English dramatist Michael Morton adapted the book into a play, Alibi, which opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London in 1928 and successfully ran for 250 performances. The story formed the basis of the earliest adaptation of Christie’s work. But Ackroyd was dead before he’d finished reading it – stabbed through the neck where he sat in the study. Soon the evening post would let him know who the mystery blackmailer was. He knew the woman he loved had poisoned her first husband. Roger Ackroyd was a man who knew too much. Known for its startling reveal, this is the book that changed Agatha Christie’s career. He knew someone was blackmailing her – and now he knew she had taken her own life with a drug overdose. Considered to be one of Agatha Christies most controversial mysteries, The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd breaks the rules of traditional mystery. When Hercule Poirot retires to the country to grow vegetable marrows, he finds that someone has planted the seeds of treachery and murder.Ĭonsidered to be one of Agatha Christie's most controversial mysteries, The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd breaks the rules of traditional mystery.
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He just cannot bring himself to send her away. Travis Archer has a tough time, however, when a female trespasser who has the exact same blue eyes as the courageous young girl he helped one. A debt from twelve years ago makes her take the risk.įourteen years constantly being vigilant will harden a man. When Meredith Hayes hears about a lethal plot to burn the Archer brothers off of their ranch. “Short-Straw Bride” is the first novel in the “Archer Brothers” series, which was released in the year 2012. She has also been a finalist for the National Reader’s Choice Award and multiple RITAs. Her work consistently hits bestseller lists and have won awards, like: the Holt Medallion, the ACFW Carol Award, and the Inspirational Reader’s Choice Award. Karen lives her dream of writing novels, after being a bookworm her entire life. Witermeyer also sets her stories in the tiny towns that came into greatness during the mid to late 1800s.īesides writing, she is a shower singer, an avid cross-stitcher, and bakes a stellar apple cobbler. She has fallen in love with the rugged land of enduring pioneer spirit and sweeping sunsets, she puts into the pages of her books. The guy roped her in real good, as she has lived in Texas ever since. While attending the school, she met and married a Texas hero of her own. Author Karen Witermeyer grew up in California before moving to Texas to go to Abilene Christian University, where she got master’s and bachelor’s degrees in Psychology. For example, I Am a Lesbian was published in 1962. When she was a child, Bradley stated that she enjoyed reading adventure fantasy authors such as Henry Kuttner, Edmond Hamilton, and Leigh Brackett, especially when they wrote about "the glint of strange suns on worlds that never were and never would be." Her first novel and much of her subsequent work show their influence strongly.Įarly in her career, writing as Morgan Ives, Miriam Gardner, John Dexter, and Lee Chapman, Marion Zimmer Bradley produced several works outside the speculative fiction genre, including some gay and lesbian pulp fiction novels. Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy novels such as The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series, often with a feminist outlook.īradley's first published novel-length work was Falcons of Narabedla, first published in the May 1957 issue of Other Worlds. In this book of almost one thousand pages, Roberts tries to set the record straight, and in my opinion, does an outstanding job. In addition, many of Napoleon’s letters were only recently published, and they, as the author avers, “radically transform our understanding of his character and motivation.” (Since 2004, the Foundation Napoleon in Paris has been publishing every one of the more than 33,000 (!!) letters that Napoleon signed.) Many of the previous biographies about Napoleon were written either by French authors who wished to ingratiate themselves with the restored Bourbon monarchy and so were unfailingly critical (even when the authors’ own private papers said otherwise), or by English authors who had a stake in portraying their enemy as negatively as possible. This magnificent biography by Roberts helps to dispel the myths and misinformation, and to edify readers about Napoleon’s brilliance, achievements, and innovations. Most people have no impression of Napoleon other than one of his being short, pompous, exiled, and apt to keep one hand inside his coat. (Summary by Wikipedia)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats or languages (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit. The "major" event in the story is the return to Cranford of their long-lost brother, Peter, which in itself is only a minor portion of the work. The book has little in the way of plot and is more a series of episodes in the lives of Mary Smith and her friends, Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two spinster sisters. The fictional town of Cranford is closely modelled on Knutsford in Cheshire, which Mrs Gaskell knew well. It was first published in 1851 as a serial in the magazine Household Words, which was edited by Charles Dickens. In a small town called Cranford, everyone knows everyone’s business. Enjoy the saga of a small town’s idiosyncrasies and values in Cranford, a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, author of North and South. LibriVox recording of Cranford, by Elisabeth Gaskell.