The Audio on this one is really great, with both voices perfect for the characters. Melanie writes the heck out of friends to lovers, and the way she writes the good guy, it’s next level good. I knew Beckett’s story was going to be a good one. There is something extra special about these characters. The Bellamy Creek Series is my favorite of Melanie Harlow’s. Like any cowboy, he’s good with a rope and knows exactly how to tie me up.Ī perfect ending to our travels through Bellamy Creek. Nothing has ever felt so right, but his past has taught him not to believe in happily-ever-after, and every perfect night I spend in his arms brings us closer to good-bye. And once we give into each other, we can’t stop. That’s not the only big thing he’s got - which I discover the night I finally sneak across the hall to his bedroom and shed my inhibitions right alongside my pajamas. I only returned to my hometown of Bellamy Creek to sell my late mother’s house, and he just invited me and my son to stay with him because he’s got a big heart. A lot.īut I’m a single mom trying to move on with my life, and he’s running that ranch single-handedly while taking care of his elderly father. He makes a girl sweat just looking at him.and I look. And who wouldn’t appreciate those strong hands, that massive chest, and the way he fills out a pair of Levis? Yes, I’ve had a secret crush on him since we were 17. Sure, he’s a hot cowboy who left Wall Street behind to take over his family’s ranch. That’s all Beckett Weaver and I have ever been.
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An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases Newly revised explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play The authoritative edition of Julius Caesar from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes: Shakespeare’s play keeps this debate alive. Renaissance writers disagreed over the assassination, seeing Brutus, a leading conspirator, as either hero or villain. For it, he turned to a key event in Roman history: Caesar’s death at the hands of friends and fellow politicians. Shakespeare may have written Julius Caesar as the first of his plays to be performed at the Globe, in 1599. So these wizarding fairy-tales have much in common with their muggle counterparts: they exist to express human hopes and fears, and to teach a lesson or two. Then, the intractable and eternal human predicaments of love, death and the pursuit of happiness are not necessarily resolved any more easily by the possessors of wands. You might think that magic would solve any fairy-tale dilemma, but it transpires that there is always somebody who can cast a more powerful curse, or a creature who will not yield to one's best enchantments. In the latter, witches and wizards are relegated to walk-on, if pivotal, roles within The Tales of Beedle the Bard, they themselves are the heroes and heroines. " When I conceived the idea of writing The Tales of Beedle the Bard in full, I was intrigued to discover how wizarding fairy-tales would differ from those told to muggle children. He had to make time to sell his “Big Idea” to potential backers. Curtis worked frenetic “sixteen-hour days, seven days a week,” neglecting his wife and family, incurring major debt. He vowed to publish 20 volumes documenting the 80 remaining North American tribes in 1,500 photographs with accompanying ethnographic text - within five years. But it’s clear his sympathies lie with the audacious creator of the arresting images of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, the aging Apache Geronimo, Navajo horsemen diminutive against the towering cliffs of the Canyon de Chelly, Hopi maidens with their hair in squash blossom swirls, and some 40,000 more that are his legacy.Ĭurtis’s “impossibly grandiose idea’’ began to take shape. Winner of a National Book Award for “The Worst Hard Time,’’ his book about the Depression-era Dust Bowl, Egan here offers a carefully researched portrait of the man the Indians called the “Shadow Catcher.” Evenhanded and free of conjecture, Egan’s narrative traces the career of the 6-foot-2 mountaineer with the Vandyke beard who was born in 1868 and scrabbled from poverty to prominence in Seattle with his camera, along the way rubbing elbows with scientists, presidents, and titans of commerce, before fading into near oblivion before his death in 1952.Įgan takes a neutral stance toward Curtis’s sometime manipulations of his subjects’ costumes and rituals. Timothy Egan brings liveliness and a wealth of detail to his biography of the legendary American photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis. Hell broke loose when Velasco finally proposed in the manner that he was familiar with but sending Grace packing out of his life in the process. Their story gently develops into a simmering romance which none of them was willing to admit to until later in the story. The two main characters – Roman Velasco (aka the Bird) was the rich, handsome, famous and accomplished (in the eyes of everyone) artist and Grace Moore – the rather simple, mother of one and a divorcee, who came to seek employment as Velasco’s assistant. Uh-huh! That shows how gripping the story line was.