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Although Jody prefers to experience daring and dangerous adventures through her characters rather than in real life, she’s learned that a calm existence is simply not meant to be (at least in this phase of her life!).When she’s not penning another of her page-turning stories, she loves to spend her time reading, especially when it also involves consuming coffee and chocolate. Jody Hedlund (Goodreads Author) 4.29 avg rating 2,075 ratings. Jody Hedlund is the author of over thirty historicals for both adults and teens and is the winner of numerous awards including the Christy, Carol, and Christian Book Award.Jody lives in central Michigan with her husband, five busy children, and five spoiled cats. The Runaway Bride (The Bride Ships, 2) by. But as they venture into the perilous Hardanger Forest and battle to survive, will Gunnar realize her love is worth fighting for? His quest takes him home, and he soon learns his brother, the earl, may know more about the chalice than he lets on.Īs Gunnar reunites with Mikaela, the maiden he’s always loved, he tries to keep his feelings for her a secret, desperate to protect her from his brother. Nursemaid to the Earl of Likness’s two young daughters, Mikaela despises the earl for his cruelty to his subjects, and she longs for the day when she can make a difference in the lives of her suffering friends and family.Īs one of the Knights of Brethren, Gunnar is on a mission to find the sacred chalice for the queen, convinced it’s the cure for her deadly bleeding disease. A poor maidservant struggling to survive, a brave knight who secretly loves her, and a chalice that has the power to unite them. The idea appealed to her, and she decided that someday she would write the books she longed to read but was unable to find on the library shelves, funny stories about her neighborhood and the sort of children she knew. Before long her school librarian was suggesting that she should write for boys and girls when she grew up. However, when the family moved to Portland, Beverly soon found herself in the grammar school’s low reading circle, an experience that has given her sympathy for the problems of struggling readers.īy the third grade she had conquered reading and spent much of her childhood either with books or on her way to and from the public library. There young Beverly learned to love books. Her mother arranged with the State Library to have books sent to Yamhill and acted as librarian in a lodge room upstairs over a bank. Beverly Cleary was born in McMinnville, Oregon, and, until she was old enough to attend school, lived on a farm in Yamhill, a town so small it had no library. Experience the sudden onset of lunar nightfall, the disorientation of walking-or, rather, shuffling-when you weigh almost nothing, the irritation of jagged regolith dust. Try launching yourself onto a two-hundred-meter asteroid, or stargazing from the rim of an ancient volcano on a planet where, from the place you stand, it is eternally late afternoon. In vivid, inventive scenes informed by rigorous science-injected with a dose of Plait’s trademark humor- Under Alien Skies places you on the surface of alien worlds, from our own familiar Moon to the far reaches of our solar system and beyond. On this lively, immersive adventure through the cosmos, Plait draws ingeniously on both the latest scientific research and his prodigious imagination to transport you to ten of the most spectacular sights outer space has to offer. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel the universe? How would Saturn’s rings look from a spaceship sailing just above them? If you were falling into a black hole, what’s the last thing you’d see before getting spaghettified? While traveling in person to most of these amazing worlds may not be possible-yet-the would-be space traveler need not despair: you can still take the scenic route through the galaxy with renowned astronomer and science communicator Philip Plait. A rip-roaring tour of the cosmos with the Bad Astronomer, bringing you up close and personal with the universe like never before. That is how I remember you, in stillness. Sometimes you sat beside me, your legs pulled up to your chin and your silk shawl over one shoulder in the silence of the night that had barely begun. I brushed your hair back to look into your eyes. In the final instant we glimpsed absolute solitude, each lost in a blazing chasm, but soon we returned from the far side of that fire to find ourselves embraced amid a riot of pillows beneath white mosquito netting. You pressed against me, you explored me, you scaled me, you fastened me with your invincible legs, you said a thousand times, come, your lips on mine. You opened to me, my hands on your twisting waist, your hands impatient. We were too close to see one another, each absorbed in our urgent rite, enveloped in our shared warmth and scent. You untied your sash, kicked off your sandals, tossed your full skirt into the corner-it was cotton, if I remember-and loosened the clasp that held your hair in a ponytail. This is definitely a must read for fans of MM romance and enemies to lovers stories.įirst Son Alex Claremont-Diaz isn’t one to hide his disdain for Prince Henry, but when photos of an altercation at a wedding are leaked to the tabloids and threaten American/British relations, he agrees to a fake friendship with the Prince as damage control. It made their connection oh so hot and their resulting love even sweeter. They were complete opposites with Keaton having the world spoon-fed to him while Luke was from the opposite side of the tracks, just scraping by.