Besides, Jack is a widower, and Ethan has always avoided falling for straight men. There are rules against a Secret Service agent and one of their protectees developing a friendship-big rules. He’s expecting another stuffed suit and an arrogant DC politician, but Jack shocks him with his humor and humanity. With Jack’s election, he’s been promoted, and now he’s running the presidential detail, which puts him side by side with Jack daily. Between terrorism attacks ripping apart Europe, Russia’s constant posturing and aggression, and the quagmire of the Middle East, Jack is struggling to keep his campaign promise-to work toward a better, safer world.įor Special Agent Ethan Reichenbach, Jack is just another president, the third in twelve years. Newly elected President Jack Spiers’s presidency is rocked from the very beginning, and he’s working furiously to keep the world from falling apart. A rogue Black Ops unit with the president in their crosshairs.Ī Secret Service agent who will break every rule.Ī president falling for the one person he shouldn’t-a man.
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It all starts when various decapitated heads of women start to show up, and Maggie O’Dell (FBI profiler) is asked to work on the case. Still, A Necessary Evil was enjoyable, although themes like child abuse by priests and priest murders may set you off. But the amount of changes between the various characters appearing in different chapters was confusing sometimes, and made me wonder who was talking at some points. There are two different storylines in the book, but they are easy to follow as they are connected. The story is quite easy to read, with lots of short chapters and the end was a total surprise to me (although I already suspected someone from the ‘inside’). I didn’t realize this was actually the fifth book of a series when I started reading it, but I must say it was ok to read without background information.
Merlin is accomplished in more conventional yet equally wondrous terrain. The author, Merlin Sheldrake, is the son of the controversial scientist-turned-philosopher Rupert Sheldrake, whose “morphic field” theory attempts to explain paranormal and quantum phenomena. As biodegradable substitutes for meat, leather, and a range of petroleum-based products, fungal biomaterials could be the Styrofoam and polyester of the 21st century.Īrriving on this wave of media fanfare, Entangled Life will likely amplify it, with good reason. Venture capitalists are also paying attention. Just a few years earlier, anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s book on matsutake, The Mushroom at the End of the World (2015), triggered a rush of interest in mushrooms among academics. The film came on the heels of Michael Pollan’s best seller on psychedelic science, How to Change Your Mind (2018). Last winter, the shoestring documentary Fantastic Fungi was an enormous grassroots success with round-the-block lines and sold-out screenings. “Good and Mad” was composed in a matter of months, with incandescent urgency. In the early months after the 2016 election, Traister resolved to write about the explosion of women’s anger and activism, tracing it over a few years - until she recognized a need to capture this maybe-movement in something like real time, to ensure that none of its complicated fury would be lost to tepid retrospective accounts. To enter the splendid core of ire and intelligence coursing through Rebecca Traister’s third book, “Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger,” is to be sustained by its heat, invigorated, galvanized. I can see now why many folks are having a tough time rating this one. With so much at stake, Caro must choose between the life she always wanted and the one she never could have imagined for herself.įrom debut author Sarah Tolcser comes an immersive and romantic fantasy set along the waterways of a magical world with a headstrong heroine determined to make her mark. By agreeing to deliver it in exchange for his release, Caro finds herself caught in a web of politics and lies, with dangerous pirates after the cargo-an arrogant courier with a secret-and without the river god to help her. But the river god hasn’t spoken her name yet-and if he hasn’t by now, there’s a chance he never will.