![]() ![]() As they gradually warm to one another-and as Mike begins to emerge from the bitterness of his previous family life-the two discover their unique tropical home, from the Gulf Coast to the Florida Keys to the world of Florida's arts and crafts. Mike's instructor is an artist, Louise Grant, a respected member of the local sailing community who reluctantly agrees to give him lessons. He buys a small live-aboard sailboat which becomes his home.and only then decides to learn how to sail. Among this land's detritus, he finds a channel from the property to the Intracoastal Waterway. He finds an abandoned would-be development called Sailor's Acres on the west coast of Florida, a large lot full of of weed-grown roadways, unbuilt housing sites and faded real estate signs. After a painful and bitter divorce, Mike Lewis leaves his long-established job and all he knows to establish a new life-or perhaps to escape his old one. A NOVEL OF TROPICAL ROMANCE, SECOND CHANCES, ART AND THE GULF OF MEXICO. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() She shares stories of her father, a Vietnam vet who was bowed but never broken by life's challenges, and of her mother who survived violence both at home and on DC's volatile streets. Henson writes of her family, the one she was born into and the one she created. With a sensibility that recalls her beloved screen characters, including Katherine, the NASA mathematician, Yvette, Queenie, Shug, and the iconic Cookie from Empire, Taraji P. Henson, Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe winner, and star of the award-winning film Hidden Figures, comes an inspiring and funny memoir-"a bona fide hit" ( Essence)-about family, friends, the hustle required to make it in Hollywood, and the joy of living your own truth. 2017 Audie Award Finalist for Autobiography/Memoirįrom Taraji P. ![]() ![]()
![]() Ronson is asked by the friend of a friend to investigate the appearance of an elaborate handmade book, Being or Nothingness, that has begun appearing in the pigeonholes of academics and other wonks across the world. The book starts, for want of any better launch pad, with a shaggy dog story. Finishing up, you gaze at his bibliography and wonder, with a sigh, where to begin. ![]() His subject is huge and tragic and terrifying but there is something tinny and unfinished about his investigation. ![]() He skates when you want him to dig he does that amazed, disingenuous thing, when a little old-fashioned anger and indignation would serve him far better he makes peculiar connections between things that are not really connected at all. ![]() But it also reveals, sometimes painfully, the limitations of his journalistic technique. Ronson's new book is provocative and interesting, and you will, I guarantee, zip merrily through it. And, in the case of The Psychopath Test, perhaps more than occasionally. T he difficulty with reviewing Jon Ronson's The Psychopath Test is that, if I am to be honest, I risk sounding like a person with no sense of humour – and who wants to be one of those? Certainly not Ronson, whose joke rate is as indiscriminate as it is high, by which I mean that though the belly laughs come thick and fast – my God, he is funny – they are occasionally accompanied by a certain kind of queasiness. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But when the two of them encounter each other in the middle of the battle, the choices they make in that single moment will change everything.įrom the New York Times best-selling author of Refugee, a searing, action-packed look at how our courage and our conscience can redeem us in the darkest of times. He doesn't know what to expect, or if he'll make it out alive, but he knows he must keep moving forward.įrom opposite sides of the war, Hideki and Ray each fight their way through horrors and dangers. Meanwhile, young American soldier Ray Majors has just landed on the beach in Okinawa. He is handed two grenades and a set of instructions: go off into the jungle, and don't come back until you've killed an American soldier. The action begins just before dawn on June 6, 1944, and ends near midnight that same day. Hideki is drafted into the "Blood and Iron Imperial Corps" to fight for the Japanese army. 15, 2019 Gratz ( Refugee, 2017, etc.) weaves together fictionalized accounts of individual experiences of D-Day, the beginning of the end of the Second World War. Hideki lives peacefully with his family on the island of Okinawa, near Japan. This is another searing and heart-pounding look at kids making their way through war. ![]() Here it is! The hugely anticipated follow-up to Alan Gratz's New York Times best-selling, critically acclaimed phenomenon Refugee. ![]() ![]() ![]() I believe, however, that if he were married, it would give him the ballast he lacks. I don't scruple to tell you, my dear, that I dread what might be the result if he were allowed to run free. Excellent reading copy with collectible possibilities. Front board has a sharp object gouge, skin not broken. Kate Malvern, alone in the world at age 23, has just lost her governess job when the wrong guy. rubbed or lightly tattered at all edges, but now in mylar protector. If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer 'The greatest writer who ever lived' Antonia Fraser 'My generation's Julia Quinn' Adjoa Andoh 'Utterly delightful' Guardian 