6/10/2023 0 Comments The diamond eye kate quinn![]() Still reeling from war wounds and devastated by loss, Mila finds herself isolated and lonely in the glittering world of Washington, DC-until an unexpected friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and an even more unexpected connection with a silent fellow sniper offer the possibility of happiness. ![]() When news of her three hundredth kill makes her a national heroine, Mila finds herself torn from the bloody battlefields of the eastern front and sent to America on a goodwill tour. Given a rifle and sent to join the fight, Mila must forge herself from studious girl to deadly sniper-a lethal hunter of Nazis known as Lady Death. In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kiev (now known as Kyiv), wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son-but Hitler’s invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path. ![]() The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history’s deadliest female sniper. ![]()
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6/10/2023 0 Comments Rainshadow road series![]() ![]() While the player can opt to take the wrong route, taking them very far typically results in hitting "invisible walls" that restrict further movement in the given direction. ![]() Courses may overlap common segments of other tracks, but often have different start or end points, or have the player turning down alternate routes. The individual courses for the game are pieced together from a larger system of interconnected grids of roads. Despite sharing many characteristics with past games in the series, Road Rash 3D puts a stronger emphasis on the racing aspect of the game, and less on combat. Conversely, the worst scenarios are to finish last, which does not earn money, or be stopped by police officers, which actually loses money. The ultimate goal is to place first in the race in order to earn money to upgrade the player's motorcycle. While racing, the player has the option of punching, or using weapons to attack other opponents, to slow down their progress. Gameplay favors an arcade-like style, with little emphasis on realism. The game plays similarly to previous games developed in the Road Rash series, which involves the player racing their motorcycle against other motorcyclists. Road Rash 3D is a racing video game developed and published by Electronic Arts exclusively for the PlayStation. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book uncovers how "becoming modern" in urban Sri Lanka, rather than causing inter-generational conflict, is a collective aspiration realized through the efforts of bringing up educated and independent women capable of making "right" choices. By focusing on individual life-histories spanning three generations, the book illuminates how narratives about a gendered self and narratives about modernity are mutually constituted and intrinsically tied to notions of agency. Making the Right Choice unravels the entangled relationship between marriage, morality, and the desire for modernity as it plays out in the context of middle-class status concerns and aspirations for upward social mobility within the Sinhala-Buddhist community in urban Sri Lanka. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Gill sims why mummy![]() ![]() This is one of the funniest books I have read for ages. Until she remembers the gem of an idea she’s had… ![]() Instead, she clutches a large glass of wine, muttering ‘FML’ over and over again. She is staring down the barrel of a future of people asking if she wants to come to their advanced yoga classes, and polite book clubs where everyone claims to be tiddly after a glass of Pinot Grigio and says things like ‘Oooh gosh, are you having another glass?’īut Mummy does not want to go quietly into that good night of women with sensible haircuts who ‘live for their children’ and stand in the playground trying to trump each other with their offspring’s extracurricular activities and achievements, and boasting about their latest holidays. ![]() Why Mummy Drinks is the brilliant novel from Gill Sims, the author of the online sensation Peter and Jane. The novel follows Mummy, Ellen, throughout a year and is written in the form of a diary as she tries to be more organised and less frazzled! If you follow Peter and Jane you will already know how hilarious each post is as this exhausted mum tries to balance working, looking after the house and dealing with her ‘precious moppets’ and invariably ends each day with a drink of something and a photo of said drink – and Judgy Dog of course. ![]() I can’t tell you how excited I was to find out that the woman behind the Peter and Jane Facebook page was publishing a novel. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Lord perfect by loretta chase![]() ![]() To recover the would-be knights errant, Benedict and Bathsheba must embark on a rescue mission that puts them in dangerous, intimate proximity. ![]() ![]() Then Bathsheba’s hoyden daughter lures Benedict’s precocious nephew into a quest for a legendary treasure. Nothing and no one will disrupt Bathsheba’s plans-until he enters her life… Now widowed, she’s determined to give her daughter a stable life and a proper upbringing. Small wonder her husband’s high-born family disowned him. Benedict knows all the rules and has no trouble following them-until she enters his life.īathsheba Wingate belongs to the rotten branch of the DeLucey family: a notorious lot of liars, frauds, and swindlers. Tall, dark, and handsome, he is known for his impeccable manners and good breeding. The heir to the Earl of Hargate, Benedict Carsington, Viscount Rathbourne, is the perfect aristocrat. