On top of that, Bec must contend with bitchy models, her new boss, Candace, who is just as difficult as the tabloids say, and two guys, a hunky Italian bike messenger with a thousand-watt smile and a fashion blogger with a razor-sharp wit, who are both vying for her heart.Ĭan Bec catch the person who’s after the First Lady, solve the mystery of Parker’s accident, and juggle two cute boys at the same time? The First Lady is in Rome for a cover shoot, and all hands are on deck to make sure her visit goes smoothly.īec quickly realizes that Parker’s “accident” may not have been quite so accidental, and when the First Lady’s life is threatened, Bec is determined to uncover the truth. But when a mysterious accident lands Parker in a coma, former supermodel and notorious drama queen Candace Worthington takes the reins of the magazine. Author: Charlotte Bennardo and Natalie ZamanĮxpelled from yet another boarding school for hacking, sixteen-year-old Rebecca “Bec” Jackson is shipped off to Rome to intern for Parker Phillips, the editor-in-chief of one of the world’s top fashion magazines.
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This book has 47 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1888. The stories are The Happy Prince (the tale of a statue and a swallow who are destroyed and then rewarded for their selfless deeds) The Nightingale And The Rose (the sad story of a nightingale who sacrifices it's life to help out a student) The Selfish Giant (a story about a giant who banishes children from his garden, only to discover it is the children that make the garden grow) The Devoted Friend (a story within a story about a man who shows nothing but selflessness to his friend who does not return the sentiment) and, The Remarkable Rocket (the tale of a firework who in an attempt to show off his importance, ends up going completely unnoticed). The Happy Prince and Other Tales is a collection of five short stories for children, written by Oscar Wilde and first published in May 1888. The Happy Prince and Other Tales Oscar WildeĪvailable to download for free in PDF, epub, and Kindle ebook formats. Buy the entire collection (over 2,400 ebooks) for only £15. 7/4/2023 0 Comments Ace and Proud by A.K. AndrewsSo sit back, relax, and enjoy a selection of personal experiences, insights, and anecdotes from asexual writers around the world! The contents of this book include: Foreword by Victoria Beth (AVEN Project Team) "My Self-discovery, Thus Far"-Rebecca Nesor shares her experience as a 21st century asexual teenager, which involves an amusing anecdote about phone shopping and Minecraft. Whether you’re a newly-discovered asexual, someone who’s known they’re asexual for years, the friend or family of someone asexual, or someone who’s just intrigued by asexuality in general, you’re sure to find something in this anthology that interests you. Unlike celibacy, which people choose, asexuality is an intrinsic part of who we are.” (This is an anthology of 17 true stories by real people about asexuality - the invisible orientation that everyone's heard of, but few actually talk about or understand. “An asexual is someone who does not experience sexual attraction. China conceived of a global cultural hierarchy with the Emperor at its pinnacle. Each considered itself the center of the world and envisioned its distinct principles as universally relevant. For most of history, civilizations defined their own concepts of order. There has never been a true “ world order,” Kissinger observes. Drawing on his experience as one of the foremost statesmen of the modern era-advising presidents, traveling the world, observing and shaping the central foreign policy events of recent decades-Kissinger now reveals his analysis of the ultimate challenge for the twenty-first century: how to build a shared international order in a world of divergent historical perspectives, violent conflict, proliferating technology, and ideological extremism. Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder. You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. 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The curious effect of that is that the book does not date the same as we might expect. He doesn't explain them, he just names them and takes them as read. EFRs first major breakthrough was his 1939 novel Sinister Barrier, which is fascinating in the way he assumes things that nowadays are commonplace. I have always had favourite authors, so today a plug for a perennial favourite, the SF writer Eric Frank Russell, a LIverpudlian with a trans-atlantic style and a terrific sense of humour. Entertaining and witty and very well written. A series is best, and I have been enjoying M C Beaton, having read now all the Hamish Macbeth books and now having just started the Agatha Raisin ones. It leads me into my thoughts on lockdown, where I have been doing much more reading