![]() He is a determined man, intelligent, full of charm, inventive, and in love with Daisy Bowman. But Matthew is hiding something, something that haunts him and could destroy everything….The Hero Matthew Swift, is driven and has always been since he started working for Thomas Bowman. His kisses waken up her senses, and she aches not only for his sensual touch but she also aches to know the man as well. However Daisy is insistent on trying to ignore Matthew, but as much as she tries, she finds herself feeling more alive around Matthew than any other man. ![]() ![]() Matthew Swift exudes charm and sensual beauty that has every woman tittering in his favor. So with the help of her brother n’ law and Evie’s husband, they have selected some gentlemen eligible for her, to come to Westcliff’s home in the country. No longer a “bag of cabbage” he is handsome, strong features and mesmerizing. ![]() From what she remembers of Matthew Swift is a cold man so much like her father, who is driven and intelligent, but when she meets him again she is stung by how much he has changed over the years. So her father insists that she has two months to find a husband, or she will be marrying Matthew Swift. ![]() Summary:Daisy Bowman, the last of the wallflowers left to marry, has had three season and has yet to find a man to marry. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the end, though, there can only be one Emperor … and one Empress.Īs I expected, this was a great read. As Cornelia tries to pick up the pieces of her shattered dreams, Marcella discovers a hidden talent for influencing the most powerful men in Rome. Even so, Marcella has her share of distinguished suitors, from a cutthroat contender for the throne to a politician’s son who swears that someday he will be Emperor.īut when a bloody coup turns their world upside down, Cornelia and Marcella-along with their cousins, one a collector of husbands and lovers, the other a horse-mad beauty with no interest in romance-must maneuver carefully just to stay alive. Her sister, Marcella, is more withdrawn, content to witness history rather than make it. She lives to one day see her loyal husband as Emperor. The Year of Four Emperors will change everything-especially the lives of two sisters with a very personal stake in the outcome….Įlegant and ambitious, Cornelia embodies the essence of the perfect Roman wife. With bloodshed spilling out of the palace and into the streets of Rome, chaos has become the status quo. ![]() ![]() But as the complicated lines of friendship, love, and loyalty blur, time is running out-and tragedy waits in the wings. Her friendship with him helped her solve it and what started out as. When Watson and Holmes join the theater program, the "accidents" start anew, giving them no choice but to throw themselves into the case. A Question of Holmes is the fourth and final instalment in the Charlotte Holmes series, and over the course of the series, there has always been an underlying conflict between Charlotte and Jamie where she had problems grasping and understanding relationships and feelings. And no one-least of all the girl's peculiar, close-knit group of friends-is talking. The mystery has gone unsolved the case is cold. ![]() With all the freedom their pre-college summer program provides and no one on their tail, the only mystery they need to solve, once and for all, is what they are to each other.īut upon their arrival at Oxford, Charlotte is immediately drawn into a new case: a series of accidents befell the theater program at Oxford last year, culminating in a young woman going missing on the night of a major performance. ![]() ![]() Get instant access to all your favorite books. ![]() Narrated by Graham Halstead and Julia Whelan. In the explosive conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Charlotte Holmes series, Holmes and Watson think they're finally in the clear after graduating from Sherringford.but danger awaits in the hallowed halls of Oxford.Ĭharlotte Holmes and Jamie Watson finally have a chance to start over. A Question of Holmes audiobook written by Brittany Cavallaro. ![]() ![]() ![]() Laurel is a very realistic teenage girl wrestling with things that most teenagers have to deal with in some way or another, and while she makes some decisions I wouldn’t want my students making, she definitely learns from her mistakes. But I have to admit that I’m so glad I didn’t stop. Too much sadness, too much belittling of the religious aunt, too much teen drinking, too much stuff. There were a few times I almost stopped reading. He’s honest and caring and doesn’t try to take advantage of Laurel in her fragile state. She also experiences her first love, and I really appreciated Sky’s character for his role in Laurel’s healing process. As Laurel writes these letters, working through the decomposition of her family, May’s death, and revealing snippets of the circumstances surrounding her death, she begins to heal and come through as herself rather than just a shell of May. Her parents divorced, her sister May died, her mom moved away, she switched schools… and that all happened before the book actually picks up. Through a series of letters written to dead people ranging from Kurt Cobain to Amelia Earhart to Elizabeth Bennet written over the course of a school year, Laurel explores some seriously heavy topics. So obviously a book titled Love Letters to the Dead is going to be a pretty emotional one, but I don’t think I was quite prepared for all there is to find in here. ![]() ![]() ![]() duPont award for tsunami coverage.