5/28/2023 0 Comments The notebook sparks![]() ![]() ![]() No other author today touches our emotions more deeply than Nicholas Sparks. Being with Jamie would show him the depths of the human heart and lead him to a decision so stunning it would send him irrevocably on the road to manhood. Then a twist of fate made Jamie his partner for the homecoming dance, and Landon Carter's life would never be the same. She took care of her widowed father, rescued hurt animals, and helped out at the local orphanage. A quiet girl who always carried a Bible with her schoolbooks, Jamie seemed content living in a world apart from the other teens. Certainly the last person in town he thought he'd fall for was Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town's Baptist minister. He even swore that he had once been in love. It was 1958, and Landon had already dated a girl or two. Every April, when the wind blows in from the sea and mingles with the scent of lilacs, Landon Carter remembers his last year at Beaufort High. There was a time when the world was sweeter.when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats.when something happened to a seventeen-year-old boy that would change his life forever. ![]()
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5/28/2023 0 Comments Unequal affections lara ormiston![]() ![]() The incentives for her to accept him are strong, but she is honest enough to tell him that she does not return his affections. ![]() She, on the other hand, is poor, and can expect a future of increasing poverty if she does not marry. What she knows is that he is rich, handsome, clever, and very much in love with her. Darcy’s passionate avowal of love causes Elizabeth to reevaluate everything she thought she knew about him. Wickham, she never troubled herself to believe he was anything other than the worst of men-until, one day, he unexpectedly proposed. Angered by his pride and reserve, influenced by the lies of the charming Mr. Darcy, she despised him and was sure he felt the same. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Live your best life joel osteen![]() ![]() He resides in Houston with his wife, Victoria. He is the author of eleven national bestselling books and has been named by numerous publications as one of the most influential Christian leaders in the world. He can also be heard twenty-four hours a day on Joel Osteen Radio SiriusXM channel 128. More than ten million viewers watch his weekly televised services each week in the United States, and millions more in 100 nations around the world. Each message is accompanied by a relevant scripture.Ībout The Author Joel Osteen is the senior pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. ![]() Based on his book, Your Best Life Now, he offers prescriptions for positive living in 365 daily messages. Now, for the first time, Pastor Osteen presents a tool to accomplish that goal. and then go out anticipating good things. About the Book "New York Times"-bestselling author Osteen inspires readers to begin their best lives each morning with this 365-day devotional.īook Synopsis Approach each day with joy, build positive expectations, and begin living your best life with this year of devotions designed to strengthen your faith and resolve.īestselling author Joel Osteen writes, When you get up in the morning, the first things you should do is set your mind in the right direction. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Autumn by Ali Smith![]() Smith swims through the horrendous outcome of an era waking up with the reality slap of post-brexit Britain, with no interest in consolation whatsoever, discarding even what might assumably be good manners. It begins with a distortion of one of the most important lines from A Tale of Two Cities, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.” The various fragments of Dickens’ historical piece, along with Shakespeare’s genius, can be found throughout Smith’s book, scattered in little hinges and cracks, fitting perfectly, evoking meaning out of confusing meaninglessness. ![]() ![]() It strikes a heavy hand on the reader’s back, positioning them into absolute attentiveness. Smith’s mastery as a emotive novelist instantly surfaces from the very first line of Autumn. They fall apart, always have, always will, it’s in their nature.”Īutumn is the first novel in a series of four stand-alones of Ali Smith’s “Seasonal Quartet”, each evoking a separate life of it’s own yet interconnected with the other like drastic seasons visiting and revisiting everything alive. ![]() ![]() “It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Heartless by marissa meyer![]() ![]() ![]() I hope that book clubs and classes discussing my books will find the below questions and exercises both helpful and inspirational. Chapter Teaserįor more about Heartless and to read an excerpt, check out: Discussion Questions ![]() But in a land thriving with magic, madness, and monsters, fate has other plans. ![]() Cath is determined to define her own destiny and fall in love on her terms. At the risk of offending the King and infuriating her parents, she and Jest enter into an intense, secret courtship. In Heartless, Marissa Meyers stand-alone novel, the New York Times -bestselling author dazzles us with a prequel to Alices Adventures in Wonderland. For the first time, she feels the pull of true attraction. But according to her mother, such a goal is unthinkable for the young woman who could be the next Queen.