The intimacy experiment by rosie danan5/11/2023 ![]() Still the original setup and endearing characters largely make up for the flaws of this slow-burning romance. Naomi’s bravado masks lingering hurts over being shamed for her sexuality as a teen, and the logic of how that formative experience led to Naomi’s career in adult entertainment veers on cliched rather than convincing. ![]() Though Naomi and Ethan eventually make an excellent team, external resistance and internal conflicts continually get in the way, and some of the conflict doesn’t entirely gel. So though she’s been searching for an opportunity to put her master’s in social psychology to use, her initial answer is no. To Naomi, who associates organized religion with shame, Rabbi Ethan’s model looks, sweet demeanor, and commitment to his faith spell danger. ![]() ![]() To a young rabbi with a shrinking (and aging) congregation, Naomi’s charisma and expertise look like a godsend to entice new members. ![]() When Naomi Grant and Ethan Cohen cross paths at a teaching conference, Ethan proposes they work together on a seminar in modern intimacy at his synagogue. A rabbi and a porn star turned sex educator walk into a classroom: it sounds like the start of a joke, but it’s the intriguing basis for the mostly charming latest from Danan ( The Roommate). ![]()
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Witches of lychford5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Beautifully written, perfectly cruel, and ultimately kind. This is the story of a village, not a city, and all the more powerful for that not all big fantasy needs an urban setting. ![]() PRAISE FOR Paul Cornell's THE WITCHES OF LYCHFORD Judith Mawson (local crank) knows the truth - that Lychford lies on the boundary between two worlds, and that the destruction of the border will open wide the gateways to malevolent beings beyond imagination.īut if she is to have her voice heard, she's going to need the assistance of some unlikely allies. Some welcome the employment opportunities, while some object to the modernization of the local environment. ![]() A supermarket wants to build a major branch on their border. The villagers in the sleepy hamlet of Lychford are divided. ![]() Kings of wrath ana huang5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() King of Wrath is a steamy billionaire/arranged marriage romance. Neither was the worst thing she could possibly do: fall in love with her future husband. While the rude, elusive Dante isn't her idea of a dream partner, she agrees to their arranged marriage out of duty.Ĭraving his touch was never part of the plan. Marrying a blue-blooded Russo means opening doors that would otherwise remain closed to her new-money family. Vivian Lau is the perfect daughter and her family’s ticket into the highest echelons of high society. ![]() There’s only one problem: now that he has her.he can't bring himself to let her go. He'll do everything in his power to destroy the evidence and their betrothal. It doesn’t matter how beautiful or charming she is. Vivian Lau, jewelry heiress and daughter of his newest enemy. Until the threat of blackmail forces him into an engagement with a woman he barely knows. The billionaire CEO never planned to marry. ![]() She’s the wife he never wanted…and the weakness he never saw coming.ĭante Russo thrives on control, both personally and professionally. ![]() Review machines like me5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Charlie has washed out of all the professions and interests and hobbies he once pursued - tech, anthropology, real estate - and now he spends his time buying and selling stocks on his computer, barely scraping by. And in part, his plans are more exalted: He wants Adam to give him a purpose in life. ![]() ![]() It will be “erotic,” he reasons, because they will be creating a new form of life together. Charlie isn’t wealthy, but he decides to sink his inheritance into the purchase of an Adam just the same.Ĭharlie’s plan in part is to use Adam to woo Miranda, who is his distant upstairs neighbor as the novel begins and with whom Charlie hopes to share the responsibility of caring for Adam. The streets are filled with self-driving cars Charlie fritters away his days on the internet using an old 1960s computer and human-looking robots called Adams and Eves have just hit the market. Our trio is living in an alternate version of the 1980s, one where Alan Turing didn’t die, and as a result, their technology has far outstripped our own. That the robot is by far the most interesting of the three is the point. ![]() At the center of Ian McEwan’s at times disappointing new novel Machines Like Me is a triad: Charlie Friend, our narrator Miranda, his girlfriend and Adam, their personal robot. ![]() Stephen king finders keepers book5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. The extract above is abridged from End of Watch. And he's planning revenge not just on Hodges and his friends, but on an entire city. But Brady Hartsfield has lethal new powers. It should be impossible: Brady is confined to a hospital room in a seemingly unresponsive state. As similar cases mount up, Hodges is stunned to discover the evidence points to Brady Hartsfield, the notorious 'Mercedes Killer' who they helped to convict. Bring your sidekick with you.' Bill Hodges, who now runs a two-person agency called Finders Keepers with partner Holly Gibney, is intrigued by the letter Z written with a marker at the scene of the crime. 