![]() ![]() ![]() But Jamie's simple case takes an unexpected turn for the worse when the not-so-good judge winds up on the ten o'clock news with a bullet through his head. Veronica Waterston, the young, distraught wife of superior court judge, Thomas Waterston, known for his tough sentencing, right-wing leanings, and his fondness for blondes with double D's. ![]() Jamie's assembled a team of other disenchanted former models to help her take names and kick derrieres among LA's wealthiest philandering husbands. When Jamie Bond's father is injured on the job, she leaves her career as a fashion model to take over the family business, the Bond Agency, They're a PI firm located in Los Angeles that specializes in domestic espionage, or catching cheating husbands. And her life is about to be shaken and stirred in a cocktail of lies, scandal, and one very dead body. From New York Times & USA Today bestselling author Gemma Halliday comes a female PI on the run, out of options, and totally unbreakable. ![]()
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![]() ![]() With deft plotting and an unforgettable climax, this tour de force that Stephen King called 'An eerie epic' is sure to win Due a legion of new fans. Harrowing, engrossing and skillfully rendered, My Soul to Keep traps Jessica between the desperation of immortals who want to rob her of her life and a husband who wants to rob her of her soul. Instead, David vows to invoke a forbidden ritual to keep Jessica and his daughter with him forever. Now, his immortal brethren have decided David must return and leave his family in Miami. ![]() Soon, as people close to Jessica begin to meet violent, mysterious deaths, David makes an unimaginable confession: More than 400 years ago, he and other members of an Ethiopian sect traded their humanity so they would never die, a secret he must protect at any cost. Yet she still feels something about him is just out of reach. Best-selling author Tananarive Dues novels about a colony of immortals have won widespread acclaim, including an American Book Award for The Living Blood. When Jessica marries David, he is everything she wants in a family man: brilliant, attentive, ever youthful. The award-winning master of horror, acclaimed author, screenwriter, and scholar Tananarive Due’s classic African Immortals series starts with an electrifying piece of dark fantasy, My Soul to Keep. ![]() ![]() ![]() Austen’s ahead-of-her-time sensibility, themes, sharp criticism, characters, and fascination with the human condition translate seamlessly to the modern world and, therefore, storytelling onscreen. ![]() Austen perfected the will-they-or-won’t-they dynamic and the love-hate dynamic, and she opened up the world to the female experience in a society that forced them to be dependent on men. Her influence, despite her comparatively tiny body of work, is palpable, especially in film and television. Her work is endlessly adapted in all sorts of ways her stories and characters inspire many storytellers consciously and, sometimes, perhaps, subconsciously. Over the past several decades, Jane Austen, who wrote six novels before her death in 1817 at the age of 41, has essentially become the Lady Shakespeare. It is a truth known to only me, but now universally, that I spent days trying to think of a clever, fresh way to start this piece about Jane Austen film and television adaptations with an “It is a truth universally acknowledged” bit, and in the end this is all I came up with, and for that I apologize. Photo-Illustration: Vulture Photos by Focus Pictures, Netflix, Paramount Pictures and BBC ![]() ![]() The inequality on Urras has naturally provoked a great deal of anger. ![]() I'm talking about Ursula K Le Guin's 1975 Hugo award winner, The Dispossessed, and her vivid descriptions of the dystopian world of Urras. I'm not even talking about the future as envisaged by the Tea Party. No, I'm not talking about the next few years of Cameron and Clegg's reign of terror. Any protests are put down with brutal force. The health service has been destroyed and those who cannot afford private care are crammed into ancient filthy hospitals where they go simply to die. They loathe the poor and have ensured they cannot escape poverty and receive only the minimum of education and state support. ![]() ![]() The government contains only the sneering rich and serves only the sneering rich. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The year is 1998: Titanic just won 6 Oscars, boy bands are dominating MTV’s airwaves, and like any other teenager Jess Flynn is just trying to survive high school. ![]() Thank you to Quirk Books for gifting me a copy of this title for review. This young adult book set in the 90’s, the era I spent my tweens growing up in, had my full attention just from reading the blurb, but how would that stand up in terms of the execution I hear you ask….well today I’m thrilled to be sharing my full review of this newly released title and I hope you’ll enjoy it. The Truman Show is one of my all-time favourite film’s, it’s so well done with such an intriguing storyline and in my personal opinion it’s one of Jim Carrey’s finest acting performances so imagine if you will a book with a similar premise! When I received an email a couple of months ago asking me if I’d be interested in receiving a copy of said book aptly named It’s Not The Jess Show, I couldn’t believe my luck and of course readily agreed. **We were gifted an copy of this book in return for an honest review. ![]() ![]() ![]() We readily consented and when the hour came we lived up to our promises. Several months ago our local affiliate here in Birmingham invited us to be on call to engage