![]() ![]() And it IS a story about animals acting like humans, but it’s not nearly so twee as you think it will be. cover makes it look like this is going to be a somewhat twee story about animals acting like humans. Shady Hollow (the book as opposed to the town IN the book) is the kind of story that doesn’t lend itself to the easy description and characterization you think it will. ![]() It seems someone in the Hollow will do anything to keep her from solving the murder, and soon it will take all of Vera's cunning and quickness to crack the case. Vera finds more to this town than she ever suspected. As she stirs up still waters, the fox exposes more than one mystery, and discovers that additional lives are in jeopardy. The fox has a nose for news, so when she catches wind that the death might be a murder, she resolves to get to the bottom of the case, no matter where it leads. Reporter Vera Vixen is a relative newcomer to Shady Hollow. The first book in the Shady Hollow series, in which we are introduced to the village of Shady Hollow, a place where woodland creatures live together in harmony-until a curmudgeonly toad turns up dead and the local reporter has to solve the case. ![]() Purchasing Info: Author's Website, Publisher's Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard on January 25, 2022 Source: supplied by publisher via NetGalleyįormats available: paperback, ebook, audiobook Shady Hollow (Shady Hollow #1) by Juneau Black ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Fortunately, I've never met the hag, but the shadow I see is enough. I also experience the crushing sensation ( it feels like someone is standing on my chest or holding me down) and a few times I've heard someone talk as well. I've also seen black dogs during these experiences however, the shadow always moves away when these dogs begin to bark. I've seen a black shadow that looks like viscous air - that's the only way I can explain it. It doesn't happen often (it happened more when I was a teenager and after entering my 20's I'd say maybe it has happened about six or seven times). "I have experienced sleep paralysis off and on for about 17 years. Here is an example given to us by a sufferer of Old Hag Syndrome: Over the years we have received several reports from frightened people that suggest Old Hag Syndrome or Sleep Paralysis as a probable explanation for what is happening to them. ![]() ![]() ![]() For decades, they believed classic fairy tales and fantasy were best for young minds, says children's book historian Leonard Marcus. Once upon a time, librarians set the standard for what books children should read. Hard to believe - but in 1947 this innocent bedtime ritual was considered revolutionary. To celebrate its 75th anniversary, HarperCollins is publishing a special slipcase edition with a new foreword by Thacher Hurd.īut the now iconic picture book was by no means an overnight sensation. Goodnight Moon has been adapted for stage and screen, been featured on The Simpsons, parodied, and given a special reading by LeVar Burton to Neil deGrasse Tyson. You don't even think about it, but it is extremely sort of open and wide and a big feeling to it," reflects Hurd. ![]() ![]() Good night noises everywhere.' It's very expansive. HarperCollins Today it's considered a classic but Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd's Goodnight Moon was not an overnight sensation. ![]() ![]() Holy hell Will and Lake act like children in this book! It is like they regressed mentally in the past year since "Slammed" and now function only as pissy children. I mean over 45,000 ratings and a 4.40 average GR rating? I must be losing my mind? Maybe that is it? But let me break it down for you all why this book is on my craptastic book list:ġ) The immaturity of the MCs. However, I'm in suck-ville and I am hating it here.Īlso, everyone else seems to LOVE this book. I loved Hopeless and Slammed so I had no reason to suspect that this book would be taking the fast train to suck-ville. I am going to start by saying that I know Colleen Hoover is capable of writing very wonderful books. ![]() Somebody talk me down from this rant I'm about to deliver. ![]() I'm all worked up about how much I hated this book. Ohhhh boy I'm steamed, I'm really steamed here. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now she's a beautiful, confident woman, and a bit too independent. She's no longer a frightened teenager in need of a haven. Back when she was off limits, he wanted her, and it doesn't take long before he realizes he still wants her. But a bossy, alpha man is not what independent Marcie is looking for.The moment Hook lays eyes on Marcie, it's as though the last ten years apart never existed. And it appears that as an adult, not much has changed with regard to her feelings toward the sexy biker. All through her teenage years, Marcie's heart belonged to Hook. Members of the No Prisoners Motorcycle Club. ![]() They are fully grown, muscular, alpha men. She isn't in town for twenty-four hours when she crosses paths with Hook and Striker, the two boys who