![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Reading Secret Service was like watching an episode of 24 (the TV show with Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer □) as it covers – in the main narrative – a period of less than 24 hours in the lives of the US President and his Secret Service Agent In Charge/lover while also offering glimpses into the past. I need more stars and I have the world’s biggest book hangover ever. Tal Bauer writes political romantic suspense like he's personally directing the reader's experience and hold on tight for the ride of your life. Fall in love with Special Agent Reese Theriot and President Brennan Walker. Secret Service is a standalone MM romance, full to the brim with passion, suspense, and forbidden pleasures. If we cross this line, Brennan could lose everything. There’s something here, something between us, like the oxygen we’re breathing is igniting before each inhale.īut he’s the president. I've never been with a man, but now? I'm dreaming about his bleu clair eyes and wondering what it would feel like if his lips touched mine. I’m on the verge of sliding into discoveries and truths that maybe I’m not ready for. He’s a storm at midnight, a dark moon rising, trouble on the horizon. I don't know what's hiding inside Brennan's gaze when he looks my way, or why black lightning keeps crashing between us. President Brennan Walker captivated me from the moment I walked into his Oval Office. A passionate, thrilling, and addictive standalone MM romance. ![]()
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Resource links will direct you to Wiki pages, which we are maintaining. ![]() Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with information about Book Clubs and AMAs as of October 2018. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One day, while the girls are in the marketplace, soldiers approach Hannah and Esther and attempt to take Hannah away. ![]() Their friendship blossoms and is a positive relationship for both girls. From that point on, Esther does not have any more nightmares.Įsther soon becomes friends with a girl from the village named Hannah. She finds herself awakening from nightmares almost nightly, crying out in her sleep, “Are you a midwife? I need a midwife!” Mordecai explains to the young girl that it was not her fault that her mother died, and that her father had every intention of being there when the baby was born. Esther’s adjustment after her parents die is quite a challenge. Joanna is especially thrilled to have Esther as her adopted daughter, as she is almost forty years old yet does not have any children of her own. ![]() Esther’s mother sends her to fetch a midwife, and while Esther does her best, by the time she returns with one, her mother and the baby are dead.įortunately for Esther, shortly thereafter, she is adopted by her uncle Mordecai, who was Esther’s father’s brother, and his wife Joanna. Her mother’s death is especially traumatic for Esther, as she dies in childbirth, along with who would have been Esther’s baby brother. At age four, Esther finds herself orphaned as both of her parents die. Wilder’s story uniquely merges historical fact with imagined, well-developed characters. From veteran author Lin Wilder comes the story of the orphaned Jewish girl Esther in The Reluctant Queen: The Story of Esther. ![]() ![]() In 2010 his book Just My Type was published, exploring the history of typographic fonts. He is the author of several books including Expensive Habits: The Dark Side of the Industry, the Somerset Maugham Prize-winning The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS, The Wrestling, The Nation's Favourite: The True Adventures of Radio 1, and Mauve. He was among the clients of Pat Kavanagh at United Agents. He has written for newspapers such as The Independent, The Independent on Sunday, and The Observer, and was named Mind Journalist of the Year in 2005. He also wrote for Time Out magazine, acting as editor from 1988 to 1989. He wrote scripts for BBC radio documentaries in the early 1980s. ![]() He won the Guardian/ NUS 'Student Journalist of the Year' award in 1981, and the same year he became a sub-editor at the Radio Times. ![]() He was educated at the independent University College School in Hampstead, London, and the London School of Economics, where he was executive editor of The Beaver. Simon Frank Garfield (born 19 March 1960 ) is a British journalist and non-fiction author. ![]() ![]() ![]() But surprisingly, Amano’s artwork remain consistent and simply awe-inducing. I saw and experience the transition and betterment of the game series with gaming technology. I am a gamer of the series since I was 10. Majority of the volume was just on the various monsters in the game and you could see how the Amano’s visionary made the storyline even more intense and surprisingly, more adult and serious. ![]() ![]() The review copy I had only consisted the first two volumes and missing the final volume which I didn’t mind much. There were multiple of watercolor and pen work in the volumes. Its like the original game series developer failed trying to imitate and adapt Amano’s work until the technology got better. Although most of the game series are out-dated with its turn-based system and scratchy 3D that many would cringe, the art of the original game series pre-FF7 are surprisingly even more better than the game itself. If you are familiar with the game series, you’ll be more appreciative of this book since you could still see the genius behind this master of art. ![]() Intended to be a collector item, this book consisted of a variety of detail that centered on his vision of the Final Fantasy series. The Sky : The Art of Final Fantasy is a gorgeous collection by Yoshitaka Amano and his art work on all of the Final Fantasy series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rather than wallowing in the negative, Haruf punctuates the novel with laugh-out-loud moments, especially when he focuses on the aging bachelor McPheron brothers.ĭon't be thrown off by the publisher's summary of this novel, which implies that the book is a bit of a soap opera. Each character's personality has been molded by a difficult or tragic event, but each one faces life head-on, bucking up in the stereotypical Midwest fashion. The common thread among them is another schoolteacher, who lives alone with her senile father. Plainsong, set in a small plains town in Colorado, revolves around two groups of three people-a schoolteacher and his two young sons and two bachelor ranchers and the pregnant teenager they take into their lives. Every once in a while I post mini-reviews of books I read in my pre-blogging days. In the years before I started blogging, I kept notes about the books I read. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cyra is known for her deadly power of transferring extraordinary pain unto others with simple touch, and her tyrant brother uses her as a weapon against those who challenge him. When Akos and his brother are kidnapped by the ruling Noavek family, Akos is forced to serve Cyra, the sister of a dictator who governs with violence and fear. "Roth offers a richly imagined, often brutal world of political intrigue and adventure, with a slow-burning romance at its core." -ALAĬyra Noavek and Akos Kereseth have grown up in enemy countries locked in a long-standing fight for dominance over their shared planet. ![]() "Roth skillfully weaves the careful world-building and intricate web of characters that distinguished ![]() Author Veronica Roth delivers a breathtaking fantasy featuring an unusual friendship, an epic love story, and a galaxy-sweeping adventure. ![]() ![]() ![]() She lives in North Texas with a smart aleck German shepherd named Magic, and a Siamese wannabe named Seren. She is the Puppies Guide at, the cat behavior expert at, and hosts a weekly half hour Internet Pet Peeves radio show.Īmy’s also been featured as an expert in hundreds of print venues including The New York Times, Reader’s Digest, and Family Circle, as well as national radio and television networks such as CNN, Animal Planet’s DOGS 101 and CATS 101. She’s been a consultant to the pet products industry and a host/program consultant for select “furry” TV projects. ![]() ![]() Amy’s a certified animal behavior consultant, and the award-winning author of 26 best-selling pet books that cover furry babies to old-fogies, first aid to natural healing, and behavior/training to Chicken Soup-icity. ![]() ![]() The story then jumps ahead in time to World War One, where Stephen is now an English officer fighting in France. When Isabelle becomes pregnant, she becomes afraid their relationship will fail and she disappears, leaving Stephen bereft. ![]() During this time, he and the wife of the man who he is supposed to be learning the business from fall in love and run away together. I added Birdsong to my list for the Classics Club after reading several other books by this author (J eeves and the Wedding Bells, A Week in December and A Possible Life), all of which I enjoyed.īirdsong begins with Stephen Wraysford as a young Englishman who travels to Amiens in France in 1910 for business reasons. The writing is beautiful and the story made me feel too emotional at times to continue reading. ![]() I might have to read Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks again, because a week after finishing the book I’m still thinking about the story. ![]() |