![]() The book starts with Teo at a bar with his best friend of twenty years Chris and other friends. I love Teo too, but Jack? Let’s just say that I’ll be remembering him for a long time. I have a lot of favorite fictional characters but at the moment I’d have a hard time finding one to compare to Jack in Virgin Flyer. Those hands, those lips… But it was just a one-time thing, and I need to forget about him once and for all.Īt least I know I won’t ever see him again-until I board a flight and catch sight of a familiar profile in the cockpit just as the door closes. ![]() Now I can’t get the handsome stranger who greeted me with soft kisses and gentle touches out of my mind. The terms are simple: no talking, no names. So I decide to get it over with, play the V-card once and for all with an anonymous hook-up. And don’t be surprised if I’m gone in the morning.Īfter crushing on my best friend for years, I realize he’ll never want someone inexperienced like me. Hold me, make love to me, treat me like I’m the most important person in the world. Wanted: One night together, no strings attached. Tags: Contemporary, Age Gap, Romance, Virgin ![]()
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![]() This doesn't detract from the viewing experience, just makes this cyberpunk future a bit more heavy on the futuristic comfort rather than the "beat it to fit and paint it to match" aesthetic of wrote cyberpunk. I like to call it Ikea-Tech as it has a subtle euro-Nordic influence to it's design sensibilities. Here the tech was high tech looking with colorful polished surfaces, metallic sheen and a slightly computer generated look to it's design. ![]() Granted the future was very stylish, not the beat-up grungy used and recycled vision of cyberpunk that visionaries like William Gibson and Bruce Sterling gave us in their novels. However the series taken from the four Universal Action Pack movies that aired in syndication months before the series debut was one of the most futuristic and visionary cyberpunk stories to air on television in the early/mid-nineties when VR and Cyberspace was beginning to become common buzzwords in the lexicon of the 90's. I would have given it more stars but for the simple fact that some scrimping had to be done in order to create the world of 2045. ![]() ![]() I put off reading An Enchantment of Ravens for literally years. Because secretly, her Craft represents a threat the fair folk have never faced in all the millennia of their unchanging lives: for the first time, her portraits have the power to make them feel. ![]() Now both of their lives are forfeit, unless Isobel can use her skill as an artist to fight the fairy courts. ![]() With Isobel and Rook depending on each other for survival, their alliance blossoms into trust, then love-and that love violates the fair folks’ ruthless laws. But something is seriously wrong in his world, and they are attacked from every side. She paints mortal sorrow in his eyes-a weakness that could cost him his life.įurious, Rook spirits her away to his kingdom to stand trial for her crime. But when she receives her first royal patron-Rook, the autumn prince-she makes a terrible mistake. They crave human Craft with a terrible thirst, and Isobel’s paintings are highly prized. Isobel is an artistic prodigy with a dangerous set of clients: the sinister fair folk, immortal creatures who cannot bake bread or put a pen to paper without crumbling to dust. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Power of Habit is the second book I have read from Duhigg, and it didn’t disappoint. ![]() The book also grapples with the question of why some habits overwhelm some while others do not. Lastly, part 3 shows how our habits can affect our personal lives through a story about gambling. ![]() Moreover, the book highlighted Rosa Parks’ network of friends who had strong ties to Parks. Duhigg explained the civil rights movement and the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Part 3 was most intriguing because it talked about society’s habits. More eerily, Duhigg also talks about advertising’s effect on hijacking our routines to gain profits. Also, the book discusses Starbucks’ robust training program to emphasize customer service. For example, Duhigg highlights a steel company’s safety standards as a viable routine for workplace success. Part 2 combines individual routines into organizations. Next, Duhigg highlights how to create new habits through several examples ranging from toothbrushing habits and football. Moreover, he discusses the habit loop and how people need to study their patterns to grasp how to change themselves. Part 1 discusses how individuals change their habits. Duhigg divides the book into three parts:Ģ. ![]() ![]() ![]() At the center is Harris's relationship with Sam Floyd, a fellow professor at Queens College, who introduced her to Baldwin. Harris describes her role as theater critic for the New York Amsterdam News and editor at then-burgeoning Essence magazine star-studded parties in the South of France drinks at Mikell's, a hip West Side club and the simple joy these extraordinary people took in each other's company. ![]() With "simmering warmth" ( The New York Times), Harris paints evocative portraits of her illustrious friends: Baldwin as he read aloud an early draft of If Beale Street Could Talk, Angelou cooking in her