![]() ![]() ![]() But she is willing to open her heart, just a little, and try.īut living so close to those unhappy memories will be more difficult and frightening than Tory could ever have expected. As she forges a new bond with Cade Lavelle-Hope's older brother and the heir to the family fortune-she isn't sure whether the tragic loss they share will unite them or drive them apart. Now, as she returns to Progress with plans to settle in and open a stylish home-design shop, Tory is determined to find a measure of peace and free herself from the haunting visions of the past. Then Hope was brutally murdered, and everything fell apart. ![]() Her one escape was her neighbor Hope, who lived in the big house just a short skip away, and whose friendship allowed Tory to be something she wasn't allowed to be at home: a child. Tory Bodeen grew up in a run-down house where her father ruled with an iron fist and a leather belt-and where her dreams and talents had no room to flourish. #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents a novel of redemption and suspense, as a woman haunted by the unsolved murder of her childhood friend returns to her small South Carolina hometown. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Every line delivered by the many characters-the two principals, their school chums (Barnes sketches their early lives), their families and many incidentals-rings with import. In this combination psychological novel, detective story and literary thriller, Barnes elegantly dissects early 20th-century English society as he spins this true-life story with subtle and restrained irony. Eventually, Sir Arthur ("Irish by ancestry, Scottish by birth") heard about George's case and began to advocate on his behalf. He was convicted of criminal behavior in a blatant miscarriage of justice based on racial prejudice. In 1903, George, a solicitor, was accused of writing obscene, threatening letters to his own family and of mutilating cattle in his farm community. Edalji was the son of a Parsi father (who was a Shropshire vicar), and a Scots mother. Arthur is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, physician, sportsman, gentleman par excellence and the inventor of Sherlock Holmes George is George Edalji, also a real, if less well-known person, whose path crossed not quite fatefully with the famous author's. ![]() ![]() In a more typical feminist retelling, the house would be akin to a prison, where the women are trapped in domesticity because they do not conform to societal expectations. But the women do have tenuous ties to the community: Merricat regularly ventures into town to buy food and books (although she spends a considerable portion of that time wishing all the villagers dead), and visitors occasionally stop by the house. ![]() We Have Always Lived in the Castle follows two sisters, Merricat and Constance Blackwood, who already have a somewhat “witchy” reputation at the beginning of the book: most of their entire family died of poisoning a year before, and the women spend most of their time locked in their house with their uncle, away from the villagers who ostracize and despise them. But where most feminist retellings complicate familiar stories, Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle takes an inverted approach: the novel starts with relatable (if spooky) characters, and then tracks their transformation into the “neighborhood witch” archetype. From Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties to Madeline Miller’s Circe, prominent women writers have recently been reworking problematic feminine archetypes from male-centric myths. ![]() ![]() ![]() To find happiness they will have to overcome the grief and shame keeping them apart. One cryptic letter changed everything between them. The house seems determined to keep its secrets.Īs they struggle to piece together the clues, Charity and Piers also endeavor to rebuild their friendship. The more they learn, the more desperate the situation becomes. Together they launch an investigation that leads to strange nightly meetings in the ruins of an old abbey and disturbing whispers of a secret organization. When his sister presumably elopes with a stable hand, Piers joins forces with an unlikely partner-the one woman he thought he’d never see again. Her only hope is the man who broke her heart.īranded a coward, Piers Cavanaugh has lived the last five years as an outcast far from his family home. When her friend, Seline, disappears the very night of her arrival, Charity is determined to uncover the truth. Instead of the healing and happiness she hopes to find, she encounters a darkness lurking in the shadows of the once-familiar house. No longer a young girl, she is now haunted by a painful secret and the demise of her dreams. DescriptionA story of second chances and secrets, this mysterious Regency romance will transport you to 19th-century England as one young lady reunites with her childhood love to find his missing sister.