![]() Lexi spends a good part of the book being aimless and a tad bit whiny. So she begins the task of navigating her life anew, and finding out that other than the designer handbags and her new figure, she really doesn’t like it at all – and Lexi hasn’t even found out she has a lover yet. That doesn’t really change when confronted with the new and improved Lexi’s life her husband has to write her a handbook on how to deal with it. The Lexi Smart that narrates Remember Me? is introduced in a short prologue, and she’s a bit of a mess. Oh, and there’s also a gorgeous and successful husband now. Apparently, she’s made some BIG changes in her life she’s transformed herself physically, gotten promoted at work, changed all her friends, and become everything she always wanted to be. ![]() Lexi Smart wakes up in a London hospital, with no memories of the last three years. Only, what if you didn’t remember who you were? That’s the premise in Sophie Kinsella’s new novel Remember Me?. What if one day you woke up and all those little daydreams had suddenly come true? You’d lost 20 pounds, your hair was fabulous, you had a better job, and instead of fantasizing about Mr. ![]() LauraD’s review of Remember Me? by Sophie KinsellaĬhick Lit hardcover release by Dial Press 26 Feb 08 ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() She is a trained chef and most of the recipes in her novels such as Strays are ones that you could find her cooking for her family on weekends. ![]() On most days you can find her scrolling through her feed doing very little, while shouting at her animals and menagerie of children, all the while attempting to tame the wonderful though unruly FOX. When she is not writing or designing, she loves to spend her time on twitter and asserts that she is one of the greatest procrastinators in the literary world. ![]() She also co-owns with Dan Burgess the famous LGBTQA photographer. She designs e-book designs for independent authors and a range of publishing houses at. Besides her writing, Leigh is an award-winning graphic designer and came in second at the 2016 Benjamin Franklin Awards. In 2016, Misfits her polyamorous novel made the shortlist at the LAMBDA Awards. She would go on to win the Best Bisexual debut for her first novel Slide at the 2014 Rainbow Book Awards. She genuinely does not remember how she got into writing, asserting that it just happened and she ran with it. She currently works with Fox Love Press, Riptide Publishing, Loose Id, and Dreamspinner Press. Garrett Leigh, who also goes by the pseudonym Grace Leigh is an award-winning British novelist and graphic designer best known for a series of popular contemporary romance novels. ![]() ![]() In Why Buddhism Is True, Wright leads listeners on a journey through psychology, philosophy, and a great many silent retreats to show how and why meditation can serve as the foundation for a spiritual life in a secular age. Buddhism holds that human suffering is a result of not seeing the world clearly - and proposes that seeing the world more clearly, through meditation, will make us better, happier people. And it is designed to make happiness hard to sustain.īut if we know our minds are rigged for anxiety, depression, anger, and greed, what do we do? Wright locates the answer in Buddhism, which figured out thousands of years ago what scientists are discovering only now. ![]() The mind is designed to often delude us, he argued, about ourselves and about the world. Robert Wright famously explained in The Moral Animal how evolution shaped the human brain. From one of America's greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness. ![]() ![]() ![]() When reading this memoir, it feels like you’re peeking into someone’s journal. Like most memoirs, this one does have chapters and headings, but what Heart Berries does differently is that it isn’t a neatly edited and cohesive narrative of the author’s life. I was not expecting the book to get so grim, but that didn’t stop me from devouring every word. Heart Berries is a devastatingly beautiful memoir of Mailhot’s experience with a traumatic break-up, mental illness, and growing up on an Indian Reservation. My experience reading Heart Berries was the latter. There are two things that people generally experience when they read memoirs: either you relate to their experiences or you gain a new perspective. Not that I don’t enjoy novel anymore, my Gemini rising and venus is just super nosy. Since I’ve entered adulthood, I’ve noticed that I’ve been reading less fiction and more memoirs and self-help type of books. ![]() “When you told me that I want too much, I considered how much you take.” ![]() ![]() ![]() “ Dial A for Aunties is a brilliant and fun page-turning ride full of unbelievable plot twists a date gone tragically wrong, well-intended but meddling aunties, an entirely fresh type of a heroine and a big romance,” said Lisa Nishimura, Netflix’s vp original documentary and independent features, in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. Sutanto then took time making her decision before settling on Khan.Ī search for writers will soon get underway. When it came to the screen rights, the author took calls from producers, but because of the time difference from living in Jakarta, calls only occurred one a day, lengthening the process for suitors and bidders. The book was picked up by Berkley Books earlier this spring, with the publisher setting a tentative April 2021 release date. South Korea's Beyond Music Raises $170M for More Catalog Acquisitions ![]() ![]() ![]() Lillian has no intention of falling in love with the Marquis, but she will create Christmastide mischief and teach the boys and the handsome Marquis how to play, in Mistletoe, Mischief, and the Marquis. It’s all she can do not to give into her feminine fantasies about her kissing him. ![]() To her surprise, she’s captivated by him. The Marquis of Wythebury is commanding and intensely serious-minded. A delightfully charming, wickedly sexy Regency-set Christmas romance novella from New York Times bestselling author Amelia Grey The Marquis of Wythebury, is expecting an ordinary Christmastide at Hurstuntil he is set upon by a beautiful miss who takes him to task for not allowing his young nephews to play outside. Growing up the middle child of five rambunctious girls, Lillian Prim doesn’t understand why two young boys visiting Hurst don’t