(Bowker Author Biography) - biography from Say You Love Me … ( more) In 2014 her title, Stormy Persuasion, made The New York Times Best Seller List Johanna Lindsey passed away on Octoat the age of 67. She has loyal fans reading "Glorious Angel" and "Gentle Rogue" and legions of devotees buying her Malory family series. Lindsey has something of a cult following, following such titles as "Heart of Thunder", "Hearts Aflame", "A Heart So Wild", and ''Keeper of the Heart". Take any setting past or present, introduce a rascally rakish male and a romantic heroine, let their hearts ignite with passion, lust, and love. Lindsey had found a romance formula that worked. To the young author's great surprise, it made The New York Times Bestsellers list. As a young wife and mother, Lindsey became a great fan of romance novels and wrote her first book, Captive Bride in 1977, on a whim when she was 25. Lindsey was born with the name Johanna Helen Howard on March 10, 1952. She has written over 30 books, of which 54 million copies are in print and have been translated into 12 languages. Johanna Lindsey was one of the world's most successful romance authors.
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In a world divided by class, filled with uncertainty and death, can their hope for love survive. Fearful for her life, he’s determined to keep her safe, even if it means breaking her heart. Lily is the most beautiful - and forbidden - woman Robbie has ever known. She doesn’t care that Robbie grew up in poverty - she yearns for their friendly affection to become something more. The handsome Scottish surgeon has always encouraged Lilly’s dreams. Morrow, 14.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-227345-1 Robson’s first novel examines the dynamic between love and duty in the midst of historical tragedy. Defying her parents, she moves to London and eventually becomes an ambulance driver in the newly formed Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps - an exciting and treacherous job that takes her close to the Western Front.Īssigned to a field hospital in France, Lilly is reunited with Robert Fraser, her dear brother Edward’s best friend. When war breaks out, the spirited young woman seizes her chance for independence. But in 1914, the stifling restrictions of aristocratic British society and her mother’s rigid expectations forbid Lilly from following her heart. Lady Elizabeth Neville-Ashford wants to travel the world, pursue a career, and marry for love. A daring young woman will risk her life to find her destiny in this atmospheric, beautifully drawn historical debut novel - a tale of love, hope, and danger set during the First World War. 5/22/2023 0 Comments Collusion by Eden WintersHow can they tell who the villains are? The bad guys don't wear black hats, but they might wear white coats. When a prescription drug shortage jeopardizes the patients at Rosario Children's Cancer Center, it not only pits Bo and Lucky against predatory opportunists, but also each other. Undercover with his hard-headed partner, Bo learns that not everything is as it seems in the world of pharmaceuticals. Using his pharmacy license for the good guys provides the sort of education he never got in school. You will know Eden Winters by her distinctive white plumage and exuberant cry of Hey. While fighting PTSD, memories of a horrid childhood, and a prescription drug addiction, Bo is paying for his mistakes. Bo's nice to have around, sure, but there's none of that picking-out-china-together crap for Lucky. It's hard to tell when Lucky doesn't understand relationships or have a clue what any sane human is doing in his bed. The newbie he trained, former Marine Bo Schollenberger, is now his partner on (and maybe off) the job. Former drug trafficker Richmond "Lucky" Lucklighter "died" in the line of duty while working off a ten-year sentence in service to the Southeastern Narcotics Bureau, only to be reborn as Simon "Lucky" Harrison. In 100 clear and concise recipes that build on the successful formula of their bestselling series, Holiday and Celebration Bread will adapt their ingenious approach for high-moisture stored dough to a collection of breads from the four corners of the globe. All were too time-consuming and painstaking to make at home-until now. All the old standbys are here, plus delicious examples from around the world. The book is chock-full of fragrant, yeasted treats made for celebrations and special occasions. Now, they've done it again with Holiday and Celebration Bread in Five Minutes a Day, a cookbook with savory, sweet, healthy, and decadent recipes for every occasion.Įvery culture has its great bread traditions for holidays and celebrations-traditional Christmas loaves from Ukraine, Greece, Germany, Italy and Scandinavia celebration breads from France and Israel Easter breads from the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Austria to name a few. Zoë François and Jeff Hertzberg shocked the baking world when they proved that homemade yeast dough could be stored in the refrigerator to use whenever you need it. From the authors of the Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day series comes a holiday and celebration cookbook that uses the same groundbreaking quick and easy baking method. While Bouvier was attributed by his mother, since it was the last name he had before marrying. JFK's grandfather and great-grandfather were named Patrick and the president's son followed the tradition. He was in the White House when Jackie was taken for the cesarean section and immediately contacted a priest who baptized the child aware of the seriousness of the situation. Kennedy was the one who chose the name of his last son. This is a condition that affects the lungs of newborns, especially when they are premature. Jackie Kennedy had her son through a caesarean section that was performed emergency by the local doctors.