![]() ![]() ![]() As they chat, Al playfully challenges Lou to show him the best of Milwaukee and she’s game-but only if they never discuss work, which Al readily agrees to. The day that Al’s mean-spirited review of Luella’s runs, the two cross paths in a pub: Lou drowning her sorrows, and Al celebrating his latest publication. The review practically writes itself: underdone fish, scorched sauce, distracted service-he unleashes his worst. When an anonymous tip sends him to Luella’s, little does he know he’s arrived on the worst day of the chef’s life. ![]() Witty yet gruff British transplant Al is keeping himself employed and entertained by writing scathing reviews of local restaurants in the Milwaukee newspaper under a pseudonym. She cheerfully balances her demanding business and even more demanding fiancé…until the morning she discovers him in the buff-with an intern. In downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Lou works tirelessly to build her beloved yet struggling French restaurant, Luella’s, into a success. YOU'VE GOT MAIL meets HOW TO EAT A CUPCAKE in this delightful novel about a talented chef and the food critic who brings down her restaurant-whose chance meeting turns into a delectable romance of mistaken identities. ![]() This is an ARC for ISBN13:9781501100710 The Coincidence of Coconut Cake ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Growing Hearts series celebrates the milestones of a toddler's emotional development, from conquering fears and expressing feelings to welcoming a new sibling. With whimsical illustrations and an irresistible die-cut heart that extends through each spread, this gorgeously packaged and unique feelings book is sure to become a storytime favorite. 3 questions for you to ask your children after reading it: Throughout the story, the author describes a feeling on each page. ![]() Why you might want to read it: This books uses beautiful illustrations and a heart di-cut to get kids excited about learning about feelings. In My Heart explores a full range of emotions, describing how they feel physically, inside, with language that is lyrical but also direct to empower readers to practice articulating and identifying their own emotions. In My Heart let's kids know its okay to have different feelings. ![]() our hearts can feel so many feelings! Some make us feel as light as a balloon, others as heavy as an elephant. Happiness, sadness, bravery, anger, shyness. Celebrate feelings in all their shapes and sizes in this New York Times bestselling picture book from the Growing Hearts series! ![]() ![]() They are backed up by the data, which shows that house pries in comparison to incomes were significantly cheaper 34 years ago than in 2023 - even though the current 11-year high cash rate of 3.6 per cent is low by historical standards.Ī median-priced Sydney house currently selling for $1,217,308 costs 10.4 times an average, full-time salary of $94,000, for a buyer with a 20 per cent deposit.īut in 1989, the equivalent home in Australia's most expensive capital city was priced at $170,850 - just five times the average $26,874 salary after the mortgage deposit. In recent interviews with Daily Mail Australia, both Aussie Home Loans founder John Symond and AMP Capital chief economist Shane Oliver agreed that it was 'easier' to purchase when they were younger. ![]() The Reserve Bank hiked interest rates for the 10th month in a row last week, prompting many older Australians to recall their own struggles, when rates hit 18 per cent in 1989. ![]() ![]() Prominent baby boomers who had huge success in business have admitted they had it a lot easier than the younger generation when it comes to buying a house. ![]() ![]() Items are usually dispatched within twenty-four to seventy-two hours. Orders are processed and dispatched Monday to Friday. Whether you’re 5 or 55, Pooh is the bear for all ages. ![]() Pooh ranks alongside other beloved character such as Paddington Bear, and Peter Rabbit as an essential part of our literary heritage. Milne’s classic children’s stories – featuring Piglet, Eeyore, Christopher Robin and, of course, Pooh himself – are both heart-warming and funny, teaching lessons of friendship and reflecting the power of a child’s imagination like no other story before or since. Do you own all the classic Pooh titles? Winnie-the-PoohThe House at Pooh CornerWhen We Were Very YoungNow We Are SixReturn to the Hundred Acre WoodThe Best Bear in all the World The nation’s favourite teddy bear has been delighting generations of children for 95 years. ![]() This is the first volume of rhymes written especially for children by Milne – as popular now as when they were first written.įeaturing E.H.Shepard’s original decorations, this collection is a heart-warming and funny introduction to children’s poetry, offering the same sense of humour, imagination and whimsy that we’ve come to expect from Milne’s favourite books about Winnie-the-Pooh, that Bear of Very Little Brain. They’re changing guard at Buckingham Palace – Christopher Robin went down with Alice.’ Curl up with A.A.Milne’s classic book of poetry for children, When We Were Very Young. ![]() ![]() ![]() Michael Martin's debut novel is a transcendent thriller filled with electrifying action, searing emotional insight, and unexpected romance. The Game Master is leading Michael and Patrick to other survivors-survivors who don't play by the rules. ![]() And at this Game, Michael and Patrick are very good. They spend their days searching for survivors, their nights fighting endless hordes of "Bellows"-creatures that roam the dark, roaring for flesh. In the rural mountains of West Virginia-armed with only their rifle and their love for each other-the brothers follow Instructions from the mysterious Game Master. Seventeen-year-old Michael and his five-year-old brother, Patrick, have been battling monsters in the Game for weeks. Michael Martin, which ALA Booklist called "the best of the undead bunch" in a starred review. ![]() John Green meets Stephen King in this original take on the zombie apocalypse by author T. ![]() ![]() ![]() On a cool August evening in 1941, a Serbian playboy created a stir at Casino Estoril in Portugal by throwing down an outrageously large baccarat bet to humiliate his opponent. ![]() As an operative for the Abwehr, SD, MI5, MI6, and FBI during World War II, Popov seduced countless women―including agents on both sides―spoke five languages, and was a crack shot, all while maintaining his cover as a Yugoslav diplomat. James Bond has nothing on British double agent Dusko Popov. ![]() Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling author "Will keep you planted in your reading chair from start to finish." Michael Morell, CIA Director (acting, 2011, 2012-13) Written in the style of the best spy thrillers, the book is impossible to put down. INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "A sensational book, telling a remarkable true story that few know, even those in the intelligence business. ![]() ![]() The dragons and the brownies are happily settled in the Himalayas, while Ben and his adoptive family are now living in Norway and working at a sanctuary for endangered magical creatures. ![]() The sequel, The Griffin's Feather ( Die Feder eines Greifs) picks up the story two years later. On the way, they'll encounter an assortment of magical creatures both good and bad and travel through exotic locations, all while trying to keep themselves out of reach of a very persistent beast with a hunger for dragon flesh. A series by German author Cornelia Funke, in which the first book ( Drachenreiter in the original German) follows a dragon, a Brownie, and an unassuming human orphan (and eventually a few more partners) as they travel from one end of the earth to the other searching for the Rim of Heaven - the only true sanctuary left for the dragons, now that humans are building over all the others. ![]() ![]() The mystery around the king's son and his connection to the sea was really enjoyable and tragic and I really liked the moments between Peri and Kir. I liked the commentary about greed around these characters too since they are after a gold chain that is on the neck of a sea creature. ![]() I loved the plot of common people dealing with magical creatures that suddenly show up and how the fishermen and the workers at the inn are trying to deal with this situation by hiring a magician. ![]() The prince was really interesting, the sea dragon was really sweet and funny and I also liked the magician. I immediately got attached to Peri, who is 15 years old, and also liked her work colleagues that were surprisingly interesting despite being sort of minor characters. The writing is beautiful as always and the characters are great. There is a prince, a magician and sea creatures in this story that revolves around an inn, the sea, love and greed. Feeling like she lost both parents, Peri uses the small magic she learned from a witch to hex the sea. Peri hates the sea ever since her father's fishing boat returned without him and her mother spends her days looking out the window and talking about a city below the sea. The story is about a girl named Periwinkle, Peri for short, that works at an inn cleaning the floors with two other girls. ![]() This book could have been 5 stars if it wasn't for the ending. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And with social media and viral videos, she can control that appearance. By tallying up the human cost these caped forces of nature wreak upon the world, she discovers that the line between good and evil is mostly marketing. When people start listening to the story that her data tells, she realizes she might not be as powerless as she thinks.īecause the key to everything is data: knowing how to collate it, how to manipulate it, and how to weaponize it. With no money and no mobility, with only her anger and internet research acumen, she discovers her suffering at the hands of a hero is far from unique. And, to her horror, compared to the other bodies strewn about, she’s the lucky one. But when she finally gets a promising assignment, everything goes very wrong, and an encounter with the so-called “hero” leaves her badly injured. But is it really worse than working for an oil conglomerate or an insurance company? In this economy?Īs a temp, she’s just a cog in the machine. Working for a monster lurking beneath the surface of the world isn’t glamorous. The Boys meets My Year of Rest and Relaxation in this smart, imaginative, and evocative novel of love, betrayal, revenge, and redemption, told with razor-sharp wit and affection, in which a young woman discovers the greatest superpower-for good or ill-is a properly executed spreadsheet.Īnna does boring things for terrible people because even criminals need office help and she needs a job. “This book is fast, furious, compelling, and angry as hell." - Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author ![]() ![]() Knecht eventually leaves the society and the high position of Magister Ludi when he becomes disillusioned with a society that really is not helping society. ![]() The reader is never told how this game works but it involves all knowledge and especially music and mathematics. The men study various subjects and the Glass Bead game links them. Joseph Knecht is the young initiate into the monastic secular life of Castalia. ![]() The author received the Nobel probably because of this book in 1946. It also is full of Hesse's interest in Eastern philosophy and Western religion. I don't see the SF part of it but it also can be described as fantasy and fictional biography. The story is the last by Hermann Hesse and is called a work of Science Fiction. Set in the future, the 23rd century, I think, the setting is Castalia. ![]() |