It's only the charms of the gardener that keep her in the job. Desperate for somewhere to stay she accepts the job despite the fact that she can't cook, launder or do anything else remotely domesticated. There's a beautiful house nearby and she knocks on the door hoping for a glass of water, but the owner thinks that she's come for an interview for the post of housekeeper. She gets on a train - the first train to anywhere - and finds herself stranded in a Cotswold village. Just as she's about to achieve this she apparently makes a massive error and runs away from it all. She is desperate to become a partner of the prestigious law firm for whom she works. Samantha Sweeting is a lawyer and all her adult life she's had just one ambition. It's formulaic chick lit, but if you want an easy, light-hearted read then you could do worse than to borrow it from the library. Summary: A top-flight lawyer becomes a housekeeper despite having no domestic skills.
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In finally losing her lands to the Borgia family, she put up a resistance that inspired all of Europe and set the stage for her progeny-including Cosimo de Medici-to follow her example to greatness.Ī rich evocation of the Renaissance, The Tigress of Forlì reveals Caterina Riario Sforza as a brilliant and fearless ruler and a tragic but unbowed figure. Following her husband’s assassination, she ruled Italy’s crossroads with iron will, martial strength, political savvy-and an icon’s fashion sense. After turbulent years in Rome’s papal court, she moved to the Romagnol province of Forlì. Raised in the court of Milan and wed at age ten to the pope’s corrupt nephew, Caterina was ensnared in Italy’s political intrigues early in life. You don’t have to read it to follow their journey, but I think there are some fun interactions between them that helped the buildup of their relationship (IMO).I. She’s a 2019 Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Of Sunlight and Stardust. In this glittering biography, Elizabeth Lev reexamines Caterina's extraordinary life and accomplishments. Riley Hart is represented by Jane Dystel at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret Literary Management. It is the 3rd book in the The Vers Podcast series. The astonishing life of Caterina Sforza, one of the most prominent women of Renaissance Italy, who was a wife, mother, leader, and warrior with enough fierceness to make Machiavelli himself wince. The Realist is tagged as age difference, m-m, friends to lovers, forced proximity, grumpy sunshine, contemporary, height-difference. When Iris is asked to model for Pre-Raphaelite artist Louis Frost, she agrees on the condition that he will also teach her to paint. But for Silas, a curiosity collector enchanted by all things strange and beautiful, the meeting marks a new beginning. For Iris, an arrestingly attractive aspiring artist, it is a brief and forgettable moment. 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The idea of conditional love pollutes our mind and turns us against others. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, The Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love. 43 likes, 4 comments - Maria Harrison Self-Empathy (sourcingourlight) on Instagram: 'In The Mastery of Love, don Miguel Ruiz says that to master our dream, we must stalk our reaction. Buy Eros by Don Miguel Ruiz for 23.00 at Mighty Ape NZ. In The Four Agreements, bestselling author don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. It felt very clunky, especially in the beginning when characters were being introduced and the scene was being set. While the story was interesting and made me want to keep reading, unfortunately this author’s writing style was not for me. Her husband refuses to go to war and ends up going to prison, so she has to support her family and make it through without him. It’s set during World War II, and follows the main character, Patience, as she tries to keep her family afloat with her midwifery services. The story in Once a Midwife is interesting and drew me in. So, I thought a book featuring a Midwife main character would be perfect for me. It’s so dramatic in all the right ways! The stories about moms, babies, and families all tug really hard at my heartstrings. Such an exciting, dramatic profession! I’ve been interested in it since watching the PBS show Call the Midwife. She developed the Geodesic Learning™ theory (how we think and process information) that has been conservatively shown to increase thinking, behavioral and academic performance by 35-75%. She has presented her unique Switch On Your Brain with the 5-Step Learning Process® and the Metacognitive-Map™ learning tool to thousands of students worldwide. Her scientific Science of Thought techniques have transformed the lives of patients with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), learning disabilities, emotional traumas and released the potential of thousands of young students and adults. During her years in clinical practice as a Communication Pathologist she developed tools and processes that help people develop and change their thinking and subsequent behavior. Since the early 1980‘s she has studied and researched the Mind-Brain connection. Caroline Leaf is a cognitive neuroscientist with a PhD in Communication Pathology specializing in Neuropsychology. Lou, unable to ignore her growing feelings, yet powerless to change what she is, must make a choice. But when Lou pulls a wicked stunt, the two are forced into an impossible situation-marriage. And they are burned.Īs a huntsman of the Church, Reid Diggory has lived his life by one principle: Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. Two years ago, Louise le Blanc fled her coven and took shelter in the city of Cesarine, forsaking all magic and living off whatever she could steal. □: Serpent & Dove, Blood & Honey, Gods & Monsters We made sure to try to fit a little of everything on our list, from contemporary romance to complex fantasies, so you can find just the flavor you’re craving for your next killer read! Each offers at least three books, so you can read along as the characters grow, fall in love, and conquer their demons-along with empires, mysteries, and everyday drama. So, what if you didn’t start some of our favorite series when they first hit shelves, and now found yourself with the luck to binge them all in one go? That’s right! The list of completed book series below have all wrapped up and are yours for the binging. Sometimes it’s five! And, well, we don’t always have the patience. We always know when that new book is coming out, and that can often mean waiting at least a year for the sequel to come out. One of the most bittersweet things for any book nerd is being on time. Besides The Machine Gunners, Westall is perhaps best known for The Scarecrows (1981), which won him a second Carnegie Medal and which his obituary in the Independent called ‘one of the most searing and haunting child-eyed views of divorce yet to have been written’, and Blitzcat (1989), which won the Smarties Prize. He would go on to publish over 40 books for young readers, including works that drew on his boyhood during the war, stories involving cats, and tales of the ghostly and supernatural. His first book, The Machine Gunners, was published in 1975 when he was 45 it was a major success, winning the Carnegie Medal, and has been recognized by critics as a lasting classic of children’s literature. It was not till later in life that Westall turned to fiction, having been inspired to become a writer after telling his son Christopher stories about his childhood during World War II. After taking degrees in fine art from Durham University and London’s Slade School, Westall worked as an art teacher and was also a freelance journalist and art critic for The Guardian. Robert Westall was born in North Shields, Northumberland in 1929. As soon as you read a few pages, you’ll want to do nothing else but live in her written world. I read it over about a week & really let the story settle.Ībby writes in such a binge-able manner. While I wanted to rip the pages apart and devour the book, I didn’t. Well, I took her advice and I am glad I did. I wanted to read The Happy Ever After Playlist as I was reading TFZ because this is the moment where I learned Abby wrote this book first! Once I knew more about Sloan, I had to read her story! Savor This Book!Įstelle from Read Forever sent me a little note with the book encouraging me to savor this read. I’ve been waiting to read The Happy Ever After Playlist since I finished The Friend Zone. Special thanks to Read Forever for providing our copy of The Happy Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez in exchange for an honest & fair review. |