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Just like that cole mccade5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() But when a student who plays football and takes art class gets into trouble, they have to work together. ![]() Damon and Rian haven’t spoken much to each other, because they don’t think they share anything in common. This is a delightful “opposites attract” romance. “The romantic longing, themes of bravery and confidence, and moments of cozy domesticity shine.” - Publishers Weekly on Just Like That My review In the space between hatred, they find love. ![]() Yet as they fight to save a young man from the edge, they discover more than they thought possible about each other-and about themselves. And two men who are polar opposites but must work together to protect their charges. Rian’s life as the art teacher to a gaggle of displaced boys at Albin Academy should be smooth sailing-until the stubborn, grouchy football coach comes into his world like a lightning strike and ignites a heated conflict that would leave them sworn enemies if not for a common goal.Ī student in peril. Book Description: Rian Falwell has a problem. ![]()
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Against the grain by charlie cochet5/23/2023 ![]() ![]()
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Japan in Print by Mary Elizabeth Berry5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() But it was expansive on the cultural, or what one might call the contemplative rewards of travel. By contrast, the English guidebook (or I should say the Western one, since I am not arguing for any British exceptionalism) was wrong on most specifics, where it listed them at all, and accepting its own limitation it often told the reader to check at their hotel. Mosques with their domes and minarets, buildings and extensions, Shahs and ayatollahs, in short, the culture of the place, were not part of the purview. ![]() But next to no interpretative assistance was supplied. As expected, the Japanese one was extraordinarily accurate in boat and bus timetables, entry fees and opening hours, all of which were correct. On a recent holiday to a country that has nothing to do with either Britain or Japan (Iran, as it happens), I took both an English and a Japanese guidebook. ![]()
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Hannah is my name by belle yang5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Occasionally playful yet profoundly moving. The parallels between Belle Yang’s journey of self-discovery and the lives and choices of her grandfather, his brothers, and their father (the Patriarch) speak powerfully of the conflicts between generations-and of possibilities for reconciliation.įorget Sorrow demonstrates the power of storytelling and remembrance, as Belle-in telling this story-finds the strength to honor both her father and herself. In Forget Sorrow, Yang makes her debut into the graphic form with the story of her father’s family, reunited under the House of Yang in Manchuria during the Second World War and struggling-both together and individually-to weather poverty, famine, and, later, Communist oppression. The history she’d ignored while growing up became a source of comfort and inspiration, and narrowed the gap separating her-an independent, Chinese-American woman-from her Old World Chinese parents. When Belle Yang was forced to take refuge in her parents’ home after an abusive boyfriend began stalking her, her father entertained her with stories of old China. ![]() “A healing portrait drawn in epic ink strokes.”- Elle ![]()
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The cellar laymon5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() The identity of the Krulls, and their relationship to the town of Barlow, are revealed gradually over the course of the novel.Ĭemetery Dance Publications will release two different versions of their 2008 restored and uncut edition of The Woods are Dark. The plot concerns two groups of people, a family and a pair of college students, who are kidnapped after stopping in a small California town and taken into the forest to be sacrificed to a group of mysterious creatures, called "Krulls", who roam the surrounding wilderness. This creative interference, together with the original publication's disastrous cover artwork, is what Laymon often credited with having ruined his first promising U.S. It includes fifty pages of material that was cut from the original Warner Books release, and was later found by Kelly Laymon among some of her father's old papers, along with the full original manuscript (which was extensively edited by Warner for its initial publication). It was one of his earliest published works, and one he credited with having all but destroyed his publishing career in the United States.Īn uncut version of the novel was released by Cemetery Dance Publications in July 2008. ![]() The Woods Are Dark is a 1981 horror novel by American author Richard Laymon. ![]()
