The Hating Game by Sally Thorne6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Maybe Lucy Hutton doesn’t hate Joshua Templeman. So why is she suddenly having steamy dreams about Joshua, and dressing for work like she’s got a hot date? After a perfectly innocent elevator ride ends with an earth shattering kiss, Lucy starts to wonder whether she’s got Joshua Templeman all wrong. If Lucy wins this game, she’ll be Joshua’s boss. Lucy can’t let Joshua beat her at anything-especially when a huge new promotion goes up for the taking. Trapped in a shared office together 40 (OK, 50 or 60) hours a week, they’ve become entrenched in an addictive, ridiculous never-ending game of one-upmanship. ![]() Everyone except for coldly efficient, impeccably attired, physically intimidating Joshua Templeman. She’s charming and accommodating and prides herself on being loved by everyone at Bexley & Gamin. Lucy Hutton has always been certain that the nice girl can get the corner office. ![]() Nemesis (n.) 1) An opponent or rival whom a person cannot best or overcome. ![]()
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Owain Glyndwr by Terry Breverton6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() On 16 September 1400, Glyndŵr instigated the Welsh Revolt against the rule of Henry IV of England. Glyndŵr was a descendant of the Princes of Powys from his father Gruffydd Fychan II, hereditary Tywysog of Powys Fadog and Lord of Glyndyfrdwy, and of those of Deheubarth through his mother Elen ferch Tomas ap Llywelyn. ![]() ![]() He instigated a fierce and long-running but ultimately unsuccessful revolt against the English rule of Wales. Owain Glyndŵr ( Welsh pronunciation: ), or Owain Glyn Dŵr, (c. 1349 or 1359 – c. 1415) was a Welsh ruler and the last native Welshman to hold the title Prince of Wales ( Tywysog Cymru). Lord of Glyndyfrdwy and of Cynllaith Owain ![]() The Stolen Suitor by Eli Easton6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() The girl from the suburbs gives conformity the middle finger. Falling for an outlaw has changed everything. Poesy Ashby is the definition of ride or die, even when it means turning her back on freedom. Forced to choose between what is right and wrong, the boy from the hood learns abiding by the rules is nearly impossible when corruption is in your blood. But hunger becomes painful, and bills are due. Determined not to follow in his father’s footsteps, he fights instinct and tries honesty. Low by Mary Elizabeth (February 1, Romance) It’s hard living on the wrong side of the tracks. Lowen Seely has a criminal record to prove it. ![]() Not all books published in February have to be love themed –though that certainly doesn’t hurt! Enjoy!Ĭheck out Part 2 of February Releases on February 16th! Happy February! A time of affection, betrayal, love, violence, and new releases! (Take a look at the list and tell me I’m lying). ![]() Le parfum de jean baptiste grenouille6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() The film stars Ben Whishaw as Grenouille Dustin Hoffman as Baldini, the perfumer who teaches him the basics of the trade Rachel Hurd-Wood as Laura Richis, an imperilled young lady in Grenouille's sights and Alan Rickman as Antoine Richis, Laura's protective father. It was adapted into a 2006 film: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, directed by Tom Tykwer, most known for his film Run Lola Run. Of course, Grenouille has to keep this noble artistic vision a secret from society, as extracting a girl's scent requires killing her. It is then when he decides to create the most perfect perfume ever by capturing the scents of beautiful virgin girls, a fragrance so intoxicating that all who smell it will feel like they've gone to heaven. ![]() It turns out that Grenouille has an extraordinary sense of smell, but, curiously, he himself has no body odour.įittingly enough he becomes a perfumer, eagerly learning various methods to extract the smell from all kinds of things. Die Geschichte eines Mörders in the original German) tells the story of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, an orphan and a sociopath born into 18th century France. A 1985 Gothic novel by Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (or Das Parfum. ![]() The notebook the book6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() As it unfolds, their tale miraculously becomes something different, with much higher stakes. Like a puzzle within a puzzle, the story of Noah and Allie is just the beginning. With her impending marriage only weeks away, Allie is forced to confront her hopes and dreams for the future, a future that only she can shape. ![]() ![]() Still, the obstacles that once ended their previous relationship remain, and the gulf between their worlds is too vast to ignore. Allie Nelson, twenty-nine, is now engaged to another man, but realizes that the original passion she felt for Noah has not dimmed with the passage of time. Unable to find her, yet unwilling to forget the summer they spent together, Noah is content to live with only memories, until she unexpectedly returns to his town to see him once more. Noah, thirty-one, is restoring a plantation home to its former glory, and he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met fourteen years earlier, a girl he loved like no other. Set amid the austere beauty of coastal North Carolina in 1946, The Notebook begins with the story of Noah Calhoun, a rural Southerner returned home from World War II. It's the story of their teenage romance, followed by years of separation because he was from the wrong class, followed by her decision, on his return from World War II, to be her own woman and marry him. In a Southern nursing home, an 80-year-old man reads from his diary to his wife, suffering from Alzheimer's. ![]() Lessons ian mcewan6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Haunted by lost opportunities, he seeks solace through every possible means ¬- literature, travel, friendship, drugs, politics, sex and love. Twenty-five years later, as the radiation from the Chernobyl disaster spreads across Europe, Roland's wife mysteriously vanishes and he is forced to confront the reality of his rootless existence and look for answers in his family history.