![]() Married to her college sweetheart and the mother of one, Raybourn makes her home in Virginia. She graduated with a double major in English and history from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Veronica has returned in several more adventures, most recently AN IMPOSSIBLE New York Times and USA Today bestselling novelist Deanna Raybourn is a 6th-generation native Texan. She launched a new Victorian mystery series with the 2015 release of A CURIOUS BEGINNING, featuring intrepid butterfly-hunter and amateur sleuth, Veronica Speedwell. Her novels have been nominated for numerous awards including two RT Reviewers’ Choice awards, the Agatha, two Dilys Winns, a Last Laugh, three du Mauriers, and most recently the 2019 Edgar Award for Best Novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() New York Times and USA Today bestselling novelist Deanna Raybourn is a 6th-generation native Texan. ![]()
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![]() ![]() And there is a large army marching up to the gates of the city. Only the Duchess isn’t in as much control as she thought. Dodging death and adults, Mona seeks out the one person who should be able to help her, the Duchess. Mona is quickly caught up in a plot to eradicate all the city’s wizards and wrestle control from the Duchess. ![]() Turns out that more and more people are looking suspiciously at wizards and someone is actively trying to kill them all. There is a dead body on the floor of the kitchen and soon the esteemed Inquisitor Oberon is accusing Mona of murder. Mona’s usual routine at the bakery starts early in the morning, but on this particular day things go terribly wrong. And even her Uncle is supportive and caring. Fortunately, despite these stereotypes, her Aunt is a generally good, strong force in Mona’s life. Tragically her parents are dead, so her Aunt and Uncle are her only family. She works at her Aunt’s bakery and lives in a tiny room over the glassblower’s shop six doors down the street. Our delightfully upfront protagonist is Mona. Kingfisher is a well written fantasy story about a fourteen year old baker called on to defend her city from invasion. Kingfisher – image from the internet.Ī Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Spoilers Ahead! Book cover for A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Book Title: A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking ![]() ![]() ![]() (END of SPOILER.) I was not okay with this decision, though it was necessary for the plot. (Minor SPOILER:) By Once, Eve’s two strongest friends were almost completely absent, and they continued to be almost nonexistent in Rise. ![]() Cruel and selfish leaders, a rebel movement, a protagonist whose job it is to lead the uprising and take down the baddies. Her romance with Caleb, which some readers scoffed at, I did in fact adore.Īs the series progressed the books became more typical of the genre. She adapted, learned to trust, made lasting friendships of the least likely people. When she made mistakes, some of them drastic, she learned from them. She was sheltered and naive so it was understandable how she sometimes reacted. The initial event that causes the book’s plot to happen is disturbing and different, so that was a nice surprise. Well, in a sense it is, but it really surprised me. ![]() I went into Eve thinking it’d be a typical YA dystopia book. The trilogy (click a title to be directed to my review): ![]() ![]() ![]() Some months later, Jessica Mitford shared a cabin with her sister on a Mediterranean cruise. ![]() Sir Eric, who was a good head shorter than the strikingly built Unity, responded by standing on tiptoe and shaking her outstretched hand. Even Sir Eric and Lady Phipps, all too familiar with distressed upper-class parents whose daughters had fallen in love with “dreadful SS types,” were taken aback by Unity’s brisk “Heil Hitler” as she entered their Berlin drawing room. Ever since she first became infatuated with the Führer at the 1933 Nuremberg Rally, her arm would shoot out on every possible occasion. There can have been few foreigners who “Heiled Hitler” with more enthusiasm than Unity Valkyrie Mitford. Julia Boyd | Travelers in the Third Reich | Pegasus Books | 16 minutes (4,230 words) ![]() ![]() ![]() This second chance will take all the faith they can find. But can she ever let him back into her heart? One thing’s for certain sure. Johns Mill Amish Romance By Laurel Blount.Her church forbids divorce and requires forgiveness, so Rhoda lets Caleb back into their home. Strength in the Storm ebook &mid A Johns Mill Amish Romance Series, Book 2 When Caleb unexpectedly returns, Rhoda is caught between her rock of a husband and a very hard place. ![]() ![]() Such a stubborn man could never be happy among the peaceful Amish. Her new husband’s abandonment broke Rhoda Lambright’s heart and proved her father, the bishop, right. And when darkness falls, it will take all Sam’s strengthand all their loveto see them through. Strength in the Storm Laurel Blount 4.64 162 ratings95 reviews Want to read Kindle 7.99 Rate this book In this touching Amish romance, a brokenhearted woman and a steadfast man discover that the safest place to weather tragedy is in each other's arms. Now he's determined to protect his children and the woman he still loves-if she’ll let him. But while romance blooms, storm clouds gather. Two years later, he tracks his parents’ killer back home to Johns Mill, where he’s astonished to learn he’s the father of twins. In this stirring Amish romance about love and second chances, a shunned man returns to protect the wife he left behind-and falls in love with the family he never knew he had.