![]() ![]() But a European-Asian airbus will make a similar expedition. ![]() He assembles a consortium to fund the project, and he expects to net billions. ![]() decides to step away from its planned mission to Mars, tycoon John Axelrod takes matters into his own hands. And we have an out-of-this-world love for his work – one that carried us all the way to Mars…and Pluto. You may recall us proclaiming our love for this marvelous science fiction author (in our previous post about his anthology FAR FUTURES, complete with video trailer ) and we are at it again, with more books this time! Benford, a professor of Physics at University of California, Irvine, is a prolific author of over twenty short story collections, novelettes, and novels (including 2 Nebula winners), a TV host and scriptwriter, and an ardent anthologist. “Benford is a rarity: a scientist who writes with verve and insight not only about black holes and cosmic strings, but about human desires and fears.” - New York Times Book Review ![]()
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![]() Now he just has to convince Hannah that the man she wants looks a lot like him. But when one unexpected kiss leads to the wildest sex of both their lives, it doesn’t take long for Garrett to realize that pretend isn’t going to cut it. ![]() If helping a sarcastic brunette make another guy jealous will help him secure his position on the team, he’s all for it. All Garrett Graham has ever wanted is to play professional hockey after graduation, but his plummeting GPA is threatening everything he’s worked so hard for. If she wants to get her crush’s attention, she’ll have to step out of her comfort zone and make him take notice, even if it means tutoring the annoying, childish, cocky captain of the hockey team in exchange for a pretend date. ![]() But while she might be confident in every other area of her life, she’s carting around a full set of baggage when it comes to sex and seduction. Hannah Wells has finally found someone who turns her on. She’s about to make a deal with the college bad boy…. DOWNLOAD The Deal (Off Campus Book 1) PDF,EPuB,AudioBook,Eb Description New York Times bestseller Elle Kennedy brings you a sexy new Off-Campus novel that can be read as a standaloneShe’s about to make a deal with the college bad boyHannah Wells has finally found someone who turns her on. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The years pass by at a fast and steamy clip in Blume’s latest adult novel (Wifey, not reviewed Smart Women, 1984) as two friends find loyalties and affections tested as they grow into young women. This still may be good enough for a great many people to whom the name assumes more than is this time assured. For all the occasional overtones and undercuts, this is no more than a genial form of nonsense in which Greene is not at his best. With "no accomplice except the credulity of other men", Wormold turns in bogus reports and fabulous diagrams (vacuum cleaner parts), recruits an extensive payroll of imaginary sub-agents, and rigs an elaborate deception which backfires when one of his men materializes- only to be killed, his friend Hasselbacher is a second victim, and he is a potential third. Wormold, a vacuum cleaner representative in Havana, a middle-aged man whose daughter is his prime security interest, is tapped as secret agent number 59200 stroke five by the British Secret Service. Graham Greene's new "Entertainment" offers only a questionable diversion this time, substitutes a lightminded travesty of secret service operations (the intentions are not too clearly decipherable) for the surer suspense of the earlier books in this genre. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, I have never been alerted about vaccination times. I registered - or at least I think I did as they have my information and it signs itself in when I pull up the website at CDR Macguire. "I am a semi-retired real estate broker and substitute teacher, although, without a vaccination, I have been hesitant to do either for a year now. "I am a Florida resident living in Pasco County, age 69, with a history of stroke and heart disease," she said. ![]() Pamela Chadwick said she's also at the end of her rope. Then I ate a whole box of Girl Scout cookies all by myself." ![]() This has gotten so frustrating, I actually started crying while I was swearing. When the circle of doom started spinning on one, I jumped to another.all three locations and all slots every day. "This time I used my laptop, my iPad and my phone. "Another wasted Sunday vaccine sign-up attempt," Phipps said. Marge Phipps wasn't as lucky, or as well-equipped, as King. The internationally known fiction writer and his wife, Tabitha, reportedly spend their summers in Bangor, Maine, and winters Casey Key in Sarasota. I think it was the National Guard running the show. ![]() I waited for a vaccination appointment, and patience was rewarded. ![]() ![]() ![]() The entire book is about a poor-little-rich-girl living with a poor-little-rich-family with the kind of ending that makes you go "WHAT THE ACTUAL KIND OF M. It is full of odd sentence structures and purple prose. Then you should probably avoid this book. If that's the kind of thing that bothers you. The sentences are sometimes written fully, and oftentimes It's just that the writing style sometimes get on my nerves. It was a better coming of age than Catcher in the Rye, but I also thought Twilight was a better coming-of-age than Catcher in the Rye (fuck you, Holden Caulfield). ![]() Once upon a time there were three brothers. Once upon a time there were three little pigs. Once upon a time