![]() ![]() Marriage in name only." Noah Miller doesn't expect any replies to his plainspoken ad, though it's the only kind of offer the guarded rancher's prepared to make. Mercy's care and compassion went a long way toward enabling Cole to open his heart up to love again.Mistletoe Kiss in Dry Creek by Janet Tronstad (Dry Creek Historical, Book 5)"Passable cook wanted as wife. I also enjoyed seeing the way that Mercy was able to get Cole to lighten up a little on Amelia. I really liked how quickly Cole and George bonded. Mercy would like a real marriage but is willing to give that up to have a father for George. Cole feels that his heart died along with his wife and son and that he's got nothing left to give. Cole and Mercy agree to marry for their children's sake without any expectation of feelings between them. Cole needs a new mother for his daughter, who desperately needs a woman's influence in her life, while Mercy's son George longs for a father to do guy things with. But though Cole tries to keep his distance, Mercy offers the very thing he's stopped believing in-the chance to forge a real family.Sweet story. For their children's sake, Cole Matheson and Mercy Jacobs agree on a businesslike marriage. ![]() ![]() Christmas Hearts by Jillian Hart (Angel Falls, Book 4)Thirteen-year-old Amelia longs for a new ma. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Autumn lives with her single aunt and alcoholic grandfather. He's struggling to understand why his mother left him, when he unexpectedly meets his rapist father, and things get even more complicated. Hunter is nineteen, angry, getting by in college with a job at a radio station, a girlfriend he loves in the only way he knows how, and the occasional party. They share only a predisposition for addiction and a host of troubled feelings toward the mother who barely knows them, a mother who has been riding with the monster, crank, for twenty years. Hunter, Autumn, and Summer-three of Kristina Snow’s five children-live in different homes, with different guardians and different last names. This gripping conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Crank trilogy features a refreshed look and a trade paperback trim size. ![]() ![]() ![]() He became interested in psychology, especially in a mental illness called hysteria, which caused patients to suffer from tics, tremors, convulsions, paralysis, and hallucinations. Freud wrote several books, including The Interpretation of Dreams (1899), Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious (1905), and Civilization and Its Discontents (1930).įreud started his professional life as a medical doctor, but as a Jew, he knew his prospects in medicine were probably limited. He then moved to London, where he died of throat cancer in 1939. He’s usually associated with Vienna, where he lived from the age of four until the Germans occupied it in 1938. It’s the birthday of Sigmund Freud, born in Freiburg, Moravia (now part of the Czech Republic), in 1856. © Louisiana State University Press, 2016. ![]() “Red Never Lasts” by Anya Krugovoy Silver from from nothing. ![]() ![]() It was an early work for both Martin and Tuttle, so it may not be translator’s fault. That’s how 2013 Polish edition looks, I share one Polish reviewer’s complaints about sometimes clumsy language plagued by too many repetitions, but I was not dissatisfied enough to get English version to compare. But it’s no Game of Thrones, in small scale political conflicts we encounter here hardly anybody dies and the reader is left feeling nostalgic, but optimistic about human nature. ![]() ![]() I don’t want to imply it’s not a good book, I love Le Guin and feminist is not an insult in my vocabulary. I constantly re-checked the front cover to make sure it’s Martin on it and not Ursula Le Guin □ After that I’ve read that Tuttle wrote a book with straightforward title Encyclopedia of Feminism and the world made sense again. I’ve never read anything by his co-author here, Lisa Tuttle, and maybe that’s why I was very surprised by the book. ![]() A collection of three novellas that are not what you’d expect from Martin. ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel follows a linear storyline, without flashing back or forward in time. Moose Malloy was a bank robber and now a murderer, and Marlowe makes it his job to find Malloy’s old flame, Velma, in the hopes of learning more. Since this is a noir novel, the inciting incident is the murder of the owner of a bar named Florian’s, and Marlowe’s curiosity about the murderer, Moose Malloy. By the end, he pieces these clues together to see the larger picture. ![]() In this way, the novel is structured like a puzzle, in that each clue leads Marlowe to find another clue. The novel begins with a murder, and the rest of the novel involves Marlowe following clues to uncover a larger mystery. The specific language also reflects Marlowe’s personality in that it’s colored with sarcasm, wit, and a vulgar honesty. In this way, the composition of the novel reflects the genre: the protagonist is a private investigator, and the reader sees the world of the novel through his critical eye. For example, Marlowe often describes the minutiae of each character he encounters, whether it be the fine details of a person’s clothing, their physical features, or the subtlety of their personality coming through in a gesture. The novel is told from Marlowe’s point of view, resulting in descriptions that are often exceptionally-detailed and reflect the nuance of the world around him. ![]() ![]() We meet Bennie Salazar at the melancholy nadir of his adult life-divorced, struggling to connect with his nine-year-old son, listening to a washed-up band in the basement of a suburban house-and then revisit him in 1979, at the height of his youth, shy and tender, reveling in San Francisco’s punk scene as he discovers his ardor for rock and roll and his gift for spotting talent. We plunge into the hidden yearnings and disappointments of her uncle, an art historian stuck in a dead marriage, who travels to Naples to extract Sasha from the city’s demimonde and experiences an epiphany of his own while staring at a sculpture of Orpheus and Eurydice in the Museo Nazionale. Later, we learn the genesis of her turmoil when we see her as the child of a violent marriage, then as a runaway living in Naples, then as a college student trying to avert the suicidal impulses of her best friend. ![]() We first meet Sasha in her mid-thirties, on her therapist’s couch in New York City, confronting her long-standing compulsion to steal. