7/6/2023 0 Comments The sweetest oblivion onlineElena may be the Sweet Abelli on the outside, but she’s beginning to learn she has a taste for the darkness, for rough hands, cigarettes, and whiskey-colored eyes. Making her feel hotter than any future brother-in-law should. She doesn’t like the man or anything he stands for, though that doesn’t stop her heart from pattering like rain against glass when he’s near, nor the shiver that ghosts down her spine at the sound of his voice.Īnd he’s always near. After his and Elena’s first encounter ends with an accidental glare on her part, she realizes he’s just as rude as he is handsome. His reputation stretches far and wide and is darker than his black suits and ties. A Made Man, a boss, a cheat-even measured against mafia standards. In the murky waters of New York’s underworld, Elena’s sister is arranged to marry Nicolas Russo. They say first impressions are everything. Now, all she can see in the mirror’s reflection is blood staining her hands like crimson paint. She’s the favored daughter, the perfect mafia principessa. Nicknamed Sweet Abelli for her docile nature, Elena smiles on cue and has a charming response for everything. She’s a romantic at heart, living in the most unromantic of worlds.
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MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS is a sweeping and compassionate novel about a marriage surviving hardship. Arlo, a wealthy entrepreneur who invests in biotech, may be his father's last, best hope. Meanwhile, Spence's son from his first marriage has come back into their lives. One day, feeling particularly isolated, Pru meets a man, and the possibility of new romance blooms. With their daughter, Sarah, away at medical school, Pru must struggle on her own. The Great Man can't concentrate he falls asleep reading The New York Review of Books. But when she falls in love with Spence Robin, her hotshot young Shakespeare professor, her life takes a turn she couldn't have anticipated.Thirty years later, something is wrong with Spence. When Ohio-born Pru Steiner arrives in New York in 1976 after graduating from Yale, she follows in a long tradition of young people determined to take the city by storm. 7/6/2023 0 Comments Dictee novelShe attended the University of California at Berkeley, where she earned both an M.F.A. The interdisciplinary nature of Dictee, which combines narrative, poetry, movie stills, family photos and an array of other genres and forms, and written in various languages, reflects her own varied education. She was born in Pusan, Korea, during the Korean War, but relocated with her parents to San Francisco, California. Her life was cut tragically short Most famous for her experimental memoir/novel, Dictee, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha is a Korean American writer, filmmaker and performance artist. She later relocated to Paris, France, where she studied film and brushed elbows with a number of well-known French filmmakers. Most famous for her experimental memoir/novel, Dictee, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha is a Korean American writer, filmmaker and performance artist. Little's fifth grade class at Glenmoor Elementary did have one) my high school paper (along with my best high school bud, Cindy Jorgenson) and my college paper, where our long-suffering typesetter finally forced me to learn how to typeset because my articles were usually late (and thus I probably have him to thank for all the desktop publishing jobs that ensued over the years). I was editor of my elementary school paper (believe it or not, Mrs. I won the school spelling bee when I was in 7th grade the word that clinched it was 'ukulele.' I originally set out to be a rock star when I grew up (I had a Bono fixation, but who didn't?), and I have the guitars and the questionable wardrobe stuffed in the back of my closet to prove it. Well, where should I start? I've lived in San Francisco for more than a decade, usually with at least one cat. 7/6/2023 0 Comments After morris gleitzman seriesprepare for shock and tears' - Sunday Times After is the fourth in a series of children's novels about Felix, a Jewish orphan caught in the middle of the Holocaust, from Australian author Morris Gleitzman - author of Bumface and Two Weeks with the Queen. dangerous and desperate, but also full of courage and hope' - Guardian 'You will laugh. After The Nazis took my parents I was scared After They killed my best friend I was angry After They ruined my thirteenth birthday I was determined to get to the forest, to join forces with Gabriek and Yuli, to be a family, to defeat the Nazis after all 'Haunting. After is the fourth shocking, funny and heartbreaking book in Morris Gleitzman's Second World War series. As Europe goes through the final agonizing stages of the war, Felix struggles to reconcile hatred and healing. He's helped by a new friend, but if he should lose her as well… Following a heartbreaking struggle to survive as a Jewish child in Germany, Felix faces perhaps his greatest challenge to find hope when he's lost almost everything. In the fourth part of Felix's story, continuing his adventures in World War Two, he faces perhaps his greatest challenge - to find hope when he's lost almost everything, including his parents. 