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The long way home by za maxfield6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Maxfield is renowned for writing compelling romance books, specifically gay and lesbian romance. There will be plenty for you to fall in love with! Books By Z. Maxfield’s romance books, and want similar stories to get immersed in, take a look at other authors such as Josh Lanyon, Kiera Andrews, and Mary Calmes. If you love her gay and lesbian romances, and have gotten through all her books, you are probably booking for more similar authors! Lucky for you, there are a handful of authors out there whose works you will fall in love with in no time. However, she has also released books such as Fugitive Color, When Angels Fall, and Secret Light. Nacho’s ( A Much Younger Man A Flighty Fake Boyfriend and A Reluctant Boy Toy), and The Cowboys. Maxfield is probably most known for her St. ![]() This author is known for her touching and thrilling gay and lesbian romance plots, ranging from cowboy lovers to homoerotic vampire journals, Maxfield covers a wide array of romance. ![]()
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Wicked autumn by gm malliet6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Mine is a Magdalene Duchateau story, an historical set in London.Īpril 1, 2021: My novella is nominated for a Derringer Award. As the name suggests, this is a competition in which readers rank their favorites from among all the stories published in the past year. The ballot for the 2023 competition appears in the Nov / Dec 2023 edition with my "Something Blue" in the long list.Īpril 2022: My short story "The White Star" (July/August 2021) made the shortlist for Dell Publishing's Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers Award.Īpril 2021: My 2020 novella "A Murder at Morehead Mews" finaled at 5th i n Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 's Readers Choice Awards. ![]() July 2022: "The White Star" ( EQMM, July/August 2021) was nominated for a Macavity Award for Best Short Story by Mystery Readers International. ![]()
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Edgar lee masters spoon river6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Īfter working in his father's law office, he was admitted to the Illinois bar and moved to Chicago, where he established a law partnership in 1893 with the law firm of Kickham Scanlan. ![]() He attended Knox Academy in 1889–90, a now defunct preparatory program run by Knox College, but was forced to leave due to his family's inability to finance his education. The culture around Lewistown, in addition to the town's cemetery at Oak Hill and the nearby Spoon River, were the inspirations for many of his works, most notably Spoon River Anthology, his most famous and acclaimed work. In 1880 they moved to Lewistown, Illinois, where he attended high school and had his first publication in the Chicago Daily News. ![]() In all, Masters published twelve plays, twenty-one books of poetry, six novels and six biographies, including those of Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Vachel Lindsay, and Walt Whitman.īorn in Garnett, Kansas, to attorney Hardin Wallace Masters and Emma Jerusha Dexter, his father had briefly moved to set up a law practice, then soon moved back to his paternal grandparents' farm near Petersburg in Menard County, Illinois. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology, The New Star Chamber and Other Essays, Songs and Satires, The Great Valley, The Serpent in the Wilderness, An Obscure Tale, The Spleen, Mark Twain: A Portrait, Lincoln: The Man, and Illinois Poems. Edgar Lee Masters (Aug– March 5, 1950) was an American attorney, poet, biographer, and dramatist. ![]()
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Spoiler alert kit cowan6/30/2023 ![]() Rated PG-13: For sexual content, drug use and thematic elements INTERVIEWING PARSONS: Andrew Dansby chats with Houston-born Jim Parsons. One night, a co-worker drags Michael to “jock night” at a bar after work, where he locks eyes with Kit on the dance floor, and the rest is history. “The Big Bang Theory” star Jim Parsons plays Michael, the dweeby-cute TV nerd who writes for TV Guide and collects Smurfs paraphernalia, while English actor Ben Aldridge plays Kit, an undeniably hot aspiring photographer. ![]() Now, arriving just in time for Christmas, we have “Spoiler Alert,” a heart-rending holiday weepie about two men in love, facing cancer together.īased on the memoir by TV journalist Michael Ausiello, “Spoiler Alert” tells the story of Ausiello’s marriage to Kit Cowan: how they fell in love and forged a partnership, with all the attendant struggles of a long-term relationship, and then walked together through Kit’s battle with a rare form of neuroendocrine cancer. ![]() In the summer and fall of 2022, “Bros” and “Fire Island” made inroads as high-profile gay rom-coms, queering the familiar genre. ![]() This image released by Focus Features shows Jim Parsons, left, and Ben Aldridge in a scene from "Spoiler Alert." (David Scott Holloway/Focus Features via AP) Photo: David Scott Holloway, HONS / Associated Press ![]()
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The Heart of Betrayal by Mary E. Pearson6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Booklist, starred review, for The Heart of Betrayal A heart-pounding sequel that fantasy fans will appreciate. It's rare that the second book in a series is as good-or perhaps better-than the first, but that's the case here. ![]() Pearson drives up the stakes and the romance, and will leave readers desperate to read book three in the Remnant Chronicles, The Beauty of Darkness. ![]() Wrestling with her upbringing, her gift, and her sense of self, Lia must make powerful choices that will affect her country. Now that she lives among them, however, she realizes that may be far from the truth. Meanwhile, nothing is straightforward: There's Rafe, who lied to Lia but has sacrificed his freedom to protect her Kaden, who meant to assassinate her but has now saved her life and the Vendans, whom Lia always believed to be barbarians. Desperate to save her life, Lia's erstwhile assassin, Kaden, has told the Vendan Komizar that she has the gift, and the Komizar's interest in Lia is greater than anyone could have foreseen. "item_description" : "The thrilling, New York Times-bestselling sequel to The Kiss of DeceptionHeld captive in the barbarian kingdom of Venda, Lia and Rafe have little chance of escape. ![]()
