![]() The premise sounds so exciting! And it was his debut novel, so I figured it was something I should probably eventually read. ![]() I always like David Baldacci’s books, and this one sounded really interesting. Review: I’ve had this one on my shelf for a few years now. And Jack Graham is the young attorney, caught in a vortex between the absolute truth – and …ĪBSOLUTE POWER…A tale of greed, sex, ambition, and murder, this is the novel everyone has been talking about … the shattering, relentlessly suspenseful thriller that will change the way you think about Washington – and power – forever. President with the power to commit any crime. Because what he has just seen is a brutal slaying involving the President of the United States.ĪBSOLUTE DANGER…Luther Whitney is the career break-in artist who’s in the wrong place at the wrong time. Then the passion turns deadly, and the witness is running into the night. ![]() Blurb: ABSOLUTE CORRUPTION…In a heavily guarded mansion in a posh Virginia suburb, a man and a woman start to make love, trapping a burglar behind a secret wall. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But can his music heal them both, or will sudden prosperity jeopardize their chance at love? Sutton finds himself drawn to the piano, playing for Jack. When these two men cross paths, despite a world of differences separating them, their attraction cannot be denied. His nights are spent in a careless and debauched romp through the gayer sections of Manhattan. Jack Bailey lost his parents to influenza and now hopes to save the family novelty shop by advertising on the radio, a medium barely more than a novelty, itself. Unable to face his family, Sutton heads to Manhattan with no plans and little money in his pocket but with a desire to call his life his own. His career as a concert pianist ended by a war injury, Sutton Albright returns to college, only to be expelled after a scandalous affair with a teacher. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "The perfect mix of funny, hot and heartwarming. But what will happen if the only way to truly give each other what they want most.is to let each other go? Soon the two are sharing their biggest dreams and satisfying their deepest desires. He's tried to keep his feelings for her in check, but a single, reckless impulse pulls them closer than ever before. Beautiful on the inside and out, Shay is the kind of woman who should be cared for and protected - especially from a man like Sean. All he wants now is to make up for his past by doing good in the present. Of course, it still doesn't mean he's interested in her. Until the sexy, silent, unavailable Sean makes Shay a very personal offer. So when he gives her the world's biggest rejection, that's it - she's done. Shayla Perkins isn't the kind of girl who makes the same mistake twice, especially when it comes to Sean "Stitch" Molina. "If you're a fan of Kristen Ashley, then you will love this book." (Aestas Book Blog on Four Letter Word) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But when Trotta happens upon a schoolbook account of the event that exaggerates his heroism, he is shaken: He had been driven from the paradise of simple faith in Emperor and Virtue, Truth, and Justice, and, now fettered in silence and endurance, he may have realized that the stability of the world, the power of laws, and the glory of majesties were all based on deviousness. As long as Franz Joseph is the Kaiser, their status is secure. Almost overnight, Joseph Trotta is "severed" from his ancestors, and his family is transformed from unremarkable soldiers and peasants living in the outer reaches of the empire to barons and high-ranking officials living near the imperial palace. When an infantry lieutenant steps in front of a bullet intended for the young Franz Joseph, the Austro-Hungarian emperor rewards him with wealth, promotion, and a knighthood. ![]() Joseph Roth's 1932 novel, The Radetzky March, starts with an accident that creates a dynasty. ![]() ![]() ![]() The bond of a family also had an impact on the Lannisters. Sansa tilted towards the Lannisters and Arya towards the way of the sword. Even though Ned tried making his daughters amend their rift, the disdain they had for each other negatively impacted their lives individually. ![]() Sansa’s betrayal cost her relationship with Arya to falter. ![]() When Arya fought with Joffrey, she stood before the king to defend herself but got betrayed by her sister. However, his friends stopped him, and Lord Mormont taught him that his new family was his brothers who would die for each other this made him realize that his new family was his friends in the Night’s Watch, brothers who would give their life for him. Though Jon tried to forget about his father and siblings, he still risked everything by deserting the Night’s Watch. Because he was born a bastard, he became a shadow in the House of Stark this made him seek out meaning in his life, leading to him joining the Night’s Watch. Jon Snow felt the strong impact of family on his life. The story portrays how people’s lives and decisions get influenced by their families. A primary theme of ‘A Game of Thrones’ is the bond associated with family. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this deeply personal, utterly raw, and ultimately inspiring memoir, Jodie comes clean about the double life she led-the crippling identity crisis, the hidden anguish of juggling a regular childhood with her Hollywood life, and the vicious cycle of abuse and recovery that led to a relapse even as she wrote this book. The harrowing battle she swore she had won was really just beginning. Even then, she kept a painful secret-one that could not be solved in thirty minutes with a hug, a stern talking-to, or a bowl of ice cream around the family table. ![]() Her ups and downs seemed not so different from our own, but more than a decade after the popular television show ended, the star publicly revealed her shocking recovery from methamphetamine addiction. Jodie Sweetin melted our hearts and made us laugh for eight years as cherub-faced, goody-two-shoes middle child Stephanie Tanner. In this "explosive" ( Us Weekly) and "brutally honest" (E! Online) memoir, Jodie Sweetin, once Danny Tanner's bubbly daughter on America's favorite family sitcom, takes readers behind the scenes of Full House and into her terrifying-and uplifting-real-life story of addiction and recovery. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you make mistakes, it means you’re out there doing something. Things go wrong in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can go wrong. It gets you through good times and it gets you through the other ones. And for me and for so many of the people I’ve known that’s been a lifesaver, the ultimate lifesaver. “Remember whatever discipline you’re in, whether you’re a musician or a photographer, a fine artist or a cartoonist, a writer, a dancer, a singer, a designer, whatever you do, you have one thing that’s unique. In the speech, which has since been published into a book titled Make Good Art, Gaiman encourages artists to break rules, make mistakes, and to make good art. In 2012, Gaiman provided the commencement speech at the University of the Arts. Neil Gaiman is English author of fiction, short stories, comics, films, and more. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rather, it is a significant contribution to the larger Christian conversation over what it means to be the multi-ethnic body of Christ. Reading While Black is not, in the end, just about Black Christianity, Black church history, or Black Biblical theology. It is common for Christians to dismiss concerns, opinions, or approaches with which they disagree as being insufficiently Biblical, or perhaps not from a “Biblical worldview.” To that argument, Dr McCaulley replies, “The question isn’t always which account of Christianity uses the Bible… The question is which does justice to as much of the Biblical witness as possible” (p91). ![]() Perhaps one of the most powerful statements in the entire book is a small sentence buried in the middle. ![]() McCaulley reminds us that exegesis cannot be simply a matter of a-historical exploration of individual texts, or even reading of individual passages in historical social context, rather exegesis must place each Old or New Testament story in appropriate context within the entire story-arc of the Bible, and must (seek to) understand the ways Scripture was interpreted by others within Scripture. *** Best Theology Book of 2020!!! Reading While Black:īuy Now: ![]() ![]() One of them was a long story that became Seating Arrangements. Shipstead offered to drive Gradinger back to the airport and a year and a half later sent her some stories. Interestingly, Gradinger recalls, Shipstead was not one of the students who signed up for her talk. Remember those? I couldn’t stop reading it: it was so crisp and funny and insightful.” We had an amazing conversation, didn’t talk about work, but she did send me a story I read on my BlackBerry. Gradinger remembers traveling to Iowa when she was a “baby agent”: “I didn’t have a driver’s license, and Connie kindly sent to pick me up. At that point, I only had a few short stories.” “When I said I didn’t, she sent me to pick up Rebecca, who was coming to talk to the students. “During my second year, Connie Brothers called me to ask if I had an agent,” she says. ![]() Iowa is also where Shipstead also met her literary agent, Rebecca Gradinger, of Fletcher & Company. ![]() A Harvard graduate, she says she applied to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2005 “not expecting to get in”-but when she was accepted, she thought, “Amazing-I have a life plan for the next two years.” While at Iowa, she began to think of writing as a feasible career. This is Shipstead’s third novel, after her 2012 bestselling debut, Seating Arrangements, and 2014’s Astonish Me. ![]() ![]() Marthe Simone grew up in the chateau as an orphan and teaches there. On several subsequent trips to France during the war, she starts a love affair with a French soldier, demands a divorce, and converts Chavaniac into a clinic for children at risk from tuberculosis. and starts an aggressive fund-raising effort to support the war. When WWI breaks out, she narrowly escapes back to the U.S. In 1914, Beatrice Astor Chanler, a former actor with a mysterious past, hurries to France to visit her estranged, millionaire husband. But the shifting winds of the French Revolution require sacrifice and bravery from Adrienne, who attempts to find safety in their newly built Château de Chavaniac. ![]() A few years later, he travels to America to join the American Revolution and returns to France a hero. ![]() In 1774, Gilbert du Motier, a marquis, marries Adrienne. Three women survive various wars in this ambitious, centuries-spanning outing from Dray ( My Dear Hamilton). ![]() |