![]() ![]() But now, after the long wait, if she imagines he’s going to stand by while she seduces some other guy… ![]() So he kept her close and he kept her safe, offering her a job in his security company and the training to feel safe again, and he bided his time. Jake has wanted Kim from the moment he first saw her, but four years ago, she was too young and too damaged. And who better to help her remember how to lure a man than her best friend? But things are a tad lonely in the sex department, so she decides to embark on a no-strings-affair with one of her hot co-workers. ![]() She has a great home, a job as a security specialist which she loves, and Jake for a best friend. Links to order Losing Control: Amazon / Barnes & Noble / Koboįour years after escaping her abusive ex-husband, Kim finally believes she is in control of her life and her emotions and she is determined to never risk either again with a man. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Between them, the brothers endure travesty and pain on a daily basis as they seek transportation to their new lives. So one brother leaves and the other follows, hoping and praying that they can find their sister and improve their own lives. But time has passed and no one has heard from her. The tale begins in the middle, but we get to jump back and see the events that started our young protagonist on his path to a new life.Įbo awakens one day to find his brother Kwame had left to journey to Agadez, seeking their sister Sisi, who had left months prior to seek employment and secure travel for her family. ![]() The best laid plans do not always work, unfortunately. This is his story of how he attempts to escape the shackles of poverty and make a new life for himself and his family in Europe. Our main character is named Ebo, a 12-year-old boy from a poorer than poor village in Ghana. Illegal definitely falls into this latter category, as I will explain below. Sometimes, authors use sequential art to reach new fans or tell their stories in a new way. There are, however, a wide range of genres that are in no way connected to mutants, space creatures, science experiments, and the like. When you mention the words graphic novel, most people assume you are going to be talking about superheroes or fantasy themes. Hardcover | Paperback | Kindle | Audiobook ![]() ![]() ![]() She imagines being pretty, being loved, having children of her own…. Incredibly lonely, Marion resorts to a colourful fantasy world of daydreams. “Her brother once said if the human race in general shared Marion’s disposition, it was unlikely they would have evolved much beyond the level of jellyfish.” She adores him and fears him in equal measure. ![]() He in turn is sometimes tolerant of Marion, though he is also bullying and emotionally abusive. She has never had affection, romance, or even the attention of anyone other than her older brother John. She is accompanied only by the myriad soft toys that she calls her friends. Sadly, she still sleeps in the twin bed she has always had. The siblings meander through the squalor, hardly noticing…Īt the age of fifty-four, Marion looks years older. ![]() The large Georgian house has become dirty and neglected in the years since their parents death. She has never worked, and her practice of watching daytime television while munching on sweets has made her overweight. Now that her parents are both dead, she lives with her brother John. For the majority of her life she was unloved, sometimes tolerated, but never appreciated. Born to wealthy parents, she has always lived in the house where she grew up in a northern English seaside town. In this compelling debut thriller we first meet Marion Zetland. Physical affection wasn’t encouraged, however, in the Zetland family, and she soon felt herself peeled off with extreme delicacy.” “…she wrapped her arms around Mother’s angular hips for comfort. ![]() ![]() ![]() This game comforted me, calmed me, settled my nerves. Quiet, silent, muted, hushed, stilled, reticent… I moved my mouth, breathed the words-soundlessly-from my hiding place. To the figurative Bunsen Burner in pants everywhere.ĬHAPTER 5: Basic Concepts of Chemical BondingĬHAPTER 7: Molecular Geometry and Bonding TheoriesĬHAPTER 8: Bond Polarity and ElectronegativityĬHAPTER 11: Stoichiometry: Calculations with Chemical Formulas and Equations No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, photographed, instagrammed, tweeted, twittered, twatted, tumbled, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without explicit written permission from the author. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead or undead, events, locales is entirely coincidental if not somewhat disturbing/concerning.Ĭopyright © 2015 by Penny Reid All rights reserved. ![]() ![]() Names, characters, places, rants, facts, contrivances, and incidents are either the product of the author’s questionable imagination or are used factitiously. ![]() ![]() It’s interesting for me how two people can be in love… and then not. Only her lover is not who Max wants her to be with – SPOILER ALERT Zoe falls in love with a woman- and a battle ensues as the two try to lead their lives the way they want. After nine years of trying and failing to have a baby, going through IVF nad miscarriages and a stillbirth which unfortunately takes its toll on the marriage, Zoe falls in love again and finds somebody new to have a family with. From the blurb, I thought it was just about a divorce and the desire of Zoe Baxter to have children, no matter what the cost- even though it cost her her marriage with Max Baxter. Sing You Home was not what I first expected because of the twists in it. ![]() Jodi Picoult is infuriatingly great at making you wonder what the hell you would do if you ended up in life’s most challenging situations. ![]() ![]() Moving gracefully between Canada and Indonesia and through the two men’s histories, Drive-by Saviours is the story of desire and connection among lonely people adrift in a crowded world. When several local children die mysteriously the neighbours fear reaches a fevered pitch and Bumi is forced to flee to Canada.