![]() ![]() Katherine Neville, autora d'El vuit i El foc. ![]() la ho té tot: Romeu i Julieta, la noblesa italiana i el món de la màfia, aventures i heroïnes valentes, documents secrets i tresors amagats, amors apassionats i venjances violentes que perduren al llarg dels segles.I si, al capdavall, Juliet és Julieta, aleshores. la èpica i d'aventures, Juliet remourà el cor del lector i accelerarà el seu pols.La Juliet viatjarà a Siena per retrobar-se amb el seu passat i els seus avantpassats, i descobrirà que el malefici que fa segles va caure sobre la seva família -«Maleïts sigueu vosaltres dos i les vostres cases!»- segueix ben viu 600 anys després.Amb un detall exquisit i un ritme trepidant, Juliet és un ric tapís que arrossega el lector des del present de la Juliet fins al passat de la Julieta. El seu nom vertader és Giulietta Tolomei, i és una descendent dels Tolomei i dels Salimbeni, les famílies reals que van viure a la Siena medieval i que van inspirar Shakespeare per escriure Romeu i Julieta. ![]() La Juliet i la seva germana són òrfenes des de petites i s'han criat amb la seva tieta, però quan la tieta Rose mor, la Juliet rep una estranya herència: un passaport, una clau i un secret. ![]()
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![]() I adore fresh and first love, second chance stories, and established couples navigating obstacles as they continue their journey together. I’m really not picky when it comes to my love stories. ![]() Thank you to the author/publisher for a copy in exchange for an honest review Again, I don’t mind reading about established couples and this nicely showcased two guys who are committed to their dream and to each other. ![]() Add in some run-ins with fickle Mother Nature and some understandable doubts about whether they can actually accomplish their goals in time, their forced prolonged proximity brings out the best and the worst in both men.ĭespite the challenges Elliot and Clay face, this was relatively angst free with a nice dash of smexy. To say the least, Elliot and Clay are both tested personally and within their relationship as they face the expected and unexpected trials of fixing up a dilapidated cabin and bringing it up to date so that they can live in comfort. Do these two have what it takes to give up their luxuries, as well as basic amenities to live off the land? However, when the oil economy tanks, their plans change and they decide to go off grid and retire. ![]() Like the blurb states, Elliot and Clay are in a long term relationship, hard at work for an oil company grabbing any extra shifts in order to save money to fix up their remote cabin for future use. There’s not much to say about this simple story, but if you like established couples then this is probably the best thing to scratch that itch. ![]() ![]() ![]() If they cannot, it means the end of life. However, even the Monitor is betrayed and soon the weight of the multiverse falls on the superheroes themselves, and eventually the entire DC universe who must work together to save all the universes out there. The good Monitor guides a select group of superheroes from the multiverse to protect massive tuning forks which can merge the suviving Earths into one, so that at least a part of them can be saved. However, a diabolical supervillain known as the Anti-Monitor plots to destroy the entire multiverse and stop all of time. In others he was still the Superman everyone knew and loved. In some Kal was aged, and Lois Lane was dying. In others, he had others with him, including Kara-Zor, his cousin who took up the mantle of Supergirl. In one world, Kal-El, Clark Kent, was the Last Son of Krypton. Some were similar, some were very different. Each world had its own version of Superman, Batman and the others. Visit the multi-verse catastrophe of the century which will change the DC universe forever in this award-winning comic book from Marv Wolfman and George Pérez. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Twisting together the familiar and the new, this delicious, captivating and darkly funny tale shows its creators at the peak of their talents and was the winner of the 2016 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal. This queen will decide her own future - and the princess who needs rescuing is not quite what she seems. She casts aside her fine wedding clothes, takes her chain mail and her sword and ventures into the tunnels under the mountain towards the sleeping kingdom. On the eve of her wedding, a young queen sets out to rescue a princess from an enchantment. Weaving together hints of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty with a shimmering thread of dark magic, it will hold readers spellbound from start to finish. Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processesĪ thrillingly reimagined fairytale from the truly magical combination of author Neil Gaiman and illustrator Chris Riddell, now available as a gorgeous paperback enhanced with gloriously vibrant red ink highlights. Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary subjects Hong Kong International Literary Festival 2023.Hong Kong Golden Dragon Books 2022-2023. ![]() ![]() ![]() To make things worse, Erin's daughter brings Cassie to breakfast the next morning. In her defense, she hadn't known Cassie was a student when they'd met. Erin Bennett came to Family Weekend to get closer to her daughter, not have a one-night stand with a college senior. But then the next morning rolls around and her friend drags her along to meet her mom-the hot, older woman Cassie slept with. Buying a drink for a stranger turns into what should be an uncomplicated, amazing one-night stand. When Cassie Klein goes to an off-campus bar to escape her school's Family Weekend, she isn't looking for a hookup-it just happens. "From the critically acclaimed author of Something to Talk About comes Meryl Wilsner's Mistakes Were Made, a sharp and sexy rom-com about a college senior who accidentally hooks up with her best friend's mom. ![]() ![]() And Nick, the Legendborn boy Bree fell in love with, has been kidnapped.