![]() ![]() Tasked with helping Letty safeguard Athena’s Retreat, Grey is positive that he can control the antics of the various scientists as well as manage the tiny mathematician-despite their historic animosity and simmering tension.Īs Grey and Letty are forced to work together, their mutual dislike turns to admiration and eventually to something.magnetic. His lifelong dream of becoming the director of a powerful clandestine agency is within his grasp. Lord William Hughes, the Viscount Greycliff cannot afford to make any mistakes. Having spent the last six years on her own, Letty doesn’t want the offers of friendship from other club members and certainly doesn’t need any help from the insufferably attractive Lord Greycliff. Readying herself to compete for the prestigious Rosewood Prize for Mathematics, she is suddenly asked to take on another responsibility-managing Athena’s Retreat, a secret haven for England’s women scientists. ![]() Six years ago, Miss Letitia Fenley made a mistake, and she’s lived with the consequences ever since. The solution is a romance that will break every rule. Divide by conflicting loyalties and multiply by a daring group of women hell-bent on conducting their scientific experiments. ![]() How do you solve the Perfect Equation? Add one sharp-tongued mathematician to an aloof, handsome nobleman. A PopSugar and BookBub Most Anticipated Romance of 2022! ![]()
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![]() ![]() A family drama, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter explores every mother's silent fear: What would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? It is also an astonishing tale of love and how the mysterious ties that hold a family together help us survive the heartache that occurs when long-buried secrets are finally uncovered. ![]() ![]() So begins this beautifully told story that unfolds over a quarter of a century-in which these two families, ignorant of each other, are yet bound by the fateful decision made that winter night long ago. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child herself. He asks his nurse, Caroline, to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy, but the doctor immediately recognizes that his daughter has Down syndrome. ![]() A #1 New York Times bestseller by Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter is a brilliantly crafted novel of parallel lives, familial secrets, and the redemptive power of love Kim Edwards’s stunning novel begins on a winter night in 1964 in Lexington, Kentucky, when a blizzard forces Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How have shifts in social interaction and communication reinforced and or transformed established notions of languages, literatures, and literacies?.With an eye on the past and on the presence of the global pandemic, we invite conference participants to (re)imagine possible future transformations of L1 research and education, by attending to questions like: In this sense, the pandemic crisis can be understood as compounded with long-lasting challenges including year-long economic crises and climate change, displacement and relocation, the surge of violence and polarization. In the transition to a post-COVID-19 era, the pandemic crisis serves as a liminal space: an in-between territory that allows the acknowledgement of challenges that pre-existed the pandemic and a place to explore alternative ways of moving forward. ![]() The conference theme invites participants to consider how, at the current moment, research helps see challenges as opportunities for rethinking L1 education. Transformations in L1 education: Current challenges and future possibilities 13th ARLE Conference (Hybrid) Main Conference: June 15-17, 2022 - PhD Pre-Conference: JUniversity of Cyprus, Nicosia ![]() ![]() ![]() What she didn’t yet know was that two seeds had been planted that long-ago night - one of a great love, and one of a terrible vengeance.Ī Macmillan Audio production from St. Hideaway Kindle Edition by Nora Roberts (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 23,842 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial A powerful new novel from global bestseller Nora Roberts about finding what matters most in the least expected places. ![]() Then there were years spent away in Western Ireland, peaceful and protected but with restlessness growing in her soul.įinally, she would return to Los Angeles, gathering the courage to act again and get past the trauma that had derailed her life. First came the discovery of a shocking betrayal that would send someone she’d trusted to prison. ![]() Dillon Cooper was shocked to find the bloodied, exhausted girl huddled in his house - but when the teenager and his family heard her story, they provided refuge, reuniting her with her loved ones.Ĭate’s ordeal, though, was far from over. Some may have considered her a pampered princess, but Cate was in fact a smart, scrappy fighter, and she managed to escape her abductors. It was during one of those games that she disappeared. At nine, she was already a star - yet still an innocent child who loved to play hide-and-seek with her cousins at the family home in Big Sur. Ĭaitlyn Sullivan had come from a long line of Hollywood royalty, stretching back to her Irish immigrant great-grandfather. A family ranch in Big Sur country and a legacy of Hollywood royalty set the stage for Nora Roberts’ emotional new suspense novel, Hideaway. ![]() ![]() ![]() The narrator is not identified in any way, though presumably is female. The book takes the form of a first-person narrative describing a series of visits that the unnamed narrator pays to the homes of various artists living in Sussex. A lost dystopian gem by a queer bohemian monocle-wearing writer who, judging by the tenor of some of the original reviews, had been the object of sexist contempt! What could be bad? Insidiously horrifying!") and Edna O'Brien ("In quick crystalline prose, with its overarching dread, THEY is the signature of an enchantress."). Now after an accidental re-discovery and at a time when dystopias are curiously attractive, it has been re-issued in a slender paperback edition with blurbs by Margaret Atwood ("A creepily prescient tale in which anonymous mobs target artists for the crime of individual vision. Originally it did attract a minor literary prize, but it sold dismally and vanished without a trace. Most of her fiction appears to be little more than competent, but a brief novella, THEY: A Sequence of Unease was a different matter. Dick, it appears was a well-known figure