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Murder on the orient express novel6/28/2023 ![]() I think those who are not familiar with Agatha Christie, Poirot, or the story may very well like this movie. An impressive case features Penélope Cruz, Johnny Depp, Derek Jacobi, Michelle Pfeiffer, Judi Dench, Willem Dafoe, and Kennth Branagh as Hercule Poirot. May we all.ĭifficult Kenneth Branagh makes, produces, and stars in good movies, and this version of Murder on the Orient Express features impressive sets, beautiful scenery, and lovely period clothes. I will leave the train here to conclude formalities. The police have accepted my first solution to the crime: the lone assassin who made his escape. There are no killers here, only people who deserve a chance to heal. And I must learn for once, to live with the imbalance. Hercule Poirot: Ladies and gentlemen, I have understood in this case that the scales of justice. My very existence depends upon this hope, upon order and method and the little grey cells. ![]() I have always wanted to believe that man is rational and civilized. ![]() So many broken lives, so much pain and anger giving way to the poison of deep grief, until one crime became many. I have seen the fracture of the human soul. I have now discovered the truth of the case and it is profoundly disturbing. ![]() Hercule Poirot: My Dear Colonel Armstrong, finally, I can answer your letter, at least with the thoughts in my head and the feeling in my heart that somewhere you can hear me. ![]()
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Wait till helen comes online book6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Williams, the local librarian, who finds records and photos explaining that the plaque commemorates Helen Harper, who died with her parents in a fire in 1886, none of whose remains were found. Simmons they find a memorial plaque (not a grave) for a six-year-old girl with the initials H.E.H., the same initials as Heather. Later, when exploring the graveyard adjoining the churchyard cared for by kindly old Mr. While exploring, Heather is attracted by a blue butterfly, following it deeper into the woods. ![]() On the way, they stop at a psychiatric hospital to pick up Dave’s preadolescence daughter, Heather, who has lived there for three years, suffering the trauma of seeing her mother die in a house fire. When Jean marries Dave, a writer and widower, the new family moves to an isolated rural church, converted into a house, outside the small town of Detroit. Set in 1982, Molly is a teenage girl living in Michigan with her widowed mother Jean, and younger brother, Michael. The film was released in multiple Canadian cities on 25 November 2016. It stars Maria Bello with real life sisters Sophie Nélisse and Isabelle Nélisse, who play step-sisters in the film. ![]() It is adapted from the book by Mary Downing Hahn. Wait Till Helen Comes (also known as Little Girl's Secret) is a 2016 Canadian film directed by Dominic James and written by Victoria Sanchez Mandryk.
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Act like a lady book6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Unabashedly sincere, clever, and full of questionable advice, Act Like a Lady explores the complexities surrounding topics like body image, breakups, navigating a career, and adult friendships through their own embarrassing experiences. Keltie, Becca, and Jac are here to clear away the b******t and give you the confidence to live your best lady life. If you're tired of being bombarded with the curated perfection on social media and you're starving for something raw, honest, and a little bit messy, welcome to the LadyGang. The hosts of the popular podcast and E! show LadyGang offer a relatable, empowering, and hilarious take on being unapologetically yourself (even if that's not always your best self) in a manifesto that redefines womanhood for the twenty-first-century lady. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet gay, has woken up dead in what seems like a. ![]() Ten years after his prize-winning novel Chinaman established him as one of Sri Lanka’s foremost authors, Shehan Karunatilaka is back with a “thrilling satire” ( Economist) and rip-roaring state-of-the-nation epic that offers equal parts mordant wit and disturbing, profound truths. The Seven Moons Of Maali Almeida: - Paperback. He has seven moons to contact the man and woman he loves most and lead them to the photos that will rock Sri Lanka. But even in the afterlife, time is running out for Maali. In a country where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers, and hired goons, the list of suspects is depressingly long, as the ghouls and ghosts with grudges who cluster round can attest. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira Lake and he has no idea who killed him. Maali Almeida-war photographer, gambler, and closet queen-has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. ![]() Winner of the 2022 Booker Prize, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is a searing satire set amid the mayhem of the Sri Lankan civil war.Ĭolombo, 1990. ![]()
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Unknown Earth by William R. Corliss6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Anomalies in Geology: Physical, Chemical, Biological (A Catalog of Geological Anomalies), 1989.Corliss, Unknown Earth (Glen Arm, Maryland: The Sourcebook Project, 1980), p. Did millions of years fly by with no discernible effect? A possible though controversial inference is that our geological clocks and stratigraphic concepts need working on." William R. Potentially more important to geological thinking are those unconformities that signal large chunks of geological history are missing, even though the strata on either side of the unconformity are perfectly parallel and show no evidence of erosion. William Corliss wrote regarding unconformities the following: Corliss lives in Glen Arm, Maryland, USA, where the Sourcebook Project is located. Corliss is also a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Society for Scientific Exploration. Corliss has degrees in physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (B.S., 1950) and the University of Colorado (M.S., 1953). The science journal New Scientist wrote regarding Corliss's work the following: "All I can say to Corliss is carry on cataloging". Since 1976, over 2000 Science Frontiers digests have been published. ![]() Corlisss publishes Science Frontiers which is a bimonthly newsletter providing digests of reports that cite and describe scientific anomalies. Corliss is the author of many works which discuss many scientific anomalies (observations and facts that challenge prevailing scientific paradigms). ![]() |