While the opportunity is a dream-come-true, Ellice just can't shake the feeling that something is off. But instead of grieving this tragedy, people are gossiping, the police are getting suspicious, and Ellice, the company's lone black attorney, is promoted to replace Michael. She can't be thrust into the spotlight-again. Why? Ellice has been keeping a cache of dark secrets, including a small-town past and a kid brother who's spent time on the other side of the law. And then she walks away like nothing has happened. and finds him dead with a gunshot to his head. But everything changes one cold January morning when Ellice goes to meet Michael. Ellice Littlejohn seemingly has it all: an Ivy League law degree, a well-paying job as a corporate attorney in midtown Atlanta, great friends, and a "for fun" relationship with a rich, charming executive-her white boss, Michael. Every lie you tell, every secret you keep, is a fragile little thing that must be protected and accounted for. A debut perfect for fans of Attica Locke, Alyssa Cole, Harlan Coben, and Celeste Ng, with shades of How to Get Away with Murder and John Grisham's The Firm. Morris crafts a twisty mystery about a black lawyer who gets in over her head after the sudden death of her boss.
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It’s a lot more than a prince/pirate love story, and I’ll leave at that because I think it might be spoilery if I elaborate. I was expecting a historical romance but the fantasy was a nice surprise. This was really sweet! It’s a gay high fantasy romance story. Tal must escape if he hopes to save his family and the kingdom. But before they can pursue anything further, Tal is kidnapped by pirates and held ransom in a plot to reveal his rumored powers and instigate a war. That is, until Tal runs into Athlen days later on dry land, very much alive, and as charming-and secretive-as ever. So when Athlen leaps overboard and disappears, Tal feels responsible and heartbroken, knowing Athlen could not have survived in the open ocean. Tasked with watching over the prisoner, Tal is surprised to feel an intense connection with the roguish Athlen. His first taste of adventure comes just two days into the journey, when their crew discovers a mysterious prisoner on a burning derelict vessel. After spending most of his life cloistered behind palace walls as he learns to keep his forbidden magic secret, he can finally see his family’s kingdom for the first time. Prince Tal has long awaited his coming-of-age tour. A young prince must rely on a mysterious stranger to save him when he is kidnapped during his coming-of-age tour in this swoony adventure that is The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue meets Pirates of the Caribbean. If you interact with your customers via comments, that’s social media marketing. If your business comes out with a new item and you plan to promote the launch on social media, that’s social media marketing. Social media marketing means using social media platforms like Instagram, Twitter and Facebook to promote your brand and sell your product or service. Whether you’re totally new to social or want to double-check your priorities in 2023, this guide has you covered. That’s why we put together a comprehensive guide to creating a social media marketing plan from scratch. In a landscape with more competition, content and networks than ever, a succinct strategy gives you the focus needed to say “no” to efforts that don’t serve your goals. Looking to fine-tune your social media marketing strategy? Good! Now’s the perfect time to make it happen. The darkness in this book is that of fairy tales, owing more to Grimm's matter-of-fact violence than to the underworld of the first book forest-dwelling giants, magic cottages with perpetually burning fires, and magical sacrifices to sustain immortality take the place of sex trafficking and rampant murder. Alice's ongoing struggle is to distinguish reality from illusion, and Henry excels in mingling the two for the reader as well as her characters. When Alice and Hatcher are separated, Alice must rediscover her own identity among the choices and challenges that face her and the past that continually tries to draw her back into madness. Their dangerous journey takes them through the exposed wastes of the Black King, and into the magic forest of the White Queen, where breaking the rules means death but the rules are always unknown. Henry's sequel to Alice, a retelling of Through the Looking Glass, leaves the City behind as Alice and her companion, Hatcher, begin a quest to find Hatcher's daughter, Jenny. This item: Christina Henry Chronicles of Alice 5 Books Collection Set - Lost Boy, Red Queen, The Mermaid, Alice, Girl in Red by Christina Henry Paperback 52. The reason for my 3.5 is how the story ended. I find her really hilarious when she does that. Whenever she screams, and I anticipate it a lot, I would also let out a loud guffaw. I also find it really funny especially during the first parts when Avery would scream whenever she’s frustrated. I find the writing very fluid and easy to read. Of course, there is a sort of cheesy romance but that didn’t bother me at all. I even got more riveted when a mysterious boy, Tane, enters the story with magic and charms of his own. I am very curious indeed about what Avery could do in order to cheat her own demise. Even though there are no scary, evil villains, I find the main conflict very much disturbing and affecting. All she had was her ability to interpret dreams. She could not summon spells and couldn’t seem to manifest any ability that would make her worthy of being the next Roe Witch. Thus, grandma Roe is revered and feared by the villagers and Avery has always believed and dreamed of a life exactly like that of her grandma’s but a twist in the plot brings her quite far from her lifelong dream. The story opens with our heroine’s narrative of her recollection of her grandmother teaching her powerful witch stuff so I instantly find myself captivated and intrigued.