![]() You can easily find K Webster on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and Goodreads!Ĭan’t find a certain book? Maybe it’s too hot for Amazon! Don’t worry because titles like Bad Bad Bad, This is War, Baby, The Wild, and Hale can all be found for sale on K’s website in both ebook and paperback format. When she’s not writing, she’s reading, drinking copious amounts of coffee, and researching aliens. Skyscraper Cinderella by K Webster is now live Brilliant storytelling packed with a powerful emotional punch, it’s been years since I’ve been so invested in a book. She lives in “”Tornado Alley”” with her husband, two children, and her baby dog named Blue. Her titles have claimed many bestseller tags in numerous categories, are translated in multiple languages, and have been adapted into audiobooks. K Webster is a USA Today Bestselling author. ![]() I fell into it like a dream…a dream I didn’t want to wake up from.” – New York Times bestselling author Annabel Joseph “Extravagant sex, shocking fantasy, and wonderful humor too. I can’t blame him for making me fall in love. He’s never pretended to be anything other than that. ![]() Winston Constantine isn’t a lover, he’s a business venture. This is the complete modern Cinderella trilogy in one collection. “Brilliant storytelling packed with a powerful emotional punch, it’s been years since I’ve been so invested in a book.” – #1 New York Times bestselling author Rachel Van Dyken ![]() K Webster has revealed the cover for Skyscraper Cinderella! Releasing: July 27, 2021 ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Set against the backdrop of New York’s glitter and grit, of ruthless men and the atrocities they commit in the pursuit of power, this enthralling historical novel explores our very human needs for love, retribution-and to pursue one’s destiny, regardless of the cost. Vera is determined to find the truth behind the notorious diamond and its legendary curses-even better when the expose puts her in the same orbit as a magazine publisher whose blackmailing schemes led to the death of her beloved father.Īppealing to a young Russian jeweler, Jacob Asher, for help, Vera is unprepared when she begins falling in love with him…and even more unprepared when she gets caught up in his deceptions and finds herself at risk of losing all she has worked so hard to achieve. Shortly after the world-famous Hope Diamond is acquired for a record sum, Vera begins investigating rumors about schemes by its new owner, jeweler Pierre Cartier, to manipulate its value. But Vera Garland is set on making her mark in a man’s world of serious journalism. A city where the suffrage movement is growing stronger every day, but most women reporters are still delegated to the fashion and lifestyle pages. New York, 1910: A city of extravagant balls in Fifth Avenue mansions and poor immigrants crammed into crumbling Lower East Side tenements. Rose, New York Times bestselling author of Tiffany Blues, “a lush, romantic historical mystery” (Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale), comes a gorgeously wrought novel of ambition and betrayal set in the Gilded Age. ![]() ![]() ![]() This essay examines the ways in which two dominant areas of Ghosh’s experimentation and interest-language and the sea-intersect in Sea of Poppies, through a focus on laskari as a lingua franca of work. ![]() ![]() Laskari is a dialect that was spoken among lascar sailors born of, and borne on, the Indian Ocean. This chapter explores one aspect of that mobility, a language “spoken only on the water,” a roving dialect that Ghosh both painstakingly and playfully recreates in the first novel of the trilogy, Sea of Poppies. His Ibis trilogy, for instance, paints a vivid picture of historical oceanic mobility in the form of ship journeys and littoral interconnections, centered on and in the Indian Ocean world. Amitav Ghosh’s fictional oeuvre makes a major contribution to contemporary sea fiction, particularly that written from a non-Eurocentric perspective. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Heiress to one of New England’s oldest paper companies, Carolyn is the driving force behind the brand. The problem? Beth may not survive his loud, affectionate, athletic family–especially when the very beautiful and earthy woman everybody wanted Sonny to marry is still hanging around the family dinner table. Then she meets Sonny, a rugged, sexy carpenter who sweeps her off her feet. so why does it end up in her mouth?Ī shy and brilliant professor-to-be, Beth has lived a sheltered life. Ever the optimist, Polly puts her best foot forward. Then her son marries Amy, a Birkenstocked gal whose organic farm and family ooze a rather creepy serenity. The Hot Flash Club Strikes Again also introduces four new women, ready for massages and seaweed wraps, each struggling to reconcile her secret dreams, biggest fears, and deepest feelings as topsy-turvy events shake up her life.Īfter eighteen years of trying to make peace with her husband’s cold-as-ice mother, Polly vows to be the perfect mother-in-law: loving, accepting, and determined to keep her mouth shut. ![]() The fabulous women from The Hot Flash Club are back in top form, welcoming the stressed-out and pampering-deprived through their discreet spa doors–as Nancy Thayer returns with a witty, sexy, and heartwarming novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Still a target, the threat against Hope s life intensifies. But for angels and humans alike, things are not always as they appear. In the process, Nikolai falls in love with one of his targets Hope Matheson, a woman who will lead thousands astray.