Their reunion is anything but happy, yet after the dust settles, neither can stay away. When the new baronet-his old lover-agrees to testify against Joss's sister, Joss acts fast to stop him. Joss Doomsday has run the Doomsday smuggling clan since he was a boy. The Marsh is another world, a strange, empty place notorious for its ruthless gangs of smugglers. Then Gareth's father dies, turning the shabby London clerk into Sir Gareth, with a grand house on the remote Romney Marsh and a family he doesn't know. When he meets a charming stranger, he falls head over heels-until everything goes wrong and he's left alone again. Gothic scandal meets Bridgerton intrigue in this swashbuckling Regency romance from celebrated author KJ Charles.Ībandoned by his father, Gareth Inglis grew up lonely, prickly, and well-used to disappointment.
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When Paulette finished writing her first book, Franklin in the Dark, she knew that she would always write stories for children. Since 1986, Franklin and Paulette have championed a fear of the dark, boastful fibs, thunderstorms, new friends, museum dinosaurs. The world's best-loved turtle overcomes the challenges of the everyday life of a five-year-old in a way that resonates with children. When asked what she hopes children will learn from her books, Paulette Bourgeois explains: "It is most important to look for the wonder in ordinary things." Some of this wonder, and a curious anxiety, spill over into her character Franklin. Traduites dans 38 langues, les aventures de Benjamin se sont vendues à plus de 60 millions d'exemplaires à travers le monde! Benjamin et la Saint-Valentin a remporté la troisième position au palmarès Communication-Jeunesse des livres pour les jeunes. Paulette Bourgeois est l'auteure des albums mettant en vedette Benjamin la tortue. 6/29/2023 0 Comments Achebe african trilogyFinally, in No Longer at Ease, Okonkwo's grandson, educated in England, returns to a civil-service job in Lagos, only to see his morality erode as he clings to his membership in the ruling elite. But he believes himself to be untouchable and is determined to lead his people, even if it is towards their own destruction. Arrow of God takes up the ongoing conflict between continuity and change as Ezeulu, the headstrong chief priest, finds his authority is under threat from rivals and colonial functionaries. The trilogy opens with the groundbreaking Things Fall Apart, the tale of Okonkwo, a hero in his village, whose clashes with missionaries-coupled with his own tragic pride-lead to his fall from grace. In these masterly novels, Achebe brilliantly imagines the lives of three generations of an African community as their world is upended by the forces of colonialism from the first arrival of the British to the waning days of empire. Summary: Chinua Achebe is considered the father of modern African literature, the writer who "opened the magic casements of African fiction." The African Trilogy -comprised of Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God, and No Longer at Ease -is his magnum opus. 6/29/2023 0 Comments Too like the lightning goodreadsHe frequently addresses the reader, breaking the flow of the narrative to address the reader in “thee” and “thou” and ask you questions and make arrogant assumptions about how you feel. Mycroft Canner (the main character) is writing this book in the style of the 18th century (sort of- most of the book is written perfectly normally) to address someone reading it from the future. This is going to be an incoherent review, so I’ll apologize right off the bat. Though I love this book- I don’t fault a single one of those readers and I’m not even questioning why. There were many individuals who hated it, many who did not finish. I read it as part of a group (spoiler heavy discussion here). It is also not a book I can blanket recommend to everyone. Just so you are aware- I rated this book 4 stars and not 5. My hope is that maybe you’ll discover a new-to-you favorite. Mostly because I want to spread the love for my favorite books that never had the opportunity to be posted here on Hamlets & Hyperspace. The good news is- I promise to only share books I really loved on Throwback Thursday. Hello friends! Today I’m doing something incredibly lazy and sharing with you a review I wrote way back in 2017. 6/29/2023 0 Comments Fall of giants trilogyIn a plot of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, Fall of Giants moves seamlessly from Washington to St Petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty. President Woodrow Wilson and with two orphaned Russian brothers, whose plans to emigrate to America fall foul of war, conscription and revolution. Their destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to U.S. Fall of Giants by Ken Follett, published in 2010, is a historical novel and the first installment of the Century Trilogy. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. Winter of the World picks up right where the first book left off, as its five interrelated familiesAmerican, German, Russian, English, Welshenter a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, up to the explosions of the. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. The first in Ken Follett's bestselling Century Trilogy, Fall of Giants is a huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women. 