in a nonviolent direct action program if such were deemed necessary. Whenever necessary and possible we share staff, educational, and financial resources with our affiliates. We have some eighty-five affiliate organizations all across the South-one being the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights. I think I should give the reason for my being in Birmingham, since you have been influenced by the argument of “outsiders coming in.” I have the honor of serving as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization operating in every Southern state with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. But since I feel that you are men of genuine goodwill and your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I would like to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms. If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of the day and I would have no time for constructive work. While confined here in the Birmingham City Jail, I came across your recent statement calling our present activities “unwise and untimely.” Seldom, if ever, do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” abridged ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We’ve heard about Francesca from afar during the previous couple of books. Īnother flight, another Bridgerton book! Book #6, When He Was Wicked, tells the story of the 6th Bridgerton child, Francesca - who spends much of the book series (as well as practically all of season 1 of the Netflix series) off-screen. until one dangerous night, when she steps innocently into his arms and passion proves stronger than even the most wicked of secrets. Michael dares not speak to her of his love. Now Michael is the earl and Francesca is free, but still she thinks of him as nothing other than her dear friend and confidant. Unfortunately for Michael, however, Francesca’s surname was to remain Bridgerton for only a mere thirty-six hours longer-the occasion of their meeting was, lamentably, a supper celebrating her imminent wedding to his cousin.īut that was then. For Michael Stirling, London’s most infamous rake, that moment came the first time he laid eyes on Francesca Bridgerton.Īfter a lifetime of chasing women, of smiling slyly as they chased him, of allowing himself to be caught but never permitting his heart to become engaged, he took one look at Francesca Bridgerton and fell so fast and hard into love it was a wonder he managed to remain standing. Ī moment so tremendous, so sharp and breathtaking, that one knows one’s life will never be the same. ![]() ![]() The extremely powerful, only woman on her team heroine with psychic powers sounded a lot like a certain X-Man. The first one, a scientist who accidentally gives her boyfriend superpowers, is clearly based off of some girlfriend of Spiderman. ![]() However, I could still tell which comic book characters most of the dead girls were supposed to be. I’ve seen some movies, read a few issues of Ms. Superheroines, girlfriends of superheroes, supervillainesses… they all got the short end of the stick.I’m not super knowledgeable about comic books. They gather together, drink Styx water, and commiserate about their lives and deaths. ![]() ![]() The girls of the Hell Hath Club are dead, but they’ve found each other for company is the strange expanse of Deadtown. Catherynne Valente tackles gendered superhero tropes with this collection of six stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() McCaffrey lives in a house of her own design, Dragonhold-Underhill, in County. With Elizabeth Ann Scarborough she co-authored Changelings and Maelstrom, Books One and Two of The Twins of Petaybee. Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Gabon Republic, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greenland, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S. Anne McCaffrey, the Hugo Award-winning author of the bestselling Dragonriders of Pern novels, is one of science fiction's most popular authors. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And I’m still making my way through the early books written by my Cannonball boyfriend, Andrew Smith. (It is interesting to note that while General Motors sold its Opel and Vauxhall brands and operations to PSA in 2017, it retains Holden). I love discovering new authors and then devouring their entire bibliography. but trapped in the hedonistic world of 1920s Havana. But its also because forces in Marburyincluding the darkest of the dark, who were not revealed in The Marbury Lensare beckoning the boys back in order to save their friends. ![]() Its partly because of their obsession with this alternate world and the unresolved war that still wages there. since 2013, when he moved from his homeland, where he’d headed up design for the Holden brand. A stunning novel about two Russian Jewish sisters, desperate to get to the U.S. Best friends Jack and Conner cant stay away from Marbury. That is a cool, positive message you can take into product,” says Andrew Smith, executive director of global Cadillac design, and it is not as telling as it would be were you to actually hear him speak those words.with his Australian accent. “What is American style? For me, it has always been about optimism, ingenuity, mixing things up like in music, and the idea you break the rules and anybody can succeed. That Americanness is something we talk about quite a bit. Otherwise, it would be like everyone else. “I still strongly believe the only reason Cadillac would make sense anywhere in the world is because it is American. Says Andrew Smith, “To do the XT6 as a mini-Escalade wouldn’t make any sense because no one wants a mini anything.” (Photo: Cadillac) ![]() |