![]() ![]() Chemistry, humor, and joy are wrapped in sheer fabric and lace in this luscious debut."- Denise Williams, author of The Fastest Way to Fall " The Accidental Pinup is packed with body positivity and irresistible banter. Cassie is a heroine to root for and you'll want to take an unapologetically sexy selfie while reading. ![]() ![]() The Accidental Pinup is the fun, charming rom-com you've been waiting to sweep you off your feet. Chemistry, humor, and joy are wrapped in sheer fabric and lace in this luscious debut."-Denise Williams, author of The Fastest Way to Fall, Praise for The Accidental Pinup "Reading Danielle Jackson's debut is like finding the perfect bra and falling in love at the same time-rare, delightful, and unforgettable. Praise for The Accidental Pinup "Reading Danielle Jackson's debut is like finding the perfect bra and falling in love at the same time-rare, delightful, and unforgettable. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Despite being kept in a locked cell under constant supervision, she has escaped the hospital and the desolate island. Marshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, go on a ferry boat to Shutter Island, the home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient, Rachel Solando (who was incarcerated for drowning her three children). Ī film adaptation of the novel, adapted by Laeta Kalogridis and directed by Martin Scorsese, was released on February 19, 2010. Lehane had visited it in the Blizzard of 1978 as a child with his uncle and family. ![]() Lehane was inspired by the hospital and grounds on Long Island in Boston Harbor for the model of the hospital and island. ![]() He also structured the book to be "more taut" than his previous book, Mystic River. His intent was to write the main characters in a position where they would lack 20th-century resources such as radio communications. He described the novel as a hybrid of the works of the Brontë sisters and the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Lehane has said he sought to write a novel that would be an homage to Gothic settings, B movies, and pulp. ![]() Marshal who goes to an isolated hospital for the criminally insane to investigate the disappearance of a patient who is a multiple murderer. Shutter Island is a novel by American writer Dennis Lehane, published by HarperCollins in April 2003. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead he discovers chaos, civil war and treachery in Northumbria. The Lords of the North sees Uhtred, having helped Alfred secure Wessex an independent Saxon kingdom, returns north to find his stepsister. It seems that Wessex, and England, are destroyed, but Alfred is determined to make one desperate gamble that might save his kingdom. The Pale Horseman takes place right afterwards in the fateful year in which the Danes capture Alfred’s kingdom and drive him as a fugitive into the marshes of Athelney. ![]() Yet Uhtred’s fate is indissolubly bound up with Alfred, King of Wessex, who rules over the last English kingdom when the Danes have overrun Northumbria, Mercia and East Anglia. ![]() Uhtred is born into the aristocracy of 9th Century Northumbria, but orphaned at ten, adopted by a Dane and taught the Viking ways. Books 1-2 now available in one eBook collection. BBC2’s major Autumn 2015 TV series THE LAST KINGDOM is based on Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling novels on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. ![]() ![]() The similarities don’t end there, for Colanzi’s writing possesses a similar muscularity and violence to Rivero’s. ![]() Stories of mental breakdown, maternal cruelty, child death, indigenous slavery and suicide make up the meat of this collection like Rivero, Colanzi has an eye for the darker side of life. In the end, on the recommendation of the country’s most celebrated contemporary writer, Edmundo Paz Soldán, who graciously responded to my request for thoughts on lesser-known Bolivian writers I might discover, I plumped for the striking and savage short-story collection Sangre dulce/ Sweet Blood by Giovanna Rivero Santa Cruz.įive years later when a translation of another short-story collection by a female Bolivian writer came onto my radar through #WITMonth, I thought it might make an interesting comparison.Ī brief summary of the content of some of the stories in Liliana Colanzi’s Our Dead World, translated by Jessica Sequeira, immediately shows up common ground between the authors. When I cast about for something to read from there in 2012, there seemed to be very little choice. If you want to venture beyond Colombian, Argentinian or Brazilian literature, you quickly find that quite a few nations only have a handful of their authors’ works available in English.īolivia is a case in point. With a few notable exceptions, South American countries are generally poorly served when it comes to having their literature translated into the world’s most published language. ![]() ![]() But, could you imagine Tesla being in the hands of Google today? The company which is producing futuristic electric cars is now making billions of profit. Elon Musk Tried to Sell Tesla to GoogleĮlon Musk is popularly known for Tesla. Robert Downey Jr Met Musk for Inspiration 1. Started his Own School in SpaceX for his Childrenġ0. Bought a James Bond Submarine Car for $997,000ĩ. Invented a Space-Themed PC Game at the age of 12Ĩ. ![]() Turned his House into a NightClub to Pay For Rentħ. Travelling at the Top Speed of 750 Mph in a Floating PodĤ. Elon Musk Tried to Sell Tesla to Googleģ. Today, we bring the top 10 interesting facts about Elon Musk that you have not heard until now.