Īt a royal ball where Cath is expected to receive the king’s marriage proposal, she meets Jest, the handsome and mysterious court joker. A talented baker, all she wants is to open a shop with her best friend and supply the Kingdom of Hearts with delectable pastries and confections. Long before she was the terror of Wonderland - the infamous Queen of Hearts - she was just a girl who wanted to fall in love.Ĭatherine may be one of the most desired girls in Wonderland, and a favorite of the yet-unmarried King of Hearts, but her interests lie elsewhere. Purchase & Retail Links: Barnes and Noble, IndieBound, Indigo (Canada), iBooks ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Guests of war trilogy![]() ![]() ![]() While Gavin quickly settles into his new home where he is spoilt and coddled by Florence, Norah cannot settle. Norah is acutely aware of their preference toward Gavin, rather than her. The Ogilvies only wanted Gavin but were convinced to take Norah as well. When they arrive in Canada, Norah and Gavin are placed with Florence Ogilvie, a bossy and cold widow and her timid spinster daughter, Mary Ogilvie. Five-year-old Gavin does not understand the evacuation and is confused and frightened. Norah, an independent ten-year-old, is angry with the evacuation and resents having to care for Gavin. Norah and Gavin Stoakes live in a peaceful English village until World War II causes them to be evacuated to Toronto. The novel won the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award for Children and the Geoffrey Bilson Award (for best Canadian work of historical fiction written for youth). It is the first novel in the Guests of War trilogy, which follows the lives of Norah and Gavin Stoakes after they are evacuated from England to Canada during World War II. ![]() ![]() The Sky is Falling is a young adult novel written by Kit Pearson in 1989. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments The north water book review![]() The North Water is a brutal book beyond anything I have read in many a year. We have flashbacks of Sumner’s past that tells us about the character who now finds himself embroiled on a voyage that is hellish beyond description. There is a killer on board and I do not mean someone killing whales we have a drunken cold-blooded killer on the loose on board ship. ![]() This is the story of the ill-fated voyage of the Volunteer.ĭuring the voyage to the bone chilling waters of the Arctic we get to meet the various characters on board, a dubious captain all keen to hunt whales and make money. Drax is nothing more than a drunk and a filthy brutal thug and much more besides. Patrick has a past as an army surgeon, now broke with nothing better to do than join a hellish group on board ship setting sail to the freezing waters of the Arctic to hunt Whales.Īlso on board is Henry Drax a harpooner. ![]() On board is the usual mix of whalers but also on board for the first time is Patrick Sumner. The setting for Ian McGuire’s second novel is aboard the 19 th – Century Yorkshire based whaling ship Volunteer but something is not right. As bone chilling tale on board a whaling ship and is as chilling as the Arctic waters. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments The book woman troublesome creek![]() Cussy’s blue skin marks her as different in her primarily white community. ![]() As a Pack Horse librarian, she works with Eula Foster, Harriet Hardin, Birdie, and Queenie Johnson. ![]() From him, she inherits her faithful mule, Junia. She is briefly married to Charlie Frazier, becoming his widow when he dies of a heart attack on their wedding night. She lives with just her Pa (Elijah Carter), since her mother died of influenza several years before the events in the book. She also happens to have noticeably blue skin, thanks to hereditary methemoglobinemia that she inherited from her parents, both of whom were “Blues.” Cussy’s great-grandfather immigrated to the United States from Cussy, France, after which she is named. Cussy Mary Carter is a 19-year-old librarian with the Pack Horse Library project in rural eastern Kentucky her job is to bring books to far-flung patrons in the mountains. ![]() ![]() In his magnum opus, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Rodney incisively argues that grasping "the great divergence" between the west and the rest can only be explained as the exploitation of the latter by the former. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney would be assassinated. ![]() His deportation catalyzed 20th century Jamaica's most significant rebellion, the 1968 Rodney riots, and his scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power. The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. ![]() ![]() ![]() Exceptionally scarce, most rare and desirable signed and inscribed. It has now been translated into 45 languages and has sold 45 million copies, making it one of the most successful children’s books of all time. By the middle of 1903 there was a fifth edition sporting colored endpapers … a sixth printing was produced within the month,” and a year after the first commercial publication there were 56,470 copies in print. By the year’s end there were 28,000 copies of The Tale of Peter Rabbit in print. ![]() Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “for Mrs Oliver, from Beatrix Potter– with kind regards and best wishes for Christmas 1901.” The book was an instant success: Linda Lear writes that “Even before the publication of the tale in early October 1902, the first 8,000 copies were sold out. ![]() 12 mo, original cloth, illustrated, leaf patterned end-papers. $100,000.00 Item Number: 141725įirst edition, privately printed by the author (preceding all other editions) one of only 250 copies of this children’s classic. ![]() |