![]() Enjoy!Ĭreated by a shrewd countess, The Widow’s Grace is a secret society with a mission: to help ill-treated widows regain their status, their families, and even find true love again-or perhaps for the very first time. I am thrilled to share that the book lives up to the hype. Here is an exclusive excerpt from A Duke, the Lady, and A Baby, the first book in her Rogues and Remarkable Women series which is receiving rave reviews and prominent media coverage. Her research is impressive, and her plots and characters are compelling and “swoothy” (swoon-worthy). She is a very talented novelist who has been writing historical romance with diverse characters for several years. The controversy with RWA has stirred up a lot of emotional discussions, and hopefully positive change toward including a wider range of authors and characters of ethnic and sexual orientation in the romance genre.Ī Duke, the Lady, and a Baby is a big step in the right direction and I am happy to shine a spotlight on it and its author Vanessa Riley today. ![]() Diversity within historical romance has been a heated topic lately covered in major media. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. Howard Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Why the second thoughts? I’m not your type?”Ī strangled laugh escaped her pretty, pink lips. I muttered a curse and tried to reach behind her without touching her, but no dice. But I can’t.” Wiggling a little, she raised her brows pointedly. “Is that why you’re here? To walk on the wild side?” I reached for her but stopped before I touched her shoulder, my blood going thick and my voice dropping an octave. I’ve had enough of walking on the wild side.” Was it her shampoo? Damn, it made me want to nuzzle her hair. ![]() The coconut-and-hibiscus scent was even more potent up close. I stopped when I was just a foot away from her. You’re not cut out to be an escort.” I strode toward her, tossing the envelope of Miriam’s usual payment on the mantel. “Just one thing, though, I want your word that you’re not going to do this again. ![]() ![]() ![]() So, here’s what An Offer From A Gentleman is about, in order for fans to get a loose idea of what the show could be doing next season.Īs is true of both The Duke and I (Book 1) and The Viscount Who Loved Me (Book 2), An Offer From A Gentleman is a one-on-one romance, this one focused on second son Benedict Bridgerton as the hero and Sophie Beckett as the woman he will eventually marry. After all, his romance makes up the love story of Bridgerton’s third book. Although Shondaland and Netflix have not officially confirmed Season 3 will continue to follow in the footsteps of the series’ source material (author Julia Qunn’s novels about the Bridgerton family), fans assume the next sibling up for marriage is Benedict. ![]() ![]() With Bridgerton Season 2 marrying off Anthony and Daphne off having babies with Simon, the stage is set for the next Bridgerton sibling to find love. Warning: Mild spoilers for Bridgerton Season 2 - and major spoilers from Bridgerton Book 3 - follow. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not to mention it’s an abusive relationship from the get go. There is no character development, no reader/character relationship, and the relationship between the main characters was iffy at best. In the fanfic community (shut up) we have something called PWP, which stands for either Plot What Plot or Porn Without Plot. You know how sometimes something makes you so angry you just have to rant? I apologize in advance because there is so much ranting. So she would have someone to gush over the characters with. My coworker recommended this book about a month ago, she was going on and on about how I needed to read it. This week I bring you This Man by Jodi Ellen Malpas. ![]() He wants her and is determined to have her. She knows that her heart will never survive him and her instinct is telling her to run, but Jesse is not willing to let her go. Ava doesn’t want to be attracted to this man, and yet she can’t control the overwhelming desire that he stirs in her. A run-of-the-mill consultation with a stodgy country gent seems likely, but what Ava finds instead is Jesse Ward–a devastatingly handsome, utterly confident, pleasure-seeking playboy who knows no boundaries. ![]() Young interior designer Ava O’Shea has no idea what awaits her at the Manor. ![]() ![]() It's a tough job-at least, until the swindler is found dead, slain in Meg's booth with one of her own wrought-iron creations. Not to mention saving her naive brother, Rob, from the clutches of a con man who might steal the computer game he has invented. And to prevent a snooping reporter from publishing any stories about local scandals. ![]() Meg's also trying to keep her father from scaring too many tourists with his impersonation of an 18th century physician. And Michael himself will don the white-and-gold uniform of a French officer for the re-enactment-what actor could resist a role like that? She's only doing it to keep peace with the mother of the man she loves. Except, of course, for the pink-painted flamingos she reluctantly made for her mother's best friend-she's hoping to deliver them secretly, so she won't get a reputation as "the blacksmith who makes those cute wrought-iron flamingos."