5/9/2023 0 Comments First touch by laurelin paige![]() ![]() And I’d listen, whether I wanted to or not. I was too agitated.īut without him spelling it out, I knew that was the terms of this arrangement. ![]() Whatever he had to say, I couldn’t possibly listen. Chatting was definitely not the direction I wanted to go in from here. Because we need to have a chat.”Īpprehension fluttered in my belly. When she’s forced to choose where her loyalty lies, how will she decide between saving Amber and saving her heart? ![]() But as she finds herself more entangled with him, she finds she’s drawn to Reeve for more than just his connection to Amber, despite her growing fear that he may be the enemy. Now, in order to find Amber, Emily must seduce Reeve to learn his secrets and discover the whereabouts of her friend. And what’s more chilling than the voicemail: it turns out that Amber has gone missing.ĭetermined to track down her friend, Emily follows a chain of clues that lead her to the enigmatic billionaire Reeve Sallis, a hotelier known for his shady dealings and play boy reputation. Although the message might sound benign to anyone else, Amber uses a safe word that Emily recognizes, a word they always used to get out of sticky situations during their wild days. ![]() Though the two were once notorious party girls, they haven’t spoken in years. When Emily Wayborn goes home to visit her mom while on hiatus from her hit TV show, she receives a voicemail from her former best friend, Amber. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Like I said, the people on the island are truly backwards and primitive. It is believed he is of the devil because of a birth injury that left him with damage to one of his arms. Liam MacGregor lives on the island, shunned and forsaken. ![]() She performs some truly heroic, sacrificial acts and I really loved her. It would be so easy to dismiss Anna as a socialite, but Lindsey gives her tremendous depth of character as she stands up for justice and the poor. ![]() “It’s difficult to reconcile the fantastic with reality hard to accept that things we can’t see exist-terrifying, in fact.” – Ashes on the WavesĪnna, Annabel Leighton, is a rich socialite who has gotten a lot of negative press lately so she is sent by her family to stay out of the spotlight in their island mansion while her brother plans a wedding and his political career. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Live alone and like it pdf![]() Tens of thousands of women were doing it. The idea of a woman moving on her own wasn’t really that shocking anymore. Instead, she would pack up everything she owned and head directly to the city. She was in her mid-thirties, a successful editor at Vogue, a former flapper who frequented the best cocktail bars in Manhattan. Though her brother and his children lived nearby, she refused to be “an old maid aunt,” haunting the periphery of the family. Hillis had just returned from Venezuela, where she’d had an epiphany. But her parents were dead, and her sister had recently remarried. ![]() It was the home where she had lived with her family. In 1930, Marjorie Hillis stood in front of a large, empty house in suburban New York. (Esther Bubley/FSA via Library of Congress) ![]() Girl sitting alone at the Sea Grill in Washington, D.C., 1943. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 11 & up)Īfter surviving a suicide attempt, a fragile teen isn't sure she can endure without cutting herself. The rare reader who knows Nefertiti’s later role in creating a new religion will see the clues being laid most will just enjoy the ancient princess who reads and writes, drives chariots and always looks fantastic. However, the first-person, past-tense narration, laced with the glamour of ancient Egypt (painted friezes, paper-thin linen, beautiful jewelry) and topped with a dollop of tension (Nefertiti is engaged to Pharaoh’s cold, possibly mad oldest son but falls for his kind brother instead) makes for an undemanding but satisfying foray into a time and place not often written about. This Nefertiti may be a little too good to be true-she dances! She’s smart! She’s kind to slaves! She’s impossibly beautiful-and a little too modern to please true history buffs. Here she weaves the little information known with various historians’ theories and a definite sense of contemporary tween/teen princess fantasies. Friesner imagines the childhood of legendary queen Nefertiti, as she did for Helen of Troy in Nobody’s Princess (2007) and Nobody’s Prize (2008). ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Educated by Tara Westover![]() ![]() ![]() I think that answer to that, you know, my parents had this philosophy about learning, this kind of idea of education that was very much about individual responsibility.Īnd I think that, in some ways, they took it a bit far. And what do you when the obligations that you owe your family are somehow in conflict with what you owe to yourself? But it would also take me away from my family. And I bought a algebra book and just taught myself enough algebra to kind of sort of pass the ACT, and I went to university.Īnd what I didn't know at that time was I was starting out on this path, this path of education, that would require a lot of my ideas to change, that would require my world view to change.