![]() ![]() ![]() 45 caliber pistol to the engine, preparing to put it out of its misery. In what Mauldin described as his favorite cartoon, a cavalry sergeant whose beloved jeep had a broken axle covers his eyes as he holds his. "Aim between the eyes, Willie," Joe advised. But one such night, Willie and Joe came face to face with a large rat. "It's almost full."Ī good night would be when they got to sleep in a barn, especially if it had dry, warm straw inside. "Don't startle 'im, Joe," Willie implored. Once, while hidden in bushes, they spied a tipsy German soldier carrying a bottle of liquor. ![]() "Is there one for enlisted men?")Ī good day for Willie and Joe was when they stumbled across a bottle of cognac and could get happily tight. "Beautiful sunrise," a major remarks to a captain. ![]() (In one cartoon, two officers are admiring a brilliant sky at dawn. They resented the privileges and entitlement that officers enjoyed. They hated the Army and they hated the war. They had slept too many nights in rain-filled foxholes they had been given too many orders by fresh-faced second lieutenants who had no combat experience. Willie and Joe were not Hollywood heroes. His single-frame cartoons appeared in military newspapers, including Stars and Stripes. Mauldin was the soldier-cartoonist who created Willie and Joe, a pair of bedraggled dogfaces who slogged across Europe, dodging bullets, shrapnel and regimental regulations. named Bill Mauldin continues to make news. As the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II approaches, a little G.I. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Tweet Cute is a book that took me by surprise. As their relationship deepens and their online shenanigans escalate ― people on the internet are shipping them? ― their battle gets more and more personal, until even these two rivals can’t ignore they were destined for the most unexpected, awkward, all-the-feels romance that neither of them expected. Little do they know, while they’re publicly duking it out with snarky memes and retweet battles, they’re also falling for each other in real life ― on an anonymous chat app Jack built. ![]() All’s fair in love and cheese ― that is, until Pepper and Jack’s spat turns into a viral Twitter war. His relationship with the business that holds his future might be love/hate, but when Big League Burger steals his grandma’s iconic grilled cheese recipe, he’ll do whatever it takes to take them down, one tweet at a time. When he isn’t trying to duck out of his obscenely popular twin’s shadow, he’s busy working in his family’s deli. Enter Jack, class clown and constant thorn in Pepper’s side. Her family may be falling apart, but their massive fast-food chain is booming ― mainly thanks to Pepper, who is barely managing to juggle real life while secretly running Big League Burger’s massive Twitter account. The blurb: Meet Pepper, swim team captain, chronic overachiever, and all-around perfectionist. Tweet Cute by Emma Lord delights in the experience of being seen, and of finding your soulmate in the most unlikely of Twitter accounts. ![]() ![]() Language is a tool wielded deftly by the multilingual characters, who switch easily among English, French, Shanghainese, Russian, and more, with Mandarin as the primary dialect for Chinese phrases. Allusions to Romeo and Juliet are evident in names and specific scenes, but familiar themes of family, loyalty, and identity bear new significance in Gong’s inventive adaptation. The slow-burning romance in this book takes a back seat to the gripping mystery grounded in immersive historical detail. ![]() But when a lethal contagion strikes the city, targeting Scarlets and White Flowers alike, Juliette and Roma grudgingly agree to cooperate on an investigation in order to save their city. ![]() Four years ago, a betrayal by the White Flowers heir, Roma Montagov, a young man of 19, led to the deaths of countless Scarlets, and Juliette is determined to avenge her gang. Eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai has returned home from New York City, wreathed in a reputation for ruthlessness and ready to step into her role as heir to the Scarlet Gang. ![]() Foreign powers have carved out portions of the city for themselves what remains is divided between two feuding gangs, the Chinese Scarlet Gang and the Russian White Flowers. It is the autumn of 1926, and Shanghai is poised at the brink of transformation. ![]() A monster spreads madness through the streets of Shanghai. ![]() ![]() Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse ![]() Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() Of course, love bargains are a tricky thing, and these two have a long, perilous journey ahead of them-that is, if they don’t kill each other first. To save him, Wren proposes a bargain: if Tamsin will help her catch the dark witch responsible for creating the plague, then Wren will give Tamsin her love for her father. When a magical plague ravages the queendom, Wren’s father falls victim. Sources are required to train with the Coven as soon as they discover their abilities, but Wren-the only caretaker to her ailing father-has spent her life hiding her secret. ![]() Wren is a source-a rare kind of person who is made of magic, despite being unable to use it herself. The only way she can get those feelings back-even for just a little while-is to steal love from others. But after committing the worst magical sin, she’s exiled by the ruling Coven and cursed with the inability to love. Tamsin is the most powerful witch of her generation. In this charming debut fantasy perfect for fans of Sorcery of Thorns and Girls of Paper and Fire, a witch cursed to never love meets a girl hiding her own dangerous magic, and the two strike a dangerous bargain to save their queendom. ![]() ![]() ![]() Through this chain of thought she developed the character Luke Garner, the main character for