![]() ![]() ![]() 'This beautifully descriptive and touching story about love and hope is fabulous sunshine reading' - Closer. What readers are saying about Kate Forster: 'The Sisters' is the perfect read for fans of captivating family dramas such as 'Dynasty'. Blame soon falls on their powerful but ruthless tycoon father, the missing Leon De Santoval.īeneath the ritzy façade of the de Santoval family lies a web of deceit and betrayal that hides a secret that threatens to destroy them all. Their mother, wealthy fashion maven Birdie De Santoval, lies unconscious following a mysterious accident. Fine-arts consultant Grace is hiding a dark secret she must keep hidden at all costs. Carlotta is an exclusive horse trainer, as wild as the stallions she breaks in. Violetta is the hottest reality TV star of the moment, with a fierce press interest to rival Hollywood's A-list. ![]() The de Santoval sisters are heiresses to a glamorous fashion house and the darlings of LA society. ![]()
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![]() Janet’s father was in the Navy therefore she moved a great deal and attended many schools while growing up.Īfter graduating from high school in Hawaii in 1971 she landed a job creating Hawaiian designs for fabric. While this didn't always sit well with her teachers, it was what she loved to do. Pictures decorated her walls, mirrors, furniture and school work - including math assignments. In 1977, she attended “The Illustrator's Worksh Janet Stevens began drawing as a child. ![]() After she graduated from the University of Colorado in 1975 with a degree in Fine Arts Janet began compiling a portfolio of “characters”, bears in tutus, rhinos in sneakers, and walruses in Hawaiian shirts. The printed fabric was then made into aloha shirts and muumuus. After graduating from high school in Hawaii in 1971 she landed a job creating Hawaiian designs for fabric. Janet’s father was in the Navy therefore she moved a great deal and attended many schools while growing up. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the stories of Nehemiah and other biblical leaders, Cosby finds inspiration on how to rebuild Black America including the necessity of government reparations for ADOS. Cosby lays out the first theology of the ADOS movement, turning the traditional lens of Black liberation theology from Moses leading escaped Hebrew slaves in Exodus to other biblical leaders like Solomon, Daniel, and Nehemiah. ![]() But the American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS) hold a unique claim to economic and reparative justice: for ADOS, after all, is the only group whose ancestors were forcibly brought to America, enslaved, built much of the wealth of the country, yet continue to be specifically excluded from the same social, political, and economic rights of other Americans. Too often, all oppressed people in America are lumped together under the moniker people of color, as if each group's experience under the yoke of systemic racism has the same economic and social repercussions. In the stories of Nehemiah and other biblical leaders, Cosby finds inspiration on how to rebuild Black America including the necessity of government reparations for the American Descendants of Slavery. ![]() ![]() At the recommendation of my former literature professor, Gene Veith, I picked up the 1941 novel The Hammer of God, by Swedish Lutheran bishop, Bo Giertz. Gallons of ink have been spilled about the purported Calvinism of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick or Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead, but where might one go to find a novel that could be recognizably characterized as Lutheran? After all, the Lutheran heartlands of Germany and Scandinavia have become increasingly secularized over time, and American Lutheranism has had far less influence on the cultural zeitgeist than the broadly Reformed tradition. ![]() ![]() According to Bottum, the slow eclipse of Protestantism in the West has correlated with increasing disinterest in the novel as a subject of serious cultural significance.īottum’s insights, in turn, led me to contemplate a question I’d never really considered before. Early last year, just before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down cities and countries across the globe, I read Joseph Bottum’s book The Decline of the Novel, which contrasts the “chanson fiction” of the medieval Catholic imagination-which stressed the integrity of social roles, the accomplishment of duties, and the performance of civic scripts-with the “roman fiction” of later Protestantism, which emphasized the personal journey of the individual narrator. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Well, I’m excited to have my own collection for my future children to enjoy. It costs me 50 bucks but it’s still a lot cheaper in China than America. Other teachers are able to check them out from my office on two day loans and everyone seems to be enjoying this.īut today I was feeling like I wanted some of my own books and so I’ve just purchased online a 20-book Dr. Seuss books and I’ve collected about 40 so far. Thankfully, lots of women in my branch lent me their Dr. Yes, I’m still saying that after I’ve watched it 4 times now. You can find it on youtube and it’s only 30 minutes. By the way, if you have not watched the original Cat in the Hat 1971 film, please do. Seuss more than anyone I know and I often read the books by myself when I’m alone, just being in complete awe of the rhythm and language of each book. Seuss books to my students, watching the film versions of some, and making fun art projects. Regardless, I have been having fun reading tons of Dr. To say this is stressful is an understatement. So not only do I have to come up with activities for my own students, but now I have to come up with some for the whole school. Seuss day coming up, the principal has put me in charge of the event. Apparently because I seem to be the only one enthused about Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He published almost a hundred books on different subjects, including ten volumes of autobiography: My Life and Times (1963–71). They were the sources of a successful film and a television series respectively. Mackenzie is perhaps best known for two comic novels set in Scotland: Whisky Galore (1947) set in the Hebrides, and The Monarch of the Glen (1941) set in the Scottish Highlands. He was educated at St Paul's School, London, and Magdalen College, Oxford, from where he graduated with a degree in Modern History. His father, Edward Compton Mackenzie, and mother, Virginia Frances Bateman, were actors and theatre company managers his sister, Fay Compton (whose son was Anthony Pelissier, Compton's nephew), starred in many of J. ![]() He was knighted in 1952.