[PDF] [READ] The Girls in Navy Blue by Alix Rickloff Read NowDownload Now
A gripping and compelling dual timeline novel about three women who joined the Navy during WWI to become yeomanettes and the impact their choices have on one of their descendants in 1968.1918 - America is at war with Germany, and, for the first time in history, the US Navy has allowed women to join up alongside the men. Ten thousand of them rush to do their part. German-American Marjory Kunwald enlists in the Navy to prove her patriotism. Suffragette Blanche Lawrence to prove that women are the equal of men. And shy preacher's daughter Viv Weston in a desperate attempt to hide from the police.Even as the US military pours into France and the war heats up, the three yeomanettes find friendship and sisterhood within the Navy. But all their plans for the future are thrown into chaos when Viv's dark past finally catches up with her.1968 - Newly divorced and reeling from a personal tragedy, Peggy Whitby unexpectedly inherits her estranged great-aunt Blanche's beach cottage outside Norfolk tabegox799 發表在 痞客邦 留言(0) 人氣(0)
[PDF] [READ] Sorrow and Starlight (Zodiac Academy, #8) by Caroline Peckham Read NowDownload Now
All stars must fall.Bloody, lost, broken. We live to fight another day. But with so much stolen from us, can the fates ever twist in our favour again?My sister and I have been torn apart by shadows and despair, and now we each stand alone.Our sorrow is spun like a web, trapping us tight, and I fear our enemies will soon come to feast upon our souls.But if I have my way, the merciless sky will have dealt us its final fortune. It?s time for us to take back the power that?s been ripped from our grasp and turn the tide of this war.All stars must fall, and all Phoenixes must rise.Long live the Savage Queens.*This will now be book 8 of 9 in the series****This is a dark, bully romance ? don?t go expecting a sweet school for magic with friends around every corner. Fae fight for everything they own and Zodiac Academy is a cutthroat school for students aged 18+ where only the strongest prevail. There?s no Dumbledore here to save anyone?s ass and Lionel Acrux will give Voldemort a run for his tabegox799 發表在 痞客邦 留言(0) 人氣(12)
[PDF] [READ] Gilded Mountain by Kate Manning Read NowDownload Now
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from critically acclaimed author Kate Manning, the exhilarating, epic tale of a young woman who bravely faces the consequences of exposing the corrupt practices that enriched her father's employers in early 1900s Colorado.
In a voice spiked with sly humor, Sylvie Pelletier recounts leaving her family?s snowbound mountain cabin to work in a manor house for the Padgetts, owners of the marble-mining company that employs her father and dominates the town. Sharp-eyed Sylvie is awed by the luxury around her; fascinated by her employer, the charming ?Countess? Inge, and confused by the erratic affections of Jasper, the bookish heir to the family fortune. Her fairy-tale ideas of romance take a dark turn when she realizes the Padgetts? lofty philosophical talk is at odds with the unfair labor practices that have enriched them. Their servants, the Gradys, formerly enslaved people, have long known this to be true and are making plans to form a tabegox799 發表在 痞客邦 留言(0) 人氣(0)
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WANTED - Bloodmaid of exceptional taste. Must have a keen proclivity for life's finer pleasures. Girls of weak will need not apply. A young woman is drawn into the upper echelons of a society where blood is power, in this dark and enthralling gothic novel from the author of The Year of the Witching. Marion Shaw has been raised in the slums, where want and deprivation is all she knows. Despite longing to leave the city and its miseries, she has no real hope of escape until the day she spots a peculiar listing in the newspaper, seeking a bloodmaid.Though she knows little about the far north--where wealthy nobles live in luxury and drink the blood of those in their service--Marion applies to the position. In a matter of days, she finds herself the newest bloodmaid at the notorious House of Hunger. There, Marion is swept into a world of dark debauchery--and at the center of it all is her.Countess Lisavet, who presides over this hedonistic court, is loved and feared in equal measure. She tabegox799 發表在 痞客邦 留言(0) 人氣(0)
[PDF] [READ] Solito by Javier Zamora Read NowDownload Now
A young poet tells the unforgettable story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this moving, page-turning memoir hailed as the mythic journey of our era (Sandra Cisneros)Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago--"one day, you'll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure."Javier's adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling alone except for a group of strangers and a coyote hired to lead them to safety, Javier's trip is supposed to last two short weeks.At nine years old, all Javier can imagine is rushing into his parents' arms, snuggling in bed between them, living under the same roof again. He does not see the perilous boat trips, relentless desert treks, pointed guns, arrests tabegox799 發表在 痞客邦 留言(0) 人氣(0)
