![]() Instead, I had a very different experience. I opened it expecting to be transported to an incredible fantasy world, and to fall in love with brilliant characters. So many people have fantastic things to say about Captive Prince. Because the one man Damen needs is the one man who has more reason to hate him than anyone else … But in the lethal web of Veretian politics, nothing is as it seems, and when Damen is caught up in a dangerous play for the throne, he is forced to form an alliance with Laurent to survive and save his country.įor Damen, there is just one rule: he must never reveal his true identity. ![]() But when his half-brother seizes power, Damen is captured, stripped of his identity, and sent to serve the prince of an enemy nation as a pleasure slave.īeautiful, manipulative and deadly, his new master Prince Laurent epitomises the worst of the decadent court at Vere. Damen is a warrior hero to his people, and the rightful heir to the throne of Akielos. ![]()
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Soon, Millie is accepted into one of the world's most exclusive schools, located in the rolling highlands of Scotland. Heartbroken and ready for a change of pace, Millie decides to apply for scholarships to boarding schools. ![]() Millie Quint is devastated when she discovers that her sort-of-best friend/sort-of-girlfriend has been kissing someone else. ![]() Regal romance abounds in this flirty, laugh-out-loud companion novel to Prince Charming, by New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though she avoided society, she was charming, intelligent, and funny, and had several admirers. Jane concealed her writing from most of her acquaintances, slipping her writing paper under a blotter when someone entered the room. After her father’s death in 1805, Jane, her mother, and sister lived with one of her brothers until 1808, when another brother provided them a permanent home at Chawton Cottage, in Hampshire. Instead, she amused herself by making close observations of ridiculous society manners. Jane hated the resort town and found herself without the time or peace and quiet required to write. Jane read voraciously and began writing stories as early as age 12, completing a novella at age 14.Īusten’s quiet, happy world was disrupted when her parents suddenly decided to retire to Bath in 1801. The girls had five years of formal schooling, then studied with their father. Jane was very close to her older sister, Cassandra, who remained her faithful editor and critic throughout her life. Celebrated English novelist Jane Austen is born on December 16, 1775, the seventh of eight children of a clergyman in a country village in Hampshire, England. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But instead, Noa is gingerly delivered to his mother in the jaws of a shark, marking his story as the stuff of legends.Nainoa’s family, struggling amidst the collapse of the sugarcane industry, hails his rescue as a sign of favor from ancient Hawaiian gods - a belief that appears validated after he exhibits puzzling new abilities. When a shiver of sharks appears in the water, everyone fears for the worst. In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, 7-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean. Sharks in the Time of Saviors is a groundbreaking debut novel that folds the legends of Hawaiian gods into an engrossing family saga a story of exile and the pursuit of salvation from Kawai Strong Washburn. ![]() ![]() When her husband escapes from prison and ends up dead in the campground’s lake, Mae is the top suspect. Mae heads to Kentucky and finds herself a true fish out of water. Mae West sees her life thrown upside down when her husband is arrested for a Ponzi scheme and she’s left with nothing… except for a campground in Kentucky. The first book is called Beaches, Bungalows & Burglaries. Emma will have to play detective to put Ruthie to rest or else risk being haunted by her forever.Īnother great series by Kappes is the Camper and Criminals Cozy Mystery series. Ruthie Sue Payne is her first customer so to speak and she swears that she didn’t just fall down the stairs. This trauma is causing the recently departed to start talking to her. ![]() ![]() This book introduces us to the undertaker Emma Lee Raines who is suffering from “funeral trauma” after a plastic Santa fell on her head. If You Like Tonya Kappes Books, You’ll Love…Ī Ghostly Undertaking is the first book in the Ghostly Southern Mysteries series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From the very opening scenes it is crystal clear that you are reading an author who has developed a fantasy world of incredible depth and detail. On a world scoured down to the rock by terrifying hurricanes, a young spearman is forced into the army of a Shardbearer, led to war against an enemy he doesn't understand and doesn't really want to fight.īrandon Sanderson has achieved something marvelous here. ![]() Kings strive to win more Shardblades, each secretly wishing to be the one who will finally unite all of mankind under a single throne. The entire world is at war with itself - and has been for centuries since the Radiants turned against mankind. Today the only remnants of those supposed battles are the Shardblades, the possession of which makes a man nearly invincible on the battlefield. Led by 10 angelic Heralds and 10 orders of knights known as Radiants, mankind finally won (or so the legends say). ![]() The Almighty gave men powerful suits of armor and mystical weapons, the Shardblades. Men took root on Roshar, the world of storms, but the Voidbringers followed. But then the Voidbringers assaulted and captured heaven, casting out God and men. According to mythology, mankind used to live in 'The Tranquiline Halls': heaven. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rothstein’s book demonstrates that the government’s purposeful creation of American ghettos created the context for conflicts in places like Ferguson, Baltimore, Milwaukee, and Charlotte. He documents how federal, state, and local governments-with racially explicit intent-segregated American cities from San Francisco to Boston. neighborhoods remain segregated primarily because of income differences, private prejudices, or the desires of blacks and whites to live with same-race neighbors. In The Color of Law, Rothstein debunks the myth of “de facto” segregation-the idea that U.S. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) will join Rothstein to discuss the history of state-sponsored residential segregation and its enduring effects. Ted Shaw of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law and Rep. On Thursday, June 8th the Economic Policy Institute and the Poverty & Race Research Action Council present Richard Rothstein as he discusses his new book, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And they're all set in context and commented upon as only Christopher Hitchens-"political and literary journalist extraordinaire" ( Los Angeles Times)-can. Mencken, Albert Einstein, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and many others well-known and lesser known. ![]() With Hitchens as your erudite and witty guide, you'll be led through a wealth of philosophy, literature, and scientific inquiry, including generous portions of the words of Lucretius, Benedict de Spinoza, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Mark Twain, George Eliot, Bertrand Russell, Emma Goldman, H. Christopher Hitchens's personally curated New York Times bestselling anthology of the most influential and important writings on atheism, including original pieces by Salman Rushdie and Ian McEwanįrom the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great, a provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic thought through the ages-with never-before-published pieces by Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali.Christopher Hitchens continues to make the case for a splendidly godless universe in this first-ever gathering of the influential voices-past and present-that have shaped his side of the current (and raging) God/no-god debate. ![]() ![]() ![]() Color marks you, but your membership in black society also gives you an indestructible house to live in and a bed to rest on. Being black may still not be the most advantageous thing in the world, but being nothing or being neutral-the rallying cry of modern-day multiculturalists-has never made any emotional or real-world sense. And it gives the lightest-skinned among us the assurance of identity that everybody needs to feel grounded and psychologically whole-even whites, whose public non-ethnicity is really ethnicity writ so large and influential it needs no name. It’s a foundation that allows us to talk abstractly about a ” black community” as concretely as we talk about a black community in Harlem or Chicago or L.A.’s South Central (a liberty that’s often abused or lazily applied in modern discussions of race). ![]() But by forcing blacks of all complexions and blood percentages into the same boat, the law ironically laid a foundation of black unity that remains in place today. Of course I deplore the motive behind the law, which was rooted not only in white paranoia about miscegenation, but in a more practical need to maintain social order by keeping privilege and property in the hands of whites. Now, I have always believed that what is now widely considered one of slavery’s worst legacies-the Southern “one-drop” rule that indicted anyone with black blood as a nigger and cleaved American society into black and white with a single stroke-was also slavery’s only upside. ![]() ![]() And a study of pediatric hospitals recently found admissions of patients ages 5 to 17 for suicidal thoughts and actions more than doubled from 2008 to 2015. The suicide rate among white teens, between 10 and 17, was up 70 percent between 20 and while black teens kill themselves less often than white youth, the 77 percent increase was even higher. This continues our commitment to keep this issue in front of our listeners in understandable and compelling ways. He offers hope within the confines of a clear warning that changes must be made. In his book, ‘There Is No Planet B’, he sounds the alarm about the next period which he calls the make or break years as to the condition of the planet, but assures us that the changes we need to make are achievable and that we will actually enjoy and benefit personally from new food choices to new energy sources to new modes of transportation. ![]() However, Mike Berners-Lee tells us that won’t work for the problems we have been making on earth during this unique period, called the anthropocene(he’ll explain). ![]() And it’s worked for me, as I’m not the most handy around the house. Did you ever know someone who, about every 15 to 20 years, decides that the old house has too many problems, so they just build a new one. ![]() |