![]() ![]() But it's his budding romance with Annie McCarty that really has tongues-and tails-wagging!Midnight ConfessionsIn Virgin River, holiday kisses don't end with Christmas-there's still the New Year's Eve party at Jack's Bar to attend. When the townsfolk discover a box of adorable puppies under the town's Christmas tree, they call on local vet Nathaniel Jensen for help. Carols are sung, hot chocolate is shared-and this year, a surprise is about to bring two special people together. Each year, the close-knit community gathers in the town square to decorate and light a massive tree. Under the Christmas Tree With snow falling over the redwood forests, secluded Virgin River is the ideal place to spend the holidays. Includes exclusive recipies inspired by the Virgin River characters. Celebrate the holidays with this special edition containing 2 fan-favorite stories from the Virgin River series. ![]() ![]() Shop Barnes & Noble Holidays in Virgin River: Romance Stories for the Holidays by Robyn Carr online at. ![]()
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His father, Rodrigo, deaf from birth, worked as a surgeon-a lowly trade at the time-and the family moved around often in Cervantes youth as his father searched for better prospects. The fourth of seven children, Miguel de Cervantes struggled financially for almost his entire life. After less successful earlier efforts, Cervantes finally achieved literary success in his later years, publishing the first part of Don Quixote in 1605. before he was ransomed and returned home. Captured by the Turks in 1575, Cervantes spent five years in prison. He became a soldier in 1570 and was badly wounded in the Battle of Lepanto. Miguel de Cervantes was born near Madrid in 1547. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now Eugenie is a hot target for every ambitious demon and Otherworldy ne'er-do-well, and the ones who don't want to knock her up want her dead. Hired to find a teenager who has been taken to the Otherworld, Eugenie comes face to face with a startling prophecy-one that uncovers dark secrets about her past and claims that Eugenie's first-born will threaten the future of the world as she knows it. Her most recent case, however, is enough to ruin her appetite. Storm Born-Book OneĮugenie Markham is a powerful shaman who does a brisk trade banishing spirits and fey who cross into the mortal world. No love life to speak of for months, then all at once, every horny creature in the Otherworld wants to get in your pants. ![]() ![]() The Dark Swan series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Richelle Mead is together at last in this complete bundle! Just typical. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wounded and defenseless following her third burning, Angrboda flees Asgard, leaving behind her speared heart. The witch Angrboda is no stranger to burnings at the stake, having survived three of them. Gornichec reimagines Norse mythology in this heartfelt debut about the power of a mother's love. From the most ancient of tales this novel forges a story of love, loss, and hope for the modern age. With help from the fierce huntress Skadi, with whom she shares a growing bond, Angrboda must choose whether she’ll accept the fate that she’s foreseen for her beloved family.or rise to remake their future. ![]() But as Angrboda slowly recovers her prophetic powers, she learns that her blissful life-and possibly all of existence-is in danger. Their union produces three unusual children, each with a secret destiny, who Angrboda is keen to raise at the edge of the world, safely hidden from Odin’s all-seeing eye. There she is found by a man who reveals himself to be Loki, and her initial distrust of him transforms into a deep and abiding love. A punishment from Odin for refusing to provide him with knowledge of the future, the fire leaves Angrboda injured and powerless, and she flees into the farthest reaches of a remote forest. When a banished witch falls in love with the legendary trickster Loki, she risks the wrath of the gods in this moving, subversive national bestselling debut novel that reimagines Norse mythology.Īngrboda’s story begins where most witches' tales end: with a burning. ![]() ![]() ![]() When help arrives, it comes from the last person Etta ever expected - Julian Ironwood, the Grand Master's heir who has long been presumed dead, and whose dangerous alliance with a man from Etta's past could put them both at risk. After losing the one thing that would have allowed her to protect the Timeline, and the one person worth fighting for, Etta wakes up alone in an unknown place and time, exposed to the threat of the two groups who would rather see her dead than succeed. All Etta Spencer wanted was to make her violin debut when she was thrust into a treacherous world where the struggle for power could alter history. Requires Adobe Digital editions 1.7.2 or higher.