![]() As she forges a new bond with Cade Lavelle-Hope's older brother and the heir to the family fortune-she isn't sure whether the tragic loss they share will unite them or drive them apart. Now, as she returns to Progress with plans to settle in and open a stylish home-design shop, Tory is determined to find a measure of peace and free herself from the haunting visions of the past. ![]() ![]() Then Hope was brutally murdered, and everything fell apart. Her one escape was her neighbor Hope, who lived in the big house just a short skip away, and whose friendship allowed Tory to be something she wasn't allowed to be at home: a child. Tory Bodeen grew up in a run-down house where her father ruled with an iron fist and a leather belt-and where her dreams and talents had no room to flourish. #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents a novel of redemption and suspense, as a woman haunted by the unsolved murder of her childhood friend returns to her small South Carolina hometown. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() In a world obsessed with identity politics, there seems to be a considerable currency placed on defining and understanding oneself in relation to others. ![]() And everything, as long as it lasts, bears the penalty of its form, the penalty of being this way and no longer being able to be otherwise. The being must be trapped in a form, and for some time it has to stay in it, here or there, this way or that. You want to be, eh? There’s this catch: in abstract, you cannot just be. Fate, fortune, chance: all snares of life. And if you lose an eye, it’s a fact and you can even lose both, and if you’re a painter it’s the worst thing that can happen to you. To be born in one period rather than another, as I’ve already said and of this or that father, and in this or that condition to be male or female in Lapland or in central Africa and handsome or ugly with a hump or without: facts. ![]() ![]() ![]() At every tribulation, ordinary recourse is to superstition, not science. The author convinces us that brutality is commonplace. When there is drought, crops fail, and starvation ensues. Although set at the time of the Wall Street Crash and following Depression years, in rural Pernambuco people are still fettered in a feudal system of allegiance to local colonels. ![]() Much of the richness of the book comes, I think, from authentic detailing provided by the author's research in Brazil. Sometimes I re-read a passage, just to savour the language or contemporary detail again. The writing is powerful and loaded with sensory observation. By comparison with most modern novels, this book requires a concentrated portion of 'Me-Time', not easily accumulated in a busy life. A convincing historical novel gives us an intimate, never-to-be-forgotten view of the period, and this was such a book. ![]() ![]() I actually found myself holding my breath as I swooped through each paragraph, a sense of imminent tragedy settling heavier with each downward turn to their lives. The characters hung around, when I wasn't reading. The story became an integral part of my life for a week or so, and I often found myself on scene in Brazil. The Seamstress was unusually and utterly absorbing. A well-researched and engrossing read, particularly if you, or your book group, like long novels. Summary: In 1928 seamstress sisters divide when rural Brazilian cangaceiros capture Luzia, while her sister marries into polite society. ![]() ![]() ![]() She spent more than a year on Lake Cabora Bassa in Mozambique, monitoring water weeds. Nancy eventually got to Africa on a legal ship. She and a friend tried to hitchhike by boat but the ship they'd selected turned out to be stolen and was boarded by the Coast Guard just outside the Golden Gate Bridge. Restless, again, she decided to visit Africa. ![]() When she returned, she moved into a commune in Berkeley, sold newspapers on the street for a while, then got a job in the Entomology department at UC Berkeley and also took courses in Chemistry there. Instead of taking a regular job, she joined the Peace Corps and was sent to India (1963-1965). She attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, earning her BA in 1963. She also found time to hang out in the old state prison and the hobo jungle along the banks of the Colorado River. Nancy was born in 1941 in Phoenix and grew up in a hotel on the Arizona-Mexico border where she worked the switchboard at the age of nine. ![]() ![]() Robert De Niro Turned Down Scorsese’s ‘The Departed’ and ‘Gangs of New York’ I might need some therapy!” As De Niro got behind the wheel of Jonathan’s taxi, erasing all memories of Travis Bickle, Nick experienced, “The full range of emotions on the set, terror, but also being moved, seeing a great actor act out your life.” He says that, “Character-wise, De Niro was able to embody my father in a creepy way. Seeing his own father brought to life by a household name like Robert De Niro gave author Nick Flynn pause. A fairly different definition of an idol, but in the directionless young Nick’s eyes, the next best thing. ![]() ![]() ![]() A homeless vagabond who insisted he was purposely seeking material for his unfinished manuscript, Jonathan was a stubborn old man who frustrated Nick in adulthood but was never present in Nick’s childhood, leading to Nick having no idea what to think about this walking myth. “Kill your idols,” said Paul Dano at the red carpet event