![]() ![]() I really like Jess Buffett’s writing style. Review: Cupid’s Time is the first book in a series, a series that I have thoroughly enjoyed (I’ve read up to book 4). ![]() Is Cupid in time or will time finally run out? Leaving the one who brings couples together, alone and emotionless for all of eternity. However, when violence strikes close to home for the Keepers, Cupid is needed to help in the healing process, but only if the soul mates acknowledge their love will the healing begin. ![]() The Keepers can find their soul mates among each other, but Cupid is young compared to the one who is meant for him. Fighting his own desires, he is ready to give up all emotions just to avoid the pain of not having the respect of the one that holds his heart, let alone craving his love. *Title was free on Amazon at time of posting*īlurb: Cupid’s job is to help find true love for others, but it’s a hard job to do when he’s in love with a man who barely acknowledges his existence. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Alinor’s suspicious neighbors are watching each other for any sign that someone might be disloyal to the new parliament, and Alinor’s ambition and determination mark her as a woman who doesn’t follow the rules. She shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marshy landscape of the Tidelands, not knowing she is leading a spy and an enemy into her life.Įngland is in the grip of a bloody civil war that reaches into the most remote parts of the kingdom. Instead she meets James, a young man on the run. ![]() Until she can, she is neither maiden nor wife nor widow, living in a perilous limbo. ![]() On Midsummer’s Eve, Alinor waits in the church graveyard, hoping to encounter the ghost of her missing husband and thus confirm his death. This New York Times bestseller from “one of the great storytellers of our time” ( San Francisco Book Review) turns from the glamour of the royal courts to tell the story of an ordinary woman, Alinor, living in a dangerous time for a woman to be different. ![]() ![]() ![]() For unusually large or heavy items, we recommend asking a family member or friend for an extra hand, as we cannot send more than 2 drivers. A skilled driver or a team of two will bring your item(s) inside your home and place it in the immediate entryway.(For in-home delivery service, additional fees apply. A signature will be required upon delivery.Item will be left in its packaging after delivery. ![]() A wooden crate may be used for intercontinental shipments for maximum protection.The delivery partner will email and/or call you at least one day in advance to arrange a delivery time.We recommend asking a family member or friend for an extra hand alternatively, you may upgrade to In-Home Delivery (see below). You will be responsible for further transport beyond that point. A skilled driver will unload the item(s) from the delivery truck and bring it to your building’s doorstep. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I knew that it had a not-so-hot sub 3 rating on Goodreads, but the cover and blurb were so enticing I couldn’t help but check it out for myself. I have seen people who were absolutely swept away by it, and people who absolutely despised it. I knew walking into this novella that it seems to be pretty polarizing. Now, admittedly, I have very little knowledge or experience of the background and origins of a lot the dangerous entities lurking with these pages – so my reading experience might be a bit different than someone who better understands the history and tropes of this specific kind of horror (and I had to do a lot of googling while reading to try and catch myself up!). Khaw’s horror novella, Nothing But Blackened Teeth, is an unsettling story immersed in Japanese horror. ![]() When four friends come together in a haunted mansion to celebrate a wedding, things take a very dark turn when a ohaguro bettari starts surrounding them….but it may be the four humans themselves who are the greatest threat to each other. ![]() ![]() ![]() Van Sertima married Maria Nagy in 1964 they adopted two sons, Larry and Michael. During the 1960s, he worked for several years in Great Britain as a journalist, doing weekly broadcasts to the Caribbean and Africa. įrom 1957 to 1959, Van Sertima worked as a Press and Broadcasting Officer in the Guyana Information Services. In addition to his creative writing, Van Sertima completed his undergraduate studies in African languages and literature at SOAS in 1969, where he graduated with honours. He attended the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London from 1959. He completed primary and secondary school in Guyana, and started writing poetry. Van Sertima was born in Kitty Village, near Georgetown, in what was then the colony of British Guiana (present-day Guyana) he retained his British citizenship throughout his life. ![]() While his Olmec theory has "spread widely in African American community, both lay and scholarly", it was mostly ignored in Mesoamericanist scholarship, and has been dismissed as Afrocentric pseudoarchaeology and pseudohistory to the effect of "robbing native American cultures". He was best known for his Olmec alternative origin speculations, a brand of pre-Columbian contact theory, which he proposed in his book They Came Before Columbus (1976). Ivan Gladstone Van Sertima (26 January 1935 – ) was a Guyanese-born British associate professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University in the United States. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787), "Matrimony", p.Her sphere of action is not large, and if she is not taught to look into her own heart, how trivial are her occupations and pursuits! What little arts engross and narrow her mind! Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world and this is not a woman's province in a married state.Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason… Till society is very differently constituted, parents, I fear, will still insist on being obeyed, because they will be obeyed, and constantly endeavour to settle that power on a Divine right, which will not bear the investigation of reason. No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. ![]() Quotes Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world. 1.1 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). ![]() ![]() ![]() “It deals with grieving, memories that you can’t and refuse to let go off. ![]() “This ( The Garden of Evening Mists) is told from a woman’s perspective,” says the writer. “It is about how survivors cope with what they have gone through.”ĭescribed as “a strong, quiet novel” by The New York Times, the second novel builds on a theme that was first explored in Tan’s first book The Gift of Rain (2007), set in the years before and during the war and told from the point of view of a male protagonist. “I wanted to write a good story that would appeal to not just Malaysian readers but around the world as well,” he explains. The Garden of Evening Mists stars Malaysian actress Lee Sinje and Japanese actor Hiroshi Abe Immersed in the philosophy that is at the centre of Japanese gardens, Yun Ling slowly comes to terms with her past. To come to terms with the past, she heads to Cameron Highlands in the midst of the post war Malayan Emergency to seek the help of Japanese gardener Arimoto to build a Japanese garden as an ode to her sister who didn’t survive the war. In it the protagonist Yun Ling (played by Lee) escapes the Japanese occupation scarred by all that she had experienced as a prisoner of war. It is a theme that is heavily explored in his second book The Garden of Evening Mists, published in 2012, now adapted into a film starring Malaysian actress Lee Sinje and Japanese actor Hiroshi Abe. ![]() Tan Twan Eng, author of The Garden of Evening Mists ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After twenty-five years of working in television, she decided to pursue a childhood dream and write stories that readers could take to their hearts. ![]() As old rivalries and resentments endanger them both, one misjudgment threatens to tear them apart.Ĭan Christian overcome the nightmares of his childhood and the torments of his youth, and save himself? And once he’s discovered the truth of his origins, can he find forgiveness and accept Ana’s unconditional love?Į L JAMES is an incurable romantic and a self-confessed fangirl. Their passion for each other burns hotter and deeper than ever, but Ana’s defiant spirit continues to stir Christian’s darkest fears and tests his need for control. But is he really husband material? His dad is unsure, his brother wants to organize one helluva bachelor party, and his fiancée won’t vow to obey…Īnd marriage brings its own challenges. You are cordially invited to the wedding of the decade, when Christian Grey will make Anastasia Steele his wife. Relive the sensuality, the romance, and the drama of Fifty Shades Freed through the thoughts, reflections, and dreams of Christian Grey.Į L James revisits the world of Fifty Shades with a deeper and darker take on the love story that has enthralled millions of readers around the globe. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() O元1261243W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 90.56 Pages 362 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20230208171901 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 712 Scandate 20230130091604 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog bwb Scribe3_search_id O8-DDV-479 Sent_to_scribe Tts_version 5. DROWNING RUTH is a complex and rewarding debut Anita Shreve A riveting first novel. ![]() Urn:lcp:drowningruthbych0000chri:lcpdf:a45293e0-8201-4715-819e-7bf31bdffd0e Foldoutcount 0 Identifier drowningruthbych0000chri Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s280phf3bsh Invoice 1652 Metasource_catalog openlibrary Ocr tesseract 5.3.0-1-gd3a4 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.18 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-1300580 Openlibrary_edition Addeddate 00:01:52 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA40838314 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() ![]() ![]() So I was very much looking forward to meeting Sophie Kinsella. The book's key ingredient – a sassy but klutzy female protagonist, embroiled in comical misadventures – could arguably be found in Jane Eyre, leaving any definition so elastic as to verge on meaningless. Bridget Jones's Diary is generally cited as an early example, but Allison Pearson hit the roof when her novel about a working mother, I Don't Know How She Does It, was assigned to the genre. Part of the problem is that no one can agree on a definition of chick lit. Harmless escapism? Cynical commercialism? Post-feminism at its most depressingly inane? Or is it an insult to the intelligence of women who like to read and write about contemporary female lives? If Jane Austen were alive today, would her books come in pink sparkly covers? If glitter sells, should we even care? Does chick lit propagate a retrograde notion of women as shallow cretins – or reflect their nuanced reality? And on and on it goes. ![]() ![]() W hat do we think about chick lit? It's a question that has been on a sort of literary loop for about 15 years. ![]() |