![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She has been doing graphic design after hours and has finally saved up a year’s salary so that she can launch her own business full time. She’s been saving so that she can pursue her work as a graphic designer. Her job includes answering his emails, posting on his social media, cooking his vegan meals. Vanessa Mazur has worked for Aiden Graves as his personal assistant for two years. But, you guys! It was a marriage of convenience story (which is even better in my book). What worked for me (and what didn’t): I was expecting this to be a workplace romance. What do you say to the man who is used to getting everything he wants? ![]() She has plans and none of them include washing extra-large underwear longer than necessary.īut when Aiden Graves shows up at her door wanting her to come back, she’s beyond shocked.įor two years, the man known as The Wall of Winnipeg couldn’t find it in him to tell her good morning or congratulate her on her birthday. Being an assistant/housekeeper/fairy godmother to the top defensive end in the National Football Organization was always supposed to be temporary. What it’s about: (from Goodreads) Vanessa Mazur knows she’s doing the right thing. Why I read it: I really enjoyed Kultiso I queued this one up hoping for another winner. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Her husband’s death leaves their son Nicholas as the inexperienced ruler of a deeply divided and crumbling empire. When resistance to his reign strikes at the heart of her family and the tsar sets out to crush all who oppose him, Minnie-now called Maria-must tread a perilous path of compromise in a country she has come to love. The winds of fortune bring Minnie to Russia, where she marries the Romanov heir and becomes empress once he ascends the throne. Barely nineteen, Minnie knows that her station in life as a Danish princess is to leave her family and enter into a royal marriage-as her older sister Alix has done, moving to England to wed Queen Victoria’s eldest son. Narrated by the mother of Russia’s last tsar, this vivid, historically authentic novel brings to life the courageous story of Maria Feodorovna, one of Imperial Russia’s most compelling women who witnessed the splendor and tragic downfall of the Romanovs as she fought to save her dynasty in the final years of its long reign. Published by Ballantine Books on July 10th 2018īuy on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, The Book Depositoryįor readers of Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir comes a dramatic novel of the beloved Empress Maria, the Danish girl who became the mother of the last Russian tsar.Įven from behind the throne, a woman can rule. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. ![]() ![]() ![]() The idea of having someone start off in a school assignment and then just find that she gets comfort in that, just opening up about herself, is such a great idea. But if you can handle some tear-jerking bits in books, then this book should be on your 'to-read' list. This book does make you go slightly down at points, because it reaches into you and pulls about at your emotions, so if you like happy-go-lucky books, a lot of this might not be for you. Each letter tells a story, but it's several stories that all combine. ![]() It's a lot more than a bunch of letters though. ![]() Really, it's another one of those books that is just special in it's own unique way. I usually like giving you a brief introduction to the books, but I can't say much about this book without giving it away! I am going to say read it to find out, but also just read it because it's the most incredible book!Įach chapter is written as a letter to another person, which reminds me of Every Day by David Levithan and then doesn't in the same sense. Instead, she unravels her tale to around 10 dead people, including Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse, Judy Garland and so many other people. Laurel gives it a shot, and then finds herself writing to tons and never turning the assignment in to her English teacher, Mrs Buster. ![]() Laurel's English teacher sets her class an assignment: write a letter to a dead person. ![]() ![]() Twenty-five years on from Crash's original release, it is undoubtedly still a startling work that contains deeply challenging, even confrontational themes, and presents them in an intense, controlled, uncompromising way. ![]() So how could such a seasoned and liberal critic find a film so objectionable – so unopen to interpretation – that he argued it shouldn't be seen? Was this simply a case of a critic turning reactionary with age? Or was there something profoundly disturbing – and potentially harmful – about David Cronenberg's Crash? – The 1970s masterpiece still being censored ![]() – Why Titane is 2021's most provocative film An august commentator who had held his post at the Standard for 36 years, Walker was no prude: he had been an outspoken critic of censorship and a staunch defender of Stanley Kubrick's controversial 1971 film A Clockwork Orange, among other things. These words accompanied a fiery full-page diatribe penned by the Standard's film critic, Alexander Walker, deploring David Cronenberg's latest film Crash – an adaptation of the JG Ballard novel about a group of people who derive sexual pleasure from car crashes – in the strongest possible terms. On Monday 3 June 1996, any Londoner who picked up a copy of the Evening Standard newspaper