![]() Byzantine politics, lush sexual energy, and a queer love story that is by turns sweet and sultry, Foz Meadows' A Strange and Stubborn Endurance is an exploration of gender, identity, and self-worth. Survival is one thing, but love-as both will learn-is quite another. With an unknown faction willing to kill to end their new alliance, Vel and Cae have no choice but to trust each other. Caethari Aeduria always knew he might end up in a political marriage, but his sudden betrothal to a man from Ralia, where such relationships are forbidden, comes as a shock. But while his family is ready to disown him, the Tithenai envoy has a different solution: for Vel to marry his former intended’s brother instead. When an ugly confrontation reveals his preference for men, Vel fears he’s ruined the diplomatic union before it can even begin. ”-Jacqueline Carey “Stolen me? As soon to say a caged bird can be stolen by the sky.” Velasin vin Aaro never planned to marry at all, let alone a girl from neighboring Tithena. ![]() “Many a reader longing for a sense of homecoming in the realm of romantic fantasy will find it in A Strange and Stubborn Endurance. ![]()
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7/4/2023 0 Comments Tidelands book 2![]() She is a fellow of the Universities of Sussex and Cardiff and an honorary research fellow at Birkbeck University of London. She holds honorary degrees from Teesside University and the University of Sussex. ![]() Now a recognised authority on women’s history, Philippa graduated from the University of Sussex and received a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, where she is a Regent and was made Alumna of the Year in 2009. ![]() Her flair for blending history and imagination developed into a signature style and Philippa went on to write many bestselling novels, including The Other Boleyn Girl and The White Queen. ![]() She wrote her first ever novel, Wideacre, when she was completing her PhD in eighteenth-century literature and it sold worldwide, heralding a new era for historical fiction. Philippa Gregory is one of the world’s foremost historical novelists. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Second chance jay northcote![]() NB: Although this book is part of a series, it is a complete story with different main characters and can be read as a standalone. ![]() ![]() If they’re going to turn their lessons in lovemaking into something more permanent, they need to work out how they feel about each other-before they get to the end of Dev’s list. They work their way through Dev’s sex-to-do list, but what starts as a perfect no-strings arrangement gets more complicated as their feelings for each other begin to grow. When awkward circumstances throw them together, Ewan offers to help Dev out in the bedroom in return for maths tutoring, and Dev jumps at the chance. He’s young, free and single, and isn’t looking to change that anytime soon. After a bad time in halls of residence, he’s starting the summer term with different housemates and a new plan of action.Įwan lives in the house next door to Dev. ![]() Excerpt Review by Roroblu’sMum Meet Jay Northcoteĭev, a geeky first year physics student, has zero sexual experience and he’s determined to change that ASAP. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Stir by jessica fechtor![]() Even though she was struggling physically, her love for food and cooking, as well as the support of her husband, friends and family, kept her going. From losing sight in her left eye, and her sense of smell, Jessica was going to have to learn to do life a little differently from on. Stir is Jessica Fechtor’s memoir of how she went from a healthy 28-year-old with the world at her feet to suffering from an aneurysm burst in her brain while running on a treadmill, proceeding to turned her life upside down. ![]() The power of a single word, brought to life, and drawing in a reader to listen to a story of a woman who overcame the biggest struggles, and came out better, and stronger because of it. Stir is a title that will stir something inside of you that you thought you never had. One word that could change the way you see and feel the world. One word that could catapult you into unfamiliar territory, and into something new and different. ![]() One word to grab your attention, and lure into a new world. Sometimes all a title needs is a single word. But sometimes the best titles, are so simple, so bare that it demands attention. ![]() They are there to entice the reader, and giving definition so a reader can become familiar with a story. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In a recent interview, she said: ““I’m lucky to have such an empty piece of land to describe because in Polish literature there are no legends or fairy-tales about it.” Nowa Ruda, a Polish mining town of medieval origin, with this history is recreated in Tokarczuk’s House of Day, House of Night. ![]() Olga Tokarczuk lives in rural Lower Silesia, a region of Poland that was first integrated into the country after the Second World War. An ordinary place for one person might be a sacred place for another. Only afterwards does my mind add the spectral presence of people, names and detail. What comes first when I think of the place where I spent my childhood is the uniform, relentless glare of a tropical sun, surrounded by an endless tangle of every shade of green, then comes the encompassing smell of the humid air and the gurgling jungle sounds. It is through the gift of our senses that we conjure up a place. No place carries a stronger spirit of place in our memory than the places where we spent our childhood years. ![]() ![]() Marvel discovers more about her past, the Inventor threatens her future. But why is Lockjaw really with Kamala? As Ms. Then she crosses paths with Inhumanity for the first time-by meeting the royal dog, Lockjaw! Every girl wants a puppy, but this one may be too much of a handful, even for a Super Hero with embiggening powers. 