Įven though they didn’t seem to like each other, I loved Keaton’s openness to explore the feelings Luke ignited in him. Keaton and Luke definitely brought some good, heated animosity to this story since they were two frat brothers who did not get along. The fact that it was also an enemies to lovers book as well? Priceless. I totally fell for their Him series so I knew that this was going to be another fantastic MM romance. Gah! Is there anything better than an MM romance by Bowen and Kennedy?! Only he didn’t expect to get turned on by the back and forth messaging with the other guyĪnd he definitely didn’t expect the other guy to be his annoying frat brother who’s running against him for house President. To make this happen, he turns to a dating app to find a willing participant. Keaton’s about to fulfill his girlfriend’s fantasy for her birthday – by inviting another dude to join them for the night. They've lost a baby to the winter the year before, and winter is around the corner again, and the family is desperate to survive the winter, and they're about to make a decision that is going to change the lives of these two characters, Abdullah and Pari. And the family finds itself at a critical point. Abdullah and Pari - Abdullah is 10 and Pari is 3, and they're living in a remote and impoverished village with their father and their stepmother and their baby stepbrother. On how the book is centered on the siblings Abdullah and Pari Early on in the book, a young Abdullah thinks that he would rather forget Pari than be haunted by her memory: And The Mountains Echoed is a story about family - specifically the siblings Abdullah and Pari, separated at a young age. Six years later, Hosseini has written a third heart-wrenching tale, set in Afghanistan, California, Paris and the Greek islands. Hosseini followed that success with another book about his homeland, A Thousand Splendid Suns, which also became a best-seller. and catapulted the author, Khaled Hosseini, onto the global literary stage. An epic tale set in Afghanistan, the book sold more than 7 million copies in the U.S. There was a time around 2003, before e-books and e-readers, when it seemed that everywhere you turned - in an airport, on a bus or anywhere people read - people were lost in The Kite Runner. He was a physician before he published his first novel, The Kite Runner. Khaled Hosseini was born in Afghanistan and moved to the U.S. With appearances by members of Guns N' Roses, Mötley Crüe, Velvet Revolver, and many more, The Last Living Slut is a moving memoir of growing up in the political turbulence of Tehran an unflinching portrayal of teenage cultural dislocation in London a backstage romp that makes Pamela Des Barres's I'm with the Band read like a nun's diary and a white-knuckled tale of jilted love and brutal revenge. Caught between her sexual appetites, passion for music (and musicians), and fear of being a bad seed, Shirazi bares her soul to offer a raw account of her life as an eager-to-please rock groupie. After her family spirits her to the West in flight from the Iranian Revolution, Shirazi is led far astray by the sound-and the sex appeal-of rock and roll. Honest, provocative, and vividly written, The Last Living Slut is the memoir of Roxana Shirazi, who was raised traditionally in Tehran. The outrageous, yet surprisingly moving, memoir of a girl who fled the Iranian Revolution-and found her salvation in the deliriously sexy life of a rock-'n'-roll groupie. Honest, provocative, and vividly written, The Last Living Slut is the memoir of Roxana Shirazi, a woman raised traditionally in Tehran and led far astray by. But then Price ’s voice, her instrument, was so rare and special to her that she had taken great pains throughout her career to guard it from overuse, and to not destroy it performing roles that she thought she couldn ’t handle. After all, Price was 57 years old that evening, performing one of the most demanding roles in the repertoire, and yet her voice was as full as the day she first performed Aida in 1957 and literally set the standard for its perfection. Seldom has an artist received applause that was so genuine and so deserved. I will never receive that much love as long as I live, and I would be terribly selfish to expect that much ever again. I have every vibration of that applause in my entire being until I die. It ’s the most intense listening I ’ve ever done in my life. “That moment, I was a sponge, and I ’ll have all that moisture the rest of my life, ” Price told Robert Jacobson of Opera News. When Leontyne Price ’s angelic voice trailed off that night at New York ’s Lincoln Center in 1985, signaling the end of her final performance of the title role in Verdi ’s Aida -a role that has become synonymous with her name -the ensuing applause that embraced the great diva ’s farewell will forever echo, not only through the famed home of the Metropolitan Opera but through Price ’s heart as well. Weetzie Bat was the dream, and it’s one that was imprinted on me at an early age. Weetzie Bat physically moved me in a way no book ever has since and I ached to live in Weetzie’s magical, lush rendering of Los Angeles, with the loving support network she created. Reading Weetzie Bat for the first time gave me a visceral, physical reaction-as I read it, I felt a hole in my heart that I didn’t know I had finally being mended. A few of them went so far as to make their chat room handles characters from Block’s books, and I knew I had to get my hands on them. I discovered Francesca Lia Block because in 1996 I spent a lot of time in a long-defunct website chatroom called WBS Pre-teen Chat, and cobbled together an online circle of super rad girls, spread out across the country, who were slightly older, and really, really into Block’s books. Weetzie Bat is near and dear to my heart-when I was 12, I was awkward, angry at the world, and ready for my real life to start as I’m sure a lot of 12 year olds were like then, and probably are still like now. |