Whether you’re a fan of contemporary romances or historical epics, there’s something for everyone in her wildly entertaining novels. Whether she’s crafting dramatic love stories or steamy scenes, her work always engages and delights readers. 2,858 Ratings Cam Montgomery is a single full-time dad who knows his priorities: his kids, his job, his team, his business.With her engaging writing style and knack for creating compelling characters, Brynne Asher has quickly become one of the most popular romance writers today. Athica Lane (Carpino, 3) by Brynne Asher 4.19 avg. Her novels are perfect for anyone who wants to escape into a world of love and happiness, even if just for a little while. Her books are light-hearted and fun and deal with real issues people face in their everyday lives.īrynne lives with her husband, three children, and a perfect dog in the Midwest, where she enjoys spending time with her family, shopping online, and drinking coffee or cocktails. She writes about love and relationships and is known for her wit and humor. Cam doesn’t have the luxury of time for anything more, especially a relationship. Dealing with his disaster of an ex-wife is bad enough, not to mention delinquent football players and a meddlesome mother. Brynne Asher is a USA Today bestselling author of romance. Athica Lane Cam Montgomery is a single full-time dad who knows his priorities: his kids, his job, his team, his business.
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A lion in the meadow is a book I remember having read to me as a child and in turn I’ve shared it with my. Years ago at a Children’s Librarians conference in Christchurch, I was wearing a skirt with a pavlova tea-towel as the front panel. She started drawing as a very young child, making up stories about the characters she created and her drawings have appeared in many different types of books, including fairy tales and nursery rhymes, animal stories and folk tales, published throughout the world. I have a very embarrassing story about meeting her once. A native of London, Williams was educated at the Wimbledon School of Art and University of London. Jenny Williams is a hugely talented illustrator whose style is recognisable at a glance. User-contributed reviews Tags Add tags for 'A lion in the meadow'. Details Abstract: Mother didnt believe the little boys tales about a dragon and lion in the meadow, but to the boy the creatures were very real. 'It is in the nature of books, that they have the capacity to make you feel powerful about what you can alter and achieve in your life' - Margaret Mahy A lion in the meadow Find a copy in the library Finding libraries that hold this item. Appointed to the Order of New Zealand in 1993, Mahy also won many global prizes for children's writers, including the Carnegie Medal and the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award. She is the author of more than 150 titles, which have been translated into many different languages and sold around the world. Margaret Mahy (1936-2012) is one of New Zealand's most celebrated children's writers. The story of Beren and Lúthien tells the tale of a man named Beren who falls in love with Lúthien, the daughter of the Elvish king Thingol. The tale of Beren and Lúthien is arguably the most personal story for Tolkien and he believed it to be one of the most important stories in his legendarium, so much so that he stated in his will that he and his wife’s graves should bear the names ‘Beren’ and ‘ Lúthien’. Aragorn and Arwen’s romance is in fact an allusion to a love that existed between a man named Beren and an Elf named Lúthien that occurred thousands of years before the War of the Ring, and that in turn was inspired by Tolkien’s own romance between he and his wife Edith. Though it seems there can be no happy ending for the two, their love for one another endures and the two are united at the end of the books. Those familiar with The Lord of the Rings will be aware of the romance between a mortal man named Aragorn and the immortal Elf named Arwen. He previously worked for many years as a junior doctor. His first children's book "Kay's Anatomy" will b Adam Kay is an award-winning comedian and writer. "Dear NHS", edited by Adam Kay, was an instant Sunday Times number one with all profits donated to charity. His second book "Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas" was an instant Sunday Times number one bestseller and sold over 500,000 copies in its first few weeks. It has been translated into 37 languages and is winner of four National Book Awards, including Book of the Year, and will be a major new comedy drama for the BBC. His first book "This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor" was a Sunday Times number one bestseller for over a year and has sold over two million copies. Adam Kay is an award-winning comedian and writer. he asked her out but it turned out not everything was perfect and he was about to break her heart and shatter her dreams. However, slowly Raiden was everywhere Hanna was then the impossible happened. But when Hanna stalked him and saw the blonde bombshell he was with that was finally the last straw something had to change and she decided it had to be her appearance, her attitude and her stupid crush. Hanna's crush on handsome Raiden spanned years, ever since she was 6, but over the years he never noticed her and eventually joined the Marines and after that he went 'off the grid' until one day he returned to small town Willow. A DRAMA-FEST, FEEL GOOD, FUNNY & STEAMY ROMANCE The adventures Belle has always imagined, the dreams she was forced to give up when she became a prisoner, seem within reach again. When she comes upon Nevermore, an enchanted book unlike anything else she has seen in the castle, Belle finds