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Estele's story can be read alone, but reading her hijinks in Hoodoo Blue, first will make it better.Contains strong language. The storyline directly follows Fredi and Gus's story in HOODOO BLUE, Sorcery by the Sea, book 1. Too bad Estele hates brujos, but when an evil djinn threatens the community, Estele has to put trust issues aside and enter an alliance with a brujo to save the city.Want the perfect alchemical recipe for hilarious chaos? Mix romance with Estele's brand of loopy spellcasting, hexed food, a ghostly sea captain with questionable vices, a priceless gem of infinite power, malicious djinn bent on world domination and thousands of innocent people trapped at a county fair-what could go wrong?Note: This title is number 3 in the Sorcery by the Sea series, but it really should be number 2. When she casts a spell it goes batshit wacky with disastrous results.Everything changes when a sexy brujo, who drives an enchanted taco truck, shows up with a mysterious warning that he is her new protector. A Night Owl Reviews Top Pick!What happens when a wacky witch who casts spells that backfire, collides with a hunkalicious food wizard who practices alchemy from a food truck?Alchemy With Benefits.Estele "I meant to do well" Esposito is the worst witch in the San Buena enchantment community. 7/4/2023 0 Comments Daisy goodwin new book"I do not like the name Alexandrina," she proclaims. She has very definite ideas about the kind of queen she wants to be, and the first thing is to choose her name. The men who run the country have doubts about whether this sheltered young woman, who stands less than five feet tall, can rule the greatest nation in the world.ĭespite her age, however, the young queen is no puppet. Daisy Goodwin breathes new life into Victoria's story, and does so with sensitivity, verve, and wit."ĭrawing on Queen Victoria's diaries, which she first started reading when she was a student at Cambridge University, Daisy Goodwin - creator and writer of the new PBS Masterpiece drama Victoria and author of the bestselling novels The American Heiress and The Fortune Hunter - brings the young nineteenth-century monarch, who would go on to reign for 63 years, richly to life in this magnificent novel.Įarly one morning, less than a month after her eighteenth birthday, Alexandrina Victoria is roused from bed with the news that her uncle William IV has died and she is now Queen of England. Victoria is an absolutely captivating novel of youth, love, and the often painful transition from immaturity to adulthood. “Do you really want to eat a sandwich named after the man it killed?” Vandross died in 2005, at the young age of 54, of a heart attack. That might explain some of his health problems that included diabetes and high blood pressure, both linked to bad diet and being overweight. “.Legend has it that Luther Vandross, the wonderfully soulful R&B singer, created the original sandwich. While that sounds like a meal already, the brioche is cut in half and stuffed with a piece of buttermilk fried chicken and wedges of applewood smoked bacon.’ “The Luther is ‘a house-made brioche donut, glazed in maple-chicken a jus and topped with warm pieces of oven-baked pecans. Such a strong 5* book, aimed at kids, but I'd like to give a copy to everyone I meet. This is a fantastic story about the power of friendship and being yourself! Now, did you see/hear the Tanka (Japanese origin) rhythm? Manny is the albino boy met in chorus, who has LONG ago figured out how to be different. Joe is just that cool friend that 'gets' you, and likes reading and chess like Garvey. G's Dad wants to talk football his older sister too easily teases him for his weight his Mom always is supportive classmates tease in the halls between classes but G has found friendship with Joe and then Manny. While technically it is poetry, the rhythm is hidden in a beautiful story about Garvey. Want to feel better today? Read this book. 7/4/2023 0 Comments Book of ages leporeLepore’s life of Jane Franklin, with its strikingly original vantage on her remarkable brother, is at once a wholly different account of the founding of the United States and one of the great untold stories of American history and letters: a life unknown. Making use of an amazing cache of little-studied material, including documents, objects, and portraits only just discovered, Jill Lepore brings Jane Franklin to life in a way that illuminates not only this one woman but an entire world-a world usually lost to history. Unlike him, she was a mother of twelve.īenjamin Franklin, who wrote more letters to his sister than he wrote to anyone else, was the original American self-made man his sister spent her life caring for her children. Like her brother, Jane Franklin was a passionate reader, a gifted writer, and an astonishingly shrewd political commentator. (2) It explores how Benjamin Franklin’s work was influenced by his lifelong relationship with his sister. (1) It tells the tale of Jane Franklin, her experiences through the American Revolution, and the views that she developed through her difficult, often tragic life. From one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians, a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin’s youngest sister and a history of history itself. In less than 270 pages, Book of Ages does quadruple duty. There was so much emotion and story packed into the pages that it showed me again why I have fallen so hard for this author. I had wondered what their back story was and I’m so happy that we got to hear it! And while this was a novella, it sure didn’t feel like one. Yard Sale was a quick and sexy story about Cam and Molly, who we met in Bad Intentions. I didn’t know she’d leave in the middle of the night, or that I’d wake up wanting more. I was young and rich with the whole world at my fingertips.