![]() ![]() But when a local murder tied to the cartel implicates a friend, Ladydi's future takes a dark turn. When Ladydi is offered work as a nanny for a wealthy family in Acapulco, she seizes the chance, and finds her first taste of love with a young caretaker there. ![]() While her mother waits in vain for her husband's return, Ladydi and her friends dream of a future that holds more promise than mere survival, finding humor, solidarity and fun in the face of so much tragedy. And when the black SUVs roll through town, Ladydi and her friends burrow into holes in their backyards like animals, tucked safely out of sight. In Guerrero the drug lords are kings, and mothers disguise their daughters as sons, or when that fails they "make them ugly" cropping their hair, blackening their teeth - anything to protect them from the rapacious grasp of the cartels. School is held sporadically, when a volunteer can be coerced away from the big city for a semester. Here in the shadow of the drug war, bodies turn up on the outskirts of the village to be taken back to the earth by scorpions and snakes. In the mountains of Guerrero, Mexico, women must fend for themselves, as their men have left to seek opportunities elsewhere. She was born into a world where being a girl is a dangerous thing. Ladydi Garcia Martínez is fierce, funny and smart. ![]() A haunting story of love and survival that introduces an unforgettable literary heroine ![]()
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5/23/2023 0 Comments Can't Say Goodbye by Eden Finley![]() Unlike the other books in the Fake Boyfriend universe, Blindsided does not contain a fake boyfriend trope.** **Blindsided is a full-length MM novel with a HFN/HEA and no cliffhanger. The guy who's more to me than a brother, a friend, or even a teammate. If he was anyone else, I'd cut my losses.īut this is Shane Miller-the guy who makes everything better just by existing in my universe. Only, now that I'm here, he's avoiding me every chance he gets. I move across the country to chase a dream that's a decade old. When I'm offered a position on his team in Chicago, I don't hesitate. Years ago, Miller and I made a pact that we'd win a Super Bowl together. The torch I had for him burns brighter after so long apart, and there's nothing I can do about it. ![]() The media storm would be enough to break both our careers. ![]() Now he wants everything to be like it was in college, but we can't have threesomes and be reckless like we once were. I focused my heartache into making my own NFL dreams come true, and by the time I was drafted, the longing I had for my best friend was buried deep. When Talon left to play pro ball six years ago, the hole in my chest confused me. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments James sa corey leviathan falls![]() ![]() By injecting himself with the protomolecule, Holden is able to seize control of the ring station in order to keep the dark gods at bay long enough for everyone - including the Roci crew - to evacuate the ring space. Co-authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, who write together under the Corey pen name, tell Polygon that the TV show will provide a “good resolution” to the on-screen story, but it’s only in Leviathan Falls that fans can see how James Holden and his Roci family’s full story artfully comes to a close.Īfter decades of fighting to democratize information and unite humanity, Holden is forced to go against these values in order to save the human race from succumbing to Duarte and the ring builders’ plans to subsume humanity into their hive mind. Readers will get one final trip into The Expanse’s world when the upcoming novella The Sins of Our Father is released in March 2022, and fans of the television adaptation will also get a sixth and final season, which premieres on Amazon Prime Video on Dec. ![]() Corey’s The Expanse series ended in November with the release of Leviathan Falls. ![]() After 10 years and nine novels, James S.A. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Book when harry became sally![]() ![]() Amazon’s delisting of it cuts off vital political and cultural discussion about important matters when we need it most.”Īmazon’s letter to Senators Marco Rubio of Florida, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Mike Braun of Indiana and Mike Lee of Utah also addressed several other questions, though the answers provided little transparency on the internal discussions leading to its stated policy or the objective criteria applied in this specific case. When Harry Became Sally is an important contribution, praised by medical experts, to that conversation. ![]() He acknowledged, however, that there was an ongoing debate “about how best to help patients who experience gender dysphoria. Anderson said there was a reason why “ender dysphoria is listed in the most widely respected and consulted book on psychiatric disorders because it is a serious condition that causes great suffering.” ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments The red tent author diamant![]() ![]() Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. ![]() This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. 