![]() PRAISE FOR THE NOVELS OF JULIE JAMES "Julie James writes books I can't put down."-Nalini Singh, New York Times bestselling author "An addictively readable combination of sharp humor, sizzlingly sexy romance, and a generous measure of nail-biting suspense." - Chicago Tribune "Sexy fun. A New York Time s Bestseller A USA Today Bestseller A Publishers Weekly Bestseller Because the one woman who refuses to be caught may be the only one Vaughn can't live without. Only what starts out as a battle of wills ends up as a serious play for her heart. So Sidney's refusal to fall for his charms only makes him more determined to win over the cool and confident redhead. BUT HE MAKES IT HARD TO SAY "I DON'T" Special agent Vaughn Roberts always gets his man on the job and his woman in bed. She's stuck with him, for better or worse, until her sister walks down the aisle, but that doesn't mean she has to give in to his smooth advances, no matter how tempting they are. ![]() But when her sister winds up engaged after a whirlwind courtship, Sidney is thrown into close contact with exactly the kind of sexy playboy she wants to avoid-the gorgeous best man. ![]() Shortlisted for the ALA's 2015 Reading List for Best Romance SHE KNOWS BETTER THAN TO SAY "I DO" After a humiliating end to her engagement, investment banker Sidney Sinclair is done with commitment-phobic men. ![]()
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![]() ![]() After all, Meghan has already killed one Iron King…so what’s one more? Oberon and Mab make a one-time offer to the exiles: if Meghan will return to the Nevernever and eliminate the new Iron King, she and Ash will be allowed to return. Meanwhile, the Seelie and Unseelie Courts have formed an alliance to eradicate the Iron Kingdom, but the war isn’t going well. Meghan realizes that she absolutely cannot return home, for that would bring endless trouble down upon her family. Initially, Meghan plans to rejoin her family, but as she and Ash approach her mother’s house, they realize they are being followed by Iron fey. ![]() They will never again access the world of the fairies, but must make do as best they can in the human world. ![]() Meghan Chase and her lover, Prince Ash of the Winter Court, have been exiled from the Nevernever. This review may contain spoilers for previous books in the series. The Iron King (#1) and The Iron Daughter (#2) reviewed here. Fashion_piranha Don’t forget to enter the Big Top Giveaway for your chance to win!īook Three in The Iron Fey series. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Nora’s voice changes over the course of the novel, which is one of the things that makes this book so good. She’s a strange mix between jaded, sarcastic, funny and reassuring, like she can handle anything. This novel turned out to be much different than what I thought it would be when I first started reading it. Nora thinks back to cons she and her mother pulled as well as different identities her mom forced her to take on, and the novel goes back and forth between her past and the present. ![]() While she works on a plan to get them all safely out of the bank, her sister, Lee, is working with the Sheriff’s office to get everybody out, too. Nora, who is the daughter of a con artist, tries to find a way to get everybody out. Almost immediately after arriving there, two robbers, Gray Cap and Red Cap, hold up the bank. ![]() Nora meets up with her girlfriend, Iris, and ex-boyfriend/best friend, Wes, at the bank where they intend to deposit money they raised for an animal shelter. But it’s painful to read parts of it, so even though it flows smoothly and is genuinely suspenseful, I had to put it down several times. There is never a part when the novel slows down. The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe is good. ![]() Note: This novel can be triggering for some readers. Genres: Fiction, Suspense, Realistic Fiction As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ansari’s focus is on technological development and its effect on love and dating in the digital era Wilby tackles the concept of monogamy and its function in Western society and Nodell presents relationship advice for young women from mid-twentieth-century US romance comics. ![]() All three books share a common theme-the search for a successful romantic relationship-which they explore from different perspectives. Two are written by comedians-Ansari and Wilby-and Nodell’s book draws on historical content from American romance comics, itself an emergent heritage genre. The three titles above offer a more humorous, informal look at modern practices of love, dating, and relationships. ![]() The literary fields of sociology, self-help, history, and popular culture have, for a long period, produced books about love and romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At least there is The Quarry to look forward to (due out 20 June 2013 in the UK, 25 June 2013 in US). I am sitting here looking at my collection of Iain (M.) Banks books, collected since I became a fan in the 1980s. His death was calm and without pain.” Publisher Little, Brown Book Group said the author was “one of the country’s best-loved novelists” for both his mainstream and science fiction books. “Iain Banks’ ability to combine the most fertile of imaginations with his own highly distinctive brand of gothic humour made him unique,” it said. After announcing his illness in April, Banks asked his publishers to bring forward the release date of his latest novel, The Quarry, so he could see it on the shelves.” (My review of The Quarry is here.)Īnd there goes my all-time favourite author. “Author Iain Banks has died aged 59, two months after announcing he had terminal cancer, his family has said. Banks, who was born in Dunfermline, Fife, revealed in April he had gall bladder cancer and was unlikely to live for more than a year…In a statement, his publisher said he was “an irreplaceable part of the literary world”.