![]() ![]() But his facade starts to crumble when he finds himself sleepwalking, propelled into the night by terrifying dreams about a white cat that wants to tell him something. He doesn’t have magic, so he’s an outsider, the straight kid in a crooked family-except for the small detail that he killed his best friend, Lila, three years ago.Ĭassel has carefully built up a facade of normalcy, blending into the crowd. Many become mobsters and con artists, but not Cassel. ![]() And since curse work is illegal, they’re also all criminals. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black comes the “dangerously, darkly gorgeous” (Cassandra Clare) Curse Workers trilogy, now together in one beautiful bind-up!Ĭassel Sharpe comes from a family of curse workers, people who have the power to change emotions, memories, and luck with the slightest touch of their hands. ![]()
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![]() The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena not just a story about a couple next door. ![]() What follows is the nerve-racking unraveling of a family-a chilling tale of deception, duplicity, and unfaithfulness that will keep you breathless until the final shocking twist. ![]() Both Anne and Marco soon discover that the other is keeping secrets, secrets they’ve kept for years. Detective Rasbach knows that the panicked couple is hiding something. Inside the curtained house, an unsettling account of what actually happened unfolds. But the truth is a much more complicated story. Suspicion immediately focuses on the parents. But one night when they are at a dinner party next door, a terrible crime is committed. People are capable of almost anything.Īnne and Marco Conti seem to have it all-a loving relationship, a wonderful home, and their beautiful baby, Cora. How well do you know the couple next door? Or your husband? Or even-yourself? ![]() ![]() ![]() Longlisted for the National Book Award in Fiction.Ī Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.Ī Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. Startlingly erotic and immensely powerful, Garth Greenwell's What Belongs to You tells an unforgettable story about the ways our pasts and cultures, our scars and shames can shape who we are and determine how we love. ![]() ![]() He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, their relationship growing increasingly intimate and unnerving.Īs he struggles to reconcile his longing with the anguish it creates, he's forced to grapple with his own fraught history: his formative experiences of love, his painful rejection by family and friends, and the difficulty of growing up as a gay man in southern America in the 1990s. ![]() There he meets Mitko, a charismatic young hustler, and pays him for sex. What Belongs to You is a stunning debut novel of desire and its consequences. The romance begins in a public bathroom in. On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia's National Palace of Culture. Garth Greenwells novel What Belongs to You is a love story, but that doesnt mean it ends with wedding bells. Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize. Winner of the Debut of the Year Award at the British Book Awards. Garth Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and was a finalist for six other awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. ![]() ![]() “Achilles!” I pushed to my feet, ignoring the ache in my legs at taking the sudden weight. He just got up and left, slamming the door on his way out. ![]() Your damn handcuffs meant I couldn’t get into the back of the van before he crashed it.” “Look, you have no right to be angry at me,” I told him, hating the quake in my voice. I edged towards the end of the sofa, pure instinct telling me he was going to pounce and attack at any moment. By the time I’d finished talking, he looked positively murderous.įor a long while, neither of us spoke. Achilles didn’t interrupt once, but I saw the crease in his forehead deepen as I went on. It was weirdly cathartic, getting the story out of my system. But the driver had to have died in the crash, right? So it wouldn’t make a difference if I told the real story, anyway.īesides, I knew those endless black eyes would see right through the smallest lie. I could have lied, of course, and said we’d crashed by accident. It was obvious from his dark look that I wasn’t going to get any answers until I did some explaining, so I told him what I could remember from my trip in the van. “I have a few things to tell you, actually, but first I want to know how you ended up in a head-on collision with a tree in the middle of nowhere.” “Are you going to tell me what happened to me, or will I have to use my powers of deduction again?” When I moved to sit on the edge of the sofa, near his feet, he instantly kicked his legs off to make room. ![]() ![]() But once again, Selena’s emotions are getting in the way and tempting her with a serious attraction to buttoned-up Cade.īut the shop isn’t exactly vibe-ing, and Cade and Selena are on the verge of losing both their income and the possibility of love. Which is precisely why she’s taken an oath of celibacy and is focusing on how to make Satisfaction Guaranteed a success. Selena Mathis learned the hard way that she can have too much of a good thing. But when she inherits a sex toy store, Cade is caught between business and a store filled with every imaginable kind of pleasure-including her infuriatingly irresponsible and deliciously sexy new co-owner. Which is precisely why shes taken an oath of celibacy and is focusing on how to. ![]() Only “professional talk” has become her default mode, relationships are nonexistent, and don’t even mention the word “orgasm.” All work and no play makes Cade a dull human. Selena Mathis learned the hard way that she can have too much of a good thing. ![]() A love letter to the power of music, this thoughtful, humorous exploration of what constitutes living versus mere survival sees Chen ( Light. When it comes to her career, Cade