She's a fighter, through and through, and I especially loved how she gave Zander a hard time and made him work for it! (And I hate people who snooze their alarms too!) can I say I want to be her? She has a great personality, I love how she takes zero shit from anyone and stands up for herself, I love how far she's come in life even though she's had to deal with some tough stuff. "When she looks straight at me like that, it often takes my breath away."ĭaphney. He's a dangerous combination - I love alphas, but the combination of sweet and sexy always does me in! But I love how open and how in touch with his feelings he is. He's also clueless about flirting with a woman who is not immediately head-over-heels over him, which led to even funnier moments. He's is wonderfully clueless about British English, which led to some awesome laugh-out-loud moments for me. This is the story of Zander and Daphney, and it's sweet, heartwarming, and perfect. I have it on pre-order, but I wanted the ARC, and I was so bummed when I didn't get it! My workmates heard all about it, believe me.Īnd then I did get it, and my day got a whole of a lot better. I'm going to be very honest here and tell you I really wanted to read this book. I'm late to the Amy Daws party, but I'm catching up. It was yours the moment that you read that book."
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Dancing around each other, and their unspeakable heartbreak, unable to bridge the chasm left between them.įiercely loyal, acutely perceptive and guided by a herd dog's instinct, Mack has a way of bringing out the best in his humans. Seven years after their daughter was taken from them, they're living separate lives together. The one bright spot in her loss-filled life, the partner she could always count on, was Mack, her grey and black Sheltie – that is, until she is summoned back to her childhood home after more than twenty years away.Įd and Alice Parmalee are mourning a loss of their own. If there's been a theme in Justine Meade's life, it's loss. Two that I lost because of stupidity and selfishness. "My name is Justine Meade and in my forty-three years there have only been a handful of people that I have loved. Tolkien - Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary Rosemary Sutcliff - Beowulf, Dragonslayer Michael Morpurgo - Beowulf (Illustrated by Michael Foreman) Seamus Heaney - Beowulf (Audible version read by Seamus Heaney) Chickering (ed) - Beowulf: A Dual-Language Edition George Jack (ed) - Beowulf: A Student Edition Robert Shearman - We All Hear Stories in the Dark Before that, to put everyone in a suitably spooky mood, we all discuss stories taken from Robert Shearman’s remarkable experiment in storytelling, We All Hear Stories in the Dark. As well as being a Du Maurier expert, Laura is also the Lecturer in Old and Middle English Literature at University College, Oxford and teaches Beowulf to undergraduates. Andy and John are joined by regular Backlisted Hallowe’en guest Andrew Male, the senior associate editor of MOJO magazine, and Dr Laura Varnam, who first appeared on our last Hallowe’en episode to discuss Daphne Du Maurier’s collection, The Breaking Point. Tolkien, Michael Morpurgo, Edwin Morgan and the powerful new translation by Maria Dahvana Headley (the 2007 computer-animated film adaptation by Robert Zemeckis and Neil Gaiman also makes an appearance). The atmospheric tale of supernatural monsters and human heroes has inspired scores of translations over the centuries and we will discuss several, including versions by Seamus Heaney, J.R.R. For this year’s Hallowe’en episode our subject is the Old English poem, Beowulf, composed somewhere in England more than a thousand years ago. "Read it in an air-conditioned room or turn on the fan- it. Or maybe their less than ideal pasts give them an opportunity to heal each other and finally find the love their lives have been missing. When she learns Hudson has a dark history of his own, she realizes too late that she's fallen for the worst man she could possibly get involved with. Avoiding him isn't an option after he offers a business proposition she can't turn down and she's drawn further into his universe, unable to resist his gravitational pull. Includes Fixed on You, Found in You, Forever with You, Hudson, and Fixed Forever.Stalking and restraining orders are a thing of Alayna Wither's past. He wants her in his bed and makes no secret of it. Laurelin Paige Fixed 1-51650 pagesThe complete NYT Bestselling Series is available for the first time in one collection.An emotional, searing love story that swept the world, all in one bundle. He's smart, rich, and gorgeous-the kind of guy Alayna knows to stay away from if she wants to keep her past tendencies in check.Įxcept, Hudson's fixed his sights on her. A perfect plan.īut what Alayna didn't figure on is Hudson Pierce, the new owner of the nightclub. With her MBA newly in hand, she has her future figured out-move up at the nightclub she works at and stay away from any guy who might trigger her obsessive love disorder. Stalking and restraining orders are a thing of Alayna Wither's past. Due to mature material, it is recommended for ages 17+. "This book blew me away." - Emma Hart, NY Times Bestselling Authorįixed on You is the first book in a trilogy but ends without a cliffhanger. From New York Times Bestselling Author Laurelin Paige.