![]() Soon Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret romance with a surprisingly unstuffy Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations and begs the question: Can love save the world after all? Where do we find the courage, and the power, to be the people we are meant to be? And how can we learn to let our true colors shine through? Casey McQuiston's Red, White & Royal Blue proves: true love isn't always diplomatic. What at first begins as a fake, Instragramable friendship grows deeper, and more dangerous, than either Alex or Henry could have imagined. Heads of family, state, and other handlers devise a plan for damage control: staging a truce between the two rivals. ![]() And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an Alex-Henry altercation, U.S./British relations take a turn for the worse. There's only one problem: Alex has a beef with the actual prince, Henry, across the pond. Handsome, charismatic, genius-his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. ![]() When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. ![]() What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales? ![]()
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6/12/2023 0 Comments The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Following Macfarlane's many travels, one understands why he thinks of his project as "a journey", singular rather than plural. And it is an affirmation of their connectedness as part of a great network linking ways and wayfarers of every sort. So the book is a tribute to the variety and complexity of the "old ways" that are often now forgotten as we go past in the car, but which were marked out by the footfall of generations. He invokes, as he goes, hundreds of previous walkers, and hundreds of pathways – across silt, sand, granite, water, snow – each with its different rhythms and secrets. Fifteen of them are made by Macfarlane himself, along paths in the British Isles and, further afield, in Spain, Palestine and Tibet. "A Journey on Foot", reads the subtitle, but this is the story of many journeys. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments All I Need by Susane Colasanti![]() ![]() “Although it’s impossible to bring back someone we love, it is possible to keep them in our hearts forever.” – Unknown.“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” – Honore de Balzac.“Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.” – Unknown.“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” – Victor Hugo.“What is it about a mother’s love that inexorably creates an emotional bond between complete strangers?” – Unknown.People die only when we forget them.” – Isabel Allende ![]() “The mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.” – Marion C.“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.” – Khalil Gibran.It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” – Agatha Christie “A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world.“There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in times of grief.” – Aeschylus.“The death of a mother is the first sorrow wept without a tear.” – Unknown.“Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II.“A mother is not defined by the number of children you can see, but by the love she holds in her heart.” Image: SafePassage 15 Mother’s Day Quotes for Grieving Moms ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The information ranges from sophisticated, hard-to-find medical facts to practical tips on how to handle side effects, deal with curious strangers, and much more. Children with cancer will help patients and their families to be educated consumers-to search out the best care available as well as to live each day under care to the fullest. Children can and do survive cancer the last decade has seen enormous strides in treatment. Doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals will also find the book a valuable resource. Written by a reference librarian whose child has survived cancer, this book pulls together a wealth of up-to-date information essential for any layman who wants to help a child or family through this ordeal-including grandparents and other relatives, friends, neighbors, teachers, and clergymen. ![]() ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Moo a novel by sharon creech![]() ![]() ![]() Publication date 2016 Topics Cows - Juvenile fiction, Neighbors - Juvenile fiction, Children and adults - Juvenile fiction, Moving, Household - Juvenile fiction, Human-animal relationships - Juvenile fiction, Country life - Maine - Juvenile fiction, Children's stories, American - 21st century, Novels in verse, Cows - Fiction, Human-animal relationships - Fiction, Country life - Maine - Fiction, JUVENILE FICTION - Animals - Farm Animals, JUVENILE FICTION - Legends, Myths, Fables - Country Life, JUVENILE FICTION - Stories in Verse, Realistic fiction, Children's stories, American, Children and adults, Neighbors, Moving, Household, Country life, Cows, Human-animal relationships, Cattle - Fiction, Maine - Juvenile fiction, Maine - Fiction, Maine Publisher New York, NY : Joanna Cotler Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Collection inlibrary printdisabled internetarchivebooks Digitizing sponsor Kahle/Austin Foundation Contributor Internet Archive Language EnglishĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 06:10:54 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA40368723 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() ![]() ![]() After witnessing the fallout of her parents' divorce, she's seen the devastation an overload of. ![]() Love has never been a priority for garden