follow the consequences of their delicious desire in Trish Morey's TYCOON'S TEMPTATION. Time spent working together soon sends their senses reeling. Holly refuses to risk it all for a Chatsfield, so she'll give Franco six weeks to prove himself. Temperatures rise in Sydney when the only thing standing in the way of Franco Chatsfield's business deal is the beautiful Holly Purman. When Antonio discovers that she is in fact his business rival, all he can think of is how Orla came apart in his bed! Abby Green makes sparks fly in the boardroom in RIVAL'S CHALLENGE. But a passionate night with the beautiful Orla Kennedy changes everything. The world is for travelling and the Chatsfield Hotel is for travellers! Join the jet-setting Chatsfield elite as they take their steamy romances with them.Īntonio Chatsfield only returned to the family's London hotel from his Amalfi refuge to help his sister.
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But all around him, impending danger closes in.Doerr's combination of soaring imagination and meticulous observation is electric. His talent wins him a place at a brutal military academy, but his way out of obscurity is built on suffering.At the same time, far away in a walled city by the sea, an old man discovers new worlds without ever setting foot outside his home. But when the Nazis invade, father and daughter flee with a dangerous secret.Werner is a German orphan, destined to labour in the same mine that claimed his father's life, until he discovers a knack for engineering. Her father builds a perfect miniature of their Paris neighbourhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTIONA beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War IIMarie-Laure has been blind since the age of six. 7/5/2023 0 Comments Magic slaysKate and Curran both have control issues that sometimes cause them to act like idiots, but they also genuinely do their best to love each other and communicate effectively.Īs Curran’s mate, Kate has to learn how to be an Alpha in the Pack, which is tough given that she’s not a shapeshifter. Her relationship with Curran, the orgasm-inducing hunk of a werelion Beast Lord, is fun and lively. Kate’s interpersonal commitments get more complicated. The good news is that the rest of the story continues to move forward, rather than regressing. Last time around, Andrews really stepped it up by introducing Kate’s psychotic aunt as the big threat, but here we are back to the usual random-baddies-that-show-up-to-give-Kate-something-to-kill dynamic that dominated the earlier books. The main problem with this book compared to its excellent predecessor, Magic Bleeds, is the villain. And while there is an element of routine in how this story unfolds, I have to admit that the finale won me over, reminding me once again why I’ve come to dearly love these characters and the weird world they inhabit. I felt like I was reading the inevitable slump in Kate Daniels’s story––the one where her clever mouth, kick-ass fighting moves, and romantic difficulties all start to feel more enervating than exciting. Two-thirds of the way through, I was all set to give Magic Slaysa lukewarm review. 7/4/2023 0 Comments Graeber debt bookGraeber shows that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Italy to China, as well as sparking innumerable insurrections. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods - that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. Here, anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: He shows that before there was money, there was debt. Now in audio, the updated and expanded edition: David Graeber's " exceedingly timely" ( Financial Times) history of debt. 7/4/2023 0 Comments Demon copperhead reviewRough times in Appalachia can be a tired theme, especially alongside a confusing “happy” ending, but overall readers are left with a bold tale inside an evocative world, as is Kingsolver’s tradition. Readers will root for Demon because of his self-deprecating sense of humour and tender heart, but will feel sadness at the brutal and familiar circumstances surrounding him. The main themes of Copperfield are reimagined for the current age - poverty, addiction and the systemic devaluation of those with little privilege. One does not have to read “David Copperfield” to appreciate “Demon Copperhead,” although Kingsolver is clear about her inspiration and makes a cute reference to Charles Dickens. Set in the Appalachian Mountains, Kingsolver’s recent release explores contemporary poverty in one of the richest countries in the world and opioid addiction from the perspective of a young man desperately trying to be seen for his intrinsic value. His kind neighbours, the Peggotts, save him from SIDS but not from the lifetime of disadvantage yet to come. “Demon Copperhead” by Barbara Kingsolver, HarperCollins, 2022, 560 pagesĭemon Copperhead, real name Damon Fields, is born en caul on the floor of a mobile home to a drug-addicted teenage mother. Demon Copperhead spins the tale of a boy born to a teenaged mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and red hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. 