![]() ![]() “The Duke of Christmas Present” by Sarah MacLean. When Louisa finds herself waltzing with the heartless Thorndale, she’s unnerved by his handsome looks-and surprising charm. Unless she catches a wealthy husband at the ball, the Duke of Thorndale will evict her family from their home. She won’t give up her plans he won’t give up his power.and neither of them sees that if they’re not careful, they’ll have no choice but to give up everything.including their hearts.įrom the ballrooms of London, to abandoned Scottish castles, to the snowy streets of Gilded Age New York, four bestselling authors whip up unforgettable Christmas romance. ![]() Soon, Hattie and Whit find themselves rivals in business and pleasure. ![]() ![]() He is more than happy to offer Hattie all she desires…for a price. When he wakes in a carriage at Hattie’s feet, Whit, a king of Covent Garden known to all the world as Beast, can’t help but wonder about the strange woman who frees him-especially when he discovers she’s headed for a night of pleasure. Everything is going perfectly…until she discovers the most beautiful man she’s ever seen tied up in her carriage and threatening to ruin the Year of Hattie before it’s even begun. But first, she intends to experience a taste of the pleasure she’ll forgo as a confirmed spinster. When Lady Henrietta Sedley declares her twenty-ninth year her own, she has plans to inherit her father’s business, to make her own fortune, and to live her own life. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The life and legacy of J Dilla is chronicled in a new book titled Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm, by author and journalist Dan Charnas. The Detroit native transformed the sound of hip-hop and popular music with beats that introduced a new rhythmic feel and elevated the art of sampling. Music legend and hip-hop producer J Dilla is often referred to as a musical genius. Both in-person and virtual tickets are available for this event. Dilla Time: Journalist and hip-hop historian Dan Charnas on the life and legacy of a music legend. ![]() We are proud to be the official booksellers for this WBUR CitySpace event. ![]() ![]() ![]() The King finds her intriguing and let her stay at his side as his consort despite being human. In fact she isn't afraid of him or any other beast and even accepts her death without begging or crying as she has neither home nor family to return to if she were released. ![]() However, for the 99th sacrifice, the human girl brought to the capital, Sariphi, intrigues the Beast King. The King of the Beasts and Demons regularly receives female human sacrifices to eat in order to assert the dominance of his people over the human race. An anime television series adaptation by J.C.Staff premiered in April 2023. ![]() It is licensed in North America by Yen Press. It was serialized in Hakusensha's shōjo manga magazine Hana to Yume from November 2015 to October 2020. Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts ( 贄姫と獣の王, Niehime to Kemono no Ō) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yū Tomofuji. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That these differences and unity are imbued in artwork with skillful detailing of facial tics and bone structure alike from inkers Ruy José and Belardino Brabo, and an intriguing final twist on the color scheme by Paul Mounts, makes appreciating the themes at play all the easier.Įven with only two alters and a handful of others at the core of this story, the size of what preceded it results in some of the climax feeling tacked on. They also provide a useful shared spirit in their response to Hell itself - furious at the existence of evil, whether or not they've contributed to its growth. They balance concepts of innocence and sin, youth and experience, righteousness and resentment. Focusing on only two of Banner's alters, the duo of Joe Fixit and the childlike Hulk perfectly introduced in King in Black: The Immortal Hulk, provides a useful focus and lens on human nature. ![]() ![]() ![]() The second chapter of Heinzelmann's is more valuable.Īlso providing two chapters is the editor, Alexander C. For the student the account of Gregory's life will no doubt be useful, but the near-absence of citation of the colossal amount of secondary literature in English is a weakness for precisely that audience. Martin Heinzelmann has already written what is the standard book on Gregory, and he divides much of what is to be found there into two chapters, on Gregory's life and on the relation of his works to Patristic writings. However, if one wants to find a reasonably up-to-date survey of the status quaestionis of most aspects of Gregory of Tours studies one will find it here. And there is the further question as to whether history is best taught from one textbook-there is much to be said for encouraging students to turn to a multiplicity of readings. At the right price they may provide students with a course-book, but at $297 the Companion in question is most certainly not the right price. How valuable they are for the academic community is, however, less clear. ![]() ![]() No doubt they fit in well with the marketing practices of publishers. Ian volumes to specific issues in history are becoming commonplace. ![]() ![]() Patients visit twice a day for “dives” where they receive high concentrations of oxygen as part of their other treatment regimens and experimental programs. In search of that, they set up a device called the Miracle Submarine that provides hyperbaric oxygen therapy to patients seeking to cure or alleviate the symptoms of various