![]() ![]() ![]() The virginal archer is supposed to babysit my ass while I learn to take my place in Royal Pipelines, my family’s oil company. Now my ball-busting father is sentencing me to six months of celibacy, sobriety, and morbid boredom under the roof of Boston’s nerdiest girl alive, Sailor Brennan. Like Stonehenge, Police Academy 2, and morning glory clouds. It was just one of those unexplainable things. I didn’t mean to star in a sex tape, okay? Shen is available now!īoston’s debauched elite is going up in flames, and it’s the Fitzpatrick family that set it on fire. Huntington, Wall Street Journal bestselling author The Hunter, an all-new compelling and must-read contemporary romance from USA Today bestselling author L.J. ![]() I devoured every page, hooked on the sizzling chemistry between Hunter and Sailor. “The queen of enemies-to-lovers strikes again. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He certainly never expected to fall in love. By 2006, with over 58 Million copies of her books have been sold worldwide, with translations appearing in 12 languages, Johanna Lindsey is one of the worlds most popular authors of historical romance. ![]() He never imagined that this woman he so frivolously acquired would be blessed with all the attributes he was looking for in a wife - grace, wit, intelligence as well as beauty. Johanna Lindsey wrote her first book, Captive Bride in 1977 'on a whim', and the book was a success. Enthralled by the lovely young woman with shining eyes and dark hair, he purchases her to be his mistress, unaware of the true worth of his prize. Lord Derek Malory is the highest bidder - a dashing rakehell from a family of charming London rogues. Resigned to becoming the plaything of a well-heeled gentleman, she gets more than she bargained for. Kelsey knows that the only way to avert their doom is to allow herself to be sold at auction. Her parents' death has left Kelsey Langton penniless - and responsible for the well-being of her younger sister, Jean. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pioneering when introduced, these classic therapies are now being validated by new discoveries in attachment research and neuroscience. Homecoming includes a wealth of unique case histories and interactive techniques, including questionnaires, letter-writing to the inner child, guided meditations, and affirmations. ![]() Then, says Bradshaw, the healed inner child becomes a source of vitality, enabling us to find new joy and energy in living. Through a step-by-step process of exploring the unfinished business of each developmental stage, we can break away from destructive family rules and roles and free ourselves to live responsibly in the present. ![]() In this powerful book, John Bradshaw shows how we can learn to nurture that inner child, in essence offering ourselves the good parenting we needed and longed for. 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With a sense of urgency, Concetta Falcone-Codding takes the reader through her family history, narrating four decades of secrets, deadly betrayals, and harm that destroyed the women in her family. You refuse to open, as you have a new life and remain speechless whenever someone asks, "How did your mother and sister die?" The events described in The Lonely Nest take place in a small New England town and reveal what hides behind time and shame. The truth is hard to accept and far more egregious when I say, we learn to sacrifice the ones we love in order to survive." The secret you buried thirty years ago comes banging at your door. Some might say I was too damaged to know any better, having lived with an abuser so long. ![]() "It would be some time until the steel encasement sealing my lonely nest cracked. ![]() The Lonely Nest: THE STORY OF TWO WOMEN WHOSE SHORT LIVES WILL ONE DAY MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD details. ![]() ![]() ![]() On the wooden bridge leading from the main road to the village, K. The Castle hill was hidden, veiled in mist and darkness, nor was there even a glimmer of light to show that a castle was there. From the very start of the novel, the castle represents some unknown force of authoritative power. The way The Castle ends mid-sentence makes it feel as if it were a section of an unending, illogical bureaucracy that the reader only sees a small piece of but that almost definitely continues on in circles forever. ![]() This term means that something is nightmarishly complex, bizarre, or illogical, generally relating to bureaucracy. It is the very epitome of the term Kafkaesque. The Castle was left unfinished by Kafka and yet it seems somehow complete in its incomplete state. ![]() ![]() ![]() And let's just say both Talia and I had the same idea in mind when we found out:īut finding the spy isn't as easy as it sounds - they might even be one of the people closest to her. Talia's first surprise: Donavon is at the school too. A spy who was the