![]() ![]() ![]() And as springtime comes to a close, each woman faces the most difficult challenge of all: reconciling her innermost desires with the path that she has chosen. As the women plan a charity gala, their not-so-perfect lives are slowly exposed. Gayle's friend, Janie Kirk, who is both envied and loathed for her exceptional beauty and expert homemaking, is losing the battle to remain satisfied in a passionless marriage, and falls into a surprising affair. In a mansion across town, Gayle Beck enjoys the social status that her family's old money guarantees, but inside her fairy tale, life grows darker with each passing day. Her neighbor, part-time divorce attorney Marie Passeti, struggles with a difficult case and her unexpected feelings for the young intern working at her side. Now a devoted mother and wife, her quest for a resolution to her secret past will place at risk the life she has created. Each woman has her own story but Walker brings these four interesting threads together at the end to provide a satisfying and thought-provoking ending. The four wives in Walker's novel are Love, Marie, Gayle and Janie. Former child prodigy Love Welsh can't seem to banish the demons that ended her career. These Stepford wives manage to escape their artificial world an make something of themselves. ![]() For four wives who live there, all is not as it seems. Take a peek beyond the perfectly-manicured lawns of Hunting Ridge. ![]()
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![]() His plan is to head back to Hobie long enough to sign the adoption paperwork, giving his niece just the sort of loving and stable family he couldn’t ever possibly provide. However when one phone call from this lawyer back home tells him that his sister died, leaving him custody of her newborn child, he’s stunned out of the steady life that he’s built for himself running his tattoo shop in San Francisco. Fifteen years ago Nico left his tiny Texas hometown and his family to escape from small town gossips and give his mom and sister the chance for a better life. “Facing West” is the first novel in the “Forever Wilde” series and was released in 2017. Their patriarchs are not above just a little meddling if that is what it takes to help their grandchildren find true love. Meet the Wilde family that hails from Hobie, Texas. And each of these novels can be read as a part of the series or by itself. They are set in the same universe as her “Made Marian” series however it features different locations and family. ![]() ![]() ![]() Author Lucy Lennox writes the “Forever Wilde” series of M/M romance novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Believable and clever banter bounces back and forth between sympathetic characters, and allusions to The Picture of Dorian Gray provide a scaffold without requiring readers’ prior knowledge of the original to appreciate the story. ![]() The tension builds well, leading to an exhilarating and twisty final third. The story unravels in colorful, electric prose through Mick’s and Veronica’s first-person points of view, alternating between past and present. Mick and Veronica pursue their increasingly unstable relationship while parental neglect, illegal activity, and the threat of violence set them on an escalating, dangerous path. Meanwhile, the two girls engage with the local activist scene along with Veronica’s longtime artist friend Nico, but the stakes rise with every rebellious art installation-even leading to death for some of those involved. After Veronica snaps a perfect photo of camera-shy Mick, their relationship complicates and escalates as hesitant Mick suddenly becomes the subject of Veronica’s budding photography career. Things start off sweet in San Diego, where swimmer Micaela and aspiring photographer Veronica meet by chance at a party and romance instantly sparks between them. A romantic, fast-paced thriller inspired by a classic. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Trying to pick up his paycheck for his less-than-one-day stint as a lobby statue duster, Henry explains: "All I want to do is get my check and get drunk. "Factotum" is about a man who rarely works and occasionally writes, but only as fleeting distractions from his boozing. This movie may think it's about a man who boozes and works fitfully while pursuing his muse as a writer, but that's not the way it plays. who serves in a wide range of capacities," and that sounds about right. My dictionary says the title word means "an employee. Jobs, people, paydays - they all float in and out of Henry's life without much consequence. On his journey to cult fame, he takes (very, very briefly) a series of jobs that help him get from one drink to the next: iceman, taxi driver, brakeshoe stockboy, pickle sorter, whatever it takes between stints on unemployment. "Factotum," directed by Bent Hamer, is a picaresque Bukowski primer, adapted by Hamer and Jim Stark from the title novel and a handful of stories about the poetically debauched author's primary subjects: drinking, writing, women and gambling. ![]() ![]() Several depictions of drinking, with wine glasses at dinner parties or social events. There's one slap on the face that knocks someone down. There's one kiss, and a few romantic feelings of attraction are illustrated. ![]() ![]() Explores themes about not living a lie and not being afraid to show the world who you really are. He simply likes the freedom and empowerment he feels when he goes out as Lady Crystallia. Spoiler alert: He falls in love with a young woman. Parents need to know that The Prince and the Dressmaker is a graphic novel about a prince who likes to wear dresses. A minor character says she told someone to cut back on the absinthe.