![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Haven offers her a deal Sera can have her freedom, just as soon as she finds her replacement… which requires her to spend the summer in close quarters with the husband she does not want, but somehow cannot resist. There is only one problem - he already has one.Īfter years in exile, Seraphina, Duchess of Haven, returns to London with a single goal - to reclaim the life she left and find happiness, unencumbered by the man who broke her heart. The Day of the Duchess Sarah MacLean Sarah MacLean The one woman he will never forget Malcolm Bevingstoke, Duke of Haven, has lived the last three years in self-imposed solitude, paying the price for a mistake he can never reverse and a love he lost forever. The dukedom does not wait, however, and Haven requires an heir, which means he must find himself a wife by summer’s end. Marcus Bevingstoke, Duke of Haven, has lived the last three years in self-imposed solitude, paying the price for a mistake he can never reverse and a love he lost forever. MacLean once again dazzles readers with her literary prowess by delivering another perfectly matched pair of protagonists, a surfeit of amusing secondary characters, stellar use of sensuality, and polished writing generously seasoned with her inimitable, irresistible sense of wit. ‘Do yourself a favor and discover the compelling magic of Sarah MacLean.’ Amanda Quick ‘Romance novelist Sarah MacLean has reignited the genre with a bolder edge.’ New Yorker ![]()
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![]() ![]() This spring, however, the flame-haired editor is embarking on style pastures new, and has touched down in London to celebrate the launch of her debut fragrance, Grace by Grace Coddington, at Dover Street Market which distils the delicate yet distinctive scent of English rose. ![]() “Right through my teens I was always more outside than in, sailing, climbing and clambering over the rugged slopes of the nearby mountains of Snowdonia, or wandering along our island’s country lanes, their hedgerows dotted with wildflowers.”įlowers, of all incarnations, have remained a fragrant fixture in Coddington’s romantic and extraordinary vision, best realised in her quixotic fashion stories for American Vogue, for which, until January of this year, she remained as creative director. “I did love the outdoors,” she writes in the accompanying text. The picture – taken in the wild and bountiful surroundings of her family home in Trearddur Bay in rural Wales – is encroached by a large tangle of white hydrangeas in full bloom. Chapter one of Grace Coddington’s eponymous 2012 memoir features a candid photograph of a young Grace, standing hand-in-hand with her older sister Rosemary in cream knitted separates hand-woven by her mother. ![]() ![]() The threat has shifted from a totalitarian "big brother" state to a universal global architecture of automatic sensors and smart capabilities: A "big other" that imposes a fundamentally new form of power and unprecedented concentrations of knowledge in private companies-free from democratic oversight and control". The consequences of surveillance capitalism for us as individuals and as a society vividly come to life in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism's pathbreaking analysis of power. ![]() It is not simply about tracking us and selling ads, it is the business model for an ominous new marketplace that aims at nothing less than predicting and modifying our everyday behavior-where we go, what we do, what we say, how we feel, who we're with. Zuboff tackles the social, political, business, personal, and technological meaning of "surveillance capitalism" as an unprecedented new market form. Now, three decades later she asks why the once-celebrated miracle of digital is turning into a nightmare. Her seminal book In the Age of the Smart Machine foresaw the consequences of a then-unfolding era of computer technology. "Shoshana Zuboff, named "the true prophet of the information age" by the Financial Times, has always been ahead of her time. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And you know what they say, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas! Once they got things straightened out, they were fine and started to recognize that there was a real connection there between them. When Luca and Marcel first meet, lets just say there were some misunderstandings as to what Marcel’s purpose really was. She is in the hospital and needs him to fill in for her as Luca’s PA during a business trip. Grey is out of town so Marcel has some time off which is why he got an emergency call from his cousin, Jillian, telling him she was calling in a long overdue favor. Marcel Abbott is the personal assistant to the billionaire business man, Grey Blackwood. Like this trip, going to Vegas to visit a hotel owned by his cousin. He relies heavily on his assistant, Jillian, to help to keep him from making rash decisions while visiting possible investments. He is single and devotes all his time to his business. In this book we meet Luca Bernardi, billionaire hotelier. I’ve been so looking forward to the first book in the series, Hostile Takeover and this was the perfect introduction. Luca & Marcel is book #0.5 in the Hostile Takeover series by Lucy Lennox. ![]() ![]() ![]() Colleen’s excitement was contagious and I recognized that feeling. ![]() I bought Sea of Tranquility after reading that blog post. I think blogs may be my favorite way, especially when it’s a blog post like this one, where author Colleen Hoover gushes about a new author she’s discovered, Katja Millay and her book Sea of Tranquility. I’ve discovered new authors via Twitter, Kindleboards, the top 100 lists, and blogs. If anything, I’m buying more books than ever, but now probably 90-95% of what I’m buying are ebook versions. One of the things I love about reading ebooks is that the books no longer pile up, and you can’t beat the instant gratification you get buying an ebook with one click. ![]() Some of the bargains were too good to pass up. The first time I visited my local library happened to be on the one day of the year they were also selling books. Somehow I still managed to spend money at the library. I may have promised her that I’d look into that. She commented that hardcovers were so expensive, and that I should buy fewer books and visit our local library more. A few years ago she noticed that most of them were hardcovers as I often buy books the instant they are released or the moment I discover them, if they are new to me. My sister has always benefited from this as I usually pass along my favorites to her when I finish. I buy lots of books, in all formats, and they have a tendency to pile up. Like many writers, I’ve always been an avid reader. ![]() ![]() ![]() Badass, gun-toting heroine who, though pretty cool, is exactly the same in each book. My initial excitement over this return to the Western genre is petering out, because it seems that everyone is telling the same story. Maybe I would have liked it more had I not already read the first two thirds in Walk on Earth a Stranger, Vengeance Road and Under a Painted Sky. I didn't think it worked and, if you ask me, it succeeded in taking an area of the world that is oft-unexplored in modern fantasy and westernizing it.Ģ) For the most part, this book mirrors the plot of the stream of other Westerns we've seen lately. By "Western", I mean cowboys, shoot outs, saloons, etc. On two levels.ġ) Firstly, I just did not like the fusion of Arabian mythology with a Western setting. ![]() I'm willing to admit that part of my problem with this book is a personal one. It takes a very long time to get there, though, and the journey is a slow one. Rebel of the Sands does pick up toward the end when the real fantasy and magic elements are finally introduced to the story. And yet, for the first two thirds, I was so painfully bored I very nearly DNFed it. A Middle-Eastern fantasy with djinn, magic and mythical horses? It's like a unique and delicious recipe for exactly the kind of book I would love. Jin had the sort of smile that would turn over whole empires to the enemy - that made me feel like suddenly I understood him exactly, even though I knew nothing about him. ![]() ![]() When the posters begin appearing everywhere, people wonder who is behind them and start to panic. We are fugitives, and the law is skinny with hunger for us. ![]() The edge is a shantytown filled with gold seekers. Romantic and creative sparks begin to fly, and when the two jointly make an unsigned poster, shot through with an enigmatic phrase, it becomes unforgettable to anyone who sees it. Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge-aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner-is determined to make it through yet another summer in Coalfield, Tennessee, when she meets Zeke, a talented artist who has just moved into his grandmother’s house and who is as awkward as Frankie is. Louis Post-Dispatch * Sunset Magazine * Time * Town & Country * The Millions * USA Today * Vogue * Vulture * The WeekĪn exuberant, bighearted novel about two teenage misfits who spectacularly collide one fateful summer, and the art they make that changes their lives forever ![]() Named a Best Book of the Year by: Time * Kirkus Reviews * USA Today * Entertainment Weekly * Garden & Gun * Vox * Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionĪ Most Anticipated Book of Fall from: Associated Press * Atlanta Journal-Constitution * BookPage * Book Riot * The Boston Globe * Entertainment Weekly * Esquire * Garden & Gun * LitHub * St. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Annie returns, she forces Paul to burn his Fast Cars manuscript then buys him a Royal typewriter and tells him to write his "best novel," Misery's Return(67). When Annie finishes reading Misery's Child and discovers Misery has died, she becomes so upset that she leaves Paul alone for days. After cleaning it up later, Annie forces Paul to use soapy water to swallow his Novril. ![]() Her anger causes her to throw a soup bowl against a wall, shattering it. Paul quickly realizes that Annie is "dangerously crazy" and is keeping him captive in her home (10).Īfter reading the Fast Cars manuscript while Paul recovers, Annie becomes upset about its "profanity" (23). Drunk on celebratory champagne and caught off-guard by a storm, Paul crashes his Camaro while reaching for his cigarettes. Misery "died five pages from the end of Misery's Child," the last novel in the Misery series (15). ![]() ![]() Paul had just left the Boulderado Hotel after finishing Fast Cars, his first novel that did not "feature Misery" (15). Paul suffers severe leg injuries, which Annie sets crudely and treats with "a pain-killer with a heavy codeine base called Novril" (9). Misery begins just after Paul's car accident when Annie pulls him out of his car and drives him to her house, a remote farm outside the fictional Sidewinder, Colorado. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A fifth installment titled After Everything is currently in post-production, while a prequel and additional sequel centered around the children of the series' main characters are also in development. The film was followed by a number of sequels including, After We Fell in September 2021, and After Ever Happy in September 2022. Despite this, it was a box-office success, grossing $48 million worldwide. Like its predecessor, the film received overwhelmingly negative reviews from critics, with many criticizing the plot, characters, acting and glamourized portrayal of toxic relationships. The film stars Josephine Langford and Hero Fiennes Tiffin reprising their roles as Tessa Young and Hardin Scott, respectively, with Dylan Sprouse, Shane Paul McGhie, Candice King, Khadijha Red Thunder, Inanna Sarkis, Samuel Larsen, and Selma Blair in supporting roles.Īfter We Collided premiered in select territories on September 2, 2020, before being released simultaneously in theaters and video-on-demand in the United States on October 23, 2020, by Open Road Films. Based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Todd, it is the sequel to After (2019) and the second overall installment in the After film series. After We Collided is a 2020 American romantic drama film directed by Roger Kumble, and written by Anna Todd and Mario Celaya. ![]() ![]() ![]() Series: Wraith Kings, Book 2 Reviewed By: Arlena Dean Rating: Five Review: Eidolon by Grace Draven My. The demons thought vanquished are stirring again, and a warlord with blood-soaked ambition turns a journey of compassion into a fight for survival. Title: Eidolon Author: Grace Draven Publisher: G. Blessing of Authority, Blessing of Kings, Blessing of Kings. And while Jon finds himself having more fun in Hell than he would have imagined, the dangers are real, with blood, violence, and epic battle scenes galore. Accompanying him is sha-Anhuset, the Kai woman he admires and desires most-a woman barely tolerant of him.ĭevoted to her regent, Anhuset reluctantly agrees to act as a Kai ambassador on the trip, even though the bold margrave known as the Beladine Stallion gets under her skin like no other, and Anhuset fears he'll worm his way into her armored heart as well.īut guilt and unwelcome attraction are the least of their problems. Azure Drake, Azure Explorer, Baba Naga, Babbling Book, Backfire, Backroom Bouncer. Wraith King 4 is a medieval fantasy book that contains medieval battles, warrior females who find Jon to be different from the men of their world. ![]() Plagued by guilt and nightmares, Serovek Pangion sets out to deliver the soulless body of the monk Megiddo to the heretical Jeden Order for safekeeping. ![]() The demonic horde that threatened to devour the world has been defeated, but at great cost. There is book cover at the top of website just below that we can see Facebook, twitter and some other icons and below it, read and download two options are. ![]() |