![]() ![]() When I finished Man Hands I couldn't wait to get my grubby mitts on this one, but I was worried this one wasn't going to be as good. It was an enjoyable story that was a lot of fun to read!!! Man Card is just as entertaining as Man Hands. ![]() This book made me laugh out loud just like the first, but Ash had some things going on that made the book a little more serious and a tad bit suspenseful at times. The chemistry Ash and Braht had made the book! I loved their back and forth banter and the sexual tension between them. He also rubs her the right way sometimes…. They are in competition at work (they’re both real estate agents) and Braht rubs Ash the wrong way sometimes. Braht and Ash have this love hate relationship. She’s fiercely independent and doesn’t need a man. Braht loves romantic comedies, gets manicures, and loves a good facial… but that doesn’t make him any less of a man where it counts the most. ![]() Sebastian Braht is not a manly man like his friend Tom. ![]() When I finished Man Hands, I couldn’t wait to get a Braht and Ash book! Those two had me laughing so hard and I love a good enemies to lovers story! Plus, the duo of Bowen and Erb is fantastic! As soon as this baby hit my kindle I jumped in. ![]()
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WomanCode: Perfect Your Cycle, Amplify Your Fertility, Supercharge Your Sex Drive, and Become a Power Source ![]() ![]() ![]() Kate Mosse has long held a fascination with modern-day characters whose lives connect through time to the desperate history of the Cathars in the Languedoc region of France. By turns thrilling, poignant, and haunting, this is a story of two lives touched by war and transformed by courage. ![]() By the time dawn breaks, Freddie will have unearthed a tragic mystery that goes back through the centuries, and discovered his own role in the life of this old remote town. Over the course of one night, Fabrissa and Freddie share their stories. There he meets Fabrissa, a lovely young woman also mourning a lost generation. Freezing and dazed, he stumbles through the woods, emerging in a tiny village, where he finds an inn to wait out the blizzard. During a snowstorm, his car spins off the mountain road. In the winter of 1928, still seeking some kind of resolution, Freddie is travelling through the beautiful but forbidding French Pyrenees. In Freddie Watson’s case, the battlefields took his beloved brother and, at times, his peace of mind. World War I robbed England and France of an entire generation of friends, lovers and futures. So, I’m happy to review her latest novel, The Winter Ghosts. I have a weakness for World War I novels and an even bigger weakness for Kate Mosse, a British author known for her best-selling novels Labyrinth and Sepulchre. ![]() ![]() After the exchange, Ifemelu, who has only recently come to the U.S., asks Ginika “Why didn’t she just ask ‘Was it the black girl or the white girl?’” Ginika’s response is right on the nose: “Because this is America. The cashier then asks if it was the one with dark hair, and after Ginika just smiles, the cashier says that she’ll just figure out who it was later. The cashier first asks if it was the attendant with long hair, to which Ginika replies that they both had long hair. It describes a scene in which Ifemelu and her friend, Ginika, are asked by the cashier at a clothing store which store attendant helped them. There is a passage on page 155 that stands out to me in particular. and U.K., and personal identity.Īdichie’s observations about race in America are spot on. ![]() ![]() The novel touches upon an array of important and relevant topics, including race, immigrant experiences in the U.S. There is a lot to unpack from Americanah. TLDR: Americanah is a masterfully written novel about race and identity that you should add to the top of your to-read list. ![]() ![]() ![]() is a significant, affecting book' Guardian 'Mixing startling lyricism and sheer brutality. confirms Mohamed's stature as one of Britain's best young novelists' Stylist, on The Orchard of Lost Souls 'A moving and captivating tale of survival and hope. It is only in the run-up to the trial, as the prospect of returning home dwindles, that it will dawn on Mahmood that he is in a fight for his life - against conspiracy, prejudice and cruelty - and that the truth may not be enough to save him. Love lends him immunity too: the fierce love of Laura, who forgives his gambling in a heartbeat, and his children. ![]() ![]() But Mahmood has escaped worse scrapes, and he is innocent in this country where justice is served. Since his Welsh wife Laura kicked him out for racking up debts he has wandered the streets more often, and there are witnesses who allegedly saw him enter the shop that night. So when a shopkeeper is brutally killed and all eyes fall on him, Mahmood isn't too worried. He is many things, but he is not a murderer. ![]() He is a smooth-talker with rakish charm and an eye for a good game. Mahmood Mattan is a fixture in Cardiff's Tiger Bay, 1952, which bustles with Somali and West Indian sailors, Maltese businessmen and Jewish families. The story of a murder, a miscarriage of justice, and a man too innocent for his times. ![]() ![]() ![]() She has a stepfather, Richie, who is an idiot and treats her and her whole family in the worst of ways. Eleanor has many problems with her family, problems she doesn’t want the world to know, especially not Park. How I cannot fall in love with the plot Rainbow Rowell created? Having a first love is part of everyone’s lives, regardless it was mutual or not. Everything