![]() ![]() Thank you for everything you have done for me - and thank you for helping me grow into the woman I have become. You have brought so much light into my life. In fact, you make everything else feel meaningless because the only thing that matters is you. ![]() It feels like we just met yesterday, but at the same time it feels like I have known you all my life. I cannot believe another year has passed. No matter what the occasion, there is a letter that will fit your love story perfectly. If you are afraid of the words coming out wrong, then you should steal one of these love letters for him. Express your love instead of keeping it bottled up inside, because even if you assume your person already knows how you feel, it’s always nice to hear the words spoken aloud. When you care about someone, you should let them know. ![]()
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![]() Reed’s excited to get away from her mother and boring suburban life. But all that is about to change because she has won a scholarship that will let her go to Easton Academy as a student on their beautiful campus. Private is the first book in the series of the same name by acclaimed author Kate Brian! Reed Brennan is just like any other 15-year-old girl living in the suburbs. The Private series features the main character, Reed Brennan, while the Privilege series features the main character, Ariana Osgood. Both series are set at the exclusive private boarding school Easton Academy. This was followed by the sequel, Beautiful Disaster, in 2009. ![]() This series kicked off with the 2008 release of the debut novel, Privilege. The author also has a related series in the Privilege series. There were several more in the series and the fourteenth novel in the series was titled Vengeance and was published in 2011. That was quickly followed by Invitation Only and then the third book, Untouchable. The Private series started off with the publication of the debut novel in the series, Private. Kate Brian is the writer of the Private/Privilege series. She followed that up with The V Club and published several more novels, including the 2009 novel Ex-Mas. ![]() Her first full-length fictional novel came out in 2003 and was titled The Princess and the Pauper. She is well known for her Private Privilege series as well as her other works, including the fictional Shadowlands series. She is an author of fiction mainly in the Young Adult genre. ![]() Kate Brian is the pen name used by writer Kieran Scott. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Detective Marasi Colms and her partner Wayne find stockpiled weapons bound for the Outer City of Bilming, this opens a new lead. ![]() Return to #1 New York Times bestseller Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn world of Scadrial as its second era, which began with The Alloy of Law, comes to its earth-shattering conclusion in The Lost Metal.įor years, frontier lawman turned big-city senator Waxillium Ladrian has hunted the shadowy organization the Set - with his late uncle and his sister among their leaders - since they started kidnapping people with the power of Allomancy in their bloodlines. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When there’s a real possibility you might not live another day, you go through a range of emotions. My body reacted to the touch and I looked up. Someone knelt next to me and took my hand. The heavy door shut behind me with a thud and a lock fell into place. I opened the door and entered the stone house the room was illuminated by candlelight. I ran to the one place I knew I would be safe. I ran from the illusion I was living and blinked away the tears clouding my vision. I pushed men and women out of my way and hoped they didn’t meet the people I was running from. ![]() The narrow alleyways were hot and crowded. I sprinted through the uneven stone streets as my dress wound its way between my legs, threatening to trip me with every step. The pain would diminish and though I wouldn’t remember it, our bond would always exist. I couldn’t stay knowing what he was part of, but despite everything, I wouldn’t deny I still loved him. Maybe it was love, maybe it was guilt, but he told me I had to go. ![]() Lights flickered as I passed them, one thought pounding in my head: he had let me leave. I didn’t dare look behind me, too scared of who might be following. ![]() ![]() ![]() The late Jeremiah Willis-whose father was a formerly enslaved man from Virginia and mother a White Englishwoman-was an inventor of note, and Wrexford and Charlotte soon learn that his orphaned nephew, young Peregrine, stands to inherit a large estate from the other side of his family. So when their dog turns up a body floating in Hyde Park's lake, the Serpentine, their curiosity is piqued. ![]() The Earl of Wrexford and his wife, Charlotte, have had a great deal of experience with mysteries, and their wards, Raven and Hawk, former street urchins with a scientific bent, are always up for a new adventure. ![]() An aristocratic sleuthing duo seeks a killer in Regency London's back alleys and drawing rooms. ![]() ![]() When the novel changes perspective in the second section, now told from Dorothy’s sister Ellen’s point of view, the reader suddenly has no idea who this killer is. ![]() Narrating the opening section, this psychopathic male student remains unnamed, which allows Levin to indulge is some deftly managed misdirection for both his characters and his readers regarding the killer’s identity. The less you know about the rest of the plot, the more you will enjoy A Kiss Before Dying because structurally, it is a work of perfection. But when his plan to get rid of the child fails, the man decides that Dorothy will have to die instead. Dorothy is pregnant and this man knows that her father will disown her if she has a child out of wedlock. He has been dating Dorothy, the daughter of a wealthy copper magnate for a year now and she loves him and wants to marry him.