![]() And there’s something else they share – a mounting sexual tension that leaves Curtis reeling.Īs the house party’s elegant facade cracks to reveal treachery, blackmail, and murder, Curtis finds himself needing clever, dark-eyed Daniel as he has never needed a man before…. ![]() ![]() Effete, decadent, foreign, and all-too-obviously queer, the sophisticated poet is everything the straightforward British officer fears and distrusts.Īs events unfold, Curtis realizes that Daniel has his own secret intentions. Alone, purposeless, and angry, Curtis is determined to discover if he and his comrades were the victims of fate, or of sabotage.Ĭurtis’s search takes him to an isolated, ultra-modern country house, where he meets and instantly clashes with fellow guest Daniel da Silva. Two years ago, Captain Archie Curtis lost his friends, fingers, and future to a terrible military accident. ![]()
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![]() Roots tells the story of Kunta Kinte-a young man taken from the Gambia when he was seventeen and sold as a slave-and seven generations of his descendants in the United States. Haley spent the last chapter of the book describing his research in archives and libraries to support his family's oral tradition with written records. The book was originally described as "fiction," yet sold in the non-fiction section of bookstores. It stimulated interest in African American genealogy and an appreciation for African-American history. The last seven chapters of the novel were later adapted in the form of a second miniseries, Roots: The Next Generations (1979). The novel spent forty-six weeks on The New York Times Best Seller List, including twenty-two weeks at number one. The release of the novel, combined with its hugely popular television adaptation, Roots (1977), led to a cultural sensation in the United States. ![]() ![]() It tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African, captured as an adolescent, sold into slavery in Africa, and transported to North America it follows his life and the lives of his descendants in the United States down to Haley. ![]() Roots: The Saga of an American Family is a 1976 novel written by Alex Haley. ![]() ![]() ![]() MacKinnon dissects and explains legislation on abortion, sexual harassment, pornography, rape, and inequality at places of work and everyday situations. ![]() It’s made up of speeches that have been systematically arranged to read like a book but still have the same impact that those speeches had individually. ![]() MacKinnon that explores law and politics under the frame of feminism. Written by people who wish to remain anonymousįeminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law is a book by Catharine A. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() It's with these changelings that this society of trolls are able to sustain themselves economically. ![]() ![]() Basically, the trolls have babies, place them into human homes (switching the human's baby out for theirs) and then when that baby turns 18, they kidnap the kid and make them drain their trust funds (because the troll babies are always placed into rich families), the human kid is never returned and yet somehow no police ever get involved. The society in the world makes no sense to me. It involves trolls which definitely piqued my interest but I was let down. ![]() I had high expectations of this book especially with all of its hype and interesting premise. Bryn is sent in to help stop him, but will she lose her heart in the process? But all her plans for the future are put on hold when Konstantin– a fallen hero who she once loved – appears to be up to something dangerous, kidnapping changelings. She's not going to let anything stand in her way, not even a forbidden romance with her boss Ridley Dresden. She has just one goal: become a member of the elite King’s Guard to protect the royalty. Set apart by her heritage and her past, Bryn is a tracker who's determined to become a respected part of her world. ![]() Synopsis: Bryn Aven is an outcast among the Kanin, the most powerful of the troll tribes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Or take the title story, which is as perfect a Ted Chiang story as you can get it’s so beautifully, dreamily strange I feel like a jerk trying to summarize it, but here goes: an anatomist from a race of robots takes apart his own brain and discovers within it a profound truth about the nature and limits of his universe. ![]() Chiang chases his premise into linguistics, anthropology, geology, special relativity there’s a palpable glee you feel as he follows a character pressing on all the seams of her world. Like Stories of Your Life and Others, Chiang’s second collection Exhalation includes story notes in the back, in which he explains how “Omphalos,” for example, started as the question, “What would the world have to look like for it to confirm young-Earth creationism?” Tree rings in fossils could only go so far back before they’d just stop the mummies of primordial humans would lack navels. ![]() ![]() Though the novel feels uneven in places, with a prolonged beginning and abrupt plot developments toward the end involving Mira discovering heretofore unknown family members, Kephart (One Stolen Thing) establishes relatable characters and a poetic style that artfully blend the island days before and after the storm. ![]() Days from rescue, Mira and friend Deni search for survivors while the rest of the town gathers resources. Using her forward thinking and bravery, Mira survives the storm and joins the trash-strewn beach with its collection of