5/13/2023 0 Comments A Lady Dares by Bronwyn Scott![]() ![]() And she most certainly wouldn’t associate herself with the infamous Dorian Rowland – privateer, smuggler and The Scourge of Gibraltar himself!īut I need Rowland and his specialised expertise, especially with the wolves circling, waiting for me to fail. ![]() ![]() Īccording to society, I, Elise Sutton, haven’t been a lady for quite some time – a lady couldn’t possibly run the family company and spend her days on London’s crowded, tar-stained docks. but his sensual kisses could be worth the risk. Even if that means seducing the Captain to earn back my father’s favour! I know I must avoid falling for Greer’s charming smile. It would be unwise to mistake me for an innocent debutante – for years I have graced the smoky gloom of many a billiards club and honed my skills at my father’s side.īut now he has a new protégé – a Captain Greer Barrington – and while my father would see me attract the attentions of an eligible lord, I, Mercedes Lockhart, have other ambitions. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Roomies book review![]() As their relationship evolves from awkward roommates to besotted lovers, Calvin becomes the darling of Broadway. ![]() Holland impulsively offers to wed the Irishman to keep him in New York, her growing infatuation a secret only to him. When the tryout goes better than even Holland could have imagined, Calvin is set for a great entry into Broadway-until he admits his student visa has expired and he’s in the country illegally. ![]() Rescued by Calvin McLoughlin from a would-be subway attacker, Holland Bakker pays the brilliant musician back by pulling some of her errand-girl strings and getting him an audition with a bigtime musical director. Marriages of convenience are so… inconvenient. Modern love in all its thrill, hilarity, and uncertainty has never been so compulsively readable as in New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Christina Lauren’s ( Beautiful Bastard, Dating You / Hating You) new romance. ![]() From subway to Broadway to happily ever after. ![]() ![]() Still, Gabie and Drew’s budding relationship is believable, and it has a strong wingding climax followed by a feel-good ending.Ī rare look at the youth-led rebellion that toppled Romania’s Ceaușescu. ![]() ![]() The police seem amazingly obtuse, Gabie’s belief that Kayla is alive is given no realistic, clue-based hook and the third quarter has some pacing problems. Interspersed with the kids’ and perpetrator’s first-person accounts are police reports, 911 transcripts, webpages, interviews, etc., which add interest and texture to what otherwise would be a straight genre tale. The thriller is narrated using a collage technique. Who was the man what happened to Kayla why did he ask about Gabie and, as time begins to pass, is Kayla still alive? Neither Drew nor Gabie, who go to the same high school as Kayla but are work rather than social friends, knows anything, but they are determined to find out. ![]() ![]() When Kayla doesn’t return, Drew calls the police and the mystery kicks in. When a popular high-school girl disappears while delivering pizza at her part-time job, her two fellow employees and classmates try to figure out what happened.ĭrew Lyle takes the call, Kayla Cutler delivers the pizza, but the man ordering it wants to know if the girl who drives the Mini Cooper-that’s Gabie Klug-will be the delivery girl. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Erica jong's fear of flying![]() ![]() Regular shelling near the facility ensued, with power outages, damage to a radioactive waste storage building and reports of landmine explosions near the perimeter fence, according to the National Energy Agency.Įnergoatom, the operator, and the UN's nuclear watchdog have issued warnings over the past year, and its six reactors were shut down as a safety precaution last month.īut concerns haven't stopped Russian soldiers from setting up defensive sandbag positions on top of the reactor buildings, according to the UK Ministry of Defence. ![]() ![]() The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe's biggest, found itself at the frontline from the start of the Russian invasion.īy early March last year, it was under occupation and Moscow currently controls around 80% of the region. Here we lay out how the facility has featured in the war and the latest military movements around it. Earlier we reported how the UN's nuclear watchdog was "extremely concerned" about the threat to nuclear safety at the power plant. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Blood and beauty the borgias![]() ![]() Sarah Dunant has written three acclaimed novels of Renaissance Italy in which she consciously narrowed her focus to the long-concealed stories of ordinary women on the margins rather than following what she termed the “ historical celebrity version of life.” Now, in a noteworthy switch, we’re presented with Blood & Beauty, which centers on perhaps the most grasping and notorious celebrities of the era. Review of Blood & Beauty: The Borgias, by Sarah Du.Judging books by their setting: The case of the li.An interview with Gillian Bagwell, author of Venus.Historical novel or novel set in history? A guest. ![]() Book review: A Treacherous Paradise, by Henning Ma. ![]()
