5/13/2023 0 Comments Bound by honour by cora reillyShe has every intention of working her way into his. Her only chance to survive in a marriage with Luca is to gain his affection and work her way into his heart-even when rumor has it that Luca doesn’t have a heart to begin with.Ī mafia princess known for her beauty given to a monstrous man. Yet, there’s no escaping the arranged bond, much less a man like Luca. In her world a handsome exterior often hides the monster within a monster who can just as easily kill as kiss you. But Aria knows the bad boy aura isn’t just a game blood and death lurk beneath Luca’s striking gray eyes and arrogant smile. She’s been locked up for years in a mental institution and when I say she’s been locked up for years, I’m not kidding. He may be one of the most sought-after bachelors in New York, thanks to his good looks, wealth and predator-like charisma. Bound by honor, the second book in the series by Cora Reilly, is about a young woman named Cora Reilly. Luca is the future Capo of the New York Famiglia, a man known for his brutality-and for crushing his cousin’s throat with his bare hands.Īria is terrified of marrying a monster like him. What many consider a gift means her doom when she’s forced to marry Luca Vitiello to bring peace between two mafia dynasties. Born into one of the leading mob families in Chicago, Aria Scuderi is a mafia princess known for her beauty.
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I love this book, because it is full of heavy topics, along with humor and adorable romance. Keeping up this correspondence with his crush, turning more flirtatious daily, while hiding from a close group of friends, is sure to cause all kinds of trouble. Help Martin win over his crush (one of Simon's closest friends), or get revealed on one of the most personal things a human can have, their identity and sexuality. When a boy named Martin finds this email, he blackmails him. Keeping up a relationship via email with a boy with the pen name Blue, he accidentally leaves his email logged on in the school they both go to. He is gay, and has not shared it with anyone and is not ready to yet. This book tells the story of Simon, a junior growing up in a small, conservative town. Have you ever felt out of place? Felt that you were hiding who you really were, or a big part of you? Incorporated with themes of self acceptance as well as humor, Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda is for you. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Swimmy lionniLater he became design director for the Olivetti Corporation of America, and then art director for Fortune magazine. When he moved to America in 1939, Lionni was hired by a Philadelphia advertising agency as art director. It was there that he met the contacts who were to give him a start as a professional graphic designer. Having settled in Milan soon after his marriage in 1931, he started off by writing about European architecture for a local magazine. Lionni's business training gradually receded into the background as his interest in art and design grew. He was born in Holland in 1910 of Dutch parents, and although his education did not include formal art courses (in fact, he has a doctorate in economics from the University of Genoa), he spent much of his free time as a child in Amsterdam's museums, teaching himself to draw. Leo Lionni has gained international renown for his paintings, graphic designs, illustrations, and sculpture, as well as for his books for children. Leo Lionni died in October of 1999 at his home in Tuscany, Italy, at the age of 89. He received the 1984 American Institute of Graphic Arts Gold Medal and was a four-time Caldecott Honor Winner-for Inch by Inch, Frederick, Swimmy, and Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse. Leo Lionni wrote and illustrated more than 40 highly acclaimed children's books. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Max brooks bookPush through, take things in drafts, don’t worry about it being good at first. I’m not sure writer’s dry spells are all about an actual lack of ideas as opposed to thinking those ideas suck. “I don’t think writer’s block is as real as “writer’s fear”. There’s no such thing as a writer’s block Due to the success of his novel, the book has also been adapted into the critically acclaimed movie of the same name.Īfter reading (and taking part) in the AMA, here are the top lessons that I have learned from him during this short AMA that might help you in your fiction writing journey: 1. Despite “World War Z” being a fictional story about a zombie apocalypse, Brooks has managed to use the book as a platform to discuss various social issues such as human short-sightedness. While most of the questions were about his new horror novel “Devolution”, there were many nuggets of gold containing useful and helpful advice for all the fictional writers out there.įor those who might not know him, Max Brooks is the author of “World War Z” and “The Zombie Survival Guide”. Recently, Max Brooks held an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on Reddit. 