![]() Whitaker ( The Queen of Kentucky) has a knack for evoking the feel of a live performance-both the atmosphere of the venue and what it's like to play on stage. ![]() " Wildflower's Bird Barrett is a country music star you won't soon forget."― Jen Calonita, author of the Secrets of My Hollywood Life series and Summer State of Mind ![]() "Authentic, romantic, and entertaining- Wildflower and Bird will make you fly."― Rebecca Serle, author of The Edge of Falling Praise for Wildflower:"Whitaker's novel Wildflower is pitch perfect and bursting with soul and heart."― Gwendolyn Heasley, author of Where I Belong and Don't Call Me Baby VERDICT Readers who enjoyed the first novel and those who are fans of country music will cheer Bird along the rocky road to fame and revel in her success."― School Library Journal The author's knowledge of music, especially songwriting, makes the story more authentic, and, as she did in the first novel, Whitaker includes an appended section with complete lyrics and music to Bird's next potential hit song. ![]() Praise for The Road to You:"Whitaker's keen ability to write authentically in the voice of Bird offers readers a complete behind-the-scenes look at life in the fast lane of celebrity and success. ![]()
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![]() ![]() That story starts part one of the interview.Īnd in part two you'll hear of his eye opening experience investigating the colossal freshwater pearl industry in China. Stephen Bloom's interest in pearls began as a boy, as he watched his mother prepare herself for a night out in the 1950s and the pearl necklace she wore was the height of elegance. He also worked as a deckhand on a pearling boat off Broome - where he says the world's best pearls are produced. Stephen Bloom's three year journey around the world to see first-hand all aspects of the pearl trade brought him in contact with the men who control the global pearling industry, the dealers and buyers, and colourful characters as hooked on pearls as he is. bloom is a nonfiction story the author tells about his fascination with pearls. ![]() It's been written by Stephen G Bloom, a professor of journalism in Iowa, ironically an America state far from the ocean. 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Click here to sign up. ![]() ![]() How the f*&k Tabby hadn’t learned her lesson after that mess, he had no clue, and as he drove it came crystal that she needed to get one.Īnd he was so pissed, he decided he was going to be the one to give it to her.Ī beautiful family friendship (OMG it was soooooo wonderful) that mends itself in an extreme time of need. I can’t help but wonder if that poorly executed lesson was actually perfect in it’s own way). Time goes by, and a secure friendship suffers from a well-meaning, yet poorly executed intent (although if you ask me. Seeing her hit him in the chest, the burn in his gut moving up to flame in his lungs, compressing them, making it hard to catch a breath. ![]() He always expected he’d get over it, get used to it but he didn’t. He didn’t know why he hadn’t learned, why he didn’t brace. When he saw her it happened like it always happened. Moving on… that turns into more hurt feelings. Loyalty obligations that turn into hurt feelings. The slow, sweet and at a few points, very sad build-up, and paced oh so well that I was starving for relief. For sure I’m 5-star crazy about the whole first 75% of it. MARYSE’S SURPRISE FROM HER FAVORITE BOOK BOYFRIEND’S. ![]() ![]() ![]() His dark and unsettling short stories and novels were shaped in large part by personal experience (a professional merchant mariner for much of his life, many of Hodgson’s tales are set at sea), and his work evokes a disturbing sense of the amorphous and horrific unknown. William Hope Hodgson was, like his contemporaries Algernon Blackwood and Arthur Machen, one of the most important, prolific, and influential fantasists of the early twentieth century. ![]() You can read this before The Boats of the Glen Carrig and Other Nautical Adventures: The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson, Volume 1 PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. ![]() Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Boats of the Glen Carrig and Other Nautical Adventures: The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson, Volume 1 written by William Hope Hodgson which was published in 1907–. Brief Summary of Book: The Boats of the Glen Carrig and Other Nautical Adventures: The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson, Volume 1 by William Hope Hodgson ![]() ![]() ![]() Not to mention, all weekend it had bothered him and made him worry about coming to work today.Īnd now, this! Fucking nothing? After all that worry? But then again, did I want something to happen? ![]() All of last week, this guy, this stranger, had decided to wreak havoc on his brain. Walking away from the men, Tate found that he was relieved, yet at the same time, he was also experiencing a different emotion, an emotion he didn’t understand-anger. Turning back to them, Tate pushed the drinks across the bar top, and with a quick, “Thanks,” from them, that was it. Or maybe they are something altogether different. Maybe they work together? That’s the most logical explanation, Tate thought, until he saw Logan push the big guy’s arm and leave his palm on his bicep in a familiar fashion. Logan was angled toward the blond and was chuckling at whatever the much more serious guy had said. “Nothing to eat,” Logan told him, and as Tate was about to move away, he added, “Right now.”Ĭhoosing to ignore that, Tate turned away to grab the scotch off the back shelf, but he kept his focus on the two men in the mirror he was facing. ![]() ![]() “Anything to eat?” Tate hoped the spark he saw there didn’t mean he was about to be handed his ass. Tate flicked his eyes to Logan’s, framed once again by black glasses. Macallan, if you have it, and this guy will have a gin and tonic.” ![]() ![]() Clair, an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947. The story is about two women-Eve Gardiner, a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and the other, Charlie St. This allows the two narratives to eventually come together in a really exciting and interesting way. But where this read is different is that the narratives aren’t so far apart, one takes place during WWI and the other right after the end of WWII. Like many historical fiction books, this is a dual narrative in different timelines. So, I very much appreciate that Quinn decided to focus her book on real-life heroes who haven’t received the attention they deserve. Even now, with a simple Google search there’s not much information about the Alice Network, other than the book, of course. Before reading this book, I was not familiar with the real-life Alice Network, the WWI secret female spy ring. I’ve always loved history and one of my favorite aspects of reading historical fiction is learning something new about a specific time in the past. ![]() |