![]() I had guessed that the first chapter of each section wasn’t going to be predictable in what it was describing – and I was right – but I would never have guessed what it was setting up for in the last chapter. It’s a real page turner – and I loved it – couldn’t wait to find out what was going to happen next. Gorgeous and mysterious, Jack is like no-one Emma has met before. ![]() But then a tragic accident changes everything, and introduces a stranger, Jack, into her life. ![]() “A gripping love story from the bestselling author of Fractured.Įmma Marshall can’t wait to marry her childhood sweetheart, Richard. I am not sure how this ended up on my Kindle – if it was recommended by someone in person or on Facebook, in a magazine, by my Kindle itself – or just because it was such a bargain (currently 85p to download!) ![]()
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![]() ![]() He loved the way Logan was staring at him. ![]() “Mhmm,” he hummed before sitting in the opposite chair. “Do you?” Logan’s eyes practically sparkled at him, and he stroked Tate’s cheek. “I love what I got,” he said, and he slid his tongue across Logan’s lower lip to slowly sample him. It’s about letting go.’”Īfter Tate placed the food down, he rested a palm on the table to lean over and brush his mouth to Logan’s. In an interview, he was quoted as saying the lyrics were about ‘being prepared to lose what you have for what you might get. Why?” He carried a plate with biscuits and the pot full of gravy over, watching Logan closely. ![]() “Have you?” Logan asked, and his tone had Tate facing him. ![]() Tate agreed and turned back to get the food. He did some of his best work with Genesis.” Probably more so than any of his others.” One on his side, the other in front of Logan. Tate reached for two plates and then walked over to put them on the table. “You know, for his solo debut, this was a damn good song,” Logan said, cutting through his thoughts. So he’d figured the best thing to do was get up and do something-anything to take his mind off trying to explain what was running through his head. But as he’d lain there thinking about what he wanted to say to Logan this morning, he’d become more and more nervous. Tate sang along to the lyrics as he opened the oven and pulled a tray of biscuits free. ![]() ![]() ![]() So, she grabs happiness when she finds it-in the somewhat reluctant arms of Leonardo Messina. And there is nothing but torture, pain, and heartache lying in wait. But the man she’s promised to is a monster. ![]() ![]() It’s her duty, and she would never dishonor her beloved father. As the only daughter of one of New York’s most powerful mafia dons, she knows she can’t refuse. Forbidden to Love: Natalia Mazzone has grown up knowing she is promised to a made man. For listeners who enjoy age-gap, sister’s-ex, second-chance, dark mafia romance. Although it comes at a high price, saving Sierra is his only choice. The Vegas trip is about strengthening ties, but he won’t allow his associates to ruin her perfection. Ben can’t believe his ex’s little sister is all grown up, stunningly beautiful, and close to being devoured by some of the most ruthless men he has ever known. Celebrating her 21st birthday in Sin City should be fun for Sierra Lawson, but events take a deadly turn when she ends up in a private club, surrounded by dangerous men who always get what they want. Until it suited his father to drag him into a world where power, wealth, violence, and cruelty are the only currency. ![]() Will one life-altering night unite or destroy them? Bennett Mazzone grew up ignorant of the truth: He is the illegitimate son of the most powerful mafia boss in New York. Condemned to Love: Her teen crush is now a ruthless killer and powerful mafia heir. ![]() ![]() Though Gladys's classmates are familiar types, the triumphant conclusion makes this a tasty read. arrived at the table in a soggy, mushy state fit for a baby") and her plot to get to New York City without alerting any adults. Younger readers (especially those who know their way around a kitchen) will be amused by Gladys's reviews of her parents' horrible cooking ("The peas. Tara Dairman is the author of the middle-grade novels THE GIRL FROM EARTH'S END (3.14.23, Candlewick), and ALL FOUR STARS, THE STARS OF SUMMER, STARS SO SWEET, and THE GREAT HIBERNATION (all published by Penguin Random House). ![]() Dairman's story picks up again when Gladys's essay accidentally winds up in the wrong hands and she must become a newspaper food critic overnight. The opening scene, with Gladys accidentally setting fire to the curtains while attempting to make cr me br l e, is more lively than what initially follows, as Gladys is banished from the kitchen, suffers through the trials of school, befriends the kid next door, and tries to figure out what to write for a class essay contest. In her debut novel, Dairman introduces sixth-grade foodie Gladys Gatsby, who despite her parents' inexplicable aversion to all things culinary endeavors to someday become a food critic for a New York City newspaper. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Ant and the Grasshopper type stuff: They are cautionary tales in which a hero’s hubris leads them to tragedy, death, or debilitation. ![]() Minor Frog is naive, ill-equipped, vulnerable, but so excited to see and experience the world.īoth in plot and aesthetics, A Frog in the Fall is set up to be an animal parable a classic furry fable. ![]() Though not explicitly forbidden from leaving his home and apprenticeship under Great Frog, we see him leave safety and security for adventure with passing vagabonds. We’ve asked a lot of questions of our literature through a meta-modernist lens (think post-postmodernism), such as: Can a story exist without conflict? Can we envision a future that is hopeful instead of hopeless, but still feel relatable? Can we drive a narrative through acts of kindness and sincerity instead of acts of betrayal and irony?