6/29/2023 0 Comments The cheat sheet book sarah adamsThey are loyal almost to a fault and their fears of losing one another’s friendship is often what’s standing in between the slow-burn turning into a full fireworks show. I think all of us want friends like Bree and Nathan. Guys, this book is CUUTTTEEEE! I love their flirty banter, their faux-pas, and mostly, I love their inner-monologues that sometimes accidentally spill out of their mouths. Suddenly, Bree and Nathan are thrown into a fake-dating situation to boost both of their public reputations. All is well, until Bree accidentally spills her guts to a reporter and the clip goes viral. I look back at Nathan and whisper, You’re a virgin. So when I started reading about Nathan, the handsome pro-athlete and Bree the cute, bubbly, nap-loving dance instructor, I quickly realized how risky it is to judge a book by its cover and fell more in love with this book and the surprises within its pages.īree Camden is truly head over heels in love with her bestie Nathan Donelson, but alas, she tries her best to maintain her role as his bestie. I accidentally yell this so loud a woman walking beside the truck turns to try to peer through the darkened window. Sarah Adams continues to exceed my expectations with each of her books! What’s funny about The Cheat Sheet was how closely I followed her Instagram posts about the plot, the book cover, the release date for the ebook/paperback, and her enthusiasm when she found out the narrators for the audiobook AND YET, I WAS SO WRONG ABOUT THE CONTENTS OF THE BOOK! I was sold the moment I knew Sarah Adams had another book cooking and was willing to embrace a YA novel about friendship to love in high school. 6/29/2023 0 Comments Sanctuary book series caryn lixFollow the tour!ĪMAZON.CA | AMAZON.COM| INDIGO | BARNES & NOBLE | GOODREADS And Kenzie might have to team up with her captors to survive-all while beginning to suspect there’s a darker side to the Omnistellar she knows. Yet it soon becomes clear that her mother is more concerned with sticking to Omnistellar protocol than she is with getting Kenzie out safely.Īs Kenzie forms her own plan to escape, she doesn’t realize there’s a more sinister threat looming, something ancient and evil that has clawed its way into Sanctuary from the vacuum of space. As a junior guard, she’s excited to prove herself to her company-and that means sacrificing anything that won’t propel her forward.īut then a routine drill goes sideways and Kenzie is taken hostage by rioting prisoners.Īt first, she’s confident her commanding officer-who also happens to be her mother-will stop at nothing to secure her freedom. Kenzie holds one truth above all: the company is everything.Īs a citizen of Omnistellar Concepts, the most powerful corporation in the solar system, Kenzie has trained her entire life for one goal: to become an elite guard on Sanctuary, Omnistellar’s space prison for superpowered teens too dangerous for Earth. 6/29/2023 0 Comments Starlight by Carrie LoftyUnder what other circumstances would these two have had the chance to fall in love? In His Very Own Girl, for example, Lulu Davies is a British civilian pilot and her hero is Joe Weber, a combat paratrooper from the American Midwest. For me, World War II brought good, honorable people together and showed them entirely news sides of life. Some readers have asked why I chose to set a romance in the midst of such a harrowing, bloody era. Carrie is the author of His Very Own Girl, a World War II romance which was recently released, along with other historical romances like Flawless and Starlight. Today, I am pleased to welcome Carrie Lofty to my blog. Posted in About Books, Guest blogs, On Writing. Tanglewood Tales, with its stories from Greek mythology was a favorite children's book of the time, one also illustrated by Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, Anne Anderson and other Golden Age illustrators. In 1921, the Penn Publishing Company again commissioned her to illustrate an edition of Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Old French Fairy Tales Second Book: Tanglewood Tales She was 19 and received $500 for the eight watercolors and 16 pen and ink drawings, with a supplemental $250 for a colored drawing for the cover and ink drawings for the end papers and boards. She was commissioned by Penn Publishing Company to illustrate the Comptesse de Ségur's Old French Fairy Tales. Virginia Frances Sterrett's first commission came in 1919. She left incomplete a set of illustrations to Myths and Legends. Virginia died in 1931, at the age of 30, of tuberculosis. Illustrations from all three books are presented here. Her work is enjoying a renaissance of interest, and is becoming increasingly difficult to find. Virginia Frances Sterrett illustrated three books: The Arabian Nights, Tanglewood Tales, and Old French Fairy Tales. 6/28/2023 0 Comments Outlaw by anna northThe most common way for a barren woman to be treated was to be scapegoated, accused of witchcraft, and blamed for all miscarriages and misfortunes of her neighbors. I did think it interesting that women who were mothers were so elevated, but the flip side of that is that women who couldn’t be, or anyone whose “activities” threatened the creation of children, have it all that much worse off. Things do NOT go well for women who can’t have children. This has made an already patriarchal, misogynistic, religious society fertility- and baby- and motherhood-obsessed. Outlawed is an alternate history western set in 1894-5, in a world where seventy years before, a disease everyone just calls ‘the Flu’ killed a huge portion of the population. Or that at least didn’t kill the one character I liked the most. It was a super fast read, read it only about three hours, and parts of it I really liked, I guess overall I just wasn’t in the mood for a story that wasn’t all HEAs all over the place. I still don’t know how I feel about this one and it’s been over a month. |