![]() ![]() Even on the ball field, I’m daydreaming about his hungry hands, and the filthy things he whispered in his posh British accent. ![]() But all too soon, he disappears, leaving me wondering who my mystery man was. Then one hot summer night I find all the answers when I kiss another guy for the first time. It’s a fine line between lust and obsession… (Narrated in duet by Joe Arden and Shane East!) Make sure to preorder this brand new steamy, forbidden, MM romance between a billionaire and an athlete TODAY!Ī Very Filthy Game will release on Nook, Apple, Kobo and Google on January 29th and will release in audio and on Amazon in Kindle Unlimited exclusively on February 2nd! Genre/Tropes: Forbidden Romance/Billionaire Romance/MM Romance/SportsRomanceĪ VERY FILTHY GAME, an all-new, lessons-in-seduction standalone from #1 NYT bestselling author Lauren Blakely, is coming February 2nd! ![]()
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![]() ![]() Earnshaw brings the orphan to his estate in the moors of northern England. Phillips adopts this method again in his new novel, “The Lost Child,” which might best be defined as a riff on “Wuthering Heights.” The book opens and closes by imagining young Heathcliff’s life before Mr. The stories are linked by theme and situation as opposed to setting and plot. ![]() Rather than tell one linear story, these later novels bring together several independent narratives set at different places on the globe and at different moments in time. His first two novels were fairly straightforward in style and structure, but with his third, “Higher Ground” (1989), Phillips introduced the more ambitious and unconventional approach he has used ever since. Immigration has been a key topic in Phillips’s work from his very first novel, “The Final Passage” (1985). Kitts in 1958, but as an infant he left with his parents during the mass migration of people from the Caribbean islands - still colonial subjects - to Britain in the 1950s. At age 57, Caryl Phillips is seen by many as the father of Afro-British fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Secret Garden meets Crimson Peak in this stand-alone novel perfect for readers of Holly Black and Neil Gaiman. Schwab weaves a dark and original tale about the place where the world meets its shadow, and the young woman beckoned by both sides. A seam, where the shadow meets its source. And as with every shadow, there is a place where it must touch. “Unsettling and intriguing.”- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review)Įverything casts a shadow. “Gripping worldbuilding, well-rounded characters, and fantastic horror.”- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) ![]() which fuses Shirley Jackson’s gothic horror sensibilities with the warmth and dark whimsy of Neil Gaiman.”- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Children’s Book Council’s Young Adults' Favorites Award About the Book ![]() ![]() ![]() For the past couple of books, Gamache has seemed pretty untouchable and somewhat static, but this book develops his character further by showing his true skills as a detective and playing on his insecurities and fears concerning the repercussions of the Arnot case.My favorite aspect of this installment was watching the development of those around Gamache, specifically his fellow Surete officers, watching how they responded to the events of the story, how they responded to Gamache’s actions, and what choices they made concerning the main themes of the novel. Thus, this book was “less cozy” than its predecessors and a bit more intense. ![]() The building Arnot story line is what interests me most about this series, and the development of that plot kept me going throughout, negating the somewhat boring “coziness” of the murder mystery. I enjoyed this installment substantially more than the first two. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sherman penned a letter to his wife Ellen to describe the importance of the Mississippi River, writing, “I think the Mississippi the great artery of America, whatever power holds it, holds the continent.” Not only was this vital body of water a physical barrier splitting the eastern and western United States, it was also an economic, mercantile, commercial, and transportation buffer. On June 10, 1862, mere months before the Army of the Tennessee launched its initial operations against the Confederate fortress at Vicksburg, Mississippi, newly-promoted Major General William T. (Photo courtesy of the United States Navy)Įmerging Civil War welcomes back guest author Kristen M. It was later recovered and is on display at Vicksburg National Military Park. ![]() The USS Cairo, the Mississippi River Squadron’s most famous vessel, was destroyed by a Rebel mine during the Yazoo Pass Expedition in December 1862. ![]() ![]() Thanks to this, we get new traces, items, keys and even a Voodoo book. We have puzzles to solve, most of which are based on equipment and need to be solved. ![]() The game is played from a third person perspective in the point-and-click adventure mode with the mouse. According to the idea after the thread to the ball. We control Poirot as he explores his surroundings (Smuggler's Rest Hotel, island and city) and we meet and interrogate about 20 characters. ![]() What was supposed to be the start of a relaxing vacation in August 1940 at a Seadrift Island resort turns into an investigation. We play the role of one of the most famous detectives (the aforementioned Herculess Poirot) and investigate the murder of the famous actress Arlene Stuart. When solving the puzzle, both players and readers should not be bored. Will Hercule Poirot be able to solve a homicide case in an exclusive island resort frequented by the rich and famous, when everyone has an alibi? The story is loosely based on the book of the same name. ![]() ![]() BookPage spoke to Dade and Weatherspoon about their literary inspirations, the joys of fan fiction and fighting for fat positivity in romance.