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A young Black girl goes missing in the woods outside her white Rust Belt town. But she?s not the first?and she may not be the last. . . .It?s watching.Liz Rocher is coming home . . . reluctantly. As a Black woman, Liz doesn?t exactly have fond memories of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a predominantly white town. But her best friend is getting married, so she braces herself for a weekend of awkward and passive-aggressive reunions. Liz has grown, though; she can handle whatever awaits her. But on the day of the wedding, somewhere between dancing and dessert, the bride?s daughter, Caroline, goes missing?and the only thing left behind is a piece of white fabric covered in blood.It?s taking. As a frantic search begins, with the police combing the trees for Caroline, Liz is the only one who notices a pattern: a summer night. A missing girl. A party in the woods. She?s seen this before. Keisha Woodson, the only other Black girl in school, walked into the woods with a mysterious man and was later tabegox799 發表在 痞客邦 留言(0) 人氣(0)
[PDF] [READ] My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy by Clint Hill Read NowDownload Now
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Mrs. Kennedy and Me reveal never-before-told stories of Secret Service Agent Clint Hill?s travels with Jacqueline Kennedy through Europe, Asia, and South America. Featuring more than two hundred rare and never-before-published photographs.While preparing to sell his home in Alexandria, Virginia, retired Secret Service agent Clint Hill uncovers an old steamer trunk in the garage, triggering a floodgate of memories. As he and Lisa McCubbin, his coauthor on three previous books, pry it open for the first time in fifty years, they find forgotten photos, handwritten notes, personal gifts, and treasured mementos from the trips on which Hill accompanied First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy as her Secret Service agent?trips that took them from Paris to London, through India, Pakistan, Greece, Morocco, Mexico, South America, and ?three glorious weeks on the Amalfi Coast.? During these journeys, Jacqueline Kennedy became one of tabegox799 發表在 痞客邦 留言(0) 人氣(0)
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In this witty, provocative, and unputdownable debut novel a young Hasidic woman on a quest to get married fears she will never find a groom because of her secret addiction to porn.Like the other women in her Brooklyn Hasidic community, Raizl expects to find a husband through an arranged marriage. Unlike the other women, Raizl has a secret. With a hidden computer to help her complete her college degree, she falls down the slippery slope of online pornography. As Raizl dives deeper into the world of porn at night, her daytime life begins to unravel. Between combative visits with her shrink to complicated arranged dates, Raizl must balance her growing understanding of her sexuality with the more conventional expectations of the family she loves. A singular, stirring, and compulsively readable debut novel, Shmutz explores what it means to be a fully realized sexual and spiritual being caught between the traditional and modern worlds.tabegox799 發表在 痞客邦 留言(0) 人氣(0)
[PDF] [READ] Smitten Kitchen Keepers: New Classics for Your Forever Files: A Cookbook by Deb Perelman Read NowDownload Now
A BON APPETIT BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - The long-awaited new book from the best-selling and beloved author of The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook and Smitten Kitchen Every Day--a collection of essential recipes for meals you'll want to prepare again and again, from Cozy Chicken and Dumplings to Fettuccine with White Rag?, and from Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Cookies to Strawberry Summer Stack Cake.Deb Perelman is the author of two best-selling cookbooks; one of the internet's most successful food bloggers; the creator of a homegrown brand with more than a million Instagram followers; and the self-taught cook with the tiny kitchen who obsessively tests her recipes to make sure that no bowls are wasted and that the results are always worth the effort.Here, in her third book, Smitten Kitchen Keepers: New Classics for Your Forever Files, Perelman gives us 100 recipes (including a few favorites from her site) that aim to make shopping easier, preparation more practical and enjoyable, and food more tabegox799 發表在 痞客邦 留言(0) 人氣(0)
[PDF] [READ] Sugaring Off by Gillian French Read NowDownload Now
A dazzling and evocative novel about love and loss?with a dash of thrilling mystery?for fans of Mindy McGinnis and Courtney Summers.Left partially deaf by an early childhood tragedy that ended in her father?s incarceration, seventeen-year-old Owl is now a tracker, an explorer, a wildlife enthusiast,?and?always her freest self while hiking the steep forested acres surrounding her aunt and uncle?s maple sugar farm, now her home.?Owl and her aunt and uncle?never speak of the brutal attack?that brought her to them.?On the day she confronts a stranger trespassing among the maples, Owl?s sheltered existence is blown wide open by Cody?the magnetic, dangerous young man?hired to help with the sugaring off. Cody seems to see?her, the?real?her, in a way no one else does. Together, they challenge each other, learn to question their preconceptions, and risk a romance their families are desperate to stop.???But when Owl learns that some part of Cody is compelled toward self-destruction, she must tabegox799 發表在 痞客邦 留言(0) 人氣(0)