![]() Meanwhile, Singapore’s It Girl, Astrid Leong, is shocked to discover that there is a downside to having a newly minted tech billionaire husband. ![]() Here we meet Carlton, a Ferrari-crashing bad boy known for Prince Harry-like antics Colette, a celebrity girlfriend chased by fevered paparazzi and the man Rachel has spent her entire life waiting to meet: her father. Until: a shocking revelation draws Rachel into a world of Shanghai splendor beyond anything she has ever imagined. But Rachel still mourns the fact that her birthfather, a man she never knew, won’t be able to walk her down the aisle. ![]() She has a flawless Asscher-cut diamond from JAR, a wedding dress she loves more than anything found in the salons of Paris, and a fiancé willing to sacrifice his entire inheritance in order to marry her. On the eve of her wedding to Nicholas Young, heir to one of the greatest fortunes in Asia, Rachel should be over the moon. ![]()
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She has no friends, unless you’re counting her meticulously planned daily routine and the two bottles of vodka she drinks at the weekends. By signing up you agree to our terms of use Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine SummaryĮleanor Oliphant is 29 years old, single, and highly intelligent. Thank you for signing up! Keep an eye on your inbox. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unlike the Disney teen flick of the early 00s that we all treasure with Anne Hathaway, there is a touch more romance and a bit more honesty in how much teens speak, and more importantly, swear. Yes, the monarchy is on her dad’s side, she has trouble acclimatizing to the new world she encounters, and she’s still in her teens, but there is something else. I think it is fair to say that Tokyo Ever After is highly inspired by The Princess Diaries, (directly or indirectly) but it is still deeply refreshing. In the latest series from Emiko Jean, we follow the young Izumi Tanaka as she comes to terms with being a Japanese-American and, unbeknownst to her to begin with, the daughter of the Imperial Crown Prince of Japan. I believe I accomplished my mission, as I started the year with three highly suggested books and I somewhat fell in love with one briskly, Tokyo Ever After. After hitting a modest goal I set myself, the aim was to start a momentum that was never inspired in me as a child/teen, those particular books never catching my interest. ![]() Last year, I took a running stab at reading a lot more despite my previously mentioned Dyslexia. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s Rafer who has the map that possibly points the way to the treasure, and he’s not about to let Gabriela find it without him. But this particular job comes with a huge problem attached to it-Gabriela’s ex-husband, Rafer. Inspired by an old family legend, Gabriela sets off for the jungles of Peru in pursuit of the Ring of Solomon and the lost treasure of Lima. But Gabriela’s latest job isn’t for some bamboozled billionaire, it’s for her own family, whose home is going to be wiped off the map if they can’t come up with a lot of money fast. She’s reliable, cool under pressure, and well trained in weapons of all types. ![]() ![]() As a recovery agent, she’s hired by individuals and companies seeking lost treasures, stolen heirlooms, or missing assets of any kind. Lost something? Gabriela Rose knows how to get it back. #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich returns with the launch of a blockbuster new series that blends wild adventure, hugely appealing characters, and pitch-perfect humor, proving once again why she’s “the most popular mystery writer alive” ( The New York Times). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() P, passes out textbooks, Junior realizes that the books are at least thirty years old. On his first day of high school at Wellpinit (the school on the reservation), Junior is particularly excited for geometry class. Rowdy always protects Junior, though, and the two boys share a special bond, telling each other their secrets and dreams. He also loves spending time with his best friend, Rowdy, whose violent temper makes the other kids afraid of him. He loves to draw, and thinks his cartoons pose his best chance of getting off the reservation and out of the poverty that has held his family and his tribe back for generations. As a result, Junior has spent a lot of his time alone, reading or drawing cartoons. This condition gave him a stutter, seizures, and a number of physical differences, such as a large head, that make him a frequent target for bullies on the reservation where he lives. Fourteen-year-old Junior, a Spokane Indian boy, was “born with water on the brain” or hydrocephalus. ![]() ![]() They were thereafter cared for by their maternal aunt and uncle, a locksmith. In August 1865, both children were orphaned when their parents died, possibly from cholera. His sister, Concha, was born a year later. Sorolla was the eldest child born to a tradesman, also named Joaquin Sorolla, and his wife, Concepción Bastida. ![]() Joaquín Sorolla was born on Februin Valencia, Spain. His most typical works are characterized by a dexterous representation of the people and landscape under the bright sunlight of his native land and sunlit water. ![]() Sorolla excelled in the painting of portraits, landscapes, and monumental works of social and historical themes. Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (Spanish: ) (27 February 1863 – 10 August 1923) was a Spanish painter. ![]() ![]() Unable to access Loden’s journals, the narrator writes scene-by-scene descriptions of Loden’s single film, 1970’s Wanda, interspersing these with scenes from her own investigation, which brings her to New York, Connecticut, and “soot-stained” Pennsylvania coal country, where Wanda was shot. ![]() Accordingly, Léger eschews the brief encyclopedia assignment, instead structuring the text like a musical composition in which certain notes sound again and again. ![]() Asked to write a short encyclopedia entry about the American actress and filmmaker Barbara Loden, Léger’s narrator becomes “carried away,” unable to stick to the basic, established facts of Loden’s life, or even to what appears “imperfect, individual, accidental” about her subject. In Léger’s associative, meditative novel, what we can know of one another is whatever we can imagine. ![]() ![]() ![]() and gives them a thoroughly modern twist.they're hot, crazy, and full of feisty women relishing in the carnal delights that come from bedding rakish aristocrats. 'Julia Quinn's Bridgerton books take all of the classic tropes we know and love. ![]() But when Andrew's secrets are revealed, will his declaration of love be enough to capture her heart. ![]() ![]() On the high seas, their war of words soon gives way to an intoxicating passion. Can two wrongs make the most perfect right? Poppy has no idea that Andrew is actually the son of an earl, but when he learns that she is a Bridgerton, he knows he will likely have to wed her to avert a scandal. Despite his reputation as a rascal and reckless privateer, Captain Andrew James Rokesby is stunned to find Poppy tied up and waiting for him in his cabin. Poppy Bridgerton may be fiercely independent and adventurous but even she was not prepared to be kidnapped by pirates from the Dorset coast! He found her at the wrong time. A generation before the Bridgertons, there were the Rokesbys. Go back to where it all began with the third book in Sunday Times bestselling author Julia Quinn's dazzlingly witty Bridgerton prequel series, featuring the ancestors of the Bridgerton characters we all know and love. ![]() ![]() “There’s always been to me something kind of horrific about that. “ The Bunnies are so hyper-feminine,” Awad tells me over an appropriately quaint miniature cortado. The novel is set at a fictional, idyllic college campus in New England among a particular group of well-coiffed MFA writing students who nibble on mini cupcakes and call one another “Bunny.” Following the cardinal logic of a teen movie à la Heathers, a cynical outsider, Samantha, is drawn by magnetic force to the allure of the Bunnies, gradually ensorcelled by their “creative workshops,” in which they transform real, live bunnies into real, live men-complete with brooding, blue-eyed gazes and Proust. ![]() In Mona Awad’s new novel, Bunny (out today from Penguin) the figure embodies all of that, blown up-literally-and melded into male fantasy. ![]() The bunny is perhaps the singular most versatile mammalian image in modern culture: one of innocence, one of sex, one of lateness, one of sheer horror. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This “transgressive, provocative, and brilliant” (Roxane Gay) collection cements McMillan Cottom’s position as a public thinker capable of shedding new light on what the “personal essay” can do. Thick “transforms narrative moments into analyses of whiteness, black misogyny, and status-signaling as means of survival for black women” ( Los Angeles Review of Books) with “writing that is as deft as it is amusing” (Darnell L. In eight highly praised treatises on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom-award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed-is unapologetically “thick”: deemed “thick where I should have been thin, more where I should have been less,” McMillan Cottom refuses to shy away from blending the personal with the political, from bringing her full self and voice to the fore of her analytical work. ![]() |