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Sweet evil wendy higgins series5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Escorting the Player (The Escort Collection 3) by Leigh James. Escorting the Groom (The Escort Collection 4) by Leigh James. Reclaimed by the Powerful Sheikh by Pippa Roscoe. The Princess Finds Her Match by Suzette de Borja. Completed romance chicklit twins +22 more # 10 Running with His Child by ItsLayLayH 16.3M 442K 41 After being involved with a cold-hearted mafia boss, Robyn Lehman decides its time to run.Billionaire Romance.
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Blame!, Vol. 2 by Tsutomu Nihei5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() I still recommend the Master Editions, because of the refined artwork, which makes it easier to identify things. ![]() ![]() But it's the same story, just collected differently. I'm going back to reading the Master Editions now and am actually looking forward to the second one of those.ģ.5 stars for this volume, which contains the last three chapters of the first Master Edition and the first two chapters of the second Master Edition. Pretty soon, though, Killy (and the reader) will learn of the motivation of at least one faction for finding them. ![]() He's still in search of someone that possesses the Net Terminal Genes, but seemingly without knowing exactly what they are for. Usually it doesn't lead to friendly conversations. Killy is still trying to make his way up through the megastructure, encountering other people and machines and something in between from time to time. Just when I was about to draw a chart of all the information that was scattered across the first volume and the beginning of this second one. Finally some of the answers are forthcoming that turn a stylish manga into one that can actually be understood. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Only, when Teig and his team reach their destination, they find an abandoned town, save one catatonic nine-year-old girl―and a pack of predatory wolves, faster and smarter than any wild animals should be. Hundreds of thousands of people worked to death and left where their bodies fell, consumed by the frozen elements and plowed beneath the permafrost road.įascinated by the history, documentary producer Felix “Teig” Teigland is in Russia to drive the highway, envisioning a new series capturing Life and Death on the Road of Bones with a ride to the town of Akhust, “the coldest place on Earth”, collecting ghost stories and local legends along the way. Known as the Road of Bones, it is a massive graveyard for the former Soviet Union’s gulag prisoners. A narrow path where drivers face such challenging conditions as icy surfaces, limited visibility, and an average temperature of sixty degrees below zero, fatal car accidents are common.īut motorists are not the only victims of the highway. Siberia’s Kolyma Highway is 1200 miles of gravel packed permafrost within driving distance of the Arctic Circle. ![]() His latest novel, Road of Bones finds an American documentarian travelling a haunted highway across the frozen tundra of Siberia. VJ Books Presents Author Christopher Golden! Christopher Golden is a New York Times bestselling and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of horror and urban fantasy as well as young adult novels. ![]() You are here: Home > Our Authors > Golden, Christopher ![]()
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![]() ![]() But when someone discovers the midnight escapees, Celeste’s freedom and reputation are on the line. Disguised as “Salome,” Kieran escorts her to gambling hells, rowdy parties and sensual art salons while their attraction to each other grows. When Kieran, her older brother’s best friend, comes to her to help reform his reputation, she makes a deal with him: she’ll introduce him to the right social circles if he shows her London’s scandalous side. However, she wishes to escape her gilded cage and the pressures her father and society put on her. Celeste Kilburn is society’s darling with a sterling reputation. As a notorious rake, finding someone who can help reshape his reputation is a must. ![]() His parents issue an ultimatum: find a respectable wife within a year or inherit nothing. ![]() When Kieran Ransome helps his best friend abandon his sister at the altar, there are consequences. All that to say is I did enjoy it, but I don’t think I loved it. ![]() I feel like it was missing that special something to make it stand out. On the one hand, I enjoyed reading it and liked the story, but I also found it not all that memorable in the long run. I’ve been trying to sort out my feelings on The Good Girl’s Guide to Rakes for about a month. Links: Amazon – Barnes & Noble – Goodreads Series or Standalone: Last Chance Scoundrels #1 ![]()
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![]() ![]() In addition to the metaphor of the sea, the author compares each stage of life to a particular shell found on the beach. The sea is used as a metaphor for the unknown and often turbulent state of life but the author is also eager to point out what wonderful gifts the sea offers, if only one can learn to see and realize their significance. ![]() Those things remain undone as Anne becomes seduced by both the beach and the sea. Intentions are good, at first, to do all of those things one thinks to do when there is spare time. It takes a couple of days for the author to get settled in and to begin to embrace the solitude that accompanies the small cottage and the sea. Although knowing one must have alone time to contemplate, heal and rest, the author shows some guilt about the solo getaway. ![]() During the first week, Anne struggles with leaving the family behind in Connecticut. For the second week, Anne's sister takes up residence. ![]() The subject of tragedy and strength, Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares with the reader intimate tales of her journey to date, 1955.Īnne travels to an island where she will remain for two weeks. Gift from the Sea is a book written by famed author and wife of legendary pilot Charles Lindbergh, Anne Morrow Lindbergh. ![]()
