![]() ![]() Wormwood is surrounded on all sides by a ring called Quag (a place littered with deadly and ferocious beasts) where no Wug is ever believed to have set foot and come back alive. Wormwood is inhabited by creatures called Wugs (humans) and it is ruled by members of an elite club called The Council. Though their parents are still alive, yet the two have to fend for themselves as their parents are in a state of permanent inactivity (much like coma in our world). The Finisher by David Baldacci is about Vega Jane, a fifteen something girl who lives in a place called Wormwood, along with her brother John. Storytelling is no easy job and it especially requires a lot of skill and effort when you have the herculean task of making the audience believe in magical creatures and other such irrational concepts of the fantasy world. Unfortunately for me, that was not the case to be, for the very first book I read has put me off him completely. I have never read a David Baldacci book before, but from what I could gather from so many of my fellow book lovers is that he is indeed a master craftsman of words. ![]()
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![]() Someone who's taking deadly aim at Riley. ![]() As Cade and Trevor set their sights on Riley, however, they're unaware - until it's almost too late - that someone is targeting their fragile relationship. Convincing her that this is more than a temporary fling, though, will take every tool in their sensual arsenal. Yet it only takes one night with Riley to know she is their forever lady. When she finds he is a dom who requires her complete surrender, even when it comes to submitting to his best friend, Trevor Wellington, she finds herself willing and eager to embrace the sexual adventure.įrom their earliest days, Cade and Trevor have shared everything, including women. Her attraction to nightclub owner Kincade Marshall is instant, mind-blowing - and mutual. She just didn't expect it to start on her very first night in town. ![]() Riley Ramirez knew that moving to New York would change her life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Polly promises to meet Frank again in Galveston, Texas, where she will arrive in twelve years.īut when Polly is re-routed an extra five years into the future, Frank is nowhere to be found. If she signs up for a one-way-trip into the future to work as a bonded laborer, the company will pay for the life-saving treatment Frank needs. ![]() So she agrees to a radical plan-time travel has been invented in the future to thwart the virus. Frank has caught the virus and Polly will do whatever it takes to save him, even if it means risking everything. One will travel, and one will stay.Īmerica is in the grip of a deadly flu pandemic. In September 1981, Polly and Frank arrive at the time travel terminal at Houston Intercontinental Airport. “Lim paints a strange and unfamiliar world with her novel, full of fascinating social commentary on class differences, racism, and sexism.” - The Los Angeles Times In lucid prose, Lim lays bare the complexities of migration and displacement, while offering a clear-eyed meditation on the elusive nature of human devotion.” -Esi Edugyan, Man Booker Prize Finalist and author of Washington Black “Thea Lim’s An Ocean of Minutes is that rare thing-a speculative novel that is as heartfelt as it is philosophical. A shortlisted finalist for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the ALA 2019 Reading List for Science Fiction ![]() ![]() But who can she turn to for help?Ĭatching the train to Leicester, she goes in search of the one person who might take her in - even though she has no idea where they live. But this is the final straw for Maddie and she knows she must leave home. Her mother has convinced Maddie that she has no choice, as the child is illegitimate and the father has deserted her. ![]() She was born and raised in Leicester and now splits her time between a village in Leicestershire and her daughters holiday park in Epworth, North Lincs where she helps out as much as she can cleaning cottages, ironing mounds of bedding or cutting grass. When Maddie Ashman is tricked into giving up her baby for adoption she is utterly devastated. Lynda Page is the bestseller author of 35 novels, sales of over 1 1/2 million to date. Perfect for fans of Dilly Court and Kate Thompson. ![]() In Now or Never, Lynda Page writes a heart-warming saga of heartache, hope and learning to love again. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks. A young woman finds refuge in the most unlikely of places. Headline Publishing Group, 1999 - Domestic fiction - 282 pages. ![]() ![]() “ Bearing It All digs its claws into you and never lets go. But when Anisa’s enemies come knocking on his door, Ronan calls on a secret weapon to protect his turf and the bonny lass he’s come to love. What she doesn’t need is a brooding, muscle-bound Scot in a skimpy kilt to drive her crazy with lust. Hiding out in a remote cabin, Anisa just needs some time to clear her name. ![]() But what could she possibly be doing in this isolated stretch of the Highlands?įrench intelligence agent Anisa Brosseau never imagined she’d be on the CIA’s bad side-until she’s framed for treason and forced to flee in a stolen drone. Once he’s back in human form, Ronan is amused by the mysterious beauty’s fearless attitude-and tempted by her expertly toned physique. Instead of clawing her to death, Ronan’s inner bear longs to keep her safe. In the pine-dense mountains of the Scottish Highlands, shape-shifter Ronan Matheson is running free when a desperate woman parachutes out of the sky, directly onto his furry, powerful chest. A Scottish hunter and a French secret agent find themselves on a collision course with danger-and irresistible desire-in Vonnie Davis’s new bear-shifting Highlander novel, perfect for fans of Jennifer Ashley and Shelly Laurenston. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve long been an admirer of Laura’s writing, but over the past year, I’ve become an admirer or her enthusiasm for exploring her creativity in its many forms, and an admirer of her bravery in so openly sharing that exploration with us. Not just her doodles, but this other side of her creative self - a side that, reading her books, you might not have ever suspected was there. There were stretches where Laura posted a new bot doodle every single day, often with nothing more than a caption that read: “Your daily robot.” And I loved that. These were robot doodles.Īs an avid doodler, as someone who believes that everyone - yes, even you - both CAN and SHOULD draw, and as a lover of all things robot, I was interested and excited. A year or so ago, I noticed something curious: my friend, Laura Shovan - author of The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary, Takedown, and the forthcoming A Place at the Table, with Saadia Faruqi - all of a sudden began posting pictures of doodles. ![]() ![]() I will explain - we had a massive room (think 25sqm+). Via Veneto Rome |1.66km from city center There are many good qualities for this hotel, but one major flaw: the room furniture is so bad that this is a room just to sleep, not for anything else. The Hausler next door has a total priority policy for guests next to the De La Ville on their rooftop and indeed our existing hotel in Portifino the same. It detracted from the general quality of the hotel. ![]() Secondly,the appalling loud music at the bar was totally disruptive to a sophisticated enjoyment of the view trumpeted in the hotels advertising. Here the bar and the views were filled with locals paying 16 euros for a drink and the guests paying hundreds of euros each night could not get a seat.and the Restaurant above not open till 7.30. Firstly,we arrived at the rooftop bar to find it full of people not staying in the hotel and there was no priority whatsoever for guests of the hotel. ![]() and both relate to Cielo bar.a superb place for a visitor to Rome staying in the hotel to enjoy the great views of Rome particularly at sunset and a drink. It would have got 5 stars but for 2 things. I enjoyed the quality of the staff,the room ,the location and general quality of the Hotel. ![]() ![]() ![]() TFT Professor Fabian Wagmister will be the moderator. After the screening, Menkes, a 1989 graduate of TFT’s MFA production program, will be in conversation with Maya Smukler, a film scholar and author, and film editor Nancy Richardson. The event, hosted by the TFT Department of Film, Television and Digital Media, will begin with a reception at 6 p.m., followed by the screening at 7 p.m. The film features interviews with an all-star cast of women and non-binary industry professionals including Rosanna Arquette, Julie Dash and Catherine Hardwicke. Menkes shows how these not-so-subtle embedded messages are tied to sexual abuse and assault in Hollywood. The film illuminates the patriarchal narrative codes that hide within supposedly “classic” set-ups and camera angles and demonstrates how women are frequently displayed as objects for the use, support and pleasure of male subjects. Using clips from hundreds of movies - from “Metropolis” to “Vertigo” to “Phantom Thread” - Menkes makes the argument that shot design is gendered. Join the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television for a special screening of “Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power,” independent filmmaker Nina Menkes’ documentary about the sexual politics of cinematic shot design, at the James Bridges Theater. ![]() ![]() But Dex must accompany her, and if they are caught, the Xen Pterrans will likely kill them and declare war on the Unified Systems. ![]() The general offers to pardon Andi if she rescues his son, Valen, from an impenetrable Xen Pterran prison. Now dubbed the “Bloody Baroness,” Andi and her all-female crew of space pirates are planning their next heist when bounty hunter Dex Arez, Andi’s traitorous ex, captures the women and delivers them to Cortas. Andi fled Arcadius to avoid execution, becoming one of the most notorious criminals in the Unified Systems of Mirabel. ![]() Androma “Andi” Racella was a rising star in the Arcadian military until she accidentally crashed General Cortas’s personal transport vessel, killing his daughter, Kalee. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the Hercule Poirot novel The Clocks, the pseudonymous secret agent Colin Lamb is heavily implied to be the son of the now-retired Battle.īattle also has a secret professional life that is revealed in the denouement to The Seven Dials Mystery, but this is never referred to again. As it is, I shall have to put up with Bill." "Superintendent Battle, you are a wonderful man. ![]() The earliest mention of him being married is in The Seven Dials Mystery, when Eileen Brent says to him: ![]() Until Towards Zero the reader knows nothing of his domestic arrangements, but in this novel we learn the name of his wife ( Mary) and that he has five children, the youngest of whom ( Sylvia) unwittingly provides a key clue to the mystery. ![]() He conveys the impression that he is "carved out of wood", and also that the wood in question is "the timber out of a battleship". In Cards on the Table, Battle is described as a "big, square, wooden-faced man". Superintendent Battle is a fictional character created by Agatha Christie.īattle is notable for his stolid good sense, and he relies in part on the appearance of being a stupid or unimaginative police officer as a means to investigating his cases. His moustache is impressive, even to Hercule Poirot. ![]() |