islanders reeling after half the town is washed away. But then a superstorm defies all predictions and devastates the island, upending all logic and stranding Mira's mother and brother on the mainland. Though 17-year-old Mira loves her family, she wishes life were simpler for them a wish she regrets when a hurricane pummels the island while her mother and brother are on the mainland. On Haven, a six-mile long, half-mile-wide stretch of barrier island, Mira Banul and her Year-Rounder friends have proudly risen to every challenge. ![]() ![]() Having a younger brother with Hunter syndrome is hard on Mira Banul and her mother, Mickey, who works multiple jobs to pay for Jasper Lee's treatments and necessities for the cottage they inherited from Mira's aunt on the barrier island of Haven. ![]() ![]() ![]() Perry and Charlotte are now husband and wife and their honeymoon is not the typical one. So, as I mentioned, The Ruthless Groom is the second installment in the Arranged Marriage Trilogy, focused on the now marriage between two very powerful families. Perry Constantine and Charlotte Lancaster are back and trust me, you don’t want to miss their spicy and dramatic honeymoon! Yes, do make sure to read this book/review after The Reluctant Bride, I don’t want to ruin your experience with my spoilers lol So yeah, after that cliffhanger in the first book I was more than ready to come back to this love story and Monica Murphy did not disappoint. I will end him.ĭownload today on Amazon, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Google Play, Kobo!ĪRC provided via Valentine PR in exchange for an honest review. Seamus McTiernan is determined to destroy what we’ve created. All those swirling emotions explode in the most physical ways.īut even as I’m drawn closer to my new wife, there’s still a threat looming out there. I protect what’s mine, and Charlotte is now mine, whether she likes it or not. That we’re compatible between the sheets is a bonus, but I didn’t bargain on her ex showing up at the wedding reception uninvited. Our arranged marriage connects two powerful companies. Lucky for me, I find myself attracted to my beautiful new bride. I didn’t plan to marry a reclusive heiress. ![]() The Ruthless Groom by Monica Murphy is NOW LIVE! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So do several other nearby countries - including Iran and Afghanistan - whose own royals and rulers, over the centuries, possessed the diamond. India wants the diamond back.Īnd it's not alone. That's because the Koh-i-noor has become a focus of anti-colonial anger. Most met grisly deaths - murdered, betrayed, defeated. Calamity is said to have struck many a male royal who wore it. It passed through Mughal, Persian, Afghan and Sikh empires before ending up in the hands of Queen Victoria in the mid-19th century.Īlong the way, people came to believe it was cursed. From there, the story goes, it spent centuries hidden inside a golden statue at a Hindu temple. Legend has it the 105-carat diamond - whose name means "mountain of light" in Persian - was found on a bank of the holy Krishna River in southern India at least 800 years ago. ![]() ![]() LONDON - Of all the glittering British crown jewels, one will be conspicuously absent at King Charles III's coronation: the Koh-i-noor diamond. Camilla, the queen consort, will not use the Koh-i-noor diamond in her coronation crown, but will modify Queen Mary's crown, using diamonds from Queen Elizabeth II's personal collection. The Koh-i-noor diamond, set in the Maltese Cross at the front of the crown made for Britain's late Queen Mother Elizabeth, is seen on her coffin at London's Westminster Hall. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This historical fiction novel centers the point of view of Rehana Haque, a widowed mother who struggles through Bangladesh Liberation War as both her children become increasingly involved with the war efforts. In 2022, the novel was included on the " Big Jubilee Read" list of 70 books by Commonwealth authors, selected to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II. ![]() The first chapter of the novel appeared in the January 2007 edition of Granta magazine. It was also shortlisted for the 2007 Guardian First Book Award. The novel was awarded the prize for Best First Book in the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2008. It tells the story of the Bangladesh War of Liberation through the eyes of one family. A Golden Age is the first novel of the Bangladesh-born writer Tahmima Anam. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ana's pent-up longings intensify amid the turbulent resistance to Rome's occupation of Israel, partially led by her brother, Judas. ![]() Their marriage evolves with love and conflict, humor and pathos in Nazareth, where Ana makes a home with Jesus, his brothers, and their mother, Mary. ![]() An encounter with eighteen-year-old Jesus changes everything. Ana is expected to marry an older widower, a prospect that horrifies her. She engages in furtive scholarly pursuits and writes narratives about neglected and silenced women. Raised in a wealthy family with ties to the ruler of Galilee, she is rebellious and ambitious, with a brilliant mind and a daring spirit. In her mesmerizing fourth work of fiction, Sue Monk Kidd takes an audacious approach to history and brings her acclaimed narrative gifts to imagine the story of a young woman named Ana. An extraordinary story set in the first century about a woman who finds her voice and her destiny, from the celebrated number one New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings. ![]() |