So when she turns him down, he's intrigued. Stephen is used to getting what he wants. or so he believes.īoth desperate for a second chance. No matter what he achieves, nothing can make up for that awful night. Five years ago he encountered his most horrible nightmare - and the nightmare won. Millionaire playboy Stephen McKinney could use a little coaching himself. It's easy for her to relate to the kids what isn't easy is the thought of facing her own harrowing past. She knows all too well how violence can change a child and leave scars that never heal. Hannah Walker spends her days coaching children through injury and trauma, one therapeutic horseback ride at a time. When a McKinney brother falls in love, powerful emotion and overwhelming desire are never far behind. For readers of Bella Andre, New York Times bestselling author Claudia Connor follows up her heartfelt debut, Worth the Fall, with a novel about Matt's brother, Stephen.
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Sixteen years further on-one year until predicted impact-civilization’s in tatters. A few years later, the similar abduction of billionaire genius Joshua Fitchett is thwarted by his private security, and he goes public about the doomsday asteroid. Mild-mannered scientist Professor Sheppard is abducted in the middle of the night and brought to a supersecret facility where other scientific and mathematical great minds-all having supposedly died of unrelated medical problems and mishaps within the past months-have been sequestered to solve the problem of the planet-destroying asteroid. A giant asteroid’s on a collision course with Earth. When Clay found out, his leopard took over. Talin a human ophan living with others and was being abused. Clay was living with his human mother and trying very hard to pretend he wasn't a leopard. Clay and Talin knew each other as children. I was waiting for a human to be a central character in one of these books and this is the one. As they race to save the innocent, Clay and Talin must face the violent truths of their past. He will not let her go again, his hunger to possess her, a clawing need born of the leopard within. Determined to keep them safe, she unlocks the darkest secret in her heart and returns to ask the help of the strongest man she knows.Ĭlay lost Talin once. Now a new nightmare is stalking her life - the street children she works to protect are disappearing and turning up dead. Talin McKade barely survived a childhood drenched in bloodshed and terror. Everything good in him died the day he was told that she, too, was dead. and committed the most extreme act of violence, killing a man and losing his best friend, Talin, in the bloody aftermath. As a young boy without the bonds of Pack, he tried to stifle his animal nature. Clay Bennett is a powerful DarkRiver sentinel, but he grew up in the slums with his human mother, never knowing his changeling father. The romance is so super cute and sweet, I usually like some fighting and angst in romances but this was adorable. Yet Jenny finally finds out the truth about her mom and grandma’s strained relationship. Her mom tells her the only path to succeed is no distractions (no friends, and especially no boyfriends). Jenny is trying to reach her goals and get into her top choice music school and be a cellist. Jaewoo is his family’s breadwinner – anything he does in public could jeopardize his career. There are some family issues discussed in this book, especially with the issue of responsibility. The two hit it off in the most innocent way possible and when Jenny moves to South Korea and coincidentally to the school Jaewoo goes to – it’s hard for them to fight their attraction. Jaewoo is a member of rising K-Pop group XOXO and he’s what girls dream the perfect boy to be: gorgeous, talented, charming, responsible, follows the rules and a super star. I like that she’s independent, talented and she’s nice. Jenny can handle herself in South Korea pretty well because she’s taken Korean language courses since she was young. Girl meets boy and off in Los Angeles and then off to South Korea we go! I love that this mostly took place in South Korea, the author did a great job transporting my mind there. Bought this one on a whim because it the ebook was on sale for $1.99 on Amazon and I was craving a light hearted, cute romance and this one delivered. However, the Wikipedia article on Dewey stated that it “told the story of Dewey’s life at the library, interspersed with the difficulties faced by the town and Myron in her personal life,” which made it sound like it would be more interesting than I’d originally thought. I had heard of Dewey-he was pretty famous for a cat, after all-but I guess I assumed that the book would be 300 pages of cute-animal anecdotes. “If you haven’t read the book about Dewey, I heartily recommend it!” “I chose Iowa because the only thing I knew about the state was that they had a lot of corn, and that they had a world-famous library cat named Dewey Readmore Books,” she said in an email. Earlier this year, my mom’s book club read Katarina Bivald’s The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend, and in an email, the Swedish author shared some information on how she managed to write about small-town Iowa despite the fact that she’d never even visited the U.S. Here are the six books Similar to Cloud Cuckoo Land that are either written by authors like Anthony Doerr or written in the ‘Fiction’ genre. Anna, Omeir, Seymour, and Konstance, like Marie-Laure and Werner in All the Light We Cannot See, are outsiders and dreamers who find ingenuity and hope in the midst of danger.