![]() ![]() A series of events leads them into thinking that they are not meant to be together because the world is at war with each other, and leads them into doing things they will soon regret. The bomb not only destroys the place, but destroys the lives Sephy and Callum could have had together. ![]() They cannot bear to be apart, until one day a terrorist group called the Liberation Militia (mostly made up of noughts who are fighting for their rights) explodes a bomb in a shopping mall. The two of them grow up together and are best friends, but soon their friendship turns into something deeper. Callum is a Nought, son of Maggie McGregor, Sephy’s nanny. Sephy is a Cross, daughter of one of the most powerful men in the country, Kamal Hadley. It is a world where it is all switched around dark skinned people turn out to be the privileged ones, with loads of money and perfect lives, while white people are treated wrongly and unfairly. ![]() There are the dark skinned Crosses, who are the most powerful rulers in this story and the light skinned Noughts, who are the second class citizens and slaves of the Crosses. ![]() Noughts and Crosses, a world divided in two. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She has met a good, respectful man who could make her content. So why did Will have to come back on the verge of her wedding to Aidan? Is it to stop her? Or. When she meets Aidan Carr, the duke of Trathen, it seems to be a sign. Years later, when Will has not returned for his father's funeral or assume his title, when Beatrix' father has passed away, Beatrix finally realizes that Will was not coming back and it was time for her to move on. Will tried to convince Beatrix to accompany him, but she couldn't leave her father behind. They were about to get married when Will was offered the opportunity to join a dig in Egypt, led by Will's mentor and inspiration. The Story: Beatrix and Will grew up together as neighbors, as friends and as sweethearts. Series: Abandoned at the Altar trilogy, Book #1 But can he stop the wedding of the season and win Beatrix back, or is it just too late? Genre: Historical romance The only problem is, she's about to marry someone else. Will has no illusions that Beatrix would welcome him back with open arms, but six years did not dim his love or desire for her. But when she made him choose between their life together or his lifelong dream, Will chose the latter. She'd loved him forever and she'd never doubted he loved her, too. ![]() ![]() Lady Beatrix Danbury had always known she would marry William Mallory. ![]() ![]() ![]() Can she be content with a secret lover? Or with being dependent on someone else again? It’s time for Tina to tackle her fears, both on and off the track. With work still on the rocks and her relationship in the closet, Tina is forced to reevaluate her life. Sex in secret is hot, but Tina can’t help but want more. Despite their player/coach relationship, they give in to their mutual attraction. And as Tina starts to thrive at derby, the tension between her and Joe cranks up. She also sees something special in Tina and invites her to try out for the roller derby team she coaches.ĭerby offers Tina an outlet for her frustrations, a chance to excel, and the female friendships she’s never had before. Joe is sweet, funny, and good at fixing things. ![]() ![]() Instead, she calls a plumbing service, and Joanne “Joe Mama” Delario comes to the rescue. When Joanne Joe Mama Delario comes to fix Tina Durham’s plumbing woes, Joe sees a spark in Tina that could use some tending. Recently divorced Tina Durham is trying to be self-sufficient, but her personal-training career is floundering, her closest friends are swept up in new relationships, and her washing machine has just flooded her kitchen. Roller Girl by Vanessa North Roller derby romance. ![]() ![]() By the time the funerary procession ended, the sun had barely begun to edge its way across the sky. I was no spectral imprint of something that had lived and died and couldn’t leave this place behind. To everyone else, I was a dead girl walking. Even then, it was a comfort to know that there were no ghosts in my country. ![]() Give alms to the poor, and in your next life you’ll be rich. Do this, so you won’t come back as a cockroach. I couldn’t decide whether I thought reincarnation was a scare tactic or a hopeful message. Lives were remade instantly, souls unzipped and tipped into the streaked brilliance of a tiger, a gopi with lacquered eyes or a raja with a lap full of jewels. * * * In Bharata, no one believed in ghosts because the dead never lingered. In the eyes of the court, there was only one killer- Me. According to the royal physician, childbirth had killed Padmavathi, but no one believed him. They may have covered their lips with silk, but their words were unsheathed daggers. I couldn’t risk giving the wives more venom. “It’s not right for you to stand at the front.” My jaw tightened, but I stepped back without a word. “Get away from there,” Mother Dhina hissed. ![]() I leaned closer to catch his words, only to be yanked back. I see war in the empty coffers, in the tents where once-spirited soldiers await the crematory grounds. I see war in the courtier’s brows, always bent in grief. ![]() ![]() I see war in my father’s face, pinching his cheeks sallow. ![]() ![]() ![]() It requires enormous knowledge of the night sky and how it changes both with latitude and throughout the year. ![]() Navigation is as much an art-and a spiritual practice-as it is a science. ![]() Piailug demonstrated his profound skill for reading the night sky and the ocean swells and safely guided the massive ocean-going canoe from Hawaii to Tahiti. But the 1976 voyage of the Hōkūleʻa-guided by Micronesian navigator Pius “Mau” Piailug-resolved the debate. A most notable naysayer was ethnologist Thor Heyerdahl whose 1947 Kon Tiki raft expedition advanced the drift idea that colonization occurred only as vessels simply traveled on the tides. Skepticism over the validity of those navigational methods has long muddied the waters. Archaeological and linguistic evidence shows that navigators from Tahiti’s neighbor islands the Marquesas had settled the islands even earlier. ![]() When the Hōkūleʻa visits, Tahitians say, Maeva, a