![]() ![]() I can't wait to listen to the fourth book!! He excels at emotionality and pacing a story. This third book is his best so far!! His performance of the wry, self-assured, aristocratic matchmaking brother, Lucien, is absolutely perfect. ![]() Stifel's narration of the first two books in this series. Have you listened to any of David Stifel’s other performances before? How does this one compare? ![]() Although neither was interested in a relationship, the author used a very interesting 'motivator' and employed the hero's matchmaking older brother to help the situation along. The heroine was, in her own eyes, less than perfect, but with a huge heart and loved animals. The hero was smart, handsome and capable, but with a very real obstacle to overcome. If you could sum up The Defiant One in three words, what would they be? ![]()
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![]() ![]() I recently saw a comment on Instagram which said: “All men have is the audacity”, this is what I thought of when Max went back to Nina. What really got me out of all the waiting Nina did was the cheek of Max. ![]() It’s the hopeful picking up of the phone after a few minutes of not being on it, or rushing out of the shower to check if you have a text message but your phone turns out to be completely empty. We spend countless hours/days re-living the little encounters and waiting for that person to text you. After their break-up, Nina gets stuck on Max for a while, re-reading text messages or playing games of “if I do this he will text back”. The “relationship” doesn’t last very long as Max is a commitment-phobe and not very honest about the extent of it. She’s an ex English teacher and a writer who goes through her day to day life, experiencing day to day things. Nina isn’t a well-known lawyer whose marriage is falling apart, or she’s not in a scandal which will ruin her life. ![]() The book is real in the most non-dramatic way. One episode was about dating apps, the other about mother and daughter relationships and the irritation that comes with it. I felt like I was listening to a podcast rather than a book. I think the most gripping thing about Ghosts is how relatable it is. ![]() ![]() Anton, the eldest sibling, takes charge of the inheritance, and Amor, the youngest sister, insists on him upholding the promise made by their father, which he refuses to do.Īnother decade passes and the middle sibling, Astrid, gets killed in car theft. Meanwhile, the black South Africans are starting to be given equal rights to the white. Manie, the father, suffered a bizarre death from a snake bite. The youngest child, Amor, insist on him to hold the promise, which results in a fight between the family and everyone goes their own way.Īlmost a decade passes, and the Swart children reunite back at their family home for their father’s funeral. The father of the family promised to go through with the wish, but after the funeral, he retracts the promise. Her dying wish was to give ownership of the house their black servant Salome lives in, as a way to thank her. It begins in the year 1986 when the mother of the family, Rachel, dies. ![]() The novel revolves around a white Swart family in South Africa. Written by salaar ahmed and other people who wish to remain anonymous ![]() ![]() We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() For Rowan, this is nothing more than a piece of cake because. This thing distracts the attention of the firefighters especially the smoke jumpers who put their life on the line on all occasions. But if she doesn't find someone she can lean on when the heat gets intense, her life may go down in flames. The life of a firefighter is not complicated as it comes with one single rule i.e never fall in love with a co-worker. Rowan knows she can't complicate things with Gull-any distractions in the air or on the ground could be lethal. And though Rowan, as a rule, doesn't hook up with other smoke jumpers, Gull is convinced he can change her mind.īut everything is thrown off balance when a dark presence lashes out against Rowan, looking to blame someone for last year's tragedy. One of the best of this year's rookie crop, Gulliver Curry is a walking contradiction, a hotshot firefighter with a big vocabulary and a winter job at a kids' arcade. ![]() ![]() At this point, returning to the wilds of Montana for the season feels like coming home-even with reminders of the partner she lost last season still lingering in the air. Being a Missoula smoke jumper is in Rowan's blood: her father is a legend in the field. But there's also little else as thrilling-at least to Rowan Tripp. ![]() ![]() Little else in life is as dangerous as fire jumping. In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Nora Roberts delves into the world of elite firefighters who thrive on danger and adrenaline-men and women who wouldn't know how to live life if it wasn't on the edge. ![]() ![]() In a terrifying confrontation that will push Sean and Michelle to their limits, the duo may be permanently parted. Their persistence puts them on a collision course with the highest levels of the government and the darkest corners of power. It is now up to them to ask the questions no one seems to want answered: Is Roy a killer? Who murdered Bergin? The more they dig into Roy’s past, the more they encounter obstacles, half-truths, dead-ends, false friends, and escalating threats from every direction. But their investigation is derailed when Sean and Michelle find Bergin murdered. The fifth book in the heart-stopping King and Maxwell series, The Sixth Man by David Baldacci will keep pulses racing as Sean King and Michelle Maxwell face their greatest challenge yet. