Feyi isn’t ready for anything serious, but a steamy encounter at a rooftop party cascades into a whirlwind summer she could have never imagined: a luxury trip to a tropical island, decadent meals in the glamorous home of a celebrity chef, and a major curator who wants to launch her art career. It’s been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and she’s almost a new person now-an artist with her own studio and sharing a brownstone apartment with her ride-or-die best friend, Joy, who insists it’s time for Feyi to ease back into the dating scene. ” -The New York Times Book ReviewĪ New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and “one of our greatest living writers” ( Shondaland) reimagines the love story in this fresh and seductive novel about a young woman seeking joy while healing from loss.įeyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again. “ An unabashed ode to living with, and despite, pain and mortality. “A deeply heartfelt romance novel.” - Marie Claire A Good Morning America Buzz Pick, a Best Romance of 2022 by The New York Times and The Washington Post, and a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Oprah Daily, Vulture, Harper’ s Bazaar, Thrillist, Essence, Good Housekeeping, Glamour, Marie Claire, Parade, Bustle, BuzzFeed, Refinery29, Business Insider, The Guardian, Financial Times, PopSugar, Book Riot, LitHub, Bookish, LGBTQ Reads, and more!
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Book Synopsis With their parents in trouble once again, the Kidds must traverse the Australian Outback, recover a pair of stolen gems, and defeat treasure-hunting pirates to save them! The Kidd family is on their way to Australia to find Lasseters Gold when they are challenged by fellow treasure hunter Charlotte Badger, who challenges them to a race to the gold! But when the Kidds pull into port in Australia, their parents are suddenly arrested - theyve been framed! It turns out Charlotte Badger is a pirate, and shes planted a priceless stolen black opal on the Kidds ship, The Lost! Now Bick, Beck, Storm, and Tommy have seven days to traverse the Australian Outback, find Charlotte Badger and her pirate cronies, and bring back the evidence that will prove their parents innocent. About the Book Bick, Beck, Storm, and Tommy have one week to traverse the Australian Outback, locate Charlotte Badger and her pirate cronies, and find evidence to prove their parents innocent of stealing rare opals. 6/26/2023 0 Comments Dopesick macyThere was no way I could do another book on. What comes through most clearly from Dopesica is that we have to undo the vast transfer of wealth from poor and middle-class Americans to the rich. When Beth Macy finished her 2018 book, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America, she was done with the subject. Other than Purdue Pharma, the only figures on whom she specifically pins responsibility for overdose deaths in the region are two black heroin dealers. Even Macy has a hard time grasping this fact, perhaps because of the curious racial bias that deforms her narrative. The simple truth doesn’t sit well with us: today, even for white people, selling drugs pays better than working. But it has been much harder to see when the unemployed in question are white. You can clear a few grand a month as a low-level distributor, even more if you don’t dip into the product yourself. Where the factories and mines have closed down and the safety net, after years of budget cutting, is in tatters, selling drugs is a way to get by. Despite her fidelity to the conventional narratives-poor white despair, evil Big Pharma-what emerges from Macy’s detailed account is a radically different view of the opioid epidemic. 6/25/2023 0 Comments Sweet fall by tillie coleWhen events in her life become too much to cope with, Lexi finds herself spiraling down into the realm of her biggest fear. But beneath her happy exterior, demons lurk, threatening to jeopardize everything Lexi has worked to achieve. Surrounded by her best friends, her loving family and having fulfilled her life-long dream of making the Crimson Tide cheer squad, everything is going exactly as she always dreamed it would. Lexington “Lexi” Hart is a senior at the University of Alabama. Until we find the one soul who makes the burden of such secrets just that little bit easier to bear. You can read this before Sweet Fall (Sweet Home, #2 Carillo Boys, #1) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.įrom the USA Today Best Selling Sweet Home Series, comes Sweet Fall a tale of heartache, beating the odds and finding strength in the most unlikeliest of places. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Sweet Fall (Sweet Home, #2 Carillo Boys, #1) written by Tillie Cole which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Sweet Fall (Sweet Home, #2 Carillo Boys, #1) by Tillie Cole 6/25/2023 0 Comments Kaku time travelSo if one day, someone knocks on your door and claims to be your great-great-great-… grand daughter, don’t slam the door. Einstein’s theory does, in fact, allow for certain forms of time travel, as Einstein himself realized. However, this possibility cannot be ruled out entirely. So, most likely the film does not show a time traveler.For example, a 1924 Siemens patent for a compact, pocket sized carbon microphone/amplifier device suitable for pocket instruments shows what appears to be a person talking on a cellular phone. The picture is too fuzzy to determine what she is doing. Maybe this person is carrying a hearing aid, or pocketbook or cigarette case, or hiding from the camera. So instead of jumping to conclusions, we should first consider simpler alternatives. What happens next will become the stuff of legend. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road.ĭaisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things.Īlso getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ’n’ roll she loves most. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. until now.ĭaisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. Įveryone knows DAISY JONES & THE SIX, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR “An explosive, dynamite, down-and-dirty look at a fictional rock band told in an interview style that gives it irresistible surface energy.”-Elin Hilderbrand IN DEVELOPMENT AS AN ORIGINAL STREAMING SERIES EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY REESE WITHERSPOON. About the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup-from the author of 6/24/2023 0 Comments Amazing Malaysian by Norman MusaWithin these pages, you will find recipes for familiar family favourites such as Singapore Noodles, Pad Thai and Banh Mih as well as discover some uncovered gems from across South East Asia including Lombok Grilled Chicken and Squid Sambal. From crisp and zingy salads to fresh and comforting rice bowls and tangles of tasty noodles, as well as plant-based bowls and stir-fries, Bowlful will satisfy all your cravings. Bowlful is the distillation of many years of travel and a celebration of the economical, vibrant and deliciously simple bowl food from these regions. This book celebrates the fresh and diverse flavours of Asia distilled in deliciously simple bowl food.įrom the bestselling author of Amazing Malaysian comes Bowlful: a celebration of the fresh and diverse flavours of Asia from Malaysia to Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and the Philippines with over 90 accessible and easy-to-follow recipes.īorn in Penang, chef and author Norman Musa has spent much of his life exploring the cultures and cuisines of South East Asia, picking up recipes and inspiration along the way. From crisp and zingy salads to fresh and comforting rice bowls, and tangles of tasty noodles as well as plant-based bowls and stir-fries, Bowlful will satisfy all your cravings, with 90 easy-to-follow recipes by Norman Musa. 6/24/2023 0 Comments Shades by nicole james"It was like, maybe a two, three-week friendship. "So, we just kind of lost touch with each other," she continues. But I was building our Crystal Cove, the twins were 1, and I just was overwhelmed." "She had a daughter who was in the class with Sophie named Lauren, very unique pronunciation of the spelling of 'Lauren.' And I was room mom - and this girl looked exactly like Pamela Anderson, with the platinum hair, you know, the kind of sexy outfits, the big lips, everything - and so I got to know her at a birthday party, and I invited her to my home for a barbecue, and we spent some time together, the kids hung out. "I met a gal 16 years ago in preschool, when Sophie was 4 years old," Shannon recalls, chatting with ET ahead of the premiere at her home in Newport Beach. 6/24/2023 0 Comments Jeffrey thomas punktownIt costs $7.99, much less expensive than the typical small press fare and no doubt indicative of hopes for high sales. Thomas, and a signal that his backers think he can generate a significant audience.ĭeadstock is published by Solaris, an imprint of BL Publishing in the UK. As I understand it, Deadstock was a direct release to mass market paperback, a first for Mr. Previously his work has been released as short stories in genre magazines, then compiled in anthologies or single author collections, or as novels published by various small presses. He is on the verge of making it to the big time. Thomas is pretty well known to most fans of horror and outré fiction for his stories set in the city Paxton on the planet Oasis, and for his interest in HPL's mythos. Deadstock is the latest offering in Jeffrey Thomas' Punktown saga. In the bowels of the derelict ship, surrounded by horrors and dead men, Sean slowly uncovers the truth of what happened on the ship, in its final days… and the terrible secret it’s hiding. The Ministers, mysterious undying aliens that have ruled over humanity for centuries, want the data – as does The Republic, humanity’s last free government. The Immortality Thief is a ridiculously fun, fast paced, seat-of-your-pants read full of treasure hunts, traps, deadly enemies, betrayal, secrets, mysterious aliens, adventure and action as the story races to the find the secret to immortality. Data connected to the Philosopher’s Stone experiments, into unlocking the secrets of immortality.Īnd he’s not the only one looking for the derelict ship. Refugee, criminal and linguist Sean Wren is made an offer he knows he can’t refuse: life in prison, “voluntary” military service – or salvaging data in a long-dead language from an abandoned ship filled with traps and monsters, just days before it’s destroyed in a supernova. But there are secrets there, terrible secrets that would change the fate of humanity, and eventually someone will come looking. The Immortality Thief is a ridiculously fun, fast paced, seat-of-your-pants read full of treasure hunts, traps, deadly enemies, betrayal, secrets, mysterious aliens, adventure and action as the story races to the find the secret to immortality.įar off the edge of human existence, beside a dying star lies a nameless ship abandoned and hidden, lost for a millennium. |