Įverything has been going to plan, until now. Despite his charm, good looks and charisma, he has no money, so he decides to marry in to it rather than make it for himself. ![]() However, this is one all-American boy who will stop at nothing-not even murder-to get what he wants from life. It is set mostly on a small-town college campus and has as it’s protagonist, a good-looking all-American boy. A Kiss Before Dying is less fantastical than the other two Levin novels I’ve read. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And what about picking berries, fishing, and seeing starfish, anemones, periwinkles, and hermit crabs on the shore? Realizing that her days are filled with interesting sights and happy wanderings, Jessie finishes her letter with a warning to her city cousin: “When you visit my island, Thomas, you might never want to leave.” The lovely watercolor pictures, with their soft pastel tones, play an important role in telling the story often the text merely suggests what the pictures show in detail. The abandoned cabin is fun to explore, and it’s exciting to watch the ferries. What can she show Thomas? Well, there are the bald eagles nesting in the first tree, and those curious harbor seals there are killer whales, an otter family, and dozens of birds. What could be more interesting than playing tennis, hockey, and video games at the mall or seeing a movie or concert? When Jessie’s mother suggests they invite Thomas for a visit to their island, Jessie climbs a high hill overlooking the ocean and writes a little in reply. The first, from Jessie’s cousin Thomas, describes the activities of city life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In contrast to power holders’ attacks on term limits, survey results from Africa show that the societies they govern value this constitutional rule. Term limits have been abolished, amended, or re-interpreted recurrently, but have certainly not disappeared from the political scene entirely. Since the 1990s, Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa have been hit by an amendment fever that today accumulates to about 60 approved reforms and additional failed attempts. In practice, term limits have not always been an effective instrument to stop the president from taking office again and again. Their goal is to constrain personalism, prevent power abuse, and to promote party competition and alternation in power. In presidential systems, such limits are a key check on the power of the incumbent. Yet, Bolivia’s Evo Morales and Guinea’s Alpha Condé are only recent examples of incumbents trying to extend their time in office – and of the acute political conflicts that follow from these bold moves.Ī presidential term limit is the constitutional rule that restricts the number of terms that the president of a given state may serve. ![]() Today, the great majority of African and Latin American countries have presidential term limits inscribed in their constitutions. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We also have book recommendations on early modern history and contemporary history (history of the present). The big global conflicts of the 20th century remain a key source of fascination, and we have a large number of book recommendations on World War II.īook recommendations about key historical figures-like Hitler, Alexander the Great, Catherine the Great, Napoleon and Genghis Khan-are among the most popular on our site.Īncient history, medieval history and modern history. For a more detailed look at different people, times or places in history, we've divided our recommendations into a number of sections:īooks on world history, including American, Chinese, French, Russian, German or British history. Here are some of the popular history books that have been recommended. We’ve spoken to hundreds of historians asking them to recommend the best history books (and explain what’s so good about them in an in-depth interview). His resolve was strengthened by the advice of his old headmaster at Harrow: ‘Gibbon is the greatest. At that time he was a cavalry subaltern at Aldershot and he thought it would be more agreeable to read Gibbon than to pile up statistics. Foreign Policy & International Relations Winston Churchill decided to read The decline and fall of the Roman Empire at the age of twenty, in 1895. ![]() ![]() ![]() Surprise, a mountain lion! “It moves out from under the shadows so that both of us are in the same sunlight…It begins walking straight at me.” Jeopardy doesn’t have to come from something big or venomous, however a raccoon that doesn’t appreciate Child’s efforts to rescue him becomes a 12-pound package of fury, snapping jaws. Occasionally-and profoundly, as the pursuer becomes the pursued-Childs is reminded that his place on the food chain is not necessarily at the apex. Some of the experiences chronicled here are quite simply breath-catching and heart-gladdening: following an intermittent stream of ruby-red dragonflies to a water source in a dry land watching 50 violet-green swallows “working a cat’s cradle into the air” placing a mouse upon a branch to become a canapé for a northern spotted owl. The author has a talent for bringing his encounters home and fashioning them into chromatic, immediate accounts. ![]() Naturalist and essayist Childs ( House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest, 2007, etc.) celebrates wild creatures met in wild places. ![]() |