5/30/2023 0 Comments Return of the duke lorraine heath![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But giving into temptation comes at a cost, and they must decide if love is worth the risk of losing their one chance for redemption. Soon, they're unable to deny their growing desire for each other. ![]() She doesn't trust Marcus but can't deny the handsome devil makes her wonder if she does indeed possess a heart, one he could very easily steal.Īs their hunt for the truth leads them into danger, Marcus finds Esme isn't cold and calculating as he'd assumed but fire and brimstone, with courage and determination to match his own. Harboring secrets, Esme Lancaster has her own reasons for wanting to discover who's behind the conspiracy that's still afoot. His search forces him to turn to a woman he despises for her unforgiveable betrayal-a woman known as the heartless harlot. Vowing to return honor to his family, he seeks to expose the others involved in the treasonous plot and bring them to justice. When his father, the Duke of Wolfford, is hanged for an assassination attempt on Queen Victoria, Marcus Stanwick is stripped of everything. The Return of the Duke by Lorraine Heath 3. In the thrilling third book in New York Times bestselling author Lorraine Heath's Once Upon a Dukedom series, the dashing son of a disgraced duke teams up with a sultry beauty to thwart an assassination plot against Queen Victoria. Science Fiction & Fantasy - Available Now.Armchair Explorers for Children and Teens. ![]()
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![]() Clark's subject is painting and printmaking in the years following the 1848 Revolution in France, "a time", he argues, "when art and politics could not escape each other." The book tells the story of a handful of artists trying to take advantage of that unfamiliar-and short-lived-situation. It is suffused with wit and pathetic irony." "This book," said the Times, "is a product of that school of art history whose history is as well read as its art, and whilst it covers only a small area of time and place, Clark's approach and style are such that it throws up enough ideas and pleasures to illuminate far beyond its rather special circumstances. ![]() ![]() When this book and its companion volume, Image of the People, appeared in 1973, they were taken as a challenge to the way art was usually written about. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Woolly by Ben Mezrich![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As a self-proclaimed science nerd and bibliophile, I love books about science, but as with all topics, the writing matters! Thankfully, Ben Mezrich does not disappoint. When you imagine this, are you imagining the past? What if I told you it could be a view of the future? It sounds unbelievable, but it may be more plausible than we once thought.īen Mezrich’s 2017 book, Woolly chronicles the mammoth undertaking (pun intended) to bring back this remarkable animal. Can you guess what it is? The unforgettable Woolly Mammoth. As the animal turns to face you, its gargantuan tusks become visible. Covered in a thick coat of hair, some strands even 3 feet long, this creature was built to withstand some of the most inhospitable places on our planet. Standing 13 feet tall and weighing in at 6 tons, it is unlike anything you have ever seen. You’re walking along and see a majestic creature that has stepped out of the past. Employment and Internship Opportunities. ![]() ![]() ![]() They were childhood friends because he used to fly to the islands to collect seaweed. Many star-crossed romances deal with families who hate each other, or class differences, but I liked the idea that these two had the forces of nature conspiring against them!Įsmerine is a mermaid. I loved the idea of two like minds having different bodies that belonged to different elements. The romance between a mermaid and a winged boy was a subplot in a (not very good) novel I was writing years ago. Where did the idea for “Between the Sea and Sky” come from? I might put on a playlist I’ve carefully selected for the book I’m writing on at the time, but not always. I usually write between lunch and dinner. More than anything, I want to pass that feeling on.ĭo you have any rituals? Do you write all day? My love for them was so strong, and I took so much inspiration from them. ![]() As a young reader, I felt like I sort of became a part of my favorite stories, and they became a part of me. ![]() The books you read when you’re young get into your head in a way that doesn’t usually happen later in life. I filled piles of notebooks, and then slews of computer files. They’re about things like Grandma and families of bears. Yes, in fact, when I was three my mom was writing down stories I dictated to her. Jaclyn Dolamore is the author of young adult novels “Magic Under Glass” and “Between the Sea and Sky.” Below is a complete transcript of her interview with Cracking the Cover.īackground - Have you always wanted to write? Why? ![]() ![]() Illustrations Copyright ©1995 Lance Tooks We suggest that you check out the stories of all the Black Panthers. Herb Boyd has done exhaustive research, examined the claims of all parties involved, and boiled the story down to “the truth.” We believe this is the most truthful book on the market, but each Panther has his or her own story to tell. ![]() ![]() While their furious passage was marked by death, destruction and government sabotage, the Panthers left an instructive legacy for anyone who dares to challenge the system. The late 1960s, when the Panthers captured the imagination of the nation’s youth, was a time of regulation. The real story-the whole story-was both more and less heroic. ![]() One of the young men held a large law book in his hand…This was the Black Panther Party in ideal action. The young men did not say a word as the police officers watched them nervously, their eyes fixed on the shotguns. The young men surrounded two white police officers who had accosted a black man and had him spread-eagled against a building. ![]() A crowd of onlookers gawked from the sidewalk as four young black men dressed in black leather jackets and berets leaped from a Volkswagen, each of them wielding shotguns with bandoliers strapped across their bodies. