Ella fights it but is eventually dragged to the Royal household. Ella is struggling, until a man shows up at her high school announcing that not only is the dad she never knew dead, he, Callum Royal, is her new guardian. Her mom, a former stripper, died of cancer leaving her with nothing more than a name to let her know her complete parentage. This is the story of a 17 year old Ella who is putting herself through high school by stripping. But then I saw all the reviews and I thought, I’m judging a book by its cover (blurb)? So I decided to give this a go. Until I read the blurb and it seemed to be all about spoiled teenagers. Then I learned that she co-authored this book (with Jen Frederick under the name Erin Watt) and I had planned to be all over it. So I devoured her books and found out she’s co-authored an MM series, devoured and LOVED that one as well. Her Off Campus series is exactly why I read the New Adult genre.
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Shipwrecked and cast ashore in Japan with no memory of Temeraire or his own experiences as an English aviator, Laurence finds himself tangled in deadly political intrigues that threaten not only his own life but England’s already precarious position in the Far East.Īgnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. Laurence and Temeraire embark for Brazil, only to meet with a string of unmitigated disasters that leave the dragons and their human friends forced to make an unexpected landing in the hostile territory of the Inca empire. Separated and condemned by their own allies, Laurence and Temeraire face the deadly onslaught of Napoleon’s armies.Įxiled to Australia, Laurence and Temeraire must navigate treacherous political waters to protect three dragon eggs. When a virulent epidemic strikes the Aerial Corps, Laurence and Temeraire must race to find the cure. Laurence and Temeraire travel to Istanbul for a priceless cargo of dragon eggs, but disaster threatens their mission. Laurence and Temeraire face a long and terrible journey to Imperial China, where political intrigue may divide them forever. Reliant is swept from his naval career when he captures a rare dragon egg. Where the story begins! Captain William Laurence of H.M.S. Also features a new Temeraire short story! A gorgeous omnibus edition of the first three volumes in the Temeraire series, His Majesty’s Dragon, Throne of Jade, and Black Powder War. The book started with a bang, rattled off in fine style until page 50 or so, and then just got mired in Kinsey’s daily routines. But can Kinsey prove her case against him before she becomes the next victim? It seems this sociopath knows exactly how to cause chaos without leaving a trace.Īs Kinsey delves deeper into the investigation she quickly becomes the next target of this tormentor. And despite the devastation, there isn’t a single conviction to his name. It soon leads her to an unhinged man with a catalogue of ruined lives left in his wake. This seemingly innocuous task takes a treacherous turn when Kinsey finds a coded list amongst her friend’s files. – and Kinsey’s old friend – Pete Wolinsky, needs help with her IRS audit. Meanwhile, the widow of the recently murdered P. Riled, Kinsey won’t stop until she’s found out who fooled her and why. But when a cop tells her she was paid with marked bills, and Kinsey’s client is nowhere to be found, it becomes apparent this mystery woman has something to hide. When a glamorous red head wishes to locate the son she put up for adoption thirty-two years ago, it seems like an easy two hundred bucks for P. The journal tells a story that could not possibly be true, a story of his grandfather's young life involving witches, giants, magical books, and evil spirits. He strikes out for his grandfather's small hometown of Dyerville carrying only one thing with him: his grandfather's journal. Vince cannot explain it, but he's convinced that if his father is somehow still alive, he'll find him at the funeral. That's when a letter arrives, telling Vince his grandfather has passed away. But it's been a long time since the fire, a long time since Vince has told himself a story worth believing in. With only a senile grandfather he barely knows to call family, Vince was remanded to a group home, where he spun fantastical stories, dreaming of the possibility that his father, whose body was never found, might one day return for him. Vince Elgin is an orphan, having lost his mother and his father in a fire when he was young, but beyond that, his life hasn't been much of a fairy tale. A young orphan searches for his family and the meaning in his grandfather's book of lost fairy tales In Chasing The Light he writes about his rarefied New York childhood, volunteering for combat, and his struggles and triumphs making such films as Platoon, Midnight Express, and Scarface.