![]() ![]() He describes himself as someone who is pretty down on his luck, who never had any friends and doesn’t now. Jason is back in his home town of Southport, Washington after years away. When we join the story, we meet the character who we will follow through the story in his first person telling of the tale. Oh, and did I mention, of course heavy betting. Strictly off the radar and pretty much no rules. The biggest source of income for the club is their underground cage fights. The Rapid Mongrels is a small MC, led by a man named Hyde. ![]() Merikan introduce us to a new motorcycle club. With Bare Knuckle Love, the two ladies writing as K.A. ![]() I’m really glad I did! It is free right now on Amazon in the US and the UK (and perhaps elsewhere), and free on All Romance. Merikan book on Amazon, and I stumbled onto this one. Soon enough, the self-destructive lust he has for Hyde becomes a dangerous obsession that takes Jason to the most forgotten corners of his soul. No matter how manipulative and vicious Hyde can be, he is a dark wet dream come to life, and Jason can’t keep his hands to himself. To survive, Jason will have to make a deal with the blond devil. He gets more than he bargained for when Hyde turns out to be the president of the MC, now out for his blood. The Rabid Mongrels Motorcycle Club bet against him, and they are set to make a killing, but when Jason spots his high school crush in the audience, he can’t bear to lose. Jason is back in his home town and trying to make money the only way he knows – in an illegal MMA fight. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() “I think the big difference there with what that means, ‘using a female lens,’ is that while the sci-fi aspect of it is the backdrop and is what’s exciting about it, ultimately what this show is about is relationships and a woman’s journey in finding her identity and exploring intimacy. ![]() “We wanted to tell a sci-fi story through a female lens,” says Lee, who calls this series “one of the greatest creative experiences” she’s ever had. The technology visualized on-screen seems at once futuristic - the Gogol complex is a series of virtual reality cubical hubs, and Byron can see everything Hazel sees through the chip in her brain - and yet not quite so far off in an age of smart speakers and remote workplaces. The HBO Max series, from Paramount Television Studios, centers on Cristin Milioti as Hazel Green, a woman who discovers that her controlling tech billionaire husband, Byron Gogol (Billy Magnussen), has implanted a chip in her brain that tracks her whereabouts and her emotions. Nutting wanted to explore the themes of “technology, love, relationship, surveillance and divorce… on a really fun and entertaining and suspenseful visual scale.” In adapting her sci-fi novel “ Made for Love” for television, author Alissa Nutting worked with showrunner Christina Lee to bring to the screen some fantastical elements, like simulated beaches so convincing that they’re indistinguishable from the real thing.īut the crux of the story is an analog one: an examination of who you are when you’re in a relationship - and who you are when no one else is watching. ![]() ![]() ![]() What began as a teenage avocation has led to regular public performances at various small venues in his Manhattan hometown, with occasional appearances at various jazz festivals. For inspiration, Allen draws heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Ancient Greece, Jewish identity, European cinema and New York City, where he was born and has lived his entire life.Īllen is also a jazz clarinetist. ![]() ![]() Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in the majority of them. He is also distinguished by his rapid rate of production and his very large body of work. Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg December 1, 1935) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, comedian, writer, musician, and playwright.Īllen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to screwball sex comedies, have made him one of the most respected living American directors. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Because Falk and his childhood friend Luke Hadler shared a secret, one which Luke's death threatens to unearth. As suspicion spreads through the town, Falk is forced to confront the community that rejected him twenty years earlier. ![]() Federal Police investigator Aaron Falk returns to his hometown for the funerals and is unwillingly drawn into the investigation. Everyone assumes Luke Hadler committed suicide after slaughtering his wife and six-year-old son. Tensions in the farming community become unbearable when three members of the Hadler family are discovered shot to death on their property. Read it! David Baldacci Makes the Australian Outback come alive and breeds respect for its survivors Bill Clinton WHO REALLY KILLED THE HADLER FAMILY? It hasn't rained in Kiewarra for two years. A secret on every page The New York Times One of the most stunning debuts I've ever read. The international debut bestseller from the author of Force of Nature and new novel The Survivors. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING ERIC BANA AS AARON FALK. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Could she risk giving the old harridan a sharp set down? No. Instead Eloise turned her head back toward the altar. She had been very pleased to learn that the Earl of Slaslow was standing up for Patrick. That should put a sock in the gossips’ chatter! He looked a bit peevish, the Chatwin boy, but then he was the peevish sort anyway. In fact, the more she’d thought about it, the more it seemed clear that Sophie would be better off with Patrick Foakes. “Stop peering, Eloise,” Henrietta was saying, with the freedom of a rather crotchety woman on the far side of seventy. “They’re all here, no need to worry. Thinking it’s the love match of the century, no doubt!” She positively cackled.