6/10/2023 0 Comments Lost names by richard e kimin writing, 1960) at the University of Iowa's Writers Workshop (M.F.A. He was educated at Middlebury College in Vermont, where he studied political science and history, 1955–59 at Johns Hopkins University (M.A. After serving in the Republic of Korea Marine Corps and Army, 1950–54, he was honorably discharged as first lieutenant of the Infantry in 1954 and came to the United States in 1955. His childhood consisted of living during the tail end of the Japanese occupation. He was raised first in Korea, then Manchukuo, and then Korea again. citizen, was born in 1932 in Hamhung, South Hamgyong, a city in what is now North Korea. His most popular work is Lost Names, a fictional work based on his experience during the Japanese colonization of Korea. He was a Guggenheim Fellow (1966) and was a recipient of a Fulbright grant. He was the author of The Martyred (1964), The Innocent (1968), and Lost Names (1970), and many other works. Richard Eun Kook Kim (1932–2009) was a Korean–American writer and professor of literature.
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She lives outside of Atlanta, Georgia with her daughter, Olivia, her two rescue dogs named for Disney Princesses, Belle & Elsa, an out-numbered cat, Harry Potter, and one Betta fish. What happens next is a sexy game of cat and mouse to see who will break first. About Katie Ashley is a New York Times, USA Today, and Amazon Top Five Best-Selling author of both Indie and Traditionally published books. She only wants a physical relationship while he wants far more. When Megan is assigned to work in his ER to complete her nursing clinicals, he sees it as fate, but she's having no part of it. There's something about the diminutive blonde that causes his protective side to go into overdrive. Forced to leave Pesh's house through a walk of shame, Megan hopes to never, ever see him again.įor Pesh Nadeen, the very sight of Megan sends him into an emotional tailspin. But after drinking too much, the night doesn't end the way she thought it would. At her godson's baptism, she finds the perfect candidate in the soft-spoken godfather, Pesh Nadeen. The Proposition Series Novellas: The Party and Predicament by Katie Ashley Paperback 7. Most of all, she enjoyed a healthy sex life with her husband, Nate. She much preferred parties with Patron to Pampers and pacifiers. Although she's not ready to complicate her life with a long-term relationship, a nice no-strings-attached hook-up is just what she needs. The Predicament Show full title By Katie Ashley 4 / 5 ( 10 ratings ) About this ebook Unlike her best friend Emma Fitzgerald, Casey Rossi had never been overly maternal. Megan McKenzie has spent the last eighteen months focused solely on her son, Mason, along with finishing nursing school at the top of her class. 6/10/2023 0 Comments Kelly oram being jamie bakerAll she wants is to be normal and act normal, but nothing about what happened to her is normal. Now she lives a life in a new town, dying her hair almost daily to cover up it’s new neon color, wearing contacts to cover the scary eyes that she now has, and keeping to herself by maintaining an “Ice Queen” reputation at her new high school. Jamie Baker was a normal teen girl before an accident that should have killed her left her instead with superpowers. Being Jamie Baker falls in the realm of science fiction (which I make no secret of loving), YA and a little romance. Until this book, the only stories by Kelly Oram I had read were all contemporary romance, both YA and some cleanish new adult. This author has a way of writing a story that I immediately fall in love with. Have you ever read a book that just left you smiling at the end? Or a book that you had a goofy grin the entire time reading it? Yeah, that’s pretty much every Kelly Oram book for me. Prior to his career in comic books, Ostrander studied theology with the intent of becoming a Catholic priest, but now describes himself as an agnostic. First Comics ceased publication in 1991, by which time Ostrander was already doing work for other comics companies (his first scripts for DC Comics were published in 1986). He is co-creator of the character Grimjack with Timothy Truman, who originally appeared in a back up story in the First Comics title, Starslayer, before going on to appear in his own book, again published by First Comics in the mid 1980s. His first published works were stories about the character "Sargon, Mistress of War", who appeared the First Comics series Warp!, based on a series of plays by that same Chicago theatre company. Originally an actor in a Chicago theatre company, Ostrander moved into writing comics in 1983. He is best known for his work on Suicide Squad, Grimjack and Star Wars: Legacy, series he helped create. John Ostrander is an American writer of comic books. 6/9/2023 0 Comments Sunburn a novelIs their love strong enough to withstand the truth, or will it ultimately destroy them? Was it an accident, or part of a plan? By now, Adam and Polly are so ensnared in each other’s lives and lies that neither one knows how to get away-or even if they want to. Still, each holds something back from the other-dangerous, even lethal, secrets. Over the course of a punishing summer, Polly and Adam abandon themselves to a steamy, inexorable affair. Yet she stays and he stays-drawn to this mysterious redhead whose quiet stillness both unnerves and excites him. They meet at a local tavern in the small town of Belleville, Delaware. But instead of rules, this game has dark secrets, forbidden desires, inevitable betrayals-and cold-blooded murder. New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman returns with a superb novel of psychological suspense about a pair of lovers with the best intentions and the worst luck: two people locked in a passionate yet uncompromising game of cat and mouse. Read it." -Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl She is simply a brilliant novelist, an unflinching chronicler of life in America right now, and Sunburn is her dark, gleaming noir gem. "Every time Laura Lippman comes out with a new book, I get chills because I know I am back in the hands of the master. Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2018 by Bustle, Popsugar, Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, Seattle Times, Book Riot, LitHub, BookPage, and Paperback Paris. As Baker vividly reports on their alleged crimes-theft, kidnapping, opioid abuse, and even murder-she unerringly conjures tenderness for the accused, yet increasingly questions her own innocence.īaker’s ruthless self–interrogation makes this her personal affidavit-her sworn statement, made for public record if not a court of law. She explores this all–too–human paradox by threading her story through those of her local counterparts who’ve run afoul of the law-like Rob McNally, the lovable junkie who keeps resurfacing in Ryan’s life. Is she any less desperate for her next fix?īaker is in an impossible bind: The same drive that sustains her endangers her family the cure is also the disease. As her reckless baby–making threatens her family’s middle–class existence, Baker identifies more and more with Ryan’s legal clients, often drug–addled fellow citizens of Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Over the next eight years, her “oxy” cravings, and her family, only grow-to the dismay of her husband, Ryan, a freelance public defender. With the birth of her first child, soon-to-be professor Laura Jean Baker finds herself electrified by oxytocin, the “love hormone”-the first effective antidote to her lifelong depression. This is a warmly intimate yet intellectually provocative personal document of originality and considerable charm.” “Laura Jean Baker has written a beautiful and brave memoir of motherhood and its discontents, which are indistinguishable from its joys. 6/9/2023 0 Comments Carpenter tolkien biographyHe did not travel widely, apart from the war he avoided from getting involved in any major political or national events, and he was at his happiest in a pub or friend's drawing room, drawn into an engrossing conversation about religion, myth, art or literature. Tolkien, by his own admission, was a conservative figure. Carpenter has an interesting task here because, although Tolkien's life was certainly not free of tragedy and incident, it was also arguably not wall-to-wall action. Other biographies have followed, but they either draw so much on Carpenter that you might as well just read the original, or they are more interested in stirring up controversy which doesn't really exist.Ĭarpenter divides his book into sections, focusing on Tolkien's traumatic childhood and the development of his early interesting in languages, then his even more traumatic life as a young man, fighting in the trenches of the Somme and trying to win the heart of a (slightly) older woman, and then his life as an academic and teacher, during which time he began writing The Silmarillion and, later The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. Originally published in 1976, Humphrey Carpenter's painstaking biography remains the definitive account of his life. 6/9/2023 0 Comments Blackbird house bookInside Blackbird House more than a dozen men and women learn how love transforms us and how it is the one lasting element in our lives. These interconnected narratives are as intelligent as they are haunting, as luminous as they are unusual. From the time of the British occupation of Massachusetts to our own modern world, family after family’s lives are inexorably changed, not only by the people they love but by the lives they lead inside Blackbird House. This small farm on the outer reaches of Cape Cod is a place that is as bewitching and alive as the characters we meet: Violet, a brilliant girl who is in love with books and with a man destined to betray her Lysander Wynn, attacked by a halibut as big as a horse, certain that his life is ruined until a boarder wearing red bootsĪrrives to change everything Maya Cooper, who does not understand the true meaning of the love between her mother and father until it is nearly too late. In a rare and gorgeous departure, beloved novelist Alice Hoffman weaves a web of tales, all set in Blackbird House. With “incantatory prose” that “sweeps over the reader like a dream,” ( Philadelphia Inquirer), Hoffman follows her celebrated bestseller The Probable Future, with an evocative work that traces the lives of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over a span of two hundred years. Her messages are well received by majority audiences in conferences, retreats not forgetting the churches she has presented. Besides writing, Virginia Smith is also an avid reader and an active inspirational speaker frequently presenting at schools and conferences. Since getting to the field, she has compiled several novels which have ended up as finalists in many international awards. Before venturing into full-time writing, Virginia Smith was a corporate director. She has authored thirty-one novels, several children books, articles and other numerous short stories. Virginia Smith is comparatively the best Christian, fiction, and contemporary author. The Hound and the Fury (By:Sandra Orchard) Humble Pies and White Lies (By:Elizabeth Penney) Phillips)Ī Silent Betrayal (By:Rachael O. Secrets of the Amish Diary (By:Rachael O. But before he can return to Cornwall with his bride, Ambrose is dead and Philip is left to wonder whether his cousin’s letters are the ravings of a man afflicted by a brain tumour or the desperate plea of a husband whose wife has poisoned him. Having travelled to Italy to combat ill health, Ambrose falls in love and marries the bewitching widow Rachel. “She has done for me at last, Rachel my torment.” The last words of Ambrose Ashley, cousin and much-loved guardian of protagonist Philip, are at the heart of the compelling mystery of Daphne du Maurier’s 1951 bestseller, My Cousin Rachel. |