![]() Riana knew his final words weren’t an exaggeration. “They’ll take turns using you until they’re bored. He gestured back to “the rest of them.” Riana’s mind was in too great a blur to see distinct faces, but the rest of the prisoners seemed to be lurking just in the background, like a hungry pack of wolves. Or, if you refuse, I’ll turn you over to the rest of them.” Two options.” His eyes-a very dark blue-narrowed as he explained, “Be my woman. You have a good body, which is the only other thing I require in a woman. I don’t do whores, although they’re usually all we get down here. “No.” She was so surprised by the question that she managed to speak over the rancid texture in her mouth. ![]() Enjoy the excerpt below and don’t forget to enter the giveaway at the end. It sounds so rough and scary, but I love the romance mixed in. If I don’t win, I am buying it, without a doubt. I am entering the other giveaways on this blitz because I want a chance to win Hold too. ![]() ![]() Welcome to the Hold Book Blitz! I am so freaking excited for this book. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Levine references the Portuguese fairy tale “The False Prince and the True” and “Beauty and the Beast” to explore social prejudice, although Evie’s experiences as an ogre ultimately seem to reinforce how different she is more than they encourage solidarity. Even though she ministers to plague-stricken humans honorably, she faces suspicion and hostility, but she also gains loyal friends and learns valuable lessons about love. A chance encounter soon draws Evie back to human civilization. But will he propose? Though her time with the band is limited, her first-person narrative style meticulously notes her observations (“ogre hands are blink fast,” and “the ogre heart has a triple beat”). Hoping to learn persuasion in order to obtain a proposal, Evie joins a band of ogres and promptly falls for their human captive: a silver-tongued merchant named Peter. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ogres are hated and feared by Kyrrians: hairy, short-tempered, odoriferous, and magically persuasive, they eat humans and livestock with equal zeal. To punish Evie for rejecting an “exemplary” suitor, Lucinda transforms her into an ogre and decrees that she must accept a proposal within 62 days or remain an ogre forever. When 15-year-old healer Evie rejects her best friend’s marriage proposal in front of the fairy Lucinda, she unknowingly sets off a kingdomwide chain of events that will shape the course of Kyrrian history. ![]() ![]() Ten-year-old Joan, her sister and mother leave their father and drive to their mother’s ancestral home to live with their Aunt August. The novel opens with a journey to Memphis. ![]() The women push on, working, making ends meet, laughing, storytelling. ![]() Their men are gone: murdered, incarcerated or too damaged and violent to live with. Her women are vivid, formidable and funny, exposing the legacy of racial violence not just within the microcosm of family or the titular city, but nationally. In Memphis, Stringfellow deftly weaves the voices of four women over three generations. He was the first black homicide detective in Memphis, Tennessee and had served in an all-black army unit that helped liberate the children’s camp in Buchenwald. Her own grandfather was killed by white police officers when her mother was five years old. Stringfellow has reason to identify with Gianna. “i understand if you not ready to read it yet this book gon be right here whenever you want it.” “i wrote you a black fairy tale,” it begins. Tara M Stringfellow prefaces this ferocious and compassionate debut with a dedication to George Floyd’s daughter Gianna, who was six when her father was killed by a police officer on a Minneapolis street in 2020. ![]() ![]() ![]() If life at home is difficult, then school is torture, with the nuns watching every move she makes. John’s, Maureen is the second-youngest daughter of a bitter and angry mother and a beaten-down father who tells the best stories (but only when he’s drunk). “A page-turner with an indelible heroine.” -Ann-Marie MacDonaldĬanadian actor, comedian and social activist Mary Walsh explodes onto the literary scene with this unforgettable story of a young woman coming of age in late 1960s Newfoundland ![]() ![]() ![]() It is extremely rare for a British prime minister to invite a historian into his inner circle, but Bew – “one of the outstanding historians of his generation”, says Michael Gove – has already proved influential. It was written in 2015 by John Bew, who has since been plucked by Johnson from the war studies department of King’s College London to serve as his chief foreign policy adviser and help work out what “Global Britain” might actually mean. ![]() As for the question of what narrative Johnson himself lives by, some light can be shone by the book described as the “primer for Johnsonism”: Realpolitik: A History. “Human beings are creatures of the imagination.” It was a revealing line from a man who usually prefers to evade, but Britain’s journalist-statesman didn’t get to where he is today by underestimating the power of a good story. ![]() “P eople live by narrative,” Boris Johnson said in a recent profile for the Atlantic. ![]() ![]() ![]() You can order Taproot online or find it in stores at any location that sells comics! Taproot is an all ages-friendly comic. ![]() Published by Roar (an imprint of Lion Forge Comics, now Oni Press-Lion Forge) September 2017. You can watch a trailer for Taproot here. It's a pelasure to lose yourself in the beautiful artwork, and one of the loveliest queer romances I've ever read." - Katie O'Neil, author of Princess Princess Ever AfterĪwarded best graphic novel by the Rainbow Book List - GLBTQ Books for Children and Teens 2017, Best of Best Shots 2017 by Newsarama, The Texas Library Association's Maverick Reading List 2018, Powell’s Staff Top Fives: Our Favorite Books of 2017, Best LGBT Graphic Novels of 2017 by The Advocate, and the Florida Authors & Publishers Association award for best cover design (small format). "Taproot is like a garden for the heart, a warm and soulful story where nature is explored in all its forms. ![]() But something eerie is happening in town, leaving the local afterlife unsettled, and when Blue realizes Hamal's strange ability may be putting him in danger, Blue has to find a way to protect him, even if it means.leaving him. We may earn an affiliate commission when you buy through links on our website. Shepherd is a community of 7,000+ authors sharing their favorite books with the world. A shorter version was released as a webcomic before it. Here are 10 books that authors have personally recommended if you like Taproot. Luckily, Hamal can see ghosts, leaving Blue free to haunt him to his heart's content. Taproot: A Story About A Gardener and a Ghost is a graphic novel written and illustrated by Keezy Young. ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon, that world is upended: The Germans march into Paris and refugees flee south, overrunning Viann’s land. She returns to tending her small farm, Le Jardin, in the Loire Valley, teaching at the local school and coping with daughter Sophie’s adolescent rebellion. Cut to spring, 1940: Viann has said goodbye to husband Antoine, who's off to hold the Maginot line against invading Germans. This trajectory is interrupted when she receives an invitation to return to France to attend a ceremony honoring passeurs: people who aided the escape of others during the war. In 1995, an elderly unnamed widow is moving into an Oregon nursing home on the urging of her controlling son, Julien, a surgeon. Hannah’s new novel is an homage to the extraordinary courage and endurance of Frenchwomen during World War II. ![]() ![]() ![]() She should have known the streets in the Point were always going to be savage, and so was the man committed to keeping control of them in the hands of criminals and bloody kingpins.īlindsided by a betrayal which cut so deeply she was sure the wounds would never heal, the princess fled the home she loved and the man who broke her heart. She never expected either the streets or their enforcer to hurt her, since she'd given her heart so completely to both. He warned her over and over that he wasn't the man for her, but she refused to listen. With her, he was calm, caring, and heartbreakingly patient. He was all business and brutality, except when it came to her. So did a man who was violent and dangerous, just like the streets she claimed as her own. Every dirty corner, every scary shadow, found a place within her heart. ![]() ![]() Protected and sheltered from the worst the world had to offer, she fell in love with the crumbling city that burned and blazed around her. Once upon a time, there was a beautiful princess who called a corrupt kingdom home sweet home. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, as politics in the Red Palace grow more underhanded and a deadly blood mist threatens all of Cordova, Isolde must trust in the bond she's formed with Adrian, even as she learns troubling information about his complicated past. ![]() With two opposing goddesses playing mortals and vampires like chess pieces against one another, Isolde is uncertain who her allies are in the vampire stronghold of Revekka. But their love for each other has cost Isolde her father and her homeland. An instant USA Today bestseller From fan-favorite Scarlett St. Isolde, newly coronated queen, has finally found a king worthy of her in the vampire Adrian. ![]() Despite their undeniable chemistry, she wonders why the king-fierce, savage, merciless-chose her as consort. To end a years-long war, she is to marry vampire king Adrian Aleksandr. Except it isn't the court she fears most-it's Adrian. Isolde de Lara considers her wedding day to be her death day. Faced with the possibility of becoming the thing she hates most, Isolde seeks other ways to defy him and survive the brutal vampire court. But her assassination attempt is thwarted, and Adrian threatens that if Isolde tries to kill him again, he will raise her as the undead. In fact, start reading now For a brief excerpt of Queen. ![]() To end a years-long war, she is to marry vampire king Adrian Aleksandr Vasiliev, and kill him. Order Queen of Myth and Monsters for the next installment in the bestselling Adrian x Isolde saga. Isolde de Lara consider Want to Read Rate it: Book 2 Queen of Myth and Monsters by Scarlett St. Isolde de Lara considers her wedding day to be her death day. 69,610 Ratings 8,828 Reviews published 2021 21 editions Their Union Is His Revenge. ![]() ![]() This won’t be a series for everyone because of all the content/trigger warnings and I just want to emphasize being in a good head space when picking this book, and series, up! I was completely sucked in and I ended up reading the next two books in the series, immediately after! There’s so much to unpack with this book, but I just want to say that please, please look at content and trigger warnings for this book and series as a whole. Let me be frank, this was a lot, but oh, I was hooked and I couldn’t set this book down. ![]() ![]() RostekĬontent/Trigger Warnings: Violence, depictions of blood, death/murder recounted, loss of loved ones, grief, PTSD/trauma, graphic night terrors and flashbacks, underage drinking/alcoholism, smoking, bullying, depictions of panic & anxiety attacks, scenes of emesis, stalking, slut shaming, sexual assault, rape, scene of drugging, scene with a spider ![]() |