Ī message posted on Banksophilia, a website set up to provide fans with updates on the author, quoted his wife Adele saying: “Iain died in the early hours this morning. He wrote fiction in a variety of genres as Iain Banks, and Sci-Fi novels as Iain M. My favourite author, Iain Banks, died on 9 June 2013. Banks, my all-time favourite author (16 February 1954 – 9 June 2013) ![]() ![]() ![]() An irritatingly appealing threat.Īs Mika begins to find her place at Nowhere House, the thought of belonging somewhere begins to feel like a real possibility. The handsome and prickly librarian of Nowhere House would do anything to protect the children, and as far as he’s concerned, a stranger like Mika is a threat. It breaks all of the rules, but Mika goes anyway, and is immediately tangled up in the lives and secrets of not only her three charges, but also an absent archaeologist, a retired actor, two long-suffering caretakers, and…Jamie. An unexpected message arrives, begging her to travel to the remote and mysterious Nowhere House to teach three young witches how to control their magic. She thinks no one will take it seriously.īut someone does. ![]() And as an orphan who lost her parents at a young age and was raised by strangers, she’s used to being alone and she follows the rules…with one exception: an online account, where she posts videos pretending to be a witch. ![]() ![]() A warm and uplifting novel about an isolated witch whose opportunity to embrace a quirky new family–and a new love–changes the course of her life.Īs one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, keep her head down, and stay away from other witches so their powers don’t mingle and draw attention. ![]() ![]() In writing Chasing Vermeer, I wanted to explore the ways kids perceive connections between supposedly unrelated events and situations, connections that grown-ups often miss. We asked many questions, visited many museums in the city, and set off a number of alarms - by mistake, of course. One year my class and I decided to figure out what art was about. I began teaching 3rd grade at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. When our kids started school, we moved to Chicago. My husband and I met and were married on Nantucket, lived there year-round for another 10 years, and had our two children there. I surprised myself by writing two books of ghost stories, stories collected by interviewing people. The Met has five Vermeer paintings and the Frick three, so Vermeer and I have been friends for many years.Īfter studying art history in college, I moved to Nantucket Island, in Massachusetts, in order to write. ![]() By the time I was a teenager, I sometimes stopped at the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the Frick Museum after school, just to wander and look and think. I was born in New York City and grew up playing in Central Park, getting my share of scraped knees, and riding many public buses and subways. ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon after, they have figured out that Jaine's mom left it in one of her pockets. Just when the was over Jaine's mom misplaces her ring given to her for Valentine's day and her dad makes a scene over it by blaming Lydia and Lester. Jaine's dad overacts to everything and makes a fool of himself after discovering Lester had a crush on other woman. He becomes obsessed with Lester because he thinks Lester has a crush on his wife. Her dad causing trouble with her mom's best friend Lydia and her brother Lester. Then, her parents have been emailing her about their Valentine's Day mayhem. In the midst of it all, she gets a job to write a profile for the police officer who interviewed her. ![]() He becomes obsessed with Prozac giving her a diamond collar of which Jaine decides to return it but not before Prozac hides it. She is trying to keep things together but along the way she is consistently being bribed with food from Skip. Meanwhile, she is being chased by a love crazy Skip. ![]() ![]() “The thing that I loved about all of our characters is we all shared them,” Hathaway says. There was freedom to take the role and bring it to life with our own unique spin on it.” I didn’t feel like I needed to be drilling Ottessa for clues into Eileen’s character. “I felt like I got so many of the answers from the book. “It was a real privilege to have the book as an incredible resource to be able to pull from,” adds McKenzie. And all the blood, sweat and tears have evaporated now into this shimmering glow and we’re like, ‘We’ll do it a million times more,’ it’s that good.” Luke and I, as partners, have talked about - just, this felt like a fated experience. ![]() ![]() Rihanna, Jeremy Pope, Anne Hathaway and More Channel Karl Lagerfeld Love at the Met GalaĪsked whether making Eileen left her wanting to adapt more of her books, Moshfegh replied, “I feel so spoiled by this experience. ![]() ![]() author, Amélie Wen Zhao, pulled her novel before it was published, also due to excoriating criticisms of it on Twitter and Goodreads. The Jackson fracas came just weeks after another début Y.A. I have done a disservice to the history and to the people who suffered.” ![]() Eventually, Jackson tweeted a letter of apology to “the Book Community,” stating, “I failed to fully understand the people and the conflict that I set around my characters. But a disparaging Goodreads review, which took issue with Jackson’s treatment of the war and his portrayal of Muslims, had a snowball effect, particularly on Twitter. It also had the imprimatur of the #ownvoices hashtag, in which the main characters of a book share a marginalized identity with the writer-Jackson is black and queer. The book, which follows two American boys as they fall in love against the backdrop of the Kosovo War, had garnered advance praise (“a tension-filled war setting, beautiful young love, family strength and all heart,” one blurb enthused). ![]() Late last month, the author Kosoko Jackson withdrew the publication of his début young-adult novel, “A Place for Wolves,” which had been slated for a March 26th release. ![]() |