![]() ![]() ![]() This book started with a bang-the ship carrying her to India to meet her fiance was just lost to sea, along with her parents. But in a time of terrible darkness, he and Emma will discover that love itself can be perilous - and that a single decision can alter one's life forever.Ī lifetime of grief later, in a cold London spring, Emma and Julian must finally confront the truth: no matter how hard one tries to deny it, some pasts cannot be disowned.and some passions never die. Cynical and impatient with both worlds, Julian has never imagined that the place he might belong is in the embrace of a woman with a reluctant laugh and haunted eyes. In London, they toast Sinclair with champagne. She must turn for help to the one man whom she should not trust, but cannot resist: Julian Sinclair, the dangerous and dazzling heir to the Duke of Auburn. But when the pillars of privilege topple, her fiancé's betrayal leaves Emma no choice. ![]() Sick of tragedy, done with rebellion, Emmaline Martin vows to settle quietly into British Indian society. ![]()
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5/29/2023 0 Comments Bliss by Fiona Zedde![]() ![]() They share a flirtation that leads to Sinclair dumping her boyfriend. That is until she meets Regina, an author who chronicles her sexual experiences through her books. What’s missing in her life is passion: passion about her boyfriend, her job, her life. And no one knows how she lays awake a night, suffering from bouts of insomnia. ![]() But no one knows that her relationship with Yuen isn’t as great as it seems. She has the boyfriend, the good-paying job, and a spacious apartment–the things some define as success. Bliss Sinclair, an uptight accountant, lives her life by the numbers. Zedde’s book is a tasty, colorful journey to a woman’s sexual satisfaction. The tagline on Fiona Zedde’s debut novel, BLISS, reads, “Every woman wants it.” If “it” is based on the steamy scenes found within these pages, then Zedde ain’t never lied. Publisher/Date: Kensington Publishing Corporation, Aug. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments A painted house book![]() As the weeks pass Luke sees and hears things no seven-year-old could possibly be prepared for, and finds himself keeping secrets that not only threaten the crop but will change the lives of the Chandlers forever. For six weeks they pick cotton, battling the heat, the rain, the fatigue, and, sometimes, each other. ![]() The Chandlers farm eighty acres that they rent, not own, and when the cotton is ready they hire a truckload of Mexicans and a family from the Ozarks to help harvest it. The narrator is a farm boy named Luke Chandler, age seven, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house that's never been painted. ![]() It could be a 'good crop'." Thus begins from author John Grisham, a story inspired by his own childhood in rural Arkansas. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my father, over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. ![]() ![]() It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. "The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments When women invented television![]() ![]() Gertrude Berg turned her radio show into a Jewish family comedy that spawned a play, a musical, an advice column, a line of house dresses, and other products. Irna Phillips turned real-life tragedy into daytime serials featuring female dominated casts. But four women-each an independent visionary- saw an opportunity and carved their own paths, and in so doing invented the way we watch tv today. When television arrived, few radio moguls were interested in the upstart industry and its tiny production budgets, and expensive television sets were out of reach for most families. ![]() ![]() It was the Golden Age of Radio and powerful men were making millions in advertising dollars reaching thousands of listeners every day. New York Times bestselling author of Seinfeldia Jennifer Keishin Armstrong tells the little-known story of four trailblazing women in the early days of television who laid the foundation of the industry we know today. When Women Invented Television offers proof that what we watch is a reflection of who we are as a people.” - Nathalia Holt, New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls “Leaps at the throat of television history and takes down the patriarchy with its fervent, inspired prose. New and Noteworthy -New York Times Book Review Must-Read Book of March -Entertainment Weekly Best Books of March -HelloGiggles ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Vixen's Run by Zenina Masters![]() Five years’ worth of cursed nightmares are following Elly, and she will be lucky to make it out alive. After five more years, she is sent out on loan to the Crossroads, but leaving the court is dangerous. ![]() She will need them all as she goes from being a master musician to the court’s main entertainment. Years later, she has completed her training, and she has not only learned what she is capable of, but she has learned what she can withstand and her personal strengths. It will take a while before she actually meets her family. On her first day at the school, she learns what she is and what kind of magic runs in her family. The next thing she knew she was being whisked away to a private school that catered exclusively to the half-breeds left behind by fey who travelled in the human world. Her attempts to hide her ears and the change in her reality were foiled by class bullies. ![]() ![]() Elly’s exposure as a half-fey was a shock to all around her. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments The royal governess book![]() ![]() ![]() And we get a glimpse of Elizabeth meeting her soul mate and her royal wedding. We witness the terrifying moments during World War II as Hitler’s planes flew over Windsor castle. We get a backstage pass to a royal coronation. Marion guides us through the moments when Elizabeth learns her uncle has abdicated the throne in favor of marrying his true love, and what that now means for her. Marion takes them on tube rides through London, Christmas shopping at Woolworth’s, and helping kids less fortunate than they are. Accepting this role, however, Marion realizes she has an inside track to showing the young royals life outside the castle walls that they call home. It seems hard to imagine not wanting an inside pass to the royals and the glitz and glamour of royal life, but Marion had her heart set on teaching the poor in the slums. It’s 1933 and Marion Crawford has taken a role she really didn’t want: Marion is tutoring Princess Elizabeth and her sister Margaret. "An Insider's Look Into Raising a Queen" The Royal Governess ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With the aid of Rinn's adventuring uncle Erik and his partner Hesekiel, they investigate the mystery of his enchanted sleep. Rinn has grown up with the Tea Dragons that inhabit their village, but stumbling across a real dragon turns out to be a different matter entirely! Aedhan is a young dragon who was appointed to protect the village, but fell asleep in the forest eighty years ago. As she befriends them and their shy ward, Minette, Greta sees how the craft enriches their lives-and eventually her own. The Tea Dragon SocietyĪfter discovering a lost tea dragon in the marketplace, Greta learns about the dying art form of tea dragon caretaking from the kind tea shop owners, Hesekiel and Erik. This charming and peaceful trilogy is heartwarming, inclusive, and absolutely magical. Now collected in a beautiful box set with brand-new box cover art, readers can experience The Tea Dragon Society, The Tea Dragon Festival, and The Tea Dragon Tapestry from start to finish. O'Neill offers three stories featuring the enchanting world of Tea Dragons. ![]() "This book is wonderfully inclusive, and depicts a distinct and expressive cast of LGBTQIA characters and people of color." - School Library Journal In the bewitching Tea Dragon Society series, two-time Eisner Award-winning creator K. ![]() ![]() ![]() But when she finally reunites with her family, things are far different than she remembers, and her loved ones are less than thrilled to welcome their prodigal daughter home. ![]() Haunted by the folk stories her mother told her about a shaman's journey to the underworld to retrieve her child, Amy undertakes a quest that strips away all the elements of her new identity, leaving her ready to make amends. Vowing to be there for her mother in death as she hasn't been in life, she books a flight to China. ![]() How could she not? Her mother has never recovered from her oldest daughter leaving her, first for school, then to pursue her art, and finally to marry a white man. ![]() And so it is this stranger who tells Amy that her mother has died of a broken heart.Īmy blames herself. When in the fall of 1999 she receives a letter from her sister, written in her birth tongue of Manchu, she needs to take it to a Chinatown produce vendor to get it translated. Angel Di Zhang's intensely cinematic debut novel travels from the streets of New York City to northeast China, on the trail of a young photographer who needs to reconcile with her dead mother before she is able to see the world again.Īmy Hilton, born Wu Aimee in the tiny Chinese village of Eternal Spring, has been living and working as a photographer in New York City for so long she's started to dream in English. ![]() ![]() ![]() Barlas argues that the most crucial aspect of this process was the classical legal theory methodology of making the Qur’an depended on and dislodging its hermeneutical privilege vis-à-vis its own exegesis by that of the concept of Sunnah which was later conceptually conflated with the canonical ahadith body of literature. ![]() This process was “central in determining and defining religious epistemology and methodology, thus also to how Muslims came to read the Qur’an”(p. She does so systematically on both historical and hermeneutical grounds.On historical grounds (discussed in Part One, chapters two and three of the book), Barlas argues that the strong association between patriarchy evident in the most classical commentaries of the Qur’anic exegesis and the Qur’an itself (in the eyes of those who find the Qur’an to be a patriarchal text) is a result of the manner in which Muslim history has unfolded. Barlas’ book under review is in many ways a fascinating and incisive scholarly writing which purports to restore what the author views as the Qur’anic basis of sexual equality in Islam by freeing the Qur’an from the patriarchal nature of its classical and some modern exegesis (or as Barlas would argue eisegesis). ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Ruby red book![]() The unfortunate part is everything I said in the first review is still true in this book. While I still have one book (at least one produced book) – I read Pastel Pink less than a week ago and I was able to get through the second book in quick succession – really allowing me to dive deep into the series. ![]() Another is doing so with a full series as well. One of the cool things about being an avid listener is being able to start and finish books quickly. I wish Powerful Purples was up already, I can hardly wait to see where this adventure ends. I enjoyed the trips out to spring, they were the highlights of the book. I also found it interesting to see how the other races treat the different colours within their race. He is definitely my favourite character in both books. May I say I absolutely LOVE Jax and everything he stands for. I found the first book Pastel Pink gripping because it tackled some of the hard hitting subjects like racism and prejudice behaviour, and I was pleased to discover that Jax and his close circle of warriors are still fighting for equal rights between the colours. It took us to lots of new places on Zadok and allowed us to see the planet and different races through multiple sets of eyes. This book was a wonderful sequel and most certainly didn't disappoint. Ruby Red started precisely where Pastel Pink ended and again had me hooked from the get go. ![]() ![]() Thanks to Booksirens for the free copy in exchange for a review. ![]() |
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