![]() ![]() ![]() She was still bringing up her past relationship with her ex, Brad, her determination to be a starving artist that makes it on her own and highlighting every negative thing that wasn't going her way without offering solutions to her dilemmas. I found a lot of the problems she raised were repetitive, especially if you've only recently read Book 1, which I had. I had a few issues with this book that stopped me from giving it 5 stars and most of them centred around Caroline's character. When Niklas is offered a possible chance to get a contract with his old Detroit team and be close to Caroline, can she fit her plans into a life with him and will his problems from the past be an issue? ![]() They face the same decisions plaguing them in the previous novel: will Niklas' career and Caroline's desire to fulfil her professional dreams and choose her own path stop them from having a long-term relationship. The book picks up in Hawaii where Niklas and Caroline are at the end of their holiday. Quick note - if you haven't read Book 1, you need to as Book 2 isn't a standalone. ![]() I enjoyed this book but found many of the themes and issues similar to the first book. ![]()
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![]() ![]() If, after that, you turn away in disbelief, then I can do naught but smile and wish you well – and wish, too, that I could as easily free myself of theterrifying spectres that haunt the events I am about to relate. The story I am to recount may seem like the product of some fevered imagination, but the truth is the truth and all I can do is set it down as bestI can, within the limits of my ability, and ask that you read it with an open mind. I had already known much hardship in my early years, but I had never before seen the horrible blackness of a soul purged of all that is good,shaped by resentment and hatred into something utterly vile and loveless. ![]() ![]() It will take every ounce of willpower I possess to tell this tale. ![]() Hand clenches my pen with such strength I fear it will snap under the strain. My God, I can still see that face – that terrible face. The still-dark, whispering recesses of my memory.Horrors loom out of those shadows and my mind recoils at their approach. Pen in hand, my heartbeat hastening at their recollection.I hope that in the writing down of these things I will grow to understand my own story a little better and perhaps bring some comforting light to I’m going to tell you something of my life and of the strange events that have brought me to where I now sit, PrologueMy name is Michael: Michael Vyner. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts looking, she believes, for beauty-the opposite of the life she’s left behind in New York. “I don’t care what the magic mirror says Oyeyemi is the cleverest in the land…daring and unnerving… Under Oyeyemi’s spell, the fairy-tale conceit makes a brilliant setting in which to explore the alchemy of racism, the weird ways in which identity can be transmuted in an instant - from beauty to beast or vice versa.” – Ron Charles, The Washington Postįrom the prizewinning author of What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, Gingerbread, and Peaces comes a brilliant recasting of the Snow White fairy tale as a story of family secrets, race, beauty, and vanity. “Helen Oyeyemi has fully transformed from a literary prodigy into a powerful, distinctive storyteller…Transfixing and surprising.”- Entertainment Weekly (Grade: A) As seen on the cover of the New York Times Book Review, where it was described as “gloriously unsettling… evoking Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, Angela Carter, Edgar Allan Poe, Gabriel García Márquez, Chris Abani and even Emily Dickinson,” and already one of the year’s most widely acclaimed novels: ![]() ![]() ![]() Like so many proud men and women, John must choose between love and country. ![]() ![]() Neither can foresee that 9/11 is about to change the world and will force John to risk every hope and dream that he's ever had. The attraction is mutual and quickly grows into the kind of love that leaves Savannah vowing to wait for John while he finishes his tour of duty, and John realizing that he's ready to settle down with the young woman who has captured his heart. Savannah Lynn Curtis is attending college in North Carolina, working for Habitat for Humanity, and totally unprepared for the passionate attraction she feels for John Tyree. Then, during a furlough, he meets the girl of his dreams. An angry rebel, he had enlisted in the army after high school, not knowing what else to do. When Savannah Lynn Curtis comes into his life, John Tyree knows he is ready to turn over a new leaf. ![]() ![]() She currently lives in Oxford with her husband. She received a first class BA honours in illustration from Loughborough University, and won the Hallmark M&S division Talented Designer Award. Laird divides her time between London and Edinburgh.Shirin Adl was born in Harlow, England, in 1975. Her other books for Frances Lincoln are A Fistful of Pearls: Stories from Iraq, Pea Boy, and The Ogress and the Snake: Stories from Ethiopia. She met her husband while travelling in India and they lived together in Iraq, Lebanon and Austria. She has traveled extensively throughout the Middle East, and her son lived for four years in Iran. She has been