![]() ![]() She hides from Dahlia and texts her father asking him to come pick her up. Since Lola's death on May 15, after her long battle with cancer, Clara feels disconnected from Dahlia. Clara decides she doesn't want stay with Dahlia and she tells her she's leaving. ![]() Their families met through an adoption support group because Dahlia and Clara's sister Lola were adopted from China. Clara has known Dahlia since they were babies. ![]() Unfortunately, Lola developed acute lymphoblastic leukemia and despite chemotherapy, she relapsed and died.Ĭlara's narrative opens with her being dropped off at Bellman's department store on July 1 with her "used-to-be best friend", Dahlia. Lola who was abandoned in a cardboard box in Molihua Park in Shanghai, was found by a man and taken to an orphanage where her birthday was estimated to be October 1. The novel opens with a copy of Yuming's note hidden in a purse on May 16 while she is working in a factory in Hebei Province, in China.Ĭlara and her parents are still grieving after the death of Clara's older sister Lola who was adopted from an orphanage in China. Their lives intersect in a way neither can ever imagine, tied together by the thread of one action. Threads is a parallel narrative, telling the stories of twelve-year-old Clara Clay who lives in Evanston, Illinois with her parents and thirteen-year-old Yuming Niantu who is an orphan in China. ![]()
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![]() Dorothy Daniels has always had a voracious - and adventurous - appetite. There is something inside Dorothy that makes her different from ev. From her idyllic farm-to-table childhood (homegrown tomatoes, fragrant cassoulets) to the heights of her career as a food critic (caviar and foie gras washed down with champaign straight from the bottle) Dorothy has never been shy about indulging her exquisite tastes - even when it lead to her plunging an ice pick into her lover's neck. ![]() ![]() ![]() It so happens that Emma and Julian, two parabatai, have fallen in love. This bond makes the two more powerful and strong, but there is only one drawback - it is forbidden to fall in love with your parabatai. The series is about a sacred bond of "parabatai", two bonded Shadowhunters, and it is more valuable than any bond in this world. Centered around the protagonist, Emma Carstairs, the series follows her journey as a Shadowhunter at the Los Angeles Institute, and her life with her best-friend and parabatai, Julian Blackthorn, and his family. The series consists of three books: Lady Midnight, Lord of Shadows and Queen of Air and Darkness, in that particular order. The series is chronologically the fourth series in The Shadowhunter Chronicles and a sequel to The Mortal Instruments. The Dark Artifices is a trilogy written by Cassandra Clare. ![]() ![]() ![]() You’ll find a ridiculous amount of pizza, cavity-inducing romantic sweetness, swordplay, fun on the beach, and two oblivious dorks who bond over their mutual love of food. Raiden is Book 6 in the Sons of the Fallen series. Can Raiden and Titan embrace their bond with the fate of the world in the balance? Or will their romance fade before it even truly begins? A sweet indulgence that can make even the darkest of days seem brighter. The bond between fated mates is powerful. And for the first time, Titan thinks falling in love may be worth the risk of possible heartbreak later on. But then he meets a silly, handsome, and warm-hearted man with a dimpled grin and weakness for pizza, and his guard begins to slip. Then again, fate never follows the rules.Īs the son of a fallen angel, Titan leads a guarded life. ![]() But with the war between angels and demons escalating, it’s not exactly the best time to fall in love. ![]() Until he meets the one man who satiates that hunger. Nothing is ever enough to fill the emptiness inside him. Cursed with the deadly sin of Gluttony, his voracious appetite is legendary. ![]() ![]() Nothing really got me going, in hindsight - seeing all the amazing reviews for this. Unfortunately, the D felt more like political philosophy rather than erotica. ![]() ![]() Trisha Wolfe put the D (pun intended) in Dark. "Decorative art hangs strategically at eye level to keep my high-paying clients from staring at the shackled criminals in the waiting room." This is definitely not for the faint of heart. With that purpose in mind, it actually kept me quite interested, it held certain points of suspense that made me want to read on! However, this is supposed to be a romance and as much as I want to give this book any more stars. It fell more along the lines of a psychological thriller, and it read like an episode of Criminal Minds rather than a New Adult novel. I had so much hope for Born, Darkly and although the premise intrigued me, I was skeptical on how the author managed to pull a romance with a serial killer.