![]() ![]() LOVED IT! If I could give it ten stars, I would! Ten presidential stars!" - Anne Mercier, bestselling author CIC is a book I DEVOURED in every single possible way, and I LOVED every delicious minute of it!" - Shayna from Shayna Renee's Spicy Reads WONDERFUL! This was an absolute THRILL to read cover to cover and I'm already CRAVING more from this world that Ms. " Be still, my beating heart.Commander In Chief by Katy Evans was just. Matt and Charlotte's intimacy and feelings jump off the pages making my heart pound." - Rachel Blaufeld, Author " Matthew Hamilton is my President! Evans painted a dreamlike fantasy with this one. ![]() " True patriotism, scandal, lust, and an unquenchable love story make this political romance one to remember. Katy Evans mixes reality, eroticism and romance, creating pure magic." ~Audrey Carlan, #1 NYT Bestselling Author ![]()
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![]() That night she goes to the ocean and slips into the water to further explore what is happening to her. Emily excitedly puts on her swimsuit and ignores the beginners group and jumps right in! Where most first-time swimmers panic as their head is submerged, Emily feels calm and surprisingly calm – that is, until her legs start to go numb! Frenzied, she quickly gets out and the sensation disappears. ![]() Her mother has resisted until now, when swimming lessons are offered to her seventh grade class. Unbeknownst to her, there is a reason the water calls to her. Twelve-year-old Emily is desperate to take swimming lessons. “The Tail of Emily Windsnap” is one of those books. Children’s stories are magical they have the ability to capture a young mind and transport it to a world that invites creativity and sparks the imagination. ![]() ![]() ![]() She’s been a finalist twice for the RT Reviewers’ Choice Awards and had two of her books listed in the top 100 romances of the past decade from Booklist. When she’s not writing, she spends her time outside of Denver, CO. Her books have earned Publisher Weekly and Booklist starred reviews, top picks from Romantic Times, and praise from Library Journal. ![]() Named One of the Funniest Voices in Inspirational Romance by Booklist, Jen Turano is a USA Today Best-Selling Author, known for penning quirky historical romances set in the Gilded Age. Jen Turano | From Companion to Assistant Matchmakerġ-What is the title of your latest release? ![]() ![]() ![]() Vaughan is an American comic book and television writer, best known for the comic book series Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina, Runaways, Pride of Baghdad, Saga, and, most recently, Paper Girls. VAUGHAN (THE PRIVATE EYE, PAPER GIRLS, WE STAND ON GUARD), SAGA BOOK TWO continues the action-packed education of Hazel, a child born to star-crossed parents from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war.Ĭollecting 18 issues of the smash-hit comic, this massive edition features a striking original cover from Fiona Staples, as well as a brand-new gallery of exclusive, never-before-seen SAGA artwork from legendary creators including CLIFF CHIANG, PIA GUERRA, FAITH ERIN HICKS, KARL KERSCHL, JASON LATOUR, SEAN GORDON MURPHY, STEVE SKROCE, and MORE!ĭeluxe Hardcover format - 7.25 x 10.875' Collects SAGA #19-36īrian K. ![]() At long last, it's finally time for the second hardcover collection of SAGA, the New York Times best-selling series praised by everyone from Alan Moore to Lin-Manuel Miranda!Ĭreated by the multiple Eisner Award-winning team of artist FIONA STAPLES (Mystery Society, North 40, Archie Comics) and writer BRIAN K. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like Myra, I made sure to browse for books that fit this year’s theme on Black Women in American Culture and History. There are a lot of books that can be featured for Black History Month but I was rather “picky” this time around. Urban dictionary defines tar beach as the roof of a building that is usually flat than sloped, and can be found generally in a large city. ![]() In continuation of our Black History Month celebration here at Gathering Books, I bring you one of my most recent, most beautiful picture book discoveries: Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold. ![]() “Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?” – Frida Kahlo
