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![]() ![]() As the pair celebrate Riley’s memory, their unique bond deepens into something irreplaceable-and something neither man can live without.īut diving into a relationship can’t be so simple. Trevor never imagined he’d find someone who fills his heart with hope again. Jesse’s all-too-familiar grief provides an unlikely source of comfort for Trevor: knowing he’s not alone is exactly what he needs. ![]() Then Jesse Byrne, Riley’s friend and platoon mate, arrives on Trevor’s doorstep with a box of Riley’s things. But when Riley is killed in combat, everything in Trevor’s life unravels into a mess he doesn’t know how to mourn. ![]() There’d forever been a thread running through Trevor Estes’s life-his son, Riley, strong and constant like a heartbeat. Only love can heal an impossibly broken heart ![]() ![]() So many beloved romances people still talk about were written by Deveraux. I love that one, too, especially the scene with the People magazines. I never understood why the heroine’s shopping spree only included formal clothing in that one scene (though I still think wool challis skirts are the HEIGHT of posh fashion because of that scene).īut then there’s also Wishes, where there’s almost two heroines – one, the cranky ass old lady who is sent back to earth to repent and learn from her life’s mistakes by helping a lonely woman find happiness in historical Chandler, Colorado. ![]() Knight in Shining Armor is among her most-beloved titles, and one of the best time-travel romances I’ve ever read. ![]() I still re-read her books, but for someone who is curious about Deverax’s books, which one would you recommend first? Jude Deveraux is one of the classic names in historical romance, and is one of the first authors I glommed when I discovered romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Easy recognizes him as the drunk man he saw at John's Place the night he met Dupree and Coretta there. Richard is lying on his bed, stabbed to death with a butcher knife. When they arrive at the house, the door is wide open. Easy feels a renewed sense of power as he drives Daphne to Richard's. He explains, "If I was going to say no, it should have been to DeWitt Albright or even to Coretta." Before they leave, Daphne fetches an old suitcase that belongs to her friend, Richard, who lives on Laurel Canyon Road above Hollywood. Easy can tell that she is lying to him, but agrees because he realizes he is too deep into the mystery to go back. ![]() When Easy tries to give Daphne the cab money, she begs him to take her to her friend's house instead. She is young, about twenty-two, and beautiful though plain. When Easy arrives at Daphne's house, he realizes that he should have taken Odell's advice and left town. ![]() ![]() ![]() It willl enthrall listeners who enjoyed Longitude, Simon Winchester’s Atlantic, or in its scope and its insightful linking of technology and culture, Guns, Germs, and Steel. From the moment when ancient Polynesians first dared to sail beyond the horizon, Fagan vividly explains how our mastery of the oceans has changed history, even before history was written.īeyond the Blue Horizon delves into the very beginnings of humanity’s long and intimate relationship with the sea. ![]() This is not a tale of Columbus or Hudson, but of much earlier mariners. In Beyond the Blue Horizon, best-selling science historian Brian Fagan tackles his richest topic yet: the enduring mystery of the oceans, the planet’s most forbidding terrain. ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s plenty of grist for Charlie’s stories as she gets to know the people in town and falls for Kerry, a slightly older and scarred young man with demons of his own. The summer she goes to live with her grandmother in Lake Ringrose, her father is spending the summer in Toronto with his girlfriend and her best friend is in Australia. Instead, Grist by Heather Waldorf is about a blossoming writer who needs to learn to take criticism while gleaning material from her own life to inspire her writing. ![]() ![]() Review: The cover looks like Charlie has perhaps just killed someone, but I promise she didn’t. Turns out her summer away is going to provide her with a lot of grist for her upcoming writing career as she learns more about her mother’s past than she ever thought possible. When the teacher has a heart attack later that night, Charlie feels guilty and takes his criticisms to heart. Just before the summer begins she has an intense conversation with her teacher and takes offense when he challenges her writing. Faced with the decision of whether to spend her summer in Toronto with her dad and his new girlfriend or in Lake Ringrose with her grandmother in the house her mother