![]() She was the only woman who could tame the beast that raged within him-even as deadly enemies plotted to destroy them both. He tried to pretend indifference as she tempted him, but he could not deny the fierce desires that compelled him to abduct her from the altar. But Grimm was the man she loved, the one who urged her to marry another. Why had he run from her so many years before? And why return now to see her offered as a prize in her father's manipulative game? Furious, Jillian vowed never to wed. Yet even from afar he watched over her, and when her father sent an urgent summons, "Come for Jillian," he raced to her side-into a competition to win her hand in marriage. Hiding his identity from the relentless rival clan that hunted him, he called himself Grimm to protect the people he cared for, vowing never to acknowledge his love for ravishing Jillian St. He was born to a clan of warriors of supernatural strength, but Gavrael McIllioch abandoned his name and his Highland castle, determined to escape the dark fate of his ancestors. ![]() ![]() Only her love could gentle his savage soul. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Leaving Paradise alternates chapters narrated by Maggie with chapters narrated by Caleb, with a slightly uneven result the two narrations sometimes overlap, one picking up where the other left off, telling the same event from both perspectives, but sometimes there's a lapse of a few days between chapters, with nothing to signal the difference. Maggie and Caleb have both changed, but together, they just might manage to get their lives back on track-unless the shocking truth finally comes out and tears them apart again. The last thing in the world they were expecting was that the other would turn out to be the one person who understood what they'd gone through. A year ago, a senseless accident maimed Maggie and sent Caleb to juvenile detention. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lest you think the premise wreaks of a rom-com starring Hugh Grant, it is not a story tied up with a neat little bow. Will an ill-timed family vacation provide the opportunity Douglas needs to repair both relationships? With humor and with heart, David Nicholls of One Day fame takes us through every bumbling but well-meaning attempt in service to this goal. They have a son, Albie, more a chip off his artistic mum than biochemist dad, and that has strained the father-son dynamic. Connie and Douglas have been together, and happily so, for almost two decades. Mind you, this is no fickle woman and this is not an admission she makes lightly. An Amazon Best Book of the Month, November 2014: At an ungodly hour one summer morning, a time when most of us cannot digest a simple greeting let alone any grand revelation, Douglas Petersen’s wife, Connie, informs him that she doesn’t want to be married anymore. ![]() ![]() The novel was adapted into a film in 2001, directed by Michael Haneke, and it won numerous awards, including Best Actor and Best Actress at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, and Best Foreign Film at the 2002 German Film Awards. A haunting tale of morbid voyeurism and masochism, The Piano Teacher, first published in 1983, is Elfreide Jelineks Masterpiece.Jelinek was awarded the. As a child and adolescent she took lessons in piano and organ playing at the conservatory in Vienna. The inevitable breakdown is an insight beyond what Jelinek saw as the artificial prettiness of Vienna to show a side still reminiscent of its uncomfortable early post-war years. Elfriede Jelinek was born in Mrzzuschlag, Austria in 1946. The Piano Teacher depicts the emotionally rigorous world of Erika, and the neurotic love triangle that confuses violence for love. It's his first novel to be translated into English, and it won the author the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2004. Sexuality and violence are coupled in this reveling story set in modern-day Vienna by Elfriedge Jelinek, winner of the Heinrich Boll Prize (1986). Jacket illustration by Michael Christman. A young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher. ![]() Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by the author on the title page, “For Adrian Elfriede Jelinek Wien, 12.1.09.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. The Piano Teacher: Directed by Michael Haneke. ![]() ![]() $850.00 Item Number: 133735įirst American edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s first book to be translated into English. ![]() ![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. The best-selling author relates his efforts to eulogize a beloved rabbi who is near death, in a book where the author sits with and cares for the dying man. Creating rich characterizations of his friends in both his writing and his narration, he explores his own preconceptions and misgivings, among other difficult issues, as he rediscovers the importance of faith. ![]() He delivers seamless narratives that capture subtle insights about his life's purpose, the need for forgiveness, his loss of faith, and his newfound belief in something larger than himself. Albom is a rare author who reads his own work with skill. The book features a number of Albom's experiences-from his friendship with an African-American ex-convict, now an inner-city pastor, to his uncomfortable public discussions of faith with his rabbi. The request takes Albom back to his Jewish roots on a journey that contrasts differing faiths, ethnicities, races, and social classes. ![]() Anticipating his own death, Albom's 82-year-old childhood rabbi asks him to write and deliver his eulogy. ![]() ![]() ![]() She has pinned all her hopes on him and waits patiently for him to finally admit that she’s the one for him. ![]() ![]() Now, fourteen years later, Emmie is hiding the fact that she’s desperately in love with Lucas. Weeks later, on a beach in France, Lucas Moreau discovered the balloon and immediately emailed the attached addressed, sparking an intense friendship between the two teens. Attached was her name, her email address…and a secret she desperately wanted to be free of. It was an Audible deal of the day a while back, so I decided to take a chance.