![]() ![]() Nora is so relatable and not the typical MC which we normally get in romance books. I loved all the troupe references and the book references.Ĭharlie and Nora are amazing characters. I LOVE books about books! In this case the book editing process and what it is like to be a literary agent. I was wrong, I devoured this book and didn’t want it to end but I loved every minute of it! ![]() ![]() I absolutely loved Beach Read and I just didn’t think anything could compare to it. "I can’t tell you how excited but also nervous I was that this would not live up to my expectations. "I love that the relationship between the two sisters Nora and Libby also takes a main stage here, the story being about sisterly love, as well as romantic love," wrote what else #ReadWithMC readers had to say about Book Lovers: Our readers were split on the romance between the two main characters in Book Lovers-but everyone loved the relationship between the protagonist, an ambitious literary agent, and her sister. Each month, we gather up the reviews of our virtual book club members so anyone else looking for their next great read has a collection of recommendations. But Book Lovers, our May #ReadWithMC pick, met the high expectations of our readers. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Think Twice-a new podcast from Audible and Wondery, co-produced by Prologue Projects-attempts to answer those questions by investigating Jackson’s staying power as a pop culture icon who has faced horrifying allegations. ![]() How do we as a culture decide what to move on from and what not to move on from? How do people decide what they believe?” We were interested in why and how that works. “But then you look around a couple of years later and it doesn’t really feel like it made that big of a dent. Based on talking to people in my social circle who all watched it or at least read about it, it really did feel like a turning point,” says Leon Neyfakh, co-host of the new podcast Think Twice: Michael Jackson. “I remember thinking afterwards, that was a wrap. And that did seem to be the guiding discourse… for a little while, at least. After Dan Reed’s bombshell documentary Leaving Neverland, about the sexual abuse allegations leveled against Michael Jackson, premiered in 2019, it seemed as though public opinion on the pop superstar had been determined: He was unforgivable, case closed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() something monstrous, something unfeeling. Something is waiting for her to step outside the fragile safety of the house. Between the claustrophobic storm and the inescapable sense of being hunted, Clare is on edge. He promised they were alone here, but she sees and hears things that convince her something else is creeping about the surrounding woods, watching. but Clare doesn't know if she can trust him. Clare wants to leave, but a vicious snowstorm has blanketed the world in white, trapping them together, and there's nothing she can do but wait.Īt least the stranger seems kind. When she wakes, aching and afraid in a stranger's gothic home, he tells her she was in an accident, a crash in the snow. Voices in the Snow by Darcy Coates 35 30: Jan. She remembers dark shapes in the snow and a terror she can't explain. Read 583 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. She remembers abandoned cars and children's toys littered across the road. ![]() ![]() ![]() Author interviews, book reviews and lively book commentary are found here. But Yvette had secrets too, and as James follows a trail that leads him back through the landscape of their marriage, what he discovers about both of them will change everything. A site dedicated to book lovers providing a forum to discover and share commentary about the books and authors they enjoy. ![]() The past has a way of clinging on to us, and even as James embarks on new beginnings, finding friends - and even love - among the people of Upton, the secrets he has held on to so tightly for years threaten to break loose. James's own war was in the Western Desert, where he fell in love, first with the thrill of being a hurricane pilot and then with Yvette Haddad, the captivating, enigmatic young Alexandrian with a penchant for dangerous driving. As his grief over the death of his wife eases, he hopes to find new purpose as the vicar of this small, Hampshire parish, still emerging from the long shadow of the war. James Acton has come to the village of Upton to begin again. I can't for the life of me remember seeing it before. ![]() A piece of cloth, a handkerchief perhaps? No, a woman's headscarf. by Frances Liardet ( 191 ) £3.99 £8.99 A heartbreaking new novel of grief, family and the enduring power of love from the author of We Must Be Brave. When I open my eyes I see a small dark shape at the end of the pew under the window. A heartbreaking new novel of grief, family and the enduring power of love from the author of We Must Be Brave ![]() ![]() Jacquelyn Frank (Goodreads Author) (shelved 136 times as jacquelyn-frank) avg rating 3.99 8,197 ratings published 2009. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. ![]() And nothing and no one will be safe again. avg rating 4.21 11,204 ratings published 2008. For within the ranks of their own people lies an adversary growing in number and power. Kestra has sworn never to trust or need another man, but Noah's lightest touch scorches her with fevered desire, branding her as his mate, blinding them both to the terrifying truth. Every night he's tormented by images of a woman both achingly real and tantalisingly beyond his grasp - until he has no choice but to force her to leave the life she's known and enter a world beyond her imagining. ![]() Yet for months he has struggled with vivid dreams that threaten his very sanity. Īs Demon King, Noah is dedicated to protecting his kind from their enemies. ![]() For Noah, duty is all - until he meets the woman who is his destiny. The Nightwalkers have lived in the shadows of our world for centuries, gifted with abilities few humans can comprehend. ![]() First time published in the UK, here is New York TImes bestselling author Jacquelyn Frank's sizzling Nightwalker series! ![]() ![]() ![]() "Even in a crowded field, Bryant’s tightly focused work, cast in the fictionalized voice of Braille himself, is particularly distinguished."