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. A few scenes take place in taverns or bars. ![]() Several illustrations show wine glasses at dinner parties or restaurants. Minor characters smoke cigars in the background. Crystallia has a shot of something unknown, acts drunk, and passes out she suffers a major consequence, but it's related to the plot and not physical. ![]() ![]() Except Naomi is miserable and sick of pretending that this relationship is #goals. You Deserve Each Other follows (and this is where I check my notes) Nicholas and Naomi, a couple gearing up for their marriage in a few short months. Because as much as I hated the beginning, making snipping comments in the margins and hating on it on Instagram… I freaking loved the rest. Honestly… You Deserve Each Other leaves me at a bit of a loss. Because now that they have nothing to lose, they're finally being themselves-and having fun with the last person they expect: each other. When Naomi discovers that Nicholas, too, has been feigning contentment, the two of them go head-to-head in a battle of pranks, sabotage, and all-out emotional warfare.īut with the countdown looming to the wedding that may or may not come to pass, Naomi finds her resolve slipping. Naomi wants out, but there's a catch: whoever ends the engagement will have to foot the nonrefundable wedding bill. And she is miserably and utterly sick of him. ![]() They're preparing for their lavish wedding that's three months away. ![]() Naomi Westfield has the perfect fiancé: Nicholas Rose holds doors open for her, remembers her restaurant orders, and comes from the kind of upstanding society family any bride would love to be a part of. ![]() ![]() When your nemesis also happens to be your fiancé, happily ever after becomes a lot more complicated in this wickedly funny, lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy debut. ![]() ![]() ![]() The fact that many of his interviews were conducted in foreign countries, coupled with six years of residence overseas, has given him unique insight and extensive experience in dealing with foreign cultures, particularly in the Far East. The scope of Phil’s work has covered criminal activity, personnel security, and key national security matters, including counter-intelligence and counter-terrorism. intelligence and federal law enforcement communities. He is credited with developing a detection of deception methodology currently employed throughout the U.S. ![]() In that capacity he conducted thousands of interviews and interrogations for the CIA and other federal agencies, both as an investigator and as a polygraph examiner. His 25-year career with the Central Intelligence Agency was highlighted by his service as a senior member of the Office of Security. Phil Houston is a nationally recognized authority on deception detection, critical interviewing, and elicitation. ![]() ![]() ![]() The American born photographer was fascinated by how Andrew grew to know his subjects personally and on a level of intimacy that some claim to be rather obsessive in nature. ![]() As the viewer, I feel as though I am looking in on a private moment of true intimacy between artist and model.Ĭontemporary artist Collier Schorr was especially inspired by Andrew’s paintings. ![]() All the works of Helga that are featured in museum are visually stunning and capture light and skin tone in such a manner that the viewer might be fooled into thinking they are sitting in Andrew’s position as he paints her. ![]() The Brandywine River Museum is currently host to three beautiful examples: Lovers, 1981, Night Shadow, 1978 and Baracoon completed in 1976. Known collectively as The Helga Pictures, Andrew Wyeth’s 247 known works of his neighbor Helga Testorf are one the most distinguished and ample studies of a single subject by a lone artist. One aspect of the Brandywine River Museum that I cherish most, and many visitors appreciate as well, is the opportunity to view portraits of Helga that are often on display in the Andrew Wyeth Gallery.įrom 1971 to 1985, Wyeth painted and sketched Helga Testorf, a German neighbor of the Wyeth’s who had been a nurse to the owner of the Keurner farm in his dying years. ![]() ![]() All opinions are my own and I was not compensated for this review. ![]() Ī great micro-history of the birth of bourbon, its evolution, and revival.ĭisclaimer: I received this book in exchange for a fair review. ![]() Established in 2008, it is Chicago’s First Distillery since the Mid-1800s. I recently attended a Producer’s fair and visited KOVAL distillery. I was especially surprised by Chicago’s connection and influence towards the spirit of bourbon – not to mention lead to the birth of the nation’s largest drugstore chain, Walgreens. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, to name a few. He also shares such great pivotal moments - Old Bourbon being served at the first Kentucky Derby its contribution to the creation of NASCAR its influence on F. The author discusses key family-owned and operated distilleries across the U.S., and those who supported and promoted the bourbon brand. All bourbon is whiskey, but not all whiskey is bourbon.Įntertaining historical account on the spirit of bourbon that spans from Washington & the Revolutionary War, to Repeal of Prohibition & the Twenty-First Amendment, to Bourbon branding and resurgence today.Įach chapter has an interesting historical trait of the bourbon industry. ![]() ![]() Cassidy’s loyalty to his friend is severely tested just as his opportunity to make his mark as a gifted runner comes to fruition. ![]() Warned of Nelson’s checkered past, Cassidy dismisses the stories as hearsay, until his town is rocked by the disappearance and apparent murder of a prominent judge and his wife. While adventuring, Cassidy befriends Trapper Nelson, an iconoclastic hunter who lives in an isolated compound on the riverbank.īy junior high, Cassidy dreams of becoming a basketball player, but Nelson’s influence runs deep and Cassidy begins to view running as a way to interact with the natural world. Cassidy spends his afternoons exploring his primal surroundings: the local river, the nearby ocean, the lakes, swamps, and forests that dominate the landscape of the Florida everglades. Quenton Cassidy is the skinniest boy in school, and also one of the fastest. From the author of the New York Times bestselling Once a Runner-acclaimed by Runner’s World as “the best novel ever written about running”-comes that novel’s prequel, the story of a world-class athlete coming of age in the 1950s and ’60s on Florida’s Gold Coast. ![]() |