![]() ![]() Appropriate for and enjoyed by young teens and young-at-heart of all ages. While the tale includes sexy situations, it is not gratuitous. One Night With a Rock Star is a rich, satisfying Saga filled with multi-dimensional, lovable characters, sigh-worthy Romance and a tale that will carve itself onto your soul.Įxplores themes of spirituality, modern morality, relationship with God versus religion, how to aim for vibrant, lifelong love and how one can "have it all" yet still long for meaning and purpose in life. Will Esther's deep roots in Family and Faith keep her feet on the ground when a tornado named Sky blows her world apart? ![]() One chance meeting with her Superstar crush rocks both their worlds. ![]() During the Glam-Rock 80s, Esther is a College Journalism student and fledgling Print Model. When Esther was a young teen with frizzy hair and too-skinny legs, Sky’s music soothed her through awkwardness and pain. ![]()
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![]() īhagat then went on to pursue an Masters of Business Administration degree in marketing from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA) and graduated in 1997. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1995 as a 9+ pointer. This encouraged him to write more in the coming years. He used to write articles for the literary magazine of his school and seeing his name printed on the magazine as a writer gave him intense pleasure. His love for writing began during his school years. ![]() He claims to have been an average student at 15. He was schooled at the Army Public School, Dhaula Kuan. His father served as a lieutenant colonel in the Indian Army and his mother worked as a scientist in Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. Five of his novels have been adapted into films.īhagat grew up in a traditional Punjabi Hindu family. ![]() ![]() He was included in Time magazine's list of World's 100 Most Influential People in 2010. Chetan Bhagat (born 22 April 1974) is an Indian author, columnist and YouTuber. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Nasty gal series![]() ![]() ![]() I hope I’m not,” she said, wiping away tears as she sat inside the San Vicente Bungalows in West Hollywood on an early June afternoon, “because then I’d be pregnant.” (She punctuated her admission by saying, “You can write that.”)Īmoruso might be best remembered for the blunt dark bob and fierce no-nonsense look she sported on the cover of her bestselling book, “#Girlboss,” but it’s her blunt, no-nonsense attitude that has kept her millennial fan base interested long after her previous company, Nasty Gal, a women’s clothing retailer, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2016. Sophia Amoruso, the 35-year-old “#Girlboss” author and businesswoman, dabbed her eyes, which were covered in a glittery eye shadow. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her quest will unveil how Kai, her enigmatic father, a talented pianist, and Ai-Ming’s father, the shy and brilliant composer, Sparrow, along with the violin prodigy Zhuli were forced to reimagine their artistic and private selves during China’s political campaigns and how their fates reverberate through the years with lasting consequences. ![]() Through their relationship Marie strives to piece together the tale of her fractured family in present-day Vancouver, seeking answers in the fragile layers of their collective story. At the center of this epic story are two young women, Marie and Ai-Ming. Master storyteller Madeleine Thien takes us inside an extended family in China, showing us the lives of two successive generations-those who lived through Mao’s Cultural Revolution and their children, who became the students protesting in Tiananmen Square. ![]() The first time, to end his marriage, and the second, when he took his own life. “In a single year, my father left us twice. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Little Daughter by Zoya Phan![]() ![]() Zoya, a gifted pupil, was eventually able to escape, first to Bangkok and then, with her enemies still pursuing her, in 2004 she fled to the UK and claimed asylum. Conditions in the camp were difficult, and Zoya now had to care for her ailing mother. Her family scattered, Zoya sought sanctuary across the border in a Thai refugee camp. So began two terrible years of running from guns, as Zoya joined thousands of refugees hiding in the jungle. ![]() With their house in flames, Zoya and her family fled. At the age of fourteen, however, Zoya's childhood was shattered as the Burmese army attacked. Her early years were blissfully removed from the war. Many Karen are Christian or Buddhist, but Zoya's parents were animist, venerating the spirits of forest, river and moon. She lived in a bamboo hut on stilts by the Moei River she hunted for edible fungi with her much-loved adopted brother, Say Say. ![]() For decades the Karen have been under attack from Burma's military junta Zoya's mother was a guerrilla soldier, her father a freedom activist. "Zoya Phan was born in the remote jungles of Burma, to the Karen ethnic group. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Stephen king later book![]() ![]() ![]() Even the best writers exhaust themselves and lapse into self-parody, and some of us now are bound to ask whether the man is producing anything worth reading.