![]() ![]() Although romance is her genre, the prevailing themes running through all of Kristen’s novels are friendship, family and a strong sisterhood. She worked as a charity executive for eighteen years prior to beginning her independent publishing career. Since, she has lived in Denver, the West Country of England, and she now resides in Phoenix. Kristen, born in Gary and raised in Brownsburg, Indiana, was a fourth generation graduate of Purdue University. Kristen’s titles Motorcycle Man, The Will, and Ride Steady (which won the Reader’s Choice award from Romance Reviews) all made the final rounds for Goodreads Choice Awards in the Romance category. ![]() Kristen’s novel, Law Man, won the RT Book Reviews Reviewer’s Choice Award for best Romantic Suspense, her independently published title Hold On was nominated for RT Book Reviews best Independent Contemporary Romance and her traditionally published title Breathe was nominated for best Contemporary Romance. She’s a hybrid author, publishing titles both independently and traditionally, her books have been translated in thirteen languages and she’s sold nearly three million books. ![]() Kristen Ashley is the New York Times bestselling author of over sixty romance novels including the Rock Chick, Colorado Mountain, Dream Man, Chaos, Unfinished Heroes, The ’Burg, Magdalene, Fantasyland, The Three, Ghost and Reincarnation and Honey series along with several standalone novels. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I also describe the sophisticated accounting practices that supported harsh labor regimes on slave plantations in the American South, a finding that provided the impetus for my first book project. ![]() I use a wide array of quantitative and partially quantitative records to show how accounting evolved from a system of recordkeeping into an instrument of control and analysis-from an aid to memory to an instrument of mastery. ![]() As novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe reflected in 1853, numbers could increasingly be “found on all sides of every subject to an extent that is really very confusing.” My interest in information technologies grew out of my recently completed doctoral dissertation, “From Memory to Mastery.” The project charts the transformation of numerical reasoning in America between 17. Today numbers are everywhere, occupying a privileged rhetorical status that began to emerge in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. ![]() I study the ways legal and social institutions shape these practices and the impact of calculation on political and moral reasoning. Numeracy-which is to mathematics what literacy is to reading-includes all kinds of quantitative practices, from everyday arithmetic to sophisticated financial reporting, information technology, and accounting. My research explores the history of numeracy and its relationship to American capitalism and democracy. ![]() ![]() Hours after finishing the novel, I am already anxious for another installment. Having recently read Shelley's Frankenstein, I was not entirely sure how this attempt at a childhood story of the mad doctor would turn out. I am often wary of prequels to classic novels, but I have to admit that I was pleasantly surprised and more than a little short of breath by the time I read the final sentence of this, dare I say, masterpiece. Frankenstein, his family, and the passions that ultimately consumed him. Love, loyalty, loss, and obsession, all linger at the heart of Kenneth Oppel's This Dark Endeavour: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein, a gripping narrative of the early years of Mary Shelley's Dr. Over Konrad's body I spoke words of power, and applied unguents and strange machines to his limbs, his chest, his skull.Īnd then I gave a great cry, and energy erupted from within me and arced like lightning from my body to his. ![]() A huge fury stirred inside me.Īnd suddenly the coffin was no longer a coffin but a laboratory table. Behind me I could hear the weeping of my family. ![]() ![]() ![]() I stood at his head, peering down at him. Konrad was dead and laid out in his coffin, the hue of bodily corruption already on his flesh. This Dark Endeavour: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein.Ī few nights later I woke from a dream so terrible that it shimmered darkly before me, even as I sat up in be, panting. CM Magazine: This Dark Endeavour: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was quickly followed by The Viscount Who Loved Me, An Offer from a Gentleman, and five more books in the series, concluding with the 2006 release of the novel On the Way to the Wedding. The Bridgerton series started in 2000 with the release of the debut novel in the series, The Duke and I. She is also the author of the Splendid Trilogy, the Lyndon Sisters series, the Agents of the Crown series, and much more in addition to her popular Bridgerton series. She won her third RITA Award in 2010, which made it three awards in four years. She has been the 13th author officially inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame. As an author, TIME Magazine and USA Today have both done profile pieces on her. Julia Quinn is recognized for her writing and her novels are so popular that they have sold worldwide and been translated into 28 languages at the moment. ![]() ![]() In addition to being an author, she came away with the $79,000 jackpot on the game show The Weakest Link in 2001 thanks in part to her correct answers on all things British, literary, historical and geographical. She enjoys writing romance novels and also putting the myth that intelligent women do not read or write these types of novels to bed once and for all. She is a New York Times bestselling author and known well for her popular Bridgerton series. Julia Quinn is the pen name of Julie Cotler Pottinger, an American author born in 1970. ![]() ![]() ![]() Having Tiffany and Vid’s larger-than-life personalities there will be a welcome respite. ![]() But theirs is a complicated relationship, so when Erika mentions a last-minute invitation to a barbecue with her neighbors, Tiffany and Vid, Clementine and Sam don’t hesitate. A single look between them can convey an entire conversation. If there’s anything they can count on, it’s each other.