Īs usual, Francine Rivers did not disappoint with this novel. With a more busy schedule currently, I wondered when and how I was going to read the almost 500-page Christian romance novel but surprisingly, I took two days to read the entire book. The Masterpiece was the huge book I got for myself last Christmas. Life is tough for Zoe – she’s cash-strapped, tired of London and anxious about the fact that her three-year-old son Hari refuses to speak. Mirror Book Club: Elly Griffiths, Anne Enright, Graham Swift and Ann Cleeves reviewed This brilliant writer brings the Fab Four’s personalities to glorious life in a book crammed with fascinating facts and intriguing ideas.īY JAKE KERRIDGE The Bookshop On The Shore, by Jenny Colgan Others are devoted to a public figure – Margaret Thatcher, Rolf Harris, Charles Manson – and how the Beatles affected their lives.Īnybody Brown doesn’t find interesting is out so there is barely a mention of Linda McCartney, while there’s page after page sending up poor old Yoko. Some chapters look at reproductions of fan letters, from the sweet to the borderline psychotic. As you’d expect, there are detailed chapters on the sacking of drummer Pete Best and the group’s first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.īut there are many imaginative touches too. There are 150 chapters, many very short, that explore a particular aspect of the group, from the band’s beginnings as The Quarrymen in 1957 to their 1970 split. Now Brown has done the same with the Fab Four. Mirror Book Club: Pete Paphides, Joseph Knox, Robin Muir and Joanna Trollope A daring thief is on the run from the alien law man who is determined to bring her to justice.A young artist must choose between her comfortable life on Earth or a war-torn space colony with her beloved.An apocalypse survivor battles the biomech-enhanced hunter who seeks to capture her.A space-obsessed physics teacher is kidnapped by a far-too-charming alien. A prisoner-of-war confronts the comrade who loved her, then left her for dead.A mind-wiped prostitute risks all when she recruits a dangerous stranger to help her escape a terrible fate.A space captain discovers the cyborg she loves just might be her greatest enemy.Experience love and adventure among the stars in ‘Tales from the SFR Brigade,’ a free digital anthology of eight Science Fiction Romance stories. With the brisk pacing of a novel, Guinn's richly detailed history will leave readers breathless until the final hail of bullets. Bonnie, who fancied herself a poet, wrote, "Some day they'll go down together," and they did, in a Louisiana ambush led by famed ex Texas Ranger Frank Hamer. In 1930, he met 19-year-old Bonnie Parker, and during the next four years Clyde, Bonnie and the ever-revolving members of the Barrow Gang robbed banks and armories all over the South, murdering at least seven people. Clyde Barrow, a scrawny kid in poverty-stricken West Dallasin the late 1920s, stole chickens before moving on to cars, following in the footsteps of his older brother, Buck. particularly competent crooks") without undermining the mystique of the Depression-era gunslingers. Simon & Schuster, $27 (480p) Journalist Guinn (Our Land Before We Die), in this intensely readable account, deromanticizes two of America's most notorious outlaws (they were "never. May 23, 2009, will be the 75th anniversary of the bloody deaths of the Depression's dynamic crime duo.Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and ClydeJeff Guinn. Jeff Guinn is the bestselling author of numerous books, including Go Down Together, The Last Gunfight, Manson, The Road to Jonestown, War on the Border, and Waco.He lives in Fort Worth, Texas, and is a member of the Texas Literary Hall of Fame. Interview What was the hardest, and easiest, part of writing dual POV? Was Sophie easier to write than Ever? Please consider supporting your local bookstore, which can be accessed through Indiebound or Bookshop: Loveboat Reunion is available for order at all major retailers. Sophie’s college professor thinks her first major project is “too feminine.” Xavier’s father gives him an ultimatum: finish high school or be cut off from his inheritance. Xavier, on the other hand, just wants to stay under his overbearing father’s radar, collect his trust fund when he turns eighteen, and concentrate on what makes him happy, for the first time ever.īut the world doesn’t seem to want Sophie and Xavier to succeed. Forget finding the right guy to make her dreams come true-Sophie is going to make her future happen for herself. Sophie is determined to be the best student Dartmouth’s ever had. Now fall is here, and it’s time to focus on what really matters. They’ve left the drama behind them back in Taipei-at their summer program, Loveboat-forever. Spectacularly.Īt least they’re friends now. It’s a classic tale of girl-meets-boy, boy-meets-other-girl, heart-gets-broken, revenge-is-plotted, everything-blows-up. There are so many questions, so many emotions that flood to the surface after seeing her father for the first time in years. But when she arrives to gorgeous Santorini, things are a little…awkward. So when Liv suddenly receives a postcard from her father explaining that National Geographic is funding a documentary about his theories on Atlantis-and will she fly out to Greece and help?-Liv jumps at the opportunity. What Liv does remember, though, is their shared love for Greek myths and the lost city of Atlantis. Liv Varanakis doesn’t have a lot of fond memories of her father, which makes sense-he fled to Greece when she was only eight. A New York Times Bestseller From the New York Times bestselling author of Love & Gelato comes a Mamma Mia! –inspired tale about a teen girl finding romance while trying to connect with her absent father in beautiful Santorini, Greece. |