![]() ![]() Not when she's come to mean absolutely everything to him. Why? Because this is Gwen-and no matter what the hissing, roaring, drape destroying feline says about not being ready to settle down, Lock knows he can't simply walk away. ![]() Lock probably shouldn't get involved, but he will. Watching out for the family and friends closest to her but missing the fact that she's being stalked by a murderous enemy who doesn't like hybrids…and absolutely hates Gwen. ![]() She's sexy beyond belief and smart as hell, but she's a born protector. The Mane Attraction (Pride Stories Series 3) by Shelly Laurenston 4.5 (260) eBook 10.49 11.90 Save 12 eBook 10.49 Audiobook 0.00 View All Available Formats & Editions Instant Purchase Available on Compatible NOOK Devices and the free NOOK Apps. Gwen-half lioness, half tigress, all kick-ass-does neither. Too bad cats don't believe in forever.Īt nearly seven feet tall, Lock is used to people responding to him in two ways: screaming and running away. He actually watches out for her, protects her, and unlike the rest of her out-of-control family manages not to morbidly embarrass her. Yet despite his menacing ursine growl and four-inch claws, Gwen finds Lachlan "Lock" MacRyrie cute and really sweet. But what is she supposed to do with a nice, suburban Jersey boy in the form of a massive Grizzly shifter? Especially one with a rather unhealthy fetish for honey, moose, and…uh…well, her. ![]() Growing up on the tough Philly streets, Gwen O'Neill has learned how to fend for herself. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In her daughter’s honor, Allende established the Isabel Allende Foundation, which supports women’s empowerment non-profits in Chile and California. Allende mentions her deceased daughter Paula as one of her greatest inspirations, as Paula volunteered as a psychologist and teacher to help young girls and women. ![]() Today, Isabel Allende is widely regarded as one of the leading feminists of the literary world. ![]() Isabel Allende at Frankfurt Book Fair 2015 by Lesekreis, via Wikimedia Commons In Venezuela, Allende worked as a journalist for a prominent national newspaper.Īllende’s most well-regarded novel is probably The House of the Spirits, which has been compared with Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude for its magical realist elements and fictional-historical view of Latin America. After a coup overthrew Allende and installed Augusto Pinochet as head of the military junta, Isabel Allende fled for her life to Venezuela, where she lived for 13 years. Chilean-American author and journalist Isabel Allende has written many popular novels, including The House of the Spirits, City of the Beasts and Eva Luna.īorn in Peru, Allende’s father was the cousin of Salvador Allende, the Chilean president from 1970 to 1973. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sign up for Laurelin's newsletter to make sure you know all the latest info on her projects and to get a free book every month from a bestselling author. She's also written other popular books in the Fixed Universe as well as the Dirty Universe and has cowritten with both Kayti McGee and Sierra Simone.Īre you looking for a romantic comedy or something hot and angsty? Here's Laurelin's list of books broken down by trope and reading order. ![]() FULL LIST OF BOOKS: Series: Laurelin Paige is the NYT, WSJ, USA Today Bestselling Author of the international sensation, The Fixed Trilogy. ![]() Are you looking for a romantic comedy or something hot and angsty? Here's Laurelin's list of books broken down by trope and reading order. She's also written other popular books in the Fixed Universe as well as the Dirty Universe and has cowritten with both Kayti McGee and Sierra Simone. Laurelin Paige is the NYT, WSJ, USA Today Bestselling Author of the international sensation, The Fixed Trilogy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Technologies in real trouble with society - nuclear power, for instance - are continually generating new, exciting complaints. Old-fashioned complaints rarely pose big problems for innovators. ![]() Identical things were said about the Eiffel Tower in the 1880s. There are some complaints, of course, those standard complaints: the aggressive, thrusting showiness, the lack of a straightforward business model, the spoilt views of historic skylines. Yet they inspire no apparent fear the public greets them with kindness and complacency. Today’s supertall structures, seen objectively, are risky, daring, even rather scary. They showed impressive formal vitality, in a startling panoply of unheard-of shapes and stylings. Skyscrapers multiplied in many locales never before graced with their presence. Over a dozen years later, and we can see: quite the opposite came to pass. It so transfixed the public imagination that some feared skyscrapers would no longer be built. This dismal act involved aircraft and skyscrapers. Some among my readers may recall a dreadful incident, created by a dark genius of political theater, in September of 2001. ![]() ![]() ![]() She finds she must trust her own heart to make the impossible decisions that may save or ruin them all. But secrets and scandals breach the convent walls, and Justina learns there may be even worse fates for her than the veil, if La Diamante makes good on her threats.ĭesperate to protect herself and the ones she loves, Justina turns to Luca for help. Justina is shocked to discover how the women of the convent find their own freedom in what seems to her like a prison. It’s well known that he is in debt to both his trading partners and the most infamous courtesan in the city, La Diamante, and the pressure is closing in.