![]() ![]() ![]() His determination to reclaim what belongs to him and to right a grievous wrong reveals a truth that may cost him more than he ever imagined-as well as the woman he loves.Set at Nashville's historic Belmont Mansion, a stunning antebellum manor built by Mrs. The Federal Army has destroyed Sutton's home and confiscated his land, and threatens to destroy his family's honor. Finding herself among the elite of Nashville's society, Claire believes her dream to create a lasting impression in the world of art is within reach-but only if her fraudulent past remains hidden. But after he later refuses to come to her aid, Claire fears she's sorely misjudged the man. She considers him a godsend for not turning her in to the authorities. ![]() When she's forced to flee from New Orleans to Nashville only a year after the War Between the States has ended, her path collides with attorney Sutton Monroe. Yet her father insists she work as a copyist. But will it come at too costly a price?Ĭlaire Laurent's greatest aspiration is to paint something that will bring her acclaim. More than anything, Claire Laurent longs for the chance to live an authentic life, to become the woman she wants to be. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Whitney never became a popular author even after the publication of several novels. ![]() ![]() She loves reading the likes of John Grisham and listening to Ariana Grande and Beyonce. Whitney is also a confirmed hypochondriac, travel junkie and indie book fan. She also curses a lot and has a tendency to disappear from social media, when she is working on her projects. When she is not writing her novels, you can find her at a Starbucks or feeding her candy addiction. She loves connecting with her fans and can often be found responding to comments on her website, her Facebook page or on Instagram. She is known for the “Jilted Bride,” “Captain of My Soul,” “Wasted Love” and “Mid Life Love” series of novels. Whitney is also the co-founder of inspirational blog “The Indie Tea,” which is a resource for aspiring indie romance authors. “Reasonable Doubt” is a series of romance novels by Whitney G, a New York Times, USA Today author who also writes memoirs, biographies, and literary fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() She was raised by her aunts, and has a lovey cat named Peter. She comes from a dickish family, as all companions must, and is also dyslexic, so her dickish family thinks she’s soft in the head. Milly, our heroine, is Sebastian’s aunt’s companion. ![]() He has a singular talent for interrogation, and was given a subset of “English officers who were captured out of uniform” to interrogate by any means necessary. ![]() He was there with his mother, who was dying of some unspecified ailment and needed to go back to France to….die, I guess? And she took Sebastian with her, and he got stuck and joined up with the French military in order to make a living. Claire, and also half-French, which is how he ended up in France during the Napoleonic War. This is why I was so dubious about this book- how on EARTH could Burrowes redeem Sebastian and make him hero-worthy after he tortured a previous book’s hero so horribly? Claire, who astute readers may remember as Girard, Christian’s torturer from The Captive. I was dubious about this one, I really was. I didn’t actually expect this book to be out so quick after The Captive, but here we are. Publication Info: Sourcebooks Casablanca August 5, 2014 ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a relatively simple story - Enoch Wallace runs a teleportation transport station for travellers of a galactic federation and, through a modest set of events, this secret is revealed to Earth and humanity joins this co-fraternity of sentient beings. This, like all the Simak I’ve read, was pleasant and engaging. Raw Feed (1991): Way Station, Clifford D. Simak is one of the science fiction writers I’ve been reading longest, but I’d have to re-read several titles to say anything intelligent. Since who knows when I’ll get around to doing a through coverage of Simak, we’ll start with this one. It’s not a proper review, From Couch to Moon has one if you’re curious, but, in honor of Open Road Media re-releasing his work, I wanted to call attention to some Clifford Simak titles. ![]() ![]() ![]() Texts contained in Cookies typically consist of identifiable data, website’s name and some numbers and texts. Cookies will be stored in your browser when you visit that website in which Cookies’ content can be retrieved or read only by the server that created such Cookies and such content will be sent back to the original website of each visit. ![]() Cookies will be created when user accesses to the website in which the server has created Cookies. Asia Book Company Limited (the “Company”) may use Cookies and other similar technologies for collecting your data while you are using services or visiting the Company’s website which include visiting or using through the other channels such as mobile application (collectively called the “Site”) for improving Site and your experience in visiting the Site.