Tangled up in You by Rachel Gibson6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Simply put, I can't resist a Gibson novel! Another winner as far as I'm concerned! Read more With Mick, she's written a hero that makes it easy to see why her heroine fell for him despite the obstacles she threw at them.Rachel Gibson once again manages to effortlessly weave romantic suspense and light contemporary romance and I find I can't seem to put her books down once I start them. ![]() The heroine is feisty, yet vulnerable and like the first book I read by this author, I so easily related to her. Still, she'll stop at nothing to get to the truth- even if it means turning everyone elses' world in Truly, Idaho upside down as well.Tangled Up In You is a quick, entertaining read that is sexy as well as delightful. Of course her plans are turned on their ear when she meets the handsome and oh so charming son of the cheating man who ruined her mother's life- and thereby her's- all those years ago, even though she finds the attraction she feels toward him annoying to say the least. No longer the orphaned and scared child forced to leave with her Aunt after the tragic death of her mother, Maddie is now a popular true crime novelist making her way in the world and she's decided to make the focus of her next novel personal- very personal.Maddie's determined to get to know more about the family at the center of her mother's murder - and she'll stop at nothing to get to the truth. "You can never come home again-" well, that's sorta true for Maddie Dupree, for come home is exactly what she's done. ![]()
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The story of helen keller book6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Helen Keller wrote 14 books and over 475 speeches and essays on topics such as faith, blindness prevention, birth control, the rise of fascism in Europe, and atomic energy. ![]() She was also a tireless advocate for women's suffrage and an early member of the American Civil Liberties Union. A committed socialist, she took up the cause of workers' rights. Helen Keller saw herself as a writer first and foremost-her passport listed her profession as "author." It was through the medium of the typewritten word that Helen communicated with Americans and ultimately with thousands across the globe.įrom an early age she championed the rights of the underdog and used her skills as a writer to speak truth to power. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness." No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. Published in Buenos Aires, Argentina, no date. Spanish translation of Helen's autobiography, The Story of My Life. ![]() My dearest darkest by kayla cottingham6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() When I first started reading My Dearest Darkest it was definitely not it. I was on the verge of telling my reading partner that I was already wanting to throw in the towel because the writing did not vibe with me whatsoever. But as the cost of their wanting becomes more deadly, Finch and Selena must learn to work together to stop the horror they unleashed, before it consumes the entire island. It promises to grant every desire the girls have kept locked away in their insecure hearts―beauty, power, adoration―in exchange for a price: human body parts. One night Finch, Selena, and her friends accidentally summon a carnivorous creature of immense power in the depths of the school. But despite Selena’s suspicion, she feels drawn to Finch and has a sinking feeling that from now on the two will be inexplicably linked to one another. Clair sees right through Finch, and she knows something is seriously wrong with her. Finch doesn’t know why she woke up after her heart stopped, but since dying she’s felt a constant pull from the school and the surrounding town of Rainwater, like something on the island is calling to her. But something monstrous, and ancient, and terrifying, wouldn’t let her drown. Months before school started, Finch and her parents got into an accident that should have left her dead at the bottom of a river. Finch Chamberlin is the newest transfer student to the ultra-competitive Ulalume Academy… but she’s also not what she seems. ![]() Killing bono i was bono's doppelganger6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Those shapes-those 80's high waist, tight, skinny, long stuff-work for my figure so I liked that silhouette. The stuff she got from thrift stores was super authentic-the highest hemlines and waistlines you've ever seen. KR: My god, that hair! I felt like the costume designer really captured the look of European 80's. I'm too girly to be a rock star.ĮLLE: How'd you feel about the 80s look you rocked in the movie? My ex-boyfriend was a musician and he would have to tour it's so dirty and you stay up late. ![]() It was more the lifestyle that I found romantic. Then, I realized I didn't like playing live for people. KR: I've always fancied myself a rock star. That was a great introduction to U2-coincidentally, my character's name is Gloria in the film. ![]() I was dating a musician and he taught me how to play the rift from "Gloria" on guitar. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play ![]() The Wreckers by Iain Lawrence6/11/2023 ![]() From the evocative jacket painting of a moonlit shipwreck to the superb characterizations, hair-raising plot and authentic period details, Lawrence's fiction is first-rate. ![]() Not knowing whom he can trust, John has to feel his way through a web of intrigue and treachery before time runs out for his father-and himself. ![]() John goes in search of his missing father and stumbles across Stumps, a legless villain as terrifying as they come, who hints about a cache of gold and makes dark threats on his and his father's lives. Trapped in a strange land with no idea of whom to trust, he faced the most terrifying challenge of his life. As John hid on the shore, he saw his shipmates murdered by these ruthless scavengers. One such vessel is the Isle of Skye, owned by the father of 14-year-old narrator John Spencer, a Londoner who narrowly