Įdward Montague Compton Mackenzie was born in West Hartlepool, County Durham, England, into a theatrical family of Mackenzies, many of whose members used Compton as their stage surname, starting with his English grandfather Henry Compton, a well-known Shakespearean actor of the Victorian era. ![]() He was one of the co-founders in 1928 of the National Party of Scotland along with Hugh MacDiarmid, R. Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie, OBE (17 January 1883 – 30 November 1972) was a Scottish writer of fiction, biography, histories and a memoir, as well as a cultural commentator, raconteur and lifelong Scottish nationalist. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Reverend Mother‘s discourse on the Goddess – preach girlfriend!” “Will he please stop calling her Zenny-bug and ‘my little nun.’ Gross.” “WOW, that was a really interesting piece on faith. “OMG, he’s f-ing a nun…what am I reading?!” He agrees to be hers in any and every way for the next month. In order to test her faith and devotion to her chosen way of life, she asks Sean to sleep with her and show her everything she’s giving up. Only she’s now 21 and on her way to becoming a nun. He runs into the mystery woman again and realizes she’s Zenny, the younger sister of his best friend. ![]() He wants to do very carnal things to her but their night is cut short. He runs into a young woman at a benefit who takes his breath away. Sean is a 36 year old who’s only goals are to make money and f7^*(k everything and anything he wants to. Published March 2018 Rating : ★★★ Amazon | Goodreads ![]() Tags: Friends to Lovers, Age Gap, Religion, Virgin, Interracial Couple ![]() ![]() ![]() While the setting, early 1800s, reminds me of Jane Austen and the expansive fields and flowing muslin dresses of her books there’s little of the romanticism of Austen’s works in the story of Anning or her friend, Elizabeth. Mary Anning, having grown up in a worker’s family and having to collect ‘curies’ that the family could sell to make a living and feed the household is an unglamorous heroine. This book is of the quiet, ruminating sort – looking less at one specific life-changing event – although there’s a bit of that too – but it’s more a part of a life in flux in the midst of transformation. The book follow her coming into her own, figuring out what she’s good at and becoming famous for her findings falling in and out of love, making friends with a woman of higher class, Elizabeth, whose brother sent off her and her sisters to Lyme when he got married to make place for his own family. ![]() Remarkable Creatures tells the story of Mary Anning, famed fossil hunter, in a fictionalized account of her life. I’ve been on a historical fiction kick lately with titles like I was Anastasia and The Trouble with Goats and Sheep so it was only right I got to one of the masters of the genre, Tracy Chevalier. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Agent: Emily Sylvan Kim, Prospect Agency. Captive Prince and Prince’s Gambit raised high hopes and expectations this volume surpasses them. Pacat delivers a rip-roaring epic full of double and triple crosses, beleaguered romance, intimate erotic interplay, and a surprising amount of leavening humor, ending the series with grace and panache. Laurent and Damen need each other politically as they try to meld their armies to take back both Vere and Akielos, but the demands of war and politics complicate their personal relationship. Laurent’s malicious uncle serves as his regent and intends to keep all the power for himself, and the two of them clash on and off the battlefield. Now that the tides have turned, Damen’s alliance with Laurent is shocking to his countrymen, who worry about his former owner’s continuing influence over him. Damen’s brother had Damen kidnapped and usurped the throne Damen was sold into slavery and purchased by Laurent. Damianos, Prince of Akielos, is romantically and politically allied to Laurent, Prince of Vere, but the connection is an uneasy one. Pacat’s glorious erotic Captive Prince trilogy concludes with this tour de force, a tale of politics, betrayal, and passion set in a troubled pair of fantasy realms. ![]() ![]() ![]() But to be fair, Roald Dahl wasn't American (he was British), so the world will never know. It's pretty much un-American not to like a Johnny Depp movie. Dahl passed away in 1990, but we wonder what he would have thought of the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Unfortunately, Dahl and the movie did not have a good relationship – he wasn't happy with the casting, the focus on Willy Wonka instead of Charlie, or the many changes made to the script after he wrote it. It's probably Roald Dahl's most well-known book, but that might just be thanks to the famous 1971 movie version, Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory. You're probably no stranger to this story about a poor little boy who tours Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory. And guess what? Over half a century later, that's still the greatest thing imaginable. In 1964, when Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was first published, the greatest thing imaginable was a gallivanting around a factory devoted entirely to making chocolate and other sweets. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Introduction ![]() |