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Edie was born to a family of troublemakers. When her activist parents leave Paris to protest around the globe, her grandmother decides it's time she became a proper young lady and so sends her to the School of the Good Sisters. But to Edie's surprise, the nuns at the school teach genuinely useful things, like how to build a perfect library, cater for midnight feasts and make poison darts, and mischievous Edie feels right at home. When a school trip to Paris is planned, she worries about returning to the strict order of her grandmother's chateau - but things are not as she left them. Soon Edie and her rebellious friends are caught up in a mystery involving a precious painting, secrets from her grandmother's past and a very persistent burglar... Autorid: Daisy May Johnson

This book is an edition and translation of one of the most important and celebrated sources of Old Norse-Icelandic mythology and heroic legend, namely the medieval poems now known collectively as the Poetic Edda or Elder Edda.Included are thirty-six texts, which are mostly preserved in medieval manuscripts, especially the thirteenth-century Icelandic codex traditionally known as the Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda. The poems cover diverse subjects, including the creation, destruction and rebirth of the world, the dealings of gods such as Óðinn, þórr and Loki with giants and each other, and the more intimate, personal tragedies of the hero Sigurðr, his wife Guðrún and the valkyrie Brynhildr.Each poem is provided with an introduction, synopsis and suggestions for further reading. The Old Norse texts are furnished with a textual apparatus recording the manuscript readings behind this edition's emendations, as well as select variant readings. The accompanying translations, informed by the latest scholarship, are concisely annotated to make them as accessible as possible.As the first open-access, single-volume parallel Old Norse edition and English translation of the Poetic Edda, this book will prove a valuable resource for students and scholars of Old Norse literature. It will also interest those researching other fields of medieval literature (especially Old English and Middle High German), and appeal to a wider general audience drawn to the myths and legends of the Viking Age and subsequent centuries.

USA Today Bestseller "A sharp, funny mystery bursting with heart and small-town secrets. I adored every page of The Best Little Motel in Texas - pure escapist joy with a wicked edge." Joanna Wallace, author of You'd Look Better as a Ghost "An overall, absolute delight." - Booklist, starred review A charming, edgy mystery about a young woman who unexpectedly inherits the best little motel in Texas replete with a feisty set of golden working girls, a poisoned priest, and a sleepy hometown thrown into chaos. After a childhood spent combing the dive bars of Sarsaparilla Falls to collect her fun-loving momma, Cordelia West now enjoys a simple, respectable life in Dallas. Then one phone call from the hometown shes spent years trying to forget throws it into chaos. Cordelia's great-aunt Penelope has passed away, naming Cordelia the sole heir to the Chickadee Motel. She has no memory of a great-aunt and no interest in hospitality, but the will stipulates that the motel cant be sold until its residents leave or pass away so she reluctantly heads back down to Sarsaparilla Falls to figure out who's living in the Chickadee, and how to get them out. But upon her arrival, Cordelia discovers the Chickadee isnt a motelits a brothel, housing three women in their sixties known as the Chicks. For decades, Daisy, Arline, and Belinda Sue have entertained the men of Sarsaparilla Falls (with their wives blessings)including the upright Pastor Reed-Smythe, who thunders against the towns favorite sins when hes not indulging. Cordelia doesnt want to be a hotel manager or a madam, but she cant just sell the only home the Chicks have knownespecially not after the pastor is found poisoned in Daisys bed. With the Chicksand the townon the verge of a breakdown, Cordelia steps up to mop up the mess. For a small town, there are plenty of suspects: could it be the obsessed nurse with access to arsenic? Developers eager to gobble up the land? The righteously angry town librarian? Things are heating up in Sarsaparilla Falls, and with the Pastors obnoxiously attractive son ArcherCordelias childhood nemesisinvestigating the Chicks and getting close, straightlaced Cordelia may just have to get a little dirty to make a killer come clean. Autorid: Lyla Lane

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Kui 17-aastane Stefan ootamatult kaob, arvatakse esmalt, et poiss on lihtsalt jalga lasknud. Asjalood võtavad aga jahmatava pöörde, kui metsast leitakse poisi laip. Nooruke Rebecca Lindeberg ja tema kolleegid asuvad asja uurima, kuid seisavad peagi silmitsi juba järgmise mõrvaga. Seekord on ohvriks Stefani isa. Kui ka pereema jäljetult kaob, algab paaniline võidujooks ajaga 1 kas nad jõuavad vähemalt naise päästa? Ja miks peaks keegi üldse tahtma hävitada seda pealtnäha täiesti tavalist perekonda? \"Kas keegi kuuleb mind?\" on viieosalise Rebecca Lindebergi krimisarja teine raamat, kuid raamatud on ka eraldi loetavad. Sari ilmus esmakordselt aastatel 2015-2020 ja seda andis välja kirjastus Tänapäev. Nüüd on sari saanud uue kujunduse ja peatselt on kõik osad taas lugejatele saadaval. Autorid: Ketlin Priilinn