![]() ![]() The unconventional hero and the independent heroine are the type of characters modern-day readers gravitate toward. ![]() A scintillating and sensual read.In addition to the powerful social commentary on women's roles in society and the life of youth in London's poverty-ridden back alleys and schools, Chase's tongue-in-cheek tone captures tender and humorous nuances in character descriptions and actions, creating fully realized characters and a rich plot.- "Publishers Weekly (starred review)" An intelligent, witty, sexy romance with two well-matched characters. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Across the ocean Li-yan longs for her lost daughter. Despite her privileged childhood, Haley wonders about her origins. When she has a baby out of wedlock she rejects the tradition that would compel her to give the child over to be killed, and instead leaves her, wrapped in a blanket with a tea cake tucked in its folds, near an orphanage in a nearby city.Īs Li-yan comes into herself, leaving her village for an education, a business, and city life, her daughter, Haley, is raised in California by loving adoptive parents. Slowly, Li-yan, one of the few educated girls on her mountain, begins to reject the customs that shaped her early life. For the Akha people, ensconced in ritual and routine, life goes on as it has for generations-until a stranger appears at the village gate in a jeep, the first automobile any of the villagers has ever seen. ![]() In their remote mountain village, Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. ![]() ![]() ![]() She holds a BA in English writing from the University of Pittsburgh. Rachael Lippincott is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Five Feet Apart. She is a screenwriter and novelist living in Los Angeles and is one of the authors of the New York Times #1 bestseller Five Feet Apart. When she’s not writing, she is watching old black and white movies, listening to Doris Day on repeat, or reading ancient Greek plays. Mikki Daughtry graduated from Brenau University, where she studied theatre arts. ![]() But Kyle can’t shake the sense that he’s headed for another crashing moment that will blow up his life as soon as he’s started to put it back together.Īnd he’s right. And when their paths cross, Kyle sees in her all the unspoken things he’s feeling.Īs Kyle and Marley work to heal each other’s wounds, their feelings for each other grow stronger. ![]() Marley is suffering from her own loss, a loss she thinks was her fault. And no one in his life could possibly understand. Their car crashes and when he awakes, he has a brain injury. Kyle and Kimberly have been the perfect couple all through high school, but when Kimberly breaks up with him on the night of their graduation party, Kyle’s entire world upends-literally. ![]() Description From the team behind #1 New York Times bestseller Five Feet Apart comes a gripping new romance that asks: Can you find true love after losing everything? ![]() ![]() ![]() However, there are odd powers at work here, and Norman is going to find this plan much more difficult to carry out than he ever imagined. And he plans on it being the last conversation Rose ever has. And when he finds her, he’s going to talk to her. But Norman Daniels refuses to let his wife go. Now Rosie is finally embarking on a life of her own, for the first time in her adult life. 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Like a pagan god,Rolfe the Relentless rode into Castle Aelfgar to claim it as his prize-andLadyAlice as his bride. An erotic medieval romance tells the story of Rolfe the Relentless, a notorious invader who claims an English castle and its Saxon lady as his bride, only to find himself drawn to the lady's seductive illegitimate sister. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was named an International Reading Association Children's Choice book for 1988. During his twenty-year teaching career, he began to write for publication.īrimner made his debut in children's books with the publication of BMX Freestyle in 1987. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in British Literature from San Diego State University, where he graduated cum laude, and later received advanced degrees in writing and curriculum development. Petersburg, Florida, and spent his early childhood exploring Alaska's Kodiak Island. ![]() On Halloween, Old Armadillo sits inside his little house waiting for his friends to come trick-or-treating. ![]() ![]() ![]() Including me, the day I realized that ground ran red with blood.At age eighteen, I became Priest.A man without a past.A man determined to right the wrongs of my father.A man who never believed anyone could love the son of such a monster.But then a thief stole my heart.A sweetheart lit up my world.And I forgot for a moment you should never turn your back on your enemy. The man who terrorized a town and made its citizens fear the very ground he walked on. I am complex.My love is all-encompassing.And when it comes to my heart, there is only one rule:Don’t mess with what’s mine.Until the age of seven, I was Joel Alexander Donovan, son of Jimmy. ![]() You can read this before Priest (Confessions, #3) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Priest (Confessions, #3) written by Ella Frank which was published in August 14, 2018. Brief Summary of Book: Priest (Confessions, #3) by Ella Frank ![]() ![]() Alex Volchak is a great protagonist, world weary, lonely and bereaved, keen to see justice done but happy to bend the rules when it suits the common good and he’s blessed with an amusingly deadpan film noir style voice. ![]() He began his TV career as a writer on two seasons of Doctor Who, and wrote two novelizations of his stories under the pseudonym John Lydecker.įirst published in 1987, this is a winning combination of crime and horror, perhaps the perfect companion piece to the equally assured “Falling Angel”. Recent screen credits include an award-winning Silent Witness and Stan Lee's Lucky Man. In the US he was lead writer on NBC's Crusoe, creator of CBS Television's Eleventh Hour, and Co-Executive Producer on ABC's The Forgotten. In his native England he's adapted and created hour-long and feature-length thrillers and crime dramas. ![]() He's the creator of Sebastian Becker, Special Investigator to the Lord Chancellor's Visitor in Lunacy, in a series of novels that includes The Kingdom of Bones, The Bedlam Detective, and The Authentic William James. His fifteen novels include Chimera, Oktober, Valley of Lights and Nightmare, with Angel. ![]() Stoker and World Fantasy Award nominee, winner of British Fantasy and International Horror Guild Awards for his short fiction, Stephen Gallagher has a career both as a novelist and as a creator of primetime miniseries and episodic television. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Written by legendary comics creator Grant Morrison and beautifully illustrated and restored by artist Dave McKean, this deluxe edition collects the fully painted story together with Morrison’s complete annotated script and page layouts as well as a 16-page gallery of preliminary and promotional art by McKean and an afterword by editor Karen Berger. The Batman must descend into this heart of darkness, confront his greatest foes, and face the truth of his own divided identity - or condemn himself to share their fate. ![]() Led by the Joker, Arkham’s inmates issue a terrible ultimatum to the man responsible for their imprisonment. It is April 1st, and the lunatics have taken over the asylum. ![]() Within its claustrophobic walls the demented and deformed enemies of the Batman brood in padded cells and unlit cellars, dreaming of a day when they might rise up and overthrow the world of reason. More than half a century later, the Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane is a place of dismal corridors and oppressive shadows-a dark riddle in stone and timber, best left unsolved. In 1920, following the death of his disturbed mother, brilliant psychologist Amadeus Arkham began the conversion of his ancestral home into a hospital for the treatment of the mentally ill. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So begins Upstream, a collection of essays in which revered poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of both the natural world and the world of literature. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.” “In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. “Uniting essays from Oliver’s previous books and elsewhere, this gem of a collection offers a compelling synthesis of the poet’s thoughts on the natural, spiritual and artistic worlds. ![]() “There's hardly a page in my copy of Upstream that isn't folded down or underlined and scribbled on, so charged is Oliver's language. ![]() The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Oliver. One of O, The Oprah Magazine’s Ten Best Books of the Year ![]() |