![]() Set in a complex world, Poppy, our Maiden and Heroine, bears the future of an entire kingdom on her shoulders as well as satisfying gods who have abandoned her people. Oh you do, huh? □ Well, then we’ve got your enemies-to-lovers TBR covered! 1. And sometimes start new ones!ĭo you love that juicy smolder of two people who hate each other, tension so thick you can cut it with a knife? Do you relish the anticipation of when that thin line between love and hate blurs, and all that intensity turns from hate to love? ![]() ![]() They fall in love and usually end the conflict. We’ve been in a love/hate mood these past couple of weeks at Romantic Fantasy Shelf, and it’s because we’ve been debating the enemies-to-lovers trope! They hate each other, they don’t love each other, and then they do… Enemies To Lovers stories involve two characters usually on opposite sides of a conflict, making them clash. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Prudence Goode no longer wants to be good. Someone who is honor bound to protect your name, your life, and your soul.” I vow, from this moment onward to be your knight, wife. “I’ll send anyone to the devil before they hurt you. The tempting woman has become his weakness.Ī weakness his enemies can use against him. ![]() When their firestorm of passion burns out of control, Morley discovers, too late, that he was right. ![]() ![]() On the night she searches for it, she stumbles upon a man made of shadows, muscle and wrath… And decides he is the one. Prim and proper Pru is expected to live a life of drudgery, but before she succumbs to her fate, she craves just one night of desire. Until temptation lands-quite literally-in his lap, taking the form of Prudence Goode. Now he stalks the night, in search of redemption and retribution, vowing to never give into temptation, as it's just another form of weakness. A twin, a thief, and a murderer, until tragedy reshaped him. As a decorated soldier, he was legend for his unflinching trigger finger, his precision in battle, and his imperturbable strength. As a man, he secured his fortune and his preeminence as Scotland Yard's ruthless Chief Inspector. Sir Carlton Morley is famously possessed of extraordinary will, singular focus, and a merciless sense of justice. This Knight of the Crown is driven by a painful past and a patient fury… and his entire life is a lie. Alternate cover edition of ASIN B081MDB8B3 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "I remain eternally optimistic about everything in the long run. "I have such admiration for Whoopi Goldberg as an actress and a general smart person," Isaacs says. Only two of her books have made it to the screen, including "Shining Through," in which the character temperamentally closest to her turned into Melanie Griffith. Beg your pardon? Yes, Whoopi Goldberg, says Isaacs, which really gives the title a tweak. The film rights have been purchased by Whoopi Goldberg. In her rendition, it's white-knuckle stuff." "Susan Isaacs' real subject here isn't murder or legal thrills, of course, but the drama and suspense of middle-class women's lives. " 'Lily White' is a big, fat, happy feast of a book her most confident and appealing," mystery writer Jon Katz, another chronicler of murderous suburbs, wrote in the New York Times Book Review on June 30. As of this week, "Lily White" has cracked several national and regional best-seller lists. ![]() Isaacs, accustomed to generally good reviews, has garnered some of the best notices of her career. ![]() ![]() Which book would you choose to recommend to library patrons?Īnne of Green Gables is the gateway to so many wonderful books by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Of course, I also like “Conan the Librarian” from the movie UHF! AND all the librarians at the Toronto Reference Library who are so good at researching and helping me find the facts I need for my books. I love musicals, so one of my favourite librarians is Marion the Librarian from The Music Man. I wonder what books the penguins take out the most? Do you have a favourite librarian, real or fictional? ![]() If you could visit any library in the world, where would you go?Īnywhere there are humans, there MUST be a library, so I'd like to visit the library at the science station in Antarctica. Read on for our interview with Elizabeth and discover her favourite librarian, her book recommendations, and more. ELIZABETH MACLEOD is the author of many notable Canadian non-fiction titles, including Canada Year by Year and the critically acclaimed biographies Alexander. ![]() You can find Meet David Suzukiincluded on the November & December Loan Stars Jr list! She lives in Toronto, Ontario and enjoys reading, swimming, theatre, botany, and tap dancing.Įlizabeth’s new book is called Meet David Suzuki and is illustrated by fellow Canadian Mike Deas. ![]() Elizabeth MacLeod is the author of many Non-Fiction titles, including the Canada Close Up series: Canadian Government, Canada’s Trees, and Canadian Money in addition to the award-winning Scholastic Canada Biography series and Canada Year-By-Year. ![]() ![]() ![]() With its nuanced attention to class, democratic struggles, and the lives of entire groups of people omitted from the historical narrative for centuries, SPQR will to shape our view of Roman history for decades to come. Hailed by critics as animating “the grand sweep and the intimate details that bring the distant past vividly to life” (Economist) in a way that makes “your hair stand on end” (Christian Science Monitor) and spanning nearly a thousand years of history, this “highly informative, highly readable” (Dallas Morning News) work examines not just how we think of ancient Rome but challenges the comfortable historical perspectives that have existed for centuries. Nonetheless, this magazine is in fact concerning Roman. In SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome “with passion and without technical jargon” and demonstrates how “a slightly shabby Iron Age village” rose to become the “undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean” (Wall Street Journal). This is the duration where the Emperor styled himself as the First amongst comparable or the Princeps the First in the Senate, and also made sure, at least initially, to secure the looks of the Republic and also of its facilities. Beard eschews a strictly chronological narrative in favor of. ![]() ![]() You can read this before SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Her latest written work, SPQR, is