The juvie three by gordon korman5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() * "hese kids are living minute to minute, where one false step may haunt them forever. ![]() Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J.
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The royal holiday jasmine guillory5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Yes, you read that right: There's a romance novel happening that was influenced by the Duchess's mom. Her third book, The Wedding Party, will be available July 16.Īnd this week, she announced her fourth release will be out October 1: Royal Romance, a novel inspired by Meghan Markle's mother Doria Ragland. Her 2018 debut, The Wedding Date, was an instant hit, and her follow-up later that year, The Proposal, is now a New York Times bestseller and was the official February book club pick for Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine. ![]() Jasmine Guillory is officially the reigning queen of contemporary romance novels. The romance novelist explained the importance of writing a love story with a Black woman in her fifties at the center.The Wedding Date, and The Proposalauthor Jasmine Guillory's latest book, Royal Holiday, was inspired by Meghan Markle's mom, Doria Ragland. ![]() Doria Ragland Inspired Jasmine Guillory's New Romance, Royal Holiday ![]() Luca turin and tania sanchez5/21/2023 ![]() The authors point out the benchmark fragrances that changed the course of perfumery in general or innovated in some way, giving you a blueprint for self-guided discovery. Perfumes: The A-Z Guide (2008) is a panorama of the history of perfume between the last Ice Age and 2008 a university education delivered in one long breath. ![]() Reading this book is like being seated next to a scientist who whispers hilarious put-downs in your ear about the hostess’ bottom all night and then gets up and explains Chaos Theory so elegantly you wonder if you’d ever not understood it.ĭifference between Perfumes: The Guide (2018) and Perfumes: The A-Z Guide (2008) Because whether your interest is casual or professional, there’s always space in your life for a book that explains a subject with equal parts erudition and bitchiness. Heck, buy the original Perfumes: The A-Z Guide (2008) too. ![]() To the casual browser who’s wandered in here because the SEO on my site is working – yes, you should buy Perfumes: The Guide (2018) by Luca Turin & Tania Sanchez. ![]() Adulting by liz talley5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Her personal tastes align with the following wish list, but she would never shut herself off to The Next Big Thing! She will consider any adult fiction with a clear, marketable, compelling hook, and strong voice. Now a Senior Literary Manager of adult fiction, Lindsay applies her comprehensive market knowledge and keen editorial instinct to identify and nurture exciting new talent for MLM. ![]() She was also nominated for three RITA Awards, the romance industry’s highest honor. At Amazon, she acquired debut romantic suspense author Kendra Elliot, whose titles have sold ten million+ copies, and Marina Adair's bestselling Vineyard Series, which was turned into a hit movie trilogy for the Hallmark Channel. She edited Guideposts Books’ first New York Times-bestseller, "A Sweethaven Summer," and was one of the original editors brought onboard at Amazon Publishing, where she was pivotal in launching Montlake Romance. Through tenures at Amazon Publishing, Guideposts Books, and Penguin/Signet, Lindsay Guzzardo acquired and edited numerous bestselling titles to fantastic customer and trade reviews, particularly in commercial fiction, women's fiction, and romance. ![]() Ashley hope pérez books5/20/2023 ![]() Did you need some time to adjust to how completely emotionally obliterating this book will be? Too bad-welcome to page one, where we are faced with the rubble of a recently exploded school littered with bodies. The novel begins in media res (you know-in the middle of things). Whatever else you’re reading can wait a day or two for you to read this instead. Go RIGHT NOW and order this book from your library or favorite bookstore. Don’t bookmark this review as some reminder. Don’t write it down on a list and then forget about it. But you need to figure out a way to find time to read this book as soon as possible. Our TBR lists are infinite scrolls and we’ll never even touch half of what we hope to read. And sometimes all it takes is an explosion.Īshley Hope Pérez takes the facts of the 1937 New London school explosion-the worst school disaster in American history-as a backdrop for a riveting novel about segregation, love, family, and the forces that destroy people. But there are some forces even the most determined color lines cannot resist. ![]() Naomi Smith and Wash Fullerton know about the lines in East Texas as well as anyone. ![]() Arms of nemesis steven saylor5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() After the factotum of a villa owned by Marcus Licinius Crassus is murdered, Gordianus is called in to discover the murderer-presumably two escaped slaves-before the villa's remaining ninety-nine slaves are put to death. While a substandard mystery-I honestly couldn't care less who killed the victim-the strength of Arms of Nemesis is in its pervasive dialogue on slavery. A great read and the beginning to a very good mystery series. And the story line is based on an actual occurrence documented in ancient texts. Here the author has found just the right balance to keep the story moving but his real talent is portraying the streets, the life, the customs of ancient Roman in a fascinating and realistic manner. The author avoids the problem encountered in some Roman-times fiction wherein the story becomes lost or frustrating because the reader is trying to keep track of complicated family trees or political complexities. ![]() This excellent historical fiction mystery has 1) an interesting story and 2) a believable, detailed sense of time and place