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![]() ![]() ![]() Each of the five women in this story (including the one who’s point of view the whole story is told from) had a unique personality of their own. What made The Red Hat Club such an enjoyable read for me is all of the characters. ![]() It allocated laughter and was just a fun pleasure to enjoy. This book was quite an unforgettable read. From the 1960s to the present, The Red Hat Club is a funny, unforgettable novel that shows the power women can find when they accept and support each other. When Diane discovers her banker husband has a condo (with mistress) that he bought with their retirement funds, the Red Hats swing into action and hang him with his own rope in a story that serves up laughter, friendship, revenge, high school memories, long-lost loves, a suburban dominatrix, and plenty of white wine and junk food. Sit in when they don their red hats and purple outfits to join Atlanta’s Ladies Who Lunch for a delicious monthly serving of racy jokes, iced tea and chicken salad, baskets of sweet rolls, the latest Buckhead gossip, and most of all–lively support and caring through the ups and downs of their lives. Meet Georgia, SuSu, Teeny, Diane, and Linda–five women who’ve been best friends through thirty years since high school. ![]() ![]() To succeed in his quest, and find a glimmer of hope to protect all that he holds dear, Sidi will have to look further than he ever imagined. Heartbroken, he soon learns that a mysterious swarm of vicious hornets committed the mass murder-but where did they come from, and how can he stop them? If he is going to unravel this mystery and save his bees from annihilation, Sidi must venture out into the village and then brave the big city and beyond in search of answers.Īlong the way, he discovers a country and a people turned upside down by their new post–Arab Spring reality as Islamic fundamentalists seek to influence votes any way they can on the eve of the country’s first democratic elections. ![]() He wakes one morning to find that something has attacked one of his beehives, brutally killing every inhabitant. Sidi lives a hermetic life as a bee whisperer, tending to his beloved “girls” on the outskirts of the desolate North African village of Nawa. From an award-winning Tunisian author comes a stirring allegory about a country in the aftermath of revolution and the power of a single quest. ![]() ![]() ![]() She obsessed over the genre and read nothing else for so many years.īut then she fell away rather suddenly and completely cut her ties with romance. ![]() Joanna started reading romance as a teenager. Her big opportunity to finally put pen to paper came when she rediscovered romance. Her teens and twenties came and went and at no point did Joanna give into the urge to write. She got married and children eventually came into the picture. ![]() Rather, it became an itch in the back of her mind that manifested from time to time.Īs Joanna Chambers grew, she became busy. And even though she was heavily discouraged, the desire to write never went away. She was only seven-years-old at the time and so it wasn’t so surprising that the experience dissuaded her from writing any further.īut she never forgot the excitement she felt the day she sat down to write those first few words. Joanna’s story wasn’t up to standard, or so she was told. The Brownies are like girl scouts but they are based in the UK. Joanna’s first writing endeavor came back when she attempted to produce a story for a writing badge in the Brownies. She took to reading at an early age and that drew her into writing. Joanna Chambers was born in a working class town in Scotland. Joanna Chambers is a popular author that writes contemporary and historical romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() Seventh grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend when they were in a bus accident together. ![]() This Coretta Scott King and Children’s Africana Book award-winning series centers on seventh grader Tristan Strong as he explores Midpass, a world where ancient African gods clash with gods of African-American legend. Whether you’re a new reader or an older fan, these series will satisfy anyone looking to explore new worlds inspired by ancient legends, folklore, and mythology.įrom best-selling author Kwame Mbalia, this middle grade epic fantasy is set in a richly-imagined world populated with African American folk heroes and West African gods. ![]() This Black History Month, we are proud to shine a spotlight on stories that center on African American protagonists. ![]() ![]() ![]() The same answer he’d given every single time he’d been asked. And those three weeks had lasted a very long time. Three weeks had passed since it had decided to stay at the house and wait for Sam to find it a master. This was the fifth time today their visiting gargoyle had asked him that. Alone, Idris lives a life away from court, starved of energy but unwilling to sleep in the room he once shared with his beloved.Ĭan Sam and Bob save these fated lovers before it’s too late? And will Bob’s ultimate sacrifice be enough to free Hal from his prison?