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I will love you forever childrens book5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() The next scene shows the man cradling his own newborn daughter as he sings his mother’s lullaby to her. I’ll like you for always, / As long as I’m living / my baby you’ll be.” But after the boy goes to bed, she crawls into his room, making sure he is really asleep, and then rocks him and sings him a little song:“I’ll love you forever. His mother responds by saying that he is driving her crazy and that maybe the best thing would be for her to put him in a zoo. When he is nine, he refuses to take a bath and accidentally curses in front of his scandalized grandma. ![]() When he is two, he flushes her watch down the toilet and makes a huge mess in the house. When the boy is young, he frequently exasperates and annoys his mother by getting into age-appropriate but less-than-ideal trouble. The book has had two illustrators, Anthony Lewis and Sheila McGraw. Love You Forever chronicles the life of a boy as he becomes a man, as well as the life of his loving mother as she ages and eventually dies. Overcome by this loss, Munsch wrote the book as an allegory of the unconditional and lifelong love that parents have for their children. Children’s author Robert Munsch published the popular picture book Love You Forever in 1986 as a way of grieving his two stillborn children. ![]()
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Without Child by Laurie Lisle5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Academics and activists in various disciplines and movements also riff on the childfree life: its implications, its challenges, its conversations, and its agency-all in relation to its inevitability in the 21st century. Foundational pieces from established experts on the childfree choice-Rhonny Dam, Laurie Lisle, Christopher Clausen, and Berenice Fisher-appear alongside both activist manifestos and original scholarly work, comprehensively brought together. After all, as Adi Avivi recognizes, "if a woman is not a mother, the patriarchal social order is in danger." This collection engages with these (mis)perceptions about childfree people: in media representations, demographics, historical documents, and both psychological and philosophical models. Being childfree challenges the ‘procreation imperative’ residing at the center of our hetero-normative understandings, occupying an uneasy position in relation to-simultaneously-traditional academic ideologies and prevalent social norms. ![]() More than seven percent of Western women choose to remain childfree and this figure is increasing. Recently, childfree people have been foregrounded in mainstream media. ![]()
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![]() Terry: "I'm not entirely convinced that organizations should initiate training per se on religious diversity, or even if "training" is the right word for the need. Trading notes with a fellow pioneer, I asked Terry for his perspective on creating understanding of religious diversity and the conversation got underway quickly. ![]() From my cultural anthropologist perspective, the once-isolated Southeast is a major creative opportunity, similar to the Chicago area 25 years ago when I created the DuPage Interfaith Resource Network. ![]() More recently, there has been interest in my work from health care organizations, corporations and business management classes. However, the influx of international businesses, employees and their families has increased interest and I've had invitations to speak at churches, conferences and universities. Here in the South, where Christianity provides much of the raw material for social, political and economic interaction, there is little active interfaith education beyond pulpit exchanges in religious institutions. ![]() I am well aware that there are regional differences shaping the work that Terry and I do. ![]()
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Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon5/21/2023 ![]() "I like the way they handle it on Mount Athos, the all-male monastery on an isolated rocky island in Greece," McCartney writes. ![]() of Wisconsin, $17.95) is explicitly obsessed with the subject, and I think he might enjoy Felix's company more than Mino does. Alistair McCartney's narrator in the ruminative work of fiction The Disintegrations (Univ. "That's because his hand is really in Christ's," Felix explains, "and this is only a sheet of canvas."Ī global pandemic may seem like the worst-or most perfect-time to consider death as an extraordinarily dynamic canvas for literary contemplation. Do you feel his warmth?" An understandably nervous Mino replies that no, he doesn't. ![]() "Come," Felix implores, "take his hand and tell him your name. Since Felix is the resident crypt-keeper, the friends he is introducing Mino to are dead, decaying until their bones may be placed lovingly and more compactly in a deeper chamber. ![]() One of my favorite scenes in Katy Simpson Smith's marvelous third novel, The Everlasting (reviewed below, Harper, $28.99), has the ninth-century monk Felix introducing his young companion Mino to the monastery brethren. ![]()
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Unwanted by kristina ohlsson5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I really liked this distinctive, first-rate thriller and I look forward to reading her next two books. I read and enjoy good mystery/suspense novels but, honestly many of them just run together after a while. Both women’s efforts to negotiate their way within a male dominated profession become a subplot in each of the dramas. ![]() Similarly, in this story, Frederika Bergman is a no-nonsense female analyst working with all male detectives to solve the crime. This novel reminded me of the British TV drama called "Prime Suspect" starring Helen Mirren as Chief Inspector, Jane Tennison. The reader has access into the twisted mind of the criminal (only known as “The Man”) all the while the detectives are investigating his crimes and closing in on him. The story is written with multiple viewpoints, three of which are the main detectives but, also another point of view includes a woman coconspirator of the perpetrator, which was an interesting departure from the conventional crime novel. This suspense novel was an excellent combination of a police procedural and psychological thriller – and the most enjoyable Swedish crime novel I’ve read since the Stieg Larsson Millennium series. ![]() |