Paint it black a novel6/27/2023 ![]() They'd held hands, they both saw it, right there, the true world. ![]() The true world glowed in the morning light, the bird and the water, sparkling. As Josie's life stumbles along, awash in sex, drugs and vodka, she's trapped in the single year of her relationship with Michael, spent in their tiny Echo Park bungalow.Īt first it was idyllic, like the moment Josie and Michael saw a blue heron in the Silver Lake reservoir: Suicide, Fitch tells us, is an endless vortex of guilt, rage and loss that swamps the survivors. ![]() Can she come down to the Los Angeles County coroner's office to identify her boyfriend Michael's body? He's committed suicide, and that moment plays and replays throughout the rest of the book. The bad news arrives in a phone call to Josie, a 20-year-old punk-rocker and artist's model. ![]() Seven years later, Fitch is back with another dark tale of fierce mothers, wounded children and family affliction. A lot.įitch is the Los Angeles writer whose first novel, White Oleander, made Oprah Winfrey cry and turned an unknown into a best-selling author. ![]() There's a world of hurt in Janet Fitch's second novel, Paint it Black - and if you venture in even a few pages, that world is going to hurt you. ![]()
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Parasite book mira grant6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Grant’s fans are accustomed to her tackling unusual subjects, and this is no exception. What they find is surprising and, for one of them, the end to a heartbreaking personal chapter. After Nathan experiences the death of someone close to him and Sal receives a mysterious message with ties to someone else’s past, the two start seeking answers. When people with implants start turning into zombielike creatures, they know something alarming is going on. She and her doctor boyfriend, Nathan, harbor reservations about SymboGen’s motives. Sal hates it and distrusts the company’s founder, Banks, but she knows she owes her life to SymboGen. But she’s very different from the old Sally, and since SymboGen was in on her recovery, they’re continuing to closely monitor her. She had to relearn everything, even language. Badly injured in a car accident, Sal finally awoke from a coma to find herself a blank slate. Now they’re interested in Sally Mitchell, or Sal, as she likes to be called. Steven Banks, has grown and prospered with the continued employment of the parasites. ![]() ![]() SymboGen, the enormous corporate entity that developed the tapeworm technology under the leadership of Dr. Since their introduction, tapeworms have become an accepted health resource. The parasites in question are tapeworms, and they’re programmed to help their hosts overcome disease and other health issues. The book concerns a future in which the population intentionally ingests worms. Grant’s latest lands readers in 2027, when most people sport implants that help them regulate their health. ![]() Summer of 69 book series6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() While I can normally be critical about books glamorizing affairs, I thought this book did it in a really smart way that made sense and showed that all relationships are different and complex. Naturally, this becomes more complicated with age, marriage and kids. It’s about two people who decide to have a “same time next year” meeting that lasts each Labor Day weekend over the course of … you guessed it … 28 Summers. If you already read it, check out the sequel: The Sixth Wedding: A 28 Summers Story (2021) (a short story that takes you right back into the characters’ lives, a few years later, as Jake returns to Nantucket for Labor Day weekend 2023).Ģ8 Summers lived up to all my expectations of a classic Elin book - preppy Nantucket setting, light but still has substance, well-drawn-out characters, realistic but still clever dialogue, compulsively readable … I feel like I can go on forever! ![]() My #2 Top Pick for Elin Hilderbrand’s best bookīest for those who enjoy popular culture references and decades-long romances Read these books in my Summer Reading Challenge. The Perfect Couple: the ultimate “death at a wedding” in Nantucket mystery.28 Summers: a tear-jerker with a wealth of pop culture references.Summer of ’69: light historical fiction drama set during a momentous Summer in Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard. ![]() One time only lauren blakely6/26/2023 ![]() But after a close call at his concert, all