![]() ![]() In The Ragged Edge of Night, Olivia Hawker tells the true story of her husband’s grandfather, Anton. How far will he go to atone for his sins and will he risk the lives of the family he now has? ![]() As World War II progresses, Anton’s acts grow more daring and he is suspected of treason. Once married, Anton has difficulty supporting his family through his music lessons alone and he begins to work for the German Resistance, shuttling important messages between towns. Desperate to atone for not doing enough to save the children under his tutelage at the monastery, Anton answers an advertisement and marries Elisabeth Herter, a widow with three young children in a small German village she needs help and wants her family to somehow survive the war. In 1942 Germany, the Nazis force Anton Starzmann, a former Franciscan monk, to leave his monastery and return to the life of a layperson. ![]()
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This funny, hip title by Yoo will thrill and amuse fans with plenty of intense shonen-ai action. ![]() Ewon is taken to a loan shark' s headquarters, where he is forced to run dangerous errands for no pay. Will Ewon be able to survive the violent underworld (not to mention the constant sexual harassment) he must endure as an underling of Mookyul? This funny, hip title by Hajin Yoo will thrill and amuse fans with plenty of intense shonen-ai action. ![]() Their gang leader Mookyul, with movie-star good looks and the bizarre, drunken habit of biting people on the neck, takes a keen interest in his attractive new errand boy. TOTALLY CAPTIVATED VOL.2, Hajin Yoo, Good Condition, ISBN 1600092942 - 8.01. ![]() The culprit who doomed Ewon to this life is none other than Jiho, Ewon' s jealous ex who still burns at Ewon' s infidelity. The average reader, reading at a speed of 300 WPM, would take 2 hours and 49 minutes to read Totally Captivated. The mafia threatens Ewon into working for a loan shark, where he' s forced to run dangerous errands for no pay. ![]() ![]() ![]() Want a wickedly good deal for reading witch romance books? Check out Kindle Unlimited! ![]() Keep an eye out on my New Romance Book Releases page as new witch romance titles like to drop in September or October each year and you don’t want to miss them. Of course, witch romance books are perfect to read any time of year, but if you want to get in a particularly spellbinding mood, then these titles are the perfect books to binge-read in October in anticipation of Halloween. Read the first in the series or read them all for even more delightful witch romance books to add to your TBR list. ![]() Several of these titles are book one in a series of witch romance books that are either interrelated or a group of standalone romances. If you fall in love with one of these wickedly good witch romance books, then you may be in luck! I love these spellbinding romance books that weave together a touch of fantasy romance AND paranormal romance, all wrapped in some wonderful romantic magic.Įven if you aren’t a fan of paranormal or fantasy romance, many recent witch romance books are contemporary romance books with modern-day witches.Įither way, I for one want to read every one of these witch romance books and can’t wait to jump in and get started. Paranormal romance has always been a fan favorite in the romance genre, but have you noticed the trend toward witch romance books?! ![]() ![]() ![]() The battle was vicious, relentless, and highly profitable, eventually sparking a global corporate war that would be fought on several fronts: from living rooms and schoolyards to boardrooms and Congress. His unconventional tactics, combined with the blood, sweat and bold ideas of his renegade employees, transformed Sega and eventually led to a ruthless David-and-Goliath showdown with rival Nintendo. ![]() But that would all change with the arrival of Tom Kalinske, a man who knew nothing about videogames and everything about fighting uphill battles. Sega, on the other hand, was just a faltering arcade company with big aspirations and even bigger personalities. In 1990, Nintendo had a virtual monopoly on the video game industry. Following the success of The Accidental Billionaires and Moneyball comes Console Wars-a mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes business thriller that chronicles how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary and a team of rebels, took on the juggernaut Nintendo and revolutionized the video game industry. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They can bring communities together, with programs like "One Book, One City" or just by the public library reaching out to involve the community. They can be an affirmation when you need one, an escape when you need one, a friend when you need one, a learning experience when you don't realize you need one, or a bridge to others when you need that. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin, Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi, My Reading Life by Pat Conroy, and The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes are all books that show how reading books positively impacts lives. Reading transports us to the stories in those books and how they so often relate to our own lives. Several books have become favorites for me because, either by fiction or personal experience, the books tell of how important reading is to their lives and others' lives. When we've read most or all the books discussed or mentioned, then the thrill increases exponentially. I don't know if all bibliophiles enjoy books that are about reading itself, but I can imagine that there are quite a few of us that do. "Books show us the world they don't hide it." ~ Mukesh Patel ![]() ![]() Agent: Janet Silver, Zachary Shuster Harmsworth Agency. ![]() Her account