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Accidental Leigh by Melanie James5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Mostly I just want to take these heels off.” “Want something to drink? Whiskey or scotch?” But the more time we spend faking it, the more I start to wonder.Ĭould Hutton French and I actually be right for each other, or is it all just one big tease? Hutton doesn’t want a real relationship, and I don’t want to get hurt. Because it’s all for show, right? We’re just role-playing. Saying things–and doing things–we’d never dare if we weren’t pretending. He even suggests I move in with him to make the ruse more real. Of course, I offer to set the record straight right away, but Hutton wants to give it a little time–the phony engagement is keeping his matrimony-mad mother and every matchmaking granny in town off his back. My little food blog is launched into the stratosphere. Hutton French and I have been friends forever, and even though big social gatherings are not his thing, I called him from the coat closet and begged him for a favor–show up and play my fake fiancé for the night.Įxcept that word of our engagement spreads like wildfire. Lucky for me, I happen to know a hot billionaire. ![]() In my defense, I’d had a really bad haircut, a really strong drink, and I was trying to save face in front of the Mean Girl at my high school reunion. I didn’t mean to say I was engaged to a hot billionaire–it just slipped out. Get Ready For → Fake Relationship, Small Town Romance Tease ( Cloverleigh Farms #8) by Melanie Harlow ![]()
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Adolf Hitler by John Toland5/12/2023 ![]() But what makes Adolf Hitler particularly valuable is the book’s tone: utterly dispassionate, and free of judgment. ![]() Events are related in adequate detail, and mostly chronologically – a monumental feat in itself, given that the roots of most of the trends and events during the Third Reich are decades or centuries deep. ![]() In that respect, too, the book successfully grounds and orients a reader unacquainted with this epoch. It functions also, necessarily, as a chronology of events during Hitler’s lifetime. As a biography it is comprehensive and accessible. ‘The greatest saints,’ observes one of Graham Greene’s characters, ‘Have been men with a more than normal capacity for evil, and the most vicious men have sometimes narrowly evaded sanctity.’ Deprived of heaven, Adolf Hitler chose hell – if, indeed, he knew the difference between the two.”Īmerican writer John Toland’s 1976 biography of Adolf Hitler is the second book I’ve read about the Nazis/Third Reich (the first being Mein Kampf). “My book has no thesis, and any conclusions to be found in it were reached only during the writing, perhaps the most meaningful being that Hitler was far more complex and contradictory than I had imagined. ![]() Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Telegram Share on Reddit Share on Email ![]()
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Velvet glove cast in iron5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Do not use an Oxford Academic personal account.
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![]() ![]() A phone call summons her back to Sydney, where her beloved grandmother, Nora, who raised Jess when her mother could not, has suffered a fall and is seriously ill in hospital.Īt Nora’s house, Jess discovers a true crime book chronicling a long-buried police case: the Turner Family Tragedy of 1959. Having lived and worked in London for nearly two decades, she now finds herself unemployed and struggling to make ends meet. ![]() Many years later and thousands of miles away, Jess is a journalist in search of a story. ![]() Police are called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most baffling murder investigations in the history of South Australia. The highly anticipated new novel from the New York Times and #1 Globe and Mail bestselling author of The Clockmaker’s Daughter, a sweeping saga that begins with a shocking crime that echoes across continents and generations.Īt the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek in the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery. ![]()
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In a Different Key by John Donvan5/12/2023 ![]() Unfolding over decades, In a Different Key is a beautifully rendered history of people determined to secure a place in the world for those with autism-by liberating children from dank institutions, campaigning for their right to go to school, challenging expert opinion on what it means to have autism, and persuading society to accept those who are different. Beginning with his family’s odyssey, In a Different Key tells the extraordinary story of this often misunderstood condition, from the civil rights battles waged by the families of those who have it to the fierce debates among scientists over how to define and treat it. In 1938, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi, became the first child diagnosed with autism. The inspiration for the PBS documentary, In a Different Key ![]() ![]() A riveting tale about how a seemingly rare childhood disorder became a salient fixture in our cultural landscape.”- The Wall Street Journal (Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Year) “Sweeping in scope but with intimate personal stories, this is a deeply moving book about the history, science, and human drama of autism.”-Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Code Breaker. ![]()
