![]() ![]() It helped that Race the Sands also had an extremely compelling plot that revolved around jockeys riding monsters in deadly races out in a dessert kingdom, which sounded pretty damn awesome to me. While I was unfamiliar with Durst at that point, I had read some incredible positive reviews of this book, and some of her previous novels, and I was curious to check it out. In this week’s Waiting on Wednesday, I check out a fantastic upcoming young adult thriller from impressive author Sarah Beth Durst, The Lake House.īack in 2020 I was lucky enough to get a copy of a clever fantasy novel, Race the Sands, from a then unknown author to me, Sarah Beth Durst. ![]() Stay tuned to see reviews of these books when I get a copy of them. I run this segment in conjunction with the Can’t-Wait Wednesday meme that is currently running at Wishful Endings. Welcome to my weekly segment, Waiting on Wednesday, where I look at upcoming books that I am planning to order and review in the next few months and which I think I will really enjoy. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This isn’t about him being subpar, because he does a great job. I am not, however, a fan of his voice in this story. Narration: John Solo is a consummate professional who always does a good job of narration. ![]() Lain has the ability to write a light, fun and exciting story that is built around a wonderful love story. I was emotionally invested in this story from point one. Taylor Maid is the perfect combination of ridiculous and wonderful story, an unlikely but true love story between two men. I wish I had an Ally in my life-sweet and sassy, beautiful and intelligent, loveable and sympathetic. Review: Tara Lain is one of my favorite true romance writers, and Taylor is such a charming character with great innocence but amazing complexity. But if Ally keeps pretending to be a girl for a little while longer, is there a chance they might discover this marriage is tailor-made? There’s just one rather significant problem: Ally is actually Alessandro Macias, son of a tough Brazilian hotel magnate. Tara Lain: Genre: MM Romance: File Name: taylor-maid-by-tara-lain.epub Original Title: Taylor Maid: A Marry-by-Midnight, Mistaken Identity, MM Romance Creator: Tara Lain Language: en Identifier: MOBI-ASIN:B08PC92R64 Publisher: Tara Lain Books Date: 1607378400 File Size: 306457. So he hightails it to Las Vegas… where he meets the beautiful maid Ally May. On the eve of his twenty-fifth birthday, the billionaire’s son discovers that despite being gay, he must marry a woman before midnight or lose a fifty-million-dollar inheritance. Taylor Fitzgerald needs a last-minute bride. Publisher: Dreamspinner Press/Dreamspun DesiresĪt a Glance: I was emotionally invested in this story from point one.īlurb: He’ll marry the maid to get $50 million but a secret could queer the deal. ![]() ![]() Jules still doesn't appear so Mary Pat makes her own inquiries throughout the neighborhood. The following day, Mary Pat shows up for work at Meadow Lane old folks' home and discovers that her Black colleague's son, Auggie Williamson, was found dead on the track of a subway station early that morning. Mary Pat finds herself with a far more pressing concern when her 17-year-old daughter Jules fails to come home one night. ![]() In South Boston, Mary Pat's white, working-class, Irish-American home turf, mob chief Marty Butler - "Southie's protector" - has organized anti-busing protests. It is the torrid summer of 1974 and the eve of Boston's controversial desegregation of public high schools. Lehane's high-octane drama plays out against a backdrop of historical events. Single mother Mary Pat Fennessy is described by a character as "broken but unbreakable." She is also unstoppable as she embarks on a mission that is both a search for answers and a quest for revenge. ![]() Lehane's latest novel, "Small Mercies," is fronted by another strong woman. ![]() Rachel Childs was a formidable heroine whose concealed traits and surprise impulses were revealed with each narrative twist and turn. Dennis Lehane's last novel from 2017, the psychological thriller "Since We Fell," was his first to unfold through a female protagonist's perspective. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Promised Land and the other Spenser novels spawned the movie Spenser: For Hire and a string of made-for-TV movies. Parker's acclaim and his thorough background in classic detective literature helped earn him the somewhat unusual commission of completing a Philip Marlowe novel that the great Raymond Chandler had left unfinished. Best known for his portrayal of the tough but erudite investigator Spenser, Parker wrote over twenty-five novels over the course of his career, which began in 1973. Parker was one of contemporary fiction's most popular and respected detective writers. The Spenser novels have been cited by critics and bestselling authors such as Robert Crais, Harlan Coben and Dennis Lehane as not only influencing their own work but reviving and changing the detective genre. ![]() Parker was 77 when he died of a heart attack at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts discovered at his desk by his wife Joan, he had been working on a novel. His works incorporate encyclopedic knowledge of the Boston metropolitan area. ABC television network developed the television series Spenser: For Hire based on the character in the late 1980s a series of TV movies based on the character were also produced. His most famous works were the novels about the private detective Spenser. Robert Brown Parker was an American crime writer. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database named Robert B. ![]() ![]() "A modern masterpiece - as epic as the "Iliad" and "Shahnameh," and as heartwarming as "Charlotte's Web." It's for the kids at the lunch table the heroes of tomorrow, just looking to survive the battle of adolescence. "At once beautiful and painful, this timely story is highly recommended for middle grade readers."- SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL (starred review) A remarkable work that raises the literary bar in children's lit."- BOOKLIST (starred review) "One of the most extraordinary books of the year."- BOOKPAGE ( starred review) ![]() ![]() A story of heartbreak and resilience." - FOREWORD REVIEWS (starred review) A rare treasure of a book." - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review) The New York Times Book Review Supple, sparkling and original. ![]() Readers will be transported."- BCCB (starred review) Everything Sad Is Untrue A modern masterpiece. "A modern epic." - KIRKUS REVIEWS ( starred review) "Like nothing else you've read or ever will read."-Newbery Medalist, Linda Sue Park ![]() ![]() The country still faces a threat from General Madigan, however, and despite all their efforts, no one has been able to track him down. But the men are also deeply in love and their connection is only growing. He has gone from protecting the president to overseeing a White House staff. ![]() For Ethan, he is suddenly having to adjust to a totally different life, one that puts him in the spotlight in a way he never experienced in the Secret Service. While his friendship with Russian President Sergey Puchkov means they remain allies, he is getting pushback both from other nations and within his own party. In Jack’s case, he has only recently come out and not everyone is thrilled to see the President in a relationship with another man. ![]() President Jack Spiers and Ethan Reichenbach have publicly committed to one another and Ethan has left his job in the Secret Service and is living in the White House with Jack as First Gentleman. ![]() Audiobook Buy Links: Amazon /Audible | iBooks ![]() ![]() ![]() I think I’m beginning to see a pattern here, was her next sarcastic thought. This was the third week in a row she’d been forced to cancel her own plans, and the same waitresses who’d failed to show up as it’d been both times before. As nice as it was collecting tips on a Friday night, she’d already had plans, which she’d had to cancel.Īs if they don’t do this shit on purpose every week, she thought to herself with a bitter smile as she closed out her register and turned it in, collecting her tips before she headed out the door. None of the other waitresses had been willing to answer their phones, so Morgan was stuck picking up a double shift. By the end of her shift waiting tables, her relief had yet to show up. ![]() ![]() Morgan Mackenzie was having a very bad day. ![]() ![]() Kendi: I don’t think there was necessarily a moment as much as the coming awareness of the 400th year - the sort of symbolic birthday of Black America - and that date approaching. The conversation has been lightly edited for clarity and length.ī: When did the idea for the book first evolve - was there a particular moment or event that sparked the idea for it? ![]() (The audiobook edition of “Four Hundred Souls” is reportedly getting a literal chorus of “extraordinary voices” with a cast of 87 narrators, including Leslie Odom Jr., Danai Gurira, and Phylicia Rashad.)ī spoke recently with Kendi, who moved to Boston last year to launch and direct the new BU Center for Antiracist Research, to learn more about the new work and what he hopes readers will take away from the new community history. ![]() “Collectively this choir sings the chords of survival, of struggle, of success, of death, of life, of joy, of racism, of antiracism, of creation, of destruction - of America’s clearest chords, year after year, of liberty, justice, and democracy for all,” Kendi wrote. ![]() With their strikingly different but unified voices, the writers form a “choir” in telling the community history, Kendi wrote in the introduction for “Four Hundred Souls.” ![]() ![]() ![]() Edward has already rescued Bella from the clutches of one evil vampire, but now, as their daring relationship threatens all that is near and dear to them, they realize their troubles may be just beginning…. ![]() But being in love with a vampire is even more dangerous than Bella could ever have imagined. My own life meant little to me today.įOR BELLA SWAN THERE IS ONE THING more important than life itself: Edward Cullen. But this was no dream, and, unlike the nightmare, I wasn’t running for my life I was racing to save something infinitely more precious. I FELT LIKE I WAS TRAPPED IN ONE OF THOSE TERRIFYING NIGHTMARES, the one where you have to run, run till your lungs burst, but you can’t make your body move fast enough…. I was perfect – not healed, but as if there had never been a wound in the first place. It was like there had never been any hole in my chest. My lungs filled deep with the sweet scent that came off his skin. I could feel my heart racing in my chest, the blood pulsing hot and fast through my veins again. ![]() ![]() The third and final section picks up on some of the findings of the first two sections and dwells on contemporary sources, mainly articles published in the British Film Institute’s film magazine Sight and Sound, as well as recent scholarship on both educational and documentary film in order to discuss the notions of ‘background’ and ‘excursive’ film and to show that the experiment was a genuine adventure in cultural learning. ![]() The second section broadens the perspective by providing context beyond the local level that puts the experiment in time and place. ![]() The first section describes the experiment and the local context in which it took place. This article argues that this experiment with sound film could equally be considered an experiment in cultural learning. value of the cinema for class teaching purposes. ![]() The aim of the experiment was to test the. ![]() Arrangements were made to provide projectors, films, operators and screens for a series of exhibits at eighty schools. This article makes an “exercise in the archaeology of education” and focusses on the City of Birmingham (UK) in the year 1935 where the Education Committee allowed an experiment on the use of classroom film in senior elementary schools. ![]() |