![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She hasn’t seen Olivia for eleven years since their childhood friendship imploded after a very hot and heavy spring break where they crossed the line from friends to lovers. She’s all for putting up a good front for the wedding planning of her best friend’s nuptuals until she comes face to face with the new wedding planner. Margot is starting to feel like the fifth wheel now that her friends are paired up with their special someones. But will history repeat itself or should she count her lucky stars that she gets a second chance with her first love?īellefleur wrote one of my most favorite lesbian romance books in Written in the Stars, and she delivers another with this one. As they spend time in close quarters, Margot starts to question her no-strings stance. When a series of unfortunate events leaves Olivia without a place to stay, Margot offers up her spare room. Never in a million years did the wedding planner expect her important new client’s Best Woman would be the one that got away. But when she comes face-to-face with Olivia Grant-her childhood friend, her first love, her first… well, everything, she’s not so sure about that stance. Tags: Pansexual, Bisexual, LGBTQ+, Second Chance, Friends to Lovers Category: LGBTQ+ Romance, Contemporary Romance ![]()
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![]() For official purposes, these children do not exist. ![]() They live in the real world, slipping under adult radar and getting information that sends criminals and terrorists to jail. CHERUB agents are aged between ten and seventeen. The terrorist doesn't know that one of these kids has bugged every room in her house, made copies of all her computer files and stolen her address book. A terrorist doesn't let strangers in her flat because they might be undercover police or intelligence agents, but her children bring their mates home and they run all over the place. ![]() James hits rock bottom before he's offered a new start in an intriguing organisation. The bestselling CHERUB series takes its huge appeal into graphic novel format. ![]() ![]() ![]() To hold onto her community's past and present, Sydney channels her frustration into a walking tour and finds an unlikely and unwanted assistant in one of the new arrivals to the block-her neighbor Theo. Condos are sprouting like weeds, FOR SALE signs are popping up overnight, and the neighbors she's known all her life are disappearing. ![]() Sydney Green is Brooklyn born and raised, but her beloved neighborhood seems to change every time she blinks. This is a terrific read." - Alafair Burke, New York Times bestselling author *A Marie Claire Book Club Pick* Rear Window meets Get Out in this gripping thriller from a critically acclaimed and New York Times Notable author, in which the gentrification of a Brooklyn neighborhood takes on a sinister new meaning. An instant NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY BESTSELLER! "I was knocked over by the momentum of an intense psychological thriller that doesn't let go until the final page. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Jax and Callyn are astonished to learn magic has already returned to Syhl Shallow-in the form of a magesmith who's now married to their queen. Magic won't save either of them when the tax collector comes calling, threatening to take their homes if they can't pay what they owe. Magic never helped Jax, whose leg was crushed in an accident that his father has been punishing him for ever since. They once loved the stories of the powerful magesmiths and mythical scravers who could conjure fire or control ice, but now they've learned that magic only leads to danger: magic is what killed Callyn's parents, leaving her alone to raise her younger sister. Magic has been banished in the land of Syhl Shallow for as long as best friends Jax and Callyn can remember. When ancient magic tests a newfound love, a dark fate beckons. ![]() ![]() She also invites scrutiny because her abusive husband disappeared months before. Extensive atmospherics slow the action but convey a strong sense of place-the Sussex tidelands, where, on Sealsea Island, Alinor earns a sparse living selling herbs and practicing the healing arts. In 1648, the risk of such accusations is even higher, since Alinor lacks Jacquetta’s noble lineage and because an army of Puritan Christians led by Oliver Cromwell has dethroned King Charles, now confined on the Isle of Wight. ![]() Alinor, an herbalist and midwife, is reminiscent of Jacquetta ( The Lady of the Rivers, 2011), another Gregory protagonist, foundress of the Woodville dynasty of beautiful and resourceful women who figure in the War of the Roses and attract accusations of witchcraft. The inaugural volume of Gregory’s ( Dark Tracks, 2018, etc.) new series is set during the English civil war.Ī wise woman is at the center of this launch. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Years later, in his mid-thirties Tazaki is encouraged by his girlfriend Sara to find his former friends and get an answer so that he can finally move on with his life. Then one day all four of his friends cut him off without any explanation, and while hurt he never explored the issue further. The five of them were inseparable, however, Tazaki eventually left to go to university in Tokyo the others stayed in Nagoya. When he was in high school, Tsukuru Tazaki was friends with four other students, Akamatsu, Oumi, Kurono and Shirane. Mostly in Japan, as Tazaki travels back to his home town, Nagoya from Tokyo where he currently lives in order to confront his former friends. ![]() ![]() His latest book to be translated into English is the novella, The Strange Library which is available now in stores. Currently he resides in Japan with his wife, Yoko. He has also translated many well known books into Japanese. He has written many contemporary works of literature which include both novels and short stories, as well as works of nonfiction. Haruki Murakami is probably the best known Japanese authour in the Western world. For a listing to the links for all the other review posts for the Words of Asia blog event click here. ![]() ![]() So began one of the boldest and most extraordinary episodes in the history of spying. The Safeway bag was a signal: to activate his escape plan to be smuggled out of Soviet Russia. A senior KGB officer, for more than a decade he had supplied his British spymasters with a stream of priceless secrets from deep within the Soviet intelligence machine. The bag alone was mildly conspicuous, printed with the red logo of Safeway, the British supermarket. In his grey suit and tie, he looked like any other Soviet citizen. On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag. 'THE BEST TRUE SPY STORY I HAVE EVER READ' JOHN LE CARREĪ thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians *Shortlisted for the 2018 Ballie Gifford Prize* ![]() ![]() ![]() The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A major strength of the film was in the development of a set of truly creepy characters in a small town. ![]() Rachel Baker and her daughter Hannah have such a close bond that they each wear a bracelet inscribed with the words "All My Heart." That connection will be put to the test in this well-crafted thriller. I fast forward most of it and managed to watch the whole film in about 45 mins. This is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I don't believe those who have given this a 10 are viewers, they must have worked on this movie or related or actual actors and crew because I've seen terrible movies better than this and I didn't review them more than 2/10 or 3/10. The accident was filmed as though the cars belonged to the crew, what was supposed to a serious accident to have the mother hospitalised only caused a minor dent in the hood and fender and a minor dent in the rear of the other car. Every character in the town is hostile The translation of this story to film is terrible The opening scene is terrible The kidnap scene was terrible The car scene was pathetic and terrible, the car was trying to undercut when there was plenty of space to overtake, and then there was a cut scene and the car chase was revived. This Story Is Unbelievably Bad The doctor and his wife believing they can replace their dead daughter by kidnapping another girl and convince or brain wash her to believe they are her parents. ![]() ![]() ![]() Accelerate – Here, the focus is on how to get Lean Startups to speed through the ‘Build-Measure-Learn’ feedback loop as quickly as possible.Steer – This section dives deeper into the Lean Startup business model.Vision – Here, Ries puts forward the case for a new discipline of entrepreneurial management.To do this Lean Startup summary justice, we’ve mirrored the way Ries has structured the book which is split across three main sections: Having worked as the CTO of the IMVU social network, the co-founder of FastWorks, the founder and CEO of the Long-Term Stock Exchange, and the entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School, IDEO and Pivotal, the Lean Startup business model is based on a wealth of lived experience. Given Eric Reis’ stunning credentials, he clearly knows what he’s talking about. A New York Times bestseller, the Lean Startup model is a global phenomenon, faithfully used by individual entrepreneurs and huge companies around the world – to astonishing results. It’s fair to say that The Lean Startup by Eric Ries transformed the world as we know it. ![]() ![]() ![]() “In a culture that encourages people to carry mental illness as a secret burden….Brosh’s bracing honesty is a gift.” -Chicago Tribune “I would gladly pay to sit in a room full of people reading this book, merely to share the laughter.” -The Philadelphia Inquirer “Will make you laugh until you sob, even when Brosh describes her struggle with depression.” -Entertainment Weekly “One of the best things I’ve ever read in my life.” -Marc Maron ![]() “Imagine if David Sedaris could draw….Enchanting.” -People Praise for Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half: Solutions and Other Problems marks the return of a beloved American humorist who has “the observational skills of a scientist, the creativity of an artist, and the wit of a comedian” (Bill Gates). This full-color, beautifully illustrated edition features all-new material with more than 1,600 pieces of art. Solutions and Other Problems includes humorous stories from Allie Brosh’s childhood the adventures of her very bad animals merciless dissection of her own character flaws incisive essays on grief, loneliness, and powerlessness as well as reflections on the absurdity of modern life. For the first time in seven years, Allie Brosh-beloved author and artist of the extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller Hyperbole and a Half-returns with a new collection of comedic, autobiographical, and illustrated essays. ![]() |