![]() Two people brought together by the trappings of duty and politics will discover they are destined for each other, even as the powers of a hostile kingdom scheme to tear them apart. Bound to her new husband, Ildiko will leave behind all she’s known to embrace a man shrouded in darkness but with a soul forged by light. Resigned to her fate, she is horrified to learn that her intended groom isn’t just a foreign aristocrat but the younger prince of a people neither familiar nor human. ![]() Ildiko, niece of the Gauri king, has always known her only worth to the royal family lay in a strategic marriage. Always a dutiful son, Brishen agrees to the marriage and discovers his bride is as ugly as he expected and more beautiful than he could have imagined. ![]() A trade and political alliance between the human kingdom of Gaur and the Kai kingdom of Bast-Haradis requires that he marry a Gauri woman to seal the treaty. Brishen Khaskem, prince of the Kai, has lived content as the nonessential spare heir to a throne secured many times over. Summary: The Prince of No ValueBrishen Khaskem, prince of the Kai, has lived content as. ![]()
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![]() Her terrifying depiction of North Korea from the night sky, where the entire area is blacked out from failure of the electrical grid, contrasts vividly with the propaganda on the ground below urging the country's worker-citizens to believe that they are the envy of the world. As she reveals, “ordinary” life in North Korea by the 1990s became a parade of horrors, where famine killed millions, manufacturing and trade virtually ceased, salaries went unpaid, medical care failed, and people became accustomed to stepping over dead bodies lying in the streets. Staffer and former Seoul bureau chief, draws out details of daily life that would not otherwise be known to Western eyes because of the near-complete media censorship north of the arbitrary border drawn after Japan's surrender ending WWII. ![]() ![]() A fascinating and deeply personal look at the lives of six defectors from the repressive totalitarian regime of the Republic of North Korea, in which Demick, an L.A. ![]() ![]() Not one for hook-ups or casual sex, Emma is reluctant to take him up on his offer, but his charm, coupled with her intense desire for motherhood, wins out. He will father Emma's child, but she must conceive it with him naturally. After Aidan learns of Emma's predicament, he is quick to offer a proposition that will benefit them both. When Emma spurns his advances at the company Christmas party, he's determined to have her no matter what it takes. Resident company womanizer, Aidan Fitzgerald, is used to always getting what he wants, especially in the bedroom. ![]() Of course, there’s always a sperm bank, but Emma fears a donor mix-up might impregnate her with the spawn of Satan. She’s running out of options, especially after her gay best friend backs out from being her sperm donor. ![]() With her thirtieth birthday looming, Emma Harrison finds her biological clock clanging and the elusive knight in shining armor yet to appear. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a book that seems designed just for me. This was one of the books that I was most excited about after BEA. But as Albert’s fame grows, so too does Mileva’s worry that her light will be lost in her husband’s shadow forever.” There, she falls for charismatic fellow student Albert Einstein, who promises to treat her as an equal in both love and science. ![]() In 1896, the extraordinarily gifted Mileva is the only woman studying physics at an elite school in Zürich. “What secrets may have lurked in the shadows of Albert Einstein’s fame? His first wife, Mileva “Mitza†Marić, was more than the devoted mother of their three children—she was also a brilliant physicist in her own right, and her contributions to the special theory of relativity have been hotly debated for more than a century. The Other Einstein: A Novelby Marie Benedict ![]() ![]() ![]() “Banning ‘The Storyteller’ is shocking, as it is about the Holocaust and has never been banned before,” Picoult said in an email to The Washington Post, calling book bans a “breach of freedom of speech and freedom of information.” According to Picoult, most of her books have nary a kiss in them but do include “gay characters, and issues like racism, disability, abortion rights, gun control, and other topics that might make a kid think differently from their parents.” In their justification for the bans, officials from the heavily Republican county cite a mind-bogglingly vague directive from the Florida Department of Education that tells educators to ban any book they wouldn’t feel “comfortable reading aloud. officer, as well as nearly 20 other books by bestselling author Jodi Picoult. What’s on the chopping block-or bonfire-this time? For southeast Florida’s Martin County, it’s The Storyteller, a novel about the unlikely relationship between the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors and an aging S.S. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and children. ![]() Ron DeSantis has declared war on books, and the battle over kids’ freedom to read is under way at schools across the state. Jodi Picoult is the author of twenty-four internationally bestselling novels, including My Sisters Keeper, The Storyteller and Small Great Things, and has also co-written two YA books with her daughter Samantha van Leer, Between the Lines and Off the Page. ![]() ![]() The ivy had reached for the tree and only the tree's upper branches managed to thrust the young gold leaves of early summer through the strangling curtain.