![]() Roberts is a superstar."- The New York Times "Women are as addicted to her contemporary love novels as chocoholics are to Godiva. ![]() For their fierce and dangerous attraction to each other soon threatens to overwhelm them-unless their merciless and shadowy rivals kill them first. But the race to find the treasure, from Manhattan to Madagascar, is only part of the game. It is a business proposition, pure and simple. He has the stolen documents leading to a fabulous hidden fortune. Streetwise Douglas Lord has the good looks and quick wits to be a success at his chosen profession: larceny. ![]() ![]() Reckless Whitney MacAllister possesses all the wealth and beauty every woman dreams of. From New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes a seductive novel of red hot passion and cold hard cash, as a Manhattan socialite living at jet-set speed crosses a desperate man on the run-and finds herself trapped in a deadly game that may have no winners or losers. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It came out on DVD, but you had to hitch a ride over to Summerville, by the community college. ![]() You could see a movie at the Cineplex about the same time The library still had a card catalog, the high school still had chalkboards,Īnd our community pool was Lake Moultrie, warm brown water and all. All we had was a Dar-ee Keen, since the Gentrys were too cheap to buyĪll new letters when they bought the Dairy King. We were too farįrom Charleston to have a Starbucks or a McDonald's. Gatlin wasn't like the small towns you saw in the movies, unless it was a movie from about fifty years ago. Just another reason I couldn't wait to get out of here. Everyone under the age of sixty called it the War Between the States, whileĮveryone over sixty called it the War of Northern Aggression, as if somehow the North had baited the South into war over aīad bale of cotton. Only folks down here didn't call it the Civil War. ![]() My father was a writer, and we lived in Gatlin, South Carolina, because the WatesĪlways had, since my great-great-great-great-granddad, Ellis Wate, fought and died on the other side of the Santee River during Everyone else finds a way out." There was no question which one he was,īut I'd never had the courage to ask why. "The ones who are bound to stay or too dumb to go. "The stupid and the stuck," my father had affectionately classified our neighbors. ![]() There were only two kinds of people in our town. ![]() ![]() What starts as a family feud will become a war…one I plan on winning no matter the cost. The havoc I wreak might ease some of the pain Dad caused my mother. It’s reckless and risky, but I don’t have much to lose. I’ll give up everything, even my girlfriend and football, if it means I get a chance for retribution. I know I won’t regret wrecking their lives like they did mine. Maybe Dad will regret his terrible mistakes. Until then, I vow to make his life a living hell. Was one dad not good enough that Alis had to take mine, too? Grades, money, track - he dominates it all despite his short, insignificant frame. That means hitting him where it hurts - the new fiancé and the son he thinks so much of.Īlis is a bleached-blond perfectionist thorn in my side, who’s used to everything going his way. ![]() ![]() Now I’m on a quest for revenge against my father. The hatred began when my father proposed to another man in a shocking moment that rocked my family to its core…. ![]() From USA Today best-selling author K Webster comes an angsty and emotional enemies-to-lovers gay romance stand-alone! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They also write a lot in particular, they produce textbooks and articles on their research. After all, scientists have to be creative and show perseverance to carry out research. Many people think it odd and fascinating that a scientist should also be a novelist but I don’t find it strange. Perhaps that is why some of my strongest scenes are set on dark nights! Anyway, I am now a full-time writer. It also left very little time for fiction writing which I tackled mostly after midnight. The teaching part of the job predominantly involved writing, with some radio, TV and video work. I carried out research in analytical chemistry, particularly in the area of health, and I taught mainly organic chemistry. Believe it or not, until Easter 1996, I was a Lecturer in Chemistry at The Open University. ![]() ![]() I received an ARC from the author through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Twelve delightful romances… and plenty of delicious dukes! The 12 Dukes of Christmas is a series of heartwarming Regency romps nestled in a picturesque snow-covered village. His future depends on impressing an important investor… who will ruin them both once they realize Calvin has spent a scandalous fortnight with Lady Isabelle! ![]() He has no time to play lady’s maid to the helpless beauty next door, no matter how much he enjoys unbuttoning the straitlaced widow. Why not have a wee innocent flirtation with a handsome tailor staying at the same inn? She’ll be gone in the morning…Ī sudden blizzard upends Calvin McAlistair’s plans when he’s snowbound at a posting-house. ![]() ![]() When Belle’s chaperone falls ill en route to a party, she must pose as an independent widow to avoid gossip. ![]() Her high status is how she’ll attract the titled suitor her mother insists she wed. ISBN-13: 978-1943794690 | $3.99 USD | 171 pages | Regency Romanceįrom a New York Times bestselling author: Secrets and scandal abound when two delightful, strong-willed opposites are snowbound together in this laugh-out-loud, feel-good romance!