5/13/2023 0 Comments Ramsey sinclair julie garwoodGarwood, for Mama Rose and her children.” You’ll find it as hard as I did to say farewell to a family you have come to love like your own. Humor, sensuality and mystery blend perfectly in this tale. “What began so beautifully in For the Roses and continued with the Clayborne Brides series comes to a truly lovely conclusion in Come the Spring. fascinating tale of western romance and adventure.” appreciate the fragility of life in a time when death was omnipresent.” “Julie Garwood’s stories happen in a different world, and she makes that world palpable. RANSOM provides suspense, passion, and humor.” Characters feel like old friends, and readers will regret to see the story end.” So much fun, it begs to be read in one sitting. “A RIP-ROARING ROMP, full of humor, romance, sword fights, and crisp dialogue. The plot is crisp, entertaining, and makes Medieval England seem real.” Anyone who has had the pleasure of reading Julie Garwood’s classic tale The Secret will remember the two lovable rogues Brodick Buchanan and Ramsey Sinclair. In this powerful story, passion, loyalty, friendship, and mystery superbly blend with realistic, three-dimensional characters.” Praise for Julie Garwood’s splendid New York Times bestsellers
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5/13/2023 0 Comments In flight by rk lilleyThey hold a challenge, and a promise, that she finds impossible to resist, and she is a girl who is used to saying no and meaning it.īianca is accustomed to dealing with supermodels and movie stars in her job as a first class flight attendant, but James Cavendish puts them all to shame in the looks department. The normally unruffled Bianca can't seem to look away from his electrifying turquoise gaze. For a girl who can easily juggle a tray of champagne flutes at 35,000 feet in three inch heels, she finds herself shockingly weak-kneed from their first encounter. When reserved flight attendant Bianca gets one look at billionaire hotel owner James Cavendish, she loses all of her hard-won composure. ***** A portion of the proceeds for this boxed set will benefit the Keith Milano Memorial fund at AFSP. This set will only be available for one week, and is a savings of almost $12 from the current books' totaled prices. This is a limited time boxed set of the first books in all of R.K. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Stella keeps the sun upIn her spare time, she is a bit of an illustration nerd, loves to roller skate, read, and toy with writing. She looks for inspiration everywhere and often finds it in bookstores and thrift stores, looking in vintage children’s books and animation, and even in a garden or two. She hasn’t met a craft she doesn’t love-sewing is one of her favorite hobbies. She works both digitally and traditionally, often combining the two. Lynn Gaines has been making art for years and is still in love with making it! Born and raised in Ohio, she currently works for American Greetings, but also loves making art for children’s books and kids-related products. A native of Cleveland, she lives in Chicago with her husband and two highly energetic children. She believes that one of the greatest lessons we can pass on to our kids is that differences are for celebrating, and that we have more in common than we ever imagined. She loves using the written word to honor a child’s imagination and is on a mission to help adults tap into the wonder they felt as children. Clothilde Ewing started her work life as a lifeguard, but she has spent most of her career telling people’s stories as a journalist (CBS News), television producer ( The Oprah Winfrey Show), and communications professional. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Gutter Gang by Jay de BekkerBut here and there I came across someone churning out quick books for cash who went on to make a more respectable name for himself. Many of these books would make even Quentin Tarantino cringe, I suspect: they sound truly awful. Youthsploitation sold, and went on selling for decades, until film and TV took over as the primary entertainments, and until the rise of young-adult literature, when teenage rebels were written about in an altogether more sympathetic way.īut before that there was a pulp procession of shocking kids: beatniks, hippies (best of all, murderous hippies), bikie gangs, rock stars, punks, skinheads and James Bond-style surfer spies. What was once reviled as rubbishy reading is now collected, curated and revered as retro chic. I've been having huge fun reading about JD fiction and looking at the outrageously titillating covers in Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats, an anthology edited by two Australians, Iain McIntyre and Andrew Nette. Community Youth Centers, high schools and Youth Friendly Health Services should ensure that adolescents have access to relevant information, including sex education and contraceptives.