įrom the publisher: “At sixteen, Emmie Blue stood in the fields of her school and released a red balloon into the sky. Sometimes I take a chance on a newer book without reading the reviews and just go off the description. ![]() ![]() ![]() He has described her as a ‘remarkable woman and a fantastic writer. Sennett was brought up by his mother, Dorothy. His maternal grandparents went to Chicago where his grandfather – who was a mathematician – went to work for the General Electric Corporation.Īround seven months after Richard was born, his father returned to Spain and stayed on there, after hostilities ceased. After the 1917 Revolution, they fled St Petersburg for Canada – where his paternal grandparents stayed for a while. ![]() Interestingly, both his maternal and paternal grandparents had mixed marriages of Russian Orthodox and Russian Jewish partners. They were members of the Communist Party although it seems likely that his mother left the party after the Hitler-Stalin pact.
![]() She's found the untold stories behind important events and uncovered the ups, the downs and the lengths fans go to, celebrating the camaraderie and lifelines their fandoms can provide. 'To be a fan is to scream alone together.' This is the discovery Hannah Ewens makes in Fangirls: how music fandom is at once a journey of self-definition and a conduit for connection and camaraderie how it is both complicated and empowering and how now, more than ever, fandoms composed of girls and young queer people create cultures that shape and change an entire industry. A dedicated music lover herself, she has spoken to hundreds of fans from the UK to Japan to trace their path through recent pop and rock history. ![]() ![]() Now, concerts wouldn't sell out and revenue streams from merchandising would disappear, changing the face of the music industry as we know it.In Fangirls: Scenes From Modern Music Culture, journalist Hannah Ewens is on a mission to give these individuals their rightful due. Frequently derided, their worlds and communities are self-contained and rarely investigated by cultural historians and commentators.Yet without these people, in the past, records would have gathered dust on shelves, unsold and forgotten. But marginalized fan groups are never given appropriate credit. 'To be a fan is to scream alone together. A FINANCIAL TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 From Beatlemania in the early 1960s to the Directioners and Beyhive of today, female music fans have long driven the objects of their affection to the dizzying heights of life-changing fame. ![]() ![]() And Phyllis’ best friend, Tamara, an African American snake dancer and aspiring impresario at Victor’s club, with an oracular gift of reading cards, hopes that if she pretends she doesn’t notice the violent foundation of Victor’s empire, it won’t touch her. Her once and future lover, Dev, a half-Indian undercover cop posing as Victor’s bartender, whose own hands can sense threats to himself and others, can’t quite reconcile his feelings for Phyllis with his duty to a department that will never truly accept him as one of them. Phyllis, a light-skinned African American woman who can “pass” under many circumstances, has impossibly dexterous hands that wield murderous knives in the service of Victor, a Russian mob boss, and believes her kills serve justice. The fates of three people intertwine in a World War II–era New York where some people of color are blessed and cursed with magic in their hands. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is fanciful in her youth, almost primitive and primordial in her imagination. Why does she never smile? And why does her hat seem to never match her gown?” (Dutton, 2016, p. ![]() ![]() It is a story untold (or unheard) in our histories of science, art, and cultural memory.Įven by today’s standards, Margaret is painted as “eccentric – more apt to read than dance. ![]() What is precious and vital about Dutton’s novel is highlighting and surfacing the important role one woman – Margaret Cavendish – played during the 17 th century, a time of tremendous scientific, artistic, and political upheaval. Popova seeks to highlight and connect across time and space the impact of women and queer individuals on the modern world of art and science, which she does through excavation of letters, writing, and biographical sketches of those whom we know little about from this history.ĭutton’s novel contributes to this long overdue conversation through the important medium of historical fiction. As I read Danielle Dutton’s (2016) Margaret the First, I thought of Maria Popova: specifically, Popova’s (2019) book Figuring, but also the Brain Pickings project. ![]() |