![]() ![]() ![]() "Wow, after 'The Notebook' and 'Nights in Rodanthe', this is the third decent Nick Sparks film in a row, so maybe the series is starting to get better", is something that I wish I had heard someone say when this film first came out, one month before "The Last Song" (In all fairness, two Nick Sparks films in not even three months is pushing things a bit). Man, even this film's title refers to something as heartbreaking as a break-up letter to someone who has to kill people for his country, and sure enough, this romance gets tragic, which is good, because while the film isn't all that strong, it gets your investment more than the usual Nicholas Sparks film. Hey, for all of you people out there who are still shaken up by "The Hurt Locker" and want a less harsh look at the Iraq War, first off, it's been a long time since early 2010, when this film came out and late 2009's "The Hurt Locker" was still fresh in people's memories, so get over it, and secondly, see this Nicholas Sparks romantic-drama, because, as you know, absolutely nothing tragic will happen. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Soon Jack s famous daughters come knocking, determined to wrestle Cassie away from the inheritance they feel is their due. How did Jack Montgomery know her name? Could he have crossed paths with her grandmother all those years ago? What other shocking secrets could June s once-stately mansion hold? Cassie has been named the sole heir to legendary matinee idol Jack Montgomery's vast fortune. But a knock on the door forces her out of isolation. Jude, Ohio, mourning the loss of the woman who raised her her grandmother, June. Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Danvers is holed up in her family s crumbling mansion in rural St. ![]() From the"New York Times"bestselling author of"Bittersweet"comes a novel of suspense and passion about a terrible mistake made sixty years ago that threatens to change a modern family forever. ![]() ![]() ![]() Plot Ī Horse Walks into a Bar is narrated by a retired district court judge, Avishai Lazar, who is invited out of the blue by a local comedian to attend his show, a stand-up routine in a bar in the Israeli coastal town of Netanya. The judges said they had been "bowled over by Grossman's willingness to take emotional as well as stylistic risks". The novel won the 2017 Man Booker International Prize. ![]() ![]() Set in a stand-up comedy show in Israel that takes place over just two hours, the novel recounts the tale of a comic who faces a personal crisis while performing his routine, leading to a series of candid and chilling revelations about his past. The title is derived from a common bar joke. First published in Hebrew in 2014 by Ha'kibbutz Ha'meuchad as Sus echad nichnas lebar, the book was translated into English by Jessica Cohen, and published in the UK by Jonathan Cape in November 2016 and in the US by Alfred A. ![]() 10 November 2016 (London: Jonathan Cape), EnglishĪ Horse Walks into a Bar ( Hebrew: סוס אחד נכנס לבר) is a novel by Israeli author David Grossman.2014 (Tel Aviv: Ha'kibbutz Ha'meuchad), Hebrew. ![]() ![]() If you can think of anything that fits some of the above, I would love to hear it. demons/creatures as part of the main cast.demon contracts/summoning or working together with demons/creatures.modern setting/urban fantasy/alternative universe where supernatural things are common knowledge (but other settings are fine, too).monster/demon hunting (think Supernatural).I'm looking for books (preferably NA, though all kinds are fine) that have some of the following: ![]() ![]() I have read the premise of Taming Demons for Beginners by Annette Marie and that's more or less what made me long to read this kind of book. I know this might be kind of a tough request – I personally haven't been able to find much that particularly interested me so far. Taming Demons for Beginners by Annette Marie - 9781988153360 We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. I was hoping somebody here might be able to help me find something like that to read. Taming Demons for Beginners by Annette Marie, 9781988153360, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. Lately I've been craving books with supernatural elements, especially demons – preferably something with interesting lore that takes place in a vivid world (though that's not necessary). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To Selznick's credit, the coincidences all feel carefully orchestrated epiphany after epiphany occurs before the book comes to its sumptuous, glorious end. The plot grows as intricate as the robot's gears and mechanisms: Hugo's father dies in a fire at the museum Hugo winds up living in the train station, which brings him together with a mysterious toymaker who runs a booth there, and the boy reclaims the automaton, to which the toymaker also has a connection. After his father showed Hugo the robot, the boy became just as obsessed with getting the automaton to function as his father had been, and the man gave his son one of the notebooks he used to record the automaton's inner workings. Hugo's recently deceased father, a clockmaker, worked in a museum where he discovered an automaton: a human-like figure seated at a desk, pen in hand, as if ready to deliver a message. Twelve-year-old orphan Hugo lives in the walls of a Paris train station at the turn of the 20th century, where he tends to the clocks and filches