![]() ![]() In 1978, after selling over 3 million books, Cosgrove sold Serendipity Press to Penguin/Putnam and began focusing on multimedia literature for children. Three months later, Cosgrove established his own publishing company, Serendipity Press, where he was the author, publisher, shipping clerk, and janitor. The next year, a large New York publishing company offered Cosgrove a contract, but he refused and continued on in his search for a publisher. His goal in writing these books was to create interesting, fun, affordable books that contained a moral in each story. In 1973, Cosgrove teamed with illustrator Robin James, and wrote his first four books which began the Serendipity Series: "Serendipity", " Wheedle on the Needle", "The Dream Tree", and "The Muffin Muncher". In 1963, he received a scholarship for and attended Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri. Growing up, Cosgrove was greatly influenced by Aesop's Fables. ![]() He attended Borah High School in Boise, Idaho. The series was adapted into a 26-episode anime, Serendipity the Pink Dragon.Ĭosgrove was born in Metaline Falls, Washington and raised in Kennewick, Washington, then Burley and Boise, Idaho. He is known for Serendipity, a series of children's books. Cosgrove (born July 26, 1945) is a children's author and toy designer. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father’s inability to collect his debts has left his family on the edge of poverty-until Miryem takes matters into her own hands. Spinning Silver draws readers deeper into this glittering realm of fantasy, where the boundary between wonder and terror is thinner than a breath, and safety can be stolen as quickly as a kiss. ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Public Library With the Nebula Award–winning Uprooted, Naomi Novik opened a brilliant new chapter in an already acclaimed career, delving into the magic of fairy tales to craft a love story that was both timeless and utterly of the now.NAMED ONE OF PASTE ’ S BEST FANTASY BOOKS OF THE DECADE. ![]() “One of the year’s strongest fantasy novels” (NPR), an imaginative retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale from the bestselling author of Uprooted. ![]() ![]() She also spent time in Paris, teaching English as a foreign language.īefore embarking on her writing career as Ruth Ware, Ware wrote five young-adult fantasy novels as Ruth Warburton, all of which were published by Hodder's Children Books. She studied English at Manchester University, where she developed a fascination with Old English and Middle English texts.īefore her writing career, Ware worked as a waitress, a bookseller and a publicist. Ruth Ware was born in 1977 and grew up in Lewes. She switched to the pen name Ruth Ware to distinguish her crime novels from the young-adult fantasy novels published under her name, Ruth Warburton. She is represented by Eve White of the Eve White Literary Agency. ![]() Both In a Dark, Dark Wood and The Woman in Cabin 10 were on the UK's Sunday Times and The New York Times top ten bestseller lists. ![]() Her novels include In a Dark, Dark Wood (2015), The Woman in Cabin 10 (2016), The Lying Game (2017), The Death of Mrs Westaway (2018), The Turn of the Key (2019), One By One (2020), and The It Girl (2022). Ruth Ware (born 1977), alias for Ruth Warburton, is a British psychological thriller author. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She then competed 2 years and 1000 hours of training certifying and insuring her as a Tantric Women’s Sexuality and Sensuality guide. Sian returned to India where she continued her training, this time in a 300 hour YTT that taught Vedic and Tantric wisdom, Kriya, Naad, Laya, Himalayan Kundalini Yoga, Pranayama and Guru Mantra Meditation. ![]() Since this period she has continued to personally practice and has taught only some of these techniques publicly. Not long after, she met and trained with her first Tantra teacher in India, and for 2 years she practiced directly with him in Melbourne, learning tantric asana, pranayama and meditation techniques. This unexpected initiation informed her path as both a teacher and student for the rest of her life. After these 2 years, she completed her 200hr YTT certification in Ashtanga Vinyasa, however her teachers were all tantrikas, and so she was taught many of the powerful pranayama sequences and mantras used in the tantric tradition, that she discovered other teacher trainings were not teaching. Sian trained for 2 years in India under the guidance of her guru and soul sister Vandana Yadav in vinyasa, hatha, ashtanga, pranayama and meditation. As a student she has been personally committed to a daily yoga and meditation practice since 2000. Sian Pascale is an ERYT 500 Yoga Alliance Certified teacher, and is certified and covered by the IICT to teach this body of work. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gina has some answers but needs to get into a secret, hidden section of the theatre, which she discovered on the building plans. ![]() Gina gets threatening phone calls and also sees that someone is watching her house. Is it Park Reeves, the creep who is making a play for Gina, when it is Vanessa who has a crush on him, or is it the pastor and his cronies, who have been trying to close this 'immoral' play down. ![]() As Gina follows the trail she realises that someone is trying to put her off. The ghost certainly seems to have no intention of going away.Gina discovers that the theatre originally closed down because a young girl ran through the audience one night, bleeding profusely. Vanessa is promoted and Gina is persuaded to join, which she takes as an opportunity to explore the theatre and do some research at the library. Rehearsals do not go well.the leading lady leaves when she sees pools of blood that disappear. Gina's best friend, Vanessa, has landed a part in a play.the local theatre is to reopen after having been closed down for years. 