![]() ![]() Cozy readers will look forward to the further adventures of Win and friends. Distinctive characters and sharp dialogue more than make up for some unresolved subplots. ![]() Listen to bestselling audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. The stakes rise with the arrival of a former colleague from the New York City ad agency where Win once worked, who says she wants to lure Win back to New York, but isn't telling the whole truth. Listen to A Game of Cones by Abby Collette with a free trial. ![]() When one of Win's best friends, Riya Amacarelli, throws her shoe at Zeke, he cries, "Don't shoot the messenger!" The next day, Zeke's body is found in an alley, and Win, Riya, and Win's other best friend, Maisie Solomon, join forces to discover which shop owner shot him. The SOOCFA members make it clear they don't care for the idea. At the start of Collette's entertaining sequel to 2020's A Deadly Inside Scoop, Bronwyn "Win" Crewse, the proprietor of her family's ice cream shop in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, attends a meeting of the Shop Owners of Chagrin Falls Association, where Zeke Reynolds, the nervous representative of a Texas real estate company, gives the group an update on his company's plans to build a mall in the village. ![]()
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![]() On Armada, everyone is given work, and even Remades live as equals to humans, Cactae, and Cray. The surviving passengers are brought to Armada, a city constructed from the hulls of pirated ships, a floating, landless mass ruled by the bizarre duality called the Lovers. But when the ship is besieged by pirates on the Swollen Ocean, the senior officers are summarily executed. For she is linked to Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin, the brilliant renegade scientist who has unwittingly unleashed a nightmare upon New Crobuzon.įor Bellis, the plan is clear: live among the new frontiersmen of the colony until it is safe to return home. Among them is Bellis Coldwine, a renowned linguist whose services as an interpreter grant her passage-and escape from horrific punishment. ![]() They are joined by a handful of travelers, each with a reason for fleeing the city. ![]() Aboard a vast seafaring vessel, a band of prisoners and slaves, their bodies remade into grotesque biological oddities, is being transported to the fledgling colony of New Crobuzon. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jeroen revels in the attention the soldier showers on him, at first treating him like a little brother but eventually their relationship becomes sexual. Jeroen meets Walt Cook (Andrew Kelley), a Canadian soldier in his early 20s, who befriends him. Things change when the village is liberated by Canadian troops. Jeroen and his friend Jan go to the ocean and see an American plane in the water Jan tries to go under but claims there are too many eels and comes up with a big cut on his upper right thigh. He stays with an eel fisher's family, but despite the abundance of food, he is plagued by homesickness. The city suffers from food shortages, with more food available in the country. ![]() Jeroen (Jeroen Krabbé) reminisces about the time in 1944 when he (Maarten Smit) and other boys were sent to the countryside by their parents to escape the war. NOTE: The filmed version differs considerably from the original book. ![]() ![]() ![]() The London Eye Mystery is available in the following translations: ![]() Hilary Delamere at The Agency (London) Ltd handles all rights in Siobhan’s books please contact her at: Editions: The London Eye Mystery is published in the UK and the US by David Fickling Books, an imprint of Random House. No wonder the sassy production has such a Tigger-esque bounce.” The Evening Standard. ![]() It’s hit a bull’s-eye with Carl Miller’s charming adaptation of the 2007 children’s book by Siobhan Dowd. “It’s delightful to see the Unicorn launch its spring season headliner with such a visible spring in its step. The story was adapted by Unicorn Artistic Associate Carl Miller, directed by Rosamunde Hutt and performed by the Unicorn ensemble and received a host of rave reviews. the Unicorn Theatre adapted The London Eye Mystery for the stage. And ultimately it comes down to Ted, whose brain runs on its own unique operating system, to find the key to the mystery. Despite their prickly relationship, they overcome their differences to follow a trail of clues across London in a desperate bid to find their cousin. Ted and his older sister Kat become sleuthing partners since the police are having no luck. People exit in all shapes and sizes – but where is Salim? He turns and waves and the pod rises from the ground. Ted and Kat watch their cousin Salim get on board the London Eye. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With a strong female main character who will appeal to all readers, Tom Angleberger and Paul Dellinger’s new novel offers readers a fresh take on robots. Little do they know that surviving seventh grade is going to become a true matter of life and death, because Vanguard has an evil presence at its heart: a digital student evaluation system named BARBARA that might be taking its mission to shape the perfect student to extremes! When Max-Maxine Zelaster-befriends her new robot classmate Fuzzy, part of Vanguard One Middle School’s new Robot Integration Program, she helps him learn everything he needs to know about surviving middle school-the good, the bad, and the really, really, ugly. Reluctant readers and robot lovers in elementary and middle school will enjoy this fast-paced read that shows just how strange a place middle school can be, particularly when the new student is a state-of-the-art robot. From the minds of Tom Angleberger, the New York Times bestselling author of the wildly popular Origami Yoda series, and Paul Dellinger, an adult science-fiction writer, comes a funny middle school story with a memorable robot title character. ![]() |