![]() ![]() ![]() The Wedding Chapel is the delightful second book in the Your Invitation to Romance series. Will a suspicious walk down the aisle become the path to a lifetime of love? And as Colin suspects his grandma is behind this elaborate scheme, he fears his own stirring feelings… and the potential for heartbreak. With gleeful relatives waving around a marriage license she doesn't remember signing, Bella vows to join hands with her maybe husband to uncover what truly happened. And embarking on a champagne-fueled tour to learn the industry, he's shocked to wake up with a new wife. ![]() ![]() After she sets up a challenge to choose who will take over the family foundation, the charming Brit believes the pretty woman he meets owns the perfect solution. So when a handsome man offers to help turn her enterprise around, she gratefully grabs on to the lifeline.Ĭolin Bladestone is fed up with dancing to his grandmother's tune. But with her inherited wedding chapel business struggling, she's facing a battle against mounting bills with no relief in sight. When they work together to track down the truth, will they stumble upon an accidental happily ever after?īella Johnson is holding tight to her legacy. ![]()
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![]() That work was called a classic by Publishers Weekly. ![]() His book ''The Dead Tree'' (1972), for children ages 4 to 8, was named an American Library Association Notable Book and won the Irma Simonton Black Award of the Bank Street College of Education. By that time, it noted, he was the sole author of more than 30 children's books and had written a score of book-length adaptations of folk tales. Tresselt's books had sold over a million copies, the multivolume reference work ''Contemporary Authors'' reported in 1980. ![]() Tresselt, a children's book author who won praise for describing and explaining nature to the young, died on July 24 at his home in Burlington, Vt. ![]() ![]() This is one of the strengths of the novel, and one of the ways in which the novel is structured the narrative voices want you to understand, indeed takes it as a condition for your presence as a reader of the text. “Do you want to understand the people who live in two hockey towns? Really understand them? Then you need to know the worst that they are capable of,” (8) the narrator states. Readers should not worry if they have not read the previous two books, as there is enough recapping to understand the various motivations of the characters. ![]() Rather, it acts as a way of understanding the characters and the way they see, and interact with, the world. Whilst it is central to life in Beartown, detailed depictions of the games or the statistics are not present here. Readers should not expect a novel which focuses primarily on ice hockey. ![]() Through all this, the novel comments upon masculinity in sports, the ways in which sports can exclude and include, and parenthood and mental health. There is violence (physical and verbal) both inside and outside the rink, corruption at the club, a devious politician, ambitious journalists, a young boy seeking revenge, and dreams of ice hockey stardom. Fredrik Backman’s The Winners is the third novel in a three-book series about the fictional Swedish town, Beartown, in which life revolves around the ice hockey team and its rivalry with that of the nearby town, Hed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Indeed, a fantasy queernorm-world romance between a demigirl protagonist and the knight she admires is rare enough to be noted. I wouldn't have minded if the book decided to focus heavily on romance. Then some dude asks for help and our protagonist decides to go with the greatest knight alive because she feels like it and also has a crush on her. Unfortunately the book struggles to find a balance between both and leave readers unsatisfied with both aspects as it neither focuses on the romance or the fantasy plot.Īll the worldbuilding is dumped during the first chapter so if you were only half following the book at this point you will struggle a bit to understand the rest but the worldbuilding isn't that detailed: they have 3 gods and the knights and country are without a gods-given leader. The Devotion of Delflenor is an adult fantasy book (short relatively to the genre's standards) and a queer romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() His life was full of so many adventures but here are the top 10 facts about Marco Polo that you should know. Marco Polo would grow up to follow in his father’s and uncle’s footsteps and become a trader, traveler, adventurer and storyteller. His mother died when he was still young and as result he was raised by his external family members. ![]() His father, Niccolo and his uncle, Maffeo embarked on a journey due East before his birth. Marco Polo was born in Venice in 1254 into a wealthy trading family. His stories seemed so far-fetched to the point the people started to doubt if he ever made the journey. He came with tales from the mystical region highlighting the court of the legendary Mongol emperor Kublai Khan, the customs of the people and the geography of Asia. Marco’s account of his 24-year odyssey would reveal a world never before. In a time when travelling to the neighboring town took days, Marco Polo was among the few Europeans who were able to make the gruesome journey to Central Asia and China. In the year 1271 Marco Polo, age 17, set out from Venice with his father and uncle on a journey across Asia. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() TRACE OF DOUBT by DiAnn Mills is an action-packed, fast paced Christian romantic suspense. She and her husband live in sunny Houston, Texas.ĭiAnn is very active online and would love to connect with readers on any of the social media platforms listed: She’s an avid reader, loves to cook, and believes her grandchildren are the smartest kids in the universe. ![]() She shares her passion for helping other writers be successful by teaching writing workshops around the country.ĭiAnn has been termed a coffee snob and roasts her own coffee beans. You can download a list of her published titles by clicking here.ĭiAnn is a founding board member of the American Christian Fiction Writers, a former director of Blue Ridge Christian Writers, and a member of Advanced Writers and Speakers Association, Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and International Thriller Writers. Her titles have appeared on the CBA and ECPA bestseller lists won two Christy Awards and been finalists for the RITA, Daphne Du Maurier, Inspirational Readers’ Choice, and Carol award contests. DiAnn believes every breath of life is someone’s story, so why not capture those moments and create a thrilling adventure? ![]() ![]() ![]() She combines unforgettable characters with unpredictable plots to create action-packed, suspense-filled novels. DiAnn Mills is a bestselling author who believes her readers should expect an adventure. ![]() ![]() ![]() He bought Klimt's painting The Golden Knight from the Vienna Secession in 1903, and in 1905 commissioned the artist to paint a portrait of his youngest daughter, Margarethe ('Gretl'), which was shown on an easel in the so-called Red Drawing Room in the Alleegasse. ![]() ![]() Encouraged by his oldest daughter Hermine ('Mining'), he became a supporter of Gustar Klimt and his circle. Having previously acquired the work of academic artists for his grandiose 19th-century 'palais' in Vienna's Alleegasse, together with antique furniture and tapestries, he now turned his attention to the avant-garde. For the remainder of his life he indulged his private interests, including building up his art collection. ![]() During that time Wittgenstein became one of the richest men in the Habsburg empire, so rich that he was able to retire from his industrial and business enterprises in his early fifties, transferring his fortune into property and foreign investments. The life of the steel magnate Karl Wittgenstein-born in 1847, he died in 1913-coincided almost exactly with the 68 years that Emperor Franz Josef ruled Austria-Hungary. The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at Warīloomsbury, 20 /Doubleday, $28.95 ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a separate storyline until Flame and the Black meet in two books - The Black Stallion and Flame, and The Black Stallion Challenged. Along with the Black, the series introduces a second stallion that is considered the Black's only equal - The Island Stallion, Flame. The subsequent novels are about the Black himself and the stallion's three main offspring: his firstborn colt, Satan his second colt, Bonfire and his firstborn filly, Black Minx. ![]() The first book in the series, published in 1941, is titled The Black Stallion. Shaytan (under various transliterations) is the Arabic word for "devil". Later books in the series furnish the Black's backstory. The series chronicles the story of a Sheikh's prized stallion after he comes into Alec's possession through a ship journey gone awry. The Black Stallion, known as the Black or Shêtân, is the title character from author Walter Farley's bestselling series about the Arab stallion and his young owner, Alec Ramsay. ![]() ![]() Have you ever wanted to get even? I mean really even. ![]() I particularly liked the scene during the wedding at the end of the book, it was highly intense and super hilarious. It covers the whole spectrum of no integrity, but how strangers can become friend if fighting for the same cause. The story is so descriptive, informative, greatly entertaining and hilarious at times. With revenge that can be described as "playful" rather than mean-spirited, the book has a light-hearted tone that will leave readers upbeat. ![]() The ultimate revenge novel! When four men lose their life savings to a wealthy Boston swindler in a stock market scam, how will they get their money back? That's the plot of this highly entertaining novel that can best be summed up as, don't get mad, get even! Their goal is to recoup exactly the $1 million they collectively lost, hence the title of the book. ![]() And what a great book it is! I have read it during my teenage years and decided to re-read again. ![]() |