Ready to leave the past behind him, Leo wants nothing more than to reconnect with his first and only love. Leo Grady knew mirages were a thing in the desert, but they’d barely left civilization when the silhouette of his greatest regret comes into focus in the flickering light of the campfire. Frankly, Lily would like to take him out into the wilderness and leave him there. It pays the bills but doesn’t leave enough to fulfill her dream of buying back the beloved ranch her father sold years ago, and definitely not enough to deal with the sight of the man she once loved walking back into her life with a motley crew of friends ready to hit the trails. But Lily is resourceful, and now uses Duke’s coveted hand-drawn maps to guide tourists on fake treasure hunts through the red rock canyons of Utah. Growing up the daughter of notorious treasure hunter and absentee father Duke Wilder left Lily without much patience for the profession…or much money in the bank. The “reigning romance queens” ( PopSugar) and New York Times bestselling authors of The Soulmate Equation and The Unhoneymooners present a charming and laugh-out-loud funny novel filled with adventure, treasure, and, of course, love.
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Take a moment to explore, read a couple reviews, and let me know what you think.įor your convenience, I use #hashtags in the reviews and when you click on one, you'll find more books with that theme. I'll never spoil a story by giving away a plot twist! Hopefully you'll find one or two of interest and will discover a new book or author to add to YOUR TBR list. It's my goal to provide real reviews of the books I read without totally rehashing every plot. An enthralling story about personal transformation and hope for even the darkest of souls. If you want to take a trip down the rabbit hole, if you want to lose yourself in a dazzling story of shape-shifting and otherworldly beings, then this audiobook is for you. This book is the perfect read for anyone looking for a refreshing paranormal and dystopian read with strong family values. Elizabeth is deaf and in her quest to find the truth about her mother who died when she was born, she finds herself in a world of secondhand spirits that she must learn to speak and interact with. Juliet Blackwell's "Secondhand Spirits" is a beautifully drawn, heartwarming, and entrancing story about a young girl, Elizabeth. Once she escapes, she finds herself on a road trip with two strangers who offer her friendship but also a possible way home. Juliet Blackwell is forced to flee when the government takes it upon itself to genetically engineer humans and the voices in her head make her life hell. Secondhand Spirits is a dystopian novel set in the near future. Secondhand Spirits Free Audiobook Download by It’s one of the things Henley does so well-excellent characters and a plot with great twists and turns! Both have Irish blood running through their veins-at a time when Queen Elizabeth feared the rebellious Irish. Just the woman to tame a wild man like Shane Hawkhurst. She is fiercely independent, courageous, feisty and smart. She intends to go to Court and seduce her husband and become his mistress, making him her love slave and having her revenge. Ah, but Sara-as Sabre-has a different plan. Shane planned to have his brother Matthew take Sara to one of his estates and dump her there, never wishing to meet her. Little did he know his new wife was the red-haired Irish vixen, Sara Bishop, referred to by her jealous half siblings as "Sabre Wilde" after her dead father and his sword. Shane had promised his father he would marry, and to stave off Queen Bess' jealousy and because he did not really want a wife, he had his solicitor find a country lass who had some land in Ireland he wanted and married her by proxy. But his English father claimed him as heir, and when Shane’s father died, Shane became Lord Hawkhurst. She named him “the sea god.” He was, in fact, not the son of Lord Hawkhurst, but the son of an Irishman named O'Neill, the Earl of Tyrone. Captain Shane Hawkhurst was Queen Bess' favorite. The story is set in 1586, when Queen Elizabeth ruled England and her sea hawks ruled the seas, robbing the Spanish fleet to fill her coffers. I love Henley's storytelling, her attention to historic detail and her ability to weave a captivating tale. But Moorcock, one of the most prolific living fantasists, sees Tolkien’s creation as little more than a conservative vision of the status quo, an adventure that brings its hero “There and Back Again,” rather than into a world where experience means you can’t go home again. Gollum and Sauron and Aragorn were drawn from mythic tropes but are now so integral to science-fiction and fantasy culture that they have become tropes themselves. The films are astonishing Hollywood spectacles, and for those of us who grew up reading the books and playing elves in Dungeons & Dragons, it was a thrill seeing those characters realized on screen. Tolkien’s footnotes, appendices, and letters. This month, the author Michael Moorcock celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday, which, as fate would have it, fell in the same month that Peter Jackson closed out his hexology of films that began with “Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship the Ring” and ended with “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.” The latter is the third part of Jackson’s “The Hobbit” sequence, a book once considered a delightful fable that has been torn asunder to make its story fit in with the vast continuity of the earlier films, while also trying to honor every one of J. Michael Moorcock once wrote, “I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I’d rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas” I think a bit more laugh out loud moments and an occasional different pov besides Scottie's could have worked wonders. On the other hand, hated Tally, and Charlotte. Danielle, Kevin, Honey-Belle, Gunther, Thora