![]() ![]() Wulfric (I know) Bedwyn, Duke of Bewcastle, is the eldest of six children and each have already had their story told I gave Slightly Married a try, but when I skipped ahead to page 200 to check on the action I met the sentence, “He gave her his seed,” and I was out. This is that book, but instead of digging deeper to find sexually-twisted tyrants all the way down a la Ashley, Mary Balogh shows us a deeply caring man, motivated only by love and duty. In my (scathing and bitchy) review of Jennifer Ashley’s Mackenzie series, I wrote that the common series structure has the last book be about “the most forbidding of the men the one you can’t imagine rooting for, or whose arrogance and aloofness is nigh on insurmountable”. ![]() I generally read Balogh when nothing else is handy, but I would go so far as to say this particular book is a classic of the genre. I do not begrudge any author the chance to cash in, except maybe that 50 Shades of Twilight woman. She’s been putting out books for years and years, and with the advent of e-books will be reissuing her back catalogue for quite some time to come. ![]() Mary Balogh is a reliable and consistent romance genre author. ![]()
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It’s Gamache’s first day back as head of the homicide department, a job he temporarily shares with his previous second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir. ![]() Catastrophic spring flooding, blistering attacks in the media, and a mysterious disappearance greet Chief Inspector Armand Gamache as he returns to the Sûreté du Québec in the next audiobook from number one New York Times best-selling author Louise Penny. ![]() ![]() This is a case of an experienced author and illustrator team who worked together to create something greater than the sum of their parts. ![]() Lavar Burton has said that Amazing Grace is his favorite picture book, and it’s easy to see why. ![]() It was featured on Reading Rainbow and became somewhat ubiquitous in school libraries in a short amount of time. Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman and Caroline Binch When her class is producing Peter Pan, classmates say she can’t play Peter because she’s a black girl. More than anything, she loves to act out those stories. Grace loves stories, whether they are read or watched or told to her. Picture book realistic fiction, 24 pages. Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman, illustrated by Caroline Binch.ĭial Books for Young Readers, Penguin Books USA, New York, 1991, Reprinted Scholastic, New York, 1993. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the 1980s and 1990s Spencer wrote 12 New York Times Bestsellers. The stories center on themes of abiding love, family ties and strength in difficult times. ![]() Her heroines tend to be a mix of fire and warmth, strength, savvy and soft–heartedness who must overcome some sort of adversity, such as pregnancy, divorce, a lengthy separation, the loss of a loved one, and then undergo a catharsis. These "ordinary" men and women are warm and vulnerable and are always portrayed sympathetically. Spencer is known for creating realistic characters and stories that focus on families rather than only the relationship between a man and woman. Twelve of her books have been New York Times bestsellers, and Spencer was inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame in 1988. She has successfully published a number of books, with several of them made into movies. LaVyrle Spencer is an American best-selling author of contemporary and historical romance novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the four teens are more alike than they might think, and the timing of their meeting isn't a coincidence. While Ro and fellow hostage Tima rage against their captors, Dol finds herself drawn to Lucas, the Ambassador's privileged son. When Dol and her best friend, Ro, are captured and taken to the Embassy, off the coast of the sprawling metropolis once known as the City of Angels, they find only more questions. Hiding from the one truth she can't avoid. Since then, Dol has lived a simple life in the countryside-safe from the shadow of the Icon and its terrifying power. ![]() The day Earth lost a war it didn't know it was fighting. 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'Fencing with the King' combines family mystery, political intrigue, and some heart-pounding danger for the Jordanian-American main character, Amani. But author Diana Abu-Jaber pulls back a curtain to reveal the essence of this land, its culture, and its people. Uncle Hafez will make their time in Jordan complicated - and dangerous - after Amani discovers a missing relative and is launched into a journey of loss, history, and, eventually, a fight for her own life.įencing with the King masterfully draws on King Lear and Arthurian fable to explore the power of inheritance, the trauma of displacement, and whether we can release the past to build a future. Diana Abu-Jabers most recent culinary memoir, Life Without A Recipe, has been described as a book of love. I thought I knew the country fairly well. Her father has avoided returning to his homeland for decades, but Amani persuades him to come with her. Diana Abu-Jaber, author of Fencing with the King In a Pacific Northwest hospital far from the Rummani familys ancestral home in Palestine, the heart of a. Soon the perfect occasion to investigate arises: Her uncle Hafez, an advisor to the king of Jordan, invites her father to celebrate the king’s 60th birthday - and to fence with the king, as in their youth. It seems to have been written by her grandmother, a refugee who arrived in Jordan during the First World War. Īmani is hooked on a mystery - a poem on airmail paper that slips out of one of her father’s books. ![]() A mesmerizing breakthrough novel of family myths and inheritances by the award-winning author of Crescent. ![]() ![]() ![]() When a “most diabolical robot”–building contest is announced, Dylan seizes the chance to prove he’s more fiendish than Addison: “That hideous trophy…will be mine! All MINE!” And it is, after Dylan accidentally-on-purpose sends Addison and her menacing robot into space. 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Snivels are surprised by this development (and by the fact that they just “happened to have a baby”), but not disappointed. ‘It’s a healthy little super-villain!’” Sweet, unsuspecting new parents Mr. ![]() ![]() ![]() Over the course of one life-altering afternoon, the fates of seven people will change forever: foremost among them police Chief Bishop, the estranged father Victor hasn’t seen in three years, two protesters struggling to stay true to their non-violent principles as the day descends into chaos, two police officers in the street, and the coolly elegant financial minister from Sri Lanka whose life, as well as his country’s fate, hinges on getting through the angry crowd, out of jail, and to his meeting with the President of the United States. With the proceeds, he plans to buy a plane ticket and leave Seattle forever, but it quickly becomes clear that the history-making 50,000 anti-globalization protestors-from anarchists to environmentalists to teamsters-are testing the patience of the police, and what started out as a peaceful protest is threatening to erupt into violence. On a rainy, cold day in November, young Victor-a nomadic, scrappy teenager who’s run away from home-sets out to join the throng of WTO demonstrators determined to shut down the city. The Flamethrowers meets Let the Great World Spin in this electrifying debut novel set amid the heated conflict of Seattle’s 1999 WTO protests. You can read this before Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist written by Sunil Yapa which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist by Sunil Yapa ![]() ![]() ![]() “I love stories about strong women,” Addison said. “You have to be able to tell your story,” she said.Īddison tells “folktales and fables,” retelling stories that are in the public domain and have no copyright.Īddison also got permission from author Irene Smalls to tell a story based on Smalls’ children’s book “Ebony Sea,” opening that presentation by singing “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” an African-American spiritual that dates to the mid-19 th century. Army as a Buffalo Soldier in the 1860s and served in the American West, and Susie King Taylor (1848-1912), the first Black nurse to serve during the Civil War. Addison has lived in Las Cruces since 1995 and has been a member of STLC for 18 years and has served multiple terms as president.Īmong Addison’s most popular characters are Cathay Williams (1844-93), who disguised herself as a man to join the U.S. Earlier this year, she won the Oracle Award from the National Storytelling Network, one of four recipients of its regional service and leadership award. But her stories are always full of hope and humor and triumph over incredible obstacles.Īddison performs under the name Juba and is a national-award-winning storyteller and president of Storytellers of Las Cruces (STLC). ![]() Sarah Addison tells stories that reach back into the bleakest pages of American history, recounting tales of slavery, oppression, struggle and sacrifice. ![]() |