![]() Who ever says “puce?” It really stood out to me and got on my nerves. My biggest complaint? The color puce is mentioned five times in the book. But once I found out, it all made sense and fit together. I never had any idea what was going on until the very end. He fervently believes in Reformation, but he can’t see that the road Cromwell is taking isn’t necessarily in the best interests of the country. ![]() He’s a jaded, acerbic, lonely, humpback lawyer who is still somewhat naive. I don’t know how Sansom did it, but his descriptions left me feeling that I had just visited a cold, snowy, monastery on the coast, where the monks live a little too well and know more than they are telling. What I do know is that every time I picked this book back up, I was immediately transported to sixteenth-century England. I can’t claim to know much about the period, so I don’t know how accurate it is. ![]() Shardlake needs to find the killer–and try to convince the abbot to close the monastery. ![]() As he brings Reformation to England, Cromwell is trying to subtly force monasteries to “voluntarily” dissolve, and the man he sent to the monastery in Scarnsea has been killed. Vicar General Thomas Cromwell is sending his man, Matthew Shardlake, to investigate a brutal murder. ![]()
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Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize for New Fiction 2015Įnter a whole new world, in this thrilling debut novel set entirely within a beehive.īorn into the lowest class of her society, Flora 717 is a sanitation bee, only fit to clean her orchard hive. Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2015 ![]() ![]() PEOPLE: How To Protect Your Health From Relationships That Make You SickBraiker. To protect the innocent and serve her Queen, Roslyn Chambers must rise to the task before her. 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Sky, a senior in high school, meets Dean Holder, a guy with a promiscuous reputation that rivals her own. Would you rather know a truth that makes you feel hopeless, or keep believing the lies?īeloved and bestselling author Colleen Hoover returns with the spellbinding story of two young people with devastating pasts who embark on a passionate, intriguing journey to discover the lessons of life, love, trust - and above all, the healing power that only truth can bring. ![]() ![]() From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends With Us comes the beginning of Sky and Dean's passionate love story - where well-kept secrets threaten to open wounds of a dark past. ![]() ![]() Sara Shepard, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Pretty Little Liars books, finally reveals the shocking truth about Sutton's murder in this riveting novel about secrets, lies, and killer consequences. If she can't find my killer before time runs out, she'll end up behind bars . . . And when it does, Emma will be suspect number one in my murder investigation. The truth is bound to come out eventually. But as questions and accusations start flying, it's harder than ever for Emma to keep playing me. At first the police assume the body is Emma's. ![]() Suddenly everyone knows there are two girls who look like Sutton Mercer-and that one of them is dead. ![]() But when it comes to finding my killer, she keeps running into dead ends. ![]() She's unearthed dark secrets about my friends, my family, and my tangled past. For months, my long-lost twin, Emma, has been living my life and trying to solve my murder. Sara Shepard, the 1 New York Times bestselling author of the Pretty Little Liars books, finally reveals the shocking truth about Suttons murder in this. ![]() ![]() ![]() With the exception of #24, the backups are not grouped with their main story counterparts in the trade, but rather come at the end after the main story is completed. It also includes the backups from each issue, which featured scripting by James Tynion IV, artwork by Rafael Albuquerque, colors by Dave McCaig and letters by Taylor Esposito. This edition collects Batman #21-24, written by Scott Snyder, with pencils by Greg Capullo, inks by Danny Miki, colors by FCO Plascencia, letters by Nick Napolitano, and covers by Capullo and Plascencia. Zero Year was to be an ambitious reimagining of the Dark Knight’s origin and greatest early tests, and beginning in June of 2013, they began telling their tale with the first act: Secret City. After two smashingly successful arcs on Batman, the team of writer Scott Snyder, artist Greg Capullo, and colorist FCO Plascencia turned its gaze backward. Certain events and character histories were preserved, but other elements were changed as editorial and creators saw fit. ![]() DC’s New 52 initiative was a quasi-reboot of the publisher’s fictional universe. ![]() |