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A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (commonly just known as A Sentimental Journey) is a novella written by Lawrence Sterne. Released in 1768, it was written by the (then-dying) Sterne as a response to Tobias Smollett's Travels Through France and Italy and tells of its narrator's journey through the titular countries.

## Characters

* Yorick
* Smelfungus

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## Publisher's summary

A furiously witty response to Tobias Smollett's curmudgeonly 'Travels through France and Italy', Laurence Sterne's *A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy* became a hugely influential work of travel writing in its own right. This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction and notes by Paul Goring.

When Yorick, the roving narrator of Sterne's innovative final novel, sets off for France on a whim, he produces no ordinary travelogue. Jolting along in his coach from Calais, through Paris, and on towards the Italian border, the amiable parson is blithely unconcerned by famous views or monuments, but he engages us with tales of his encounters with all manner of people, from counts and noblewomen to beggars and chambermaids. And as drama piles upon drama, anecdote, flirtation and digression, Yorick's destination takes second place to an exhilarating voyage of emotional and erotic exploration. Interweaving sharp wit with warm humour and irony with genuine feeling, *A Sentimental Journey* paints a captivating picture of an Englishman's adventures abroad.

In his introduction, Paul Goring discusses Sterne's literary career and his semi-autobiographical depiction of Yorick, and sets the novel within the context of eighteenth-century travel writing and the vogue of sentimental fiction. This edition also includes a chronology, updated further reading and notes.

Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) graduated from Cambridge in 1737 and took holy orders, becoming a prebend in York Cathedral. His masterpiece, *The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman* made him a celebrity but ill-health necessitated recuperative travel and *A Sentimental Journey* grew out of a seven-month trip through France and Italy. He died the year it was published, 1768.

If you enjoyed *A Sentimental Journey*, you might like Sterne's *The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman*, also available in Penguin Classics.

## See also

* Travels Through France and Italy by Tobias Smollett
Angel Puss

*Angel Puss* (or just *Angel*) is a novel written by Colleen McCullough. Released in 2004, it tells of Harriet Purcell moving into a rooming house.

## Characters

* Harriet Purcell
* Delveccio Schwartz
* Flo

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## Publisher's Summary

I wouldn′t walk on coals of fire for any man, but Flo? She′s my angel puss. My child.

It′s 1960, and twenty-one-year-old Harriet ignores her father′s warning that ′only fools, Bohemians and tarts live at Kings Cross′ and moves into Mrs Delvecchio Schwartz′s rooming house. There she learns about men, love, and tarot cards.

But it is mute four-year-old Flo who captures Harriet′s heart, and who teaches her that protecting those you care for most can be hardest of all.

Angel Puss vividly evokes the dynamism and passions of a Kings Cross that has gone. It is also the story of women′s love for children, and the sacrifices a woman will make to protect and nurture a beloved child.
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived

*A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived* is a nonfiction book written by Adam Rutherford. Released in 2016, it serves as a genetic history of humanity.

## Publisher's summary

This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans who have ever drawn breath. But it is also our collective story, because in every one of our genomes we each carry the history of our species births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration, and a lot of sex.

Since scientists first read the human genome in 2001, it has been subject to all sorts of claims, counterclaims, and myths. In fact, as Adam Rutherford explains, our genomes should be read not as instruction manuals, but as epic poems. DNA determines far less than we have been led to believe about us as individuals, but vastly more about us as a species.

In this captivating journey through the expanding landscape of genetics, Adam Rutherford reveals what our genes now tell us about history, and what history tells us about our genes. From Neanderthals to murder, from redheads to race, dead kings to plague, evolution to epigenetics, this is a demystifying and illuminating new portrait of who we are and how we came to be.
Anachrophobia

Anachrophobia is a novel written by Jonathan Morris. Released in 2002, it is the fifty-fourth book in BBC Books' Eighth Doctor Adventures series and tells of a planet wracked in a seemingly infinite war.

## Characters

* Eighth Doctor
* Fitz Kreiner
* Anji Kapoor

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## Publisher's summary

Imagine a war. A war that has lasted centuries, a war which has transformed an entire planet into a desolate No Man's Land. A war where time itself is being used as a weapon.

You can create zones of decelerated time and bring the enemy troops to a standstill. You can create storms of accelerated time and reduce the opposition to dust in a matter of seconds.

But now the war has reached a stalemate. Neither the Plutocrats nor the Defaulters have made any gains for over a hundred years.

The Doctor, Fitz and Anji arrive at Isolation Station Forty, a military research establishment on the verge of a breakthrough. A breakthrough which will change the entire course of the war.

They have found a way to send soldiers back in time. But time travel is a primitive, unpredictable and dangerous business. And not without its own sinister side effects...
Blue Remembered Earth

Blue Remembered Earth is a novel written by Alastair Reynolds. Released in 2012, it is the first book in Reynolds' Poseidon's Children trilogy and tells of two siblings working to solve a mystery.

## Characters

* Geoffrey Akinya

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## Publisher's summary

BLUE REMEMBERED EARTH is the first volume in a monumental trilogy tracing the Akinya family across more than ten thousand years of future history...out beyond the solar system, into interstellar space and the dawn of galactic society.

