![]() ![]() ![]() I’ll do whatever it takes to keep her safe, to show her I’m the good guy, but one night takes a tragic turn for the worse when her boyfriend and I start throwing punches.Īnd it ends when I’m arrested for his murder. Regardless of my attempts to help, she pushes me away and makes it clear she doesn’t need me. Sophie’s on my mind more than ever as my instincts to protect her take over. Now I must deny her at all costs.Īfter years of lying to myself and keeping her at a distance, I want to pull her close. Once we caught our breaths, and it became obvious that meeting her wasn’t a coincidence, everything changed. She tasted like the sweetest sin, but I was no saint. Resisting her wasn’t an option, and we quickly became a desperate mess of tangled limbs and hot kisses. With sun-kissed skin and soulful bedroom eyes, she was pure temptation, and I was mesmerized.Īs one drink led to two, I craved more of her playful banter and taunting lips. : THIS IS WAR by Kennedy Fox If you enjoy: Maverick and Olivia may be enemies, but as their r. Finn may be older and grumpier but he sure knows h. : CLAIMING THE COWBOY by Kennedy Fox If you. : CATCHING THE COWBOY by Kennedy Fox If you. The night we met in the dimly lit bar, she looked like a brunette bombshell, and I wanted to learn her deepest secrets. An accidental marriage, small-town romance. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The two married in 1981 and began a fourteen-year writing collaboration that ended with his suicide in 1997. At Dartmouth she also met Michael Dorris, who encouraged her writing through her undergraduate years as well as in a master’s program at Johns Hopkins. With her admission to Dartmouth College in 1972, her talent began to mature. She was encouraged by her parents from an early age to write and was nurtured on stories. ![]() ![]() Through her matrilineal line, she is an enrolled member in the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, and her grandfather, Patrick Gourneau, was tribal chairman in the 1950s. The daughter of a German father and a Métis (French and Cree or Northern Ojibwe) mother, Erdrich grew up in the small town of Wapheton, North Dakota, where her parents worked at the Indian School, an off-reservation boarding school. Her stories have frequently appeared in the New Yorker, and her work is routinely anthologized in a wide variety of textbooks. ![]() 1954) is a popular, award-winning American Indian writer of, by 2012, twelve novels, a short story collection, six children’s books, three books of poetry, two nonfiction works, and scores of essays. ![]() ![]() Gardner has woven a tense and believable fantasy into a setting of great danger and social turmoil. The reader vividly experiences the extreme entitlement of the wealthy and the hopeless poverty of the peasantry, and, in the end, the fetid, squalid prisons of the time. Yann’s growing love for Sidonie and his efforts to help her fuel this intricate fantasy, taking the reader into the extreme excesses of French nobility and the resultant bloody excesses of the Revolution. Their performance at the chateau of a decadent Marquis brings Yann into contact with the Marquis’ crippled and neglected daughter, Sidonie, and the Marquis’ mysterious, sinister friend, Count Kalliovski. Set during the French Revolution, the plot centers on a young Gypsy boy, Yann, who uses his mind-reading abilities and ventroquilism as a magician’s assistant. ![]() ![]() However, all too often she’s dismissed as a writer of benign historical romances. Darkness comes to the fore in her macabre and chilling short stories, but also twists through each of her novels. Are his suspicions justified? Is she guilty or innocent? The reader, like Philip, is never quite sure.ĭu Maurier excelled at evoking a sense of menace. “The Menace,” du Maurier explains in her short story of the same title, “in movie language, and especially among women, means a heart-throb, a lover, someone with wide shoulders and no hips.” It’s a term that, for her, referred to sexual attraction – “being ‘menaced,’” du Maurier’s biographer Margaret Forster explains, “was being attracted by another person.” This take on sexual allure, as something tinged with a frisson of danger and threat, lies at the heart of Philip’s attraction to Rachel: evidence suggests Rachel murdered her husband Ambrose, Philip’s beloved uncle. Missing is the menace of the original, and I use this word thoughtfully. ![]() ![]() ![]() Later, Ovid adopted the city of Rome as his home, and began celebrating the city and its people in a series of works, including Amores. The rhetoric used in Amores reflects Ovid’s upbringing in this education system. There was a great emphasis placed on the ability to speak well and deliver compelling speeches in Roman society. During the Augustan Era, boys attended schools that focused on rhetoric in order to prepare them for careers in politics and law. Based on the memoirs of Seneca the Elder, scholars know that Ovid attended school in his youth. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ovid was born in 43 BCE, the last year of the Roman Republic, and he grew up in the countryside of Sulmo. While several literary scholars have called the Amores a major contribution to Latin love elegy, they are not generally considered among Ovid's finest works and "are most often dealt with summarily in a prologue to a fuller discussion of one of the other works". The book follows the popular model of the erotic elegy, as made famous by figures such as Tibullus or Propertius, but is often subversive and humorous with these tropes, exaggerating common motifs and devices to the point of absurdity. It was first published in 16 BC in five books, but Ovid, by his own account, later edited it down into the three-book edition that survives today. Amores is Ovid's first completed book of poetry, written in elegiac couplets. ![]() ![]() ![]() A lesser writer might have lost themself in this byzantine world of maybe-doppelgangers and maybe-zombies and maybe-madness, but Laura van den Berg is one of our most accomplished storytellers-it is no surprise that she has elevated the uncannily horrifying into something achingly human.