![]() With Wayward Son, the sequel to Carry On, Rainbow Rowell has written a book for everyone who ever wondered what happened to the Chosen One after he saved the day. They get so lost, they start to wonder whether they ever knew where they were headed in the first place. (Dragons, vampires, skunk-headed things with shotguns.) And they get lost. That’s how Simon and Penny and Baz end up in a vintage convertible, tearing across the American West. He just needs to see himself in a new light. What he needs, according to his best friend, is a change of scenery. So why can’t Simon Snow get off the couch? Now comes the good part, right? Now comes the happily ever after. Simon Snow did everything he was supposed to do. ![]() With all of her signature wit and heart, this is Rainbow at her absolute best. Wayward Son is the stunning YA novel by the bestselling author of Fangirl, Rainbow Rowell. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Richly imagined and beautifully written, The Mysteries lingers in the mind long after the last page is turned.” -George R. What follows leads him and those who care for Peri into the Highlands of Scotland, as the unknowns of the past and present merge in the case-and in their lives. Though Ian suspects that Peri chose to vanish, he takes on the search. But when Ian learns the details of her disappearance, he discovers eerie parallels to an obscure Celtic myth and the haunting case that launched his career-a success he’s never fully been able to explain. ![]() Laura Lensky’s stunning twenty-one-year-old daughter, Peri, has been missing for over two years. Now a sought-after private investigator, Ian faces a case he fears he cannot solve. Ian Kennedy always had a penchant for stories about missing people-and a knack for finding them. What happens when someone vanishes without a trace? “A thriller, detective story, and fantasy all in one. Award-winning author Lisa Tuttle delivers a riveting novel combining one man’s search for a missing woman with history’s most enduring legends of the disappeared. ![]() ![]() ![]() Many observe that " The Wisdom of Morrie" is like a "Prequel" to "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom because Morrie wrote it between 1988-1992 (around age 70-75) during retirement and prior to being diagnosed with ALS (aka Lou Gehig's disease). Rob Schwartz found his late father's book in his desk after Morrie passed in November 1995 from ALS. Morrie urges everyone to make new friends, learn new things, and join organizations to stay connected, especially as one ages. ![]() Surgeon General Advisory: Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation (May 2023). ![]() As a posthumously published book, Morrie Schwartz's words are even more timely and relevant today with the New U.S. ![]() ![]() Recently, however, he has come to the conclusion that empathy is no more successful than reason in puncturing our biased self-concern and bridging the gap between ourselves and others so as to achieve moral action. ‘You can never be too rich or too thin… or too empathic.’īloom, a professor of psychology at Yale, admits that he himself once thought along these lines. ![]() ‘People often assume that empathy is an absolute good,’ writes Paul Bloom. Now, empathy is widely accepted as the sole true source of morality and social progress, each person’s bulwark against wrongdoing and the psychopath’s vital deficit. ![]() The term ‘empathy’ was coined by 19th-century psychologists to distinguish Hume’s nerve-quivering type of sympathy from the more detached, cerebral act of appreciating the predicaments of others. Morality only works, Hume claimed, because, in the same way that plucking one of the tautened strings of a musical instrument makes all the others vibrate, humans are naturally primed to be stirred by one another’s suffering. ![]() What else, in the absence of religious faith, and given our postmodern scepticism about how reasonable ‘reason’ is, could curb our wild, exorbitant egos? Even if reason is impartial, we increasingly agree with the 18th-century philosopher David Hume that it is ‘inert’, too ‘impotent’ to spur moral behaviour. ![]() ‘Without God’, said Dostoevsky’s Ivan Karamazov, ‘everything is permitted.’ For some psychologists, says Paul Bloom, ‘without God’ should be replaced by ‘without empathy’. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her books have been published in over 20 languages and the film adaptation of Tangled, Emma's iconic enemies-to-lovers rom-com, was recently released by Passionflix. How can one woman turn a smooth-talking player into a broken, desperate man? By making the one thing he never wanted in life the only thing he can’t live without. Emma Chase is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of romance filled with humor, heat and heart. The professional competition she brings is unnerving, his attraction to her is distracting, his failure to entice her into his bed is exasperating. ![]() When Katherine Brooks is hired as the new associate at Drew’s father’s investment banking firm, every aspect of the dashing playboy’s life is thrown into a tailspin. Publication Order of Tangled Books Tangled Tangled Extra Scenes Holy Frigging Matrimony Twisted Tamed Tied Its a Wonderful Tangled Christmas Carol. Tangled on Passionflix Based on the bestseller by Emma Chase tangled. So why has he been shuttered in his apartment for seven days, miserable and depressed? It’s not the flu like he says. A series of movies based off of the erotic romance novel Gabriels Inferno. ![]() If You Like Emma Chase Books, You’ll Love…Įmma Chase Synopsis: In Tangled by Emma Chase, Drew Evans makes multi-million dollar business deals and can seduce the most beautiful women with only a smile. Note: Baby, It’s Cold Outside also has stories by Melody Anne, Kate Meader, Jennifer Probst and Kristen Proby. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's one of the few books truly indispensable to understanding Picasso's artistic and spiritual growth. ![]() Crammed with new insights, this synthesis weds an irresistible narrative to hundreds of wonderfully apposite photographs and art reproductions. ![]() As we watch the maternally overprotected prodigy transform himself into the daring, confident bohemian who took Paris by storm, Richardson ably untangles the skeinok of friendships and love affairs that Picasso transmuted into the personal mythology overflowing his canvases. Like his much-maligned father, Jose Ruiz Blasco, an easy-going art teacher, Pablo, in Barcelona and Montmarte, was the star of a tertulia, a circle of cronies, who met regularly at a cafe to gossip and exchange views. Richardson, a native Londoner who now lives in New York City, lived in the south of France for more than a decade and came to know Picasso as a neighbor in Provence. Richardson, who was the artist's close friend in France for a decade, attributes to Picasso's ``demonic Andalusian birthright'' his jolting oscillations between tenderness and cruelty, his self-dramatization, his harnessing of sexuality to his art. ![]() Remarkably intimate yet epic in sweep, this astonishing, continually engaging biography (first installment of a four-volume opus) neither glorifies Picasso nor paints him as an ogre. Sir John Patrick Richardson, KBE, FBA (6 February 1924 12 March 2019) was a British art historian and biographer of Pablo Picasso. ![]() ![]() ![]() I loved how even though Winston’s emotions evolved he stayed true to himself. Winston Constantine could turn out to be her savior or the one leading to her doom.Īsh might have messed up, but I liked how she was determined to fix it. When a scandal broke out, she was forced to face more than she could handle. When his game with me is over, will I be able to pretend as if the glass slipper wasn’t a perfect fit?Īsh Elliott knew firsthand the consequences of betraying a Constantine. Until I realize instead of ruling the board, I was just a pawn. I knew Winston wouldn’t be my prince charming, but that didn’t stop me from falling for him.Īfter all, the slippers fit, and I let myself believe I’d be dancing with Winston forever. Winston has my heart, the Morellis have incriminating photos, and I’m left with nothing except three stepbrothers who want to hurt me and a future in doubt. But he’s engaged in far more dangerous games than ours, and his enemies are out for blood. ![]() Type: Book 3 of 3 from Cinderella trilogyīetraying the most powerful man in New York wasn’t something I ever envisioned when I first started playing games with Winston Constantine. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book made me scream and gasp and stop, sit, and stare. I just want to read it over and over again, mystery intact. How does it happen? How does someone put something this perfect together? And I don’t even want to know. ![]() The idea of writing such a beautiful book kills me. ![]() I’m pretty sure he’s gotten it, but just in case, my wish is out there. ![]() But, I wish on Tom Wolfe a lifetime supply of sex and ice cream because of this book. Anybody! Not that I’m recommending everyone start stalking him. I hope Tom Wolfe has gotten anybody he’s ever wanted – x-ray, lemon tart, girls with any shade of lipstick imaginable, men with impressive sternocleidomastoid muscles. I hope women (or men) invented a time machine to travel back in time and lay young Tom Wolfe because of this book. I hope women have put down this book, thrown on some lingerie, and walked over to his apartment – unless Wolfe is gay, in which case, I hope men have done the lingerie thing. I hope Tom Wolfe has gotten so laid because of this book. ![]() ![]() "If fire is on the other side of a door preventing you from escaping, one of the worst things you can do is open the door. Unfortunately, opening a door ( especially one that's warm to the touch) is one of the worst mistakes you can make during a structural fire. This usually means opening doors to an attempt to find an escape route. When a fire breaks out in a building, most people's first natural impulse is the correct one - to flee the area. One of the biggest mistakes you can make is flinging open doors without first checking for a different escape route INSIDER consulted with fire and safety experts to identify some of the most dangerous mistakes you make during a fire and what to do instead. It's also crucial to know what not to do, as making the wrong decision can have serious and sometimes fatal consequences. ![]() ![]() It often indicates a user profile.įires can occur just about anywhere, so it's important to prepare yourself for them as knowing what to do during a blaze can possibly save your life and the lives of others. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now… BEFORE I GO ON… ANYONE THAT HASN’T READ BOOK #1 but that wants to… LOOK AWAY NOW!! DO NOT EVEN READ THE BLURB FOR THIS BOOK. A true romance, with all of the angsty touches that keeps tugging at our hearts, a look into realistic “ side” characters, and the pain and growth that comes from such personal experiences. ![]() But then you rebuilt me… So I think it’s love. Took me apart, systematically, by pieces. ![]() ![]() I feel so melodramatic in saying this, but oh well, here it goes, anyway. I’m not sure whether to be mad at you, or if I should be professing serious love for you. I’ll just copy and paste my comment I posted on Emma Scott’s Facebook page – that kind of sums it up for me, lol. And specifically, why we needed this book so badly.Ĭeleste: I just finished All In. In fact, you CAN read this one, without reading book #1 (you can understand it as a standalone without issue), but there is nothing more complete than knowing where these wonderful characters came from, what they have been through, and the poignant connection that ties them all together. Gorgeous, heart wrenching, and will completely mend your heart, in the best of ways. In fact, I was delighted at the little “butterfly” touch that she graced us with, in this conclusion to a beautiful love story. MARYSE’S SURPRISE FROM HER FAVORITE BOOK BOYFRIEND’SĪn absolute healing, fulfilling, sweet and perfect story that was everything I’d hoped for (and come to expect) from this author.ALL MY REVIEWS (ALPHABETICAL BY AUTHOR). ![]() |