- Bulletin, starred review "An inspiring look at a child inventor whose drive and intelligence changed to world-for the blind and sighted alike."- Kirkus Reviews Boris Kulikov’s inspired paintings help readers to understand what Louis lost, and what he was determined to gain back through books.Īn author’s note and additional resources at the end of the book complement the simple story and offer more information for parents and teachers. A system so ingenious that it is still used by the blind community today.Īward-winning writer Jen Bryant tells Braille’s inspiring story with a lively and accessible text, filled with the sounds, the smells, and the touch of Louis’s world. ![]() He was a clever boy, determined to live like everyone else, and what he wanted more than anything was to be able to read.Įven at the school for the blind in Paris, there were no books for him.Īnd so he invented his own alphabet-a whole new system for writing that could be read by touch. Louis Braille was just five years old when he lost his sight. **Winner of a Schneider Family Book Award!** Science Fiction & Fantasy - Available NowĪn inspiring picture-book biography of Louis Braille-a blind boy so determined to read that he invented his own alphabet.Armchair Explorers for Children and Teens. ![]() ![]() ![]() Immaculée fends off sinister new predators, seeks out and comforts scores of children orphaned by the genocide, and searches for love and companionship in a land where hatred still flourishes. It is the story of a naïve and vulnerable young woman, orphaned and alone, navigating through a bleak and dangerously hostile world with only an abiding faith in God to guide and protect her. ![]() Through her simple and eloquent voice, we experience her hardships and heartache as she struggles to survive and to find meaning and purpose in the aftermath of the genocide. ![]() In Led By Faith, Immaculée takes us with her as her remarkable journey continues. Immaculée's remarkable story of survival was documented in her first book, Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Genocide. Immaculée Ilibagiza, a young university student, miraculously survived the savage killing spree that left most of her family, friends, and a million of her fellow citizens dead. Led by Faith is the sequel to The NY Times Bestseller Left to Tellįoreword by Rick Warren, the best-selling author of The Purpose Driven Lifeįor three months in the spring of 1994, the African nation of Rwanda descended into one of the most vicious and bloody genocides the world has ever seen. ![]() ![]() ![]() Woot! Go us! Plus I got an awesome Dragon*Con blood donor shirt. I do it every year and am proud to say we donated more blood than Comic-Con. Maybe our Squirrel King could go next year?Īfter checking in to my hotel and getting my badge I walked around the con hotels for a bit and ran into old friends. We were all sad to learn that David Hewlett was not be able to attend the convention but I understood these things happen. They are also fellow squirrels (fans of David Hewlett). Pierre happens to have been on Stargate too, but he’s better known for his Recliner of Rage skit on the Conan O’Brien show.Īlright, so I flew up Thursday for the con with two of my con buddies. ![]() I was looking forward to seeing a lot of Stargate actors as well as Pierre Bernard, Jr. So… this was my third year at Dragon*Con. Whatever! I’m allowed! It’s an awesome convention. ![]() Not to play favorites, but of all the conventions I attend, Dragon*Con is my favorite. ![]() ![]() ![]() Matthew finds himself treading carefully through the lies that fester at the heart of his community and a case that is dangerously close to home. Then another body is found – killed in a similar way. Matthew is unnerved though to find that she is a close friend of Jonathan, his husband. ![]() He’s a good man, a public servant, beloved by his daughter. His daughter Eve is a glassblower, and the murder weapon is a shard of one of her broken vases.ĭr Yeo seems an unlikely murder victim. ![]() What he finds is an elaborately staged murder – Dr Nigel Yeo has been fatally stabbed. Detective Matthew Venn is called out to a rural crime scene at the home of a group of artists. North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coastline. The No.1 Sunday Times bestselling series featuring Detective Matthew Venn, from author and creator of the Vera and Shetland series, Ann Cleeves - soon to be a major TV series. Matthew Venn is a keeper.stunning' David Baldacci ![]() ![]() ![]() What makes these allusions so startling is that Jasper is a recently freed slave in 17th-century America. On defeating the beast, he is awarded the land he liberated for "him and the issue of his bodyįorever after." So too does Jasper triumph over his spirit-monster, winning the right to carve out a home for his family. It also rings with similarities to the opening of the Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon's classic novel "Sunset Song," in which a landless traveler does battle with a Gryphon. ![]() He chains the spirit to the bottom of a lake in an episode that calls to mind Beowulf's underwater clash with Grendel's mother. In the opening pages of Calvin Baker's third novel, "Dominion," Jasper Merian battles an evil spirit to win dominion over his newly acquired land. It's been a little while since then, so I thought I'd post it here also with the hopes of persuading a few more folks to give Mr. It was published in the Raleigh News & Observer on August 13 2006. I wrote a review a little while back of Calvin Baker's novel, Dominion. ![]() Well, it's not quite officially ended.Duma Kartaginy - Polish Pride of Carthage. ![]() |