Ĭaught between conflicting agendas, Nikolai chooses to fall from his celestial state and become mortal in order to circumvent angel law and be with her. Immediately, another division recruits him with the promise of a more rewarding career, and issues his initial assignments: To bring down a few very dangerous threats to the human race. Having witnessed one too many senseless deaths, Nikolai, a disillusioned Reaper 3rd Class, resigns his commission with the Angel Forces after a tedious century of gathering souls. HOW FAR MUST AN ANGEL FALL TO FIND HIS DESTINY? ![]() ![]() The hybrids: the fruits of the Doctor’s labor, destined to blindly obey their creator and remain in the shadows. Moreau with his scientific experiments, which are financed by the Lizaldes, owners of magnificent haciendas and plentiful coffers. Montgomery Laughton: a melancholic overseer with a tragic past and a propensity for alcohol. ![]() The only daughter of either a genius, or a madman. A lavish historical drama reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico.Ĭarlota Moreau: a young woman, growing up in a distant and luxuriant estate, safe from the conflict and strife of the Yucatán peninsula. ![]() ![]() ![]() I absolutely fell in love with them and their dynamic. Firstly, Fabiola’s cousins are realistic, flawed and funny in equal measure. I believe the author knows each character’s backstory and detailed motivations for their actions. GOOD BITS: Every character in this novel is well rounded. All together this melting pot makes for a must-read book. The subject matter is heart wrenching yet there’s dashes of humour. Yet it’s refreshingly original with a completely distinct voice blending Haitian and American culture, creating a lyrical edge. It’s classic YA with its teenage protagonist learning to navigate a new school in a new country, building friendships and falling in love. RATING: A beautiful coming of age story, this novel gets four and a half stars. ![]() ![]() Just as she finds her footing, she is given a chance to free her mother but it comes at the expense of her cousins, their friends, and her budding love interest. Fabiola tries to cling onto her Haitian culture through voudou rituals whilst getting to grips with the gritty realism of being young, black and poor in the West Side of Detroit. After her mother is stopped at the airport, Fabiola lives with her cousins in Detroit while trying to get her mum released from an ICE detention centre. THE PLOT: American Street by Ibi Zoboi is about sixteen-year-old Fabiola who immigrates from Haiti to the U.S. ![]() ![]() Christie keeps the reader guessing throughout the novel until the dramatic final reveal. ![]() However, it quickly becomes clear that the murderer has only grown bolder with time, and as red herrings abound, the killer is not afraid to strike again…or again.Ĭards on the Table is certainly a departure from Agatha Christie’s usual affair, but the plot is no less tightly woven, nor the end less surprising for it. Lacking a clear suspect, the detectives are forced to go far back into each person’s history to find the psychological connection between previous crimes and the murder of Shaitana. Lorrimer, Anne Meredith, and Major Despard, each one with a criminal past. In the latter group, Shaitana had “collected” Dr. The former group consisted of the previously mentioned Hercule Poirot, the mystery writer Ariadne Oliver, Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard, and secret serviceman Colonel Race. ![]() The interesting aspect of Shaitana’s bridge party was the even matching of detective to murderer – four of each. ![]() These suspicions come to a head during an evening bridge party with the “collected” people, when Shaitana is murdered in full view of the entire room, all of whom have a reason to want their host dead. Shaitana, a flamboyant yet slightly sinister collector and party host, reveals to famous detective Hercule Poirot his newest “crime collection” – that of criminals who have evaded justice – Poirot naturally has some misgivings. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Although many kids in New Orleans play an instrument, it’s a select few like Troy “Trombone Shorty” who have the opportunity to pursue music as a career on a national stage. New Orleans musicians understand the importance of teaching the younger ones this heritage, allowing them to carry on the city’s vibrant musical culture that continues to make our city such an exceptional place.Īt the Trombone Shorty Foundation, we proudly contribute to this time-honored tradition of passing it on. Through the years these traditions have been handed down from one generation to the next. Louis Armstrong said it best: “What we play is life.” America’s original musical art form-jazz-originated here, and over time so did many other styles-rhythm and blues, funk, and rock and roll. It’s celebrated as an essential part of life-past, present and future. In New Orleans, music is everywhere: the clubs, the churches, the streets, the schools, and in the air. ![]() ![]() ![]() Grabbing our attention right off the bat, Eleanor tells us on page one: “I had a bad August. This short novel for children tells the story of a young girl, named Eleanor, whose beloved babysitter, Bibi, is moving away. Julie addressed specifically what it was like to see Matt’s illustrations for the book, and Matt gives us a detailed description of the stages in the life of his illustrations for this title.Īnd since Julie didn’t talk about the writing of the book, her debut title, let me tell you how much I enjoyed it. ![]() And that’s because I asked them if they wanted to stop by and talk about the book, and hoo boy, they ran with it. It’s been a bit since I’ve done a post on an illustrated novel, but to be doing the first one in a while on Julie Sternberg’s Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie (Amulet, March 2011), illustrated by Matthew Cordell, is good. That very big book had very long words that I didn’t understand. I got a book, the first book I saw, and climbed with it into my bed. “‘I could read you a bedtime story,’ she said. ![]() |