escapes drowning only to see a shipmate murdered by one of the wreckers. One stormy night in 1799, 14-year-old John Spencer was unfortunate enough to be on his fathers ship when the wreckers did their worst. Author of two adult books on sailing, Lawrence paints a minutely observed picture of maritime life in 1799 Cornwall, where whole villages made a living by plundering ships they'd lured onto the jagged rocks of their storm-swept coastline. First-time novelist Lawrence gives a nod to Robert Louis Stevenson in a fast-paced, atmospheric yarn that will have adventure buffs glued to their seats. ![]() Elevation stephen king6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Publishers of the long-ago didn’t put out two books by the same author in a 12-month time frame. He did this not because Bachman’s content was wildly different than King’s, but more so because King’s prolificity was such that he couldn’t be contained to a single novel per year. If you know anything about Stephen King, you’ll know that he used to enjoy writing under the thinly-veiled pseudonym of Richard Bachman. However, the story itself came as an even bigger surprise than the mini-sized book and low page count. Don’t let the novel-sized $20 price point fool you. It clocks in at a featherweight count of 160 pages, and is what we fiction writers would refer to as a “novella” or, as it’s known in layman terms, a “short novel.” But let’s be clear, this is a story–not a novel. ![]() ![]() Stephen King’s most recent book is a slim little number called Elevation. ![]() Hope is the thing6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() The poem gives some clues to the bird's identity: its sweet song, its small size, its popularity (kept so many warm), and its distribution (from the chillest land to the strangest sea). Yet, never in extremity, it asked a crumb of me. I've heard it in the chillest land, and on the strangest sea ![]() That could abash the little bird that kept so many warm. Sweetest in the gale is heard and sore must be the storm ![]() Sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all, and Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and Susan Loy chose the song sparrow to illustrate Emily Dickinson's metaphor for hope, "the little bird that kept so many warm." Poetry Selections - "Hope is the Thing with Feathers" Hope is a Thing with Feathers Literary Calligraphy print has Emily Dickinson poem that is hand lettered and illustrated by artist Susan Loy ![]() Jake semple surviving the applewhites6/11/2023 ![]() thinks that she is different because when they had the interview they didn’t even ask for her name and what she is. Sybil, although she doesn’t have the last name of Applewhite, she is the mother of the children. Hal is the food steller and E.D.’s older brother. is a part of the Applewhites but she is technically the special one. Wow! You want ME to explain the Applewhite’s family?! Well, the Aunt and Uncle of E.D. That is how he got to the “Creative Academy”. He wants to run away but he decided not to. The Applewhites have a home of no smoking but Jake smokes. ![]() He burned down his old middle school and know he got put in the Applewhites home school, but he also got put there after he got kicked out of the Traybridge Middle school. Jake ends up going there because his parents did something bad so they are in jail. The “Creative Academy” is the homeschool at the Applewhite’s home. ![]() An ice cold grave charlaine harris6/10/2023 ![]() Soon Charlaine was looking for another challenge, and the result was the much darker Lily Bard series. Her first Teagarden, Real Murders, garnered an Agatha nomination. After a child-producing sabbatical, Charlaine latched on to the trend of series, and soon had her own traditional mystery books about a Georgia librarian, Aurora Teagarden. The resulting two stand-alones were published by Houghton Mifflin. ![]() After holding down some low-level jobs, her husband Hal gave her the opportunity to stay home and write. Though her early output consisted largely of ghost stories, by the time she hit college (Rhodes, in Memphis) Charlaine was writing poetry and plays. Charlaine lives in Texas now, and all of her children and grandchildren are within easy driving distance. ![]() A native of the Mississippi Delta, she grew up in the middle of a cotton field. Charlaine Harris has been a published novelist for over thirty-five years. ![]() Three wishes liane6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Sensible Lyn is struggling to balance being a mother, wife and businesswoman without losing her mind. And for sisters Lyn, Cat and Gemma Kettle, the year they turn thirty-three is no exception. For sisters Lyn, Cat and Gemma Kettle, the year they turn thirty-three is no exception.Sensible Lyn is struggling to balance being a mother, wife and businesswoman without losing her mind.Cat, whose perfect marriage is the envy of all her friends, never suspected that her husband had been hiding a secret that will tear her life apart.Directionless Gemma, who changes jobs and boyfriends every few months, has just met a new man who could be the one to unlock her hidden past.The bonds of these sisters are strong enough to withstand whatever life throws at them.That is until the night of their thirty-fourth birthday dinner, when home truths are revealed and things are said that can't be taken back. 1 volume 20 cm They say trouble always comes in threes. ![]() Fresh, intelligent and entertaining' MARIAN KEYESThey say trouble always comes in threes. Moriarty’s novels Three Wishes, The Last Anniversary, and The Hypnotist’s Love Story offered wry takes on modern life, even when the stakes were high, as did What Alice Forgot, in which a. ![]() Lose yourself in this wickedly addictive exploration of family, relationships and modern love from the bestselling author of the HBO sensation BIG LITTLE LIES'I adored it. Three Wishes is the story of 30-something triplet sisters who run into new challenges, uncover their true selves in the process and butt head on more than one occasion to get through this fun journey of life. ![]() |