A Shattered Moment by Tiffany King5/13/2023 ![]() A Shattered Moment made me feel every emotion possible for this broken girl, Mac. ![]() A story filled with friendship, love, loss, and mending. It was an emotionally charged, tearful, devastating story. ![]() A lifetime that not too many people would want to travel. As the spark between them grows, Mac must decide if she can let go of the past and believe in something as fragile as love…Ī Shattered Moment, by Tiffany King, was a journey of a lifetime. He evokes painful memories in Mac-but also feelings. Despite her initial resistance, he sets out to discover the girl hiding beneath a shield of seclusion. It was a gut-wrenching moment that made him realize not everyone can be saved-and sometimes they don’t want to be.Ī chance encounter on campus brings Bentley back into Mac’s life. When Bentley James discovered Mac in that twisted SUV, he was just a newbie EMT on his first call. ![]() A year later, the only way she can find comfort is by keeping her head down and hoping she remains unnoticed at college. Mackenzie Wilson once had hope for what life had to offer, but everything changed on the night of her graduation. In the new series by Tiffany King, the USA Today bestselling author of the Woodfalls Girls novels, six friends-fresh from high school graduation-discover that the future can come at you from out of nowhere. ![]()
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Madoc and fallon5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After all, no one would understand, right? Theirs would be a brow lifting relationship.īut when they were younger, eager, Madoc and Fallon forgot who they were supposed to be–to each other, to their parents–and let the darkness take them to places where secrets grew deeper, lies held more weight. In the dark, with only the sound of our breaths to keep us company, the truth breaks free, shatters the notions of the people we present to the world.įor Madoc and Fallon the truth of who they are, who they want to be only surfaces behind closed doors. It’s what we do, what we say, when no one is looking that define who we really are. That’s what he wants, right? As long as I keep my guard up, he’ll never know how much he affects me…. Three years and I can tell he still wants me, even if he acts like he’s better than me.īut I won’t be scared away. ![]() I was stupid then, but now I’m ready to beat her at her own game… Back when we lived in the same house, she used to cut me down during the day and then leave her door open for me at night. Two estranged teenagers playing games that push the boundaries between love and war…įor the three years she’s been away at boarding school, there was no word from her. Title: Rival Series: A Fall Away Novel, Book #2 Author: Penelope Douglas Genre: NA / Contemporary Romance Release Date: AugTour Hosted by: As the Pages Turn Buy Links:įrom the New Adult sensation and New York Times bestselling author of Until You ![]() The bad beginning rare edition5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() She didn’t see this day coming the way it did, so abruptly and so soon. But he was also youthful and spirited, and it was easy to believe that everything was fine, that he was fine and that if she were to take care of him some day, it would be occasional and in a distant future. In hindsight, there were warning signs that her father’s health could upend Schofield’s life. ![]() ![]() Until his leg recovered from the surgery, he would not be able to walk without assistance. The collision splintered the bone in his left thigh down to his knee three days later, a metal rod held the broken pieces together. Then, that month, she received the news that medics were pulling her father out of his car. This would be the year she bet on herself. She pulled $30,000 from her retirement savings and was planning to give herself all of 2022 to expand the small catering business she had always dreamed about. ![]() In January 2022, Randi Schofield was a 34-year-old single mother who, not long before, left her full-time job of eight years as a personal bailiff to a local judge. Produced by Jack D’Isidoro and Aaron EspositoĮngineered by Sophia Lanman and David Mason Listen and follow The Daily Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher ![]() Happy go lucky book reviews5/13/2023 ![]() Happy-Go-Lucky, humorist David Sedaris’ latest work, finds a different-more somber-person than the man who is still dining out on his experiences battling Karens during his stint as a department store Christmas elf or who once wrote a gag-inducing paragraph about his brother training his Great Dane to eat his pug’s poop. ![]() But, comedy-or at least humor-post #MeToo, George Floyd, or coronavirus? Yeah, there’s a glut of those.īut what does this mean for someone who makes a career out of humor writing of being the person we’re supposed to go to get our minds off of sexual assault or murdered and missing people of color or (because I’m writing this mere days after the Uvalde, Tx. No one will write anything about what laughter feels like after we’ve all endured Chris Hemsworth with a dad bod in Thor: Love and Thunder or stayed awake through the two-and-a-half-hour-long final episode of Stranger Things. ![]() ![]() You know a cultural event is a major cultural event when there are a gazillion think pieces asking how we find humor after it. ![]() Capital book by thomas piketty5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Without a significant force to counterbalance rising wealth inequality, the research indicates, a capitalist economy will drift predictably toward oligarchy.ĭuring the last century, however, Piketty shows that a sufficient counterbalance to wealth inequality did emerge. Check out the infographic below for a longer explanation:Īs the data visualization above suggests, this is simply how capitalism works. What makes this French economist’s conclusions worth global notice? The short answer is that Piketty and his research team amassed a mountain of data, much of it going back centuries, suggesting that the concentration of wealth in ever-fewer hands is not an anomaly or a recent development. (Watch Piketty’s TED Talk: New thoughts on capital in the twenty-first century.) ![]() That’s no small feat for a chart-heavy doorstop on “the dismal science” of economics.