![]() With Esme’s time in the United States dwindling, Khai is forced to understand he’s been wrong all along. She’s hopelessly smitten with a man who’s convinced he can never return her affection. Esme’s lessons in love seem to be working…but only on herself. Seducing Khai, however, doesn’t go as planned. Helen Hoang - New York Times bestselling author of The Kiss Quotient, The Bride Test. When the opportunity arises to come to America and meet a potential husband, she can’t turn it down, thinking this could be the break her family needs. ![]() ![]() ![]() When he steadfastly avoids relationships, his mother takes matters into her own hands and returns to Vietnam to find him the perfect bride.Īs a mixed-race girl living in the slums of Ho Chi Minh City, Esme Tran has always felt out of place. TITLE: The Bride Test SERIES: The Kiss Quotient 2 AUTHOR: Helen Hoang GENRE: contemporary romance PUBLISHED: FORMAT: audiobook LENGTH: 10hrs SYNOPSIS: Khai Diep has no feelings. His family knows better-that his autism means he just processes emotions differently. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny, but not big, important emotions-like grief. ![]()
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![]() For Flavia, undoing the complex knot that ties these strands together will test her precocious powers of deduction to the limit - and provide a shocking insight into some of the darker corners of the adult world. The plot, beginning with the arrival in Bishop's Lacey of a travelling puppet show, features a grisly murder during a performance of Jack and the Beanstalk in the village hall and reaches back to an earlier, even nastier crime centring on an ancient, rotting gibbet that has lain like a shadow over the village for years. Alan Bradley - The Weed That Strings the Hangmans Bag (Flavia de Luce 2) setting village of Bishops Lacey, Flavia de Luce braces and pigtails like a typical 11-year-old girl, chemist Gladys - her bicycle, Ophelia de Luce (17) Daphne de Luce (13) Dogger, Arthur Wellesley loyal retainer Mrs. How does Bradley balance the novel’s style with the subject matter 5. Inbetween, Alan Bradley weaves a hauntingly nightmarish tale that involves Punch & Judy - and in particular Mr Punch's nemesis, the hangman, Jack Ketch - a frighteningly realistic puppet show, and a hitherto unexplored corner of Bishop's Lacey known as Gibbet's Wood. Despite its lightness, The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bagis a dark novel, dealing with the death of a child and the deceptions that both preceded and followed that tragic event. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The story opens with the immortal words 'I was lying dead in the churchyard' (spoken, astonishingly, by Flavia herself) and ends with a funeral watched by the De Luce family on a newly-installed television set. ![]() ![]() ![]() With The Study Quran, both scholars and lay readers can explore the deeper spiritual meaning of the Quran, examine the grammar of difficult sections, and explore legal and ritual teachings, ethics, theology, sacred history, and the importance of various passages in Muslim life. ![]() Beautifully packaged with a rich, attractive two-color layout, this magnificent volume includes essays by 15 contributors, maps, useful notes and annotations in an easy-to-read two-column format, a timeline of historical events, and helpful indices. ![]() Drawn from a wide range of traditional Islamic commentaries, including Sunni and Shia sources, and from legal, theological, and mystical texts, The Study Quran conveys the enduring spiritual power of the Quran and offers a thorough scholarly understanding of this holy text. Available in a stunning leather-bound edition, an accessible and accurate translation of the Quran that offers a rigorous analysis of its theological, metaphysical, historical, and geographical teachings and backgrounds, and includes extensive study notes, special introductions by experts in the field, and is edited by a top modern Islamic scholar, respected in both the West and the Islamic world. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Billionaire's Wake-up-Call Girl was such a great listen that I felt a bit sad when the it was epilogue time. How much longer can I keep up this charade? He’s an overachieving billionaire bent on a mission. Now, he wants to take me out on a date and he’s scouring Manhattan to find me. ![]() ![]() Snuggled under the covers with the moonlight streaming through the windows, we divulge our secrets to each other, but the one thing that he can never find out is that the sexy vixen who wakes him up every morning is just the lowly assistant who wears frumpy dresses. Hello! Who wakes up before the roosters are even crowing? Luckily, he doesn’t seem to mind my get-your-ass-out-of-bed attitude.ĭay by day, we’re becoming closer, and the calls start turning hot.like pay-by-the-minute hot and oh-so-wild. Here's a confession: I’m not the nicest wake-up-call girl at that hour. OMG yes, you read that right - four freaking thirty in the morning. So, in an effort not to lose my job, I secretly start making the calls myself, every day at 4:30 am sharp. ![]() They’ve all had enough of his surly personality. It turns out that no wake-up call company in the world will take him on as a client. When my manager assigns me the task of finding a new wake-up call service for our CEO, I think, how hard can this be? Answer: practically impossible. ![]() ![]() ![]() (Afterthought: It seems fairly clear why Wintermute wants to merge: Neuromancer is Wintermute's "missing piece," the other lobe, the "personality" that will elevate Wintermute's powers to God-like proportions.) And Neuromancer's avatar, the young boy with Riviera's eyes, is spotted by Case some time later, so his essence wasn't completely obliterated by the process. The new entity formed by their merging is described, near the end of the book, as being unimaginably powerful, having subsumed the entire "Matrix". What I don't understand is why Neuromancer didn't want to merge with Wintermute. After he escapes, Case comes to suspect that Neuromancer had previously arranged several other incidents to foil Wintermute's plan. Neuromancer briefly traps Case in a virtual environment, in the hopes that Case will decide not to go through with the job. However, when Case finally comes face-to-face with Neuromancer, it's under duress. And we learn that Wintermute's ultimate goal has been to merge with another AI called Neuromancer. In William Gibson's novel Neuromancer, we come to learn that the final heist at Villa Straylight, and the events leading up to it, have largely been orchestrated by the artificial intelligence Wintermute. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Radiometric dating of nearby rocks indicated the skeleton, classified as Ardipithecus ramidus, was 4.4 million years old, more than a million years older than "Lucy," then the oldest known human ancestor. ![]() In 1994, a team led by fossil-hunting legend Tim White-"the Steve Jobs of paleoanthropology"-uncovered the bones of a human ancestor in Ethiopia's Afar region. "A rip-roaring tale, Fossil Men is one of those rare books that can be a prism through which to view the world, exposing the fabric of the Earth and illuminating the Tree of Life." -New York Times bestselling author Peter NicholsĪ behind-the-scenes account of the shocking discovery of the skeleton of "Ardi," a human ancestor far older than Lucy - a find that shook the world of paleoanthropology and radically altered our understanding of human evolution. ![]() ![]() ![]() As she considers whether to tell anyone of her discovery, her friend Finch stumbles upon the find and secretly reaches out to a paleontologist, knowing the find could save the McCauleys’ farm from foreclosure. Like her grandmother Bee, Esme has the gift of finding things with the help of a witching stick when she’s compelled to search, she discovers a huge secret buried at the site of Paps’ passing: dinosaur bones. Three months ago, Esme McCauley’s grandfather, Paps, died while riding his tractor on Solace Hill, and ever since she has felt that he’s been trying to tell her something from beyond the grave. Full of friendship and adventure, and featuring a palpable Texas setting, Finding Esme is a moving and heartfelt story about family, friendship, and learning to deal with loss. Esme struggles to understand who has her best interests at heart, especially as the memory of her grandfather begins to slip away. ![]() But when word gets out that the farm is hiding something valuable, reporters, researchers, and neighbors arrive in droves. The bones must be a message from her grandfather, a connection from beyond the grave. But when she follows her little brother, Bo, and her dog, Old Jack, up the hill while chasing fireflies, she makes an incredible discovery–dinosaur bones peeking out underneath the abandoned tractor. ![]() ![]() After her grandfather died from a heart attack while driving his tractor on Solace Hill, twelve-year-old Esme’s been inextricably drawn to the spot, although her grandmother warns her to stay away. ![]() ![]() ![]() Teach children about different kinds of foster care, with this touching tale of fostering placements leading to kinship care, reunification, adoption and long term foster care / foster-to-adopt. Mr and Mrs Swan build a big nest, so that they have plenty of room to help anyone who needs them. ![]() See how a concerned goose tries to help Delly to learn how to care for her chick, in this touching adoption story.ĭelly Duck is available in English, French, German and Spanish on all Amazon sites. But she doesn’t really know how to keep an egg safe, or how to look after her chick when he hatches. When Delly Duck lays an egg, she is excited for it to hatch. Join “Adoption or Fostering after a Biological Child” (Kinship Carers and Special Guardians also welcome) if you have both adopted and biological children: īy popular demand, Holly Marlow has created a special sibling/twin edition of her multi-award winning book, Delly Duck.ĭelly Duck: Why A Little Chick Couldn’t Stay With His Birth Mother ![]() ![]() At her ballet there was a show where you could perform a dance that you made up on stage and Katirina decided to do it with her friend, but right before they went on stage her friend got hurt, so Katirina had to do it by herself. When Katirina found out about that she immediately went to town and danced to make some money to pay for her ballet lessons herself, but her dad would not let her. ![]() But there is a problem, Katirina’s dad was running low on money to pay for her ballet lessons. The story usually took place at home, school, or ballet. In the story, Katerina Ballerina, Katerina is the main character. I thought the book was well written because it captured all the action and it made me want to keep reading and reading the book! Do you like to dance? Good, because today I am going to be talking about the book Katerina Ballerina by Tiler Peck and Kyle Harris and the illustrator of this book is Sumiti Collina. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Like I said before, I have many different interests. Then once the space is full, it comes flooding out in stories. I think that I store ideas away somewhere in my brain and categorize them subconsciously. But the funny thing is that I don’t realize it at the time. Someone asked me where I get my ideas from, and I say everyday life. I draw, paint, write, but I also have a strong business and entrepreneurial spirit. I see myself as a bit of generalist ‘tinkerer,’ and I like to occupy my time in many ways. In 2018 I quit my job and hunkered down and wrote the first two books in the Eternal Stones series. I was working full time and kept dabbling with writing but couldn’t actually finish anything. Well, I started drawing when I was young and actually didn’t start writing since recently. His debut novel, Firestone: The Dragons Blood Prophecy is rated 4.8 out of 5 stars on Amazon and is internationally acclaimed! How did you get into what you do right now? Please tell us more about your journey. Today, we have the pleasure of interviewing Ryan Carriere, best selling author. ![]() |