Īfter five years abroad, Charity Halliwell finally returns to Loxby Manor, the home of dear friends-and her lost love. ![]() ![]() As the three of them take her under their wing, teach her to work and survive in the remote woods far away from the rest of the world, she slowly finds her place among them. Sent to live with him and his two sons, Noah and Kaleb, in the mountains of Colorado, Tiernan soon learns that these men now have a say in what she chooses to care and not care about anymore. But has anything really changed? She's always been alone, hasn't she?Jake Van der Berg, her father's stepbrother and her only living relative, assumes guardianship of Tiernan who is still two months shy of eighteen. And when they suddenly pass away, she knows she should be devastated. The shadow of her parents' fame followed her everywhere. ![]() Shipped off to boarding schools from an early age, it was still impossible to escape the loneliness and carve out a life of her own. The only child of a film producer and his starlet wife, she's grown up with wealth and privilege but not love or guidance. Let the hot, winter nights ensue.Tiernan de Haas doesn't care about anything anymore. ![]() From New York Times bestselling author, Penelope Douglas, comes a new standalone Three of them, one of her, and a remote cabin in the woods. ![]() ![]() ![]() He begs for mercy and she agrees to be lenient, allowing him to take all the rapunzel he wants on condition that the baby be given to her when it's born. As he scales the wall to return home, the sorceress catches him and accuses him of theft. ![]() ![]() When he returns, she makes a salad out of it and eats it, but she longs for more so her husband returns to the garden to retrieve some more. Her husband fears for her life and one night he breaks into the garden to get some for her. She refuses to eat anything else and begins to waste away. The wife, experiencing pregnancy cravings, longs for the rapunzel that she sees growing in the garden (rapunzel is either the root vegetable Campanula rapunculus, or the salad green Valerianella locusta). Illustration by Paul Hey, created around 1910Ī lonely couple, who long for a child, live next to a large, extensive, high-walled subsistence garden, belonging to a sorceress. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The only problem was that I wanted more! Honestly, if Elle Kennedy gave us a book like this every few years so we could check in on these guys, I would be infinitely happy. The dynamic between the friends are just as awesome (those group chats are gold!) as the more intimate and emotional moments between each of the couples, and this book is everything that I wanted to see for these characters. This is a collection of four novellas featuring Logan & Grace, Deal & Allie, Tucker & Sabrina, and Garret & Hannah in all of their hilarious, foul-mouthed, sexy glory, and I loved this opportunity to check in with them all.Įngagement, marriage, honeymoon and pregnancy, it’s all happening – albeit with some unique twists – and the entire crew are on board to help each other through. ![]() Now they’re all grown up and living adult lives (sort of), and this is a wonderful opportunity to check in with these incredible couples as they tackle big life changes. The Off-Campus series is one of my all-time fave NA series, and I fell in mad love with each of these boys, and their feisty girls. ![]() ![]() ![]() This talent is also brilliantly demonstrated in Kant e l'ornitorinco (1998), Eco's latest thoughts on linguistic and semiotic notions first presented in A Theory of Semiotics (1976) and Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language (1984). ![]() Once again we see the master of docere et delectare who can tackle linguistic and philosophical issues exploiting historical and scientific data combined with literary and fictional stories and anecdotes. Nevertheless, even for dedicated Eco readers these casual essays on the origin of language and on the search for the perfect language (see Eco's Search for a Perfect Language, 1993) remain informative, instructive, and entertaining. Most of the content of the five chapters that make up Serendipities ("The Force of Falsity," "Language in Paradise," "From Marco Polo to Leibniz," "The Language of the Austral Land," and "The Linguistics of Joseph De Maistre") have appeared, at least in part, in some of Eco's previous writings, including in his encyclopedic fictions. For Umberto Eco's faithful readers, this relatively short book may not be a surprise. ![]() ![]() Hester earns her money by doing stitchwork for local dignitaries, but she often spends her time helping the poor and sick. She and Pearl live there in relative solitude. Hester moves into a cottage bordering the woods. ![]() Chillingworth then forces her to promise never to reveal his true identity as her cuckolded husband. He tells her that he will find out who the man was, and he will read the truth on the man's heart. In the crowd Hester recognizes her husband from Amsterdam, Roger Chillingworth.Ĭhillingworth visits Hester after she is returned to the prison. On the scaffold she is asked to reveal the name of Pearl's father, but she refuses. Hester carries Pearl, her daughter, with her. She has stitched a large scarlet A onto her dress with gold thread, giving the letter an air of elegance. Hester is forced to wear the letter A on her gown at all times. ![]() ![]() Hester is being led to the scaffold, where she is to be publicly shamed for having committed adultery. ![]() ![]() ![]() I cut up the book covers into smaller pieces subtracting the text, put all these smaller images in one folder on my computer, and I input this content into Photoshop's Photomerge algorithm. I used content from 100+ different books chopped up as input for this project. Each plate also features a Popular Highlight from a romance novel on Kindle. ![]() I print these landscapes on porcelain commemorative plates. Because the covers are so similar, the algorithm often finds areas that it believes should overlap. After scanning all of the covers, I apply Photoshop's Photomerge feature (originally intended to stitch together photos to make panoramas) to the images to produce dreamy, hybrid landscapes. For this ongoing series of work, I combine popular algorithms with traditional romance novels. ![]() |