7/6/2023 0 Comments Permanent Ink by Avon Gale![]() I’ve also included the one book you should definitely check out by each author some obvious choices, others less conventional. If you’ve been reading romance for some time, the names on this list will probably be familiar to you, and if you haven’t yet, I would encourage you to read at least one book by each of them. “Best,” for simplicity’s sake, means the best collection of authors for newbie romance readers to get started on and for seasoned romance readers to branch out with a subjective judgment, I’m aware. Let’s start by addressing the obvious elephant in the room: the word “best.”Īs used in this list, it does not necessarily mean “bestselling.” While many of the authors including in this list are bestselling authors, I didn’t compile these 22 authors based on their all-time sales. ![]() ![]() Welcome! Why don’t we go ahead and get a couple of things out of the way? You’ve clicked on a link to find out who the best romance authors are. ![]()
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7/6/2023 0 Comments History of india john keay![]() ![]() Tolkienįully revised with forty thousand new words that take the reader up to present-day India, John Keay’s India: A History spans five millennia in a sweeping narrative that tells the story of the peoples of the subcontinent, from their ancient beginnings in the valley of the Indus to the events in the region today. ![]() Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. By AUTHOR Jane Austen Eric Carle Lewis Carroll Roald Dahl Charles Dickens Sydney Hanson C.Indestructubles Little Golden Books Magic School Bus Magic Tree House Pete the Cat Step Into Reading Book The Hunger Games By POPULAR SERIES Chronicles of Narnia Curious Geoge Diary of a Wimpy Kid Fancy Nancy Harry Potter I Survived If You Give.By TOPIC Award Winning Books African American Children's Books Biography & Autobiography Books for Boys Books for Girls Diversity & Inclusion Foreign Language & Bilingual Books Hispanic & Latino Children's Books Holidays & Celebrations Holocaust Books Juvenile Nonfiction Native American Books New York Times Bestsellers Professional Development Reference Books Test Prep.By GRADE Elementary School Middle School High Schoolīy AGE Board Books (newborn to age 3) Early Childhood Readers (ages 4-8) Children's Picture Books (ages 3-8) Juvenile Fiction (ages 8-12) Young Adult Fiction (ages 12+). ![]() ![]() Recommendations: Pick this one up if you’ve already read and loved the first two books in this series. However, the second book was my favorite installation to date! However, the story does pick up again and the last one hundred pages or so really ties up the plot nicely.Īs I did with the previous books, I’d highly recommend the series for any reader who enjoys the YA fantasy genre. It seemed like the author was working too hard to keep the story going. Book: A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. I felt like I just was not as interested in the plot. Here’s the synopsis: Feyre will bring vengeance. I don’t think words can describe how much I loved the first two books, and this one was no exception. ![]() To be honest, when I started the first book, I never expected to like the story and the characters so much. While reading “A Court of Wings and Ruin” I experienced some story fatigue. A Court of Wings and Ruin is the third book in the ACOTAR series. So reading this series does feel like an investment of sorts. These hidden pieces are fascinating and give the reader a more complete picture of the characters and the motivations behind their actions.Įvery book in this series clocks in around 600 pages or more. “A Court of Wings and Ruin” unearths some secrets about the main characters which allows for a more full exploration of their personalities. This book covers the prewar build up and then the events of the final confrontation. ![]() ![]() The third installment of the ACOTAR series finds our familiar crew of characters in the beginning of the war with Hybern. ![]() Maas Genre: YA Fantasy Rating: 4/5 Stars Five Word Description: Legendary, Defiant, Mythical, Lengthy, Honorable Book: “A Court of Wings and Ruin” by Sarah J. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Kingdom of the feared book 1![]() ![]() Despite her betrayal, Emilia will do anything to solve this new mystery and find out who her sister really is. Damning evidence points to Vittoria as the murderer and she’s quickly declared an enemy of the Seven Circles. ![]() When a high-ranking member of House Greed is assassinated, Emilia and Wrath are drawn to the rival demon court. Emilia doesn’t simply desire his body, she wants his heart and soul-but that’s something the enigmatic demon can’t promise her. But before she faces the demons of her past, Emilia yearns to claim her king, the seductive Prince of Wrath, in the flesh. TW: Death, Violence, Kidnapping, War, Goreįor Readers Interested In: Romance, Fantasy, NEW ADULT, WitchesĮmilia is reeling from the shocking discovery that her twin sister, Vittoria, is alive. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Iliad and the odyssey book![]() Arabic scholars translated the texts in premedieval times, and Dante plopped Homer in hell. ![]() Shakespeare, apparently unfamiliar with them, took Troilus and Cressida from non-Homeric sources. Early Christians attempted to extract religious principles from the texts. Plato, Aristotle, Virgil and others, the author avers, felt the epics’ powerful influence. Then he marches through intellectual history. After a brief, book-by-book summary of each epic-a delight for dilatory high-school students who haven’t prepared for class-he offers a few pages (there can be no more) of speculation about Homer’s identity. ![]() Using principally Robert Fagles’s translations (“among the best and most graceful”), with some kind words for Alexander Pope’s efforts as well, Manguel walks us through the centuries with Odysseus, Achilles, Penelope et al. ![]() Nor, it seems, do we know much about the composition of The Iliad and The Odyssey, both attributed to him though it’s evident they were assembled by a person or persons from a variety of oral sources. ![]() “We don’t know anything about Homer,” bluntly declares prolific polymath Manguel ( A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader’s Reflections on a Year of Books, 2004, etc.). Brief but rich history of a mysterious bard and two wondrous works that serve as foundation stones for Western culture. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments The not so big house book![]() Our homes have all been small - much smaller than those of our friends and many of our neighbors. And we have applied her ideas about space and organization and use to each of the three homes we have owned and renovated - as well as the others we have rented. But a house is so much more than its size and volume, neither of which has anything to do with comfort." Instead of thinking about the quality of the spaces we live in, we tend to focus on quantity. "We are all searching for home, but we are trying to find it by building more rooms and more space. Her contention is that American homes are often built to be bigger, but they are soulless, wasteful, and too big. Susanka, now the author of many books, started a small revolution - the backlash to the McMansion phenomenon. And her approach to houses has been one of our guiding principles ever since. It was a Not So Big House designed by architect Sarah Susanka. I still remember the study nooks at the top of the stairs where children could do their homework and the warm wood of the kitchen that just seemed - perfect. These were houses we could only fantasize about - a sprawling mansion on Lake Minnetonka with a garage just for the riding lawnmower, a three-story McMansion with soaring ceilings. One day my husband suggested that we go visit a few homes on a Twin Cities home tour - possibly a class assignment. ![]() ![]() My husband was a graduate student at the University of Minnesota's School of Architecture. ![]() The Not So Big House One of Our Guiding Principles ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments John lennon and cynthia lennon![]() ![]() Lennon, when the Beatles were not even a concept. ![]() It was there, as a teenager attending art school, that she met and fell in love with an equally young student who was destined to become one of the most famous pop artists in history.Ĭynthia was in the mix long before she became Mrs. Instead, it was a quiet-spoken, middle-class woman from a northern England suburb. And not Billy Preston, whose keyboard talents can be heard on The Beatles' later recordings and in their last live performance. ![]() Nor was it Yoko Ono - seemingly attached to John at the hip during the group's twilight years. It wasn't Stu Sutcliffe - the Liverpool artist and best friend of John Lennon - who died shortly after leaving the group, nor George Martin, though his talent as a producer helped open the door to the group's creativity. ![]() LONDON, England (CNN) - Long before anyone was called "the fifth Beatle," Cynthia Powell could rightfully have claimed the title for her own. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Rawblood by catriona ward![]() ![]() Ward perfectly balances sensory richness with the chills of the uncanny. Sharply evoked particulars-Devon’s landscape and period medical science emerge with special vividness-help root the spectral phenomena. Later, new viewpoints, spanning the years from 1839 to 1919, focus on the family’s women as each negotiates the powerlessness of her situation and time. A flashback to 1881, related by Charles Danforth, a doctor privy to Alonso’s complex past, reveals other horrors. As WWI begins, Iris violates her father’s interdictions with horrific repercussions for both of them. ![]() She believes that a rare disease necessitates their seclusion at Rawblood, their Dartmoor estate, but as she matures, Alonso reveals the truth: isolation is the only way to save Iris from a ghostly presence that destroys the Villarcas when they fall in love, marry, or have children. ![]() Born in England in 1899, Iris Villarca, the principal narrator of Ward’s superb debut, grows up without human company, except for Tom Gilmore, a farmer’s son with whom she forms a secret bond, and her father, Alonso, the only other surviving Villarca. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hugh Brogan looks at the period leading to Independence from the American "and" British points of view, explores the permanent features, both good and bad, of the 'American character' and produces a masterly synthesis of all the latest research to show how the USA developed so rapidly from small beginnings to global dominance. This superb one-volume history-from early British colonization to the fall of President Nixon-captures all the vivid personalities and events as well as the broad sweep of America's triumphant progress. ![]() ![]() Hugh Brogan looks at the period leading to Independence from the American "and" British points of view, explores the permanent features, both good and bad, of the 'American character' and produces a masterly synthesis of all the latest research to show how the USA developed so rapidly from small beginnings to global. ![]() This superb one-volume history-from early British colonization to the fall of President Nixon-captures all the vivid personalities and events as well as the broad sweep of America's triumphant progress. Hugh Brogan, who has died aged 83, came to reflect that when he wrote his bestselling Penguin History of the United States of America (1990, originally published by Longman in 1985). ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel begins in 1912 and tracks Edwin as he travels around Canada his parents have sent him there from England with a considerable allowance. ![]() ![]() This intersection of the same person doubled in time creates the anomaly (an overlapping of moments in time) that the Time Institute sends him to investigate, inadvertently spreading the anomaly through all the times he visits. At this moment, Gaspery has become violinist Alan Sami, whom the young Gaspery interviews. The novel returns to the earlier times after this point, eventually ending in 2195. Andrew, Mirella Kessler, and Olive Llewellyn in their respective times, before arriving in 2401, Gaspery’s time. Gaspery’s identity is not revealed until the middle of the novel. Sea of Tranquility follows a time traveler, Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, and the people he encounters in the 1910s, 1990s-2020s, 2200s, and the 2400s. ![]() |