![]() ![]() It was all very sweet however and I liked that it was. The story was cute if a bit fast-paced in the romance department. She meets Nash and his daughter and despite all of her good intentions she finds herself falling for both of them. She can’t see herself ever falling in love again because she just doesn’t want to be hurt that way again. ![]() Julianna loved her husband and then he died. But when the notorious former boxer Nash Overton hires her to transform him into a gentleman, Julianna quickly becomes the student, learning more about passion than she’s ever known, and more importantly, learning how to love again. ![]() Widowed Lady Julianna Barrows never wants to fall in love again. Meet dashing, wildly charming rogues, spies, pirates, rakes and their extraordinary, intrepid heroines as they whisk you along on sweet to sizzling romantic romps in these wickedly entertaining historical romances. USA Today Best-selling author, Julie Johnstone, joins best-selling, award-winning authors, Katherine Bone, Collette Cameron, Jillian Chantal, Samantha Grace, Alanna Lucas, Lauren Smith, and Victoria Vane in this delightful limited edition, containing eight tantalizing kiss-and-tell stories. Once Upon a True Love's Kiss by Julie Johnstone, Katherine Bone, Collette Cameron, Jillian Chantal, Samantha Grace, Alanna Lucas, Lauren Smith, Victoria VaneĪmazon | Barnes & Noble | The Ripped Bodice | Google Play Books ![]()
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![]() ![]() Before she knows it, she has everything she’s ever wanted: friendship, a boyfriend, access to wealth, and, most of all, for the first time in her life, the sense that she belongs.īut as Mabel becomes an insider, a terrible discovery leads to shocking violence and reveals what the Winslows may have done to keep their power intact - and what they might do to anyone who threatens them. Mabel falls in love with midnight skinny-dipping, the wet dog smell that lingers near the yachts, and the moneyed laughter that carries across the still lake while fireworks burst overhead. Ev invites Mabel to spend the summer at Bittersweet, her cottage on the Vermont estate where her family has been holding court for more than a century it’s the kind of place where children twirl sparklers across the lawn during cocktail hour. ![]() On scholarship at a prestigious East Coast college, ordinary Mabel Dagmar is surprised to befriend her roommate, the beautiful, wild, blue-blooded Genevra Winslow. Suspenseful and cinematic, Bittersweet exposes the gothic underbelly of an idyllic world of privilege and an outsider’s hunger to belong. ![]() ![]() ![]() Julia Walton delivers a brutally honest novel about sex, social media, and the courage to pursue truth when misinformation is rife. With her anonymity on the line, is it all worth the fight? The former beauty queen labels Phoebe’s work an “assault on morality,” riling up her supporters and calling on Pom to reveal her identity. ![]() That is, until Pom goes viral, courtesy of mayoral candidate Lydia Brookhurst. As long as Phoebe stays undercover, she’s sure she’ll fly through junior year unnoticed. Her unconventional hobby is just a research obsession. But what no one knows is that Phoebe is also Pom-the anonymous teen who’s rewriting sex education on her blog and social media. She’s an A student who writes for her small-town school newspaper. A girl rewrites sex education, one viral post at a time, in this fiercely honest and delightfully awkward novel from the award-winning author of Words on Bathroom Walls. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Humorous, wise-guy fiction exerts a strong pull on me as well, hence When Pigs Fly and Getting Lucky. Little Mountain was the next novel I wrote, although it’s the third I’ve published. But what came out of Freedom Country was a better understanding of Cambodians’ plight and much-improved writing skills, thanks to many workshops and critique groups. Not having seen the country and my being a tyro at writing fiction pretty well sunk that ship. I did all the research I knew how to do, short of traveling to Cambodia myself. My first-ever and never-to-be-published novel, Freedom Country, was about a young Cambodian girl surviving the Khmer Rouge horrors and coming to the United States. My wife and I sponsored such a family and became well acquainted with some of the issues they and their host city faced. I used to live near the scene of the crime: Lowell, Massachusetts, where thousands of Cambodian refugees settled beginning in late 1979. ![]() It does have a Cambodian who becomes an American homicide cop and has to solve a crime that brings back haunting memories. Little Mountain has no humor and barely even has a mountain. Thanks for hosting the kickoff of my Little Mountain tour, Dani, and for all you do encouraging others on their tours.Īs much as I love to write humor, some books leave no place for it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Except for Ibrahim, Supreme Commander of Eurasia, whose children are already en route. He tells Warner that the Supreme Commanders will not speak to Juliette until they have spoken to Warner. He says he did not expect any of the Commanders to accept.ĭelalieu seems to have been the conduit that the invites were issued through. Only Eurasia has accepted.Ĭastle tells Juliette he is concerned with the wording on the acceptance which suggests they already know the person they are coming to see. Castle is strategizing, and on his advice, Juliette has invited the Supreme Commanders of the other landmasses to a conference. ![]() He is also trying to get to know Juliette’s friends. Warner is still largely running Sector 45 with the help of his grandfather, Delalieu. It is 16 days since Juliette killed Anderson and declared herself Supreme Commander of North America. ***** Everything below is a SPOILER ***** What happened in Restore Me? Thanks Ruth!