bets are off. Good thing I’m strong, determined, and dedicated to resisting him. ![]() And If I give in again, I might lose everything. Because the mistakes from the past are chasing me. Until one night in a limo when we combust. But every night I spend with him the attraction grows more intense, electric, undeniable. And nowhere in the job description does it say I should lust after the charismatic, charming rock star. Each day I remind myself that it's my job to protect Stone. Sign up for an alert /LaurenAudioīlurb A fiery, passionate MM romance novel from #1 New York Times Bestselling author Lauren Blakely… Ever hear the story about the bodyguard who falls for the rock star? Yeah, it never ends well. ✦Audible ➜ ONE TIME ONLY will be performed by Jacob Morgan and Teddy Hamilton! A preorder will be available in late October. PREORDER TODAY! SPECIAL PREORDER PRICE OF $2.99 FOR TODAY ONLY! An all-new fiery, passionate MM romance novel from #1 New York Times Bestselling author Lauren Blakely!! ONE TIME ONLY is coming November 18th! ![]() ONE TIME ONLY by Lauren Blakely Release Date: November 18th Cover Designer: Helen Williams ![]() Stephen king the tower6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() Posing as drovers, Roland, Cuthbert, and Alain must discover whether Hambry’s powerful Horsemen’s Association is still loyal to Gilead. Determined to save his son from Gilead’s many secret assassins, Steven Deschain sends Roland and two tet-mates on a mission to the Outer Arc town of Hambry. But Roland’s victory puts his life in even more danger. ![]() Although Marten hopes that Roland will fail and be sent west in disgrace, Roland wins his guns and becomes a fully fledged gunslinger. It tells the story of Roland Deschain, a gunslinger apprentice who is goaded by his father’s treacherous sorcerer into facing his coming-of-age test at the unheard-of age of fourteen. The Gunslinger Born is an adaptation of Stephen King’s fourth Dark Tower novel, Wizard and Glass. Tab will move on to the next part of the site rather than go through menu items. Enter and space open menus and escape closes them as well. Up and Down arrows will open main level menus and toggle through sub tier links. ![]() Left and right arrows move across top level links and expand / close menus in sub levels. The site navigation utilizes arrow, enter, escape, and space bar key commands. ![]() An Underground Life by Gad Beck6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() Gad Beck, born in Berlin, Germany on June 30, 1923, describes growing up with a twin sister in a. BECK, ALBERT BECK, GAD CLOSE-UPS DP CAMPS/CENTERS HOMOSEXUALS INTERIORS JEWS (GERMAN) Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Gad Beck. Portrait of Gad Beck sitting at a desk in a displaced persons camp. BAR/BAT MITZVAH BECK, ALBERT BECK, GAD FAMILIES (INTERMARRIED JEWISH) FAMILIES (PREWAR JEWISHĦ. Margot (Miriam) and Gerhard ( Gad) Beck pose outside on the day of his Bar Mitzvah. Gerhard ( Gad) Beck is the son of Heinrich and Hedwig (Kretchmar) Beck. ![]() ![]() Portrait of Margot (Miriam) and Gerhard ( Gad) Beck.īECK, GAD CHILDREN/YOUTH CLOSE-UPS FAMILIES (INTERMARRIED JEWISH) JEWS (GERMAN) MISCHLINGE. On February 17, 1943, Gad was ordered to report to the temporary internment camp established at aĤ. Portrait of Margot (Miriam) and Gerhard ( Gad) BeckĪctive in Jewish youth movements, and took on Hebrew names ( Gad and Miriam. ![]() ’s library holds copies of Gad Beck’s memoirs, and a number of digitized photographs of Beck can be accessedģ. holds an oral history interview with Gad Beck, and a second oral history that forms part of the USC. His father was a Jewish immigrant from Austria. When Gad and his twin sister, Miriam, were 5, the Becks moved to the. ![]() Spindlewood by Marcus Attwater6/26/2023 ![]() They want him dead but Shenkin's pride,determination and two fisted approach, while even in chains, sees him survive. They have smuggled loot from London on to the ship and Shenkin knows to much. The ship is captained by the tyrant Josiah Moxey and joint owned by the decadent Lord Feltsham. His grounding in brutality is completed on the prison hulks and the convict ship the Runnymede. Together with his side kick the giant of a man Regan O'Hara he is sentenced to transportation for a term of 20 years in the penal colonies of Australia. Working men and soldiers are killed or wounded. ![]() He is determined to form a union. The protest he leads turns into a revolt. ![]() He gambles, loves and bare knuckle fights for survival. Daniel Shenkin born into a working class community of the 19th century scarred and buried in the bowels of the coal mines and forged in the Ironworks of his black South Wales valley. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lovecraft's interest in Arabic and Oriental culture most likely led to him incorporating the ancient god into the Cthulhu Mythos.ĭagon is referenced numerous times throughout the game, especially in the chants by the followers of the Order who say "I'a Dagon". ![]() ![]() Many scholars agree however that he was worshipped as the god of fertility and agriculture. This led to many associating him as a "fish-god" and "merman-god". He is also mentioned in the Bible, where he is associated as the Philistines god of fish. It is believed that he was worshipped among the people of: Ebla, Assyria, Ugarit and Amorites. The Ugaritic meaning of the word is "grain". The etymology of the name is most likely derived from the Ugaritic word "Dgn" or Akkadian "Dagana". He is mentioned in a book by Captain Abner Ezekiel Hoag, written in 1734, called Ponape. Throughout the ages though, Dagon gathered a large following, ultimately being worshipped by many Oceanic tribes, such as the Kanakies and even ancient Mesopotamian cultures. It is also unclear whether he is native to Earth or was if he was (along with other Deep Ones) part of the invasion force that came to Earth alongside Cthulhu and his Star Spawn. The origin of Dagon is rather ambiguous and it is never clearly stated if he is a Great Old One (like Cthulhu) or simply a large and very powerful Deep One. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book was first published in 1980 and its authors are respectively a rock writer and a personal friend of Morrison’s, so its credentials are pretty good. It demanded a commitment to live, and die, with great style and even greater sadness to wake each morning with the fever raging and know it would never be extinguished except by death, yet to be convinced that this suffering carried a unique reward. To be a poet entailed more than writing poems. I decided it was time to learn a little more. And then, a few weeks ago, someone gave this biography to our village fete book stall. When I went to Paris with my parents back in 2004, before I’d really heard of the Doors, we went to Père Lachaise but, while Mum sought out Jim Morrison’s grave, I homed in on Oscar Wilde’s. ![]() But I never paid much attention to the band themselves. And the music wasn’t half bad either, with its weird lyrics and dreamy rhythms: in fact, the album swiftly became one of my favourites. Being an impressionable young thing at the time (oh, it was all of three years ago), I was struck by the face on the cover: the brooding stare from under lowered lids and the tumbled mass of dark hair. The Doors’s debut album was among the first CDs sent by my uncle in my correspondence course on classic rock. ![]() The paid bridesmaid6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() Rachel’s made a career out of always a bridesmaid…but perhaps there’s a chance for her own trip down the aisle?. If she’s a spy, she’s certainly the cutest one he’s ever seen.Īs the week’s worth of wedding events march along, Rachel and Camden are learning almost everything there is to know about each other. But the constant surveillance is also opening his eyes to things about Rachel that he likes. ![]() Convinced she’s a corporate spy out to tank his company, Camden’s not letting her out of his sight. High-tech entrepreneur Camden Lewis must know: Who is this gorgeous, intelligent, and mysterious woman? Too good to be real. If Rachel can keep the very handsome and slightly too interested best man at bay, that is. That means a paradise of new contacts, which could be a boon to her already booming business. Her next gig is a destination wedding-livestreamed and sponsored-for an Instagram influencer. Rachel Vinson is a bridesmaid for hire: part confidante, part wedding planner, and one hundred percent pretend BFF. Enter for a chance to win a Kindle edition of The Paid Bridesmaid, the latest novel from bestselling author Sariah Wilson.įrom Sariah Wilson, the bestselling author of Roommaid, comes a captivating romantic comedy about what happens when a wedding party mixes business wit From Sariah Wilson, the bestselling author of Roommaid, comes a captivating romantic comedy about what happens when a wedding party mixes business with romance. ![]() |