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Ten Trend to Seducing Your Best Friend is my new favorite read and I can’t recommend it enough!! Winnifred Gobaldi and Byron Visser are not best friends… but they become so much more and I was along for their fantastic, romantic, and unputdownable ride! Ten Trends to Seduce Your Bestfriend is a full-length, complete standalone, adult contemporary romantic comedy. Sometimes, it takes a public audience to reveal the truth of private feelings, and rarely-very rarely-you should believe what you see online. When a simple case of tit-for-tat trends between nonfriends leads to a wholly unexpected kind of pretend, nothing is simple. So why are they faking a #bestfriend relationship for millions of online spectators? She’s looking for a side hustle to help pay down a mountain of student debt, and his financial portfolio is the stuff of fiduciary wet dreams. She loves sharing her passion for promulgating women in STEM careers and building community via social media, and he eschews all socialization, virtual or otherwise. She’s a public school science teacher with stars in her eyes, and he’s a pretentious, joyless double PhD turned world-famous bestselling fiction author. The truth is, they have nothing in common. Winnie considers them more like casual, distant acquaintances who find each other barely tolerable, especially when he’s being condescending (which is all the time). Yes, they’ve known each other for years, but they’re not even friendly. Winnifred Gobaldi and Byron Visser are not best friends. Life becomes more complicated when her husband buys a slave named Bo from the Holt residence. Dahlia’s new mother-in-law analyzes her every move, her rogue brother-in-law wants her for himself, and the slaves who suspect her runaway status use her secret as blackmail. But once installed as lady of the manor - under the name Lily Dove - at her new husband’s plantation, maintaining the lie about her parentage becomes a matter of life and death. When he abruptly proposes marriage that very afternoon, she embraces the opportunity to escape slavery without questioning his motives. Suddenly, the chance for one appears.ĭuring an outing to town on her 16th birthday, she is mistaken for white by a young man. Caught between guilt over the preferential treatment she receives and petty jealousy from her masters, Dahlia yearns for a better existence. Thanks to her beauty, Dahlia is brought by Holt into the mansion to live and serve as a ladies’ maid for her spoiled white half-sisters. She is also his slave, one of nearly a dozen he has fathered with his Black laborers. In What Passes as Love, Dahlia is the light-skinned daughter of Lewis Holt, a wealthy white plantation owner. Thomas, best known for her successful Nappily Ever After series, offers now an historical novel about a Black woman passing as white in 1850s Virginia. He was given or loaned books by friends among the upper classes and priesthood: the Bible, Boccaccio's Decameron, Mandeville's Travels, etc. Although only a peasant, Menocchio could read and write. He was born in 1532 in Montereale, a small hill town in what is now Italy. Similarly, Ginzburg here examines trial records to bring to life Domenico Scandella, also know as Menocchio, a miller who was brought to trial by the Inquisition. Ronald Hutton, author of The Rise and Fall of Merry England: The Ritual Year 1400-1700, makes use of churchwarden's accounts and household accounts to determine English seasonal rituals and pastimes, looking for example at the time when churches paid for minstrels or morris dancers. The problem, of course, is that there is little in the way of written records about peasants who could not read or write. Many of us who are tired of hearing about the parade of wars and failed conquests that make up traditional histories are eager to hear about the lives of ordinary people in centuries long past. The subtitle to this book is “The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller”. Both stories were also published as individual volumes.īut it was the July 1891 publication of “A Scandal in Bohemia” in The Strandmagazine that made Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle household names. A second Holmes story, “The Sign of the Four,” appeared in Lippincott’s Magazine in 1890. By 1891 he had given up medicine entirely and was supporting his family (a wife and two small children) solely by his writing.ĭetective fiction was a fairly new genre when Sherlock Holmes made his first appearance in “A Study in Scarlet,” published in Beeton’s Christmas Annual for 1887. He was not a great success as a doctor, which had the benefit of giving him plenty of spare time to continue his writing career. After completing his studies, Conan Doyle made repeated attempts to establish a medical practice. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a man of many talents and many interests, but he is best known as the creator of the world’s most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes.Ĭonan Doyle published his first story in 1879, while he was a medical student at the University of Edinburgh. More often than not, if I ran across a character who shared my race and gender in a book he was a gross stereotype, comic relief, token sidekick, or, depending on the genre (I’m looking at you, science fiction, fantasy, and horror), there to die so the real hero could fight another day. This collection will inspire you to break conventions, bend the rules, and color outside the lines. Thirteen of the most accomplished YA authors deliver a label-defying anthology that includes ten short stories, a graphic novel, and a one-act play. Instead, you are holding twelve stories with endings that are still being written–whose next chapters are up to you.īecause these stories are meant to be read. And not hot-off-the-press, still-drying-in-your-hands ink. SYNOPSIS: Careful–you are holding fresh ink. RELEASES: August 14th, 2018 Crown Books for Young Readers Hey, it’s what he originally wanted, he shouldn’t complain when he gets what he insisted upon…snicker… The best part is that Ethan gets it. Sure, she’s being snarky with her constant agreement and the “Leige” thing knowing how much it irritates Ethan. I do like that Merit is standing fast against Ethan. In 2011, Hard Bitten was nominated for The Romance Reviews for Best Urban Fantasy and the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Paranormal Fantasy. Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Some Girls Bite, Friday Night Bites, Twice Bitten, Firespell, Hexbound, Drink Deep, Charmfall, Biting Cold, House Rules, Biting Bad, Kicking It, Blood Games, The Veil, Midnight Marked, Dark Debt, The Sight, Blade Bound, The Hunt, Wild Hunger, The Beyond, The Bright and Breaking Sea, "Slaying It"įourth in the Chicagoland Vampire urban fantasy series based in Chicago and featuring Merit, the Sentinel of Cadogan House. Urban fantasy in Paperback edition that was published by New American Library (NAL) on and has 350 pages. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review. William Pauley III has been praised by critics and readers alike for his contributions to weird science fiction and horror over the last 15 years. "The beauty of Pauley’s work is that he makes the reader (relatively) comfortable with these fun, weird elements and then injects the narrative with short bursts of deep thinking and questions that cut to the marrow of human nature." - Gabino Iglesias, author of The Devil Takes You Home He's received rave reviews from Fangoria Magazine, Verbicide, and Dead End Follies, the latter stating "William Pauley III is one of the most recognizable voices in weird literature." He is the author of The Bedlam Bible, Hearers of the Constant Hum, and Automated Daydreaming. "The beauty of Pauley’s work is that he makes the reader (relatively) comfortable with these fun, weird elements and then injects the narrative with short bursts of deep thinking and questions that cut to the marrow of human nature." - Gabino Iglesias, author of The Devil Takes You Home William Pauley III has been praised by critics and readers alike for his contributions to weird science fiction and horror over the last 15 years. This celebrated translation by Arthur Waley gives Western readers a very genuine feel for the tone of this beloved classic. The Tale of Genji and the characters and world it depicts have influenced Japanese culture to its very core. The hero of the tale, Prince Genji, is a shining example of the Heian-era ideal man-accomplished in poetry, dance, music, painting, and, not least of all to the novel's many plots, romance. Over the past century, this book has gained worldwide acceptance as not only the world's first novel but as one of the greatest works of literature of all time. The beauty of his art has not dimmed, but like the original text itself retains the power to move and enlighten."-Dennis Washburn, from his forewordĬenturies before Shakespeare, Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji was already acknowledged as a classic of Japanese literature. "What Waley did create is literary art of extraordinary beauty that brings to life in English the world Murasaki Shikibu imagined. |