Ĭitation: Bosire EN, Chiseri K, Comeau DL, Richter L, Stein AD, Norris SA (2021) A qualitative study of risks and protective factors against pregnancy among sexually-active adolescents in Soweto, South Africa. We found that the family is a key institution in supporting adolescents’ decisions regarding their behaviors and choices, as are peers and exposures to information. Both groups of women reported predisposing risks to early pregnancy including influence from peers to engage in early sex, unstable family relationships and limited conversations about sex. In-depth interviews were conducted to understand their family backgrounds, conversations about sex, sexual behaviors, and initiatives taken (or not) during adolescence to prevent pregnancy. Twenty women were recruited: (i) women who did not become pregnant before 18 years (n = 10) and (ii) women who became pregnant before 18 years (n = 10). We used purposive sampling to recruit women at age 24 years from Soweto, who self-reported having sexual debut by age 15 years. This qualitative study sought to understand risks and protective factors against pregnancy amongst sexually-active adolescents in Soweto, South Africa. Risky sexual behaviors contribute to increased risk of adolescent pregnancy. This paper aims to revise Giménez’s graphic life narratives and the way he moves forward in time to construct significant milestones of his personal life story, inseparably embedded in the history of Spain. Throughout his oeuvre, Giménez addresses not only themes of historical and political affairs of each period, but he also confronts many social ills, offering a faithful portrayal of roughly four of the most tumultuous decades in Spanish history. His series Paracuellos (1977) has been placed among the most relevant works regarding historical memory as it provides a testimony of the Spanish dictatorship and life among the walls of Francoist boarding schools. Carlos Giménez belongs to the most acclaimed Spanish authors of autobiographical comics. 5/12/2023 0 Comments The city we became by nk jemisinThe damp of it makes my jeans feel slimy, or maybe that’s ’cause they haven’t been washed in weeks. I’m really singing to the cityscape beyond. I stand on the rooftop of a building I don’t live in and spread my arms and tighten my middle and yell nonsense ululations at the construction site that blocks my view. "A glorious fantasy." -Neil Gaiman Read Excerptįucking city. How Long 'til Black Future Month? (short story collection) Shades in Shadow: An Inheritance Triptych (e-only short fiction) The Inheritance Trilogy (omnibus edition) Some are ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. In Brooklyn, a politician and mother finds she can hear the songs of her city, pulsing to the beat of her Louboutin heels.Įvery great city has a soul. In the Bronx, a Lenape gallery director discovers strange graffiti scattered throughout the city, so beautiful and powerful it's as if the paint is literally calling to her. But he can sense the beating heart of the city, see its history, and feel its power. In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember who he is, where he's from, or even his own name. Jemisin crafts her most incredible novel yet, a "glorious" story of culture, identity, magic, and myths in contemporary New York City. Three-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. 5/12/2023 0 Comments The Five by Robert McCammonOr any garage band playing music that isn’t about perfection but about what lies beyond and within each note - the messy thump of a bass drum, the fuzz of a grinding guitar, the trippy vertigo strains of an organ. Think if you will of the The White Stripes. So, when I say “messy” and “strange,” I mean it in the truest rock-and-roll sense. Contained within the story is this ghostly vein of the supernatural, a delicate component of good versus evil that never shows its full face, that always remains hidden in the margins of shadow that McCammon paints. See, this is a novel about the last days of a hardscrabble indie rock band - the titular “The Five” - and the horror they endure at the hands of a schizo sniper, a horror that ultimately brings them together before properly setting them apart. THE FIVE is Robert McCammon’s messiest, strangest work of fiction. 5/11/2023 0 Comments Later king stephenKing’s wife fished Carrie out of the garbage.Īfter attending the University of Maine, King became an English teacher and wrote in his spare time. Using a mimeograph machine, he sold copies of his work for 25 cents to his classmates, a foreshadowing of the success to come. King was a movie buff growing up, and was prone to running home to write stories based on the Roger Corman movies he had just seen-effectively, novelizations. He sold copies of his stories in high school. “Years later,” King wrote, “my mother told me they had picked up the pieces in a wicker basket.” 2. King returned home alone his friend had been run over by the train. Though he doesn’t remember the incident himself, he was told by his mother later in life that he once went out with a friend to play by some railroad tracks. But one possible explanation may have come when King was just 4 years old. Where does King’s darkness spring from? The author has never really bothered to analyze it, as he believes writers are the product of conscious will and not inciting incidents. 5/11/2023 0 Comments Big D by Stephanie BrotherA friend of mine who’d worked as an evangelist for decades in Denmark told me my vision of seeing 10 churches planted in 10 years was a pipe dream. I was an Americanized Swede lost in Denmark. When I first showed up in Copenhagen with my wife, Stephanie, we felt our weakness profoundly. As our brother Tim Savage clarifies in his book on gospel ministry from 2 Corinthians, Paul wanted to distance himself from the self-exalting sophists of Corinth and simultaneously dismantle the criticism he was receiving from the church by providing this paradox: “When I am weak, then I am strong” (2 Cor. In his first letter to the Corinthian church, Paul admitted he’d come to them not with eloquent speech or “plausible words of wisdom” but in a demonstration of the Spirit’s power (1 Cor. My name is Carl Jan Christian Roth, and the story of TGC Norden’s beginnings is much like a biblical story-one of God preparing the way, of his power made perfect in weakness (2 Cor. TGC Norden seeks to serve Christians in the countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, as well as the Faroe Islands and Greenland. |