![]() ![]() Vickie McDonough, award-winning author of 27 books and novellas, including the Pioneer Promises series From distressing to delightful, A Bride for All Seasons bounces your emotions around like they’ve been on a bumpy 1800s stagecoach ride, with each story arriving at a highly satisfying ending.” ![]() “Four popular authors have penned an engaging novella collection with a creative and humorous premise. Lori Copeland, author of Sisters of Mercy Flats and co-author of The Amish of Apple Grove series “Four talented writers, four unique stories of women seeking happiness-and a man! Inspirational reading doesn’t get any better than this.” Tamera Alexander, USA Today best-selling author of To Whisper Her Name and The Inheritance With spunk, humor, and tenderhearted romance this anthology is truly made to order!” “Delightful at every turn, A Bride for All Seasons gives the ‘mail-order bride plot’ a creative-and addictive-new twist. Advance Acclaim for A Bride for All Seasons ![]()
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6/29/2023 0 Comments Creature Features by John Stanley![]() ![]() Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() What happened was I found myself so transfixed that I don’t think I moved for around 3 hours. I started this collection one Thursday night, expecting to make my way through a few of the stories. Kirsty Logan has in my opinion created an absolutely perfect collection of dark, vivid, insidiously creepy and outright horrifying tales to really drawn you in, mesmerise you and spit you back out again with a buzzing brain full of tumbling thoughts. Because I believe the short story is indeed a craft. I admire so many authors for their amazing imagination and story crafting abilities, and I use the word ‘crafting’ purposefully. ![]() I have gone over to the dark side I suppose! I love anything odd or ‘off beat’. The regulars among you will also know that my reading tastes have changed massively since I started book blogging and a huge metamorphosis has occurred over the last couple of years. Especially anything that could be considered a little bit ‘strange’ or ‘out there’. But as you all know this hasn’t always been a love for me. I feel a little bit like a stuck record when I say that I love short story collections. ![]() ![]() ![]() The villains at Awkward Press are at it again with Awkward Two, a collection of tales so fiendishly inventive they can barely be contained by the rigid boundaries of their wood-pulp prison. ![]() ![]() Act now and you'll also receive a bonus video of the Awkward Two trailer for the low low price of FREE! Step into Awkward Two. Not only do you get thirty-three amazing stories by twenty-five brilliant authors, you also get five instant adaptations of stories from the book. Utilizing the latest in Dual-Core creative processing technologies (trust us, it's too complicated for you to understand), the tech wizards at Awkward Press have embedded not one, not two, but SIX motion pictures in their latest anthology of short stories, available right here, right now, for the low low price of $6.99! (Maybe even LOWER if it's on sale!) Have you ever read a short story and thought, "Man, if only I could press a button and watch a movie version of that story RIGHT NOW." With Awkward Two, YOU CAN. ![]() ![]() ![]() That little black book contains the names of the paintings, the people he’s scammed, and the years it happened. I only found out about this practice when he started to keep a record due to his faulty memory a few years ago. When he was younger, he used to do this proficiently and even kept us, his closest circle, out of it so he could reap all the profits. It’s a fine line so he can’t scam the same person twice or the same group of people within a close timeframe. Even when the paintings are found out to be fake, they blame their own people, not Abe. They’re used to the best quality from him, so they never suspect it. Once every few years, he’ll sell them a forgery among many genuine paintings. “Your father has a system of scamming his most important clients. ![]() ![]() He reaches into his jacket and I think he’ll retrieve a gun and shoot me for thinking I could threaten him, but he produces a small black leather notebook and slips it into my bag. I knew I saw something in you even when you were nine.” Kai remains inert, unmoving, as if I hadn’t said anything. I’m breathing harshly, my limbs shaking due to the force of my words. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now that’s a challenge a great actor - Kevin Spacey, perhaps? - should pick up. ‘If the right person comes along, I’d certainly consider it,’ she says. Which probably means a production with a major star in the male lead. Rebecca says she’d like to see a production that ‘skews the play’ away from the Monroe character. There are meditations on the Holocaust and how we all have murder inside us.’ You can’t pretend she’s not there, but at the same time it is about other things. She calls After the Fall, which Miller wrote in 1963, shortly after Monroe died, ‘a wonderful play that unfortunately in his time got completely read as an autobiographical work about her. ![]() ‘But I’m holding back on it,’ says Rebecca. It’s a fascinating story with some terrific parts for larger-than-life stage actors. There has been just one production, at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre in 2004. ‘Anything that’s got the shadow of Marilyn in it - even something that has just a slight taste of her - gets overshadowed by her,’ she says.