One hundred and fifty years from now, in a world where Africa is the dominant technological and economic power, and where crime, war, disease and poverty have been banished to history, Geoffrey Akinya wants only one thing: to be left in peace, so that he can continue his studies into the elephants of the Amboseli basin. But Geoffrey's family, the vast Akinya business empire, has other plans. After the death of Eunice, Geoffrey's grandmother, erstwhile space explorer and entrepreneur, something awkward has come to light on the Moon, and Geoffrey is tasked - well, blackmailed, really - to go up there and make sure the family's name stays suitably unblemished. But little does Geoffrey realise - or anyone else in the family, for that matter - what he's about to unravel.

Eunice's ashes have already have been scattered in sight of Kilimanjaro. But the secrets she died with are about to come back out into the open, and they could change everything.

Or shatter this near-utopia into shards...
A Study in Scarlet

A Study in Scarlet is a novella written by Arthur Conan Doyle. Released in 1887, it is the first story featuring recurring protagonist Sherlock Holmes and tells of Holmes' investigation of two murders.

## Characters

* Sherlock Holmes
* Dr. Watson
* Jefferson Hope

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## Publisher's summary

Our first meeting with Sherlock Holmes. And John Watson's too! The young doctor is astonished by Holmes' many idiosyncrasies, including his talents on the violin.

But it's not long before Sherlock Holmes, with Watson in tow, is working with Scotland Yard investigating the murder of two Americans whose deaths have some mysterious connection to sinister groups gathering power in both Britain and America.

Here's where it all began, 'A Study in Scarlet.' Meet Sherlock Holmes, one of the world's leading consulting detectives - fictional of course!

## Sources

* Goodreads
* Wikipedia
A Cold Day for Murder

*A Cold Day for Murder* is a novel written by Dana Stabenow. Released in 1992, it is the first book featuring recurring protagonist Kate Shugak and shows her investigating the disappearance of a Park ranger.

## Characters

* Kate Shugak
* Jack Morgan
* Ekaterina Shugak
* Martin
* Jim Chopin

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## Publisher's summary

Eighteen months ago, Aleut Kate Shugak quit her job investigating sex crimes for the Anchorage DA's office and retreated to her father's homestead in a national park in the interior of Alaska. But the world has a way of beating a path to her door, however remote. In the middle of one of the bitterest Decembers in recent memory ex-boss - and ex-lover - Jack Morgan shows up with an FBI agent in tow. A Park ranger with powerful relatives is missing, and now the investigator Jack sent in to look for him is missing, too.

Reluctantly, Kate, along with Mutt, her half-wolf, half-husky sidekick, leaves her wilderness refuge to follow a frozen trail through the Park, twenty thousand square miles of mountain and tundra sparsely populated with hunters, fishermen, trappers, mushers, pilots and homesteaders. Her formidable grandmother and Native chief, Ekaterina Shugak, is - for reasons of her own - against Kate's investigation; her cousin, Martin, may be Kate's prime suspect; and the local trooper, Jim Chopin, is more interested in Kate than in her investigation. In the end, the sanctuary she sought after five and a half years in the urban jungles may prove more lethal than anything she left behind in the city streets of Anchorage.
Ben Aaronovitch

Ben Aaronovitch (1964-) is an author. Aaronovitch is best known for his *Rivers of London* series and his contributions to the series *Doctor Who*.

## Written Works

### Doctor Who

* Remembrance of the Daleks
* Transit
* The Also People
* So Vile a Sin (by Kate Orman)

### Rivers of London series

* Rivers of London
* Moon Over Soho
* Whispers Under Ground
* Broken Homes
* Foxglove Summer
* The Hanging Tree
* The Furthest Station
* Lies Sleeping
* The October Man
* False Value
* What Abigail Did that Summer
* Amongst our Weapons
* Winter's Gifts

## See Also

* Andrew Cartmel
* Kate Orman
* Marc Platt
Animals in Translation

*Animals in Translation* is a nonfiction book written by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson. Released in 2004, it serves as a guide to animal psychology.

## Publisher's summary

Why would a cow lick a tractor? Why are collies getting dumber? Why do dolphins sometimes kill for fun? How can a parrot learn to spell? How did wolves teach man to evolve?

Temple Grandin draws upon a long, distinguished career as an animal scientist and her own experiences with autism to deliver an extraordinary message about how animals act, think, and feel. She has a perspective like that of no other expert in the field, which allows her to offer unparalleled observations and groundbreaking ideas.

People with autism can often think the way animals think, putting them in the perfect position to translate "animal talk." Grandin is a faithful guide into their world, exploring animal pain, fear, aggression, love, friendship, communication, learning, and, yes, even animal genius. The sweep of Animals in Translation is immense and will forever change the way we think about animals.
Anton Chigurh

Anton Chigurh is the main antagonist of the Cormac McCarthy novel *No Country for Old Men*.

## Character

A hitman hired to find Llewelyn Moss, Chigurh can be seen as a sort of specter of death or a manifestation of evil - causing death with absolutely no qualms and for seemingly no reason beyond the thrill of the chase.

Chigurh's main weapons are a boltgun and a silenced shotgun.

## See Also

* Judge Holden
* The Grim Reaper
A History of Western Philosophy

*A History of Western Philosophy* is a nonfiction book written by Bertrand Russell. Released in 1946, it serves as a retelling of the study of philosophy centered on "the West".

