![]() New Adult novel: recommended for 17+ due to mature themes and sexual content. When Sparks Fly: An Absolutely Addictive Lesbian Romance Novel Audible Audiobook Unabridged Kristen Zimmer (Author), Lynn Norris (Narrator), & 1 more 1,019 ratings Kindle 4.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial The room is dark, except for the streetlights coming through the blinds. Will Avery’s insistence on punishing herself for a mistake in her past make Britton's last year of high school, and finding a place to call home, impossible? Can two such different people ever find common ground, friendship, or maybe even something more?Īn unforgettable new adult lesbian romance for fans of Keeping You a Secret by Julie Anne Peters, Her Name in the Sky by Kelly Quindlen, or Nancy Garden’s classic young adult coming out novel, Annie on My Mind. Something that is eating away at her and stopping her letting anyone in, least of all Britton. She’s all Britton could ever ask for in a sister, or even a friend––but having survived without either for so long, Britton knows the way her heart races whenever Avery enters the room can only mean one thing…īut Avery has a secret. The hitch? Their daughter, Avery.īeautiful, popular and cool, Avery is everything Britton is not. But beginning her senior year with new foster parents in a new city, means starting over yet again. After a lifetime in the care system, she doesn't expect she’ll ever find one. ![]() Then the bedroom door flies open, and someone screams her name…īritton Walsh has never had a home. ![]() I’ve been waiting so long for it to happen, and finally, it’s going to. ![]() She pushes me up against the wall and we kiss harder than we ever have before. The room is dark, except for the streetlights coming through the blinds. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Still, Spencer is a man of mystery, perhaps connected to the shocking murder of the Stud Club’s founder. When Amelia demands that Spencer forgive her scapegrace brother’s debts, she never imagines that her game of wits and words will lead to breathless passion and a steamy proposal. In a moment of desperation, the unconventional beauty claims the duke’s dance and unwittingly steals his heart. But none of the women catch his interest, and nobody ever bests the duke - until Lady Amelia d’Orsay tries her luck. And Spencer has plenty of it, along with an obsession with a prize horse, a dark secret, and, now, a reputation as the dashing “Duke of Midnight.” Each evening he selects one lady for a breathtaking midnight waltz. ![]() I’m not sorry I spent that $5 – even though its far from my favorite romance I read this year.Ī handsome and reclusive horse breeder, Spencer Dumarque, the fourth Duke of Morland, is a member of the exclusive Stud Club, an organization so select it has only ten members - yet membership is attainable to anyone with luck. ![]() Then Audible, those had a sale (I may have overspent with them lately) and Tessa Dare’s One Dance with a Duke was there. A while back narfna mentioned trying romance novels in audio book format and I thought it sounded like an interesting idea. ![]() ![]() ![]() (Including a letter from Gilman about why she wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper") The Yellow Wallpaper and the Story Herland: with 10 Illustrations and Free Online Audio Files. ![]() The Complete Herland Trilogy: Moving the Mountain, Herland, and With Her in Ourland Herland and Related Writings (Broadview Editions) by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (2012) Paperback The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Classic: Herland: (Annotated) With A Study of Themes The Herland Trilogy: Moving the Mountain, Herland, with Her in Ourland The Herland Trilogy: Moving the Mountain, Herland, and With Her in OurlandĬharlotte Perkins Gilman Collection (Volume 1): The Yellow Wallpaper, Herland and The Man-Made World (Feminist Readers)Ĭomplete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman "American feminist, sociologist, and novelist"! 9 Complete Works (The Yellow Wallpaper, Herland, The Man-Made World, The Crux, The Forerunner) (Annotated)Ĭharlotte Perkins Gilman : Herland (illustrated) Herland (Annotated "2017"): Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Herland Trilogy: Moving the Mountain, Herland, With Her in Ourland (Utopian Classic): From the famous American novelist, feminist, social reformer. Herland: By Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Illustrated Sales Rank Publication Date Lowest New Price ![]() ![]() ![]() Actually, the chance not to be the duke for a while is a pleasant opportunity indeed. The housekeeper thinks he’s his own cousin. Andrew Valentine, Duke of Greycliffe, never thought arriving at his own household a week early would cause so much trouble. If only she had a suitable accomplice . . It was the perfect setting in which to plan her lovely bookworm of a sister’s betrothal to the mysterious new duke arriving seven days hence. It’s not as if anyone in Little Huffington was going to happen upon a secluded vale on the Duke of Greycliffe’s lands.Īnd Venus Collingswood didn’t want to get her shift all wet. ![]() ![]() The day was as hot as the pond was inviting. From the author of the bestselling Regency romance trilogy about three brothers comes a novella about how their matchmaking mother found love. ![]() ![]() ![]() But when Sumire finds out Miu cannot feel the same passion, she goes on to discover the strange experience that made Miu numb to physical desire and turned her hair white. Mysterious, successful, and adventurous Miu quickly comes to dominate Sumire’s entire existence. ![]() Sumire sees falling in love with Miu as a revelation that could finally bring her the inspiration she so fiercely seeks. ![]() The story is told from Sumire’s unnamed friend’s perspective, who portrays her as lost and sometimes borderline obsessed with excelling at writing. When she is offered a job by older businesswoman Miu, Sumire falls in love with her, embracing the emotion as the one thing missing from her writing. The book follows young writer-wannabe Sumire, whose life choices feel confused and insufficient. Sputnik Sweetheart tells a love story so subtle and profound it took me two re-reads to fully grasp its meanings. Murakami’s books have always awoken questions, intrigue, and domino-like thought processes in me. Usually, one of the realities is the one we know, while its counterpart is a space where the characters travel through intense emotion. In his novels, Haruki Murakami lays human emotion on the fine line between parallel realities. ![]() ![]() ![]() And the love story that unfolds has a very solid and beautiful HEA (you never quite know with this author).