įinishing the Picture, Miller’s final play, is about the making of Monroe’s last movie, The Misfits, for which he wrote the screenplay. “As for After the Fall and Finishing the Picture - Miller’s two plays about his second wife, Marilyn Monroe - Rebecca remains wary. This play takes place solely in the mind of the main character (played then by Jason Robards. ![]() The original play was performed in 1964, 2 years after Marilyn Monroes suicide. The book dealer was in Indiana, Im in Nevada. Rebecca spoke to the New York Postrecently about the way some of her father’s plays are overshadowed by the memory of Marilyn. It was an older book, Arthur Millers AFTER THE FALL. She was born a month after Marilyn’s death, to Arthur and his third wife, Inge Morath. Rebecca Miller, daughter of Arthur, is a writer, director, and actress. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments The way of the sufi idries shah![]() OL94624W Page_number_confidence 92.91 Pages 298 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.17 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220125180030 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 835 Scandate 20220123231250 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780900860805 Tts_version 4. ![]() The Sufi Tradition, Interview with Idries Shah. Urn:lcp:wayofsufi0000shah:lcpdf:e6710d8c-3f55-40c1-b68c-76feba68b482 Sufi Stories and Jokes (various sources) The Cooks Assistant, From: Wisdom of the Idiots The Magic Horse, From: The Way of the Sufi The Algonquin Cinderella, World Tales, collected by Idries Shah God is Stronger The Wisdom of Sufic Humor. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 13:07:31 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA40336814 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Flannery by Lisa Moore![]() ![]() ![]() These scenes work to build character as well, and readers become increasingly attached to her as the pages turn. The bulk of the story is solidly rooted in the present, when Flannery Malone is sixteen years old, living with her mother, Miranda, and her younger brother, Felix, and waiting for the next chapter of her life, when she will finally be living with the love of her life, Tyrone.įor the most part, the story moves chronologically, but occasionally the ribbon of time loops or spirals and readers are afforded a glimpse at a younger Flannery. Readers who have come to admire this quality in her previous novels (she is one of my MRE authors), might have thought this quality would be lost in her writing for younger readers.įiction targeting young adult readers is often described as ‘compelling’ or ‘enticing’, less often as ‘complex’ or ‘layered’ and, yet, Flannery manages to tick all those boxes One of the elements that makes her characters so convincing is the echo effect, the reverberations off seemingly extraneous details (in images, in descriptions, in settings) to construct multi-faceted individuals. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments The play by elle kennedy![]() ![]() Teddy Hamilton's narration was wonderful! He does a great job with tone and inflection. I hesitated to write this review, but I was disappointed with this audiobook. Teddy Hamilton's narration was the best part! Now I just have to convince my body - and my heart. Our backgrounds are too different, our goals aren’t aligned, and her parents hate my guts. We’re paired up on a yearlong school project, but I’m confident I can resist her. ![]() Her smart mouth is hot as hell, and so is the rest of her, but the fact that she’s got a boyfriend eliminates the temptation to touch her.Įxcept three months into our friendship, Demi is single and looking for a rebound.Īvoiding her is impossible. And I won’t lie - my new classmate Demi Davis is one cool chick. Which means that I, Hunter Davenport, am officially going celibate.no matter how hard that makes things.īut there’s nothing in the rulebook that says I can’t be friends with a woman. As the new team captain, I need a new philosophy: hockey and school now, women later. What I learned after last year’s distractions cost my hockey team our entire season? No more screwing up. ![]() A brand-new stand-alone novel in the New York Times best-selling Briar U series! ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Welcome to the dark side giana![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, I wore the fragile camisole that I’d been wearing under my shift and a stretchy black skirt that on Lila went to just below her knees but on me came up to mid-thigh. I was five foot nine and curvy.Īfter we’d both had a good laugh, we’d improvised. Lila was maybe five foot four and one hundred and ten pounds soaking wet. She had me laughing before I could remember to be awkward and when she had offered me clothes, she’d only laughed a little bit at the absurd fit of the jean skirt and crop top I’d tried on. ![]() I’d never met such a graceful, willowy woman but her classic beauty and the good humor in her huge hazel eyes enthralled me. She was three years older than us and back from UBC for summer break. Reece was right, I liked Lila and she liked me. I’d already had a few cups of beer as well as two shots of vodka that Lila, Hudson and Reece had poured for me to start the evening off. There was a red Solo cup in my hand filled with warm beer Reece had tapped from a massive keg of Blue Buck in the corner and the contents sloshed over my fingers as I tossed my sweaty hair back and forth over my exposed shoulders. The bass pulsed like a musical heart beat beneath my bare feet as I stomped them to the rhythm of the Kygo song that blasted through the massive speakers set up throughout the main level of the house. ![]() |