![]() ![]() ![]() With Espen’s life at stake, Sylvi must conspire to save them both. When she suggests the two of them marry to thwart her father’s plans, Espen cannot deny her request.Īs they search for the holy lamp, Lord Prestegard pursues them, intent on reclaiming his daughter. In addition to his royal quest, he’s determined to protect Sylvi, the woman he’s always secretly loved. She turns to her childhood friend Espen, a Knight of Brethren, counting on his loyalty and kindness to help her escape.Įspen has been given an urgent mission to locate the holy lamp, an ancient relic necessary to defeat the enemy invading their country. When Sylvi Prestegard discovers that her father has arranged for her to marry a wealthy nobleman known for his thieving ways, she’s desperate to avoid the union. The most beautiful noblewoman in the kingdom, the lowly knight who can never have her, and the forbidden love they share. ![]()
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![]() Through all the long nights, wild scoops, naked chauvinism, dodgy staffers, and fevered debates, no one had a better view than Tur. The Boys on the Bus became the Girls on the Plane. ![]() She was part of the first women-led politics team in the history of network news. At one point, he got a crowd so riled up against Tur, Secret Service agents had to walk her to her car. He tried to charm her, intimidate her, and shame her. In return, Trump repeatedly singled Tur out. She visited forty states with the candidate, made more than 3,800 live television reports, and tried to endure a gazillion loops of Elton John's "Tiny Dancer"-a Trump rally playlist staple.įrom day 1 to day 500, Tur documented Trump's inconsistencies, fact-checked his falsities, and called him out on his lies. ![]() Tur lived out of a suitcase for a year and a half, following Trump around the country, powered by packets of peanut butter and kept clean with dry shampoo. ![]() Called "Disgraceful," "third-rate," and "not nice" by Donald Trump, NBC News correspondent Katy Tur reported on-and took flak from-the most captivating and volatile presidential candidate in American history. ![]() ![]() So when I heard that Curtis Sittenfeld was writing a modern retelling of Pride And Prejudice, I actually did a proper squeal out loud in a public place. It’s been interesting to watch how she’s developed as a writer, especially with her novel, American Wife, a quite extraordinary story about the wife of an American President, in love with her husband but not his politics and rumoured to be a roman a clef about Laura Bush, wife of George Bush Junior. And I’ve also loved Curtis Sittenfeld since I read Prep, her debut novel, a coming of age story set in an exclusive New England boarding school. Every time, Jane Austen’s sly humour, her vividly drawn characters, the plot rattling through catastrophe and possible ruin to a satisfyingly happy ending, has me gripped, even though I could practically quote the whole book from memory.Īnd still, I usually reread it once a year and even Matthew Macfadyen’s terrible wig in the 2005 Joe Wright film couldn’t dim my ardour for Fitzwilliam Darcy, the gold standard by which all other romantic heroes are to be judged and usually found severely wanting. ![]() ![]() It never feels like I’m ploughing through a set text written over two hundred years ago. ![]() I first read it at school when I was twelve and it’s been a keeper ever since. ![]() ![]() ![]() Handmade sterling silver & gemstone jewelry Visionary, Abstract, Geometric, Vibrant, Playful, Visual Works in oil, acrylic and mixed media painting, block print, fabric, clothing.ĢD wall constructions, sculpture, installation, public artĪbstract watermedia collage influenced by Midcentury Modern & Japanese art. 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According to Kiera Cass: " This was going to be the cover art for Happily Ever After, and I totally love it.Introductions to each novella from Kiera Cass.The Maid ( Lucy’s bonus scene from The One). ![]() Content Īccording to Kiera Cass, this hardcover includes: This gorgeous collection features four novellas from the captivating world of Kiera Cass’s #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series-two of which appear here in print for the first time - as well as exclusive, never-before-seen bonus content. See the Selection through the eyes of a guard who watched his first love drift away and a girl who fell for a boy who wasn’t the prince. Meet Prince Maxon before he fell in love with America and a girl named Amberly before she became queen. ![]() ![]() Ray's life outside the Army proved even less stable. He was charged with drunkenness and breaking arrest, before getting discharged for ineptness and lack of adaptability in 1948. But he found it difficult to adapt to the military's strict codes of conduct. Two years later, his young sister Marjorie, died in a fire after playing with matches and accidentally catching herself on fire.Īt the age of 16, Ray left his parents and returned to Alton, where he moved in with his grandmother and landed work in the dye room of the International Shoe Tannery.Īfter getting laid off in 1945, Ray enlisted in the Army, eventually getting stationed in West Germany. In 1935 the family suddenly left Alton and relocated to Ewing, Missouri, after police had started looking for Ray's father on a forgery charge. The Rays struggled to make ends meet, and as a consequence, the family moved several times during the early part of Ray's childhood.Ī part of his life was shaped by tragedy. ![]() ![]() Early Yearsīorn on March 10, 1928, in Alton, Illinois, was the eldest of George and Lucille Ray's nine children. ![]() He shot and killed King in Memphis on April 4, 1968, confessing to the crime the following March. ![]() A confirmed racist and small-time criminal, James Earl Ray began plotting the assassination of revered civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. ![]() ![]() He enters the Planet's Funniest Kid Comic Contest and wins the Long Island competition, then moves on to the state competition and wins.