Ĭaro decides to take her future into her own hands when her father is arrested for refusing to transport a mysterious crate. At seventeen, Caro has spent years listening to the water, ready to meet her fate. For generations, her family has been called by the river god, who has guided their wherries on countless voyages throughout the Riverlands. Caroline Oresteia is destined for the river. Prior to these that I'm watching now (thanks to Netflix and Youtube), the only one I could name off the top of my head was The Thornbirds, but after watching these, I do kinda wish they were still made, even though I can see why they're not. I'm just 30, so I'm too young to remember the famous ones. It's said that these heralded the end of the TV miniseries. I have to say.despite an overall '80s soapy feeling to the whole thing and weird casting, I'm enjoying it quite a bit. In the second part ("The Final Chapter") of War & Remembrance now. In in the middle of a binge watch of these sprawling mini-series. I'll be surprised if this thread gets any replies, but.does anyone remember these? In this case, it’s “opposites attract,” and while it can be executed poorly, with the couple not having enough in common to make the HEA believable, that is not the case here. However, I was determined not to let this one just sit and wait, starting it almost as soon as I got it (after finishing the previous book I was reading, of course).Īnd like all of Lenora Bell’s books, this one lives up to the hype, standing out in the crowd of duke books, by feeling fresh even while retreading some familiar tropes. One Fine Duke is easily one of my most hyped books of the year, even if it took ages for me to get around to reading the next book in the series. Arnett writes about how we have to overcome our first understanding of the world in order to process it as an adult. a rock-solid family novel, brightened by its eccentric milieu., It's darkly funny, both macabre and irreverent, and its narrator is so real that every time I stopped reading the book, I felt a tiny pull at the back of my mind, as if I'd left a good friend in the middle of a conversation., An incisive and peculiar study of grief. celebration of the strangeness of life and love and loss, all of it as murky as a Florida swamp but beautiful in its wildness., Mostly Dead Things is very Florida, very gay, and very good. And, yes, its humor is as dark and glinting as the black plastic eye of a taxidermy ferret. Set in a richly renderedFlorida and filled with delightfully wry prose and bracing honesty, Arnett'snovel introduces a keenly skillful author with imagination and insight to spare., Precisely as strange, riotous, searing, and subversive as you'd want it to be. As tragedies mount, Owain questions whether he can find the strength within himself not only to challenge the most powerful monarch of his time, but to fulfill the prophecies and lead his people to freedom without destroying those around him. After a harrowing encounter on the misty slopes of Cadair Idris, the English knight Harry Hotspur offers Owain a pact he cannot resist. Leading his crude army of Welshmen against armor-clad columns of English, Owain wins key victories over his enemies. What starts as a feud with a neighboring English lord over a strip of land evolves into something greater-a fight for the very independence of Wales. But when Henry of Bolingbroke, the Duke of Lancaster, usurps the throne of England from his cousin Richard II, that tranquility is forever shattered. Author of medieval historical fiction: The Crown in the Heather (The Bruce Trilogy: Book I), Worth Dying For (The Bruce Trilogy: Book II) and Isabeau, A Novel of Queen Isabella and Sir Roger Mortimer. In the year 1399, Welsh nobleman Owain Glyndwr is living out a peaceful gentleman's life in the Dee Valley of Wales with his wife Margaret and their eleven children. Runner, gardener, dog lover and sometimes farmer. But when he learns exactly what he has to do to prove himself, Farrell starts to question everything he thought he knew about family, loyalty, and himself….įate has brought these young people together, but ancient magic threatens to rip them apart. Her name is Becca Hatcher, and she needs Maddox to help get her home.įarrell Grayson, Modern-day Toronto: Rich and aimless Farrell Grayson is thrilled when the mysterious leader of the ultra-secret Hawkspear Society invites him into the fold. Until, that is, he realizes that she is a spirit, and he is the only one who can see or hear her. A Book of Spirits and Thieves (Spirits and Thieves, 1), The Darkest Magic. Maddox Corso, Ancient Mytica: Maddox Corso doesn’t think much of it when he spots an unfamiliar girl in his small village. This is a spin-off series from Morgan Rhodes previous series Falling Kingdoms. Worlds collide in this suspenseful, page-turning Falling Kingdoms spin-off series, which explores a whole new side of Mytica-and an even darker version of its magic.Ĭrystal Hatcher, Modern-day Toronto: It’s a normal afternoon in her mother’s antique bookshop when Crys witnesses the unthinkable: her little sister Becca collapses into a coma after becoming mesmerized by a mysterious book written in an unrecognizable language. Modern-day sisters discover deadly ancient magic in book 1 of this Falling Kingdoms spin-off series! |