![]() ![]() Oh, Lordy, Lordy, Looooordy! Griff and Heath are absolute #BestieCoupleGoals. But that's exactly what they do-imagine how things would be between them if they act on their attraction.and imagine if they can continue being "just" friends or if there could actually be a chance of them being more. Then the unexpected happens-Griff and Heath begin to see each other in ways neither one ever imagined. Griff's been telling the guys in the Divorced Men's Club that he can't wait to live it up with whichever woman OR man may catch his fancy, and Heath, who's the eternal bachelor that isn't interested in committed relationships with any guy, is the perfect wingman. ![]() So, when Griff and his wife finally push through with their plans to separate after their only child heads off to college, Heath being there to give his best friend the support he needs is a given. The two have been best friends for what feels like forever, and they're each other's person. Platonic Rulebook is all about Griffin Andrews and Heath Turner. ![]() Saxon James returns with the second book in her Divorced Men's Club series, and this one's got two best friends who need to figure out if their friendship can survive one (or more) hook-up(s). ![]()
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![]() In Tempt Me at Twilight Poppy Hathaway loves her unconventional family, though she longs for normalcy. But first, he must confront a dangerous secret about his destiny?or risk losing the only woman he has lived for. It's now or never for Kev to make his move. Meantime, an attractive, seductive suitor has set his sights on Win. Read 2,416 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. Hed tried so hard to forget her.Kev Merripen has long. Then, Win returns to England?only to find that Kev has hardened into a man who will deny love at all costs. Seduce Me at Sunrise (The Hathaways, 2) by Lisa Kleypas Seduce Me at Sunrise book. ![]() So Kev refuses to submit to temptation?and before long Win is torn from him by a devastating twist of fate. But this handsome Gypsy is a man of mysterious origins?and he fears that the darkness of his past could crush delicate, luminous Win. Two of Lisa Kleypas's beloved Hathaways novels, now collected in one volume,Perfect Temptations.In Seduce Me at Sunrise Kev Merripen has longed for the beautiful, well-bred Winnifred Hathaway ever since her family rescued him from the brink of death when he was just a boy. ![]() ![]() Read Or Download Perfect Temptations: 2-in-1 (Seduce Me at Sunrise/Tempt Me at Twilight) By Lisa Kleypas Full Pages. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Henry Fonda was still throwing up before each stage performance, even when he was seventy-five.”.“It was easier for Hitler to start World War II than it was for him to face a blank square of canvas.”.The life we live, and the unlived life within us. “What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.”.“It’s not the writing part that’s hard.The power to take charge is in your hands all you had to do is believe it. ![]() ![]() “The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration.”.“The awakening artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others.”.“If you take Resistance at its word, you deserve everything you get.”.Its aim is to shove us away, distract us, prevent us from doing our work.” We experience it as an energy field radiating from a work-in-potential. “Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled.Most of us have two lives: The life we live before we turn pro and the life after.Resistance is what keeps us from sitting down and doing our best work. ![]() ![]() ![]() And in the thick of battle, Henry, a medic, searches for lives to save. Meanwhile, paratrooper James leaps from his plane to join a daring midnight raid. Behind enemy lines in France, a girl named Samira works as a spy, trying to sabotage the German army. He feels the weight of World War II on his shoulders.īut Dee is not alone. And Dee - along with his brothers-in-arms - is terrified. soldier, is on a boat racing toward the French coast. The only way to stop them? The biggest, most top-secret operation ever, with the Allied nations coming together to storm German-occupied France.ĭee, a young U.S. June 6, 1944: The Nazis are terrorizing Europe, on their evil quest to conquer the world. **A 2019 OWL AWARD SHORTLIST WINNER IN THE ELEMENTARY CATEGORY**Īlan Gratz, bestselling author of Refugee, weaves a stunning array of voices and stories into an epic tale of teamwork in the face of tyranny - and how just one day can change the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() This story is frequently intercut with flashbacks revealing earlier events leading up to the launch of the Hail Mary. Starting with the story on board the spacecraft Hail Mary where Ryland Grace regains his memory in bursts. The story follows two storylines, each told chronologically. Drew Goddard (who adapted The Martian, Weir's traditional publishing debut, into a 2015 film) is slated to adapt the book into a film, in which actor Ryan Gosling plans to star as Grace. Film rights have been purchased by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The unabridged audiobook is read by Ray Porter. It received generally positive reviews, and was a finalist for the 2022 Hugo Award for Best Novel. ![]() He gradually remembers that he was sent to the Tau Ceti solar system, 12 light-years from Earth, to find a means of reversing a solar dimming event that could cause the extinction of humanity. Set in the near future, it centers on junior high (middle) school-teacher-turned- astronaut Ryland Grace, who wakes up from a coma afflicted with amnesia. Project Hail Mary is a 2021 science fiction novel by American novelist Andy Weir. ![]() ![]() 2021 Dragon Award for Best Science Fiction Novel ![]() ![]() ![]() One of my favorites is Death and the Woodwife, in which the main character outwits Death himself. Some of Albert’s characters thirst for revenge, others desire justice, all are smart and resourceful and actual people rather than archetypes. I especially enjoyed this, having read my fill of fairy tales where women either have no agency and exist only to be examples of purity, or are villainized as stepmothers and witches. Albert takes the format of fairy tales and uses well-known tropes of the genre to infuse her stories with morality and magic.Īlbert’s stories are full of well-defined, complicated main characters, all of whom are female. ![]() Tales from the Hinterland largely captures and keeps the original tone of The Door That Wasn’t There, expanding on Albert’s gifts for writing stories that feel like better, more interesting, and more feminist versions of Brother’s Grimm tales. ![]() It was one of my favorite parts of the book because of its enchanting fantasy prose and its dark, twisted ending. ![]() I decided to read this book because of The Door That Wasn’t There, a short story in The Hazel Wood. Tales from the Hinterland is a novel based on Melissa Albert’s first book, The Hazel Wood. ![]() |