## Notable People Within

* Pythagoras
* Heraclitus
* Parmenides
* Empedocles
* Anaxagoras
* Protagoras
* Socrates
* Plato
* Aristotle
* Plotinus
* Ambrose of Milan
* St. Jerome
* Augustine of Hippo
* Benedict de Spinoza
* Gregory the Great
* John the Scot
* Thomas Aquinas
* Duns Scotus
* William of Occam
* Niccolò Machiavelli
* Desiderius Erasmus
* Henry More
* Francis Bacon
* Thomas Hobbes
* Rene Descartes
* Baruch Spinoza
* Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
* John Locke
* George Berkeley
* David Hume
* Jean-Jacques Rousseau
* Immanuel Kant
* Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
* Arthur Schopenhauer
* Friedrich Nietzsche
* Karl Marx
* Henri Bergson
* William James
* John Dewey
* Georg Cantor
* Gottlob Frege
* Alfred North Whitehead

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## Publisher's summary

Since its first publication in 1945 [sic] Lord Russell's *A History of Western Philosophy* has been universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject—unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudition, its grace and wit. In seventy-six chapters he traces philosophy from the rise of Greek civilization to the emergence of logical analysis in the twentieth century.

Among the philosophers considered are: Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, the Atomists, Protagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Cynics, the Sceptics, the Epicureans, the Stoics, Plotinus, Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, Benedict, Gregory the Great, John the Scot, Aquinas, Duns Scotus, William of Occam, Machiavelli, Erasmus, More, Bacon, Hobbes, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, the Utilitarians, Marx, Bergson, James, Dewey, and lastly the philosophers with whom Lord Russell himself is most closely associated -- Cantor, Frege, and Whitehead, co-author with Russell of the monumental *Principia Mathematica*.

## Sources

* Goodreads
* Wikipedia
A Woman of No Importance

*A Woman of No Importance* is a play written by Oscar Wilde. First performed in 1893, it tells of a house party at the house of Lady Hunstanton.

## Characters

* Mrs. Arbuthnot
* Lady Hunstanton
* Gerald Arbuthnot
* Lord Ilingworth

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## Publisher's summary

Oscar Wilde's audacious drama of social scandal centres around the revelation of Mrs Arbuthnot's long-concealed secret. A house party is in full swing at Lady Hunstanton's country home, when it is announced that Gerald Arbuthnot has been appointed secretary to the sophisticated, witty Lord Illingworth.

Gerald's mother stands in the way of his appointment, but fears to tell him why, for who will believe Lord Illingworth to be a man of no importance?
Aion

*Aion* is a nonfiction book written by Carl Jung. Released in 1951, it serves as an analysis of the figure of Jesus Christ.

## Publisher's summary

*Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self* , originally published in German in 1951, is one of the major works of Jung's later years. The central theme of the volume is the symbolic representation of the psychic totality through the concept of the Self, whose traditional historical equivalent is the figure of Christ.

Jung demonstrates his thesis by an investigation of the Allegoria Christi, especially the fish symbol, but also of Gnostic and alchemical symbolism, which he treats as phenomena of cultural assimilation. The first four chapters, on the ego, the shadow, and the anima and animus, provide a valuable summation of these key concepts in Jung's system of psychology.
Alan Gratz (Author)

Alan Gratz (1972-) is the bestselling author of nineteen novels and graphic novels for young readers. His 2017 novel *Refugee* has spent more than four years on the *New York Times* bestseller list and is the winner of 14 state awards. Its other accolades include the Sydney Taylor Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, the Cybils Middle Grade Fiction Award, a Charlotte Huck Award Honor, and a Malka Penn Award for Human Rights Honor. *Refugee* was also a Global Read Aloud Book for 2018.

## Childhood

Alan was born and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee, home of the 1982 World’s Fair. After a carefree but humid childhood, Alan attended the University of Tennessee, where he earned a college Scholars degree with a specialization in creative writing, and, later, a master’s degree in English education. A member of the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame, Alan now lives with his wife Wendi and his daughter Jo in Asheville, North Carolina, where he enjoys playing games, eating pizza, and, perhaps not too surprisingly, reading books.

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## Career

Alan’s 2022 novel *Two Degrees* and his 2021 novel *Ground Zero* were both instant #1 *New York Times* bestsellers, and were also *ABA Indie*, *USA Today*, and *Publishers Weekly* bestsellers. His 2019 novel *Allies* debuted at #2 on the *New York Times* bestseller list and received four starred reviews, and 2018’s *Grenade* debuted at #3. His other books include *Prisoner B-3087,* which was a YALSA Best Fiction for Young Readers pick and winner of eight state awards; *Projekt 1065*, a Kirkus Best Middle Grade Book of 2016 and winner of five state awards; *Code of Honor*, a YALSA Quick Pick for Young Readers; and *Ban This Book*, which was featured by Whoopi Goldberg on *The View*.

Alan has travelled extensively to talk about his books, appearing at schools and book festivals in 39 states and a half-dozen countries, including Brazil, Canada, China, Indonesia, Japan, and Switzerland, and has been a Writer in Residence at Tokyo’s American School in Japan, the James Thurber House in Columbus, Ohio, and the Jakarta Intercultural School in Indonesia.