'I'm at the scene of what appears to be a murder-suicide. ![]() The cell rings twice, and then his old partner in his ear. ![]() The book the 12th planet5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Yet it may enhance rather than diminish the faith in a universal Almighty for, if the Nefilim created Man on Earth, they may have only been fulfilling a vaster Master Plan” Prologue “This book suggests that we are not alone in the solar system. Travelers from the stars, they arrived eons ago, and planted the genetic seed that would ultimately blossom into a remarkable species… called Man. The product of thirty years of intensive research, The 12th Planet is the first book in Zecharia Sitchin’s prophetic Earth Chronicles series-a revolutionary body of work that offers indisputable documentary proof of humanity’s extraterrestrial forefathers. Over the years, startling evidence has been unearthed, challenging established notions of the origins of Earth and life on it, and suggests the existence of a superior race of beings who once inhabited our world. The 12th Planet – Book One of the Earth ChroniclesĬhapter 5: The Nefilim: People Of The Fiery RocketsĬhapter 14: When The Gods Fled From Earth ![]() When Tides Turn by Sarah Sundin5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() With precision and pizazz, fan favorite Sarah Sundin carries readers through the rough waters of love in a time when every action might have unforeseen world-changing consequences. ![]() The Germans put up quite a fight, but he wages a deeper battle within his heart. When Dan is assigned to a new escort carrier at the peak of the Battle of the Atlantic, he’s torn between his lifelong career goals and his desire to help Tess root out a possible spy on shore. For her part, Tess works hard to prove her worth in the Anti-Submarine Warfare Unit in Boston-both to her commanding officers and to the man with whom she is smitten. The last thing he wants to see on his radar is a girl like Tess. ![]() Dan Avery has been using his skills to fight German U-boats. No-nonsense and hoping to make admiral, Lt. When fun-loving glamour girl Quintessa Beaumont learns the Navy has established the WAVES program for women, she enlists, determined to throw off her frivolous ways and contribute to the war effort. The last thing naval officer Dan Avery wants to see on his radar is glamour girl Quintessa Beaumont-even if she has joined the WAVES. ![]() The hunger games first book5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() In the novel, Gray "sparks everyone’s attention by singing during the reaping ceremony. Tom Blyth ( Billy the Kid, The Gilded Age) will play the 18-year-old Snow, who ends up being assigned to mentor District 12 tribute Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler). Instead, this prequel will focus on a younger Coriolanus Snow, an ambitious boy who eventually becomes the tyrannical leader of Panem. The first full trailer for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes debuted during Lionsgate's CinemaCon panel tonight, and, unlike most of the teasers that screened at the event, the studio has officially released the footage online.īased on Suzanne Collins’ 2020 book of the same name, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes takes place decades before The Hunger Games, which means Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) won't factor in to the story. ![]() Spill zone 25/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Brothers can share unbreakable tribal loyalty or have primal Cain-and-Able conflicts. ![]() Little sisters can be sweetness and light, pesky and sarcastic, or Bad-Seed-level psychopaths. Sibling relations are a venerable topic of YA. Addison doesn’t hear those conversations, so connecting with her little sister is hard. (Neither have any of the kids she escaped with, the sole surviving group of the event.) Lexa communicates only in a psychic link she shares with her rag doll, Vespertine, who was changed by the Spill into something more than a doll. The problem that Addison faces in preserving what’s left of her family culture is that her younger sister, Lexa, hasn’t said a word since the night of the Spill. So when a family is shattered, the leftover members are like survivors of Atlantis or Krypton. Only the people inside it really understand the rules and customs. Every family is its own world, after all. The older sister, Addison, is left with the task of raising and providing for Lexa, which is in some ways like trying to keep a culture alive. It’s about two sisters, Addison and Lexa, who’ve lost their parents and hometown in an event called the Spill. Spill Zone is about what we’re left with after our family is destroyed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Will the sleeping beauty be able to wake herself up? For more twisted adventures, try the other books in the A TWISTED TALE series: But as Maleficent's agents follow her every move, Aurora struggles to discover who her true allies are and, moreover, who she truly is. Aurora isn't alone-a charming prince is eager to join her quest, and old friends offer their help. With a desperate fairy's last curse controlling her mind, Princess Aurora must escape from a different castle of thorns and navigate a dangerously magical landscape-created from her very own dreams. ![]() But when the prince falls asleep as his lips touch the fair maiden's, it is clear that this fairy tale is far from over. It should be simple-a dragon defeated, a slumbering princess in a castle, a prince poised to wake her. About the Book "What if the sleeping beauty never woke up?"-Cover.īook Synopsis The 2nd installment in the New York Times best-selling A TWISTED TALE series asks: What if the sleeping beauty never woke up? ![]() |