ailments including cerebral palsy, autism, and infertility. Synopsis: In a town in Virginia called Miracle Creek, the Yoo family, father Pak, mother Young and daughter Mary immigrated from South Korea to build a better life for their daughter. ![]() I thought the cover blended in nicely with the view from my condo balcony! ![]() ![]() ![]() Don's Wife Project takes a back burner to the Father Project and an unlikely relationship blooms, forcing the scientifically minded geneticist to confront the spontaneous whirlwind that is Rosie-and the realization that love is not always what looks good on paper. She is looking for her biological father, a search that a certain DNA expert might be able to help her with. She is also beguiling, fiery, intelligent-and on a quest of her own. She will be punctual and logical-most definitely not a barmaid, a smoker, a drinker, or a late-arriver. ![]() In the orderly, evidence-based manner with which he approaches all things, Don sets out to find the perfect partner. Yet he must concede to the statistical probability that there is someone for everyone, and he embarks upon The Wife Project. So when an acquaintance informs him that he would make a "wonderful" husband, his first reaction is shock. He is a man who can count all his friends on the fingers of one hand, whose lifelong difficulty with social rituals has convinced him that he is simply not wired for romance. Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never been on a second date. An international sensation, this hilarious, feel-good novel is narrated by an oddly charming and socially challenged genetics professor on an unusual quest: to find out if he is capable of true love. ![]() ![]() ![]() So it is not shocking or strange to have a narrative where you have Black folks, and you have Asian American folks, Latinx folks, and everyone is in congress in the same narrative. ![]() That was largely the sort of story that I wanted to read, so it ultimately ended up becoming the sort of thing I wanted to write, the kind of thing that would ultimately hold my attention.īW: I didn’t really set out to turn stereotypes on their head because I feel like if you’re writing life as it’s actually lived, it’s not one in which you’re working stereotypes and archetypes. And to write a story about comfort, where the characters were approaching one another from a place of affection and love. People express affection through cooking.īryan Washington: Yeah, for me a lot of it was trying to write a story about warmth. There are so many rich food descriptions. So your novel was a way for me to blend my two loves: food and writing. ![]() Below are some highlights from the conversation check out our Instagram for the full interview.ĭawn Davis: My real and first love is books, and I just became editor in chief of Bon Appétit. Our first episode features editor in chief Dawn Davis and author Bryan Washington talking about his new novel, Memorial, and its unexpected main character: food. In our new Instagram Live series, Book Report, BA editors sit down (virtually!) with cookbook authors and other food-obsessed writers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Every time I see him is like a shot of adrenaline to my system, and I’m always left wanting more. Yet, I can’t shake him, and not only because I’m helping him with his big bi bucket list. I’m definitely not looking for Cooper Zane. None of them were boyfriend material, let alone the forever type. That’s how I created a list of gay first experiences I coax him into helping me with.Īfter leaving a long-term relationship with a closeted NFL player, I went through a string of guys trying to find the one. When Liam comes back into my life, and I find out he’s single, I’ll find any reason to spend time with him. Now I’m retired from the NFL and openly out, there’s nothing to stop me from getting my gay on. Hot, snarky, and hiding behind a sadness I couldn’t place. Happy Monday, happy start to the week and welcome to the Calling Your Bluff by Saxon James Blog Tour! I just had to participated for this after celebrating the release in May.įor today’s post I got a brand-new excerpt, the giveaway is still on, I got some new teasers, and there is book/author information. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I added a copy to my pile of non-fiction books and immediately felt guilty. Now, however, I was seduced by the image on the book’s front cover, a water-colour of a neo-Palladian villa so common to Alexandria’s corniche and narrow byways. Forster on Viagra), but I had been too disciplined to be distracted by a short story, let alone a novel sequence that weighs in at 884 pages. Many of my Egyptian friends had recommended it (while simultaneously dismissing it as E. In 2001 I took leave to write my own book.īefore my departure, I paid one final visit to the American University’s bookshop in Cairo and there I came across a copy of Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet. By the end of my three-year stint, I had accumulated a working library of stolid non-fiction accounts of the Middle East, from the days of the Caliphate to the Second Intifada. I was a machine in perpetual motion the more I read, the more I needed to know. I consumed their separate narratives, cross-referencing one against the other and triangulating each for bias. I loaded up on the standard books on the region by all the standard experts: Hitti, Hourani, Nutting, Glubb, Fromkin, Shlaim, Lewis. ![]() I attacked my new assignment as a Middle East correspondent with the alacrity of a baying hound running down a wanted man. ![]() |