5/11/2023 0 Comments Valor on the Move by Keira Andrews![]() ![]() Just as no one seems to believe that he’s an adult capable of making his own decisions. ![]() If anything, it’s Rafa who seduced Shane, but no one believes him. Was it while he was still protecting Shane as a Secret Service Agent? Did he coerce or groom Rafa? Was he part of the plan to kidnap him? All of this and more are questions he’s had to answer again and again, to various agencies, and even to Rafa’s own parents. Add to that the question of when, exactly, he and Rafa took their relationship beyond heated glances and flirting to the next step of consummation. ![]() Because it was his partner that committed treason, plotting to have Rafa kidnapped, Shane is under even more scrutiny. Shane’s nightmares aren’t the only problems he’s dealing with. Rather than deal with this, Shane is gritting his teeth to get through it, much like he’s going to be gritting his teeth and getting through the visit by Rafa’s parents - the former President and First Lady - who still don’t approve of his relationship with their son. For Shane, his nights are filled with dreams where he didn’t get to Rafa in time, dreams of blood and pain and loss. After so long being on a national stage, this quiet life of waking up and going to sleep next to the man he loves is … well, it’s everything Rafa could ever dream of. When the sun is up, they go surfing, and when it’s dark, they go to bed in their bed in their house. Rafa and Shane are settling into their new lives in Australia. Audiobook Buy Links: Amazon/Audible | iBooks ![]()
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![]() She has inherited the strength and the courage of her foremothers-and she will have to summon everything they have given her to banish La Llorona forever. And she will not leave until Alejandra follows her mother, her grandmother, and all the women who came before her into the darkness.īut Alejandra has inherited more than just pain. story about generational trauma, colonization, systemic oppression, and the horror at the heart of motherhood (Library Journal, starred review). She is La Llorona, the vengeful and murderous mother of Mexican legend. A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona in this utterly terrifying and wholly immersive. ![]() As she goes deeper into the lives of the women in her family, she learns that heartbreak and tragedy are not the only things she has in common with her ancestors.īecause the crying woman was with them, too. When Alejandra visits a therapist, she begins exploring her family's history, starting with the biological mother she never knew. In times of despair, a ghostly vision appears to her, the apparition of a crying woman in a ragged white gown. ![]() But they cannot see who Alejandra has become: a woman struggling with a darkness that threatens to consume her. To her own adoptive mother, she is a daughter. To her husband, she is a wife, and to her children, a mother. ![]() "- Paste (Most Anticipated Horror Novels of 2023)Īlejandra no longer knows who she is. ![]() "Castro is one of the most exciting genre authors on the scene right now, and this might be her most powerful book yet. story about generational trauma, colonization, systemic oppression, and the horror at the heart of motherhood" ( Library Journal, starred review). A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona in this "utterly terrifying and wholly immersive. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Grim lovelies series![]() Pursued through Paris by the underground magical society known as the Haute, Anouk and her fellow beasties only have three days to find the real killer before the spell keeping them human fades away. Now, the world she always dreamed of is rife with danger. ![]() That is, until one day she finds her mistress murdered in a pool of blood-and Anouk is accused of the crime. Enchanted from animal to human girl and forbidden to venture beyond her familiar Parisian prison, Anouk is a beastie: destined for a life surrounded by dust bunnies and cinders serving Mada Vittora, the evil witch who spelled her into existence. But Anouk can never have those things, because she is not really human. Seventeen-year-old Anouk envies the human world, where people known as Pretties lavish themselves in fast cars, high fashion, and have the freedom to fall in love. “I lost myself in this magical book.” - Stephanie Garber, New York Times bestselling author of Caraval and Legendary “A darkly enchanting saga…bound to attract fans of Leigh Bardugo, Holly Black, and more.” - Entertainment Weekly GRIM LOVELIES absolutely dazzles." -Kendare Blake, #1 NYT bestselling author of the Three Dark Crowns series ![]() ![]() Part caper, part fairy tale, part opulent witch society, you'll be swept away by all of it. "A magical dash through the streets of Paris. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She lives in a farm and is in a cage with other hens laying eggs. So this is well as it says on the tin the story of a Hen her name is sprout. These fairy tale / fable tales have a greater meaning under the basic story. This book it seems is part of a trend of Korean fiction, like the other book from this genre of Korean fiction I reviewed earlier in the year the salmon who dared to leap higher. THe opening lines and we see how Sprout daydreams. She fantasized about sitting in a nest on an egg, about venturing into the fields with the rooster, and about following the ducks around. Closing her eyes she imagined herself wandering freely about. ![]() She would much rather watch the ducks scuttle away from the dog than peck at feed. Sprout liked to stare out into the barnyard. The book came out in 2000 in Korea and was made into one of the best-selling animated films in Korea also a comic and Musical. As a young girl her family couldn’t afford to send her to primary school but thanks to a kind teacher manage to be able to read books after school and got into high school because of this. With a best seller in Korea by Sun-Mi Hwang. ![]() I visit Korea again this woman in translation month. I choose Neil Diamonds lyrics from his songs for Jonathan livingstone seagull The Hen who dreamed she could fly by Sun-Mi Hwang ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Remo cora reilly![]() ![]() ![]() Yet, even in the hands of the cruelest man she knows, she is determined to cling to her pride, and Remo soon understands that the woman at his mercy might not be as easy to break as he thought.Ī ruthless man on a quest to destroy the Outfit by breaking someone they are supposed to protect.