Ĭookies are a type of files comprising of texts. ![]() ![]() Dickens married Catherine Hogarth in 1836, and the couple had nine children before separating in 1858 when he began a long affair with Ellen Ternan, a young actress. His many books include Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Great Expectations, Little Dorrit, A Christmas Carol, and A Tale of Two Cities. Subsequent works were published serially in periodicals and cemented his reputation as a master of colorful characterization, and as a harsh critic of social evils and corrupt institutions. His first novel, The Pickwick Papers, made him a famous and popular author at the age of twenty-five. ![]() Later, he took jobs as an office boy and journalist before publishing essays and stories in the 1830s. His happy early childhood was interrupted when his father was sent to debtors' prison, and young Dickens had to go to work in a factory at age twelve. Published by Headline Book Publishing, 1989 ISBN: 0747279977 illustrations 21.6 x 22.3 centimetres (0.68 kg)Ĭharles Dickens, perhaps the best British novelist of the Victorian era, was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England on February 7, 1812. Paperback, back cover sun faded, inside very clean and bright, no inscriptions, minor shelf/edge wear, 190 pages ![]() Dickens' London: An Imaginative Vision by Peter Ackroyd ![]() ![]() But she’s being watched by the FBI, who suspect her of being a mole in another case. Problem: no one but her suspects this person, because her targets are never categorized as murders, but rather as accidents. Since she neutralized a serial killer, a new one seems obsessed with her. I managed to understand, but it’s probably better to read the first one, because there are a lot of references.Įmmy Dockery is an FBI analyst. ![]() Review: I didn’t pay attention when I picked up this novel that it was a volume 2 and I haven’t read the first one. To FBI Internal Affairs special agent, Harrison “Books” Bookman, everyone in the FBI is a suspect-particularly Emmy Dockery (the fact that she’s his ex-wife doesn’t make it easier).īut someone else is watching Dockery. And the killer is somehow one step ahead of every move Dockery makes. But this many deaths can’t be coincidence. The victims all appear to have died by accident, and have seemingly nothing in common. ![]() ![]() She’s young and driven, and her unique skill at seeing connections others miss has brought her an impressive string of arrests.īut a shocking new case-unfolding across the country-has left her utterly baffled. Synopsis: The perfect murder always looks like an accident.įBI agent Emmy Dockery is absolutely relentless. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Though Wilson’s prose is emphatic and resonant with narrative voice, Frankie’s ceaseless inner monologue demonstrates why the age-old writing maxim of “show, don’t tell” continues to persist as craft advice. Twenty years later, a reporter searches for the truth about the Coalfield Panic of 1996 in an investigation that threatens to overturn Frankie’s life once more. When the two create the cryptic poster that sends Coalfield spiraling, it snowballs into a flurry of whispers and whiplash that alters their lives forever. Told in alternating timelines, the book tells the story of how teenage outcast and aspiring novelist Frankie Budge meets budding artist Zeke Brown one fateful summer in 1996. So it goes in Kevin Wilson’s fourth novel “Now is Not the Time to Panic,” published Nov. “We are fugitives, and the law is skinny with hunger for us.” The residents marvel and the paranoiacs speculate, but no one knows that the posters’ origin is just a pair of teenagers with a Xerox machine and a dream. Mysterious posters have surfaced across town, emblazoned with a haunting illustration and mystifying script: “The edge is a shantytown filled with gold seekers,” it reads. It’s summer in Coalfield, Tennessee, and art is seizing the city with an ironclad grip. ![]() ![]() And if our beliefs begin to form part of what we see as our identity, it becomes even harder for us to be persuaded away from them. Then, when we are challenged our beliefs cement yet further. ![]() And confirmation bias means that we seek out the evidence to support our intuitive beliefs and we choose to dismiss or filter out any information that contradicts them. We are programmed to trust our intuition over the facts. An experimental cognitive psychologist whose latest best seller exploring 'rationality' sits in a stream of books and studies that demonstrate just how bad human beings are at being rational. Today's guest is Harvard Professor Steven Pinker. I found this episode to be a wakeup call. You'll find interviews with people from all walks of life. ![]() ![]() If you enjoy listening you can head to the NHK WORLD website to watch. This story was originally broadcast on television as part of the interview series Direct Talk. Draft transcript Chloe Potter / Host: I'm Chloe Potter and this is Vision Vibes - the podcast that hopes to give you inspiration and tools to live a more satisfying life. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Citizens Equality Act would introduce a lot of welcome reforms. ![]() And there’s increasingly a sense among people who work in technology and politics that we’ve lost Larry. Indeed, this is a strange, fantastic campaign, in the same sense as fantastical. On MSNBC on Tuesday, Lessig only semi-jokingly described the the plan as “Frodo-like.” Then, upon signing it into law, he will immediately resign-and Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, or whichever famous progressive he chooses as his running mate will continue in the White House in his stead. On his first day in office, he will propose his signature legislation, the Citizens Equality Act of 2017, to Congress. ![]() He calls himself a “referendum candidate.” He has an unusual platform. Now, Lessig is running for president of the United States as a Democrat. Imagine being so indispensable that only Doc Literal Brown can do you justice. And he founded Creative Commons, a legally innovative license now sprinkled across more than 1 billion web pages.Ī character named Larry Lessig even appeared on The West Wing once, portrayed by Christopher Lloyd. He fought against our costly, troubled copyright system, both in his scholarship and before the Supreme Court. Lessig, who is an occasional contributor to The Atlantic, wrote important books about software and policy like Code Is Law. For a time, Lawrence Lessig wasn’t just a famous law professor at Harvard University. ![]() |