![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. When he meets a beautiful young Frenchwoman recently arrived from Paris, they will be drawn together in surprising ways to fight for the peace and safety for which they long. He wants only to cultivate the land of his hard-won farm near Azilum, but soon finds himself drawn into the escalating tension of the Whiskey Rebellion. Militiaman Liam Delaney proudly served in the American Revolution, but now that the new government has imposed an oppressive tax that impacts his family, he barely recognizes the democracy he fought for. Can the French settlement, Azilum, offer permanent refuge? Vivienne flees to Philadelphia but finds the same dangers lurking in the French Quarter, as revolutionary sympathizers threaten the life of a young boy left in her care, who some suspect to be the Dauphin. Yet in revolutionary France, it is a death sentence when the nobility, and those associated with them, are forced to the guillotine. Lacemaker Vivienne Rivard never imagined her craft could threaten her life. ![]()
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![]() After nearly two decades, Metal Gear Solid's once-innovative stealth mechanics seem outdated, the cutscenes have lost some of their action movie punch, and the game's treatment of women is often out of touch. The only problem: The Burches grew up but their all-time favorite video game didn't. And why wouldn't they? Hideo Kojima's 1998 game featured groundbreaking stealth mechanics, a gruff and hunky leading man, a brilliantly claustrophobic setting, tons of cinematic cutscenes, shocking fourth wall breaks, and terrifying bosses. About the Book Witness a celebration/takedown of this landmark game with the combination of insight and hilarity that Ashly and Anthony have made their careers on.īook Synopsis Before they co-created the hit web series Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'?, Ashly and Anthony Burch were just a brother and sister who shared a weird obsession with Solid Snake and his 3D debut, Metal Gear Solid. ![]() ![]() ![]() Even he has become convinced that his life is on a dangerous trajectory a voice in his head keeps telling him, “This way of life is killing you.” He believes that Strickland may be his salvation. Reggie is a rake of the first order, but more than that, he’s a drunkard who, at the age of thirty-seven, has begun to suffer blackouts. Yet, when the so-called despair of the Davenports arrives at Strickland, he proves to be surprisingly open-minded and impressed by Alys’s success he keeps her on as the steward. When Reggie’s cousin, the new owner, gives the estate over to Reggie, Alys sees her idyll coming to an end. ![]() It’s uncommon, to say the least, for a woman to be an estate steward, yet Alys has been able to pull off that job for four years, communicating with the absentee owner in writing. Fate brings them together on Reggie’s Dorset estate, Strickland. Alys Weston is running from her past, and Reggie Davenport is fleeing his future. It's one of the classic historical romances of all time. If you haven't yet read this book, ditto. ![]() If you like this book, I highly recommend this audio version by Mark Meadows. ![]() At Last: A Worthy Narrator for this MJP Classic!įabulous. ![]() ![]() ![]() When the cast wakes one morning to find something has gone horribly wrong, fear ripples through the group. ![]() But trusting her fellow survivors? Not part of Mara’s skill set. Mara’s unusual, rugged childhood has prepared her for the discomforts and hard work ahead. And Ashley, the beautiful but inexperienced one who just wants to be famous. Whisked by helicopter to an undisclosed location, Mara meets her teammates: The grizzled outdoorsman. ![]() Now she just has to live off the land with her fellow survivors for long enough to get the prize money. She was surprised when reality TV producers came knocking at Primal Instinct-the survival school where she teaches rich clients not to die during a night outdoors-and even more shocked to be cast in their new show, Civilization. A gripping debut novel about a survival reality show gone wrong that leaves a group of strangers stranded in the northern wildsįour strangers and six weeks: this is all that separates Mara from one life-changing payday. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now a wedding photographer in the family business and perennially single, Meddy is chagrined to learn her mother impersonated her on a dating web site… and now she has to go on a date and pretend she’s been chatting with the guy. The husbands have left her male cousins moved across the country, but Meddy is a loyal daughter. ![]() Sutanto’s new book Dial A for Aunties (movie rights optioned by Netflix), Meddy Chan has made every life decision in deference to her mother and her mother’s three sisters-where to go to college, where to work, even to give up her college boyfriend rather than choosing him over them. For people who grew up in Jewish, Italian, Asian and other homes led by involved, overprotective mothers, the helicopters have been hovering for decades. But helicopter parents did not suddenly burst into being in the 1990s. As parents, we Generation Xers are the first cohort to be disparaged as being “helicopter parents” just because we did things like help our kids with their homework and sign them up for afterschool activities so they didn’t come home to an empty house like we did. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her first novel Bitten was sold in 1999, and it was released in 2001. ![]() "I'm a former computer programmer, but I have escaped my corporate cubicle and hope never to return" Īfter graduating with a degree in psychology from The University of Western Ontario, Armstrong then switched to studying computer programming at Fanshawe College so she would have time to write. Kelley Armstrong was born on 14 December 1968, the oldest of four siblings in a "typical middle-class family" in Sudbury, Ontario. Starting in 2014, a Canadian television series based on the Women of the Otherworld, called Bitten, aired for 3 seasons on Space, and SyFy. She has also written several serial novellas and short stories for the Otherworld series, some of which are available free from her website. As well, she is the author of three crime novels, the Nadia Stafford trilogy. She has also published three middle-grade fantasy novels in the Blackwell Pages trilogy, with co-author Melissa Marr. She has published thirty-one fantasy novels to date, thirteen in her Women series, five in her Cainsville series, six in her Rockton series, three in her Darkest Powers series, three in her Darkness Rising trilogy and three in the Age of Legends series, and three stand-alone teen thrillers. ![]() Kelley Armstrong (born 14 December 1968) is a Canadian writer, primarily of fantasy novels since 2001. ![]() ![]() ![]() Think Magazine is a trustworthy companion to modern trend setters and young adult readers who are open to new and different opinions. None of them are easy questions to answer. ![]() What is too much? Why is it too much, and who decides? This is a problem that often appears in conflicts between the media and the authorities, who often prefer conservatism rather than to toe the line on sensitive topics. ![]() Today, luna-id Theatre takes a look again at the Marquis de Sade with the play “Quills”, and re-explores his philosophy of absolute freedom, bordering on anarchy, and where the artist stands with respect to the concept of artistic license, in contrast with the control of the media by the authorities. Truly, Sade is the epitome of what the French Revolution stood for, and not what it became. ![]() It is easy to look at the life of Sade, and his writing, always containing rape, sexual perversions and violence, and judge him to be insane, which many did in his lifetime.īut to the artist, Sade represents pure passion, uncompromising the ultimate voice of the artist, his will to express himself so strong that he risked death to demonstrate the importance of liberty and freedom of expression. To most people, Sade represents the ultimate hedonist and atheist. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was disappointing, because it was so obvious and totally cliched. Then there was the fact that she had a rivalry with Ellie back when they were teenagers, and was the only person not suspected at the time.įrom the moment we met Gretchen, I KNEW it was her. Her dismissive attitude towards conversations about her relationship with Luke, and the murmurs around town that he was having trouble with a woman. The way she focused on Aaron as soon as he gets back to town with an interest that made me instantly suspicious. I was 100,000,000,000% convinced that Gretchen was the killer.ĮVERY SINGLE HINT pointed in her direction. If you haven't read 'The Dry' look away now! If you couldn't guess by the disclaimer in the title, it's about to get spoilery up in 'ere. Why did her and Luke break up? And just who is the father of her little boy? Aaron and Gretchen grow close, but he has his suspicions. She also can't accept that Luke could have been responsible for killing his family: he wasn't that kind of person. ![]() ![]() When Aaron gets back to Kiewarra, he reunites with Gretchen, the fourth member of their friendship group and the woman who used to be Luke's girlfriend. ![]() ![]() Hollister owns The Trading Post, a hardware store and toy shop in fictional Shoreham, and is often assisted at the store by his tight-knit family. The Hollister family – Pete, Pam, Ricky, Holly, and Sue – were modeled on Svenson’s own children and their family life in Bloomfield, NJ. ![]() ![]() The Happy Hollisters books were all written by Andrew Svenson. Unlike those books, however, Jerry West was not a shared pen name. It was customary practice for the Stratemeyer Syndicate to assign pen names to series books, so that more than one author could contribute to the series for example, The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew series books were written by multiple authors, all of whom used the pseudonym Franklin W. ![]() The Happy Hollisters series is a children’s mystery/adventure series of books started in 1953 by the Stratemeyer Syndicate and author/partner Andrew E. ![]() ![]() In this title that was first introduced as a customizable, personalized print-on-demand product, Rox has a superpower. ![]() Girl power abounds in this book about coding that introduces young readers to the world of programming while offering them hands-on activities via a companion app. Growth and change become wondrous things in this well-conceived and -executed nature story. Parents might take this cue and discuss how human lives and the lives of trees, plants and all of nature remain interconnected, bound by similar patterns. ![]() A young girl navigates the apple’s life cycle through the course of the book, and observant readers will see that her own life (friendship, love, children) remains in step with the natural evolution she’s observing. Each phase is introduced with a highlighted imperative verb: “ Bloom apple tree and dress yourself in pink and white blossoms.” The language rings as both forceful and joyous, in tune with nature’s powerful beauty. ![]() Gudeon’s folk-art–style paintings depict the apple’s life cycle in pleasantly busy illustrations with rich purples, reds and blues against an earthy, sand-colored backdrop. Readers follow an apple from tree to market to mouth when birds pick the seeds from the nibbled core, a tree sprouts, bursting with blossoms in spring and providing a new crop of apples in summer. ![]() |