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Jane in Love is like the movie Kate and Leopold – only instead of a time-traveling, handsome duke, it’s Jane Austen. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, she likes to think she’s a romantic at heart in some way, so don’t kill her hopes just yet. Rina Kent is an international bestselling author of everything enemies to lovers romance.ĭarkness is her playground, suspense is her best friend, and twists are her brain’s food. Narrated by: Teddy Hamilton, Zara Hampton-Brown, Jason Clarke, & Shane East Jeremy Volkov might appear charming, but a true predator lurks inside.īut I have no plans to stick around in his blood-soaked world.ĭownload today or read for FREE with Kindle Unlimited He stalked me from the shadows and stole me from the life I know. ![]() In my defense, I didn’t mean to get involved with a mafia prince.īut he barged through my defenses anyway. What started as an innocent mistake turned into actual hell. ![]() ![]() The reader is rewarded with many fresh perspectives on Francis. This biography, published shortly after Chesterton's conversion, is universally considered the best appreciation of Francis' life, one that gets to the heart of the matter. That is, he had no need of possessions as those were merely items that would take his focus off the task at hand. The reader is rewarded with many fresh perspectives on Francis."-Franciscan He exemplified great trust in God and relied on the logic as Chesterton puts it, that a friar was freer than ordinary men because as a friar he was free from the world. Chesterton converted to Catholicism in 1922 because "only the Roman Church could have produced a Saint Francis of Assisi." ![]() Chesterton examines the existence of the pure eccentric and the devout mystic in one man, offering an understanding of Saint Francis in both body and soul. Yet Francis also acknowledged the mystic responsibility to communicate his divine experience. This acclaimed biography of Saint Francis examines the life of a pure artist, a man "whose whole life was a poem." Here is the Saint Francis who prayed and danced with pagan abandon, who talked to animals, and who invented the crèche. ![]() ![]() Saint Francis of Assisi is one of the most influential men in the whole of human history. Biblical Criticism & Interpretation (211).Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (24).Human Resources & Personnel Management (44). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As the ducks bobs in the water, it sees pollution all around it: a plastic bag here discarded fishing nets there all creating problems for the animals in the water. As the duck tells its story, smaller font provides factual information about plastic, its uses, and its the environmental impact. Narrated by one rubber duck, the story is part narrative – the duck’s story – and part nonfiction text. The book is based on a true story that took place in 1992 Ducks Overboard! is about the environmental impact of that accident, and about the pollution crisis facing our oceans. In 2005, Eric Carle wrote Ten Little Rubber Ducks, a story about a shipping carton that leaked dozens of plastic rubber ducks into the sea, and their adventures after landing in the water. ![]() Ducks Overboard!: A True Story of Plastic in Our Oceans, by Markus Motum, (Sept. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The youngest child of his friend and neighbor, Peter Ravich, Dusty was best friends with Landreaux's five-year-old son, LaRose. When he staggers closer, he realizes he has killed his neighbor's five-year-old son, Dusty Ravich. He shoots with easy confidence - but when the buck springs away, Landreaux realizes he's hit something else, a blur he saw as he squeezed the trigger. ![]() Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. In this literary masterwork, Louise Erdrich, the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Round House and the Pulitzer Prize nominee The Plague of Doves, wields her breathtaking narrative magic in an emotionally haunting contemporary tale of a tragic accident, a demand for justice, and a profound act of atonement with ancient roots in Native American culture. ![]() ![]() Partly because she has in some ways left a more visisble legacy of works and images. Probably Margaret of Burgundy (Margaret of York) – sister to Edward IV and Richard III. Which woman did you enjoy writing about the most? ![]() And maybe, just maybe, some of these women were doing things that didn’t sit very easily with the men who have mostly written their histories. ![]() In fact, of course, we tend not to have, from this period the kind of letters that give an aristocratic woman’s feelings, or a man’s either – the Paston letters being the great exception that proves the rule. Largely because of that lack of evidence, about some crucial aspects of and episodes in their lives. You write that ‘these women should be a legend, a byword.’ (p.8) Why do you think they are less well known than their Tudor counterparts? But by putting them together, and showing how their lives echoed and interrelated with each other’s, it’s possible to give a more rounded picture. ![]() Their individual stories are so exceptionally dramatic, and so patchily documented, that they can provoke almost a kind of incredulity. I think – hope! – that by linking them together it gives some sort of context. What does your book add to previous works covering these women? ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, her best friend?s brother home from the Mideast wars, sings to her soul and reveals his burning desire to be more than friends.When Inferno threatens Kinsley, a lethal hitman and a disgraced SEAL pause their competition for her heart and join forces to protect the woman they want from the nefarious biker gang?s sinister plans. ![]() Bartender and college track star known as Micro Machine, Kinsley Hayes? most pressing priorities are having the fastest times on the stopwatch and choosing between internships before graduation.When she runs through the crosshairs of a shady stranger, the encounter jolts Kinsley into the real world, leaving her mystified by a man who toyed with her temper and teased her toward temptation.Who is he?Will she ever see him again?The enigmatic man reappears in Kinsley?s life as a secret admirer, re-igniting their love-hate dynamic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Each individual now lives in isolation below ground in a standard 'cell', with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine.Ĭommunication is made via a kind of instant messaging/video conferencing machine with which people conduct their only activity: the sharing of ideas and what passes for knowledge. ![]() describes a world in which most of the human population has lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. ![]() The story, set in a post-apocalyptic world where humanity lives underground and relies on a giant machine to provide their needs, predicted new technologies such as instant messaging, and the Internet. While clearly not identical by any means, there are parts of The Machine Stops that bear a close enough resemblance to the film to make me wonder if it could be yet another inspiration. Many works, both fiction and non-fiction, have been noted as influences and sources for The Matrix. Forster, the author of A Passage to India, wrote a science fiction short story, The Machine Stops, that was published in 1909. ![]() |