![]() ![]() Passionate about diversity, justice, and new experiences, Tara says that on her tombstone, it will say "Yes!" E-mail: Website: Blog: Goodreads: Pinterest: /taralain Twitter: Facebook: "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. She lives with her soulmate husband and her soulmate dog (who's a little jealous of all those cat pictures Tara posts on FB) in Laguna Niguel, California, near the seaside towns where she sets a lot of her books. ![]() ![]() She does workshops on both author promotion and writing craft. Her love of creating book titles comes from years of manifesting ad headlines for everything from analytical instruments to semiconductors. Taylor Maid: A Marry-by-Midnight, Mistaken Identity, MM Romance Paperback Decemby Tara Lain (Author) 99 ratings Book 3 of 41: Dreamspun Desires Kindle 0.00 Read with Kindle Unlimited to also enjoy access to over 1 million more titles 3.99 to buy Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Paperback 11.99 3 New from 11. On the eve of his twenty-fifth birthday, the billionaire’s son discovers that despite being gay, he must marry a woman before midnight or lose a fifty-million-dollar inheritance. Taylor Fitzgerald needs a last-minute bride. In her other job, Tara owns an advertising and public relations firm. By Tara Lain He'll marry the maid to get 50 million but a secret could queer the deal. Readers often call her books "sweet," even with all that hawt sex, because Tara believes in love and her books deliver on happy-ever-after. Her bestselling novels have garnered awards for Best Series, Best Contemporary Romance, Best Erotic Romance, Best Ménage, Best LGBT Romance, and Best Gay Characters, and Tara has been named Best Writer of the Year in the LRC Awards. ![]() Tara Lain writes the Beautiful Boys of Romance in LGBT romance novels that star her unique, charismatic heroes. ![]()
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![]() ![]() After eons of fighting his own battles, he finds himself being rescued from a desperate situation by a half-starved teenage girl. Raffe is a warrior who lies broken and wingless on the street. When warrior angels fly away with a helpless little girl, her seventeen-year-old sister Penryn will do anything to get her back.Īnything, including making a deal with an enemy angel. ![]() Street gangs rule the day while fear and superstition rule the night. It's been six weeks since angels of the apocalypse descended to demolish the modern world. The final book End of Days was released in May 2015. A sequel, World After, was released the following year. ![]() In November 2012, the movie rights was picked up by Good Universe. It was also one of the top 5 E-book UK Bestsellers in Amazon. The book has been translated to more than 20 languages and was one of the finalists for the Best Fantasy and Fiction Book in the 2011 Cybils Award. The story is narrated by Penryn Young, a 17-year-old girl living in the San Francisco Bay, which has been attacked by angels. It is the first book in the Penryn & the End Of Days trilogy. E-book, print ( hardcover and paperback), audiobookĪngelfall is a post-apocalyptic fantasy novel written by Korean-American author Susan Ee. ![]() ![]() ![]() A story that might never know an END…if WILL gets off that elevator. And stray bullets had cut through the playground, and Will had tried to cover her, but she was hit anyway, and so what she wants to know, on that fifth floor elevator stop, is, what if Will, Will with the gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, MISSES.Īnd so it goes, the whole long way down, as the elevator stops on each floor, and at each stop someone connected to his brother gets on to give Will a piece to a bigger story than the one he thinks he knows. A teenage girl gets on, waves away the smoke from Dead Buck’s cigarette. But Buck’s in the elevator? Just as Will’s trying to think this through, the door to the next floor opens. Will didn’t know that Shawn had ever actually USED his gun. And the only one who could have fired Shawn’s gun was Shawn. And that’s when Will sees that one bullet is missing. Buck tells Will to check that the gun is even loaded. Buck, Will finds out, is who gave Shawn the gun before Will took the gun. ![]() ![]() Or does he? As the elevator stops on the sixth floor, on comes Buck. He gets on the elevator, seventh floor, stoked. That’s where Will’s now heading, with that gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, the gun that was his brother’s gun. See, his brother Shawn was just murdered. That’s what fifteen-year-old Will has shoved in the back waistband of his jeans. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And then there is Isabel, who is also at Valley Forge-against her will. In addition to the hardships of soldiering, he lives with the fear of discovery, for he is an escaped slave passing for free. This is where Curzon the boy becomes Curzon the young man. ![]() The Patriot Army was shaped and strengthened by the desperate circumstances of the Valley Forge winter. About the Book In this sequel to "Chains," Anderson shifts perspective from Isabel to Curzon and brings to the page the tale of what it takes for runaway slaves to forge their own paths in a world of obstacles.īook Synopsis "One of the best novels they have ever read." - Kirkus Reviews Curzon navigates the dangers of being a runaway slave in this keenly felt second novel in in the historical middle grade The Seeds of America trilogy from acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson. ![]() ![]() ![]() And if he's right, it could be a very long time before anyone's dreams are sweet again. The writing is a little flat, and the children, armed with positive affirmations and frequent epiphanies, rise a little too easily to formidable challenges. Now the WOOLLY NIGHTMARES are closing in, and INK has shown up at Cypress Creek Elementary! Charlie's convinced that INK is up to NO GOOD. Charlie's nightmare is based on the same scary dreams that spooked Segel as a child, and he and Miller aim to reassure children that fear is normal, OK, and conquerable. And he's pretty sure the twins ICK and INK are responsible.Ĭharlie and his friends thought they'd put the twins out of business, but it seems they didn't quite finish the job. ![]() Somehow he's trapped in someone else's bad dream. EVEN EERIER, THOUGH, is that it's not Charlie's nightmare. Whenever he falls asleep, he finds himself in a Netherworld field, surrounded by a flock of CREEPY BLACK SHEEP. Not since he faced his fears has Charlie had so many bad dreams. in this delightfully entertaining offering from actor Jason Segel and co-author Kirsten Miller. The nightmares are back, and they're WEIRDER THAN EVER. About Nightmares The Lost Lullaby Coraline meets Monsters, Inc. He's been hearing strange noises after dark, which is NEVER a good sign.