I enjoyed the romance between Malcolm and Verity. Will love be enough to protect them from a treacherous plot devised to ruin them? But when the charade ends, the danger begins. The intimacy of this necessary arrangement-Verity and Malcom thrust together in close quarters-soon sparks an irresistible heat. How to keep them at bay? Verity must pretend to be his wife. Damn the feisty beauty who exposed the contented tosher to a parade of fortune-hunting matchmakers. Kidnapped as a child, with no memories of his well-heeled past, Malcom prefers the grimy spoils of the culverts to the gilded riches of society. Now that Verity’s made him front-page news, what will he make of her? That’s precisely where she finds happily self-sufficient scavenger Malcom North, lost heir to the Earl of Maxwell. To solve a mystery that’s become the talk of the ton, no clues run too deep for willful reporter Verity Lovelace. Christi Caldwell, USA TODAY bestselling author of the Wicked Wallflowers series, combs London’s underground and finds romance and danger for a missing lord and the lady who loves him.
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Exploring the anguish of immigration and the lasting effects that displacement has on a child and her family, Bui documents the story of her family’s daring escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s, and the difficulties they faced building new lives for themselves.Īt the heart of Bui’s story is a universal struggle: While adjusting to life as a first-time mother, she ultimately discovers what it means to be a parent-the endless sacrifices, the unnoticed gestures, and the depths of unspoken love. This beautifully illustrated and emotional story is an evocative memoir about the search for a better future and a longing for the past. 2017 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) FinalistĪBA Indies Introduce Winter / Spring 2017 Selectionīarnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Spring 2017 SelectionĪn intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family’s journey from war-torn Vietnam, from debut author Thi Bui. * * Outlanders: Doom Dynasty ( Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 8-0, Nov 2000, $5.99, 348pp, pb, cover by Michael Herring) Post-holocaust SF adventure novel, 15th in the overall series, first in The Imperator Wars trilogy.* * Deathlands: Zero City ( Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 2-6, Dec 2000, $5.99, 349pp, pb, cover by Michael Herring) Post-holocaust SF adventure novel, 52nd in the series.Ryan Cawdor is taken to a parallel Earth where the nukecaust never happened. * * Deathlands: Shadow World ( Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 9-6, Mar 2000, $5.99, 349pp, pb, cover by Michael Herring) Post-holocaust SF adventure novel, 49th in the series. Ryan and his band are taken prisoner by inbred soldiers led by a mad general. * * Deathlands: Rat King ( Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 1-8, Sep 2000, $5.99, 346pp, pb, cover by Michael Herring) Post-holocaust SF adventure novel, 51st in the series. Books, Listed by Author The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2000 Much of this book just isn't very good, indeed, it's quite bad. Thrilling and fearless, this is a major American novel from a writer of spectacular talent and imagination. At its center is Kushner’s brilliantly realized protagonist, a young woman on the verge. The Flamethrowers is an intensely engaging exploration of the mystique of the feminine, the fake, the terrorist. Betrayal sends her reeling into a clandestine undertow. When they visit Sandro’s family home in Italy, Reno falls in with members of the radical movement that overtook Italy in the seventies. Ardent, vulnerable, and bold, she begins an affair with an artist named Sandro Valera, the semi-estranged scion of an Italian tire and motorcycle empire. Reno meets a group of dreamers and raconteurs who submit her to a sentimental education of sorts. Her arrival coincides with an explosion of activity in the art world-artists have colonized a deserted and industrial SoHo, are staging actions in the East Village, and are blurring the line between life and art. The year is 1975 and Reno-so-called because of the place of her birth-has come to New York intent on turning her fascination with motorcycles and speed into art. Hurley reportedly had an early taste for danger, gaining a reputation for putting himself at risk in order to achieve spectacular images such as situating himself on railroad tracks to capture oncoming trains on film. He eventually became a self-taught photographer, setting himself up in the picture-postcard business. Hurley, an Australian, had run away from home at age 13 and worked at a steel mill and dockyards before returning to study at the local technical school and attend science lectures at the University of Sydney. Distinguishing this book are 140 photographs taken by Frank Hurley, the expedition's photo documentarian. They reveal as much about the writers as they do about their colleagues (names are named) and since the majority of the crew kept journals of some kind, their collective writings describe the group dynamic comprehensively. Many of the crew's diary entries are juicy, opinionated, and humorous. The text is a product of deep research, contact with families of the expedition members, and access to documents and diaries which, according to the author, were safeguarded for many years. Following Lansing by 39 years and the expedition itself by 84, Alexander elaborates further on the crew's personalities, interactions, and ordeals. Shackleton aficionados seeking a companion piece to Alfred Lansing's classic Endurance will find great satisfaction in Caroline Alexander's