![]() ![]() The Lady Hellion (Wicked Deceptions Book 3) by Joanna Shupe- $1.99 for a limited time.īrock Lassiter has it all: good looks, good health, and the best job in the world. Soon all Quint knows for certain is that he will die trying to protect her… Yet that fight is as hopeless as stopping her outlandish plan. A woman with a perilously absurd request, no less! For Damien is fighting a battle of his own, one he wishes to keep hidden–along with his feelings for Lady Sophia. The last thing Damien Beecham, Viscount Quint, needs is an intrusion on his privacy, especially from the beautiful, exasperating woman he’s never stopped wanting. But only one person can help her: Lord Quint, the man who broke her heart years ago. All she needs is instruction on how to shoot it. ![]() Now her fate is in her own hands, along with a loaded gun. She’s not concerned about the criminals who will cross her path, for Sophie has mastered the art of deception–including the art of wearing trousers. Especially when she’s roaming London’s seedy underground…dressed as a man.Ī rabble rouser for justice, Sophie’s latest mission is to fight for the rights of the poor, the wretched–and the employees at Madame Hartley’s brothel. Lady Sophia Barnes doesn’t take no for an answer. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Only boys are entitled to an education, girls only learn cooking, sewing, household management and, strangely, basic mathematics. On being elected his first act is to ban all 70 million women from the workforce and enforce them to return to home duties, gardening, cooking and raising children. Only men can hold any job, only men can vote, women and girls can no longer hold passports, own bank accounts and all schools become gender based. The story is set in the US and follows the rise of an ultra-conservative, despot president and his administration whose sole aim is to make America “great again”. He and his cabinet of 11 men aim to take their country back to the 1950s, when men were men and women knew their places. ![]() On sale from August 29, VOX by Christina Dalcher is set in a fictionalised world that bears a great resemblance to some of America’s current realities. Authoritarian systems work to quash opposition and dissent, even conversation and diverse perspectives, leaving people with no way to speak up or speak out. In totalitarian societies, they actually don’t have one. There is an old saying that truth is stranger than fiction, and this book certainly mirrors that. Review Vox by Christina Dalcher In oppressive societies, citizens feel like they have no voice. VOXis, without doubt, the most chilling, frightening and believable book that I have ever read! ![]() ![]() ![]() What character do you most relate to and why? So, that’s the start of everything, and it all focused into the person of Hollis. She’s seeking truth, and she not only finds it, but ends up being grafted into a royal line. She has some very difficult experiences in her life but is loyal and faithful throughout. Also, the fashion of Tudor Era England that comes right after? I love it! So that’s in there.Īnd Ruth… I can’t say enough about her. Their roles in the outcome of history were so vital, so I pulled from them. That’s mayhem! And there are some pretty strong and determined women in this era. Through the War of the Roses, the crown changed hands seven times in about 30 years. ![]() ![]() First, the War of the Roses (about 1455-1487 AD) and second, Ruth from The Bible (hard to pinpoint, but between 1375-1040 BC). Kiera Cass: Much like The Selection, The Betrothed is marrying a few stories, but these two are both actual moments in history. Aurora: What was your inspiration behind your most recent novel? ![]() ![]() Moose's mother and Natalie's new psychologist(Mrs.Kelly) pushes Moose to take full care of Natalie and to take her everywhere he goes to help improve her social skills. ![]() Marinoff School, which was supposed to help her, but unfortunately, she's sent back home almost immediately because she's just not adjusting to the school. Due to his parents hectic work schedule Moose is left with almost full responsibility of his autistic older sister Natalie along with fitting into his new school. Flanagan believes this is the only way to help "cure" Natalie of her peculiarity and is doing her best to avoid sending Natalie to a mental institution. Moose's mother (Mrs.Flanagan) tries submitting Natalie (his sister) into this school called Esther P. Off the island there is a very prestigious school for children with mental illness. The move was caused by the father's new job positions as an electrician and as a guard in the well known Alcatraz prison. In this story, Moose Flanagan, our narrator and his family move from Santa Monica to Alcatraz Island in the 1930s. ![]() ![]() Her work appeared in major magazines, plus she was the author of … id apple pay 利用方法 WebHildegarde Dolson Lockridge (1908–1981) was a prolific writer whose career spanned nearly fifty years.