7/4/2023 0 Comments Toffle moominJoining Drawn & Quarterly's archival series of Moomin The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip, Moomin, Mymble & Little My, and the Moomintroll chapter books is the glorious reprinting of the Tove Jansson classic children's book Who Will Comfort Toffle? with a loving translation by British poet Sophie Hannah. Toffle's Tall Tales: Moomintroll and Sniff volunteer to walk Toffle home. Who Will Comfort Toffle? is an endearing, introspective story that will speak to readers of all ages-anyone who has ever needed a friend to pull them out of their shell. The second season of Moominvalley brings the beloved Moomins and their extended. His insecurity continues to only serve his isolation until he has the courage to overcome his fears by reaching out to another frightened introvert, the mesmerizing Miffle. Lonely and sad, Toffle runs away from home and watches the magical cast of Moomin Valley-Mymble, My, Snufkin, the merry whompses and the Fillyjonk-celebrate and enjoy life. Who Will Comfort Toffle? is the timeless, magical tale of the wistful wallflower, Toffle-too shy to speak to anyone and too fearful of the world he is watching from afar. A scandinavian midcentury classic back in print 7/4/2023 0 Comments The Magus by John FowlesIn the face of such spleen we begin to wonder how much the narrator really has changed. There is a lot packed into the opening sentence, as if once started the narrator could not draw breath until his pent-up feelings had been discharged: ‘middle-class’, ‘English’, ‘grotesquely elongated’, ‘monstrous dwarf - the epithets, whether neutral or pejorative, tumble out in an accusing rush, and the prevailing tone seems not so much regretful as resentful. But the second feature, one which stands out rather sharply in this brief extract, is the curious bitterness (not to say exaggeration) of its tone. One is its focus on the central character, who is also the narrator: we learn right from the start that he is ‘not the person to be’, a discovery which is in itself a kind of personal development, and we expect that further development will follow. The opening brings to our attention two major features of the book. Thus begins The Magus, 1 Fowles’s third published work and the one which offers the first full-scale development of the themes and methods of his fiction. 7/3/2023 0 Comments The Watcher by W.J. DaviesIt would make the most sense if they were The Watcher, scaring people away from the house in order to try to preserve it. For me, the likely suspects are Pearl and her brother, given their attachment to the house, the access to it through the tunnels, their association with John Graff and the brother lying about being mute. The Watcher – I don’t know if the show wants the audience to have enough information to figure out who The Watcher actually is. But it’s all sort of brushed under the rug. And the entire thing with Big Mo, her son and the two people who were executed as stand-ins for them never stops being bizarre. It would seem that guy was just paranoid, but some of the details, like Big Mo showing up in house, presumably through a tunnel that we know does exist now, imply that there could be some truth to that. The Blood Cult – We never get any fixed answers one way or another if the tale about the neighbors being involved in a baby-sacrificing cult has any merit. 7/3/2023 0 Comments Akif pirinçci felidaeDue to the enormous success of the novel, Pirinçci expanded his concept of "cat crime fiction" and published s Akif Pirinçci (pronunciation: ) is a German writer of Turkish origin who is best known internationally for his novel Felidae. The novel has been translated into 17 languages and became an international bestseller. His next literary work, published in 1989, was the novel Felidae, a work of crime fiction with cats as the main protagonists. He began to write fiction at a young age, and published his first novel Tränen sind immer das Ende (literally, "tears always are the end") in 1980, at the age of 21. Pirinçci was born on the 20th October 1959 in Istanbul, Turkey, but emigrated to Germany together with his parents in 1969. Akif Pirinçci (pronunciation: ) is a German writer of Turkish origin who is best known internationally for his novel Felidae. Her relationship with Armaan and her conversations with Dushyant were the highlight of this book. Many people would call her 'sickeningly sweet', but I found her innocent, adorable, and funny. It is about how they impact the lives of their doctors and the people surrounding them.Now, the characters. more is book is the story of how two terminally ill patients, Dushyant Roy a 25 year old with a hot temper and unhealthy habits and is despised by most people, and Pihu Malhotra, a brilliant 19 year old medical student. A couple of scenes made me chuckle, even when they came after an extremely serious paragraph.Th. When I read the summary of TTLB, however, I just HAD to buy it.This book made me feel so many things at the same time. I have DD's books in my school library, but I shied away from them as I though them too have too much of sexual content for my taste. But the ending of this book made my eyes wet.This is a very beautiful book. Call me hard-hearted, but even the tearjerker The Fault in Our Stars left my eyes dry. Durjoy Dutta's Till The Last Breath, is one such book.I rarely cry while reading books. They can have grammatical errors, spelling errors etc, it may not be perfect, but you fall in love with it all the same. Review 1: Some books are not edited very well. |