![]() You can have the next book waiting for you for automatic delivery to your kindle or home. ![]() Starting Apbooks in this series will be released every 90 days on Amazon. Ready to start or read more of the Key to the Cursed journey? Don't wait years for another book to be released. She enjoys spending time with her family and of course, writing about the “Carrigan sisters and their mates, Gods of the Underworld,” to bring you the next installment of the Key to the Cursed series. ![]() Although her dreams of writing full time have yet to come true, she continues her writing journey and draws inspiration from her travels abroad. At the end of 2011 she said a heart-breaking goodbye to her Navy family and retired after twenty years of military service. In her pursuit of a nursing degree, Jean Murray aspired to see the world and joined the Navy. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Our childhood lunch of choice at Grandma’s to refuel us during a day of somersaults in the swimming pool and backyard adventures. The ones that my cousins and I constantly debated over whose turn it was to eat the middle roll. Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls, the ones we’d make all the time in the summers we spent at Grandma and Grandpas. I healed through food that reminded me of her, our childhood time spent with her, and my Grandpa, and her favorite foods. So I healed the best way I knew how: through food. ![]() When everything is the same, it’s easy to put up the denial shield and pretend that, well, everything is the same. ![]() How to heal.Įspecially because, as I’m sure you know, it’s incredibly easy to fall into the same mundane routine these days. Since I couldn’t go be with her, I couldn’t be with family, and I couldn’t leave my house, again because of that virus, I was at a loss for how to attempt to begin greiving. I lost my Grandma unexpectedly in her battle with that virus. But I never experienced such a treat until a few months ago, when it was time to heal through food. But my Grandma was on to something.įor as long as I can remember (or, likely in my adult age when I was of-age), my Grandma would rave about how much she loved Piña Coladas…but it had to be made with ice cream. Did you ever think such summery, beach-vibey, cocktail could exist? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Drawing on unprecedented access to the Owens family, previously unpublished interviews, and archival research, Jeremy Schaap transports us to Germany and tells the dramatic tale of Owens and his fellow athletes at the contest dubbed the Nazi Olympics. It is also the intimate and complex tale of one remarkable man’s courage. The story of Jesse Owens at the Berlin games is that of an athletic performance that transcends sports. At the 1936 Olympics, against a backdrop of swastikas and goose-stepping storm troopers, an African American son of sharecroppers won a staggering four gold medals, single-handedly falsifying Hitler’s myth of Aryan supremacy. This New York Times best-selling author’s account of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin offers a “vivid portrait not just of Owens but of ’30s Germany and America” ( Sports Illustrated). ![]() ![]() I know my summary is slightly convoluted a more simple way to put it is that this book is all about bridges. ![]() Like Sachar's previous masterpiece, Holes, The Cardturner hides layer upon layer of meaning with the utmost subtlety.yet is so straightforward about it all that you will trust the narrator implicitly. Getting straight to the point: I loved The Cardturner. Ok, this time I'm skipping all the educated, literary-sounding praise. But he soon learns that Toni might not be as crazy as his mom says, that bridge may not be as boring as he thought, and that not all coincidences are mere coincidences. But when Trapp's health problems lead to his blindness and Alton is roped into being the old man's “cardturner” at his bridge club.Alton has to decide his feelings for himself-along with his feelings for Toni Castaneda, Trapp's niece by marriage and former cardturner according to most, contender for the fortune according to Alton's mom. At least, that's what his mother tells him to say every time Trapp and Alton talk on the phone. ![]() ![]() Alton Richards (not Richard Alton like some of his teachers call him) has always known that wealthy Lester Trapp is his favorite uncle. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The story takes place in Blackeberg, a working class suburb of Stockholm, Sweden in the early 1980s. ![]() Centering on the relationship between a 12-year-old boy, Oskar, and a centuries-old vampire in the form of the child, Eli. Let the Right One In (Original Swedish: Låt den rätte komma in), also known as Let Me In, is a 2004 vampire fiction novel by Swedish writer John Ajvide Lindqvist. ![]() ![]() Sadly another series based on a Stephen King novel that was canceled deep into the story. While some people start to panic, a small group of citizens led by Army veteran Dale Barbara tries to maintain some semblance of peace and order, while also attempting to learn the truth about the mysterious barrier, the purpose behind it and, most importantly, how to escape it. Under the Dome follows the residents of Chester’s Mill, Maine, as they find their small town suddenly cut off from the rest of the world by a transparent dome. ![]() Sadly the series was canceled after 3 outings so a conclusive end was never given to the fans. We may hear you screaming to the comments section and yes you are right Simpsons indeed ‘did it first.’ That being said it was inevitable that the 2009 sci-fi novel would be adapted for a film or series. Regions Streaming: Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, France, Italy, Netherlands, Russia, South Korea + 16 More Countries ![]() ![]() ![]() Christopher Jameson, Ashleigh and their children from the novel Beast, Bodie and Shaundea Matthews from A Wrong Turn Towards Love and True from True’s love. What happens when white privilege is suddenly challenged? When races clash and you mess with the wrong black woman? This novella contains twists and turns and sexiness as well as appearances from Lt. She is opinionated, specifically about a country where she has been single handedly raising her multi-racial son to be a well-rounded black man. Stella Burton is a no nonsense, 6-foot tall curvaceous black woman who has no problem with hurting a man’s ego. But Riley is going to get a fast re-education when a single black mother rents his home for the summer and he has no choice but to recognize the actions of the people around him. When all you know is what you were taught by parents and friends that are ignorant to the world, you grow up to be a man like Riley Pranger, a passive racist and chauvinistic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Probing the torrid political climate in the lead-up to World War II and the ways that seemingly sensible people can be sucked into radical action, The Mitford Affair follows Nancy's valiant efforts to stop the Nazis from taking over Great Britain, and the complicated choices she must make between the personal and the political. When she overhears alarming conversations and uncovers disquieting documents, Nancy must make excruciating choices as Great Britain goes to war with Germany. Though they've weathered scandals before, the family falls into disarray when Diana divorces her wealthy husband to marry a fascist leader and Unity follows her sister's lead all the way to Munich, inciting rumors that she's become Hitler's mistress.Īs the Nazis rise in power, novelist Nancy Mitford grows suspicious of her sisters' constant visits to Germany and the high-ranking fascist company they keep. ![]() ![]() "Plunges readers into a world of glamorous, charismatic young British debutantes and then turns that shiny world on its head.the most delicious storytelling." -Allison Pataki, New York Times bestselling author of The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Postįrom New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict comes an explosive novel of history's most notorious sisters, one of whom will have to choose: her country or her family?īetween the World Wars, the six Mitford sisters-each more beautiful, brilliant, and eccentric than the next-dominate the English political, literary, and social scenes. ![]() ![]() Interestingly, FitzGerald describes her work as the history of white evangelical movements (3), and begins this history with the First Great Awakening. FitzGerald’s work seeks to be the definitive historical work on evangelicals, a group that continues to shock, confuse, and rankle outsiders, political observers, and journalists. Published in April of 2017, this work begins in the fervent American religious revivals of the First and Second Great Awakening and closes in the myopic 2016 presidential election. ![]() Signified by a belief in the concept of spiritual rebirth, or being “born-again” and a priority to “spread the gospel” FitzGerald shares her definition with faith leaders such as Billy Graham and religious historians such as George Marsden. ![]() In her latest work, The Evangelicals, Pulitzer Prize winning author Frances FitzGerald charts the history and influence of that “most American of religious groups” (2). ![]() ![]() ![]() But the once worldly Becket suddenly discovered God, and their alliance withered in the heat of his newfound zeal. Only in one instance did Henry err: Elevating his good friend and confidant Thomas Becket to be Archbishop of Canterbury, he thought to gain control over the Church itself. Within two years, Henry had made his, winning the throne of England and exercising extraordinary statecraft skills to control his unruly barons, expand his own powers, and restore peace to a land long torn by banditry and bloodshed. It was said he was Fortune's favorite, but he said a man makes his own luck. ![]() She was beautiful, headstrong, intelligent, and rich. He was nineteen when they married, she eleven years his senior, newly divorced from the King of France. The long-awaited sequel to Sharon Kay Penman's acclaimed novel When Christ and His Saints Slept, Time and Chancerecounts the tempestuous marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II in a magnificent story of love, power, ambition-and betrayal. ![]() |