![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Why are we going to this shit again?” I asked my wife as she messed with her makeup in the passenger-side mirror. So Kate’s only choice is to fight for the future she deserves – with or without Shane. Shane is loving and supportive from thousands of miles away, but his homecoming brings a betrayal Kate never saw coming. Now with Shane deployed for seven months, Kate is on her own and struggling with being a single parent. Kate’s ability to read him like a book may have once sent Shane running, but their lives are forever entwined and they are growing closer. Shane’s been angry for a year, and now he feels guilty too – for sleeping with his wife’s best friend and liking it. Then on the first anniversary of Rachel’s death, Kate and Shane take comfort in each other in a night that they both soon regret. The fact that Shane’s in the military and away for long periods helps-but when tragedy strikes, everything changes.Īfter Rachel, pregnant with her fourth child, dies in a car accident and the baby miraculously survives, Kate upends her entire life to share parenting duties. If you’re Kate Evans, you keep your friend Rachel, bond with her kids, and bury your feelings for her husband. ![]() A “heartbreaking, heartwarming” (Heidi McLaughlin, New York Times bestselling author) love story that asks the question: what do you do when your soul mate marries your best friend? ![]()
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![]() On the same fateful night she meets Nikolas, a warrior who turns Sara’s world upside down, and who is determined to protect her even if it’s the last thing she wants. In her quest for answers about her father’s death, Sara takes risks that expose her and her friends to danger, and puts herself into the sights of a sadistic vampire. She lives a life full of secrets, and her family and friends have no idea of the supernatural world she is immersed in or of Sara’s very powerful gift. Now at seventeen, she is still haunted by memories of that day, and driven by the need to understand why it happened. Sara Grey’s world shattered ten years ago when her father was brutally murdered. ![]() ![]() Sometimes, the demons you fight inside are real. Lose yourself in a modern world of warriors, demons, faeries, vampires, shifters, hellhounds, loyalty, and love. ![]() The first book in the New York Times bestselling Relentless series. Genre: Young Adult - Urban Fantasy - Romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The day after helping the survivors, I hoped that they would move in their relationship. ![]() I really enjoy them on the page together even if I do not ship them. I really wish we had more of their marriage or maybe just the two of them working together. Tove is still is the purest soul in this wholes series, and he is just so lost in his sad life. YouTube: Pinterest: For the first time, Wendy is someone to whom you actually can give the kingdom, and it doesn't feel like a baby being handed matches and canister of petrol. ![]() Website: Amazon Author Page: /author/amandahocking Her newest book is gothic romance written for adults called BESTOW THE DARKNESS.įor more info about her and her books, here are some other places to check out and ways to contact her: She has published over twenty novels, including The Kanin Chronicles, the Watersong quartet, My Blood Approves series, the Valkyrie duology, and Freeks. Her zombie series, The Hollows, has been adapted into a graphic novel by Dynamite. Several of her books have made the New York Times Bestsellers list. She spends her time in Minnesota, taking care of her menagerie of pets and working on her next book. Her love of pop culture and all things paranormal influence her writing. AMANDA HOCKING is the author of over twenty young adult novels, including the New York Times bestselling Trylle Trilogy and Kanin Chronicles. ![]() ![]() ![]() Equally strong passions rule psychotic Smee, alcoholic Hook and, especially, Peter, with his need to be best-from winning games to protecting the lost boys. Athletic Tiger Lily, nonathletic Pine Sap and Tik Tok, whose identity doesn’t match his gender, share a bond that’s shaken after Tiger Lily rescues an English shipwreck survivor, then falls in love with Peter, following him into an emotional wilderness as intoxicating and dangerous as Neverland itself. (Neverlanders stop aging when some life-defining event occurs.) Adopted daughter of shaman Tik Tok, Tiger Lily is proud and competitive, kept at a wary distance by her peers except for gentle Pine Sap, whose unconditional love she appreciates but doesn’t return. Tink is obsessed with Tiger Lily, whose tribe avoids pirates and Peter Pan’s lost boys, believed to carry the aging disease. It’s no paradise-white-sand beaches and spectacular sunsets come with mud, mosquitoes and croc-infested swamps-but guided by fragile, insect-size faerie Tink, readers are drawn into this richly re-imagined Neverland anyway. ![]() ![]() ![]() I ended up using a “brown” filter over the real life images to reflect a serious (but not depressing) reality, while I used a multicolored filter to heighten the colors in Coarsegold. This is all from Anda’s perspective so it makes sense that her real life is uninteresting and the online world is colorful and exciting. JW: The most obvious decision in the design was the contrasting color palettes between the real world and the online world of Coarsegold. GM: Could you tell us a little about the artwork in IRL? What inspired the images in your mind? Was there something you felt was important to capture in the images? So yes, I made most of the changes in the story from the original to the graphic novel version, but it was a melding of both our sensibilities. We went back and forth like this for a couple drafts before settling with what we have. After that Cory would