Ĭlementine and Erika are each other’s oldest friends. Sam and Clementine have a wonderful, albeit busy, life: they have two little girls, Sam has just started a new dream job, and Clementine, a cellist, is busy preparing for the audition of a lifetime. In Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty turns her unique, razor-sharp eye towards three seemingly happy families. “Captivating, suspenseful…tantalizing.” - People Magazine “ Here’s the best news you’ve heard all year: Not a single page disappoints.The only difficulty with Truly Madly Guilty? Putting it down. Winner of Goodreads Choice Award for Best FictionĮntertainment Weekly's “ Best Beach Bet ”Ī USA Today Hot Books for Summer Selection THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, FROM THE AUTHOR OF BIG LITTLE LIES, now an HBO series. ![]() ![]() Winner of the Australian Newcomer of the Year in the 2007 Australian Book Industry Awards One Hundred Days is her most recent novel. Her first novel, Laurinda, won the Ethel Turner Prize at the 2016 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. She is the bestselling author of the memoirs Unpolished Gem and Her Father’s Daughter, and the essay collection Close to Home, as well as the editor of the anthologies Growing Up Asian in Australia and My First Lesson. With it, Australian writing gains an unforgettable new voice.Īlice Pung is an award-winning writer based in Melbourne. Unpolished Gem is a book rich in comedy, a loving and irreverent portrait of a family, its everyday struggles and bittersweet triumphs. And every day her grandmother blesses Father Government for giving old people money. Her father embraces the miracle of franchising and opens an electrical-appliance store. Her mother becomes an Aussie battler – an outworker, that is. Armed with an ocker accent, Alice dives head- first into schooling, romance and the getting of wisdom. ![]() In a wonderland called Footscray, a girl named Alice and her Chinese-Cambodian family pursue the Australian Dream – Asian style. ![]() Nor does it contain any wild swans or falling leaves. ![]() ![]() ![]() Moby is a high school senior whose best friend, Sarah Byrnes, has been put in. Urn:lcp:stayingfatforsar00crut_0:lcpdf:3984e649-b61b-44bc-b744-c9279905d9c9 Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes is a young adult novel by writer Chris Crutcher. ![]() Granted, Ive only made it to chapter 3, but the scene where the main character (whose name I cant. ![]() This bestselling novel is about love, loyalty. Its astonishing to me that people enjoyed this book. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:26:59 Boxid IA174601 Boxid_2 CH100901 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Containerid_2 X0001 DonorĪllen_countydonation Edition 1st ed. award-winning author Chris Crutchers acclaimed Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes is an enduring classic. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But as I said, it's not bad story - or rather it's two stories of average entertainment value. After the first two books the ringworld itself is kind of milked dry. Nothing in the plot that couldn't have taken place on a normal planet. No real new insights in to the nature of the ringworld. Not that Ringworld Throne is a bad book, it's just that it's not really about the ringworld - it takes place on the ringworld and uses the same set of characters and humanoids (plus a few new species), but that's just about it. Somehow I knew that it just couldn't go on and if you ask me, Niven should have stopped with Ringworld Engineers. It hasn't been easy for me to keep a positive attitude towards this book. The Ringworld Throne is the third book in the Ringworld series and centres on a variety of races banding together to kill a large nest of Vampires on a world that is the shape of a ring. ![]() ![]() The garden of the house is full of strange thorny bushes and vines, which neither of the merchant nor his three daughters can identify. It is the second retelling of the tale that McKinley has written: the first being her 1978 story, Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty & the Beast.Īn unabridged audio-book recording was released in 2013 by Recorded Books, narrated by Bianca Amato, and is available via .Ī merchant loses all his money when his ships are lost at sea, and is forced to move his three daughters to a lonely countryside house called Rose Cottage which was left to his youngest, Beauty, in a will, and thus is not subject to his creditors. ![]() Rose Daughter is a retelling of the fairytale Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley, published in 1997. ![]() ![]() As a therapist, she was bewildered by the spate of such young girls coming in for therapy, and sought out the conditions and causes that she shares with us in her book. ![]() Reviving Ophelia was written out of her quest for understanding the reasons behind the ever- increasing rate of suicides among young girls, the many cases of eating disorders, ‘doing drugs and alcohol’, self-mutilation and so on. Pipher, is a therapist with other books to her credit: Hunger Pains: The American Women’s Tragic Quest for Thinness and The Shelter of Each Other. This is a tragedy that is not just familiar from the pages of medieval European history, but is also representative of the condition of girls growing up in modern times. ![]() In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Ophelia struggles to please and find approval from both Hamlet and her father and ultimately she loses her sanity and her life. It is rarely that one comes across a book about young girls that is not merely a saga of their times, of the pain and struggles in their lives, but also takes a proactive approach to actually doing what the title suggests – Reviving Ophelia. ![]() |