The Velvet Promise by Jude Deveraux5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() She came to him as a precious gift, a naked angel rolled in a rug. Humiliated and alone in a strange castle, Judith resolved to hate this husband who took her body, but rejected her love.never admitting her fear of losing him.īut destiny held another fate for Judith.a fate that would keep at last. Judith (Velvet Montgomery Annals Quadrilogy, book 1) by Jude Deveraux - book cover. Gavin Montgomery looked deep into her golden eyes and burned with desire for her.but his heart had been pledged to another. ![]() But Judith vowed that her husband would get only what he took from herĪt the flower-bedecked altar, the first touch of their hands ignited an all-consuming passion. But destiny held another fate for Judith.a fate that would keep at last.The Velvet Promise.Īll of England rejoiced on her wedding day. Humiliated and alone in a strange castle, Judith resolved to hate this husband who took her body, but rejected her love.never admitting her fear of losing him. But Judith vowed that her husband would get only what he took from her! At the flower-bedecked altar, the first touch of their hands ignited an all-consuming passion. All of England rejoiced on her wedding day. ![]()
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Bourbon Cocktail Recipes by Rose Rivera5/12/2023 ![]() We say: Chocolaty bourbon with a freshening herbal blast of Fernet Branca, smoothed by sipping through a Chartreuse cream head. With: Bourbon, crème de cacao liqueur, Fernet Branca, green chartreuse, single cream and milk. ![]() We say: A bittersweet Manhattan-style lightly sparkling cocktail. ![]() With: Bourbon, sweet vermouth, Aperol, Suze and Bob's Grapefruit Bitters. We say: Maple syrup combines wonderfully with bourbon and balances grapefruit sourness to make a short drink that's equally as enticing at the beginning or end of a night. With: Bourbon, pink grapefruit juice and maple syrup. We say: Basically, a Negroni with bourbon replacing gin. ![]() With: Bourbon, sweet vermouth and Campari. With: Bourbon (bacon fat washed), maple syrup and Angostura Bitters. 20 best bourbon cocktailsįollows our favourites of the over 270 bourbon cocktails on Difford's Guide. Our 20 best bourbon cocktails have been selected for their richness of flavour and the way the bourbon mixes harmoniously with the other ingredients. ![]() ![]() ![]() Margaret Peterson Haddix is an author that’s been around since I was a child. Haddix and her husband, Doug, now live in Columbus, Ohio, with their two children. Her books have been honored with New York Times bestseller status, the International Reading Association’s Children’s Book Award American Library Association Best Book and Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers notations and more than a dozen state reader’s choice awards. She also wrote Into the Gauntlet, the tenth book in the 39 Clues series. ![]() Dunphrey Leaving Fishers Just Ella Turnabout Takeoffs and Landings The Girl with 500 Middle Names Because of Anya Escape from Memory Say What? The House on the Gulf Double Identity Dexter the Tough Uprising Palace of Mirrors Claim to Fame the Shadow Children series and the Missing series. She has since written more than 25 books for kids and teens, including Running Out of Time Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. ![]() Before her first book was published, she worked as a newspaper copy editor in Fort Wayne, Indiana a newspaper reporter in Indianapolis and a community college instructor and freelance writer in Danville, Illinois. She graduated from Miami University (of Ohio) with degrees in English/journalism, English/creative writing and history. Margaret Peterson Haddix grew up on a farm near Washington Court House, Ohio. ![]() ![]() It's called "Pictures On The Radio." His friends and colleagues David Greene and Julie McCarthy both introduce chapters in it. David Gilkey's work is now featured in a new book. ![]() It's do the visuals, do the stories - do they change somebody's mind enough to take action? If we're doing our part, it gets people to do their part. He once told a colleague his work is not just taking pictures. David had reported from all over the world, ready to go anywhere at any moment. ![]() Both David and Zabi were killed in a Taliban ambush on their convoy on June 5, 2016. NPR photojournalist David Gilkey was on a military embed in Afghanistan with three other NPR colleagues, including local journalist Zabihullah Tamanna. ![]() Four and a half years ago, we lost a dear friend and colleague. ![]() Thinking with type book5/11/2023 ![]() Sections conclude with examples of work by leading practitioners that demonstrate creative possibilities (along with some classic no-no's to avoid). Each section begins with an easy-to-grasp essay that reviews historical, technological, and theoretical concepts, and is then followed by a set of practical exercises that bring the material covered to life. Thinking with Type is divided into three sections: letter, text, and grid. ![]() ![]() What type of font to use? How big? How should those letters, words, and paragraphs be aligned, spaced, ordered, shaped, and otherwise manipulated? In this groundbreaking new primer, leading design educator and historian Ellen Lupton provides clear and concise guidance for anyone learning or brushing up on their typographic skills. ![]() The organization of letters on a blank sheet - or screen - is the most basic challenge facing anyone who practices design. ![]() Lord of the Wings by Donna Andrews5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Titles like Click Here for Murder and Delete All Suspects evoke a chuckle, and the books are chock full of Donna’s signature humor, but underlying the humor, the question of what it truly means to be human gives the series an unexpected poignance. Four feature a sentient, sleuthing AI named Turing Hopper. ![]() Although she has no plans to give up writing for the life of a gumshoe, Donna is a registered private investigator in the state of Virginia.