![]() ![]() ![]() The dual-timeline narrative traces the women’s time at BP beginning in 1940, and their post-war lives beginning in 1947. Beth is a spinster whose mother keeps her servile and reticent, but when Osla and Mab are billeted at her house, they soon draw her in to Bletchley’s inner workings. Mab is tall as an Amazon and tough as nails after an impoverished and traumatic upbringing in East London for her, Bletchley Park is as much a marriage mart as it is a military complex. Osla is a debutante trying to prove she’s more than the champagne-swigging socialite the world expects her to be, even as she engages in a high-profile love affair with Prince Phillip of Greece. In her latest novel, Quinn takes us deep into the lives of three women working at Bletchley Park - the mysterious estate where England’s greatest minds broke enemy codes during WWII. ![]() Just when I think I’ve read every war story I’m ever likely to enjoy, Kate Quinn comes up with a new way to spin history into gold. ![]()
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![]() Artistic License – Animal Care: Subverted with the dog's diet.Squirrel can also understand foxes but not cats, suggesting canines can understand one another. Squirrel's internal monologue implies that animals talk to each other, but the book is in first-person and the only dialogue comes from humans. Animal Naming Conventions: Mother dogs name their children after things that are important to them.Abandon the Disabled: Stream abandoned her small son who wouldn't be able to walk.This is the start of Squirrel's long and difficult life as a feral dog. They live happily with their mother, Stream, until danger causes their mother to abandon them. ![]() Squirrel and her brother Bone are the only survivors of her litter of five. Squirrel is born in an abandoned shed by a vacation house occupied by many feral cats, mice, and other small animals. A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of a Stray is a novel by Ann M. ![]() ![]() Dwellings were built with a natural feeling for place, materials and use, resulting in "a remarkably suitable comeliness." While we cannot return to a former age, Rasmussen notes, we can still design spaces that are beautiful and useful by seeking to understand architecture as an art form that must be experienced. In the past, Rasmussen argues, architecture was not just an individual pursuit, but a community undertaking. ![]() Generously illustrated with historical examples of designing excellence -ranging from teacups, riding boots, and golf balls to the villas of Palladio and the fish-feeding pavilion of Beijing's Winter Palace-Rasmussen's accessible guide invites us to appreciate architecture not only as a profession, but as an art that shapes everyday experience. Widely regarded as a classic in the field, Experiencing Architecture explores the history and promise of good design. A classic examination of superb design through the centuries. ![]() ![]() Travers often said her famous character sought her out. Her last book, a collection of essays titled “What the Bee Knows,” which came closest to an autobiography, included her reflections on astrology, crop circles, reincarnation and journalists who ask “stupid” questions. ![]() She wrote and lectured widely on mythology and fairy tales. Travers later lived for a time with Navajos in the American West and studied Zen Buddhism. Known to her friends as Pamela, she explained to a Los Angeles Times reporter in 1970 that she used initials in her pen name because “so often very sentimental books are written by women, supposedly for children, and I didn’t want to be lumped together with those.”Īustralian newspapers and magazines began to publish her poems and articles while she was still in her teens, and for two years she wrote a human interest column for a daily newspaper. ![]() ![]() Pamela Lyndon Travers was born Helen Lyndon Goff in Maryborough, Australia, of Irish parents. ![]() ![]() When you started this story did have both these characters set in your mind or did they began existing during the story? I have to say when reading the story it is easy to love Charlie or to sympathize with David, or you can make a easy connection with John. I wanted to write about them in a sex positive way. More than a few porn stars are also escorts, so these guys are my friends. Anyone who follows me on Twitter or Facebook sees the pictures of me hanging out with my friends in the adult entertainment industry. Did you surprise many fans and followers with writing this particulair story? I really wanted to read the book as I was very curious about what you came up with for this controversial topic. When I saw the promotion and the blurb of ‘Charlie, Rentboy’I was sold. ![]() We sheduled this interview when your novel ‘Charlie, Rentboy’ was released but with your approval hopefully I can add some questions about former novels? ![]() Thank you so much! I’m really excited to see what questions you decided on. It is a great pleasure and honor to have you here at the Blog of Sid Love. A very big warm welcome to popular author J.P Barnaby. ![]() ![]() They are discussed honestly, with sometimes graphic details, but without shying away from the horrors they can wreck on people. This is a dark and intense book, but