No big deal…Ĭolton agrees to consider Gretchen’s offer in exchange for three dates before Christmas. She just needs to convince Colton to be the new face of her family’s whiskey brand. So when her estranged, wealthy family reaches out with an offer that will allow her to better serve the community, she’s unable to say no. It’s hard for immigration attorney Gretchen not to feel a little Scrooge-ish about the excess of Christmas when her clients are scrambling to afford their rent. If it weren’t about to be the most magical time of year and the support of the Bromance Book Club, he’d be wallowing in self-pity. A year later, Colton is struggling to push his music forward in a new direction. But for her, it was a love him and leave him situation. 'Tis the season for a Bromance Book Club matchmaking mission! This time, they're pulling out the mistletoe for everyone's favorite country music star, Colton, and his second chance at love.Ĭountry music’s golden boy Colton Wheeler felt the most perfect harmony when he was with Gretchen Winthrop.
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Stolen from his pampered life on a Californian estate and shipped to the Klondike to work as a sledge dog, he triumphs over his circumstances and becomes the leader of a wolf pack. Set in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s, 'The Call of the Wild' is about Buck, the magnificent cross-bred offspring of a St Bernard and a Scottish Collie. 'The Call of the Wild' (1903) and 'White Fang'(1906) are world famous animal stories. Throughout the 1950's, Birmingham's black middle class largely succeeded in insulating their children from the most corrosive effects of racism, providing multiple support systems to ensure the next generation would live better than the last. Her achievements run the gamut from helping to oversee the collapse of communism in Europe and the decline of the Soviet Union, to working to protect the country in the aftermath of 9-11, to becoming only the second woman-and the first black woman ever-to serve as Secretary of State.īut until she was 25 she never learned to swim, because when she was a little girl in Birmingham, Alabama, Commissioner of Public Safety Bull Connor decided he'd rather shut down the city's pools than give black citizens access. This is the story of Condoleezza Rice that has never been told, not that of an ultra-accomplished world leader, but of a little girl-and a young woman-trying to find her place in a sometimes hostile world, of two exceptional parents, and an extended family and community that made all the difference.Ĭondoleezza Rice has excelled as a diplomat, political scientist, and concert pianist. It would have been simple to have Zax zipping from place to place like a God, but Pratt intelligently avoids this by creating structures and rules that give the book foundations to build upon. High concept science fiction ideas often fail as they lack rules. Not only did Pratt need to come up with the ideas but also a valid way of leaping from one to the other. Taking on a series of worlds is not an easy task. Things are not too bad when you have company, but are The Lector’s intentions noble? Now Zax had a companion to travel with and technology that allows him to understand any language. It was not until he met the benevolent The Lector that things changed. To make matters worse, this continued to happen every time he slept. It happened one night when Zax went to sleep, rather than wake up in his own bed, he was in an alien landscape, unable to speak the language and having no idea where he was. Will Zax every be able to get back home and, if he does, what type of person will he be? Tim Pratt only have themselves to blame as they choice to take Zaxony Delatree on an adventure across a multitude of worlds. Worlds full of technology, worlds full or monsters. Making an author come up with a single science fiction concept is tricky enough, but to ask them to come up with an infinite number of multiverses is just plain mean. Whether you work in a corporate setting or a nonprofit organization, you have what it takes to lead from within and influence positive change around you. Every existing and emerging woman leader needs to carve out the space and time to do the inner work on their leadership. Reflective exercises and questions allow you to readily apply what you've learned and build your plan for growth. In her latest title, author and leadership coach Jeanne Porter King provides a guide for developing the personal side of leadership. Influence skills are important ingredients to effective leadership in today's complex organizations and institutions. What does a woman need to lead well in today's competitive work environment? If you think it's a coercive, "power over" style of leadership, think again. Influence Starts with "I": A Woman's Guide for Unleashing the Power of Leading from Within and Effecting Change Around You outlines how to be a more effective leader by tapping into the authentic "I" within you to cultivate "power with" others and effect change around you. Labyrinth Lost reminded me so much of a mashup between Pan's Labyrinth and Alice in Wonderland. Thank you to Sourcebooks for providing me with an ARC to review! Strength is also making the decision to change your destiny.❞ ❝We all get scared and want to turn away, but it isn’t always strength that makes you stay. will definitely plan on reading the sequel (though it may take me another few years for it to take priority) and I would recommend to those looking for more diverse fantasy tales. I thoroughly enjoy the story, but I feel I COULD have enjoyed it more. Overall, I just wasn’t fully engaged in the story, which is a shame because the world felt so immersive at the story. I felt the love triangle was tired and unnecessary. I don’t feel they will stick with me for a very long time. On the other hand, I didn’t truly “fall” for any of the characters. It felt very “Alice in Wonderland meets Percy Jackson” and had a lot of potential. I very much enjoyed the latin mythology, family dynamics, and mystery of the world. Labyrinth Lost is a colorful paranormal story brimming with diversity! We follow an all POC-main cast, specifically a bisexual latinx main character (and it features a relationship between two girls!). 3.5 Stars! This was an enjoyable, magical read! I put it off my TBR for so many years for no reason, and I’m satisfied having finally read it.
