![]() ![]() Nora Stephens doesn't think there's anything missing in her life. "Book Lovers" is Henry's third summer romance book, and it's both an epic love story and an ode to books themselves. But a reunion means they'll both have to confront feelings for each other they don't want to have, putting their friendship on the line once again. When Alex says yes, Poppy knows it's her last chance to make their relationship right. ![]() Fixing things with Alex feels like the key to it all, so she breaks their stand-off to see if he'll go on a last vacation with her. Two years later, they still haven't spoken, and Poppy feels lost even as everything in her life falls into place. Alex is a homebody who has a codependent relationship with his cat, while Poppy is a free spirit who writes a travel blog.ĭespite all odds, Alex and Poppy have clicked since college, managing to keep their friendship alive after Poppy moved to New York City through an annual week-long vacation.īut after a decade of trips, they make a mistake they can't take back, leaving their friendship in pieces. No one expected Alex and Poppy to be friends, let alone best friends. "People We Meet on Vacation" by Emily Henry.Įmily Henry's second novel, "People We Meet On Vacation," is just as delightful as its predecessor, swapping the enemies-to-lovers trope for friends-to-lovers. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If standalone novels are more your speed, then Meg has some great choices! Teen Idol is about a normal teen girl who has to mentor the new kid at her high school-a mega movie star undercover as a normal teen guy doing research for his new movie role. teenager Sam, who inadvertently saves the life of the president of the United States one day, landing her an internship at the White House and a lot of attention from the press! Plus, it gets her up close and personal with the son of the president, whom she just might be falling for! If you’re a huge fan of the Princess Diaries books, don’t forget to check out Ransom My Heart, which is a romance novel penned by “Mia Thermopolis,” aka Meg Cabot!Īnother great YA duology by Meg is All-American Girl and Ready or Not, which is about D.C. Royal Wedding (this is an adult sequel, set a few years after the end of Forever Princess!). ![]() ![]() While he had access to historical records for people and places and some of the story, he still manages to create a believable personality for his characters and I loved how he imagined Mary and her strong but witty personality. When I happened upon the Audio version and teamed up with Kindle well I just had to give it a go.Ĭertainly not for the faint hearted as there are some harrowing scenes throughout the story but its extremely well written and one couldn't help admire James Alexander Throm’s research and vivid imagination that went into writing this novel. ![]() I had a copy of this book on my bookshelf for years however I just couldn’t read it as it was a tiny hardback edition with Microscopic print that I just couldn’t bring myself to read. ![]() You cant help but be captivated and amazed by the spirit of Mary Ingles and her arduous trek to freedom in 1750s frontier America. For months she lived with them unbroken, until she made her escape, and followed a thousand mile trail to freedom. Mary Ingles was 23, married and pregnant when Shawnee Indians invaded her peaceful Virginia settlement, killed the men and women, then took her and her sons captive. A brilliant and breathtaking adventure, harrowing at times but a book that I will certainly remember many years from now. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. ![]() Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() ![]() So, Lindsay and her wonderful, adorable partner, Rich Conklin, have to figure out why someone at this particular burger chain is killing people and demanding ransom. The person is blasted apart from the inside out. In this case, the bomb reacts with their stomach acids and explodes. A belly bomb is a tiny little bomb that has been tucked into food and unwittingly – one assumes – ingested. If you’re very squeamish, you might want to skip to the next paragraph right now. The one first introduced involves “belly bombs,” which, unfortunately, are exactly what they sound like. This ambitious little book has three plots going at once and I’m not entirely sure which is the main one. As the title indicates, this is the 13th in the series. The club is currently comprised of San Francisco police detective Lindsay Boxer, medical examiner Claire Washburn, DA Yuki Castellano, and reporter Cindy Thomas. Patterson has the sense to use a female co-writer, Maxine Paetro. They work together to solve murders, but so much of it is about the relationships between the women, which are very well drawn, possibly because Mr. James Patterson’s Women’s Murder Club series is a girlfriends’ story. ![]() ![]() ![]() The books are often autographed by their author and/or illustrator and always inscribed with the date and a personal note from GG. She frequently drops a book in the mail for the girls. Not surprisingly, she keeps our children’s bookshelves well-stocked. GG is a self-proclaimed bibliophile and book club devotee. Yet, even when we’re far from GG and back Down South, we have her books and her love for a good story within our reach. We treasure our summer visits to Maine where we can eat Fiddleheads (handpicked by GG) dipped in melted butter and sink our teeth into her famous