Īs the daughter of a duke, Lady Isabelle’s pristine reputation is paramount. ![]() ![]() ![]() This imbalance, however, also reflects the composition of liberal arts faculties at most colleges and universities, where liberals and leftists are abundant and conservatives are in short supply. ![]() In part this imbalance reflects historians’ natural tendency to neglect the recent past and to focus instead on the more distant past, the first half of the twentieth century, when liberalism, in the form of Progressivism and the New Deal, really was the most important American political movement. Libraries are choked with books on the history of liberalism and the left while the shelves on the history of conservatism are spare. Everywhere one looks, conservative outlooks dominate public opinion: the market is celebrated as the most effective and just distributor of society’s resources government expenditures of any sort, other than for national defense, are condemned as ineffective or harmful to the Gross National Product morality and social discipline are regarded as the only legitimate touchstones of social policy.ĭespite conservatism’s influence, historians of the twentieth-century United States have had a hard time giving this political movement its due. No political movement in America these last twenty-five years has rivaled conservatism in appeal or influence. ![]() ![]() ![]() Winter Rose is Patricia McKillip's take on the Tam Lin folktale. ![]() Love between family members is also important in McKillip's writing, although members of her families often disagree. Many of her characters aren't even sure of their own ancestry. Her writing usually puts her characters in situations involving mysterious powers that they don't understand. There are forests, castles, and lords or kings, minstrels, tinkers and wizards. McKillip's stories usually take place in a setting similar to the Middle Ages. She is married to David Lunde, a poet.Īccording to Fantasy Book Review, Patricia McKillip grew up in Oregon, England, and Germany, and received a Bachelor of Arts (English) in 1971 and a Master of Arts in 1973 from San Jose State University. Most of her recent novels have cover paintings by Kinuko Y. She is a past winner of the World Fantasy Award and Locus Award, and she lives in Oregon. Patricia Anne McKillip was an American author of fantasy and science fiction novels, distinguished by lyrical, delicate prose and careful attention to detail and characterization. ![]() ![]() I guess when you read many murder mysteries or political thrillers they all become one and the same, I don’t know. I knew the ending was going to turn out in Rapp’s favor and it would be sorted out, but the conclusion was open-ended so that was refreshing however I felt that it was still lacking creativity or originality. The thing about it is that it felt somewhat cliche and unrealistic. ![]() The language is great: it’s simple, engaging, and it keeps you on the edge. I’ve read American Assassin and Term Limits by Flynn and I enjoyed them, but this didn’t wow me as much. (You’ll have to read the book if you want to know how that happens, see what I did there □ Shots are fired, fights take place, a new set of dead bodies is presented, evidence sabotaged, and finally Rapp returns to headquarters and things are sorted out. He goes on his own investigation and at the same time the agency believes that Rapp has gone rogue. He starts to suspect that there’s a mole at the agency and mistrusts everyone. ![]() During a mission in Paris he is ambushed, but manages to escape. The agency has compiled a list of terrorists, those related to them, and their financiers, and Rapp is working on crossing these names off. It tells the story of the operative Mitch Rapp a year after being recruited into the CIA’s special program. Kill Shot is the prequel to the Mitch Rapp series by the late Vince Flynn and the last book written by him. ![]() ![]() ' Coote is a natural, wryly dissecting the workings of human desire. Unforgettable, disturbing, and morally complex, Innocents permanently unsettles our notions of innocence, experience, and power. ![]() She leaves the aunt and uncle who are her guardians and moves in with her teacher together, they quickly embark on a journey into their darkest desires. ![]() But when the perpetrator is a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl, is she culpable? And if the victim is her thirty-four-year-old teacher, shouldn't he have known better? When the nameless young narrator of Innocents decides to seduce her teacher, she immediately realizes that the power of her sexuality is greater than she ever imagined. We all know that manipulating someone nave and vulnerable into a sexual relationship to satisfy a twisted desire is wrongeven evil. Forcing someone vulnerable and naive into a sexual. Education: Attended Narrabundah College and Australian National University.ADDRESSES:Agentc/o Cameron Cresswell Management, 5/2 New McLean St., Edgecliff, Sydney 2027, Australia.CAREER:Writer.AWARDS, HONORS:Sydney Morning Herald Young Writer of the Year, 1995 Canberra Times Young Writer of the Year. ![]() Written when Cathy Coote was nineteen, Innocents draws readers into the anatomy of an adolescent obsession. Written when Coote was 19, Innocents is a taut, wickedly clever descent into the anatomy of an obsession. enthralling and ultimately sobering' (Kirkus Reviews). The second best result is Catherine A Coote age 60s in Charlestown, MA in the Thompson Square - Bunker Hill neighborhood. A young novelist ' turns Nabokov on his head in this tale of an Aussie Lolita who sets her sights on a witless teacher. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her debut YA novel, RUNNING, was a 2020 Junior Library Guild Selection and her sophomore YA, BREATHE AND COUNT BACK FROM TEN, will be out in May 2022 from HarperCollins/Clarion Books. Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters. CHASING THE SUN was named the Best Debut Book of 2014 by Latinidad Magazine and EVERYONE KNOWS YOU GO HOME won an International Latino Book Award and the 2019 Jesse H. She received a BA in creative writing from the University of Miami and now Born in Lima, Peru, Natalia Sylvester is an award-winning writer of novels, essays, and poetry. ![]() Sylvester's essays have appeared in the New York Times, Bustle, Catapult, Latina magazine, and McSweeney’s Publishing, and have been widely anthologized. ![]() Born in Lima, Peru, Natalia Sylvester is an award-winning writer of novels, essays, and poetry. ![]() |