6/10/2023 0 Comments Uilleam macrieve![]() On the cusp of the full moon, can he conquer his worst nightmare to save Chloe. But once he takes her to his bed, his sensual mate becomes something more than human, evoking his savage past and testing his sanity. A full moon on the rise with enemies circling, MacRieve spirits Chloe away to the isolated highland keep of his youth. Until she's claimed by him-a wicked immortal with heartbreaking eyes, whose touch sets her blood on fire. When offered up to creatures of the dark, she fears she won't last the night. A beauty in chains seized for the auction block, Chloe Todd is forced to enter a terrifying new world of monsters and lore as a bound slave. ![]() Until he finds her-a young human so full of spirit and courage that she pulls him back from the brink. But when a brutal torture revives those ancient agonies and destroys his Lykae instinct, the proud Scot craves the oblivion of death. ![]() A beast in torment Uilleam MacRieve believed he'd laid to rest the ghosts of his boyhood. In this pulse-pounding Immortals After Dark tale, #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole delves into the darkest mysteries and deepest passions of Clan MacRieve. ![]()
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6/10/2023 0 Comments Math curse book![]() John, founder of the FUBU fashion line and a Shark Tank venture capitalist, offers a self-referential blueprint for financial success. How to raise money for a coveted poster: put your friends to work! ![]() Readers can check their answers on the back cover. Another calculated triumph from the fevered brows that brought forth The Stinky Cheese Man (1992) and other instant classics, this one with a bit of brainwork deftly woven in. Smith's big paintings-cum-collage are, as usual, way strange, perfectly complementing the wild, postmodern page design with concatenations of small objects, fragments, and geometric shapes and figures, all placed on dark, grainy backgrounds. What's the cure? It comes to her in a dream: A problem with an answer is no problem at all. ![]() if my bus leaves at 8:00, will I make it on time?'' If it's not a time problem, it's equivalents (``How many inches in a foot?''), multiplication, nondecimal numbers, money combinations, and more. It takes me 10 minutes to get dressed, 15 minutes to eat my breakfast, and 1 minute to brush my teeth. ![]() An unsuspecting student falls victim to the Math Curse when her teacher notes that ``You can think of almost everything as a math problem.'' Suddenly, everything is: ``I wake up at 7:15. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments The apollo murders book review![]() ![]() ![]() The mission commander dies in a mysterious helicopter crash and Chad Miller takes his place. Do they know something about lunar geology that the Americans don’t? Hence Apollo 18 becomes a military intelligence operation albeit maintaining a token science objective for the public. ![]() ![]() The USA learns of two potential threats: the Soviets operate a secretive orbital space station to spy on the Americans – and – they have landed a probe on the Moon for seemingly strategic reasons. Now denied a future as an astronaut, he soon works as liaison linking the Apollo program with the National Security Agency. The story begins with Kaz Zemeckis, a jet fighter pilot aspiring to become an astronaut, yet loses an eye in a near fatal crash. His credentials are, shall we say, stellar. The Apollo Murders is his first venture into fiction. YouTube includes his viral performance of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” from the ISS. Yet the most compelling aspect is Hadfield’s claim that much of the story has actually happened, leaving the reader to wonder what is really going on behind the public glamour of space exploration.Ĭolonel Chris Hadfield, former commander of the International Space Station, is now an overall promoter of space exploration. This is a tale involving an unhinged astronaut, egos, operational challenges, plus heroism. The Apollo Murders is about a fictionalized lunar mission stoked with armed conflict in outer space. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She reaches the foot of the mountain in short order, the first to do so for as long as anyone can remember, only to find it covered in dangers mundane and magical, from jagged slopes and a treacherously narrow mountain path to a giant of an ogre and a witch who has cursed the snow itself. Her family teases her about the impossibility of all three, but when the mountain itself seems to call her and nod, she sets off to fulfill her dreams.Īs she crosses the river at the edge of her village and enters the forbidden pinewood forest just beyond, things get strange immediately as the bronze statue she brought with her comes to life. The Farthest-Away Mountain is a 1976 fantasy novel by Lynne Reid Banks that takes a fairy tale-inspired format and shakes a few things up.Ī girl named Dakin who has come of age refuses to settle down until she has accomplished three things in life: visit the Farthest-Away Mountain, meet a gargoyle, and find a prince to be her husband. However long you travel toward it, it always stays in the distance. ![]() ![]() The charming cover of Things a Bright Girl Can Do has stayed with me. ![]() When I unwrapped this book, I instantly recognised the title – it brought to my mind the beautiful purple, white and green final cover that I’d catalogued and shelved in my old school library. It had been a long time since I’d held a historical fiction, having just spent a few months with fantasy and magical realist children’s books. It was an interesting experience to have picked this book based on only the words ‘women’, ‘reform’ and ‘First World War’. ![]() ![]() Whilst I have organised and ran similar ‘blind date with a book’ events in the library before, I have never actually had the chance to take part in one! I obtained this book through a ‘mystery proof’ giveaway from the lovely Ebb & Flo Book Shop stall at the NYA Lit Fest in Preston earlier in the year. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments A good marriage 2014![]() ![]() ![]() That is until Darcy finds a secret compartment behind the garage's wall, and makes a horrific discovery: a small box containing the ID cards of Marjorie Duvall, a victim of a serial killer called "Beadie".