![]() ![]() The cure for insanity is Not common sense.Mainstream morality is (always) the opposite of wh.The System and piecemeal reform - the unholy allia.Note added on resurrection and Life Everlasting in.The Hundred Acre Wood in Winnie the Pooh is also sometimes depicted like this - which may have been a further latent aspect of my interest as also a very good children's book called Borrobil by William Croft Dickinson (1944) - a kind of neo-pagan precursor to Narnia, and also written by a Professor. Later, John Michell (in A View over Atlantis) took Watkins's Ley Lines and made them into lines of spiritual power - but I knew nothing of this during my teens.Īnyway, all this seems to have left me with a particular sensitivity to a particular landscape feature. ![]() ![]() I heard about Watkins's book from the references at the end of The Moon of Gomrath by Alan Garner - and found a copy in the Bristol City Library Garner has the Old Straight Track as a magical path visible only at full moon, as the moon rises - it plays an important part in the story, and provides its most memorable scene. So that is the (suggested) link between such tree clunps and ancient landscape features - they are supposed to mark 'ley lines', which - according to Watkins - were Neolithic pathways criss-crossing Southern England. ![]() ![]() ![]() But without her voice, Liddi must use every bit of her strength and wit to convince Tiav that her mission is true. And when their captor implants a device in Liddi's vocal cords to monitor her speech, their lives are in her hands: One word and her brothers are dead.ĭesperate to save her family from a desolate future, Liddi travels to another world, where she meets the one person who might have the skills to help her bring her eight brothers home-a handsome dignitary named Tiav. ![]() Her older brothers have been caught as well, trapped in the conduits between the planets. Liddi escapes, only to be pulled into an interplanetary conspiracy more complex than she ever could have imagined. So when a group of men show up at her house uninvited, she assumes it's just the usual media-grubs. But as the only daughter in the most powerful tech family in the galaxy, it's hard to escape it. ![]() Sixteen-year-old heiress and paparazzi darling Liddi Jantzen hates the spotlight. ![]() ![]() ![]() Also, being a wedding photographer, it appears that not everyone looks lovely at their wedding, who would have thought.īut with the business going bad it seems like her boss, Brain, would have to let her go. She would love to live close to the sea, eat more healthy food and weigh under nine stone. ![]() She loves making wishes, but nothing big such as world peace or anything. Heather is your everyday British freckled and with scarlet wavy hair red head. Stuffy offices, stinking traffic fumes and tube trains without air-conditioning make life miserable. For most of the sunshine-starved population this means a blissful merry-go-round of sunshine and ice-creams, picnics in the park and deck-chair in the back garden. "It's near the middle of July and the UK's in the grip of a heatwave. Such as finding the perfect man and being the new lead in a Brad Pitt film.īut be careful what you wish for, because what a girl wants is not always what a girl needs. O yes, and then there is rain.īecause of all that and more, Heather makes a lot of small, everyday wishes. ![]() She hates standing in queues, always has the last sandwich and always has to look for a parking spot near her flat. Heather Hamilton lives in London and she is a wedding photographer for Together Forever. ![]() ![]() Season One of Amazon’s series is expected to span only the first installment, The Eye of the World, so we recommend starting there, then plowing through the ensuing books in their publication order. We’ve spelunked our way through The Wheel of Time to bring you this roadmap to the sprawling series, with guidance on how best to navigate the novels and what to expect from each outing. (And you thought Dune was convoluted!) The unacquainted would be forgiven for wondering how best to scale the mountain. Despite the series’ global popularity, with over ninety million copies sold, the saga isn’t for the faint of heart, clocking in at fifteen dense books, 2782 named characters, and thousands of pages. But, be warned, the barrier to entry is steep. The Wheel of Time has just arrived on Amazon Prime Video, all but ensuring that Robert Jordan’s best-selling series is about to captivate legions of new readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lord of the Rings isn't the only set of fantasy novels getting the big budget screen treatment courtesy of Jeff Bezos. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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