![]() ![]() "In his sweet and swoon-worthy first novel, Janovsky perfectly captures all the hope and heartache of first love while writing romantic banter worthy of Nora Ephron at her best. But as their hazy summer becomes consumed with a special project that may just save the struggling drive-in for good, Wren and Derick are drawn ever-closer…and maybe, finally, Wren's dream of a perfect-kiss-before-the-credits is within reach.Ī feel-good summer LGBTQIA+ New Adult RomCom, perfect for fans of Red White & Royal Blue, Boyfriend Material, and What If It's Us. ![]() Wren's no longer a closeted teenager he can survive this. Too bad he doesn't feel the same way about the infamous almost-kiss that once rocked Wren's world. Everyone claims he's coasting on cinematic good looks and his father's connections, but Wren has always known there's much more to Derick than meets the eye. Right?Įnter Derick Haverford, Wren's #1 pre-coming-out-crush and his drive-in theater's new social media intern. ![]() Why stress about it? None of his could-have-beens are actually going to read the emails, much less respond. ![]() Morning brings the inevitable Oh God What Did I Do?, but he brushes that panic aside. Feeling nostalgic on the eve of his birthday, he sends emails to all the boys he (ahem) loved before he came out. Wren Roland has never been kissed, but he wants that movie-perfect ending more than anything. It's been a few years since we were together,īut I can't stop thinking about the time we almost. ![]()
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![]() The journey of every individual, every country, every historical epoch, of the entire universe and all it contains, is nothing but a series of changes, at times subtle, at times deep, without which we would stand still. One could say that the mechanisms of metamorphosis is the only element of life that never changes. ![]() Of undergoing one mutation after another. It was the void that distressed me, that I was fleeing.Writing, I discovered a way of hiding in my characters, of escaping myself. While the refusal to change was my mother's rebellion, the insistence on transforming myself is mine.All my life I've tried to get away from the void of my origin. ![]() ![]() “I am the daughter of a mother who would never change.The refusal to modify her aspect, her habits, her attitudes was strategy for resisting American culture, for fighting it, for maintaining her identity.When my mother returns to Calcutta, she is proud of the fact that, in spite of almost fifty years away from India, she seems like a woman who never left. ![]() ![]() And Neal Gabler wrote "Against The Wind: Edward Kennedy And The Rise Of Conservatism." NPR's Ron Elving has read them both. ![]() One is called "Ted Kennedy: A Life." It's by John Farrell. This fall has brought two enormous new biographies of Ted Kennedy, both by writers who have won numerous awards for earlier biographies on prominent figures. Senate and compiled an extraordinary record. ![]() And Edward, known as Ted or Teddy Kennedy, was a senator and part of the Democratic Party conversation, as well as the national conversation, from the 1960s until he died almost four decades later. ![]() His brother Robert was running for president when he was assassinated. Three Kennedy brothers were elected to the U.S. Before the rise of Donald Trump or Barack Obama or Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan, the definition of charisma in American politics was the Kennedys. ![]() ![]() Although I am in the middle of getting caught up with True Blood right now. I liked the Sookie Stackhouse series – until I stopped reading it. ![]() I remember enjoying them at some point, but I haven’t enjoyed one since … ever, according to my blog history. I … no longer know how I feel about the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series. Buffy and Dracula will always remain top spots in my heart, even if upon a second read I found Dracula to be boring. Here are the aspects of horror I enjoy: Vampire-related, to a point. ![]() BECAUSE I DON’T REALLY LIKE SCARY THINGS. Like, “hey, y’all, I see you’re writing about horror, GET A LOAD OF ME” and I may have flipped out a wee little bit. OKAY, SO, as I was writing that paragraph, a FUCKING HUGE SPIDER just FUCKING DROPPED from the ceiling. ![]() Buffy, The Vampire Diaries, Dracula – hell, The subtitle of this book is “Three Tales of Tenure and Terror”, and y’all should know by now that I have a … different relationship with the horror genre. Hynes’s next book, Kings of Infinite Space (which I still have yet to read – that’s been on my bookshelf for decades now). I found it at the library, and I think the only reason I picked it up was because I had heard good reviews of Mr. I first read this book years ago – like, I was still living with my parents, “years ago”. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the fog – yet I know I shall not lose her Washes her feet silently – then goes faraway, traceless She stands on the pond’s side in the evening,Īs if she will take the parched rice hued duckĪs if the fragrance of the quiltcover clings to her body,Īs if she is born out of watercress in the pond’s nest – Shall see sad feminine hands – white conch-banglesĬrying like conch shells in the ash-grey wind: The forest’s oak beckons it to its heart’s side, In the grass, darkness – once, twice – and then suddenly Its yellow leg under the white down goes on dancing ![]() Shall see the brown wings of shalik chill in the evening, Shall see jackfruit leaves dropping in the dawn’s breeze Go where you will – I shall remain on Bengal’s shore 79 in English (Anvil Press Poetry 2006 edition), 101 ( The Beauteous Bengal published by Mittal)ĩ78-0-85646-390-7 (of Bengal the beautiful), 978-0836422399 (of The Beauteous Bengal) ![]() ![]() ![]() MEMBER:Ĭhildren's Literature Association (Bay of Plenty branch, committee member), Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, New Zealand Children's Book Foundation, New Zealand Society of Authors. Speaker at schools and conferences in New Zealand, Australia, Denmark, and the United States. Writer-in-residence, University of Iowa, 1993. Part-time teacher's aide in primary schools, working with profoundly deaf children, 1979-87. Agent-Adams Literary, 7845 Colony Rd., C4 Ste. Hobbies and other interests: "Music, friends, conversation, and solitude to write." ADDRESSES: ![]() Education: Attended Tauranga Girls' College, 1962-64 two years of nursing training, 1967-68. Jordan, Sherryl 1949- (Sherryl Brogden) PERSONAL:īorn June 8, 1949, in Hawera, New Zealand daughter of Alan Vivian and Patricia Brogden married Lee Jordan, 1970 children: Kym. ![]() ![]() Lexi learns that she must trust the dreams in her heart and the God who put them there. With the fate of her career and her love life hanging by a thread, the phrase “piece of cake” has never been more daunting. Stir in a complicated relationship with her French beau Philippe and his daughter, Celine, then add a dash of romance with down-to-earth lawyer Dan, and life suddenly contains more ooh la la than Lexi can handle. Buy Tickets for Tracy Byrd at Cahoots Dancehall & Honkytonk Online. ![]() In over her head and at a loss for creative marketing ideas, Lexi isn’t sure what the recipe for success needs to be. Author Sandra Byrd understands the issues facing today’s girls and, taking her answers straight from the Bible, offers sound, godly advice. She’s put in charge of a high-end catering bakery called Bijoux, which should be her dream job, but there’s a catch: She has to make this lavish bakery into a successful business in just a few, short months, which will require more than her ability to make an amazing wedding cake. 61 Questions From Girls Like You Answering real life questions from girls ages eight to twelve, Girl Talk addressed what’s on girls’ minds faith, family, school, friends, and more. ![]() ![]() There, she finds life unexpectedly complicated. Having earned her chef’s hat, Lexi Stuart bids au revoir to her glamorous and deliciously satisfying pastry mentorship outside of Paris and returns to her hometown of Seattle, Washington. ![]() ![]() One hallmark of Briggs' books is that each book is a stand-alone story, and the reader is never left with a cliffhanger ending waiting for the next novel to figure out what happened. More recently, she has announced there will be at least seven novels in her best-selling "Mercy Thompson" series. ![]() Raven's Shadow and Raven's Strike are an honest duology, with a single story line spanning both novels. Dragon Bones and Dragon Blood share both the same world and the same characters, though both are complete stories. With better sales, and correspondingly higher confidence in selling her next work, she was able to begin writing multi-book stories. Her career showed a slow, steady increase in sales and readership over the next several books. Fortunately, she was eventually able to sell the next book Steal the Dragon which garnered substantially better sales and some favorable editorial reviews. ![]() Sales on her first book were abysmal, which very nearly ended her career. An account of her first publication can be found at. She now resides in Washington state.īriggs began writing in 1990, and published her first novel Masques in 1993. ![]() She was born in Butte, Montana, and lived in various cities in the Pacific Northwest. ![]() Patricia Briggs (born 1965) is an American author best known for her Mercy Thompson urban fantasy series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Until then, Stephanie makes it her business to meet up with all the city's most dangerous characters from the underground and up. Plus, there's the Morelli question: can a Jersey girl keep her head on straight when more than just bullets are aiming for her heart? And with Stephanie and Morelli on the rocks, is it time for Ranger to move in for the kill? To The Nines The pursuit of a skip takes Stephanie, Lula, and Grandma to Vegas, where three mob guys will do whatever it takes to make sure it's a one-way ticket. But things aren't always as they seem-and soon Stephanie must determine if she's working for the right side of the law. ![]() When a child is kidnapped by his own father, Stephanie is hired to find them both. ![]() Twice the trouble and double the fun-two Stephanie Plum novels in one special edition! Hard Eight Stephanie, along with Morelli, Ranger, Lula, Valerie, Grandma Mazur, and Mooner, is strapped in for the ride of a lifetime. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In his first collection, North American Lake Monsters, Nathan Ballingrud carved out a distinctly singular place in American fiction with his “piercing and merciless” (Toronto Globe and Mail) portrayals of the monsters that haunt our lives-both real and imagined: “What Nathan Ballingrud does in North American Lake Monsters is to reinvigorate the horror tradition” (Los Angeles Review of Books). A gripping collection of six stories of terror-including the novella “The Visible Filth,” the basis for the upcoming major motion picture-by Shirley Jackson Award–winning author Nathan Ballingrud, hailed as a major new voice by Jeff VanderMeer, Paul Tremblay, and Carmen Maria Machado-“one of the most heavyweight horror authors out there” (The Verge). ![]() |