Īvery Roe is the granddaughter of “The Witch”, also called “The Roe Witch”, a woman whose power is always sought by whalers who need luck while they hunt or an avenging wife who wants her husband cursed. Salt and Storm is a 19th century fantasy standalone set in a small town along Mississippi. To confess why Carys disappeared…įrances is going to need every bit of courage she has.Įngaging with themes of identity, diversity and the freedom to choose, Radio Silence is a tor de force by the most exciting writer of her generation. Now Frances knows that she has to confront her past. So when the fragile trust between them is broken, Frances is caught between who she was and who she longs to be. Then Frances meets Aled, and for the first time she's unafraid to be herself. Nothing will stand in her way not friends, not a guilty secret – not even the person she is on the inside. What if everything you set yourself up to be was wrong?įrances has been a study machine with one goal. Her novels are always about saving someone and rarely about romantic love. If there is anything I’ve gathered from reading every Alice Oseman novel to date, it is that she writes from a point of passion. Last Train to Memphis takes us deep inside Elvis' life, exploring his lifelong passion for music of every sort (from blues and gospel to Bing Crosby and Mario Lanza), his compelling affection for his family, and his intimate relationships with girlfriends, mentors, band members, professional associates, and friends. The book closes on that somber and poignant note. There was scarcely a cloud in sight through this period until, in 1958, he was drafted into the army an his mother died shortly thereafter. These were the years of his improbable self-invention and unprecedented triumphs, when it seemed that everything that Elvis tried succeeded wildly. This volume tracks the first twenty-four years of Elvis' life, covering his childhood, the stunning first recordings at Sun Records ("That's All Right, " "Mystery Train"), and the early RCA hits ("Heartbreak Hotel, " "Hound Dog, " "Don't Be Cruel"). Based on hundreds of interviews and nearly a decade of research, it traces the evolution not just of the man but of the music and of the culture he left utterly transformed, creating a completely fresh portrait of Elvis and his world. Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley is the first biography to go past that myth and present an Elvis beyond the legend. From the moment that he first shook up the world in the mid 1950s, Elvis Presley has been one of the most vivid and enduring myths of American culture. Because now she's found religion-or, in this case, Spiritualism, where the congregation and leaders believe they can communicate with the spirits of the dead.Īfter her mom's first visit to Singing Creek, the Spiritualist Church, she comes home acting alive for the first time in weeks. That was almost preferable, though, to what happens when her mother snaps out of her funk and finally leaves the darkened comfort of her bedroom. Although Liz understands that her mother and Bunny had a special bond, were more like sisters, in fact, than mother and daughter, Liz doesn't understand the extreme depression. For weeks her mom wouldn't get out of bed, wouldn't eat dinner with Liz and her father, wouldn't even brush her hair. It's even worse now that her mother seems to have gone crazy. It was bad enough when fifteen-year-old Liz Scattergood's grandmother, Bunny, died. "I loved it! But in the end we all agreed that the girl looked sort of like a very pretty alien and that her alien-esque-ness made it seem like the book is sci-fi (which it isn't). "Eventually we settled on the title Wherever Nina Lies and the Scholastic art department made this cover mock-up: (A quick search on Amazon, however, revealed that Hush is already of a whole bunch of other stuff including another book, a Gwyneth Paltrow movie and a series of Batman comics). At that point my book didn't yet have a title, so for about ten minutes I was thinking we could call the book Hush to match the picture. "My editor passed it on to her art department, and they liked it too. She reminds me a little bit of the princess in The Neverending Story. "I love the pose and the girl's crazy-looking eyeballs. This was the one my editor liked the best: I found a few photos I thought were cool and I sent them along to my editor. Yay!"One day I needed a writing break but wanted to feel like I was being productive, so I decided to browse through some stock photo websites to look for some cover ideas, just for fun. One of the Win-it Wednesday authors is here this week! Lynn Weingarten is sharing her cover story. Music CareerĪfter working briefly for Xavier Cugat in New York, Arnaz returned to Miami to lead a combo of his own and introduce the Conga Line to American audiences. After working a number of odd jobs to help support the family, Desi got his first musician's gig as a guitarist for the Siboney Septet. Born to a wealthy family, the Arnazes fled Cuba for Miami after a revolution in 1933. Early LifeĪctor and musician Desiderio Alberto Arnaz III was born on March 2, 1917, in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. In 1949, Arnaz developed the hit television series I Love Lucy, which ran for six years. Early success led to him being offered a role in the 1939 Broadway musical Too Many Girls, and he later starred in the film version, where he met his future wife, Lucille Ball. Desi Arnaz fled Cuba to the United States with his family in 1933. |