what he needs to survive. Here is a true masterpiece-an artful blending of narrative, illustration and cinematic technique, for a story as tantalizing as it is touching. ![]() ![]() ![]() Natalie was determined to succeed under her own steam and not use any well known connections that would undermine her work and effort and I got why she reacted as she did to Jax when his work history was disclosed! When this pair got together they were smokin’ hot…. I liked both characters Jax knew what he wanted and went for it – even when he understood why Natalie was trying to take a step back and stop what was going on between them, even if just for a little while. ![]() I flove a good alpha and where I’m not always a fan of an instalove story, there’s something about the Yeah, Baby series of stories that do it for me. I do love the Fiona Davenport ladies and their hot, sexy, instalove books really are a secret (ok, not so secret now!!) favourite of mine!!! ![]() ![]() In ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, Kerman tells the story of those long months locked up in a place with its own codes of behavior and arbitrary hierarchies, where a practical joke is as common as an unprovoked fight, and where the uneasy relationship between prisoner and jailer is constantly and unpredictably recalibrated. ![]() Kerman spent thirteen months in prison, eleven of them at the infamous federal correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, where she met a surprising and varied community of women living under exceptional circumstances. Happily ensconced in a New York City apartment, with a promising career and an attentive boyfriend, she was suddenly forced to reckon with the consequences of her very brief, very careless dalliance in the world of drug trafficking. When Piper Kerman was sent to prison for a ten-year-old crime, she barely resembled the reckless young woman she’d been when, shortly after graduating Smith College, she’d committed the misdeeds that would eventually catch up with her. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Do Nothing, award-winning journalist Celeste Headlee illuminates a new path ahead, seeking to institute a global shift in our thinking so we can stop sabotaging our well-being, put work aside, and start living instead of doing. Why do we measure our time in terms of efficiency instead of meaning? Why can’t we just take a break? We strive for the absolute best in every aspect of our lives, ignoring what we do well naturally and reaching for a bar that keeps rising higher and higher. So why are we so miserable? This manifesto helps us break free of our unhealthy devotion to efficiency and shows us how to reclaim our time and humanity with a little more leisure.ĭespite our constant search for new ways to “hack” our bodies and minds for peak performance, human beings are working more instead of less, living harder not smarter, and becoming more lonely and anxious. We work feverishly to make ourselves happy. Do Nothing How to Break Away From Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving. ![]() ![]() ![]() Even when they are joined by a fugitive witch with a tendency to set things on fire, the prospect of facing down monsters and retrieving ancient artefacts is preferable to the abomination he left behind. When eccentric explorer, Lady Vincenza ‘Vintage’ de Grazon, offers him employment, he sees an easy way out. Better to be amongst the living, where there are taverns full of women and wine. Tormalin the Oathless has no taste for sitting around waiting to die while the realm of his storied ancestors falls to pieces – talk about a guilt trip. The great city of Ebora once glittered with gold. You can read this before The Ninth Rain (The Winnowing Flame Trilogy, #1) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Ninth Rain (The Winnowing Flame Trilogy, #1) written by Jen Williams which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: The Ninth Rain (The Winnowing Flame Trilogy, #1) by Jen Williams ![]() ![]() Captivated with the thrill of adventure, she joins Anh and her motley crew off in pursuit of the island. ![]() ![]() Xiang is convinced this map could lead to the fabled treasure. Rumor has it that the legendary Head of the Dragon had one last treasure-the plunder of a thousand ports-that for decades has only been a myth, a fool’s journey. The revelation that Xiang’s father sailed with the Dragon Fleet and tucked away this secret changes everything. Her single memento of him is a pendant she always wears, a simple but plain piece of gold jewelry.īut the pendant’s true nature is revealed when a mysterious girl named Anh steals it, only to return it to Xiang in exchange for her help in decoding the tiny map scroll hidden inside. Her father is also only a story, dead at sea before Xiang was born. She desperately wants to prove her worth, especially to her mother, a shrewd businesswoman who never seems to have enough time for Xiang. Its ruthless leader, a woman known only as the Head of the Dragon, is now only a story, like the ones Xiang has grown up with all her life. ![]() ![]() The sun is setting on the golden age of piracy, and the legendary Dragon Fleet, the scourge of the South China Sea, is no more. Two intrepid girls hunt for a legendary treasure on the deadly high seas in this YA remix of the classic adventure novel Treasure Island.The sun is setting on the golden age of piracy, and the legendaryġ826. ![]() |