![]() ![]() The Billionaire’s Secret Heart (The Winters Saga Book 1) by Ivy Layne- FREE for a limited time. (Approximately 130, 168, & 174 paperback pages, respectively.) All other books in the series are full-length novels. Please Note: The Billionaire’s Secret Heart, The Billionaire’s Secret Love, & The Billionaire’s Secret Kiss are novella length books. You can read it on its own, but you’ll want to read the others once you get a taste of the Winters men } It’s the first in The Winters Saga, and introduces the notorious men of the Winters family. ![]() The Billionaire’s Secret Heart is a standalone romance with a happy ending. Josephine thought she could call the shots – she didn’t realize that a Winters man always gets what he wants. When she ghosted on me, I shouldn’t have been so shocked, but women never walk away from me. Then I saw Josephine, sitting with her dweeb of a date, just waiting for a man who could appreciate her lush curves and sharp brain. A look is all it takes, and the women fall over themselves to get to me. ![]() Holden: I don’t usually steal other guy’s dates. Our night together was a fantasy…and a huge mistake. He dates socialites and pop stars, not computer science grad students more comfortable in a hoodie than couture. Are you kidding? Holden Winters? A scion of the notorious Winters family, Holden is gorgeous, wealthy, and brilliant. ![]() Josephine: It was the worst blind date in the history of the universe, until Holden Winters swept in and rescued me. ![]()
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Why did I read it: I ‘ve been intrigued by the summary and also the cover for quite some time now. ![]() I was able to pick an e-book as my prize for the March round-up of the 2012 Horror/Thriller Reading Challenge run by Mary over at Sweeping Me. This is the one I chose. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then again, if this is true, why is it that, once we know how to eat, we don’t do it? One of Michael Pollan’s most famous quotes is a simple one, but it tells you everything you ever need to know about eating. I suspect his wide appeal is probably an indication of how confused everybody is about food, and how much we love it when people make it very clear to us what we should and shouldn’t eat. I’ve seen him speak, and while he’s articulate and intelligent, he’s no George Clooney. Food and diet book writers quote him constantly, and some even admit that he’s their celebrity crush. ![]() When he gives lectures, it’s standing room only. When Michael Pollan speaks…people listen. At least where I live, he’s the subject of many a conversation at parties, in bars, in restaurants, in book groups. Is Michael Pollan America’s sweetheart? People love to talk about his pithy pronouncements on how we should eat. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are interesting ideas for compositions on the net or on photo and design softwares, which also provide guidance on how to put it all together. So I developed the idea of a scrapbook, arranging the images on artistic backgrounds and accompany them with brief excerpts from the book. ![]() ![]() In the past I had used some images to present short passages from the book on my Facebook author page, and I thought that perhaps I could do something a little more creative with it. I wanted the readers to have a feel for the characters, the atmosphere and the writing style, as well as the plot, immerse them in the book experience, and somehow I felt a trailer was not the best way to convey it. ![]() I had a go at it myself, with my first novel, “Playing on Cotton Clouds” – and uploaded it on my Youtube Channel įor my second novel, “A Summer of Love”, I wanted to try something different. The book trailer has now been around for some time, and many authors have utilised the media to advertise their upcoming or published book. Previews and excerpts allow a peek into the story and the author’s writing style.īut in an age when people’s attention span is short and immediate, authors have been finding new ways of attracting audiences to their books. Of course a great cover and an interesting blurb are always the first steps to entice readers’ curiosity. While artists and musicians have a fairly immediate way of presenting an image or a four minute song, it is harder for writers to capture the imagination of readers. How do you bring a book to life, when introducing it to potential readers? ![]() ![]() ![]() One by one the Kerr family secrets begin to surface, even as bonny Prince Charlie and his rebel army ride into Edinburgh in September 1745, intent on capturing the crown. ![]() Though her two abiding passions are maintaining her place in society and coddling her grown sons, Marjory's many regrets, buried in Greyfriars Churchyard, continue to plague her. ![]() His mother, the dowager Lady Marjory, hides gold beneath her floor and guilt inside her heart. Her husband, Lord Donald, has secrets of his own, well hidden from the household, yet whispered among the town gossips. A Highlander by birth and a Lowlander by marriage, she honors the auld ways, even as doubts and fears stir deep within her. Lady Elisabeth Kerr is a keeper of secrets. ![]() ![]() She covers quite a bit of ground in this substantial volume. She clearly delineates “The global battle over God, truth, and power” as the subtitle puts it. In 18 meaty chapters she chronicles this war of worldviews, and demonstrates how very much at risk Western civilisation in fact is. Those familiar with her regular columns for the Spectator and other publications will find familiar ground here.