Īfter a senseless loss, hotheaded Caleb Hochstedler left his Amish faith and his young wife to seek justice. ![]() ![]() ![]() Clothing: love fun socks (mostly have cats and foxes), Pretty much any of the dragon, cat or fox items at (tshirt unisex large NOT the women's large which is too small) except the reading sleepy cat and the Lord of the Cats which I already have.Candy/food:? Lindt/Lindor truffles, Russell Stover, Andes Candies, flavored hot cocoa packets (no white chocolate please), Cadbury.Please PM me if you would like links to my wish lists on Amazon, Elfster, etc. ![]() I've recently started collecting vintage Napco Christmas figures (mostly the caroling girls) and vintage baby reindeer. I also love soft fleece blankets with cute animal images on them, they help with my anxiety. I love plushes in general I have lots of cats, dogs, foxes, red pandas. I love socks with foxes, cats, and Pusheen. I collect red fox items, little carved resin birds (there is a company that makes a bird on a flower for each month), mod cats (the long necked "modern art" cats from the mid 20th century), and Pusheen plushies. ![]() For the buddy Swaps - most of the stuff I want is on my Amazon wish list, Etsy favorites list, or my Ebay watch list. ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon, i'm happy to be stuck in a hospital with curable cancer! (have to be kidding)Good night all,be back tomorrow with some more recent stuff that's really good and copyright free!Love you all, and thank you so much for your appreciation and friendship.Oh dear! there's going to be so much trouble and so very soon, i'm happy Will they have.Ha! Ha! just like our governments who won't pay us anything for our pensions either.So the rebels became the royalty who had criticised the rich and now behave just like the rristocracy they made so much money rebelling against.Oh dear! there's going to be so much trouble and so very I said I would not come knocking on their door, because I thought that they might, if it was a big success, look after me after all, in my oldage.But they have not. The biggest stress of my life.I played the piano, but was told it would be erased if I did not shut my mouth (like a true china girl!)So Ciomment from David Richards FB page for discussion scallyuk ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unexpected Insights: While we are expecting the boy to come back, we don’t expect him to come back needing something from the tree every time. This comes as: needing money, so he sells the apples needing a home for his family, so he cuts off the branches wanting a boat, so he chops the tree down needing a place to sit and relax because he is old, so he sits. But he always comes back when he needs the tree. Then he is away as a teenager, adult, and old man. The boy plays with the tree and becomes friends with it. Music in Language: The pattern to the story is the same to the very end. The words used are simple but profound in the way Silverstein relates them to us. The boy in the story comes back to the tree in different stages of his life and this creates depth to the story. This gives the reader a home to establish credibility. Precise Vocabulary: The setting of the story is always at the tree. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Like an animal casting off old hair or skin.” When Ijeoma at last returned to her mother, she is the “warden”. “To shed, if she could have, all memories of the war. “In a warped, war-induced sort of way, it made sense that she should find ways to shed us all: the soldiers, me, and the house,” Okparanta writes. When Ijeoma and her mother Adaora emerge from a nearby bunker, they discover his blood-soaked body.Īdaora survives the aftermath physically, but not psychologically. Her father, “a man who liked to wallow in his thoughts”, becomes so consumed by sorrow for his massacred people that he refuses to seek refuge during an air raid over their town of Ojoto. The novel is set in 1968, one year into the Biafran conflict, and Ijeoma’s world is beset by “the ruckus of armored cars and shelling machines, bomber planes and their loud engines sending shock waves through our ears”. Ijeoma’s secure, stable childhood has already unravelled by then. ![]() ![]() Olive Chancellor, a rich young woman, falls in love with an inspired speaker named Verena. It's a Henry James novel where there actually seems to be an outside world. One of the main characters is Basil, a former Confederate soldier who has moved to New York to take up a law career. ![]() These Bostonians are interested in women’s rights, including the vote, in temperance, in abolition - the story takes place not long after the Civil War - and in Reconstruction. There are politics here too, something I never suspected James of having an interest in. It's hard to miss in this one, when the action kicks off with a meeting of Boston “radicals” that turns into a kind of seance coopted by a family of faith healers and charlatans. Maybe it's there in the other books and I just didn't see it. there's an undercurrent of satiric humor here that I didn't expect. ![]() I've read several of his novels and generally found his characters vapid and his plots nonexistent. I had just about given up on Henry James when I stumbled onto this grace note. ![]() |