![]() ![]() It’s narratively well laid out and Cochet’s foundation for the Runaway Grooms is very solid.Įach main character has a different but similar feel to them in that they’re both multidimensional and have depth in their respective histories. I don’t think you have to have read one or all of those to get with the characters and setting here. ![]() I didn’t realize until later this was part of the Four Kings Security Universe. So as we start, this is how we continue on! A breakneck rumble of a romantic contemporary love story that encapsulates the best elements of second chances at love, lovers reunited, and best friends who became lovers all into one singular book. It’s hilarious, realistically anxiety producing, and so well written that we’re drawn into Gage’s story and comedy/drama elements of his love life instantly. I know I’m in for a fabulous time when I’m cackling at the very beginning of the story! Just pages in and my sides are hurting from laughing over the outfit and situation Gage Kingston finds himself in. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Moving beyond the Atlantic seaboard to examine the entire continent, American Colonies reveals a pivotal period in the global interaction of peoples, cultures, plants, animals, and microbes. ![]() ![]() Transcending the usual Anglocentric version of our colonial past, he recovers the importance of Native American tribes, African slaves, and the rival empires of France, Spain, the Netherlands, and even Russia in the colonization of North America. In the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America, from the native inhabitants from milennia past, through the decades of Western colonization and conquest, and across the entire continent, all the way to the Pacific coast. Description A multicultural, multinational history of colonial America from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Internal Enemy and American Revolutions ![]() ![]() ![]() Hopefully, Amazon will Whispersync this pair some day. I purchased the Kindle version of this 4-volume Complete Sherlock Holmes set before this was available. The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes: Short StoriesĪ Table of Contents & Audible Part/Chapter Notes The Return of Sherlock Holmes: Short Stories Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: Short Stories ![]() ![]() This set is a must-have for every discriminating bibliophile and Sherlock Holmes fan.Īdventures of Sherlock Holmes: Short Stories John Watson, his steadfast assistant and our trusty narrator. At the center of each stands the iconic figure of Holmes-brilliant, eccentric, and capable of amazing feats of deductive reasoning. Included in this collection are all four full-length Holmes novels and more than forty short masterpieces-from the inaugural adventure A Study in Scarlet to timeless favorites like “The Speckled Band” and more. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes tales are rightly ranked among the seminal works of mystery and detective fiction. Winner of the 2014 Audie Award for Classics ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That being said, things started ramping up around half way through and continued to improve for me as the book went on. I don’t know if it was my mood when I picked this up, but I found the plot was slower and less exciting than the first book. I had forgotten who one of the characters was, although that was quickly rectified as they played a large role in this book. I struggled to get into this book initially. But, is it possible for her to ever be truly free and is she safe from those who want her for their own gains? Eve and Bram fight for her freedom from the life she has been forced to live. The Eve Illusion starts right where the first book finished. In this book I had the opposite problem, I initially struggled but loved the end. ![]() I initially loved the first book but found myself struggling more with it towards the end. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Readers have also been given a special look at another side of Auggie's story with The Julian Chapter and a peek at his life before Beecher Prep in Pluto. Over 3 million people have read the #1 New York Times bestseller Wonder-the book that inspired the Choose Kind movement -and have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face. Readers will not only learn more about Charlotte and her budding friendship with reader-favorite, Summer (they solve a mystery together), but how the girls at Beecher Prep react to Auggie attending their school for the first time, and how Charlotte came to write the precept she used at the end of Wonder, "It's not enough to be friendly. In Shingaling, the third Wonder Story, they'll read about life as a fifth grader at Beecher Prep through the eyes of Charlotte, the girl who had been chosen to be Auggie's "welcome" buddy. WONDER IS SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JULIA ROBERTS AND JACOB TREMBLAY! ![]() ![]() ![]() Its crowdedness serves as a reminder: The greatest acts of heroism are not always done alone. ![]() Like the network it describes, All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days is stronger for its decentralization. The archival quality of the book, its enumeration and cataloging of sources, is both surprising for a