![]() ![]() “Full-bodied romance.with intelligence and heart."-Cathy Maxwell "Captivating characters and a romance that sizzles."-Eloisa James "Will leave you swooning. However, what begins as a sham turns into something scandalously deeper. It’s his good fortune that the “cursed” woman is desperate. Alexander requires the hand of his enemy’s fiancée in marriage in order to complete his plans for revenge. ![]() Her parents fell sick and died leaving her and her three siblings without a proper caretaker and destitute. She hardly knows the dangerously outrageous man! But after three engagements gone awry and a fourth going up in glorious flames, she isn’t in a position to refuse. The Luck of the Bride by Janna MacGregor Third in the Cavensham Heiresses series 3 stars March Lawson has been down on her luck. Perhaps she will make it to the altar this time with one of these fine gentlemen! -Midnight Cryer No one is left breathless at the imperious pronouncement of her engagement to Lord Pembrooke more than Claire. All were shocked at the announcement of the “cursed” Lady Claire Cavensham to Lord Alexander Hallworth, the Marquess of Pembrooke, especially since she is already engaged to another unfortunate Lord. ![]()
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5/24/2023 0 Comments Homer the iliad the odyssey![]() ![]() These song traditions were multiform they did not exist in a fixed form until very late in their evolution. In its earliest phases, this system included the song traditions of the (now lost) epics known collectively as the Epic Cycle and still further epic traditions to which the Iliad and Odyssey sometimes allude, such as the voyage of the Argo. The Iliad and Odyssey-attributed in antiquity to an almost certainly legendary poet named Homer-are synoptic representatives of an entire system of traditional songs that developed over many hundreds of years, and possibly thousands of years. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Masterfully adapted by Jon Jory from James M. But their hopes of being together and starting a family are shattered when a second automobile accident destroys any hope they have for a decent life. ![]() Some elaborate legal maneuvering keeps Cora out of jail and allows reconciliation with Frank. But the suspicious district attorney pits the two of them against each other by charging only Cora and enticing Frank to sign a complaint against her. Desperate to do away with Nick, Cora and Frank stage an automobile accident, in which Nick is killed. A botched first plan leaves Nick in the hospital suspecting nothing about the affair but resolved to sell the diner and take Cora away. Frank and Cora, the diner owner’s young wife, quickly start a romance, and Cora convinces Frank the only way they can be together is for Frank to kill her husband, Nick, and collect the insurance money. Drifter Frank Chambers accepts a job from the alcoholic owner of a diner in a town he’s hitchhiking through. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Along the way, each must face unexpected obstacles and dangerous choices, but they also help to forge a nation unlike any that came before. All three struggle to find their true place in the world, leaving behind who they were in order to lay claim to the person they want to be. ![]() And Rowena, the willful, impoverished heiress, jumps at the chance to marry a humble stranger and repay a heartbreaking debt. Quiet immigrant Elsa hopes to escape her life of servitude and at last shape her own destiny. If she can help New York women find husbands in a far-off Nebraska town, she can build an independent new life away from her own loss and grief.Ĭlara’s ambitions are shared by two other women, who are also willing to take any risk. Richly detailed, vivid, and unforgettable, this is an extraordinary novel about three women challenging the American West-and unpredictable fate-for a future only the most daring can secure…įor Clara Bixby, brokering mail-order brides is a golden business opportunity-and a desperately needed chance to start again. Publisher Berkley/Putnam, October 1, 2012 ![]() ![]() ![]() I don’t need to return until midday tomorrow, so if you wish to negotiate with him I can port you to the academy when I leave. Your sister was a talented and brave student. That the Queen delayed the competition to allow him to enter is perhaps in itself indication that he is not just any boy. It is less clear whether any of the 2A students can beat him. Most people think he will reach 2A without any problem. ![]() “Embarrassing as it is to say this, but he is one of the more powerful students at the academy. “He? My sister was beaten by a boy?” I ask incredulously and for a moment the tears stop flying. If the state of things here are any indication though, I guess you probably can’t afford to do so with money, but you may have something else he considers valuable.” If you wish to reclaim her you will need to negotiate with Peter of the Wind. ![]() “I, was told, earlier.” I say and the tears flow even quicker. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Arkansas Wildflowers by Don Kurz![]() ![]() Other guides published by Tim Ernst Publishing are Arkansas Wildflowers, Illinois Wildflowers, and Missouri's Natural Wonders Guidebook. He is also author of Falcon Publishing's Ozark Wildflowers and Scenic Routes and Byways, The Ozarks, along with the Missouri Department of Conservation's Shrubs and Woody Vines of Missouri, Shrubs and Woody Vines of Missouri Field Guide, Trees of Missouri, and Trees of Missouri Field Guide. His photos have appeared in calendars and magazines such as Natural History as well as numerous wildflower books, including Falcon Publishing's Tallgrass Wildflowers and North Woods Wildflowers. Arkansas Wildflowers by Don Kurz, Tim Ernst, 2010, Publishing edition, in English Arkansas Wildflowers (2010 edition) Open Library It looks like youre offline. Don is now a part-time writer and nature photographer specializing in landscapes, wildlife, insects, and plants. ![]() For 22 years he was employed by the Missouri Department of Conservation, where he held various supervisory positions in the Natural History Division, including that of Natural History Chief, which he held until his retirement from the department in 2002. After completing master's degrees in botany and zoology at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Don Kurz spent the next 30 years working to inventory, acquire, protect, and manage natural areas, endangered species sites, and other special features. ![]() ![]() ![]() I had to bear witness in order to protect the future, bear witness in order to overcome the amnesia of my contemporaries. The result is a terrifying and heartbreaking memoir, extraordinary for its frankness and courage. As he noted, "If I do not speak, I will become the accomplice of my torturers". Finally, haunted by his experiences and by the silence of others, he decided to bear witness to an aspect of the Holocaust rarely seen. "The Liberation", he writes, "was for others". He found a wife through a personal ad, married, and raised three children. For nearly forty years he kept his experiences - including torture, humiliation, and witnessing the vicious murder of his lover at the hands of the Nazis - a secret in order to cover up his homosexuality. So begins the astonishing chain of events that led to the Schirmeck-Vorbruch concentration camp, where Seel suffered unspeakable horrors for the sole "crime" of being a homosexual.The story of survival in the camps has been told many times, but Seel's is one of the only firsthand accounts of the Nazi roundup and deportation of homosexuals. ![]() ![]() The Book Report: At the age of seventeen, in the arms of a thief, Pierre Seel felt his watch sliding off his wrist. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments A fun age![]() ![]() Twenty-five-year-old Emira’s family and friends expect her to get going on a career, but outside the fact that she’s about to get kicked off her parents’ health insurance, she’s happy with her part-time gigs-and Briar is her "favorite little human." Then one day a double-header of racist events topples the apple cart-Emira is stopped by a security guard who thinks she's kidnapped Briar, and when Peter's program shows a segment on the unusual ways teenagers ask their dates to the prom, he blurts out "Let's hope that last one asked her father first" about a Black boy hoping to go with a White girl. She strikes gold when she finds Emira Tucker. With no friends or in-laws around to help out with her almost-3-year-old, Briar, and infant, Catherine, she’ll never get anywhere on the book she’s writing unless she hires a sitter. The relationship between a privileged White mom and her Black babysitter is strained by race-related complications.īlogger/role model/inspirational speaker Alix Chamberlain is none too happy about moving from Manhattan to Philadelphia for her husband Peter's job as a TV newscaster. ![]() ![]() ![]() and, just to make things interesting, the sultry Rachel, another work-chum of James and one with whom he has shared considerably more than the occasional business meeting.Īs the story progresses we discover that one of the party - an unnamed instructor whose identity is kept hidden until the end of the book - is engaged in secret lessons with the impressionable Jessie, for reasons not immediately clear. The group comprises James and his French wife, Sabine, and their two young daughters - Beth and the confused Jessie -plus James's one-time colleague Matt and his wife, Chrissie. ![]() The story is simply (!) the interaction of a group of somewhat dysfunctional friends during a two-week holiday in a lonely cottage in the Dordogne region of France. For this remarkable, fine and almost unclassifiable book is a complete breath of fresh air, even considering his past achievements. And now we can add to that list The Stormwatcher. ![]() "Of those writers who stoically refuse to trudge along horror fiction's well-worn path, Joyce, with British Fantasy Awards to his credit for Requiem and The Tooth Fairy, has perhaps had the most success. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith![]() ![]() Funny, intense, complex, and brave, Grasshopper Jungle brilliantly weaves together everything from testicle-dissolving genetically modified corn to the struggles of recession-era, small-town America in this groundbreaking coming-of-age stunner from the author of The Alex Crow and Winger. An army of horny, hungry, six-foot-tall praying mantises that only want to do two things. Smith may have intended this novel for young adults, but his technique reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut's in "Slaughterhouse Five," in the best sense." - New York Times Book Review In the small town of Ealing, Iowa, Austin and his best friend, Robby, have accidentally unleashed an unstoppable army. ![]() ![]() It's propulsive plot would be delightful enough on its own, but Smith's ability to blend teenage drama into a bug invasion is a literary joy to behold. Printz Honor Book Winner of the 2014 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction "Grasshopper Jungle is a rollicking tale that is simultaneously creepy and hilarious. ![]() |