![]() ![]() Jinshi hasn’t just brought Maomao on-board as a food taster though, he’s also noticed how intelligent she is and is prepared to make full use of her abilities to help solve any mysteries that pop up around the inner palace. Maomao isn’t thrilled to be in a higher paying position with more of her pay going back to the kidnappers, but quickly changes her tune when she realises the position means she has more free time to practise medicine again! ![]() Maomao lives her days peacefully, going about her duties, that is until she finds herself solving the mystery behind some of the consorts and their offspring falling ill.Īfterwards, she’s picked up by the head eunuch, Jinshi, who has noticed Maomao’s abilities with medicine and feels she would be better suited to working as a food taster under the Emperor’s favourite consort. The story follows Maomao, a young woman who is trained as an apothecary but is working as a servant in the inner court of the imperial palace (a place where the emperor’s consorts and servants live) after being kidnapped from her home. However things are starting to change for the better there and an early indicator is the new series The Apothecary Diaries, a new manga from Square Enix Manga based on a popular light novel series. When it comes to manga based on light novels it’s unusual to find any that aren’t rooted in the isekai genre. ![]()
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You are currently viewing the details page on Bookshelves for the book Twelve Days of Christmas in a Highlander's Arms by Hildie McQueen and Caroline Lee and Samantha Holt and Elizabeth Rose and Cathy MacRae and Mariah Sto.īookshelves is one feature of Bookshelves is found under the /shelves/ subfolder at. ![]() ![]() ![]() WNSF: What does adventure writing mean to you? Would you have considered yourself an adventure writer before being shortlisted for the Prize? He is the bestselling author of The One, Passengers, The Minders, What Lies Between Us and When You Disappeared. After spending his career interviewing celebrities from the worlds of television, film and music for numerous national newspapers and magazines, he is now a full-time author. The Vacation is a compulsive, holiday-set thriller from John Marrs, the author of The One, now a Netflix Original Series.Ībout the Author: John Marrs is an author and former journalist based in London and Northamptonshire. And they all have secrets they’d kill to keep. Gershinsonīut for eight strangers at a beach front hostel, there is far more on their mind than an extended vacation.Īll of them are running from something. Tourists flock to the golden coast and the promise of Hollywood. How far would you run to escape your past? Venice Beach, Los Angeles. ![]() John Marrs' The Vacation is shortlisted for the 2022 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. ![]() ![]() Is Valraven the mortal enemy Shan has been led to believe he is, or is he in fact the only possible saviour of the known world against the machinations of the corrupt Malagash dynasty?Īs Taropat’s secrets are revealed, and the inscrutable Magravandian governor of Mewt, Lord Maycarpe, draws Shan into his cabal, so a company is formed to undertake an archetypal quest into a symbolic landscape, where nothing is as it seems. 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Shan’s life in the peaceful village of Holme is overturned when the forces of Magravandias pour over the hills to plunder and destroy in the name of their emperor, Leonid Malagash. ![]() ![]() ![]() A unique inspirational story about an Army Infantry soldier leaving the service and entering college after returning back from Operation Iraqi Freedom. The negative comment meant nothing for the young man who became an Infantry soldier one year after the event took place. During his senior year of high school, Kenneth’s counselor told him that he was not bright enough to be a soldier in the United States Army. Meet Kenneth Bracewell, A veteran who does not allow failure to be an option in his life, regardless of the situation or environment he is in. ![]() GRIM CRUSH is a teen paranormal romance that shows how love can transcend the boundary between life and death. ![]() And this leaves Xia wondering: can love overcome Death? It isn’t long before she is caught red-handed by the Angel of Death himself, and then not only is her relationship at risk, but also Shilah’s soul. ![]() Suddenly Xia finds herself breaking Rule Two, even while collecting dead souls behind Shilah’s back. Things become unnerving as she begins experiencing first-time affection with Shilah, but she’s irreversibly drawn to him. To find out why he can see her, she pretends to be human, since carrying a scythe probably isn’t the latest teen craze. But when she meets Shilah, a Native American boy who can see reapers, she figures the rules don’t apply. Do not interfere with someone’s death.Īs a grim reaper, seventeen-year-old Xia has to follow these Rules. Note: Effective Saturday, July 2, this site will no longer be updated. ![]() ![]() ![]() On August 21, 1923, Hoehling re-administered the Presidential oath of office to Calvin Coolidge. Main article: First inauguration of Calvin Coolidge His service terminated on December 31, 1927, due to his resignation. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 13, 1921, and received his commission the same day. Harding on June 6, 1921, to an Associate Justice seat on the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (now the United States District Court for the District of Columbia) vacated by Associate Justice Ashley Mulgrave Gould. Hoehling was nominated by President Warren G. ![]() During World War I he served as a major in the Judge Advocate General's Corps, and was counsel to the District of Columbia draft board. He was President of the District of Columbia Bar Association from 1916 to 1917. He was in private practice in Washington, D.C., from 1891 to 1921. He received a Bachelor of Laws from Columbian University School of Law (now George Washington University Law School) in 1889, and a Master of Laws from the same institution in 1890. ![]() The younger Hoehling attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Lehigh University. Hoehling (1839–1920), a rear admiral and doctor in the United States Navy's medical corps. (Novem– February 17, 1941) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.īorn in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Hoehling was the son of Annie Tilghman Hoehling (1841–1923) and Adolph A. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What six-year-old wouldn't leap at the chance to have a live dinosaur participate in his birthday bash? ![]() Since it's the dinosaur's birthday, too (he's turning one hundred million years and one days old), they share a big pink-frosted cake and make their birthday wishes together. The party is mostly typical kid games, with the dino having to adjust because of his unusual physical dimensions. So when Danny comes to the museum to inquire if the dinosaur can attend his sixth birthday party, the sauropod readily accepts the invitation, picking up Danny's human friends on the way. There's no need for introductions between Danny and his old dinosaur pal they've known each other a long time. ![]() Whether you learned to read generations ago or you're a kid just learning to read on your own, there's fun to be had in Happy Birthday, Danny and the Dinosaur! Syd Hoff always provides a worthwhile reading experience. Much of Happy Birthday, Danny and the Dinosaur!'s charm derives from this nostalgia, the emotional resonance of watching Danny once again ride on his dinosaur's back after thirty-seven years (in our time, that is for Danny, almost no time has elapsed). Nearly four decades passed between the release of Danny and the Dinosaur in 1958 and its first sequel, Happy Birthday, Danny and the Dinosaur!, so one can imagine the new story was nostalgic for kids of the 1950s who grew up loving the original. ![]() ![]() ![]() Brotherhood foot soldiers passed out handfuls of the tablets to communes, at Grateful Dead concerts, and at love-ins up and down the coast of California and beyond. ![]() The Brotherhood's most legendary contribution to the drug scene was homemade: Orange Sunshine, the group's nickname for their trademark orange-colored acid tablet that happened to produce an especially powerful trip. After discovering LSD, they took to Timothy Leary's mantra of "Turn on, tune in, and drop out" and became the biggest group of acid dealers and hashish smugglers in the nation, and literally providing the fuel for the psychedelic revolution in the process. Dubbed the "Hippie Mafia," the Brotherhood began in the mid-1960s as a small band of peace-loving, adventure-seeking surfers in Southern California. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gisela wants nothing more than to attend the Duke of Hagenheim’s ball so she can catch a glimpse of Valten, whom she’s had a crush on for ten years. She dreams of a better life with a true love. Gisela has been cruelly treated by her stepmother and stepsisters. Meanwhile, we are introduced to the heroine, Gisela. Then, Valten’s father decides to hold a ball in Valten’s honor. When Valten, the son of the Duke of Hagenheim, participates in a tournament thrown by his father, many young ladies are enchanted by his charisma. This time we get to find out what has happened to Valten after Sophie jilted him for his brother Gabe. My Review: The Captive Maiden is not only a retelling of Cinderella, but it is also the sequel to The Fairest Maiden. But other forces are bent on keeping the two from falling further in love, putting Gisela in more danger than she ever imagined. ![]() Though he is rough around the edges, Gisela finds Valten has completely captured her heart. ![]() To her surprise, she catches Valten’s eye. So when Gisela learns the duke’s son, Valten-the boy she has daydreamed about for years-is throwing a ball in hopes of finding a wife, she vows to find a way to attend, even if it’s only for a taste of a life she’ll never have. But since her father’s death, each day has been filled with nothing but servitude to her stepmother. Gisela’s childhood was filled with laughter and visits from nobles such as the duke and his young son. Synopsis: Happily Ever After …Or Happily Nevermore? ![]() ![]() ![]() That said, to the modern eye and sensibility, there are troubling depths to wade through. His mastery of detail seldom fails to transport the modern reader to a realm that is at once real and also not so, far from the actuality of the inhabited space and time. Whilst the themes that Gabriel García Márquez chose to develop in the course of his career are not always straightforward writes, his works are often laid out in such a way as to suck the reader in, even when nothing much seems to be happening on the superficial level. ![]() |