īook One in the Phenomenally Bestselling Fixed Series But Rawley soon learns he can't always be the boss when it comes to love. Rawley's Redemption After unjustly losing his job, ex-Sheriff Rawley Good turns to the one person he has long denied himself, rancher Jeb Greeley. The ceremony is everything he hoped for, until an act of bigoted violence shatters Garron's world, leaving his new husband in a pool of blood in the middle of the street. Garron's Gift When his lover Sonny sprang the idea of a commitment ceremony on him, Garron couldn't have been happier. Garron is the town's newest resident and bad boy bartender with shoulder-length dark brown hair and tribal tattoos. Sonny's Salvation An openly gay rancher in the middle of Nebraska just doesn't have many prospective dates.That is until Garron Greeley moves to town. He believes that ritual symbols, like botanists' stains, enable us to detect and trace the movement of social processes and relationships that often lie below the level of direct observation. Striking a personal note in the introductory chapter, Turner acknowledges his indebtedness to Ndembu ritualists for alerting him to the theoretical relevance of symbolic action in understanding human societies. Written by an internationally-known social scientist, the book demonstrates how the study of small-scale events may reveal as much about what it means to be a human being in society as do grand macrosocial and macrocultural surveys.Drawing on two and a half years of fieldwork, Victor Turner offers two thorough ethnographic studies of Ndembu revelatory ritual and divinatory techniques, with running commentaries on symbolism by a variety of Ndembu informants. The core of this book is a complete description of two important Ndembu rituals of affliction (Chihamba and Kayong'u), and an analysis of the system of ideas underlying more than a dozen modes of divination. Drawing on two and a half years of field work, Victor Turner offers two thorough ethnographic studies of Ndembu revelatory ritual and divinatory techniques. Millions of Americans believe in the paranormal-and even skeptics have heard a bump in the night and suspected it might be something supernatural. Successful TV shows such as Medium and Ghost Hunters are proof that our national obsession with ghosts is here to stay. Such legendary figures as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini appear-and vanish. Aykroyd introduces the listener to notable mediums while telling the story of the development of spiritualism, interweaving a personal history marked by a fascination with ghosts and spirits with the larger narrative about the role the paranormal has played in our culture. Part history, part family legend, A History of Ghosts starts in 1848 in upstate New York, where the spiritualist craze first began. Here, for the first time, Aykroyd tells the strange and delightful story that inspired his son, Dan, to make the mega-hit Ghostbusters. Peter Aykroyd spent his childhood watching his family's parlor seances through the crack of a basement door. She’s a sweet and strong young teen, and you’ll be rooting for her throughout the book. Running is a release for her, and when tragedy strikes, it becomes a coping mechanism. She has grown close to her sister and become a sort of mother figure to her they see their mom on most Sundays, but she is unable to take care of them due to diabetes taking her legs. Patina, aka Patty, is a strong young runner who puts family first and running second. In a heartwarming and foot-stomping promising new start to the Track series, Jason Reynolds proves that he can write a solid quality story in under 200 pages, while shifting to a younger audience, retaining the values and strong characters we love from his other novels. When the coach recruits him for the team, his first team, he’s about to meet some competition, make some friends and realize that running can bring him joy. He’s clearly a talented runner with potential if he loses the baggy jeans and shoes that are not for running. On a whim, and to the coach’s disbelief, he lines up next to him wanting to teach the “star” a lesson. One day when he stumbles across a track practice he sees Lu, a runner who thinks he’s all that and clearly the star of the team. He knows it, but he chooses to play basketball instead and has dreams of grandeur, even though he’s not very good. Goodreads | Amazon | B&N | Indiebound| Book Depository | LibraryĬastle Crenshaw, aka Ghost, is a natural-born runner. Format: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook, Audiobook "This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern Russia and its wars with Ukraine, with its neighbors, with America, and with the West." -Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Democracy and Red Famine Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews From "the great storyteller of Russian history" ( Financial Times ), a brilliant account of the national mythologies and imperial ideologies that have shaped Russia's past and politics-essential reading for understanding the country today The Story of Russia is a fresh approach to the thousand years of Russia's history, concerned as much with the ideas that have shaped how Russians think about their past as it is with the events and personalities comprising it. 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