īesides, she has taken on another responsibility-making sure none of her fellow crafters ruin the historical authenticity of the fair with forbidden modern devices-like wrist watches, calculators, or cell phones. Meg Langslow has returned to her home town for the festivities-and to sell her wrought-iron works of art. ![]() ![]() ![]() This year, plans include a re-enactment of the original battle and a colonial craft fair. Every year, Yorktown, Virginia, relives its role in the Revolutionary War by celebrating the anniversary of the British surrender in 1781. ![]() ![]() ![]() In life, Flora was a pest who with annoying self-righteousness never stopped wanting to be a Native American. Set mostly in the year 2020, which itself came to seem haunted as Covid spread and the deaths piled up, this novel restores to us all the messy detail of an almost amnesiac time when, worn down and exhausted, “we skied weightlessly through the days as if they were a landscape of repeating features.”Īt first the ghost of Flora, an elderly customer who dropped dead, haunts only Tookie, the narrator, a middle-aged Native American working in a Minneapolis bookstore that specializes in works about Indigenous people. Specifically, she wrote a ghost story, “The Sentence,” and the further you read in this engaging account of what happens after a loyal bookstore patron dies and her ghost refuses to leave the store she loved, the more apt Erdrich’s choice of genre seems. Louise Erdrich spent the time writing a novel. ![]() Some people spent their pandemic confinement learning a new language, refining their cooking skills, increasing their step count or gardening. ![]() ![]() ![]() Additionally, each chapter includes illustrations by Wesley Allsbrook.įor veteran travelers, armchair enthusiasts, and those in between, World Travel offers a chance to experience the world like Anthony Bourdain. Supplementing Bourdain’s words are a handful of essays by friends, colleagues, and family that tell even deeper stories about a place, including sardonic accounts of traveling with Bourdain by his brother, Christopher a guide to Chicago’s best cheap eats by legendary music producer Steve Albini, and more. Featuring essential advice on how to get there, what to eat, where to stay and, in some cases, what to avoid, World Travel provides essential context that will help readers further appreciate the reasons why Bourdain found a place enchanting and memorable. In World Travel, a life of experience is collected into an entertaining, practical, fun and frank travel guide that gives readers an introduction to some of his favorite places-in his own words. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown of New York to a tribal longhouse in Borneo, from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, Paris, and Shanghai to Tanzania’s utter beauty and the stunning desert solitude of Oman’s Empty Quarter-and many places beyond. ![]() A guide to some of the world’s most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony BourdainĪnthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. ![]() ![]() ![]() With more than 20 books and several awards including the Margaret A. While those themes are still present, he chooses to closely examine the links between morality and responsibility this go round instead.įor those who are new to Levithan’s novels, be aware that these themes are in no way confined to this series centering on A and Rhiannon. In Someday Levithan shifts his focus from the questions about gender identity and sexuality raised in the first book. ![]() And as Rhiannon learns the dilemma of A’s existence, readers must examine their own opinions about acceptance, respect, self-identity, and love. With no body to call home, A has a rather fluid idea about gender and attraction. But a chance meeting with Rhiannon at the very start of the book has A acting outside the norm, working to stick around longer than just a day, hoping to see that spark of attraction through to its conclusion. They’re careful about these borrowed lives, disrupting them as little as possible. A sees what it’s like to live as different genders, economic situations, educational backgrounds, ethnicities, and more. Every Day took readers on a wild ride through various identities as A, the main character, lives each day in the body of a different person. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s why different teams get different assignments. ![]() Every Super who makes it to Hero is intimately familiar with what they can and can’t do. A strongman who doesn’t know how much he can take won’t last very long, not unless his endurance is so top-class it might as well be invulnerability. Not just to push our limits, but to be aware of them. Because that’s my job, just like the healer would fix whatever it broke on me and the ranged guys would tear it up before it could fire again.” “What if it destroyed you?” “ That’s why we train like this. I’d charge the fucking thing and take the full brunt of it. Not all of your teammates will be able to do the same.” “What would you do in that situation?” “Same thing I’ve always done in that situation. But what are you going to do when your team is staring down a fully-charged energy beam that fires directly at your group? You going to dodge? Because you might get away, or at least get by uninjured. That’s where we live.” “I don’t get it, why the hell can’t I counter or dodge?” “You can, when it’s appropriate. That’s why he knows how to avoid being hit for him that will always be priority one. ![]() |