none of these darker themes are treated lightly. From the first page, I knew that this was a book that wouldn't allow me to forget it. I couldn't think about anything else when I eventually merged to tear myself away from these heated, vengeful pages. Occasionally a book comes along that burrows itself under your skin and completely captures your mind. There's no mercy left: and now Jade won't rest until she gets bloody satisfaction. Certain that the boys will face no consequences, Jade and her friends take vengeance into their own hands. The night four boys spike Jade's drink, lock her in a room and brutally attack her. They decide how the party ends - every night but one. Jade Khanjara and her three best friends rule their glittering L.A circle. ![]() ![]() If you are unsure about this title, please consult the author's list of trigger warnings. ![]() Content warning: This book is not for the light-hearted. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The high-octane adventures will continue for a total of ten exhilarating books written by well-known authors over two years. Join Amy and Dan as they begin the hunt for the 39 Clues in Book One: The Maze of Bones. Books are going to a new place, but you have to follow the clues to get there. Think you've gone everywhere books can take you? Think again. Immediately, they are cauht in a dangerous race against their own family members. or get the first clue and begin the search? At the reading of their grandmother's will, Dan and Amy are given this choice - and they take the clue. What would happen if you discovered that your family was one of the most powerful in human history? What if you were told that the source of the family's power was hidden around the world in th form of 39 clues? What if you were given a choice - take a million dollars and walk away. ![]() ![]() Finley’s experienced cruelty before, and he knows that life as a drifter won’t be easy at his age, but there has to be more than barely scraping by, right? When Evan does something that could keep them fed for a long time but is terribly wrong, Finley needs to make a hard choice. Why not avoid more disappointment? Having dreams is useless, and focusing on survival at the current moment is what matters. ![]() Even if one does everything right, a person's life still might not turn out the way they want in the end. Ideas like having a home and someone to love and share it with is stupid. When Ari meets Jack, the King is like a god to her, but he only has eyes for his wife. Evan is only a little older, but he’s already bitter about the world after running away from home a couple of years ago. This side novel of love and one-sided love is a standalone that can be read at any time during the Jack’s Reign series. He finds an abandoned shed and makes a friend with another teenager. He has no family, no community, and almost no money. He has skill as a carpenter, but he’s only fourteen and entirely alone in the world. ![]() ![]() After being kicked out of his village for being a homosexual, Finley isn’t sure how he’ll survive. ![]() ![]() Even if it requires giving carnal lessons to a serious-minded spinster who has an in with the chef. and she’s just met the perfect rogue to help teach her.Ĭhristopher “Kit” Ward plans to open a not-so-reputable supper club in New York City, and he’s willing to do whatever it takes to hire the best chef in the city to guarantee its success. ![]() She needs to become a siren, a woman who causes a man’s blood to run hot. Something has to change, else she’ll be forced to marry a man whose only desire is her fortune. Shy heiress Alice Lusk is tired of being overlooked by every bachelor. ![]() Following the book called “an alluring blend of love and playfulness” (PW) The Heiress Hunt, beloved author Joanna Shupe continues her new Fifth Avenue Rebels series with a scandalous romance about a good girl desperate to rebel and the rebel desperate to corrupt her. ![]() ![]() ![]() I looooovvvvveeeed these 2 books so much! What a great way to spend a Sunday but with these two gentlemen. ![]() ![]() Warning: contains sexual situations, a vibrating chair, long-distance sexytimes, and proof that hockey players look hot in any shade of green. With the outside world determined to take its best shot at them, can Wes and Jamie develop major-league relationship skills on the fly? Or can they? When Wes's nosiest teammate moves in upstairs, the threads of their carefully woven lie begin to unravel. At least apartment 10B is their retreat, where they can always be themselves. It doesn't help that his new job isn't going as smoothly as he'd hoped, but he knows he can power through it as long as he has Wes. It's not the life Jamie envisioned for himself, and the strain of keeping their secret is taking its toll. There's just one problem: the most important relationship of his life is one he needs to keep hidden, or else face a media storm that will eclipse his success on the ice. He's living his dream of playing pro hockey and coming home every night to the man he loves - Jamie Canning, his longtime best friend turned boyfriend. Can your favorite hockey players finish their first season together undefeated?įive months in, NHL forward Ryan Wesley is having a record-breaking rookie season. ![]() |