## Written Works

* Samurai Shortstop
* Something Rotten
* Fantasy Baseball
* The Assassination Game
* Prisobig
* The League of Seven
* The Dragon Lantern
* Code of Honor
* The Monster War
* Projekt 1065
* Ban This Book
* Refugee
* Grenade
* Allies
* Resist
* Ground Zero
* Two Degrees
* Prisoner B-3087
Bad Moon Rising (David Bishop)

## Bad Moon Rising

Bad Moon Rising is a novel written by David Bishop. Released in 2004, it is the second book in Black Flame's Judge Dredd series and tells of riots flaring in Sector 87.

## Characters

* Judge Dredd

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## Publisher's summary

PREPARE FOR JUDGEMENT!

It’s Friday the 13th and a bad moon rises over Mega-City One. With weather control off-line in Sector 87, the heat is rising along with the tension and the crazies are out in force. In the midst of this madness Judge Dredd is drafted in to enforce the law during the busy graveyard shift. But, when human xenophobes strike against an alien ghetto in sector 87, things get a whole lot worse and the tension spills onto the streets! With the Citi-Def squads turning vigilante and aliens with psi-powers running around, Dredd must stop the riot before it engulfs the whole sector!

All-new stories from the future-shocked worlds of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic – 2000 AD! Check out the other books in this series.
Bad Business (Robert B. Parker)

## Bad Business

*Bad Business* is a novel written by Robert B. Parker. Released in 2004, it is the thirty-first novel featuring recurring protagonist Spenser and features him investigating infidelity and murder in the corporate world.

## Characters

* Spenser
* Marlene Cowley
* Trent Cowley
* Darin O'Mara

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## Synopsis

Hired by Marlene Cowley to find out whether her husband Trent is cheating on her, Spenser soon realizes that the two-timing husband has hired an investigator of his own. Even more shocking for Spenser is the discovery that the Cowleys are a part of an intimate circle that regularly tunes in to the talk-show host Darin O’Mara’s unconventional—and possibly deadly—views on cross-connubial relationships. To complicate matters even more, a murder occurs at Kinergy, where Trent is the CFO, sending Spenser in yet another direction as he attempts to connect the dots and determine just how individual depravity figures into corporate corruption and murder.
Alexandra Ripley

Alexandra Elizabeth Braid (or Alexandra Ripley and B.K. Ripley, 1934-2004) was an author. Ripley is best known for *Scarlett* - the sequel to Margaret Mitchell's *Gone with the Wind*.

## Written works

* Who's that Lady in the President's Bed?
* Caril (with Nanette Beaver and Patrick Trese)
* Charleston
* On Leaving Charleston
* The Time Returns
* New Orleans Legacy
* Scarlett
* From Fields of Gold
* A Love Divine
And They Found Dragons

*And They Found Dragons* is a three-book, middle-grade series (for ages 9 to 99) from award-winning authors Ted and Rachelle Dekker that is sure to thrill and inspire kids of all ages (including adults!). If you want your children to learn to stand with great conviction and fierce Love in these changing times, this is the series for you and them.

So begins a tale leads readers, young and old alike, on a journey with Jack, the child who will lead them all in the most unlikely of ways. A journey to an Earth they could not have imagined. An Earth where humanity's fear takes physical form as dragons that can only be defeated through a love that casts out all fear.

## The Boy Who fell from the Stars

Jack is a young boy (12) born among 169 survivors of a global apocalypse who now orbit the earth and await its restoration so they can return to the surface. With supplies dangerously low, the time for waiting is over. Humanity's last survivors must return now or die among the stars. There is a problem, though. A big one. Dragons now rule the planet and mankind's only hope rests with a small team of highly trained teenagers who are immune to the dragons' toxic breath, which has poisoned Earth. Only they can lead humanity. But first, they must get to the surface ... alive.

## Journey to the Silver Towers

The quest continues as Jack and the small band of teenage Dragon Slayers must find the dragon hives, hidden deep in the Colorado Rockies, and destroy the queen. But things on the surface are not what they seem, and no one could have imagined what would await them at every turn. Enter a thrilling adventure where light and shadow collide and betrayal threatens to rip the already frail alliances apart. Can Jack, the unlikeliest of heroes, fulfil his calling and lead them all?

## Rise of the Light Bringer

In the epic conclusion, *Rise of the Light Bringer*, Jack must face the greatest darkness this world has ever known. Only by discovering the greatest Truth himself, and stepping into the Light will he find the strength to do what only he can. But will he rise up? There is no Plan B. No rescue party.

Humanity's future hangs by a frayed thread and the clock is ticking down to the final face off.
All-Consuming Fire

*All-Consuming Fire* is a novel written by Andy Lane. Released in 1994, it is the twenty-seventh novel in Virgin's *Doctor Who New Adventures* series and tells of the Doctor meeting Sherlock Holmes.

## Characters

* Seventh Doctor
* Bernice Summerfield
* Ace
* Sherlock Holmes
* Dr. John Watson

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## Publisher's summary

*"I've been all over the universe with you, Doctor, and Earth in the nineteenth century is the most alien place I've ever seen."*
England, 1887. The secret library of St John the Beheaded has been robbed. The thief has taken forbidden books which tell of mythical beasts and gateways to other worlds. Only one team can be trusted to solve the crime: Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson.

As their investigation leads them to the dark underside of Victorian London, Holmes and Watson soon realise that someone else is following the same trail. Someone who has the power to kill with a glance. And they sense a strange, inhuman shape observing them from the shadows. Then they meet the mysterious traveller known only as the Doctor -- the last person alive to read the stolen books.