Ī woman intent on bringing a monster to his knees. ![]() Serafina is the niece of the Boss of the Outfit, and her hand has been promised in marriage for years, but kidnapped in her wedding dress on her way to church by Remo, Serafina quickly realizes that she can’t hope for saving. It was released on April 16, 2019.Īs Capo of the Camorra he rules with a brutal hand over his territory – a territory the Chicago Outfit breached.Ī wedding is sacred, stealing a bride sacrilegious. Twisted Pride is the third novel of the Camorra Chronicles and the spin off series by Cora Reilly, preceded by Twisted Emotions and followed by Twisted Bonds. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Keil’s ambitious debut is jam-packed with twists and depth and froth and function. She would do anything to preserve her new life, but with the creatures determined to exact vengeance on those who’ve hurt her, no one is safe-not the family Xochi’s chosen, nor the one she left behind.Ī Barnes & Noble Most Anticipated #OwnVoices YA Book of 2019Ī Paste Best Young Adult Book of June 2019Ī Book Riot Most Anticipated LGBTQ Read of 2019 Xochi accepts a position as Pallas’s live-in governess and quickly finds her place in the girl’s tight-knit household, which operates on a free-love philosophy and easy warmth despite the band’s growing fame.īut on the night of the Vernal Equinox, as a concert afterparty rages in the house below, Xochi and Pallas perform a riot-grrrl ritual in good fun, accidentally summoning a pair of ancient beings bound to avenge the wrongs of Xochi’s past. Then one day, she meets Pallas, a precocious twelve-year-old who lives with her rockstar family in one of the city’s storybook Victorians. Seventeen-year-old Xochi is alone in San Francisco, running from her painful past: the mother who abandoned her, the man who betrayed her. Michelle Ruiz Keil’s YA fantasy debut about love, found family, and healing is an ode to post-punk San Francisco through the eyes of a Mexican-American girl. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sloan Professor of Behavioral Economics at MIT. Biography: Dan Ariely is the Alfred P.And, by recognising these patterns, Ariely shows that we can make better decisions in business, in matters of collective welfare, and in our everyday lives from drinking coffee to losing weight, buying a car to choosing a romantic partner. ![]() ![]() Predicatably Irrational brilliantly blends everyday experiences with a series of illuminating and often surprising experiments, that will change your understanding of human behaviour. In this astounding book, behavioural economist Dan Ariely cuts to the heart of our strange behaviour, demonstrating how irrationality often supplants rational thought and that the reason for this is embedded in the very structure of our minds. Why can a 50p aspirin do what a 5p aspirin can't? If an item is "free" it must be a bargain, right? Why is everything relative, even when it shouldn't be? How do our expectations influence our actual opinions and decisions? Predictably Irrational is an intriguing, witty and utterly original look at why we all make illogical decisions. Why do smart people make irrational decisions every day? The answers will surprise you. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Marcel proust swann![]() The first volume of the work that established Proust as one of the finest voices of the modern age - satirical, skeptical, confiding, and endlessly varied in its response to the human condition - Swann's Way also stands on its own as a perfect rendering of a life in art, of the past re-created through memory. It also enfolds the short novel "Swann in Love," an incomparable study of sexual jealousy that becomes a crucial part of the vast, unfolding structure of In Search of Lost Time. Swann's Way is one of the preeminent novels of childhood: a sensitive boy's impressions of his family and neighbors, all brought dazzlingly back to life years later by the taste of a madeleine. ![]() Now, Penguin brings Proust's masterpiece to new audiences throughout the world, beginning with Lydia Davis's internationally acclaimed translation of the first volume, Swann's Way. ![]() But since its original prewar translation there has been no completely new version in English. ![]() Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Certain Prey by John Sandford![]() ![]() Loan's ex-client made a tape of the meeting, and is shaking her down for money. ![]() When she takes the Allen assignment, she figures it will be easy money for a day's work. Smart, attractive, with a gentle Southern drawl, no one would suspect her of being a top Mafia hit man. The professional killer, Clara Rinker, is one of the best in the business. A quick meeting with an ex-client sets up the hit on Hale's wife, Barbara. When she becomes infatuated with fellow barrister Hale Allen, she isn't going to let a little thing like his being married get in her way. John Camp) pits his popular antihero, Lucas Davenport, against a pair of cunning killers unlike any he has encountered before.Īttorney Carmel Loan is preternaturally beautiful, intelligent, and ambitious. In the 10th installment of his popular Prey series, John Sandford (a.k.a. ![]() ![]() ![]() At that time, men on both sides of the Atlantic had new reasons to boast, but to also feel uneasy, about their status as men. The breakdown of the clean-shaven order in the middle of the 19th century offers a valuable comparison with our own day. ![]() ![]() After Renaissance men embraced hairy nature over holy shaving, beards were again curtailed by new codes of gentility enforced by royal courts, which had effectively replaced the Church as guardians of the moral order. Laymen followed suit, cutting back their beards to be worthy in the sight of God and man. In medieval centuries, men of the Church made the tonsured head and shaved face marks of holiness and goodness, going so far as to inscribe these practices into canon law. Though there was a brief resurgence of beards inspired by Roman emperors, the Alexandrian style held well beyond the Empire’s fall. But on occasion, a general reorganisation of masculine norms has interrupted the shaving-respectability regime.Īlexander the Great established shaving as the ideal in Greco-Roman civilisation when he imitated classical depictions of eternally youthful gods. Defying this regulation meant being ostracised. In the West, for many centuries, shaving has identified a good man properly oriented to a higher order, whether divine or political. ![]() |