īree wants to fight, but the Regents who rule the Order won’t let her. ![]() Now, Bree has become someone new:īut the ancient war between demons and the Order is rising to a deadly peak. So she infiltrated the Legendborn Order, a secret society descended from King Arthur’s knights-only to discover her own ancestral power. The shadows have risen, and the line is law.Īll Bree wanted was to uncover the truth behind her mother’s death. The “worthy successor to an explosive debut” ( Kirkus Reviews)-the New York Times bestselling and award-winning Legendborn-perfect for fans of Cassandra Clare and Margaret Rogerson! ![]() ![]() “Deonn writes…stories that humanize Black protagonists, like Bree, giving them agency and a place to both fail and, ultimately, to ascend.” - Booklist (starred review) ![]() ![]() ![]() Eventually, she teams with Minger to solve the city's suspicious fires. She attends college and, after her boyfriend dies in an accident, joins the police force and learns the inner workings of the fire department. The large and loving Hale family bands together and rebuilds Reena grows up curious about the origins of fire. Thanks to a local arson detective, John Minger, and the girl's keen memory, police determine that a neighborhood crook whose young son had recently attacked Reena was out for revenge, and soon cops publicly haul the dirt bag off to jail. ![]() When Reena Hale is 11 years old, she watches her family's Baltimore pizzeria go up in flames. Beautiful Italian babe with a passion for fire and doomed hunks joins the arson squad and discovers that someone has held a torch for her since she was a child. ![]() ![]() ![]() And thus begins the unlikely pilgrimage at the heart of Rachel Joyce's remarkable debut. But then, as happens in the very best works of fiction, Harold has a chance encounter, one that convinces him that he absolutely must deliver his message to Queenie in person. Harold pens a quick reply and, leaving Maureen to her chores, heads to the corner mailbox. Queenie Hennessy is in hospice and is writing to say goodbye. Then one morning the mail arrives, and within the stack of quotidian minutiae is a letter addressed to Harold in a shaky scrawl from a woman he hasn't seen or heard from in twenty years. Little differentiates one day from the next. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does, even down to how he butters his toast. A novel of unsentimental charm, humor, and profound insight into the thoughts and feelings we all bury deep within our hearts, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry introduces Rachel Joyce as a wise - and utterly irresistible - storyteller. ![]() ![]() I adored the small pieces of poetry littered throughout this epic novel. ![]() This is a translation of the original text though so unless I become fluent in Heian period Japanese I doubt I’ll ever truly appreciate the text. I did enjoy The Tale of Genji because I learnt so much about Japanese history and the cultural practices of the specific time in which this was written and set but, at times, I found the language dull and uninspiring. I always wonder how much beauty of a book like this gets lost in translation. It was first translated into modern Japanese in the early 20th century but the first, and unsuccessful, attempt to translate the text into English occurred in 1882. ![]() The Tale of Genji is sometimes known as the world’s first novel and the first psychological novel and it was written in an archaic ancestor of Japanese. ![]() She is best known for writing The Tale of Genji. Her personal name is unknown. Murasaki Shikibu was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court during the Heian period. Summary: Expansive, compelling, and sophisticated in its representation of ethical concerns and aesthetic ideals, Murasaki’s tale came to occupy a central place in Japan’s remarkable history of artistic achievement and is now recognized as a masterpiece of world literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() She spends the next two years recovering from the accident and trying to solve the mystery of what really happened to her that night-she asks her family for details, but they inform her that she must recover those memories on her own. During her fifteenth summer at Beechwood, Cady suffers a mysterious accident that leaves her with a serious head injury and no memory of the events leading up to it. Gat was invited to return every summer after that. ![]() The nephew of her aunt Carrie’s boyfriend Ed, Gat arrived on the eighth summer and bonded so deeply with Cady, Johnny, and Mirren that the family began to think of them as a unit-and dubbed them the Liars. It was there that Cady met Gat and slowly fell in love with him, much to the chagrin of Harris, who views Gat as beneath Cady. ![]() She spends her summers on the private island that her family owns, known as Beechwood. Cady’s father, a college professor, left them to live with another woman when Cady was fifteen. She lives in Burlington, Vermont, with her mother, Penny. ![]() The narrator and protagonist of We Were Liars, Cady Eastman is the oldest grandchild of the wealthy and ostensibly perfect Sinclair family. ![]() |