there were three soldiers, tramping together down the roads after the war. Once upon a time there were three billy goats who lived near a bridge. Once upon a time there were three bears who lived in a wee house in the woods. ![]() ![]() ![]() Winter suffers hallucinations where blood drips from walls. ![]() A robot suffers pain in the wrong droid body. A man is hit by a crane and nearly drowns in a vat of oil. Cress cuts herself because the queen wills it, and there's talk of a woman forced into sex for years who gets pregnant and eventually kills herself. Mind control forces people to do horrible things against their will. Many tears when Wolf is stolen from his family for the army and when a man falls ill with a fatal contagious disease and is taken away from his wife and daughters suddenly. Wolf and Cinder undergo modification surgeries with talk of needles and enhancements. There are constant fistfights among the genetically engineered soldiers and one death by a neck snapping. Most violence occurs when Wolf is trained to be a fighter. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is also working on a musical of I Can't Think Straight and developing a number of TV and film projects. Shamim's next film projects are Arranged, a romantic comedy set in the UK and India, and Polarized a contemporary love story between two women from very different sides of small town America. Her third film, a documentary called The House of Tomorrow, was shot on location in Jerusalem. Her follow up movie The World Unseen based on her award-winning book, debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival before garnering 23 awards internationally. Her first feature film as writer/director, I Can't Think Straight won 11 awards. The movie stars Rebecca Ferguson and Charles Dance and is based on her acclaimed second novel set in Cold War Moscow, published by St Martin's Press and Hodder. Shamim's most recent feature as writer/director is Despite the Falling Snow, which released in the US in March 2017. Harper Collins will release a sequel, The Shadow Mission, in October 2020. The book is being developed for TV with Shamim attached to write the pilot. ![]() ![]() Her new book, The Athena Protocol, is a feminist thriller released by HarperCollins in October 2019 as the first in a Young Adult series. She is also a long-time advocate for the rights of women and the LGBTQ+ community. ![]() Writer and director Shamim Sarif is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter and director for film and TV. ![]() ![]() “And before anyone else, I think he understood the nexus of image, celebrity and stardom that being a pop star has turned into.”īut then, in a move that surprised Pareles and many others, Strauss ditched that career to co-author a memoir with Jenna Jameson, then the world’s biggest porn star. “He was funny, smart, insightful and perpetually curious,” recalls Pareles. “This is my job.” In short order, he had risen to become a linchpin of the New York cultural scene. “I’ve been kidnapped by Courtney Love, made Lady Gaga cry, shopped for Pampers with Snoop Dogg, gone drinking with Bruce Springsteen, tried to prevent Motley Crue from being arrested, flown in a helicopter with Madonna, soaked in a hot tub with Marilyn Manson, been told off by Prince and tucked Christina Aguilera into bed,” Strauss wrote in 2011 of his wide-ranging career. ![]() From there, he branched out, producing thoughtful feature stories for Rolling Stone and Esquire, among others. ![]() ![]() ![]() But to her surprise, he's all in, and it forces her to admit her own role in their cracked foundation. Dom talking about feelings? Sitting on pillows? Communing with nature? Learning love languages? Nope. Never in a million years did Rosie believe her stoic, too-manly-to-emote husband would actually agree to relationship rehab with a weed-smoking hippie. When her girlfriends encourage Rosie to demand more out of life and pursue her dream of opening a restaurant, she decides to demand more out of love, too. Dom is faithful and a great provider, but the man she fell in love with ten years ago is nowhere to be found. Now Rosie's lucky to get a caveman grunt from the ex-soldier every time she walks in the door. ![]() Rosie and Dominic Vega are the perfect couple: high school sweethearts, best friends, madly in love. ![]() New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey returns with a unique, sexy romantic comedy about a young married couple whose rocky relationship needs a serious renovation. ![]() ![]() The nine books in the timeless Little House series tell the story of Laura's real childhood as an American pioneer, and are cherished by readers of all generations. ![]() Now the family must work harder than ever to overcome these challenges. But then disaster strikes-on top of a terrible blizzard, a grasshopper infestation devours their wheat crop. Pa's fiddle lulls them all to sleep at the end of the day. Laura and Mary go to school, help with the chores around the house, and fish in the creek. ![]() Soon Pa builds them a sturdier house, with real glass windows and a hinged door. They settle into a house made of sod on the banks of beautiful Plum Creek. The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they leave their little house on the prairie and travel in their covered wagon to Minnesota. ![]() This edition features the classic black-and-white artwork from Garth Williams. Based on the real-life adventures of Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek is the Newbery Honor-winning fourth book in the Little House series, which has captivated generations of readers. ![]() |