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The shack book5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Mack feels love because that, by its very essence, is the spirit of God. The book offers some answers, offering insight into the heart of God the Creator. Wouldn’t a living, loving God have protected Missy? It’s only right to question, if there is a God, why there is so much suffering in life? The great thing about God is, whether you are a believer or not, everyone has an opinion. The doorway to his darkest nightmare is now ajar. One snowy winter’s day, Mack receives a mysterious note, seemingly from God himself, inviting him to return to the shack. ![]() God has always been part of Mack’s life, but now he only pays lip service. Life goes on, yet it stopped when his daughter was cruelly snatched from him. Evidence of her murder is soon discovered in a remote abandoned shack in the Oregon wilderness.įast forward four years, and Mack is in the midst of his Great Sadness. ![]() The story doesn’t make any false promises for Missy’s survival. Suspicion points to the Little Ladykiller, who leaves ladybird pins as calling cards. When Mackenzie (Mack) Allen Philips’ youngest daughter, Missy, is abducted during a family vacation in Oregon, Mac’s world is turned upside down. What questions could he ask? What explanations could he demand for his broken heart? The story It’s a story about what man would do when face-to-face with God. With over 18 million copies sold worldwide, William Paul Young’s “The Shack” is a fiction bestseller. Sign up to our Weekly newsletter Subscribe to our magazine for more great content ![]()
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Kiss of the Betrayer by Boone Brux5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Teenage boys have a tendency to like video games or electronics, like iPods or Some can help them get active or exercise their mind with brain games. I know so many boys and grown men who are gamers. Unite the last of the Bringers—and explore a passion too The Bane threat upon them, Rhys and Ravyn must quest to To surrender to his need may mean her death.Īs the Demon King's desire for ultimate power escalates,įathers are slated against sons, and foes are made allies. Unprepared for the intense desire he feels for the fiery He protect and train her in the ways of his people. When Rhys realizes the woman he’s rescued from the Baneĭemon is no mere human, his obligation as a Bringer dictates Stumbles headlong into the clutches of Icarus, a powerfulĭemon intent on stealing her powers. Forced to flee the only home she’s known, she In one night, Ravyn’s life plunges from barely tolerable toĭeadly. Paranormal Nights: Volume 1, December 2013 ![]()
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To the Hilt by Dick Francis5/29/2023 ![]() He writes pretty much the same character every time, first person male, young, stubborn, honest, honorable, never a whiner, always calm and cool and on occasion astonishingly forgiving. Part of the greatness of his novels lies in the different worlds he explores in each of them, painting in To The Hilt, photography in Reflex, gemstones in Straight, venture capitalism in Banker, wine in Proof, architecture in Decider. ![]() Yeah, he was a jockey and there is always a horse around somewhere, but the books are often only peripherally about racing. Reflex, Straight, Banker, Proof, Decider also wonderful. ![]() The creation of the portrait of Zoe Lang is genius-wonderfully descriptive and mesmerizing. Wonderful characters, contained but loving mother Vivienne dithery but honorable step-father Ivan proud, stubborn, hilarious uncle Himself (the earl) viperous but charming step-sister Patsy and her execrable husband Surtees and one of the more capable and most amusing sidekicks I've ever read in the private investigative team of Young and Utley. ![]() Painter Alexander Kinloch, nephew of a Scottish earl, is summoned from his aerie in Scotland by his mother to tend to his step-father, whose prosperous brewery has been ripped off to insolvency by its disappeared comptroller. I've been rereading all the Dick Francis on the shelf in the Homer Public Library. ![]()
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American doll party supplies5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Kinley and I were intrigued to learn more about each of the dolls’ history and how they came to be. We opted to have a personal shopper (Tracy) show us around the store and she was so knowledgeable. This American Girl store was the first one built, and is also the biggest. ![]() And she loved it! We visited the American Girl store in Chicago, IL which is about 3.5 hours away. It is official – my baby girl Kinley had her 8 th birthday party! Being my only girl, I go all out for my princess, so this year we surprised her with an American Girl birthday party. *Disclosure: I only recommend products I would use myself and all opinions expressed here are our own. This post may contain affiliate links that at no additional cost to you, I may earn a small commission. Read full privacy policy here. ![]()
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Yellowface rf kuang5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Kuang’s novel is timely, razor-sharp, and eminently readable. With its totally immersive first-person voice, Yellowface grapples with questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation, as well as the terrifying alienation of social media. As June races to protect her secret, she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves. ![]() So what if June edits Athena’s novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? So what if she lets her new publisher rebrand her as Juniper Song-complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo? Doesn’t this piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller? That’s what June claims, and the New York Times bestseller list seems to agree.īut June can’t get away from Athena’s shadow, and emerging evidence threatens to bring June’s (stolen) success down around her. So when June witnesses Athena’s death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena’s just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers during World War I. Who wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks. ![]() Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel.Īuthors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. Best known for her epic Poppy Wars trilogy and her 2022 release, Babel,' Kuang is an award-winning. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn’t write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American-in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from R.F. Kuang is back with her fifth novel, Yellowface. ![]()
