5/10/2023 0 Comments Getting down helena hunting![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But when a shocking new Moorehead scandal comes to light, she’s forced to choose between her own family and the broody, cynical CEO. And she certainly doesn’t expect to fall for Lincoln. What Wren doesn’t expect is to find herself attracted to him, or for it to be mutual. ![]() Working with the reclusive oldest son of a ridiculously entitled family is worth the hassle if it means she’s that much closer to pursuing her own dreams. Wren Sterling has been working double time to keep the indiscretions at Moorehead Media at bay, so when she’s presented with a new contract, with new responsibilities and additional incentives, she agrees. But Lincoln’s bad attitude softens when he meets the no-nonsense, gorgeous woman who has been given the task of transforming him from the gruff, wilderness guy to a suave businessman. To top it all off, he’s been named CEO of Moorehead Media, much to his brother’s chagrin. Now contains a never before published bonus scene Ruby Scott's favorite holiday is here, all she needs is a moderately good excuse to throw a party. After the death of his father, Lincoln finds himself in the middle of the drama. Getting Down - Helena Hunting Originally published as part of the USA Today bestselling anthology Eye Candy, Getting Down is a hilarious and hot short story set in the Shacking Up world. The New York Times best-selling author of Shacking Up and I Flipping Love You, Helena Hunting, mixes humor and heart in this scandal-filled romantic comedy, Handle With Care.īetween his parents’ messed up marriage and his narcissistic younger brother, Lincoln Moorehead has spent the majority of his life avoiding his family. ![]()
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5/10/2023 0 Comments Goodwin lincoln![]() Her 2018 book, “ Leadership in Turbulent Times,” has “no master key for leadership,” she said. With that introduction, Goodwin explained how after many decades in what she called an “odd profession-spending time with dead presidents,” she decided to see what traits they had developed in common. In the classroom, but also in the capitol,” he urged. “Decisions are being made by people who haven’t been inside of the classroom,” he told the assembly-and those decisions are frequently “not being made in the best interests of our children and our teachers. Goodwin studies presidents as leaders, and today, those are needed more than ever in education. Johnson.īut when ASCD board member Ben Shuldiner introduced Goodwin, he underscored that choosing her was no happy accident. ![]() Over the past four decades, Goodwin has earned her moniker, “Historian of the presidents.” She’s written a half-dozen best-selling books, including ones on Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Inviting Doris Kearns Goodwin to speak to a gathering of thousands of educators brought together by the annual ASCD Empower19 conference might have seemed like a surprising choice at first. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments An absolutely remarkable things![]() ![]() Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship-like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armor-April and her friend, Andy, make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube. Roaming through New York City at three a.m., twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. ![]() I am writing a short review here - a break from Crimes of Grindelwald and Lethal White! - to recommend you read it, too, and that you think your way past the hard parts to consider its allegorical message about art (hence the title acronym), about the political and technological landscape in which we live, and about the agony of escaping the errors of our age for communion with transcendent reality.Īfter the jump I will write a brief synopsis of the wonderfully page-turning story (without spoiling it!), my thoughts about its meaning, and why reading it, when more than a few times in my case I persisted only with gritted teeth and eyeballs rolling, taught me something important about the difficulty the Harry Haters experienced in seeing the Christian content of the Hogwarts Saga. A dear friend – and a Harvard PhD whose works on ‘how literature works’ inform my PhD thesis – wrote me yesterday to say I had to read Hank Green’s An Absolutely Remarkable Thingbecause it is “right up your alley” and “You are the one to interpret it!” I bought the book online and read it off my computer screen last night and this morning. ![]() ![]() Books For Teenagersīelow is our list of young adult fiction and beyond that any 13 year old may enjoy. Keep reading to find out what we chose, and what could be on your next reading list, or even provide some gift ideas for a budding reader! Find out below. In this article we are going to suggest some of our favorite books that would be suitable for a 13 year old, many of which are good books in their own right. The humor will be different, the elements of horror and thriller may be adjusted, even romance itself will be described slightly differently.īeyond this, there are many books that are totally suitable for children aged 13 that aren’t necessarily made with them in mind, but are simply an everyman book and story that everyone can get their teeth into without worrying about content. ![]() Young adult fiction is more easily described as books that are purposefully created with teenagers in mind, appealing to the things that might matter to a 13 year old,and trying to avoid the things they may not understand yet. ![]() Yes, while young adult fiction may exclude some nastier topics and depictions of things like sex, drugs, excessive violence,and more, that doesn’t mean they are boring, and buck doesn’t stop there with this genre. ![]() Young adult fiction is specifically books for teenagers, but, equally, this doesn’t mean that adults can’t read them either. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Soul Music by Terry Pratchett![]() ![]() There's a new, addictive music in Discworld. The only problem is, everyone mistakes her for the Tooth Fairy. When Death decides he needs a well-earned break, he leaves Susan to take over the family business. Susan hasn't exactly had a normal upbringing, with a skeletal grandfather who rides a white horse and wields a scythe. ![]() It felt like music.'