While Bernice waits in nineteenth-century India, Ace is trapped on a bizarre alien world. And the Doctor finds himself unwillingly united with England's greatest consulting detective.
Borrowed Angel

*Borrowed Angel* is a novel written by Heather Graham. Released in 1989, it is the third book in Graham's *Angel Hawk* trilogy and tells of a model witnessing a murder.

## Characters

* Ashley Dane
* Eric Hawk

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## Publisher's summary

It was supposed to be a great gig: a high-profile photo shoot in the Florida Everglades, with Ashley Dane modeling a set of famous emeralds. Instead, Ashley finds herself fleeing through the swamp after witnessing a murder. Writer Eric Hawk is also on the run—he’s being hunted by a man from his past. Ashley doesn’t completely trust Eric, but she has no one else to turn to…and she finds him irresistible.

Unrelenting threats keep them on the move through the dangerous terrain, and although they come from different worlds, their deepening feelings for each other make them believe they might have a future together…if they make it out alive.
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder

*A Good Girl's Guide to Murder* is a novel written by Holly Jackson. Released in 2019, it tells of Pippa Fitz-Amobi investigating an old murder. It is the first novel in the *A Good Girl's Guide to Murder* trilogy

## Characters

* Pipp Fitz-Amobi
* Sal Singh
* Ravi Singh
* Andie Bell
* Max Hastings
* Cara Ward
* Naomi Ward

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## Publisher's Summary

The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it.

But having grown up in the same small town that was consumed by the murder, Pippa Fitz-Amobi isn't so sure. When she chooses the case as the topic for her final year project, she starts to uncover secrets that someone in town desperately wants to stay hidden. And if the real killer is still out there, how far will they go to keep Pip from the truth?
Amarcord

*Amarcord* is a nonfiction book written by Marcella Hazan. Released in 2008, it serves as a way for Hazan to recount her life.

## Notable people within

* Marcella Hazan
* Benito Mussolini
* Craig Claiborne

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## Publisher's summary

The food publishing event of the season: Beloved teacher and bestselling cookbook author Marcella Hazan tells how a young girl raised in Emilia- Romagna became America’s godmother of Italian cooking.

Widely credited with introducing proper Italian food to the English-speaking world, Marcella Hazan is as authentic as they come. Raised in Cesenatico, a quiet fishing town on the northern Adriatic Sea, she’d eventually have her own cooking schools in New York, Bologna, and Venice. There she would teach students from around the world to appreciate—and produce—the food that native Italians eat. She’d write bestselling and award-winning cookbooks, collect invitations to cook at top restaurants, and have thousands of loyal students and readers—some so devoted they’d name their daughters Marcella. Her fans will be as surprised and delighted by how this all came to be as Marcella herself has been.

Marcella begins with her early childhood in Alexandria, Egypt, where she broke her arm. After nearly losing the arm to poor medical treatment, she was taken back to her father’s native Italy for surgery. There the family would remain. Her teenage years coincided with World War II, and the family relocated temporarily to Lake Garda— not anticipating that it would be one of the war’s greatest targets. After years of privation and bombings, Marcella was fulfilling her ambition to become a doctor and professor of science when she met Victor, the love of her life. They married and moved to New York City. Marcella knew not a word of English or—what’s more surprising—a single recipe. She began to attempt to re-create the flavors of her homeland. She took a Chinese cooking class in the early ’60s with women who asked her to teach them Italian cooking, and she began to give them lessons. Soon after, Craig Claiborne invited himself to lunch, and the rest is history.

*Amarcord* means “I remember” in Marcella’s native Romagnolo dialect. In these pages Marcella, now eighty-four, looks back on the adventures of a life lived for pleasure and a love of teaching. Throughout, she entertains the reader with stories of the humorous, sometimes bizarre twists and turns that brought her love, fame, and a chance to change the way we eat forever.
A Widow for One Year

*A Widow for One Year* is a novel written by John Irving. Released in 1998, it tells of three times in a woman's life.

## Characters

* Ruth Cole

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## Publisher's summary

“One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole woke to the sound of lovemaking—it was coming from her parents’ bedroom.”

This sentence opens John Irving’s ninth novel, A Widow for One Year, a story of a family marked by tragedy. Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character—a “difficult” woman. By no means is she conventionally “nice,” but she will never be forgotten.

Ruth’s story is told in three parts, each focusing on a critical time in her life. When we first meet her—on Long Island, in the summer of 1958—Ruth is only four.

The second window into Ruth’s life opens on the fall of 1990, when she is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career. She distrusts her judgment in men, for good reason.

*A Widow for One Year* closes in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth Cole is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother. She’s about to fall in love for the first time.

Richly comic, as well as deeply disturbing, *A Widow for One Year* is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotional force. Both ribald and erotic, it is also a brilliant novel about the passage of time and the relentlessness of grief.
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

*An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding* is a nonfiction book written by David Hume. Released in 1748, it is a reworking of Hume's earlier book *A Treatise of Human Nature,* and serves as a way for Hume to outline his philosophical views.

## Publisher's Summary

Hume's excellent account of human nature and mental functioning is published here complete and inclusive of original notes.

Often referred to as simply *The Enquiry,* this work is notable for setting forth a number of the concepts which would come to define David Hume's contribution to empirical philosophy. Although selling poorly at the time of first publication in 1748, this book found recognition following Hume's death as his ideas became increasingly appreciated in academic circles.