that drops the reader right into the historical scene. After reading Roman Blood you will want to continue with this book Arms of Nemesis, which shares the same great traits as the first book in the series. This is number 2 in the "Gordinius the Finder" series: Start with number 1, Roman Blood, to get a sense of flow and development of the characters. An excellent combination of history and mystery ![]() ![]() The autonomy of administrative regions has increased and new forms of regional cooperation have emerged. The regional level has become more important over the last decades. Hybrid regional identities combining a locally specific mix of thick and thin elements of regional identity, and which link up with regional identities at other relevant scales, appear to be the most effective regional identities for regional administrations facing the challenges of both globalisation and the decline in collective identities. These concepts are used to analyse the regional identity of regional administrations in Northwest Germany and the Netherlands. It uses the contrast between ‘thick’ traditional and historical rooted well-established regional identities, and ‘thin’ regional identities which are more transitory and focus more on economic competitiveness. This article analyses the shifts in types of regional identities used by regional administrations in an increasingly competitive environment. Globalisation and the decline of collective identities through individualisation transform both this regional reality and how regions are conceptualised. At the same time regions have become less discernable as distinct historically rooted spatial entities. Regions and regional identity have become more important over the last decades. ![]() A Mother for Choco by Keiko Kasza5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() This is the story of Choco a bird with no home or family. This story may be especially appealing to children whose families have been formed through adoption, but other children will benefit from it as well. ![]() This point lends itself to heavy-handedness, but it comes across here with simple good humor as Choco experiences a mother’s love through his encounter with Mrs. The straightforward plot communicates a profound principle that families need not be defined by biological similarity. Bear, secure in her love even though she looks nothing like them. The story ends with the same resounding comfort as Eastman’s classic, as four children snuggle with Mrs. ![]() She laughs, “That would make me look very funny!” and invites him home to meet her other children, none of which are bears. ![]() When she suggests that she could be his mother, he objects that she doesn’t have his wings, yellow color, round cheeks, or striped feet. Bear he knows she isn’t his mother, but when he begins to cry she immediately comforts him, just as he imagines his mother would do. Eastman’s classic Are You My Mother?, Keiko Kasza presents a heartwarming story of another lonely bird who sets off to find his mother - but is disappointed after interviewing a giraffe, penguin, and walrus, to find that no mother shares his wings, his yellow color, his round cheeks, or his striped feet. ![]() A single man book5/20/2023 ![]() Shortly after Delaney’s son Henry turned one, he was diagnosed with brain cancer. “Despite the obvious talents of its author,” one reviewer wrote, the over-all effect was “a bit thin.” And yet “The Easy Life” is constructed with the same torqued intensity as all her fiction, seeding the problems that will eventually become Durassian preoccupations: the anguish of poverty, the vertigo of young love, the pull of biological conformity, and the struggle of women to reconcile the requirements of feminine competence with the disorganizing effects of sexual desire. The book sold out on its first printing, but its critical reception was lukewarm. In a style differing from the bald obliquity that characterizes Duras’s more famous books and films, feelings and adjectives stick together like plums that have fallen from a tree and formed a putrid mass. ![]() Here, Duras’s sentences assume a voluptuousness that Olivia Baes and Emma Ramadan do a remarkable job of translating. ![]() “La Vie Tranquille” (1944), Duras’s second novel-translated into English as “ The Easy Life”-is a coming-of-age story that dwells on what a young woman must relinquish to the activity of tidying up life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The result is an enchanting and lyrical montage of an ever-evolving city. The Intimate City Walking New York by Michael Kimmelman The Intimate City is a joyful miscellany of people seeing things in the urban landscape, the. packed with stores, barber shops, cafés, bars, restaurants, gambling dens, tattoo parlors, and brothels”-and piquant evocations of the New Yorkish soul (“I would join my father to check in on his surgical patients at his hospital on 14th Street before he and I meandered slowly back through the Village streets, Dad musing on his days traveling with the Freedom Riders, dreams for a communist future, and whether the Times was run by the CIA”). Illustrated with vibrant color photos, Kimmelman’s loose-jointed text and dialogues oscillate between beguiling lore-Sands Street “used to be a dense, vibrant, diverse street teeming with sailors. The author and his interlocutors stroll through the bustling immigrant communities of Jackson Heights, Queens visit the Stonewall Bar and other gay landmarks in Greenwich Village imagine the ancient forests and streams of the pre-European “ecological wonderland” that was once the Bronx coo over Broadway theaters crane their necks at Midtown skyscrapers and peer down at the brickwork of an Upper East Side street. ![]() New York City comes alive in this scintillating collection of conversations between New York Times architecture critic Kimmelman ( The Accidental Masterpiece) and architects, historians, artists, and others as they go on walking tours of 19 neighborhoods. ![]() |