![]() But the more time she spends with Jake, the more Paige realises the one thing that was missing from her world all along: The perfect New York love story. He also happens to be the boy she spent her teen years pining after, and Paige is determined not to repeat her past mistakes. Her brother's best friend Jake might be the only person who can help her put her life back together. Until disaster strikes and instead of shimmying further up the career ladder, Paige is packing up her desk. ![]() Paige has ticked off every box on her perfect New York life checklist. ![]() Sarah's writing speaks straight to my heart' Cathy Bramley 'Everything a romantic novel should be - an absolute delight' Veronica Henry * * * Great friends. Pre-order your copy of Sarah Morgan's new novel Beach House Summer now - coming May 2022! Praise for Sarah Morgan: 'Joyful, uplifting and overflowing with love. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Price of Salt was revolutionary in the 1950s for its happy ending-this was a time when most lesbian love stories were written as tragic instead of portrayed in the same cheesy light as heterosexual romances. In and out of print over the years, the novel's strong cult following kept it alive. The two women go on a cross-country road trip and explore a relationship that is off the beaten path. The Price of Salt tells the story of a young shop girl named Therese who falls in with an older married woman named Salt. She'd published one book prior, Strangers on a Train, and her new novel's content was on a totally different track from that thriller. When she first published the book in 1952 as The Price of Salt, author Patricia Highsmith used a pseudonym: Claire Morgan. The Price of Salt has a long history of identity crises. ![]() ![]() She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, here a Harvey Hotel and Restaurant was located. In this deeply moving, historically based account, Carolyn Meyer examines the life of the model for Edgar Degass most famous sculpture, Little Dancer Aged. She is also the author of Cleopatra Confesses and Victoria Rebels. ![]() ![]() Her many award-winning novels include Mary, Bloody Mary-an ABA's Pick of the Lists, an NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies, and an ALA Best Book for Young Adults-and Marie, Dancing, a Book Sense Pick. In this fast-paced novel, best-selling author Carolyn Meyer, who has visited and researched several Harvey Hotels, brings together an unforgettable heroine with the universal themes of friendship, identity, and young love.Ĭarolyn Meyer is the acclaimed author of more than sixty books for young people, twenty of which are historical. As Kitty writes about her escapades, a loveable teenager emerges she embraces adventure, independence, her position as a Harvey Girl, and a freelance writing career. The Waitresses: The Journal of a Harvey Girl tells the first-person story of one spunky girl, Kitty Evans, as she faces the often funny and painful experiences she and fellow waitresses Cordelia and Emmy endure. They ate at Harvey Houses, where thousands of well-trained waitresses provided first-class service. In 1926, droves of Americans traveled by train across the United States to visit the West. ![]() ![]() Then Pacquiao publicly declares his stance against queer people, and Bobby's faith-in his hero and in himself-is shaken to the core.Ī powerful and unflinching debut that will both shatter and uplift hearts with every read.ĬONTENT WARNING for profanity, violence, and homophobic language. Bobby is inspired by champion Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao to take up boxing and challenge his tormentor. A vicious encounter has him scrambling for a new way to survive-by fighting back. ![]() It's best to keep his head down, get good grades, and stay out of trouble.īut when Bobby is unwillingly outed in a terrible way, he no longer has the luxury of being invisible. Being out and queer would put an unavoidable target on his back, especially in a Filipino community that frowns on homosexuality. That's Bobby's motto for surviving his notoriously violent high school unscathed. A poignant coming-of-age story, perfect for fans of Patron Saints of Nothing and Juliet Takes a Breath. ![]() A poigna Experience the extreme joys, sorrows, and triumphs of a queer Filipino-American teenager struggling to prove himself in an unforgiving world. Enter to win a HC copy of the heartfelt YA Queer novel CHASING PACQUIAO by Rod Pulido! (No PO Boxes please)Įxperience the extreme joys, sorrows, and triumphs of a queer Filipino-American teenager struggling to prove himself in an unforgiving world. ![]() ![]() ![]() stories: “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Gold-Bug,”“The Pit and the Pendulum,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “Murders in the Rue Morgue,” and “The Cask of Amontillado” and poems “The Raven” and “Annabel Lee.”) I found some treasures among the lesser known works (e.g. The ideal reader for such a work has an interest in Poe as a person or an interest in literary history (and, particularly, the history of stories of the weird, dark, or surreal.) That isn’t to say that there is no value in reading beyond Poe’s greatest hits (i.e. That would include a large amount of literary criticism of writing that has long been forgotten (in most cases, for good reason.) It does include a biographical sketch of Poe’s life and a “History of Horror” essay by an unnamed individual as ancillary matter. ![]() The book I read included Poe’s one novel (some include a partially written 2nd novel,) many of his essays, all of his short stories, and all of his poems (in that order.) Note: I’m not complaining that the book didn’t include every single piece that Poe published. ![]() It’s almost always inaccurate, but most include more than the casual Poe fan would enjoy reading. There are quite a number of volumes entitled “the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe,” or something to that effect. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The seed was taken from her, but her power remains, endangering everyone she loves. ![]() Sankofa developed the power to cause death at a very young age when she found a seed that fell from the sky. Along the way, her past life is slowly revealed to us, and it’s a life filled with magical realism in a country with disturbingly powerful corporations and corrupt politicians. The book follows her attempts to make friends, right past wrongs, and figure out her purpose. It’s difficult to get farther into the plot of this book because first, it’s mostly a character study with some great social commentary thrown in, and second, what plot does happen falls firmly in spoiler territory.Īt the beginning of the book Sankofa is visiting a village where all the adults and most of the children are scared of her powers, each telling competing myths about Sankofa’s supposedly mystical background. ![]() But where do these powers really come from, and what is her purpose? People call her the Adopted Daughter of Death for her ability to cause the death of anyone in her vicinity through seemingly supernatural powers. Remote Control is the African futurist story of Sankofa, a young girl in Ghana in the near future who wanders from town to town in search of a lost treasure from the skies, accompanied by a fox and a cat. Nnedi Okorafor is here and she is not here to play. TW: childhood trauma, violence toward children, grief, animal abuse, violence and death, colonialism ![]() ![]() ![]() Will they have a second chance together? Or will they each find love with someone new?īefore the new official trailer ends, Anne Elliot declares (again gazing into the camera): “Don’t let anyone tell you how to live or who to love.” RELATED: Where to Watch the Best Jane Austen Movies Right Now Persuasion follows the Jane Austen heroine, Anne Elliot, when she meets her former love, Captain Wentworth (a naval captain), eight years after being persuaded not to marry him. With the massive success of the Jane Austen-inspired romance series, Bridgerton, it’s no surprise Netflix decided to go directly to the source by adapting a Jane Austen classic. So begins the new official trailer Netflix shared on Tuesday for the new 2022 adaptation of Persuasion (based on the novel by Jane Austen.) And I was persuaded by my family to give him up,” Dakota Johnson (as Anne) says, speaking directly to the camera wistfully. “There were no two souls more in rhythm than Wentworth and I. “I almost got married once,” Anne Elliot recalls. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Here, too, are documentary photographs of Frida Kahlo and her world that help to illuminate the various stages of her life. Among the famous and little-known works included in Frida Kahlo: The Paintings are The Two Fridas, Self-Portrait as a Tehuana, Without Hope, The Dream, The Little Deer, Diego and I, Henry Ford Hospital, My Birth, and My Nurse and I. Included among the illustrations are more than eighty full-color paintings, as well as dozens of black-and-white pictures and line illustrations. Her works are so incendiary in emotion and subject matter that one art critic suggested the walls of an exhibition be covered with asbestos.In this beautiful book, art historian Hayden Herrera brings together numerous paintings and sketches by the amazing Mexican artist, documenting each with explanatory text that probes the influences in Kahlo's life and their meaning for her work. ![]() In small, stunningly rendered self-portraits, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo painted herself cracked open, hemorrhaging during a miscarriage, anesthetized on a hospital gurney, and weeping beside her own extracted heart. Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo book by Hayden Herrera Biography Books > Womens Biographies ISBN: B000IAIBT4 Memoirs of Elise - FIRST PRINTING OF FIRST EDITION by Hayden Herrera See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover 36.99 - 38.89 Paperback 5.09 - 7.79 Audio CD 48. ![]() ![]() Here he meets a psychotherapist, who is looking for a missing client of hers: a woman who claims she is the reincarnation of Marian Esguard, who may have invented photography ten years before Fox Talbot. Searching desperately for her, Ian comes across a quiet Dorset churchyard. Back in the UK, Ian resolves to leave his wife for her - only to find Marian has disappeared, and the photographs of their brief time together have been savagely destroyed. 0n assignment in Vienna, photographer lan Jarrett falls passionately in love with the mysterious and beautiful. On assignment in Vienna, photographer Ian Jarrett falls passionately in love with the mysterious and beautiful Marian. ![]() Who and where is the woman Ian Jarrett has sacrificed everything for? Num Pages: 448 pages. Back in the UK, Ian resolves to leave his wife for her - only to find Marian has disappeared. ![]() Description for Caught in the Light Paperback. ![]() ![]() ![]() Great character voices with smooth pacing, and when you factor in the sweet story and sexy times - this was an enjoyable 7+ hours. If you're a fan of Russo's - this is definitely an audio that should get on your playlist. ![]() I really liked the way Witt handled it, and it's brilliantly narrated by Nick J. This could have been super angsty, but it's not. Despite the possible consequences, Paul and Sean find it impossible to stay away. The tension comes when the two realize, after they've already fallen for each other, that if their relationship is discovered it could literally mean the end of two careers. Just Drive works well as Paul and Sean initially begin seeing each other mainly for the truly terrific sex, but it slowly morphs into more as the two can't stop thinking about each other and continue to come together. This starts with a breakup, followed by a one night stand between near strangers Sean and Paul. Sweet story, sexy times, great narration! ![]() |