*An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding* has an intuitive layout - commencing with an introduction to the philosophic matters at hand, Hume delves incrementally into his beliefs on the nature of the human being. The means by which people mentally formulate ideas occupies a large tract of the work, while the process of learning, assimilating and memorising information is also discussed.

Later chapters focus on abstract topics, including the relation of probability to human activity, the inter-relatedness of individual ideas, and the merits of societal liberty in allowing man to exert his free will. Comparisons of human perception and behaviour with members of the animal kingdom, together with an examination of human testimony in the context of miraculous events, are also present.

Today, this work by Hume is considered a classic of Enlightenment era philosophy, and remains a required text in many university courses.

## See Also

* A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians (series)

*Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians* is a book series by Brandon Sanderson about the titular character Alcatraz Smedry.

## Plot

Alcatraz Smedry is an orphan boy with a propensity for breaking things. On this thirteenth birthday, he receives a package, purportedly from his parents, containing his inheritance: a bag of sand. He also burns down his foster parents' prized kitchen.

His case worker, Ms. Fletcher, arrives and informs Alcatraz that he will be placed in yet another home the next day. Unbeknownst to Alcatraz, she is actually a Librarian and has stolen the sand.

The next day, a loony old (but spry) man claiming to be his grandfather shows up and asks about the sand. When he learns that a Librarian has stolen it, they hurry away to try to recover it. The sands are rare and can be forged into powerful Lenses. Alcatraz doesn't believe the man is his grandpa, but he decides to go along with him after somebody shows up and tries to shoot him.

Alcatraz meets two cousins, Sing Sing Smedry and Quentin Smedry, who have the Talents of tripping and talking gibberish, respectively. Alcatraz learns that his penchant for breaking things is actually a powerful Talent that he can learn to control. They all decide to infiltrate the evil Librarian fortress (the local library) to recover the sand. Bastille, a Crystin Knight about Alcatraz's age assigned to protect the Smedrys, is furious at such a reckless plan, but she has no choice but to follow along.

Sing creates a distraction by tripping and falling in the library, and the team heads into the employee entrance. They split up and search for the sands, but they are all eventually captured by the Dark Oculator Radrian Blackburn and Ms. Fletcher. While Grandpa is tortured for information, Alcatraz and the rest of his crew escape from their prison and go to help. Fortunately, Grandpa is using his Talent of arriving late to postpone the pain and Quentin is just talking gibberish, so nothing has been revealed so far.

Alcatraz creates a distraction and rescues Grandpa, but Blackburn comes back, revealing that the Sands of Rashid have already been forged into Lenses. He and Grandpa have an Oculator's duel, which Blackburn wins, but Alcatraz tricks Blackburn into using the Firebringer's Lenses on himself, allowing them to grab the Lenses of Rashid and escape.
Beyond the Pale (Rudyard Kipling)

## Beyond the Pale

*Beyond the Pale* is a short story written by Rudyard Kipling. Released in 1888, it tells of a romance forbidden by society.

## Characters

* Trejago
* Bisea

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## Synopsis

As a listener learns at the beginning of this fable-like old-fashioned story: 'This is the story of a man who wilfully stepped beyond the safe limits of decent everyday society, and paid for it heavily. He knew too much in the first instance; and he saw too much in the second. He took too deep an interest in native life; but he will never do so again.'

## Plot

In Amir Nath's Gully, a young widow named Bisea strikes up a love with an Englishman named Trejago after Trejago whispers The Love Song of Har Dyal into her window.

The next morning, a package is thrown into Trejago's dogcart. The package is an object-letter from Bisea, which invites Trejago to visit Amir Nath's Gully again on the following day. Trejago does so - beginning their love in full. Trejago lives a double life.

A month later, Trejago gains another lover - an Englishwoman. Bisea is angered by this and voices this in one of her meetings with Trejago. A week later, Trejago visits Amir Nath's Gully yet again and finds that Bisea's hands have been removed. Trejago is then stabbed in the groin by an unknown figure.

A short epilogue shows that Bisea and Trejago never meet again. Trejago is left with a limp due to his injury.
Big Sky (Kate Atkinson)

## Big Sky

*Big Sky* is a novel written by Kate Atkinson. Released in 2019, it is the fifth book featuring recurring protagonist Jackson Brodie and features Brodie living in a seaside town.

## Characters

* Jackson Brodie
* Reggie

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## Publisher's Summary

Jackson Brodie, ex-military police, ex-Cambridge Constabulary, currently working as a private investigator, makes a highly anticipated return, nine years after the last Brodie, *Started Early, Took My Dog*.

Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son and an aging Labrador, both at the discretion of his ex-partner Julia. It’s picturesque, but there’s something darker lurking behind the scenes.

Jackson’s current job, gathering proof of an unfaithful husband for his suspicious wife, is fairly standard-issue, but a chance encounter with a desperate man on a crumbling cliff leads him into a sinister network—and back across the path of his old friend Reggie. Old secrets and new lies intersect in this breathtaking novel by one of the most dazzling and surprising writers at work today.
Ashes of Midnight

*Ashes of Midnight* is the sixth book in the bestselling *Midnight Breed* series by Tina St. John. Published in 2009, it is preceded by *Veil of Midnight* and followed by *Shades of Midnight.*

## Synopsis

A woman driven by blood. A man thirsting for vengeance.

