5/22/2023 0 Comments Bloodraven pl nunn read online![]() ![]() the second being the sick request as i have mentioned in the title. Subreddit Schedule & Eventsĭetails on past, current, and upcoming special events, author AMAs, and monthly reading challenges are listed in the schedule section of the subreddit wiki.įirst off i wanna say there are two parts to this request. Or try this link to use Google to search the subreddit. Find a Bookįind all-time favorites and popular recommendations on our subreddit resources page and check out our New Reader guide. No complaints about author identities or over-generalizing about author or reader gendersįor more detail on the rules, please click here.įor our guidelines on how to write a book request that follows the rules, please click here. Mark your spoilers and warn us about books without a HEA/HFN No discrimination, bigotry, or microaggressions towards marginalized groups Requests must be text posts and post titles must be specificīook requests must be specific and follow our guidelines A place to discuss M/M romance books, including book requests, reviews and recommendations, non-book media, and general discussions of the genre. ![]()
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5/22/2023 0 Comments Shawn johnson book winning balance![]() ![]() Every bit as interesting are her accounts of coping with the aftermath of fame, both as an Olympic champion and as a reality-TV star on Dancing with the Stars. Olympic gold-medalist gymnast Johnson has written an endearing memoir of her rise to winning three silver medals and one gold at age 16. Could she find the right kind of success in life-the kind that doesn't involve medals or trophies, but peace, love, and lasting joy? This is the amazing true journey of how the young woman who won an Olympic gold medal on the balance beam became even more balanced. ![]() And she wasn't sure she was satisfied with where she was with her faith and God. ![]() And later, she suffered a potentially career-ending injury in a skiing accident that forced her life to a halt and made her rethink what was really important. Her loss of the major gymnastics prize everyone expected her to win in Beijing, the all-around Olympic gold medal, was the loss of a dream she'd worked for since childhood. Yet Shawn is no stranger to hard work and adversity. Already a popular role model to all ages, in 2009 she captured the national spotlight again when she won the widely popular Dancing with the Stars. ![]() Twenty-year-old American gymnast Shawn Johnson is a four-time Olympic gold and silver medalist a national- and world-champion athlete. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Stephen king cujo first edition![]() ![]() As Tad tries bravely to fend off the terror that comes to him at night from his bedroom closet, and as Vic and Donna face their own nightmare of a marriage suddenly on the rocks, there is no way they can know that a monster, infinitely sinister, waits in the daylight, and that the fateful currents of their lives will eddy closer and faster to the horrifying vortex that is Cujo. ![]() But life in this small town-evoked as vividly as a Winesburg or a Spoon River-is not what it seems. Vic Trenton, New York adman obsessed by the struggle to hand on to his one big account, his restive and not entirely faithful wife, Donna, and their four-year-old son, Tad, moved to Castle Rock seeking the peace of rural Maine. What happens to Cujo, and to those unlucky enough to be near him, makes for the most heart-squeezing novel Stephen King has yet written. One day Cujo pursues a rabbit into a bolt-hole-a cave inhabited by some very sick bats. He would-Ĭujo is a two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard, the beloved family pet of the Joe Cambers of Castle Rock, Maine, and the best friend ten-year-old Brett Camber has ever had. But the bats kept biting his tender face with their sharp little rat-teeth. He leaped at them again and again, and each time he leaped he brought one down, teeth clamped on a leathery, twitching wing. ![]() It was dusk, and the sky was dark with wheeling, red-eyed bats. His dreams were confused, lunatic things. He lay on the verge of grass by the porch, his mangled snout on his fore-paws. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is set in a world where everyone is treated the same regardless of sexual orientation- like it should be.įort Leonard Wood, Missouri was hot as hell in the spring and even hotter in the summer, which happened to be the time that Ryan Gracin arrived for basic training. Note to readers: Although this reads like our Army and our war, this is purely fiction. I’ll Be Your Drill, Soldier Cover Art © 2009 Dark Roast Press ![]() Names, places and any similarity to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental. Except for use in promotional review, the reproduction or use of this work in whole or in part in any form by any electronic, mechanical or other means, by technologies now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying, recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, is forbidden without the written permission of the publisher, Dark Roast Press, Calumet City IL, 60409. I’LL BE YOUR DRILL SOLDIER Copyright © 2009 by Crystal Rose, All rights reserved.