I skipped ahead and and circled back once the couple grew on me, although they seemed to fall madly in love overnight. It was hard for me to get where each were coming from, especially Gresh. It took me a while to get into the story, even with Whispersync (ebook available through Kindle Unlimited). Narration REALLY helped kick the story up a notch! Get ready to get your cowboy on and go for a rough ride. Will Lane and Gresh be able to survive the intrusion, or will Riley be the one walking away with Lane's heart? Texas Rough is the first book in Sara York's Texas Soul series. Riley chases hard after him, insinuating himself in Lane's life, highlighting Gresh's faults. Just when it feels like there could be something more between them, the new doctor in town, Riley, sets his sights on Lane. Alone together, Lane and Gresh ignite in a flash of passion. Lane won't give him the time of day so he forces the issue, setting up a date that Lane believes to be a business meeting. Gresh wants more from Lane than his ability to handle livestock, he wants it all. But doing the boss is out of the question. Lane Daniels loves his job working as a foreman on the south Texas ranch gives him the type of satisfaction he's always craved, but the owner of Crazy Hills ranch, Gresh Hamilton Miller the third, has woven his way under Lane's skin, leaving Lane crazy for the man's touch.
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Retvenko wondered how long it had been since the boards had been swept clean. The floor was covered in sawdust to soak up spilled lager, vomit, and whatever else the bar’s patrons lost control of. It was most noticeable in the Barrel, even more so in a miserable dump like this one-a squat tavern wedged into the lower floor of one of the slum’s grimmest apartment buildings, its ceiling bowed by weather and shoddy construction, its beams blackened by soot from a fireplace that had long since ceased to function, the flue clogged by debris. And there was no escaping the smell, the throat-choking stew of bilge, clams, and wet stone that seemed to have soaked into his pores as if he’d been steeping in the city’s essence like the world’s worst cup of tea. Nothing could get you warm in this Saintsforsaken city. Retvenko leaned against the bar and tucked his nose into his dirty shot glass. When I first started reading, I wasn’t really sure I was going to enjoy the book. The book is quite dark overall, which makes sense the very nature of the book means that Harper is pretty much always thinking about death, how people died, and whether or not she’s about to be killed herself. I don’t normally like mysteries, and I wouldn’t really call this one of my favorite books, but it held its own as a short, enjoyable read for an afternoon or two. While this was absolutely nothing like the Sookie Stackhouse series, I still enjoyed it a surprising amount for a mystery. When she and her stepbrother travel to a small town in the Ozarks to try and find the body of a local teenager, they realise that there’s a whole lot more than a suicide going on – and no one wants Harper to figure out the truth. It’s more than a little stressful, but Harper uses her unusual talent to help people figure out the causes of their loved ones’ deaths, for a fee. She can sense bodies, causes of death, and sometimes even flashes back into that person’s life to witness their death from their perspective. When she was young, Harper Connolly was struck with a bolt of lightning, and ever since then has had something of a connection with dead people. When Richard, as Duke of Gloucester, was appointed Lord Protector of his nephew and heir to the throne, Edward V, he turned child-killer.Įdward, 13, and brother Richard, 10, were taken to the Tower in 1483, never to be seen again, allowing Richard to assume the throne. Yet it was more allegations of dark deeds in the Tower that did for his reputation. Henry VIII’s adviser Sir Thomas More began blackening Richard’s name by accusing him of Henry VI’s murder in the Tower of London. So Richard III – with his hunchback, deformed spine and ugly grimace – had to be turned into a pantomime villain of terrible proportions. The Tudors were an upstart dynasty and needed to secure their right to rule. That battle ended the War of the Roses, one of the bloodiest periods in our history, as Henry’s Lancastrian forces defeated Richard’s Yorkist army.Īnd then the rubbishing of Richard began. Seeking out his rival on foot, in Shakespeare’s version of events, Richard utters the immortal line: “A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse.” It ended at the Battle of Bosworth on Augwhere he became the last English monarch to die on the battlefield, with his helmet beaten into his skull as Welsh swords rained down on his body. Now scientists are sure the skeleton is Richard III’s and local MP Jonathan Ashworth is demanding the slain monarch be reinterred in Leicester Cathedral, the man behind the original Winter of Discontent looks set for a glorious summer.Īnd perhaps it is right we rethink his reputation.