Įventually the ivy would kill it. Their deception will spark a powder-keg of ambition, obsession and long-dead love. But as I mentioned before, Stewart seems particularly fascinated by Jane Eyre and prone to include references in different ways. ![]() There’s also a Shakespeare reference right on the first page. It will make a rich inheritance for its heirs, but in order to secure it, they enlist the help of a young woman named Mary who bears remarkable resemblance to missing Whitescar heiress, Annabel Winslow. Mary Grey had come from Canada to the land of her forebears: Northumberland, where Hadrian built his wall nearly 2000 years ago. The Ivy Tree is no differentwe start off with an old folk song for an epigraph and each chapter is headed with another bit of a folk song. ![]() And there stood one of the angriest, most threatening young men Mary had ever seen. As she savored the ordered, spare beauty of England’s northern fells, the silence was shattered by the shout of a single name: Annabel. ![]() 'There are few to equal Mary Stewart' Daily Telegraph'Mary Stewart is magic.' New York TimesWhitescar is a beautiful old house and farm situated in Roman Wall country. Mary Grey had come from Canada to the land of her forebears: Northumberland. ![]() Mary Stewart, one of the great British storytellers of the 20th century, transports her readers to rural Northumberland for this tale of romance, ambition, and deceit - a perfect fit for fans of Agatha Christie and Barbara Pym. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They can only hope that a wedding might be just the occasion to heal the resentment and jealousy that divides them. Which means working alongside her opinionated oldest sister, Johanna, who always seems ready for a fight. But with her middle sister Jillian's engagement, Payton's party-planning skills are called into action. No longer half of a pair, Payton reinvents herself as a partner in a successful party-planning business and is doing just fine-as long as she manages to hold her memories and her family at arm's length. "With tenderness and skill, Beth Vogt examines the price of secrets, the weight of tragic loss, and the soul-deep poison of things left unsaid." -Lisa Wingate, NYT bestselling author of Before We Were Yours It's been ten years since Payton Thatcher's twin sister died in an accident, leaving the entire family to cope in whatever ways they could. ![]() ![]() ![]() Extending friendship and kindness, as well as introductions around the local café, Jack assumes a grandfatherly role. ![]() The Taylors are new to Anthem, and Jack soon discovers that Charlie and his mom, Claire, are struggling to fit in, even as Charlie’s dad, Dan, is thriving in his new job. When ten-year-old Charlie Taylor arrives at Jack’s workshop shortly thereafter, he’s not the first kid in town to need help with a flat tire, and Jack gladly makes the repair to his bike. But Jack is a stickler for honesty, and Lib’s long-dormant secret threatens to unravel their lives. Married nearly three decades but living in separate houses (to the confusion but acceptance of their neighbors), they enjoy an ease and comfort together in small-town Anthem, Wisconsin. Fiercely independent, Lib has never revealed her son’s existence-or her previous marriage-to her husband, Jack. ![]() One summer evening, Lib Hanson is confronted by her painful past when Matt Marlow, the forty-year-old son she abandoned as an infant, shows up on her porch. In a family built on honesty, when does a secret become a lie? Luis Alberto Urrea, Pulitzer Prize finalist and best-selling author of The Devil’s Highway and The House of Broken Angels But Maggie Ginsberg has written that book. ![]() “It’s a rare experience to feel gratitude for a book’s pleasures on nearly every page. ![]() ![]() ![]() Engaging writing style makes for an enjoyable read.Compelling look at the science of the paranormal.She highlights the challenges involved in studying these elusive phenomena and offers insights into why we are drawn to believe in them. Mary Roach provides a comprehensive overview of this field, introducing us to researchers who investigate phenomena such as out-of-body experiences, hauntings, and psychokinesis. ![]() For who is this book for ?įuzz is for readers who want to know more about the scientific study of paranormal activity. Along the way she highlights just how difficult it is to apply science to these elusive phenomena–and offers insights into why we want to believe in them anyway. She introduces us to researchers who study topics such as out-of-body experiences, hauntings, psychokinesis, and more. ![]() In Fuzz, Mary Roach takes readers on a tour of the strange and often startling world of scientific investigation into the paranormal. ![]() ![]() ![]() But de Gerlache’s plans to be first to the magnetic South Pole would swiftly go awry. His destination was the uncharted end of the earth: the icy continent of Antarctica. ![]() Madhouse at the End of the Earth has it all.”-Stacy Schiff “Julian Sancton has deftly rescued this forgotten saga from the deep freeze.”-Hampton Sides In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expedition aboard the good ship Belgica with dreams of glory. The harrowing true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry-with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter“Deserves a place beside Alfred Lansing’s immortal classic Endurance.”-Nathaniel Philbrick “A riveting tale, splendidly told. ![]() |