5/11/2023 0 Comments The spanish love deception 2![]() ![]() ![]() New York to Spain is no short flight, and her raucous family won’t be easy to fool.Įnter Aaron Blackford – her tall, handsome, condescending colleague – who surprisingly offers to step in. She only has four weeks to find someone willing to cross the Atlantic and aid in her deception. Now everyone she knows – including her ex and his fiancée – will be there and eager to meet him. Especially since her little white lie about her American boyfriend has spiraled out of control. ![]() A TikTok sensation, this rom-com about a young woman who agrees to fake date a colleague and bring him to her sister’s wedding has “everything you could want in a romance” (Helen Hoang, New York Times best-selling author).Ĭatalina Martín desperately needs a date to her sister’s wedding. ![]()
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![]() Now, four years after her award-winning, underground bestseller, Little Altars Everywhere, praised by Pat Conroy as "a splendid first novel," Rebecca Wells returns with a masterfully written novel that brims with insight, humor and compassion. ![]() Siddalee must repair her busted relationship with Vivi by reading a half-century's worth of letters and clippings contained in the Ya-Ya Sisterhood's packet of "Divine Secrets." It's a contrived premise, but the secrets are really fun to learn. The Ya-Yas are the wild circle of girls who swirl around the narrator Siddalee's mama, Vivi, whose vivid voice is "part Scarlett, part Katharine Hepburn, part Tallulah." The Ya-Yas broke the no-booze rule at the cotillion, skinny-dipped their way to jail in the town water tower, disrupted the Shirley Temple look-alike contest, and bonded for life because, as one says, "It's so much fun being a bad girl!" Wells is a Louisiana-born Seattle actress and playwright her loopy saga of a 40-year-old player in Seattle's hot theater scene who must come to terms with her mama's past in steamy Thornton City, Louisiana, reads like a lengthy episode of Designing Women written under the influence of mint juleps and Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Reconstruction by eric foner![]() Reconstruction was happening in the aftermath of Lincoln's assassination and it had all of the problems and growing pains one would expect after a country has fought a protracted Civil War and a group of millions of enslaved people were freed, with many lacking resources or the education and knowledge to adequately use this newfound freedom. ![]() President Lincoln had set up this bureau before his death. ![]() At the start, a "Freedman's Bureau" was set up to assist newly-freed blacks in areas such as gaining literacy and a general education, the acquisition of property, familiarity and participation with the country's political system and helping freed blacks assert their legal rights in a country riven by a long, painful war. This sort of sums up Eric Foner's sad tale of the optimism generated at the start of America's Reconstruction after the Civil War and emancipation of all slaves. It was the best of times it was the worst of times, and then it got even worse. ![]() ![]() I need time to recover from this book! It may be a five-star book, but I don't possess a five-star mind. ![]() ![]() Active in social and political causes, she was a founding member of La Caravane Civique, a group of Moroccan intellectuals dedicated to the education of rural Moroccan women.įatima’s work centered on gender relations in Morocco and other Arab Muslim societies. Fatima returned to Rabat to teach at Mohammed V University in the Faculté des Lettres. She then studied sociology at Mohammed V University in Rabat, followed by graduate studies at the Sorbonne, and a PhD at Brandeis University in the US. ![]() Although her mother and grandmother were illiterate, Fatima was encouraged to attend Qur’anic and nationalist schools, where she studied alongside boys. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Lovely war book review![]() Hailed by critics, Lovely War has received seven starred reviews and is an indie bestseller. Their story, as told by goddess Aphrodite, who must spin the tale or face judgment on Mount Olympus, is filled with hope and heartbreak, prejudice and passion, and reveals that, though War is a formidable force, it's no match for the transcendent power of Love. Army, and a Belgian orphan with a gorgeous voice and a devastating past. A classical pianist from London, a British would-be architect-turned-soldier, a Harlem-born ragtime genius in the U.S. ![]() They are Hazel, James, Aubrey, and Colette. ![]() Read the novel New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network Kate Quinn called "easily one of the best novels I have read all year!" A critically acclaimed, multi-layered romance set in the perilous days of World Wars I and II, where gods hold the fates-and the hearts-of four mortals in their hands. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Truman jean reidy![]() Her very favorite place to swim, however, is at her community pool in Brooklyn with her sons and her neighbors. ![]() She also is the author-illustrator of A Hungry Lion, or A Dwindling Assortment of Animals Stumpkin and Vampenguin. Lucy has swum in creeks, streams, gorges, rivers, swimming holes, pools (above- and in-ground), lakes (both Great and Finger), decorative fountains, and oceans. She was happily paired with Jean Reidy for both Truman, which was named a New York Times Best Children’s Book of 2019, and Sylvie. ![]() Lucy Ruth Cummins is an author, illustrator, and art director of children’s books. ![]() Jean writes from her home in Colorado where she lives right across the street from her neighborhood library…which she visits nearly every day. Her books include Truman and Sylvie, both illustrated by Lucy Ruth Cummins. She is a three-time winner of the Colorado Book Award, a Parents’ Choice Gold Award winner, a Charlotte Zolotow Honor winner, and recognized on “Best of” lists by School Library Journal, The New York Times, NPR, and Amazon. Jean Reidy’s bestselling and award-winning picture books have earned their spots as favorites among readers and listeners of all ages and from all over the world. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments The outrun liptrot![]() ![]() ![]() Spending early mornings swimming in the bracingly cold sea, the days tracking Orkney's wildlife - puffins nesting on sea stacks, arctic terns swooping close enough to feel their wings - and nights searching the sky for the Merry Dancers, Amy slowly makes the journey towards recovery from addiction. Now thirty, she finds herself washed up back home on Orkney, standing unstable at the cliff edge, trying to come to terms with what happened to her in London. Unable to control her drinking, alcohol gradually took over. She moved to London and found herself in a hedonistic cycle. But as she grew up, she longed to leave this remote life. Amy was shaped by the cycle of the seasons, birth and death on the farm, and her father's mental illness, which were as much a part of her childhood as the wild, carefree existence on Orkney. Approaching the land that was once home, memories of her childhood merge with the recent events that have set her on this journey. When Amy Liptrot returns to Orkney after more than a decade away, she is drawn back to the Outrun on the sheep farm where she grew up. ![]() ![]() ![]() “While I was hunting down information, I discovered that prisoners in certain concentration camps also had access to prostitutes, one of Himmler’s ideas on how to incentivize the camp labor force and thereby boost economic productivity. Keith explains that she did not originally set out to write about these relatively unheard-of women, initially thinking to write about an SS officer, exploring his motivations and mindset, but when determining how to portray him through the eyes of those he impacted, she turned to the SS brothels and made a surprising discovery. ![]() When Dutch resistance fighter Marijke de Graaf and her husband are arrested and sent to different concentration camps in Nazi Germany, Marijke is given a terrible choice: to suffer a slow death in the labor camp or-for a chance at survival-to join the camp brothel. In The Dutch Wife, debut novelist Ellen Keith shines a spotlight on two forgotten victims of history: prostitutes in Nazi labor camps and “the Disappeared” in Argentina’s state-sponsored terrorism of the 1970s. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments The magic of terry pratchett![]() He published two more stand-alone novels, The Dark Side of the Sun (1976) and Strata (1981), before the first book in his Discworld series, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. Pratchett continued to work in newspaper journalism and then in public relations throughout the 1970s and most of the ’80s. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more. ![]() ![]() This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions.Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives.Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions. ![]() ![]() ![]() This charming little thing has been a welcome change from the depressing and über complicated plots of the books I’ve read recently. The question is: With his music career on the rise, how long will Jason really stick around? And is it possible for Sloan to survive another heartbreak? (via Goodreads) There’s no telling what could happen when they meet in person. But what if this Jason guy really loves Tucker? As their flirty texts turn into long calls, Sloan can’t deny a connection. Well, Sloan’s not about to give up her dog without a fight. Then, after weeks of unanswered texts, Tucker’s owner reaches out. With her new pet by her side, Sloan finally starts to feel more like herself. ![]() But one trouble-making pup with a “take me home” look in his eyes is about to change everything. Two years after losing her fiancé, Sloan Monroe still can’t seem to get her life back on track. ![]() |