reason for Talia's near-death experience. Because, apparently, a spy is in Toxic's midst. After her failed mission attempt to kill Ian Crane, she is given the job of spying at the school. Talia has been subjected to medical procedures, rest (more like being locked up in a room and made to rest) and solitude. The story suffers no drops in audience engagement and if anything it treats the audience to even more action than the previous book. The beginning of Caged had me hooked at the first word. TOO MUCH EMOTION! I was confused over Erik, suspicious of Toxic in general - especially Mac, whose name brings to mind cheeseburgers -, and heartbroken over the fact that Talia was probably dying before our eyes and Donavon was the one to find the letter. The end of Talented left me in shreds as seen below: How can you improve on that?" Well, Sophie Davis must be a magician because she has managed to do just that and more in her second instalment in the series, Caged. I can admit that I thought "There is no way it could get better than this. ![]() I am in love! The first book in the Talented series, Talented, was brilliant. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “John was so flexible to work with! I had a special job that needed some out-of-the-box thinking, he jumped right in and did a super job. 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Using either Microsoft Word or Google Docs, I read through the manuscript and mark any grammar typos, spelling errors, or punctuation mistakes. Since then, I've proofread over seventy books. I launched my freelance proofreading business in December 2019. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not like there was a lot to pick and choose from. ![]() So depending on the age of the child I’d load them down with Knots in My Yo-Yo String by Jerry Spinelli or Marshfield Dreams by Ralph Fletcher or maybe one of the Beverly Cleary ones like A Girl From Yamhill. ![]() As it happens, middle grade authors of books for kids really like writing autobiographies. So like any good librarian I’d take the child to the biography/autobiography section and we’d start to hunt and peck. An AUTObiography, see? And there, clear as crystal, was the printed assignment. You mean a biography? No (of course not, silly librarian). A small child would walk into my room, belly up to the reader’s advisory desk, and ask for an autobiography. About ten years ago, when I was a children’s librarian in New York City, it was to be feared. I don’t pretend to know precisely why teachers give it out or what they hope child readers will get out of it. First Second (an imprint of Roaring Brook Press, Macmillan) ![]() ![]() But she’s not looking for him-her grandfather is missing, and she’ll stop at nothing to find him. At least according to EOD expert Sibba…who finds herself face-to-face with the rescuer she can’t forget. And worse, it’s carrying what could be radioactive waste. Now, he’s just a simple weatherman deploying dirigibles in an experiment to track weather patterns in Slovenia.īut danger comes knocking in the form of hiker in need of rescue, and he can’t deny that her companion-beautiful Sibba Kovac-is a great distraction from the guilt that haunts him…until she paraglides right out of his life.īut danger still won’t leave him alone when a storm knocks his dirigibles out of the sky, and he happens upon one that looks tampered with… ![]() Jonas Marshall is done storm-chasing, plagued with the memory of a terrible accident that paralyzed a fellow chaser, so the last thing he’s going to do is run into more danger. ![]() ![]() ![]() The two “other misfortunes”, aka the two shorter stories that follow, are quite different, though in the afterward LaRocca does explain the logic behind bringing them together in their representations of humans needing connections. The horror in the story is more underlying and uncertain (though there is a couple of gory bits too), and I liked how it had the vibe of an internet urban legend. The format of telling the story through posts, emails, and instant messages, with a few mysterious redacted comments, worked well to show the actual relationship between the two women and leave you guessing what each of them actually wanted. I’ve been wanting to read ‘Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke’ for a long time as a horror fan who loves fiction set over the internet and thinking about the internet of the past, and it didn’t disappoint. In the second, a couple end up on a remote island after the death of their son, where they are plagued by a strange young man, and in the final, shorter story, a man ends up in a confrontation with his reclusive neighbour. In the first story, set on the internet in the early 2000s, two women are caught in a strange interplay despite never meeting. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes is a collection of three horror novellas including the virally famous titular story. ![]() |