![]() Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library-and if so, who? ![]() By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. The fire was disastrous: it reached two thousand degrees and burned for more than seven hours. On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. “Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book” ( The Washington Post). Susan Orlean’s bestseller and New York Times Notable Book is “a sheer delight…as rich in insight and as varied as the treasures contained on the shelves in any local library” ( USA TODAY)-a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution and an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries. ![]()
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The last 7 months or so have been a battle with my mental health and I haven’t found much joy in reading until I dove into Stephanie Wrobel’s web-of-secrets, dark thriller, This Might Hurt. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Deeply evocative and beautifully written, Black Cake is an extraordinary journey through the life of a family changed forever by the choices of its matriarch. ![]() The heartbreaking tale Eleanor unfolds, the secrets she still holds back, and the mystery of a long lost child challenge everything the siblings thought they knew about their lineage and themselves.Ĭan Byron and Benny reclaim their once close relationship, piece together Eleanor's true history, and fulfill her final request to "share the black cake when the time is right"? 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But motherhood is exhausting, especially when you are still in the newborn stage, and Blythe can't figure out if there's something wrong with her or if she's just imagining it like her husband, Fox, says. The Push is about Blythe Connor, who wants to be a good mom to her daughter, Violet, despite her less-than-stellar example from her own mom. It sounds dramatic, but that's exactly how I felt when reading The Pushby Ashley Audrain. ![]() Suddenly, it's all you can do to get back to the book. It's not often that you open a book and are drawn in so completely, so quickly, that you don't even notice the hours slipping by. If you buy a product we have recommended, we may receive affiliate commission, which in turn supports our work. As POPSUGAR editors, we independently select and write about stuff we love and think you'll like too. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He was indisputably the greatest poet of his day, in the generation after Virgil. The normal course of events would have been to use that education in the verbal arts and become a wealthy senator a provincial governor. In those days there was still money and fame to be gained in poetry. At some point he announced to his parents that he wanted to be a poet. Ovid was being trained to be a great lawyer. He had the best education of the time which meant a training in the verbal arts. There are hints of a philosophical outlook of a world based on change. He zooms in to people who are main characters in the action, but a lot of the time he spends on the periphery of things. There are lots of small details with people on the side-lines focused on as some monumental historical thing happens in front of them. ![]() In Virgil duty is supposed to win but in Ovid passion almost always wins over duty. In Ovid’s work we see people caught in internal conflicts where they are torn between two courses of action, usually, passion on the one hand and duty on the other hand. 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But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. ![]() ![]() "If you're looking for a book to take on holiday this summer, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo has got all the glitz and glamour to make it a perfect beach read." -Bustleįrom the New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & the Six-an entrancing and "wildly addictive journey of a reclusive Hollywood starlet" (PopSugar) as she reflects on her relentless rise to the top and the risks she took, the loves she lost, and the long-held secrets the public could never imagine.Īging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Family flowers only by request, donations in lieu if desired may be given to Stroke Association and/or Cancer Research and may be given on the day. followed by interment at Trane Cemetery at 1.30p.m. Funeral Tuesday 16th May 2023 Service at St David's Church, Tonyrefail at 12.30p.m. He will be sadly missed by all his family and friends. Devoted Husband of Norma, beloved father to Nicola and the late Claire and a loving Papa, father in law, brother and uncle. Peacefully on the 19th April 2023, Alan, of Trane Farm Lane, Tonyrefail. To add your tributes or memories to any of the death notices of the people who have passed please do so at You can get more Welsh news and other story updates by subscribing to our newsletters here.īelow are the most recent death notices published across Wales this week: You can also post your own announcements and notices there. To see a full list of family announcements visit this section of the WalesOnline website where you can search by name, date, and location. These are all the loved ones remembered in funeral notices and family announcements across Wales this week. ![]() |