![]() A prize that eluded him before, she is all the more irresistible to him now although he is surprised to discover that she is as eager now for the excitement he offers as he is himself. Viola caught his eye when she herself was a young mother, but she evaded his seduction at the time. Marcel Lamarr has been a notorious womanizer since the death of his wife nearly twenty years earlier. With her children grown and herself no longer part of the social whirl of the ton, she is uncertain where to look for happiness-until quite by accident her path crosses once again with that of the Marquess of Dorchester, Marcel Lamarr. Two years after the death of the Earl of Riverdale, his family has overcome the shame of being stripped of their titles and fortune-except for his onetime countess, Viola. ![]() Once the Countess of Riverdale, Viola Kingsley throws all caution to the wind when adventure calls in the form of a handsome aristocrat. ![]()
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![]() ![]() One night he finds a fiery woman who meets him toe-to-toe-and won't back down. Giles, ever on the hunt for the murderer. But by night, disguised as the Ghost of St. Now the autocratic Duke of Wakefield, he spends his days ruling Parliament. ![]() ![]() Twenty years ago Maximus Batten witnessed the brutal murders of his parents. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. ![]() We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() ![]() 611–547 BC) suggested aquatic animals first appeared in “moisture” and gave rise to humans. To try explaining life’s origins naturally, the Greek philosopher Anaximander (c. When thousands, millions, or billions of people agree that an idea is right, how could it possibly be wrong?īefore we unpack how Scripture, logic, and psychology help answer this question, let’s think about a couple of other ideas that thousands of people have held throughout history: Idea #1: Life Can Spring From Non-life (Spontaneous Generation) Statements like these can sound convincing-if not irresistible. ![]() “We’re not living in the dark ages nobody believes in a literal Genesis anymore.”. ![]() “Virtually no one rejects the idea of humans’ evolutionary origins.”.“Everybody knows that earth is millions of years old.”. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rae's chronicle of her world will strike a chord with anyone who's ever been a confused, lonely teenager clashing with her parents, sometimes overeating, hating her body, always taking herself VERY seriously, never knowing how positively brilliant she is, and keeping a diary to record it all. Surrounded by people like her constantly dieting mum her beautiful frenemy, Bethany her mates from the private school up the road (called "Haddock", "Battered Sausage" and "Fig") and the handsome, unattainable boys Rae pines after (who sometimes end up with Bethany.), My Mad Fat Diary is the story of an overweight young woman just hoping to be loved at a time when slim pop singers ruled the charts. ![]() My Mad Fat Diary is the hilarious, harrowing, and touching real-life diary Rae kept during that fateful year and the basis of the hit British television series of the same name now coming to HULU. She's also just been released from a psychiatric ward. ![]() It's 1989, and Rae Earl is a fat, boy-mad 17-year-old girl living in Stamford, Lincolnshire, with her mum and their deaf white cat in a council house with a mint green bathroom and a refrigerator Rae can't keep away from. ![]() ![]() ![]() The wedding serves as a seamless device to bring back more characters from previous books who arrive at the ceremony with pleasant surprises. Tifton, who remains a rigid and humorless foil for the Penderwicks’ exuberance. Lydia and her siblings are less pleased to see another Arundel native: Mrs. Lydia is eager to explore the place “where the possibilities for adventure are endless.” She finds a kindred spirit in Alice Pelletier, who lives in the cottage where the Penderwicks stayed and whose father is Cagney, the object of Rosalind’s preteen crush, now a history teacher and the estate’s caretaker. The last time the entire family was at the estate was 15 years ago now they are gathered for Rosalind and Skye’s double wedding. And what a stage she has: the story is set at Arundel, the legendary estate which, for Lydia, has previously existed only in her sisters’ stories. ![]() Lydia, the youngest Penderwick sibling, is now 11 and takes center stage in this fifth and final entry in the National Book Award-winning series. ![]() ![]() Can she solve the mystery of this prowler? ![]() Haunted: There are whispers of a prowler on Fear Street and soon Mellisa seems to be haunted by a mysterious figure.Cottler, who she recently started working for. The Sleepwalker: Mayra starts sleepwalking and thinks it may be