![]() ![]() ![]() When her spying is noticed by a perfect stranger, Edith finds herself with two mysteries–what happened to her friend, and how to win the heart of this brilliantly handsome lord. Now, Edith dedicates her time to watching the man she thinks is responsible, while gathering information to expose other scoundrels posing as gentlemen of honor about London. ![]() ![]() One tragic night changed sensible, proper Lady Edith Pelton’s life: when her best friend fell to her death, pushed down a flight of stairs by a nefarious lord. The Disappearance of Lady Edith by Christina McKnight One passionate moment with the fiery Miss Bonnington has him more than willing to play by society’s rules to possess the breathtaking, red-haired woman. Derrick Brinsley, gave her reason to question the feelings of the heart.ĭerrick Brinsley, brother to the Earl of Falconbridge, shunned from society for running off with his brother’s fiancée, hasn’t cared about or questioned his lack of acceptance until meeting the beguiling Amelia Bonnington. Miss Amelia Bonnington has been in love with Michael Harcourt since she was nine years old… or so she thought until a not-so proper impassioned and unyielding kiss from the not-so honorable and equally disreputable Mr. ![]()
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![]() I’m used to playing games, only the more time I spend with Brax, the less it feels like playing around and the more it becomes something real. We weren’t supposed to understand each other and all the complicated stuff we’re going through. We weren’t supposed to become friends or share secrets. What’s a little hooking up between enemies? ![]() This book deals with homophobic issues and contains homophobic language. And when we end up working together, it gets harder to deny how hot he makes me. A Million Little Moments is a doubly awakened romance between friends and lovers full of firsts, self-discovery and two men meant to be together. We couldn’t be more different.įinding ways to annoy him is like the longest foreplay session of my life. He’s the bad boy with a leather jacket and a scowl. If you search brooding online, his name pops up. I’ve spent too much time on the wrong side of the law for someone like Ty, though, and if I want to make it through college and escape my past, he’s a distraction I don’t need.īraxton Walker needs to learn to lighten up. I revel in our banter and in never knowing what he’ll say next. But I also have a secret… As much as I despise Ty, I want him too. It’s impossible for us to be in the same room without talking crap to each other. Star lacrosse player and God’s gift to the female and male population, there’s nothing the spoiled jock can’t have. ![]() ![]() Tyson Langley thinks the king in Franklin University Kings is in reference to him. Playing Games (Franklin U Book 1) by Riley Hart ![]() ![]() With the help of Jan Gehl, we can all become advocates for human-scale design. Jan’s research, theories, and strategies have been helping cities to reclaim their public space and recover from the great post-WWII car invasion. Over the last 50 years, Gehl has changed the way that we think about architecture and city planning-moving from the Modernist separation of uses to a human-scale approach inviting people to use their cities.Īt a time when growing numbers are populating cities, planning urban spaces to be humane, safe, and open to all is ever-more critical. He believes that good architecture is not about form, but about the interaction between form and life. “A good city is like a good party-you stay for longer than you plan,” says Danish architect Jan Gehl. ![]() ![]() I set myself to a faster and faster speed. ![]() I was going to live double because I had to die too, one day, and I didn’t want to miss anything. I was going to live double if my sister couldn’t live at all. ![]() Why did I deserve to live when my sister had died? I was responsible now for two lives, my sister’s and my own, and, damn, I’d better live well. I was scared of living a life not worth living. At the time of her sister’s death, Sankovitch handled grief by keeping herself frantically busy: Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading tells her story.Īs her forty-sixth birthday approaches, Sankovitch decides to embark on a journey to reconnect with her older sister, Anne-Marie, who had died of cancer three years earlier. ![]() As a mother of just two children, a mother who struggled to find time to read this one book, I was curious to know how Sankovitch did it. Every day for one year, Nina Sankovitch read an entire book and posted a review on her website - all while raising four boys. ![]() ![]() Long before he was chosen to direct “Breaking Bad” episodes and Disney’s biggest film property, Rian Johnson made his bones in the indie scene with his 2005 debut, which displaces the seedy underworlds of 1940s detective novels into the muddled teenage-infested ecosystem of Southern California suburbia. Additionally, he would tip his hat to the Coens in the 2012 time-travel blockbuster “Looper” by shooting in the same New Orleans street featured during a climactic scene of “Miller’s Crossing”. Johnson would go on to explain how his 2005 Sundance-winning debut was an ode to “Miller’s Crossing”, which in turn is itself a tribute to Hammett’s book. Often touted as one of the finest efforts by the esteemed Minnesotan siblings, this stylish crime saga plunges into a whirlwind of betrayal, reprisal, and petty feuds between two rival gangs during the Prohibition era. I went through a period where I got really into Dashiell Hammett, which I initially found through one of my favorite films, “Miller’s Crossing”’. ![]() ![]() During