įrom NYT bestselling author Alexandra Bracken, the sequel to her page-turning historical timeslip novel PASSENGER. Sydney,New South Wales : HarperCollins Publishers, 2017 National edeposit: Available onsite at the National Library of Australia ![]() ![]() National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not only is it politically expedient for Kreon to keep his dead rival’s children alive, it’s necessary-because this is a postapocalyptic scenario: all genes are compromised, and every “viable womb” is precious to the state. Antigone and her siblings are given refuge by Kreon, who overthrew their father’s government. ![]() Bestseller Roth, best known for the YA Divergent series, turns from trilogy sprawl to the confines of novella and expertly meets the demands of the form, offering just enough worldbuilding and keeping a tight focus on her well-drawn characters’ difficult choices. Readers who are tapped out on The Handmaid’s Tale as a parable for the current cultural moment will celebrate this taut, defiant reenvisioning of Sophocles’s Antigone, which brilliantly probes many of the same themes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One of Liu’s pet themes is the idea that not just space exploration, but ‘space migration,’ should be a major concern to all of humanity today, because the planet could well be left uninhabitable by cataclysmic environmental change, either manmade or from nature.īut the path outward from the solar system is fraught with many trials, and technological challenges are just the beginning. Here, the legendary short story is brought to vivid life as a graphic novel, a form to which it adapts well.ĭespite being much shorter than any of his novels, “The Wandering Earth” still achieves the full scope of an epic quest, on perhaps the grandest scale ever envisioned: the whole planet Earth is leaving its home and facing trials, all to get to the next nearest star down the road. “The Wandering Earth” serves as a bridge between the short stories of Liu Cixin, with their technological cores and quick-sketched characters, and the same author’s signature novel series, the Three-Body Problem, with its epic scale, a vast drama in which the fate of planet Earth hangs in the balance. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We might not spend it on things that capitalism has deemed important. And we must actively and continuously choose how we use it. ![]() Odell sees our attention as the most precious-and overdrawn-resource we have. But in this inspiring field guide to dropping out of the attention economy, artist and critic Jenny Odell shows us how we can still win back our lives. In a world where addictive technology is designed to buy and sell our attention, and our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity, it can seem impossible to escape. Porchlight's Personal Development & Human Behavior Book of the Year One of President Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of 2019" "A complex, smart and ambitious book that at first reads like a self-help manual, then blossoms into a wide-ranging political manifesto."-Jonah Engel Bromwich, The New York Times Book Review NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Time - The New Yorker - NPR - GQ - Elle - Vulture - Fortune - Boing Boing - The Irish Times - The New York Public Library - The Brooklyn Public Library Description ** A New York Times Bestseller ** ![]() ![]() ![]() While watching Greta from afar, Pretzel witnessed Greta's accidental fall into a dry water well. ![]() Pretzel was smitten by Greta who lived just across the street and who was unimpressed by Pretzel's length she claimed that she "didn't like long dogs." Despite Pretzel's efforts to woo her with gifts, she continued to snub his affections. His length and physical prowess drew attention and praise from humans and dogs alike, save for one female dachshund named Greta. ![]() Pretzel was so long that he could in fact twist his body into the shape of his namesake. He grew to be the longest dachshund in the world, earning a blue ribbon at a dog show. Though unremarkable at first and virtually indistinguishable from the rest of the litter, Pretzel soon grew to be extraordinarily long, much longer than his brothers and sisters. The story begins with the line, "One morning in May, five little dachshunds were born." Among the five puppies was a male dachshund dubbed Pretzel. Rey and first published by Harper & Brothers. Pretzel is a children's picture book written in 1944 by Margret Rey, illustrated by H.A. ![]() |