![]() ![]() Still, readers will relish Laurens's spunky heroine and sizzling love scenes. The solving of the 10-year old murder mystery, though hasty, doesn't detract from the primary players and their witty repartee, but newcomers to the series may be put off by Amanda's anachronistic behavior (she has sex with Martin out of wedlock and frequently goes about without a chaperone). Inevitably, Amanda is "compromised," but she's unwilling to settle for anything less than a marriage based on love. ![]() ![]() Nevertheless, he finds himself playing the part of Amanda's protector as she flits from one disreputable venue to another in a spurious quest for adventure. Banished from England by his father for a murder he didn't commit, Martin eschews London's elite circles and has been living abroad for the past 10 years. The Promise in a Kiss A Christmas Novel Stephanie Laurens This is a work of fiction. While browsing for prospects in a notorious gaming hell, Amanda encounters Martin Fulbridge, fifth earl of Dexter. Also by Stephanie Laurens All About Love All About Passion Captain Jack’s Woman Devil’s Bride A Rake’s Vow A Rogue’s Pro. After six years on the marriage mart, Amanda and her twin, Amelia, despairing of ever finding the right mate, have decided to broaden their search. ![]() Veteran romance author Laurens adds to her early 19th-century Cynster family saga with this highly sensual tale featuring 23-year-old Amanda Cynster, cousin of the six former rogues who starred in Laurens's earlier entries ( The Promise in a Kiss, etc.). ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Great Game ended in 1907 with an Anglo-Russian pact, but as Hopkirk notes in a foreword, a new imperialist rivalry is underway in Central Asia, pitting the U.S. The Great Game, as the Anglo-Russian struggle in Central Asia was called, unfolds in Hopkirk's ( Setting the East Ablaze ) intricate narrative as an incredible tale of high adventure and political intrigue, conveyed here through the exploits of Cossacks, Muslim guerrillas, courageous travelers, spies, mapmakers and soldiers. In 1880, after bloody fighting, the British eradicated Russian influence in Afghanistan and established a buffer state. Fearing a Russian invasion, the British rulers of India sent English spies disguised as holy men to find out what the Russians were up to. Petersburg again cast a covetous eye southward on India. But 70 years later a succession of ambitious czars had crushed the Muslim peoples of Central Asia, and confident St. And after the billions of American taxpayers dollars that were funneled into the anti-Soviet struggle in the 1980s, only to have the enterprise degrade into a squalid civil war among the. It was hastily recalled upon his assassination. Half-mad Russian czar Paul I dispatched an invasion force to India in 1801. ![]() ![]() ![]() It needs no category other than the fact that it is superb' - Rita Mae Brown 'The Color Purple is a work to stand beside literature for any time and any place. 'She is one of the most gifted writers in her country' - Isabel Allende 'A genuinely mind-expanding book.' - Patrick Ness, The Guardian Publisher: Orion Publishing Co ISBN: 9781474607254 Number of pages: 288 Weight: 260 g Dimensions: 198 x 126 x 30 mm MEDIA REVIEWS Gradually Celie discovers the power and joy of her own spirit, freeing her from her past and reuniting her with those she loves. Raped repeatedly by the man she calls 'father', she has two children taken away from her, is separated from her beloved sister Nettie and is trapped into an ugly marriage.īut then she meets the glamorous Shug Avery, singer and magic-maker - a woman who has taken charge of her own destiny. Set in the deep American South between the wars, The Color Purple is the classic tale of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and segregation. ![]() The classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that made Alice Walker a household name. ![]() We all know that this is one of the greatest books of all time.' - Benjamin Zephaniah Not a word is wasted, every breath accounted for. To do that you have to be a magician or a genius. 'The great irony about The Color Purple is that it transcends colour. ![]() ![]() The Pan-industrial Revolution: How New Manufacturing Titans Will Transform the World by Richard D’Aveni In her latest novel, the bestselling author of The Sweetness of Forgetting and When We Meet Again tells the intersecting stories of an American woman, a British RAF pilot, and a French teenager who is Jewish, in occupied Paris during World War II.Ī Pulitzer Prize–winning author and Shakespeare scholar explores the bard’s insight into Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, and Coriolanus, and the societies over which they ruled. ![]() New York magazine’s fashion editor at large examines the obsession with health and “wellness” and how a multibillion-dollar industry plays on our anxieties to sell us products, classes, and cleanses. Invincible: The Heart of Peak Performance by Leah LagosĪn expert in heart variability/biofeedback and sports psychology uses her 10-week program to reduce the body’s autonomic response to stress.Ĭure-All: Diagnosing the Modern Wellness Epidemic by Amy Larocca Set at an elite college in an isolated New England town, this debut novel chronicles the shifting friendship of six students who maintain their alliance until one of them is murdered. This debut novel by an Emmy and DuPont Award–winning journalist at CNN Worldwide examines how a family copes with the highs and lows of forgiveness. ![]() publisher: Berkley, pub date not available at press time The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So how should we understand this so-called discrepancy? If you look at the Bible in a wooden fashion, this contradiction does seem to be absurd on the face of it. Did Jesus or John have a painfully short attention span? Either Jesus or John were having a ‘brain fart’. ![]() ![]() Either Jesus had a very short attention span or there is something strange going on with the sources for these chapters, creating an odd kind of disconnect. And then, a few minutes later, at the same meal, Jesus upbraids his disciples, saying, “Now I am going to the one who sent me, yet none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’” (John 16:5). In John 13:36, Peter says to Jesus, “Lord, where are you going?” A few verses later Thomas says, “Lord, we do not know where you are going” (John 14:5). One of my favorite apparent discrepancies-I read John for years without realizing how strange this one is-comes in Jesus’ “Farewell Discourse,” the last address that Jesus delivers to his disciples, at his last meal with them, which takes up all of chapters 13 to 17 in the Gospel according to John. For example, agnostic NT scholar Bart Ehrman points out one of his favorite Bible contradictions in his book best-selling book, Jesus, Interrupted. And these same skeptics say that some of these contradictions are downright absurd. Skeptics say that the gospels are riddled with contradictions and therefore are not reliable historical sources. ![]() |