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![]() ![]() Learning to love the stunning austerity of the desert and the exotic culture of its peoples, she made further journeys into forbidding stretches of Mesopotamia and Arabia, where her deepening knowledge of tribal politics became crucial to British hopes for dominance in those oil-rich lands. But her dream persisted of penetrating the Arab world of the fading Ottoman Empire, and by 1905 she was among the Bedouin and Druse in Syria, gathering material for a book. In the next few years, insatiably curious and restless, Bell read and wrote voluminously studied languages, art and architecture climbed in the Swiss Alps and went around the world with her brother. Its beauty and the lives of its peoples would become her abiding passion. ![]() ![]() Several years of world wandering followed, including her first experience of mountain climbing, and by November 1899, she was in Jerusalem to pursue the study of Arabic and make her first sallies into the desert. Her father refused his consent to their proposed marriage, the young man died accidentally, and Bell was devastated. ![]() After a period back in London, she traveled to Persia, began to master the language and fell in love with a young British diplomat. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her latest book is the opening volume in the Wildes of Lindow Castle cycle. Writing as Eloisa James, Mary Bly, a professor of English literature at Fordham University, is the author of several series of Regency and Georgian romance novels. Recently widowed, he’d only wanted a wife to help raise his daughter, but he soon finds himself falling for a woman more independent than any he’d dreamed of. A long-time advocate of multicultural romance, she’s set her latest novel in the Old West where Regan Carmichael is not the docile mail-order bride Dr. Jenkins has won both the 2017 Romance Writers of America Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2016 Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award for historical romance. The two can’t resist their mutual attraction, but they may not survive it, either, as Ransom struggles to dodge a treacherous government plot. ![]() In the fourth installment of her Ravenals series, Garrett Gibson, England’s only woman doctor, falls for Ethan Ransom, erstwhile Scotland Yard detective and rumored assassin. ![]() Kleypas is a RITA award-winning author of more than twenty novels, both historical romance and contemporary women’s fiction. Join us for another exciting evening of readings and heartfelt discussions. P&P’s first romance panel last August attracted an enthusiastic and diverse audience, and drew admiring notice from The Washington Post, which praised the “exceptionally clever writers” and the energy they and their fans bring to a genre that has often been given less than its due. ![]() ![]() ![]() I like Eli's character since he is a nice man, an average man, but not for this insecure or sad. From that moment on the story, now love story, flows easily and smooth toward a nice happily ever after. ![]() And then one day, soon after Christmas, Eli enters the store and Jonas talks to him instead: it's love at first sight, Eli understands that. Jonas is the owner of the liquor store Eli passes by every day returning back home from work Jonas is handsome and gentle, but he is always flirting with a woman when he enters the store. Eli would like to share his life with a man, and he has in mind a man in particular, Jonas. And above all with Christmas time all around. He took a dog from the kennel, and he likes the pet a lot, but it's not the same as a lover. Eli is a rocket scientist, maybe a bit geeky, but not the asocial type he also had a lover till the year before, but it was not the love of his life and when it ended for Eli it was not the end of the world. The story is short but I really like the style of this author, with one of the main character that in first point of view tells us his story. ![]() ![]() ![]() Introduction and notes copyright ©ěernard Knox,Ē006Īn extract froměook Two (under the title “Theĝeath of Priam”) and two extracts froměook Six (“Dido in the Underworld” and “Aeneas and Hisğather’s Ghost”) originally appeared in The Kenyon Translation copyright © Robertğagles,Ē006 Penguiněooks Ltd, Registered Offices:Ę0 Strand, London WC2RĐRL,Ğnglandįirst published inĒ006 by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 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Mellow grew up in a household of artists, surrounded by three sisters who were often found traipsing through the small grove of trees near their home. You can find her on: Instagram - Facebook - Twitter - TikTok - https// E.J. has taken her imagination to the page where readers have said her "lyrical, vibrant, and imaginative" writing sweeps them into "stunning worlds". ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Blacktongue Thief, through the medium of first person narrative, is told in a very distinctive voice (that of Kinch Na Shannack). ![]() What do a thief, a mercenary and a blind cat have in common? It might sound like the start of a bad joke, but it’s the meat of a good book. I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. My Rating of ‘The Blacktongue Thief’: 4 out of 5 Common enemies and uncommon dangers force thief and knight on an epic journey where goblins hunger for human flesh, krakens hunt in dark waters, and honour is a luxury few can afford. Unsuccessful in his robbery and lucky to escape with his life, Kinch now finds his fate entangled with Galva’s. She is searching for her queen, missing since a distant northern city fell to giants. Galva is a knight, a survivor of the brutal goblin wars, and handmaiden of the goddess of death. His debt has driven him to lie in wait by the old forest road, planning to rob the next traveler that crosses his path.īut today, Kinch Na Shannack has picked the wrong mark. ![]() Kinch Na Shannack owes the Takers Guild a small fortune for his education as a thief, which includes (but is not limited to) lock-picking, knife-fighting, wall-scaling, fall-breaking, lie-weaving, trap-making, plus a few small magics. ![]() ![]() ![]() and discover that the strongest bond in the world is not the one forged by covalent electrons in adjacent atoms, but the one that exists between a pair of twins. ![]() Prepare for an epic adventure in which The Fowl Twins and their new troll friend escape, get shot at, kidnapped, buried, arrested, threatened, killed (temporarily). In that time, they befriend a troll on the run from a nefarious nobleman and an interrogating nun both of whom need the magical creature for their own gain. A week after their eleventh birthday the twins are left in the care of house security system, NANNI, for a single night. Myles is impeccably neat, has an IQ of 170, and 3D prints a fresh suit every day - just like his older brother, Artemis Fowl. Beckett is blonde, messy and sulks whenever he has to wear clothes. Myles and Beckett Fowl are twins but the two boys are wildly different. Plot synopsis Ĭriminal genius runs in the family. ![]() The novel was well-received by critics, with reviews comparing its quality and success to that of the original series. ![]() The Fowl Twins was released 5 November 2019 by Viking Press and Disney Hyperion, promoting the then-upcoming Artemis Fowl film adaptation for Disney+. The Fowl Twins is the first novel in Eoin Colfer's The Fowl Twins series, a spin-off and continuation of the Artemis Fowl series and second cycle of The Fowl Adventures, following Myles and Beckett Fowl, the younger twin brothers of criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl II. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() By studying Josephus' works, you'll gain a behind-the-scenes look at biblical figures, including Abraham, Moses, John the Baptist, and James the brother of Jesus plus insights into the Dead Sea Scrolls community, Sadducees and Pharisees, the War of the Jews, and more. Flavius Josephus-first-century Pharisee, Jewish historian, Roman consultant, and writer-documented aspects of life during the time of Christ, giving us extensive writings on ancient Jewish history. If you want to understand and immerse yourself in the Jewish history, culture, and community of Jesus, let Josephus: The Complete Works open your eyes. 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He can’t mate without extreme pain and no surgery can help him.Īlpha Lev is a sexual surrogate, skilled in the art of hands-on sexual teaching and healing, a profession not officially recognized in traditional medicine.Ĭallum and Lev spend a night of intense heat together where methods of pleasure are taught and learned. Omega Callum suffers from narrow birth and anal canals. The private tropical island in the Caribbean specializes in sexual healing techniques for omegas who cannot be helped by traditional therapies. When Callum’s sexual dysfunction keeps him from true happiness, Omega Island is his last hope. ![]() |