![]() ![]() And Nicola will do anything to be pretty. And Lexi.Lexi is down on her luck and totally broke. Nicola, is an almost-famous actress who believes that one little plastic surgery fix is just what she needs to put her over the edge into fame. She struggles with her weight and for approval from her constantly-criticizing boyfriend. Today, Holly is a successful gallery owner, who has put her own artistic dreams on hold. And they never realize the secret pain that Lexi holds very close, and how their need for revenge costs Lexi a great deal. But they never dream that this one act will have repercussions that will reach into the future, even twenty years later. One night, Holly and Nicola team up to pull one, daring act of vengeance. Nicola was the shy, plain one who wanted nothing more than to be beautiful. Holly was the plump one, a dreamer who longed to be an artist. ![]() Twenty years ago, when they were teenagers, Holly and Nicola were the outsiders at summer camp. ![]() From the New York Times bestselling author of Hope In a Jar, Secrets of a Shoe Addict, and Shoe Addicts Anonymous, comes a novel about old rivalries, deep secrets, and the three things all women wish they were ![]()
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7/6/2023 0 Comments Pirate Queens by Leigh Lewis![]() ![]() ![]() Over the years, her family grows, and she continues the struggle, eventually confronting English Queen Elizabeth in a dramatic meeting where the two earn each other’s respect. Grace recruits an army of rejected sailors and eager, motivated women and takes the battle to the English and treacherous Irish clans in revenge. Later the English paid Irish traitors to try to capture Grace and end up killing her husband. Now a member of the crew, she voyages to aid one of her family’s Scottish friends across the sea and manages to earn the enmity of an English nobleman and spirit a very young Scottish Queen Mary away to safety. With the help of sympathetic crewmen, she cuts her fiery red hair and stows away aboard her father’s ship, ultimately saving him from assassination in Spain. “Black Oak” O’Malley wants his daughter to grow up refined and educated as befits her station, but Grace prefers wielding a sword and going to sea to smash the English enemy which is striving to subdue Ireland. In 1546, young Grace O’Malley is the daughter of a powerful chieftain in Western Ireland. Pirate Queen: The Legend of Grace O’Malley ![]() ![]() ![]() This is effective at times, but at other times the verse feels flat: “I don’t have a glass of water. / I listen for the shower, but / it’s already off, / so / I can’t go get one now.” While the conclusion is a little too pat and rushed, the blend of mystery, burgeoning romance (between Kyle and the girl), and historical elements has appeal to a wide variety of readers and makes this a solid contribution to the growing body of 9/11 YA fiction.įrom the November/December 2016 issue of The Horn Book Magazine. The mysterious girl’s free-verse narration (much of which takes place inside her head) is interspersed with Kyle’s prose. ![]() He already has enough to worry about - his dad is a police officer involved in the rescue effort, his mom and younger sister are supposed to be flying home from L.A., and his uncle, paralyzed in an earlier accident that broke his spine, needs dedicated care - not to mention Kyle’s anxiety surrounding the unknown (Who attacked the towers? Will there be more attacks?) and the lack of reliable communication during the disaster. ![]() And scared” - and promptly takes her home with him to try to help figure out who she is. ![]() He’s drawn to her - “She looks sweet and lost. Sixteen-year-old Brooklynite Kyle, fleeing toward home, stumbles upon a teenage girl wearing a pair of costume wings who, it turns out, has severe amnesia. Martin’s Griffin GoodReads Summary: The powerful story of two teenagers finding friendship, comfort, and first love in the days following 9/11 as their fractured city tries to put itself back together. It’s the morning of September 11, 2001, in Manhattan, and the first tower has just fallen. The Memory of Things Author: Gae Polisner Published: Septemby St. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some things are a bit unrealistic, like most characters being accepting of homosexuals when at that period, their attitudes would have been harsher. ![]() ![]() Original Sin is purely a fun adventure novel. All the while, their love for each other becomes more evident. Both women, besides meeting colorful people, experience a storm at sea, sword fights and ship battles. When Gayle is asked to rescue a woman kidnapped by slave traders, Celia decides to come along for the adventure. Both are drawn to the other, though they playfully banter and play hard to get. After Celia tends to the wounded, she and Gayle become better acquainted. The doctor’s fiancée, Celia Pierce, is kidnapped instead for her skills as a seamstress while her spineless betrothed cowers in the next room. ![]() She orders her men to go into town and kidnap a doctor to help heal the injured. In 1702, Gayle Malvern, a pirate captain’s daughter, must take command of the ship, Original Sin, when her father is wounded in a battle. With two lesbian leads, this book will appeal to some who, like me, can’t get enough of lesbian/pirate fiction. Readers who like an entertaining and witty read about female pirates and swashbuckling adventures will find The Sublime and Spirited Voyage of Original Sin by Colette Moody as a good starting point. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dickens was adamant that A Christmas Carol be published as a high-quality, stand-alone book. ![]() However, in an interesting turn of events, Dickens paid the publishing costs himself. Technically speaking, A Christmas Carol was published by Chapman & Hall. Charles Dickens, through the voice of Scrooge, continues to urge us to honour Christmas in our hearts and try to keep it all the year round. The book is as popular today as it was over 150 years ago. A Christmas Carol, probably the most popular piece of fiction that Charles Dickens ever wrote, was published in 1843. Charles John Huffam Dickens, an English writer and social critic, edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed readings extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social reforms. ![]() ![]() ![]() Acclaimed historians Frances and Joseph Gies focus on a high point of medieval civilization-before war and the Black Death ravaged Europe-providing a fascinating window into the sophistication of a period we too often dismiss as backward. Reissued for the first time in decades, Life in a Medieval City is the classic account of the year 1250 in the city of Troyes, in modern-day France. Martin in creating the world of Game of Thrones. ![]() Medieval history comes alive in Frances and Joseph Gies's Life in a Medieval City, used as a research resource by George R. ![]() Martin, author of the series A Song of Ice and Fire Life in a Medieval Castle and Life in a Medieval City, both by Joseph and Frances Gies." -George R.R. "Some particular books I found useful for A Game of Thrones and its sequels deserve mention. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nabokov it isn't, but certainly better than the 1982 film with Dudley Moore & Mary Tyler Moore. There was, however, a certain charm to Six Weeks (1976), told by a married aspirant for a Democratic senatorial nomination who becomes infatuated with a cold-cream heiress, largely at the behest of her 11-year-old, would-be nymphet daughter who, beset by cancer, has less than two months to live. Mephisto Waltz by Fred Mustard Stewart, 1969, Coward,McCann & Geoghegan, Coward McCann and Geoghegan edition, Hardcover. With The Methuselah Enzyme, Stewart showed wit, but it was clear that it wasn't Henry James. By the 1960s, he realised he wasn't going to succeed as a pianist & with marriage to a literary agent, Joan Richardson, in 1967, he began to write, & found immediate success with The Mephisto Waltz. Born in Anderson, IN, he was the son of a banker &, after the Lawrenceville school, near Princeton, NJ, he studied history at Princeton University & later piano at the Juilliard School in Manhattan. Year in, year out, the 600-page mark didn't daunt him, a far cry as this was from early hopes as life as a concert pianist, something which had inspired his 1st novel The Mephisto Waltz (1968) which also began his lucrative connection with the film industry. ![]() Stewart came to be best known for his intercontinental sagas. ![]() American popular novelist, several of whose books were filmed. ![]() ![]() The label consists of clothing, shoes, jewelry and bedding. That year, she teamed up with Khol’s to create LC by Lauren Conrad, which is available nationwide to this day. In 2008, the actress started The Lauren Conrad Collection, but folded the brand a year later due to poor sales. Lauren Has Worked in Fashion and Business ![]() She also played a fictionalized version of herself in the 2007 comedy Epic Movie. Over the years, Lauren has been seen in guest-starring roles on Family Guy and Greek. The reality TV star has also appeared in some scripted projects - so you could say she’s an actress in her own right. Lauren has also appeared as a guest judge on America’s Next Top Model. The series ran for six seasons, but Lauren left halfway through season 5 and was replaced by Kristin. After the second season, she left the show and joined The Hills, which followed her experience in college while living with castmates Heidi Montag, Audrina Patridge and Whitney Port. ![]() ![]() The California native became famous overnight while starring alongside high school friends Lo Bosworth, Kristin Cavallari and Stephen Colletti in MTV’s Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, which documented their journeys through school in an elite neighborhood. From ‘Laguna Beach’ to Now! See Kristin Cavallari's Total Transformation ![]() ![]() ![]() The Sylum society is interesting in a number of ways. I just got completely sucked into the story. The first part of this book was an incredibly engaging and intense story. Now Gaia will find herself not only in a power struggle with the powerful woman ruler of asylum, but with her heart torn between multiple the multiple men who woo her. ![]() But when Gaia fails to comply with the strict rules of Sylum her sister is taken away and she is forced into seclusion. Sylum is in desperate need of a midwife though, so they are greatful for Gaia. For a man to even touch or kiss a woman is taboo and considered rape. Sylum is a place where the men vastly out number the women but a woman rule’s the city. Gaia has traveled the wasteland with her baby sister Maya only to be captured by the people of Sylum. I enjoyed this book overall, it was very engaging and Gaia has to face a hard situation that is both the same and opposite of the one she faced in Birthmarked. There is also a short story called Tortured that will be released in early Dec 2011 that bridges the time between Birthmarked and Prized. This is the second book in the Prized trilogy, the third book entitled Promised is due out later in 2012. I got an eGalley of this book through NetGalley(dot)com. Stand Alone or Series: 2nd book in the Birthmarked trilogy ![]() ![]() ![]() So I attended and received salvation and lost my roommate. ![]() I thought that is what they meant by church. Well the Lord had other plans for me my neighbors were Christians and they had a friend that played guitar it was the guitar that attracted me to church. Not the same as Ancient Buddha which they only found artifacts of a Buddha sitting yoga style. This was founded by Soka Gakkai in 1930 by Tsunesaburo Makiguchi (1871-1944. Fulfilling worldly desires that brings enlightenment, which can be achieved in a life time. The main chanting of mantra was enlightenment, propsperty, and healing from chanting nam-myoho-renge-kyo expressing devotion to the law of karma. They held to a monistic view believing that there is no separation between Creator and Creature but being protected by Buddhist, Hindu, and Shinto gods regarded as spiritual forces. The Major Writings of Nichiren Daishonin Plus writings of Daisaku Ikeda. ![]() My friend and I had trained during electronics in the making of pc boards, she was Japanese and we became friends and she introduced me to the Lotus Sutra. ![]() I had no God previously since 1976 and I was introduced to Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism that came in after Gautama Siddhartha Buddhism which came down from the Primal Buddhism which there are no ancient writings just artifacts. ![]() |