit appears on Sarah’s doorstep–and she’s carrying Cully’s child. Slowly, she comes to terms with a world without the swish of her son’s ski pants or the rolling of his skateboard outside her window. Her best friend, a recent divorcee who always manages to say the wrong things, convinces Sarah to sort through Cully’s belongings. ![]() Her father, a retiree who has become addicted to QVC, urges Sarah to go back to work at Breckenridge’s local morning show. As Sarah tries her best to go through the stages–the anger, the sadness, the letting go–she has trouble keeping her grief at bay and moving on with life. John, a single mother, is reeling from grief: Three months ago, her twenty-one-year-old son, Cully, died in an avalanche near their home in the ski resort town of Breckenridge, Colorado. In this highly anticipated novel from the bestselling author of The Descendants, a grieving mother struggles to overcome her son’s death, when a strange girl enters her life with a secret that changes them both forever.Sarah St. You can read this before The Possibilities PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. ![]() ![]() Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Possibilities written by Kaui Hart Hemmings which was published in May 13, 2014. Brief Summary of Book: The Possibilities by Kaui Hart Hemmings ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now You’re One of Us, her 2007 novel, is reminiscent of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca. Otomichi is partnered with an older detective and both must work together to solve a series of mysterious deaths. In The Hunter, readers meet Takako Otomichi, a former patrol officer turned detective. Often, her writing features strong, capable female characters. She has won the Japan Mystery Suspense Award, the Naoki Prize, and the Chuokoron Prize for Literature in 2012. Though she works in genres frequently dominated by men, Nonami has become an acclaimed writer of gothic suspense. ![]() Poster from the 2012 film, The Howling, adapted from Nonami’s book, The Hunter (Image via Opus Pictures/Film Poeta) 10.) Asa NonamiĪsa Nonami is a Japanese crime fiction and horror writer that may not be well known among American horror fans. ![]() ![]() ![]() In almost every way this book sits at 180 degrees from the earlier four volumes of the Sandman series-although the less it seems to belong to the series, the more it shows its heart. ![]() Gaiman pushes these worlds to their very extremes-one is a fantasy world with talking animals, a missing princess, and a mysterious villain called the Cuckoo the other is an urban microcosm inhabited by a drag queen, a punk lesbian couple, and a New York doll named Barbie. Dream has six siblings: Despair, Desire, Death, Destruction, Delirium, and Destiny, although not all have been shown so far in The Sandman season 1. Then there's the plot, which grinds along like a coffee mill, in the process breaking down the two worlds of this series, that of the dream and that of the dreamer. Volume Five of New York Times best selling author Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed creation THE SANDMAN collects one of the series’ most beloved storylines. The Sandman mainly switches between Earth and the Dreaming realm, as well as different periods of Dreams life, and the different realms of Dream’s sibling’s realms. The characters are dense and unique, while their observations are, as always with Gaiman, refreshingly familiar. ![]() And you may have thought, "What the hell does that mean?" Enter A Game of You to confound the issue even more, while at the same time standing as a fine example of such a description. You may have heard somewhere that Neil Gaiman's Sandman series consisted of cool, hip, edgy, smart comic books. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We are all born with a growth mindset, and we can relearn it anytime.The growth mindset mostly stems from a strong, genuine desire to learn.The corporate world turns most of us into fixed-mindset drones.Here are my three favorite lessons from the book: To contrast that, people with a growth mindset believe that whatever they want to achieve is theirs for the taking, as long as they work hard for it, dedicate themselves to their goal and practice as much as they can. Their skills seem to be written down in their genes, just like their looks, which is why they never try to improve in something they suck at. If they’re not gifted with the ability to do something, they think they’re doomed to be a failure. People with a fixed mindset believe talent is everything. In her book Mindset, she discerns between two attitudes: the fixed mindset and the growth mindset. ![]() What we do control, however, are our skills and abilities, at least according to the latest research. How long have they been this way? As long as you can remember, right? That’s because we have almost no control over our appearance and features, such as height, the shape of our nose, or the color of our eyes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The short chapters (128 of them) make it a quick read, the action skips back and forward between Washington and Sevilla. The plot like other Dan Brown books has holes and the cryptography details probably wouldn’t hold up to scrutiny but it is a compulsive read. A renegade programmer Tankado, has created a supposedly impregnable code that he intends to publish, a code that would render the $2 billion dollar super computer obsolete and leave the NSA unable to eavesdrop, on who they will. The book starts with their proposed weekend romantic break, being interrupted by NSA Commander Strathmore, who fears that ,the NSA’s super computer TRANSLATR, that can eavesdrop on the world’s terrorists, drug dealers and private citizens is under threat. Her boyfriend, David Becker, who happens to share the author’s initials is also brilliant and beautiful. Susan Fletcher is one of the NSA’s top cryptographers and beautiful to wit. The main protagonists are a little unbelievable. ![]() |