Ī fair portion of the book’s notoriety was due to its subject matter: wealth distribution, an intensely political topic if ever there was one. When Thomas Piketty’s “ Capital in the Twenty-first Century” was published earlier this year, it was something of a sensation. ![]() Nora roberts vision5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Some themes come up in her books again and again, and one of those themes is home renovation. I would bet everything I own that Nora Roberts is a huge HGTV fan. Next or If You Don’t Like Suspense: Hit up One of Her Lighter Pinterest-y Home Renovation Series These are what made readers fall in love with her in the 80s and 90s and are what many think of when they hear the name Nora Roberts. And the one that makes the most sense to me are her contemporary suspense romance novels. There are two places I see to start with Nora Roberts. ![]() Where to Start With the Best Nora Roberts Books: Contemporary Suspense Remember when I said she wrote more than 225 books? Here is one of many possible pathways for readers and the romance-novel curious for working your way through her prolific collection. But for those without a romance expert for a mother, her backlog can be daunting. I found her by reading the massive collection my mom hid in boxes and under her bed. Not only has she received a Romance Writers of America lifetime achievement award, in 2008 they renamed the honor to become the “Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award.” She’s written more than 225 romance novels, helped define and advocate for the genre, and written so so many of my favorite happily ever afters. There’s not one best Nora Roberts book to start with. It’s hard to know where to start writing about Nora Roberts because…well she’s Nora Roberts. ![]() Outer suburbia5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Both books promise that the strange can–and likely will, if you bother to look–turn up right in your front yard and in your own family. Both books are made up of brief, perfect, odd moments just long enough to get under the skin, and in one case in Outer Suburbia, to actually make me cry (“Undertow”). If I can manage it, I will file it next to Barry Yourgrau’s Wearing Dad’s Head, because Outer Suburbia reminded me a lot of reading Yourgrau. Fortunately Tales from Outer Suburbia is very narrow, because there’s not much space left in there. Only my very favorites go in the pie cupboard. This book is going on my special bookcase, the one that used to be a pie-cooling cupboard and has chickenwire screens in front of each shelf. ![]() Read with Pride by Lucy Powrie5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Luckily, she's the mastermind behind The Paper & Hearts Society book club, and she knows exactly what to do: start a new club, find ways of evading the system, and change the policy for good! With two book clubs to run, exams to prepare for, and a girlfriend, just how long will it be before Olivia burns out? After all, creating a book club and trying to get the #ReadWithPride hashtag to get noticed is going to take a lot of energy.Sometimes, when you're in too deep, it's up to your friends to look out for you. ![]() Olivia is distraught - she's demisexual and knows how important it is for all readers to see themselves represented. The Paper & Hearts Society: Book 1: Find your people in this joyful, comfort read Lucy Powrie (100) £3.99 2 Read with Pride: Book 2 (The Paper & Hearts Society) Lucy Powrie (62) £3.99 3 Bookishly Ever After: Book 3 (The Paper & Hearts Society) Lucy Powrie (18) £4. But when a parent complains about LGBTQ+ content in one of the books, the library implements a new policy for withdrawing books. Lucy Powrie, BookTuber and author of The Paper & Hearts Society and The Paper & Hearts Society: Read with Pride will be joining us to celebrate all things ReadwithPride The nine-week online event will be all about being proud of who you are and what you read, with a focus on nine of our LGBTQ+ books. ![]() The perfect book for fans of Alice Oseman, Holly Smale and Zoella.Olivia Santos is excited for her last year at secondary school. Join Olivia and The Paper & Hearts Society gang in this joyful comfort read and celebration of books from Booktuber Lucy Powrie. The second Paper & Hearts Society adventure. ![]() Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore5/13/2023 ![]() Montefiore shows how the murderous paranoia and gangsterism of the criminal underworld, combined with pitiless ideology, taught Stalin how to triumph in the Kremlin. The secret world of Joseph Conrad-style terrorism was Stalin's natural habitat, where he charmed his future courtiers, made the enemies he later liquidated, and abandoned his many mistresses and children. What forms such a merciless psychopath and consummate politician? Was he illegitimate? Did he owe everything to his mother - was she whore or saint? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's chief gangster? Was he to blame for his wife's premature death? If he really missed the 1917 Revolution, how did he emerge so powerful? Born in poverty, exceptional in his studies, this charismatic but dangerous boy was hailed as a romantic poet, trained as a priest, but found his mission as fanatical revolutionary. In Young Stalin, Simon Sebag Montefiore’s meticulously researched, authoritative biography of Stalin’s early years, the blur comes into sharp focus. ![]() ![]() This enthralling biography that reads like a thriller finally unveils the secret but extraordinary journey of the Georgian cobbler's son who became the Red Tsar. Yet Stalin hid his past and remains mysterious. Based on groundbreaking research, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals the fear and betrayal, privilege and debauchery, family life and murderous cruelty of this. Stalin remains one of the creators of our world - like Hitler, the personification of evil. ![]() These rebel waves series in order5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() An expert navigator, he agrees to help Lu find the Argridian-but the truth they uncover could be deadlier than any war.īenat is a heretic. But after Argrid accuses raiders of the diplomat's abduction, Vex becomes a target. As one of the stream raiders who run rampant on Grace Loray, he scavenges the island's magic plants and sells them on the black market. When an Argridian delegate vanishes during peace talks with Grace Loray's new Council, Argrid demands brutal justice-but Lu suspects something dangerous is at work.ĭevereux is a pirate. Five years ago, she helped the magic-rich island of Grace Loray overthrow its oppressor, Agrid, a country ruled by religion.īut adjusting to postwar life has not been easy. ![]() ![]() A thrilling new fantasy series-full of deadly magic, double crosses, and a dangerous quest in a new world-from Sara Raasch, the New York Times bestselling author of the Snow Like Ashes series.Īdeluna is a soldier. ![]() |