herself pulled into its pages and transported to a world of glamor and intrigue. Smart, bookish Belle, a captive in the Beast's castle, has become accustomed to her new home and has befriended its inhabitants. Use the Rafflecopter below to enter to win. We're giving one lucky reader a chance to win their own copy of “Lost in a Book” as well as “Belle's Library” and a $50 Fandango Gift Card to go see Beauty and the Beast at the movies! Enter to win the Beauty and the Beast Giveaway This past week, that book was Jennifer Donnelly's “Lost in a Book,” one that couldn't be put down in anticipation of the new live-action Beauty and the Beast movie. My kids ask to stay up past bedtime so they can keep reading whatever book they are drawn into at the moment. Usually, I'm pulling books out of hands when they have fallen asleep reading and then turning off reading lights. Reading is a favorite pastime in our house. Beauty and the Beast “Lost In A Book” Giveaway Thanks to Big Honcho Media and Disney Press for sponsoring this post and providing a prize. Then they discover a derelict ship just floating in space. Their captain is found murdered and so it’s up to main character Joe Lofflin to investigate along with a cast full of convincing characters. Mordrake a ship seemingly stranded and damaged beyond repair in the furthest reaches of space. With that tension steadily building the story follows the somewhat damned crew of the I.S.S. This heightens the mystery giving readers a real urgency and a want to find out, eventually you will. ‘In space, not all things were certain… not even death’ĭemonspawn is a detailed well-imagined space story, which I found hard to put down, in fact I read the book in just 3 sittings.Ĭhristina Engela has created a believable world of space travel, delivering it in way that seemed to me logical and explained without straying from the main plot.įrom the very opening, there is a deliberate psychological vagueness as to what the ‘big bad’ could be. A captivating tour de force that will astound readers with its formal invention and contemporary relevance. For all its elegant complexity and brilliant construction, Diaz’s novel is compulsively readable, and despite taking place in the early 1900s, the plot reads like an indictment of the start of the twenty-first century with its obsession with obscure financial instruments and unhinged capital accumulation. The final section delivers the journal entries of Mildred, Bevel’s wife, adding yet another facet to the stories-within-stories. The third piece presents the memoirs of Ida Partenze, a journalist turned accomplice to Bevel’s ambitions to ruin Vanner, who also seeks to undermine Bevel’s marriage. Hernan Diaz’s Trust, like his Pulitzer-finalist debut In the Distance (2017), is historical fiction that thrums with the energy of today’s crises. The first is a novel written by Harold Vanner about the reluctant scion of a tobacco empire, Benjamin Rask, “an inept athlete, an apathetic clubman, an unenthusiastic drinker, an indifferent gambler, a lukewarm lover.” The second is a partial memoir written by Andrew Bevel, a New York financier with a clear resemblance to the character in Vanner’s novel, who seeks retribution for Vanner’s fictionalization of his life. Pulitzer Prize finalist Diaz ( In the Distance, 2017), returns with a multilayered novel that pieces together a searing portrait of a New York financial elite during the early-twentieth-century world through four discrete documents. He has to deal with a lot of crap, especially given the connection between Nikki and Cole and I loved that he put her needs ahead of his own. His unconditional love for Nikki and all he does for her, is just plain amazing. What I Loved: From the very beginning, I’ve loved Jack and he did not disappoint in this last book. Will Nikki be forced to spend eternity in the Underworld, or does she have what it takes to bring down the Everneath once and for all? In this stunning conclusion to the Everneath trilogy, Brodi Ashton evokes the resiliency of the human spirit and the indomitable power of true love. But Cole isn’t the only one with plans for Nikki: the Queen has not forgotten Nikki’s treachery, and she wants her destroyed for good. Even Cole, who they expected to fight them at every turn, has become an unlikely ally - but how long can it last? Nikki needs to feed on Cole to survive, Cole needs Nikki to gain the throne in the Everneath, Jack needs Nikki because she is everything to him - and together, they must travel back to the Underworld to undo Nikki’s fate and make her mortal once more. Terrified for her survival, Nikki and Jack begin a desperate attempt to reverse the process using any means possible. which means she must feed on a Forfeit soon - or die. But Cole tricked Nikki into feeding off him, and she’s begun the process of turning into an Everliving herself. Now that Nikki has rescued Jack, all she wants is to be with him and graduate high school. Why is mass persuasion so difficult? Mercier uses the latest findings from experimental psychology to show how each of us is endowed with sophisticated cognitive mechanisms of open vigilance. Drawing on recent findings from political science and other fields ranging from history to anthropology, Mercier shows that the narrative of widespread gullibility, in which a credulous public is easily misled by demagogues and charlatans, is simply wrong. In this lively and provocative book, Hugo Mercier demonstrates how virtually all attempts at mass persuasion?whether by religious leaders, politicians, or advertisers?fail miserably. Why people are not as gullible as we think Not Born Yesterday explains how we decide who we can trust and what we should believe?and argues that we're pretty good at making these decisions. |