![]() ![]() This is a private Zoom event, so register to save your spot.The first 300 who order will receive a House Wrath tattoo with their book!.Every copy ordered will be eligible for a 30-second meet-and-greet with Kerri after the Zoom event, along with a signed edition or signed bookplate if signed copies run out!.(Linked below along with the two other events!)īest of Books with Zoraida Cordova -launch event, Tuesday October 5 th, 8pm ET, 7 CT. Tonight you can virtually catch me and Zoraida Cordova in conversation at 8pm eastern. Please do tag my publishers and in your social media posts so they can share in your excitement! Thank you for all of your enthusiasm and positive word of mouth-it’s the best gift you can give to any author. KINGDOM OF THE CURSED features some of my very favorite tropes as a reader and is my spiciest novel to date. Happy publication day to KINGDOM OF THE CURSED!!! I am so happy this story is finally out in the world and hope, beyond anything else, that it offers you a fun escape while you’re reading. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Maynard, Lowe, Davis and Hughes are all nice surprises but all the best stuff is kept for Dale to use. The support cast are all good but don't manage to shine as much as one would have hoped. Dale does well as Spike and manages to do a good job without doing an impression but Spike himself is given little to do as his own father. It does average with both but never feels comfortable with either. It neither manages to do the satire well nor do the laughs as well as you'd hope. This film is more like something between a Carry On film and MASH. The comments on the futility of war are OK but they feel like they're heavily thrown into the mix and don't sit well alongside the comedy. The film does occasionally have touches of him but mostly this feels a little like a carry on film without the smut. However the film can't completely bring out the absolute madness inherent in Spike's writing. The plot sticks close to the book, focusing on the training rather than later in the war. ![]() This is a film version of his memoirs of his time in the second world war. Spike Milligan was the last goon to go and his unique sense of humour will be greatly missed, although it does live on in many of today's comedians. Based on the first volume of Spike's wartime memoirs. On the way he and his squad experience plenty of amusing antics but also see the futility and losses of wartime. Spike is drafted into army and goes about training prior to joining action. ![]() Young musician Spike Milligan is playing a gig when WW2 is announced. ![]() ![]() The Delaneys are more than happy to give her the small kindness she sorely needs. ![]() One night a stranger named Savannah knocks on Stan and Joy’s door, bleeding after a fight with her boyfriend. But that’s okay, now that they’re all successful grown-ups and there is the wonderful possibility of grandchildren on the horizon. The four Delaney children-Amy, Logan, Troy, and Brooke-were tennis stars in their own right, yet as their father will tell you, none of them had what it took to go all the way. But after fifty years of marriage, they’ve finally sold their famed tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. They’re killers on the tennis court, and off it their chemistry is palpable. The parents, Stan and Joy, are the envy of all of their friends. The Delaneys are fixtures in their community. ![]() This is the dilemma facing the four grown Delaney siblings. ![]() If your mother was missing, would you tell the police? Even if the most obvious suspect was your father? ![]() The Delaney family love one another dearly- it’s just that sometimes they want to murder each other. From Liane Moriarty, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers, comes Apples Never Fall, a novel that looks at marriage, siblings, and how the people we love the most can hurt us the deepest. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In separating the courtroom and the trial from the forces of nature, Guterson hints at the divide between the uncontrollable forces that shape the world and the ways in which humankind can exercise free will. In contrast, the courtroom symbolizes humanity’s ability to exercise choice in the situations over which they have control. As will become clearer later in the book, both cedars and snow symbolize life apart from humankind: cedars evoke life free of society’s judgment, and snow symbolizes the elements of life that cannot be controlled by humans. He reinforces how downtrodden the town is, drawing attention to the “wind-whipped and decrepit Victorian mansions” that dot its streets, as well as the town’s “lost” economic “optimism.” Guterson also mentions the cedar trees and snow that lie beyond the confines of the courthouse. Guterson introduces the reader to the town of Amity Harbor. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Illuminated by journal entries spanning childhood to adolescence to today, he candidly recalls the challenges and loneliness he endured as he came to terms with both his gender and his bisexual identity. In this “soulful and heartfelt coming-of-age story” (Jamia Wilson, director and publisher of the Feminist Press), Jackson chronicles the ups and downs of growing up gender-confused. He barely remembers meeting anyone who was openly gay, let alone being taught that transgender people existed outside of punchlines. Growing up in Texas in the 1990s, he had no transgender role models. Jackson didn’t share this thought with anyone because he didn’t think he could share it with anyone. When Jackson Bird was twenty-five, he came out as transgender to his friends, family, and anyone in the world with an internet connection.