īook 3 – The Case of the Dragon’s Dilemma Prince Idris’s lover went missing and was presumed dead. ![]() ![]() Forced to remain a gargoyle he spends his days on Sam’s desk pining for his lost love. End Street Book 5: The Case of the Purple Pearl by Amber Kell and RJ Scottīlurb: After failing in a quest to win the Fae Queen’s approval, Halstein is locked in a world of stone. ![]() ![]() She had numerous lovers – enjoying, she said, being “ravaged by romances”. In the winter of 1950, the 47-year-old Pincus met Margaret Sanger, introduced in the first line of Eig’s book as “an old woman who loved sex and had spent 40 years seeking a way to make it better” her friend Mabel Dodge Luhan described her as “a propagandist for the joys of the flesh”. ![]() With his bristling moustache and uncombed hair, the chain-smoking biologist resembled “a cross between Albert Einstein and Groucho Marx”. ![]() He was an expert in mammalian reproduction, famous for having created a test-tube rabbit, which saw him vilified in the press as a new Frankenstein. The bestower of this Promethean gift, and the hero of Jonathan Eig’s book, was an unlikely figure: Gregory Pincus, “a scientist with a genius IQ and a dubious reputation”. “I n its effects I believe that the pill ranks in importance with the discovery of fire,” wrote the British-American anthropologist Ashley Montagu in 1969, excited that the invention was already upturning “age-old beliefs, practices and institutions”. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It quickly runs data to kill all on Earth except for five survivors on whom to play out its sadistic and revenge-filled games. The computers created by humans to fight their wars for them join together into one linked and unified computer, AM, which discovers sentience. “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” is a horrifying look into a post-apocalyptic hell. Perhaps more accurately, the story can be read simultaneously as all of the above. ![]() One of Ellison’s most frequently anthologized stories, “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” can be read as a cautionary tale about nuclear proliferation, as a warning about the relationship between people and computers, or as an expression of the destructive power of thwarted creativity. The story won a Hugo Award in 1968 and quickly became a favorite story among Ellison’s readers and critics alike. It was later collected in the book I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, also published in 1967. Harlan Ellison’s short story “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” originally appeared in the March 1967 issue of IF: Worlds of Science Fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sheer nonsense that ignores what the Germans and French Armies - the main fighting forces during the huge Battle of the Frontiers and the Battle of the Marne - were doing in favour of nationalistic breast-beating myths. This is especially the case early in the war where we have the legend of the 'Old Contemptibles' of the BEF on the Western Front in 1914. Popular histories often merely regurgitate myths based on wishful thinking and wartime propaganda. This is greatly helped by using carefully sieved personal experience accounts to bring the mingled drama, horrors and dark humour of the battlefield home to the reader. It is not so much that anything new can be said - it is that ideas and concepts hitherto largely the province of historians and academics can be presented to a wider audience in a manner which is readable and entertaining. ![]() How far do you feel that anything new can be said about the First World War? In this book you look at some of the myths that have grown up around the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in 1914. ![]() His latest book is Fire and Movement, which takes a fresh look at the British Expeditionary Force in August 1914. He has written a number of books about various aspects of the First World War, including Gallipoli and aerial warfare. Peter Hart has been Oral Historian at the Imperial War Museum since 1981. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story follows her development into adulthood where she falls in love and has to deal with a difficult decision. Read or Download EPUB Unju - The Jump by Gleneley Stander on Iphone Full Format. ![]() The story follows the life of Kathrine Slater, ripped away from her loving parents at a young age and forced to work for the United Nations where she is taken in by Lila, a loving member of the mysterious First Family. Waking up again after another lucid dream, she is not back in her room with her daughter but finds herself in unfamiliar surroundings which set her off on a discovery of things that she has forgotten. unju Gleneley L Stander, author In a setting where the multiverse is real, and travel between them can be manipulated, Katherine and Ethan must learn to navigate to these alternate realities to try to save their dying planet. Peculiar visions and unsettling dreams lead her to a mysterious man inside her dream world. Emma shrugs her own persisting lucid dreams as nothing more while feeling constrained by the mundane life she shares with her husband Dean. How far would you go, and what would you sacrifice for those you love In a setting where the multiverse is real, and travel between them can be manipulated, Katherine and Ethan must learn to navigate to these alternate realities to try to save their dying planet. ![]() Struggling with severe nyctophobia, the young child clings to her mother at night, ever fearful of the monsters living in her vivid imagination. Emma feels her body sinking into the unknown before she wakes in confusion. ![]() |