![]() ![]() When Justin arrives and invites Estelle and her brother to accompany Maria to Everleigh Park to help her adjust, she reluctanty agrees for Maria’s sake.Īs family secrets unravel after Maria’s homecoming, Justin realizes his need for a countess. He travels to her home to fetch her back to the family seat at Everleigh Park.Īlthough she adored him once, Maria now loathes Justin, and her friend Lady Estelle Lamarr can see immediately how his very name upsets her. ![]() A dark, dour man, he nonetheless takes it as his responsibility to care for his half-sister, Maria, when her mother dies. Love truly conquers all in this tenth Westcott family novel.Īs a young man, Justin Wiley was banished by his father for mysterious reasons, but now his father is dead and Justin has been Earl of Brandon for six years. And sometimes it takes just one person to pull it back together. Sometimes just one person can pull a whole family apart. ![]()
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![]() Gimmick Kid, the two used various inventions and devices of their own creation to battle crime and colorfully named villains such as King Zombie, the Mad Mummmy and the Trickster and his Brain Men. Aided by “lab apprentice,” Gary Stewart, a.k.a. Gadgetman was millionaire businessman and head of the Travis Corp., Burt Travis. ![]() In the mid 1960s, Siegel was winding down his second run with DC Comics, writing for a hefty amount of the super-hero line for Archie Comics (featuring the Mighty Crusaders), and began writing for Lion, a weekly comic published by Fleetway in the U.K.įeatures written by Siegel for Lion include the British character the Spider (not to be confused with the American pulp hero of the same name) and Siegel’s own creation, Gadgetman and Gimmick-Kid. Throughout much of his career, Jerry Siegel was a workhorse, churning out multiple stories for multiple feature - at times for multiple companies - all within the same month. ![]() ![]() His arrival in Philadelphia is one of the most famous scenes in autobiographical literature: the bedraggled 17-year-old runaway, cheeky yet with a pretense of humility, straggling off the boat and buying three puffy rolls as he wanders up Market Street. ExcerptĬhapter One: Benjamin Franklin and the Invention of America ![]() In this colorful and intimate narrative, Isaacson provides the full sweep of Franklin’s amazing life, showing how he helped to forge the American national identity and why he has a particular resonance in the twenty-first century. ![]() He explores the wit behind Poor Richard’s Almanac and the wisdom behind the Declaration of Independence, the new nation’s alliance with France, the treaty that ended the Revolution, and the compromises that created a near-perfect Constitution. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin’s life from Boston to Philadelphia to London and Paris and back, Walter Isaacson chronicles the adventures of the runaway apprentice who became, over the course of his eighty-four-year life, America’s best writer, inventor, media baron, scientist, diplomat, and business strategist, as well as one of its most practical and ingenious political leaders. In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character.īenjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments Is Your Child a Money Master or a Money Monster? by Sunny Istar Lee Founder of MMK![]() ![]() Be real and authentic about your feelings and experiences.You must find a topic you feel absolutely passionate about and start from there. Without passion, neither you nor your reader will get anything out of it. Make sure you have a burning desire about the particular topic(s).I used my book as my business card, my resume, my gift and, most importantly, my best marketing tool, and it worked like magic. My first book helped me become a columnist for an economics newspaper, which generated a lot of leads that helped me qualify for MDRT my first year and every year since then. Understand why it is important to publish your own book.I’d like to share with you the six most useful and practical steps you can put into practice right away: ![]() My days go by super-fast! There is no magic formula, no gimmicks, no cutting corners, no shortcut, but there is a lot of genuine effort and dedication. I wish! I am a financial planner just like you, juggling work and family every day. Some of you might be asking, “Does she have nothing else to do but to write books all day?” or wondering if I have some kind of magic wand to create books one after another. I have published six books so far, and my Amazon bestseller is called “Is Your Child a Money Master or a Money Monster?” It was featured on CBS News along with several other local media. ![]() ![]() Publishing can help you elevate your image and marketability. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Star wars gillen![]() ![]() ![]() How will Vader get out of this predicament? You’ll have to read Vader Down to find out, but I’m sure he’ll do it in the most bad-ass way possible. ![]() Set straight after the destruction of the Death Star, these two comics have been running parallel with each other and starting this month will meet for the first time in the 6-part crossover, Vader Down.ĭarth Vader is stuck behind enemy lines and it’s him against the whole Rebel Alliance. Darth Vader, written Kieron Gillen and art by Salvador Larroca, has also been great and has been a fascinating exploration of Darth Vader’s motivations while introducing an interesting supporting cast. Jason Aaron and a batch of different artists have been kicking goals with Star Wars, focussing mostly on the Luke Skywalker and the Rebel Alliance as they fight off the Empire. It's time for 'The Scourging of Shu-Torun. White and Heather Antos, she first appeared in Marvel Comics ' 2015 Darth Vader comic book series. ![]() Created by writer Kieron Gillen, artist Salvador Larroca, and editors Jordan D. Not only are they hugely popular, sitting at the top of the charts every month, but they’re also great too. Queen Trios messed with the wrong princess of Alderaan. Doctor Chelli Lona Aphra, or simply Doctor Aphra, is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. Earlier in the year, Marvel Comics launched a new era of Star Wars comics to huge success. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Shot through the hearth![]() Shannon knows her friend has no intention of giving up Marigold and is proud of Raphael for sticking to his guns. Raphael's old business partner arrives in town with a grudge and a plan to steal him away from his important new passion project. It's an exciting time in Lighthouse Cove as Raphael hosts the first ever global conference inviting big thinkers from every area of industry to give presentations on eco-living. He's started the Marigold Foundation that helps fund small companies and individuals who do humanitarian work around the world. Shannon's good friend and retired tech billionaire, Raphael Nash, is loving his new retired life but he can't stay unoccupied for too long. ![]() Contractor Shannon Hammer is measuring murder motives in the latest Fixer-Upper Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of A Wrench in the Works and Eaves of Destruction. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Tale of the tell tale heart![]() The story is often considered a Gothic classic and is, along with "The Cask of Amontillado", one of Poe's most famous short stories. The story was first published in "The Pioneer" written by the American poet James Russell Lowell in January 1843. Finally, the narrator's actions result in a pounding sound, which the narrator interprets as the heartbeat of a dead man. The narrator stresses the detailed calculation of the murder, the attempt at the perfect crime, finished with dismembering the body in the bathtub and hiding it under the floorboards. His prey was an old man with a pale blue "vulture eye". The story is written from the perspective of an unnamed narrator who tries to persuade his readers of his sanity, while at the same time he's describing the murder he has committed. ![]() ![]() "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short Gothic story written by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1843. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments King of Ruin by Lee Jacquot![]() ![]() Then there’s Lucian, we learnt so much about him & his meetings with Dr. However, during the “arrangement” he did not for a second act like it. I hope we get a book about Alexi and why he supposedly wants out of this world so much. There was no real depth into the mafia world, Sabreena or Alexi, everything just kind of touched the surface and never went any deeper. Unfortunately this was the same while reading it, I hate to say because it had such great potential but I thought it was okay? I had put it off for a while because it didn’t jump out to me. So I read this book for my book groups BOTM. ”Maybe I can just live off the grid? Be a tree lady? I can totally see myself in an expansive treehouse, making clay pots to sell so I could expand my house to like five trees.” [Also, after this quote, how can you not relate to Sabreena? This was a great forbidden mafia romance and the ending REALLY surprised me! The spice starts off as a lot of as forbidden tension and when it finally snaps, Lee gives you all the spice! They quickly form and UNDENIABLE attraction.Īnd…come on… they speak on the phone every night for hours until she falls asleep! How is that not the cutest?! My ship was well sailed by that point. Lucian is also the one tasked with “obtaining her” and is constantly on babysitting duty. ![]() Lucian is a mafia lawyer and Sabreena is his boss’s betrothed. ![]() I’ve read a LOT of mafia romances and this was such a breath of fresh air! I loved Lee’s spin on this genre! Mafia romance inspired by DC villains? IM DONE. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Fox and i by catherine raven![]() ![]() Her scientific training had taught her not to anthropomorphize animals, but as she grew to know him, his personality revealed itself-and he became her friend. How do you even talk to a fox? One day she brought out her camping chair, sat as near to him as she dared, and began reading to him from The Little Prince. She had never had a regular visitor before. ![]() One day, she realized that the mangy-looking fox who had been appearing on her property was now showing up every day at 4:15, positioning himself near a lone forget-me-not near the house. She built a house on an isolated plot of land in Montana, teaching remotely and leading field courses in the National Parks. in biology while working as a janitor and living in her car (which lacked a reverse gear) or on abandoned construction sites. More at home in nature than among people, she worked for many years as a National Parks ranger, eventually earning a Ph.D. Both a new window onto the natural world and the introduction of a remarkable literary talent.Ĭatherine Raven left home at 15, fleeing an abusive, disdainful father and an indifferent mother. A wild fox befriends a solitary woman at her home in Montana, and their relationship transforms them both in this inspiring, surprising, and often funny memoir. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Summer skin by kirsty eagar![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yes, it's a steamy romance - but there are a million of those, right? And yes, it's got a great feminist message that shows women enjoying sex and asserting their right to choose - but other books are also doing that these days, right? I really want to portray what's so damn great about this book and why it stands out. Jess Gordon and her friends are badass, funny and lovable, as they try to navigate the seas of college life - alcohol, hook-ups and assholes - and get revenge on the jocks from the old school, sexist Knights College. There are so many great female characters in this book, who swear, masturbate, and offer no apologies, but are also very sensitively portrayed. It's a completely different beast from the heart-wrenching Raw Blue - her titles seem to be very telling the other book was raw and blue, this one is about heat and sweat and (you guessed it) summer skin. ![]() It's been four years since Eagar has released a novel and now she comes rushing back onto the playing field with this very different, very feisty novel about revenge and female sexuality. This is one of the sexiest romances I've ever read, easily the sexiest New Adult romance I've ever read. ![]() |