![]() ![]() ![]() With the aid of her sisters, Emily and Anne, and of the suspiciously well-informed but irresistibly attractive brother of the victim, Charlotte works to unravel a deadly web of intrigue that threatens not only her own safety but the very fabric of the British Empire. But when she unintentionally witnesses a murder, Charlotte finds herself embroiled in a dangerous chain of events. ![]() Upon learning that she has been falsely accused of breaching her publishing contract, the normally mild-mannered Charlotte sets off for London to clear her name. Or did she? What if a diary was uncovered that revealed her secret involvement in one of the most thrilling adventures of the 19th century? Charlotte Brontë, the beloved author of Jane Eyre, lived a quiet and private life in her father’s Yorkshire parish. ![]()
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![]() ![]() What are the chances? When it comes to love, there’s no such thing as a coincidence. Which is the exact moment she meets the deliciously sexy, honey-eyed Daniel Collins at work. įor once Samiah is putting herself first, and that includes finally developing the app she’s always dreamed of creating. Grade: A ' Entertainment Weekly 'A masterpiece of modern-day Jane Austen with effortless, razor-sharp social commentary, romance and humor. No men, no dating, and no worrying about their relationship status. The Boyfriend Project is vibrantly realized, a modern-day tale with real-world stakes that will leave you giggling and swooning from cover to cover. Now the three new besties are making a pact to spend the next six months investing in themselves. Suddenly Samiah-along with his two other “girlfriends,” London and Taylor-have gone viral online. But a live tweet of a horrific date just revealed the painful truth: she’s been catfished by a three-timing jerk of a boyfriend. Samiah Brooks never thought she would be “that” girl. ![]() The bestselling author Farrah Rochon launches a new series about three young women who become friends when the live Tweeting of a disastrous date leads them to discover they’ve all been duped by the same man. ![]() ![]() ![]() These things were as the bones of the Universe-facts beyond doubting-if they were not true, nothing anywhere was anything but a dream. Lord of the World Robert Hugh Benson Dodd, Mead, 1908 - 352 pages 3 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified The novel's. ![]() He might go mad, but Jesus Christ was Incarnate Deity, proving Himself so by death and Resurrection, and John his Vicar. There was the Catholic Faith, more certain to him than the existence of himself: it was true and alive. This … and this … and this … all made the one and perfect whole. Christianity, on the other hand, at least included and accounted for these, even if it did not explain them. ![]() OBriens Catholic apocalyptic series, Children of the Last Days follows a very similar theme as well. Robert Hugh Benson describes a future ruled by the Antichrist who becomes Lord of the World, a nightmare where creeping secularism and Godless humanism. It is sometimes deemed one of the first modern dystopias. Humanity-Religion could only be true if at least half of man's nature, aspirations and sorrows were ignored. Lord of the World is a 1907 apocalyptic novel by Robert Hugh Benson. ![]() “Huge principles, once bewildering and even repellent, were again luminously self-evident he saw, for example, that while Humanity-Religion endeavoured to abolish suffering the Divine Religion embraced it, so that the blind pangs even of beasts were within the Father's Will and Scheme or that while from one angle one colour only of the web of life was visible-material, or intellectual, or artistic-from another the Supernatural was as eminently obvious. ![]() ![]() The assumption that work is at the core of what it means to lead a useful life underlies so much of our morality that it may feel I'm questioning our need to breathe or eat or sleep. The question I asked hundreds of people around the country and the essential question of this book:Ī lot of people will disagree with my next statement to the point of anger and outrage: Humans don't need to work in order to be happy.Īt this point, in our historical timeline, that claim is almost subversive. That was the question that drove my research. The question for me wasn't whether people enjoyed their work but whether they needed it. I've had this conversation many times over the past few years with both friends and strangers and I often get some version of, "but I love to work!" in response. This woman, by the way, is one of the most grounded, cheerful, and talented people I know. "I LOVE to work! I can't stand just sitting around. "I would HATE that!" she answered with a moo of disgust. "We've become too addicted to working and we need to balance our lives with a little idle activity like sitting on porches or chatting with neighbors." ![]() ![]() “We've simply become too attached to work," I explained. ![]() ![]() ![]() If Alex was a real-life hit man, then a happy ending wouldn’t be very likely! And I like