Brenda hiatt books5/13/2023 ![]() Praise for The Husband Hunter’s Guide to London “Appealing protagonists and a slow simmering romance. The little handbook would be a godsend-if only the distraught girl didn’t mangle all of its good advice! If Harriet can help Charles find a love match for his sibling, perhaps, in this season of good tidings, a long-buried attraction can set their own hearts aflame. But hers is not the only secret under wraps: Charles Davenham is working covertly to unmask a Russian agent-until the younger sister he’s always protected comes to him, recently rejected and clutching The Husband Hunter’s Guide to London. Behind her seemingly dependent role as an unpaid caretaker-of both children and dogs-Harriet Swanley has in fact astutely avoided a forced marriage. Description: When a husband is needed by Christmas, a trusted slender volume for ensuring a merry match is indeed a gift! In this Regency delight from beloved, award-winning author Kate Moore, a spirited governess joins a gentleman spy on a daring mission: finding a mate for a jilted debutante-while drawing dangerously close to each other. ![]()
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The magic faraway tree collection5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() He tends to demonstrate an exaggerated personality during most of his encounters, often making flashy poses and using dramatic speech patterns in ordinary conversation. This is likely what led him to call himself THE MAVERICK. MIKHAEL seems to have an obsession with being unique, due to seeing everyone in his family as the same (likely in part due to his siblings being twins). He wears a poorly thrown on cyan dress shirt hanging open enough expose a singular chest hair, with the bottom of the shirt being tucked in on one half of his plain white jeans and not the other. This wig also deliberately covers his eyes. ![]() MIKHAEL is a teenage boy who wears a blond wig over his real, darker hair. ![]() Iceberg by jennifer a nielsen5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nielsen weaves an extraordinary tapestry of survival and disaster in this magnificent thriller. ![]() The danger only intensifies when calamity strikes, and readers will be caught up in the terror and suspense alongside Hazel as she fights to save her friends and herself.īestselling author Jennifer A. With the help of a porter named Charlie and a sweet first-class passenger named Sylvia, Hazel explores the opulent ship in secret, but a haunting mystery quickly finds her. When Hazel discovers that mother didn’t send her with enough money for a ticket, she decides she must stow away onboard the storied ship. Following the untimely death of her father, Hazel’s mother is sending her to the US to work in a factory, so that she might send money back home to help her family make ends meet.īut Hazel harbors a secret dream: She wants to be a journalist, and she just knows that if she can write and sell a story about the Titanic's maiden voyage, she could earn enough money to support her family and not have to go to a sweatshop. Hazel Rothbury is traveling all alone from her home in England aboard the celebrated ship Titanic. A thrilling tale from New York Times bestselling author Jennifer A. As disaster looms on the horizon, a young stowaway onboard the Titanic will need all her courage and wits to stay alive. ![]() The forsaken lisa stasse5/13/2023 ![]() Supposedly, we were sent to the wheel after failing a test meant to predict a tendency for future violent and criminal behavior. I was only on the wheel for two weeks, but every day was a fight for survival. A desolate tropical island known as “the wheel,” where life expectancy is eighteen years of age. Many of them display footage of Prison Island Alpha-the colony for banished teens that Liam and I escaped from. ![]() Large digital screens are mounted in a row on the wall behind the scientists. It’s one of many such rooms and tunnels dug like burrows into the strange rock formation. The rebel scientists who run the station use this room for depositions and debriefings. ![]() I’m deep inside Destiny Station, sequestered in a small chamber carved into the massive sandstone mesa that I’ve called home for the past three weeks. ![]() I SIT IN AN uncomfortable metal chair, facing a row of six scientists in white lab coats. ![]() Bluets maggie nelson barnes and noble5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Melissa Febos discusses her new essay collection, GIRLHOOD.more ![]() Tags: A Little Life, ACTUP, AIDS, Amble Press, Anita Bryant, Ann Patchett, Anthem: Homunculus, Autobiography of a Face, Bettyville, Between the World and Me, brothers, Cecil Williams, Celeste Chan, chris offutt, debut novel, Doubting Thomas, fleetwood mac, garth greenwell, gay, George Hodgman, Giovianni's Room, Glide Church, hanya yanagihara, homophobia, homosexuality, internalized homophobia, James Baldwin, Janice Mirikitani, John Cameron Mitchell, June Jordan, justin torres, Landslide, Lawnboy, LGBTQ, Lucy Grealy, lydia peelle, mary gaitskill, Matthew Clark Davison, Michael Cunningham, Michael Nava, My Father the Pornographer, Paul Lisicky, pedophile, pedophilia, Portland, queer, queer bodies, Queer Nation, queerness, Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing, San Francisco, San Francisco State University, Satanic Scare, SFSU, siblings, Sula, Ta-Nehisi Coates, teachers, teaching, The Lab, Toni Morrison, Truth & Beauty, we the animals, What Belongs to You Matthew Clark Davison discusses his debut novel, DOUBTING THOMAS.more ![]() Wandfasted by laurie forest5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Her best friend Jules Kristian is