George Brett
There's nothing like Opening Day. There's nothing like the start of a new season. I started playing baseball when I was seven years old and quit playing when I was 40, so it's kind of in my blood.
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Heraclitus
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
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Editorial Content for Aunty Lee's Chilled Revenge: A Singaporean Mystery
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Rosie “Aunty” Lee --- feisty widow, amateur sleuth and proprietor of Singapore’s best-loved home cooking restaurant --- is back in another delectable, witty mystery set in Singapore.
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Rosie “Aunty” Lee --- feisty widow, amateur sleuth and proprietor of Singapore’s best-loved home cooking restaurant --- is back in another delectable, witty mystery set in Singapore.
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Slightly hobbled by a twisted ankle, crime-solving restaurateur Aunty Lee begrudgingly agrees to take a rest from running her famous café, Aunty Lee’s Delights, and turns over operations to her friend and new business partner Cherril.
The café serves as a meeting place for an animal rescue society that Cherril once supported. They were forced to dissolve three years earlier after a British expat killed the puppy she’d adopted, sparking a firestorm of scandal. The expat, Allison Fitzgerald, left Singapore in disgrace, but has returned with an ax to grind (and a lawsuit). At the café one afternoon, Cherril receives word that Allison has been found dead in her hotel --- and foul play is suspected. When a veterinarian, who was also involved in the scandal, is found dead, suspicion soon falls on the animal activists. What started with an internet witch hunt has ended in murder --- and in a tightly knit, law-and-order society like Singapore, everyone is on edge.
Before anyone else gets hurt --- and to save her business --- Aunty Lee must get to the bottom of what really happened three years earlier, and figure out who is to be trusted in this tangled web of scandal and lies.
Editorial Content for Autumn Princess, Dragon Child: The Tale of Shikanoko, Book 2
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In the second book of Lian Hearn’s four-volume epic of mythical, medieval Japan, Shikanoko must rise to new and unexpected challenges as the story builds to a startling, heartbreaking showdown.
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In the second book of Lian Hearn’s four-volume epic of mythical, medieval Japan, Shikanoko must rise to new and unexpected challenges as the story builds to a startling, heartbreaking showdown.
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Editorial Content for Emperor of the Eight Islands: The Tale of Shikanoko, Book 1
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Set in a mythical medieval Japan inhabited by warriors and assassins, ghosts and guardian spirits, EMPEROR OF EIGHT ISLANDS is a brilliantly imagined novel, full of drama and intrigue --- and it is just the beginning of an enthralling, epic adventure: The Tale of Shikanoko.
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Set in a mythical medieval Japan inhabited by warriors and assassins, ghosts and guardian spirits, EMPEROR OF EIGHT ISLANDS is a brilliantly imagined novel, full of drama and intrigue --- and it is just the beginning of an enthralling, epic adventure: The Tale of Shikanoko.
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Editorial Content for In a Dark, Dark Wood
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What should be a cozy and fun-filled weekend deep in the English countryside takes a sinister turn in Ruth Ware’s suspenseful, compulsive and darkly twisted psychological thriller.
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What should be a cozy and fun-filled weekend deep in the English countryside takes a sinister turn in Ruth Ware’s suspenseful, compulsive and darkly twisted psychological thriller.
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Editorial Content for Journey to Munich: A Maisie Dobbs Novel
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Working with the British Secret Service on an undercover mission, Maisie Dobbs is sent to Hitler’s Germany in this thrilling tale of danger and intrigue --- the 12th novel in Jacqueline Winspear’s New York Times bestselling “series that seems to get better with each entry” (Wall Street Journal).
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Working with the British Secret Service on an undercover mission, Maisie Dobbs is sent to Hitler’s Germany in this thrilling tale of danger and intrigue --- the 12th novel in Jacqueline Winspear’s New York Times bestselling “series that seems to get better with each entry” (Wall Street Journal).
About the Book
Working with the British Secret Service on an undercover mission, Maisie Dobbs is sent to Hitler’s Germany in this thrilling tale of danger and intrigue --- the 12th novel in Jacqueline Winspear’s New York Times bestselling “series that seems to get better with each entry” (Wall Street Journal).
It’s early 1938, and Maisie Dobbs is back in England. On a fine yet chilly morning, as she walks towards Fitzroy Square --- a place of many memories --- she is intercepted by Brian Huntley and Robert MacFarlane of the Secret Service. The German government has agreed to release a British subject from prison, but only if he is handed over to a family member. Because the man’s wife is bedridden and his daughter has been killed in an accident, the Secret Service wants Maisie --- who bears a striking resemblance to the daughter --- to retrieve the man from Dachau, on the outskirts of Munich.
The British government is not alone in its interest in Maisie’s travel plans. Her nemesis --- the man she holds responsible for her husband’s death --- has learned of her journey, and is also desperate for her help.
Traveling into the heart of Nazi Germany, Maisie encounters unexpected dangers --- and finds herself questioning whether it’s time to return to the work she loved. But the Secret Service may have other ideas.
Edward Bunyard
It is, in my view, the duty of an apple to be crisp and crunchable, but a pear should have such a texture as leads to silent consumption.





