7/6/2023 0 Comments Well Matched by Jen DeLuca![]() ![]() ![]() April reluctantly agrees, but when dinner turns into a weekend trip, it becomes hard to tell what’s real and what’s been just for show. While he agrees to help April, he needs a favor too: she’ll pretend to be his girlfriend at an upcoming family dinner, so that he can avoid the lectures about settling down and having a more “serious” career than high school coach and gym teacher. ![]() Mitch Malone is known for being the life of every party, but mostly for the attire he wears to the local Renaissance Faire–a kilt (and not much else) that shows off his muscled form to perfection. On the verge of being an empty nester, she’s decided to move on from her quaint little town, and asks her friend Mitch for his help with some home improvement projects to get her house ready to sell. Single mother April Parker has lived in Willow Creek for twelve years with a wall around her heart. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In A Certain Smile, which is also included in this volume, Dominique, a young woman bored with her lover, begins an encounter with an older man that unfolds in unexpected and troubling ways.īoth novellas have been freshly translated by Heather Lloyd and include an introduction by Rachel Cusk. ![]() ![]() Now this fresh and accurate new translation presents the uncensored text in full for the first time.īonjour Tristesse tells the story of Cécile, who leads a carefree life with her widowed father and his young mistresses until, one hot summer on the Riviera, he decides to remarry - with devastating consequences. However, this frank and explicit novella was considered too daring for 1950s Britain, and sexual scenes were removed for the English publication. Sylish, shimmering and amoral, Sagans tale of adolescence and betrayal on the French Riviera was her masterpiece, published when she was just eighteen. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Day of the triffids penguin![]() I knew the triffids already: I'd spent long hours in the jungle with them, exchanging gases. I read it in one sitting, fizzing with the excitement of recognition. My librarian mother disapproved mightily of the fags but when under interrogation I confessed where I'd been hanging out – hardly Sodom and Gomorrah – she spotted a literary opportunity, and slid John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids my way. I'd shove my butts into their root systems. The more rampant, brutally spiked, poisonous, or cruel to insects a plant was, the more it appealed to me. ![]() ![]() ![]() I'd head straight for the vast heated greenhouses, where I'd pity my adolescent plight, chain-smoke, and glory in the insane vegetation that burgeoned there. However, with its terrifyingly believable insights into the genetic modification of plants, the book is more relevant today than ever before.Īs a teenager, one of my favourite haunts was Oxford's Botanical Gardens. Now, with civilization in chaos, the triffids - huge, venomous, large-rooted plants able to 'walk', feeding on human flesh - can have their day.The Day of the Triffids, published in 1951, expresses many of the political concerns of its time: the Cold War, the fear of biological experimentation and the man-made apocalypse. Carefully removing his bandages, he realizes that he is the only person who can see: everyone else, doctors and patients alike, have been blinded by a meteor shower. When Bill Masen wakes up blindfolded in hospital there is a bitter irony in his situation. ![]() ![]() Zoe impulsively skips town in a search for answers that takes her from Las Vegas to Italy, but instead of tracking down answers, she only uncovers more questions. Plunged into a world of fake identities, deception, and murder, she’s afraid to trust anyone. She knows her future job prospects depend on her finally finishing her degree. When a member of Ballybeg's most notorious family struts into his forensic psychology class, his hopes for a peaceful semester are smashed to smithereens. Studying for a degree in criminology is the first step. But when her ex, Jack, goes missing along with several million dollars from his business and the FBI zeros in on her as a person of interest, Zoe’s life goes from delightfully unpredictable to downright frightening. Falling for her enemy Policeman Brian Glenn wants a promotion. Free-spirited and spontaneous, she’s built a life stringing together various freelance gigs that keep her bank account barely in the black. Sara Rosett Synopsis: Elusive by Sara Rosett is the first novel in the On the Run series. If You Like Sara Rosett Books, You’ll Love… Note: Happy Homicides also has stories by Annie Adams, Jenna Bennett, Joanna Campbell Slan, Linda Gordon Hengerer, Camille Minichino, Neil Plakcy, Nancy Jill Thames, Nancy Warren and Lois Winston. Love and Mistletoe (Ballybeg, Book 4) (The Ballybeg Series) Keane, Zara on. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Rayya elias elizabeth gilbert![]() ![]() My best friend Rayya Elias was diagnosed with pancreatic and liver cancer - a disease for which there is no cure.”