in love with her, but she doesn’t feel the same, and even if she did he’s a Kelt, and the only thing that will make people hate her more is crossing that last line. Tessla Harrow is a Gardnerian Mage living in a world filled with Kelts who want to kill her. When you are wandfasted, black designs appear on both of your hands at the “engagement”, they darken when you seal the marriage, and they spread up your wrists when you consummate the marriage. Gardnerians don’t actually marry, they do something called Wandfasting, which is basically being bound to another Gardnerian (usually of a similar power type/level) by a spell. Gardnerians are witches, commonly with an underlying emerald tone to their skin. But they didn’t count on us having dragons of our own. When they painted Heretics on our barn and set fire to it, I thought that was the worst it could get. To read my Kindle notes and highlights, click here. To read the Goodreads description, click here. ![]() Out of Africa by Karen Blixen5/13/2023 ![]() In December of 1912, the real-life Karen had just turned 27, and had no prospects. From the beginning, she's ready to break out of the role everyone wants to put her in. Karen's smart, strong, and daring, and really in no need of rescuing, thankyouverymuch. This is a much more reserved and naturalistic account of those passions. ![]() ![]() If you're looking for the flashy, heaving breasts of a swooning woman overcome with l'amour, you've come to the wrong literary adaptation. Someone who defied convention that much was sure to have an unconventional romance. She ran an entire coffee plantation on her own at a time when it was still unusual for women to wear pants. There, she established a school for the native Kikuyu people who lived on and worked her land. ![]() She fled the confines of European society, where women were expected to look pretty and keep quiet, for the space of Africa, where being eaten by a lion was an actual possibility. Karen Blixen wasn't a woman who colored inside the lines. "You do like to change things," Denys says, as a smile stretches across his face. ![]() Jeremy thorpe by michael bloch5/13/2023 ![]() And permanently nagging at him was this possibility of exposure of his secret,” Grant told NPR. “He was a star and everyone thought he was extraordinary. For Grant, playing Thorpe offered some insight into the fear the politician must have experienced. The story of Thorpe’s career in politics, his relationship with Scott, and the alleged assassination attempt is told in the BBC’s “ A Very English Scandal.” Starring Hugh Grant as Thorpe and Ben Whishaw as Scott, the three-part miniseries will premiere in the U.S. His supposed target was aspiring model Norman Scott, who claimed to have been Thorpe’s lover-and Scott’s dog, a Great Dane named Rinka, already shot to death by hitman Andrew Newton in what appeared to be a bungled assassination. ![]() ![]() It was January 1976, and Jeremy Thorpe, British MP (Member of Parliament) and leader of the Liberal Party, had been charged with conspiracy and incitement to murder. ![]() Even in their wildest dreams, the British tabloids couldn’t have imagined such a salacious story dropping into their laps. ![]() Leave the world behind rumaan alam5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Leave the World Behind explores how our closest bonds are reshaped-and unexpected new ones are forged-in moments of crisis. Suspenseful and provocative, Rumaan Alam's third novel is keenly attuned to the complexities of parenthood, race, and class. Should Amanda and Clay trust this couple-and vice versa? What happened back in New York? Is the vacation home, isolated from civilization, a truly safe place for their families? And are they safe from one other? But in this rural area-with the TV and internet now down, and no cell phone service-it's hard to know what to believe. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept the city. are an older couple-it's their house, and they've arrived in a panic. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they've rented for the week. ![]() Author of between two kingdoms5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Jaouad is writing about a process, a back-and-forth. Yet this is also, I think, part of the point. It’s a bold move, this tonal shift, and at times it can be jarring. Jaouad makes that explicit by shifting to present tense in the second half of the book - the part about recovery - as she travels the United States, visiting the people, many of them readers of her blog, who offered her solace during the years she was sick. But Between Two Kingdoms is also about the struggle to remain a participant in one’s own life. To highlight this porousness, she reveals how cancer changed her family dynamics. ![]() Life and death, health and sickness … they overlap and blur together in the singular experience of the now. Jaouad’s point is that we never fully get better, just as we were never fully well in the first place. What, though, does reconciliation really mean? How do we put a piece of our lives away?. But how does this happen? And what does one do after it has? The key is not so much recollection but reconciliation, which is part of the intention of the memoir. ![]() This question functions as lodestar, something of a guiding light. 'How do you react to a cancer diagnosis at age twenty-two?' she wonders. Rather, what we get is a young person wrestling with a situation she would have once considered unimaginable, until it became the substance of her life. There is no self-pity in this telling and few of the expected pieties. Here is the key to Between Two Kingdoms - Jaouad’s disarming honesty. ![]() |