5/24/2023 0 Comments Heart's Desire by Amy Andrews![]() ![]() Her throat was thick with lust, closing it off, making communication impossible. But neither could she form a coherent word. She couldn’t stop it, couldn’t call it back. “Well?” he insisted, grinding again, his mouth close to her ear, sending shivers down her neck. The blood in her veins became sludgy as everything slowed down, the atmosphere becoming charged with something way more potent than just anger. She wanted him to fuck her in this sleazy alley very, very badly. ![]() It felt outrageous and edgy and thrilling. She knew what this was, what he was doing.Īnd it didn’t feel nice. Where her heart beat wildly before out of outrage and uncertainty, now, it was beating for an entirely different reason as warmth flooded her pelvis and beaded her nipples into tight points. Her eyes widened at the hard press of his erection against the softness of her belly, like an iron bar. ![]() And then he stepped in real close and ground himself against her. But part of her thrilled to hear the guttural profanity. Part of her rebelled at his choice of words. Josie gasped, shocked out of her state of confusion by his blatant vulgarity. ![]() “You want some…Neanderthal…to fuck you in some sleazy alley?” ![]()
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![]() ![]() ‘There’s nothing so micro-humiliating as making a Brady Bunch reference and the room going silent.’ Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo ![]() The term became a meme back when society only had five or six of them a year. It became a cliche that every other advertising montage showed someone sledge-hammering the Berlin Wall – and there was this new group of younger people who obviously didn’t fit into any pre-existing category, so who were they? Marshall McLuhan wrote that the oversimplification of anything is always exciting, which is I think what happened with Gen X. Why accelerated? By the tail end of the 80s and the start of the 90s it felt as if history was finally emerging from locked-in syndrome. ![]() In the late 1980s, I disliked being classified as a baby boomer so much that I had to invent my way out of it my debut novel, published 30 years ago, was called Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture. How you identify has always been a big deal. I filter the ways I experience the world. I’m 59 and a half years old – and these days I no longer feel that I identify as a human being. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Fallen too far by abbi glines![]() Then there is her sexy stepbrother who her father leaves her with for the summer while he runs off to Paris with his wife. She isn't prepared for the lifestyle change and she knows she’ll never fit into this world. His famous father’s guilt money, his mother’s desperation to win his love, and his charm are the three reasons he has never been told no.īlaire Wynn left her small farmhouse in Alabama, after her mother passed away, to move in with her father and his new wife in their sprawling beach house along the Florida gulf coast. She is still naive and innocent due to spending the last three years taking care of her sick mother.īut for twenty-four year old Rush Finlay, she is the only thing that has ever been off limits. ![]() To want what you’re not supposed to have… ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments The Intern by Gabrielle Tozer![]() ![]() This wasn’t the career path Josie chose but through it she is about to score an amazing opportunity to get her voice out there and also maybe help someone at the same time… At the same time she’s also making friends and learning about life away from her country town. ![]() Josie finds herself swept up in the life of working for a glossy, the perks of free beauty samples and sales, hearing about product launches and helping the feature writers do their articles. James is cute, funny, sweet and helpful and it isn’t long before Josie is forgetting all about her high school crush. But Josie is desperate for that money to help her family.įrom the lows of hand-washing bikinis and fetching coffee to the highs of interviewing a playboy member of a famous boyband, Josie is surprised to find how much she comes to enjoy her weekly sojourns to the city for her day at Sash. She is staying with her cousin Tim and Tim’s flatmate James, which is another added bonus. Given that Josie’s younger sister had to dress her for her first day, things are already not looking good. Josie is going up against two other interns with $5000 and a coveted column position up for grabs at the end of the internship. It’s for glossy Australian fashion magazine Sash. However the position that Josie gets is not for a newspaper. She wants to become a journalist and for her first internship has applied to newspapers. ![]() Josie is seventeen and in her first year of university. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments The demon haunted world book buy![]() ![]() How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished astronomer Carl Sagan argues that scientific thinking is critical not only to the pursuit of truth but to the very well-being of our democratic institutions.