hoi mai, meaning “Welcome home.” There is a well-documented tradition of voyaging between the two island groups, and it is clear that in the 13th century, Tahitians used sophisticated navigational skills to travel the 2,500-mile distance and settle the Hawaiian Islands. As part of its three-year circumnavigation of the globe, the Hawaiian voyaging canoe Hōkūleʻa arrived in Tahiti this summer on the first leg of its worldwide voyage. ![]() ![]() ![]() And so confident is he in his own genius for evasion that he will plan the most diabolical of crimes, perfectly satisfied in his mind that the success which has attended the commission of minor offences will not desert his efforts to evade the penalty of his supreme villainy. Having this good opinion of himself, he progresses from crime to crime, until there comes a moment when he finds no other escape from the consequences of his meanness and folly than the destruction of a human life which, as he believes, stands between himself and freedom. 'The Secret of the Moat Farm' is Wallaces account of a real life murder mystery which he had covered as a young journalist. ![]() ![]() He is widely recognized as one of the most prolific writers of his age. "There is no more dangerous criminal than a small larcenist who has escaped the consequence of his offences, through, as he believes, his own dexterity and skill. Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was an English writer of 957 short stories and over 170 novels. More than 160 films have been made of Wallace's work. As well as journalism, Wallace wrote screen plays, poetry, historical non-fiction, 18 stage plays, 957 short stories and over 170 novels, 12 in 1929 alone. 'The Secret of the Moat Farm' is Wallaces account of a real life murder mystery which he had covered as a young journalist. This carefully crafted ebook: "True Crime Ultimate Collection: The Stories of Real Murders & Mysteries" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Įdgar Wallace (1875-1932) was an English writer. Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was an English writer of 957 short stories and over 170 novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe that was "artistic license" but it just didn't' work for me. ![]() And, I didn't understand why there was so much given to Gemma's abusive history with Marcus but then nothing ever came of it later in the story. *SPOILER ALERT* - Not that I needed Cat's marriage to end up happy with all forgiven, it's just that I thought it was hokey the way the final scene between her and Dan played out at the park. The downside for me was the resolutions, or lack thereof, in some of the story lines - most notably the one with Cat's marriage and with Gemma's history with Marcus. I think most of us could in some way identify, on some level, with any or all of the sisters in this book. For me, the book started off well, presenting us with the dynamics and associated life struggles each sister was dealing with. Gemma, Cat, and Lynne had the childhood from hell, thanks to their battling parents, and they still haven’t decided what they want to be when they grow up if they grow up. ![]() The fact that I was fairly addicted to this book from the beginning was the factor that sealed that decision. THREE WISHES by Liane Moriarty RELEASE DATE: JMeet the Kettle sisters: 33-year-old triplets. I was torn on whether to give this book two stars or three, and obviously decided to go with three. Lyn, Cat, and Gemma Kettle, beautiful thirty-three-year-old triplets, seem to attract attention everywhere they go. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() We discovered more complexity than we expected from the slim 184 pages, and the more I learned about Anita Brookner, the more surprised I felt that I’d missed her for so long. I first picked up the novel because my writing group-all of us MFAers who’ve met for ten years post-program-wanted to read a book none of us knew. ![]() It isn’t just that Edith charts a different course, maritally speaking it’s that the novel’s dramatic focus is women looking critically at other women-something that occurs because Brookner has consciously placed her characters in a “gyneceum.” ![]() Plenty to consider subversive in a context that must append the word “still” to the assertion of a single woman’s worth.Īll the attention critics give to Brookner’s unmarried heroines, though, obscures what’s truly subversive in Hotel du Lac. ![]() Thanks to the jacket copy, a generation of readers has been primed to read Anita Brookner’s 1984 Booker Prize-winning novel Hotel du Lac as “potently subversive.” Subversive how? The headline of Anne Tyler’s contemporaneous New York Times review offers one answer: “A Solitary Life is Still Worth Living.” Edith Hope, the novel’s heroine, jilts a fiancé, rejects a new proposal, and ends her affair with her married lover. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Prudence Tate: Prudence was lovingly brought up alongside Victoria and Rowena, and their bond is as strong as blood. But this most unladylike wish is not her only secret-Victoria has stumbled upon a family scandal that, if revealed, has the potential to change lives forever. ![]() Victoria Buxton: Frail in body but filled with an audacious spirit, Victoria secretly dreams of attending university to become a botanist like her father. Standing up for a beloved family member sequestered to the “underclass” in this privileged new world, and drawn into the Cunning Coterie, an exclusive social circle of aristocratic “rebels,” Rowena must decide where her true passions-and loyalties-lie. But everything she believes will be tested when Sir Philip dies, and the girls must live under their uncle’s guardianship at the vast family estate, Summerset Abbey. Eldest sister Rowena was taught to value people, not wealth or status. Rowena Buxton: Sir Philip Buxton raised three girls into beautiful and capable young women in a bohemian household that defied Edwardian tradition. From the blurb:ġ913: In a sprawling manor on the outskirts of London, three young women seek to fulfill their destinies and desires amidst the unspoken rules of society and the distant rumblings of war. The first book of a sweeping trilogy set in Edwardian England. ![]() |