īlurb: He ascended from the darkness years ago-Azrael the Eternal, Azrael the Undying, Azrael Who Is Death-bringing with him the black rains, the fires, the souring of the sky, and the Eaters. The violence didn’t make my stomach turn (don’t fool yourself though, there is horrible torture, but not as horrible as I was expecting). Her books sometimes make me look away in horror, they make me feel extremely uncomfortable, push my boundaries and make me come back for more each time – all because she creates a unique love story that completely fascinates me.ĭare I say, of the three books I’ve read, Land of the Beautiful Dead is the tamest of all. In each book, she gives us a non-human hero and a human heroine, set with extremely complicated circumstances, and gives us a HEA that challenges us, and makes you fall in love all at the same time. Lee Smith books – Last Hour of Gann, Heat and now Land of the Beautiful Dead. “They don’t call this the Land of Beautiful Personalities.” You can find her on Twitter or her Website. ![]() ![]() Mandi is reviewing this with author Lexxi Callahan, who is a lover of romance books and a great person to chat with. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tarrare was a 17th-century man with an insanely bizarre “talent” of having an unsatisfiable appetite for food. While it sounds highly unlikely, it's the best explanation we’ve got so far. Electrical shocks from her defibrillation could have then converted the dimethyl sulfone into dimethyl sulfate, a powerful poisonous gas. Oxygen administered by the doctors could have combined with the dimethyl sulfoxide to form dimethyl sulfone. Independent researchers suggested she had been using dimethyl sulfoxide as a topical homemade pain remedy. ![]() ![]() People initially suspected it could be a case of mass hysteria however, experts have recently developed a slightly more scientific version of events.Ī team of scientists, writing in the journal Forensic Science International in 1997, explain that it could have been a chain of unlikely chemical reactions. To this day, no one is quite sure what happened in "The Toxic Lady” case. Within a matter of hours, 23 of the 37 emergency room staff who had come into contact with her began to faint and suffer muscle spasms, with many having to be hospitalized. ![]() In February 1994, Gloria Ramirez was rushed to a Californian hospital, suffering from the effects of advanced cervical cancer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Was it really possible to meet someone and just know they are the one for you? ![]() But with Jake in the middle of a world tour, they are separated sooner than either of them want to be when he has to leave. It’s funny and a little bit flirty, and they end up spending the majority of the weekend together. ![]() Their first meeting is hilarious, and a wonderful hint of things to come as Casey’s confidence and lack of concern about Jake’s celebrity, combined with her sharp sense of humour and tendency to word-vomit, leads to some epic back and forth that had me laughing and thoroughly enjoying the banter between them. I love these characters, their story had me captivated, and I loved this one!Ĭasey is a happy, confident and funny accounting student who is celebrating the final preparations for her best friend’s wedding She will be a bridesmaid, and is paired up with the groom’s brother, Jake, who just happens to be one of the biggest rockstars in the world. This book has been on my TBR for the longest time, and I’m so happy that I finally dove in! It’s a fantastic rock star romance that starts off as a fun and flirty story and becomes something so much deeper and more emotional. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lindy and Kris's parents ask the two girls to share the dummy. Since some of the neighborhood kids seem to love her ventriloquism, Lindy decides to start using Slappy for children's acts and birthday parties. Lindy uses her dummy to gain popularity, and Kris quickly becomes jealous. While searching through a garbage container near the house, Lindy finds a mysterious ventriloquist's dummy and decides to call him Slappy. ![]() The two girls decide to inspect a house that is under construction. Lindy and Kris Powell are walking through their neighborhood. No way a dummy can be causing all the trouble. Lindy's having a great time learning to make Slappy move and talk.īut Kris is jealous of all the attention her sister is getting. ![]() Slappy is kind of ugly, but he's a lot of fun. Lindy names the ventriloquist's dummy she finds Slappy. 8.1 References in other Goosebumps media. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tabitha dressed Moppet and Mittens in clean pinafores and tuckers and then she took all sorts of elegant uncomfortable clothes out of a chest of drawers, in order to dress up her son Thomas. ![]() ![]() Then she combed their tails and whiskers (this is Tom Kitten). Then she brushed their fur (this one is Mittens). Tabitha Twitchit-expected friends to tea so she fetched the kittens indoors, to wash and dress them, before the fine company arrived.įirst she scrubbed their faces (this one is Moppet). They had dear little fur coats of their own and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.īut one day their mother-Mrs. Once upon a time there were three little kittens, and their names were Mittens, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today! The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser. ![]() |