book, The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition. Never did I see such an affecting Scene as was the meeting of Edward and Augustus."My Life! my Soul!" (exclaimed the former) "My Adorable Angel!" (replied the latter), as they flew into each other's arms. We were interrupted in the delightfull Employment by the entrance of Augustus (Edward's freind), who was just returned from a solitary ramble. We flew into each other's arms and after having exchanged vows of mutual Freindship for the rest of our Lives, instantly unfolded to each other the most inward secrets of our Hearts. The young, love-obsessed duo of Laura and Sophia regularly faint at unexpected romantic developments:"She (Sophia) was all Sensibility and Feeling. The spelling disarmingly needs work, particularly on the "i before e" rule.And large swatches are really funny. The writing is impressive - she has a remarkable sense of flow and timing even at such a young age. There is some presaging of what is to come with this author, with discussions of the importance of marriage and wealth, obsessions with appearance, inflated pomposity, and more. Mainly in the form of letters, outrageous spoofs of the romance genre abound. Love and Freindship by Jane Austen was written when she was 14 and 15 (mine has her History of England in it, too). How the characters cope with this change offers lessons in surviving and thriving despite the inevitable changes in life and the workplace. They notice that the quality and supply of the cheese are slowly dwindling. By contrast, the mice stay alert to their surroundings. The humans Hem and Haw take the cheese for granted, assuming it will always be there. They, too, find the same large stockpile of cheese as the mice.īut the two have very different attitudes toward their situation. The other two characters, Hem and Haw, are little humans who apply more sophisticated thinking and analytical skills to the daily search. Two characters, Sniff and Scurry, are mice who take an industrious, uncomplicated trial-and-error approach to finding cheese, They don’t overthink things, instead trying out various routes until one day they find a large store of cheese. Cheese represents happiness or satisfaction in its various forms - for instance, security, prestige, or wealth. The story takes place in a maze, where four characters search for and consume cheese. Like all parables, it’s told as a story that you can relate clearly to your life. “Who Moved My Cheese,” a bestseller by Spencer Johnson published in 1998, is a parable about the inevitability of change, the ways in which we typically deal with it, and how revising our attitude toward change can reduce stress and increase success. 1-Page Summary 1-Page Book Summary of Who Moved My Cheese? Tinchant also referred to his military and political service during and after the American Civil War, when he was a member of a free colored unit of the Union Army and a representative at the Louisiana convention that drafted a radical state constitution. Furthermore, Tinchant’s claim that his parents had settled in New Orleans after the Haitian Revolution and then left for France to raise six sons (actually five) in relative freedom was also correct. Still, the connection to Haiti was true enough. This assertion was dramatic license, because the father’s birthplace was almost certainly Baltimore, and the mother was from the southern, not western, province of Saint-Domingue. He claimed that his father and mother had been born in Gonaïves, the birthplace of Haitian independence. He mentioned that his family was of Haitian descent. Linking Belgian cigars to the cause of Cuban independence, Tinchant couched his request in ways that might appeal. A marketing ploy, the aim was to add prestige to an everyday product. Written to a revered Cuban war hero, it expressed support for the cause of independence and asked permission to use his portrait for a brand of cigar. A letter written in 1899 by a Belgian cigar merchant, Édouard Tinchant, is the starting point for this family saga. The focal point of all approaches to complex structures allows the application of Chaos Theory within the health sciences. The complex structure of biological systems studied in life sciences allows the use of the Chaos Theory in these areas. It is stated that behaviors occurring in systems are not random and that there is an atractor causing the behavior. In the Chaos Theory, it is impossible to understand and predict all of the dynamic system (non-linear systems), where small changes in a system lead to greater change in the process (sensitive to the initial state), similar to the smallest part of a whole (fractals). The Chaos Theory, which explains how a complex and unpredictable system behaves, shows that there exists a system within irregularly visible systems, it has affected all fields of science towards the end of the 20th century. Remaining true to herself as an author, she’s a powerful writer with something important to say through her work. Moving between several different genres, she’s managed to clearly display her versatility as an author too, making for an engaging style of writing. Her plots are also expertly paced, with her building the tension with precision each and every time, drawing her readers in and keeping them coming back for more.Īll of her stories push the boundaries too, making the most of her intriguing and exciting premises that instantly grab the audience. Knowing her audience too, she pushes the format to the limit, allowing her stories to essentially come alive off of the page. Getting to the heart of the subject matter whatever she’s writing, she really has a way with words quite unlike any other. Redmerski is an adept author of romantic suspense novels, understanding the genre perfectly. |