6/10/2023 0 Comments Wait for Me by Kris Jacen![]() ![]() I have loved Kris Jacen’s With Me series from the very first story Wait for Me. ![]() What can happen when you grow up a military brat with the ties that they have with their fathers’ close friends and their families? Find the love of your life almost from the start? Or find out that maybe you’re all too close for anything else? But can he be himself - out and proud -serve and protect his country and end up with the one he’s loved for as long as he can remember? Tris has grown up wanting to follow in the footsteps of those before him. Maddy wants to save the planet and capture the heart of Calvin Luna… if he’d only open his eyes. Tristan Nolan and Maddy Holt both grew up as military kids too, but neither of their fathers moved them around as much as the twins. Cam is a fantastic baseball player and Cal loves the science of everything. Proud of their father and uncles and all they’ve done, neither of them is sure the military is for them. Their father has been in the military since before they were born. Calvin and Camden Luna - why yes, their dad is a big baseball fan- have moved around the world with their parents. ![]()
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6/10/2023 0 Comments The vixen francine prose review![]() ![]() "Depending on the light, it’s either a very funny serious story or a very serious funny story. The gift of her work to a reader is to create for us what she creates for her protagonist: the subtle unfolding, the moment-by-moment process of discovery as we read and change, from not knowing and even not wanting to know or care, to seeing what we had not seen and finding our way to the light of the ending.”-Amy Bloom, New York Times Book Review “No one states problems more correctly, more astutely, more amusingly and more uncomfortably than Francine Prose. Named one of the best books of 2021 by NPR, The Washington Post, and Financial Times ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments The Great Fire by Jim Murphy![]() ![]() Helen, still younger, is inseparable from her brother. Benedict, at twenty, is doomed by a rare degenerative disease. Now in their thirties, with their youth behind them and their world in ruins, both must invent the future and retrieve a private humanity.Īrriving in Occupied Japan to record the effects of the bomb at Hiroshima, Leith meets Benedict and Helen Driscoll, the Australian son and daughter of a tyrannical medical administrator. The men have maintained long-distance friendship in a postwar loneliness that haunts them both, and which has swallowed Exley whole. Both men have narrowly escaped death in battle, and Leith saved Exley's life. ![]() Peter Exley, another veteran and an art historian by training, is prosecuting war crimes committed by the Japanese. Son of a famed and sexually ruthless novelist, Leith begins to resist his own self-sufficiency, nurtured by war. In its wake, Aldred Leith, an acclaimed hero of the conflict, has spent two years in China at work on an account of world-transforming change there. ![]() The great fire of the Second World War has convulsed Europe and Asia. ![]() ![]() But has Tori's plan worked a little too well? As she turns his comfortable life all sorts of upside down, she'll have to find a way to show just how she's fallen for him.the real him"-Page of cover. Molding Max into every woman's dream turns out to be much easier than expected. When she finds out he's in the market for a wife, she's fascinated.and determined to help. When shy, geeky Max Crawford becomes a regular, she's intrigued. She likes the work, and she loves the local gossip. Tori Burns has found happiness in Maine, thanks in large part to her shifts at the Trailside Diner. Unfortunately, he’s always been a little awkward when it comes to social interactions, and working from home doesn’t help. Max Crawford has reached the point in life where he’s starting to think about settling down. He spends so much time alone, painting beautiful, historically accurate model trains that half of Whitford has begun to joke that he may be a serial killer. Falling for Max: Book Nine of The Kowalskis By Shannon Stacey. Unfortunately, he's always been a little awkward when it comes to social interactions, and working from home doesn't help. ![]() ![]() "Max Crawford has reached the point in life where he's starting to think about settling down. New York Times bestselling author Shannon Stacey lives with her husband and two sons in New England, where her favorite. ![]() ![]() But her decision to abandon her home, and to reject her son's powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations. ![]() Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant-and that her lover is married-she refuses to be bought. And yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones." In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017 * A USA TODAY TOP TEN OF 2017 * JULY PICK FOR THE PBS NEWSHOUR-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB NOW READ THIS * FINALIST FOR THE 2018 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE* WINNER OF THE MEDICI BOOK CLUB PRIZE Roxane Gay's Favorite Book of 2017, Washington Post NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER * USA TODAY BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER "There could only be a few winners, and a lot of losers. ![]() ![]() ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Chana porter the seep![]() ![]() "The Thick and the Lean flips our known world inside out and, in doing so, exposes familiar seams of subjugation-from purity culture to capitalist exploitation. This book is wildly new and deliciously satisfying, and Porter is one of our moment's most original seers." -Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine and Something New Under the Sun "Decadent and richly imagined, The Thick and the Lean topples expectations and skillfully re-maps vice and virtue, indulgence and shame as we know them. ![]() This novel is a feast of ideas I didn’t want to end." -Allegra Hyde, author of Eleutheria Chana Porter is a brilliant engineer of speculative societies and vivid far-flung realms, but she is also an author who reminds us what matters most in our real lives: the urgency of living our highest truth. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Longbourn reviews![]() When a mysterious new footman arrives, the orderly realm of the servants’ hall threatens to be completely, perhaps irrevocably, upended. ![]() But there is just as much romance, heartbreak, and intrigue downstairs at Longbourn as there is upstairs. Sarah, the orphaned housemaid, spends her days scrubbing the laundry, polishing the floors, and emptying the chamber pots for the Bennet household. ![]() In this irresistib ly imagined belowstairs answer to Pride and Prejudice, the servants take center stage. “ I f Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah often thought, she’d most likely be a sight more careful with them. ![]() Washday could not be avoided, but the weekly purification of the household’s linen was nonetheless a dismal prospect for Sarah. There could be no wearing of clothes without their laundering, just as surely as there could be no going without clothes, not in Hertfordshire anyway, and not in September. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments The butchering art book![]() ![]() and she ended the letter by saying it was nearly an hour and a half that she was under his happened, an hour and a half while he cut away at her cancerous breast. just when you thought things couldn't get worse, now the surgeon is blinded. he afterwards told me that at one time the blood from an artery flew into his eyes so he couldn't see. i myself fully intended to have seen the thing done, but on recollection every glimpse i happened to have was the doctor's right hand completely covered with blood up to the very wrist. i felt every inch of me as though my flesh was failing. my sufferings were no longer local, there was a general feeling of agony throughout my whole system. ![]() deep sickness seized me and deprived me of my breakfast. first on one side of my breast, then on the other. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Private charter nr walker![]() ![]() Academy 601 Bullpup Blvd Caney, Ks 67333. Confined to a yacht, isolated by aqua-colored oceans and the sweltering sun, Stuart and Foster are about to find out just how hot the tropics can get. Caney Valley Charter Academy - About Us - Caney Valley Charter. ![]() Stuart slowly realizes his original plan for two weeks of sun, surf, and sex might not be lost yet. When his next client arrives alone, the two-week charter will be the most private job he's ever had.įoster can see how stressed and exhausted Stuart is, and he promises him extensive rest and relaxation. /rebates/2fPrivate-Charter-N-R-Walker2fbook2f41255275&. Sailing tourists around tropical waters is all in a day's work, and he's never been happier. ![]() When his friend-with-benefits bails on him at the last minute, Stuart decides to go alone.įoster Knight left the rat race behind six years ago, bought a yacht, and now calls the Great Barrier Reef his home. So why, when the apex of his career is within reach, does he stumble At his doctor’s insistence, he books a privately chartered yacht to sail around the tropics for two weeks of sun, surf, and. So why, when the apex of his career is within reach, does he stumble? At his doctor's insistence, he books a privately chartered yacht to sail around the Whitsundays for two weeks of sun, surf, and sex. Stuart Jenner’s job is high stress, high stakes, and everything he’s strived for. Stuart Jenner's job is high stress, high stakes, and everything he's strived for. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The cryptic note offering the Twelfth Page of the Devil’s Prayer in exchange for Siobhan goes viral. When the bells of Amalfi Cathedral toll twelve repeatedly one night, Inspector Luca Reginalli races to find four ancient frescoes and a note in a jade sarcophagus. Only her elder sister Siobhan can stop her, by finding the pages of the Devil’s Prayer hidden across the globe before Jess does. To hoard for themselves and theirs, wiping out every chance future generations and all other species have of survival. ![]() Each page Jess finds encourages people to be selfish. A game designed for Jess Russo, the daughter of the Devil, to unleash Armageddon. A Treasure Hunt for the twelve missing pages of the Devil’s Bible, which hold the Devil’s Prayer. Any further increase could only occur at the cost of other species and future generations. The world’s population crossed 6.66 billion. The books Storyline is the balance of Good and Evil. And the title written on top in all caps. It’s a bold red cross, where one side becomes a Devils tail, and other side has bright light. ![]() The book cover is quite intimidating and gives clear picture of the story line. Environmentalist Luke Gracias-No shadow without light Book Cover: ![]() |