įrom the fall of the Berlin Wall to the Covid pandemic and climate change, Roland sometimes rides with the tide of history but more often struggles against it. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade. While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Lessons is an intimate yet universal story of love, regret and a restless search for answers. Discover the Sunday Times bestselling new novel from Ian McEwan. ![]() Jack carr true believer a thriller6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, he is also America’s most-wanted domestic terrorist. Former Navy SEAL James Reece is the only and crucial connection to a shadowy former Iraqi commando who could provide leads the CIA desperately needs. There is just one man who stands a chance of answering these questions. Who is pulling the strings? What is their motive? And most important of all, how can the attacks be stopped before bloodshed and economic freefall bring America and her allies to their knees? As the scope of the mayhem grows ever wider, pulling in country after country, the United States goes on the offensive. This, it turns out, is just the beginning of a series of coordinated and murderous attacks against the whole of the Western world. When a bomb goes off during a holiday fair in London, the body count is horrific and the nation’s market goes into a tailspin. ![]() The dead room by heather graham6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() That said, things in theatrical distribution are a little strange right now, so apart from some big recent blockbusters, there’s a mix of Oscar-winners, lingering releases, indies and classics booked-depending, of course, on the theater. And I’m very happy to say that we’re back, here to help. Of course, use your judgment when choosing whether to go back to the movies or not, but there’s an ever-growing percentage of vaccinated moviegoers who are champing at the bit to get back in front of the big screen. As the cinematic offerings slowly return to the big screen compared to the streaming services and various digital rental retailers, we’re here to sort out what’s actually the best bang for your buck at the box office.Ī new year and a new COVID variant are in full swing, so now might be a good time to exercise restraint even if there are bigger budget offerings hitting the big screen. ![]() Wolf hall bring up the bodies6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The delight is in the people, the life, the humanity that Mantel’s language brings to what had been just names before! She invites us into a new and vibrant world populated by some of the most complete people that I have ever met in fiction. If so, what’s the point of reading it? The ending is mapped out by my (somewhat cloudy) GCSE History the plot twists and turns that, say, C. Is that a spoiler? It’s historical, there was never any doubt about the outcome. This book, in which Cromwell is at the height of his powers, charts the fall, trial and execution of Anne Boleyn and her replacement by Jane Seymour. The original book had charted the rise of Thomas Cromwell and Anne Boleyn and the fall from grace of Cardinal Wolsey. It is rare that I anticipate a book as eagerly as this one rare that a sequel can live up to the expectations of the first book rare that historical fiction can grip me quite so intently! But Mantel manages all this in Bring Up The Bodies which, in my opinion, outshines the original Wolf Hall. ![]() Waiting for a scot like you6/22/2023 ![]() It's the perfect plan, until Lily declares she'll only marry for love.and the Scot finds that there is one thing in England he likes far too much.Ī Scot in the Dark by Sarah MacLean is the second novel in her Scandal & Scoundrel series. Warnick arrives in London with a single goal: get the chit married and see her become someone else's problem, then return to a normal, quiet life in Scotland. ![]() It does not matter that the imposing Scotsman has inherited one of the most venerable dukedoms in Britain-he wants nothing to do with it, especially when he discovers that the unwanted title comes with a troublesome ward, one who is far too old and far too beautiful to be his problem. The Duke of Warnick loathes all things English, none more so than the aristocracy. With the painting now public, Lily has no choice but to turn to the one man who might save her from ruin. ![]() ![]() ![]() When an artist offers her pretty promises and begs her to pose for a scandalous portrait, Lily doesn't hesitate.until the lying libertine leaves her in disgrace. Miss Lillian Hargrove has lived much of her life alone in a gilded cage, longing for love and companionship. ![]() |