![]() ![]() ![]() She's not about to give her father the ammunition he desperately wants to force her down the aisle. Now Henry is hunting the owner of the earring Amy left behind, and she's determined to retrieve it before her identity is revealed. So why did she let her handsome neighbor and romantic fantasy, the Sinful Saint as he's called for his bedroom prowess, seduce her in his garden? And what can she do when in the middle of their passionate encounter he whispers another woman's name. Lady Amy Shipton is determined to marry for love instead of sharing her husband like her mother did. ![]() He knows the woman he held in his arms could be the one he's searched for all his life. But a darkened garden, a case of mistaken identity, a drunken kiss, and a dropped emerald earring, leads Henry on a Cinderella hunt. When they challenge him to find a wife by the end of the season or marry his neighbor, the innocently alluring Lady Amy Shipton, he can’t believe his luck. Now that his two best friends, both reformed rakes, are happily married, the need becomes an obsession. Giles, the Earl of Cravenswood, longs to find his soul mate. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Then he realized he actually had time to write. Once he resigned from his tenure track position and began teaching independently and entirely online, Dyrk found he had time to read books - fiction, sci-fi, fantasy - not just academic journals and textbooks. A year at Ohio University and a year at The University of Toledo, begrudgingly studying business until his father said, “Just go take what you want.” So five more years it was, at The Ohio State University for a BFA and Masters in filmmaking (woo hoo!). ![]() ![]() All survived, and it was time for college. There Dyrk whiled away his adolescent years in cornfields, woods, rivers, ditches and haymows, climbing trees, running along barn beams, riding, wrestling, soccering, fighting BB gun wars, reading Stuart Little, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, everything Verne, London, Kipling, White, Lewis, Doyle, Burroughs, Poe, Howard, Fleming, Lovecraft, Tolkien, Zelazny, and generally ignoring school - though he somehow managed excellent grades (except in Algebra, of course).Īt the age of 16 he traded a horse for his first car (really), a Volkswagen Beetle, which he proceeded to wrap around a telephone pole on the way to a high school soccer game within the year. After first grade, it was off to the farm country of NW Ohio, south of Toledo, where his parents still reside today. ![]() ![]() Plot summary Ītticus "Tick" Higginbottom is an average 13-year-old until he receives a mysterious letter from Alaska, signed "M.G." That marks the beginning of a deadly and crazy adventure, and Tick is reintroduced to the world as he never knew it. ![]() A 2096-page boxed set was issued by Aladdin Paperbacks in 2013. The fourth book ( The Void of Mist and Thunder) was released as an eBook on July 10, 2012, and was released as a hardcover in September 2012. It is titled The Blade of Shattered Hope. The second book was released on and was titled The Hunt for Dark Infinity, and book three was released April 6, 2010. ![]() The first book in the series ( The Journal of Curious Letters) was published in early 2008 by Shadow Mountain Publishing. The 13th Reality is a young adult science fiction book series by American writer James Dashner.
![]() ![]() While love is a powerful entity in this story, danger is never too far behind. An excellent mystery that's certain to keep you in constant suspense. Her uncanny ability to seamlessly blend the mystery element with contemporary themes makes this one intriguing read.-RT Book Reviews on Home by Dark, Marta Perry delivers a strong story of tension, fear and trepidation. A truly enjoyable reading experience." -Angela Hunt, New York Times bestselling author of Let Darkness Come, "Perry skillfully continues her chilling, deceptively charming romantic suspense series with a dark, puzzling mystery that features a sweet romance and a nice sprinkling of Amish culture."-Library Journal on Vanish in Plain Sight, Perry's story hooks you immediately. ![]() ![]() "Leah's Choice is a knowing and careful look into Amish culture and faith. ![]() ![]() Now, The Tightwad Gazette II serves up all-new help and hints from the newsletter's third and fourth years, yielding still more savings for millions of converts to tightwaddery. Over 250,000 copies were sold, inspiring millions of people to profit through thrift. Description: The Tightwad Gazette II The Perfect - and Cheap - Home Chili Recipe! New Uses for Old Blue Jeans! Make a Quilt for Ninety-five Cents! In 1993, Amy Dacyczyn's first book featured advice from the pages of her two-year-old newsletter The Tightwad Gazette. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s possible that this may stem in part from this book. I wonder… one of the criticisms often levelled at Christie is that her characters lack depth. ![]() And The Body In The Library is one that I remember little of, so I thought I’d give it a spin. So I resorted to a safe pair of hands, namely Dame Agatha, and Miss Marple – mainly due to the disappointment of They Do It With Mirrors. ![]() Something might have happened after that but I couldn’t be bothered to find out. A few reasons – primarily an attempt to get through a rather turgid affair of a mystery where nothing seemed to happen between 10 and 50% of the way through (can’t do page numbers with a Kindle!). After a prolific start to the month, I’ve managed to finish one book in the last week, namely this one. Wow, almost a fortnight since the last review. But how on earth –and why – did that body end up in the library? ![]() Soon a second body is discovered and the focus of the investigation becomes the Majestic Hotel in Danemouth, and a tale of adopted young women and a possibly lost inheritance. Luckily Dolly’s old friend, Jane Marple, has a few ideas… No apparent connection is made between the location and the body and nobody recognises her. Gossington Hall, home of Dolly and Colonel Arthur Bantry, is disturbed one morning when the body of a young, platinum blonde girl is discovered in, yes, the library. ![]() ![]() ![]() Spring 2013 Kids’ Indie Next List What Others Are Saying: INDIE BOUND B&N BOOKS A MILLION POWELL’S AMAZON To read the first chapter, click HERE: When she discovers an unexpected ally imprisoned in the dungeons, will a daughter of Death find something other than vengeance to live for? And while Sybella is a weapon of justice wrought by the god of Death himself, He must give her a reason to live. But those assassin’s skills are little comfort when the convent returns her to a life that nearly drove her mad. The convent views Sybella, naturally skilled in the arts of both death and seduction, as one of their most dangerous weapons. ![]() Those that serve Death are only too happy to offer her refuge-but at a price. Sybella arrives at the convent’s doorstep half mad with grief and despair. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Holloway’s engaging and respectful inquiry, direct and quiet, is told with confidence. “Seen through Holloway’s eyes, Monique’s life is as compelling as any novel.” - Entertainment Weekly I’ve adopted it for my psychological anthropology course.” - Ron Reminick, Cleveland State University “This is a beautiful story and an experiential journey through the profession of midwifery. For students or teachers of African studies or anthropology, Holloway incorporates information about kinship systems, religion and witchcraft, familial and traditional power relationships, and decision-making processes that affect marriages, jobs, women’s status, childbearing, and community self-help projects.” - African Studies Review Although the subtitle and a great deal of the story focus on midwifery, and infant and maternal morbidity and mortality, the narrative goes further. “The multiple themes and issues voiced in this narrative provide a useful point of dialogue and reflection for many audiences. ![]() “Readers will find this memoir emotionally moving, beautifully written, and highly informative.” - Journal of Community Health ![]() “If you are looking for a book to attract new anthropology majors, this is it!” - Susan Bodnar-Deren, Sussex County Community College ![]() ![]() This unique multi-ethnic approach illuminates overlooked dimensions of the immigrant experience in the American Midwest. Drawing comparisons between large, industrial St Louis and small, established Fort Wayne and between the different communities which took root there, Donlon offers new insights into the factors which shaped their experiences-including the impact of city size on the preservation of ethnic identity, the contrasting concerns of the German and Irish Catholic churches and the roles of women as social innovators. Focusing on the cities of Fort Wayne, Indiana and St Louis, Missouri, Regina Donlon employs comparative and transnational methodologies in order to trace their journeys from arrival through their emergence as cultural, social and political forces in their communities. Many settled in the Northeast, but some boarded trains and made their way west. In the second half of the nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of German and Irish immigrants left Europe for the United States. ![]() ![]() ![]() She finally goes to a doctor- and realizes she has OCD and begins seeing a therapist. In the book, Allison gets to the point where she cannot function in her school or homelife anymore. But still, they can’t shake the reoccuring thoughts or the compulsions that follow them. Most of the time this has little to do with rational thought- and most people with OCD recognize this. Some of the main defining features of OCD include “intuiting” what is good and bad to keep you safe, and then acting out rituals to either avoid the things your brain has deemed dangerous that moment- or encouraging more of the things your brain has deemed life saving. I was fascinated to read about her experience- as there was so much overlap with my own experience- but also so much difference. ![]() In the book, the author recounts her experience with OCD as a highschooler. It prompted me to check out this new young adult book- Obsessed. While talking about our own unique mental illnesses, I realized that while I was diagnosed years ago with OCD- I don’t actually know much about the illness outside of my own experience of it. ![]() I was recently talking to one of my coworkers about mental illness- and when they opened up to me about theirs, I felt comfortable and inspired to open up about mine as well. ![]() |