kept her safe and happy as a young girl. After ten years away, Marcie finally ventures back to where she grew up. ![]() ![]() ![]() Joe, Judge Dredd), Stephen Gladue ( MOONSHOT cover artist), Haiwei Hou ( Two Brothers), Nicholas Burns ( Arctic Comics, Curse of Chucky, Super Shamou), Scott B. Here are some of the fantastic creators in Moonshot:Ĭlaude St-Aubin ( R.E.B.E.L.S., Green Lantern, Captain Canuck), Jeffery Veregge ( G.I. Comics fan have been advocating for unique voices and creators in comics now is a great time to show your support and back this project! Moonshotfrom Alternative History Comics and edited by Hope Nicholson, is a 200 page collection of short stories from Indigenous creators across North America showcasing the rich heritage and identity of First Nations, Inuit, and Metis storytelling. Kickstarter has been the way for me to find new comic projects and boy am I glad to have come across this project. ![]() By Zachary Clemente Original painting by Stephen Gladue. ![]() ![]() “You’ve only had four drinks,” she teased, laughing hysterically at me. “I can’t drink anymore, I’ll be sick,” I answered, turning my nose up. “Shall we drink some more?” my best friend, Amy, shouted to me over the music. My legs had that rubbery feeling, like I wasn’t quite in full control of myself. My head was just that little bit fuzzy from the alcohol. My vision was a little blurry as I continued to dance. ![]() This book is dedicated to my mum, and my older sister. Special thanks must go to Mollie Wilson who made the adorable cover for this book. ![]() No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.Īll characters in this publication are fictional and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead is purely coincidental. ![]() ![]() The right of Isabelle Rae to be identified as the Author of the Work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.Īll rights reserved. ![]() ![]() In a novel that is at once wholly of our time and timeless, fearless and funny, Dean Koontz takes listeners into the moment between one turn of the world and the next, across the border between knowing and mystery. Along a highway by the sea, a vagrant scarred by the past begins a trek toward his destiny. ![]() ![]() On a Seattle golf course, two men make matter-of-fact arrangements for murder…. In Las Vegas, a specialist in chaos theory probes the boundaries of the unknowable…. That night, through the trees, under the moon, a pair of singular animals will watch Grady's isolated home, waiting to make their approach.Ī few miles away, Camillia Rivers, a local veterinarian, begins to unravel the threads of a puzzle that will bring to her door all the forces of a government in peril.Īt a nearby farm, long-estranged identical twins come together to begin a descent into darkness…. ![]() In the stillness of a golden September afternoon, deep in the wilderness of the Rockies, a solitary craftsman, Grady Adams, and his magnificent Irish wolfhound, Merlin, step from shadow into light…and into an encounter with enchantment. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But to make this dream a reality, the Gang hatches a treacherous plan that may get them all killed. Charismatic, grandiose, and mercurial, the Kid is determined to create a safe haven for outcast women. She joins up with the notorious Hole in the Wall Gang, a band of outlaws led by a preacher-turned-robber known to all as the Kid. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women are routinely hanged as witches, her survival depends on leaving behind everything she knows. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada’s life looks good she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. Tried it again on Tuesday night and did finish it. I started it on a Sunday night, set it down. It was a struggle for me to get through this one. She’s had some great picks in the past (most recently I really enjoyed The Chicken Sisters). ![]() I follow Reese’s Book Club each month and I generally try to read what she recommends. ![]() ![]() ![]() On one of his olfactory jaunts around the city, Grenouille finds the most delicious scent he has ever encountered, that of a adolescent girl. Grenouille roams the city of Paris, searching for new scents, because he has the most gifted nose in the world. After having survived anthrax, and thus becoming more useful in a tannery, he is treated marginally better and is given some slight freedom. At the age of eight he is given in apprenticeship to a tanner, Grimal, where he is almost worked to death. ![]() He is brought up in a sort of home orphanage, tended together with several other orphans by an emotionally damaged woman named Madame Gaillard. His mother is executed for this attempt and for her previously successful infanticides, leaving Grenouille, a bastard, alone in the world. The baby, who strangely has no scent, cries out and is saved by onlookers. He is delivered behind his mother's fish stall and is immediately abandoned to die. Grenouille is born to a fishwife mother in Paris in the early eighteenth century. ![]() |