![]() Becky also gets suspicious when she catches Luke, who is in the middle of some extremely stressful business dealings, in lies. She takes every chance to belittle our heroine in front of her hubby, and she leaves him possibly incriminating Latin text messages. Luke and Venetia start spending time together, and Venetia, for her part, seems eager to pick up where she and Luke left off. It comes as a shock, then, when Luke recognizes the stunning MD from their student days at Cambridge, where they were an item. Drawn to promises of Thai massage and aromatherapy (not to mention the goodie bag), she also hopes to befriend her holistic young doctor’s celeb clients. She’s happily married to PR whiz Luke Brandon she’s in talks to acquire a dream house and she’s tapped “celebrity” obstetrician Venetia Carter to deliver her firstborn. Life is going swimmingly for Becky ( The Undomestic Goddess, 2005, etc.). ![]() ![]() ![]() London’s daffiest über-consumer Becky Brandon is having a baby. ![]()
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When Mona the mouse stumbles across the wondrous world of the Heartwood Hotel in the middle of a storm, she desperately hopes the staff will let her stay. ![]() "If there's one thing Vancouver author Kallie George knows, it's how to create a tale full of whimsy." -Quill & Quireĭownton Abbey meets The Tale of Peter Rabbit in this heartwarming chapter book about a mouse discovering where she belongs. ![]() ![]() With stories that highlight the power of friendship, Heartwood Hotel is sure to leave readers eager to visit again." -Ashley Spires, author and illustrator of The Most Magnificent Thing ![]() ![]() ![]() Sometimes oil and water are meant to mix. Get out your fans for this steamy contemporary romance which features a hunky Texas Ranger with trust issues and a confident, sexy, full-figured heroine who believes in the best in people. But when city-slicking do-gooder Aja Everett asks for his help, he can't stay away.and as attraction sizzles and protective instincts flare, she may be the only woman able to restore the heart of this Texas Ranger. He once made the mistake of following his heart and all he'd gotten was pain in return. She needs a man like Ranger Jackson Dean. ![]() Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Jackson: A Steamy Opposites Attract Romance (Restoration Ranch Book 1). Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Whether she's willing to admit it or not, she needs help. Jackson: A Steamy Opposites Attract Romance (Restoration Ranch Book 1) - Kindle edition by LaQuette. But her big heart's bound to get her in trouble if she's not careful-someone wants her gone, and they'll do whatever it takes to drive her away from the land that's her lifeblood. From celebrated author LaQuette comes a sizzling opposites attract Texas Ranger romance that will leave you breathless.Īja Everett longs to turn her old family ranch into a place where anyone can find rest and healing. From celebrated author LaQuette comes a sizzling contemporary romance that will leave you breathless, with a hot-as-sin hero who's been burned before, a confident, sexy, full-figured heroine determined to do some good, and a shocking finale that can't be beat. ![]() ![]() The Sentence begins on All Souls’ Day 2019 and ends on All Souls’ Day 2020. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading ‘with murderous attention,’ must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year of grief, astonishment, isolation and furious reckoning. ![]() Flora dies on All Souls’ Day, but she simply won’t leave the store. A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store’s most annoying customer. Louise Erdrich’s latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. ![]() In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage and of a woman’s relentless errors. PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE NIGHT WATCHMAN SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022 ![]() ![]() ![]() Read more highest circles of political power and the city's secret arenas of debauchery. ![]() Hired to investigate Dio's murder by a beautiful woman with a scandalous reputation, he will follow a trail of intrigue into the. Now Gordianus must begin the most dangerous case of his career. And before the night is out, Dio is brutally assassinated. But the ambassador, a philosopher named Dio, asks for something Gordianus cannot give - help in staying alive. Both are seeking Gordianus the Finder, who has a reputation for solving murders. On a cold January evening in 50BC, two strangers enter Rome - one an Egyptian ambassador and the other a eunuch priest. Description for The Venus Throw (Gordianus the Finder 4) Paperback. ![]() ![]() ![]() Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content, providing access to journal and book content from nearly 300 publishers. With warehouses on three continents, worldwide sales representation, and a robust digital publishing program, the Books Division connects Hopkins authors to scholars, experts, and educational and research institutions around the world. 