and the adorably unpredictable little Daphne. I found myself enjoying and liking a lot more all the secondary characters. Sadly all the situations felt kind of artificial, at least until the middle but after coming clean it all became more natural, and they started to grow on me. Although with some questionable attitudes, Scottie and Irene were very nice, very flawed individuals. The only catch is, they’ll need to try to forget the fact that they hate each others guts. When they accidentally car crash in the school parking lot, they find themselves forced to carpool for a while, until Scottie has a wild idea that could greatly benefit both. Irene Abraham is a very popular cheerleader desperately trying to win athlete of the year to get into college. Scottie Zajac is an insecure basketball player trying to get back with her ex-girlfriend after their recent breakup. On this view, the former speaks only of particulars because it relates events that are accidentally related to one another, whereas the latter speaks of universals because it organizes events according to causal relations of probability and necessity. According to a common reading of the Poetics, the philosopher intends to establish a dichotomy between history and poetry. This paper offers an interpretation and a defense of Aristotle’s view of history. I argue that this enthusiasm speaks to a desire for definite and clear numerical values in place of poetic motifs of give and take, and that this mathematical and scientific poetic is comparable to the preferred poetic of analytic philosophy. The final part of the paper reviews the current enthusiasm for decoding Empedocles’ vague and poetic descriptions of the cosmic cycle into a precise scientific periodicity on the basis of the recently discovered Byzantine scholia on Aristotle. The second part of the paper takes a case study of analytic treatments of ancient philosophy, including the ancient philosopher poets, to examine the poetics of analytic philosophy, diagnosing a preference in Analytic philosophy for a clean non-poetic style of presentation, and then develops this in considering how well historians of philosophy in the Analytic tradition can accommodate the contributions (. The paper starts with reflections on Plato’s critique of the poets and the preference many express for Aristotle’s view of poetry. Will Lexi fight to stay in the past with Richard, or will she be forced to return to the future without him? This bite-sized heartwarming romance is sweet and clean, with no cliffhangers and a guaranteed HEA. As Lexi grows more and more enamored with the kind-hearted king, memories of her past have her questioning her present - until another Galian princess arrives in Durham to take her deceased sister's place as queen. Lexi has no memory of her past, but Richard's advisers urge him to press forward with wedding plans. When his advisers bring news that the princess's ship was attacked, Richard is devastated - until he finds a beautiful girl washed up on shore and assumes she's the missing royal. King Richard's only goal is to keep Durham from war with Galia, even if it means marrying their princess whom he's never met. How can she defend her doctoral dissertation if she can't even figure out where the queen was born? When she meets Nancy, Lexi doesn't think much of it - until she wakes up in the past without her memory. Her thesis on the sixteenth-century Durham queen, Alexandra, is going nowhere. Can they find their happily ever after in the past? Lexi has wasted her entire college career researching a dead-end. So when Payne gets back into town and needs somewhere to stay, I offer him my spare room with one condition: while he’s staying with me, I need him to help me become date-able.Īnd while he does that, I can focus on my other plan: ignoring that Payne is the only man I’ve ever wanted to date. I’m naturally chaotic, make terrible decisions, and scare off potential dates with my “weirdness”. Since my career took off, I barely have time to breathe, let alone keep my life in order. Room payment to be made in meal planning, repairs, and dumb jokes. Access a growing selection of included Audible Originals, audiobooks and podcasts. And not leave his door ajar when he’s in compromising positions. By: Saxon James Narrated by: Alexander Cendese, Kirt Graves Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins 4.6 (387 ratings) Try for 0.00 Pick 1 title (2 titles for Prime members) from our collection of bestsellers and new releases. When my little brother’s best friend offers me a place to stay in exchange for menial duties, I swallow my pride and jump at the offer. There’s nothing sadder than moving back to my hometown newly divorced, homeless, and lost for what my next move is. Preferably dirt cheap as funds are tight (nonexistent). Must ignore the patheticness of a forty-year-old roommate. And Brian realizes that he could really use a friend right now. Ezra wants to help, but he worries if heâs too nice to Brian, his friends will realize that he has a crush on him…īut when Brian and his brother run away, Ezra has no choice but to take the leap and reach out to Brian. But now, some of his friends have been acting differently, and Brian seems to be pulling away. Heâs friends with most of the kids on his basketball teamâeven Brian, who doesnât talk to many people. And he doesnât quite know if there’s something wrong with him…Įzraâs always been popular. But after he and his brother are placed in foster care, Brian starts having panic attacks. His dad tries to get him to stand up for himself and his mom helps as much as she can. Now in paperback, a moving contemporary middle-grade novel for anyone whoâs ever felt like they donât belongīrian has always been anxious, whether at home, or in class, or on the basketball court. Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Literature, LGBTQIA+ (Fiction) |
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