![]() ![]() He doesn't want to take time off work to deal with the children, he doesn't want to put them to bed, he doesn't want to babysit on the one night out his wife wants with her friends, he doesn't want to cook, do any shopping, take her out for the evening, in fact he doesn't want to do anything he doesn't want to. And in common with a lot of husbands and fathers he doesn't want to do much. The agreement between the husband and wife is that he is the major earner and she works part-time and does all the child care, housework, and anything else that he doesn't want to. ![]() But it goes two layers deep, and it made me very sad. On the surface, this is a humorous look at a middle-class, middle-aged couples marriage with an appalling new-age leech of a sister-in-law and a pretentious mother-in-law. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Stella is desperate, and selling her virginity is her only option to save the family land. Their obsession has driven them to the point of deceit, but they didn’t get to where they are today without getting their hands dirty to get what they wanted, and they’ll do anything to have her. The Cortez brothers have found the one, and they’ll do anything to own her…including buying her. ![]() So instead of goodbye, it’s just a pause until our next meeting. We love Vegas, so we may bring back little glimpses of these characters again one day. Please enjoy all the stories from this series in one place, including the bonus story His First and Only, which was featured in the For the First Time bundle. ![]() We are sad to see this world come to a close, but our motto has always been leave the party while you’re still having fun. We hope you’ve enjoyed The Mistress Auctions and all the characters inside. Thank you for going on this journey with us. It's sweet enough, dirty enough, and gosh darn it, people love it. ![]() Warning: BUY ME is full of alpha heroes, sassy heroines, and lots of gooey steam. There's a taste for everyone in here, so go on and take a bite. This book includes the entire BUY ME series, featuring a menage, a light BDSM story, a virgin hero and heroine, and a winter/summer romance. The Mistresses have been bundled together and now include the novella His First and Only, which was in the For the First Time bundle. ![]() ![]() ![]() A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK!. ![]() ![]() There's bravery as well as beauty here' Observer ![]() not a word or idea out of place' Roxane Gay 'A piercing story of faith, science and the opioid crisis. Transcendent Kingdom is a searing story story of love, loss and redemption, and the myriad ways we try to rebuild our lives from the rubble of our collective pasts. Tracing her family's story through continents and generations will take her deep into the dark heart of modern America. But when her mother comes to stay, Gifty soon learns that the roots of their tangled traumas reach farther than she ever thought. Years later, desperate to understand the opioid addiction that destroyed her brother's life, she turns to science for answers. When her father and brother succumb to the hard reality of immigrant life in the American South, their family of four becomes two - and the life Gifty dreamed of slips away. Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021 **From the bestselling author of Homegoing** _ As a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from Ghana to Alabama, seeking escape in myths of heroism and romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Stains are animated on the wall―contracting, expanding―and map themselves onto Julie’s body in the form of painful, grisly bruises. The framework― claustrophobic, riddled with hidden rooms within rooms―becomes unrecognizable, decaying before their eyes. As Julie and James try to establish a sense of normalcy, the home and its surrounding terrain become the locus of increasingly strange happenings. But this house, which sits between a lake and a forest, has its own plans for the unsuspecting couple. The move―prompted by James’s penchant for gambling and his general inability to keep his impulses in check―is quick and seamless both Julie and James are happy to start afresh. “That’s just the house settling,” the real estate agent assures them with a smile. ![]() Ancient, husky, and rasping, but underwater. Touring their prospective suburban home, Julie and James are stopped by a noise. The Grip of It (Release Date: August 2017) ![]() ![]() ![]() “I am not exactly an author recently deceased,” Brás Cubas declares at the opening, “but a deceased man recently an author.” In 160 mostly short episodes, all dedicated to the worm that took the first bite of his interred body, Brás Cubas outlines what he’s bothered to understand of the intellectual currents of his time given the choice between praying for glory in the here and now or glory in the afterlife, for instance, he finds something else to do. This novel, published in 1881, at once lampoons and celebrates the liberal ideals of the country’s intelligentsia, and it’s told from an odd viewpoint: that of the corpse of a generally useless minor aristocrat. Machado (1839-1908) never met a literary form he could not master his poems, plays, stories, newspaper articles, and other writings are all exemplary, and he is regarded as Brazil’s greatest writer more than a century after his death. Perhaps the greatest novel by the multifaced Brazilian writer receives a fresh, lively translation. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She helps her sister by standing in a tower of Bluebeard’s castle and signalling to her brothers who arrive just in time to rescue her. The importance of these two individuals, and the manner in which they correspond to one another is signalled by the fact that in both versions they are the only major characters to be named.Īnne is the older sister to the protagonist of ‘Bluebeard’ and – in the manner of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility – she is less impressionable and impulsive than her younger sister who makes the mistake of marrying Bluebeard (who has been courting both girls). While Carter retells a great deal of the ‘Bluebeard’ plot almost exactly, the crucial character of Sister Anne is supressed and part of her role in the story is given instead to Jean-Yves, the piano-tuner. ![]() ![]() I t is recommended you read the prequel “Alpha & Omega” before reading Cry Wolf. And it is Anna’s inner strength and calming presence that will prove invaluable as she and Charles go on the hunt in search of a rogue werewolf-a creature bound in magic so dark that it could threaten all of the pack. Then Charles Cornick, the enforcer-and son-of the leader of the North American werewolves, came into her life.Ĭharles insists that not only is Anna his mate, but she is also a rare and valued Omega wolf. After three years at the bottom of the pack, she’d learned to keep her head down and never, ever trust dominant males. ![]() ![]() The cover might suggest slightly more of a horror feel than the books warrant, but I appreciate the lack of shirtless men or swooning womenĪnna never knew werewolves existed, until the night she survived a violent attack… and became one herself. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s not that Bloom is the best Shakespeare scholar you could meet, but he has a skill with breaking down language, the experience to do it effortlessly, and his joy for Shakespeare is possibly unparalleled. I think it’s required to have read the play first as you won’t even necessarily get all of the plot from this, but other guides, don’t have nearly to expertise to guide you think relatively higher level reading skills. It’s a light version of close-reading, but close-reading nonetheless. Mostly, he thinks about what the lines tell us. There are no notes, but like I mentioned, from time to time Bloom gives notes on the lines themselves. Then we dive right into the language of Shakespeare. The experience of reading this is to be given a chapter heading and maybe a few sentence intro. Instead, Harold Bloom walks you through various lines, exchanges, speeches, and other things and gives you some line-readings, some close-reading, some historiography about certain elements, and occasionally some reference to other commentary. The book itself clearly needs you to have read Macbeth and be familiar with the plot because while this book goes in order, it’s not particularly well-structured or seem all that concerned with guiding you through the text as a whole. ![]() A kind of guide to Macbeth that I wonder how useful it actually is. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He’s given his heart away, and it’s time to pay the price. ![]() When tragedy strikes, Cam’s resolutely held secret is finally revealed and Nichol must face the truth. Even his grandfather takes to the cheeky city boy, whose hard work and good head for figures help set the farm back on its feet.Īs the cold Scottish springtime melts into summer, Nichol finds himself falling in love. Somehow, Cam quickly charms his way through Nichol’s defenses and into his heart. Something about the young man’s tired resignation touches Nichol deeply, and instead of giving him the business end of a shotgun, he offers Cam a blanket and a place to stay. He says his name is Cam, and he’s on the run from a Glasgow gang. Nichol? Not so much.Īs lambing season progresses in the teeth of an icy north wind, the last straw is the intruder Nichol catches in the barn. His late brother and mother had been well suited to life on Seacliff Farm. Now he’s hip deep in sheep, mud and collies. One year ago, before Fate took a wrecking ball to his life, Nichol was happily working on his doctorate in linguistics. Is there room for love in a heart full of secrets? ![]() ![]() ![]() They personally animated leading characters in most of the famous films, and have decades of close association with the other men and women who helped perfect this extremely difficult and time-consuming art form (each feature requires some two and half million drawings!). ![]() The authors, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, worked not only with the legendary Walt Disney himself but also with other leading figures in the half-century of Disney films. The most complete book on the subject ever written, this is the fascinating inside story by two long-term Disney animators of the gradual perfecting of a relatively young and particularly American art from, which no other move studio has ever been able to equal. ![]() |