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Ana huang dante russo5/29/2023 ![]() Neither was the worst thing she could possibly do: fall in love with her future husband. The billionaire CEO never planned to marry - until the threat of blackmail forces him into. While the rude, elusive Dante isn't her idea of a dream partner, she agrees to their arranged marriage out of duty.Ĭraving his touch was never part of the plan. Dante Russo thrives on control, both personally and professionally. Marrying a blue-blooded Russo means opening doors that would otherwise remain closed to her new-money family. HOWEVER, I HAVE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH DANTE RUSSO AND I'M SO READY FOR HIM june2022. Vivian Lau is the perfect daughter and her family's ticket into the highest echelons of high society. Ana Huang is a USA Today, international, and 1 Amazon bestselling author. he can't bring himself to let her go.Įlegant. There's only one problem: now that he has her. He'll do everything in his power to destroy the evidence and their betrothal. ![]() ![]() It doesn't matter how beautiful or charming she is. fifty fifth book king of wrath (kos 1) : by ana huang ended : 27th of april ship couple : dante and vivian the only thing that existed was her. ![]() The billionaire CEO never planned to marry - until the threat of blackmail forces him into an engagement with a woman he barely knows: Vivian Lau, jewellery heiress and daughter of his newest enemy. Dante Russo thrives on control, both personally and professionally. A brand new steamy billionaire romance from the bestselling author of the Twisted series ![]()
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Terry pratchett watch5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Pratchett’s Vimes was a sort of heightened Inspector Morse (partly modelled on Pete Postlethwaite). ![]() And once Richard Dormer (Game of Thrones) modulates an initially hysterical performance as City Watch captain Sam Vimes it settles into serviceable escapism. ![]() Nestled at its core is an engagingly hokey mystery involving a missing grimoire, a talking sword and a rampaging dragon. The surprise – and Pratchett diehards may be upset to hear this – is that, as dour and noisy steampunk schlock goes, The Watch isn’t terrible. What does a Terry Pratchett series look like with all the Terry Pratchett removed? The answer, The Watch suggests, is dour and noisy steampunk schlock. Filmed in South Africa with what appears to be a respectable budget, The Watch takes everything devotees loved about Pratchett: the wryness, the whimsy, the Tolkien-goes-Monty Python setting of Ankh-Morpork. ![]() Her disclaimer proves all too accurate as The Watch (BBC iPlayer), a bizarre BBC America retelling of Pratchett’s Discworld novels, finally crosses the Atlantic. Terry Pratchett fans will have considered themselves forewarned when the late author’s daughter, Rhianna, cautioned last year that the latest adaptation of his work “shared no DNA” with the source material. ![]()
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The stars never rise5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Poe never lived to see ‘Annabel Lee’ published: it appeared posthumously in the Southern Literary Messenger in November 1849. This keeps the metre of the poem on its toes (we might say it keeps the poem’s ‘feet’ on its toes), and reflects the sudden death of Annabel Lee as well as the ballad-like feel Poe is seeking to create, harking back to medieval ballads about true love and kingdoms by the sea. one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed). two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed) as opposed to iambs (i.e. Instead, the form of ‘Annabel Lee’ is actually a little more irregular: the poem begins with a stanza of alternating tetrameter and trimeter, true, but there are six lines rather than four, and the metre is more jaunty and lively than regular iambic metre: many of the feet are anapests (i.e. ![]() The poem has the ring of a ballad that has been passed down through oral tradition (and that was designed to be sung and danced to, accompanied by music), but it doesn’t follow the strict ballad metre (quatrains of alternating iambic tetrameter and trimeter, rhymed abcb). ![]() Although ‘Annabel Lee’ is often described as a ballad, this is only half-true. ![]()
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A Kiss to Keep by Willow Winters5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Although it can be read on its own, it’s recommended you start with A Kiss to Tell. Although it can be read on its own, it’s recommended you start with A Kiss to Tell.Ī Kiss to Keep is a 15k novellette extension of Chloe and Sebastian’s story, A Kiss to Tell. ![]() He’s still my everything, but I don’t know how we’ll survive this.Ī Kiss to Keep is an extension of Chloe and Sebastian’s story, A Kiss to Tell. Even when he kisses me the way he does… no kiss can take away this pain. I don’t know how I’ll ever forgive him for bringing me back here. Scars don’t ever fully go away, and this sinful place is etched into our flesh. There was no way we could have gotten our happily ever after. I think Sebastian knew, and so did I, that he’d be pulled back into this life one day. A Kiss to Tell A Kiss to Keep A Little Bit Dirty. I thought when we ran away, we’d never have to look back. Most Recommended Books presents the Willow Winters series written by Willow Winters. ![]() I took his hand and in turn, he took me away. A kiss to silence me, and a kiss to numb the pain. ![]()
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The red queen the white queen5/28/2023 ![]() Whilst feigning friendship, firstly for the golden Edward IV and then his usurper brother Richard III, she secretly plots to restore her only son, Henry Tudor, and thus the Lancastrian line to their rightful place on the throne of England. But after becoming a young widow and mother, Margaret goes on to endure, with unwavering faith and determination, two more love-less marriages, the dramatic downfall of her house and the rise of her enemies: the Yorks. ![]() In which, Gregory retells the bloody rivalry between the Houses of York and Lancaster, what we now call the War of the Roses, through the eyes of the indomitable women caught up in it all and in this book, The Red Queen, Gregory switches sides to Margaret Beaufort, the Queen Mother of Henry VII.Īs a Lancastrian and the heir to the Beaufort fortune, Margaret becomes the prized child-bride of Edmund Tudor, the half-brother of Henry VI. After loving The White Queen about Elizabeth Woodville last year, I was very eager to continue reading Philippa Gregory’s popular Cousins’ War series. ![]() |