![]() ![]() ![]() But Kieran and Celeste are completely compatible from almost the get-go. Sure, there are the tensions of circumstance – the bad fathers exerting pressure all around, Lord Montford with his creepy controlling ways, and the usual regency society frowning upon anything errant. My biggest beef with this book is not that it begins so slowly, but that there is so little tension overall. But also, no surprise, they fall in love. ![]() Guess what happens? She experiences the more risqué side of adult London, and he experiences an uptick in his gentlemanly value. ![]() Naturally then, Kieran Ransome trades giving Celeste some freedom to experience life before her betrothal for her assistance in making him respectable and eligible for society marriage. Dom’s sister, the eminently respectable Celeste Kilburn, is also stuck in a marriage trap: wed the stifling Lord Montford and bring respectability to her nouveau-riche father and brother or turn him down and bring the whole family down. As a result, all three men, or rather rakes, are saddled with getting married or being cut off by the Ransome patriarch. It starts with a bride being jilted at the altar and the groom, Dom, being aided in his departure by the two groomsmen, Kieran and Finn Ransome. This book felt like it took a lot of time to get going. The Good Girls Guide to Rakes by Eva Leigh ![]()
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![]() ![]() The result is a fascinating exploration of where breasts came from, where they have ended up, and what we can do to save them Book Details ![]() Her investigation follows the life cycle of the breast from puberty to pregnancy to menopause, taking her from a plastic surgeon's office where she learns about the importance of cup size in Texas to the laboratory where she discovers the presence of environmental toxins in her own breast milk. In this informative and highly entertaining account, intrepid science reporter Florence Williams sets out to uncover the latest scientific findings from the fields of anthropology, biology, and medicine. Breasts is an insightful compendium comprising 14 fascinating chapters recounting from babyhood to aged adulthood everything every woman should know about her own body. Feted and fetishized, the breast is an evolutionary. An engaging expose about an incredible, life-giving organ and its imperiled modern fate. ![]() What makes breasts so mercurial-and so vulnerable? Florence Williams is to be commended for writing a thoroughly readable, well-researched text on the human breast. Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural history By Florence Williams Winner, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, 2013, Winner, Audie Award for Nonfiction (from ), 2013 Notable Book of 2012, New York Times. Increasingly, the odds are stacked against us in the struggle with breast cancer, even among men. Breasts are getting bigger, arriving earlier, and attracting newfangled chemicals. But in the modern world, the breast is changing. Did you know that breast milk contains substances similar to cannabis? Or that it's sold on the Internet for 262 times the price of oil? Feted and fetishized, the breast is an evolutionary masterpiece. ![]() ![]() And this skylarking book will leave readers salivating for more. ![]() ![]() ![]() Never mind jealous detractors: virtuosity is its own reward. Her exhilarating synthesis of the classic and the modern, frivolity and fate - “Pnin” meets “The O.C.” - is a poetic act of will. And in Pessl’s case, Nabokovian doesn’t need scare quotes. “She’s the latest in a long, long line to suffer from ‘Hot Young Author Chick’ Syndrome,” one blogger grumbled another wrote in a headline, “It’s Not About Marisha Pessl’s Looks and Money - Is It?” and asked if the book would have been snapped up so quickly if Pessl hadn’t had such a “drool-worthy author photo.” But don’t hate her because she’s beautiful: her talent and originality would draw wolf whistles if she were an 86-year-old hunchbacked troll. When the news came out that a distractingly pretty actress, playwright and Barnard College graduate named Marisha Pessl, only 27, had sold her first book (which she also illustrated) - a “Nabokovian” thriller about an intellectual widower and his precocious daughter - for a substantial sum, the pick-a-little, talk-a-little publishing blog brigade went into conniptions. ![]() Whoever coined the phrase “everybody loves a winner” probably wasn’t one. ![]() ![]() ![]() With her friend's safety at stake, Lily is determined to use magic to find the murderer before everyone's luck runs out. And while there aren't many clues from the crime scene, Lily finds evidence of dark witchcraft and a hex on her friend's doorstep. ![]() But with bad luck plaguing all its members, she begins to wonder if there's more at work than mere coincidence. Malachi Zazi was stabbed to death in his apartment, under a ladder, surrounded by the number thirteen, a broken mirror, and a black cat-superstitions that the victim, as head of a rationalist society, was devoted to discrediting.When the police identify a suspect from the Serpentarian Society, Lily is shocked to learn it's someone she knows. Lily gets called away from Aunt Cora's Closet when the police need a witch's take on a strange case. Hexes and Hemlines: A Witchcraft Mystery Mass Market Paperback Jby Juliet Blackwell (Author) 273 ratings Book 3 of 11: Witchcraft Mystery See all formats and editions Kindle 7.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Paperback 25.13 3 Used from 25.13 1 New from 22. But her ability to sense vibrations from the past, so useful in locating secondhand gems, has landed her in the middle of a new mystery. ![]() With her vintage clothing store taking off, Lily Ivory is finding that life in San Francisco suits her just fine. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I think that earns you the right to take me on whatever surface you wish, now doesn’t it?” ![]() “In all fairness, sir,” I paused to sit up on the counter top and grip his open shirt in my fists to jerk him toward me. Don’t think you want to be taken on such a surface as this, do you?” he smiled stupidly so that I giggled a bit. I apologize, but you will put me into a blasted frenzy if I take this dress off. He went shopping in your closet, then?” he asked to himself, but he was giddy as hell. “Oh, shit, what are you wearing under here?” he breathed when he had me laid out on the granite of the kitchenette, my knees bent, my legs parted for his hand that had roamed to the wet ribbon between my thighs. ![]() I consumed his raw groan like water as I pulled at his lips, sucked his tongue into my mouth. In seconds, Klive had both hands gripping the hell out of my ass as he spun me into the suite so that the door slammed and locked automatically behind us. I inhaled deeply when his hand slid slowly down my back so that he gripped my bottom, and that was it. Confirmation that I’d nailed his character for him. I pulled back slightly so I could look up at him, and I smiled when the corner of his mouth lifted, his gray eyes darkening some nearly instantly, both in dilation and emotion. “You alright, my Sweet? This too much?” he asked quietly. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is also a heartfelt message to the society and policy makers who sent those men from across generations to war. It speaks to the veterans of the Vietnam War and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as a map for finding closure. However, What It Is Like does have a different motive from Matterhorn. Having read both books, I am convinced that Matterhorn blurs the line between fiction and memoir, and that What It Is Like to Go to War is an almost required companion piece to Matterhorn. Marlantes says Matterhorn was fiction, written for him and his comrades. His second book, What It Is Like to Go to War, is a powerful, non-fiction complement. Thirty years after he left the war, he wrote the much-acclaimed novel Matterhorn, a fictional work based on his year in combat. Karl Marlantes is part of that preservationist, introspective, phenomenon. Some have written to claim a place in history, others have pursued that elusive catharsis called closure. Since the Vietnam War ended, many of its veterans have recorded their martial legacy in a variety of literary forms. ![]() Book Review - What It Is Like to Go to War, by Karl Marlantes Close ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Urn:lcp:uncleshelbysabzb00silv:epub:3ad38228-c3a7-43b2-8e91-38df57d2ccb4 Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier uncleshelbysabzb00silv Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6446z810 Isbn 9780671211486Ħ1015128 Ocr tesseract 5.2.0-1-gc42a Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.4161 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Ocr_parameters -l eng Openlibrary OL2533532M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:23:54 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA175301 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary External-identifier ![]() ![]() Her resolve was a regular Rock of Gibraltar. No matter how many choices life might bring her way, it was novelist or nothing. Almost.Īt the time, Sumire - Violet in Japanese - was struggling to become a writer. ![]() This is where it all began, and where it all wound up. The person she fell in love with happened to be 17 years older than Sumire. In short, a love of truly monumental proportions. The tornado's intensity doesn't abate for a second as it blasts across the ocean, laying waste to Angkor Wat, incinerating an Indian jungle, tigers and all, transforming itself into a Persian desert sandstorm, burying an exotic fortress city under a sea of sand. An intense love, a veritable tornado sweeping across the plains - flattening everything in its path, tossing things up in the air, ripping them to shreds, crushing them to bits. In the spring of her 22nd year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. ![]() ![]() Soon a crushing loss of one of their own reveals a disturbing conspiracy: someone is intentionally creating Shades by tearing shrouds from the Dead–and training them to attack. If even a hint of flesh is exposed, the grotesque transformation will begin.Ī dramatic uptick in Shade attacks raises suspicions and fears among Odessa’s necromancer community. ![]() But there is a cost to being raised–the Dead must remain shrouded, or risk transforming into zombie-like monsters known as Shades. Whenever a noble dies, it’s Odessa’s job to raise them by retrieving their souls from a dreamy and dangerous shadow world called the Deadlands. ![]() Sharon Biggs Waller brings to life a narrative that has to continue to fight for its. The wind is waving the tree branches around, and the creek rushes over a bundle of sticks and logs jammed against the side of the bank, making that babbling noise that everyone loves. Girls on the Verge is a timely novel about a womans right to choose. SYNOPSIS: Odessa is one of Karthia’s master necromancers, catering to the kingdom’s ruling Dead. The path opens up down a little hill and to the edge of the creek. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Alec’s first collection, Syndromes, is available now as an audiobook original from Recorded Books. Clarke but also once gave a lecture at a Hubbard organization in the early 1950s Alec’s own fascination with the cultural history of the 1960s, the evolution of futures studies, and the comfort to be found in returning to Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes tales, and the metafictional “grand game” that has evolved from them. Buckminster Fuller, who was a good friend of Arthur C. Hugo-nominated biographer, Analog contributor, and novelist Alec Nevala-Lee talks with Gary about his current research for a biography of R. is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they're reading right now and what's getting them through these difficult times. ![]() |