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One of the largest publishers in the United States, the Johns Hopkins University Press combines traditional books and journals publishing units with cutting-edge service divisions that sustain diversity and independence among nonprofit, scholarly publishers, societies, and associations. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Maihack’s conservative designs are also something of a missed opportunity, considering the visual potential of the “Egypt in space” concept. A good two-thirds of the book is spent getting Cleo (and readers) up to speed, with the sci-fi swashbuckling mostly limited to the last of three chapters. Cleopatra smoothly slips into the role of confident, wisecracking, baddie-dispatching hero, and the supporting cast falls neatly into place as well. 2 reviews A sample of Target Practice (Cleopatra in Space, 1) offered for Free Comic Book Day 2014.Maihack’s debut graphic novel sets the stage for what looks to be a series of Star Trek–style space adventures punctuated with far-future high school drama. Cleopatra in Space : Target Practice 1 FCBD 2014 (Cleopatra in Space) by Mike Maihack (Goodreads Author) 4.10 The collective knowledge and history of thousands of planets is in danger of falling to the Xerx, an interstellar conquering horde led by the malevolent Xaius Octavian, and the residents of the Ailuros System have pinned their hopes on Cleo. After inadvertently being transported to an alien world in the distant future, 15-year-old Cleopatra must balance algebra, boys, and birthdays with her prophesied destiny as the savior of all civilization. Even time-displaced Egyptian queens-to-be have to finish their homework before they can save the galaxy. Target Practice (Cleopatra in Space 1) has 7 reviews and 6 ratings. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “He usually takes the other team’s leading scorer and plays good one-on-one defense as well as team defense. “Matt is a tremendous defensive player,” Dullea said. Highly touted swingman Rivaldo Soares had 15 points and 10 rebounds, but Relihan did a good job of making Soares work for everything. Hobbs and O’Neil teamed up to score 18 of their team’s 23 points in the final quarter.įreshman DaSonte Bowen scored 14 of his 17 points in the second half for O’Bryant (6-2). Leading 34-30 at the half, the Eagles (6-2) gradually pulled away in the second half as Nate Hobbs scored 16 of his game-high 25 points in that stretch. “We felt we could limit them to one shot.” John’s Prep coach John Dullea, whose team enjoyed a 38-23 rebounding edge. “We knew coming into the game that we had the size on them,” said St. John’s Prep defeated O’Bryant, 73-58, in the opening game of the Slades/BABC Holiday Classic at Cathedral High School. His professional interests include medical eye exams for diabetic and glaucoma patients and contacts lens fittings for astigmatism or multi-focal patients. Then, he obtained his doctorate from Pennsylvania College of Optometry in 2014. Tommy O’Neil scored 22 points and grabbed 14 rebounds while Matt Relihan added 12 points and 10 rebounds as St. Towers by Matthew Bryant ended with fisticuffs. Matthew Bryant graduated from Michigan State University with a B.S. John’s Prep put its substantial height advantage to good use Monday afternoon. ![]() ![]() ![]() This list includes novels published between 20, and we’ve limited it to one book per author. We can’t wait to see what the next 10 years bring, and we’re thankful to watch the industry growing.Īs this decade wraps up, we wanted to highlight 30 YA novels that powerfully impacted us during the last 10 years. There’s still a long way to go, but the work that’s being done makes us hopeful. This decade also saw the publishing world finally begin to prioritize releasing diverse and inclusive teen novels. ![]() Coming-of-age stories are relatable no matter how old you are, and all of us understand what it’s like to be a teenager searching for an identity. And not just because teens were reading more than ever, but because adults couldn’t get enough. ![]() Coming down from the Twilight boom and thundering past The Hunger Games, the leap into 2010 saw the YA lit explode. To say Young Adult books have had a spectacular decade is an understatement. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tolstoy elaborates on the union facet to his definition of art. ![]() What does he means in this statement? Why would lacking this specific ability make us like wild beasts and/or the laconic Kasper Hauser? Tolstoy notes that without this, “men would be like wild beasts, or like Kasper Hauser”. One important aspect to the recipient’s part is the capacity to receive feelings and thoughts from the author and pass them on to others. Instead, he defines art (although stating that no exact objective definition of art exists) as communication between the creator behind the artwork and the recipient of the art that eventually unites people through a common understanding of the artwork. He disagrees with existing definitions of art as something that manifests beauty and offers pleasure. In “What is Art?”, Leo Tolstoy makes a strong argument that to define art “correctly”, one must consider it as “one of the conditions of human life”. ![]() |