īut this volume allows her to take her brief opinion pieces and develop them in much more depth and detail. In this volume the incisive British journalist examines in detail these and related threats, and highlights how successful these attacks have been in the past few decades. The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power by Phillips, Melanie (Author) And often these two forces find themselves working together in their assault on the Judeo-Christian West. Indeed, Phillips notes the many striking similarities between the Western progressives and the Islamists.īoth are a threat to the free West and to Judeo-Christian values because both are involved in coercive utopianism both demonise any dissent from their ideology and both have declared war against Israel and the Jewish people. Opposed to it are various contenders, chief of which are two main rivals: radical secular leftism, and radical Islam. On the one side is the Judeo-Christian worldview. ![]() In the West we are involved in a war of worldviews. ![]() ![]() ![]() I fell in love with this book the moment that I started reading it. Recently I was able to finally pick up The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller and I’m so glad that I did. ![]() Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus goes with him, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they hold dear. ![]() Despite their difference, Achilles befriends the shamed prince, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine, their bond blossoms into something deeper – despite the displeasure of Achilles’ mother Thetis, a cruel sea goddess.īut when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, Achilles must go to war in distant Troy and fulfill his destiny. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sue Monk Kidd’s sweeping new novel is set in motion on Sarah’s eleventh birthday in 1803, when she is given ownership of ten-year-old Handful, who is to be her waiting maid. The Grimkes’ daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women. ![]() Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. Buy the Book: Amazon, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, IndieBound,, Google Playįrom the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees: a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world. ![]() ![]() Anarchism’s principal target is the authoritarian State (capitalist or socialist) its principal moral-practical theme is cooperation (solidarity, mutual aid). Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with not the social-Darwinist economic “libertarianism” of the far right but anarchism as prefigured in early Taoist thought, and expounded by Shelley and Kropotkin, Goldman and Goodman. The year after the novel appeared, Le Guin explained what she meant by the term: ![]() She did not even live to see the revolution she instigated, but her life and writings became the inspiration for Odonianism. Le Guin’s 1974 multiple-award-winning novel The Dispossessed, the philosopher and revolutionary Laia Asieo Odo is a magisterial presence-even though she lived on a different planet and died several generations before the period in which the novel is set. More of Winkowski’s artwork can be seen at his website Moons, Machines, and Martians. ![]() Le Guin: The Hainish Novels & Storiesįred Winkowski’s jacket design for the first American edition of The Dispossessed, Harper & Row, 1974. ![]() “ Sisters and Science Fiction,” Karl Kroeber.Le Guin’s The Dispossessed” (Jo Walton, Tor.com) Le Guin” (Julie Phillips, The New Yorker) ![]() ![]() ![]() This collection started out very strong and there are some fantastic stories in it with ideas such as a fungi submarine and a house haunted by fungi although I was a bit let down at the very end which was a poem rather than a short story and I felt that it wasn’t the best way to end such a great collection. It’s a brilliant idea for a short story collection as there are so many interesting ways you can explore fungal fiction. I really enjoy Jeff Vandermeer’s weird fiction, especially that involving mushrooms, and so when I discovered an entire anthology based on Fungi I was incredibly intrigued. Pugmire, Lavie Tidhar, Ann K.Schwader, Jesse Bullington, Molly Tanzer and Simon Strantzas through a dizzying journey of fungal tales. Join authors such as Jeff VanderMeer, Laird Barron, Nick Mamatas, W.H. ![]() Stories range from noir to dark fantasy, from steampunk to body horror. In this new anthology, writers reach into the rich territory first explored by William Hope Hodgson a century ago: the land of the fungi. A collection of fungal wonders…and terrors. ![]() |