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After the kiss by lauren layne5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Packed with loads of sizzle and Snickerlicious fun, Lauren Layne's After the Kiss is a knock-your-stilettos-off, total page-turning treat that had me fan-girling up within the first chapter. And, at the same time, he’s exactly what she wants. In other words, Mitchell is the polar opposite of what Julie needs right now. Read or listen complete After the Kiss (Sex, Love & Stiletto 1) book online for free from Your iPhone, iPad, android, PC, Mobile. And the leggy journalist notorious for avoiding love is exactly the type of no-strings fling he’s looking for. ![]() A devastatingly hot workaholic who tends to stay in relationships for far too long, he should be the perfect subject for Julie’s “research.” But what Julie doesn’t know is that Mitchell is looking to cut loose for once in his life. Normally, Mitchell Forbes would be exactly that man. ![]() But when Julie gets assigned the hardest story of her career-a first-person account of that magical shift between dating and “I do”-she’ll need a man brave enough to give a total commitment-phobe a chance at more. Comfy pants, sleepy Sundays, movie nights on the couch? Shudder. After the Kiss ebook &mid A Rouge Contemporary Romance: (Sex, Love & Stiletto 1) By Lauren Layne. Loves steamy first dates, sizzling first kisses, and every now and then, that first sexy romp between the sheets. ![]()
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Ghettoside by Jill Leovy5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() those two movies are forever wedded in my mind, to the point where i can't remember which is which, causing me some vague white anxiety that admitting this makes me come across as racist, until i remember that the following week, we did another mini-marathon of heat and casino, and in my mind that is also one long, confusing movie. The bulk of my knowledge of west coast gang culture comes from rap music, the shield, and my poorly-thought-out decision to get many 40's with my ex and watch a double feature of menace II society and boyz n the hood. ![]() no one here hails cabs to perform drive-bys. We don't have a lot of gang activity around here. from there, i went directly to nyc for college, and despite what the warriors whose residents were mostly elderly transplanted french canadians. I grew up in a tiny village located in the smallest state in the u.s. ![]()
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Nicholas eames outlaw empire5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() The characters have all grown old and out-of-shape after decades of living in retirement, but emerge from retirement to save Gabe's daughter, Rose, who is trapped in a city under siege. The group includes Clay 'Slowhand' Cooper, 'Golden' Gabe, Ganelon, Matrick Skulldrummer, and Arcandius Moog. The characters are likened to rock stars. The story follows a band of mercenaries called Saga. ![]() The artwork for the books was created by Richard Anderson and the cover design was done by Lisa Marie Pompilio. The series includes Kings of the Wyld, Bloody Rose, and Outlaw Empire. It is the first of three books in The Band trilogy. The novel is Nicholas Eames's debut novel. ![]() The book is about a retired band of mercenaries that come out of retirement to save the daughter of one member. Kings of the Wyld is a 2017 fantasy novel by Nicholas Eames. 2017 r/Fantasy Stabby Award for "Best Debut Novel of 2017". ![]()
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![]() According to the story, Helen was hatched from an egg. ![]() After the rape, Leda gets pregnant and gives birth to Helen of Troy. This is definitely not the case in Yeats's graphic version. In many versions of the story, Zeus merely seduces Leda. Yeats's poem was inspired by a Greek myth in which Zeus rapes Leda, the daughter of a king named Thestius. If you're into bold statements of opinion, at least one major critic has called "Leda and the Swan" the greatest poem of the 20th century ( source). He was also serving in the Irish Senate at the time. Yeats saved his best for last he was in his 60s when he wrote this masterpiece. The Tower was published five years after Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. The Tower includes other great poems like "Among Schoolchildren" and " Sailing to Byzantium." "Leda and the Swan" was published in Yeats's 1928 collection The Tower – one of the most celebrated and important literary works of the 20th century. ![]() Stories about sex with animals were fairly common in classical societies like Ancient Greece, and the myth of Leda and the swan was once well known. Yeats presents this tale in a relatively graphic way, so modern readers may find the language disturbing. The "twist" of the story is that Zeus is disguised as a swan. ![]() William Butler Yeats's "Leda and the Swan" retells the story from Greek mythology of the rape of a girl named Leda by Zeus, the most powerful of the Greek gods. ![]()
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Into the darkest corner5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Though her body has healed, the trauma of the past still haunts her. Four years later, Lee is behind bars and Catherine–now Cathy–is trying to build a new life in a new city. Increasingly isolated and driven into the darkest corner of her world, a desperate Catherine plans a meticulous escape. Disturbed by his increasingly erratic, controlling behavior, she tries to break it off turning to her friends for support, she’s stunned to find they don’t believe her. But what begins as flattering attention and spontaneous, passionate sex transforms into raging jealousy, and Catherine soon discovers that Lee’s dazzling blue eyes and blond good looks hide a dark, violent nature. Gorgeous, charismatic, and a bit mysterious, Lee seems almost too perfect to be true. When young, pretty Catherine Bailey meets Lee Brightman, she can’t believe her luck. You can read this before Into the Darkest Corner PDF full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Into the Darkest Corner written by Elizabeth Haynes which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes ![]() |