Lock and key by sarah dessen5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Sentences overflow with extra clauses and unnecessary details, contributing to the book’s length. The key Ruby pragmatically wears as a necklace becomes a widespread jewelry fad, just one of many unsubtle symbols and forced messages. ![]() The narrative arc is predictable: Ruby’s new school is full of rich kids but she makes friends anyway Cora’s initial coldness is actually steady loyalty (and Cora never really deserted the family long ago-mom lied) the abused boy next door is outgoing and helpful, but he needs to learn the same lesson about trust that Ruby does. Having failed in an attempt to run away the first night, Ruby decides to wait out the year until she turns 18 and can be alone forever. Social Services doesn’t allow Ruby to stay alone in the yellow house for very long after her mother disappears, instead placing her with older sister Cora and Cora’s unflappably sweet husband. Overlong but easygoing piece about a girl shifting from defensive solitude to connection. ![]()
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Knight & Stay by Kitty French5/11/2023 ![]() Tutti-frutti with indecently red, glistening cherries on the top? Yes please. Rich, spicy chocolate covered with dark, oozingly lickable sauce? Check. Lucien takes her safe, vanilla life away and plunges her head first into a huge dish of fantasy flavours. From the moment girl-next-door Sophie accepts the job as Lucien Knight's PA, she understands how Alice must have felt when she tumbled down the rabbit hole. No one knows the dark childhood secrets that have given Lucien a backbone of steel and a heart encased in ice. All grown up and relocated to London, he's built his empire of adult clubs from the ground up to become the gorgeous patron saint of the sex industry. Lucien Knight is catch-your-breath gorgeous and damaged by his troubled past in Norway. ![]() ![]() Let yourself be swept away by Part One of the Knight series from Kitty French, a romance so hot it'll burn your fingers. Romantic, emotional & intensely erotic, Knight and Play is the perfect read for lovers of international bestsellers Fifty Shades & Bared To You. From the moment Lucien & Sophie meet, the seal is set. ![]() ![]() There's only one problem in Sophie Black's life. There's only one thing in life Lucien Knight really hates, and that's husbands who cheat on their wives. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Carter and Evie are both thirtysomething professionals-so why can’t they act like it?Ĭan Carter stop trying to please everyone and see how their mutual boss is really playing the game? Can Evie put aside her competitive nature long enough to figure out what she really wants in life? Can their actor clients just be something close to human? Whether these two Hollywood love/hatebirds get the storybook Hollywood ending, or just a dramedy of epic proportions, you get to enjoy Christina Lauren’s heartfelt, hilarious story of romance in the modern world. What could have been a beautiful, blossoming romance turns into an all-out war of sabotage. Even the realization that they’re both high-powered agents at competing firms in Hollywood isn’t enough to squash the fire.īut when their two agencies merge-causing the pair to vie for the same position-all bets are off. A sexy, compulsively readable romantic comedy that dives headlong into the thrill and doubt of modern love, Dating You/Hating You by New York Times bestselling. ![]() ![]() But these two will learn that sabotage is a dish best served naked.Ī sexy, compulsively readable romantic comedy that dives headlong into the thrill and doubt of modern love, Dating You/Hating You by New York Times bestselling author Christina Lauren is the story of what two high-powered agents will-and won’t-do to get everything they ever wanted.ĭespite the odds against them from an embarrassing meet-awkward at a mutual friend’s Halloween party, Carter and Evie immediately hit it off. Everyone knows that all’s fair in love and war. ![]() Royal elite book 15/11/2023 ![]() Astrid | I wish I could rank all of them 1st because every book was 5⭐️’s and I loved every moment in this series |. ![]() ![]() TikTok video from Arshin "Royal Elite Series Ranking - My all time fave series□ #rinakent #royaleliteseries #empireseries #deceptiontrilogy #aidenking #colenash #godofmalice #darkromancebooks #bullyromancebooks #bookfyp #enemiestoloversrecs #mafiaromancebooks #devilsnightseries #penelopedouglas #twistedlies #dirtyairseriesbooks #addictedseries #bookish #bookboyfriend #morallygrey #callowaysisters". Royal Elite Series Ranking - My all time fave series□ #rinakent #royaleliteseries #empireseries #deceptiontrilogy #aidenking #colenash #godofmalice #darkromancebooks #bullyromancebooks #bookfyp #enemiestoloversrecs #mafiaromancebooks #devilsnightseries #penelopedouglas #twistedlies #dirtyairseriesbooks #addictedseries #bookish #bookboyfriend #morallygrey #callowaysistersĢ.8K Likes, 72 Comments. ![]() The End of Men by Hanna Rosin5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() "It's often a question of women being more willing do a lot more, to start at the bottom, to work for lower wages," Rosin says. "It's a bad economy for everyone," Rosin points out - so what is it about women that's allowing them to "rise?" However, she points out that that the other part of her title, "And the Rise of Women," is quite positive. ![]() "The world has changed so much that you can't just patch men back into their old lives," Rosin tells HealthySELF. Additional statistics serve to paint Rosin's picture: women now occupy around half of the nation's jobs for every two men who will receive a BA this year, three women will do the same and, she writes, "Of the fifteen job categories projected to grow the most in the United States over the next decade, twelve are occupied primarily by women."Īnd that's only the beginning. ![]() Love in the Afternoon by Lisa Kleypas5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Her books are published in fourteen languages and are bestsellers all over the world. and he's bewildered by his inexplicable attraction to the eccentric Beatrix Hathaway. Lisa Kleypas is the RITA Award-winning author of many contemporary and historical romance novels, including the Hathaways series, A Wallflower Christmas, Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor, and Love in the Afternoon. Soon, however, he realizes Prudence is very different from her letters. ![]() To Beatrix's despair, she's fallen for a man who thinks she's someone else, and she'll never be able to reveal her deception.