![]() ![]() However, this book lays out forcefully his understanding that the impact of climate change poses a far bigger threat to lives and livelihoods in developing countries – it is thwarting efforts to raise living standards because poor people, in every country, are the most at risk from droughts, floods and heatwaves. It is this concern for the most vulnerable people on the planet that has meant Gates has occasionally appeared equivocal about climate and energy policies that he thought could undermine the fight against poverty and illness. Gates and his wife, Melinda, are well known for their foundation’s tremendous work on improving health and tackling disease around the world, particularly in poor countries. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates presents a compelling explanation of how the world can stop global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions effectively to zero. Two important new books by prominent American authors, both written before the result of the presidential election was known, should help to capitalise on the new spirit of cautious optimism by laying out bold but well-argued plans for accelerating action against climate change. ![]() P resident Joe Biden has promised a new era of American leadership on global climate action, after four years of unscientific denial and misinformation under Donald Trump. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Put me in the zoo lopshire![]() ![]() In the past decade there has also been a direct engagement with money, since he’s made gold spots and gold formaldehyde cases. He’s unruly: He juggles, he changes colors, he keeps inventing new ways to play with spots. “Out you go, out with you.” The curators, the art critics and the whole art establishment don’t want $pot in because he doesn’t play by the rules, and he’s not acting like the other animals. ![]() “We do not want you in the zoo,” they tell Spot the leopard. In fact, he once fearlessly told me that he “weighs his press by the pound.” In our story, he reveals that, deep down, he still wants to get into the zoo, where he can be exhibited with all the other animals.Īt this point, the zookeepers chime in. ![]() Spot the leopard continues, “I would like to live this way this is where I want to stay.” $pot always claimed that he didn’t care about museums and what other people thought of him. His wish will come true at London’s Tate Modern this coming May, though by now he’s so supersized and has produced so much art that much of it won’t be exhibited. ![]() $pot has never had a retrospective show in a museum, though for almost 20 years he’s been the most talked-about artist in the world. At the outset of the tale, Spot, the leopard, says to the two children, “I will go into the zoo, I want to see it yes I do.” Let’s take the zoo as a metaphor for the museum. ![]() ![]() It features a unique premise I haven’t encountered before: the universe has been separated into four separate Zones of Thought: the Unthinking Depths, Slow Zone, Beyond, and Transcend. ![]() A rescue mission, not entirely composed of humans, must rescue the children-and a secret that may save the rest of interstellar civilization. A Fire Upon the Deep was the big breakout novel from Vernor Vinge, winner of the 1993 Hugo Award and nominated for the Nebula. ![]() ![]() Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these "regions of thought," but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artifact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence.Fleeing the threat, a family of scientists, including two children, are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle. ![]() A Fire Upon The Deep book pdf read and download by Vernor VingeĪ Fire Upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that fulfills the promise of Vinge's career to date: a gripping tale of galactic war told on a cosmic scale.Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures and technology can function. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The lottery shirley![]() ![]() The girls stood aside, talking among themselves, looking over their shoulders at the boys, and the very small children rolled in the dust or clung to the hands of their older brothers or sisters. Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones, and the other boys soon followed his example, selecting the smoothest and roundest stones Bobby and Harry Jones and Dickie Delacroix -the villagers pronounced this name "Dellacroy"-eventually made a great pile of stones in one corner of the square and guarded it against the raids of the other boys. School was recently over for the summer, and the feeling of liberty sat uneasily on most of them they tended to gather together quietly for a while before they broke into boisterous play, and their talk was still of the classroom and the teacher, of books and reprimands. ![]() But in this village, where there were only about three hundred people, the whole lottery took less than two hours, so it could begin at ten o'clock in the morning and still be through in time to allow the villagers to get home for noon dinner. ![]() The people of the village began to gather in the square, between the post office and the bank, around ten o'clock in some towns there were so many people that the lottery took two days and had to be started on June 26th. ![]() The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The wine bible 3rd edition![]() ![]() A deeper grape glossary including 400-plus varieties, and an expanded Mastering Wine Section incorporating latest science on taste and smell. ![]() ![]() Expanded chapters on France, Italy, Australia, South America, and the U.S. New fully revised Great Wines section with recommended bottles to try for each country and region. A new section called In the Beginning… Wine in the Ancient World. Plus this completely updated 3rd edition offers: New chapters on Great Britain, Croatia, Israel. Page after page grounds the reader deeply in the fundamentals-vineyards and varietals, climate and terroir-while layering on passionate asides, tips, anecdotes, definitions, illustrations, maps, labels, and over 400 photographs in full-color. It’s America’s bestselling wine book, now fully revised, updated, and in color!īeloved and trusted by everyone, from newcomers starting their wine journey to oenophiles, sommeliers, restaurateurs, and industry insiders, The Wine Bible is comprehensive, entertaining, authoritative, beautifully written, and endlessly interesting. ![]() |