![]() ![]() He trailed kisses down her high cheekbones. ![]() ![]() She trembled in his hands like a bird caught on its first flight. He kissed just at the corner of her mouth, and her whole body trembled. “Gina,” he said, and his voice was deep and full of passion. She looked away, tightening her lips against the sight of him.īut he was moving, pulling her to her feet. That would result in a lonely bed, tending to the estate manager’s letters while her husband bathed in the Greek ocean. “Ah, but I like to kiss you,” said her reprobate husband. He turned around from where he was standing, surveying Lady Troubridge’s books. “Cam,” she said quietly, “we must stop this - behavior.” She’d managed to get an ink stain on her wrist. Gina looked down at her hands for a moment. “Candles…the sun….the skin of a beautiful woman.” Cam bent down and kissed Gina’s cheek, so swiftly that she hardly felt the imprint of his lips. But when he sees Gina, he feels entirely differently about the annulment… ![]() At least, until Gina writes him to say that she’s fallen in love and would he please return home and annul their marriage. The evening of their wedding, Cam jumped out the window and fled to Greece, where he’s lived ever since, sculpting marble. Cam and Gina were married at a very young age (eighteen and twelve, respectively). ![]()
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![]() ![]() When creating her collages, she uses paper, ceramics, fabrics, and mosaics, among other materials. She creates a collage for each illustration, and then edits her collages in photoshop. ![]() Kann illustrates this book series using a collage style. Kann also wrote and illustrated Goldilicious, Silverlicious, Aqualicious, and Purplicious, Emeraldalicious, and Peterrific. This book has also been sold more than 24 million times globally. Pinkalicious was on the New York Times bestseller list for over 100 days. She is the mother of two girls, whose love of the color pink inspired her to write Pinkalicious. She went on to graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design, and now teaches collage illustration at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Victoria was raised in Brooklyn, New York. ![]() ![]() It was hard not to when I snuck up to sleep in the hallway adjacent to theirs. The fighting between my parents was at an all-time high, and even though we lived in a mansion and they kept to their wing, I could still hear them. ![]() I’d been shipped to Hillcrest Academy slightly against my wishes-but also not. That’d been the only pause for me, because I was not this type of girl. When I first walked into our room, I took in her bedding, which looked like a cloud with crystal lights surrounding it, the massive amount of photographs she’d taped to her wall in the shape of a heart, and the framed canvas with a quote in glittering font that read, Fairytales Happen. ![]() Our beginning six months went by without a hiccup. My boarding school roommate was a mafia princess.Īlthough I didn’t learn that at first. I needed to fictionalize this area for the purposes of this book. To my knowledge, there is no Lakeshore Wharf. ![]() Proofread by Paige Smith, Kara Hildebrand, Chris O’Neil Parece, and Amy Englishįormatted by Elaine York, Allusion Graphics, LLC The characters and story lines are created by the author’s imagination and are used fictitiously. This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to any person, living or dead, or any events or occurrences, is purely coincidental. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without written permission of the author, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages for review purposes only. ![]() ![]() ![]() he's obviously been playing with the evolution of life on each of these planets.įrom this provocative launch point, Sawyer tells a fast-paced, and morally and intellectually challenging, SF story that just grows larger and larger in scope. Both alien races believe this proves the existence of God: i.e. It seems that Earth, and the alien's home planet, and the home planet of another alien species traveling on the alien mother ship, all experienced the same five cataclysmic events at about the same time (one example of these "cataclysmic events" would be the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs). A six-legged, two-armed alien emerges, who says, in perfect English, "Take me to a paleontologist." ![]() ![]() Sawyer.Īn alien shuttle craft lands outside the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Calculating God is the new near-future SF thriller from the popular and award-winning Robert J. ![]() ![]() ![]() His love for the theatre may be traced back to his membership in L'Equipe, an Algerian theatre group, whose "collective creation" Révolte dans les Asturies (1934) was banned for political reasons. He also adapted plays by Calderon, Lope de Vega, Dino Buzzati, and Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun. ![]() But his journalistic activities had been chiefly a response to the demands of the time in 1947 Camus retired from political journalism and, besides writing his fiction and essays, was very active in the theatre as producer and playwright (e.g., Caligula, 1944). ![]() The man and the times met: Camus joined the resistance movement during the occupation and after the liberation was a columnist for the newspaper Combat. Of semi-proletarian parents, early attached to intellectual circles of strongly revolutionary tendencies, with a deep interest in philosophy (only chance prevented him from pursuing a university career in that field), he came to France at the age of twenty-five. His origin in Algeria and his experiences there in the thirties were dominating influences in his thought and work. Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a representative of non-metropolitan French literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() Anthony publishes scandalous rumors about Victoria’s past, Victoria enters into a fierce rivalry with Susan to control the women’s movement. Victoria then parlays her fortune into the first female-owned brokerage firm. ![]() ![]() Along with her loose and scandalous sister, Tennessee, Victoria manipulates Vanderbilt and together they conspire to crash the stock market”"and profit from it. James introduces Victoria to one of the wealthiest man in America”"Commodore Vanderbilt. Victoria chooses revolution.īut revolutions are expensive, and Victoria needs money. She can stay in an abusive marriage and continue to work as a psychic, or she can take the offer of support from handsome Civil War general James Blood and set about to turn society upside down. ![]() It’s 1869 and Victoria has a choice to make. This is the true story of Victoria Woodhull and the love of her life, James Blood.Īdored by the poor, hated by the powerful, forced into hiding during their lifetimes and erased from history after death, the legend of their love lives on. Their social revolution attracted the unwanted who were left out of the new wealth: the freed slaves, the new immigrants, and women. He was the Hero of Vicksburg, disillusioned with the government after witnessing the devastating carnage of the Civil War. She was the first women to run for President, campaigning before women could vote. Two Renegades So Controversial They Were Erased From Historyĭiscarded by society, she led a social revolution. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite developing feelings for the younger of the two brothers, Cassandra's beautiful sister, Rose, plots to marry the eldest heir in a desperate attempt to escape the poverty which surrounds her. With the arrival of their new landlords, the impossibly handsome and wealthy American brothers, Neil and Simon Cotton, the Mortmains are roused from their stupor and moved to action. The youngest daughter in a family of impoverished artists, it is her imagination and writing that takes us away from the ramshackle old English castle where they live, and towards an intriguing tale of husband-hunting and light-hearted sibling rivalry. Exclusively from AudibleIn this coming of age story, Dodie Smith introduces the visionary and eccentric character of seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's everything fans have been hungering for since the very first book! The Hunger Games Companion takes readers behind the scenes and includes fascinating background facts about the action in all three books, a revealing biography of the author, and amazing insights into the series' main themes and features - from the nature of evil, to weaponry and rebellions, to surviving the end of the world. When sixteen-year-old Katniss learns that her little sister has been chosen, she steps up to fight in her place and the games begin. Go deeper into the post-apocalyptic world created by Suzanne Collins than you ever thought possible: an alternative future where boys and girls are chosen from twelve districts to compete in The Hunger Games, a televised fight-to-the-death. ![]() The ultimate companion guide to the blockbuster Hunger Games trilogy.įor all those who adore Katniss and Peeta, and can't get enough of The Hunger Games, this companion guide to the wildly popular Hunger Games series is a must-read and a terrific gift. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, some folks feed wildlife food we view as more palatable than their natural diet in hopes of keeping them from eating the ornamental vegetation we planted. Coincidentally, landscapers and moose often prefer the same species, such as willow, fruit trees, aspen, and birch, which can cause some landowners angst as they watch Bullwinkle cheerfully devour that beautiful new willow. The name moose comes from the Algonquin word “ mooswa,” which translates to “twig eater.” Twigs, along with leaves, bark, and aquatic plants, provide the primary forage for moose. Coexisting peacefully with local wildlife can be a challenge, especially for residents unfamiliar with the needs of the animals. ![]() We are fortunate to live where our kids are faced with the conundrum of moose guarding doors rather than the type of violence that proliferates in other areas. Many Sandpoint area residents share similar tales of our wild neighbors who wander through neighborhoods and downtown. She returned empty-handed, saying, “I couldn’t get in the house because a moose was napping by the door.” This isn’t a child with an overactive imagination. Last summer, after an active couple of hours at our neighborhood beach, my daughter walked a couple of blocks home to grab something to drink. ![]() Preserving our wild neighbors’ natural diet ![]() ![]() ![]() “With a lyrical voice and keen wit, Patricia Gaffney weaves compelling stories that echo in the human heart. “Gaffney’s books are always heartfelt and wise.” -Janet Evanovich But society will not be so understanding as a passionate bond grows between them, and as they attempt to uncover the tragic mystery behind his past . . . His loneliness is palpable, and she can tell he feels drawn to her as well. Sydney, however, sees something else, something that stirs her heart. ![]() ![]() Her suitor sees him as something of a zoo animal-and a ticket to fame. ![]() Found in the Canadian wild, he is a puzzle to be solved, kept captive in a guesthouse-from which he keeps trying to escape . . . But her life is about to change thanks to the “lost man” her father is studying. The daughter of an anthropologist in late nineteenth-century Chicago, Sydney is a young widow being wooed by a proper, ambitious-and somewhat suffocating-professor. But her life is about to change thanks to the lost man her father is studying. The daughter of an anthropologist in late nineteenth-century Chicago, Sydney is a young widow being wooed by a proper, ambitiousand somewhat suffocatingprofessor. New York Times–Bestselling Author: In an oppressive Victorian world, a woman is drawn to a man untouched by civilization . . . New York TimesBestselling Author: In an oppressive Victorian world, a woman is drawn to a man untouched by civilization. ![]() |
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