5/12/2023 0 Comments BorrobilTelling me of life and death, dark and light and their relationship with the seasons. My mind goes back to the first my grandfather bought for me as a small girl, telling me the legend of Persephone and Hades, and Demeter’s search for her daughter. I smile sweetly and look around for possible ingredients. “I thought this was some tried and tested thing?” I was right. “Are you sure that’s what it says in the recipe, Mum?” Several large glugs hit the pan along with a handful of fresh herbs from the garden. He has wine… I taste it and cringe… a sweet dessert red. A good dash of blackcurrant cordial just felt like the right thing to do… “Did I just see what I thought I saw?” There is, possibly, just a trace of panic in my son’s voice. Goujons of venison now brown gently in a pan with garlic and onions, the mushrooms softening in the juices and olive oil. I collect some tiny mushrooms en route, on the general principle that I am probably going to need them. I just have to cook it when I get there… hoping, of course, the right ingredients are in the house. Of course, it could be a nice lean fillet or a whole ruddy haunch for all I know. So says my son, temporarily Faith-less while she is away on a sculpture course.Īny idea how he would like it cooked? Hmm, didn’t think so. So stop, Father Time, stop, or I'll get out of the car! But we can't get out of the car. For when you're fading you're surely decaying, and when you're decayingyou're approaching the end. My spirit recoils at the thought of decay. Then the next moment it fills me with a sort of desperation. There are times, I find, when I can accept that intimation of slipping into the sere and yellow leaf without revolt. And they have given me a great deal to think about. But from one's own husband - Wow! - they go in like a harpoon. If they'd come from somebody else they mightn't have meant so much. And it's all arisen out of Dinky- Dunk's bland intimation that I am "a withered beauty." Those words have held like a fish-hook in the gills of my memory. For I've been learning, this last two or three days, just how wide of the mark he shot. Excerpt: Sunday the Fourth I Wish I could get by the scruff of the neck that sophomoric old philosopher who once said nothing survives being thought of. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to where you can select from more than a million books for free. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1922 Original Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company Subjects: Canadian fiction Fiction / General Fiction / Anthologies Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Collections / Canadian Literary Criticism / Canadian Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Virgin Earth by Philippa GregoryShe is a fellow of the Universities of Sussex and Cardiff and an honorary research fellow at Birkbeck University of London. She holds honorary degrees from Teesside University and the University of Sussex. Now a recognised authority on women’s history, Philippa graduated from the University of Sussex and received a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, where she is a Regent and was made Alumna of the Year in 2009. Her flair for blending history and imagination developed into a signature style and Philippa went on to write many bestselling novels, including The Other Boleyn Girl and The White Queen. She wrote her first ever novel, Wideacre, when she was completing her PhD in eighteenth-century literature and it sold worldwide, heralding a new era for historical fiction. Philippa Gregory is one of the world’s foremost historical novelists. There, Bethia finds herself reluctantly indentured as a housekeeper and can closely observe Caleb's crossing of cultures. One of his projects becomes the education of Caleb, and a year later, Caleb is in Cambridge, studying Latin and Greek among the colonial elite. Bethia's minister father tries to convert the Wampanoag, awakening the wrath of the tribe's shaman, against whose magic he must test his own beliefs. At twelve, she encounters Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a tentative secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other. As often as she can, she slips away to explore the island's glistening beaches and observe its native Wampanoag inhabitants. Restless and curious, she yearns after an education that is closed to her by her sex. The narrator of Caleb's Crossing is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. A richly imagined new novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller, People of the Book. 'Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.' Appendices include the Abstract of the Treatise of Human Nature, a list of principal variants from the 1777 text, two short essays by Hume, excerpts from letters, Part I of the Dialogues concerning Natural Religion and Hume's short autobiography, My Own Life.
5/12/2023 0 Comments Blackbird by Larry DuplechanComing from me, I know it's going to raise eyebrows.' " Washington recalls: "I said, 'So, sorry I said have to be part of this - this is an amazing story. That perspective informs everything Polk's made for the past 20 years, including his groundbreaking cable seriesīlackbird, he sent the script to actor Isaiah Washington. "I'd never read anything that was told from a gay black perspective." "I could see illustrated brown skin on the spine." "And there was one book on the shelf I could tell had an illustration of a black person on the cover," he recalls. Even though his best friend is gay, Randy's in denial about his own sexuality.īlackbird is a movie he has wanted to make ever since he left Mississippi for college and found himself in the gay and lesbian section of a Boston bookstore. Everyone thinks he's gay, and they're totally fine with it. Inīlackbird, the main character Randy is in high school. The first original film it has acquired is a gay interracial romance set in the Deep South. Johnson created BET and now, the Urban Movie Channel - an online channel that's being called the black Netflix. A tiny independent movie has been picked by one of Hollywood's biggest moguls to promote his latest venture. |