![]() ![]() A former teacher, she's now writing sexy romance stories full time. Cartland in her grave, but to her way of thinking, a hot, sexy hero never goes out of fashion. And it's a safe bet she'll never stop, because now she writes them too! Granted Raine's stories are edgy enough to turn Ms. Raine Miller has been reading romance novels since she picked up that first Barbara Cartland book at the tender age of thirteen. NYT, USA Today, Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author Here is the fiery story of what happens when two people surrender to a love so great it can heal the scars of the past and give way to a life of pure, rapturous ecstasy. Will Ethan be able to save Brynne from a past that keeps her locked in fear? Will he ever feel the warmth of her touch, the solidity of her trust again? This is a love-struck man who is willing to do whatever it takes to possess the heart of the woman he loves. With political threats now directed at Brynne, Ethan is running out of time and he’ll need to gather all his strength and agility to protect her from the dangers that could take her away from him forever. ![]() The passion between them was explosive, but the secrets they hid from each other are dark and chilling and are powerful enough to destroy their shot at a life together. ![]() He’s unwilling to live without her and isn’t giving up-he’s dead-set on getting his beautiful American girl back. ![]() He’s broken Brynne’s trust and she’s left him. A man who’ll go all in.Įthan Blackstone has a problem on his hands. Book OverviewThe second part in The Blackstone Affair series! ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Censors have sought to guard the cultural narratives of the mainstream from alternative and fringe views. Many authors have been suppressed more because of their minority status than their actual words. Esther’s journey is ultimately one of hope and healing a tragic counterpoint to the events which shortly followed the book’s publication. From the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature. Lorelai is suggesting that going to the party will be depressing, like reading The Bell Jar, although the book is actually rather witty, with a critical eye on 1950s society, and many moments of black comedy. Although early reviews were lukewarm, it’s now often a set text in high school and college courses. It wasn’t published in the US until 1971, and was adapted into film in 1979. Plath killed herself about a month after the novel’s initial publication in the UK, and it was first published under her name in 1967. ![]() It is semi-autobiographical, detailing the nervous breakdown of a college student named Esther Greenwood in the 1950s, including a suicide attempt which sees her committed to a psychiatric hospital. The Bell Jar is the only novel written by American poet Sylvia Plath, and first published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas in 1963. LORELAI: Honey, why don’t you just stay home and read The Bell Jar? Same effect. LORELAI: You’re going to a Chilton party? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With its melancholy shading, Lee's new twist on an old tale is sure to engage fans of dark fantasy. Lee casts the evil queen in a sympathetic light, depicting her as a tortured soul who in later years begins to question her dark fate. She later bears him a girl, Candacis, whom she immediately shuns as an incarnation of evil, mumbling death spells as the infant tries to suckle her. Depending on how you flesh out the rest of the tale, this could either be the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone, or the fairy tale Snow White. Draco forces Arpazia to travel with him and his barbaric army. Originally titled 'Snowdrop' and published in Kinderund Hausmarchen in 1812, the Grimms' 'Snow White' is a darker, chillier story than the musical Disney cartoon, yet it too had been cleaned up for publication, edited to emphasize the good Protestant values held by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Soon after he has her sister, Lilca, hanged because Lilca betrayed the castle. ![]() The evil queen, Arpazia, first appears as an innocent princess of 14, who is terrified when Draco, a rising new leader, conquers her father's castle and rapes her. Drawing on the sex and violence implicit in the original fairy tale, Lee gives a modern, introspective angle to the classic story. Horror and fantasy veteran Lee, author of such adult fairy tale collections as Red as Blood and Forests of the Night, offers an enticingly dark and seductive reworking of ""Snow White"" that echoes the macabre ambience of the Brothers Grimm. ![]() ![]() ![]() The result is a fascinating exploration of where breasts came from, where they have ended up, and what we can do to save them. Her investigation follows the life cycle of the breast from puberty to pregnancy to menopause, taking her from a plastic surgeon’s office where she learns about the importance of cup size in Texas to the laboratory where she discovers the presence of environmental toxins in her own breast milk. Florence Williams writes of the development of women's breasts from the first gentle flush of adolescence, to the full blown potential for feeding a child. In this informative and highly entertaining account, intrepid science reporter Florence Williams sets out to uncover the latest scientific findings from the fields of anthropology, biology, and medicine. Breasts is an insightful compendium comprising 14 fascinating chapters recounting from babyhood to aged adulthood everything every woman should know about her own body. What makes breasts so mercurial-and so vulnerable? Increasingly, the odds are stacked against us in the struggle with breast cancer, even among men. Breasts are getting bigger, arriving earlier, and attracting newfangled chemicals. ![]() But in the modern world, the breast is changing. Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History E-Kitap AçıklamasıĪ 2013 Los Angeles Times Book Award Winner in the Science & Technology categoryĪn engaging narrative about an incredible, life-giving organ and its imperiled modern fate.