know how to play until she meets their dashing guardian. No matter how fetching he finds her, he can’t give in to his attraction…for she is the sister of his best friend. The cheeky Miss Prim has no such compunction. Few people have ever been brave enough to challenge him over anything, much less the rearing of his wards. In his mind, a five and seven year old needn’t get chilled in the snow better to plop them in front of the fire with a book. The Marquis of Wythebury, is expecting an ordinary Christmastide at Hurst-until he is set upon by a beautiful miss who takes him to task for not allowing his young nephews to play outside. A delightfully charming, wickedly sexy Regency-set Christmas romance novella from New York Times bestselling author Amelia Grey! Growing up the middle child of five rambunctious girls, Lillian Prim doesnt understand why two young boys visiting Hurst dont know how to play until she meets. ![]() ![]() In 2017, Dixon began self-publishing the Icehome series, a spin-off of the Ice Planet Barbarians series. The Berkley Books special edition of Ice Planet Barbarians contains an exclusive epilogue and an additional sequel novella. The Ice Planet Barbarians series was completed in 2021. In the first book, Georgie, the de-facto leader of the women, is drawn to Vektal, the leader of the tribe. The series follows a group of human women who crash-land and become stranded on Not-Hoth, an ice planet, where they meet a tribe of large, blue-skinned aliens called the Sakh. ![]() In June 2021, CNN reported that bookstores had made special orders to stock the series due to its viral popularity. Barbarian Alien became the eleventh most-sold. For the week of June 13th, Amazon Advisor revealed that Ice Planet Barbarians had reached the fifth most-sold book on Amazon. ![]() The series concluded in 2021.ĭixon's novels gained a large following on BookTok and topped multiple Amazon bestseller lists in May 2021. A print special edition of Barbarian Alien, the second book in the series, was released by Berkley Books on January 25, 2022. The Ice Planet Barbarians series contains over twenty books in the same setting, several of which have been or will be re-published by Berkley Books. The novel was re-published in print by Berkley Books on November 30, 2021. ![]() The series began with the novel Ice Planet Barbarians, which Dixon originally self-published in April 2015. Ice Planet Barbarians is a series of science fantasy romance/erotica novels by Ruby Dixon. ![]() ![]() Kansas City was the fount of Connell’s early creativity. ![]() He certainly would have been impressed or at least on intellectual alert that such a souvenir of the world could be transplanted to the genteel, mostly bland landscape of his youth. But he might well have been amused by that. ![]() When Connell wrote this story, “The Walls of Ávila,” in the 1950s, he, of course, would not have known that decades later he could find a replica of the towering “golden doors of Ghiberti” in his hometown art museum, the Nelson-Atkins. And he spoke familiarly of the beauty of Istanbul, and of Giotto’s tower, and the Seine, and the golden doors of Ghiberti.” On his keychain was a fragment of polished stone, drilled through the center, that he had picked up from the hillside just beyond Tunis. J.D.’s middle-American, businessmen friends are alternately engaged and put off by his slide-less travelogue: “He had tales of the Casbah in Tangiers and he had souvenirs from the ruins of Carthage. He notices the “wind wrinkles about his restless cerulean blue eyes, as though the light of strange beaches and exotic plazas had stamped him like a visa to prove he had been there.” The story’s unnamed narrator is a close observer of the wandering traveler J.D. ![]() ![]() Connell (1924-2013) wrote early in his long literary career, a traveler has come home to a place much like Kansas City and is describing to a group of old friends the sights he saw over the previous 10 years. ![]() ![]() ![]() His recent recordings for radio include Wenny Has Wings, The World According to Humphrey and The Salamander Letter, all for the BBC. The story is also included with the Digital Download version.ĭownload PDF booklet More product details ISBN:Īdam Sims trained at LAMDA. The collection also contains The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Irving’s story about the headless horseman, which explores the nature of legend, and The Pride of the Village, a mythic tale of love and loss.ĬD version includes a free download of The Spectre Bridegroom – see inside booklet for details. ![]() It is counted among the earliest examples of American fiction. One day, travelling in the mountains, he somehow falls asleep upon waking, he finds that twenty years have passed! For adults and children alike, Rip Van Winkle paints a charming picture of rural life before and after the American War of Independence. Kindly Rip Van Winkle, loved by all, lives a quiet existence in a small village at the foot of the Catskill Mountains. Audio Sample Washington Irving Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & The Pride of the Village ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It also recontextualizes emotional abuse at a time when the real-world US society gave little credence to such concepts. More importantly, the main plotline provides an opportunity for the reader to consider the morality of both the protagonist's actions and the actions of those around him who have exploited or manipulated him. There are some comments on the gender stereotypes from some of the characters but it is never indicated that these are the beliefs of the protagonist arguably, these comments are provided by characters who are implied to be less capable or intelligent than the protagonist and indirectly, the reader. While there is racial and derogatory language and concepts in the book, these are used by the author to contextualize the nature of some of the more antagonistic characters and identify them as villainous or cruel in nature. ![]() It presents the struggle of a child fulfilling the demands of his society for a savior and the idea that his only value is that of a brilliant strategist with a killer instinct. ![]() Ender's game is a great story whose biggest weakness is requiring the reader to fill in the world the characters live in as its focus remains on the internal struggle within the characters. ![]() |