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With these tumultuous events as inspiration, Jane’s breathtaking first novel adapts her story for a truly epic romance that captures the hope and the heartbreak that have made the television drama so beloved. Jane the Virgin, the Golden Globe, AFI, and Peabody Award–winning The CW dramedy, has followed Jane’s telenovela-esque life-from her accidental artificial insemination and virgin birth to the infant kidnapping and murderous games of the villainous Sin Rostro to an enthralling who-will-she-choose love triangle. It’s been a lifetime (and three seasons) in the making, but Jane Gloriana Villanueva is finally ready to make her much-anticipated literary debut! “Fans of the show will undoubtedly enjoy the chance to read Jane’s book in real life.” -Entertainment Weekly “Just the thing for a cold winter’s night between episodes.” -The Washington Post Book World ![]() ![]() ![]() Not if you want to fit into that thing you call a dress you packed. Um, yes? I kind of need it to like survive and stuff. I’m still in my PJs, so I glare at him for being judgy. You’re gonna eat today? He turns and asks me seriously, gazing his eyes up and down my body. He purses his lips, cocks his hip, and then lets himself inside. ![]() Well good morning to you, he says with attitude. It’s hard to believe it’s been ten years since I’ve called this place home, but even after all this time, a part of me will always be here.Ī knock rings out on the door, and I’m quick to answer it, hoping it’s my breakfast. After high school, I moved across the country to pursue theater, and I’ve only come back for holidays and weddings. It’s perfect weather for a wedding, and I’m actually excited to celebrate my friend Lena’s big day.īeing back in my hometown after all this time feels nostalgic especially when I think about all the memories this place holds. The sun is shining, and the sky is clear. The moment I open the curtains and see the waves crashing against the sandy beach, I have zero regrets about paying the expensive upgrade fee for an ocean view. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However, JR Weaver aims to change this narrative with the release of The Addiction Manifesto. Unfortunately, many of the available addiction recovery resources are seemingly abstract, ultimately failing to yield the desired results. According to a recent report published by the World Health Organization, about 270 million people, approximately 5.5% of the global population aged between 15 and 64, used psychoactive drugs with an estimated 35 million people suffering from drug use disorders and over 180 thousand deaths linked to drug use disorders in 2019. Unfortunately, recent statistics have shown a worrisome increase in the number of people suffering from addiction. Substance abuse and addiction remain a major plague that has continued to generate a lot of conversation across the globe due to its effect on people as well as its impact on the economies of nations. The author is looking to assist millions of people in different parts of the world through their journey to recovery as he details his experience and struggles with the hope of championing a global recovery revolution. JR Weaver is an army veteran and person in long-term recovery who is passionate about the health and wellness of others as he is set to release his book titled The Addiction Manifesto. ![]() ![]() ![]() This was a brilliant mystery, with interesting descriptions of London at the time. He is a bit like an early version of the Incredible Hulk or Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars. Secondly, it is about taking science too far and if we can control scientific research. Hyde and how he struggles to keep balance between both sides of himself. Utterson "spent his words as rarely as gold" and Hyde, who stares at people "with a sneering coolness – like the devil himself" making people feel uncomfortable just by looking at him. Robert Louis Stevenson was known as Velvet Jaket as a young man because of his dandy-fied taste in clothes. Hyde in an astonishing three days in a drug-induced fever. The characters and their feelings are described beautifully, for example, Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson reportedly wrote the draft of Dr. This is a very well written book, with descriptive and powerful language. Utterson and through the clever use of letters written by Jekyll and Hyde, we discover the terrible secret that connects them! Jekyll is a kind and responsible man but he is worried. ![]() ![]() So when his PR team requests that they reunite for a second interview, she wants to say no. ![]() Except that