![]() ![]() There has not been a book of hers that I haven’t enjoyed. ![]() ![]() REVIEW: Last Kiss Goodnight by Gena Showalterīy Ash | | Review | 1 commentTweet Ash’s review of Last Kiss Goodnight (Otherworld Assassins, Book 1) by Gena Showalter Paranormal Romance published by Pocket Books 26 Dec 12 Gena Showalter is one of my favorite authors. REVIEW: Can’t Hardly Breathe by Gena Showalterīy Sandy M | | Review | Tweet Sandy M’s review of Can’t Hardly Breathe (Original Heartbreakers, Book 4) by Gena Showalter Contemporary Romance published by HQN 29 Aug 17 While I enjoyed a few parts of this story, one major factor kept me from really liking it. ![]() REVIEW REVISIT: Ecstasy in Darkness by Gena Showalterīy Gwen | | Review | 2 commentsTweet Gwen’s review of Ecstasy in Darkness (Alien Huntress, Book 5) by Gena Showalter Sci-fi Romance released by Pocket Star 26 Oct 10 Original Review posted For the first chapter or two (or three) of this book, I was convinced I would hate the. By Evelyn | | Review | Tweet Evelyn’s review of The Immortal (Rise of the Warlords, Book 2) by Gena Showalter Paranormal Romance published by HQN Books 01 Feb 22 Groundhog Day with a sinister twist, along with Gods, immortals, mythical creatures, and magical powers…I call that. ![]()
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![]() White (memoir about raising a Chernobyl survivor named Olga, a young girl who immigrated to Canada and attended school in the province of Nova Scotia). Out of Chernobyl: A Girl Named Olga (2008) by Maureen A.Midnight in Chernobyl (2019) by Adam Higginbotham (reexamines the disaster using up-to-date reports and historical archives).Chernobyl 01:23:40 (2016) by Andrew Leatherbarrow (large account of the disaster from different perspectives of those who were involved).Biohazard (1999) by Ken Alibek (discusses Chernobyl and the 1979 Sverdlovsk anthrax leak as two of many accidents that happened involving hazardous substances in the Soviet Union). ![]() This list is not exhaustive and may not reflect all books, including recently-published, pre-released and self-published books. Very early examples included a 1987 fiction book by science-fiction author Frederik Pohl, titled Chernobyl, while many famous non-fiction titles about Chernobyl were unwritten and unpublished until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Soon after the events of Chernobyl on Apgenerated global attention, numerous fiction and non-fiction titles have been published on the subject. This is an incomplete list of books about the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. ![]() Continuing list of books about the Chernobyl meltdown ![]() ![]() Meet Addy: An American Girl (also see below), illustrated by Melodye Rosales, Pleasant Company (Middleton, WI), 1993.Īddy Learns a Lesson: A School Story (also see below), illustrated by Melodye Rosales, Pleasant Company (Middleton, WI), 1993.Īddy's Surprise: A Christmas Story (also see below), illustrated by Melodye Rosales, Pleasant Company (Middleton, WI), 1993. Imani All Mine, Houghton (Boston, MA), 1998. Writings NOVELSĪll-Bright Court, Houghton (Boston, MA), 1991. Awards, Honorsīread Loaf Writers' Conference fellowship regional winner, Granta Best Young American Novelists competition New York Times Notable Book designation, for All-Bright Court. Taught at Milton Academy instructor of creative writing at Emerson College and Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Agent-c/o Author Mail, Pleasant Company Publications, 8400 Fairway Pl., Middleton, WI 53562. Education: State University of New York at Albany, B.A., 1981 Louisiana State University, M.F.A., 1987. ![]() ![]() ![]() (Keith Robinson), with hopes that talent and sheer desire will break them out of the only life that seems available to them. ![]() Late for their stint in a local talent show, The Dreamettes - Deena Jones (Beyoncé Knowles), Lorrell Robinson (Anika Noni Rose), and lead singer Effie White (Jennifer Hudson) - show up in their cheap wigs and homemade dresses, rehearsing songs and steps by Effie's brother, C.C. He just needs the angle, the right talent, the right product to sell. (Jamie Foxx) is a car salesman aching to make his mark in the music business - to form his own record label and get its sound heard on mainstream radio at a time when civil rights are still only a whisper in the streets. ![]() Here, a new kind of music is on the cusp of being born - a sound with roots buried deep in the soul of Detroit itself, where songs are about more than what's on the surface, and everyone is bound together by a shared dream.Ĭurtis Taylor, Jr. Synopsis: In 1960s Detroit, a good night onstage can get you noticed but it won't get your song played on the radio. Dreamgirls Cast: Jamie Foxx, Beyoncé Knowles, Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Hudson, Danny Glover, Anika Noni Rose, Keith Robinson, Sharon Leal, Hinton Battle ![]() ![]() And Rosa Parks’ deep sense of justice and unshakeable dignity and faith helped launch the twentieth-century’s greatest social movement. Corrie ten Boom, arrested for hiding Dutch Jews from the Nazis, survived the horrors of a concentration camp to astonish the world by forgiving her tormentors. Susanna Wesley had nineteen children and gave the world its most significant evangelist and its greatest hymn-writer, her sons John and Charles. ![]() Teenaged Joan of Arc followed God’s call and liberated her country, dying a heroic martyr’s death. ![]() In his eagerly anticipated follow-up to the enormously successful Seven Men, New York Times best-selling author Eric Metaxas gives us seven captivating portraits of some of history’s greatest women, each of whom changed the course of history by following God’s call upon their lives&emdash as women.Įach of the world-changing figures who stride across these pages&emdash Joan of Arc, Susanna Wesley, Hannah More, Maria Skobtsova, Corrie ten Boom, Mother Teresa, and Rosa Parks&emdash is an exemplary model of true womanhood. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() No one is more merciless in rooting out those who secretly practice the old ways. He is a Protector, member of an elite militant order of roving law enforcers. Ashok Vadal has been chosen by a powerful ancient weapon to be its bearer. The surviving royalty and their priests were made casteless, condemned to live as untouchables, and the Age of Law began. All religion was banned and replaced by a code of unflinching law. The castes created to serve the Sons of Ramrowan rose up and destroyed their rulers. ![]() Gods and demons became myth and legend, and the people no longer believed. They became tyrannical and cruel, and their religion nothing but an excuse for greed. As centuries passed, the descendants of the great hero grew in number and power. They became the first kings, and all men served those who were their only hope for survival. It was prophesized that someday the demons would return, and only the descendants of Ramrowan would be able to defeat them. Ever since the land has belonged to man and the oceans have remained an uncrossable hell, leaving the continent of Lok isolated. He united the tribes, gave them magic, and drove the demons into the sea. Mankind was nearly eradicated by the seemingly unstoppable beasts, until the gods sent the great hero, Ramrowan, to save them. #1 IN A NEW EPIC FANTASY SERIES from Monster Hunter series creator and New York Times best-selling author, Larry Correia After the War of the Gods, the demons were cast out and fell to the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dwyer", "Leigh Nichols" and "Brian Coffey". ![]() Koontz has used a number of pseudonyms eg "David Axton", "Deanna Dwyer", "K.R. These could have given a very strong book. a medley of things, viz a "showgirl" turning into a successful director/ producer of a musical, the setting of Las Vegas/ casino, strong emotions like mother's love that transcends death, deep government conspiracy, high octane (not really) chase, intelligence agents, telekinesis and telepathy, snow clad mountains and hidden labs, etc. Hence, the filmy nature of the book, i.e. The book was conceived as a tele series, which never saw the light of day. It's an Okayish book, that seemed like the script of a movie! I wasn't too far away from facts. The book was published in 1981 by #Koontz, under the pseudonym Leigh Nichols. ![]() ![]() Misogynistic, pathetically trying to grab the lowest common denominator reader with simple, salt of the earth heroine and evil posh anti-heroine (the only half-drawn character in the book) and just.God, so boring. Not only utterly banal characterisation making the whole thing absurd (not helped by the narrator's baby voice for the heroine), but plot involving spiral staircases, hidden tunnels and clues in paintings that a second woman-with-no-personality randomly catches sight of while being fed clues. The brand new twisting page turner from Lisa Jewell, bestselling author of The Family Upstairs and Invisible Girl is out now 'No one tells stories like this. ![]() So, completely characterless girl who never tells a joke, laughs or says anything interesting but is a simpering cliché of a heroine - so bland it's actually weird - loves mummy, hardly ever wears make up, doesn't approve of swearing and studies hard - oh, wait, she's also, very importantly 'not posh', gets mixed up with evil posh people who have 'priveleged laughter' and are generally bad. ![]() Incomprehensible that anyone could have enjoyed it. Lisa Jewell is one of my favourite writers and this is her best yet. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To do so when one of your parents is a globally famous Nobel laureate makes that task infinitely more daunting. To write a book about the death of your parents is to expose moments of intense intimacy and vulnerability. And there you are, two hours later, talking about anything.” And then there are things that make you laugh - the family is still the family. ![]() “It is like a light going out extremely softly and it leaves you dumbfounded. “The moment of death and the moments around it are so incredibly simple, especially when a person is not in pain,” says the filmmaker, seated in his bright Santa Monica garden. He also recorded death’s processes and banalities: the conferences with grim-faced doctors, the pro forma small talk, the sharing of memories - meaningful, funny, off-color - that serve as a way for the living to grapple with the absence that looms. In these, he recorded his most profound sentiments. As director Rodrigo Garcia’s father lay dying, he found himself taking notes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Malone races down to the office of the Daily Gazette and begs his editor for an exciting, dangerous assignment. As the archetypal example of a member of the friendzone guild, he doesn't even consider thinking that maybe she is a "bad apple" and not the right woman for him. She wants an adventurer, essentially so she can bask in the glory of her partner's deeds. Unfortunately, it is soon revealed that she doesn't share the sentiments that Malone has been feeling and therefore he remains in the 'friend-zone.' He just isn't exciting enough. This narrative begins with journalist and international rugby player Edward Dunn Malone as he finally tells the love of his life Gladys about the emotions and feelings that he has been harbouring. ![]() I decided to revisit this exuberant and vivacious science heavy adventure tale that features dinosaurs - and I'm truly glad that I did. I started reading religiously in 2012 and The Lost World was one of my favourite stories from my pre-review era. This is the first of the Professor Challenger series and the only one that I had read previously. John Watson, Mycroft Holmes, and Professor James Moriarty are Doyle's most known creations, Professor Challenger, the hot-tempered scientist is another character that many readers will be familiar with. “If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.” - Sir Arthur Conan DoyleĪlthough Sherlock Holmes, Dr. ![]() |