![]() Billed as a romance novel, this story is equal parts mystery and fantasy with some underlying teenage love and angst mixed in. This curious and entertaining tale takes the reader on a journey through the small village of Melaka, as well as the Chinese spirit world. While their financial status continues to deteriorate, Li Lan’s father is approached by the upstanding and well-to-do Lim family, who ask for his consent to have Li Lan marry their recently deceased son–thus becoming the bride of a ghost. ![]() However, after her mother’s death, her father sinks into a depressive state that he combats by self-medicating with opium. ![]() Li Lan is the daughter of a once wealthy and revered family. The Ghost Bride is debut author Choo’s stand-alone novel about the plight of a young girl in 19th century China. ![]()
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![]() Her After series has been adapted into a trilogy of feature films. Anna is the New York Times best-selling author of several novels. This episode was edited by Antoinette Smith.įor this week's Scrap Bag, we're going deep with Anna Todd on her 2018 Little Women adaptation, The Spring Girls. Our theme music is Mozart's Piano Sonata No. It also interpolates the cover art for Hena Khan’s book “More to the Story,” with permission from Simon & Schuster. Morrow's book "So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix," with permission from Macmillan Children's Publishing Group. It interpolates the cover art for Bethany C. His film "I have to think of us as separate people" screened at OutFest, NewFest, and the New Orleans Film Festival, and he starred in the 2022 film Framing Agnes, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won both an Audience Award and an Innovator Prize. ![]() He graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2019 and he was a 2014 Lambda Literary Fellow. 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While reading Mohammed Al Samawi’s memoir, THE FOX HUNT, I was continually relieved by the fact that I’ve never had to know a day in my life of bullets whizzing by my ears and bombs falling from the sky. Thank you, TLC Book Tours, for my free review copy. ![]() ![]() Civil Townsend is ready to retire, to find her peace and to leave the past behind. Until one day, she arrives at the door to learn the unthinkable has happened and nothing will ever be the same for any of them.ĭecades later, with her daughter grown and a long career in her wake, Dr. As Civil grapples with her role, she takes India, Erica and their family into her heart. Neither of the Williams sisters has even kissed a boy, but they are poor and Black and for those handling the family’s welfare benefits that’s reason enough to have the girls on birth control. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she intends to help women make their own choices for their lives and bodies.īut when her first week on the job takes her down a dusty country road to a worn down one-room cabin, she’s shocked to learn that her new patients are children-just 11 and 13 years old. ![]() ![]() Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference, especially in her African American community. ![]() Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible wrong done to her patients, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wench. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sebastian is the quintessential aristocratic rake pursuing a life of luxury and debauchery and facing bankruptcy too. Vincent and what comes out is a combustible partnership with several delightful side stories.Ĭharacter development in this story is pretty good. Evie’s character has always been an intriguing one, as she’d been perpetually hidden behind her dour aunt. Together they will defy their perilous fate, for the sake of all-consuming love.įrom the segue chapter in It Happened One Autumn, I knew I was going to enjoy Devil in Winter. When Evie is threatened by a vengeful enemy from the past, Sebastian vows to do whatever it takes to protect his wife. It quickly becomes clear, however, that Evie is a woman of hidden strength-and Sebastian desires her more than any woman he’s ever known.ĭetermined to win her husband’s elusive heart, Evie dares to strike a bargain with the devil: If Sebastian can stay celibate for three months, she will allow him into her bed. No one would have ever paired the shy, stammering wallflower with the sinfully handsome viscount. ![]() Everyone knows that.”ĭesperate to escape her scheming relatives, Evangeline Jenner has sought the help of the most infamous scoundrel in London.Ī marriage of convenience is the only solution. ![]() So now I don’t know if this is my favourite in The Wallflower series of if that title still belongs to Secrets of a Summer Night…. ![]() ![]() Her ability to weave biblical truth into everyday issues has led readers to make over 15 of her books bestsellers. Women around the world are drawn to Elizabeth’s approach of daily starting with the Bible to handle life’s challenges. Powerfully shape the hearts of children and teenagers. Increase closeness in marriage by serving and honoring each other. Respond to circumstances with confidence by seeing yourself through God’s loving eyes. ![]() Appreciate God’s Word and apply it to everyday situations. Simplify life by focusing on God’s priorities. For over 30 years, the teachings and steadfast example of Elizabeth has helped countless men and women: Elizabeth George is bestselling author and national speaker dedicated to helping people live a life after God’s own heart. ![]() ![]() ![]() We cannot be held responsible for damages that are discovered and reported later.ĭue to high return shipping costs we do not offer replacements for non-EU countries and some EU island states: Balearic Islands, Malta, Cyprus. The waiting period until the complaint may not be longer than 5 days after receipt in the case of transport damage and the like ("externally visible damage") in the case of production issues ("internal damage") no longer than 30 days. Please keep our original packing box until the damage claim has been cleared. 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We have a 14-day return policy, which means you have 14 days after receiving your item to request a return. ![]() ![]() The final book in King's epic The Dark Tower series, sees gunslinger Roland on a roller-coaster ride of exhilarating triumph and aching loss in his unrelenting quest to reach the dark tower.Ī story within a story which features both the younger and older gunslinger, it is also a wonderful introduction to The Dark Tower series. Roland and his band of followers face adversity from every side: Susannah Dean has been taken over by a demon-mother and uses the power of Black Thirteen to get from the Mid-World New York City. ![]() In the fifth novel in StephenKing's bestselling fantasy series, Roland and his ka-tet are bearing through the forests of the Mid-World on their journey to the Dark Tower. ![]() The Dark Tower beckons Roland, the Last Gunslinger, and the four companions he has gathered along the road. Stephen King Dark Tower Collection 7 Books Set Titles in This Set The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three, The Waste Lands, Wizard and Glass, Wolves of the. Roland, the Last Gunslinger, is moving ever closer to the Dark Tower.Roland has altered ka by saving the life of Jake Chambers in New York. The Dark Tower is a series of seven books by American writer Stephen King that tells the tale of lead character Roland Deschains quest for the Dark Tower. ![]() Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger, encounters three mysterious doors which open - for Roland, and Roland alone - to different times in our world. ![]() The Dark Tower, introduces one of his most enigmatic and powerful heroes: Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger.Roland is a haunting figure, a loner, on a spellbinding journey toward the mysterious Dark Tower, in a desolate world which frighteningly echoes our own. ![]() ![]() In order to protect both Dasha's feelings and Alexander's life, the star-crossed lovers become part of a deceptive quadrangle as war intensifies around them. Complicating matters, another soldier, Dimitri, has information that could destroy Alexander, and Dimitri likes Tatiana, too. Possessed of a strong sense of family loyalty, and living under conditions that permit no privacy, Tatiana refuses to interfere with her sister's happiness, but the attraction between Tatiana and Alexander proves too powerful. It turns out, however, that Alexander is the same soldier Dasha has been crowing about. Not long after the country goes to war with Germany, Tatiana meets Alexander, a soldier, and sparks fly. As the story opens, Tatiana, the youngest member of the Metanova family, is just 17 she still shares a bed with her older sister, Dasha. Petersburg, Russia, Simons's latest thick novel (after Tully, etc.) focuses on a WWII love affair. ![]() |