Ī steadfast believer in the power of education and mentoring, O'Brien commits considerable time and financial support to the foundation she and her husband founded. Murrow RTDNA/UNITY Award for Latino in America, and was part of the teams that won CNN a George Foster Peabody Award for BP oil spill and Katrina coverage and an Alfred I. ![]() She won the 2010 National Association of Black Journalists "Journalist of the Year" award, the Edward R. O'Brien is author of the critically acclaimed book, The Next Big Story: My Journey through the Land of Possibilities, which chronicles her biggest reporting moments and the impact her upbringing and background had on those experiences. Her other documentaries include the Latino in America and Black in America series, Unwelcome: The Muslims Next Door and Gary and Tony Have a Baby, the story of a gay couple's struggle to have a baby. ![]() O'Brien's latest documentary, Black in America 4: The New Promised Land, Silicon Valley, followed eight black tech entrepreneurs trying to break onto the start-up scene. O'Brien covered political news as part of CNN's Best Political Team on Television and hosted the morning show, Starting Point. ![]() Soledad O'Brien is a former anchor and special correspondent for CNN, where she reported breaking news from around the globe and produced the award-winning In America documentary series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Stephen Edwin King was born on 21st September 1947 in Portland, Maine, U.S., to Donald Edwin King, a traveling vacuum salesman, and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. Who wrote The Shawshank Redemption book? Stephen King. Genres: Crime Fiction, Horror Fiction, and Suspense The Shawshank Redemption: The Author It is a spellbinding tale of unfair imprisonment and offbeat escape with a seasoning of suspense, mystery, and a gut-wrenching plot where the characters bring out your emotions in the finest way. If you want to revive and awaken your lost hope, The Shawshank Redemption book is an absolutely brilliant story, something you should grab your hold on. To keep walking ahead with courage, you should constantly remind yourself of one of the famous quotes from The Shawshank Redemption, "I hope." If you are hopeful, you can crawl through all the hardships. ![]() Change is inevitable, and hope is the thing with feathers that guides one to keep moving no matter how harsh the circumstances might be. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This volume still stands as one of the most lucid and concise explanations of the origins and defining principles of Zen, from its beginnings in ancient India and its later transmission to China and Japan, to Watts’s revealing portrait of life in a. All audiobooks featured here have a minimum of 500 reviews averaging at least 4.5 stars, with some exceptions made for outstanding stories and performances. Alan Watts’s The Spirit of Zen was one of the first books to introduce the basic foundation of Zen Buddhism to English-speaking audiences. Inclusion in Audible’s “Best Audiobooks” series is based on a number of factors, including presence on Audible best seller lists, listener ratings and reviews, Goodreads ratings, and input from the Audible Editors. Kornfield couches the Buddha’s words with contributions from many others, including Buddhists like the Dalai Lama and Thich Nhat Hanh, the psychotherapist Mark Epstine, meditation expert Sharon Salberg and more to paint a moving picture of the Buddha’s eternal influence. Narrator Edoardo Ballerini is a veteran of the genre, and his lofty, elegant tone is ideal for bringing the many quotes included in the audiobook to life. Zen practitioner Jack Kornfield emphasizes the importance of the timeless freedom that the Buddha’s teachings offer, and how this timelessness applies to the Buddha’s wisdom itself as well. ![]() The last of our Zen audiobook selections is the best on our list for leaving a lasting impression on the listener, since it deals with the idea that the Buddha’s teachings, though originally laid out over 25 centuries ago, are as fresh and alive today as they were then. ![]() ![]() I understood the purpose of the obsidian heart a lot more thanks to this book and some knowledge gaps have been filled. ![]() He’s pretty flawed and struggles to do the decent thing. I really like Alex at first, a bit more than I did in The Wraiths of War. The Wolves of London is quite a dark book and made me flinch at times. ![]() Overall, this is a good read quite fast paced, lots of drama and action and reasonably well developed characters. A lot of the questions I had after reading the last book in the trilogy, The Wraiths Of War are answered and I understand the characters and what’s going on a bit more. I thought The Wolves of London was great. The inside of the car was rank with the smell of sweat, testosterone and baked leather. Which was ironic, because it was the height of summer, 32 degrees in the shade. So scared that I had to clench my teeth to stop them from chattering. I was nineteen years old and scared to death. Soon he discovers the heart can enable him to travel through time, and while it bestows him with his own dark powers, it also corrupts. ![]() After he agrees to steal a mysterious Obsidian Heart, Locke is pursued by unearthly assassins known as the ‘Wolves of London’. Psychology professor Alex Locke is an ex-convict, forced back into the criminal underworld when his daughter is threatened. The publisher sent me a copy of this book after I reviewed Wraith of War and I voluntarily reviewed it. ![]() The Wolves Of London (Obsidian Heart #1) by Mark Morris ![]() ![]() ![]() Every attempt Balian makes to leave the city is foiled, as one supposedly well-intentioned figure after another leads him into the ever-deepening maze of the city's underworld, populated by whores, laughing dervishes, talking apes and lepers who all weave their respective spells with distinct power. A mysterious figure named the Father of the Cats claims to want to help Balian-but does he? To make matters worse, there are rumors that a vicious murderer is on the loose in Cairo. ![]() ![]() He is even more surprised when he is afflicted by the "Arabian Nightmare": he begins to have very confusing dreams and wakes up bleeding from the nose and mouth. Balian, an English spy hired by France to go on a fact-finding mission to Cairo in 1486, is surprised when one of his fellow travelers is kidnapped. Irwin's reissued 1983 classic combines the genres of travelogue, fable, dream narrative, novel and confessional into one beguiling whole. ![]() ![]() Edel, who has always aspired to be more than just a Belle, decides to enter and, after promising to bind her arcana to keep from having an unnatural advantage, joins a few dozen other hopefuls intent on becoming the next Queen of Orleans.īut the trials are far worse than any of them bargained for. With the dangerous, erratic Princess Sophia imprisoned, Queen Charlotte decides to invoke the ancient tradition of The Beauty Trials-a series of harrowing tests meant to find the one true ruler of Orleans. In this all-new novel from the world of Dhonielle Clayton’s sweeping, lush fantasy series the Belles, rebellious, outspoken, fan-favorite Edel Beauregard enters The Beauty Trials-a deadly competition to find the next Queen of Orleans. ![]() |
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