![]() She's quit her job, put her house on the market, and sworn off relationships while she builds a new life in her favorite place on earth. Only this year, Bella has more on her mind than sunbathing and skinny-dipping with her girlfriends. Winningīella Abbascia has returned to Seaside Cottages in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, as she does every summer. "Like Nora Roberts, Melissa Foster has captivated me with her fantastic, sexy, romantic stories." K. It kind of reminds me of Jill Shalvis' books and they are my benchmark for contemporary romance awesomeness." -Books Like Breathing (on Fated for Love) "Melissa Foster is quickly becoming one of my favorites. ![]() Every book's a winner!" - New York Times Bestselling Author Brenda Novak Make sure you have all night, because once you start you won't want to stop reading. "You can always rely on Melissa Foster to deliver a story that's fresh, emotional and entertaining. Seaside Summers are a series of stand-alone romances that may also be enjoyed as part of the larger Love in Bloom series ![]()
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![]() ![]() Ulysses and itsĬrew to the limits of their legendary luck. Despite severe misgivings - as well as a recent mutinous uprising aboard their ship by desperate sailors -Īdmiral Tyndall, Captain Vallery, and Commander Turner must once again push the H.M.S. ![]() But Russia,įighting the common German foe, urgently needs armaments, so the Royal Navy's top brass orders another convoy to Shepherding an Allied convoy through Arctic weather and German attacks is tantamount to suicide. To be uplifting as well as tragic, this story eloquently depicts warfare's senseless savagery. MacLean had been part of two Arctic convoys aĭozen years earlier one can only hope they met a far better fate than the one described in this book. It traces the ill-starred voyage of a group of British warships escorting a shipment of tanks,Īmmunition, and oil along the Arctic route from the U.S. Ulysses draws heavily on MacLean's experiences in the Royal Navy during His earliest novel, written at a publisher's request after he'd won a short story competition the ![]() Ulysses - as I recently did for the first time (2010) - sharpens one's insight intoĪlistair MacLean. The writings and films of Alistair MacLean - H.M.S. ![]() ![]() Using the best available data and insights taken from recent research in the social sciences, Naím reveals how, on close examination, the same set of strategies to consolidate power pop up again and again in places with vastly different political, economic, and social circumstances, and offers insights about what can be done to ensure that freedom and democracy prevail. The Revenge of Power connects the dots between global events and political tactics that, when taken together, show a profound and often stealthy transformation in power and politics worldwide. But the way people go about gaining it and using it has been transformed. ![]() All of which are as old as time, but are combined by today's autocrats to undermine democratic life in new and frightening ways. ![]() He concentrates on the three "P"s-populism, polarization, and post-truths. In The Revenge of Power, Naím turns to the trends, conditions, and behaviors that are contributing to the concentration of power, and to the clash between those the forces that weaken power and those that strengthen it. In his New York Times bestselling book The End of Power, Moisés Naím examined power-diluting forces. It illuminates one of the most important battles of our time: the future of freedom and how to contain and defeat the autocrats mushrooming around the world. ![]() ![]() Martin's Press, 2022) is an urgent, thrilling, and original look at the future of democracy. Moisés Naím's The Revenge of Power: How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century(St. ![]() ![]() Twenty-six other students in the school were killed. He was unable to return to school for more than a year due to the serious injuries to his legs. ![]() © 2015 Bede Sheppard/Human Rights Watch ‘Hassan’ a student injured by a suicide bomber at the Government Science and Technical College, Potiskum, Yobe state, in November 2014. At least 27 students and two lecturers were killed in the attack. © 2015 Mausi Segun/Human Rights Watch A lecture theatre at the Federal College of Education, Kano, Kano state, destroyed when Boko Haram insurgents lobbed grenades and shot students taking classes on September 17, 2014. Teaching has been taking place outside since the school was burned by Boko Haram in October 2012. © 2015 Bede Sheppard/Human Rights Watch Students in class underneath trees at Nahuta Primary School, Potiskum, Yobe state. They are among a small group of students still able to study in the northeast. © 2015 Bede Sheppard/Human Rights Watch School girls walk home after class in Maiduguri, Borno state, September 2015. The school, established in 1915, was the first primary school in northeast Nigeria. Children look through a destroyed classroom window at Yerwa Primary School, Maiduguri, Borno state, damaged by Boko Haram during attacks in 20. ![]() ![]() Unfortunately she’s nearly engaged to another man… unless Thomas can change her mind and win her heart. Thomas Weston is dumbstruck at the sight of Miss Clara Hampton. A holiday epilogue to A Rake's Guide to Seduction.Įvery year Grace Finch falls a little more in love with her handsome childhood friend Oliver Ford, but will he ever feel the same for her? Rosalind, Dowager Duchess of Exeter, has given up on finding romance with Lord Warfield, but he has not given up on winning her. ![]() A holiday epilogue to What a Woman Needs. Widowed Lady Fitzhugh dislikes the retired Army officer, Major Arthur Winston next door, until his dog makes friends with hers-and he serenades her with carols.