forms a charming, intrepid trial by fire, as she emerges from the ordeal bruised but not beaten, changed, a lone survivor. Her book Tiny Beautiful Things is currently being adapted for a Hulu television show that will be released in early 2023. Eventually she began to experience “a kind of strange, abstract, retrospective fun,” meeting the few other hikers along the way, all male jettisoning some of the weight from her pack and burning books she had read and encountering all manner of creature and acts of nature from rock slides to snow. Cheryl Strayed is the author of the 1 New York Times bestseller Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, which has sold more than 4 million copies worldwide and was made into an Oscar-nominated major motion picture. Starting from Mojave, Calif., hauling a pack she called the Monster because it was so huge and heavy, she had to perform a dead lift to stand, and then could barely make a mile an hour. Living in Minneapolis, on the verge of divorcing her husband, Strayed was still reeling from the sudden death four years before of her mother from cancer the ensuing years formed an erratic, confused time “like a crackling Fourth of July sparkler.” Hiking the trail helped decide what direction her life would take, even though she had never seriously hiked or carried a pack before. In this detailed, in-the-moment re-enactment, she delineates the travails and triumphs of those three grueling months. In the summer of 1995, at age 26 and feeling at the end of her rope emotionally, Strayed resolved to hike solo the Pacific Crest Trail, a 2,663-mile wilderness route stretching from the Mexican border to the Canadian and traversing nine mountain ranges and three states. ![]() ![]() She's got anxiety issues, which has led her to hole up in her late mother's ramshackle cottage on Cape Cod. The simplistic way to describe Lily Sawyer is that she's a neurotic poor little rich girl. By an actual real-life editor with like credentials and everything! Sold! I liked the plot description of the novella, and the author included the tidbit of information that the story was edited. ![]() ![]() Which is how I came to read Hurricane Lily by Rebecca Rogers Maher. ![]() I'm sure some people like to wade through half garbled manifestos, but heck - if I wanted that I'd spend all my time reading my own blog. Even if I haven't read them before, the author is a "known commodity" and has enough experience with writing and publishing that I'm more confident that I'm not going to get total crap. To a certain extent, yes - I totally buy into the "gatekeeper" argument. She was thirty years old, all but unemployed, holed up in a falling-down house she couldn't step out of, and the best thing she'd done with her life in years was to give the general contractor an unusually good blowjob.Īs a general rule I don't read a lot of self-published work, but when I do it tends to be by authors who also have a backlist either with traditional print publishers or respected e-publishers. ![]() ![]() ![]() I sit in bed to write (or read) and it’s lovely. ![]() My favourite place at the moment is my bed. I’m going to cop out and go for somewhere very specific. Where is your favourite place in the world? Tricky one. It would take a long time in a pony and trap!) Oh, it is lovely in East Yorkshire! (I live in West Yorks, just to clarify for readers, and since Yorkshire is the UK’s biggest county, we’re actually fairly far apart. I’ve lived in some fairly random places in the past, but this is the first place where I’ve had to say I was late for work because I got stuck behind a pony and trap! Keep that quiet because… well, it wouldn’t be as nice if everyone started to show up. Where do you live, Rhoda? I live in East Yorkshire, not far from Hull. ![]() Would you like one?Įvery protocol should involve biscuits! That’s my sort of protocol, and I’m going to print it out in triplicate. ![]() I wasn’t sure what the protocol was, so I’ve brought biscuits. It’s bonfire night (Guy Fawkes night) in the UK tonight, so I’ve got in some parkin* and, since it’s so cold (well – let’s be honest – since there’s actually any type of weather!), there’s also a great big steaming pot of tea. On this frosty November day it’s lovely to welcome my guest, author Rhoda Baxter. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This book would appeal to those seeking a slow burn romance set in the world of Finnish mythology. River of Shadows is about sacrifice and second chances. I’m definitely enamored by Death and want to see if the prophecy will be fulfilled in the next book, Crown of Crimson. But as the connection between Hanna and Death develops, the push/pull becomes palpable. ![]() The creative world building in this story takes center stage for the first half of the book, as the reader is immersed in Hanna’s experiences. About River of Shadows by Karina Halle Take Hades & Persephone, transport them into twisted Nordic mythology, add in Beauty & the Beast and some Alice in Wonderland, and you get the high steam dark fantasy, River of Shadows. Navigating through this labyrinth of vying interests and untrustworthy characters, Hanna tries to find her footing and makes a bargain with Death. Most importantly, her future depends on formidable Death himself. Narrated from Hanna’s POV, she is thrust into a world of gods, Deadmaidens, shamans, demonic unicorns and mermaids. “I will make you beg for death, and even then I won’t grant it to you, all for my own fucking amusement. Determined to find her father, Hanna starts a journey to the underworld of Tuonela and soon realizes she must make the bargain of her life. Upon receiving news of her father’s passing, Hanna Heikkinen travels from LA to Finland for his funeral, but upon arrival she discovers all is not what it seems. ![]() |