ģ. There's a NEW GIRL at school, and Charlie and his friends have DEFINITELY seen her before.Ģ. ![]() ![]() ![]() June and Bernard represent diametrically opposed views of the construction and interpretation of meaning. Part of my work will be to show the impact of different philosophies of life on the interpretation of events, which again causes different meaning. ![]() Bernard is rational and strongly believes in science and its logic whereas June is rather intuitive, spiritual and has a metaphysical understanding of the world. In the novel Black Dogs, written by Ian McEwan, June and Bernard have different philosophies of life. the way it is written as well as its style and wording, has an impact on its interpretation and therefore on the construction of meaning. The interpretation of events is, for example, based on the readers’ as well as the novel’s characters’ experiences and philosophies. It therefore is seldom, if ever, an objective matter.Įvents can be interpreted differently and hence mean different things to people. The construction of meaning is affected by various parameters, for example to a certain degree by personality. ![]() Statements, texts and events deliver information and construct meaning. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I enjoyed that the author was brave enough to make the characters the people they would logically have been, given the situation they were placed in. Like, if the characters in The Girl on the Train or Skippy Dies effed you up, this isn't the book for you. I mean, prrrroooobably don't read this book if you're in a very fragile emotional/mental health state. If death means nothing to you why would you care if you committed suicide by rat poison? If you live the same life over and over for hundreds of years, how could the "linears" (normal people) become anything other than paper dolls for you to play with? Once I situated the characters in their culture rather than my culture I was definitely able to understand their motivations and empathize with them. While I'm glad I was pre-warned that there was a lot of gruesome violence in the book (there is) and that the characters are generally callous and frequently cruel people (they are), these aspects made sense for the premise of the book. It should have been a little higher up on my wishlist. ![]() I put this book low on my wishlist because it sounded interesting but the words "tough to read" and "sociopath" and "couldn't like the characters" kept popping up in the reviews. ![]() As you are, I'm a person who reads the reviews to see if I should invest in a book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Intrigued by the snail's molluscan anatomy, cryptic defenses, clear decision making, hydraulic locomotion, and courtship activities, Bailey becomes an astute and amused observer, offering a candid and engaging look into the curious life of this underappreciated small animal. As a result, she discovers the solace and sense of wonder that this mysterious creature brings and comes to a greater understanding of her own place in the world. While an illness keeps her bedridden, Bailey watches a wild snail that has taken up residence on her nightstand. ![]() About the Book Originally published: Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2010.īook Synopsis In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Tova Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of her encounter with a Neohelix albolabris-a common woodland snail. ![]() ![]() With authority and flair, acclaimed historian Giles Tremlett Tremlett relates the story of this legendary, if controversial, first initiate in a small club of great European queens that includes Elizabeth I of England, Russia's Catherine the Great, and Britain's Queen Victoria. Her pivotal reign was long and transformative, uniting Spain and laying the foundations not just of modern Spain, but of the one of the world's greatest empires. ![]() Her marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon was crucial to her success, bringing together as it did two kingdoms, but it was a royal partnership in which Isabella more than held her own. ![]() Ahead of her lay the considerable challenge not only of being a young, female ruler in an overwhelmingly male-dominated world, but also of reforming a major European kingdom that was riddled with crime, corruption, and violent political factionism. In 1474, a twenty-three year old woman ascended the throne of Castile, the largest and strongest kingdom in Spain. Over just a few centuries, the world also saw Eleanor of Aquitaine, Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great, and Maria Theresa, among others. WINNER OF THE 2018 ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE Isabella, founder of the nation of Spain and the Spanish Empire as well as the patron of Christopher Columbus, was one in a line of the greatest era of powerful women who ever lived. ![]() Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo 'Packed with vivid character sketches and lyrical description, Tremlett has told a gripping story, full of beauty and darkness' The Times ![]() ![]() ![]() Civil Servant David Fitzgerald, secretly acting as a spy for the Resistance, is given the mission by them to rescue his old friend Frank and get him out of the country.īefore long he, together with a disparate group of Resistance activists, will find themselves fugitives in the midst of London's Great Smog as David's wife Sarah finds herself drawn into a world more terrifying than she ever could have imagined. And in a Birmingham mental hospital an incarcerated scientist, Frank Muncaster, may hold a secret that could change the balance of the world struggle for ever. In Britain, Winston Churchill's Resistance organization is increasingly a thorn in the government's side. There are terrible rumours too about what is happening in the basement of the German Embassy at Senate House.ĭefiance, though, is growing. ![]() As the long German war against Russia rages on in the east, the British people find themselves under dark authoritarian rule: the press, radio and television are controlled the streets patrolled by violent auxiliary police and British Jews face ever greater constraints. ![]() Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany after Dunkirk. A dense, choking fog engulfs the city and beneath it, history is re-written…1952. ![]() |