Īt the novel’s start, Clare is in Havana, Cuba, attending a horror film festival in her husband Richard’s stead. Buoyed by van den Berg’s sinuous, marvelous sentences, the novel is instead a deep dive into memory, love, and loss as filtered through film theory, metaphysics, and the humid, sunstroked cityscape of Havana. The Third Hotel, Laura van den Berg’s gorgeously eerie second novel, begins with a question, one that protagonist Clare returns to again and again: “What s she doing in Havana?” Dense and uncompromisingly intelligent, The Third Hotel is uninterested in leading the reader to a simple answer. Farrar, Straus and Giroux | August 7, 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() With the humor and suspense that are her trademarks, acclaimed author Peg Kehret vividly recreates the true story of her year of heartbreak and triumph. Small Steps The Year I Got Polio Peg Kehret, Click to preview In a riveting story of courage and hope, Peg Kehret writes about months spent in a hospital when she was twelve, first struggling to survive a severe case of polio, then slowly learning to walk again. At first paralyzed and terrified, she fought her way to recovery, aided by doctors and therapists, a loving family, supportive roommates fighting their own battles with the disease, and plenty of grit and luck. ![]() ![]() ![]() Peg Kehret was stricken with polio when she was twelve years old. Acclaimed author Peg Kehret has written the true story of the year when she was twelve and stricken with polio. 1997 Top Ten Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Readersġ998 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award (Vermont)ġ998-1999 Texas Bluebonnet Award, Runner-Upġ998-1999 William Allen White Master Reading List (Kansas)ġ998-1999 Pennsylvania Young Readers' Choice Award Master Listġ998-1999 Sequoyah Book Award Master List (Oklahoma)ġ998-1999 Volunteer State Book Award Master List (Tennessee)ġ998-1999 NH Great Stone Face Children's Book Award Master Listġ999 Sasquatch Reading Award Master List (Washington State)Ģ000-2001 Iowa Children's Choice Awards Master ListĢ001 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Master List (Illinois) ![]() ![]() ![]() I predict it will be read for centuries to come–and that no other writer will dare to mimic its construction. I still can’t decide whether to see the movie, but “Cloud Atlas” is a treasure. The performances by Scott Brick, Cassandra Campbell, Kim Mai Guest, Kirby Heyborne, John Lee and Richard Matthews were brilliant. ![]() If you had any feelings of unimportance in the sweep of history, “Cloud Atlas” will give you a lift.īy the way, I listened to this book on Audio CD and later bought a copy to just see how the words looked on the page. Beyond that, I doubt I can add anything to the discussion that hasn’t already been said. The variety of styles and stories is impressive, the language, of course, is stunning. “Cloud Atlas” requires an investment of your time and mental energy. Listen to this podcast first and you’ll get a better idea of the whole arc of the book and you’ll hear some interesting insights about the themes, imagery and underlying concepts. When the podcast starts, you’ll hear the critics encourage you to read the book first. Im enjoying it but struggling a little with the first section. If you’re a would-be reader, I’d highly recommend starting with an hour-long podcast about this novel on the Slate’s Audio Book Club. Cloud Atlas as audiobook Just started Cloud Atlas this evening. Yes, I’d call it a masterpiece: brilliantly conceived and executed. I finished this a few months ago and I’m still not sure I have much to add to the avalanche of praise. ![]() ![]() ![]() But some relationships can’t be boxed, can’t be classified, can’t be tamed. Beautiful, funny and an ambitious businesswoman (with one hell of an ass), Stephanie Robson is one of Linden McGregor’s best friends and has fit into that box for as long as he’s known her. He’s also one of Stephanie Robson’s best friends and has fit into that box for as long as she’s known him. It began with a pinky swear… Linden McGregor is tall, rugged, and gunslinger handsome a helicopter pilot with a Scottish brogue and charm to spare. Karina Halle Synopsis: The Pact is a standalone novel by Karina Halle. If You Like Karina Hall Books, You’ll Love… The Forbidden Man is also known as The Younger Man. Rocked Up is co-authored by Scott Mackenzie. Omnibuses may contain books by other authors. Meet the Eternal Bad Boys also contains stories by Katie Ashley, Sophie Jackson and Monica Murphy. ![]() ![]() Lilley, Corinne Michaels, Aurora Rose Reynolds and Tijan. Notes: Tease also contains stories by Beth Flynn, Whitney G., R.K. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It seems someone in the Hollow will do anything to keep her from solving the murder, and soon it will take all of Vera’s cunning and quickness to crack the case. Vera finds more to this town than she ever suspected. As she stirs up still waters, the fox exposes more than one mystery, and discovers that additional lives are in jeopardy. The fox has a nose for news, so when she catches wind that the death might be a murder, she resolves to get to the bottom of the case, no matter where it leads. Reporter Vera Vixen is a relative newcomer to Shady Hollow. The first book in the Shady Hollow series, in which we are introduced to the village of Shady Hollow, a place where woodland creatures live together in harmony–until a curmudgeonly toad turns up dead and the local reporter has to solve the case. All I recall is a friend checking out the book on one of our book shopping trips and me thinking that I like the cover and would like to look at it too, lol. This was exactly the light, fun read I wanted when I got it. ![]() |