Elgin has it all figured out. Mira, 17.99 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-7783-8696-4. ![]() For fans of Casey McQuiston and Abby Jimenez comes a bold, hilarious, and out-of-the-box novel about mixing business with battery-operated pleasure. ![]() ![]() ![]() It can also change their social relationships with you and with other pets in your home. It can increase their anxiety and tendency to react aggressively. ![]() It can make cats forget previously learned habits they once knew well, such as the location of the litter box or their food bowls. This deterioration can cause disturbances in sleeping patterns, disorientation or reduced activity. Memory, ability to learn, awareness, and sight and hearing perception can all deteriorate in cats affected with FCD. It’s estimated that cognitive decline-referred to as feline cognitive dysfunction, or FCD-affects more than 55% of cats aged 11 to 15 years and more than 80% of cats aged 16 to 20 years. As they age, cats often suffer a decline in functioning, including their cognitive functioning. ![]() ![]() We meet Walter, the manager of the Caiette, who loves its glass the way other people love their families but goes broke after a fatal meeting with Alkaitis in its bar. ![]() ![]() Though Vincent is the center, stories spiral outward through the lives of her acquaintances. The explosion reverberates backward and forward throughout the novel’s many timelines, affecting each character along serpentine threads of interconnection. This portrait of a creative but haunted soul transforms into a banking drama w hen Vincent’s boyfriend’s fortune turns out to be the fruit of an enormous Ponzi scheme. He keeps her in unspeakable luxury, and Vincent transcends into what she calls “the Kingdom of the Rich.” She reaches a peak of nihilistic alienation, shopping for expensive shoes and bored of it. There she attracts the notice of an extremely wealthy older man named Jonathan Alkaitis, who turns out to own the place and in time becomes her boyfriend. Having dropped out of high school, Vincent gets a job as a bartender at the hotel of the novel’s title, a gorgeous spectacle of a building in blond wood and glass walls called the Caiette. In her spare time, Vincent films the surface of the ocean for hours. Water remains a strong theme throughout The Glass Hotel, equally a force of unsympathetic chaos and beauty. ![]() Traumatized by her mother’s death, Vincent is disturbed by the “goddamn haunted inlet” of water her mother drowned in. ![]() ![]() In both the books and the beloved romantic comedy, food plays a huge role in Lara Jean’s life and the way she shows that she cares. And she #pensivebakes snickerdoodle cookies while she’s trying to sort through her emotions. ![]() There’s jealousy over who orders the pizza for a party. She makes cherry turnovers for Valentine’s Day and peanut butter chocolate cupcakes for a boy who is notably not her boyfriend. She’s exploring her new relationship with Peter Kavinsky (the swoony Noah Centineo) while parsing what it means to want to reconnect with former love John Ambrose McClaren (Jordan Fisher) - and it’s no surprise that she expresses her feelings through food. In the second film, PS I Still Love You, which is out on Netflix today, young-and-in-love Lara Jean (winningly played by Lana Condor) finds herself in something of a love triangle. The first movie rose quickly to instant-classic status, making popcorn bowls, lunchtime twirls, and yogurt drinks famous. She makes cookies for the holidays she makes cupcakes for her sister’s bake sale. ![]() ![]() If you’ve read Jenny Han’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before trilogy or seen the now-iconic Netflix film adaptation of the first book, you know main character Lara Jean Covey really likes to bake. ![]() ![]() He managed to “fool” Martin’s wife, Bertrande (Nathalie Bayes), and the entire village for so long that once enough doubt over his true identity was sown, it still required two trials and an appeal to the highest court in France’s Languedoc area, the Parlement de Toulouse, to find out the truth about the matter. ![]() Martin Guerre is not a romantic tale, but tells a case of identity fraud where a man, Arnauld du Tihl (Gérard Depardieu), successfully lived the life of a Martin Guerre (Bernard-Pierre Donnadeu) after the latter had abandoned his wife and land for more than a decade. French director Daniel Vigne, however, brings the lives of sixteenth-century peasants and merchants to the foreground with La Retour de Martin Guerre ( The Return of Martin Guerre), released in 1982. ![]() ![]() No matter how many shots of knights and kings gallivanting off to fight in battle and clerics contemplating God in their cloistered abbeys, the peasantry is always pushed to the fringes of the scene. ![]() ![]() ![]() When the book was brought to my attention, I was embarrassed and worried what else might be in our library that I didn’t know about. This book made me angry and should not have been on a library shelf in 2019 to be seen by young minds. I didn’t want my son experiencing what I did. I saw and lived the impact of racism and discrimination, of being dehumanised. My nanna’s menstrual cycle was recorded by an anthropologist like he was studying animals. ![]() They had to ask for permission for everything: to marry, to work, even to buy underwear. My grandparents are both from the stolen generations and were removed from their families to a mission to live under oppressive conditions of ‘The Act’. Nothing I learnt in school reflected me, my family, our culture and history. ![]() It took me back to my childhood – growing up in the ‘80s learning about ‘The Aborigines’, defined as nomadic people who wandered aimlessly until white people came and made us civilised. ![]() I flicked through the pages and was disturbed at what I saw. When my 8-year-old showed me his library book, I knew immediately from the cover it wasn’t going to be positive. Dale Robertson and Kerry Klimm in the school library. ![]() |