A place where darkness and desire meet...

As night falls, Claire Roth flees, driven from her home by a fiery threat that seems to come from hell itself. Then, from out of the flames and ash, a vampire warrior emerges. He is Andreas Reichen, her onetime lover, now a stranger consumed by vengeance. Caught in the cross fire, Claire cannot escape his savage fury—or the hunger that plunges her into his world of eternal darkness and unending pleasure.

Nothing will stop Andreas from destroying the vampire responsible for slaughtering his Breed brethren . . . even if he must use his former lover as a pawn in his deadly mission. Blood-bonded to his treacherous adversary, Claire can lead Andreas to the enemy he seeks, but it is a journey fraught with danger—and deep, unbidden desires. For Claire is the one woman Andreas should not crave, and the only one he’s ever loved. A dangerous seduction begins—one that blurs the lines between predator and prey, and stokes the flames of a white-hot passion that may consume all in its path. . . .
Big Russ & Me

*Big Russ & Me* is a nonfiction book written by Tim Russert. Released in 2004, it serves as a way for Russert to recount his life and his father's life.

## Notable people within

* Tim Russert

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## Publisher's summary

The acclaimed journalist offers a heartwarming memoir of life with his father, describing growing up in the 1950s in working-class Buffalo with his extraordinary father, a proud WWII veteran, as well as the influence of his Catholic upbringing, his passion for sports, and the importance of hard work, responsibility, and patriotism.
Anne Perry

Anne Perry (or Juliet Marion Hulme, 1938-2023) was an author. Perry is best known for her historical crime fiction novels and her involvement in the murder of Honorah Rieper.

## Written Works

* The One Thing More
* Tathea
* A Dish Taken Cold
* Come Armageddon
* I'd Kill For That (with multiple other authors)
* Letters from the Highlands
* Heroes
* The Sheen on the Silk
* The Scroll

### Thomas and Charlotte Pitt

* The Cater Street Hangman
* Callander Square
* Paragon Walk
* Resurrection Row
* Rutland Place
* Bluegate Fields
* Death in the Devil's Acre
* Cardington Crescent
* Silence in Hanover Close
* Bethlehem Road
* Highgate Rise

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### William Monk

* The Face of a Stranger
* A Dangerous Mourning
* Defend and Betray
* A Sudden, Fearful Death
* The Sins of the Wolf
* Cain His Brother
* Weighed in the Balance
* The Silent Cry
* A Breach of Promise
* The Twisted Root
* Slaves of Obsession
* Funeral in Blue
* Death of a Stranger
* The Shifting Tide
* Dark Assassin
* Execution Dock
* Acceptable Loss
* A Sunless Sea
* Blind Justice
* Blood on the Water
* Corridors of the Night
* Revenge in a Cold River
* An Echo of Murder
* Dark Tide Rising
Beltempest (Jim Mortimore)

## Beltempest

Major General Smoot

*Beltempest* is a *Doctor Who* novel written by Jim Mortimore. Released in 1998, it is the seventeenth novel in BBC Books' *Eighth Doctor Adventures* series and shows the Doctor saving the Bel system.

## Characters

* Eighth Doctor
* Sam Jones
* Surgeon Major Alesis Conaway
* Eldred Saketh
* Major General Donarrold Lesbeth Smoot
* Captain Ruthelle Bellis

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## Publisher's Summary

The people of Bellania II see their sun, Bel, shrouded in night for a month following an impossible triple eclipse. When Bel is returned to them a younger, brighter, hotter star, it is the beginning of the end for the entire solar system...

100,000 years later, the Doctor and Sam arrive on Bellania IV, where the population is under threat as disaster looms — immense gravitational and dimensional disturbances are surging through this area of space.

While the time travellers attempt to help the survivors and ease the devastation, a religious suicide-cult leader is determined to spread a new religion through Bel's system — and his word may prove even more dangerous than the terrible forces brought into being by the catastrophic changes in the sun...
Book of Glock

*Book of Glock* is a nonfiction book written by Robert A. Sadowski. Released in 2018, it details the Glock 17.

## Publisher's Summary

Robert A. Sadowski showcases all of Glock’s American handgun models, from the first model, the Glock 17, which premiered in 1982, to the all-new G43, and educates firearms enthusiasts on the quirks of each.

The Book of Glock references all Glock pistols available in the United States with in-depth information on all models—history, serial numbers, rare Glock variants, comparative models, cutaway sales models, and more. Sadowski worked closely with Stanley Ruselowski, the president of the Glock Collectors Association, to bring readers information and photos of rarely seen Glocks.

Each chapter is dedicated to a different model. Sadowski provides a timeline of the company’s evolution and a close look at how Glock redefined the combat pistol. Other chapters touch on rare models, commemorative editions, and Glock tools and accessories.

Whether a firearms collector or a new enthusiast, anyone can enjoy Sadowski’s analysis of Glocks throughout history.
A Hero of Our Time

Герой нашего времени (or A Hero of Our Time) is a novella written by Mikhail Lermontov. Released in 1840, it tells of its anti-heroic protagonist's misadventures.

## Characters

* Grigory Alexandrovitch Pechorin

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## Publisher's summary

In its adventurous happenings, its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues, *A Hero of Our Time* looks backward to the tales of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, so beloved by Russian society in the 1820s and '30s. In the character of its protagonist, Pechorin, the archetypal Russian antihero, Lermontov's novel looks forward to the subsequent glories and passion of Russian literature that it helped, in great measure, to make possible.

