![]() ![]() There are doors, windows, cubby holes, secret spaces, stair cases and lots more to captivate the littlest of minds. The upper floors have little beds and items laid out to make it look like someone lives there. Until 2018, before Metsa opened, the mushroom house used to be nicknamed “Moomin House”. ![]() ( Skip to night illumination information). Now you can only admire the building from the outside at night and only when the night illumination event is on. However, that was suspended due to the pandemic. When the night illumination began at the park you could also enter this building on select nights. There are 3 floors and a basement to explore. ![]() Once you leave your shoes at the door (which we didn’t on our first visit, cringe) you’re free to roam the house and discover the nooks and crannies. ![]()
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![]() While he works, it’s up to hundreds of individual American soldiers to hold back the enemy flood. Army Staff Sergeant George O'Neill, a communications specialist, may be able to reestablish links that have been severed by hostile forces, but that will take time. But before the sun rises they are on the run across a smoking battlefield crowded with corpses.Īny slim hope for victory rests with one unlikely hero. ![]() What they lack in numbers they make up for in superior weapons and training. Walt Gragg (Author of The Red Line) Walt Gragg Goodreads Author Born in Los Angeles, CA, The United States Genre Miliary Thriller Member Since May 2016 edit data Combine Editions Walt Gragg’s books Average rating: 3.75 729 ratings 126 reviews 2 distinct works Similar authors Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. Standing against them are the woefully undermanned American forces. With a powerful blizzard providing cover, Russian tanks thunder down the autobahns while undercover Spetsnaz teams strike at vulnerable command points. World War III explodes in seconds when a resurgent Russian Empire launches a deadly armored thrust into the heart of Germany. “Delta-Two, I’ve got tanks through the wire! They’re everywhere!” ![]() WWIII explodes in this electrifying debut military thriller in the tradition of Red Storm Rising and The Third World War. ![]() ![]() Charged with returning them to the family’s vacant ancestral seat in the English countryside-the one place he wishes to avoid at all costs-Bly quits the role of spy to play family man. ![]() Yet this stubborn brute compels Clara to abandon her etiquette at every turn, and she can’t stay away.ĭisowned by his family, Bly Ravensdale travels the globe as an explorer and agent of the British Crown until his brother’s passing leaves him saddled with three young wards. Caring for three orphaned children gives her a purpose, but her vulgar employer, Bly Ravensdale, holds dangerous secrets that may shatter Clara’s newfound safe haven. Desperate to outrun her troubles, she accepts a governess position at the crumbling gothic manor of the mysterious Ravensdale family. ![]() ![]() Clara Dawson always followed the rules, until one terrifying night when her inheritance is stolen and the man responsible is left for dead. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From mystery to hard-boiled noir to taboo lesbian romance, these rediscovered queens of pulp offer subversive perspectives on a turbulent era. Women's Barracks was banned for obscenity in several states and denounced by the House Select Committee on Current Pornographic Materials in 1952 as an example of how the paperback industry was "promoting moral degeneracy." In spite of such efforts-or perhaps, in part, because of them-the novel became a record-breaking bestseller and inspired a whole new genre: lesbian pulp.įemmes Fatales restores to print the best of women's writing in the classic pulp genres of the mid-20th century. Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Call Number: 2008 298 Collection Title: Womens barracks Collection/Other Creator: Torres, Tereska. This account of life among female Free French soldiers in a London barracks during World War II sold four million copies in the United States alone and many more worldwide. This novel-based on the author's real-life experiences-is credited as the first candidly lesbian novel, originally published in 1950, that "scandalized mid-century America" ( The New York Times).Īs the Blitz rains down over London, taboos are broken, affairs start and stop, and hearts are won and lost. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Other characters, such as Celia, Maggie and Granda, are not as fully fleshed out. At the same time, the hardships throw Nory together with her aging neighbor, Anna, a healer who initially frightens her, and their growing friendship is one of the novel's greatest strengths. Allowing few glimmers of hope and numerous setbacks for Nory and her loved ones, this gritty slice of realism grows increasingly ominous as it progresses. ![]() Day-to-day worries about survival supplant the heroine's dreams of some day joining Maggie in New York. Giff slowly builds the suspense as the potato blight begins to travel down the west coast from Sligo, and describes the rotting smell as the disaster strikes closer to Nory's home. The celebration of Maggie's wedding and passage to America becomes overshadowed by the grim realities around them. Nory's widower father is in Galway earning money for rent while Nory, her two older sisters, Maggie and Celia, and her younger brother, Patch, stay with their grandfather. As the story opens, 12-year-old Nory Ryan describes her neighbors being put out of their homes and her own family's oppression under English imperialists. In a novel inspired by her own heritage, Giff (Lily's Crossing) meticulously recreates An Gorta M r, the Great Hunger, as she traces a 19th-century Irish girl's struggle to survive in her small village of Maidin Bay. ![]() ![]() His family was well off as his father, Dionizos, was a local judge, but Stefan's childhood was marred because of his proneness to various illnesses. Grabiński was born in Kamionka Strumiłowa, then part of Poland (present-day Kamianka-Buzka, Ukraine), situated by the Bug River. His story "Szamota's Mistress" was adapted to film as part of a B Movie trilogy called Evil Streets. He was an expert in parapsychology, magic and demonology and had an interest in the works of the German Expressionist filmmakers.