Snickerdoodles while watching a loon dip under the glassy surface of a pristine lake surrounded by Hemlocks. We’re very fortunate that she’s eager to share all the loves of her life with our family. ![]() Our beloved GG (great-grandmother Jean) loves many things – cooking, books, dogs, playing in the dirt, and Maine. I actually wrote the below review several years ago for a magazine. You never stop learning from Miss Rumphius. First up is: Miss Rumphius, an all-time favorite of mine and one the kids love as well. I’ve decided to start sharing some reflections on favorite books around here – the ones that we read over and over again. ![]() ![]() Regular readers know one of my favorite activities to do alone or with my kids is reading. ![]() ![]() ![]() Febru– September 12, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter and musician who was associated primarily with Country Music but worked in a variety of genres including rockabilly, blues, folk, and gospel. because his parents couldn't agree on a name, but he was made to adopt John in 1950 when he joined the Air Force. Cash's official birth name was in fact J.R. Cash note Many sources erroneously attribute the middle name "Robert", however officially the "R" did not stand for any name. I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak, and love. ![]() ![]() ![]() There, she starts to settle into her new life when she gets her mother’s journal from when she lived in Italy. When her mother dies, Lina goes to Italy to live with Howard, who’s name she never once heard until months before her mother’s death, in the middle of a graveyard. ![]() Such is the dilemma that Lina is placed in in Love and Gelato. What can you expect when out of nowhere, you’re sent to a foreign country where you don’t speak the language to live with the father you never knew you had? “Turns out there’s a reason they call it falling in love, because…there’s no doing or trying, you just let go and hope that someone’s going to be there to catch you.” People come to Italy for love and gelato, someone tells her, but sometimes they discover much more. ![]() It’s a secret that will change everything she knew about her mother, her father-and even herself. A world that inspires Lina, along with the ever-so-charming Ren, to follow in her mother’s footsteps and unearth a secret that has been kept for far too long. Suddenly Lina’s uncovering a magical world of secret romances, art, and hidden bakeries. ![]() But what kind of father isn’t around for sixteen years? All Lina wants to do is get back home.īut then she is given a journal that her mom had kept when she lived in Italy. She’s only there because it was her mother’s dying wish that she get to know her father. Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn’t in the mood for Italy’s famous sunshine and fairy-tale landscape. ![]() ![]() These parables were repeated often, with subtle variation for each audience. Many of his parables draw from imagery and themes from the Hebrew prophets. They helped the listeners make sense of what Jesus was doing.Īnd what was Jesus doing? Jesus was bringing about the culmination of the story of God in the Hebrew Scriptures. These parables were a subtle commentary on what Jesus himself was doing in the moment. These parables didn’t make sense to those who were unwilling to listen, but for those who had “ears to hear,” the parables revealed the Kingdom of God. Jesus told parables as a form of indirect communication to communicate how he was bringing the Kingdom of God to ancient Israel. ![]() In part one (5:25–25:00), Tim and Jon open the conversation by reviewing the first two episodes. God’s Kingdom was coming, but not in the way that his listeners expected. The first major kind of parable Jesus used showed people the surprising nature of the arrival of God’s Kingdom.When pondered, these stories change the way we see the world. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() It is well-suited to the story, as we are reading about, well, criminals, but after a certain point it just turns me off to it. There is strong language, which I don’t mind, but the violence and drug use was too much. It seems I like psychological thrillers, like My Heroes have Always Been Junkies, more than this hard-boiled stuff. ![]() However, it was a bit too graphic for me. You wonder how could these characters possibly be more screwed up, how they could possibly get out of the trouble they’ve gotten into. We get a glimpse of what Leo is truly scared of at the end, which makes me want to read more. When inevitably things go south, just as Leo planned, will he make it out alive and free? He’s caring for Ivan, a father figure with Alzheimer’s, and money is tight. He knows it’s exactly where he belongs, but what is life without freedom? When he is approached by an old colleague about a diamond heist, it’s five years after the Salt Bay job, and Leo is clean, but struggling. ![]() Not after the Salt Bay job, where his best friend was killed and his father went to prison. He’s the best at what he does, but he doesn’t do it anymore. Leo is a criminal who plans a score from the first second down to the last wisp of exhaust from the getaway car. This is the first volume of that series, which I was eager to get started. It is a spin-off of this series, Criminal, by the same creative team: Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. ![]() I recently read My Heroes have Always Been Junkies, and was impressed by it. ![]() |