ĭonna has written 31 novels. On her website, she shares stories of her caving exploits, her derring-do at an indoor rock climbing gym, and her adventures at PI school. Her love of mysteries developed during her college years. ![]() She’s also a “self-confessed nerd” whose childhood favorites were fantasy and science fiction. It will come as no surprise that a woman whose books bear titles like The Lord of the Wings, Terns of Endearment, and Revenge of the Wrought Iron Flamingos would have a clever turn of phrase and a sassy sense of humor. Donna served multiple terms, which should tell you something about her dedication to the mystery writing community. She was the board’s Executive Vice President, an often-thankless job that entails an immense amount of work and responsibility. I was a regional president, which made me an automatic member of the national board. I first met Donna Andrews when we served on the national board of Mystery Writers of America together. ![]() Bob woodward audio book5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When the call is over, we hear Woodward's wife, the journalist Elsa Walsh, wondering aloud if he should be talking to the president like that. Woodward's role here shifts from reporter to debater, notably in the Apinterview when he shares a list he has compiled of "16 things" he believes Trump needs to do to get on top of the virus. That has been a required exercise, if only because the longtime Washington Post journalist relentlessly interviews all the other key players in each administration in search of the unvarnished and the unofficial.īut it may have taken Trump aback when Woodward went back to the Covid response critique with such fervor. Since then, presidents have sat down with Woodward to get their side of the story across. He may even have been briefed on the reporter's career built on books about presidents, starting with his first, All the President's Men, which recounted his contribution to the downfall of Richard Nixon nearly half a century ago. Trump seems fully aware that Woodward is not just another reporter. He has also recorded a commentary, so we hear him fact-checking and correcting the president. We hear Woodward's voice asking questions throughout the recordings. It's March 19 when Trump says he'll "never get credit for the great stuff" he's doing and adding that he did not want people to know how bad and deadly Covid could be because he did not want to "panic the people." ![]() ![]() ![]() It tells the story of three closely related Oxfordshire communities - a hamlet, the nearby village and a small market town - is based on the authors experiences during childhood and youth. What suffered most visibly was the inborn aesthetic faculty, once a common possession of all countrymen. Lark Rise to Candleford (Paperback) Flora Thompson A portrayal of country life at the close of the 19th century. Yet the tradition of the old order was crumbling fast. ![]() She was the eldest of six children of the stonemason Albert and the nursemaid. She was born in Juniper Hill, a hamlet in north-east Oxfordshire. The songs came from their own lips, not out of a box.Ĭharity (in the old sense) survived, and what Laura's mother called the 'seemliness' of a too industrious life. Flora Jane Thompson ( 5 December 1876 ) was an English novelist and poet that was famous for her semi-autobiographical trilogy about the English countryside, Lark Rise to Candleford. ![]() The songs were travesties of the traditional ones, but their blurred echoes and the remnants of the old salty country speech had not yet died and left the fields to their modern silence. They still sang out-of-doors and kept May Day and Harvest Home. ![]() Because they were still an organic community, subsisting on the food, however scanty and monotonous, they raised themselves, they enjoyed good health and so, in spite of grinding poverty, no money to spend on amusements and hardly any for necessities, happiness. The last words are true of the hamlet of Lark Rise. Abundance of such foods, and even the poor enjoyed a rough plenty.' ![]() The Violent Season by Sara Walters5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() She digs up every past brutal act she can find from Wolf Ridge's past-from car wrecks, suicides, and unnamed victims turning up in rivers-and even reaches out to an out-of-state journalist that seems to believe her. Wyatt is going to prove it, and find her mother's murderer in the process. ![]() ![]() Every November, every teen is overwhelmed with a hunger for violence.at least, that's the urban legend.Īfter Wyatt Green's mother was brutally murdered last Fall, she's convinced that the November sickness plaguing Wolf Ridge isn't just a town rumor that everyone 's a palpable force infecting her neighbors. There is something terribly wrong in Wolf Ridge. The unputdownable debut thriller you will never forget. ![]() Long Range by C.J. Box5/10/2023 ![]() The word count is between 88,000 and 105,600 (estimated). "I never thought I’d care a good goddamn about a little Brit orphan, but." It would take a slow reader 23 hours, an average reader 12 hours, and a fast reader 6 hours to read it. "Children were not pets, not furniture, not items put on earth to bring pleasure to people who owned them, she raged to herself." ![]() It would take a slow reader 20 hours, an average reader 10 hours, and a fast reader 5 hours to read it. The word count is between 76,000 and 91,200 (estimated). ![]() "Like most men, he had a tough time believing that his wife had had any kind of interesting life before she met him. It would take a slow reader 19 hours, an average reader 9 hours, and a fast reader 5 hours to read it. The word count is between 69,500 and 83,400 (estimated). "Joe had always considered individual words as finite units of currency, and he believed in savings." ![]() |