a 2006 interview for AV Club promoting his noir-adjacent debut “Brick”, Johnson cited this mob thriller as a touchstone in devising the film’s tone and style: “It all started with the notion of doing a detective movie. It hardly comes as a shocker to learn that Johnson, who’s quickly forged a reputation as the king of subversion not least for his unapologetic flouting of genre convention, would find two kindred spirits in the Coen Brothers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And once again, Tris must battle to comprehend the complexities of human nature - and of herself - while facing impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice and love.Told from a riveting dual perspective, Allegiant, by #1 New York Times best-selling author Veronica Roth, brings the Divergent series to a powerful conclusion while revealing the secrets of the dystopian world that has captivated millions of readers in Divergent and Insurgent. ![]() Explosive new truths change the hearts of those she loves. Old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories.But Tris's new reality is even more alarming than the one she left behind. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. ![]() 'Say something nice, then.' 'You're very good-looking.' He smiles, his teeth a flash in this dark. 'You're one to talk.' 'Hey, I could be nice if I tried.' 'Hmm.' He taps his chin. 1 New York Times bestselling DIVERGENT trilogy.DIVERGENT - a major motion picture series.What if a single revelation - like a single choice - changed everything?What if love and loyalty made you do things you never expected?The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered - fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. Allegiant by Veronica Roth - review Im so sorry, but Veronica Roth, you can do so much better jboo1698. Veronica Roth, quote from Allegiant You're not very nice,' I say, grinning. What if your whole world was a lie?The thrillingly dark conclusion to the No. ![]() ![]() ![]() First, the children ride through the sparkling town before bed then, "grandmothers,/ grandfathers,/ aunts and uncles,/ and longtime friends" take a turn, remembering their own youths. The community’s children and adults, portrayed with varied skin tones, appear amid lacy ink and paper-collage landscapes rich with patterns and warm hues. Tim and Tom, the black Percheron horses who pull the sleigh, "love winter./ They love the snow." Young Jenny, a child portrayed with brown skin, hitches them up, then takes the reins as "sleigh bells sing." Archer shows a bird’s-eye view of the sleigh crossing a snowy field, a final splash of sunset splendor across the horizon behind them. “Evocative artwork and gentle prose from the creators of Prairie Days distinguish this intergenerational tale about a community that celebrates the last night of the year with sleigh rides for young and old. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The man Jack is persuaded to leave the graveyard by Silas, a being who is neither dead nor living. Owens who died without children takes the boy to her plump bosom promising to be his parent. The Owenses are warned by a pale ghost (the boy's mother who is going to be buried in another graveyard) that the man rattling the graveyard gates has come to kill her son. ![]() Owens, a ghost who has been living there with her husband for hundreds of years now after their burial here. He follows his scent to the graveyard on the hilltop. He had slain the parents and the eldest daughter and that leaves only the toddler. The man Jack reached that big storeyed house to kill the whole family. If you liked the movie 'Coco', then this won't disappoint you in the least. Sure there are parallels, but Gaiman successfully manoeuvres the horrors of the graveyard to something protective and homely. Apart from the characters, what attracted me most was the originality by which the idea was conceived. ![]() ![]() ![]() While researching for her first book, “The Diary of Olga Romanov”, Helen visited Russia several times, and as part of the library school academic curriculum worked in the “Rare Book Fund” at the Museum at Tsarskoe Selo, which holds the imperial book collection, including that of Catherine the Great and the last Tsar Nicholas II. For ten years she worked at the Free Library of Philadelphia, during which time she also became a published author. After a relatively short career in research science Helen decided to switch gears and return to grad school to fulfill a dream of becoming a librarian. Helen Azar grew up in a Russian speaking household and as a child used to compile paragraphs from children’s books and magazines for fun. ![]() ![]() ![]() One wink from a much younger, eyeliner-wearing guy in a bar, and Quinn’s found a perfectly outrageous date for the occasion. ![]() With the baby’s baptism looming and Quinn expected to put on a polite front, he decides he’s had enough of playing the peacekeeper. Not only did Peter have affairs, he went straight to marry his pregnant girlfriend-and Quinn was to never reveal their history. Quinn Maloney’s reward for ten years of faithfully keeping his closeted boyfriend’s secrets? A hell of a wake-up call to go with his morning coffee. In the five years since, he’s made his own way, lived by his own rules, determined to never change himself-not for anyone. ![]() Part of the “Bad in Baltimore” series, which is loosely related and stands alone.įormat: ebook only at this time, multiple formats availableĭisclaimer: I received an eARC of this book from the author, but have also purchased my own copy as well (it was pre-ordered well in advance).Īfter Eli Wright came out, his parents threw him out. ![]() |