Īnd that path of education would take me to these great places, Harvard, Cambridge. So when I was 16, I decided to try to educate myself. I didn't even have a birth certificate until I was 9 years old, which meant that, according to the state of Idaho and the federal government, I just didn't exist. ![]() So I was never allowed to go to school or to the doctor. And because of those beliefs, we were isolated. So, I was born and raised the youngest of seven children on this really beautiful mountain in Southern Idaho. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Lost city of the monkey![]() ![]() During subsequent visits to Honduras, he saw evidence in the jungle that further piqued his interest. In the 1940s, an American explorer named Theodore Morde returned from an expedition to La Mosquitia with thousands of artifacts he declared that he had discovered the legendary city and that Indigenous people described an enormous statue of a monkey god that had been buried there, according to National Geographic (opens in new tab).Įlkins' fascination with the White City began in the 1990s, when he first heard about the city while working as a television producer. Elkins was part of the team that discovered the ruins of what is thought to be the White City, in collaboration with the government of Honduras and Honduran scientists. However, the region is currently threatened by illegal logging and wildlife trafficking, creating serious risks not only for local habitats and biodiversity but also for the preservation of important archaeological sites that could become vulnerable to looting, filmmaker and explorer Doug Elkins told Live Science. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Lauren blakely big rock series![]() ![]() ![]() She'd love to give you a free book today! Check out her web site to grab your free read: Her heroines are strong and smart and her heroes have hearts of gold and fantastic funny bones. ➜ TWITTER: A #1 New York Times Bestselling, #1 Wall Street Journal Bestselling, and #1 Audible Bestselling author, Lauren Blakely is known for her contemporary romance style that's sweet, sexy and witty. She'd love to give you a free book today! Check out her web site to grab your free read: Connect with Lauren here ➜ WEBSITE: ➜ NEWSLETTER: /newsletter ➜ FACEBOOK: ➜ INSTAGRAM. A #1 New York Times Bestselling, #1 Wall Street Journal Bestselling, and #1 Audible Bestselling author, Lauren Blakely is known for her contemporary romance style that's sweet, sexy and witty. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jansson wrote the Moomin books for children, starting in 1945 with The Moomins and the Great Flood. She continued to work as an artist and a writer for the rest of her life. At the same time, she was writing short stories and articles for publication, as well as creating the graphics for book covers and other purposes. Her first solo art exhibition was in 1943. Brought up by artistic parents, Jansson studied art from 1930 to 1938 in Stockholm, Helsinki and Paris. ![]() ![]() Tove Marika Jansson ( Swedish pronunciation: ( listen) 9 August 1914 – 27 June 2001) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire Jansson in 1956 with moomintroll dolls made by Atelier Fauni ![]() 5/8/2023 0 Comments Green creek tj klune![]() ![]() My thoughts bit: I’m going to do my best to write a review of Brothersong that not only captures how amazing I thought it was but also contains no spoilers. This was a perfect ending to the Green Creek Series – Kinzie Things Just the facts: Werewolves, Magic, diverse, beautiful, heartbreaking Because Gavin’s history with the Bennett pack goes back further than anyone knows, a secret kept hidden by Carter’s father, Thomas Bennett.Īnd with this knowledge comes a price: the sins of the fathers now rest upon the shoulders of their sons. What Carter finds will change the course of the wolves forever. ![]() ![]() But therein lies the danger: wolves are pack animals, and the longer Carter is on his own, the more his mind slips toward the endless void of Omega insanity.īut he pushes on, following the trail left by Gavin. And then it-he-was gone.ĭesperate for answers, Carter takes to the road, leaving family and the safety of his pack behind, all in the name of a man he only knows as a feral wolf. The Official Description: In the ruins of Caswell, Maine, Carter Bennett learned the truth of what had been right in front of him the entire time. ![]() ![]() His first novel was 1953’s Fahrenheit 451. ![]() His first full-length publication was the short story collection Dark Carnival in 1947. Ray Bradbury became a published author in November 1941, earning $15 for the story Pendulum, which he co-wrote with Henry Hasse. After his death in June 2012, the New York Times wrote in his obituary that he was “the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream.” President Obama also issued an official statement. ![]() In his teens and early twenties, he was writing short stories for pulp magazines. A reader from a young age, some of his early influences included authors like Edgar Rice Burroughs, H.G. Although he was best known for his more than 500 short stories, he is best known for his novel Fahrenheit 451. ![]() Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) was an American author of fantasy, sci-fi, horror and mysteries. ![]() |