on their way home from the office would have paused when they reached the headline: "A movie beyond the bounds of depravity". ![]() ![]() ![]() Map Addict mixes wry observation with hard fact and considerable research, unearthing the offbeat, the unusual and the downright pedantic in a celebration of all things maps. There are some fine, dry tomes out there about the history and development of cartography: this is not one of them. ![]() They are the unsung heroes of life: Map Addict sings their song. At a stroke, they convey precise information about topography, layout, history, politics and power. ![]() Maps pepper logos, advertisements, illustrations, books, web pages and newspaper and magazine articles: they are a cipher for every area of human existence. ![]() On an average day, we will consult some form of map approximately a dozen times, often without even noticing: checking the A-Z, the road atlas or the Sat Nav, scanning the tube or bus map, a quick Google online or hours wasted flying over a virtual Earth, navigating a way around a shopping centre, watching the weather forecast, planning a walk or a trip, catching up on the news, booking a holiday or hotel. Maps not only show the world, they help it turn. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() With her clear-sightedness-plus business acumen gained working for her family's feed-and-seed store-Katie will play a pivotal role in MSI's magical battle against a malevolent competitor. You see the world as it is," an MSI executive explains. are of the rare breed who can neither do magic nor be influenced by magic. Her "small-town honesty and common sense" soon land her a new job at Magic, Spells, and Illusion Inc., which traffics in benevolent sorcery. Will her colleagues ever consider her anything but a hick? For a girl from Texas, the Big Apple is stranger than a foreign country, but she discovers that the weird things she notices are signs of real magic afoot. Fish-out-of-water Katie Chandler suffers in her thankless job as assistant to marketing manager "Evil Mimi," worrying that maybe she just can't hack it in New York City. ![]() In her first mainstream novel, romance writer Swendson puts a Harry Potter–inspired twist on the standard tale of a smalltown girl in the big city, with lively if saccharine sweet results. ![]() ![]() ![]() Harry, Francis's brother, was there the day Francis was wounded. Francis is presumed to have been killed in action, but Edie believes he might still be alive. While many have been reunited with their loved ones, Edie's husband Francis has not come home. Survivors of the Great War are desperately trying to piece together the fragments of their broken lives. Summary: In the tradition of Jennifer Robson and Hazel Gaynor, this unforgettable debut novel is a sweeping tale of forbidden love, profound loss, and the startling truth of the broken families left behind in the wake of World War I. Performed by Lucy Paterson and Chris Harper. ![]() Europe - History - 1918-1945 - Fiction.World War, 1914-1918 - Missing in action - Fiction.Material type: Sound Publisher: : HarperAudio, Copyright date: ℗©2019 Edition: Unabridged Description: 1 audio disc (MP3) (12 hours) : digital, CD audio 12 cm Content type: The poppy wife : a novel of the Great War / Caroline Scott. ![]() ![]() The coming-of-age element is the more remarkable because of how brilliantly Gibbon seems able to understand his female protagonist: Chris Guthrie is completely convincing. The first book of the trilogy is the most astonishing – all the pleasures of a Bildungsroman combined with a very rich and involving portrait of life in a Scottish farming village where we get to know and care about almost every inhabitant. ![]() ![]() A long, powerful, moving, and ultimately pitiless account of that generation in Scotland who lived (if they were lucky) through the First World War and saw the rural lives of the crofters swallowed up by a new urban society. ![]() ![]() It was making him think really stupid thoughts. The hum and throb of the bass beat was rattling through him, but instead of feeling the pull he usually did to head out to the dance floor and have fun, tonight it seemed to be having the opposite effect. But forgetting his lonely life with alcohol and men who were all wrong for him seemed like an increasingly good way to cope tonight. The conversation he was having with himself wasn’t a new one- or a welcome one, he thought as he swayed on his feet and kind of stumbled into the stool beside him. That was the thought rolling around Robbie’s muddled brain as he stood with his best friend Elliot at the bar of CRUSH and tossed back his fourth Bitter Bitch. But drunk-dialing a married man? That is a monumentally stupid move. Excerpt :ĬONFESSION If there’s a bad decision to make, I will make it. If there was a bad decision to be made, Robbie always had a knack for making it.Īnd thus begins the story of the priest, the princess, and the prick. Just ask his crazy sisters or any of his friends, and they’d be the first to tell you: ![]() ![]() No excuse, except for his lonely heart, a pitcher of margaritas, four Bitter Bitches, and the apparent need to confess all his weaknesses to the two men he knew would bring him nothing but trouble. Otherwise, he really had no excuse for what-or who-he’d done. That’s what Robert Antonio Bianchi was telling himself, anyway. ![]() Confessions: Robbie, an all new tantalizing contemporary MMM Romance by Ella Frank is available NOW! ![]() |