![]() The Amish of Apple Grove and Seattle Brides series along with the novel Lost Melody were written with Virginia Smith. The Heavenly Daze series was written with Angela Hunt. A Case of Nosy Neighbors was released under the alternate title of Nosy Neighbors. A Case of Crooked Letters is also titled Crooked Letters. A Case of Bad Taste is also known as Bad Taste. The Courtship of Cade Kolby was also published as A Kiss for Cade. Promise Me Forever is also known as Amelia and the Captain. Promise Me Tomorrow is also titled My Heart Stood Still. Notes: Promise Me Today was also published as Sisters of Mercy Flats. Amant)Īutumn Brides (By: Kathryn Springer,Katie Ganshert,Beth K. Winter Brides (By: Denise Hunter,Deborah Raney,Betsy St. ![]() ![]() Bluebonnet Belle / Angel Face and Amazing GraceĪ June Bride (By: Marybeth Mayhew Whalen) ![]()
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![]() The Little Buckeye Children’s Museum has contributed to the rejuvenation of downtown Mansfield, according to founder Donna Farland-Smith. Shelley Shepard Gray lives in Loveland, in southwest Ohio. A third book in the series has not been announced. ![]() Her Secret (247 pages) and His Guilt (272 pages) cost $12.99 each from Avon Inspire, a division of HarperCollins. Is Mark the culprit, or Calvin, or a third party? ![]() The sheriff and Waneta are convinced of Mark’s innocence, but things look bad for Calvin, who’s been taking out his anger on a local girl. Calvin also has returned, looking to claim his half of the shabby house the brothers have inherited coincidentally, another young woman has been assaulted. She learns about his history of abuse at the hands of his alcoholic parents, who were only nominally Amish and caused Mark and his younger brother Calvin to go hungry. Many locals still avoid Mark, but after an uneasy day or two, Waneta becomes friendly with him. Two years later, he has returned to Hart County and taken a job in a plant nursery, where he works with Waneta Cain. He wasn’t charged, but most community members believed in his guilt, and he disappeared. Mark Fisher was accused of the assault of a young woman. Book Two, His Guilt, takes the unusual perspective of being from the man’s point of view. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Darius has a lot of skill as a writer, Twig is a long distance running champ, and they both want nothing more than to show not only the world, but themselves, that they aren’t the Harlem stereotype of gun-wielding thugs. They live in a neighborhood that sees a lot of violence, and they are surrounded by people who don’t want them to succeed. “Darius & Twig” focuses on two boys (you guessed it, Darius and Twig) who live in Harlem. Reading Walter Dean Myers’s “Darius & Twig” reminded me how important it is to think about worlds outside of my own, even if it is just through a book. I rarely ever escape outside of my Los Angeles world, going to the same restaurants and hanging out at the same spots over and over. ![]() It is so easy for us to get stuck inside our personal little bubbles. ![]() ![]() It gets weird in the ways of the Clockwork Boys stories, with strange creatures on a road that disappears and reappears, bandits, murderers, ruthless priests, not-ruthless lawyer priests, a gnoll that drives the ox, an ox named Prettyfoot, hands-down the nastiest aunt I’ve found in a book in quite some time, and a clammy-handed man who nobody should marry.Īnd then somehow everything works out and the people who need to be dead are dead and the people who you were kind of hoping would be dead are banged up at least, and the people who should be in love are in love. This book is the story of Sarkis, a man whose spirit has been placed in a sword, and Halla, a 36 year old widow who was planning to kill herself with the sword until a warrior appareted into her bedroom when she tried to do the deed. ![]() Screaming birds generally aren’t put in the plot for no reason and this bird is way too much a Chekhov’s Bird to just be sitting there.Īnyway, this book is fantastic, and I’m now hungry for the next two. Kingfisher was the beginning of a trilogy when the bird slipped through a plot hole there at the end and didn’t amount to anything. ![]() I probably should have known Swordheart by T. ![]() ![]() Her brothers are dead, her armies and their war mammoths long defeated and caged behind their borders. With the heart of an Atwood tale and the visuals of a classic Asian period drama, Nghi Vo's The Empress of Salt and Fortune is a tightly and lushly written narrative about empire, storytelling, and the anger of women.Ī young royal from the far north, is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of imperial China. ![]() Named a Best of 2020 Pick for NPR | Library Journal | NYPL | Chicago Public Library | The Austen Chronicle | Autostraddle Named Book Riot's Best Book Cover of 2020 "Nghi Vo is one of the most original writers we have today."-Taylor Jenkins Reid on Siren QueenĪ 2020 ALA Booklist Top Ten SF/F Debut | A Book Riot Must-Read Fantasy of 2020 | A Paste Most Anticipated Novel of 2020 | A Library Journal Debut of the Month | A Buzzfeed Must-Read Fantasy Novel of Spring 2020 | A Washington Post Best SFF of the Year So Far Pick The Empress of Salt and Fortune is a remarkable accomplishment of storytelling."-NPR "Dangerous, subtle, unexpected and familiar, angry and ferocious and hopeful. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Holly held the blue cotton sweater to her face and the familiar smell immediately struck her, an overwhelming grief knotting her stomach and pulling at her heart. Life is for living, she realises–but it always helps if there’s an angel watching over you. With some help from her friends, and her noisy and loving family, Holly finds herself laughing, crying, singing, dancing–and being braver than ever before. The man who knows her better than anyone sets out to teach her that life goes on. As the notes are gradually opened, and as the year unfolds, Holly is both cheered up and challenged. He’s left her a bundle of notes, one for each of the months after his death, gently guiding Holly into her new life without him, each note signed ‘PS, I Love You’. ![]() But as her 30th birthday looms, Gerry comes back to her. No one could imagine Holly and Gerry without each other. Childhood sweethearts, they could finish each other’s sentences and even when they fought, they laughed. Everyone needs a guardian angel! Some people wait their whole lives to find their soul mates. ![]() ![]() OF COURSE, this book wasn't all sunshine and rainbows but that's the best thing about dark romance. The bathing and cooking scenes were simply the best. He opened up to Cecily and there were so many amazing scenes. What I really loved about him, was how he started softening for Cecily bit by bit and started realising that he didn't always have to hold the burdens and responsibilities he has inside. Let me tell you, they did not disappoint! As always Rina Kent just knows how to write a brutal, dark, possessive and obsessive hero. ![]() I was excited to read their story from the glimpses we had gotten of the characters as individuals and how they interacted with in each other, in the previous books. I was obsessed with Jeremy and Cecily the entire way through the book. AND by far my favourite narrators as well! Their voices were perfectly cast for these characters and it was such an enjoyable experience to listen to. This was my favourite in the series so far for sure. ![]() ![]() ![]() Vic was a great source of comic relief and I loved the interaction between him and 'his ghost' in 'Afterlife'. By far, Balthazar is my favorite character and I'm quite happy he's getting his own series! And let's not forget Vic. Without Balthazar or Vic, I don't know if I would have seen this series in the same light. I'm probably alone in this, but Bianca and Lucas, well, they kind of got on my nerves throughout the series. My favorite thing about this novel (and series) has to be the secondary characters. ![]() Once we started to learn all the secrets we've been waiting to hear for the past four years, that's when the novel really picked up. I think it had something to do with the fact that the majority of the 'big reveals' were in the second half of the novel. The first hundred pages of the novel dragged a bit. Most loose ends are tied up, especially in terms of Bianca and Lucas' relationship. 'Afterlife' is a fine conclusion to the 'Evernight' series. ![]() Last we saw them in 'Hourglass', it seemed like all was lost, but Gray had much more planned for her characters! 'Afterlife' completes Bianca and Lucas' story. 'Evernight' still isn't my favorite book, but the sequels have gotten steadily better and better. I did and, you know what? I'm happy I continued on. Quite honestly, I had given up on the series until my mother (yes, my mother) decided to continue on with it and told me I had to read the rest. If you've looked at my review for 'Evernight', the beginning of this series, you'll see that I was a bit let down by that title. ![]() ![]() Sitting down to write this post I’ve suddenly remembered I vowed to start using my collection of reference books again. ![]() Literary, full of mystery and mythological references, it differs from the modern epics, but readers of, say, Gaiman or Clarke will be satisfied. Readers beware, magic comes at high cost here and every bit of happiness is accompanied by pain and loss.īeautifully written, well thought-through, this is bona fide fantasy at its best, and not a cheap Tolkien rip-off of a kind that plagued fantasy sections of bookshops in the 70-ties and 80-ties. Novels that draw inspiration from Celtic mythology and the classic tropes of fantasy to create something original and mysterious, but decidedly not hear-warming. Robert Paul Holdstock was a British s/f and fantasy writer best known for his Ryhope Woods sequence. Edition: Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks, Paperback I love this series! Only one shelf now, but expanding… ![]() ![]() ![]() Will doesn't see his father very often because of the hours he puts in at the office. Will's dad works for an international trading company and has to wake up early every morning to commute to his office on the eighty-fifth floor in the south building of the World Trade Center in Manhattan. His father doesn't even have an exciting job like his best friend James's father who is a fireman. As part of a school assignment, all the students in his class will be going to their parents tomorrow, but Will isn't excited about it-he'd rather sleep in and do nothing with his friends. Today is September 10, 2001, and Will, a grade nine student, is spending the day at his father's workplace tomorrow. Book Synopsis A novel from one of the country's most prolific and popular YA authors, this book, set in New York City on September 11th, shows us how the experiences of that day profoundly changed one teen's life and relationships. ![]() |