Maggy Thorsen, cynic extraordinaire, has a few things to feel optimistic about lately. After her original coffeehouse, Uncommon Grounds, was destroyed in a freak May blizzard, Maggy and her best friend, Sarah Kingston, have found the perfect spot to relocate – right next to the new commuter train in Milwaukee.After successfully securing the spot, Maggy and Sarah plan to piggyback the city's celebrations for the train and re-open Uncommon Grounds on the same day. In fact, Maggy's feeling so positive, she even digs deep in her budget and hires a giant inflatable coffee cup to attract more notice to her grand reopening.All seems to be running right according to plan…until Maggy's event manager is found dead – and now Maggy must find the killer before the killer finds her!!
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Dieses eBook: "Drei Mann in einem Boot" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Drei Männer im Boot (Three Men in a Boat), erschienen 1889, ist eine humorvolle Erzählung von Jerome K. Jerome über einen Bootsausflug auf der Themse zwischen Kingston und Oxford. Das Buch war ursprünglich als ernsthafter Reiseführer, mit Erzählungen über die Geschichte von Plätzen entlang der Strecke, geplant, doch die humoristischen Schilderungen gewannen letztlich die Oberhand. Die drei Männer basieren auf Jerome selbst und zwei seiner Freunde (George und Harris). Der Hund Montmorency ist eine reine Erfindung, hat jedoch - wie Jerome anmerkte - "viel mit mir gemeinsam". Jerome verwendet einen assoziativen Erzählstil. Er nimmt einzelne Ereignisse der Reisevorbereitungen und der Reise selbst zum Anlass, ausführlich Geschichten und Anekdoten zu erzählen, die mit der Reise nichts oder nur wenig zu tun haben. Die Reise bildet daher nur die Rahmenhandlung und tritt, was den Umfang des Gesamtwerks angeht, gegenüber den eingestreuten Anekdoten deutlich in den Hintergrund.
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<p>Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and back to Kingston. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction to the comic novel. One of the most praised things about Three Men in a Boat is how undated it appears to modern readers – the jokes have been praised as fresh and witty.</p> <p>The three men are based on Jerome himself (the narrator Jerome K. Jerome) and two real-life friends, George Wingrave (who would become a senior manager at Barclays Bank) and Carl Hentschel (the founder of a London printing business, called Harris in the book), with whom Jerome often took boating trips. The dog, Montmorency, is entirely fictional but, "as Jerome admits, developed out of that area of inner consciousness which, in all Englishmen, contains an element of the dog". The trip is a typical boating holiday of the time in a Thames camping skiff. This was just after commercial boat traffic on the Upper Thames had died out, replaced by the 1880s craze for boating as a leisure activity.[citation needed].</p> <p>Following the overwhelming success of Three Men in a Boat, Jerome later published a sequel, about a cycling tour in Germany, titled Three Men on the Bummel (also known as Three Men on Wheels, 1900).</p> <p>Famous works of the author Jerome K. Jerome:</p> <p>Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, Three Men in a Boat, Diary of a Pilgrimage, Three Men on the Bummel, Paul Kelver, All Roads Lead to Calvary.</p>
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Where saving the world is just another day's work… Claire Hansen goes where the trouble is. That's the job of a Keeper: cleaning up metaphysical disasters, closing holes in the fabric of the universe. Constant travel is hard, even with a talking cat alongside. But it beats the assignments older Keepers get. She'd hate to be stuck in one place for decades, minding a breach too big to mend. Then Claire finds herself in Kingston, Ontario, at a bed-and-breakfast with a literal gate to Hell in the basement, its assigned guardian nowhere to be found. It's fully stocked with weird—an evil Sleeping Beauty, a French-Canadian sailor's ghost, technicolor imps the cat denies seeing. The only employee is a Clark Kent-handsome Newfie with zero magic and less instinct for self-preservation. And guests keep arriving, with very particular demands. Disentangling history, mystery, and magic while keeping the B&B's doors open and the gates of Hell firmly shut has proven impossible before now. But since the alternative is being trapped forever, Claire will give it a try…
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It's 1979, rubbish is on the streets of Bristol, and it's tricky being Fiz. She's thirteen, she's got no money, her sister's pregnant and her mum thinks she's a waste of space... Rick remembers what it's like to be a teenager. So he thinks it won't take much to get a bunch of kids to help him build a playground out of junk. He's wrong. It takes everything he's got. But when it's finished, it's going to be something. It's going to be everything... Jack Thorne's honest and witty Junkyard, with music by Stephen Warbeck, premiered in 2017 in a co-production between Headlong, Bristol Old Vic, Rose Theatre Kingston and Theatr Clwyd, and directed by Jeremy Herrin.
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Alicia Kingston es una mujer madura sin ilusiones. Cree que ha perdido su atractivo. Sus amigos y su familia le dicen que se trata de la típica crisis de la edad, y que debe resignarse. Además, ¿no tiene un marido perfecto y unos hijos maravillosos? Un día conoce a un apuesto artista callejero, Christian, quince años más joven que ella, y por primera vez en mucho tiempo vuelve a sentirse joven, bonita y sexy. Decide citarse con él una sola vez, y justo ese día su hijo pequeño se rompe un brazo y nadie puede encontrarla. Cuando llega a casa fingiendo volver del trabajo, su marido la echa preso de la ira, sin saber que la está arrojando a los ardientes brazos de Christian, con el que experimentará el sexo de una manera nueva y salvaje. --- «Carole Matthews es de las pocas escritoras que pueden rivalizar con Marian Keynes.» Daily Record «Encantará a los fans de Bridget Jones de ambos lados del Atlántico.» Library Journal «Una historia que te hará reír a carcajadas y también derramar alguna que otra lágrima.» Woman's Realm
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Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize 2012. Dulcinea Evers, a young Jamaican artist who has reinvented herself in the USA as the flamboyant Cinea Verse, has died in unclear circumstances. But who was Dulcinea? Her friend, Cheryl, who is carrying her ashes back to New York from her Jamaican funeral, has one story, but the narratives of the other people in Dulci's life suggest that not even Cheryl's version is the whole one. In the words of Dulci's angry, disappointed father, her ineffectual mother, her middle-aged married lover and the angry wife who came after her with a machete, the art critic husband whom she used to get American residency, and Cheryl, the friend who has her own secrets, facets of Dulci begin to emerge: talented, reckless and, as we see when Aunt Mavis begins to speak, fundamentally alone. And it is Aunt Mavis, the solitary and reluctant seer, who understands the true challenge of Dulci's gift. In telling Dulci's story through those who speak to her, Alecia McKenzie has skilfully organised a narrative that is both multi-layered in offering deepening cycles of understanding, and has the onward thrust of progressive revelation. There is space, too, for readers to come to their own conclusions. Alecia McKenzie was born and grew up in Kingston, Jamaica. Her short stories, Satellite City, won the Commonwealth Writers regional prize for the best first work in 1993.
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As winter's first snow falls, there's not much Christmas cheer in Sherwood Forest. Cupboards are bare, the nights are cold, and the cruel Sheriff of Nottingham squeezes his citizens for every penny they're worth. But deep in the forest, in the heart of the Major Oak, Robin and Marian are plotting an audacious scheme to bring some festive joy to all… This charming retelling of the Robin Hood legend by Chris Bush, with music by Matt Winkworth, was first performed at Rose Theatre, Kingston upon Thames, in 2024, directed by Elin Schofield. Robin Hood and the Christmas Heist was commissioned by the Rose to be performed by members of the Rose Youth Theatre alongside four professional adult actors – and offers a wealth of opportunities for other theatre companies who want a merry Christmas classic that hits the target.
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