Ĭranford is the best-known novel of the 19th century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. Ill not listen to reason.Reason always means what someone else has got to say. With the help of Julie’s kid sister Katy and his omnicompetent sidekick Squares, an ex-Nazi turned franchise fitness guru, Will goes in search of the truth about Ken and Sheila, ignoring Pistillo’s threats of legal action and the even more dire threats of Ken’s murderously well-connected school buddies John Asselta, the Ghost (ex-wrestler), and Philip McGuane (ex–student council president) in an attempt to stand on his own two feet after years of hiding behind his big brother’s strength. And there’s even worse news: Joseph Pistillo, the FBI’s top man in New York, is not only still looking for Ken, whom he turns out to have a damningly personal reason for wanting to find he suspects Sheila, who never told Will anything about her turbulent past except that she’d run away from home, was up to no good as well. Then, several hours after her funeral, Will suffers an even more devastating loss when his lover Sheila Rogers, a volunteer at Covenant House, the New York shelter for street kids Will runs, disappears as well. A betwixt-and-between thriller from the talented chronicler of sports agent Myron Bolitar ( Darkest Fear, 2000, etc.).Įleven years after his brother Ken vanished after being accused of raping and strangling neighborhood girl Julie Miller, Will Klein’s dying mother tells him that Ken’s still alive. The science of the pressure suit and such seems to be based on that high altitude record-breaker Felix Baumgartner but the science becomes a bit more wobbly when it comes to teleportation. Cent’s chapters of the novel is done in first person with the rest in third person. The story then tracks how she gets the custom pressure suit built and turns this into a business with the NASA being the chief employer even if they don’t know how she does it as she puts satellites into orbit and removes space debris within certain weight limits. Life is relatively safe for this family of teleporters now and Cent with a sense of adventure wants to see how high up she can teleport and then finds she needs a pressure suit to go low orbital. Not named after the American currently, but to interpret the same name ‘Millicent’ that she and her mother share. ‘Exo’, the third novel in the ‘Jumper’ series, focuses more on Davey and Millie’s daughter, Cent. Immediately, these two start enjoying each other’s company only to culminate to romance. When Vivian first arrives, she’s greeted with a cup of tea, a warm scone, and Malcolm, the Queen’s private secretary who just so happens to be in town for some work and sipping a little tea as well. Royal Holiday follows Maddie, the female MC in The Wedding Party, and her mother, Vivian, to London where Maddie will be dressing the Duchess of Sussex (y’all know who exactly that is) for a bunch of holiday parties and soirees. Am I being a little bit too demanding when it comes to my romance books? I love her little stories, but I hate that they’re not twisty and complicated like some of my other favorite romances. I’ve had a love/hate relationship with Jasmine Guillory. When asked if her talent for writing was inherent or nurtured, she directly answers that it’s both. It was reported that by the year 2000, Ellen Hopkins finally found her biological mother, Toni Chandler who was also a poet and a writer, just like herself. She conceded that it was definitely a challenge living with older parents along, of course, with lots of wonderful benefits. She is born on Maand her adoptive parents were already old, with her mom 42 years old and her dad at 72 years old. Early LifeĮllen Hopkins is a self-confessed adopted child of Valeria and Albert Wagner. She is a favorite author for both young adult and the teenage readers. She is well known for her books entitled Crank, Burned, Impulse and several others. Ellen Louise Hopkins is a New York Times Bestselling author. The Word Game was included in the Top 20 Novels to be Written by Women in 2015 by Good Housekeeping. Her latest novel - LIES WE TELL OURSELVES - is out October 2020. She currently lives in Calgary with her husband and three daughter NY Times & USA Today Bestselling Author - Steena is the author of the heart wrenching Finding Emma series. Holmes was inspired to write Finding Emma after experiencing a brief moment of horror when she’d thought her youngest daughter was missing. In 2012 she received the Indie Excellence Award. Steena Holmes grew up in a small town in Canada and holds a Bachelors degree in Theology. The Word Game also won the 2015 USA Books Award for Best Fiction and her novel, The Memory Child was a finalist in the same category. NY Times & USA Today Bestselling Author - Steena is the author of the heart wrenching Finding Emma series. |