Ĭloud Cuckoo Land is a hauntingly beautiful and redemptive novel about stewardship-of the book, of the Earth, of the human heart-dedicated to the librarians then, now, and in the years to come. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are attempting to understand their surroundings: Anna and Omeir, on opposing sides of Constantinople’s formidable city walls during the 1453 siege teenage idealist Seymour in an attack on a city library in present-day Idaho and Konstance, on an interstellar ship bound for an exoplanet decades in the future. A compelling blend of psychological observation, wit and compassion, The Princess Casamassima (1886) is one of Henry James's most deeply personal novels. Read more vow, and finds himself gripped in an agonizing and, ultimately, fatal dilemma. He is horrified by the destruction that would be wreaked by revolution, but still believes he must honour his. But when the Princess Casamassima - beautiful, clever and bored - takes him up and introduces him to her own world of wealth and refinement, Hyacinth is torn. Drawn into a secret circle of radical politics he makes a rash vow to commit a violent act of terrorism. A compelling blend of psychological observation, wit and compassion, The Princess Casamassima (1886) is one of Henry Jamess most deeply personal novels. The illegitimate and impoverished son of a dressmaker and a nobleman, Hyacinth Robinson has grown up with a strong sense of beauty that heightens his acute sympathy for the inequalities that surround him. Drawn into a secret circle of radical politics he makes a rash vow to commit a violent act of terrorism. Description for The Princess Casamassima Paperback. As engrossed as I can become in a novel, it's rare for an author to tickle my funnybone with words the way ole' Douglas does, by which I mean I've actually laughed out loudly upon reading a line or a character's gut-wrenching dialogue. Infusing mystery with fantasy (as opposed to Hitchhiker's which infuses an adventurous tone with sci-fi), the novel contains Adams' signature philosophical language and dry, British humor deriving from contemplations thereof. I was halfway through the narrative before I researched the book and discovered that it was a sequel to "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency." It was absolutely wonderful. Adams wrote one of my all-time favorite book series, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," and I was /invigorated/. I just completed Douglas Adams, "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul." I selected the book from my local library purely because of the name attached to it. “Do the words even matter in a picture book?” your friend Jake might inquire. “The hard part is illustrating, making all those pictures.” “The author has it easy,” your Aunt Sharon might inform you. Some might argue that the pictures in them are actually more important than the words. Up until now, the books he has written have been picture books. Peter Brown is also a Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator. Peter Brown is a critically acclaimed, best-selling author. I call these people “overtalented jerks.” Every so often, you’ll meet a rare hybrid: someone good with words and pictures. A picture person is good with colors and has opinions about pencils. A word person is good with vocabulary and uses too much punctuation in text messages. Picture people include illustrators, designers and art directors. Word people include writers, editors and proofreaders. In children’s literature, many books are created through the collaboration of two separate, yet equally important groups: word people and picture people. Soon they find themselves deep underground, where they unearth a dark and terrifying secret – a secret which may cost them their lives. When his father suddenly disappears down an unknown tunnel, Will decides to investigate with his friend Chester. He has little in common with them except for a passion for digging which he shares with his father. However with the magic touch of Barry Cunningham and Chicken House backing this book who knows what may happen!įourteen-year-old Will Burrows lives with his family in London. Many author have tried to write the next series to replace Harry Potter and failed. Born in 1960, he grew up in Highgate, North London, and eventually went to university where he. It’s also double signed by both authors, lined, dated and doodled by Brian Williams. Roderick Gordon is the author of the Tunnels series of books. These books are stunning the cover is holographic foil effect. This book is getting rave reviews and the famous Barry Cunningham who discovered Harry Potter by J K Rowling is backing it. Available now the long awaited Tunnels by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams. Text Roderick Gordon and BrianWilliams2008 Cover illustration David Wyatt 2008 Inside illustrations Brian Williams 2008 except 'The Bridge' Roderick. |