![]() ![]() But the four teens are more alike than they might think, and the timing of their meeting isn’t a coincidence. While Ro and fellow hostage Tima rage against their captors, Dol finds herself drawn to Lucas, the Ambassador’s privileged son. ![]() ![]() When Dol and her best friend, Ro, are captured and taken to the Embassy, off the coast of the sprawling metropolis once known as the City of Angels, they find only more questions. Hiding from the one truth she can’t avoid. Since then, Dol has lived a simple life in the countryside - safe from the shadow of the Icon and its terrifying power. The day Earth lost a war it didn’t know it was fighting. Your heart beats only with their permission. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The unorthodox Smith, had locked eyes with the colt, and felt intuitively that he understood him. In August of 1936, automobile entrepreneur Charles Howard bought the three year old disappointment on the recommendation of his ranch horse trainer, Tom Smith. He was badly raced and forced to lose so often that he learned no other way of competing. In the hands of trainers who did not understand his personality, he was relegated to the grueling work of making better horses feel more confident than they deserved to feel. Descended from equine royalty, Seabiscuit had been found wanting. Short, chunky, distrustful, abused, knobby-kneed and so often defeated, Seabiscuit was the most unlikely hero of them all. ![]() She needed to see one of her own climb out of the pit and ascend back into the Promised Land. It left men feeling like little more than discarded and helpless animals. The Great Depression had ravaged so much more than the economy. Not only was the nation poor, scared, hungry, and gearing up for war, but it was also broken. Together they would become the hard luck heroes for a troubled nation.” – Seabiscuit PBS Documentary “Separately they were nothing more than a failing jockey and a broken down horse. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is the second book in the Two Dukes of Wyndham series. This review was originally posted on September 26, 2008. *****As part of our 10 year anniversary celebration, we’ll be re-posting old reviews that make us cringe, laugh or sigh all over again. Which is the cruelest joke of all, because this arrogant and illustrious duke has made the mistake of falling in love. ![]() And if Thomas is not the duke, then he's not engaged to Amelia. But just when he begins to realize that his bride might be something more than convenient, Thomas's world is rocked by the arrival of his long-lost cousin, who may or may not be the true Duke of Wyndham. Thomas rather likes having a fiancee - all the better to keep the husband-hunters at bay - and he does intend to marry her. But as she watches him from afar, she has a sneaking suspicion that he never thinks about her at all. for Thomas Cavendish, the oh-so-lofty duke, to finally get around to marrying her. A mere six months old when the contracts were signed, she has spent the rest of her life waiting. Amazon | Barnes & Noble | The Ripped Bodice | Google Play BooksĪmelia Willoughby has been engaged to the Duke of Wyndham for as long as she can remember. ![]() ![]() ![]() While Macardle was absent from Ireland during the 1916 Easter Rising, she returned home, and became radicalised quickly during the War of Independence. Her access to formal education positioned her as a woman with the credentials to navigate life in the political and professional public sphere, during a time when women were almost entirely excluded from it. Macardle trained at Alexandra College in Dublin and University College Dublin, where she earned a first-class degree in English Language and Literature. The Macardle family is an example of the rising Catholic middle class in Ireland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The family’s affluence afforded Dorothy the advantage of an education that was otherwise off-limits to women of her time. His wife Minnie was a Protestant Englishwoman who raised her children to respect the British Empire. He was Catholic, and an ardent Irish Home Rule supporter. Thomas owned the Macardle brewing company in Dundalk and it was a national brand. ![]() ![]() THE AUTHOR DOROTHY Macardle’s life, politics and career were utterly remarkable, and all the more so given her upbringing.ĭorothy grew up with privilege as the daughter of Thomas and Minnie Macardle. ![]() ![]() It follows the life of Isabella 'Bella' Swan, a human teenager who moves to Forks, Washington and finds her life turned upside-down when she falls in love with a vampire named Edward Cullen. His arms wrapped around me, holding me against him. This moment was so perfect, so right, there was no way to doubt it. 'We belong together.' I was abruptly overwhelmed by the truth of my own words. In typical Twilight form, Breaking Dawn: Part 2 exceeded expectations at the box office and its action-packed and fast-paced plot is why it’s frequently regarded as the best in the franchise. The boxed set of all four books Twilight is a series of fantasy romance novels by Stephenie Meyer. 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It’s often hard to top the original, however, many believe that Breaking Dawn: Part 2 did exactly that. ![]() ![]() Against a backdrop of the wonders - both sacred and profane - of Rennaisance Italy, with it's art and ferocity, angels and demons, Anne Rice introduces a seductive new character and creates a passionate traggic legend of doomed young love and lost innocence. One night, Vittorio's family is butchered by vampires. Florence is to Vittorio what New Orleans is to Interview with the Vampire. And, beyond even these perils, Vittorio faces being torn apart by a dangerous love. The hunky Vittorio is sweet 16 and 'incalculably rich' in 15th-century Italy, the epoch of the Medicis and Vittorio's favorite painter, madly passionate Filippo Lippi. But though he has been saved from death by a mysterious woman, he finds himself at the mercy of demonic, bloody nightmares, war and political intrique. Escaping to the Florence of Cosimo de Medici, he seeks vengeance and retribution. Sixteen years old, Vittorio is the sole survivor of a bizarre and violent massacre at his father's Tuscan palazzo. But though he has been saved from death by a mysterious woman A Vampire Chronicles novella from the internationally bestselling Anne RiceA VAMPIRE IN THE ITALIAN AGE OF GOLD. ![]() A Vampire Chronicles novella from the internationally bestselling Anne RiceA VAMPIRE IN THE ITALIAN AGE OF GOLD. ![]() ![]() Poehler has a special nickname for Seth Meyers. Possibilities included “Leslie Knaint,” “Leslie Kany,” “Leslie Knbross,” “Leslie Knute,” “Leslie Krap!” and “Leslie Knotonmywatch.” The world would be a different place if Leslie Knope had been named Leslie Krap!Ģ. Yes Please contains a brainstorm list offering a number of names Leslie could have had instead, but thankfully did not. 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