![]() ![]() Time to get your robes on and your wand ready!Īustralia’s most wanted criminal Gregory David Roberts penned his exploits in Mumbai in the novel, Shantaram. ![]() After seeing a few more locations from the author’s life, the tour ends with a Sorting Hat ceremony so you can find out which house of Hogwarts you belong in. Also make a pit stop at the Greyfriars Kirkyard, a cemetery whose gravestones inspired the author to come up with the character names (see if you can find the grave of William McGonagall or Thomas Riddell). It houses a bank exactly like Gringotts and a pub that could be the Leaky Cauldron. ![]() Through the guided tour, that’s completely free, visit Victoria Street, that’s the real life Diagon Alley. Keep the magic alive with The Potter Trail, a Harry Potter-themed walk through the city of Edinburgh, the hometown of author JK Rowling and also the inspiration for locations in the books. Bringing together beloved authors and travel, these book-themed trails, make you relive your favourite novels, whether getting a drink at Lisbeth Salander’s favourite haunt or wandering in the real life Diagon Alley. If you are one of those who just can’t travel without a paperback in your bag, we might just have something for you. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Will the couples be able to protect their marriages? Trouble is brewing at the baby shower where the outcome could very well be a toe tag or a jail cell. Can Rick break his two women out of their Western civilization mind-set in order to become one big, happy family? Who is the mysterious Lolita who suddenly shows up at a baby shower, and what is her connection to Don Carlos, a drug lord? Is she trying to set them up? Angel has to pledge her love to Kaylin once again while Jaz and Faheem try to start all over while mourning the loss of his murdered son. Trae and Tasha fight to hold on to what they have after he's released from prison, but when Trae is given a package containing some damning information regarding Tasha, is there any hope of salvaging the relationship? Kyra has to decide who she will choose: her unborn baby or Rick, the man she loves, but who is in another relationship. Romance and Thug Lovin' is at its pinnacle in part 7 of the Thug Series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The only way she can think of to start healing is by reconnecting with the one person left in the world who's ever meant anything to her-her anonymous Internet best friend, Cinder. ![]() If Ella wants to escape her father's home and her awful new stepfamily, she must convince her doctors that she's capable, both physically and emotionally, of living on her own. After a very difficult recovery, she's been uprooted across the country and forced into the custody of a father that abandoned her when she was a young child. It's been almost a year since eighteen-year-old Ella Rodriguez was in a car accident that left her crippled, scarred, and without a mother. He also had lots of money, dated models-which meant he had to be hot-and was a closet book nerd.įunny, rich, hot, confident, book lover. The boy was cocky and stubborn and argued with everything I said just to be infuriating. ![]() Not that I was in love with my Internet best friend or anything. What would you do if your anonymous Internet best friend turned out to be Hollywood's hottest celebrity?Ĭinder458: Your blogaversary is coming up, right?ĮllaTheRealHero: Do all those Hollywood friends of yours know you use words like blogaversary?Ĭinder458: Of course not. ![]() ![]() ![]() &LIThe Metamorphosis and Other Stories&L/I, by &LBFranz Kafka&L/B, is part of the &LI&LIBarnes & Noble Classics&L/I &L/Iseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. ![]() ![]() ![]() Can Apollo find his godly form again? Will Meg be able to face up to her troubled past? Destiny awaits. ![]() They must face the last emperor, the terrifying Nero, and destroy him once and for all. Now Apollo and Meg must get ready for the final - and, let's face it, probably fatal - adventure. But though the battle may have been won, the war is far from over. Somehow Apollo has made it out alive, with a little bit of help from the Hunters of Artemis. Tarquin and his army of the undead have been defeated. The fifth and final title in Rick Riordan's Trials of Apollo series - set in the funny, mythical and action-packed world of Percy Jackson It's time to face the final trial. ![]() ![]() Many have prologues, and most have been solely narrative-as is the case with Revival. What’s interesting to note, to me, few of the novels we’ve looked at have any dialogue. By looking at various genres and authors, you’re getting to see many ways a first page can draw readers into story. If you haven’t been following these weekly forays into best-seller first pages, be sure to read through them. His style has changed a bit over the decades, but readers of his novels have high expectations and enjoy his trademark storytelling. ![]() I’ve read many of his novels over the years, and some I loved and others I didn’t. Little needs to be said about King and his being the king of the horror genre. Today, for our first-page analysis, we’re going to look at Revival, by Stephen King. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2020 over half of all donated sperm used in Britain came from overseas - 27 per cent from America and 21 per cent from Denmark. ![]() In Copenhagen the European Sperm Bank is just one of the companies sending sperm to the UK, or to Danish clinics where British women attend for fertility treatment. In the more open-minded Danish society there is less taboo attached to sperm donation than in the UK and many donors are similarly relaxed about the prospect of their off-spring eventually making contact once they become adults. ![]() ![]() In Denmark sperm banks are booming and many students can earn more than £400 a month from donating regularly. British women are turning to Denmark hoping for 'Viking babies' as the UK suffers a nationwide shortage of sperm donors. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is where Apollo’s emotional maturity, and character development truly comes to light. Once captured, the pair gain a new ally in Luguselwa who betrays her team and escorts them to the safety. The book begins like many of Riordan’s others with Apollo and Meg being ambushed while travelling. Can Apollo find his godly form again? Will Meg be able to face up to her troubled past? Destiny awaits…. They must face the last emperor, the terrifying Nero, and destroy him once and for all. Now Apollo and Meg must get ready for the final – and, let’s face it, probably fatal – adventure. ![]() But though the battle may have been won, the war is far from over. Somehow Apollo has made it out alive, with a little bit of help from the Hunters of Artemis. Tarquin and his army of the undead have been defeated. In The Tower of Nero, Rick Riordan delivers a breathtaking and deeply emotional story as the conclusion to his Trials of Apollo series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This describes a treasure-seeking expedition on the volcanic island of Trindade, off Brazil (sometimes known as "Trinidad" but not to be confused with the larger Caribbean island of that name). Ransome used as a major resource for Peter Duck a book by one of his favourite sailing authors, E. The appearance, sailing background and many of the characteristics of Peter Duck are based on Captain Sehmel, a Latvian sailor who accompanied Ransome on a cruise aboard his yacht Racundra in the Baltic Sea, as documented in Ransome's sailing book, Racundra's First Cruise. Most of the book was written in Aleppo where Ransome was staying with the Altounyans. The book, first published in 1932, is considered to be one of the metafictional books in the series, along with Missee Lee and perhaps Great Northern?. During the voyage the Wildcat (Captain Flint's ship) is chased by another vessel, the Viper, whose piratical crew are also intending to recover the treasure. The Swallows and Amazons sail to Crab Island with Captain Flint and Peter Duck, an old sailor, to recover buried treasure. Peter Duck is the third book in the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome. Godine, Publisher: paperback, 1987, 2010) ![]() ![]() ![]() What makes them particularly interesting is not that each one changes, deletes, or adds certain elements but that they tend to make the same changes. There have been several adaptations and parodies of this book. ![]() The book can be read online for free here. When they break into the room they find Hyde, having committed suicide by poison, and two letters explaining everything. Two months pass, during which time Jekyll seems to be at peace again, until his butler Poole contacts Utterson to report that a stranger has locked himself in the doctor's lab. Jekyll is clearly upset at this development, though he again reassures Utterson that everything is fine and reveals that Hyde has left him a note apologizing for everything and promising he shall not return. While Utterson continues to investigate his suspicions, Hyde is witnessed committing the savage murder of Sir Danvers Carew, a prominent Member of Parliament. Utterson starts to wonder if his client is being blackmailed, though Jekyll himself says there is nothing to worry about. Jekyll's friend and attorney, Gabriel John Utterson, is disturbed when he learns this - because Jekyll has just recently made Hyde the heir to his £250,000 estate. Edward Hyde, pays off the witnesses with a cheque signed by the eminently respectable scientist Dr. When a girl is brutally assaulted late one night, her attacker, calling himself Mr. Source of the Jekyll & Hyde trope, this 1886 book by Robert Louis Stevenson begins with a mystery. ![]() |