ġ. If you are one of them then this article is a must-read for you. Although many people don’t know a lot of interesting things about this multi-billionaire. Musk had a rollercoaster ride in the past before becoming an icon. Recently, Musk was again in the spotlight for buying Twitter worth $44 billion. ![]() Who can forget his weird tweets that shake the Bitcoin market? He has a habit of getting into the news. Elon Musk is famously known for Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink and The Boring Company. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gruber's remarks became controversial when video of the conference was posted online thirteen months after the LDI panel on health economics took place. Gruber made the remarks captured in that excerpt during the 24th Annual Health Economics Conference at the University of Pennsylvania's Leonard Davis Institute (LDI) of Health Economics in October 2013. Involving Jonathan Gruber, a consultant who served as a technical consultant to the Obama administration and Congress during the creation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (also known as the ACA or "Obamacare"), began to circulate on the internet. Origins: In November 2014, a 52-second long excerpt from a video of a 2013 conference ![]() ![]() Though personally, I’m quite obsessed with hockey romances right now, so I couldn’t forget about them *wink* even if I wanted to. But you’ll definitely find more sports in these next romance books aside from hockey and figure skating. So you can say, “Why is figure skating in this?” when you can watch figure skaters compete throughout the year. ![]() They are all done during the Winter Olympics and most of the time you need cold weather to do them. While some of them are done throughout the year, these sports are considered winter sports. But if you do follow championships and tours over the year, you’ll be very familiar with the sports in this list of best winter sports romances you can’t help but root for. Tommy Reynolds, straight man, is a recent addition at the. It’s exciting and it only comes up every four years, so we see a lot of athletes give it their best for that one chance to get the gold medal. Paul West and Meggs Lexing are again a team thru Augie Circelli who opened them. I know that (maybe) many don’t follow the national leagues and individual programs of these sports, but I am sure that whenever the Winter Olympics come up, we all are there for the athletes. ![]() It is also the start of the winter sports season. This season doesn’t only bring out cold weather and festivities. ![]() ![]() ![]() She eludes him for five years, but he has finally chased her to ground and stolen her enchanted jewel, giving him absolute power over her. ![]() Denying him, she escapes, struggling to forget his searing, possessive kiss. ![]() Wroth provides her with the perfect opportunity to torment her sworn enemy-for with his new heartbeat comes a consuming sexual desire that can only be slaked by her. Coldly interested only in the power his mate will bring, he can hardly believe when Myst the Coveted, his army’s new immortal captive, awakens him body-and soul.įamed throughout the world as the most beautiful Valkyrie, Myst has devoted her life to protecting a magical jewel and to fighting the vampires. Nikolai Wroth, a ruthless vampire general, will stop at nothing to find his Bride, the one woman who can “blood” him, making his heart beat and filling him with strength. #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole makes her audio debut with the first title in her spellbinding Immortals After Dark series. ![]() ![]() ![]() CW’s review:ĭragon Pearl is a delightful adventure story that follows Min, a young teen who lives in the poorer fringes of the galaxy and is a shape-shifting fox spirit. ![]() The outcome may not be what she had hoped, but it has the potential to exceed her wildest dreams. She will be forced to use more fox-magic than ever before, and to rely on all of her cleverness and bravery. It will involve deception, lies, and sabotage. ![]() ![]() Min’s quest will have her meeting gamblers, pirates, and vengeful ghosts. She decides to run away to find him and clear his name. Jun would never desert his battle cruiser, even for a mystical object rumored to have tremendous power. When word arrives that Jun is suspected of leaving his post to go in search of the Dragon Pearl, Min knows that something is wrong. She’s counting the days until she can follow her older brother, Jun, into the Space Forces and see more of the Thousand Worlds. She would like nothing more than to escape Jinju, her neglected, dust-ridden, and impoverished planet. Min feels hemmed in by the household rules and resents the endless chores, the cousins who crowd her, and the aunties who judge her. To keep the family safe, Min’s mother insists that none of them use any fox-magic, such as Charm or shape-shifting. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So when it’d been a couple of months, I knew I’d only be able to do a vague review, so I just didn’t do one. 2) These are easy books to forget! I got lost in character names and the plot. 1) I’m lazy and procrastinate book reviews all the time and didn’t get around to it. So this is a review of the last in the Slated trilogy and is the only review I’ve done of them, for two reasons. ![]() But the truth Kyla seeks is more shocking than she imagined as the Slated trilogy concludes. When forbidden memories of a violent past began to surface, so did doubts: could she trust those to care for, like Ben? Helped by friends in MIA, she goes undercover, searching for her past and evading authorities who want her dead. Kyla was Slated: her mind was wiped clean by the government. ![]() |
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