6/22/2023 0 Comments Naked Sisters by Wendy PemberthyWill the coven of witches next door help her, or is her answer much closer to home? Welcome to the Bare Skin Stories. Hurt when a loving relationship suddenly ends, Kimber seeks healing and the power to move forward. And along for the ride is Joyce's best friend, voluptuous Kimber Nolan. College girl Madison Foster adores her sister Clara and has a few surprises of her own. But coming out to her family is scary, so she decides to tell her stepsister first. Clara Foster, fresh out of college and on her own, finds love with tattooed goth girl Joyce. Sapphic love and forbidden desire take center stage in Naked Sisters, Volume Four in Wendy Pemberthy's popular Bare Skin Stories! Fans of erotic lesbian romance, public nudity and exhibitionism are in for a red hot thrill ride, as Wendy once again blends nudist adventure with sizzling romance. Each brings her own issues, and her own deep desires. Naked Sisters: Bare Skin Stories: #4 - Four sexy women share a lake house for the weekend at a clothing optional community.
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6/22/2023 0 Comments Uprooted book seriesNovik is a special writer who really knows how to bring words to life. She’s published eight books in her Temeraire series, with a ninth one on the way, and with at least ten published books under her belt, you can tell she has finely honed her craft. This is my first Naomi Novik book, but it’s certainly not the first book she’s written. This story was everything I love in a book and more: beautiful writing that doesn’t bog down the story, a fantasy world more strange and terrifying and magical than I could ever imagine, and characters I loved immediately, even before I got to know them properly. I’ve read many glowing reviews of Uprooted in the past few weeks, and mine is just one more to add to the list. So that Kasia would be ready to cook for a lord. She had learned to make it when we were twelve: Wensa had traded away the lace veil she had been married in, twice her height, to a woman in Smolnik, in exchange for teaching Kasia the recipe. Kasia would be rolling the beautiful fine senkach cake on its spindle before the fireplace, pouring on the next layer of batter at each turn to make the pine-tree spikes. Next door, Wensa would be cooking chestnuts and dried plums and carrots, with a slab of tender beef, to bring over, and Kasia-Kasia would be there, after all. The nitty-gritty: A glorious, intricate fantasy with strong horror elements, that drew me in and held me spellbound. Source: eARC from publisher via Edelweiss 6/21/2023 0 Comments She's My Dad by Iolanthe WoulffShattered by his mother's death, Collie turns for comfort to Robin Thompson, a gentle-hearted Christian co-worker at the upper-crust Foxton Arms restaurant. Meanwhile, in a death-bed confession as she succumbs to years of brutality at the hands of her disgraced cop husband, Collie's mother Luanne reveals that his birth resulted from an illicit affair she had with a long-vanished Windfield college senior named Nick Farrington. Convinced that the similarity is no coincidence, Cinda begins an investigation to discover the connection between them. And Cinda has noticed something else: both Nickie and a young townie waiter named Collie Skinner have a genetic quirk which causes their eyes to be different colors. Hoping to find peace, Nickie keeps her secret under wraps until ambitious lesbian student reporter Cinda Vanderhart outs her. When a teaching position unexpectedly becomes available, the school hires a former male graduate - now a transsexual woman named Nickie Farrell - as an assistant professor of English. Don't let it destroy you.įor decades, ultra-liberal Windfield College has been a thorn in the side of Northern Virginia's hidebound elite. 6/21/2023 0 Comments Deadly waters by dot hutchisonKevin Griffiths says in a public service announcement video. “If the public doesn’t listen to our warnings this year, people are going to die, more people than we’ve seen over the last few years,” sheriff’s Sgt. Placer County’s messaging about the risk is blunt. Memorial Day weekend is typically one of the busiest, if not the busiest, times of the year, and “floating down the American River is like a quintessential Sacramento activity,” said Ken Casparis, spokesperson for Sacramento County regional parks. Sacramento has already had 20 water rescues this year, nearly as many as all of 2022, Sylvia said Tuesday as crews practiced swift-water rescues on the lower American River near its confluence with the Sacramento River. Justin Sylvia, a fire spokesperson in Sacramento, which is crossed by the American River. “This year we’re seeing higher water, faster water and colder water,” said Capt. (AP) - California rivers fed by this winter’s massive Sierra Nevada snowpack have been turned into deadly torrents, drawing warnings from public safety officials ahead of the Memorial Day weekend’s traditional start of outdoor summer recreation.Īt least seven people, including two children, have died or gone missing this spring in the grasp of powerful rivers plunging down from California’s towering mountain range, and there have been numerous rescues. 6/21/2023 0 Comments Me moth amber mcbrideSchool LIbrary Journal's Erica Ruscio highlighted how "each free verse poem is tightly composed, leading into the next for a poignant and richly layered narrative. An excellent choice for lovers of poetry and for those who see the beauty in sadness. Written in verse, this debut novel is hauntingly romantic, refusing to be rushed or put down without deep contemplation of what it means to accept the tragedies of our lives and to reckon with the ways we metamorphosize as a result of them. Readers will be consumed by the weight of McBride’s intentionality from road trip stops to the nuance of everything that goes unsaid. Though the traditions are distinct on their own, McBride artfully weaves Black Southern hoodoo traditions with those of the Navajo/Diné people, creating a beautiful and cross-cultural reverence for the earth, its inhabitants, and our ancestors. Me (Moth) was generally well-received, including starred reviews from Booklist and