in the book had a meaning and that was brilliant. Also, I was never bored because the author made sure to write many events that were correlated to the story, not just fillers. From beginning to end everything felt coherent, and that helped to make the story a flowy one, and therefore, I devoured the pages easily. ![]() It was easy to fall in love with Rowell’s writing style because she makes you feel as if you were part of the story. Since the beginning, Rainbow Rowell managed to grab my interest with the way she described things, such as feelings, the characters, the places, etc. This is the story of two sixteen-year-olds that will learn what love means, and that in the end, it’s a journey of bravery. This is the beginning of a love story, and more precisely, the story of a first love. When Eleanor gets to the bus, no one will let her sit with them, so Park, out of frustration, tells Eleanor she can sit with him. She’s new in the High School our half-Korean teenager, Park, attends to as well. She has wild red hair, wears “wrong” clothes, and you can sense her from miles away. Martin’s Griffin Press, New YorkĮleanor is not a common girl. ![]() ![]() The interior is pristine: it is spotlessly clean and free of writing, stray marks, stains or discolorations of any sort or paper damage of any type paper is moderately toned, very flexible and not at all brittle. Book is nearly pristine: it is square, hinges tight, corners not bumped, no dings on edges, head and heel of spine very lightly creased. ![]() ![]() 9-1/2" tall, 355 numbered pages includes "Author's acknowledgements, embarrassments and excuses with, at no extra cost, some bits of vocabulary and usage", followed by the last, unnumbered page of that "acknowledgement" and by four other unnumbered pages: a circus-poster-like page announcing a "sensational and extraordinary map of Dodger's London", the two-page map, and a final page advertising Terry Pratchett's website one-piece navy blue cloth binding, gilt lettering on spine boards are plain colorful marbleized end pages mostly in a wave pattern in shades of pink, lavender, blue and black fore edge is trimmed. ![]() Unstated first edition ("This edition published in 2012"), first printing with a full number line starting at "1". ![]() ![]() If I can thrive despite my injury and never give up hope, maybe they can do the same thing." "I hope that they will not only help to inspire people who have disabilities, but will resonate with anyone who has suffered in any way. "I am so happy for this opportunity to share my story in book form," LeGrand told The Star-Ledger. The first, an adult memoir, is entitled Believe: My Faith And The Tackle That Changed My Life, and the second, a version for younger readers, is entitled Believe: The Victorious Story of Eric LeGrand. ![]() NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - HarperCollins Publishers has acquired two books by ex-Rutgers football player Eric LeGrand, the major publishing company announced on Tuesday.īoth books are scheduled for publication in September of 2012. ![]() ![]() It urges us to “begin at the end,” where we find our first-person narrator, Vincent, plummeting into the sea. The Glass Hotel, Mandel’s follow-up, addresses a different, more fractured kind of disaster. ![]() ![]() Although Mandel’s fictional virus-a particularly nasty strain of swine flu-far outstrips the human toll of the coronavirus, it offers potent parallels to our time, and how we respond to the consequences of disaster. The attention was, and still is, earned the prose is clean and understated, and the book moves ably across time and points of view. The synopsis was a perfect fit for the moment: A theatre troupe reckons with the fallout from a deadly pandemic. John Mandel’s acclaimed fourth novel, Station Eleven, was a fixture in these pieces. ![]() The articles reflected this idea they were cheeky little pieces, often in the form of search-optimized lists, with winking references to bunkers and claustrophobia. In those hazy early days, we lived under the delusion that the virus would not be with us for long. Back in early 2020, when the novel coronavirus still felt, well, novel, the internet was inundated with articles about how to pass the time in quarantine. ![]() ![]() This novel focuses on the care and feeding of young entrepreneurs who have built a cash empire on the storied subculture of marijuana-lovers along the Southern California coast: “Everything hinges on not selling dope to people you don’t know.” There’s a little bit of a change-up here. ![]() The au courant author breezes through the early days of the evolving community of Laguna Beach circa 1967-2005, with a sprinkling of demographically eccentric characters: bookstore owners and purveyors of blotter acid Stan and Diane Raymond “Doc” Halliday (Taco Jesus) assorted corrupt law enforcement officials a fanatical DEA agent the crude musclemen of the Baja Cartel and the ever faithful Ben, Chon and O(phelia)-the female of the triangle-in an all too familiar pre- Savages plot. Given to a surfeit of shorthand initials (ODB, OGR, ad infinitum), staccato declarative sentences and simple formulas for existence on the Southern California coast-including a successful marijuana cultivation and sales operation-with the slick phrasing of the terminally cool, Winslow has dropped into a groove that has much appeal for the truncated tolerance of easily distracted younger readers in his prequel to the friendship of the three characters featured in Savages. ![]() Book review: Don Winslow's *Kings of Cool (A Prequel to Savages)* ![]() |