![]() ![]() My personal favorites are Anne Gracie’s ‘Mistletoe Kisses,’ a charming variant on the Cinderella story, and Susan King’s ‘A Scottish Carol,’ whose lovers must struggle to find healing for the wounds of self-doubt and past failures but there is ample variety here for other tastes. “The tales are rather sentimental, a box of chocolates with sweet, soft centers inside a dark covering, a pleasant confection for the holiday season. ![]() For at the top of each guest’s wish list is a last chance to find true love before the New Year. ![]() Upstairs and downstairs, Holbourne Abbey is abuzz with preparations for a grand ball to celebrate the year’s most festive-and romantic-holiday. “Eight romance authors walk into a Regency-era ballroom and wreak fabulous, shimmering holiday mischief all over the place.”-Publishers Weekly Christmas 1815. ![]()
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To be honest, I had low expectations, but I thought the romance might be cute. ![]() ![]() The Battle for Christmas The-Battle-for-ChristmasStephen-Nissenbaum. The scholarly nature of the tome is announced in its subtitle: A Social and Cultural History of Christmas That Shows How It Was Transformed from an Unruly Carnival Season into the Quintessential American Family Holiday. ![]() Puritans dismissed Christmas as a pagan celebration masquerading as a Christian download by: The Battle for Christmas The-Battle-for-Christmas Stephen-Nissenbaum. In The Battle for Christmas, Stephen Nissenbaum shows how in the early nineteenth century, with the growth of cities, these Christmas-season carnival revels. When immigrants brought their Christmas rituals from northern and southern Europe, the customs were not always welcome. Paperback 9780679740384) by Professor Stephen Nissenbaum at. 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Sign up for newsletter to receive (rare) updates.įor more on me, see e.g. Working on another paper with some colleagues that will focus on some technical challenges in detecting internal states of potential moral significance in large transformer models and other ML systems. Have also recently been doing some thinking on metaethics, and have released two papers on the ethics of (future) digital minds. Though sometimes I have the impression that the world is a conspiracy to distract us from what's important. ![]() Hunkering down to focus on completing a book project (not quite announcement-ready yet). ![]() ![]() Indeed, zombies have never been hunted by so diverse a group as troubled Nick, beautiful Kody, and good ole boy Bubba. Young adult fans of the genre will appreciate the mix of humor and violence as the universal themes of good versus evil take on a creative twist. There is more to Nick than even he knows. Though he does not want to follow in Dad's footsteps, he is being drawn into a realm where evil has immortal consequences. Nick is a smart mouthed punk whose father is serving time for murder. ![]() Kenyon, a bestselling fantasy author, moves into the young adult genre with this tale, the first in her young adult series, "Chronicles of Nick." The fantasy integrates Greek mythology into the story of those who protect the living from the undead. ![]() A complete list of all the books and their recommended reading order can be found on Sherrilyn Kenyon's website. There are currently a total of 19 full-length novels in the Dark-Hunter series and quite a number of related novellas and graphic novels as well, with more still to come. In return for hospital and doctor care, Nick is now obligated to work for Kyrian Hunter, a wealthy man connected to a strange undercurrent of vampires and zombies in New Orleans. Night Embrace is the second novel in the series. Just as it looks like he is going to pay for his conscience with his life, a stranger saves him. ![]() In an effort to fit in with somebody, he agrees to act as lookout for a small group of muggers, but as the robbery is about to go down, he changes his mind and fights to save the elderly victims. Fifteen-year-old Nick Gautier goes to a private high school in New Orleans, but because he is the son of a single parent who dances at a local strip club, he is teased and bullied. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s not long before all the Fossils learn that there’s more to being a star than they thought. Pauline also loves to tread the boards as an actress, but Petrova would rather be dismantling engines in a garage. ![]() Posy, daughter of a ballerina, couldn’t be happier than she is in dance classes or on stage. The multi-talented Fossil girls hit on an inspired idea: they will take to the stage. But after five years go by and Gum fails to return, Sylvia’s money starts to run out. All three girls are left in the care of Gum’s niece Sylvia in London.Īt first, the girls lead privileged and sheltered lives. A beautiful hardback edition of the beloved children’s classic BALLET SHOES, with a vibrant new cover – the perfect gift for all children’s book or dance enthusiasts.īALLET SHOES is the story of Pauline, Petrova and Posy Fossil, three very different girls, each adopted as an orphaned baby by the eccentric explorer, Gum. ![]() ![]() On the positive side, sales skyrocket for the special dessert Lindsay calls Murdered Man's Brownies. Lindsay enlists the aid of her enigmatic neighbor, Fred, to help solve the mystery while trying to keep her police detective boyfriend, Trent, from getting in their way with his insistence on all those silly cop rules. Is there oil under the basement, plans to bring the railroad through, pirate treasure buried in the basement? A second break-in occurs and causes her cat, King Henry, to launch into full attack mode, taking a few chunks out of the intruder. Suddenly everybody wants Lindsay's house. Next her almost-ex-husband offers to sign the divorce papers, but only if she'll give him her small, old house and take his big, new house instead. Then someone breaks into her house and tries to dig up her basement. ![]() Rodney Bradford comes into Lindsay's restaurant, offers to buy her small house for double its value, eats her brownies, and drops dead on the sidewalk in front. ![]() ![]() ![]() This was, by far, my favourite of the Costa First Novels shortlist. But, above all, it is an acknowledgement of the subtleties and ambiguities that exist in even the most entrenched attitudes. It is also a sustained attack on the forces of small-town bigotry and corruption. ![]() It is a passionate defence of cultural and political identity, and a considered plea for tolerance. Waiting for him is the beautiful but embittered Gwalia.Not Quite White explores the complex tensions that spit and seethe when English colonialism and Welsh nationalism go head to head. The young Jon Bull is sent by Westminster to Wales's last remaining Welsh-speaking town to see why all attempts to bring it into the twenty-first century have failed. I am an IslandĪs you learned, Jon, all names have meaning here. These words are written many times, sometimes gouged and sometimes scrawled: My name is Gwalia. My notes here, in my diary, are very confused. This was my mantra in those darkest days. Gwalia – what possessed my Mam to call me that? ![]() ![]() ![]() Eventually he started to take photographs. In the beginning Andreas Weinand would bike there to buy their vegetables. Here, in the Ruhr Valley, they wanted to establish an ecological haven. ![]() They could have spent their sunset years in an armchair, but that would have been too boring for them. ![]() The photographer learned that Margret and Walter together with their friend Erwin had cared for their plants and animals since many years, in any wind and weather, 365 days a year. He sat down on a bench in order to enjoy the beautiful atmosphere as two seniors appeared and a conversation started. There was a pasture with grazing sheep, a greenhouse with lots of tomatoes and next to it a garden. Andreas Weinand found this wonderful place in 1998. ›The Good Earth‹ is nothing but a small piece of land at the outskirts of Essen in Germany's Ruhr District. ›The richest times of our lives was working our land.‹ ![]() ![]() ![]() The only thing Will Newman wants to be in control of is getting out of this hospital. ![]() At this point, what Stella needs to control most is keeping herself away from anyone or anything that might pass along an infection and jeopardize the possibility of a lung transplant. Stella Grant likes to be in control-even though her totally out of control lungs have sent her in and out of the hospital most of her life. In this #1 New York Times bestselling novel that’s perfect for fans of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, two teens fall in love with just one minor complication-they can’t get within a few feet of each other without risking their lives.Ĭan you love someone you can never touch? Goodreads Choice Winner, Best Young Adult Fiction of 2019 ![]() Also a major motion picture starring Cole Sprouse and Haley Lu Richardson! ![]() |