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As Mitch's case gains nationwide attention, how will he convince the sexy state trooper that giving him a chance won't jeopardize his life's plan.especially when the evil he's tracking brings the hate directly to his doorstep, threatening more than just their careers … ( more) ![]() ![]() Mitch is the last distraction Cody needs, but the tatted up temptation that walks into the bar and steals his baseball cap is too hard to ignore. ![]() While on a two-week mandatory vacation, he plans to relax and help out on his family's farm. Texas State Trooper Cody Turner is moving up the ranks, well on his way to his dream of being a Texas Ranger. Solving the case that has plagued him for months takes a sudden backseat to finding out all there is to know about the gorgeous, shy blond sitting alone at the bar. While away on an assignment, he blows off some steam at a notorious Dallas nightclub. ![]() His calm, cool, collected attitude and devastatingly handsome good looks earn him a well-deserved bad boy reputation, both in the field and out. Deputy United States Marshal Mitch Knox apprehends fugitives for a living. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments George herbert poetry book![]() ![]() (Strangely, the poem of Herbert's with which most people are familiar, "The Elixir", not only has had its own internal music eradicated because it is now more famous as a hymn, but lines such as "A servant with this clause/ Makes drudgerie divine" come close to articulating precisely what Empson thought was wrong and disgusting about Christianity.)īut powerful poetry can have powerful effects this paper ran a series a couple of months ago on belief, which started by the writer saying how Herbert's poetry converted her. That was Empson's idea of poetry as perfection. Of "The Sacrifice", he wrote: "an assured and easy simplicity, a reliable and unassuming grandeur, extraordinary in any material, but unique as achieved by successive fireworks of contradiction, and a mind jumping like a flea". ![]() ![]() What is more surprising is that the arch anti-Christian William Empson championed him. ![]() It may be no surprise that TS Eliot rated him after all, they were both, in their different ways, pillars of the Anglican church. It makes allowances for the weakness of the heart – often, indeed, that is its primary subject – and nine-tenths of the poetry that survives is about God. Of all the lyric poetry our language has produced, George Herbert's is among the most musical, poignant, direct and, at the same time, subtle and intelligent. T he devil, whatever people may say, doesn't have all the best tunes. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Green eggs and ham 1973![]() ![]() Seuss's publisher, that Seuss (after completing The Cat in the Hat using 236 words) could not complete an entire book without exceeding that limit. The vocabulary of the text consists of just 50 words and was the result of a bet between Seuss and Bennett Cerf, Dr. Green Eggs and Ham is one of Seuss's "Beginner Books", written in a very simple vocabulary for beginning readers. When he declares that he likes them, he happily says, "I do so like green eggs and ham. ![]() Finally, the man accepts the offer and samples the green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am." Sam further asks him to eat that food in various locations (house, box, car, tree, train, dark, rain, boat) and with a few different animals (mouse, fox, goat), but is still rebuffed. However, the man refuses multiple times throughout the story by saying, "I do not like green eggs and ham. ![]() Sam-I-Am offers an unnamed man a plate of green eggs and ham. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Forever jack natasha boyd![]() ![]() The question is, can he convince her she can have it all? And have him? Forever? Jack is now fighting to save his relationship with Keri Ann, even as his crazy life threatens to tear them apart. And his hands have been tied to try and stop it. ![]() Jack knows he let the only ‘real’ thing that ever happened to him slip through his fingers. And how can she can ever trust him again? ![]() But being Jack’s latest tabloid accessory isn’t on Keri Ann’s career agenda, no matter how much she is attracted to him. Suddenly Jack is back, and his explanations for why he left seem more and more plausible, and his declarations more seductive. In the wake of his betrayal and abandonment, Keri Ann has had to pick up and move forward with the life she was supposed to live and has put off far too long. She thought she knew a Jack that was very different to the man adored by fans the world over. Keri Ann Butler’s life changed on the night she met movie star, Jack Eversea. Blitz Sign-Up: Forever, Jack by Natasha BoydĪ feisty small-town girl and the Hollywood star who broke her heart ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments The remnant chronicles book 1![]() ![]() They spend a few days traveling and eventually settle down with Pauline’s aunt Berdi, who gives them work at her Inn located in Terravin. When she is completely ready and the opportunity arises, both Lia and her maid Pauline flee the castle just before the wedding. As this happens she thinks about how her “gift” has not manifested, and how her mother insisted on including the name Jezelia when she was born though it was not a family or royal name, and most of all, how she does not want to marry an old man from the kingdom of Dalbreck. ![]() Her mother and others are there as artisans are etching a wedding kavah (a sort of temporary tattoo) onto her back. Lia, a 17 year old princess also formally known as Princess Arabella Celestine Idris Jezelia, is preparing for her wedding. ***** Everything below is a SPOILER ***** What happened in The Kiss of Deception? Setting – Morrighan, Lia’s home country and Venda, where the assassin is from. The Assassin – Assassin sent from Venda to kill Lia The Prince – Prince of Dalbreck and Lia’s fiance that she has never met Pauline – Lia’s lady in waiting and friend Lia – First Daughter (and princess) of Morrighan ![]() |