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The summer proposal vi keeland5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() Though, you know what they say about the best-laid plans. Things couldn’t get too serious when we had an expiration date. Max proposed we spend the summer helping me forget my ex. It sounded like a good plan. He was everything I needed at the time-fun, sexy, up for anything, and only around for a few months since he’d signed with a new team three-thousand miles away. Just before the buzzer, one of the teams scored, and the entire arena went crazy.Ī player’s face flashed up on the Jumbotron. He was wearing a helmet, but I froze when he smiled.Īpparently, my fake blind date hadn’t invited me to watch hockey with him, he’d invited me to watch him play.Īnd so began my adventure with Max Yearwood. When I arrived, the seat next to me was empty.ĭisappointed again, I decided to leave at the end of the period. So on my way home, I decided to take a chance and stop by the game. ![]() I tossed the ticket into my purse and went about trying to enjoy the man I was supposed to meet.īut my real blind date and I had no connection. To say I was disappointed would be an understatement.īefore he left, he slipped me a ticket to a hockey game a few blocks away, in case things didn’t work out on my actual date. He only pretended to be until my real date showed up. Turned out, Max wasn’t who I was there to meet. ![]() Max was insanely gorgeous, funny, and our chemistry was off the charts. He also had the biggest dimples I’d ever laid eyes on. The first time I met Max Yearwood was on a blind date. ![]()
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The septembers of shiraz5/31/2023 ![]() Terrified by his disappearance, his family must reconcile a new world of cruelty and chaos with the collapse of everything they have known. From the Back Cover In the aftermath of the Iranian revolution, rare-gem dealer Isaac Amin is arrested, wrongly accused of being a spy. As Isaac navigates the terrors of prison, and his wife feverishly searches for him, his children struggle with the realization that their family may soon be forced to embark on a journey of incalculable danger. ![]() Book Synopsis Soon to be a major motion picture starring Adrien Brody and Salma Hayek In the aftermath of the Iranian revolution, rare-gem dealer Isaac Amin is arrested, wrongly accused of being a spy. About the Book Set in Tehran during the aftermath of the 1979 revolution, this understated, beautifully told literary debut follows the Amin family as they cope with their fathers false imprisonment. ![]()
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Ian rankin bible john5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() I started this novel, the eighth in the series, feeling quite fed up with Rebus - he is sinking deeper into alcoholism, has alienated just about everybody in his world and still can’t seem to stop himself from chasing whatever leads his sometimes-addled mind throws up. He has been sidelined by his superiors yet again, but that will not stop him from pursuing his leads, wherever they may take him…. At the same time, a worker on an oil platform in the North Sea has died while on leave, in a case that involves villains from Rebus’s past. ![]() DI John Rebus is caught up in cases past and present: a serial killer dubbed “Johnny Bible” is murdering young women, in an echo of a serial killer some 20 years ago named by the papers “Bible John” because he quoted from the Bible before killing his prey, also young women. ![]()
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Anthony doerr novel5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Five dreamers and outsiders, intertwined as they seek, and find, resourcefulness and hope.Īnthony Doerr is the author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and All the Light We Cannot See, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Carnegie Medal. In a not-so-distant future, alone on the interstellar ship Argos, Konstance copies the story of Aethon, told to her by her father. On the shelves is a bomb, planted by troubled, idealistic Seymour. ![]() Five hundred years later, in a library in Idaho, octogenarian Zeno rehearses children in a play of Aethon’s story, remarkably preserved. Outside the walls is Omeir, a village boy, conscripted into the invading army. Insatiably curious, she learns to read, and finds the book of Aethon, who longs to turn into a bird and fly to paradise. Thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the walls of Constantinople. Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anthony Doerr follows All the Light We Cannot See with Cloud Cuckoo Land-a triumph of imagination and compassion called a “wildly inventive, humane and uplifting book for adults that’s infused with the magic of childhood reading experiences.” ![]()
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Superman jerry siegel joe shuster5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2000, author Michael Chabon made the connection between Judaism and superheroics the basis for his novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay. In his puny narcissism, George sought inspiration from the paragon of selflessness.” One episode saw the cast encounter alternate reality versions of themselves, a nod to the Bizarro World storylines in the comic.Īs series writer Peter Mehlman explains: “For his all-too-human problems, Jerry looked to someone from Krypton. More recently, Superman served as a recurring motif in the classic sitcom Seinfeld (1989-98), perhaps the finest Jewish comedy of all, frequently invoked to provide a ludicrous counterpoint to the characters' entirely selfish and petty motivations. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby at Marvel, also Jewish, would continue to develop their own range of heroic outsiders in the "silver age" of comics in the 1960s. ![]() |