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Cartarescu solenoide![]() Parasites are much on his mind throughout this sprawling narrative. ![]() Now, at the beginning of the novel, he finds himself battling the lice that are epidemic among his students. “You can’t sow the world with dreams, because the world itself was a dream.” The 27-year-old protagonist of Romanian novelist Cărtărescu’s waking-dream book is a teacher who has a decidedly Dostoyevskian discontentment with the world: He wanted to be a writer, but one particularly sharp-tongued critic, calling a poem of his “a pointless whirlpool of words,” stopped his literary career in its tracks. A beguiling novel that plunges deep into subterranean conspiracy theories while questioning the nature of reality. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the first 75 years after it was published, it sold 14 million copies. The Pulitzer Prize-winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the American literary canon. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945), the multi-generation epic East of Eden (1952), and the novellas Of Mice and Men (1937) and The Red Pony (1937). He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception." He has been called "a giant of American letters," and many of his works are considered classics of Western literature.ĭuring his writing career, he authored 27 books, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. Tom Joad and his family are forced from their farm in the Depression-era Oklahoma Dust Bowl and set out for California along with thousands of others in search of jobs, land, and hope for a brighter future. The cover boards are tan with a panorama drawn on the cover. This is a 1939 First Edition, 10th Printing, printed by The Viking Press. ![]() 1939 Hardcover Book, The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck, First Edition, 10th Printing, Novel, Fiction, Literature, Classic, CollectibleĪ hardcover classic book entitled The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The hero is a scandal-plagued former boy band singer who needs to rehabilitate his reputation to provide for his unwell mother and young sister. I couldn’t put this rom-com down! What a genius plot-what happens when a porn star gets cast in a Hallmark Christmas movie? The heroine, a plus-sized porn star who wants to branch out into mainstream acting, is chosen as a last-minute replacement by I couldn’t put this rom-com down! What a genius plot-what happens when a porn star gets cast in a Hallmark Christmas movie? The heroine, a plus-sized porn star who wants to branch out into mainstream acting, is chosen as a last-minute replacement by the director who doesn’t know about her other job. ![]() 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars ![]() ![]() Although to some, the story of those days may be different then what Mr. I guess to her, this was the true story about what happened during those dark days in November. It was my grandmother that told me that this should be the first book I read about this time in history and should be my last. That book was “The Death of a President” written by William Manchester. Inside of this container was a vast amount of newspaper clippings, notes that she had written down about this time in history and one book. One day when the interest of JFK was beginning to spark, I found myself going through this container. ![]() When I was 8 years old, my grandmother had a collection of JFK material stored in a metal container. The story has been told many times over the past 52 years and yet we are still able to find bits and pieces that we may have missed. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Bliss montage by ling ma![]() ![]() What begins as a tale about two young women engaging in low-key mayhem because no one can see them turns into a story about two girls who were pressured to become friends because they were both Chinese immigrants-although with very dissimilar experiences of life in the United States. ![]() You walk around with a lesser gravity, a low-helium balloon the day after a birthday party.” “G” is the name of a story and the name of the drug the narrator of the story takes with her best friend, Bonnie, on her last night in New York. The sensation of invisibility is one of floating. “Without question, the best part of taking G is the beginning. (There are echoes of Ma’s debut novel, in which a pandemic turns people into zombies that repeat the same everyday action over and over.) In the stories that follow, Ma uses elements of the fantastic but grounds them in a reality that is more recognizably our own. This piece feels uncanny in the Freudian sense-as if it is peopled not by actual humans but by ghosts or automata. The husband’s dialogue is rendered in dollar signs. Her hundred ex-boyfriends live in the “largest but ugliest wing.” While the narrator takes these past lovers on outings to Moon Juice and LACMA, the husband works at an investment firm. The narrator of “Los Angeles” lives with her husband, their children, and the children’s au pairs in the east and west wings of their home. Short stories from the author of Severance, winner of the 2018 Kirkus Prize for fiction. ![]() |