7/6/2023 0 Comments Unbreak Me by Reese RiversLow-effort book requests will be removed. 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Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with informative links about Book Clubs, AMAs, etc. Home of the magic search button and endless book recommendations as well as discussions about tropes and characters, Author AMAs, book clubs, and more. R/RomanceBooks is a discussion sub for readers of romance novels. This Year of the Tiger saw the publication of two important works on the Korean War: the Korean-American novelist Chang-Rae Lee’s The Surrendered, which deals with war and post-war trauma and They Came from the North, the second volume in military historian Allan Millett’s masterly series on the war. And yet the 1950-1953 war is barely known in the West even its start dates are disputable. This was the first hot war of the Cold War the first (and only) battlefield clash of superpowers the first “limited war.” Given that the stances of the key external actors, China and the United States, have changed little since the winter of 1950 in terms of support for their respective allies, the shadow of a scythe still hangs over the peninsula another conflict is not unthinkable. This year marks what is widely considered the sixtieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War. 7/6/2023 0 Comments Sister mother warriorRiley’s prose is breathlessly beautiful, the lines clean and vibrant, her images raw and real, whether she is describing lovers eating a mango or Toya felling her foes. Amid horrific violence and soaring success, all three heroes-Toya, Marie-Claire, and Dessalines-will sacrifice parts of themselves to birth a new Hayti that promises liberation for all Black citizens. As the fight for freedom and justice escalates, Marie-Claire finds herself torn between two loves and the need to minister to the victims of war. When Janjak is sold to the worst possible fate, Marie-Claire weds the priest Bonheur to give their child a safe future, while Toya escapes to the mountains to join the rebellion sparked by Toussaint Louverture and his charismatic general, Dessalines. Marie-Claire, raised by free parents, grows up watching the Grand and Petit Blancs increasingly restrict the freedoms of the Coloreds and the freed Affranchi, while the enslaved resist with poison or outright revolt. Once on Saint-Domingue, under the thumb of the brutal Duclos, Toya protects her fellow enslaved and her friend’s son, Janjak, as he works to buy his freedom and win the beautiful Marie-Claire. As their general, she sacrifices herself to enslavement to protect her king. When her West African village is sacked, Abdaraya Toya trains as a Minos, the elite female guard of the Dahomey. Riley brings to life the Haitian Revolution through the lens of its two most important female protagonists in this thrilling and utterly engrossing saga. 7/5/2023 0 Comments Nelson mandela books he wroteIn this utterly compelling book, eminent biographer Anthony Sampson, who knew his subject since 1951, reveals the man behind the events that rocked a continent - and changed the world. Mandela's opposition to apartheid and his 27 year incarceration at the hands of South Africa's all-white regime are familiar to most. He is, without doubt, one of the most important figures in global history. Over a decade after his presidency of South Africa, Nelson Mandela remains an inspirational figure to millions of people - both in his homeland and far beyond her borders. Widely considered to be the most important biography of Nelson Mandela, Anthony Sampson's remarkable book has now been updated by acclaimed South African journalist, John Battersby. 7/5/2023 0 Comments The lighthouse by pd jamesThe Lighthouse is a subtle and powerful work of contemporary fiction. This eagerly awaited successor to The Murder Room displays the qualities which aficionados have come to expect of P D James: sensitive characterisation, an exciting and superbly structured plot and vivid evocation of place. Hardly have the team begun to unravel the complicated motives of the suspects that there is a second brutal killing and the whole investigation is jeopardised when Dalgliesh is faced with a danger more insidious and as potentially fatal as murder. Dalgliesh is uncertain about his future with Emma Lavenham, the woman he loves, Detective Inspector Kate Miskin has her own emotional problems and the ambitious Anglo-Indian Sergeant Francis Benton-Smith is worried about working under Kate. James Book Genre:Crime, Detective, Fiction, Mystery ISBN 9780571247042 Date of Publication: PDF / EPUB File Name:TheLighthouse-PDJames.pdf, TheLighthouse-PDJames.epub PDF File Size: 1. But the peace of Combe is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered.Īdam Dalgliesh is called in to solve the mystery quickly and discreetly, but at a difficult time for him and his depleted team. Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. |