![]() ![]() A promising career, a wife, a beautiful baby and another on the way. These ladies beautifully told a heart wrenching yet hopeful story about second chances, love, loss and sacrifice and we ate it up.ĭr Guy Hunter appears to have it all. Riley MacKenzie beautifully captured the essence of the innocence, sweetness and cuteness of these kids and there were times our heart strings were well and truly pulled, making us tear up more than once.Ībruption was our first book by Riley MacKenzie and what a wonderful introduction. We do love a story that involves children and in Abruption we met two adorable children who completely and utterly stole our hearts. “Beautiful people don’t exist, they are made.” He doesn’t realize his world went dark the same day his wife’s did, until Jules, his son’s new nurse, shows him the light. Until it isn’t.įour years later, Guy is consumed by the challenges of being a single father, still struggling with the aftermath that derailed his life and left his son with special needs. ![]() An MBA and boardroom job is her ticket out. Jules Chiappetti loves her boisterous over-involved Italian family but is determined to pave her own way. Two unexpected blue lines don’t even shake his resolve-he is on his way to having it all. Guy Hunter secures his dream fellowship with a beautiful free spirit by his side. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The head of the Jewish council in Warsaw, Adam Czerniaków, refused to cooperate. The Germans demanded that members of the Jewish council ( Judenrat) assist in organizing the deportations. When the trains arrived in Małkinia, they were diverted along a special rail spur to Treblinka. From there, they forced the Jews to board freight cars bound for Małkinia, on the Warsaw-Białystok rail line. German SS and police personnel used violence to force Jews to march from their homes or places of work to the Umschlagplatz (concentration point). Miserable conditions in the ghetto, deliberately exacerbated by German policies, worsened over time.īetween July and September 1942, German SS and police units, supported by non-German auxiliaries, deported about 265,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to their deaths in the Treblinka killing center. The Germans also deported several hundred Roma (Gypsies) to the Warsaw ghetto.Īt its height, the total population of the Warsaw ghetto exceeded 400,000 people. Between April and July 1942, Jews from the nearby towns east of Warsaw, from Germany, and from German-occupied areas of western Poland were deported there. Between January and March 1941, Jews from smaller communities to the west of Warsaw were deported to the Warsaw ghetto. ![]() ![]() ![]() Can either of them walk away from something that feels this good? Sexy. A work trip places them in adjoining hotel bedrooms, giving her the chance to put on a sizzling show just for him! When Cameron’s left wanting more, Trish is delighted to give him exactly that. Cameron knows he’s broken the rules-and is resolved to keep his distance from her. But Trish doesn’t make it easy. ![]() He avoids her at all costs, until a raunchy late-night encounter in an elevator shows him that there’s a fine line between hate and lust. She’s even willing to put up with his best friend and business partner, the notoriously grumpy Cameron O’Clery-especially when she finds out he’s very easy on the eyes. Cameron hates people: especially peppy, happy people like Trish. They’re complete opposites-but that only makes the temptation hotter! Trish Livingston desperately needs cash, so when her brother offers her a job while he’s on paternity leave, she snaps it up. ![]() In this red-hot scorcher from New York Times bestselling author Katee Robert, Trish Livingston meets her unlikely match in her brother’s best friend, the gorgeous Cameron O’Clery. ![]() ![]() “The Shackles of a Name” is our stand out horror story of the year, not because the villains (the demon Oni) are the greatest monsters, but because the greatest monsters are the human protagonists. Martin Adil-Smith – The Shackles of a Name Following on from “Memnoch…”, Lestat awakens to find his world in crisis as a disembodied Voice raises the elders from their slumber, only to immolate fledgling blood suckers across the world. ![]() Rice’s return with the eleventh installment in the million-selling “Vampire Chronicles” series did no disappoint. King’s latest offering received mixed reviews, however we adored the Lovecraftian homage as we join the nomadic Jamie and his one time minister, Charles Jacobs, as their experiments in electricity unlock and elder darkness from beyond the void that threatens to engulf our world. ![]() 2014 has been a great year for horror books. ![]() ![]() ![]() And so begins the most celebrated and mysterious military organisation in the world: the SAS. ![]() In the summer of 1941, at the height of the war in the Western Desert, a bored and eccentric young officer, David Stirling, has a vision for a new kind of war: attacking the enemy where they least expect it - from behind their own lines.ĭespite the intense opposition of many in British High Command, Winston Churchill personally gives Stirling permission to recruit the toughest, brightest and most ruthless soldiers he can find. The book behind the hit BBC series SAS: Rogue Heroes, starring Connor Swindells, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Allen and Dominic West.įrom the secret SAS archives and bestselling author Ben Macintyre: the first ever authorized history of the SAS, read by the author. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Founding Fathers ends with the year 1826, when both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died on July 4, the fiftieth anniversary of Independence. Three years after he was ensnared in a national embarrassment of his own making, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian is back near. The book also attends to the duel in which Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in 1804. All seems forgiven, or mostly forgotten, for Joseph J. Ellis is a study of the lives of the founders of the American republic or as Ellis sees them, the founding fathers- Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Aaron Burr, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison. ![]() In addition, Ellis makes frequent references to the French Revolution, which lasted from 1789 to 1799. The book covers George Washington’s presidency, which lasted from 1788 to 1796, his decision to step down, and the publication of his “Farewell Address.” It also covers the presidential elections of 17, in which John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, respectively, were elected as president. ![]() The book mentions that the Constitutional Convention of 1787 was the nation’s other “Founding Moment.” Several of the book’s most significant events occur in 1790, including the Compromise of 1790 and the delivery of petitions to Congress calling for the restriction and abolition of slavery that same year. Many significant historical events are covered in the book, beginning with the Revolutionary War and the achievement of Independence in 1776. ![]() ![]() ![]() The more messy women that we put on screen, that we put in books, the more women can feel represented and seen. to investigate why people are getting sick. The story begins when Williams unwillingly comes back to her home town of Barrens, Ind. She's an environmental lawyer from a difficult background - her mom died when she was young, and she was kind of an outcast in school. ![]() And that was something I thought about a lot." ![]() not really telling them what the environmental consequences would be. "A few years ago, the frackers came in and wanted to frack on the property. "I'm from a small town, a farm, a hundred acres," she says. Ritter was raised in small Pennsylvania farm town, which inspired her debut novel Bonfire, a dark thriller about about environmental pollution, secrets and abuse. The actress Krysten Ritter is best known for strong and complicated characters like the superhero-turned-detective Jessica Jones, star of her own Netflix series. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Bonfire Author Krysten Ritter ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is why for the author to portray that they can just coast through all the toxicity and everything will be just fine is delusional and create a somewhat false hope for people that are in reality with a jealous out of control partner. All it will end up is a bigger mess with more broken pieces. A broken person can't fix another broken person. They are drawn to each other because they are both broken. People have a twisted idea that just because their is an intense feeling of attraction that they have never felt before or an obsession about a person that they can't do without, then it's equated to being in love. ![]() The author has portrayed this as a love story but this is far from love. This series to me is a horrible example for people to want to look up to. He still haven't learned that in order to have a good relationship, he must change inside to see himself. He live in a world where he think he can get whatever he wants no matter the cost or measure on how to get it. She let her hormones dictate to her instead of thinking clearly. Unfortunately, her immaturity led her back into a toxic relationship she shouldn't be in. I think they are truly both young and because Hessa decided to make career changes in her life, she took on a new role and tried to walk in those new shoes. ![]() ![]() ![]() He even went so far to accuse her of poisoning Rachel, even though it was actually Roxanne, the assistant of his then-girlfriend Colette Bing. However, they clashed over her treatment of his half-sister Rachel, who he was also close to. However, he does not go through with it, and by the end of China Rich Girlfriend, Carlton has matured significantly.Ĭarlton has a close relationship with half-sister Rachel Chu, welcoming her into his family despite his mother's hatred of her.Ĭarlton has a close relationship with his mother Bao Shaoyen, who is very protective of him and covered up his near-fatal car crash from his father. ![]() ![]() After that, he decided to stay on the sidelines.Ĭarlton is described by Nick Young as being very "down-to-earth," despite Eleanor Young having claimed he was "terribly spoiled." He is considerate about others and cares deeply about his relationship with his family, especially Rachel.Ĭarlton also has a competitive streak to him and can be quite naive, agreeing to a car race with Richie Yang despite having already almost been killed by one before. He was gravely injured after a race ended up killing a girl who was in the car he was driving, and almost cost him his own life. Carlton is described as the looking very similar to Rachel, with Colette even noting that they looked like "long-lost twins."Ĭarlton has a great love for sport cars and underground racing. ![]() ![]() ![]() People looked down upon self-published authors and were quite vocal about everything they were doing wrong: bad covers, no editing, horrible plots with holes you could drive a truck through. I thought it meant that my book wasn’t good enough. ![]() My husband and my critique partner urged me to consider self-publishing. This realization, however, didn’t make the rejections any less heartbreaking. In hindsight, I was probably naïve in thinking that anyone would take a chance on a debut novel that didn’t fit neatly into a single genre and had, quite frankly, a somewhat risky storyline. I sent out the first batch of queries and rejections started rolling in an hour later. I drafted my query letter and polished it to a high sheen. When I completed On the Island a year ago, all I wanted was to obtain agent representation. ![]() Read more stories from successful authors in self-publishing on how they did it, including Theresa Ragan and Karen McQuestion. No marketing campaign in the world can compete with the power of a large number of positive, word-of-mouth recommendations. One of the questions I’m asked the most is, “How did you sell 365,000 copies of your self-published debut novel On the Island?” There’s no short answer, but if I had to sum up my success I’d say that I owe it to the readers who embraced my story and shared their recommendations with friends, family members and, sometimes, total strangers. ![]() |