Ī one-night stand with a hot little tourist on the rebound was the perfect way to spend my weekend. I didn’t know that he was a famous snowboarder, or that he’d give me the best sex of my life. I was freshly fired from my job and betrayed by my boyfriend.Ī one-night stand with an arrogant stranger was just what I needed. 7/3/2023 0 Comments Book at home in mitford“It just registers as pretentious, and it creates the illusion that you are either better read or smarter than you really are.” “I will never use fake books,” said Jeanie Engelbach, an interior designer and organizer in New York City. While some people are going all in and covering entire walls in fake books, others are aghast at the thought that someone would think to decorate with a book that isn’t real. Already the norm for film sets and commercial spaces, fake books are becoming popular fixtures in homes. If it looks like a book, feels like a book and stacks like a book, then there’s still a good chance it may not be a book.įake books come in several different forms: once-real books that are hollowed out, fabric backdrops with images of books printed onto them, empty boxlike objects with faux titles and authors or sometimes just a facade of spines along a bookshelf. 7/3/2023 0 Comments Escape book carolyn jessopAgainst this background, Carolyn Jessop’s flight takes on an extraordinary, inspiring power. Escape exposes a world tantamount to a prison camp, created by religious fanatics. But in 2003, Carolyn chose freedom over fear and fled her home with her eight children. Over the next fifteen years, Carolyn had eight children and withstood her husband’s psychological abuse and the watchful eyes of his other wives, who were locked in a constant battle for supremacy.Ĭarolyn was miserable for years and wanted out, but she knew that if she tried to leave and got caught, her children would be taken away from her. But arranged plural marriages were an integral part of Carolyn’s heritage: She was born into and raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the radical offshoot of the Mormon Church. When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two years her senior. 7/3/2023 0 Comments Up in Smoke by T.M. Frazier(Ok I am editing here cause I feel obligated to warn people since I just finished Perversion Triology and it was God Awful piece of crap so not those either). I love King series and every book written by T.M. I am really mad t feeling Lucy on this one. I have listened to 463 audiobooks and have never felt the need to write a negative review about a narrator.until now. Listen to Duke.”seriously Sarrrrruuuuhhh”. The book is great, but I just can’t believe how much I hate listening to this. I have never been this appalled by narration of a well known authors book than I am with this.because of Lucy. I mean, Lucy Rivers has never been a favorite, in fact, I don’t even remember her other than I know I have listened to other books. The men’s honestly sounded like someone with speech disabilities at times.I mean Duke.are you kidding? I just don’t understand. She sounded so fake and over exaggerated in her female voice. I honestly had the hardest time listening to it. What in the world happened to the narration? Troy was great but Lucy Rivers.wth? I have listened to several other books she narrated but this was absolutely horrible narration by her. As the Ghost of Halloween Present, she takes Croome on a crazy magic carpet ride that reveals his negative influence on those closest to him. Along the journey, Croome is warmed with nostalgia then terrified by painful memories from Halloweens gone by.The second spirit is a shape-shifting witch who breaks every stereotype about witches while nearly driving Croome insane with her wild antics and slapstick delivery. Each one is more frightening than the last as they deliver a chilling message for Croome and his fellow Halloween humbugs.The Ghost of Halloween Past is a truly horrifying yet disturbingly hilarious spirit who delivers Croome to his distant and not-so-distant past. She warns him of three spirits yet to follow. Follow old man Croome as he is visited by the lovely but disturbing spirit of his dearly departed wife. But Croome's life changes one memorable Halloween when four ghastly spirits visit him to reveal the misery he has inflicted upon his friends, neighbors and family members.Based on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, The Legend of Decimus Croome is bound to become a Halloween classic for readers of all ages. He even shuns his own daughter and grandson. He is content to live in his gloomy old house and avoid all human contact whenever possible. Decimus Croome is a dastardly curmudgeon who hates all holidays but especially despises Halloween. |