for “ Being Flynn.” The Focus Features release, based on the autobiographical novel “ Another Bullshit Night In Suck City” by Nick Flynn, focuses on Flynn’s rocky relationship with his self-proclaimed tortured genius of a father. ![]() ![]() This is gray simply because all of the bull riding is scary and dangerous! I can’t say I care at all about rodeos, but this is a gripping read. Cowboys ride and get by on grit and tough determination - the question facing Jensen is if they have to do it alone. His unwavering dedication and focus is finally put to the test in the form of JT Padalecki, an up-and-coming rider new to the professional ranks, who has his sights set on winning the PBR finals - and Jensen. He’s got one thing on his mind: winning the championship belt buckle and the right to call himself the best in the world. JR Ackles is a professional bullrider at the top of his game. According to Jared, Jensen needs to learn to come from being fucked in the ass or he won’t get to come at all. ![]() ![]() Jensen is not allowed to touch his cock at all, and Jared never touches it when they fuck. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Utterly gripping with richly drawn, hugely compelling characters, this is a first-class thriller with heart” (Lucy Foley, New York Times bestselling author) that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Known locally as the Dark Place, the dense forest is the writer’s favorite place for long walks and it’s on one such walk that she stumbles upon a mysterious note that simply reads, “DIG HERE.”Ĭould this be a clue towards what has happened to the missing young couple? And what exactly is buried in this haunted ground? One year later, a writer moves into a cottage on the edge of the woods that border the same estate. On a beautiful summer night in a charming English suburb, a young woman and her boyfriend disappear after partying at the massive country estate of a new college friend. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone comes “her best thriller yet” (Harlan Coben, New York Times bestselling author) about a young couple’s disappearance on a gorgeous summer night, and the mother who will never give up trying to find them. ![]() ![]() ![]() “How long do you think these chapters will be if they are documenting all of Annabeth’s thoughts?” Grover asked in pretend horror. “I would have been fine keeping it that way.” Annabeth grumbled. “Especially as you’re the only one who hasn’t had chapters from your point of view yet.” Thalia pointed out. “And if you’re part of the seven, it makes sense that we would get some from your point of view.” “Well, you’re definitely part of the seven now.” Connor said, a little anxiously. ← Previous Work Part 8 of Reading Percy Jackson Next Work →Īadarshinah's list of fics to die for, Watch/Read The Series, Reacting to Canon, Characters Explores Fandom, Why sleep? We have great stories!, better than hot chocolate on a winter day Stats: Published: Completed: Words: 170,760 Chapters: 54/54 Comments: 4,828 Kudos: 4,330 Bookmarks: 213 Hits: 219,022 Book 3: The Mark of Athena (Heroes of Olympus). ![]() Children of the Big Three (Percy Jackson).Rachel Elizabeth Dare & Reyna Avila Ramírez-Arellano.Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types.Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He might even find the courage to face his biggest fear of all.and learn how to make friends with the sea. Then his mother takes in Chiqui, an orphaned girl with a cleft lip-and Pablo finds that through being strong for Chiqui, his own fears don't seem so scary. Now they're living in the Philippines, and his mother, a zoologist who works at a local wildlife refuge, is too busy saving animals to notice that Pablo might need saving, too. And along the way, Pablo has collected more and more fears: of dirt, of germs, and most of all, of the ocean. After his parents divorced, he and his mother have moved from place to place for years, never settling anywhere long enough to call it home. ![]() He's only twelve years old, but he's lived in more countries than he can count. Tanya Guerrero's How to Make Friends with the Sea is a middle grade debut novel set in the Philippines about a young boy's challenges with anxiety while his mother fosters an orphaned child with a facial anomaly. ![]() ![]() ![]() Howard sometimes makes explicit ideas that Lovecraft more effectively suggested, but his novel shows a thorough understanding of Lovecraft’s conceptual horrors and features an ending that cleverly bears out those concepts. Their confrontation proves to have been engineered by master manipulators with their own cosmic agenda, which Howard (the Johannes Cabal series) reveals gradually through the intercession of members from one of Lovecraft’s quasi-human families. (Her African-American heritage may be a sly nod to recent discussions of Lovecraft’s racism.) Shortly afterward, Dan and Emily cross paths with William Colt, a student at local Clave College, whose mathematical savvy has given him access to the Twist, a perceptual portal to the Lovecraftian otherworld of cosmic horrors. That inheritance includes Hill’s Books, an antiquarian bookstore run by Emily Lovecraft, a descendant of the great horror writer. Dan Carter, a New York cop turned PI, heads to Providence, R.I., to claim a windfall inheritance from an unknown benefactor. This refreshingly original novel updates the eldritch horrors of H.P. ![]() |