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other’s pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in locales as varied as New York, San Francisco, Naples, and Kenya. ![]() Jennifer Egan’s spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. ![]() ![]() ![]() So she is focusing her energy on preparing for an open house at the school that she runs with the assistance of her husband, Bradford (Ryan Winkles), and hyperactive teenage daughter, Pilly (Ella Dershowitz). To Joy, fear is an illusion, “a lie we tell ourselves.” Joy Eldridge (Stacy Fischer), a devout Christian Scientist who runs a private art school for children, is seemingly shrugging off the threat of influenza. ![]() Mac doesn’t push the parallels with the COVID-19 pandemic, but they hang in the air. At such a time, coughing could be - and is, in “Joy and Pandemic” - an act of aggression. ![]() ![]() Traces of “Grey Gardens” and “Sunday in the Park with George” can be detected in the structure of Mac’s play, whose exposition-heavy opening scenes put us in Philadelphia in 1918, where the influenza pandemic is beginning to gather force, a ravenous wolf at the door. As for those words: The dialogue, largely enclosed within, and delivered with, a certain formality, sometimes registers as eloquent and witty, at other times as stilted. The heart of “Joy and Pandemic” is located below the surface and behind the words. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is a seven-time Whitney Award winner and has written more than thirty bestselling novels. She credits the CIA with giving her a wealth of ideas as well as the skills needed to survive her children's teenage years. ![]() After graduating from Brigham Young University, she worked for the Central Intelligence Agency for several years, eventually resigning in order to raise her family. For more information about Traci, click here: Traci Hunter Abramson was born in Arizona, where she lived until moving to Venezuela for a study-abroad program. Desperately gathering the pieces of her broken heart, she realizes that what she needs most is space to reconsider her future. She is a seven-time Whitney Award winner and has written more than thirty bestselling novels. Chance for Home Traci Hunter Abramson 3.96 936 ratings145 reviews Beautiful pre-med student Kari Evans believes she's found the man of her dreamsright up until the moment she discovers he's a two-timing cheat. ![]() Traci Hunter Abramson was born in Arizona, where she lived until moving to Venezuela for a study-abroad program. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you’ve yet to discover the passion, humor, and enthusiasm with which Bill Bryson explores his topics, you’re in for a treat. ![]() His latest work, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, hit shelves this past October, and in addition to becoming an instant New York Times bestseller, the Washington Post also hailed it as one of the year’s most notable nonfiction books. Among today’s most prolific nonfiction authors, Bryson has penned more than 20 books about language, science, history, and his adventures traveling the globe.įueled by his insatiable curiosity, Bryson’s books are a testament to his love for knowledge and his ability to distill even the most complex topics into simple explanations anyone can understand. If you’ve read any amount nonfiction over the past 30 years, there’s a good chance you’re familiar with Bill Bryson. ![]() ![]() I am currently on a James McBride kick and am waiting for the Good Lord Bird from the library so that may be my first choice but there are others I will add to my “to read” list. I can’t wait to get one of the books on the list to read. Maybe I have missed something over the years, but I learned so much about the war that I never realized.Īlso, Michelle should add Varina to her already excellent list. The entire book was entirely unique in my opinion. The book also details how she survived the end of the war and her post-war life and relationship with Jeff Davis. Varina was Jefferson Davis’ wife and the story told is clearly her story but the insight into Jefferson Davis and the Civil War itself by a non-combatant and critic of it -Varina-is an important and different view of the war. The New York Times Book Review Horse isn’t just an animal storyit’s a. Brooks’ chronological and cross-disciplinary leaps are thrilling. The New York Times Book Review Horse isn’t. He wrote the excellent “Varina” which I liked even better than Cold Mountain. Horse by Geraldine Brooks: 9780399562969 : Books Brooks’ chronological and cross-disciplinary leaps are thrilling. ![]() ![]() You should continue your “read everything by a good author” journey by reading yet another Civil War book by the author of “Cold Mountain” – Charles Frazier. Martha – I agree about both of those books and loved both of them. ![]() |