![]() ![]() Aideen is protective of her family, there is not a lot she wouldn’t do to keep them safe. He is misunderstood by people, even feared by them thanks to the scars that mar his face and body. He relishes in their fear because people who fear you, won’t want to know you. He likes his circle limited to his brothers and their girlfriends, but a thorn from an Irish rose is dug deep into Kane’s side, and her name is Aideen Collins. Aideen is the only woman who stands up to Kane and throws his bullshit back at him without fear of hurting him. Kane is the only man who can see right through Aideen's tough exterior. He knows her deepest, and darkest secrets. They can’t stand each other, but they want each other. They hide their need behind arguments, and banter, but when Kane drops his guard for all to see, and succumbs to an illness within his body, it’s Aideen who steps up to the plate to take care of him. ![]() Kane (Slater Brothers 3) Amazon US Aideen Collins is a free spirit. An illness is the least of their worries when a devil from Kane’s past comes back to play with him. She is outspoken and tough as nails, but she has to be after growing up in a house full of men. Her family consists of her four brothers, her father, and her group of wild friends. Everybody in Kane’s life is threatened, and with his body fighting against him, he doesn’t know if the luck of the Irish is enough to keep his family safe and his demons at bay. ![]() Kane needs Aideen, and what Kane needs, Kane takes. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Jensen Land, Adolph Carl Peter Callisen, Adolph Peter Adler, African divination, Afroasiatic languages, Afzelia xylocarpa, Agnar Höskuldsson, Agner Krarup Erlang, Agnete Bræstrup, Aix-Marseille University, Aksel C. ![]() Sørensen, Aage Bohr, Aage Friis, Aage Skavlan, Aarhus, Aarhus Runestones, Aarhus University, Aase Hansen (writer), Abraham Pihl, Academic study of new religious movements, Accordion reed ranks and switches, Acta Odontologica Scandinavica, Actuarial credentialing and exams, Adam Giede Böving, Adam Oehlenschläger, Adolf Heinrich-Hansen, Adolf S. The University of Copenhagen (UCPH) (Københavns Universitet) is the oldest university and research institution in Denmark. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Released today (14 th January), and labelled a ‘YA sensation’, this is a harrowing tale exploring issues of feminism and personal growth, although ironically, Maresi is just the narrator, not the main character. Gorgeous original cover art by Laura Lyytinen (Scandinavian edition) At the time I knew very little about the book or the author (or the publisher for that matter), but it looked like a neat premise, relatively short, and was broken up into little icky chapters –something I’m always a fan of– so I managed to squish it into an already packed reading schedule, and am so glad I did. Reviewed by Alex Bardy (Twitter: few months back, totally out of the blue, this little gem arrived through my letterbox from Pushkin Press. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wilson’s acceptance followed the inaugural presentation of the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize by deputy committee chair Mandana Chaffa for Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov, translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk (Deep Vellum). ![]() Nona Balakian Prize for Criticism winner Jennifer Wilson, who often writes about Russian literature, acknowledged the work of translators in her acceptance speech: “Their work has been a constant reminder to me that language is not just a barrier to be broken down, but the rather the most central element of our art, the quality that makes writing a living, breathing thing, worth fighting for.” Jennifer Wilson. As former NBCC president Eric Banks noted in his introduction, Hoffert is numbered among the “special few individuals who, through their great commitment, have had a truly transformational effect on the aspirations and achievements of the organization.” On our website, we’ve gathered remarks given for the evening’s special awards, including inaugural NBCC Service Award honoree Barbara Hoffert. ![]() ![]() There to make the magic happen was Tin House publicity directory Becky Kraemer. John Leonard Prize winner Morgan Talty, for the collection Night of the Living Rez, accepting the award by phone while holding his three-week-old child on the couch. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is the time of witch-mania, and if the villagers discover the truth, they could take matters into their own hands. They have always whispered about the sinister power of Alinor’s beauty, but the secrets they don’t know about her and James are far more damning. Alinor’s suspicious neighbors are watching each other for any sign that someone might be disloyal to the new parliament, and Alinor’s ambition and determination mark her as a woman who doesn’t follow the rules. She shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marshy landscape of the Tidelands, not knowing she is leading a spy and an enemy into her life.Įngland is in the grip of a bloody civil war that reaches into the most remote parts of the kingdom. Instead she meets James, a young man on the run. Until she can, she is neither maiden nor wife nor widow, living in a perilous limbo. On Midsummer’s Eve, Alinor waits in the church graveyard, hoping to encounter the ghost of her missing husband and thus confirm his death. I have read many books by Philippa Gregory through the years so when the publisher offered her latest, Tidelands to me at no charge for my honest review I was happy to accept. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() New York Times bestselling author Teresa Medeiros ![]() New York Times bestselling author Mary Jo Putney “A romance writer of mesmerizing intensity.” New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips “Today’s superstar heir to the marvelous legacy of Georgette Heyer (except a lot steamier).” New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn “Balogh is, and always will be, a grand mistress of the genre.” “This Regency romance dives deeper than most and will satisfy fans and new readers alike.” “This ‘Cinderella’ reversal story seethes with desire, painted paradoxically in the watercolor prose that is the hallmark of this author.” “Written with an irresistibly wry sense of humor and graced with a cast of unforgettable characters, the second in Balogh’s exceptional Westcott series, following Someone to Love, is another gorgeously written love story from the queen of Regency romances.” “Balogh’s delightful ugly duckling tale may be the nonpareil Regency romance of the season.” “With her signature voice and steady pace, Balogh crafts a thoughtful, sweet Regency-era love story to follow Someone to Hold.” ![]() ![]() In the opening section, the narrator is Octavo, one of the original colonists, giving us the story about a month after first landing. ![]() The novel is about a group of colonists who travel to an earth-like planet, but quickly realize that the additional billion years of existence and evolution on the planet (plus all the other ways in which worlds can be different) have made this planet not only impossibly different from what they thought, but extraordinarily dangerous as well. That’s not really a fair criticism, except that the opening section of the book is very good and interesting, and then quickly pivots away from what I found to be so interesting. I almost wish it wasn’t the book it is, and is instead the book I thought it would be. I am not exactly sure what to make of this book in part because it pivots multiple times from start to finish. ![]() “The war had begun long before we arrived because war was their way of life.” ![]() ![]() ![]() In the midst of chaos, only one will succeed. With half the country trying to protect Jade and the other half oblivious to the atrocities committed at the Commander’s hand, it’s a race to see who will win at a deadly game of cat and mouse. While a dutiful son, Roan shouldn’t have to trick his new wife into believing his family accepts her, but as the only one in a position to make the country believe Jade is part of their family, he will do what he has to before his family murders his young bride and makes it look like an accident to get back at Jade’s father. ![]() When she’s thrown into the life of being the wife of the Commander’s son and heir, her only hope for survival is convincing Roan Diamond to actually fall in love with her so that he doesn’t kill her on his father’s wishes. Robinson If the only way to stay alive was to convince your new husband not to murder you and make it look like an accident, could you do it? At eighteen, Jade shouldn’t have to be forced to marry the son of her father’s enemy as part of a revenge plot for a failed rebellion. ![]() ![]() ![]() “I think for Darwin, sexual selection was what connected humans with non-human animals,” says Ian Hesketh, a historian of science at the University of Queensland in Australia. Both mechanisms helped to explain how species evolved over time. For Darwin, sexual selection was just as important as natural selection, which he had outlined in Origin -the idea that organisms with favorable traits are more likely to reproduce, thus passing on those traits to their offspring. The male-combat theory would explain, for example, the development of a bull’s horns, or a moose’s antlers, while the quintessential example of “female choice” is seen in peahens, which, Darwin argued, prefer to mate with peacocks having the biggest, most colorful tails. In Descent, Darwin details a theory that he calls “sexual selection”-the idea that, in many species, males battle other males for access to females, while in other species females choose the biggest or most attractive males to bond with. “Man,” he wrote, “still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.” In The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, published 150 years ago this month, Darwin argued forcefully that all creatures were subject to the same natural laws, and that humans had evolved over countless eons, just as other animals had. A dozen years later, in 1871, he tackled that subject head-on. Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species rattled Victorian readers in 1859, even though it said almost nothing about how the idea of evolution applied to human beings. ![]() ![]() This is the third Japanese locked-room mystery I've read this year, and although only a star separates this one from the prior two, The Decagon House was easily my favorite of the three. ![]() He will come through these places and spaces he will murder you, he will murder you all. He will know the extra layers and extra walls and extra rooms just as he will know your secrets, casting a cold eye upon them. He will build a trap of one of these houses. He will describe these spaces regularly and with careful precision.Īre you aware of the physical space around you? Asks the murderer. Of open areas concealing closed areas - the mental ones as well. He will build a novel based around concepts of space, of physical limitations and barriers. ![]() One burned to the ground, one empty but soon to be burned.Īre you aware of the physical space around you? Asks the author, Yukito Ayatsuji. ![]() These houses will hold secrets and mysteries and murder and despair. He will build two houses, one of Blue and one of Ten. Are you aware of the physical space around you? Asks the mad architect. ![]() |