Gossip From The Forest

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Gossip From The Forest

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Gossip from the Forest Granta Books

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Fairytales are one of our earliest and most vital cultural forms, and forests one of our most ancient landscapes. Both evoke a similar sensation in us - we find them beautiful and magical, but also spooky, sometimes horrifying. In this fascinating book, Maitland argues that the two forms are intimately connected: the mysterious secrets and silences, gifts and perils of the forests were both the background and the source of the fairytales made famous by the Grimms and Hans Christian Andersen. Yet both forests and fairy stories are at risk and their loss deprives us of our cultural lifeblood. Maitland visits forests through the seasons, from the exquisite green of a beechwood in spring, to the muffled stillness of a snowy pine wood in winter. She camps with her son Adam, whose beautiful photographs are included in the book; she takes a barefoot walk through Epping Forest with Robert Macfarlane; she walks with a mushroom expert through an oak wood, and with a miner through the Forest of Dean. Maitland ends each chapter with a unique, imaginitive re-telling of a fairytale.Written with Maitland's wonderful clarity and conversational grace, Gossip from the Forest is a magical and unique blend of nature writing, history and imaginative fiction.

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Rizzoli & Isles: Listen to Me Random House Publishing

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER Rizzoli & Isles are back! From New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen, this  shocking and fast-paced (Karin Slaughter) thriller has Jane and Maura investigating a brutal murder with dire implications, and this time, with Jane s intrepid mother, Angela, looking into a mystery of her own. An utter pleasure to keep readerly company with. The New York Times Mothers know best . . . But who will listen?Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles are newly plagued by what seems like a completely senseless murder. Sofia Suarez, a widow and nurse who was universally liked by her neighbors, lies bludgeoned to death in her own home. But anything can happen behind closed doors, and Sofia seemed to have plenty of secrets in her last days, making covert phone calls to traceless burner phones. When Jane finally makes a connection between Sofia and the victim of a hit-and-run from months earlier, the case only grows more blurry. What exactly was Sofia involved in? One thing is clear: The killer will do anything it takes to keep their secret safe.   Meanwhile, Angela Rizzoli hasn t had a decent night s sleep in all the years since her daughter became a homicide detective. Maybe the apple didn t fall too far from the tree: Nothing in Angela s neighborhood gets by her not the gossip about a runaway teenager down the block and definitely not the strange neighbors who have just moved in across the street. Angela s sure there s no such thing as coincidence in her sleepy suburb. If only Jane would listen instead she writes off Angela s concerns as the result of an overactive imagination. But Angela s convinced there s a real wolf in her vicinity, and her cries might now fall on deaf ears. With so much happening on the Sofia case, Jane and Maura already struggle to see the forest for the trees, but will they lose sight of something sinister happening much closer to home?

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Faust part one Penguin

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