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Marry in Haste by Anne Gracie5/23/2023 ![]() Major Calbourne Rutherford – Cal to his friends – has spent the last decade fighting England’s enemies on the continent. There’s an entertaining secondary cast who likewise develop as the tale progresses, the romance is just lovely and I turned the final page feeling thoroughly satisfied with the outcome and confident that this hero and heroine were going to be happy together long after they’d reached their HEA. The two principals are beautifully drawn, well-rounded characters, and the hero – who is simply adorable – experiences a lot of of genuine personal growth throughout, something the author shows us beautifully without feeling the need to post signposts or drop anvils on our heads. ![]() But the premise of a hastily arranged marriage of convenience drew me like a moth to a flame, and I’m so glad it did because this is a delightful book and I loved it to bits. ![]() ![]() I will admit that I was a little apprehensive about picking up Marry in Haste, the first in Anne Gracie’s new Marriage of Convenience series, having been rather disappointed with the last couple of books in her Chance Sisters quartet. ![]()
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The Story Of Santa Claus by Tom Paxton5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() He spent the next years honing his skills and for a short time was part of the folk music collective Cedar Lake, which also included Gord Lowe, Brent Titcomb,ĭavid Essig, as well as Rogers’s friend and future producer, Paul Mills. Of turning him into a novelty act, Canada’s answer to Burl Ives, Rogers moved on. ![]() While still at teacher’s college in 1970, he was signed to RCA Canada and released the single, “Here’s to You, Santa Claus.” Uninterested in RCA’s vision Rogers began his professional career in 1969, working the Ontario and Maritime folk club andįestival circuits. Songs by American country star Jimmie Rodgers and earning five dollars. In 1963, at age 14, Rogers made his professional debut at the Ebony Knight coffee house in Hamilton, performing Guitar on a homemade instrument built by his uncle, Lee Bushell. He showed an earįor music at an early age and taught himself to play Hank Snow and Wilf Carter to traditional fiddle music, left a lasting impression on him. The musical culture of the region, from country artists like Born and raised in Hamilton, Stan Rogers spent childhood summers in Nova Scotia, mainly in his mother’s ![]()
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![]() I was absolutely intrigued from the very beginning of this story and simply could not put the book down…Elise Stokes ranks up there with other YA masterminds! This is a definite must -read book! She was a complete kick-butt heroine who pulled out an arsenal of moves and weapons… Not only that, but Stokes painted vivid pictures in my mind with her fantastic use of imagery…Įverything about this book sucked me in completely…nail-biting action scenes kept the story flowing at a perfect pace, pulling me along on the roller-coaster ride that was Cassidy's life. I was hooked from the beginning…The plot was generally original, the climax was pretty epic, and the story had some complex concepts that were explained incredibly well. ![]() The plot is original and exciting and the characters well-rounded… Highly recommended!Ī hip, fast-paced adventure chock full of issues young people can relate to. ![]() Book One - Cassidy Jones and the Secret Formulaīrimful of danger, secrets, a bit of romance and fun, this debut author’s entertaining plot and well-drawn characters not only is all it promises to be, but will leave readers looking for more. ![]()
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2001 by Arthur C. Clarke5/23/2023 ![]() After graduating from middle school in nearby Taunton, Clarke left home to find work in 1936. ![]() The eldest of four children born into a farming family, Clarke became fascinated with science and astronomy at an early age, scanning the stars with a homemade telescope and filling his head with sci-fi tales from magazines like Astounding Stories.Īfter his father suddenly passed away, the financial hardships his family endured precluded Clarke from attending university despite his bright, inquisitive mind. Early LifeĪrthur Charles Clarke was born on December 16, 1917, in the coastal town of Minehead in southwestern England. Clarke died on March 19, 2008, in Sri Lanka. Clarke authored nearly 100 books, and many of his ideas around science had links to future technological innovations. He wrote the novels Childhood’s End and 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was adapted into a film with Stanley Kubrick. Clarke established himself as a preeminent science fiction and nonfiction writer during the mid-20th century. ![]()
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The last thing he told her5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Last Thing He Told Me premieres globally on Apple TV+ with the first two episodes on Friday, April 14 followed by new episodes every Friday through May 19. A woman forms an unexpected relationship with her 16-year-old stepdaughter while searching for the truth about why her husband has mysteriously disappeared. With Jennifer Garner, Angourie Rice, Aisha Tyler, Augusto Aguilera. 'I just love him too much.' Garner and Rice also spilled a little bit about bonding during their time on set together for 'The Last Thing He Told Me,' including how Garner formed an. Olivia Newman directs the pilot episode, and the all-female director lineup for the series includes Deniz Gamze Erguven, Daisy Von Scherler Mayer, and Lila Neugebauer.Ĭreated and adapted by Laura Dave and Academy Award winner Josh Singer, The Last Thing He Told Me marks the first collaboration between the married couple, who both serve as executive producers alongside Garner and Hello Sunshine’s Reese Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter. The Last Thing He Told Me: Created by Laura Dave, Josh Singer. ![]() The series is produced for Apple by Hello Sunshine, who optioned the book from author Laura Dave and serves as the studio on the project with 20th Television. As Hannah begins to unravel the mystery, she realizes that Owen has been keeping secrets from both her and Bailey, and now they’re left to find him or potentially face the consequences alone. She tries unsuccessfully to reach her husband and has little to say when Bailey asks where he’s gone. ![]()