Įlizabeth continued saying: “ In the moment I first learned of Rayya’s diagnosis, a trap door opened at the bottom of my heart (a trap door I didn’t even know was there) and my entire existence fell straight through that door. “This spring, I received news that would change my life forever. “ There is something I wish to tell you today - something which I hope and trust you will receive with grace. She began by saying that Rayya was suffering from pancreatic and liver cancer. In a message posted on her Facebook, Elizabeth shared the story how she and Rayya, author of Harley Loco and a filmmaker/musician got together and spoke about their close relationship. This, after previously announcing last July that she and her husband had broken up. MANILA, Philippines – Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert announced that she and her best friend Rayya Elias are in a relationship in a new post on Facebook. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Need book carrie jones![]() ![]() ![]() TIPS won the Maine Literary Award and the Independent Booksellers Award. Another book, GIRL, HERO was released after August 2008. Her second novel, LOVE (AND OTHER USES FOR DUCT TAPE) came out March 2008. Her first published book, TIPS ON HAVING A GAY (EX) BOYFRIEND appeared May 2007. She has edited newspapers and poetry journals and has recently won multiple awards from the Maine Press Association and also been awarded the Martin Dibner Fellowship as well as a Maine Literary Award. She graduated from Vermont College's MFA program for writing and was awarded the honor of distinguished alum in 2009. ![]() Carrie Jones is a New York Times and internationally-bestselling author, podcaster, writing coach, editor, artist, and occasional human. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments The living by isaac marion![]() Everyone is on their own desperate search: for a kidnapped daughter, a suicidal mother, and an abused little boy with a gift that could save humanity. ![]() This time they'll face the madness on the ground, racing their RV across the wastelands as tensions rise and bonds unravel-because R isn't the only one hiding painful secrets. But what can R, Julie, and their tiny gang of fugitives do against the creeping might of the Axiom Group, the bizarre undead corporation that's devouring what's left of America? He remembers it all now, a life of greed and apathy more destructive than any virus, and he sees only one path to redemption: he must fight the forces he helped create. Now the story of a dead man's search for life reaches its conclusion on a scale both epic and intimate.īefore he was a flesh-eating corpse, R was something worse. The New York Times bestselling Warm Bodies Series has captivated readers in twenty-five languages, inspiring a major film and transcending the zombie genre to become something "poetic" ( Library Journal) "highly original" ( Seattle Times) and "ultimately moving" ( Time Out London). ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Deafo book![]() Rabbit & Robot and Ribbit (Candlewick, 2016) again features our friends Rabbit and Robot as they navigate the difficult seas of jealousy. ![]() Rabbit & Robot: The Sleepover (Candlewick Press, 2013) This easy reader features four things on a list of things to do, three pizza toppings, two friends, one crazy night! This book won a Geisel Honor in 2013! You is correct in guessing that this book is a favorite amongst English teachers in these here United States about America! I Yam a Donkey (Clarion Books, 2014) is a picture book in which a persnickety yam and a goofy donkey argue about grammar. (Literally! Check out the state of Virginia in The 50 States by Gabrielle Balkan, illustrated by Sol Linero!)Įl Deafo was the first graphic novel to receive a Newbery Honor (in 2015), and it received an Eisner award that year, too. ![]() El Deafo (Abrams Books/Amulet, 2014) is my autobiographical graphic novel, and probably the book that finally put me on the map. ![]() ![]() ![]() Elliott examines more than a millennium's worth of doctrine and practice to uncover the origins of a culture of secrecy and concealment of sin. ![]() ![]() In The Corrupter of Boys, she demonstrates how, in conjunction with the requirement of clerical celibacy, scandal-averse policies at every conceivable level of the ecclesiastical hierarchy have enabled the widespread sexual abuse of boys and male adolescents within the Church. According to Dyan Elliott, the fear of scandal dictated certain lines of action and inaction, the consequences of which are painfully apparent today. Because clerical celibacy was key to this distinction, religious authorities of all stripes-patristic authors, popes, theologians, canonists, monastic founders, and commentators-became progressively sensitive to sexual scandals that involved the clergy and developed sophisticated tactics for concealing or dispelling embarrassing lapses. ![]() In the fourth century, clerics began to distinguish themselves from members of the laity by virtue of their augmented claims to holiness. ![]() |