![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I never really enjoy books in this genre unless they do something with the story, as I’ve come to phrase it in my mind. She thinks he’s finally going to ask her to be his girlfriend, but instead, he tells her he’s marrying his ex and asks her to be in the wedding. The book starts on the eve of her and Lucas’ shared 30th birthday. For most of her life, he was her only constant. ![]() When Emmie was a teenager, alone in the world and incredibly hurting, she released a note on a balloon, and a boy named Lucas found it on a beach across the ocean. It’s obviously about a young woman named Emmie Blue. I had been feeling overwhelmed and anxious for a couple of weeks, and this book was like a hug. There it sat for several months - which now feels almost meant to be, because this book came to me at the perfect time. But something about it caught my eye, so I accepted the review copy and added it to my list. I don’t read very many books in the genre that Dear Emmie Blue falls into - a sort of contemporary commercial romantic fiction. First, big thanks to Atria Books for sending a review copy of this book my way! ![]()
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![]() Outnumbered, outmaneuvered, and outgunned, Jack, Ethan, Sergey, and the rest of the team struggle to put a stop to Madigan and his army. They piece together a desperate plan, hunting Madigan to the ends of the earth and the bitter frigidity of the Arctic, where Madigan’s world-shattering doomsday plan comes together. Reunited, Jack, Ethan, and deposed Russian president Sergey Puchkov, along with President Elizabeth Wall-the only person left in Washington DC who Jack trusts-must work together. While the world believes Jack was killed in the bombing, he embarks on a wild infiltration mission, smuggling himself into occupied Russia to rescue the love of his life: former Secret Service Agent and First Gentleman Ethan Reichenbach. President Jack Spiers fled Washington DC on the heels of a devastating attack on CIA headquarters, masterminded by one of America’s own, former General Porter Madigan. ![]() ![]() When everything falls apart, who do you trust? A traitorous general, intent on burning the world to the ground. ![]() ![]() ![]() she let her hand rest briefly on, or near, his penis.’ What she experienced was ‘a living thing, quite separate from her Edward – and she recoiled.’ Edward, also in his early twenties, was so excited that ‘he could bear it no more’ and asked her to marry him. Who will forget the narrator of The Bell Jar seeing an adult penis for the first time and being both fascinated and repelled? (‘The only thing I could think of was turkey neck and turkey gizzards and I felt very depressed.’) Or Fermina Daza, in a darkened room in García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera, announcing, ‘I have never been able to understand how that thing works,’ and then slowly realising all the magical tricks this little rubbery object could do when suitably inspired? 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As the line between friendship and flirtation begins to blur, Hannah can't deny she loves everything about Fox, but she refuses to be another notch on his bedpost. yet the more time she spends with Fox, the more she wants him instead. Armed with a few tips from Westport's resident Casanova, Hannah sets out to catch her coworker's eye. In fact, she's nursing a hopeless crush on a colleague and Fox is just the person to help with her lackluster love life. ![]() She knows he's a notorious ladies' man, but they're definitely just friends. Now, Hannah's in town for work, crashing in Fox's spare bedroom. But he likes her too much to risk a fling, so platonic pals it is. personality? And wants to be friends ? Bizarre. She's immune to his charm and looks, but she seems to enjoy his. Everyone knows he's a guaranteed good time-in bed and out-and that's exactly how he prefers it. 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Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what terrible fate awaits those who criticize too easily, and why you should always pet a cat when you meet one on the street. Humorous, surprising, and informative, Dr. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research. What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. ![]() ![]() ![]() The sins of the past are returning to exact a terrible price.Īnd as a new human order is struggling to be born in blood and fire, James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante must struggle to survive and get back to the only home they have left. Terrorist attacks previously considered impossible bring the inner planets to their knees. The sole remaining protomolecule sample is stolen. Private armies are being secretly formed. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power structures of the old solar system begin to buckle. Now a Prime Original series.Ī thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land rush in human history has begun. The fifth book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Nemesis Games drives the crew of the Rocinante apart, and as they struggle to survive, the inner planets fall victim to an enemy's catastrophic plan. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With The Gown, Jennifer Robson takes us inside the workrooms where one of the most famous wedding gowns in history was created. How did her beloved Nan, a woman who never spoke of her old life in Britain, come to possess the priceless embroideries that so closely resemble the motifs on the stunning gown worn by Queen Elizabeth II at her wedding almost seventy years before? And what was her Nan's connection to the celebrated textile artist and Holocaust survivor Miriam Dassin? Toronto, 2016: More than half a century later, Heather Mackenzie seeks to unravel the mystery of a set of embroidered flowers, a legacy from her late grandmother. Together they forge an unlikely friendship, but their nascent hopes for a brighter future are tested when they are chosen for a once-in-a-lifetime honour: taking part in the creation of Princess Elizabeth's wedding gown. ![]() Among them are Ann Hughes and Miriam Dassin, embroiderers at the famed Mayfair fashion house of Norman Hartnell. ![]() London, 1947: Besieged by the harshest winter in living memory, burdened by onerous shortages and rationing, the people of postwar Britain are enduring lives of quiet desperation despite their nation's recent victory. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I vow that if I ever regain my godhood, I will never again send a poor mortal on a quest. Shouldn’t there be a reward at the end of each completed task? Not just more deadly quests? Oh, the indignities and pain I have already suffered! Untold humiliation, impossible time limits, life-threatening danger. Despite all this, if I have a chance of prying her away from her villainous stepfather, I have to try.īut I’m new at this heroic-quest business, and my father, Zeus, stripped me of all my godly powers. ![]() And while I’m mortal, she can order me to do anything. She betrayed me to Nero back at Camp Half-Blood. Meg, my demigod master, is a cantankerous street urchin. But why would an ancient Roman emperor zero in on Indianapolis? And now that I have made it here (still in the embarrassing form of Lester Papadopoulos), where is Meg? Those were the orders my old enemy Nero had given to Meg McCaffrey. ![]() ![]() ![]() For their quarry isn't merely a homicidal maniac-but his deranged maker. ![]() Soon it will be clear that as crazy as she sounds, the truth is even more ominous. ![]() For the no-nonsense O'Connor is suddenly talking about an ages-old conspiracy, a near immortal race of beings, and killers that are more-and less-than human. Her partner Michael Maddison would back her up all the way to Hell itself-and that just may be where this case ends up. Detective Carson O'Connor is cool, cynical, and every bit as tough as she looks. He arrives as a serial killer stalks the streets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in himself. His name is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who's traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death. Get ready for the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of - Dean Koontz's prodigal son. If you think you know the story, you know only half the truth. From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. ![]() ![]() Lies that force her to choose between safety for herself and her friends and the survival of her pack - and perhaps of all wolf- and humankind. But when war between wolves and humans threatens, Kaala learns the lies behind the wolf’s promise. Risking expulsion from their pack and exile from the Wide Valley, Kaala and her young packmates begin to hunt with the humans and thus discover the long-hidden bond between the two clans. ![]() But her world is turned upside down when she saves a human girl from drowning. Born of a forbidden mixed-blood litter and an outcast after her mother is banished, Kaala is determined to earn a place in the Swift River pack. Until a young wolf dares to break the rules - and forever alters the relationship between wolves and the humans who share their world. ![]() ![]() At least that’s what the wolves of the Wide Valley believe. What is the promise of the wolf? Never consort with humans. ![]() |