Linda sue park prairie lotus5/22/2023 Godey’s dress patterns, school exam nerves, the incredible taste of an orange, a town rising one storefront at a time - readers of Wilder’s work will savor the connections. Hanna, a more accomplished seamstress than Laura, shares an almost comical aversion to making buttonholes. The parallels to the Little House series are deliberate - and at times delicious. But it also describes PRAIRIE LOTUS (Clarion, 272 pp., $16.99 ages 10 and up), the captivating new novel by the Newbery medalist Linda Sue Park, whose heroine, Hanna Edmunds, is half Chinese. This might be “Little Town on the Prairie,” the seventh book in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s iconic series about a pioneer family. In the spring of 1880, in a railroad town in Dakota Territory, a girl in her 15th year bends over her sewing to help support her family.
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His Mistletoe Wager by Virginia Heath5/22/2023 But, when her former fiance returns Lizzie realises that perhaps Hal's the one man she can trust - with her heart and her son. A woman who refuses to be charmed! Once jilted, Lizzie must guard her heart because the ton is unaware of her scandalous secret - her son! Despite their increasing attraction, she can't risk the persistent Hal bringing down her defences. 'Five berries equal the five separate kisses I challenge you to steal.' Notorious rake Henry Stuart, Earl of Redbridge is certain he'll win his Christmas bet - until he learns he'll be stealing Lady Elizabeth Wilding's kisses. It pulled at me emotionally and caused tears more than once. But, when her former fiance returns Lizzie. A lovely story His Mistletoe Wager has everything you could want in a Regency romance: a clever setup, a charming hero with a heart of gold, a sympathetic heroine with a past, cute dialogue, and a nice bit of spicy parts. Acorna's quest5/22/2023 These storylines mix romance, light comedy, and some violent action, which is generally downplayed or dealt with offstage. Meanwhile, a spacefleet of killer roaches is on its way. Meanwhile, a starship full of dispossessed human miners picks up a scientist whose devastating system of planetary weather control inspires some on-board criminals to stage a coup and use the weather machine to blackmail whole planets Acorna stumbles into this conflict. These gentle, horned nonhumans are fleeing other aliens who are wanton murderers and torturers that resemble huge cockroaches. Now Acorna blasts off with human friends in search of her own race, who shortly turn up looking for her. Though generally human-shaped, she shares some features with the unicorn of myth-notably, a forehead horn that can heal and purify. This SF team's earlier novel, Acorna, introduced the alien girl Acorna, an orphan rescued and reared by space-faring humans. The worst hard time review5/22/2023 It tells the story of a few people in a small portion of a great nation. Timothy Egan’s The Worst Hard Time, a book that made a brief appearance on the New York Times list of bestsellers and is a National Book Award finalist, is a fascinating little slice of history. What had once been rich farmland was left as little more than desert. As the drought continued year-after-year, a large percentage of the population was forced to migrate away from the effected States. The soil blew upwards and eastwards, forming great clouds that traveled across the continent, sometimes blanketing Chicago, New York and Washington. However, after the war ended, a time of drought hit the Western part of the continent and the soil dried out to become dust. Sod was turned upside down and wheat grew as never before. The First World War had made many farmers wealthy as the price of wheat soared, and as it did so, millions of acres of new sod was broken throughout the Plains. Sponsor Show Your Support Become a Patron Darius lord of pleasures5/22/2023 Darius is the first in this series, and by reading the synopsis I was beyond intrigued. In the past, her stories have been emotionally driven stories with powerful characters. After reading some of the Wyndham series, she was bumped up to the top of my list. Grace Burrowes is one of my favorite authors to read. "Burrowes creates memorable heroes.intelligent, sensual love stories show us this author knows what romance readers adore."-RT Book Reviews "Grace Burrowes's writing is comfort food for the romantic soul."-Yankee Romance Reviews Until the day he encounters lovely, beguiling Lady Vivian Longstreet, whose tenderness and understanding wrap his soul in a grace he knows he'll never deserve. With his beloved sister tainted by scandal, his widowed brother shattered by grief, and his funds cut off, Darius Lindsey sees no option but to sell himself-body and soul. Her gorgeous writing and lush Regency world will stay with you long after you turn the final page. Published by Sourcebooks Casablanca on April 2, 2013ĭarius is a gripping and remarkable tale of desperation, devotion, and redemption from award-winning New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Grace Burrowes. Darius: Lord of Pleasures by Grace BurrowesĪlso in this series: Beckman: Lord of Sins Riddell draws in pen and ink, eschewing color-save for select gold accents-and pouring his energy into myriad, spidery lines and delicate cross-hatching that recall Aubrey Beardsley’s eerie set pieces. Something new is going on, and readers will be carried to the end by the whirlwind force of Gaiman’s imagination. It isn’t until the travelers penetrate the castle that things tilt sideways. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. And then you woke again, none the worse for it.” Traveling to the cursed kingdom, the queen and dwarves encounter threatening zombie sleepers and more, but the storyline is still recognizable underneath the new details. The Sleeper and the Spindle Text copyright 2013 by Neil Gaiman Illustrations copyright 2014 by Chris Riddell All rights reserved. Alert readers won’t miss the hint to the queen’s identity: “Would I sleep, as they did?” she asks one of the dwarfs, who replies, “You slept for a year. Three dwarves discover a realm in which everyone has fallen asleep, and they cross into the next country to warn its queen of the great plague that threatens her people. Always a superb spinner of tales, Gaiman presents a filigreed elaboration of Sleeping Beauty that, before long, reveals itself as something more. Terminal peace by jim c hines5/22/2023 Praise for The Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse: To make matters worse, Mops is starting to feel a little feral herself… (This might be Mops’ fault.) The survival of humanity-those few who weren’t turned to feral, shambling monsters by an alien plague-as well as the fate of all other non-Prodryans, will depend on what Captain Mops and the crew of the EDFS Pufferfish discover on the ringed planet of Tuxatl.īut the Jynx on Tuxatl are fighting a war of their own, and their world’s long-buried secrets could be more dangerous than the Prodryans. But if there’s one lesson Mops and her crew have learned, it’s that things like “training” and “being remotely qualified” are overrated. They were absolutely not trained to fight an interplanetary war with the xenocidal Prodryans or to make first contact with the Jynx, a race who might not be as primitive as they seem. Marion “Mops” Adamopoulos and her team were trained to clean spaceships. The third and final book of the Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse follows a group of unlikely heroes trying to save the galaxy from a zombie plague. Hunter thompson las vegas5/22/2023 They arrive at their hotel in the grips of a full-blown acid trip, where Duke is barely able to check in amidst the reptilian people and blood-soaked carpet. Duke and Gonzo begin to sample their stash of drugs, including “two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers,” long before they arrive in Vegas, and by the time they reach Barstow, California, they are already hallucinating. Duke and Gonzo plan to “ relax, as it were, in the womb of the desert sun,” and search for the American Dream along the way. Gonzo, a huge Chevy convertible called the Great Red Shark, and a massive bag of drugs, and heads out to Las Vegas. After journalist Raoul Duke is hired by Sports Illustrated to cover the Mint 400, “the richest off-the-road race for motorcycles and dune-buggies in the history of organized sport,” he gathers his attorney, Dr. Well played vi keeland vk5/21/2023 I wanted to restore The Palm Inn to its original beauty and re-open it as a bed and breakfast. He wanted to unload the rundown place which, admittedly, needed a lot of work. We bickered a lot as we both moved into the property while we figured things out. You could say we got off on the wrong foot. We won’t mention that I accidentally injured him during our first meeting, causing him to get eight stitches. The other half now belonged to Levi Miller, the famous quarterback who had other ideas about what we should do with the property. When my young son inherited half of his great grandfather’s historic inn, I decided to move us both to the place where I grew up. From New York Times Bestselling authors Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward comes a new, sexy standalone novel. Backs Against the Wall by Tracey Ward5/21/2023 Your frontline leaders might be heading for burnout, but you might be the last person to know.įrontline leaders are screaming out for help, so here’s an opportunity for you to offer practical support to be an even better people leader.Frontline leaders could be the unintentional bottlenecks of workflow in your organisation.Employees everywhere are leaving, and it could be because of your frontline leaders.In a previous article, I highlighted the 3 reasons why you should care about your frontline leaders, and what you can do to help them. Instead, it will be money invested to make already busy leaders take 2 or 3 days away from their day jobs, to then return to their desk, their inbox and their old ways.įrontline leaders are the conduit between your organisation and your employees – it’s vital they keep everyone connected, empowered and engaged, especially with hybrid working here to stay. I have no doubt you care deeply about your employees.Īs a people leader, I’m sure you’ve launched wonderful initiatives in your career to help and develop your employees, including development opportunities for your frontline leaders to improve their productivity, innovation and productiveness…īut before you enrol them into another traditional leadership program, stop and ask yourself, ‘does this program actually shift their behaviour?’ĭoes it switch their mindset and beliefs?īecause if it doesn’t, you will not see a change in their behaviour. |