You’re not very adventurous, Spalding said. What if he laughs in my face? Or-this might even be worse-what if he says yes? And then we get naked and I can’t satisfy him? It was other parts of me who were doing all the begging. My heart had thumped along with only one word. I saw him look toward the pub, weighing his choices. I watched him get out of that cab and then check the time. And just as soon I figure out how to make a skinny peppermint latte with milk poured in the shape of a kitten.Įarlier, I’d spotted him even before he came into the bar. There’s nobody more skilled at stealth ops than me. I’d forgotten how much we infuriate each other, and that she somehow fills me with both irritation and desire in the same breath. But now I have to call her “boss,” and do everything the curvy perfectionist asks of me. Going undercover as Posy’s new barista wasn’t my idea. It’s my job to identify him before he can harm a hair on her pretty head. There’s a murderer on the loose in New York, and he seems to spend a lot of time at Posy’s shop. I’m the VP of a secretive billion-dollar security company. But all she gave me was a single kiss before I had to skip town. Posy was the pampered girl I tried to impress. Growing up, I was the rough guy from the wrong neighborhood who couldn’t catch a break. I loved Gunnar and Posy's bickering and banter and both their steamy tension and the constant mention of lattes and pie left hungry for more! I'm so excited to share an excerpt from Sarina Bowen's latest book, Loverboy, out December 1st.
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previous 1 2 3 4 next sort by previous 1 2 3 4 next Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. No wonder People "magazine raves about her books, saying, "Romance writing does not get much better than this." Eloisa's delightful take on Beauty and the Beast" unfolds in Regency England, where a beastly, bad-tempered Earl matches wits with a brazen beauty who has vowed to make the handsome grump fall in love with her in two short weeks. Books by Eloisa James (Author of When Beauty Tamed the Beast) Books by Eloisa James Eloisa James Average rating 3.84 361,704 ratings 31,623 reviews shelved 747,337 times Showing 30 distinct works. "Eloisa James's writing is absolutely exquisite."-New York Times "bestselling author Teresa Medeiros "Nothing gets me to a bookstore faster than a new novel by Eloisa James."-New York Times "bestselling author Julia Quinn A wonderful spin on a much-beloved fairy tale, Eloisa James's When Beauty Tamed the Beast "is heart-soaring and fun historical romance at its finest. No wonder People "magazine raves about her books, saying, "Romance writing does not get much better than this." Eloisa's delightful take on Beauty and the. The truth.In the tradition of Amanda Hocking, 44 is a thrilling paranormal romance mystery novel that keeps readers at the edge of their seats and glued to the very end. She'll have to face something else that was lost in those dark waters. And she soon realizes that it's up to her to find him.But to stop him, she'll have to confront more than just the killer. While the police believe that there have been a lot of accidents in town lately, Abby knows differently. In them, she sees a faceless serial killer roaming the streets. And then there's Jesse, who she loves, but who refuses to forgive her the one mistake she made long ago.Just when she thinks it can't get any worse, the visions begin. She can't see colors, memories have been erased, and her friends all hate her. Find out for yourself why this heartbreaking and breathtaking paranormal romance series has been downloaded by almost half a million readers.***Last year after falling through the ice, seventeen-year-old Abby Craig woke up from death.But she woke into a world she barely recognizes. Its beautifully written, terrifying and intense. Then again, if you are like me and obsessed with words and the art that comes from darkness and the study of lonliness, then this is a work of genius. If you almost lost your self in desire, don't read this book. If you are jaded by love don't read this book. Sartre writes beautifully and describes the physical world in such incredible detail, that if you are a reader, and even more if you are a writer, you want to keep going and never put it down, but if you are not emotionally stable enough to handle the fact that you might have done nothing but existing, don't read this book. It is sickening and dark and so terribly everyday that it gets inside you if you let it. Nausea is not a good thing to have as the only thing that belongs to you, and even worse as the only thing that you belong to. I put a longer review of this book / a journal entry that I wrote while I was reading it in "my writing" since it was too long for this page. Kim's sense of loss is palpable and the mystery