![]() ![]() ![]() Africa is replacing the United States and Europe as a major middle class of value.The USA is grasping at straws and trying to hold everything together.By the time the American public discovers what actually has happened, it will be far too late, and rage will ensue.Great big changes in the world, and the West is unaware of them.When will the United States issue everyone with 8-track players to listen to when Tiktok is completely banned?.Boy oh boy is the Geopolitical situation changing (with a good look at Vietnam).The USA is starting to wake up to the nightmare that it created.Some art, thoughts, funk, maybe cute cats, and food while the world is about to go to shit. ![]() Now with the United States crazy mad-dog chained in a corner, the rest of the world are mending fences, and building bridges.The big war happened in 2019, China won.Choppy changes and incredible surprises coming up ahead.What a day! The anti-China trolls are out in rare form.The battle still rages, but the major threat is now neutralized. Anything Is Much Better When There Are Animals Around. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I borrowed this on audiobook from my library. Series Info/Source: This is second book in the Lovelight series. It has absolutely nothing to do with the hot farmer she spent two incredible nights with-nothing at all.” ![]() She returns to the last place she was happy, Lovelight Farms and the tiny town of Inglewild. When she disappears again, Beckett resolves to finally forget her and move on.įeeling disconnected from her work and increasingly unhappy, she’s trying to find her way back to something real. He had no idea that the sweet and sexy woman he met at a bar is actually a global phenomenon: social media influencer Evelyn St. So when she suddenly appears on his farm as part of a social media contest, he is confused. He can’t stop thinking about her laugh, her hand pressed flat against his chest, her smiling mouth at his neck, her eyes, her legs. ![]() But Evie wove some sort of magic over him during their tumble in the sheets. He’s not unfamiliar with hot and heavy flings. “One incredible weekend in Maine, and Beckett Porter is officially a distracted man. Stand Alone or Series: 2nd book in the Lovelight series ![]() ![]() ![]() No writer guides his young characters, and his readers, past these pitfalls and challenges and toward their futures with more compassion. ![]() No writer guides his young characters, and his readers, past these pitfalls and challenges and toward their futures with more compassion.” - The New York Times In this celebration of nonconformity, Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli weaves a tense, emotional tale about the perils of popularity and the thrill and inspiration of first love.ĭon’t miss the sequel, Love, Stargirl, as well as The Warden’s Daughter, a novel about another girl who can't help but stand out. Stargirl is suddenly shunned for everything that makes her different, and Leo, panicked and desperate with love, urges her to become the very thing that can destroy her: normal. She sparks a school-spirit revolution with just one cheer. From the day she arrives at quiet Mica High in a burst of color and sound, the hallways hum with the murmur of “Stargirl, Stargirl.” She captures Leo Borlock’ s heart with just one smile. ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME Ī modern-day classic from Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli, this beloved celebration of individuality is now an original movie on Disney+!Īnd don't miss the author's highly anticipated new novel, Dead Wednesday! ![]() ![]() But there's no room in her heart for fear this man is her means of escape. Instead, she is being sent to the Yorkshire moors to wed a mysterious nobleman whose family is cursed and who has thrice tried to kill her brother. But he hadn't expected his enemy's sister to be so resourceful or resilient.īrooke Whitworth has been dreaming of her first Season in London because she intends to win a husband who will take her far away from her unloving family. With duelling no longer an available means of destroying the man he abhors, he will be satisfied to see him lose his lands and title. The Wolf, however, is determined to scare away the Whitworth chit. He knows the Wolf will reject her as a bride, thereby losing his wealth and status. Whitworth relishes the idea of sending his younger sister Brooke to his enemy's remote estate. ![]() Whichever party refuses to comply will forfeit his lands and title. ![]() ![]() ![]() With enlightened society outraged at such reckless behaviour among young noblemen, the Prince Regent orders Robert Whitworth, the earl of Tamdon's heir, and Lord Dominic Wolfe to end their dispute by allying their families through marriage. One duel could be considered a matter of honour, but three duels are attempted murder. 1 New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey delivers a sparkling, passionate tale of an earl's daughter who must convince a mysterious viscount to marry her and end his vendetta against her brother. ![]() ![]() ![]() Izabela-passionate and longing to see the world-convinces her father to allow her to accompany him and his family to Europe before she is married. Meanwhile, architect Heitor da Silva Costa is devising plans for an enormous statue, to be called Christ the Redeemer, and will soon travel to Paris to find the right sculptor to complete his vision. Once there, she begins to put together the pieces of her story and its beginnings.Įighty years earlier in Rio’s Belle Epoque of the 1920s, Izabela Bonifacio’s father has aspirations for his daughter to marry into the aristocracy. Each of them is handed a tantalizing clue to her true heritage-a clue which takes Maia across the world to a crumbling mansion in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ![]() ![]() Maia D’Apliese and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, “Atlantis”-a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva-having been told that their beloved father, who adopted them all as babies, has died. ![]() ![]() ![]() For Sydnam, it is a chance to heal the pain of the past. Now the unwed single mother and war-scarred veteran must make a decision that could forever alter their lives. ![]() Unable to resist the passion that has rescued them both from loneliness, Anne and Sydnam share an afternoon of exquisite lovemaking. Yet almost from the moment Anne first appears on the cliffs, he senses in this lovely stranger a kindred soul, and between these two wary hearts, desire stirs. For single mother and teacher Anne Jewell, newly arrived with her son at a sprawling estate in Wales on the invitation of an influential friend, Sydnam Butler is a man whose sorrows–and passions–run deeper than she could have ever imagined.