Ĭasting a wide net through history and culture, Sagan examines and authoritatively debunks such celebrated fallacies of the past as witchcraft, faith healing, demons, and UFOs. From the first page to the last, this book is a manifesto for clear thought.” - Los Angeles Times ![]() ![]() A prescient warning of a future we now inhabit, where fake news stories and Internet conspiracy theories play to a disaffected American populace ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments If you follow me by malena watrous![]() ![]() Its fearlessly honest, occasionally heartbreaking, and extremely funny, and I cant rmend it highly enough. Book Synopsis I love, love, love If You Follow Me. Fans of the works of Curtis Sittenfeld, Diana Spechler, and Min Jin Lee, as well as those interested in Japanese culture, will love If You Follow Me. It tells the story of Marina, who moves to Japan to teach English shortly after her father s tragic suicide, and finds unexpected solace with her Japanese supervisor and seemingly indifferent neighbors. ![]() Michelle Richmond, bestselling author of The Year of Fog Beautifully wrought and deftly written, If You Follow Me is the stunning debut novel from author Malena Watrous. Curtis Sittenfeld, New York Times bestselling author of Prep and American Wife Graceful, smart, and filled with wonder, If You Follow Me is a heartfelt delight from beginning to end. ![]() ![]() It s fearlessly honest, occasionally heartbreaking, and extremely funny, and I can t rmend it highly enough. About the Book I love, love, love If You Follow Me. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Last Town at last pitches Ethan Burke and his fellow residents into all-out war against the forces outside the town’s gates-and in doing so delivers every bit the riotously horrific, breathlessly action-packed conclusion that the Wayward Pines trilogy deserves. What’s outside is a thousand times worse. And now that secret is about to come storming through the fence to wipe out this last, fragile remnant of humanity. The Last Town Blake Crouch Synopsis The final book of the smash-hit Wayward Pines trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter, Recursion, and Upgrade What’s inside was a nightmare. No one is allowed to leave even asking questions can get you killed.īut Ethan has discovered the astonishing secret of what lies beyond the electrified fence that surrounds Wayward Pines and protects it from the terrifying world beyond. In this town, people are told who to marry, where to live, where to work. ![]() Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrived in Wayward Pines, Idaho, three weeks ago. The final book of the smash-hit Wayward Pines trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter, Recursion, and Upgrade ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments The blinds by adam sternbergh![]() ![]() ![]() The more he learns, the more the hard truth is revealed: The Blinds is no sleepy hideaway, it's simmering with violence and deception, heartbreak and betrayal, and it's fit to burst. ![]() Cooper has his own secrets to protect, so when his new deputy starts digging, he needs to keep one step ahead of her - and the mysterious outsiders who threaten to tear the whole place down. All they do know is that they opted into the programme and that if they try to leave, they will end up dead.For eight years, Sheriff Calvin Cooper has kept an uneasy peace - but after a suicide and a murder in quick succession, the town's residents revolt. It’s witty, electrifying, vivid, and thoroughly original. Part thriller, part Western, part pulpy whodunit, The Blinds is a propulsive and meaningful meditation on redemption and loss. Welcome to The Blinds, a dusty town in rural Texas populated by misfits who don't know if they've perpetrated a crime or just witnessed one. Adam Sternbergh is a genre-bender of the highest caliber. This may not be a prison, and it may not purgatory, but it's sure as hell not a paradise either.Imagine a place populated by criminals - people plucked from their lives, with their memories altered, who've been granted new identities and a second chance. ![]() ![]() ![]() The article analyses selected and preserved radio commentaries in addition to taking note of oral and historical accounts. Was Guerrero a traitor? And if so, whom did he betray? This article addresses these questions in the context of how Guerrero responded during his work as a radio commentator to the challenges posed by the Japanese occupation – akin to walking a tightrope. Guerrero was never indicted in the court and, as one discerning observer, Tomas Santiago, noted, he was able to escape trial despite having served as propagandist for the Japanese Hodobu or Department of Information. After the war, a People’s Court was established to try charges of collaboration. ![]() This article explores the reasons behind Guerrero’s transformation during the Japanese occupation. ![]() As an officer in the Military Intelligence Service in Bataan, he was disillusioned with America and was forcibly employed by the Japanese. Having studied under American Jesuits at the Ateneo de Manila in the 1930s, Guerrero became critical of the Americans during the Japanese occupation. Part of a larger, in-depth biographical study of the Filipino writer and diplomat Leon Maria Guerrero (1915–1982), this article deals with Guerrero’s wartime activities. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson![]() ![]() ![]() The Sea Around Us (1951)-a National Book Award winner and international best seller-draws on a wealth of oceanographic, meteorological, biological, and historical research to present its subject on a grand, biospheric scale. ![]() Bureau of Fisheries, Under the Sea-Wind fulfills Carson’s wish “to make the sea and its life as vivid a reality for those who may read the book as it has become for me during the past decade.” The fruit of years of study as a scientist for the U.S. Under the Sea-Wind (1941), Carson’s stunning debut, offers an intimate account of the intricacies of maritime ecology, traced through a year in the lives of more than a dozen creatures of sea and shore-in particular, a sanderling, a mackerel, and an eel-as they interact amid the enduring ebb and flow of the tides. Lyrical, deeply personal, and rigorously researched, these three classics of American science and nature writing are now collected in this deluxe Library of America volume. Before her landmark 1962 book Silent Spring catalyzed the environmental movement by alerting the world to the devastating effects of chemical pesticides, Rachel Carson achieved an international reputation as a “poet of the sea,” author of a trilogy of celebrated books about the world’s oceans. ![]() |