Ĭhristopher, now a decorated hero, comes back to claim the woman he loves. A lively, witty correspondence begins, and gradually turns into something deeper as they share the secrets of their hearts. Since Prudence won't reply to the world-weary soldier, Beatrix offers to write a letter for her-and she signs it as Pru. After a particularly devastating battle, he writes a letter to Prudence, unaware that the spoiled beauty has decided she doesn't want to wait for him. She'd rather stay true to herself, even if it means never finding love.Ĭhristopher's courtship of Beatrix's friend, the vivacious but flighty Prudence Mercer, is interrupted when his regiment is sent to fight in the Crimea. If her unconventional behavior earns the mockery of handsome rakes like Captain Christopher Phelan, so be it. ![]() Deception, passion, and love collide in this bewitching novel in New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas' wildly popular Hathaway seriesīeatrix Hathaway would much rather spend time with her collection of rescued animals than flirting in a stuffy ballroom. ![]() Transformers Rescue Bots by Hasbro5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They each have a simple transformation, sometimes only one step, assisted by auto-transforming parts (like Movie’s Automorph). The Deluxe Rescue Bots, like the Deluxe class of main-line Transformers, form the backbone of the series. The Rescue Gear each have a one-step flip change that allows them to be held or mounted on a Deluxe Rescue Bot. The basic figure sets include a poseable human character in cute proportions, and a Rescue Gear – either a small vehicle with a rescue tool attached or some type of backpack. ![]() The initial Rescue Bots figures focused primarily on one scale, but different types of sets allow them to be marketed at a wide variety of price points. Rescue Bots are in the same scale and style as Playskool Heroes, which includes other properties such as Star Wars and Spider Man. With a coherent story focusing on a few main heroes and their human partners, Rescue Bots has hit on a recipe for success. The series debuted with an animated TV show on Hasbro and Discovery’s shared network, The Hub. Transformers: Rescue Bots began in 2011 as Hasbro’s most recent, and possibly most earnest attempt at marketing to the 3-5 year-old demographic through their subsidiary, Playskool. ← Playskool Go-Bots | Continuity: Preschool Transformers | End Crucible troy denning5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() To save him, and the galaxy, Luke and Leia must brave a gauntlet of treachery, terrorism, and the untold power of an enigmatic artifact capable of bending space, time, and even the Force itself into an apocalyptic nightmare. ![]() And when the murderous duo gets the drop on Han, he finds himself outgunned in the fight of his life. It is chronologically the last novel in the Star Wars Legends line, formerly the Expanded Universe, before the 2014 reboot. It featured characters such as Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa Solo and Han Solo. It is a pair of ruthless geniuses with a lethal ally and a lifelong vendetta against Han Solo. Crucible is a novel that was written by author Troy Denning and was released on July 9, 2013. Only this time, the Empire is not the enemy. Now Han, Leia, and Luke team up once again in a quest to defeat a dangerous adversary bent on galaxy-wide domination. ![]() When the dust settles, what began as corporate warfare becomes a battle with much higher stakes-and far deadlier consequences. Then monstrous aliens arrive with a message, and mere threats escalate into violent sabotage with mass fatalities. When Han and Leia Solo arrive at Lando Calrissian’s Outer Rim mining operation to help him thwart a hostile takeover, their aim is just to even up the odds and lay down the law. Han Solo, Leia Organa Solo, and Luke Skywalker return in an all-new Star Wars adventure, which will challenge them in ways they never expected-and forever alter their understanding of life and the Force ![]() Being in time heidegger5/10/2023 ![]() If man as existentialists conceive of him cannot be defined, it is because to begin with he is nothing. What do we mean here by “existence precedes essence”? We mean that man first exists: he materializes in the world, encounters himself, and only afterward defines himself. That being is man, or, as Heidegger put it, the human reality. Sartre expressed his view like this:į God does not exist, there is at least one being in whom existence precedes essence - a being whose existence comes before its essence, a being who exists before he can be defined by any concept of it. However, he misinterpreted this statement’s meaning he thought it essentially meant that human beings (Daseins) have no essence whatsoever, thus, we must make something positive out of ourselves by the choices we make (this is the meaning of his famous phrase “ existence precedes essence”). It inspired him to write his magnum opus Being and Nothingness (the “Bible” of existentialism). Jean-Paul Sartre was highly influenced by this statement. or does it? Do human beings have an essence? Heidegger said, “ The ‘essence’ of Dasein lies in its existence” ( Being and Time, Section 9, p. ![]() ![]() And these are not disclosed unless required. The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change. a transcendent anonymity regarding itself in all of the self-centered, battling egos that are born and die in time. And by a like miracle, so will each whose work is the difficult, dangerous task of self-discovery and self-development he portrered across the ocean of life.Īll that we see is but the reflex of a power that endures, untouched by the pain. ![]() Only birth can conquer death-the birth, not of the old thing again, but of something new.īy this the dreamer crosses to the other shore. If you wish to read the book in its entirety, here is a link to amazon Profound quotes and excerpts from the highly influential book on the role that myth has played in moulding humanity: The Hero with a Thousand Faces by the American scholar and mythologist Joseph Campbell ![]() |