įrom the beginning Patrick had respiratory problems, today known as hyaline membrane disease. She was born at 34 weeks of gestation at the hospital located within the Otis Air Force Base of the United States, a place that was closed in 1973. The birth of Patrick Bouvier was anything but simple. He was the second son of the couple and the second of the children born during Kennedy's presidential term. Kennedy, president and first lady of the United States at the time. On August 7, 1963, Jacqueline Lee Kennedy Onassis' fourth child was born with John F. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Sin Eater by Megan CampisiThis Welsh custom’s particulars are elusive. The folklore of sin eaters was the whispered inspiration for my debut novel, The Sin Eater. The story changes a bit with each telling – meaning shifts, sometimes becoming shrouded or lost – until the story is a delicious tangle of history, invention, and magic. This is what folklore is to me: A game of telephone in which pieces of cultural history are whispered across time from generation to generation. It was enough, young as we were, to make us laugh with joy and wonder at the magical transformation we had wrought on something as simple as words. The phrase was always ridiculously transformed. That girl would whisper what she heard to the next girl, and on around the circle until the final girl would triumphantly announce what she heard to the group. It began with one girl whispering a phrase to the girl next to her. As children, my friends and I would sit in a circle and play a game called telephone. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Betrayal by The Boston GlobeThe rectory groundskeeper was Leary’s friend, and Leary helped out a couple times a week, raking freshly mowed grass or gathering hedge clippings in a wheelbarrow. He was like a little imp." Leary said hello to the priest, received his friendly tap across the shoulder blades, and didn’t focus on Geoghan again until the summer. "He always had a big grin-it was as wide as his face," Leary recalled. After Mass, the parish priest would hug the mothers, shake hands with the fathers, and deliver soft pats to the backs of the children. Andrew’s Church in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston. The priest’s smiling face was already a fixture at the back of St. The fifth of six children being raised by a single mother on welfare, Leary was thirteen years old and had yet to learn his older brothers’ tricks for ditching Mass on Sunday mornings when he first encountered Geoghan in the late spring of 1974. At first glance, almost no one did.įrank Leary certainly didn’t see it. It was hard to detect the darkness behind John Geoghan’s bright eyes. He was a small, wiry man with a disarming smile that, from a distance, gave him the gentle bearing of a kindly uncle or a friendly neighborhood shopkeeper. 5/21/2023 0 Comments A discovery of witches trilogy“The series has great brand recognition and some of the most loyal fans on earth,” said Laura Tisdel, Harkness’s editor at Viking. The trilogy - “A Discovery of Witches,” “Shadow of Night” and “The Book of Life” - has also spawned a fan wiki, an annual convention attended by hundreds of adults who self-identify as supernatural and a merchandise line that extends to duvet covers. All three of the books in her All Souls trilogy - “‘Twilight’ for the intellectually restless,” as NPR described one of the volumes - as well as her most recent novel, “Time’s Convert,” have landed at the top or second spot on The New York Times Best Sellers list. Harkness’s wine blog may have won awards from Food & Wine and Saveur, but she is better known as a historian of science and medicine at the University of Southern California - and far better known as the author of a series of novels brimming with alchemy and magic, witches and vampires. 2017, if I had to guess.” Not an unusual appraisal from an oenophile who once wrote a blog called “Good Wine Under $20.” But then came a less expected disquisition on the quasi-scientific history of winemaking: “There’s all kinds of lore about alchemists fortifying wines and liquors, boiling them down, evaporating, ending up with something they called the spirit of wine.” On the patio of the Langham Huntington hotel here, on a sunny afternoon tinged with smoke from the recent wildfires in the area, Deborah Harkness swirled a glass of Jules Taylor sauvignon blanc, sniffed and sipped, then pronounced the wine “zingy. Girls Will Be Boys Will Be Girls Will Be: A Coloring Book White main character dads pass for WhiteĬhild lives with two moms who are expecting another babyĪll Black except one supporting White characterĬhild's uncle is marrying male “friend” and they want to have their own childrenĪll White main characters supporting characters of color Nonthreatening, traditional masculine presentation Nonthreatening, traditional feminine presentationĬhild lives with mother and her female “friend”īabyroo has two dads as parents other animal families consist of parent(s) and child(ren) TABLE A1 Children's Books Listed by Author and Evaluated Based on Perpetuation of Gender Normativity, Exclusive Focus on Nuclear Families, and Representations of Race and Class Author 5/21/2023 0 Comments Above All, Honor by RadclyffeIn 2004, she founded Bold Strokes Books, an independent LGBTQ publishing company, and in 2013, she founded the Flax Mill Creek Writers Retreat offering writing workshops to authors in all stages of their careers. James Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist award from the Lambda Literary Foundation. A member of the Saints and Sinners Literary Hall of Fame, she is also an RWA Prism, Lories, Beanpot, Aspen Gold, and Laurel Wreath winner in multiple mainstream romance categories. She is an eight-time Lambda Literary Award finalist in romance, mystery, and erotica-winning in both romance and erotica. She has also edited Best Lesbian Romance 2009 through 2015 as well as multiple other anthologies. Raand, has authored a paranormal romance series, The Midnight Hunters. Radclyffe has written over forty-five romance and romantic intrigue novels, dozens of short stories, and, writing as L.L. |