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Major labels kelefa sanneh![]() ![]() Hip-hop borrows from other genres and mixes them together until the boundaries are no longer clear or even exist, particularly when it comes to sampling, when wildly different songs are intercut, collaged together, and rapped over. This is clearest in the chapter devoted to hip-hop, the longest in the book and in some ways the most complex. ![]() In doing so, Sanneh provides the reader with a wealth of information, guiding them through these seven separate movements, whilst also showing how they overlap, sometimes in bizarre ways, resulting in odd musical collaborations. Still, Sanneh is clear about his intentions: as an omnivorous musicophile, he seems to be capable of writing about any genre he wants, but these seven provide a rough history of the development of some of the most mainstream music of the past 80 years. Sanneh focuses solely on America, with some trips across to England, and the timeline within which he operates is not long, roughly 1960 to the present day. There are some limitations to the book’s structure. Each chapter loops back to the other genres to show their points of divergence, before travelling forward to explore the roads of sub-genres and musical fads. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Seven up novel![]() ![]() How about thinking upstairs in the bedroom.” “Sure,” Morelli said, “take all the time you need. “You like the other parts, too,” Morelli said. wedding cake, oral sex, plus you can have my credit card.” What's with that? And what about fantasies? Suppose the intergalactic princess resurfaces and I need to set off on a mission? Problem was, I just didn't know if I was ready for marriage. I was starting to have romantic thoughts about my electric toothbrush. ![]() He unsnapped my jeans, hooked a finger into the waistband, and pulled me to him. He proposed to me a couple weeks ago during a libido attack. He's a cop and his gun is bigger than mine and he doesn't keep it in a cookie jar. ![]() but now he's the kind of trouble a woman likes. I'm still having those run-ins with Morelli. 38 and I keep it in my cookie jar, but it's still a weapon, right:?īack in the days when I was auditioning for princess I had the occasional run-in with the bad kid in the neighborhood. I never did get the cape or the sexy boots, but I do finally have a sort of cool weapon. Then that didn't work out, so I blackmailed my bail bondsman cousin into giving me a job as a bounty hunter. Mostly I wanted to wear the cape and the sexy boots and carry a cool weapon.Īs it happens, the princess thing didn't work out for me, so I went to college and when I graduated I went to work as a lingerie buyer for a chain store. I didn't care much about ruling hordes of space people. FOR THE BETTER part of my childhood, my professional aspirations were simple-I wanted to be an intergalactic princess. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We as Gay conservatives have received more love and tolerance from our fellow #maga patriots than we ever received from the radical #LGBTQ cult! The Republican tent needs to be big and wide! Gays have talent, time, money, love and creativity to bring to this movement. We don’t care if a bakery won’t bake us a darn cake! Business owners’ freedom is more important than our feelings. We don’t push #transgender nonsense on kids, we FIGHT #dragqueenstoryhour and Lady Maga will never teach kids to twerk! #dragkids is exploitation and abuse. We are sick of the rainbow flag being shoved down your throat! #pride is OBNOXIOUS and could be uplifting, but is basically a public sex show. We do not believe in dominating American culture. As Gay conservatives all we ask is freedom and liberty to live live our lives. No matter who you are, as long as you respect and support every patriot - including devout Christians who disagree with homosexuality-You belong in the #trump2020 movement. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments The french kiss novel![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Not that they were boring, but it was easier to put myself in their shoes. Stephanie writes some very interesting and quirky characters, but Isla and Josh were somewhat more vanilla, and something I liked. I’d heard that the characters from the other books all made brief appearances in ‘ Isla’ and wanted to see if my love for this series would grow.įor some reason, I related to Isla and Josh a lot more than I have with any other characters throughout this series. However I was keen to complete the series and see how it all wrapped up. I was both dubious and eager to jump into ‘ Isla and the Happily Ever After.’ I did enjoy the previous two novels in this series, but wasn’t really blown away like many of my friends, so I started reading with trepidation and low expectations. But as they begin their senior year back in France, Isla and Josh are forced to confront the challenges every young couple must face, including family drama, uncertainty about their college futures, and the very real possibility of being apart. And after a chance encounter in Manhattan over the summer, romance might be closer than Isla imagined. Hopeless romantic Isla has had a crush on introspective cartoonist Josh since their first year at the School of America in Paris. ![]() Love ignites in the City That Never Sleeps, but can it last? Capturing misshapen love across International borders. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments The Bastard by John Jakes![]() Lacking the funds to return to France, Marie and Philippe flee to London, where Phillippe learns the printing trade and makes plans to emigrate to America. When they arrive, the Duke's family refuse to recognize Philippe as the son of the Duke. Seventeen-year-old Philippe Charboneau, illegitimate son of James Amberly, the 6th Duke of Kent, travels with his mother Marie to Kent, England and stake their claim to his inheritance. ![]() The story begins in November 1770 in Auvergne, France, near Chavaniac. The novel was adapted into a four-hour television film in 1978, also called The Bastard. The novel mixes fictional characters with historical events or people, to tell the story of the United States of America in the time period leading up to the American Revolution. ![]() ![]() It is book one in a series known as The Kent Family Chronicles or the American Bicentennial Series. The Bastard is an historical novel written by John Jakes and originally published in 1974. ![]() |