īefore the international success of Platoon in 1986, Oliver Stone had been wounded as an infantryman in Vietnam, and spent years writing unproduced scripts while taking miscellaneous jobs and driving taxis in New York, finally venturing westward to Los Angeles and a new life. In this powerful and evocative memoir, Oscar-winning director and screenwriter, Oliver Stone, takes us right to the heart of what it’s like to make movies on the edge. “A tremendous book – readable, funny and harrowing.” – The Sunday Times “Raw, savagely honest, as dramatic as any of his movies.” – Mail on Sunday “… a Hollywood movie in itself.” – Spike Lee It left me breathless.” – Chris Evans, Virgin Radio Breakfast Show Alongside real-life accounts of murderers and their crimes -some notorious, some forgotten, some still unsolved - are the equally compelling stories of the poisons involved: eleven molecules of death that work their way through the human body and, paradoxically, illuminate the way in which our bodies function. But how exactly do these poisons work to break our bodies down, and what can we learn from the damage they inflict? In a fascinating blend of popular science, medical history, and narrative crime nonfiction, Dr Neil Bradbury explores this most morbidly captivating method of murder from a cellular level. It can be slipped into a drink, smeared onto the tip of an arrow or the handle of a door, even filtered through the air we breathe. 'Indecently entertaining.' A Daily Mail Book of the Week An Amazon US Best Book of 2022 'A fascinating tale of poisons and poisonous deeds which both educates and entertains.' - Kathy Reichs As any reader of murder mysteries can tell you, poison is one of the most enduring - and popular - weapons of choice for a scheming murderer. They both are based on the same idea of teenagers forced to participate in a deadly game where only one person wins and lives. I have to admit, similarities between these two books are undeniable. I came across this book after reading “Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins which was claimed to be a “Battle Royale” rip-off. He is currently working on a second novel. It went on to become a bestseller when finally released in 1999 and, a year later, was made into a manga and a feature film. It was rejected in the final round of the literary competition for which it was intended, owing to its controversial content. The novel Battle Royale was completed after Takami left the news company. From 1991 to 1996, he worked for the news company Shikoku Shimbun, reporting on various fields including politics, police reports, and economics. After graduating from Osaka University with a degree in literature, he dropped out of Nihon University's liberal arts correspondence course program. Takami was born in Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture near Osaka and grew up in the Kagawa Prefecture of Shikoku. Koushun Takami (高見 広春 Takami Kōshun) is the author of the novel Battle Royale, originally published in Japanese, and later translated into English by Yuji Oniki and published by Viz Media and, later, in an expanded edition by Haika Soru, a division of Viz Media. Got a site or podcast to recommend to Open Culture? Click and send us an email. To find out more, check out this podcast Pagels and King gave at San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral, or listen to their interview with Terry Gross on NPR. Whether that vindicates the most famous betrayal in narrative history is a tough one–Pagels and King argue that it all depends on how attached Jesus really felt to his body. Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity seems to take a middle-of-the-road approach, arguing that the gospel (written in the third century AD, not by Judas himself) takes a critical position against the hegemony of the early Christian church. Religious scholars Elaine Pagels and Karen King have a new book out on the subject ( reviewed this week in the New York Times). The trouble with Judas is that if he was carrying out God’s plan, was he really evil? The point has been made everywhere from seminaries to Jesus Christ, Superstar, but it suddenly became more urgent with the rediscovery of a putative Gospel of Judas in 2004. In this book, Pagels puts Revelations in its historical context and shows how it lies in the tradition of Jewish prophetic/apocalyptic literature and how it may be related to gnostic-Christian literature. In a university town in the American Midwest a circle of lovers and friends navigate tangled webs of connection as they try to work out what they want, and who they areAs they test their own desires in a series of relationships they are confronted by volatile figures in town, from unruly, vulnerable young poets to a local landlord harbouring a lifetime of resentment. NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with author Brandon Taylor about his debut novel Real Life, inspired by his own experience as a black, queer student in a graduate science program. **A Book of 2023 in the Guardian, Irish Times, Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire and i-D** Photo: Haolun Xu About The Late Americans Since there are multiple plot threads and not quite enough vocal variety between some characters, and the scene changes rather frequently, this editing decision is really disruptive to the listening experience. The biggest problem: Some "genius" editor decided that there would be NO pause, NONE at all, when the book changes scenes. In many scenes, there's just not enough vocal differentiation between characters to follow the scene clearly. On this one, the voices for the characters are goofy even more often than in the narration of Peter F Hamilton's "Pandora's Star" and "Judas Unchained". The Narrator: John Lee has never been my favorite, but I've had him read four other books in my collection, and he did fine. So far I have only been unable to finish one audiobook I've purchased from (out of about 150) and I may now have to change that number to two. However, the combination of the narrating and one particular editing decision has turned me off of the audio version. |