Īfter finishing I realized, to me. Have you ever heard about an amazing plan where so many different things can go wrong? “For this to be over, one of us has to die.” ![]() ![]() “It’s never over.” He positions himself between the door and me. The ankle shackles slow his advance, but don’t stop him. “Grayson, this is over.” I hold up my hands. ![]() ![]() The second finding by the researchers suggests a limit to the effect of an unguarded X. So it seems that the unguarded X hypothesis contains some truth. Again, the homogametic gender lives longer. ![]() As it turns out, in birds, moths, and butterflies, the male is homogametic (noted as ZZ), and the female is heterogametic (ZW). Their data set included 229 species, 99 families, 38 orders and eight classes Īcross a wide range of species including us mammals, insects, reptiles, and ray-finned fish (fish whose fins are supported by a bony infrastructure), the homogametic gender on average lives 17.6% longer. A group of researchers considered the life-span across all the species where two genes created homogametic or heterogametic genders. Alternatively, there is the “toxic Y hypothesis,” where the Y acts as a bit of a rogue adversely altering gene expressions and mutations. ![]() ![]() The “unguarded X hypothesis” suggests that as our chromosomes age, men don’t have a backup plan when their X begins to falter, having a Y leaves that X unprotected. Women have two X chromosomes (homogametic sex), while men have an X and a Y (heterogametic sex). ![]() ![]() She’d been searching for a secondhand copy for ages. A copy of Messier’s Catalogue of Star Clusters and Nebulae, which she’d plucked like a pearl from the used-book section. And, making his first appearance in a starring role (trumpet fanfare, please)-the Bookshop Rake.Īlexandra had been juggling a tower of Nicola’s books in one arm and reading her own book with her free hand. Her three closest friends: Nicola Teague, Lady Penelope Campion, and Emma Pembrooke, the Duchess of Ashbury. ![]() The date: a Wednesday afternoon in November. Soon the walls around Chase’s heart are crumbling… and he’s in danger of falling, hard.Ĭontent advisories are available for this book. But Alexandra is more than he bargained for: clever, perceptive, passionate. So when a stubborn little governess tries to reform him, he decides to give her an education-in pleasure. Like any self-respecting libertine, Chase lives by one rule: no attachments. Somehow, Alexandra must reach his heart… without risking her own. The ladies of London have tried-and failed-to make him settle down. Try telling that to their guardian, Chase Reynaud: duke’s heir in the streets and devil in the sheets. However, the girls don’t need discipline. ![]() ![]() He’s been a bad, bad rake – and it takes a governess to teach him a lesson.Īfter her livelihood slips through her fingers, Alexandra Mountbatten takes on an impossible post: transforming a pair of wild orphans into proper young ladies. ![]() ![]() But that's precisely why it works so well. After the explosion of Mount Rainier closes the group's avenues of escape and takes out their tech, I'd been reading the book as an environmental disaster/survivalist story. ![]() To all intents and purposes, I'd forgotten about them. In fact, it was all so engrossing that when the creatures did finally show up, I was a bit disorientated. ![]() The social politics of this escape from humanity style set up are immediately apparent and entirely recognisable, each power play and misstep detailed by Kate with insight and humour. Through her perspective we get to see the place and its people with unflattering clarity. Her and her husband are the last to arrive at their new home in a super high tech version of an off-grid community and it means she's the proverbial outsider. But it takes very little time for her to get you on side. ![]() When you first meet Kate Holland she's a neurotic mess and her voice is annoying enough that if I hadn't known people were going to die excitingly awful deaths sometime soon, I might have put the book down. Despite the horror framework, the real strength of this book is not in the monsters, but in the character development. ![]() ![]() ![]() With everything around them falling apart, Margot and Haruko find solace in their growing, secret friendship. ![]() And Margot is doing everything she can to keep her family whole as her mother's health deteriorates and her rational, patriotic father becomes a man who distrusts America and fraternizes with Nazis. Haruko finds herself consumed by fear for her soldier brother and distrust of her father, who she knows is keeping something from her. ![]() The teens discover that they are polar opposites in so many ways, except for one that seems to override all the others: the camp is changing them, day by day and piece by piece. Haruko and Margot meet at the high school in Crystal City, a "family internment camp" for those accused of colluding with the enemy. The war seemed far away from Margot in Iowa and Haruko in Colorado–until they were uprooted to dusty Texas, all because of the places their parents once called home: Germany and Japan. It's 1944, and World War II is raging across Europe and the Pacific. "A must-read for fans of historical fiction." –Ruta Sepetys, #1 New York Times bestselling author An "important" ( New York Times Book Review), "extraordinary" ( Booklist, starred review) novel of conviction, friendship, and betrayal, from Monica Hesse, the bestselling and award-winning author of Girl in the Blue Coat ![]() ![]() Melissa Schlimm is a German national and Simone Lawrence is Australian but both had lived in Dubai for many years and had worked all over the Gulf. ![]() ![]() The authors and participants at this gathering took the city’s incredible global diversity to another level.Īfter one of my talks, I was invited for coffee by two polished, professional and very enthusiastic women who owned and ran the Ameliorate Group, a small training company. Because of promotional trips to Japan and India, I already had a sense of the book’s ability to speak to people in very different cultures, but the festival in Dubai upped this by a considerable notch. I was there to talk about How Women Rise, which had been published 10 months before. ![]() In spring of 2019 I was invited to the Dubai Festival of Books, held in Festival City, a luxurious complex of hotels and stores situated on Dubai Creek. ![]() |