'If you haven't read Georgette Heyer yet, what a treat you have in store' Harriet Evans Tragically left an orphan after her father's death, Kate Malvern is taken under the wing of her forbidding aunt Minerva and. In Cousin Kate, one of Georgette Heyer's later books (written in 1968, 46 years after her first book, The Black Moth, was published), Georgette tried a Gothic spin on one of her historical romances, with distinctly mixed results. ![]() graphic shows the rich young torquil standing on a bridge with Kate. ![]() Cond : Boards are red with gilt lettering -spine only. Learn what terms like niinyhammer, tattle-box, potch-kettled, and first-oars say about someone. Cousin Kate Heyer, Georgette Published byPan Books, 1971 ISBN 10: 0330026844ISBN 13: 9780330026840 Seller: Jt,s junk box, Newcastle, United Kingdom Seller Rating: Contact seller Book Used - SoftcoverCondition: Good £ 3. Kate Malvern is a marriageable young lady, and Lady Broome offers a scheme that would make her quite comfortable - the only problem is the chosen man is a little loose in the screws. ![]() ![]() Her characters, frequently finding themselves ensnared in unusual situations, propel plot and characterization through their conversations. Susan Andersen's best-selling contemporary romance novels combine elements of humor and suspense. Just for Kicks, Mira Books (Don Mills, Ontario, Canada), 2006. Skintight, Mira Books (Don Mills, Ontario, Canada), 2005. Hot & Bothered, Mira Books (Don Mills, Ontario, Canada), 2004. Getting Lucky, Avon (New York, NY), 2003. Head over Heels, Avon (New York, NY), 2002. ![]() Present Danger, Zebra (New York, NY), 1993.īaby, I'm Yours, Avon (New York, NY), 1998.īaby, Don't Go, Avon (New York, NY), 2000. ![]() Shadow Dance, Popular Library ( New York, NY), 1989, reprinted, Avon ( New York, NY), 2002. Nominated for Lifetime Achievement Award for Contemporary Romantic Suspense by Romantic Times, 1996 Best Contemporary Romance, Romantic Times, 1998, for Baby, I'm Yours. Hobbies and other interests: Skiing, in-line skating, cats. ![]() ![]() Sick is Khakpour's grueling, emotional journey - as a woman, an Iranian-American, a writer, and a lifelong sufferer of undiagnosed health problems - in which she examines her subsequent struggles with mental illness and her addiction to doctor prescribed benzodiazepines, that both aided and eroded her ever-deteriorating physical health. Several drug addictions, some major hospitalizations, and over $100,000 later, she finally had a diagnosis: late-stage Lyme disease. ![]() ![]() For most of that time, she didn't know why. For as long as author Porochista Khakpour can remember, she has been sick. ![]() ![]() ![]() The secondary title for this work, Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man who Brought Them Down, implies that there is going to be a balanced duality with the Republic of Pirates on one side of the conflict and Captain Woodes Rogers on the other. This book is a great way to learn more of the facts surrounding these historical figures, such as Edward “Blackbeard” Teach.Īs neat a topic as this book has, however, I only give this work 3/5 stars because it could have been significantly improved by more structure and focus. This is a really interesting period of history that is extremely charismatic, especially through the interpretations of pirates in classic literature and entertainment media. The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down by Colin WoodardĬolin Woodard is an historian known for popular nonfiction books about Caribbean pirates, and his The Republic of Pirates focuses on the last couple of years the Caribbean pirates reigned supreme on the European trade routes connecting the British Empire to Africa and the New World, especially in the waters of the Caribbean and the southeastern coastal waters of the American colonies. ![]() HAPPY HALLOWEEN!! I thought I would share a book review inspired by the holiday, so here is one on pirates. ![]() ![]() ![]() I have enjoyed this entire series, having first discovered Addicted to You only a few weeks after it came out. All in all, this was my absolute least favorite book in the series, but the rest of the books were a joy to read. The good thing is that when the other characters came into the scene, it became a lot more bearable. This made for a very slow and uninteresting book. All she seemed to do was smile broadly, talk about her "theories", say the most random of things, and want to have sex with Ryke. Now there would be nothing wrong with that if she hadn't been paired with Ryke, which made him seem extremely creepy.to a disturbing degree. She reads as someone who didn't mentally develop as fast as she should've. To say she is immature is an understatement. honestly, she was the most awful of all of them. ![]() ![]() Something about his brooding character, need to push himself, and his love for his family made him a really appealing and interesting character. But I told myself that I needed to finish the series, because I like finishing what I begin. I mean to the point that I was just going to stop reading it altogether multiple times along the way. Before I write this review I was to say that I absolutely loved the other books, I would rate them a 4 or a 5. I got into this series when the store was offering was offering the first book for free. ![]() |