![]() ![]() The royals of Kingwood Academy have taken me under their wing and I can’t help but notice how my skin hums when they touch me. And the rest of the school sees me as either a halfling that should be cast out or a powerhouse to be brought down. They’re wielding magic that could cost me my life. The mean girls don’t stop at insults and tripping you in the halls. They say it’s for my own protection and those around me. There’s no chance for college because I’m being hauled off to Kingwood Academy. In a split second, all of my carefully-laid plans go up in smoke. ![]() And I just knocked out the power on an entire city block. ![]() Graduate, get a job to keep my mom from drowning in mountains of medical debt, and maybe score a scholarship to a decent college.Īll of that changed in a single breath. The Lost Elemental Free ePUB & PDF Download by Tessa Hale ![]()
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5/12/2023 0 Comments Man To Man by G.A. Hauser![]() ![]() Connecting with Josh’s sea green eyes, Tanner felt so much sensuality and raw attraction coming from them, his cock moved. Tanner paused to look back at Josh before he walked up the wooden ramp. Is this a come on? Tanner couldn’t remember a man acting quite so boldly toward him before. “I try my best.” Josh rubbed affectionately against Tanner’s side. I remember you from the thousand meter swim. Christ, if he were a woman, I’d ask him out. It sent an odd flutter to Tanner’s mid-section. “Maybe I am a little nervous.” Josh flashed him a sensual smile and did not move away. Tanner made an obvious gesture to the way their arms overlapped. ![]() When it happened again, Tanner asked, “You okay?” He checked to see if Josh even knew he was walking practically on top of him or if he was just being clumsy. Tanner felt Josh brushing against him again. The sand was warming quickly in the morning sun. You only need the extra bodies in the summer.” Most people just work for the summer and leave.” It’s nice to find someone who wants to make a career out of it. Though Tanner wasn’t attracted to men, he certainly knew an exceptional one when he bumped into one. ![]() “I am.” Josh beamed at him in excitement. “Are you intending on being a full time permanent?” When Josh’s shoulder brushed his, Tanner glimpsed down at him quickly. I used to be one of the weekend bathers here.” But it gets even worse during the holiday weekends. “It’s already an insane asylum on the beach, Josh. Glancing sideways at the handsome man, Tanner grinned at his enthusiasm. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments The hand of the sun king![]() ![]() The novel is paced in a way that the reader gradually learns more about reaches of the Sienese Empire and the effects of colonialism at the same rate that Foolish Cur does, creating a sense of connection with him and an investment in his story. Greathouse is consistent and detailed with the use of magic and fans of epic fantasy will not be disappointed reading about Foolish Cur’s efforts to master various powers. This was a really interesting novel with a complex and well thought out magic system. Trying to balance both identities, and unable to keep his own ambition in check, he finds himself propelled into a life of politics and intrigue, of rebellion and conflicted loyalties. However, in the dead of night, under the tutelage of his maternal grandmother, he is Foolish Cur studying the old ways. In his father’s household, he is Wen Alder, studying for the Imperial Examinations to obtain a prestigious position serving the Emperor. Greathouse is the first novel in the fantasy series “Pact and Pattern” about a young man who grows up in two cultures. In the background is a mountain, river and bamboo leaves in blue and a partially obscured yellow sun. The eBook cover is of a hand covered in intricate designs. Image is of “The Hand of the Sun King” by J.T. This was the next set book for my fantasy book club, which I had to dial into because I caught COVID-19 at the end of June, and then almost as soon as I recovered, I caught a cold. ![]() ![]() Fantasy novel about straddling cultures and collecting powers ![]() ![]() Praise for Everland "In an exemplary debut, Spinale uses Gwen and Hook's voices to offer glimpses into the psyche of a man desperate to please his cruel mother and a girl intent on saving the only family she has left. ![]() Except Gail.But is one girl enough to find a long-dead king, kill the wicked queen, and save the world? ![]() Yet before it's set in motion, the village is burned to the ground, all survivors taken prisoner to the castle. Desperate to end the war, a plan is hatched that could put everything right again. ![]() or is he? There's a rumor that the king has been hidden away in a secret land, where only the worthiest can find him. The world has been destroyed and its needs a ruler to set things right again. Doc has found an actual cure for the Horologia virus, while Gwen, Pete, and Alyssa begin plotting the assassination of the queen with the help of Gail, an excellent huntress. ![]() Because in Ozland, the only way home is to kill the wicked.With Everland and Umberland both annihilated, the survivors have taken refuge in a small village tucked within the shadows of the Bloodred Queen's castle. 