Ĭertainly, Richard’s short two-year reign was one of the most turbulent. Could one of her friendly neighbors be the real culprit? And what would be the motive for killing the owner of the Sinful Bites candy store? The secrets Fred discovers put her at odds with the local police sergeant and threaten her cozy future in Estes. Determined to prove quirky Barry innocent of murder, Fred puts on her detective hat, and with Watson by her side, she explores her new town and gets acquainted with her fellow shopkeepers. The local police have an easy suspect – Barry. When Fred steps into her soon-to-be-bookshop for the first time, she expects dust bunnies and spiders…not the dead body in the upstairs kitchen. Fred is about to open her dream bookshop, and the only challenges she anticipates are adjusting to small-town life, tourists, and living close to her lovable mother, Phyllis, and hippie stepfather, Barry. Winifred Page and her corgi, Watson, move to Estes Park to hit the Reset button on life. Estes Park, Colorado: picturesque mountains, charming shops, delightful bakeries, a cozy bookstore…and murder. Zweig committed suicide in 1942, forty-six years before Alice Miller finally deciphered with The Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness why did Nietzsche lost his mind. I would agree with him to a certain point. According to Walter Kaufmann, Zweig's chapter on Nietzsche is still unsurpassed. Zweig's Struggle with the Daemon is a good starting point to understand the tormented souls. Holderlin and Nietzsche became mad Kleist committed suicide. It is a scandal that we still lack what in The Divided Self Laing called a "science of the persons". This category error permeates the academia (to understand concrete people it's necessary a subjective or an empathetic history of these people). Unfortunately, by pretending to approach the subject of the human psyche on the basis of abstract principles, psychoanalysis, academic psychology and psychiatry usurped the study of the inner self and approached the human soul from the impossible viewpoint of objectivism. I have read quite a few of Stefan Zweig books, but his study of Holderlin, Kleist, and Nietzsche in The Struggle with the Daemon ("Daimon" in the older 1930s editions) is the most insightful of all.Īfter Romanticism the genre of confessional autobiography cropped up. I especially like the full scale photograph of the titular wardrobe which is accompanied with explanations for all of the carvings that were engraved into it which drew direct inspiration from the first book "The Magician's Nephew", such as the magic rings, the hammer and the bell, the first sunrise on Narnia and the apple tree, therefore telling that story simply in carvings. This is one hell of a brilliant book! "The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe" Visual Companion by Perry Moore is as visual as it comes the photography stills from the movie, the conceptual art illustrations and the behind the scenes photos are fantastic. Will they be able to resist? And more importantly, will Walter be okay? Suggested Series Reading order: #1 Tapping the Billionaire #1.5 Tapping Her #2 Banking the Billionaire (Available July 26th) And more to come. Bound by cat-sitting responsibilities, Cass and Thatch have to find a way to right their mistakes-and wade through the dense cloud of sexual tension that seems to suffocate the room whenever they're together. Put them together and they are a match made in chaos. In Tapping the Billionaire Kline Brooks is the owner of a large media company and Georgia Cummings is the head of the marketing department. Thatcher Kelly loves wild women, and Cassie Phillips is about as wild as they come. But marriage means more, and Kline and Georgia may have to find a different way to handle the heat. Luxurious and private, their overwater bungalow in the South Pacific is the perfect backdrop for fun, sun, and enough sexiness to necessitate a dip in the clear water to cool down. Kline and Georgia Brooks are fresh off their wedding and ready to indulge in the honeymoon of a lifetime. Can you ever get enough Billionaire Bad Boys? Blissful in Bora Bora. A secret duo of romance authors team up under the pseudonym Max Monroe to bring you more from their sexy, laugh-out-loud new series. Paulsen wrote five more books in the Hatchet series. Few adventure books have left such a lasting impression on young readers as Paulsen’s greatest survival story. His time spent climbing around the outdoors, exploring nature, and developing survival skills paid dividends when he set out to write his 1987 Newbery Honor-winning novel: Hatchet. Paulsen’s ability to paint life’s harsh realities honestly and without speaking down to his audience make his body of work timeless.Īs a child, Paulsen used the woods as an escape from his tumultuous life at home. Born May 17, 1939, he left behind a body of work defined by its appeal to adolescents and young adults. Gary Paulsen, Army veteran, field engineer, trapper, dog musher, proud Luddite, and beloved author of children’s books and coming-of-age adventure stories, died in October at age 82. Cyril, now working as an intern for a major national newsroom and assisting on reporting a story on homegrown terrorism, tracks down Ari at the bar, and finds out that he is an Israeli who knew his father in Lebanon in the '80s. He'd even left a guest list that included one mysterious name: Ari. Which changes everything.Īt the reading of the will, it turns out that instead of a funeral, Pierre wanted a "roast" at a bar no one knew he frequented-The Only Café in Toronto's east end. But five years later, a single bone and a distinctive gold chain are recovered, and Pierre is at last declared dead. When, in the midst of a corporate scandal, he went missing after his boat exploded, his teenaged son Cyril didn't know how to mourn him. And he was especially silent about what had happened to him in Lebanon, the country he fled during civil war to come to Canada as a refugee. Though he married twice, became a high-flying lawyer and a father, he didn't let anyone really know him. A timely and gripping novel in which a son tries to solve the mystery of his father's death-a man who tried but could not forget a troubled past in his native Lebanon. |