School Library Journal. The book won the John Steptoe New Talent Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Me (Moth) is a young adult fantasy novel in verse by Amber McBride, published Augby Feiwel and Friends. A travelogue-cum-memoir, it explores a particularly turbulent time a few years ago in Norbury’s life when, in her mid-40s, she was diagnosed with breast cancer shortly after suffering a miscarriage, and then, two weeks after her bilateral mastectomies, received a curt letter from her birth mother (their first ever correspondence – Norbury was adopted as a baby) saying “she didn’t want anything to do with me”. The result is her first book, The Fish Ladder: A Journey Upstream, which was snapped up by Bloomsbury earlier this year and has already garnered praise from Sara Maitland and Philip Pullman, among others. “But suddenly I thought, ‘I’ve got something to say!’, so I started saying it – it was a very natural transition.” As an assistant film editor and script editor, “it had never occurred to me to write,” she says. “A lan Bleasdale, Harold Pinter, Anthony Minghella, Dennis Potter…” Katharine Norbury is sitting in the offices of Bloomsbury books, looking at the ceiling, and reeling off a list of writers she worked with during her 20 or so years in TV. After a spell in the FBI he now runs his own business. Then Myron is approached to find Greg Downing. Myron Bolitar once had a promising career as a sportsman, until an accident forced him to quit. And the more Myron tries to help, the closer he gets to losing his heart - and his life. But when her father disappears, and the Mob starts leaning on her, it soon becomes apparent that potent forces are at work. She's gorgeous, funny and single, and also seems to have mislaid her agent. And then he meets Brenda Slaughter, one of the hottest female sports stars around. Myron Bolitar might have a slightly dubious past, but he knows how to handle himself and is doing just fine as a sports agent. An outstanding Myron Bolitar novel from the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author of SIX YEARS. It should be a straightforward missing persons case. And when family skeletons start coming out of the closet, Myron is about to find out how deadly life can get. But when Myron goes after the missing boy, he crashes through a crowd of low-lifes, blue bloods and liars on both sides of the social divide. For sports agent Myron Bolitar, his client, superstar Linda Coldren, comes first, and that means unravelling the mystery of her son's kidnapping. But he vanished on Philadelphia's mean streets - last seen in a down-town cheater's hotel. The boy was born and raised on the Main Line. The search for a missing boy gives Myron Bolitar far more than he bargained for.From the bestselling author of SIX YEARS. 6/21/2023 0 Comments Perfect by Sara ShepardAs their secrets get darker and their scandals turn deadly, A is poised to ruin their perfect little lives forever. Could there be more to Alison's death than anyone realizes? Now someone named A, someone who seems to know everything, is pointing the finger at one of them for Ali's murder. And when Alison's body was later discovered in her own backyard, the girls were forced to unearth some ugly memories of their old friend, too. So when Alison mysteriously vanished one night, Spencer, Aria, Emily, and Hanna's grief was tinged with.relief. They were the girls everyone loved but secretly hated-especially Alison. They clicked through the halls in their Miu Miu flats, tanned in their matching Pucci bikinis, and laughed behind their freshly manicured fingernails. Book 1 The Perfectionists by Sara Shepard 3.80 13,423 Ratings 1,654 Reviews published 2014 51 editions Ava, Caitlin, Mackenzie, Julie, and Parker are all Want to Read Rate it: Book 2 The Good Girls by Sara Shepard 4. Three years ago, Spencer, Aria, Emily, Hanna, and their best friend Alison were the girls at Rosewood Day School. In a town where gossip thrives like the ivy that clings to its mansions, where mysteries lie behind manicured hedges and skeletons hide in every walk-in closet, four perfect-looking girls aren't nearly as perfect as they seem. 6/21/2023 0 Comments The invisible man by hg wellsGriffin stays at the inn for a number of months. Hall hears the sound of bottles smashing, and when she asks Griffin about this he tells her not to bother him, saying that she can add extra charges to his bill. The following day, the carrier Fearenside brings Griffin’s luggage, which is filled with scientific equipment, handwritten notebooks, and crates of fluids, some of which are labeled Poison. Later that day, Griffin explains that he is an “experimental investigator” and that he needs his equipment. Griffin is rude to her, and impatiently asks when he will be able to get his luggage from the train station. Hall notices that Griffin’s face is also wrapped in bandages. Hall, who runs the inn, lights a fire for him. He is completely wrapped up in clothing, which he does not take off even after Mrs. A strange man (later introduced as Griffin) arrives in Iping and takes lodging at the Coach and Horses Inn. Iolanthe fears that her past self won't know him, but Thomas's simple, shortsighted response is, "There's no reason you can't remember the future." Despite Kurland's perky, humorous voice, her flat characters-including a group of protesting preservationists, Thomas's whining ex-fiancé and a handful of belligerent ghosts-prevent this overworked narrative from taking off. The novel becomes even more convoluted when Thomas decides to travel back in time through a secret portal on the castle grounds in order to rescue Iolanthe before her untimely death and bring her to the 21st century. Thomas is determined to stay, however, and despite the absurdity of the situation, he settles in and attempts to woo her. Beautiful Iolanthe MacLeod has haunted the castle for the past six centuries, and she's unwilling to relinquish her home to the handsome foreigner. One spirit in particular swiftly captures his attention and his heart. When restless tycoon Thomas McKinnon visits an ancient Scottish castle he had purchased on a whim, he's stunned to find the crumbling keep teeming with ghosts. |