biography-too rarely the site of literary innovation-and affecting. She does this stylishly, sometimes presenting events in chronological lists or highlighting fragments from her research as stand-alone text. Donner quotes passages from her sources at length, letting the reader dwell on facts rather than galloping through them. They also add nuance to the question of what it means to resist. These other stories have the effect of opening up the book and turning what might have been a narrowly constructed biography into a much broader reflection on political action. She also, cleverly, compensates for what we don’t know about Harnack with what can be gleaned about her many acquaintances. Harnack’s great-great-niece Rebecca Donner draws on her extensive archival research in Germany, Russia, England, and the U.S. Donner had access to material only family could find. All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler. ![]() ![]() ![]() And the crimes, if you allow me, that are under investigation in this book, don't occur in the library. But as I prepare for the interview with our guest, it began to occur to me that what we were going to talk about today, it's really a detective story. I'm really excited about today for a number of reasons. ![]() So underwritten by our partners Retreat Behavioral Health, you'll hear more about them later on. ![]() We hope you're finding that to be the case because we certainly enjoy the people we run into on the Behavioral Corner. What do we do on the Corner? Well, we wait for really interesting people to bump into us and they share their stories with us. So you're on the corner, the Behavioral Corner, please hang around a while. I'm Steve Martorano and this is the Behavioral Corner you're invited to hang with us, as we've discussed the ways we live today, the choices we make, the things we do, and how they affect our health and wellbeing. Steve Martorano The Behavioral Corner is produced in partnership with Retreat Behavioral Health - where healing happens. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sense of isolation, not to say an occasional overwhelming paranoia, Rousseau began his next autobiographical Then in 1772, still suffering from an acute The twelve substantial books took four years to complete. Staying at Wootton Hall in Staffordshire, he began the serious composition of his Confessions. In 1766, haunted by a growing sense of isolation and persecution, But this preoccupation became obsessional during His own unstable identity, with his image, with his inner truth and with his ever-deepening sense ofĭislocation from others and from society in general. ![]() Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the great 18th century philosopher, was preoccupied throughout his life with SUBSCRIBE NOW Psychology The Full Revelation of the Self: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Birth of Deep Autobiography Peter Abbs recounts how Rousseau undertook a psychological self-examination a century before psychoanalysis. ![]() ![]() ![]() The esteemed Professor Maxwell is an obvious suspect, but Florrie is certain this case isn't so black and white. It's not until she visits the third floor of the store that Florrie makes a tragic discovery-there's a trap door in the landing, and a dead Delbert inside. But the following morning, Delbert has vanished. When the professor's nephew, Delbert, arrives, he proves just as sketchy as Florrie feared. ![]() He offers the property to Florrie rent-free with one condition-she must move in immediately to prevent his covetous sister and nephew from trying to claim it. There's plenty of inspiration in her new apartment-a beautiful carriage house belonging to Professor John Maxwell, Florrie's boss. By night, she creates her own intricately detailed coloring books for adults, filling the pages with objects that catch her eye. By day, Florrie Fox manages Color Me Read bookstore in Georgetown, Washington D.C. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the sound of the 1960s and 1970s, nothing symbolized the rift between black and white America better than the seemingly divided genres of country and soul. Finding censorship of popular music "both a practical and a constitutional impossibility," Bayles insists that "an informed shift in public tastes may be our only hope of reversing the current malignant mood." She argues that culture shapes the market and not the other way around. Unlike other recent critics of popular music, Bayles does not blame the problem on commerce. Bayles defends the tough, affirmative spirit of Afro-American music against the strain of artistic modernism she calls 'perverse.' She describes how perverse modernism was grafted onto popular music in the late 1960s, and argues that the result has been a cult of brutality and obscenity that is profoundly anti-musical. Yet despite the vigor and balance of these musical origins, Martha Bayles argues, something has gone seriously wrong, both with the sound of popular music and the sensibility it expresses. ![]() ![]() From Queen Latifa to Count Basie, Madonna to Monk, Hole in Our Soul: The Loss of Beauty and Meaning in American Popular Music traces popular music back to its roots in jazz, blues, country, and gospel through the rise in rock 'n' roll and the emergence of heavy metal, punk, and rap. ![]() |