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High Desert Haven by Lynnette Bonner (Goodreads Author) "Is Jason Jordan really who he says he is? Everything in Nicki's life depends on the answer." "Oregon, " When her husband dies in a mysterious riding accident, Nicki Trent is left with a toddler and a rundown ranch. Category: Paperbacks for Sale Tags: Christian Fiction, Christian Historical Romance. Sale! $ $ Book 2 in The Shepherd’s Heart series. High Desert Haven (The Shepherd's Heart) (Volume 2)/5(). High Desert Haven (The Shepherd's Heart) (Volume 2) on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. I liked High Desert Haven even better than Rock Mountain Oasis, her 1st book. Nicki is a favorite character in the series. Jason's turn around was a little far fetched at first (from 1st book), but had me convinced before the bullets started flying. Enjoy Lynnette Bonner's natural and riveting writing style. But there will be.Īn homage to the indomitable power and persistence of women, The Once and Future Witches reimagines stories of revolution, motherhood, and women's suffrage-the lost ways are calling. Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not suffer a witch to vote―and perhaps not even to live―the sisters will need to delve into the oldest magics, draw new alliances, and heal the bond between them if they want to survive. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box.īut when the Eastwood sisters―James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth, and Beatrice Belladonna―join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women's movement into the witch's movement. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in this powerful novel of magic, family, and the suffragette movement. Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR Books. Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel. "―Laini Taylor, New York Times bestselling authorĪ NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A gorgeous and thrilling paean to the ferocious power of women. 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Nick quickly learns that the human world is only a veil for a much larger and more dangerous one: a world where the captain of the football team is a werewolf and the girl he has a crush on goes out at night to stake the undead. Saved by a mysterious warrior who has more fighting skills than Chuck Norris, the teenaged Nick is sucked into the realm of the Dark-Hunters: immortal vampire slayers who risk everything to save humanity. Streetwise, tough, and savvy, his quick sarcasm is the stuff of legends.until the night when his best friends try to kill him. At fourteen, Nick Gautier thinks he knows everything about the world around him. With her trademark historical fiction exploration into the shadows of the past, acclaimed author Marie Benedict brings us into the world of Agatha Christie, imagining why such a brilliant woman would find herself at the center of such murky historical mysteries. The puzzle of those missing eleven days has persisted. Eleven days later, she reappears, just as mysteriously as she disappeared, claiming amnesia and providing no explanations for her time away. Her World War I veteran husband and her daughter have no knowledge of her whereabouts, and England unleashes an unprecedented manhunt to find the up-and-coming mystery author. Investigators find her empty car on the edge of a deep, gloomy pond, the only clues some tire tracks nearby and a fur coat left in the car-strange for a frigid night. In December 1926, Agatha Christie goes missing. The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Only Woman in the Room returns with a thrilling reconstruction of one of the most notorious events in literary history: Agatha Christie's mysterious 11-day disappearance in 1926. The ending is ingenious, and it's possible that Benedict has brought to life the most plausible explanation for why Christie disappeared for 11 days in 1926."- The Washington Post This is a virtual event, taking place via Zoom Webinar! Register for this livestream event here! A con artist: Irene Chen, a public policy major at Duke who can talk her way out of anything. His crew is every heist archetype one can imagine-or at least, the closest he can get. But when a mysterious Chinese benefactor reaches out with an impossible-and illegal-job offer, Will finds himself something else as well: the leader of a heist to steal back five priceless Chinese sculptures, looted from Beijing centuries ago. Across the Western world, museums display the spoils of war, of conquest, of colonialism: priceless pieces of art looted from other countries, kept even now.Ī senior at Harvard, Will fits comfortably in his carefully curated roles: a perfect student, an art history major and sometimes artist, the eldest son who has always been his parents’ American Dream. Ocean’s Eleven meets The Farewell in Portrait of a Thief, a lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by the true story of Chinese art vanishing from Western museums about diaspora, the colonization of art, and the complexity of the Chinese American identity. Well, as titled, Big Fish is a big fish, too big to play with smaller fish. This children's story is an original story which the author has also illustrated. Amani for this nice illustrating of friendship. I think another important point is that Big Fish removes the binary opposition between nature and culture,for instance here we have the characters such as fish or moon,they are personified and also they are the significant symbols in this case big fish represents a lonely person by her/his own, and moon represents the nature and it's better to say this nature represents the passage of time and its importance in the life of every individuals. Big fish teaches us use our time to make friends and have pleasure with them, also it doesn't matter how we are big or small, black or white,etc. So it doesn't matter at all whether they communicate to others and make real friends or not. Children just amuse their selves with terrifying computer and Internet games which make their loneliness deeper and deeper. Yeah the concept which is nowadays spreading all over the world although every body does her/his best to have more friends and actually has many friends through the virtual world but not a real one. Again another nice short story “for kids and thoughtful parents,”Big Fish, well it reminds me a great, pleasant but forgotten concept. I heard the clink of his weapons and the soft fall of his tunic and leggings to the floor. I did not wish to look on him as he removed his clothing, though I had no doubt his eyes were upon me. He did not come near me at first, and I remained turned away as he undressed. The room was full dark, and he lit the wick in a dish of oil, as he had that first night. Volumes 1-3 of the Viking Warriors dark historical romance series. Unexpected twists that will leave you breathless. Just as she believes herself safe, an unseen enemy drags her to the depths of desire.Įlswyth must fight if she wants to survive.Ī pulse-pounding dark romance you won’t be able to put down. Viking Warriors Dark Romance Trilogy by Emmanuelle de MaupassantĪ battle of passion and loss in a dark and dangerous world.Ĭaught in a storm of jealousy and passion, her life hangs in the balance. The mother of five children, Carla has always allowed her kids to earn their keep by appearing in her Regencies, most notably Marian's Christmas Wish, which is peopled by all kinds of relatives. Her entire Indian Wars collection was published in 2003 as Here's to the Ladies: Stories of the Frontier Army. She was the second woman to earn two Spurs from WWA (which, as everyone knows, is all you need to ride a horse). Two of her stories, A Season for Heroes and Kathleen Flaherty's Long Winter, earned her Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America. (Or as she would be the first to admit, as serious as it gets.)Ĭarla wrote a series of what she now refers to as the "Fort Laramie stories," which are tales of the men, women and children of the Indian Wars era in Western history. Although she had sold some of her work before, it was not until Carla began work in the National Park Service as a ranger/historian at Fort Laramie National Historic Site did she get serious about her writing career. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.Īlthough Carla Kelly is well known among her readers as a writer of Regency romance, her main interest (and first writing success) is Western American fiction-more specifically, writing about America's Indian Wars. |