Simply love by mary balogh5/12/2023 ![]() What delights me even more is the fact that I can follow the lives of all the other characters of the series, the way they grow and flourish! Seeing Winifred turn into a lovely young woman who knows her mind makes me glad that you decided to give her her own story. ![]() It's all I've hoped for and more, a heartwarming story of two wounded people who learn to trust their feelings and each other and thus come into their own. I've been looking forward to Someone to Cherish for months now and of course I've finished reading the book in one go only so that I can reread it in a more leisurly way again. Many thanks for all the wonderful stories and best wishes to you and your family for a safe and healthy year ahead. I would love to tell you to keep writing nonstop but you have more than earned your retirement so it is great that your earlier books are being re-released. We then lived in Canmore for 38 years before retiring to BC on the Shuswap Lake. Both my husband and I grew up in Saskatchewan and still have lots of family there to visit. ![]() I really like your life story and the fact that you have this international career from tiny Kipling SK. I too started my love of Regency romance with Georgette Heyer. I think I borrowed Someone to Love 3 times in one week- read, return, nope -not done, borrow, read. I reread your series over and over, they are like comfort food. ![]() Dear Mary, I discovered you in a second hand bookstore in Hawaii and have since read every one of your books I could get hold of. ![]()
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Pbs poirot5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Poirot's brain is made of grey cells, not computer circuits. Surely a man as brilliant and cultured as he must either take such experiences to heart or not be a human being worth knowing or caring about. ![]() Then he witnesses the stoning of an adulteress in Ankara. Those who object to the introduction of Catholicism, etc., seem to ignore the way this version begins: Poirot watches his own methods of "justice" go terribly wrong when a military man whom he has proved to be a liar, and whom he castigates with terrible vehemence, commits suicide in front of him. The1974 film version with Finney turned the whole thing into high camp-not a bad idea! But this version brings new depths to the story and new resonances. For those of you who object to changing a word of Christie's books or altering (= developing) Poirot's character: there have been so many filmed versions of the story, what's the point of just doing the same thing over again? The script (by Stewart Harcourt) gives Suchet a chance to be more brilliant than ever, and modifies many details of the story in order to make it both more concise and in its own way more moving and more plausible. ![]() The swamp by michael grunwald5/12/2023 ![]() That plan is already the blueprint for a new worldwide era of ecosystem restoration. ![]() Grunwald shows how a new breed of visionaries transformed Everglades politics, producing the $8 billion rescue plan. The River of Grass stopped flowing, and 90 percent of its wading birds vanished. ![]() And though the southern Everglades was preserved as a national park, it soon deteriorated into an ecological mess. But the Army Corps of Engineers finally tamed the beast with levees and canals, converting half the Everglades into sprawling suburbs and sugar plantations. Grunwald chronicles how a series of visionaries tried to drain and “reclaim” it, and how Mother Nature refused to bend to their will in the most harrowing tale, a 1928 hurricane drowned 2,500 people in the Everglades. The Everglades was America’s last frontier, a wild country long after the West was won. Michael Grunwald, a prize-winning national reporter for The Washington Post, takes readers on a riveting journey from the Ice Ages to the present, illuminating the natural, social and political history of one of America’s most beguiling but least understood patches of land. The Swamp is the stunning story of the destruction and possible resurrection of the Everglades, the saga of man’s abuse of nature in southern Florida, and his unprecedented efforts to make amends. Now it is revered as a national treasure, and Americans have launched the largest environmental project in history to try to save it. The Everglades was once reviled as a liquid wasteland, and Americans dreamed of draining it. ![]() A tale for the time being author5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() She’s highly intelligent and s really from California which she wants to go back to. Nao tells her tale using the title as her beginning point, for a time being is a being in time. Ruth finds a lunch box here and wonders what secrets it contains. This is the part of the world, remote and an island like much of Japan bt o far removed from where the tragedy took place. “Whaletown post office was a tiny wooden shack, clinging to an rocky outcrop on the edge of Whaletown Bay.The mail came over by ferry three times a week and so three times a week, a representative from each of the households in Whaletown got into a car or a truck or an SUV and drove to the post office to pick up the mail.” On the far side stretched the open Pacific and beyond, but the crow could not fly high enough” Circling higher still, up and up,and the mountains of the Vancouver Island Range came into view, the Golden Hinde, the white glaciers glowing in the moonlight. ![]() Nicholas sansbury smith books5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Wild Fire (New Frontier Book 1). Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Master Sergeant Reed Beckham has led his Delta Force Team, codenamed Ghost, through every kind of hell imaginable and never lost a man. ![]() Richard Montgomery (1738-1775), a Revolutionary War hero who led the army into Canada, capturing the city of Montreal he died while attempting to capture Quebec. Wild Fire (New Frontier Book 1) - Kindle edition by Smith, Nicholas Sansbury, Melchiorri, Anthony J. Extinction Horizon (The Extinction Cycle Book 1) by Nicholas Sansbury Smith (Author) (3,565) The worst of nature and the worst of science will bring the human race to the brink of extinction. Wild Fire Hell Divers II: Ghosts - Nicholas Sansbury Smith Hell Divers II. Kansas Counties Montgomery County, Kansas Date Established: Nicholas Sansbury Smith Wild Fire - Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Anthony Melchiorri. ![]() ![]() ![]() The bright drawings feature key figures, places, and concepts in our nation’s history.Īnd the sparse text on each page makes it quick and easy to get through, even if you’re reading it to a child with a short attention span. I love the sturdy pages and colorful mid-century illustrations in this Americana alphabet book. And I wasn’t sure all of them would sit still through some of the longer books in this list. I did it because I have a lot of little grandchildren now. Why a board book, you may wonder, when most of my children are already grown? I actually just ordered A is for America this morning. Patriotic Picture Books that Celebrate America’s Independence ![]() Pack a few in your picnic basket to enjoy while you wait for fireworks to begin. My family loves reading books for entertainment, and this list of patriotic picture books for Independence Day contains some of our favorites for reading on or around July 4th. ![]() Lucy score things we never got over5/11/2023 ![]() I decided to read my first Lucy Score book because I kept seeing it on Kindle Unlimited and I can see why it’s very popular. ![]() And just as soon as she stops getting into new trouble he can leave her alone and get back to his peaceful, solitary life.Īt least, that’s the plan until the trouble turns to real danger.Ĭontent Warning: abuse, single parent, parental abandonment ![]() But since Naomi’s life imploded right in front of him, the least he can do is help her out of her jam. There’s a reason Knox doesn’t do complications or high-maintenance women, especially not the romantic ones. Now she’s stuck in town with no car, no job, no plan, and no home with an 11-year-old going on thirty to take care of. After helping herself to Naomi’s car and cash, Tina leaves her with something unexpected. Too bad for Naomi her evil twin hasn’t changed at all. She was riding to the rescue of her estranged twin to Knockemout, Virginia, a rough-around-the-edges town where disputes are settled the old-fashioned way…with fists and beer. Naomi wasn’t just running away from her wedding. Knox doesn’t tolerate drama, even when it comes in the form of a stranded runaway bride. ![]() Unless you count his basset hound, Waylon. Bearded, bad-boy barber Knox prefers to live his life the way he takes his coffee: Alone. ![]() The quiet ones brandon massey5/11/2023 ![]() These attributes contributed to her having many friends and to her being an integral part of the family that loved her so dearly. She liked to travel and visited California, Nassau and the Bahamas, and more. Later in life Brenda worked at Wilmington Lighting and American Optical for many years and finally worked at the Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home, from which she retired. She was blessed with an adventurous spirit, a lively personality, and a big heart. Her competitive side lead her to master the card games whist and poker. As her next challenge, she learned to play the piano. As an adventurous child, she tried her hand at organizing producing and directing plays for the neighborhood children to perform for their parents. ![]() ![]() Born in Chelsea on June 30, 1940, she lived in the West End of Boston in her early years and returned to Chelsea in her early teens and remained a resident for the rest of her life. On Sunday, August 1, 2021 our beloved Brenda Ann Massey (nee: Mahon) passed away at her residence at 5 Admirals Way, in Chelsea, Massachusetts at the age of 81 years. ![]() Stephen king billy summer5/11/2023 ![]() Abrams is no stranger to the world of adaptations. Abrams will be producing the film under his Bad Robot production company (via Deadline), opening up the chances of having him as director. This includes his several collaborations with hailed director Martin Scorsese such as "The Aviator," "The Wolf of Wall Street" (via IMDb), and the upcoming "Killers of the Flower Moon" (via Coming Soon). On top of that, many of DiCaprio's projects saw him pull double duty as both actor and producer. ![]() DiCaprio's legendary filmography needs no introduction, as his roles in such acclaimed films as "Titanic," "Inception," "Django Unchained," and "The Revenant," the latter of which earned him an Academy Award, have launched the actor into a level of stardom that few could imagine. But if all goes well, we could see DiCaprio take on the role of Billy Summers himself. ![]() ![]() Abrams, Leonardo DiCaprio will be producing the film under his production company Appian Way (via Deadline). There is currently no official cast attached to the film adaptation of "Billy Summers." However, one of the film's key players could very well slip into the role of the titular character.Īs mentioned earlier, alongside J.J. ![]() Beauty tempts the beast lorraine heath5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Althea is out of place amongst vice and sin, even if she offers a wicked temptation he can’t resist. Yet no woman has ever made such an outrageous request as this mysterious beauty. She even has the perfect teacher in mind, a man whose sense of honor and dark good looks belie his nickname: Beast.īenedict Trewlove may not know his parentage but he knows where he belongs-on the dark side of London, offering protection wherever it’s needed. If she can learn to seduce, she can obtain power over men and return to Society on her terms. Though she’s lost friends, fortune, and respectability, Althea has gained a scandalous plan. Lorraine Heath ends her bestselling Sins for All Seasons series with the hero readers have been waiting for! She wants lessons in seductionĪlthea Stanwick was a perfect lady destined to marry a wealthy lord, until betrayal left her family penniless. ![]() |