on the London literary scene in the latter half of the last century, though she suffered from bouts of writers' block. ![]() ![]() While reading The Guardian's book page recently, I came across a piece by Carmen Maria Machado that was actually the preface to a newly issued book - THEY: A Sequence of Unease, by an author unfamiliar to me, Kay Dick. ![]() ![]() The professor had told Claire not to add peppermint to an infusion of dandelion and burdock, but had neglected to tell her why. ![]() Readers learn quite a bit about Claire just based on this single incident. The phrase she is to write is: “I will obey instruction and curb my unladylike curiosity.” Her professor punishes her by assigning her the task of writing out a phrase one hundred times. The book begins with Claire causing a minor explosion during her “Chemistry of the Home” class. Seventeen year old Claire Trevelyan, the daughter of Viscount St. Victoria is Queen of England and Charles Darwin’s son is the Prime Minister. All images and artwork are used under license. The cover art is by Phat Puppy Art and the images are from Shutterstock. ![]() I must give kudos to Kalen O’Donnell for the cover design. It was this cover which caught my eye and made me want to know what the book was about. The cover of this book is a stunning treat for the eyes. * I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you're looking to streamline a home office for the New Year, take a look at my California Closets Collection for workspace ideas. For those who enjoy warm beverages, my warm beverage assortment gift box is sure to be a big hit - also at my shop on Amazon. I also partnered with Canopy for my new line of Martha Stewart CBD wellness supplements. ![]() My puffy down vest is so popular - I call it "the new sweater" - you can find it on Amazon. And go to Target for my cheerful winter bedding options. Visit my Collection for home decor, kitchen gadgets, and table setting pieces. I also have lots of wonderful holiday items at Macy’s. This year, I am so excited to share lots of great holiday decorations on Amazon, Wayfair, and Williams Sonoma - wreaths, trees and garlands. And, you can shop my collections for great ideas - items for decorating, cooking, baking, working from home, and more. Favorite holiday traditions such as neighborhood parties and long-distance trips to see family and friends may be on hold this year, but you can still get that special someone on your list a meaningful and useful gift. ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm sure I'll still be re-reading this series decades from now. ![]() It really brings the characters to life in a nice way. She can add everything from an African to a Gaelic? to a Slavic accent without sounding fake. The audio-book narrator, Robin Miles, is headed to the top of my narrator list. I hope it doesn't sound pompous, but you can see more maturity in both the writing and the story-line. This is the second series that I've read by Jemisin and as much as I loved the 1st one (The Inheritance Trilogy), this was even better. It was refreshing to be offered a series where the main character was over 40, had kids and had already lived a full range of experiences. Nothing came easy and there wasn't a hint of a Mary Sue moment. Jemisin never hesitated staring an ugly truth right in the eye and it really paid off. This was truly a 5-course meal of a trilogy. (Review added to all books in series) This was so good, I'll probably re-read the entire series again by the end of this year. ![]() ![]() We are introduced to the obese Edwin Black, living out his grand dreams in the seclusion of his mother’s house, but brought low by banal reality Black is both literally and metaphorically constipated. Yet many of the other strands are lighter and more optimistic, encapsulating the breadth of human experience. The book steers clear of the antique romance of the open plains for that, as Orange wryly notes: “we have… Kevin Costner saving us, John Wayne slaying us an Italian guy named Iron Eyes Cody playing our parts in movies”. Orange, himself a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes of Oklahoma, deals not just with several centuries of oppression of the Native American community (which a brief, dryly witty prologue deals with in a devastatingly matter-of-fact way), but how rites and tradition can seem comically anachronistic in a world of “glass, metal, rubber, and wires, the speed, the hurtling masses” in which “the city took us in”. The novel centres on the interconnected lives of a group of Native Americans – or Indians, as they call themselves, determined to reclaim a term more often used disparagingly. ![]() ![]() Oakland happens also to be Orange’s home town and provides the setting for the book, which has attracted many admiring reviews in the US. T he title of Tommy Orange’s bold debut novel is a reference to Gertrude Stein’s line about the city of her childhood, Oakland, California: “there is no there there”, she wrote. ![]() ![]() ![]() Grant recognized that between 18 the Union had not used its superior strength well, allowing the Confederate armies to survive. Instead, Grant gives the reader an inside account of the siege of Vicksburg, a battle of tremendous importance to the Union’s ultimate victory, which is often obscured because it ended on the same day as that more famous battle in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. There are no Bull Runs or Antietams here. Grant served in the West during the early years of the conflict. It is a perspective that differs from many military histories of the war. ![]() Grant then embarks on a gripping account of the Civil War from his own perspective. Instead, the words spill forth from the page and propel the reader through a brief description of his early life, his education at West Point, and his service in the war with Mexico. The writing does not suffer from Grant’s apparent haste. However, nearing the end of his life, and with his family’s financial security in doubt, Grant put forth a tremendous effort to tell the story of his military service. Grant had resolved not to write his memoirs. Moreover, Grant’s prose is clear and evocative, proving him to be a great writer,and the author of one of the finest examples of the military memoir. ![]() Most famous as a general, Grant’s life spans an important part of U.S. history, we should take time to reconsider one of the war’s most important figures, Ulysses S. As we look back on that momentous event in U.S. April 2015 marks the sesquicentennial of the end of the U.S. ![]() |