Įloise looked at Henrietta with a pang of extreme dislike. ![]() ![]() George’s chapel at three o’clock on a Wednesday afternoon. She had rummaged up every single relation she and George had on their side of the family and had, in essence, done the same with Patrick Foakes’s family, given that his entire family consisted of one brother (Alex), an uncle, and an aunt. However few in number, they were all prominently in view. Patrick’s uncle would conduct the ceremony and his aunt, Henrietta Collumber, had been given a place of honor next to the bride’s mother. Eloise York felt a warm glow of satisfaction in the pit of her stomach as she looked discreetly over the mass of gentlefolk occupying St. ![]() ![]() He later has a bet with Marlene where he has to shoot a muffin off Marlene's head without her flinching. Tris and Uriah's friendship further develops, but he is most often seen with his fellow Dauntless-born initiates Marlene and Lynn. The second when Will notices how those with siblings who are already Dauntless members get inside information both arguments of which Uriah has reasonable answers to. The first when Will tells Uriah that it seems unfair how the Dauntless-borns have been preparing for the initiation for the past sixteen years while the transfers only get a few weeks. When Tris lands, Uriah soon follows behind and Tris, along with the group of Dauntless, make fun of him for "sounding like a strangled cat." Impressed with her victory in Capture the Flag and seeing her in the hallway after she cleaned up Edwards blood, Uriah invites Tris to join him, and the other Dauntless-born initiates for an apparently dangerous initiation ritual, which is to ride down the zip line from the top of the Hancock Building. After their victory, he plays with a paintball and sprays some onto himself and Tris. Tris first meets Uriah during their Capture the Flag activity when Four picked them to be on his team. 1.3.2 The Divergent Series: Allegiant filmīiography (Uriah) Divergent Divergent (book). ![]() ![]() ![]() 1.2.2 The Divergent Series: Insurgent Film. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unbeknownst to Firepaw, however, there is a prophecy from StarClan, where spirits of dead warriors live, that tells of fire saving the clan. But ShadowClan, a very scary clan, especially with a menacing leader called Brokenstar is demanding to hunt on ThunderClan territory because of FOOD. Then Firepaw meets an old cat who is very chubby it is Yellowfang, whose teeth are not very well cared for. And he is now called FIREPAW after his brown coat. So Rusty, who is only 6 moons old, begins to train as a warrior apprentice, who will catch a lot of tasty prey and fight enemy cats who live in other little tiny cat groups called clans. Which is what those strange cats in the forest, warriors, call members of the Homo Sapiens species. The first book, released 20 years ago, in 2003, tells us about a life form, Rusty, who escapes from the confines of his humans' nest and charges into the forest, never to be seen by the Twolegs again. ![]() The book series with lots of characters and 60 or so books. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mel notices signs of ghostly activity next door and she wonders- Are the Murder House ghosts reaching out to her for help, or has the house claimed another victim? Now, surprised to find herself as the SFPD's unofficial "ghost consultant," Mel must investigate murders both past and present before a spooky killer finishes another job. But when volunteers discover a body while cleaning out a shed, questions pile up faster than discarded lumber. ![]() San Francisco contractor Mel Turner is leading a volunteer home renovation project, and while she expects lots of questions from her inexperienced crew, she can't help asking a few of her own-especially about the haunted house next door.the place l. Home for the Haunting: A Haunted Home Renovation Mystery (Paperback) ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2021, Tanya won the Romance Writers of Australia Romance in Media Award. Tanya was shortlisted in the 2020 Australian Romance Readers Award for Favourite Debut Author and Favourite Holiday/Christmas story. W8inner of the 2022 Romance Writers of Australia Sapphire Award for best unpublished romance manuscript for This Side of Fate. ![]() She is also an award-winning freelance journalist and member of the Romance Writers of Australia, the Australian Romance Readers Association and the Romance Writers of New Zealand. She lives on the outskirts of Sydney with her two children, a psychotic cat and a dog that refuses to believe he’s not human. One thing you will always get with Tanya's books - a strong woman who knows who she is (eventually) and gets what she wants. Tanya writes gut-churning historical fiction, contemporary crime/mystery and suspense with a romantic angle that always includes good sex and a happily ever after. She is an avid reader, novelist, experience enthusiast, outstanding car vocalist, and Queen of fancy dress. ![]() Award-winning author Tanya Nellestein has been recreating the fruits of her overactive imagination on paper since she was a child. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sure, they didn’t actually kidnap her – that was their daughter, Hannah, though Miranda and Frank didn’t know that Janie wasn’t Hannah’s biological child. In What Janie Found, Janie/Jennie again has to grapple with understanding who her “kidnap parents” Miranda and Frank really are. In The Voice on the Radio, the adorable boy-next-door Reeve Shields turns out to be a bit of an 18-year-old dick, voicing Janie’s story across Boston airwaves as he makes a name for himself at his college radio station. Will she ever be able to make anyone happy? In Whatever Happened to Janie?, Janie/Jennie grapples with the idea of loving simultaneously her “kidnap family” in Connecticut and her “real family” in New Jersey. In The Face on the Milk Carton, Janie is faced with coming to terms with the possibility that the milk carton wasn’t lying and that she was, in fact, a girl named Jennie Spring who was kidnapped from a New Jersey mall when she was a toddler. And thus starts a whirlwind couple of years for Janie Johnson, aka Jennie Spring. Only they’re saying this three-year-old Janie was kidnapped. ![]() One day at lunch, Janie swipes someone’s cardboard milk carton (remember those?) and finds herself staring at the three-year-old version of herself. Janie Johnson was a normal, average, every day girl - until she wasn’t. ![]() It’s like I can’t go back and I can’t go forward. ![]() |