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A kiss to keep willow winters5/11/2023 ![]() I went through so many changes in just one book. ![]() It went beyond the superficial and physical (although the physical passion between the two was amazing). ![]() They definitely do not have a conventional relationship, but the love that the hero has for the heroine was so powerful and not often expressed in romance books. Sebastian and Chloe have known each other since they were in high school. Sebastian and Chloe are now one of my favorite couples. ![]() If you buy the book using that link, I will receive a small commission from the sale.Īlso by this author: A Single Glance, A Single Kiss, A Single Touch This post contains affiliate links you can use to purchase the book. This book may be unsuitable for people under 17 years of age due to its use of sexual content, drug and alcohol use, and/or violence. The gaze that gave me chills turned to a lust-filled haze that heated every inch of me.īut that didn’t change who he was. We both saw the pain in each other’s eyes. He was bad news and I was the sad girl who didn’t belong. We lived on the same street and went to the same school, although he was a year ahead. No matter how much neither of those statements were true.įrom the first time I saw him, Sebastian had a hard stare that pinned me in place. He was a boy I should’ve been afraid of, and definitely a boy I should’ve never wanted. I didn’t need anyone to tell me I knew he was forbidden with a single glance. ![]() From USA Today bestselling author W Winters comes a emotionally-gripping, standalone, romantic suspense. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And if ever a novelist was going to use reality to provoke thought about fiction it's him. If it's ever permissible to describe a novelist as "ludic" it's David Mitchell. Thus, despite the frigates and the kidney stones, despite Chef Grote and Admiral Penhaligon, the novel has a whiff of the formalist although the book contains no literary games, it is itself a kind of long game." Happily, Wood partially eases his anxiety by suggesting that for Mitchell the setting offers similar intellectual rewards to his more obviously postmodern and structurally playful books like Cloud Atlas: "Its very historical distance – its self-enclosed quality – represents an assertion of pure fictionality. If you haven't been thrown into conniptions by the thought that Mantel may be commercial and traditional, I'd also recommend the rest of the article, which is excellent. What such novelists are looking for in those oldfangled laboratories is sometimes mysterious to me and how these daring writers differ from a very gifted but frankly traditional and more commercial historical novelist like Hilary Mantel is an anxiously unanswered question." Wood went on, even more provocatively: "I am thinking not just of Mitchell but of Thomas Pynchon, Susan Sontag, Steven Millhauser, AS Byatt, Peter Carey. ![]()
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Think by simon blackburn5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() A helpful and/or enlightening book that is extremely well rounded, has many strengths and no shortcomings worth mentioning.Ĩ – Very good. Often an instant classic and must-read for everyone.ĩ – Superb. A helpful and/or enlightening book that, in addition to meeting the highest standards in all pertinent aspects, stands out even among the best. Here's what the ratings mean:ġ0 – Brilliant. Books we rate below 5 won’t be summarized. Our rating helps you sort the titles on your reading list from solid (5) to brilliant (10). ![]() We rate each piece of content on a scale of 1–10 with regard to these two core criteria. Helpful – You’ll take-away practical advice that will help you get better at what you do. Whatever we select for our library has to excel in one or the other of these two core criteria:Įnlightening – You’ll learn things that will inform and improve your decisions. At getAbstract, we summarize books* that help people understand the world and make it better. ![]()
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The prince warriors series5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Like for instance, one morning about five or six years ago. He entrusted them to us, to point them constantly toward Him, to help prepare them for victory in spiritual battle. This could be a description of a majority of the days at your house and mine, right? But sometimes, my regularly scheduled line up is interrupted in a divine way that brims with the presence of God, and I’m vividly reminded that He has chosen my husband and me as His partners in shaping the souls of our sons into Kingdom warriors. Get yourself ready for the to-do list delineating the plethora of details your day holds. ![]() Rush to get everyone dressed and out the door to school. Feed the kids and, if you have time, feed yourself. Wake everyone up again because they didn’t actually get out of bed the first time. There are many days when mundane tasks take over and it’s easy to forget what we are really doing or what our purpose really is. Intentional parenting sometimes gives way to the busyness of daily life. ![]()
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Far Out! by Anne Bustard5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Andrew Roycroft, pastor/poet and author of 33: Reflections on the Gospel of John Beautiful, hopeful, honest, true to the grain of grace-this is a book to open the heart and the eye, giving us back marvel and joy in the land of the living. (in itself a hard-wrought skill), a transparency of heart, and an unwavering belief in the transcendent that lingers in this imminent realm. The art of the poems is their appearance of unworked candour These are poems that are ardently porous to the wonders of the world, insistent on its plain poetic beauty, unafraid of its mystery. They bring inward and outward illumination to our eyes and to our hearts, encouraging us to hope, love, feel, to reach out again, and again." Artist Ross Wilson says, "These poems exalt the wonders of the everyday, wonders we so often neglect. ![]() These poems were written from October 2020-October 2023, while the author was dealing with the reality of cancer and the hard side effects of fighting it. ![]() It is a collection of around eighty poems in various forms-free verse, tanka, and ekphrasis. The Goodness of the Lord in the Land of the Living is Leslie Anne Bustard’s first poetry book. The Goodness of the Lord in the Land of the Living: Selected Poems by Leslie Anne Bustard ![]() |