behind the disappearance is unbelievably compelling. She knows that despite her youth, despite how hard it is to be a young mother, Tallulah would never abandon her baby. When teen mother Tallulah goes missing, the police assume she's made a break for it, cast off responsibility for her baby and ran away with her boyfriend. The difference here is in the vivid characters, in how Kim and Tallulah come to life on the page. This one begins with the plot of countless other mystery/thrillers: a daughter goes missing, leaving behind a distraught mother who will do anything to find her. Jewell's best books are the ones that make you fall hard for the characters so you can't do anything else until you've found out what happened to them. The Night She Disappeared is an excellent thriller, steeped in mystery and drama, with a strong emotionally-compelling mother/daughter love story at its core. I found it absolutely riveting and impossible to put down. At this point I have read six Lisa Jewell books, but this one is my favourite. And while Karen rebuilds her fractured family, best friend Anna contemplates the end of an abusive relationship with a charming drunk, and Lou finally trusts her heart enough to come out to a family she vastly underestimates. “It’s his failings that made him who he was,” Karen confesses in her plaintive eulogy. The aching loss heaped swiftly upon Karen and her two young children, Molly and Luke, is reason enough to cry, but their search for solace turns from maudlin and mundane to insightful and fresh thanks in part to the pleasing retrospective flashbacks of this family’s life. Rayner (Getting Even) takes a random tragedy on a morning commuter train from Brighton to London and parses it over the hours of six days plucked from half a year, dissecting the women’s emotional unraveling and eventual rebirth as stronger mothers, lovers, friends. A man’s sudden death touches off seismic shifts in the lives of three women, wife-turned-widow Karen, neighbor Anna, and teacher-and closeted lesbian-Lou, in this affecting weeper about friendship and family. The plot itself isn’t difficult to follow by any means, but some of the vocabulary used in this book might have gone over my head as a child and caused me to lose interest. Much like Harry Potter, it doesn’t talk down to its audience, and I believe this is both to the book’s credit and its detriment. In fact, I think I enjoy it more as an adult than I would have as a kid. In spite of the fact that I’m obviously not in the age demographic this is targeted towards, I enjoyed this just as much as a child would. It left enough of an impression on him that he had decided to keep it (along with the other two books in the trilogy) all these years so I thought I would give it a go. I chose to read it only because I discovered it among my fiancé’s books from his childhood home. I only have vague memories of Bartimaeus’s face leering at me from atop a bookshelf at our school library in middle-school. I don’t have any recollection of people discussing this series in the early 2000s. Carry it in your backpack, put it in your purse, or on the back of your toilet. It's an easy read, barely over a hundred pages. You could cross out the title word Art and write LOVE & Fear, and the same concepts apply. Earn it.Įverything I read in this book could also apply to the art of relationship. Stop coveting other peoples talent, skills, lessons. In talking about other's "magic" in their work the authors write: "Their magic is theirs. The writers explore the human need for acceptance, fear of failure, communication sensibilities between your work and yourself versus your work and the outside world. Specifically, it uses art and fear to talk about how our choice to have courage or not drives the degree of light you will manifest in your own life. What I love about this book is that it uses art to talk about life. I reread the margin notes that I've written at various times. I have picked it up and opened a random page to read on dozens of occasions. I've read this book cover to cover four or five times. As the book recedes – month after month, year after year – he must face the possibility of disappointing his grandfather, whose legacy now rests uncomfortably in his hands.ĭaniel's troubled progress stands in contrast to the clear-edged tales his grandfather tells him. But the task that at first seems so simple comes to overwhelm him. When Daniel is tasked with writing the biography of his grandfather, Jules Browde – one of South Africa's most celebrated advocates – he sharpens his pencils and gets to work. Though my grandfather was visibly shaken by the force of this memory, I felt a bubbly thrill because this was such good stuff, and I remember turning my eyes away from his distressed face to make sure the wheels of the dictaphone were still turning. |