![]() ![]() Links: Goodreads + Amazon + Barnes and Noble + Kobo Genre/Age Range: Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Young Adult Fingers fisted in my hair, Cait is as fierce and passionate in her kisses as I am mine, responding in kind to my touch, meeting every excited growl of need from me with fascinatingly arousing noises so uniquely her own. There’s no resistance when I slip my hands under her shirt this time, running them along the smooth skin of her back, holding her against me, not disappointed as she shifts closer. You’re already a crazy dragon, Theo.” Her smile is wide, her eyes bright and happy, just the way I saw in her future, in her destiny….Loved, in love, and happy. Laughing, she takes my face in her hands and meets my eyes. At least ease my suffering and marry me, Miss Hayden.” “Falling in love with you may yet drive me mad. ![]() I want you to choose me.” She releases my wrists, and my fingers are in her hair, my mouth on hers tasting the Sangiovese grapes and mild oak flavors of the wine, but nothing more intoxicating than the essence of Cait. Unhurried, I kiss along her throat, jaw, and chin as I respond. I could break free of her grasp but find her play at dominance enthralling, and submitting arousing. I try to slip my hands beneath her t-shirt, but she grabs my wrists, holding me at bay. “You want me… What is it you want?” Her voice is husky. She runs her tongue along my ear, her sinful, lingering breath tingling cool on my neck. ![]()
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![]() Lewis: “Man with dog closes a gap in the universe." ![]() One thinks less of the phrase “man’s best friend” than a certain quote by C.S. Duncan would write in his unfinished memoir that Rinty “crept right into a lonesome place in my life and…became a part of me.” The sincerity of Duncan’s love for Rinty is very touching. The bond that Duncan formed with one of these dogs was more than friendship, like that between kindred spirits. Duncan grew into a man unable to understand, much less participate in, what would be considered normal human interaction, able to create lasting bonds only with animals.įast-forward to Duncan's military service in WWI, where he stumbles upon a newborn litter of German Shepherd pups found in a shelled kennel in France. Duncan's mother eventually came to retrieve him and his sister three years later, after she was able to make enough money to care for them. ![]() ![]() Born into hardship, Duncan was abandoned first by his father, then his impoverished mother, orphaned along with his older sister when he was he was only six years old. ![]() Lee Duncan's early life was characterized both by tragedy and the intricately constructed solitude into which he receded to protect himself emotionally. ![]() ![]() Though Ellwood and Gaunt find fleeting moments of solace in one another, their friends are dying in front of them, and at any moment they could be next.Īn epic tale of the devastating tragedies of war and the forbidden romance that blooms in its grip, In Memoriam is a breathtaking debut. But Ellwood and their classmates soon follow him into the horrors of trenches. When Gaunt's mother asks him to enlist in the British army to protect the family from anti-German attacks, he signs up immediately, relieved to escape his overwhelming feelings. They're too young to enlist, and anyway, Gaunt is fighting his own private battle - an all-consuming infatuation with the dreamy, poetic Ellwood - not having a clue that his best friend is in love with him, always has been. In 1914, war feels far away to Henry Gaunt and Sidney Ellwood. ![]() Alice Winn has written a devastating love story between two young men on the Western Front' MAGGIE O'FARRELL, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HAMNET ![]() It was only because Gaunt knew he might die, that he could be so reckless as to kiss him. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Frankel, author of Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office ' How Women Rise is a great read.' Lois P. 'Guidance on the habits you fall into that aren't helping you achieve the success you deserve. In the process, it points the way to a career that will satisfy your ambitions and help you make the difference you want to make in the world. Inspiring and practical by turns, it identifies 12 common habits that can prove an obstacle to future success and tells you how to overcome them. If your answer to any of these is 'Yes', How Women Rise will help get you back on track. By the bestselling author of What Got You Here Won't Get You Thereĭo you hesitate about putting forward ideas? Are you reluctant to claim credit for your achievements? Do you find it difficult to get the support you need from your boss or the recognition you deserve from your colleagues? ![]() ![]() Phillips to her rightful size (and she returns the favor). He defeats Alastor by using his own inner strengths and returns to restore Mrs. William must, in turn, be made small to help Sir Simon win back his kingdom and to regain the respect of Mrs. Phillips from leaving him, William miniaturizes her with a medal which Sir Simon had wrested from Alastor, the wizard who robbed him of his kingdom. The miniature knight, Sir Simon, is alive and enlists William in his fight to regain his kingdom. She also gives him the Silver Knight with instructions to meet him "on his own". As a parting gift, she presents William with a detailed and wonderful miniature castle which was her childhood toy. Phillips, William's governess and friend since the day he was born, is leaving the household to return to her home and family in England. ![]() This is a quest fantasy with the added fillip of miniaturization. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (November 11, 1922, Indianapolis, Indiana - April 11, 2007, New York) - am American writer and public figure. Campbell, Jr., who writes it in an Israeli prison while awaiting trial for war crimes, and was probably loosely inspired by the stories of Nazi radio propagandist William Joyce and the American Campbell also appears in a brief episode of Vonnegut's later novel Slaughterhouse Five.In Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage, Chapter 18, The Sexual Revolution, Vonnegut rates his writings Darkness he rated 5 points out of 5 possible. ![]() In the novel, in cold blood and with incomparable gallows humor, the role of a single spy in the fate of the nation and the inner world of the spy himself are explored The book dedicated to Mata Hari is the fictional autobiography of Howard W. Mother Darkness (in other translations - The Creation of Darkness at Night, Mother Darkness - a novel by Kurt Vonnegut, written in 1961. ![]() ![]() The landing on 26 October 1950 met no opposition the port had been taken from the land side by the resurgent South Korean army. Smith, was part of X Corps and had been so since the 15 September 1950 landing at Inchon.Īfter Seoul the 1st Marine Division had reloaded into its amphibious ships and had swung around the Korean peninsula to land at Wonsan on the east coast. The 1st Marine Division, under Major General Oliver P. Moving up the east coast was the independent X Corps, commanded by Major General Edward M. Only the finishing touches needed to be done to complete the destruction of the North Korean People’s Army. Eighth Army from the Pusan Perimeter and the recapture of Seoul had changed the direction of the war. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur’s strategic triumph at Inchon and the subsequent breakout of the U.S. This volume in the official History of the Marine Corps chronicles the part played by United States Marines in the Chosin Reservoir Campaign. Includes more than 40 maps, plans and illustrations. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That doesn’t save him from becoming the victim of an unjust, racist system that punishes him for it anyway. Amal admits to throwing the first punch, but he definitely didn’t throw the punch that put one of the white kids in a coma. Caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, Amal and his friends got into a fight with a group of white kids at the basketball court in Amal’s gentrifying neighborhood. In Punching the Air, 16-year-old Amal Shahid finds himself slammed inside the cold, concrete box of a juvenile detention center after a false accusation.Īmal is a talented visual artist, an aspiring poet and rapper, a well-read scholar and a skilled skater, beloved by his Muslim family. ![]() The box presses down on the people it holds captive and tries to destroy what makes them unique, what makes them human, all in the interests of conformity, survival and the comfort of others. Once a person is trapped inside, the box’s hard lines and confines become their entire world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Suspecting that she may also have the gift, Hilda wants to learn the ins and outs of the psychic profession. ![]() Hilda and Linda become intimate friends - the exact dimensions of which remain opaque. Hilda’s grandmother seems delighted for the chance to send messages once again to her granddaughter, even if it involves a colorful third party. ![]() How does she do it? She listens, tuning in to her inner intercom, where the spirits of the dead line up to speak. She relates information about Hilda that she has no business knowing. This spiritualist, played to turbulent perfection by Janet Greaves, knows how to put on a show. Not long after her mother vanishes, Hilda visits Linda, a medium who plies her trade in the living rooms of affluent wine drinkers. One day, when Hilda is an adult, she just disappears. Unstable, Hilda’s mother fears that she herself is possessed. Her mother doesn’t like the “demonic activity” Hilda’s grandmother encourages and eventually kicks her out of the house. ![]() ![]() Alessandra is going to have work hard if she wants to make him fall in love with her. An ancient gift allows his bloodline to turn incorporeal, making them invulnerable to threats. ![]() Nineteen-year-old Kallias Maheras, the Shadow King, is protected by the shadows themselves. She no longer has one, which gives rise to her new plan – marry the Shadow King, ruler of Naxos, then murder him and set herself up as queen. She’s no stranger to murder as we learn on the very first page, she did away with the boy who was responsible for breaking her heart. However, some plot holes and poor worldbuilding have combined to make me round down instead of up.Įighteen-year-old Lady Alessandra Stathos is the beautiful, ambition second daughter of the Earl of Masis. ![]() I did have a great time tearing through this book yesterday afternoon, and this rating is really 3.5 stars. I knew it was going to be a good read when a) the author described it as a ‘Slytherin romance’, and b) the epigraph was a quotation from Damon in The Vampire Diaries. ![]() |