## Sources

* Wikipedia
* Goodreads
Black Notice

*Black Notice* is a novel written by Patricia Cornwell. Released in 1999, it is the tenth book featuring recurring protagonist Kay Scarpetta and features Scarpetta investigating a mysterious body from Belgium.

## Characters

* Kay Scarpetta

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## Publisher's Summary

An intriguing Dr Kay Scarpetta novel which will take Kay an ocean's breadth away from home. The case begins when a cargo ship arriving at Richmond, Virginia's Deep Water Terminal from Belgium is discovered to be transporting a locked, sealed container holding the decomposed remains of a stowaway. The post mortem performed by the Chief Medical Examiner, Kay Scarpetta, initially reveals neither a cause of death nor an identification.

But the victim's personal effects and an odd tattoo take Scarpetta on a hunt for information that leads to Interpol's headquarters in Lyon, where she receives critical instructions: go to the Paris morgue to receive secret evidence and then return to Virginia to carry out a mission. It is a mission that could ruin her career.

In a story which crosses international borders, BLACK NOTICE puts Dr Kay Scarpetta directly in harm's way and places her and those she holds dear at mortal risk.
Beast of Fang Rock

Beast of Fang Rock is a novel written by Andy Frankham-Allen. Released in 2015, it is the third novel in Candy Jar's Lethbridge-Stewart series and tells of Lethbridge-Stewart travelling in time.

## Characters

* Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
* Anne Travers
* Archibald Goff

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## Publisher's summary

"There's always death on the rock when the Beast's about."

Fang Rock has always had a bad reputation. Since 1955 the lighthouse has been out of commission, shut down because of fire that gutted the entire tower. But now, finally updated and fully renovated, the island and lighthouse is once again about to be brought back into service.

Students have gathered on Fang Rock to celebrate the opening of the "most haunted lighthouse of the British Isles", but they get more than they bargained for when the ghosts of long-dead men return, accompanied by a falling star.

Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart is brought in to investigate what he believes to be signs of alien involvement. But it is not only Lethbridge-Stewart who has an interest in Fang Rock. Anne Travers is called to her family solicitor's, who have in their possession a letter from Archibald Goff, the paranormal investigator who once visited Fang Rock back in the 1820s, and along with it a piece of alien technology.

What connects a shooting star, ghosts of men killed in 1902 and the beast that roamed Fang Rock in 1823? Lethbridge-Stewart and Anne Travers are about to discover the answer first hand...

## See also

* Doctor Who and the Horror of Fang Rock by Terrance Dicks
Blue Camellia

*Blue Camellia* is a novel written by Frances Parkinson Keyes. Released in 1957, it tells of the Winslow family moving to Louisiana.

## Characters

* Mary Winslow
* Brent Winslow
* Lavinia Winslow
* Felix Primeaux
* Jonathan Fant

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## Publisher's Summary

To build a great empire from a pioneer land of Louisiana took a faith and a will as difficult to possess as a blue camellia. In this, one of Frances Parkinson Keyes' finest novels. Determined men and valiant women wrest from the land a mighty tradition.

The story of Brent and Mary Winslow is an epic of America. In the countryside rich with a French, Indian, and Black heritage, the couple endure incredible hardships to become it's foremost citizens. It is in the second generation, in the tragic story of their beautiful daughter Lavinia-- torn between two men, and to find the blue camellia.

## See Also

* Louisiane series by Maurice Denuzière
* Dinner at Antoine's by Frances Parkinson Keyes
Ashtown Burials

*The Ashtown Burials* is a book series written by ND Wilson.

## The Dragon's Tooth

For two years, Cyrus and Antigone Smith have run a sagging roadside motel with their older brother, Daniel. Nothing ever seems to happen. Then a strange old man with bone tattoos arrives, demanding a specific room.

Less than 24 hours later, the old man is dead. The motel has burned, and Daniel is missing. And Cyrus and Antigone are kneeling in a crowded hall, swearing an oath to an order of explorers who have long served as caretakers of the world's secrets, keepers of powerful relics from lost civilizations, and jailers to unkillable criminals who have terrorized the world for millennia.

## The Drowned Vault

It's been almost a year since Cyrus and Antigone Smith earned their places as Journeymen at Ashtown, home of an ancient order of explorers that has long guarded the world's secrets and treasures. While their studies go well, Cy and Tigs are not well liked since losing the Dragon's Tooth to the nefarious Dr. Phoenix. The Tooth is the only object in the world capable of killing the long-lived transmortals, and Phoenix has been tracking them down one-by-one, and murdering them.

The surviving transmortals, led by legendary warrior Gilgamesh of Uruk, descend on Ashtown in force, demanding justice. Cy and Tigs find themselves on the run in a desperate search to locate Phoenix and regain the Tooth. In the process, they uncover an evil even more dangerous than Phoenix, one that has been waiting for centuries to emerge.

## Empire of Bones

Cyrus and Antigone Smith have thwarted Dr. Phoenix’s plans—for the moment. They’ve uncovered a new threat from the transmortals and managed to escape with their lives. Their next adventure will take them deep into the caves below Ashtown, where they will look for help from those imprisoned in one of Ashtown’s oldest tombs.