īeing sixteen is always difficult, but it's even more so when there's a Death in the family. Featuring a new theme tune composed by James Hannigan. BAFTA and Golden Globe award-winning actor Bill Nighy ( Love Actually Pirates of the Caribbean Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) reads the footnotes, and Peter Serafinowicz ( Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace Shaun of the Dead) stars as the voice of Death. The audiobook of Soul Music is narrated by the BAFTA award-winning actor Sian Clifford ( Fleabag Vanity Fair Quiz). ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Princess by Gaelen Foley![]() ![]() Despite their considerable age difference, theirs was a love written in the stars that was always meant to be. When Serafina declared her love to Darius at her come-out ball on her seventeenth birthday, he ran the other way, fearing not only his king, but also the depth of emotion she stirred within him. ![]() When she was twelve, he nearly died, taking a bullet meant for the king, and she sat by his bedside praying for his recovery and threw a tantrum when she was asked to leave. Our heroine, Serafina, has worshiped the ground Darius walks on since she was a little girl and he was her personal bodyguard. Unfortunately that woman is the princess he’s been guarding for most of her life, and he believes that to give in to his feelings for her would be to betray his king. His torment runs deep and the love of only one woman can satisfy and heal him. ![]() I’m always up for a tortured bad boy hero, and Darius is definitely one of those. It was an incredible read full of adventure, passion, and romance. Gaelen Foley is one of them, and Princess just became the latest book I’ve read by her that has earned keeper status from me. There are a few of my favorite authors who’ve not yet failed me once (meaning I’ve not yet rated any of their books below four stars and the majority of them were keepers). ![]() ![]() McManus is the author of 11 books, including "The Deadly Brotherhood: The American Combat Soldier in World War II" and "Deadly Sky: The American Combat Airman in World War II." His 2010 book "Grunts: The American Infantry Combat Experience, World War II through Iraq" was named to the U.S. He also serves as the official historian for the United States Army’s Seventh Infantry Regiment. ![]() military history at Missouri University of Science and Technology, where he teaches courses on topics such as World War II and the modern American combat experience. McManus is one of the nation’s leading military historians. The book centers largely on the exploits of the 1st Infantry Division and includes detailed, personal accounts of some of the soldiers who were part of World War II’s “longest day.” By highlighting their stories, McManus’s book sheds a timely light on the heroism and courage that defined what today is widely described as “The Greatest Generation.” ![]() McManus, offers an insider’s look at just one of the five beaches taken by Allied troops in his book, "The Dead and Those About to Die - D-Day: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach." Jmarks the 71st anniversary of D-Day, the invasion on the beaches of Normandy that turned the tide of fighting in World War II Europe and led to an Allied victory. ![]() This is an encore interview and was first broadcast in June, 2014. ![]() ![]() At least he didn't have his nose pressed up against the glass. Marshall was gawking through the plate-glass window of his little souvenir shop. Two pedestrians were frozen on the sidewalk, missing their chance to cross as they stared. ![]() I tried to take some comfort in the fact that she wasn't really staring at me, just the car. Then I remembered that these windows were so darkly tinted that she probably had no idea if it was even me in here, let alone that I'd caught her looking. It was still considered rude to stare at people, wasn't it? Didn't that apply to me anymore? Her eyes bored into mine, and I flinched back, wondering why she didn't drop her gaze or look ashamed. Weber had turned her whole torso in my direction. No one is staring at you.īut, because I couldn't lie convincingly even to myself, I had to check.Īs I sat waiting for one of the three traffic lights in town to turn green, I peeked to the right-in her minivan, Mrs. ![]() N O ONE IS STARING AT YOU, I PROMISED MYSELF. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments True by Ella Frank![]() ![]() ![]() TRUE, the final book in The Temptation Series by Ella Frank and the highly anticipated wedding between Logan Mitchell and Tate Morrison is available now! ![]() Tate and Logan will live in my heart for eternity. Ella I want to thank you for blessing us with your talent and giving us this gift to escape from the horrors of the real world to a place full of unconditional love. It is a series that we will continue to read or listen to over and over again because it is a feel good journey of love, discovery, and happiness. Ella could not have done a better job at bringing this series to a close. This final book has made my heart bursting at the seams with happiness and a feeling of fulfillment. We have watched these two go through so many ups and downs which made them so real to us. This series is so beautiful and is one that will remain in my heart for all of eternity. I am tearing up saying goodbye to two beautiful souls that Ella has blessed us with. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Amy bloom eleanor roosevelt![]() Through it all, even as Hick's bond with Eleanor is tested by forces both extraordinary and common, and as she grows as a woman and a writer, she never loses sight of the love of her life.įrom Washington, D.C. ![]() After she takes a job in the Roosevelt administration, promoting and protecting both Roosevelts, she comes to know Franklin not only as a great president but as a complicated rival and an irresistible friend, capable of changing lives even after his death. She moves into the White House, where her status as "first friend" is an open secret, as are FDR's own lovers. ![]() But then, as her connection with the future first lady deepens into intimacy, what begins as a powerful passion matures into a lasting love, and a life that Hick never expected to have. Having grown up worse than poor in South Dakota and reinvented herself as the most prominent woman reporter in America, "Hick," as she's known to her friends and admirers, is not quite instantly charmed by the idealistic, patrician Eleanor. Lorena Hickok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on Franklin Roosevelt's first presidential campaign. ![]() Then, I would have traded everything I ever had, every limo ride, every skinny dip, every byline and carefree stroll, for what Franklin had, polio and all." "I never envied a wife or a husband, until I met Eleanor. ![]() |