Ī Frog in the Fall sees our main character, Minor Frog, embark on a journey. ![]() ![]() Ries provides a scientific approach to creating and managing successful startups in a age when companies need to innovate more than ever. Rather than wasting time creating elaborate business plans, The Lean Startup offers entrepreneurs-in companies of all sizes-a way to test their vision continuously, to adapt and adjust before it’s too late. ![]() It enables a company to shift directions with agility, altering plans inch by inch, minute by minute. Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, it relies on “validated learning,” rapid scientific experimentation, as well as a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product development cycles, measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics, and learn what customers really want. The Lean Startup approach fosters companies that are both more capital efficient and that leverage human creativity more effectively. ![]() What they have in common is a mission to penetrate that fog of uncertainty to discover a successful path to a sustainable business. ![]() This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned professionals in a Fortune 500 boardroom. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.Įric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. But many of those failures are preventable. ![]() ![]() ![]() "The Help" centers around a young, privileged white woman named Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan (Emma Stone), who writes a book about the experiences of two black maids, Aibileen Clark (Viola Davis) and Minny Jackson (Octavia Spencer), during the Civil Rights Movement in Jackson, Mississippi during the 1960s. In fact, the 2011 film directed by Tate Taylor, a white man, is based on a 2009 novel written by author Kathryn Stockett, a white woman, that focuses more on the white voices and characters than those of the black domestic workers. Many Americans are turning to literature and film to help educate themselves on race and cultural issues, with sales of books on race and racism skyrocketing. But the problem is that "The Help" isn't an authentic look into the perspective and experiences of the racial injustices black people face. " The Help" has been trending on Netflix as Black Lives Matter protests continue worldwide following the death of George Floyd, who died after now-fired Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.īut "The Help" isn't a helpful resource on understanding racism at all. Watch Video: George Floyd remembered as 'a gentle giant' ![]() ![]() This review focuses only on certain indicative issues in the first part of the book, and then addresses the main problems with her depiction of the famine itself. Overall, however, it retells the nationalist story of the famine found in earlier publications, but inaccurately, and does not cite evidence in its sources that contradicts or undermines almost all its arguments. ![]() ![]() This book has new information on Ukrainian culture in the 1920s, Ukrainian émigré historiography of the famine after World War II, the Ukrainian government’s use of famine history, and few other topics. ![]() 1In Red Famine Applebaum focuses on the great Soviet famine of the early 1930s, which she portrays as imposed artificially by the Stalin regime on Ukraine, and the result of a long history of alleged Russian and Soviet hostility toward Ukraine. ![]() She has published a substantial study of the Soviet Gulag camp system that won a Pulitzer Prize, and a study of the Communist takeovers of Eastern Europe. The journalist Anne Applebaum is a leading popular historian of the former European Communist countries. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These events changed the state politically and socially. Lee's surrender on April 9th, 1865, ending the Civil ar, were dramatic events for the state ("Chronological History"). ith approximately 80,000 Mississippians serving in the Confederate Army, the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and Robert E. Then, in 1861, Mississippi became the second state to secede from the Union. The forced bondage of slavery created the means… In spite of the tremendous variations in theme and tone of slave cultures, such as those in Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, or the Carolinas, there did emerge some consistencies that draw attention to commonalities. Common factors that link disparate slave subcultures include religion, music, crafts, food, social norms, and political philosophies. Presence and type of religion in the community also impacted the evolution of slave culture. ![]() Slave subcultures in the United States were also diverse, depending on geography, the nature of the plantation work, the prevailing political and social landscape of the slave owner culture, and factors like gender and ethnic backgrounds of the slaves. Forced contact and communion, pervasive physical and psychological abuse, and systematic disenfranchisement became the soil in which a unique subculture would be born. The trans-Atlantic slave trade shackled together persons from disparate cultural and linguistic backgrounds. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The later volumes have shifted tone towards the adventurous Kaaro becomes a secondary character while the more dynamic, heroic Aminat takes centre stage. Rosewater was a meditative novel, dominated by Kaaro’s cynical worldview and ambivalent about the prospect of alien transformation. At the end of that book, Kaaro and his lover Aminat, who are both agents of the secret government department S45, discover that Wormwood, by performing healings and seeding the xenosphere, is transforming human cells into alien ones, slowly remaking the human race. Some humans, like Rosewater’s protagonist Kaaro, are able to sense the xenosphere and manipulate it, giving them psychic powers. The alien bacteria released into the atmosphere by Wormwood form the “xenosphere”, which connects all living beings on the planet. ![]() |