Īssigned female at birth and raised as a girl, he often wondered if he should have been born a boy. An unflinching and endearing memoir from LGBTQ+ advocate Jackson Bird about how he finally sorted things out and came out as a transgender man. ![]() ![]() Gifty explains how she anesthetizes the mice, then shaves their heads and drills away the skull, exposing the brain. (Gifty herself refers to a college course involving books “of generational trauma among diasporic communities” and I realized that in just the past few weeks I have reviewed volumes of short stories about Cameroonian Americans and Zimbabwean Americans, so there is definitely such a genre.) As a husband and father figure, he leaves everything to be desired. Her father, called here the Chin Chin Man, abandoned them and returned home, leaving his family to face financial hardship and racism in America without him. Gifty herself is altered, through loss and shame, forever. The pain of this inexplicable tragedy drives Gifty’s mother into a depression so dark, so complete, that she cannot get out of bed for days at a time and may herself die of grief. The addiction absolutely controlled his life and then killed him. We are told of his descent, his attempts at recovery, his treatments, his relapses. ![]() This work is not an abstraction for Gifty.Īfter a perfectly ordinary ankle injury playing basketball in high school, her beloved older brother became addicted to prescribed Oxycontin, then heroin, then overdosed. ![]() Her experiment involves first getting mice addicted, so they will endure any pain to keep getting their reward - in this case, rather ironically, the healthy drink Ensure - and then finding a way to stop the addicted mouse from seeking his pleasure. ![]() ![]() ![]() She writes emotional, sexy stories that come to life off of the pages. Review:īad Intentions is my second Charleigh Rose book and I am beyond addicted. ![]() Then Logan showed up in my town, in my tattoo shop, testing my patience along with my self-control.īut I had been cold for far too long. ![]() I spent years making sure I didn’t repeat the mistakes of my past, forming an impenetrable layer of ice around my heart. I kept my circle small and my guard high. I didn’t count on my transgressions following me.Īnd I definitely didn’t count on meeting Dare.įalling for someone like him was asking for heartache.Įat, work, sleep, repeat, only ever doing the bare minimum to keep up appearances. Moving to River’s Edge was supposed to be a fresh start.Īway from bad influences and worse relationships.Īll I wanted was to give my little brother more of a chance than I ever had. ![]() ![]() ![]() Agent: Jessica Alvarez, BookEnds Literary. The fast-paced plot is elevated by Mia and Adam’s wicked repartee, savvy wit, and energetic libidos. They’re drawn to each other by both physical chemistry and their mutual outcast status, but their secrets threaten to drive them apart. ![]() He immediately sees through her hilariously implausible cover story. Hiding the truth of her extended absence proves problematic when she meets Adam de Courtney, aka the Murderous Marquess, whose first two wives died under mysterious circumstances. Lady Euphemia Marlington hasnt been free in seventeen yearssince she was captured by Corsairs and sold into a. When she finally escapes and returns home to London, it’s to a father who wants her properly wed and out of his house-the sooner, the better. Lady Euphemia “Mia” Marlington was kidnapped at the age of 15 and spent the next 17 years in the harem of a ruthless Middle Eastern monarch. The diverting first in Spencer’s Outcasts Regency series features a matched set of high-ranking misfits whose love affair doesn’t even begin to play out until after their wedding. ![]() ![]() 4/5 starsīook 4 - Saw it coming but the angling was interesting. 4.5/5 starsīook 3- Was interesting setup in that it gave you compassion for the character you're suppose to fear and thought it was a good choice to bring that story out early into the series. Something about Rhage makes me happy on the inside. I do enjoy her writing style and creativity to create a world that is fresh and allows for romance junkies like myself feel good in our addictions.īook 1 - Was a great introduction and set up a good series that kept me reading over and over. But overall as a romance novelist Ward is awesome. But by the fifth book you felt that Ward was running out of plot lines or I was just getting use to her writing style. The first few books in the series are by far greater in detail than the rest and grab my attention for to this day I still re-read them. Though a lot of her characters are similar in personality she still maintains a unique take on each character and inmerses them into a plot that can sometimes repeat itself. ![]() I love JR Ward's vampire series, and mostly for the fact that she does a good job of stripping the mystique of vampires and puts them into a new world that still intersects with our own reality. ![]() Becuase I'm a serious fan girl of the series and love rough and tough vampire men as much as the next vampire crazy, I've read all the books and feel a review for all of them is just a bit obsessive. I was thouroughly pleased when they put these books in groups. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When it comes to recording an audiobook, Kadushin says the publishing company might only deliver a book to the actors/narrators days before they record. Collins, who has read the Navy SEAL story “Lone Survivor” and the teen romance “Beautiful Creatures.”Īudiobook sales now top $1 billion every year, and Amazon’s recorded books division, Audible, hopes soon to have nearly 200,000 recorded titles for sale. We invited two of the more acclaimed narrators of audiobooks to talk with the Frame: Ilyana Kadushin, who has recorded Stephenie Meyer's best-selling “Twilight” novels, and Kevin T. ![]() The narrators were mostly celebrity authors, with people like Amy Poehler, Oprah Winfrey and Nelson Mandela nominated for reading their own books.īut the thousands of other audiobooks recorded every year are performed by the literary equivalent of character actors - you may not know their names, but you'll recognize their voices. ![]() Heard a good book lately? Monday, the Audio Publishers Association announced its five finalists for the best audio book of 2014. ![]() |