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy’s attorney, Sean’s old friend and mentor Ted Bergin, to help work the case. ![]() ![]() In the #1 New York Times bestselling thriller that inspired the TV series King & Maxwell, two private investigators dig into a killer’s past–but when their search threatens powerful enemies, it could cost them their lives.Įdgar Roy–an alleged serial killer–is awaiting trial. ![]() ![]() "We must strengthen our union, so as not to be cursed, so as not to upset the rhythm."I experienced the same disillusion and delight that I had each and every time I deciphered in Maitreyi's love, and in her soul, the jungle of superstitions. "Didn't you give me the wreath and didn't I hold you in my arms?""Now Khokha saw us," Maitreyi explained to me, looking apprehensively in all directions. ![]() He is sick now, it's hard to tell him it will upset him even more.""But haven't we been engaged for such a long time, already?" I asked in surprise. ![]() "We have to get engaged before we tell babà. Maitreyi stared at me, clasping my hands, as if looking for support in my certitude. Excerpt When I came back from the town, I found a note on my table: "Come to the library!" I met Maitreyi, who told me, terrified: "Khokha knows!"I tried to look undisturbed and to persuade her that it didn't mean anything. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Equiano, 58Įquiano's writing on the Middle Passage is the section of the work most likely to end up in anthologies for history and literature classes. The shrieks of the women, and the groans of the dying, rendered the whole a scene of horror almost inconceivable. This wretched situation was again aggravated by the galling of the chains, now become insupportable and the filth of the necessary tubs, into which the children often fell, and were almost suffocated. ![]() This produced copious perspirations, so that the air soon became unfit for respiration, from a variety of loathsome smells, and brought on a sickness among the slaves, of which many died, thus falling victims to the improvident avarice, as I may call it, of their purchasers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A metaphor for this behavior is that a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil can cause a tornado in Texas. ![]() The butterfly effect, an underlying principle of chaos, describes how a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state (meaning that there is sensitive dependence on initial conditions). Chaos theory states that within the apparent randomness of chaotic complex systems, there are underlying patterns, interconnection, constant feedback loops, repetition, self-similarity, fractals, and self-organization. The double-rod pendulum is one of the simplest dynamical systems with chaotic solutions.Ĭhaos theory is an interdisciplinary area of scientific study and branch of mathematics focused on underlying patterns and deterministic laws of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions, and were once thought to have completely random states of disorder and irregularities. Starting the pendulum from a slightly different initial condition would result in a vastly different trajectory. An animation of a double-rod pendulum at an intermediate energy showing chaotic behavior. ![]() ![]() ![]() Miller gives the feel of a city torn within itself and a less than moral protagonist in Marv.įrank Miller wrote this 1986 four-issue comic book miniseries featuring Batman and it was published by DC Comics. ![]() The darkness and raw nature of the novel is evident from the very first chapter. The most compelling part of the book, is the edge that the black and white artwork gives to it. He spends the night with a blond bombshell Goldie, and unbeknownst to Marv, a hit was ordered on Goldie by the most powerful man in Sin City. Marv, one of the primary characters is a low-life in a city descending into self deprecation. It has several intertwining stories and revolves around a variety of characters which take place in the fictional Basin City. It was first published in 1991 and continued into seven volumes. The Eisner Award winning Sin City is a neo-noir series written by Frank Miller and published by Dark Horse Comics. ![]() ![]() I would have said it started slow, but frankly, I think it needed it, because that momentum at the end would have been too fast if it hadn't had the slow build of character and plot development - no action by any character ever surprised me, and for me, that's a good thing - I feel like when the plot finally resolved, my thoughts were "YES, this is right and correct." ![]() ![]() Each character is well-developed, and I can see myself knowing and loving these characters in real life, especially Sam. on occasion, this book gave me the heebie-jeebies.Įverything? The pacing, the plot, the character development - probably the characters, and how familiar they become. Just like a printed book, I couldn't put it down - i would have kept my headphones on and let myself listen to it in the dark, but I'm not going to lie. I listened to the audiobook first, and frankly, the audiobook kept me on edge all day/night long. ![]() Would you consider the audio edition of Hold Me Closer Necromancer to be better than the print version? ![]() |