2: Generation Why, Kamala may be fangirling out when her favorite (okay maybe Top Five) Super Hero Wolverine shows up, but it won't stop her from protecting her hometown. Paroling the city for whatever danger she sensed, she is attacked by Deathbird, who has been hired by M.O.D.O.K. Marvel is upon her, Carol leaves so that the transformation can take place. But she's comin' for you, Jersey! It's history in the making. Synopsis for 'Call Me Death-Bird' Being drawn from a date when the urge to change into Ms. ![]() Is she ready to wield these immense gifts? Or will the weight of the legacy before her prove too much to bear? She has no idea. 1: No Normal, Kamala discovers the dangers of her newfound powers, but she also unlocks a secret behind them. Marvel? Teenager? Muslim? Inhuman? Find out as she takes the Marvel Universe by storm! Kamala Khan is an ordinary girl from Jersey City-until she's suddenly empowered with extraordinary gifts. ![]() ![]() Whalen’s country voice is right down Blake’s alley, and both Blake and Chance wanted a chance at representing the singer. For his audition, Whalen chose to perform “Help Me Make It Through the Night” by Sammi Smith. One of the contestants was London-born country artist, Alex Whalen. ![]() Season 23 premiered on Monday, March 6, 2023. After blind auditions, the show goes into battle rounds, knockouts, playoffs and then the live performance shows. ![]() (But if none of the coaches turn around, the artist is eliminated from the competition). Then, in return, the contestants select the team they want to be on. When the each singer performs, the judges can hit a button and turn around for the artists they are interested in. The show begins with blind auditions, where the coaches and artists select their teams. Each singer is mentored by the biggest musical icons of today (the Season 23 judges include Blake Shelton, Kelly Clarkson, Niall Horan and Chance the Rapper). ![]() The Voice is NBC’s reality singing competition where undiscovered singers compete against each other to win $100,000 and a record deal with Universal Music Group. Will Maddie and Chimney Get Engaged in 9-1-1? ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments The terminal list book![]() ![]() "All of us care deeply about this community of SEALS, and we wanted to honour what they stand for,’ says Pratt, who’s best-known as celestial human hybrid Peter Quill/Star-Lord in the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise, and dinosaur expert Owen Grady in the Jurassic World movies. Pratt is joined in the cast by his real-life brother-in-law, The Staircase’s Patrick Schwarzenegger, who plays fellow SEAL Donny Mitchell. We don’t know if it’s because he is in the middle of a conspiracy, or because he is losing his mind." "As the series unfolds, his paranoia starts to grow. He can’t explain what is going on, and he doesn’t know if he is culpable in the death of his men. We realise that his recollection of events is wrong. (Image credit: Prime Video) The Terminal List cast - Chris Pratt on playing James ReeceĬhris Pratt who plays James Reece in The Terminal List says: "It’s very much a psychological thriller in tone – very dark and twisted. There's danger and action throughout The Terminal List. ![]() ![]() Translations soon followed for England and America, and in its first decade it was issued in no less than thirteen different editions, assuring Spyri's financial future following the death of her husband in 1884. The book was an instant success and Spyri followed it up with a sequel in 1881. Success came in 1880 with "Heidi's Lehr- und Wanderjahre", the story of an orphan girl growing up in the Alps. Throughout the 1870's she published several stories for adults and children based around her own reminiscences of growing up in Hirzel in rural Switzerland. ![]() Johanna Spyri began writing as a hobby, having her first story published pseudonymously in 1871. A sound set of an extremely fragile set of books. ![]() Internally clean with occasional spotting. Second volume rebacked with original paper spine laid down. ![]() Second volume in original publisher's pictorial paper covered boards.įirst volume a little worn with short splits to the cloth at the rear joint, hinges repaired. ![]() First volume bound in original publisher's mauve cloth lettered in gilt with border design in black to the upper cover. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But beneath the façade of the confident performer, Bassey's mental health was in a precipitous decline, culminating in a breakdown that resulted in hospitalization and a diagnosis of Bipolar II. By the time she was in her early '20s, Bassey was a spoken word artist and traveling with HBO's Def Poetry Jam, channeling her life into art. "We will not think or talk about mental health or normalcy the same after reading this momentous art object moonlighting as a colossal collection of essays.” (Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy)įrom her early childhood in Nigeria through her adolescence in Oklahoma, Bassey Ikpi lived with a tumult of emotions, cycling between extreme euphoria and deep depression - sometimes within the course of a single day. Ī Bookish Best Nonfiction of Summer Selection.Īn Electric Lit 48 Books by Women and Nonbinary Authors of Color to Read in 2019. ![]() Ī Publishers Weekly Spring Preview Selection.Ī Bustle 21 New Memoirs That Will Inspire, Motivate, and Captivate You.Her remarkable memoir in essays implodes our preconceptions of the mind and normalcy as Bassey bares her own truths and lies for us all to behold with radical honesty and brutal intimacy.Ī Bitch Magazine Most Anticipated Book of 2019 In I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying, Bassey Ikpi explores her life - as a Nigerian-American immigrant, a black woman, a slam poet, a mother, a daughter, an artist - through the lens of her mental health and diagnosis of bipolar II and anxiety. A 2020 Audie finalist - short stories/collections ![]() |