īoth Spoiler Alert and If the Boot Fits complicate the celebrity dating a non-famous person trope-April and Amanda are big, beautiful and smart women dating men who are part of an industry that generally neglects or is hostile to those who don’t fit a narrow mold. Being catapulted into fame due to their famous beaus is thus far more complicated than it would be for a heroine whose body hewed closer to our society’s restrictive beauty standards. ![]() Much of the social commentary in Dade’s Spoiler Alert and Weatherspoon’s If the Boot Fits comes from the fact that both of their heroines are fat. ![]() In their new books, Olivia Dade and Rebekah Weatherspoon take on the celebrity romance, reveling in its fizzy escapism and dissecting the perils of public image in equal measure. ![]() ![]() ![]() Priya Parmar is a writer to watch." Philippa Gregory Author of The Other Boleyn Girl, "Clever. This debut novel captures the glamorous world of the amoral court and the struggle of the city. ![]() " A real triumph'Š.A vivid imagining of the restoration London of Charles II with Nell Gwynn as a powerful and engaging heroine set in the busy world of the theater. Telling the story through a collection of vibrant seventeenth-century voices ranging from Ellen's diary to playbills, letters, gossip columns, and home remedies, Priya Parmar brings to life the story of an endearing and delightful heroine. Despite his reputation as a libertine, Ellen wholly captures his heart-and he hers-but even the most powerful love isn't enough to stave off the gossip and bitter court politics that accompany a royal romance. ![]() Ellen grows up on the stage, experiencing first love and heartbreak and eventually becoming the mistress of Charles II. Soon Ellen is dressed in the finest fashions, charming the theatrical, literary, and royal luminaries of Restoration England. As her roles evolve from supporting to starring, the scope of her life broadens as well. She quickly earns a place in the company, narrowly avoiding the life of prostitution to which her sister has already succumbed. While selling oranges in the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, sweet and sprightly Ellen "Nell" Gwyn impresses the theater's proprietors with a wit and sparkle that belie her youth and poverty. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Dara saw neither the Prophet nor an ancient Greek philosopher. ![]() Learned men, too, could legitimize rulers through their appearances in dreams, like Aristotle, who materialized before the Abbasid caliph Mamun, as a rationale for the translation movement in Iraq. Here, too, Dara’s dream evoked a longer history of Muslim rulers who had visionary dreams and Muslim authors whose dreams legitimized their literary projects.ĭreams of the Prophet Muhammad abound, like the vision that famously cured the blind poet Busiri of his blindness and led him to compose his celebrated Arabic ode on the mantle of the Prophet, the Qasidat-ul-burda, still recited today in countless commemorations of the Prophet’s birth. The prince had witnessed special visions before, ones that involved his spiritual guide Miyan Mir. ![]() It was not a common sort of dream, because it was significant enough to be recorded. We do not know the date or precise year, but we know that it happened during or before 1066 AH (1655/6). At some point during his intense study of Indic thought, Dara Shukoh had a dream. ![]() ![]() ![]() “What’s helping me is you gotta realize reviewers read books every week, and a lot of them aren’t very interesting, and they’re not very well done,” he said in a phone interview from the study of his house in Sag Harbor, where he is surrounded by maps of Partisan battle lines and vintage photos of pre-war Europe turned up in the course of his research. ![]() The remarkable thing talking to Furst, who is 69, is just how unmysterious he is about his alchemical technique, and about the attributes that have allowed him to succeed with such remarkable consistency: a long attention span, a lack of pretention about his art, and an above-average work ethic. You’re always writing the book you’d want to read, if you’re a writer.” It was never my goal to do anything but write commercial genre fiction, but to write it at a very high level. He also said, “These are commercial novels. I bet you couldn’t do it if you intended for it to happen.” ![]() “I take everything with a grain of salt but I do think that for whatever reason people who write reviews like these books, really like them. “I don’t know what to say-it’s not anything I ever expected,” he said. ![]() |