no matter what she’s promoting, someone always asks about The Profile. Ten years later, after a brutal divorce and a healthy dose of therapy, Chani is back in Los Angeles as a successful writer with the career of her dreams. But what comes next proves to be life changing in ways she never saw coming, as the interview turns into a whirlwind weekend that has the tabloids buzzing – and Chani getting closer to Gabe than she had planned. All Chani wants to do is keep her cool and nail the piece. Then she’s hired to write a profile of movie star Gabe Parker: her number one celebrity crush and the latest James Bond. While her former classmates are nabbing high-profile book deals, all she does is churn out puff pieces. ![]() Twenty-something writer Chani Horowitz is stuck. Ten years later and she still has butterflies. ![]() ‘ Delightful banter, hot romance and a love story that’s worthy of the big screen‘ Kate Spencer, author of In a New York Minute ![]() ![]() Shortly after, another newcomer to Jefferson and the planing mill, Joe Brown, moves into the cabin as well. Soon Christmas moves into a “negro cabin” on the property of the middle-aged white “spinster” Joanna Burden. ![]() The stranger seemed to come from nowhere, and had the odd name of Joe Christmas. The next day, Lena arrives in the town of Jefferson and sees a house burning in the distance.īyron Bunch, a worker in the Jefferson planing mill, recalls when a stranger showed up and began working at the mill. Armistid’s wife, Martha, takes pity on Lena and gives her the money she’s been saving up from selling eggs. She is confident that she will find him and that the family will be reunited by the time the baby comes. Lena explains that she is looking for the father of her child, Lucas Burch, who left Alabama and promised to send for her but seemingly never did. On the journey she encounters two men, Winterbottom and Armistid Armistid offers her a ride and then invites her to stay the night at his house. Lena Grove, a pregnant and unmarried young woman, is traveling barefoot from Alabama to Mississippi. ![]() ![]() ![]() Follett writes of a Russian spy involved with a beautiful nuclear physicist at the dawn of the atomic age. “He felt excited, but he was not sure whether that was on account of Zoya or the superbomb,” Mr. “Winter of the World” (covering 1933 to 1949) less strenuously views history through the eyes of purely fictional characters, dim though they may be. ![]() Follett felt obliged to reanimate world leaders, from King George V to Woodrow Wilson to Winston Churchill to Leon Trotsky, as characters in his book. ![]() “Fall of Giants” spanned from 1911 to 1924, an era of such epic change that Mr. Follett’s third installment will be crowded too. The second-generation “Winter of the World” crew does enough procreating to ensure that Mr. For another, it dispenses with some of the waxenness of its 985-page predecessor and breathes life into its fictional characters, many of whose parents appeared in the first book. For one thing, it weighs in at 940 pages, which by Follett standards is concise. The second volume of Ken Follett’s Century Trilogy, “Winter of the World,” improves on “Fall of Giants,” the first. ![]() ![]() There’s no magic or magic systems, no mysterious relics or quests, no coming of age farm boy set out to save the world since this isn’t high fantasy dragons are the only fantastical elements here.Īnd the dragons in this world are intelligent and can communicate with their handlers and crew, and their interactions are really fun to read, or more accurately, really fun to hear Simon Vance read because he’s got a lovely voice and he has different voices for all of the characters, but the dragons’ voices are by far the best. Some of my favorite moments consist of Laurence and Temeraire talking about books, battle tactics and strategies. ![]() ![]() ![]() The pair bonded over a short period of time and grew to become a funny, sweet, interesting partnership by the end of the book. The story reimagines the Napoleonic War years from the perspective of Will Laurence, an English captain, formerly of the navy, currently of the air force, and the dragon Temeraire which he took from a captured French ship. It was more a case of bad timing when I picked it up, too much going on and not enough time or energy to spare and all that, but I made it through, with a lot of help from the audiobook which was superbly read by Mr. Not the book’s fault though since it’s perfectly fine and well written for a historical fiction. Simon Vance to the rescue once again as he saves another book for me that I would have set aside for another time or probably indefinitely. ![]() |