again, which does mean I am always on the lookout for new books to read. I used to use a camera to make images of record, CD and book covers, but latterly I have found scanning to be much more convenient. The Essential Eric Frank Russell 3:59PM Views : 586 Unique : 360 7/4/2023 0 Comments Pierre boileau vertigoIt was interesting to read a book that was centered on a character who wasn’t really at all likable. It was a conclusion that made completely and total sense – but that I would never have guessed. And when the ending was revealed, my mind was genuinely blown. It wasn’t a story that was incredibly exciting, but I found myself compelled to keep reading nonetheless. I found myself gradually sucked into the story, and the setting – France at the beginning of WWII – added a perfect level of tension in the background that really gave the story depth. The writing in this story was excellent, and the pacing virtually perfect. Going into this book I knew genuinely nothing about the plot – and it turns out that it isn’t really all that much about falling off of something tall (although it does play a part)! The Aroma of Books //Rants//Raves//Reviews//ĭespite the fact that I do love a good Hitchcock film, I’ve somehow never actually watched Vertigo – I think possibly because I don’t really care for heights myself, and my least favorite part of any movie is the bit where someone is up high and on the verge of falling. Pargeter, Edith (also writing as Ellis Peters).Mertz, Barbara (also writing as Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels).Christie, Agatha (also writing as Mary Westmacott).Children’s History: Landmark, Signature Biographies, and We Were There.#BookSpin & #BookSpinBingo (Litsy Challenge). 7/4/2023 0 Comments A perfect amish romanceHer life has been turned upside down in a matter of months-her mother’s death propelled her father into a constant state of depression, and unable to deal with his erratic behavior, her longtime boyfriend has broken things off. She arranges for Kayla Kaufman to be his tutor. When Aaron asks bookmobile librarian Sarah Anne Miller for some additional study guides, she does one better. But he can’t let his Amish family know, not when his older brother already left the faith just a year after getting baptized, practically crippling the family. New Release! From New York Times bestselling author Shelley Shepard Gray comes a new series that follows a bookmobile driver-turned-matchmaker who learns that her Amish patrons need a whole lot more than just new books to read.Īaron Coblentz has a secret: he’s been studying to take the GED to get promoted at work. 7/3/2023 0 Comments Carry the one by carol anshawWhen you add us up, you always have to carry the one. In one sense, the tragedy has no meaning and outwardly they go on with their lives. Carol Anshaws New York Times bestselling novel is one of the most acclaimed books of the year. Carry the One tracks the quintet for the next 25 years, tracing the ramifications of the accident. Dazed, bleeding, stuck inside the tipped-over vehicle, the five sprawl ‘as still as sacks of flour’, while the broken body of ten-year-old Casey Redman lies in the road looking ‘something like an extremely advanced yoga pose, limbs bent in unlikely ways’. Unexpectedly, a young girl materialises in the road and they crash. Five stoned and inebriated young people are driving home in the early hours after a wedding in rural Wisconsin: Nick and Alice, the bride’s brother and sister Tom, a folk singer of modest talent Maude, the groom’s sister, sleepily making out with Alice, her fellow bridesmaid and behind the wheel Nick’s new girlfriend Olivia, a postal worker. Frankly confessional, addictively acerbic, and utterly unsparing, Bourdain pulls no punches in this memoir of his years in the restaurant business.įans will love to return to this deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying out his more than a quarter-century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine-this time with never-before-published material. I realised our on-set lives are run like military or culinary operations. In an existential moment, I drew the parallels between the kitchen and the film set. The article was a sensation, and the book it spawned, the now classic Kitchen Confidential, became an even bigger sensation, a megabestseller with over one million copies in print. Jonny> I cant pinpoint how I discovered Bourdain, he was just there one day, and then I found myself reading his book Kitchen Confidential. Bourdain spared no one's appetite as he revealed what happens behind the kitchen door. An updated and revised edition of Anthony Bourdain's mega-bestselling Kitchen Confidential, with new material from the original editionĪlmost two decades ago, the New Yorker published a now infamous article, "Don't Eat before You Read This," by then little-known chef Anthony Bourdain. |