happy endings. ![]() Though I kept writing snippets of the story (it nagged and nagged at me, really wanting to be told!), I knew that the premise as it stood wouldn’t work. I loved the feel of this, but that was as far as I got for several years. The two of them join forces instead, and fall in love. Once I had that, I had the rough premise of the story: suddenly I knew that Willow had psychically seen something that she shouldn’t have, and Alex was the teenaged hit man hired to kill her. Then her name changed to Willow, and I realised that not only was she psychic, but that she loved tinkering around with cars. ![]() Willow came to me at the same time that Alex first did – her name was Jhia at that point – but she didn’t feel fully formed until I started thinking about a contemporary storyline. He refused to go away, in fact! And over the years, I began to wonder about redoing his story completely, and placing him in a contemporary setting. Nothing came of that particular novel, but Alex always stayed with me. He first came to me as a character almost twenty years ago, when he was a thief in a fantasy setting – an expert with knives rather than guns. ![]() ![]() They are both caught up in bourgeois ideology: financial security is paramount (as symbolised by Torvald’s job at the bank) the wife is there to give birth to her husband’s children and to dote on him a little, dancing for him and indulging in his occasional whims. But Nora encourages him to carry on doing so. Similarly, her husband is not nasty to her: he doesn’t mistreat her, or beat her, or put her down, even if he patronises her as his ‘doll’ or ‘bird’ and encourages her to behave like a silly little creature for him. Nora’s behaviour at the end of the play signals an awakening within her, but this is all the more momentous, and surprising, because she is hardly what we would now call a radical feminist. ![]() ![]() Just as the plot of the play largely follows these conventions, so Ibsen is careful to portray both Torvald Helmer and his wife Nora as a conventional middle-class married couple. ![]() ![]() ![]() Alex's chemistry with Tom is strong, even as their reluctance to fully open up to one another is believable. It's quite compelling to watch them, especially as they are still figuring out what's happened to the world. Alex and Ellie fight against wild dogs and raging rivers, with little to no food and water. The post-apocalyptic elements are set against a rural, survivalist backdrop. I very much enjoyed the first part of Ashes. ![]() She finds herself the protector of a combative young girl named Ellie, and then teams up with Tom, an attractive if mysterious former soldier. After the pulse, she finds some of the side effects of her tumor gone. Seventeen-year-old Alex has a massive brain tumor and is hiking on her own, planning to scatter her parents' ashes in a remote part of Michigan. ![]() Ashes is a near-term post-apocalyptic novel in which a massive EMP (electromagnetic pulse) destroys all modern electronics, kills everyone except for the very young and very old, and turns most teens into bloodthirsty, zombie-like creatures. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The bomb drop on graduation night was epic.but the fallout would last SO much longer and affect so many lives in ways no one could possible imagine. Kyle and Kimberly were a couple for as long as anyone could remember, which is especially long in today's world where some folks trade significant others like flavors of the week.but sometimes that familiarity, sometimes that constant togetherness, can make it hard for them to see themselves anymore. Have you ever had a book that you were so inside the story, so with the characters, so tethered to every word that was uttered, every feeling conveyed, every moment captured.that you were simply wrecked by book's end? I mean like in tears, sighing with relief or acceptance, and quite honestly needing a few moments at the very least before you could even think about wrangling your thoughts into something coherent, or ,goodness forbid, reading something else? 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A Great Toddler and Preschool Scissor Skills Building Easter Basket. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you like your stories the way too many of us now do - pat, with the narrative reverse-engineered to validate your priors - this book is not for you. In the journalist Joshua Prager’s ardently reported and painfully timely epic, “The Family Roe,” Jane Roe is both heroine and villain - and a paragon of human complexity. She told the world haunting stories about a life of rapes and gunfire and abuse, but she later revealed that she had made much of it up. ![]() She called the abortions she helped undam a “holocaust,” but she once texted her daughter Melissa, “I should had abort you.” She worked in an abortion clinic, but she also worked for the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue. Jane Roe is why Americans gained a right to abortion, but she never had one. THE FAMILY ROE An American Story By Joshua Prager ![]() |