5/13/2023 0 Comments Maud hart lovelace society![]() ![]() The first Betsy-Tacy book appeared in 1940, and the last book, Betsy's Wedding, was published in 1955. The enduringly popular Betsy-Tacy series was inspired by stories about her childhood that she told her own daughter. However, she's best known today for her books for children. Her next book, Early Candlelight, published in 1929, was her biggest success in this genre. She published her first book, The Black Angels, an historical novel set in Minnesota, in 1926. He served in World War I, and afterwards they moved to New York, living in the city as well as in Yonkers and Mount Vernon, writing journalism and books. In 1917, at age 25, she married Delos Lovelace, a military officer in training, with whom she would have two children. She returned to Minnesota and worked for the Minnesota Daily. There she sold her first short story, "Number Eight," to the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine in 1911. Now open to visitors, Betsy’s House is a museum where one can see how the Hart family lived more than 100 years earlier. After graduating from Mankato High School, she attended the University of Minnesota but took a leave of absence to go to California to recover from an operation. With support from Maud Hart Lovelace fans from around the world, the Betsy-Tacy Society has preserved and restored the childhood homes of Maud’s fictional characters Betsy and Tacy. Her father privately published a collection of her poetry around this time. Around age 10, she adopted her mother's maiden name and called herself Maud Palmer Hart. She began writing at a very early age, reportedly as soon as she could hold a pencil. Her parents were Tom Hart, a shoestore owner, and his wife, Stella. Maud Hart Lovelace was born in Mankato, Minnesota. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Lisa jewell the family upstairs 2![]() Lucy decides she must return to London with her children, and her path intersects with Libby in the mysterious mansion that plays an important role in both of their lives. ![]() Meanwhile, single mother of two, Lucy, is struggling to feed and house her children in the south of France, when she receives a mysterious message that reads, “the baby is 25”. Libby, with the help of a reporter, investigates the dark history of her newly inherited mansion. Libby soon learns about her adoption circumstances-she was discovered as an infant in the mansion, when police were investigating a murder suicide that occurred just a couple floors down from the baby nursery. ![]() ![]() Lisa Jewell’s 17th novel, The Family Upstairs, tells the story of Libby’s efforts to answer the questions posed by her surprise inheritance of a multi-million dollar mansion in the Chelsea neighborhood of London. On the evening of her 25th birthday, Libby Jones receives a letter that comes to totally transforms her understanding of her origins, and open the doors to her mysterious past. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s an initiation into adulthood, womanhood, and the brutal side of magic that Paige will have to do everything within her power to make sure they both survive. They are a vicious group who will do anything to woo the young, malleable, and extremely powerful neophyte, including commit murder-and frame Paige for the crime. For this girl is being pursued by a dark faction of the supernatural underworld. The first rule of a supernatural fight club Don't kill your opponent. But even Paige’s wildest antics can’t hold a candle to those of her new charge-an orphan who is all too willing to use her budding powers for evil.and evil is all too willing to claim her. Counterfeit Magic Kelley Armstrong, Maurizio Manzieri (Illustrator) 4.14 5,013 ratings227 reviews Return to the world of Kelley Armstrong's best-selling novels Dime Store Magic and Industrial Magic for a long original novella. Now that she is twenty-three and her mother is dead, the Elders can no longer deny her. ![]() Paige Winterbourne was always either too young or too rebellious to succeed her mother as leader of one of the world’s most powerful elite organizations-the American Coven of Witches. ![]() From one of today’s most original writers comes the mesmerizing tale of an exceptional young woman caught up in an otherworldly realm where some will stop at nothing to get what they want. ![]() ![]() She is torn between her feelings for him, and exposing a secret that will destroy everything he holds as truth. Daniel shows Aimee a side of Yellowstone she’s never experienced. While he fights his growing attraction to her, he is left frustrated by her lies and secrecy. How did a white woman suddenly appear in the remote Rocky Mountain wilderness? Trapper Daniel Osborne’s first instinct is to protect this mysterious and unconventional woman from the harsh realities of his mountains. The only requirement: she cannot tell anyone that she’s from the future. She encounters a patient who tells her he is a time traveler and can send her two hundred years into the past to spend three months in the rugged Yellowstone wilderness at the dawn of the mountain man era. ![]() ![]() Book 1 in the Yellowstone Romance Series "I am not good with words, but you make my heart sing, Aimee." Nurse and avid backpacker Aimee Donovan is offered the opportunity of a lifetime. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Zazoo richard mosher![]() ![]() ![]() Readers will be swept away by the evocative images and emotive scenes in this story, offering a mix of bitter and sweeet. It is a story of love, devotion, and unwavering commitment that bridges generations and cultures.Ī lyrical book about memory and living with loss. Zazoo is a beautiful and lyrical novel, with poetry woven throughout. This is a story of memory and contemplation, not action, with most of the elements unfolding slowly over the course of a year through dialogue and reminiscence.įrom the very first paragraph, Mosher's vivid imagery makes Zazoo's world come to life.This book is her tale, a romance with a little history thrown in, and it is told well. Zazoo's voice is honest and distinct as she tells her story the secondary characters develop with real three-dimensional complexity as well. A slow and almost dreamlike exploration of the myriad ways that the pastespecially a cataclysmic pastinforms the present.The slow revelation of the many intertwined personal histories is truly elegant, and the several love stories that emerge are almost painfully romantic. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Leave the world behind rumaan alam![]() ![]() ![]() His early novels were postmodern potboilers, detective stories with a philosophical bent, like 1982’s A Wild Sheep Chase and its 1988 sequel, Dance Dance Dance. Murakami is among the most prolific of contemporary novelists, and his books have traversed many styles and themes. Novelist as a Vocation, in this way, is like so many of his novels, and it hinges on a trick at which Murakami is well practiced: the promise of revelation that turns out to be a disappearing act. Murakami’s impulse is to document these lives without worrying too much about explaining them. ![]() The novelist’s protagonists are often people adrift, destabilized by something that never quite comes into focus-sometimes a psychic trauma, sometimes a paranormal force. But Novelist as a Vocation is elusive for another reason, too: Much like Murakami’s fiction, it’s a work more interested in questions than in answers. Having published 14 novels and five collections of stories in his 40-plus-year career, Murakami surely knows that whatever fiction requires of an artist can’t be distilled into steps like a recipe. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Changeling Dawn by Dani Harper![]() ![]() All of the mates are human-at least they start out that way.Ĭhangelings are not dependent on the full moon and can shift into their wolf forms at will. There is an older sister (Carly), but she has already found her mate by the time the series begins. ![]() The series follows the four Macleod brothers (Connor, James, and twins Cully and Devon) and their sister (Kenzie) as each one finds, woos, and beds his or her soul mate. They follow the two primary laws of the Changeling world: Never harm a human, and never turn a human against his or her will. The Macleod clan lived in Scotland for centuries, but this branch of the family moved to Canada almost two centuries ago to flee the wolf extermination program in Scotland and begin a new life in the vast wilderness of northern Canada.Ĭhangelings are unknown to mortals, so they generally live close to wilderness areas where they can run and hunt freely, undetected by humans. This is a standard paranormal romance series with werewolves (here called Changelings) as the main characters, specifically the Macleod family, now living in Dunvegan, a small town in the forests of northern Canada on the Peace River. ![]() ![]() ![]() An anime film is set to premiere in 2023.Ĭatarina Claes, the young daughter of a noble family, one day bumps her head and regains memories of her past life as a 17-year-old otaku girl. An anime television series adaptation produced by Silver Link aired from April to June 2020, and a second season aired from July to September 2021. ![]() A spin-off manga was serialized from November 2019 to July 2021. It has been collected in seven tankōbon volumes and licensed in English by Seven Seas Entertainment. The light novel has been licensed in North America by J-Novel Club.Ī manga adaptation with art by Hidaka has been serialized in Ichijinsha's josei manga magazine Monthly Comic Zero Sum since August 2017. Twelve volumes have been released as of October 2022. It was acquired by Ichijinsha, who published the first light novel volume in August 2015 under their Ichijinsha Bunko Iris imprint. It began serialization online in July 2014 on the user-generated novel publishing website Shōsetsuka ni Narō. ![]() " I Reincarnated into an otome game as a Villainess With Only Destruction Flags…"), also known as HameFura ( はめふら) for short, is a Japanese light novel series written by Satoru Yamaguchi and illustrated by Nami Hidaka. ![]() My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! ( Japanese: 乙女ゲームの破滅フラグしかない悪役令嬢に転生してしまった…, Hepburn: Otome Gēmu no Hametsu Furagu Shika Nai Akuyaku Reijō ni Tensei Shite Shimatta…, lit. My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! The Movie ![]() ![]() I might actually recommend listening to the book over reading it – our main character Corin Cadence is incredibly curious about literally everything and we spend a lot of time in his head, listening to the “I must remember to research that later” and the continuous “I wonder if I could…” commentary is suited to being spoken. As with all male narrators, the female character’s voices are a bit gruff and hoarse sounding, but that is easily overlooked (the opposite occurs with female narrators). ![]() Essentially, these are books based either literally around people in a game or a world that functions like an RPG typically these feature dungeons, levelling up, magic, trading, forging weapons, and parties (the dangerous, monster fighting kind).įirst off, I bought Sufficiently Advanced Magic on audiobook and the narration was excellent (if very strongly American, which I soon got into). ![]() ![]() ![]() When I was a great deal younger I spent a reasonable amount of time devouring books and manga of the LitRPG genre – the most famous of which might be Sword Art Online, The Tower of God, and 1/2 Prince. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Appetence by C.C. Burns![]() ![]() ![]() What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it? I like to start with a valid line of enquiry and ask “what might such a past have looked like for a woman like this?” My current (debut) series seeks to consider what a lesbian lifestyle might have been like for a woman of the nineteenth century. I love research and like to mix well researched truths in with reimagined fictions, to fill out the historical clefts. I am interested in excavating women’s pasts and reimagining the little known-untold stories of supressed histories and narratives. I’m Claire, lover all things Regency! I’m not quite sure how this fascination began, but trips to my local National Trust house at Osterley Park were certainly part of my inspiration as a young girl and naturally lead to an overconsumption of period drama and nineteenth century books from an early age. ![]() Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written. ![]() |