![]() ![]() ![]() Living with his best friend should have been easy. As the line between friendship and flirtation begins to blur, Hannah can’t deny she loves everything about Fox, but she refuses to be another notch on his bedpost. Armed with a few tips from Westport’s resident Casanova, Hannah sets out to catch her coworker’s eye… yet the more time she spends with Fox, the more she wants him instead. In fact, she’s nursing a hopeless crush on a colleague and Fox is just the person to help with her lackluster love life. She knows he’s a notorious ladies’ man, but they’re definitely just friends. Now, Hannah’s in town for work, crashing in Fox’s spare bedroom. But he likes her too much to risk a fling, so platonic pals it is. She’s immune to his charm and looks, but she seems to enjoy his… personality? And wants to be friends? Bizarre. Everyone knows he’s a guaranteed good time–in bed and out–and that’s exactly how he prefers it. ![]() King crab fisherman Fox Thornton has a reputation as a sexy, carefree flirt. ![]()
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![]() The office complex at 555 California Street long served as a shining star in Donald Trump's portfolio. The company has 30 days to formally respond, and the announcement doesn’t appear to have impacted its stock price. It’s a significant step toward imposing even more stringent privacy rules against Meta. The FTC says Meta violated multiple previous legal agreements regarding the Facebook parent company’s ability to collect data about (and monetize) its users. Deckoff, who said he never met Epstein or visited the islands until after the disgraced financier died in 2019, plans to develop a 25-room luxury resort on the property. Stephen Deckoff, billionaire founder of private equity firm Black Diamond Capital Management, purchased the two islands for $60 million, less than half of their initial asking price of $125 million. COURTESY BLACK DIAMOND CAPITAL MANAGEMENT EMILY MICHOT/NEWSCOMĪfter over a year on the market, Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous Caribbean islands finally found a buyer. ![]() Virgin Islands in 2011, has purchased two islands formerly owned by Jeffrey Epstein. Private equity mogul Stephen Deckoff, who moved to the U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here’s a brief overview of what you can expect in Bonhoeffer’s book. Overflowing with wisdom, you will run your highlighter dry if you are given to marking up books.Īs we consider the One Anothers in our weekly sermons, I would encourage you to pick up a copy. A small investment in reading Life Together will pay big dividends on doing life together. But it is one that invites you to think deeply about God’s design for his people. It’s this subject that entitles one of his most famous works, Life Together, posthumously subtitled, “The Classic Exploration of Christian Community.” Coming in at 122 pages, Life Together is not a long book. ![]() And in his later writings, he often returned to muse on life together in the local church. As a theological professor he labored to train pastors for the church. In his studies he wrote his first dissertation on life in the church (“The Communion of Saints: A Dogmatic Inquiry into the Sociology of the Church”). The local church was always at the center of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s heart and theology. ![]() ![]() The Ocean at the End of the Lane is the first major play adaptation of Neil’s work. His work in TV includes as the showrunner for the adaptation of Good Omens (co-authored with the late Sir Terry Pratchett) as a writer on two episodes of Doctor Who and appearances in The Simpsons as himself as well in Arthur, The Big Bang Theory and Lucifer. The TV series The Sandman is an adaptation of his bestselling sequence of graphic novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is the No.1 Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling writer of more than 45 books, graphic novels, and short stories, as well as the creator of films and television for all ages. Many of Neil Gaiman’s books, including Stardust and Coraline, have been made into films or theatre productions Neverwhere has been adapted for TV and radio American Gods is an Emmy-nominated television series and the National Theatre production of The Ocean at the End of the Lane (UK National Book Awards 2013 Book of the Year) transferred to the West End in 2021 for a successful run, before announcing a UK and Ireland tour which will begin in December 2022. ![]() ![]() Or perhaps I was distracted by the frankly offensive portrayal of the various beddable, sex-hungry, needy women who put in an appearance in the first third of the book. Maybe I was too busy trying to work out what all the unexplained jargon means – lamplighters, scalphunters, et al. And there’s no doubt that many people think it’s brilliant, heaping praise on it as the best espionage fiction ever written in this world or any other, full of suspense and tension. Oh, is that what it’s about? That sounds moderately interesting. ![]() And so former spymaster George Smiley has been brought out of retirement in order to hunt down the traitor at the very heart of the Circus – even though it may be one of those closest to him. So let’s see what Goodreads thinks it’s about…Ī mole, implanted by Moscow Centre, has infiltrated the highest ranks of the British Intelligence Service, almost destroying it in the process. I only know it bored me to sleep several times, so I eventually gave up before I ended up in permanent hibernation. Unfortunately I have zero idea what this book is about. Normally at the beginning of a review I write a little blurb to give an idea of the plot. ![]() ![]() First off, how well could he know her? She was never able to talk or voice her opinion–and it is unlikely that he would have listened to her even if he did.