Ī surprise arrival brightens a new wife’s Christmas Eve. Innkeeper Adam Milbank and his new bride Sarah are snowed in alone for their first Christmas together… A lonely French courtesan discovers the mysterious English spy who saved her harbors deeper feelings, under the mistletoe. Seven stories of first kisses, newly wedded bliss, and love long-awaited, in the holiday season of joy.Bel Astre que jadore: A lonely French courtesan. ![]() ![]() Mill (taught Greek at three) and Yo Yo Ma (Bach at two) claimed the methods would work with any child when these succeed with the boy Ludo, he causes havoc at school and is home again in a month. High-minded principles of child-rearing work disastrously well. Sibylla, an American-at-Oxford turned loose on London, finds herself trapped as a single mother after a misguided one-night stand. The enterprising publisher sold the rights in twenty countries, so “Why not just, ‘destined to become a classic?’” (Garth Risk Hallberg) And why must cultists tell the uninitiated it has nothing to do with Tom Cruise? Helen DeWitt’s 2000 debut, The Last Samurai, was “destined to become a cult classic” (Miramax). ![]() Called “remarkable” (The Wall Street Journal) and “an ambitious, colossal debut novel” (Publishers Weekly), Helen DeWitt’s The Last Samurai is back in print at last ![]() ![]() ![]() I thought my neighborhood was quirky growing up: we had Southerners with shotguns, we had Jews with two terrifying Doberman Pinschers, we had a Caribbean woman who never, in my entire childhood, wore anything other than a muumuu. It is a portrait of what remains when dreams of utopia have withered away. Told by a chorus of narrators-including gossips, gangsters, a ghost, and a serial killer-who flirt, lie, argue, and finish one another's stories, Marcial Gala's The Black Cathedral is a darkly comic indictment of modern Cuba, gritty and realistic but laced with magic. ![]() This generation will carry these traits beyond the borders of the neighborhood, the city, and the country, unable to escape the shadow of the unfinished cathedral. ![]() In a neighborhood that roils with passions and conflicts, at the foot of a cathedral that rises higher day by day, there grows a generation marked by violence, cruelty, and extreme selfishness. Arturo Stuart, a charismatic, visionary preacher, discovers soon after arriving that God has given him a mission: to build a temple that surpasses any before seen in Cuba, and to make of Cienfuegos a new Jerusalem. ![]() Haunting and transcendently twisted, this English-language debut from a Cuban literary star is a tale of race, magic, belief, and fate The Stuart family moves to a marginal neighborhood of Cienfuegos, a city on the southern coast of Cuba. ![]() ![]() He argues that the Bible is filled with re-worked stories, many of which are made up entirely, and yet he seems to know which stories really happened and which did not. He claims that the Bible presents a diabolical genocidal God, yet he insists that we still “meet God in its pages” (3). He claims the Canaanite Conquest is immoral, yet argues that the Bible provides no clear guide for morality. But, it becomes quickly apparent to the reader that the contradictions are really in Enns’ own worldview. Enns intended it to be a book about contradictions in the Bible. In the end, The Bible Tells Me So is a book about contradictions. ![]() My full-length review of Enns is now available over at The Gospel Coalition. ![]() Tony Campolo also offers a blurb, but qualifies it with the statement, “ have some problems with what he has written.” Given that Campolo is no fundamentalist, this is a telling statement.Īnother telling statement is the inside flap of the book cover which states, “In The Bible Tells Me So, Enns wants to do for the Bible what Rob Bell did for hell in Love Wins.” That about says it all. Endorsers of the book include Rob Bell, Rachel Held Evans, and Brian Mclaren. ![]() It’s quite a bold piece of work, with a lot of serious claims about the role and purpose of the Bible. Pete Enns has just released his latest book, The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending the Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It (HarperOne, 2014). ![]() ![]() ![]() She is eventually arrested while pregnant and is angry when Winter turns her back on her. ![]() She is initially a coconspirator of Winter's as they are involved in illegal activities together. After her father is arrested, Winter encounters much more strife, and eventually lands up repeating many of the mistakes and experiences of her parents. She is highly focused on attainment of material wealth and is also sexually promiscuous. The story follows her life, first as a pampered child and adolescent of questionable morality. ![]() She is born to a teen mother and drug lord father during extreme winter weather. Winter Santiaga: The protagonist of the story. Winter takes up the skills she learned from her father to maintain her lifestyle, such as selling illicit items in the girls’ home to make money. This all changes when Winter's father is arrested for drug trafficking, and Winter finds herself in a girls’ home. ![]() Due to the power of her father, Winter is infamous in her neighborhood, and she uses her power to get what she wants. The story is told from her perspective in slang that is highly influenced by the hip-hop culture. Winter is brash and self-important she says, "it was important for me to know I deserved the best, no slum jewelry or knock-offs". The main character is Winter Santiaga, the teenaged daughter of Ricky Santiaga, a local drug kingpin. The Coldest Winter Ever is a 1999 novel by Sister Souljah published by Simon and Schuster. ![]() ![]() ![]() As in her previous novels, Elif Shafak succeeds in touching upon difficult topics without losing the depth of her literary style. By building up the story piece by piece, Elif Shafak creates a story full of different perspectives. The novel interweaves different threads and the reader is invited to put together all the different parts of the puzzle. Throughout the story we get to know Peri’s life, jumping from her years as a child in Istanbul to her time in Oxford as a young woman, to the present situation back in Istanbul. This is the beginning of a multi-layered, beautifully sketched and precise novel “Three Daughters of Eve“ by Elif Shafak. It depicts three young women, in their middle a man. Among the many things that fall out of her bag is a Polaroid. ![]() Peri’s, the mother’s, handbag has been stolen and she follows the thieves to a back alley. What appears to be an everyday situation soon turns into a hot pursuit. Mother and daughter together in the car, stuck in the thankless traffic of Istanbul, on their way to a dinner party. ![]() |