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Amy poehler yes5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() She wasn’t afraid to give her readers a look at her low moments (divorce, drug use, delayed apologies) or shift the focus away from herself, normally to other SNL cast members. Amy’s book showed me the dirtier side as well. What we see of famous people is the rosy side of them that they want us to see. I don’t know the Amy who divorced Will Arnett or that struggled to make it in Chicago while waitressing. The Amy Poehler I’m most familiar with is Leslie Knope from Parks and Recreation though the many-faced actress from SNL is another one I love. ![]() It must be really hard to be famous, and I don’t mean that sarcastically. Powered by Amy’s charming and hilarious, biting yet wise voice, Yes Please is a book full of words to live by. In Amy Poehler’s highly anticipated first book, Yes Please, she offers up a big juicy stew of personal stories, funny bits on sex and love and friendship and parenthood and real life advice (some useful, some not so much), like when to be funny and when to be serious. ![]()
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The Gold Eaters by Ronald Wright5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Only then can he be reunited with the love of his life and begin the search for his shattered family, journeying through a land and a time vividly depicted here. To survive, he must not only learn political gamesmanship but also discover who he truly is, and in what country and culture he belongs. Forced to become Francisco Pizarro's translator, he finds himself caught up in one of history's great clashes of civilzations, the Spanish invasion of the Incan Empire of the 1530s. Kidnapped at sea by conquistadors seeking the golden land of Peru, a young Inca boy named Waman is the everyman thrown into extraordinary circumstances. The Gold Eaters is truly the gold standard to which all fiction - historical and otherwise - should aspire." - Buzzfeed A sweeping, epic historical novel of exploration and invasion, of conquest and resistance, and of an enduring love that must overcome the destruction of one empire by another. ![]()
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Stephen king skeleton crew first edition5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pete has also delivered 26 pieces of original artwork which will be given away-signed by the artist-with copies of the deluxe lettered edition of this bumper thirtieth anniversary event, which includes an Introduction from the multiple award-winning Horror maestro, Stephen Jones. The acclaimed artist Pete Von Sholly (who produced the storyboards for Frank Darabont’s movie adaptation of The Mist) has provided a piece of artwork for each story plus covers, slipcases and endpapers. However the story ‘Survivor Type’ goes a little bit too far, even for me." Of one of the stories in the collection, King says: “As far as short stories are concerned, I like the grisly ones the best. In addition to the introduction, in which the author directly addresses his readers in his now familiar conversational style, Skeleton Crew features an epilogue of sorts entitled ‘Notes’ wherein King discusses the origins of several stories in the collection.Īlthough published in 1985, the stories collected in Skeleton Crew span seventeen years from ‘The Reaper's Image’ (King's second professional sale when he was just eighteen years old) to ‘The Ballad of The Flexible Bullet’, which was completed in 1983 ABOUT THE BOOK: Stephen King’s second collection features 22 works, comprising nineteen short stories, a novella ( The Mist), and two poems (‘Paranoid: A Chant’ and ‘For Owen,’ the poem he wrote for his son). ![]()
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Postscript book cecelia ahern5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() She’s proud of all the ways in which she has grown and evolved. It’s been seven years since Holly Kennedy’s husband died-six since she read his final letter, urging Holly to find the courage to forge a new life. Now that I’m married, and a mother, I was looking forward to visiting with Holly again in Postscript to see where she ended up and how she was dealing with her husband’s death. ![]() I remember reading the first one just before the movie had come out, and it stuck with me, despite me being quite young (I was in high school). I Love You until I was looking to stream the movie somewhere and went into a deep dive when I couldn’t find it. I didn’t even know there was a sequel to Cecelia Ahern’s P.S. ![]()
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The librarian salley vickers amazon5/22/2023 ![]() Well, I won't call it cheap, but it was just sooooo, sooooo out of tune and it made me disappointed. The story was suddenly cut without proper resolution and out-of-the-blue I was dragged back to the present, some 50 years later, where 2 characters, grown old, met and then kind of obscurely discussed what had happpened back then. And then came the ending or epilogue or part 2 as the author called it. The story was set at the end of the 1950s and I got totally immersed in it, with its small town, its bittersweet, though at the same time very humdrum storylines, the library and the characters: both the sympathetic and the nasty ones. There were parts where I would have given 5 stars without hesitation, but the end was spoiled for me. ![]() I mean a book about books and a children's library. Strictly speaking, this is more of a 3,5 star read when all is said and done despite my loving the story and the setting. ![]() |