designer Frankie Cole. Morgan’s novel delivers the classic sweep-you-off-your-feet romantic experience. In the chaos of New York, true love can be hard to find, even when it's been right under your nose all along. She’s amusing and cute as she tries her best to avoid the man who sets her heart afire, and the warm and clever way Matt pursues her will make any reader swoon. Frankie is an adorable and lovable character whom readers will passionately champion. The author does a wonderful job of depicting Matt’s point of view, making it clear that he’s attracted to Frankie even more because of her superfluous eyewear. Sunset in Central Park (From Manhattan with Love Series, Book 2). ![]() ![]() This strategy works until Matt Walker, a friend of a friend, reenters her life, and Frankie finds herself incredibly drawn to him. She wears eyeglasses that she doesn’t need in order to repel any man who might be interested in her. Events planner Frankie Cole has resigned herself to being forever single, believing that all relationships are doomed. Morgan whips up a sweet tale using the backdrop of spirited New York City in her second From Manhattan with Love contemporary (after Sleepless in Manhattan). HarperCollins Publishers, Central Park (New York, N.Y. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments The memory police by yoko ogawa![]() ![]() Written in deceptively simple yet hypnotic prose, there’s a dream-like quality to the text, yet the subject matter is quite nightmarish. ![]() There are echoes of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and it also shares similar themes with Richard Flanagan’s latest novel, The Living Sea of Waking Dreams, too.Īnd yet for all that, this is a wholly original dystopian novel like no other.Īs Madeleine Thein writes in her review, published in the Guardian in 2019, it is a “rare work of patient and courageous vision” and one that “can be experienced as fable or allegory, warning and illumination”. ![]() The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa is a brilliant mix of The Diary of Anne Frank meets George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder. Fiction – paperback Vintage 274 pages 2020. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Jesus son johnson![]() ![]() In content, his stories are like those shared at Alcoholics or Narcotics Anonymous meetings, where participants are encouraged to talk about past tribulations there is a freewheeling, mixed-up quality to them. The narrator, "Fuckhead", is an alcoholic and drug addict. ![]() Its brief, linked stories take place in 1970s Iowa, Chicago, Seattle, and Phoenix. Published in 1992, Jesus' Son is one of the best short story collections of the last 25 years, and its current unavailability in the UK is a joke. Along with Donald Barthelme's Forty Stories, bought the same summer, it was the one that most powerfully demonstrated to me the unique possibilities of the short story. If there was ever a book designed to prove irresistible to my 17-year-old self, the Faber first edition of Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson is it. A Sacred Heart Jesus, an iconographic representation of a drug capsule, a light-damaged photograph of tract housing in middle America, and an epigraph from "Heroin" by the Velvet Underground. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments The force don winslow review![]() ![]() What only a few know is that Denny Malone is dirty: he and his partners have stolen millions of dollars in drugs and cash in the wake of the biggest heroin bust in the city’s history. ![]() He’s done whatever it takes to serve and protect in a city built by ambition and corruption, where no one is clean-including Malone himself. Every day and every night for the eighteen years he’s spent on the Job, Malone has served on the front lines, witnessing the hurt, the dead, the victims, the perps. He is "the King of Manhattan North," a highly decorated NYPD detective sergeant and the real leader of "Da Force." Malone and his crew are the smartest, the toughest, the quickest, the bravest, and the baddest, an elite special unit given carte blanche to fight gangs, drugs, and guns. Īll Denny Malone wants is to be a good cop. Our ends know our beginnings, but the reverse isn’t true. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments The time of contempt book![]() ![]() ![]() She is mistaken for one of about a dozen students who have recently "escaped" from Aretuza in the kerfuffle leading up to the mages' conference being held there. ![]() ![]() Because those who understand magic can sense when magic is being used, Ciri is noticed by two sorceresses. While on their excursion, things get quickly out of hand after a Wyvern being held as a sideshow breaks free of its cage, and Ciri uses a magical amulet given to her by Yennefer in case of emergency. He and Yennefer also agree to allow Ciri to see the sights, escorted by one of Molnar's faithful employees, Fabio Sachs. The latter informs the sorceress that her financial movements are being tracked, something Yennefer already suspected, but he arranges an essentially unlimited line of credit for her and makes several financial transfers to cover expenses for Ciri's education. Once they arrive in Gors Velen, Yennefer goes to see her old friend Giancardi Molnar, a dwarven banker. It is Yennefer's intention that Ciri be enrolled at Aretuza and that she continue her instruction in the use and mastery of magic. The story begins where Blood of Elves left off, essentially with Ciri and Yennefer having just left the Temple in Ellander, on their way to Gors Velen, and ultimately Thanedd Island. ![]() |