It could be taken that Ludo should be vilified for this but his actions are so considered and considerate that the reader does not find Ludo to be the enemy. Using her as inspiration for his writing, whilst he doesn’t always actively seek her out he does come to value her friendship. Ludo is of course using Mrs Palfrey, though she is not always aware of it. It has beautifully evocative prose that allows the reader to easily envisage everyone and everything. There are no big scenes, no fast paced dialogue. Gently, slowly, it worms its way into your heart. This book quietly works its magic on the reader. But things aren’t as expected and the monotony is only lifted when she meets Ludo by accident. Chosen for it’s location, with all the sights and sounds of London on it’s doorstep, it’s cheap rates and the proximity to her grandson, she is determined to make the best of it. She expects that she will not check out again until her death. Mrs Palfrey, newly widowed, moves into the Claremont Hotel. Then one day Mrs Palfrey strikes up an unlikely friendship with an impoverished young writer, Ludo, who sees her as inspiration for his novel. Together, upper lips stiffened, they fight off their twin enemies: boredom and the Grim Reaper. Her fellow residents are magnificently eccentric and endlessly curious, living off crumbs of affection and snippets of gossip. On a rainy Sunday in January, the recently widowed Mrs Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining days. It may be a subplot or two in need of a trim, and the resolution will surprise nobody but Jeremy, but agreeable on the whole. Mass spins a leisurely tale that’s occasionally Konigsburg-esque, carefully constructed to give narrator Jeremy ample time to reflect on his encounters. This device brings Jeremy and Lizzy-both originals to the core-into contact with a calculated variety of characters, all of whom have their own unique angles on the meaning of life. The search for the keys-or, failing the keys, the meaning of life itself-takes the two throughout New York City and into a spot of trouble, which lands them a very unusual community-service sentence: They must return treasures to the children, now grown, who pawned them long ago. When Jeremy receives the box a few months before that momentous day, the keys are missing, and it’s up to him and his best friend Lizzy to find a way into the box. Years before he died, Jeremy Fink’s father prepared a box containing “the meaning of life” for his son to open on his 13th birthday. Can Lucien find a balance between love and obsession? Or will those that want Luc out of their territory step in before he has a chance? So when Luc meets a young man in the desert, one who smells like heaven and doesn’t run in fear, Luc knows he’s met his last chance at redemption.īut the more Lucien is enchanted by Jamie, the more reluctant he is to taint him with his own vampire curse. The one thing that could stop his final descent into madness? A mate. He’s destroyed everything he’s touched, including the people he’s cared for. Lucien Volaire has been losing his mind for almost half a century, the monster within him steadily taking greater control over his thoughts and actions. Jamie doesn’t know much about the enigmatic man from his visions, but he doesn’t need to. The one Jamie has seen in his dreams for the past five years. He has his family, his friends, and a successful freelance career at just twenty-three. |