Īs steward of a remote seaside manor, Sydnam lives a reclusive existence far from the pity and disdain of others. ![]() ![]() She spies him in the deepening dusk of a Wales evening–a lone figure of breathtaking strength and masculinity, his handsome face branded by a secret pain. At the center of this spellbinding novel is Anne Jewell, a teacher haunted by a scandalous past…until she meets a man who teaches her the most important lesson of nothing is simple when it comes to love.… New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh returns to the elegance and sensuality of Regency England as she continues the enthralling story of four remarkable women–friends and teachers at Miss Martin’s School for Girls. This edition contains an excerpt from Mary Balogh's The Secret Mistress. ![]() ![]() Why did you decide to write a sequel to What If ? What’s the really important thing to get across here? This is a person who's interested, who maybe doesn't have the background, but they’re perfectly capable of understanding whatever it is I am trying to explain. Whatever else they're also paying attention to is also important. You have a moment of their attention on this thing. So the way I always try to think about it is: Don't think about it as if people aren't smart. I'll really make this like I'm talking to a child.” I think people can tell when they're being condescended to. People really struggle with this, because they'll say, “Okay, well, I'll really dumb this down. But it's hard to do that without being condescending. And that's true anywhere-whether it's to other scientists or people who aren't scientists. ![]() ![]() You want to talk in the language that people will understand. Sometimes scientists will use language that’s really tricky or specialized without realizing that not everyone knows, for example, what an oxidizer is. ![]() ![]() It’s like a Magic Eye picture or an optical illusion: You can look at it for a while, and you don’t see it and you don’t see it-and then you see it. It’s hard to put yourself in the shoes of the people you’re trying to talk to. One of the trickiest things about talking to people about something cool that you've learned how to do, or that you've learned about-whether it's science or something else-is that it’s hard to remember what it's like to not know something. ![]() ![]() ![]() In particular, as the last of three daughters, she takes care of her mother – Mama Elena – until she dies. Tita De La Garda, the main character of the book, is a young and submissive woman who can’t marry her love, Pedro, because of family traditions. Like Water for Chocolate appears like a diary written by a niece who tells her great-aunt’s life. The text also has a subtitle: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances and Home Remedies that summarises in a sentence all the themes confronted in the story. The title refers to a Spanish expression mainly used in Latin America, where people use boiled water – and not milk – to make hot chocolate. Esquivel was also a teacher, a screenwriter, and a politician in the Local Council of Mexico City. ![]() It was published in Mexico, then translated from Spanish to English in 1992, and the same year it appeared as a film based on the novel. The Mexican writer Laura Esquivel wrote her first novel, Like Water for Chocolate, in 1989. ![]() ![]() ![]() Had it been possible he was getting hard for me? I’d known he was gay, but this was something else. ![]() ![]() I remembered the air getting weird between us and his underwear getting bulgier as we stood there. Since I’d helped my dad on the farm and worked at Walt’s, I hadn’t played school sports and had the locker room experience like some others had. I’d glanced my fill of his entire body, curious more than anything about what another man outside my family looked like without his clothes on. He’d been standing there in nothing but navy-striped boxer briefs, and I’d stared at him like he was some kind of alien. I remembered one time when Cooper was staying over during a spring break, I’d come home late from helping a neighbor fix his tractor shed and run right into Cooper pouring himself a glass of ice water in the darkened kitchen. Daddy’s just having a sexuality crisis, no big.” Nacho’s ears perked up in the rearview mirror. ![]() “Keep it together,” I grumbled under my breath. And since I was fixing to spend the entire summer sleeping near, fighting with, and pretending to kiss and hug the man, this was going to be a problem. It made me annoyed, mostly, but for some reason that annoyance made itself known through what I’d begun to think of as “angry dick.” Yes, thoughts of arguing with Cooper made me hard. Thinking about Cooper though… well, that did something to me. ![]() ![]() ![]() I love to sing and went to college as a voice performance major.And we named his litter box Pemberly because it’s where he makes ten thousand (poops) a year! I live outside of Phoenix, Arizona with my husband, four children, and my cat, Mr. I’m obsessed with reading, talk way too much, and like to eat frosting by the spoonful. I wrote my first novel at age fifteen–a fan fiction about my f avorite music group, The Backstreet Boys, for which my family and friends still tease me. ![]() ***Sign up for Kelly’s newsletter () to be notified when Happily Ever After releases!***ĬINDER & ELLA PRESS KIT – AUTHOR INTERVIEW There are no book links for this book yet, but you can sign up for Kelly’s newsletter for any news regarding the sequwl. With the stress of Brian’s fame and the pressures of a new relationship weighing down on them, the It Couple quickly begins to wonder if they can hold on to their newfound joy, or if maybe happily ever after is only a fairy tale after all. But leaving their anonymity behind creates a whole new set of obstacles for the nation’s new favourite sweethearts. Hollywood heart throb Brian Oliver and his Cinderella princess Ellamara Rodriguez have finally found love outside the digital world. The end of one story is often the beginning of another. 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