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It will also house King’s extensive archives and a future writer’s retreat. There are too many references to Bangor or its fictional stand-in, Derry, to note in one story, from iconic novels and movies like “It” to passing references in books like “Gerald’s Game,” “The Tommyknockers” and “Lisey’s Story.” Stephen and Tabitha King’s iconic Bangor home on West Broadway, where they lived for most or part of the year from 1980 until about 2019, was recently turned into the headquarters for their charitable foundation, which has donated millions of dollars to worthy causes in Maine. The town most synonymous with Stephen King. Bangor Stephen King, pictured outside his Bangor home in the early 1980s. ![]() ![]() (And it just might leave you feeling ecstaticallygrateful to live in an age of pants, super absorbency tampons, epidurals, anti-depressants, and not-dying-of-the-syphilis-your-husband-brought-home. Irresistibly charming, laugh-out-loud funny, and featuring nearly 200 images from Victorian publications, UNMENTIONABLE will inspire a whole new level of respect for Elizabeth Bennett, Scarlet O'Hara, Jane Eyre, and all of our great, great grandmothers. Unmentionable: The Victorian Ladys Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners von Oneill, Therese beim - ISBN 10: 031635791X - ISBN 13: 9780316357913. ![]() You’re mostly going to be accompanying Sugar in this brilliant book by multi-faceted writer Michel Faber. Probably the most thorough and intriguing exploration of Victorian women’s lives, replete with transporting detail and dialog and a story you can’t put down. ~ How to conceal your loathsome addiction to menstruating The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber. UNMENTIONABLE is your hilarious, illustrated, scandalously honest (yet never crass) guide to the secrets of Victorian womanhood, giving you detailed advice on: ![]() ![]() Ladies, welcome to the 19th century, where there's arsenic in your face cream, a pot of cold pee sits under your bed, and all of your underwear is crotchless. Have you ever wished you could live in an earlier, more romantic era? ![]() ![]() ![]() A wind-up gramophone wafted out Chopin waltzes. Mary and I were always creating imaginary characters and mimicking real ones, and I used to write shows and choreograph ballets for us. Mary and I would argue about which of us would marry him). I grew up in a tall Victorian London house with my parents, grandmother, aunt, uncle, younger sister Mary and cat Geoffrey (who was really a prince in disguise. ![]() Now available in a cased board book format, perfect for introducing Detective Nell to younger children!" Written by the brilliant Julia Donaldson and stunningly illustrated by the multi-talented illustrator and printmaker Sara Ogilvie, The Detective Dog is a fast-paced celebration of books, reading, libraries, and the relationship between a little boy and his rather special dog. and Detective Dog Nell is ready to sniff out the culprit! ![]() So who better to have on hand when they arrive one morning to discover that the school's books have all disappeared! Who could have taken them? And why? There's only one dog for the job. Every Monday she goes to school with Peter and listens to children read. Whether it's finding a lost shoe or discovering who did a poo on the new gravel path, her ever-sniffing nose is always hard at work. Peter's dog Nell has an amazing sense of smell. She was known far and wide as Detective Dog Nell. " There once was a dog with a keen sense of smell. ![]() ![]() ![]() Older and hardened, West returns to Half Moon and finds himself face-to-face with the man he’d lost. ![]() When they were young, Angel taught West how to love and laugh but when Angel moved on, West locked his heart up and threw away the key. Then West Harris returns to Half Moon Bay and threatens to break Angel all over again by taking away the only home he and Rome ever had. Between running his bakery and raising his troubled eleven-year-old half-brother, Roman, Angel has a hectic but happy life. Now, Angel’s life is a frantic mess of schedules and chaos. Once out on his own, Angel returns to Half Moon Bay where he once found…and then lost…love. A grifter’s son, he’d learned every con and trick in the book but ached for a normal life. Angel Daniels grew up hard, one step ahead of the law and always looking over his shoulder. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But that was the idea that “broke the world,” Ahamed says. Bank of England governor Montagu Norman restored order to the entire international financial system by re-establishing a relationship between the value of the pound and gold. Haughty Émile Moreau triggered a boom in French exports by keeping the value of the franc low. Prickly Hjalmar Schacht saved Germany from postwar hyperinflation. Following World War I, the four men who ran the central banks of France, Britain, Germany, and the U.S. Experts charged with setting national and international economic policy are capable of being dead wrong, says author Liaquat Ahamed. ![]() |