**ĭid you know that breast milk contains substances similar to cannabis? Or that it’s sold on the Internet for 262 times the price of oil? Feted and fetishized, the breast is an evolutionary masterpiece. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The problem before me, as I saw in the first flash, was this: I had to deal with a subject of which the dramatic climax, or rather the anti-climax, occurs a generation later than the first acts of the tragedy. So much for the origin of the story there is nothing else of interest to say of it, except as concerns its construction. I give the impression merely as a personal one it accounts for "Ethan Frome," and may, to some readers, in a measure justify it. Even the abundant enumeration of sweet-fern, asters and mountain-laurel, and the conscientious reproduction of the vernacular, left me with the feeling that the outcropping granite had in both cases been overlooked. ![]() Even before that final initiation, however, I had had an uneasy sense that the New England of fiction bore little- except a vague botanical and dialectical- resemblance to the harsh and beautiful land as I had seen it. I had known something of New England village life long before I made my home in the same county as my imaginary Starkfield though, during the years spent there, certain of its aspects became much more familiar to me. ![]() ![]() ![]() challenges, and how she dealt with them, setting the tone for the rest of her career. ![]() Balancing her vivacious, outgoing personality with her desire to be taken seriously, she overcame every obstacle in her way: insecurity, an eating disorder, being typecast, sexism. This book is.”īeginning in early childhood, Couric was inspired by her journalist father to pursue the career he loved but couldn’t afford to stay in. It is not the whole story, and it is not the whole me. On TV, you are larger than life but smaller, too. Of the medium she loves, the one that made her a household name, she says, “Television can put you in a box the flat-screen can flatten. ![]() In her brutally honest, hilarious, heartbreaking memoir, she reveals what was going on behind the scenes of her sometimes tumultuous personal and professional life-a story she’s never shared, until now. For more than forty years, Katie Couric has been an iconic presence in the media world. This heartbreaking, hilarious, and brutally honest memoir shares the deeply personal life story of a girl next door and her transformation into a household name. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s the work of the novelist and journalist Stephen Marche, who coaxed the story from three programs, ChatGPT, Sudowrite and Cohere, using a variety of prompts. Now comes a new novella, “Death of an Author,” a murder mystery published under the pseudonym Aidan Marchine. Its presence has crawled like a tumor through the spine of their other abiding freakouts. ChatGPT has given many authors a case of the dreads. ![]() It provides autofill, or something like it, on an uncanny level. The fire has been stirred under these questions thanks to the sudden arrival of sophisticated artificial intelligence chatbots, notably ChatGPT. Jorge Luis Borges made a decisive career out of recognizing, in his ficciones, the near impossibility of making original works of literature. Theodore Adorno argued that writing poetry after Auschwitz was barbaric. Samuel Richardson, in the 18th century, wondered if the novel had said what it had to say. That was your human correspondent, writing on a laptop in a drafty apartment in Manhattan and advancing an argument that’s been plausibly made for centuries: that literature is dead. Those weren’t, you might have guessed, words from Siri. ![]() What’s come since has been the death rattle, and remixes of that death rattle.” The last one that mattered, closing a millennium’s loop, was probably Zadie Smith’s ‘ White Teeth,’ published in 2000. The first novel was probably Murasaki Shikibu’s ‘ Tale of Genji,’ written in the 11th century. “Since you asked, it was the subtlest form of expression known to humans. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It's an emotionally charged story that readers will find compelling and disturbing." - School Library Journal Like it, Monster lends itself well to classroom or group discussion. In some respects, the novel is reminiscent of Virginia Walter's Making Up Megaboy, another book enriched by its ambiguity. " Monster will challenge readers with difficult questions, to which there are no definitive answers. Although descriptions of the robbery and prison life are realistic and not overly graphic, the subject matter is more appropriate for high-school-age than younger readers." - Booklist "The tense drama of the courtroom scenes will enthrall readers, but it is the thorny moral questions raised in Steve's journal that will endure in readers' memories. "A novel that in both form and subject guarantees a wide teen audience." - Horn Book (starred review) ![]() "A riveting courtroom drama that will leave a powerful, haunting impression on young minds." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And as ambushes and betrayals push Zahru to increasingly dark tactics, she wonders if perhaps Kasta had it right all along: maybe peace was never an option. Yet diplomacy proves to be futile, and when Zahru turns to Orkena's allies for help, she finds that none are willing to come to her aid-not without Kasta ruling at her side.Īs Wyrim advances on the capital, Zahru is desperate to protect her people, even if that means accepting Kasta's help. Zahru has risen as Mestrah, and she is determined to peacefully end the escalating tensions with Wyrim, her country's long-time enemy. In this heart-pounding conclusion to The Kinder Poison trilogy-which People magazine proclaimed a "delicious high-stakes adventure"-war looms over Orkena, but can Zahru save her people without losing herself? ![]() ![]() ![]() By AUTHOR Jane Austen Eric Carle Lewis Carroll Roald Dahl Charles Dickens Sydney Hanson C.Indestructubles Little Golden Books Magic School Bus Magic Tree House Pete the Cat Step Into Reading Book The Hunger Games ![]()
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