īased on his new novel, Later, the answer is yes and no. But King has also unleashed a lot of dross on the world. ![]() Some of his novels are powerful works of the macabre and certain of his early stories-think of “The Last Rung on the Ladder,” “Night Surf,” “Quitters, Inc.,” “The Man Who Loved Flowers,” “The Woman in the Room,” “Nona,” and “Survivor Type”-are resonant, shudder-inducing tales that compare favorably with anything by Salinger or Capote. ![]() King adds continually to a vast and uneven corpus of work. Press play to hear a narrated version of this story, presented by AudioHopper. King publishes everything from works of supernatural horror to gritty crime stories to tales marked by Chandleresque melancholy and the social realism of a Russell Banks writing about New England’s losers and sad sacks. Does Stephen King still have it as a writer? The 73-year-old scribe churns out book after book and story after story every year, running circles around younger authors in terms of productivity, not to mention versatility. ![]() 7/3/2023 0 Comments Embers by Ronie Kendig![]() ![]() I was looking forward to Brooke’s book since Brooke and Cord’s first meet in book one. “I think Metcalfe and Mayhem go hand-in-hand.” Brooke must put her life-and heart-in the hands of the thick-skulled operator. Tricky are the hours as Cord negotiates many battles: freeing the captives, demolishing the Trench that has made millions off the skin-trade industry, and his growing, deep-rooted feelings for the bombshell in her highfalutin tower. Then there’s her brothers who have threatened to chase him into the afterlife should he fail. But maybe he’s bitten off more than he can chew this time as he works to track down New York City high-powered attorney Brooke Metcalfe, who is MIA. But her self-centered ways nip at her heels as she goes on the lam to do what she knows is right.įormer Special Forces operator and founder of MiLE, Cord Taggart wages war on human trafficking by taking the violence to the wicked, determined to never again let an innocent die because he did nothing. Until a life-altering moment offers a chance at something she didn’t know she wanted-redemption. Written off by her family, she delves deeper into her work. ![]() ![]() ![]() Prioritizing career over family cost Brooke Metcalfe Mulroney everything-her relationship with her siblings, her marriage, her children. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Our dreams are where we sometimes live out fantasies that perhaps our conscious mind refuses to acknowledge. ![]() “I love a good story about the supernatural… but I love a good nightmare more, after all there is probably nothing as scary as our own subconscious” ![]() She has taught creative writing classes for the last ten years, whilst writing screenplays, tackling a novel and experimenting with short stories.įor a more detailed view of Julia’s take on life, check out this great guest interview with her, over at ‘Morgen Bailey’s Writing Blog’. As a child she would watch anything that even vaguely looked as if it may be scary… so perhaps it is only natural that this is the area her writing tends to wander into – even if she doesn’t always intend it to!… a true Scorpio! She was an avid reader of horror stories as a teenager, including, James Herbert, Stephen King, Clive Barker and Peter Straub, in her list of favourite authors. Julia, was born and has spent most of her life living in Cambridgeshire, England – the perfect place for discovering inspiration for ghost stories. This story is now available in print, as part of a dark-fiction anthology ‘Touched by Darkness’, featuring short stories by Julia and eleven of her fellow writers. But they both find nothing is what it seems… A woman is tempted away from the safety of her husband’s arms by a skilful night-time visitor. ![]() Her nightmares were simply too good to resist. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Revelation 5:6-“When Jesus is described as a lamb with seven eyes, it contradicts known facts to take that literally.Here are some of the difficulties in Alcorn’s book. We can't ignore the scriptures that militate against our view. He seems to be saying, in effect, "Why not take all the descriptions of heaven and the new earth literally?" Yet if we are going to do so, we must be consistent. And yet the book fell short of expectations.Īlcorn makes several good points, and in interesting and sometimes compelling ways. ![]() I already knew that we agreed on some key points-for example, that Christian tradition needs to be reevaluated, that there is an intermediate place of the dead, and that the resurrection is physical. When I read Alcorn's 2004 bestseller Heaven, I expected to learn. What do you think about Randy Alcorn's book Heaven? Is he right that heaven will be down here on earth? Prism : Insight & Inspiration (Christ in the Old Testament). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The language had already been dead for hundreds of years, yet it managed to survive thanks to the priests who’d memorized certain hymns, called the Vedas. Sir William Jones was working in India when he took up the unusual hobby of learning Sanskrit. Why are these words so similar? An eighteenth-century English judge wondered the same thing – and his attempt to answer that question essentially launched the field of historical linguistics. ![]() Take the word “brother.” In German it’s “bruder,” in Sanskrit it’s “bhrata,” and in Persian it’s “biradar.” One age-old indicator of a near-global connection is language. This may well be the case, but that doesn’t mean that connectedness is anything new. Many people will tell you that today’s world is more connected than ever before. ![]() |