California kitchen, and Morrison relaxing at Baldwin's house in Provence. My Soul Looks Back is her tribute to that fascinating social circle and their shared commitment to activism, intellectual engagement, and each other. Harris debated, celebrated, and danced her way from the jazz clubs of the Manhattan's West Side to the restaurants of Greenwich Village, living out her buoyant youth alongside the great minds of the day-luminaries like Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison. In the Technicolor glow of the early seventies, Jessica B. Harris recalls her youth "surrounded by some of the most famous creative minds of the seventies and eighties.James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Nina Simone" ( New York magazine)-in a vibrant, lost era of New York City. ![]() In this captivating new memoir, award-winning writer Jessica B. ![]() ![]() ![]() Walker Saga (Fantasy/adventure/romance - gods, mermaids, dragons) YAįirst World. ![]() Hive Trilogy (UF/PNR Romance - vampires) Upper YA NYC Mecca Series (UF/PNR Romance - shifters) Upper YA Supernatural Prison (UF/PNR romance -shifter, vampire, fae, magic user) Upper YA/NAĭragon Marked. The Princess Must Reign.Ĭurse of the Gods (Reverse Harem Fantasy Romance series) UpperYA/NA Secret Keepers series (Paranormal Romance) House of Darken. To date, she has sold over three million ebooks, and still can't believe that she gets to create fantasy worlds as a job.įor action, adventure, romance, and a guaranteed HEA, start one of her series today. ![]() She lives in Australia with her husband, two beautiful daughters, and a couple of crazy pets. Jaymin Eve is the Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling author of paranormal romance, urban fantasy, and sci-fi novels filled with epic love stories, great adventures, and plenty of laughs. ![]() ![]() Captain Watson piles passengers into a lifeboat but a huge wave turns it over and it disappears into the ocean. The Drake seems to be cut in half and is sinking. The ship seems to survive the storm but as it is subsiding, lightning strikes the hull and the engines go dead. Alec puts on his lifebelt and makes his way onto deck. The Drake sails through Arabia and North Africa and is heading for England when a storm hits it is a wild, severe storm that rocks the ship. Eventually, after a long struggle, they manage to wrestle him into a stall but the stallion hates being contained and every night the passengers can hear him kicking and trying to escape. As they are preparing to leave port in Arabia, Alec sees four men attempting to lead a wild black stallion up the gangplank onto the ship. He is enjoying the voyage and proud of the fact he has not been seasick at all. ![]() We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own.Īlexander Ramsay Jr is travelling back to New York by sea after spending a fun two months in India with his Uncle Ralph. ![]() ![]() These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() The work has assumed a preeminent place in English literature. The actual title of the work remained a secret until the book was published in its entirety, on. ![]() By 1924 installments of Joyce's new avant-garde work began to appear, in serialized form, in Parisian literary journals transatlantic review and transition, under the title "fragments from Work in Progress". Joyce began working on Finnegans Wake shortly after the 1922 publication of Ulysses. ![]() Signed by James Joyce on the limitation page. Large octavo, original red cloth, titles to spine in gilt, top edge gilt, original publisher’s yellow cloth slipcase. ![]() $14,000.00 Item Number: 137512įirst signed limited edition, number 115 of only 425 large-paper copies signed by Joyce. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Except, for all the savagery displayed, Elison has done a masterful job in limiting the sexual violence. Not unsurprising given in this post-plague world women have become a commodity. Of the six books nominated for the PKD, this one just pips Memory of Water as my favourite.Ĭompared to other end of the world narratives, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife is a brutal novel. But what hope is there in a world where pregnancy is a death sentence for both mother and child? Now she survives by masquerading as a man and offering her services as nurse and midwife. ![]() The bulk of those who have survived are men, which makes women a scare resource. A plague has wiped out most of the population. ![]() ![]() ![]() This was never dealt with, and her despair over her "wickedness" became boring. Compounding this, Adelaide's endless capacity to forgive this whiney, self-absorbed arsehole who spent a lot of the book blaming others for the things that went wrong in his life was infuriating, as was her self-loathing for her "lustful" impulses. Certainly, one with more strength of character. I really felt she deserved a better man than Nick. She had gone through a great deal, much of it very traumatic, and all of it the fault of the hero, by the way. ![]() His lack of self-awareness and plain idiocy at times, when shit was bleedingly obvious, did get very annoying. I cannot say that I liked the hero, Nick, at all. There is quite a backstory here and a lot of it is in the previous book of this series, but I think one can read this without having read book 1. ![]() |