Īfter arriving at the convent, Justina takes solace in her aunt Livia, one of the nuns, and in the growing knowledge that all is not strictly devout at San Zaccaria. Lord Soranzo is not acting only to protect his family. ![]() Her hopes are dashed when her father decides her younger sister, Rosa, will marry in a strategic alliance and Justina will be sent to the San Zaccaria convent, in the tradition of aristocratic daughters. ![]() Amid this turmoil, noblewoman Justina Soranzo, just sixteen, hopes to make a rare love marriage with her sweetheart, Luca Cicogna. The displeasure of Pope Julius II is a continuing threat to the republic, as is the barely contained fighting in the countryside. In sixteenth-century Venice, one young noblewoman dares to resist the choices made for her ![]() ![]() ![]() The positioning of the haveli, is interesting as it is situated in the Walled city of Shahjahanabad, the commercial hub of the city, but as you enter the quiet lanes, you forget the hustle and the chaos around you. How to get there: Ten minutes walk from Kashmere Gate metro stationĪ textile from the Mughal era, one of the wealthiest people in Delhi, Lala Chunnamal’s haveli was built in 1848. The effort of the present family can be seen in keeping the old charm alive of the mansion. This 19 th century mansion welcomes you with an open-air aourtyar with stairways leading towards the large rooms. The mansion is built using two types of brickworks from colonial era and the thinner ones, being the Lakhori bricks. The present owners, Baglas, inherited the mansion in around 1905. It was built in 1850, the mansion has been a witness to the plunder during sepoy mutiny and the revolt of 1857. ![]() ![]() ![]() Situated in Chhota Bazaar, opposite old St.Stephen’s College building, Seth Ram Lal Khemka Haveli was once a place where wealth and power concentrated. Take out some time, to admire the elaborate arcades, colossal doors, which take you back to a long by-gone era. Walking past the Old city of Shahjahanabad, the almost broken and haunted looking havelis have a certain magnet which has the power to attract you towards them. The beauty of the Old Havelis in Chandni Chowk lie in the crumbling state as they are in, today who have stood the test of time. ![]() ![]() ![]() I did not notice much new information about Washington’s life or character, but Chernow’s style of writing, the book’s nearly perfect pace and the conclusions he provides toward the end of the biography complement the enormous volume of previously-published works on Washington. However, my fears were soon eased as I realized I was probably reading the best biography of George Washington.Ĭompellingly written in a fluid, articulate and descriptive style, Chernow’s book perfectly demonstrates his masterful storytelling skills. ![]() Having plowed through 2,100 pages on Washington in the previous three weeks, the prospect of biting off another 800+ pages so soon with Chernow’s biography was a bit daunting. However, among all biographies of George Washington, Chernow’s appears to be the best loved and most highly-rated. Because this biography clocks in at three times the length of Ellis’s “His Excellency,” it is no surprise that Chernow’s work loses a few readers to that of Elllis (which I recently read and reviewed). ![]() ![]() This is the longest single-volume biography on Washington in my library and is the second best-read among major available titles. and Alexander Hamilton and is particularly well-known for his inaugural book “ The House of Morgan.” He has also written biographies on John D. “ Washington: A Life” is acclaimed author and historian Ron Chernow’s most recent book, for which he received a 2011 Pulitzer Prize. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Saviour of the Imperium contains the novels The Emperor’s Finest, The Last Ditch and The Greater Good, the novella Old Soldiers Never Die, along with a number of additional short stories. When all seems lost, Cain, his trusty but malodorous aide Jurgen, and the Valhallan 597th, can always be relied upon to ride to the rescue and save the day! With their thrills and spills, and tongue in cheek humour, the Ciaphas Cain novels offer a unique vision of the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Many are the heroes who stand at the forefront of this endless fight against evil, but few names conjure up as much awe and respect as the legendary commissar Ciaphas Cain. Sandy Mitchell Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium Paperback Septemby Sandy Mitchell (Author) 1,023 ratings Collects books from: Ciaphas Cain See all formats and editions Kindle 21.99 Read with Our Free App Paperback 71.73 Other used from 67.79 Enjoy tall tales of adventure and derring-do in Commissar Cain’s memoirs. In the grim darkness of the 41st millennium, mankind’s mighty Imperium is threatened on all sides by its enemies – brutal orks, ravening tyranid hordes and the corrupt armies of Chaos. The books take the form of a series of archives written by Cain himself. Compilation of novels and short stories featuring the very popular and much loved character Ciaphas Cain in a third Omnibus edition. Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium is the first collection of the Ciaphas Cain stories, bundling together the fist three novels ( For the Emperor, Caves of Ice and The Traitor’s Hand) and three short stories, all of which take place within the Warhammer 40,000 universe. ![]() ![]() This decision will save his life, but it will pull him into the very center of what we know today as the Killing Fields. ![]() ![]() Arn's never played a note in his life, but he volunteers. One day, the soldiers ask if any of the kids can play an instrument. But after the soldiers march the entire population into the countryside, his life is changed forever.Īrn is separated from his family and assigned to a labor camp: working in the rice paddies under a blazing sun, he sees the other children dying before his eyes. When soldiers arrive in his hometown, Arn is just a normal little boy. It includes an author's note and acknowledgments from Arn Chorn-Pond himself. ![]() This National Book Award nominee from two-time finalist Patricia McCormick is the unforgettable story of Arn Chorn-Pond, who defied the odds to survive the Cambodian genocide of 1975-1979 and the labor camps of the Khmer Rouge.īased on the true story of Cambodian advocate Arn Chorn-Pond, and authentically told from his point of view as a young boy, this is an achingly raw and powerful historical novel about a child of war who becomes a man of peace. ![]() ![]() ![]() As well as three nonfiction bestsellers, he is the author of the bestselling Nick Stone thrillers. Since then Andy McNab has become one of the world’'s bestselling writers, drawing on his insider knowledge and experience. ![]() Awarded both the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) and Military Medal (MM) during his military career, McNab was the British Army's most highly decorated serving soldier when he finally left the SAS. During the Gulf War he commanded Bravo Two Zero, a patrol that, in the words of his commanding officer, 'will remain in regimental history for ever'. As a member of 22 SAS he was at the centre of covert operations for nine years – on five continents. ![]() As a young soldier he waged war against the IRA in the streets and fields of South Armagh. As a teenage delinquent, As a teenage delinquent, ANDY McNAB kicked against society. ![]() |