5/11/2023 0 Comments 0545010225![]() ![]() ![]() Rowling lives in Scotland with her family. She supports a wide number of humanitarian causes through Volant, and is the founder of the international children’s care reform charity Lumos. Rowling has received many awards and honours for her writing, including for her detective series written under the name Robert Galbraith. ![]() Her latest children’s novel, The Christmas Pig, was published in 2021. In 2020, she returned to publishing for younger children with the fairy tale The Ickabog, the royalties for which she donated to her charitable trust, Volant, to help charities working to alleviate the social effects of the Covid 19 pandemic. This part is a cover kit, windshield wiper motor (with circuit board), for Chevrolet, Buick, Pontiac, and Oldsmobile cars. Rowling wrote with playwright Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany. ![]() Harry’s story as a grown-up was continued in a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which J.K. To accompany the series, she wrote three short companion volumes for charity, including Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which went on to inspire a new series of films featuring Magizoologist Newt Scamander. ROWLING is the author of the enduringly popular, era-defining Harry Potter seven-book series, which have sold over 600 million copies in 85 languages, been listened to as audiobooks for over one billion hours and made into eight smash hit movies. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Lady in waiting book review![]() ![]() Glibert is attributed as sharing and inspiring Raleigh's lifelong passion of wanting explore the New World, beginning with a plan to seek the fabled Northwest Passage. The story is primarily about the life and exploits of Sir Walter Raleigh, albeit with the bulk of the narration revolving around the impact of his life on Elizabeth Throckmorton, who is referred to as 'Bess.' It begins with Raleigh's (this is the spelling used in the novel) childhood in Budleigh, and quickly shows his close relationship with half-brother Humphrey Gilbert. ![]() This is the first of Sutcliff's five novels written and listed as expressly for 'adult' readership, and like her later 1967 adult novel The Flowers of Adonis, uses the technique of having the central character's narrative told by his relation to other characters. It is set in the Elizabethan era and beginning of the Stuart period of England, telling the life story of Sir Walter Raleigh, primarily through the viewpoint of his wife, Bess Throckmorton. Lady in Waiting is a historical novel by Rosemary Sutcliff and first published in 1957. ![]() ![]() īETH MARSHEA is the owner and Lead Agent at Ladderbird Literary Agency. ![]() She is currently a fiction editor of The Brooklyn Rail. Maisy is a graduate of the Brooklyn College MFA in Fiction Program. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review Daily, AGNI, The New York Times, Guernica, and other publications. ![]() MAISY CARD is the author of the novel These Ghosts Are Family, which won an American Book Award, the 2021 OCM Bocas Prize in fiction, and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. ![]() OUR GUEST JUDGE: Photo Credit: Tehsuan Glover We’ll be back next year for the 2023 First Chapters Contest! Susan Reimer-Torn, Before the Closing of the GatesĪudie Shushan, We Are All Pillars of Salt Jennifer O’Neill Pickering, Summer of the River Bottom Dragon Pat Brothwell, The Bereaved Wives of East Fulton TownshipĮlizabeth Jones, The Vindication of Abigail Flynnĭorotea Mendoza, Requiem for a Beauty Queen Hillary Casavant, All Things Lost and Foundĭan Asenlund, The Spiral City of Lost Time Third Place: Ra’Niqua Lee, Frenzied, Desperate BirdsĪngel Di Zhang, The Light of Eternal Spring ![]() Second Place: Sarah Harris Wallman, Angels and Bears ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After belly-crawling out of a hotel room (hello, rock bottom), she decides it’s time to become a full-on adult. Two people make a wager on who can find love first, not realizing what they should be betting on is each other, in this new romantic comedy by Lynn Painter, New York Times bestselling author of Mr. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.*** ***I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review. Genres: Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Fiction / Romance / Romantic Comedy, Fiction / Women Purchase Here Buy on Amazon US - Buy on Apple - Buy on Kobo - Buy on Google - Buy at Barnes and Noble - Buy on Waterstones - Buy on Audible - Buy on Amazon UK ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments 32AA by Michelle Cunnah![]() ![]() While staying with her family for a weekend, Peri’s brother Jack shows up. She also relies on family, especially her father and his young wife, Peri. Heartbroken and with nowhere to go, Emmeline retreats to her friend Tish’s couch and lets her huge group of close friends help her heal her wounds. To make matters worse, he’s also her boss and she has to work with him every day, and she’s now homeless since she has been sharing his apartment for the past three months. Her problems are just about to get larger, though, because little does she know her boyfriend is about to dump her and get engaged to someone else. Emmeline is under five feet tall, underweight and continually embarrassed by her size 32AA chest. Emmeline, the main character in 32AA, is no different except for the fact that she’s struggling to gain weight, not lose it. When you pick up a chick-lit novel, you expect to find a main character who is struggling with losing weight, finding a man and furthering her career. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Batman beyond the white knight 4![]() ![]() And that's fine, everyone reads for different reasons. I see several complaints about the lack of action and they aren't wrong but I really think if that's all that is drawing you to a comic you have a short attention span or less of a des ire to read the overarching story. It is a truncated and reimagined version of the Batman Beyond origin after all. Hopefully we'll see more of the latter but seeing as this story is at it's midway point, I wouldn't be shocked if there wasn't much more developments. Murphy does a good job here is giving more depth to each of his characters, from Bruce and his relationship with Jack/Joker, Derek Powers, Duke and Barbara, and finally, Terry and his parents. I personally tend to enjoy those more as they flesh out the characters and the world the writer is trying to present. ![]() |