Ĭheck out and find them on social media stars on Amazon This recap was awesomely submitted by Ruth from The Cat and the Kindle. If you are wondering what happened in Restore Me, then you are in the right place! Read a full summary of Restore Me by Tahereh Mafi now! This page is full of spoilers so beware. ![]() ![]() ![]() I mean, there was the handsome, Eric, the evil stepsisters, and the fairy godmother, who was disguised as two gay men. ![]() ![]() I liked that this story incorporated some of the details from the Disney classic however, she missed one iconic scene: the glass slipper scene. When Prince Charming enters, Cyn must go head-to-head with her truly wicked stepsisters in order to win back her father's fortune, her perfect man, and, most importantly, her life. Now, Cyn is finally wising up and realizing that she is no longer stepsister to the stars-she is personal assistant/slave to the stars (or Las Diablas, as the Latin press likes to call them). Sensible Cyn used to be content hiding in the shadows of her larger-than-life sisters. Two of New York's hottest It-Girls, they know all the right people, own all the right things, and go to all the right parties. Now, nine years later, twenty-four-year-old Cyn is counting down the days to that fateful birthday.Īt first, living with Ami and Lila had been fun, even exciting at times. Sparkling with witty dialogue and insider dish, this hilarious novel will have readers cheering for Cyn Lopez as she negotiates life with two evil stepsistersįifteen-year-old Cynthia Lopez made a promise to her dying she will live with her two stepsisters, Ami and Lila, until she turns 25, at which point she'll inherit his large estate. ![]() ![]() ![]() But her life quickly gets more complicated when she also finds a suitcase full of specially enhanced body paints, changing her from artist to the world's newest superhero. Things start looking up for Ashley when she finds new, loving parents, a best friend, and an outlet for her creative skills. With a father in prison, Ashley has bounced from foster home to foster home and represents a real challenge to the social workers who try to help her-not because she's inherently bad, but because trouble always seems to find her. Thirteen-year-old Ashley Rayburn is an upbeat girl with a decidedly downbeat past. Artistry and super-heroics collide ain this new superhero story! ![]() ![]() The "Star Wars: X-Wing" series is also exciting for the same reason. One of the reasons "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" was such an exciting cartoon was because space battles made up the majority of most episodes. In other words, in what Disney now calls "Legends," here are the best non-canon stories we wish were still part of the continuity. This list of the top 15 non-canon "Star Wars" stories includes books that examine Sith mythology, Jedi training, ancient worlds and the murderous rampage of Darth Vader. RELATED: Duel Of The Fates: 15 Amazing Lightsaber Battles Plus, several well-developed characters had been introduced in non-canon stories that became beloved. The non-canon books and comic books helped fill the gaps between the movies. Many fans were outraged, because several non-canon stories (known as being part of "The Expanded Universe") had become almost as popular as the main stories, if not more so. At the same time, the company announced that, other than "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" and "Star Wars Rebels," any "Star Wars" story told outside the official six movies was now considered non-canon. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Disney bought out Lucasfilm back in 2012, the company revealed that a slate of "Star Wars" movies was on the horizon. ![]() ![]() ![]() The two men were arrested but never convicted. With the help of public interest in Northup, partially as the result of his book, attorney Henry Northup set his sights on two men, Alexander Merrill and Joseph Russell, who were believed to have played pivotal roles in the kidnapping. Shortly after leaving his room and heading into the streets, his memory escapes him and the next thing he remembers is waking up handcuffed and chained to the floor of the Williams Slave Pen in Washington, D.C. They told him that he needed to come with them to see a physician. He recalls several people entering the room where he had been staying. He was unable to sleep and was stricken with severe thirst. His sickness progressed until he was insensible by evening. By late afternoon, he fell ill with a severe headache and nausea. ![]() As he states in his memoir, he did not become intoxicated. At the saloons, the two men would serve themselves, and they would then pour a glass and hand it to Solomon. They were observing the festivities that were part of the great funeral procession of General Harrison. He had spent the day with Alexander Merrill and Joseph Russell making stops at a number of saloons in Washington, D.C. As he indicated in his autobiography, Solomon Northup is not positive that he was in fact drugged, however, he remembers various clues that led him to that conclusion. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The cliff-hanger ending ensures that fans can look forward to more surprises in the next book in this exciting and thought-provoking series, but this one doesn't stand alone.- Sharon Rawlins, New Jersey State Library, TrentonĬopyright 2013 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. Kira discovers a secret about herself that forces her to make the ultimate sacrifice to save others. They end up with even more questions after finding human survivors in Denver who have a cure for RM that allows them to have children, but the cure comes at a huge price. They all travel on foot and horseback from Manhattan to Chicago and then Denver to find answers. Only by being united will everyone be able to live in peace. She has to find a cure before the Partials and humans destroy one another. Kira allies herself with the last human in Manhattan, Afa, a mentally unstable IT Director from ParaGen who may be able to help her, along with Samm and Heron, the Partials who betrayed, then saved her, and know what she really is. She makes her way on foot from East Meadow, New York, to the company headquarters of ParaGen in Manhattan in search of a way to cure the RM virus that kills newborns and to stop the expiration of Partials at age 20. in 2076, Kira is struggling to accept the fact that she is a genetically enhanced human known as a Partial. Gr 9 Up-In this second book in the saga, set in a postapocalyptic U.S. ![]() |