īrought together by a chance encounter on the subway, Mark and Bumi develop a friendship that forces them to confront their pasts. Moved from his small fishing village and sent to a residential school under the authoritarian Suharto regime, Bumi’s radical genius and obsessive-compulsive disorder raise suspicion among his paranoid neighbours. But after six years of bureaucracy and pushing paper Mark has lost hope.Īll that changes when he meets Bumi, an Indonesian restaurant worker. ![]() ![]() He wanted to help people he’d always believed that as social worker he would be able to make a difference in people’s lives. ![]() Demoralized by his job and dissatisfied with his life, Mark punches the clock with increasing indifference. ![]() ![]() ![]() He authored Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief in 1999, a work in which examined several academic fields to describe the structure of systems of beliefs and myths, their role in the regulation of emotion, creation of meaning, and motivation for genocide. In 1998, he moved to the University of Toronto as a full professor. He remained at McGill as a post-doctoral fellow for two years before moving to Massachusetts, where he worked as an assistant and an associate professor in the psychology department at Harvard University. in clinical psychology from McGill University in 1991. ![]() degree in political science in 1982 and a degree in psychology in 1984, both from the University of Alberta, and his Ph.D. His main areas of study are in abnormal, social, and personality psychology, with a particular interest in the psychology of religious and ideological belief, and the assessment and improvement of personality and performance. Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist, self-help writer, cultural critic and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, when the orphaned kitchen maid Bristal is chosen by magical forces to be the third elicromancer of the realm, she finds herself caught in the middle of a violent war between her two companions, each of whom has a radically different view of the role elicromancers should play in the fate of humanity. Ever since the catastrophic civil war in which the Elicromancers wiped themselves out, the four kingdoms have been largely safe from magical interference. The Kingdom of Nissera is no stranger to magic, but for many centuries there have been very few powerful magicians around. Hannah West’s Kingdom of Ash and Briars is one of the best fantasy novels – child or adult – that I have read in a long while. ![]() ![]() How refreshing, then, to read a classic fantasy novel which not only utilizes the familiar tropes of classic fairytales, but also tells a story that is complex, fresh, and gritty. So much on offer in the fantasy genre is formulaic: the handsome wizard, the beautiful enchantress, castles, dragons, dwarves, and castles. What to Expect: Fantasy, Magic, Enchantment, Fairytale The Children’s Book Review | November 8, 2016 Kingdom of Ash and Briars ![]() ![]() ![]() it obtained its name from a family in Essex County New-Jersey, where it originated, and is very extensively cultivated. The tree is of strong and vigorous growth, throwing out numerous suckers from the limbs- the wood is hard. The trees are certain bearers the apples fall about the first of November they are below middling size, and remarkably free from rot ripen at that time, but will keep well when housed. This is the most celebrated of the cider apples of Newark in New-Jersey: it is cultivated in high perfection, and to a great extent in that neighbourhood, particularly on the Orange mountain the shape is rather long, and pointed towards the crown - the stalk long hence often called the long stem - the ends are deeply hollowed the skin is yellow, with many black spots, which gives a rough-ness to the touch: the flesh is rich, yellow, firm and tough the taste pleasant and sprightly, but rather dry - it produces a high coloured, rich, and sweet cider of great strength, commanding a high price in New York, frequently ten dollars and upwards per barrel when fined for bottling. William Coxe, the first American to publish an illustrated book on the already enormous variety of fruits being grown in North America following the American Revolution, described the Harrison Cider Apple in 1817: Illustration of Harrison and Campfield cider apples ![]() ![]() ![]() Jodi Meadows introduces a vivid new fantasy full of intrigue, romance, dangerous magic, and one girl’s battle to reclaim her place in the world. Wilhelmina’s magic might be the key to stopping the wraith, but if the vigilante Black Knife discovers Wil’s magic, she will vanish like all the others. Still the wraith pours across the continent, reshaping the land and animals into fresh horrors. Wraith is the toxic by-product of magic, and for a century using magic has been forbidden. With Osprey missions becoming increasingly dangerous and their leader more unstable, Wil can’t trust anyone. They assume the identities of nobles from a wraith-fallen kingdom, but enemies fill the palace, and Melanie’s behavior grows suspicious. Wil and her best friend, Melanie, infiltrate Skyvale Palace to study their foes. With them, Wilhelmina means to take back her throne. Ten years later, they are the Ospreys, experts at stealth and theft. When the Indigo Kingdom conquered her homeland, Wilhelmina and other orphaned children of nobility were taken to Skyvale, the Indigo Kingdom’s capital. ![]() |