connected to the old woman Mrs.The Wrong Number: Deena and Jade learn the consequences of prank calls when Deena's half brother, Chuck, dials a wrong number.Missing: After their parents go missing, Mark and Cara Burroughs begin to notice strange happenings around them.The Overnight: Della O'Connor and her fellow Outdoors Club members go an overnight on Fear Island without supervision, and end up accidentally bumping into a possible killer.The Surprise Party: A year after one friend died and another moved away, Meg decides to throw a surprise party for Ellen when she returns for a visit.Is Anna real? Or is there something more sinister going on? But his friends never see her, and when he looks her up, her family name is not listed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While it took me a minute to get into this, I began to really enjoy it at the point when Ava started realizing something about her last trip. Good thing she never has to see him again after they land…. And he has the nerve to flirt with her, as if he doesn’t remember the role he played in the most humiliating night of her life. But then she discovers that former pilot Jack Stone–the absurdly gorgeous, ridiculously cocky man she’s held a secret grudge against for years–is on her flight. She’s got one round trip left before she bids her old life farewell, and she plans to enjoy every second of it. Putnam's Sons on June 15, 2021Īn unexpected tropical layover with her nemesis turns a flight attendant’s life upside down in this witty, breezy debut romantic comedy about life–and love–30,000 feet above the ground.Īfter ten years as a flight attendant, Ava Greene is poised to hang up her wings and finally put down roots. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. ![]() ![]() ![]() Will he ever be able to return home again? Or will he have to sacrifice his own life in order to save his kingdom? But the further Jaron is forced to run from his identity, the more he wonders if it is possible to go too far. Soon, it becomes clear that deserting the kingdom may be his only hope of saving it. ![]() Rumors of a coming war are winding their way between the castle walls, and Jaron feels the pressure quietly mounting within Carthya. Just weeks after Jaron has taken the throne, an assassination attempt forces him into a deadly situation. Who will survive? Find out in the highly anticipated sequel to Jennifer A. Book 2: The Runaway King (Scholastic, 2013)Ī kingdom teetering on the brink of destruction. ![]() ![]() Finding a soulmate through DNA? The reliability of numbers : This Jess understands.Īt least she thought she did, until her test shows an unheard-of 98 percent compatibility with another subject in the database: GeneticAlly’s founder, Dr. Jess holds her loved ones close but working constantly to stay afloat is hard.and lonely.īut then Jess hears about GeneticAlly, a buzzy new DNA-based matchmaking company that’s predicted to change dating forever. After all, her father was never around, her hard-partying mother disappeared when she was six, and her ex decided he wasn’t “father material” before her daughter was even born. Single mom Jess Davis is a data and statistics wizard, but no amount of number crunching can convince her to step back into the dating world. The New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners returns with a witty and effervescent novel about what happens when two people with everything on the line are thrown together by science-or is it fate? Perfect for fans of The Rosie Project and One Plus One. ![]() ![]() “A sexy, science-filled, and surprising romance full of warmth and wit.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Ĭhosen as a best pick by Bustle, Marie Claire, Entertainment Weekly, E! Online, PopSugar, BuzzFeed, Goodreads, Country Living, The Pioneer Woman, Woman’s World, Bookish, Bookreporter, Frolic, and more! ![]() “Writing duo and reigning romance queens Christina Lauren are back with The Soulmate Equation, their most ambitious book to date.” - PopSugar ![]() ![]() LOL at the awful lyrics to their hit song. Omg the cover is so reminiscent of Clueless for me!! Which, incidentally, the movie came out in 1995, same as this book! Coincidence? I mean, that's totally Cher and Dionne on the cover, singing backup for a werewolf, right? □□ I really enjoyed "Bad Moonlight" about the band Bad Moonlight who has a hit song called "Bad Moonlight", that they perform IN.the bad moonlight □□□ Stine has received numerous awards of recognition, including several Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Awards, and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the NEA's Read Across America program. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history. ![]() ![]() Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences. ![]() |