![]() ![]() Lord Bradley is sure she’s hiding something, something other than his secret that if told, would destroy his entire life. Forcibly engaged at Brightwell Court as a nursery maid, Olivia is relieved to be well hidden but is also anxious at that fact. But when she accidentally overhears Lord Bradley’s secret – her flight is stopped and he has to decide what to do with her. ![]() Olivia Keene flees home, believing she has committed a terrible crime. I think this book has made it to my top-10 list. WHY IN THE WORLD DID I WAIT SO LONG? (groanofagonyandfrustrationatmyself) I was quickly drawn in to the story and was so sad when my OH was ready to leave! I regretfully put it back on the shelf, and it only took me two years to get it from the library! ![]() Intrigued, I pulled it from the shelf and started reading in one of the cozy chairs. One day, while wandering aimlessly through Barnes and Noble, I stumbled upon The Silent Governess by Julie Klassen. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Why do some prefer Guimarães Rosa, and others Clarice Lispector? Why is the group of readers that are enthusiastic about Graciliano Ramos not always the same as those who devour, with the same fervor, the work of Machado de Assis? Do answers to these questions exist? If there are no ready explanations, these disagreements serve, at the least, for delicious intellectual exercises. Many factors help to explain why we like a book and are not interested by another, and even so, no one of them, and not even the sum of them, goes so far as to explain these two facts. “Recommending books, even for people you know, does not always work out, so imagine for people you don’t know!” Indeed, the world of reading – an intimate exercise, performed in reclusion and silence – is governed by the particular. “I have the greatest difficulty in giving universal recipes”, Marisa warns. Como e por que ler o romance brasileiro, a book from the collection “Como e por que”, from the Ática publishing house, is immediately becoming a sort of guide not only for readers on their first voyage, but also for those who are accustomed to circulating through our fiction. Why is it important to read Brazilian novels? And how to choose the best gateways to its complex universe? These questions have just been given some stimulating answers for critic and professor from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) Marisa Lajolo. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Everybody on board was wildly excited at the thought of going to live in the famous Chocolate Factory. ![]() The Great Glass Lift was a thousand feet up and cruising nicely. Grandpa Joe, as you remember, had got out of bed to go around the Chocolate Factory with Charlie. Grandma Josephine, Grandma Georgina and Grandpa George were still in bed, the bed having been pushed on board just before take-off. Grandpa George and Grandma Georgina, Mrs Bucket’s father and mother. Grandpa Joe and Grandma Josephine, Mr Bucket’s father and mother. Mr and Mrs Bucket, Charlie’s father and mother. Mr Willy Wonka, chocolate-maker extraordinary. The passengers in the Lift (just to remind you) were: Charlie Bucket, our hero. Only a short while before, Mr Wonka had told him that the whole gigantic fabulous Chocolate Factory was his, and now our small friend was returning in triumph with his entire family to take over. “Mr Wonka Goes Too Far The last time we saw Charlie, he was riding high above his home town in the Great Glass Lift. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This highly readable saga by the short story writer, Kalotay, does a convincing job of conjuring up life in Soviet cultural circles just after the war.” Lancashire Evening Post “Stories within stories start to emerge, as if from a nest of stacking dolls…. “Intelligent, moving, and flitting seamlessly between the artistic salons of Soviet Russia and the Boston of today.” The Independent The secrets at the heart of the novel are treated as delicately, and guarded as carefully, as the precious stones at the story’s centre, and only revealed at the novel’s satisfying end.” -Eimear Nolan The Guardian She never strikes a false note, and the characters are believable within their own world. The book benefits greatly from the light, natural way in which Kalotay handles specialist knowledge-of ballet, gemology and academia. Kalotay is equally effective when dealing in broad brush strokes-life in Soviet Russia-and the minutiae of modern life, such as the party Grigori attends at the home of a pretentious academic couple…. It is a satisfying mystery with a finely drawn plot. “Kalotay’s novel draws the reader in and maintains its momentum throughout. The plot moves inexorably to a climax that clarifies the many historical and existential mysteries of the story, revealing a writer of powerful craft, with a hand both delicate and sure.” -Mario Fortunato Times Literary Supplement “Kalotay’s prose is strikingly precise and intelligent. ![]() |