Ī number of his stories have been translated into English by Miroslaw Lipinski and published as The Dark Domain. ![]() He is sometimes referred to as the "Polish Poe" or "Polish Lovecraft", although his works are often surrealistic or explicitly erotic in a way that sets him apart from both. Stefan Grabiński (26 February 1887 – 12 November 1936) was a Polish writer of fantastic literature and horror stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Were innocent men and women now going to the gallows? And would George Bodle's killer be found? In doing so, however, he would cause as many problems as he solved. The investigation, which gained international attention, brought together a colorful cast of characters: bickering relatives a drunken, bumbling policeman and James Marsh, an unknown but brilliant chemist who, assigned the Bodle case, attempted to create a test that could accurately pinpoint the presence of arsenic. Three days later, after lingering in agony, wealthy George Bodle died in his bed at his farmhouse in Plumstead, leaving behind several heirs, including a son and grandson - both of whom were not on the best of terms with the family patriarch. That evening, the local doctor John Butler received an urgent summons: the family and their servants had collapsed and were seriously ill. ![]() On the morning of Saturday, November 2, 1833, the Bodle household sat down to their morning breakfast. Available at any corner shop for a few pence, arsenic was so frequently used by potential beneficiaries of wills that it was nicknamed "the inheritor's powder." But it was difficult to prove that a victim had been poisoned, let alone to identify the contaminated food or drink since arsenic was tasteless. In the first half of the nineteenth century, an epidemic swept Europe: Arsenic poisoning. ![]() ![]() ![]() The characters pretend to be animals for events, during which they are dressed in masks and elaborate costumes whereas when the actors of the production are playing animals, their appearance is not that much different to the human characters. The lines of what is inherently animal or human behaviour are crossed through clever costume design. We have a view of the world, but animals have a sense of the world, do you see? Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk By looking at human treatment of animals, Drive Your Plow raises questions of empathy and power structures in a more universal way. ![]() ![]() Protagonist Janina questions the actions of the men in the village’s hunting club, made up of the men in positions in the community.Īlthough the play’s exploration of power struggles touches on specific human rights acts (such as feminism), its main focus is on the relationship between animals and people. The story delves into the topic of animal rights, asking if it is only humans who hold the right to act in favour of justice. I’ll admit I had high hopes for the play and wasn’t disappointed by its dark mystery, poetry and it’s smoothly constructed ethical questions on the themes of animal rights and power.Ĭomplicité have adapted the story to stage from a novel of the same name by Olga Tokarczuk. To call Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead a ‘murder mystery’ would be missing the point, as we’re not searching for the killer, but rather their justifications. ![]() ![]() ![]() For more information, visit her online at or at Facebook. Her perfect Sunday morning includes a lengthy and lazy browse through The New York Times online. She enjoys Indian and Thai food for dining, romantic thrillers and detective stories for reading, movies about superheroes, and television programs about desperate housewives and true crime. ![]() On a more personal note, she's happily single, fluent in German, breathtakingly disorganized, and sporadically inspired to cook. She has also written for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Inc., (RFE) in Munich, worked as a freelance book editor, and done cultural reporting and voice work for European publications. ![]() ![]() She has written for The Associated Press in Arkansas Washington, DC and New York. Persia has served on the Mystery Writers of American mentoring panel and as a member of the board for the New York Chapter of MWA's. She won the Author of the Year Award by the Go On Girl Book Club. She is also a contributor to the anthology MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA PRESENTS: THE BLUE RELIGION. Persia Walker is the author of three acclaimed historical novels, BLACK ORCHID BLUES, DARKNESS AND THE DEVIL BEHIND ME, and HARLEM REDUX. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Michael Martchenko's original pictures also illustrate the story in this edition for young readers. A charmingly-illustrated tale of strength for princesses of all ages., Like the original, this version will be sure to charm young children and is a must-have for any preschool library, One of the best princess stories ever told, Elizabeth turns the princess stereotype on its head., Some of the best children's books ever written have been about girls - like The Paper Bag Princess., One of the best princess stories ever told, Elizabeth turns the princess stereotype on its head, empowering young girls to be true to themselves., In this new board book version, the original story of The Paper Bag Princess is shorter and simplified for preschool readers. The tale of a princess who, although faced with adversity, saves the day and wins the prize. ![]() |