6/12/2023 0 Comments Luna and the Lie by Mariana Zapata![]() Cooper, co-owner of the garage where Luna works. He’s the boss man of Luna, together with Mr. (I mean, who knew one of the most expensive coffee beans are plucked from elephant dung? Yum.) She is your positive thinker to the point of finding a silver lining in a pile of elephant dung. ![]() Yet, she has chosen the way of happiness by learning to let go and focus on the good things in life. Luna is a heroine with a past that would keep on stomping her down if she let it. Luna and the Lie gives us Zapata’s newest candidates for Love Island and they are car-painter Luna “I’m-working-in-a-man’s-world” Allen and Lucas “Nobody-calls-me-by-my-first-name” Ripley. (Pardon the Twilight reference-all those Christmas chocolates have started clogging the blood flow to my brain.)īack to business. Needless to say, as a fan of Zapata’s slow burns, I sunk my teeth into that one like Edward Cullen to a mountain lion. ![]() ![]() What a pleasant pre-Christmas surprise! I wasn’t aware there was another Zapata romance in the cards when Luna and the Lie suddenly popped up on my Kindle. ![]()
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![]() ![]() As the war dragged on, Mussolini gradually lost control of his country to the Nazi party. At this time, Italy was under the rule of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, who allied himself with Hitler during the war. Most recently, Mark published a novel titled The Last Green Valley, which explores World War II from the perspective of a German family living in Ukraine.īeneath a Scarlet Sky takes place in Milan, Italy during World War II. ![]() He’s co-authored five books with James Patterson, and his novel Beneath a Scarlet Sky is currently being adapted as a film. Since publishing The Purification Ceremony, Mark has become a household name. However, it was not until his third novel, The Purification Ceremony, that Mark became a well-known writer. A few years later, in 1994, Mark published his first novel, The Fall Line, and in 1995, he followed it up with another, Hard News. In 1990, he decided to put his job on hold on try his hand at writing. For the next several years, he worked numerous jobs related to journalism and politics. ![]() After two years, Mark returned to the United States to study journalism at Northwestern University. After graduating with his BA in 1980, Mark worked as a Peace Corps Volunteer. Mark Sullivan was raised near Boston, Massachusetts before going to Hamilton College to study English. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments The giver book![]() ![]() I was born in Hawaii, moved from there to New York, spent the years of World War II in my mother’s hometown: Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and from there went to Tokyo when I was eleven. I was a solitary child who lived in the world of books and my own vivid imagination.īecause my father was a career military officer - an Army dentist - I lived all over the world. ![]() That left me in-between, and exactly where I wanted most to be: on my own. Little brother Jon was the only boy and had interests that he shared with Dad together they were always working on electric trains and erector sets and later, when Jon was older, they always seemed to have their heads under the raised hood of a car. My older sister, Helen, was very much like our mother: gentle, family-oriented, eager to please. "I’ve always felt that I was fortunate to have been born the middle child of three. ![]() ![]() She wants to make sure the club's name is spelled correctly. ![]() In Kristy's Great Idea Janine says that the Baby-Sitters Club is an outstanding idea. Janine sticks to herself, has almost no friends, uses big words, and according to Claudia, all she cares about is her computer. It's mentioned in Claudia and the Genius of Elm Street that when she's upset she gets snappy. In The Mystery at Claudia's House, her hair is straight and cut in a dutch-boy style and her glasses are wire rimmed - she never considered getting contacts. In Claudia and the Great Search, it's mentioned that Janine looks like her father. ![]() In Claudia's Big Party, Claudia says that she has her ears pierced and usually favors tiny gold balls and pearl studs. Janine favors plain, modest clothing and has a serious demeanor. She is a second-generation Japanese-American. ![]() 8.2 The Baby-Sitters Club (Netflix series). ![]() ![]() They would endure tremendous hardships, illness, and constant setbacks. Speke was a young aristocrat and Army officer determined to make his mark, passionate about hunting, Burton’s opposite in temperament and beliefs.įrom the start the two men clashed. He was also mercurial, subtle, and an iconoclastic atheist. Burton spoke twenty-nine languages, and was a decorated soldier. Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke were sent by the Royal Geographical Society to claim the prize for England. At the same time, European powers sent off waves of explorations intended to map the unknown corners of the globe – and extend their colonial empires. In the 19th century, there was a frenzy of interest in ancient Egypt. "A lean, fast-paced account of the almost absurdly dangerous quest by to solve the geographic riddle of their era." - The New York Times Book Reviewįor millennia the location of the Nile River’s headwaters was shrouded in mystery. ![]() ![]() The harrowing story of one of the great feats of exploration of all time and its complicated legacy-from the New York Times bestselling author of The River of Doubt and Destiny of the RepublicĪ BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE WASHINGTON POST. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments 32 Candles by Ernessa T. Carter![]() Carter that I just had to read 32 Candles !! I was totally amazed how the book captivated my attention that I read the 400 page book in one sitting! I was so pulled and glued to Davie Jones’ story that I just couldn’t put the book down and totally enjoyed every bit of the book. Can I tell you I share so much in common with Ernessa T. Cater graduated from a women’s college, and she started off as a blog writer before becoming a full blow #1 book seller. It was fitting for me to read 32 Candles fist being that I just celebrated my 32nd birthday, the author, Ernessa T. So, naturally the first book on my summer reading list was of course 32 Candles. ![]() This summer has been so great especially since I finished grad school and I was able to start leisurely reading again. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Sarah dessen this lullaby netflix![]() ![]() So, what can "Along For the Ride" fans expect from this adaptation (out May 6)? I'm happy to report that the movie is very faithful to the book - always a smart choice when your source material is this solid. ![]() This is the first of three Dessen novels Netflix plans to adapt (along with "Once and For All" and "This Lullaby," one of my all-time faves), so YA romance lovers have plenty to look forward to. Dessen's novels are known for their complex, emotionally scarred narrators with relatably complicated families and love lives, and they've stood up remarkably well to the test of time - and to my own evolving reading tastes. ![]() I'm a longtime fan of Sarah Dessen, so you can imagine my excitement when I heard that Netflix was adapting her 2009 bestseller "Along For the Ride" into a movie starring Emma Pasarow and Belmont Cameli. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Mrs tiggy winkle mug![]() ![]() We found the cookie recipe in Peter Rabbit’s Natural Foods Cookbook, and since we’d made Fierce Bad Rabbit’s Carrot-Raisin Salad from that book many times before, we thought the cookies would also be a good bet. Every Easter we get into a “Peter Rabbit mood” and crave carrots. ![]() Coincidentally, Cornelius and I had just baked a fresh batch of Littletown-Farm Carrot Cookies. We couldn’t very well turn her out in a snowstorm, so we invited her in for tea. Tiggy-Winkle chanced by to deliver a freshly laundered stack of tea towels and table linens. The other day, when untimely Spring (?) snowflakes were drifting down from the sky, Mrs. Do you know her too? A tidier, more conscientious “clear-starcher” you’d be hard pressed to find. Tiggy-Winkle and she hails from the Lake District. Just in case you were wondering, the reason we usually look so spiffy around here is because we have the best washerwoman. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments The princess by claire delacroix![]() Until passion turned to love, and the chieftain found himself fighting for the heart and hand of the woman he was born to possess. Each thought Kinbeath the prize they most desired, a prize to be won at any price. She promised to fight him with every weapon at her command even as he vowed to woo her for a year and a day - and make her his pagan bride. Yet Duncan awakened passions she had never known before. But Duncan MacLaren devised a bride quest of his own, swearing to win the land - and the fiery countess - in a war of sweet seduction.Įglantine declared she would never be captured by this barbarian. ![]() ![]() Kinbeath was hers, she declared, vowing to rebuild the manor and launch a bride quest so her daughters could marry for love. “Be mine for a year and a day and I will possess your heart forevermore!”ĭriven from her late husband’s estate, Countess Eglantine de Crevy fled to wildest Scotland to claim a castle, only to find a ruin - and a clan chieftain standing guard. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Albers colour theory![]() ![]() I discovered that every color is like a chameleon that changes based on its surroundings. It took several more classes, but once we started working on the interaction of colors, I gradually got interested in learning more about color theory. ![]() I want to say I was immediately captivated, but I wasn't. ![]() I missed the first part of the lecture because all I could hear in my head was my voice repeatedly whining, "No color theory!"įinally, with no other option, I shut off the internal dialogue and reluctantly turned my attention to the instructor. The curriculum required me to study color theory two times each week for 15 weeks plus spend countless hours outside of class, completing the assignments, and this was only the first of four courses. ![]() Then the instructor arrived, and within the first few minutes, I discover that the Color and Design course was just another name for Color Theory class. I was ready to create something amazing and couldn't wait to get started. I remember the first day of my very first design class. By the time I set off for university to study design, I had no interest in color theory. The compliments continued to pour in through my teen years. As a kid, everyone loved the colors I put together. While I have always loved color, I have not always loved color theory, nor did I see a need for it. ![]() |