Īll rights reserved. ![]() ![]() At the center of the action is Kit himself-an irrepressible, irreverent force of nature. Pairing modern language with period detail, Allison Epstein brings Elizabeth's lavish court, Marlowe's colorful theater troupe, and the squalor of sixteenth-century London to vivid, teeming life. But when Kit finds himself reluctantly drawn back into the world of espionage and treason, he realizes everything he's worked so hard to attain-including the trust of the man he loves-could vanish in an instant. A Tip for the Hangman is a fantastic book for those looking for their history and historical fiction to be warts and all to immerse the reader in life as it was lived and not just the deeds and doings of the high and mighty. Spying on Queen Mary turns out to be more than Kit bargained for, but his salary allows him to mount his first play, and over the following years he becomes the toast of London's raucous theater scene. In Kit Marlowe's last year at Cambridge, he is approached by Queen Elizabeth's spymaster offering an unorthodox career opportunity: going undercover to intercept a Catholic plot to put Mary, Queen of Scots on Elizabeth's throne. ![]() ![]() An Elizabethan espionage thriller in which playwright Christopher Marlowe spies on Mary, Queen of Scots while navigating the perils of politics, theater, romance-and murder.Įngland, 1585. A Tip for the Hangman A Novel By: Allison Epstein Narrated by: James Meunier Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins 3.9 (45 ratings) Try for 0. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Wildwood meloy![]() ![]() There, Meloy worked in a pizza parlor to pay rent while starting his musicianship anew by performing at various open mics, sometimes with no one listening except for the bartender. Soon after graduation, he left Tarkio and moved to Portland with the hope of establishing himself among the city's music scene. ![]() Both were indie/folk/alternative country bands. While in high school, Meloy was in the band Happy Cactus, and when in college, in Missoula, he was the lead singer and songwriter for Tarkio. He attended the University of Oregon in Eugene for two years, studying English and theatre, before returning to Montana and enrolling in the creative writing program at the University of Montana in Missoula, where he graduated in 1998. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments The Windflower by Laura London![]() ![]() The author, Laura London is the husband and wife writing team Tom and Sharon Curtis. ![]() The Windflower, originally published in 1984, was one of my favorite romances. ![]() The cover pictured is the original cover art. Date rape and marital rape were still new-ish concepts in general, and stalking and jealous tantrums were still mostly acceptable ways to demonstrate romantic commitment in real life. The bodice rippers of Kathleen Woodiwiss and Rosemary Rodgers were becoming dated, but the genre (or publishers of the genre) still weren’t comfortable with a woman having independent sexual desires. The late 1980’s was a tough time for the Romance genre. We read romances instead of watching soap operas. I started reading romance novels back in the late 1980’s when I fell in with the wrong crowd in college. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Howards end penguin![]() ![]() When Mrs Wilcox dies, her family discovers that she wants to leave her country home, Howards End, to Margaret. As clear-eyed Margaret develops a friendship with Mrs Wilcox, the impetuous Helen brings into their midst a young bank clerk named Leonard Bast, who lives at the edge of poverty and ruin. This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction and notes by David Lodge.Ī chance acquaintance brings together the preposterous bourgeois Wilcox family and the clever, cultured and idealistic Schlegel sisters. ![]() Forster’s Howards End explores the conflict inherent within English society, unveiling the character of a nation as never before. A meticulously-observed drama of class warfare, E.M. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ' When in fact the only feelings the Student has for the Professor's daughter are those of material love. yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched', the Nightingale hears him cry and on this evidence alone she bases her opinion: 'Here at last is a true lover. 'She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses. For she thinks that the Student must be a 'true lover' - she thinks that he would give anything for one night with the Professor's daughter. From the Nightingale's point of view, this is a tragically ironic story. It demonstrates how one life would sacrifice itself in order to make another happy. The theme is conveyed in this story through the actions of the Nightingale. 'The Nightingale and the Rose' is a very poignant story following the theme of love. This is one of many children's stories that he wrote, as he is well known to have 'used the form of fairy tale to reflect on modern life and to debate ideas'. The story I have chosen to analyse is 'The Nightingale and the Rose', by Oscar Wilde. It will include a thorough analysis of the story including my views and opinions towards the language, imagery and setting that the author uses. This essay will concentrate on just one of these stories. 'Nineteenth Century Short Stories' is a collection of tales from the nineteen hundreds. ![]() ![]() Now that she’s his for the taking, he intends to make her experience first-hand the agonizing, unending lust she subjected him to for half a decade. She eludes him for five years, but he has finally chased her to ground and stolen her enchanted jewel, giving him absolute power over her. Denying him, she flees, struggling to forget his searing, possessive kiss. Wroth provides her with the perfect opportunity to torment her sworn enemy-for with his new heartbeat comes a consuming sexual desire that can only be slaked by her. ![]() The Seductressįamed throughout the world as the most beautiful Valkyrie, Myst has devoted her life to protecting a magical jewel and to fighting the vampires. Coldly interested only in the power his Bride will bring, he can hardly believe when Myst the Coveted awakens him body-and soul. Nikolai Wroth, a ruthless vampire general, will stop at nothing to find his Bride, the one woman who can “blood” him, making his heart beat and filling him with strength. The story that launched the Immortals After Dark series Now in the paperback (Blood Red Kiss) for the first time! Including IAD Bonus Materials! ![]() |