grew up in. ![]() Summary: Charlie, short for Charlena, is an only child whose mother died from cancer when Charlie was just a little girl. ![]() ![]() ![]() The first side consisted of a remake of Honey Bee, plus covers of soul classics Never Can Say Goodbye and Reach Out, I’ll Be There. Gaynor hit pay dirt when she signed to MGM Records and released debut album Never Can Say Goodbye in 1975. Then in 1973 she was signed to Columbia Records by Clive Davis and released another flop, Honey Bee. Nothing came of it but Gaynor spent years becoming experienced at performing live. It was Nash who had suggested she change her name. It was produced by Johnny Nash, later to have a UK number 1 with Tears on My Pillow (I Can’t Take It). In 1965, as Gloria Gaynor, she released her debut single She’ll Be Sorry. She became a singer in a local nightclub and within a few years she was part of jazz and R’n’B group The Soul Satisfiers. The family moved to a housing project in 1960 and a year later Fowles graduated. Four brothers formed a gospel group but she wasn’t allowed to join them. ![]() The Fowles were a large, poor family – five boys and two girls, including Gloria. Music was a constant in her youth, with her father Daniel singing and playing ukulele as part of a nightclub group called Step ‘n’ Fetch-it. ![]() Gaynor was born Gloria Fowles on 7 September 1943 in Newark, New Jersey. It’s now considered a feminist and LGBTQ+ anthem and is a karaoke mainstay. US soul singer Gloria Gaynor’s disco classic I Will Survive was originally an afterthought, a B-side, with little studio sheen added. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Well written, good characters and filled with interesting ideas and developments, this is a great novella. I don’t want to spoil this too much, so if a different kind of fantasy story mixed with science intrigues you, I highly recommend picking this up. However, this is Tchaikovsky, so nothing is quite as it seems. ![]() I had yet to dive into any of his novellas, and when I saw this*, I knew I needed to read it.Įlder Race begins as a classic fantasy story with a young princess out on a quest to prove herself by going to get the reclusive of a sorcerer to come fight the demon hurting her people. Children of Time and Cage of Souls are two of my favorite sci-fi books and I’ve read a few other of his books as well. Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way.īut a demon is terrorizing the land, and now she’s an adult (albeit barely) and although she still gets in the way, she understands that the only way to save her people is to invoke the pact between her family and the Elder sorcerer who has inhabited the local tower for as long as her people have lived here (though none in living memory has approached it).īut Elder Nyr isn’t a sorcerer, and he is forbidden to help, for his knowledge of science tells him the threat cannot possibly be a demon… In Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet from an unbeatable foe. ![]() ![]() Shocked by the wanton bloodshed and outraged at having to feed a murdering villain to save his life, Wedgwood plots his escape, even as he bends his skills to play culinary Scheherazade.įor the story to work, Mabbot must succumb to Wedgwood’s galley magic, which makes her a woman of taste and refinement, of a higher sensibility than your garden-variety buccaneer. ![]() ![]() But Mad Hannah Mabbot crashes the dinner, kills Ramsey and others, and brings the cook back to her ship, Flying Rose. His lordship has brought Wedgwood to cater a weekend party of company officials at the seaside town of Eastbourne. The year is 1819, and Owen Wedgwood serves Lord Ramsey, director of the Pendleton Trading Company, as personal chef. ![]() View on the Pearl River, Macao, by Eduard Hildebrandt, 1850 (Courtesy Wikimedia Commons). ![]() ![]() ![]() John Puller is sent to a Drake, a rural area in West Virginia, to investigate a brutal murder of Colonel Mathew Reynolds and his family. ![]() On the other hand, Puller’s father is a retired Army General who is now a patient at VA Hospital. Robert Puller had served in the Air Force in the rank of a Major and now serves his term at the United States Disciplinary Barracks, popularly called USDB, for treason. We learn about his family and the relationship they share namely his elder brother, Robert Puller and his father, General Puller. In the very beginning of the story, we are introduced to John Puller, a special agent of the US Army’s CID. After all, “You couldn’t kill what you couldn’t see coming.” This fast-paced crime thriller promises to entertain you with unexpected twists, believable characters and complex relationships. Zero Day is the first book of the John Puller series written by David Baldacci. ![]() |