īob calls home, and can tell Darcy is upset. She finds it disturbing, but thinks it's just male exploration. As she rummages through Bob's belongings, she stumbles across a pornographic magazine showing sadomasochistic images. She finds the whole episode unsettling, but then remembers what she's here for, batteries. She turns off the light, and watches through the rain as he goes back to his car. While she's in the garage, a man she's never seen before knocks on the door of the house. One rainy night, while Bob is away on business, Darcy goes into the garage to search for batteries for the TV remote. They have a happy yet humdrum relationship, running a mail-order business selling and appraising rare coins. Darcy Anderson has been married to Bob, an accountant for over 25 years. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments I dare you ilsa madden mills![]() ![]() She’s addicted to frothy coffee beverages, cheesy magnets, and any book featuring unicorns and sword-wielding females. ![]() Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and USA Today best-selling author Ilsa Madden-Mills is best known for her angsty new adult romances and romantic comedies.Įight of her eleven novels have placed in the Amazon Top 10 Best-seller List: Dirty English #1 Fake Fiance and I Dare You #2 I Bet You, Filthy English, and Very Bad Things #6 Boyfriend Bargain #8 The Last Guy, her collaboration with Tia Louise, #4.Ī former high school English teacher, she adores all things Pride and Prejudice, and of course, Mr. ![]() Pre-Order your copy exclusively on Amazon! □Amazon: □Amazon Worldwide: □Amazon Paperback: □Amazon Audio: About The Author Ilsa Madden-Mills I Dare You is a Romance novel by Ilsa Madden-Mills. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Tracy borman the king's witch![]() In July 2022 Borman was made Chancellor of Bishop Grosseteste University in Lincoln. She is most widely known as the author of Elizabeth's Women, a portrait-gallery of the powerful women who influenced Queen Elizabeth I. Surrounded by mortal dangers, Frances finds happiness only with the precocious young Princess Elizabeth, and Tom Wintour, the one courtier she can trust. Tracy Joanne Borman (born 1 January 1972) 1 is a historian and author from Scothern, Lincolnshire, England. ![]() So when her ambitious uncle forcibly brings Frances to court, she is trapped in a claustrophobic world of intrigue and betrayal - and a ready target for the twisted scheming of Lord Cecil, the King's first minister. His court may be shockingly decadent, but James's religion is Puritan, intolerant of all the old ways he has already put to death many men for treason and women for witchcraft. ![]() ![]() Already a great historian, Tracey Borman proves with this thrilling debut novel that she is also a born storyteller.Īs she helps to nurse the dying Queen Elizabeth, Frances Gorges longs for the fields and ancient woods of her parents' Hampshire estate, where she has learned to use the flowers and herbs to become a much-loved healer.įrances is happy to stay in her beloved countryside when the new King arrives from Scotland, bringing change, fear and suspicion. The Kings Witch is a superbly crafted story, and so great is Tracy Bormans skill that she really transported me back to the tumultuous days of the Jacobean court. The King‘s Witch is Historical Fiction spanning the years from Queen Elizabeth I death through the Early years of King James I reign. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments The Fireman by Joe Hill![]() ![]() “The White House will consult with New Hampshire’s Senators to identify a new nominee. “President Biden put forward a deeply qualified nominee, with a long and distinguished career in public service,” White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said. Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin said the votes for Delaney weren’t there. The move comes after the Judiciary Committee failed to move his nomination forward for the second week in a row despite having full attendance and a Democratic majority with the return of California Sen. ![]() Delaney is the first Biden judicial nominee to run into this level of public resistance from members from the president’s own party.ĭelaney was not asked by the White House to withdraw his nomination, according to a source familiar with the matter. In his first two years in office, Biden broke records with his pace of judicial confirmations – an effort that rested on Democratic senators being unified behind his choices for the federal bench because of the Senate’s 50-50 split last term. The withdrawal comes as Biden’s push to confirm new judicial nominees has slowed this year. ![]() Embattled judicial nominee Michael Delaney has asked President Joe Biden to withdraw his nomination for a prestigious appeals court, according to a letter obtained by CNN.ĭelaney, a former attorney general of New Hampshire, had attracted the opposition of Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans and skepticism from the committee’s Democrats for a case where he represented an elite boarding school that was sued by a student who was sexually assaulted on its campus. ![]() ![]() ![]() Very rarely do we come across a magnum opus spread across five volumes with hundreds of characters that gather our attention. Kalki had also the genius to classify the historical and non-historical events, historical and non-historical characters and how much the novel owes to history. ![]() ![]() Sixty years ago, at a time when the literacy level was low and when the English-educated Tamils looked down on writings in Tamil, Kalki’s circulation touched 71,000 copies – the largest for any weekly in the county then – when it serialised his historical novels. The success that Krishnamurthy attained in the realm of historical fiction is phenomenal. Ki’, ‘Tamil Theni’, ‘Karnatakam’ and so on. He wrote under the pen names of ‘Kalki’, ‘Ra. Krishnamurthy’s witty, incisive comments on politics, literature, music and other forms of art were looked forward to with unceasing interest by readers. His writings includes over 120 short stories, 10 novelettes, 5 novels, 3 historical romances, editorial and political writings and hundreds of film and music reviews. His name also represents “Kalki avatar”, the tenth and last avatar of the Hindu God Vishnu. He derived his pen name from the suffixes of his wife name Kalyani and his name Krishnamurthy in Tamil form கல்யாணி and கிருஷ்ணமூர்த்தி as Kalki (கல்கி). Tamil language Novel Writer, Journalist, Poet & Critic late Ramaswamy Aiyer Krishnamurthy also known as ‘Kalki’. ![]() |