an interpretive history of ancient Rome aimed at a lay audience. Here is a quick description and cover image of book SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome written by Mary Beard which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard ![]() ![]() ![]() He then hears Millie's voice asking him to look after the chalk lion on the hill. It’s not War Horse, however, but Morpurgo’s later children’s novel The Butterfly Lion. Michael goes back to the house, finding it deserted. It’s the story of a boy and a beast, written by Michael Morpurgo, and it makes elegant use of puppetry. Bertie rescues an orphaned white lion cub from the African veld. All my life I’ll think of you, I promise I will. He finds a plaque commemorating Bertie's heroic acts in the war, and learns from a teacher that Millie died only a few months after Bertie. A lyrical and moving tale of a young boy growing up in Africa, and his lifelong friendship with a white lion. When the lion dies, Bertie and Millie carve a lion out of the chalk in the hillside in memorial, before Bertie dies himself.Īfter being told the story, Michael returns to school. Together they discover that Monsieur Merlot's circus has closed down, but that the Frenchman lives nearby with the lion.īertie marries Millie and brings the lion back to England, where they live happily for many years. Millie, who has become a nurse in the hopes of finding Bertie, reads about him in a newspaper and the two are reunited. Later, when fighting in France in the First World War, he saves two men's lives and is given a Victoria Cross. When the pair leave school, they continue to write until war breaks out, and a letter arrives from Bertie informing Millie that he has joined the army. He tells Millie all about his life in South Africa, and his white lion cub. ![]() Bertie escapes from his school and meets Millie, and the two become fast friends, flying kites together. ![]() ![]() Nicholas, a bishop in Asia Minor, who was generous to the poor-in all seasons. A house guest copied it in the fall of 1823 and later sent her copy to the editor of the Troy Sentinel, where it was first published, anonymously, December 23, 1823… The Santa Claus myth begins around 300 A.D. "Moore, a professor of Hebrew, wrote this poem in 1822 as a Christmas gift for his children. Nicholas ” (pages 124-27), inscribed by Moore on the half title, “Mr. Rare first edition, presentation copy, of the volume containing the first appearance in a book by Moore of his immortal poem “A Visit from St. Small octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled boards. ![]() ![]() “’TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS…”: PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY CLEMENT MOORE, OF THE RARE FIRST COLLECTED EDITION OF HIS POEMS, FEATURING THE FIRST APPEARANCE IN A BOOK BY HIM OF “A VISIT FROM ST. ![]() ![]() I am a sucker for fantasy with fairy tale aspects, people who can change from humans into animals, and cinnamon rolls for the main romantic interest, especially when said cinnamon rolls don’t die. However, on her journey she uncovers a conspiracy to take the throne and only Shiori can set the kingdom to rights. Now, she is penniless, voiceless, and alone searching for her brothers and a way to destroy the curse. Shiori is left with a warning: for every word that escapes her lips, one of her brothers will die. Her stepmother has dark magic of her own, and she banishes Shiori and turns her brother into cranes. ![]() At first, it seems like a stroke of luck, delaying the wedding she never wanted, but it also catches the attention of her stepmother, Raikama. ![]() Normally she conceals it well, but on the morning of her betrothal ceremony she loses control. Shiori, the only princess of Kiata, hides her magic from the rest of the world lest she’ll be banished from her kingdom. ![]() Their eyes rounded and deepened, and lastly, six crimson crowns festooned the tops of their heads.” “I heard bones break and muscles rip as their arms lengthened into glossy white wings, and their legs thinned, becoming knobbed like stalks of bamboo. ![]() ![]() This had exquisite world building and I loved all of the elements of magick. ![]() To become numb to violence was to forget to cherish life. Because despite the love she still has for her sister, Eva will have to choose: Isa's death or her own. ![]() As tensions escalate, Eva is forced to turn to a fey instructor of mythic proportions and a mysterious and handsome khimaer prince for help in growing her magick into something to fear. When Eva is attacked by an assassin just weeks before the battle with her sister, she discovers there is more to the attempt on her life than meets the eye-and it isn't just her sister who wants to see her dead. ![]() Living in Raina's long and dark shadow, Eva must now face her older sister, Isa, in a battle to the death if she hopes to ascend to the Ivory Throne-because in the Queendom of Myre only the strongest, most ruthless rulers survive. ![]() Its last known practitioner was Queen Raina, who toppled the native khimaer royalty and massacred thousands, including her own sister, eight generations ago, thus beginning the Rival Heir tradition. Sixteen-year-old Eva is a princess, born with the magick of marrow and blood-a dark and terrible magick that hasn't been seen for generations in the vibrant but fractured country of Myre. In a North African-inspired fantasy world, two sisters must fight to the death to win the crown. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s something a little different from what you would get from these other guys. ![]() It starts as a very church-inspired view of hell. It’s not conventional hammer horror at all. I did it as me, and the interest that I had in the Diableries goes back a very long way. Well, I didn’t really do it as Queen, to be honest. So is this your way of showing people the more hard-rocking side of Queen? ![]() Previous musicians included in Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights include Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, Slash and Rob Zombie. We spoke with May right after he headlined Brazil’s Rock in Rio. The short film is just the beginning for May, who tells Billboard he will be turning the more than 40-year fascination with the cards into a full-length feature film, while balancing his work with Queen and singer Adam Lambert. Yeezy Shoes Still Stuck in Limbo After Adidas Split With Kanye Westīrian May: Freddie Mercury Film News Was a ‘Joke’ ![]() |