The Shadow Children series. This boy had spent his whole life in hiding simply because he had been born in a country that had laws against having too many children. She imagined not only how it might be for the adults but also for the children. ![]() Haddix started to imagine how different life might be if she and her family lived in a society that had a policy similar to China’s. Eventually China’s One-Child Policy came up in conversation. ![]() Over time they began to explore and discuss the global ramifications, impacts and policies of having children in different countries around the world. When their first-born, a little girl, was about 3 years old and their second child, a boy, was around 21 months old, like so many couples, Haddix and her husband began discussing the possibility of a third child. ![]() She and her husband always knew they wanted to have kids but they were never quite certain what number of children was the right number for them and their family. Of all the reasons to write a book, or series of books, intended for entertainment purposes, the reason Margaret Haddix wrote the series The Shadow Children must be one of the most profound ever. ![]() ![]() It was taken as a given that the HBC was a sort of interchangeable entity with the Canadian government and the British Parliament. In Ontario, we were taught what really amounted to the Hudson's Bay Company History of Canada. ![]() In defense of my own thesis, that puts you way ahead of me, Chet. I certainly didn't watch that CBC-TV movie about Riel that aired in the late 70s. He must have been mentioned in the media, but I wasn't paying attention. I don't remember anyone ever talking about Riel outside of a history classroom. Nothing! Maybe francophones in Québec learned more about Riel, but I grew up in an English bubble. I could not have come up with even one more detail - not a year, not a place-name. ![]() And when I say everything, I mean absolutely everything. And that's everything that I would have been able to remember on that subject from my grade eight history class. Prior to 1995 - which was when I read Maggie Siggins' biography of the man - I knew the following about Louis Riel: he was a French Métis he led a rebellion in Winnipeg in the nineteenth century he was somehow responsible for someone's execution - and there was a big fuss about that and he himself was hanged. ![]() Growing up in Québec did not give me an advantage in the "acquiring-knowledge-about-Riel" department. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Putting her job on the line to head the investigation, Eve discovers that the world of high fashion thrives on an all-consuming passion for youth and fame. And Eve's chief suspect is the other woman in this fatal love triangle - her best friend Mavis. A top model who would stop at nothing to get what she wanted - even another woman's man. The victim in her latest murder investigation is one of the most sought-after women in the world. The victims had been using the same dating service. With a creeping dread, Eve watches the bodies mount and realises the key - the killer is counting down the twelve days to Christmas. And he's left behind a present: a partridge in a pear tree, pinned to the victim's hair. Finding a woman strangled to death by a murderous Santa doesn't help. ![]() It's Christmas-time in New York City, but homicide lieutenant Eve Dallas struggles to get into the holiday spirit. ![]() ![]() ![]() Zarabeth, lives in York with her step father and her step brother and younger sister. ![]() It is a season of growth and flowering, of treachery and malice, of love and learning. ![]() ![]() It is the season of the sun in Norway, the clear midnight light of summer. She wears the slave collar around her neck for all to see, but bears his distrust of her and her own pain deep within her. Zarabeth does eventually return with Magnus to his farmstead in Norway, but as his slave, not as his wife. But her stepfather, Olav the Vain, has no intention of setting a bride price on Zarabeth. She is both stunned and fascinated by his bluntness, but is soon won over by this man who makes her laugh, brings her desire, and ultimately makes her trust him with her future and that of her little sister, Lotti. Zarabeth, with hair as red as an Irish sunset, is chosen by Magnus Haraldsson, a Viking on a trading visit to York, to be his wife. Genres: Favorites, Historical Romance, Medieval Era, Vikingsįirst published in 1991, Season of the Sun is the glorious story of a Viking man whose love for one woman is nearly destroyed by her stubborn stepfather. Also in this series: Lord of Hawkfell Island ![]() ![]() ![]() Once they’re together, they become so soft and precious and you can help but root for him. This is definitely a slow burn but there’s a instant attraction that’s very obvious even when the main character have a rocky start to their relationship. Their dynamic is entertaining to read about from the beginning. ![]() This book is full of banter and chemestry between the main characters, Gavin and Noah, which was my favorite part of the book. But both men know the score, and neither is sure what will happen once Gavin’s timeout is over… He’s not sure if he’d rather argue with Gavin or tackle him to the floor. But Noah isn’t prepared for the electrifying tension between him and the football player. Working as Gavin’s personal assistant/babysitter seems like easy money. ![]() Noah Monroe is a recent college grad looking for a job-any job-to pay off his mounting student debt. And while he’s been successful professionally, he’s never been lucky when it comes to love. Gavin already has a reputation as a jerk with a temper on and off the field-which doesn’t help him once he finds himself on the wrong side of the law. New York Barons tight end Gavin Brawley is suspended from the team and on house arrest after a video of him brawling goes viral. ![]() |