![]() ![]() Our heroine, Lizzie Eustace, is a very unlikeable young widow who, thanks to her husband's fortune, has a roof over her head and a steady income until her son comes of age and inherits everything. In The Eustace Diamonds, Anthony Trollope explores the dark side of marriage in the Victorian era. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices. The Eustace Diamonds is the 3rd book in the Palliser Novels, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. The story of one woman’s ability to mask her true self and manipulate those who would do the same, The Eustace Diamonds shows the true mastery of witty storytelling and social mores that made Anthony Trollope a revered author. Though it is a family heirloom, she adamantly refuses to give it up, and it soon becomes the focus of her life and the lives of those around her. But while her inherited wealth provides her with comfort, her true love is saved for the opulent diamond necklace her late husband gifted to her. This is especially true when she manages to convince the ailing Sir Florian Eustace to marry her shortly before his demise, leaving Lizzie both a wealthy widow and the mother to Florian’s young son.Ī born deceiver, Lizzie is easily able to keep up the front of a proper mourning widow. ![]() ![]() Lizzie Greystock is a woman of rare cunning and determination-both of which she uses to better her lot in life. For an ambitious, keenly intelligent woman, lying proves to be the easiest way to get through life, in this Victorian-era classic. ![]() ![]() Even if Society could accept a serving girl duchess-can a roguish duke convince a serving girl to trust him with her heart? Keeping Pauline by his side won’t be easy. She’s a brave, quick-witted, beguiling failure-a woman who ignites Griff’s desire and soothes the darkness in his soul. Her duties are simple: submit to his mother’s “duchess training”… and fail miserably.īut in London, Pauline isn’t a miserable failure. That dream becomes a possibility when an arrogant, sinfully attractive duke offers her a small fortune for a week’s employment. All she wants is to hang up her barmaid apron and open a bookshop. ![]() Overworked and struggling, Pauline Simms doesn’t dream about dukes. ![]() ![]() Griff decides to teach her a lesson that will end the marriage debate forever. Griffin York, the Duke of Halford, has no desire to wed this season-or any season-but his diabolical mother abducts him to “Spinster Cove” and insists he select a bride from the ladies in residence. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To complicate matters, Warren soon has several persons of interest: Aidan Brewster, an oversexed neighbor who happens to be a convicted sex offender Ethan Hastings, an eighth-grade computer nerd who was helping Mrs. “His eyes were empty, like staring into pools of starless night,” she notes. When Warren is called in to investigate the bizarre disappearance, she finds the husband-who should be overwrought-eerily detached and uncooperative. ![]() So why would she abandon her daughter in the middle of the night and leave without taking any money, identification or clothing? Sandra Jones was a sixth-grade social studies teacher at a local middle school, a well-liked employee, the doting mother to a precocious four-year-old daughter, and a seemingly devoted wife to her handsome husband, a reporter at the Boston Daily. Warren (after 2005’s Alone and 2007’s Hide), The Neighbor focuses on an attractive young wife and mother who inexplicably disappears from her suburban home. In Lisa Gardner’s third thriller featuring feisty Boston police detective D.D. ![]() |