shortlisted five times for the Carnegie Medal. Elizabeth Laird is the author of Red Sky in the Morning, The Garbage King, Crusade and Lost Riders. ![]() ![]() ![]() ' stunning: both exquisitely written and so very clever. ![]() Falk excises errors about the Middle Ages without filleting their enchantment.' History Books of the Year 2020, The Telegraph ![]() ' turns our understanding of medieval science on its head.' It was shortlisted for the Hughes Prize, awarded every two years by the British Society for the History of Science to the best book in the history of science published in English and accessible to a general audience. Editions are coming soon in Chinese and Japanese. ![]() It has already been translated into Dutch, Italian, Portuguese and Russian. You can order it online from Amazon, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Bookshop and Indiebound. In the USA and Canada it is published by W. It is also available as an audiobook from all the usual suppliers – with illustrations supplied in a bonus PDF. The Light Ages is published by Penguin/Allen Lane in the UK, EU and Commonwealth - now available in both hardback and paperback. Find it in your local bookshop, or online via Amazon, Blackwell's, Bookshop, Fox Lane Books (with signed bookplates!), Foyles, Hive or Waterstones. An enthralling story of the struggles and successes of an ordinary man and an extraordinary time, The Light Ages conjures up a vivid picture of the medieval world as we have never seen it before. ![]() ![]() ![]() But wooing her will take more than a seasoned seducer's skill. ![]() He's enchanted by her fierce determination, her unusual beauty, and her quiet, unfailing strength. Bowen seizes his enemy's keep, unprepared for the brooding and reclusive woman who captures his heart. But Bowen's rugged sensuality stirs something deep inside her that longs to be awakened by his patient, gentle caress-something warm, wicked, and tempting. Unable to bear the shame of returning to a family that believes her dead or to abandon others at the keep to an imposing new laird, Genevieve opts for the peaceful life of an abbess. Still, her path toward freedom remains uncertain. ![]() Yet when Bowen Montgomery storms the gates on a mission of clan warfare, Genevieve finds that her spirit is bent but not broken. Genevieve McInnis is locked behind the fortified walls of McHugh Keep, captive of a cruel laird who takes great pleasure in ruining her for any other man. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a must-read for anyone interested in bees and beekeeping or simply anyone who seeks inspiration from an author who was fortunate to find it and to make it her own. The Honey Bus combines May’s extensive knowledge of bees and beekeeping with the story of one little girl who found herself when she felt she had nobody left. Now a beekeeper herself, May narrates her childhood with a gentle balance of wit, heartbreak, wonder and journalistic curiosity. With time, little Meredith learns to navigate the crumbling world around her by building a new one with the help of her grandfather’s bees, discovering resilience she did not know she possessed. With her mother unable to care for her, and grasping for ways to cope in her unraveling world, Meredith finds unexpected solace in an old military bus, where her beekeeper grandfather has constructed a honey farm. When five-year-old Meredith’s parents split up, her mother, dealing with severe depression, moves with the children to her parents’ house. ![]() Meredith May’s The Honey Bus captures this same sense of wonder, narrating a troubled childhood that only begins to fall into place when her world is transformed by her eccentric grandfather and his “honey bus”. I am one of those people who walks through the park in the Spring and Summer and watches the bees amid the blossoms, fascinated by the industrious creatures that make our world work. ![]() ![]() Possibilities where ‘the earth’s paths will be more alive. In Reckless Paper Birds, the familiar yet strange is rarely more than a stanza away. 'John McCullough has a reputation for crafting lyric poems of the everyday with a surreal twist. Urgent and intimate, Dispossession energizes the reader, allowing them to inhabit The Frost Fairs is a compassionate book with a global and historical scope, tackling science and city life from a range of surreal yet poignant angles. Remolded in these poignant pieces, which find their speakers most at home in the night sky, beside churning oceans or vast The dazzling clarity of water, and its fluid movements create myriad, exhilarating surprises. That revels in the transformative power of physical and mental travel, the truths he finds whilst ‘ spiraling gently closer to the labyrinth’s / hidden center.’ His language has Powell, author of Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys Roush takes us right to the precipice of change and urges us onward. Urges us toward new language, lush, palpable rippling waves of lyric certitude along with the fluctuating and ever fickleįigure of Eros. Looks backward to origin and forward to the stars, gravitating ‘toward / outer space, the cosmic reaches.’ He ![]() Lens framed on both the personal and the public spheres, Jason Roush stands at the doorframe of transitional middle life and ![]() ![]()
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