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![]() ![]() But how can she maintain her icy shields when every heated glance melts her to her core? The Twelve Dukes of Christmas is a laugh-out-loud historical romance series of heartwarming Regency romps nestled in a picturesque snow-covered village. Now he's back-and they both know he won't stay. He stole her heart, stole a kiss, and then stole away one night never to return. ![]() Noelle Pratchett is immune to charming scoundrels like the arrogant duke. He definitely won't rekindle the forbidden spark crackling between him and the irresistible spitfire he'd left behind. As soon as he restores his family legacy, he'll return to London where he belongs. A heartwarming, second chances, reunion romance from a New York Times bestselling author: Due to the terms of an estranged relative's will, the Duke of Silkridge must revisit the cold, unforgiving mountains where he lost everything he once loved. ![]() ![]() Worst of all, the human male appears to have impaired her ability to think clearly. Granted access to the inner sanctum of zombaceuticals, she meets an actual, living, breathing M-A-N.Now Hattie, the consummate professional, is acting like a single girl at the end of the twentieth century: self-conscious, klutzy and unable to form a coherent sentence without babbling. Publication Order of Standalone Novels Little Vampire Women, (2010), Hardcover Paperback Kindle The Girls Guide to Dating Zombies, (2012), Hardcover. ![]() So she writes "The Girls' Guide to Dating Zombies" to help her fellow single women navigate the zombie-relationship waters.Her practical how-to impresses the CEO of the largest drug company in the world, and before she knows it, Hattie, a reporter for a downmarket tabloid that specializes in conspiracy theories, is sitting down with the woman who single-handedly invented the zombie-behavioral-modification market. Lynn Messina is the author of many novels, including Fashionistas, which has been translated into sixteen languages, and The Girls Guide to Dating Zombies. ![]() Hattie Cross knows what you're thinking: Zombie sex? Epercent of human males into zombies, it's statistically impossible to meet-let alone date-the remaining 0.00001 percent. Lynn Messina - YouTube Decidated to helping you form the perfect zombie relationship. ![]() ![]() Rule #2: Don't speak to invisible faeries. Powerful and dangerous, they walk hidden in the mortal world, and would blind her if they knew of her Sight. Rule #3: Don't stare at invisible faeries. "The clash of ancient rules & modern expectations swirl together in this cool, urban 21st century faery tale. Included with the books are two (2) book marks featuring the Wicked Lovely series, one book mark is SIGNED by Melissa Marr. All five (5) are large soft covers/trade, tight clean and square, volume one "Wicked Lovely" is SIGNED "to Rhonda - believe in yourself" signed by author on title page, vol 4 "Fragile Eternity" has a new short story in the World of Wicked Lovely" at rear of book, 50 pages long called "Stopping Time", 328, 325, 389 (50), 340, 327 pages, Near Fine condition. ![]() The scans you see are the books you get. Mark Tucker cover artist for all five softcovers, (illustrator). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sometimes they’re insistent and sometimes downright nasty, accusing me of lacking the high school equivalent of patriotism, even to the point of calling me a traitor. ![]() Coaches have tried to get me to turn out for sports since junior high. The seemingly related things that I believe kick this story off happen on the second day of school. Evidently Glenda was as surprised as Stephan she’d had a one-night stand with my sperm donor to get even for a good thumping and had no idea the tall black-Japanese poet’s squiggly swimmer was the one in a billion to crash through to the promised land. Because my mom is one of those magic people with the natural capacity to make folks in shitty circumstances feel less shitty, she consoled Glenda and even brought her home until she could get her feet on the ground. Any way he matched up the fruit flies, he couldn’t come up with me. A second-generation German-American married to a woman of Swiss-Norwegian descent, he was a goner before my toes cleared the wet stuff. The woman I call Mom-who is Mom-Abby Jones, was in the hospital following her fourth miscarriage (and final attempt at the miracle of birth) where she met my biological mother, Glenda, right after my presumed bio-dad, Stephan, had assisted in my natural childbirth only to come eyeball-to-eyeball with the aforementioned UNICEF poster boy. And like Superman, I was adopted by great people. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Justin and Mae are assigned to work together to solve a string of ritualistic murders, they soon realize that their discoveries have exposed them to terrible danger. Raised in an aristocratic caste, Mae is now a member of the military's most elite and terrifying tier, a soldier with enhanced reflexes and skills. But Justin is given a second chance when Mae Koskinen comes to bring him back to the Republic of United North America (RUNA). In a futuristic world nearly destroyed by religious extremists, Justin March lives in exile after failing in his job as an investigator of religious groups and supernatural claims. "Richelle Mead, the #1 New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the Vampire Academy and Bloodlines YA series-whose books have sold more than one million copies in hardcover-debuts on the Dutton list with Gameboard of the Gods, the first novel in her Age of X series. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book is a gem." - Robert Sapolsky, New York Times bestselling author of "Behave and Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers" In addition to being an intellectual pleasure, this is an aesthetic one as well – House writes like a dream, with great drollness and elegance of phrase. "In "Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness", Patrick House explores intensely interesting, beautifully provocative ideas about the neurobiology of consciousness. Mixing science, metaphors, and philosophy, House provides elegant frameworks for ways to think about thinking.” -Kirkus Reviews ![]() “An exploration of the possibilities of consciousness.investigations recall Oliver Sacks. This is bursting with insight." - Publishers Weekly This remarkable book fosters a sense of mystery and wonder about the strangeness of the relationship between our inner selves and our environment. Neuroscientist and author Patrick House describes complex concepts in accessible terms, weaving brain science, technology, gaming, analogy, and philosophy into a tapestry that illuminates how the brain works and what enables consciousness. ![]() ![]() "Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness" offers a brilliant overview of the state of modern consciousness research in twenty brief, revealing chapters. A concise, elegant, and thought-provoking exploration of the mystery of consciousness and the functioning of the brain.ĭespite decades of research, remarkable imagery, and insights from a range of scientific and medical disciplines, the human brain remains largely unexplored. ![]() ![]() As the story builds to its stunning conclusion, Eddie desperately seeks redemption in the still-unknown last act of his life: Was it a heroic success or a devastating failure? The answer, which comes from the most unlikely of sources, is as inspirational as a glimpse of heaven itself. One by one, Eddie’s five people illuminate the unseen connections of his earthly life. Yet each of them changed your path forever. These people may have been loved ones or distant strangers. ![]() ![]() He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden, but a place where your earthly life is explained to you by five people who were in it. ![]() With his final breath, he feels two small hands in his - and then nothing. Then, on his 83rd birthday, Eddie dies in a tragic accident, trying to save a little girl from a falling cart. His days are a dull routine of work, loneliness, and regret. ![]() As the park has changed over the years - from the Loop-the-Loop to the Pipeline Plunge - so, too, has Eddie changed, from optimistic youth to embittered old age. An enchanting, beautifully crafted novel that explores a mystery only heaven can unfold.Įddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. ![]() ![]() A TV show that exemplifies this is Locke and Key, based on Joe Hill’s series of graphic novels, where the Locke family control a group of magical keys in their manor house, some of which open their own heads, so they can wander around their brains and hold up jars of memories, often with disastrous consequences. ![]() It’s an ethereal worldbuilding, a little like Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics, making tiny universes in small spaces so we can observe them. ![]() ![]() One room is filled with bees, another is filled only with the sound of bees. You walk into it thinking you will die or learn something.” In Matt Bell’s novel The House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods, a grieving woman creates underground rooms so that she can take things out of her head and trap them there. It’s essentially when authors use physical spaces to embody things we wouldn’t usually see.įor example, Lauren Eggert-Crowe wrote a poetry pamphlet called The Exhibit where the reader is invited to walk through a series of rooms that speak only to them: “The exhibit is a lightning storm. It’s a rather bizarre device, so I don’t come across it all too often, but when I do, I’m thrilled. An oddly specific thing that I’m drawn to in books is the personification of rooms. ![]() ![]() ![]() Particularly in the early chapters we could have done without the repeated descriptions of pubescent breasts! Once you notice, you realise that he does it every time. Unfortunately Rutherford seems unable to describe a young female character without mentioning her sexual attributes. Likewise the book taught me quite a lot of history. An absorbing historical chronicle, Sarum is a keen tale of struggle and adventure, a profound human drama, and a magnificent work of sheer storytelling. Nonetheless, I learnt a lot of interest about the Salisbury region and have already booked a visit to the city. ![]() The further I got through this audiobook the less I felt invested in the characters. Although the device of following family lines through the ages is an interesting one, the sheer plethora of characters that that device requires cannot easily all be given their own gripping story. It did not repay the investment of time (57 hours). ![]() Unfortunately, ultimately I found this book a little disappointing. So I was glad to see this addition on Audible recently. Nonetheless I had been looking out for the audiobook version because I wanted to finish the story. Author of 41 books including Sarum: The Novel of England Follow author Francis Edward Wintle, best known under his pen name Edward Rutherfurd, was born in the cathedral city of Salisbury. I had previously started the paperback version of this book, enjoyed it as far as I got but got overwhelmed by the length. ![]() |