1 On the street, the low chatter of pedestrians and thrum of traffic reflect Berlin’s vibrant nightlife. Since then, she has honed her skills considerably. There is a curious sequence towards the end of the first episode of Babylon Berlin (Sky1, Das Erste, 2017 ), when Detective Gereon Rath (Volker Bruch) exits his office at the Police Headquarters, Rote Burg, Alexanderplatz. Gina was quite young when she discovered a talent for knowing the history of an object when she held it, which is known as psychometry. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some random MLMs, a bit of affiliate marketing, a (failed) dropshipping store or two, all the usual suspects.Įven my dad had been involved in MLMs back in the day… selling knives & other random nonsense people (probably) didn’t need.Īll I really wanted was to find something that was going to actually work for me. I had fiddled around with some different online businesses in college: I had this sinking feeling in my gut all the time… like the “big man upstairs” had accidentally given me the version of life where I’d be mediocre forever, instead of the one where I was, ya know – happy & fulfilled. ![]() I knew I was destined for something more, but I had no clue how I was going to make it happen. In early 2020, I had just graduated from college & had no real career prospects. If you’ll let me bother you for two minutes, I’d like to quickly explain why I’m even here writing this review. ![]() Together, we make up the team here at Scamrisk. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Reading romance novels came easily to Elisa Braden. Now, Sebastian wants her total surrender, and he has a few tricks up his sleeve-soul-stealing kisses, unexpected honor, and electrifying persuasion for the woman he never saw coming. Calling his bluff raises the stakes (and the heat), but retreat will mean ruin for Augusta. Ordinarily, Augusta would never agree to become the mistress of a notorious club owner-whether he’s a lowborn ruffian or the wealthiest man in London or the most intriguing, ill-tempered giant she’s ever encountered … or all three. So, when a perfect nuisance invades his office, demands a fortune in markers, and refuses to leave until he relinquishes them to her, he knows just the thing to send her scurrying back to Hampshire: Exact a price this prim country spinster would never agree to pay.Ī fiery battle begins (with both sides playing for keeps) Sebastian Reaver has no time for presumptuous women. And only one man can provide it.Ī giant holds all the cards (or so he thinks) ![]() But with the blackguard resisting his duty, she needs leverage. She must force her sister’s ne’er-do-well betrothed to the altar with all haste-or watch her sister bear the scandalous consequences. ![]() Miss Augusta Widmore has no time for proprieties. A spinster hatches a plan (with a smattering of blackmail) ![]() ![]() Trying to picture myself as a teenage girl is like staring at the sun, too bright to see, and it hurts. Bug's comment is illuminating in that it immediately shows how profoundly the death of his uncle has impacted everyone in the house. These objects, like ghosts, remain in the house, reminding Bug and his mother of a person they loved who is now missing. He makes the distinction that this other kind of haunting is from the presence of physical objects that his uncle will never use again. The narrator previously says that his house has been haunted for a long time but now is afflicted by a new sort of problem. This early moment reveals how the book's main conceit, a haunted house, has a very real, not supernatural, emotional weight. His winter boots are jammed in the closet. ![]() ![]() There's a half-empty jar of okra Uncle Roderick picked and pickled that he'll never finish eating, and Mom and I both hate okra. A way that's both more boring and more frightening. But now this old house seems haunted in a different way. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, Princess Aurora must escape from a dangerous and magical land created from her very own dreams. It is clear that this tale is far from over. The handsome prince is poised to kiss the beautiful sleeping princess and live happily ever after, but as soon as his lips touch hers he too falls fast asleep. Together, Aladdin and Jasmine must unite to stop power-hungry Jafar tearing the kingdom apart in this story of love, power and one moment that changes everythingĭiscover what would have happened if a kiss from the prince didn't wake Sleeping Beauty. Their worlds collide when the sultans trusted advisor suddenly rises to power and, with the help of a mysterious lamp, attempts to gain control over love and death. Aladdin is a Street Rat just trying to survive in a harsh city, while Jasmine is a beautiful princess about to enter an arranged marriage. ![]() Discover what would have happened if Aladdin had never found the lamp. ![]() ![]() ![]() note The Aquila Rift is a wall of space dust just outside the "Local Bubble," the remnant of a million-year-old supernovae that left the area around Earth mostly dust-free. Adaptation Explanation Extrication: Alastair Reynolds' short story explains that the Aquila Rift is as far as ships can get, so being beyond it means they are where no one has gone before.Adaptational Alternate Ending: The ending is slightly different from that of the short story - "Greta" takes on the appearance of Katerina, Thom's wife, and it is implied that this is a "happy ending" that Greta had to force upon him as he could not handle the reality of his situation and went mad.Based on the short story of the same name by Alastair Reynolds. Henry Douthwaite voices Thom and Madeleine Knight voices Greta. ![]() Thom attempts to come to terms with being stuck in a station lightyears away from his crew's charted course. I care for all the lost souls that end up here." ![]() |