go over and offer ideas of his own and help guide the script into something that matched us both. Jen Wang: The way this project worked was I was given free rein to adapt the script however I wanted so as to offer my own vision to the story. Would you say that’s true? Image: First Second Books GeekMom: So Cory Doctorow said you did all the heavy lifting on this project. This week, I’m catching up with his artist co-creator, Jen Wang, to see what she had to say about this project. ![]() Last week I interviewed Cory Doctorow about the new graphic novel IRL (In Real Life). ![]() ![]() ![]() As a result, Zeus ordered Persephone’s release. Her mother, Demeter the Goddess of Agriculture, was distraught and prevented anything from growing once she was abducted. If you’re not familiar with the basic contours of the tale, Persephone was said to have been gathering flowers when she was kidnapped and brought to the underworld by Hades, God of the Underworld. #persephone” What’s the Greek Myth of Persephone About? Turns out the Tempest is going to have to wait. I know I said I was working on the Tempest. “Some news about my current novel-in-progress. Miller’s announcement came in the form of a post on her Instagram account ( with the following message: Madeline Miller ( Circe, The Song of Achilles) recently announced a new book she’s working on based on the Greek mythological tale of Persephone. ![]() Persephone by Madeline Miller: What We Knowīy Jennifer Marie Lin on Jan 14th, 2022 (Last Updated Jan 17th, 2022) ![]() ![]() ![]() However, Billy starts to become suspicious when Nick offers up a getaway plan for after the hit takes place, since typically he leaves that up to Billy to figure out. Billy is meant to shoot and kill him at that time, and then disappear. The office has a direct view of the courthouse, where Joel Allen will eventually be taken to be arraigned for his murder charge. Billy's cover story is that he is a writer named David Lockridge, who has been tasked by his publishing agent to stay there, and go to the office and write each day in an attempt to meet his deadline. The job requires Billy to spend some quiet time undercover as a resident in the small town of Midwood, where an office space has been rented out for his use. Allen has claimed to have valuable information that the police wants in order to make a plea deal, and apparently, someone, whom Nick can't name, doesn't want Allen talking, which is why Billy has been hired to take him out. Nick Majarian, a mobster whom Billy has worked for many times before, offers him one last job-one that pays $500,000 up front, and $1.5 million after it's done.īilly's target is Joel Allen, also a hitman, who was arrested for murdering a man who won a fortune off of him in a poker game. ![]() Marine sniper, who only accepts jobs killing truly evil men, but now he wants to retire from the assassin life altogether. Plot īilly Summers is a 44-year-old hitman and former U.S. Billy Summers is a crime novel written by American author Stephen King, published by Scribner on August 3, 2021. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kirino's father, being an architect, took the family to many cities, and Kirino spent her youth in Sendai, Sapporo, and finally settled in Tokyo when she was fourteen, which is where she has been residing since. After completing her law degree, Kirino worked in various fields before becoming a fictional writer including scheduling NATSUO KIRINO ( 桐野夏生), born in 1951 in Kanazawa (Ishikawa Prefecture) was an active and spirited child brought up between her two brothers, one being six years older and the other five years younger than her. ![]() ![]() Kirino showed glimpses of her talent as a writer in her early stages-she was a child with great deal of curiosity, and also a child who could completely immerse herself in her own unique world of imagination. NATSUO KIRINO ( 桐野夏生), born in 1951 in Kanazawa (Ishikawa Prefecture) was an active and spirited child brought up between her two brothers, one being six years older and the other five years younger than her. ![]() ![]() Hawking provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamental laws of physics, including the laws of thermodynamics, electromagnetism, and gravity. ![]() The book explores the laws of physics and the role they play in shaping the universe. The book raises important questions about the origins of time and space and the mysteries of the universe. Hawking provides a detailed overview of the current understanding of the universe, from its inception to its present state. The book explores the origins of time and space, delving into the theories of the big bang and the formation of the universe. The book is written in an accessible and engaging style, making complex scientific concepts easy to understand for the general reader. The book is a landmark work in the field of physics and cosmology, providing a comprehensive overview of the current understanding of the universe and the origins of time and space. Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time” is a classic book that was first published in 1988. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rather, this puppy reads more like one of those ancient epics, like Virgil's Aeneid or Jim Henson's Muppets Take Manhattan (only with rabbits instead of people or Muppets). This book has as much to do with rabbit biology as does the legend of the Easter Bunny. Okay, maybe you shouldn't use Watership Downas a textbook to pass that important rabbit exam in Biology class. But as Richard Adams's Watership Down teaches us, rabbits are actually violent, adventurous creatures, with a complex culture and mythology. All this time we thought rabbits were just cute, floppy-eared carrot-eaters with a penchant for hopping. Finally, a book that tells us the honest-to-goodness truth about rabbits. ![]() |