As a journalist, her latest assignment was to interview the elusive Dexter Truitt who she dubbed as Mister Moneybags. And I certainly wasn’t prepared for what came after.Īll good things must come to an end, right?Įxcept our ending was one I didn’t see coming.Īmazon | Google Play | B&N | iBooks | KoboĪRC provided in exchange for an honest review.īianca George worked at a financial magazine. Nothing could have prepared me for that day. I didn’t expect that Jay and Dex would fall in love with her.Īnd when she found out, we were both going to lose her. I didn’t expect the mess I’d gotten myself into. I didn’t expect that our chemistry online would be just as hot. I began dating her as “Jay”-all the while letting her interview the real me over email. I loved the way she looked at the fake me and didn’t want it to end. So, after the elevator finally started moving again, I cancelled the interview and let her believe I was someone I wasn’t-a bike messenger named Jay. She had no clue I was really Dex Truitt, the wealthy, successful businessman she’d dubbed “Mister Moneybags”-her afternoon appointment.īianca told me how much she hated Dex’s type-snobby, over educated, silver- spooned men who didn’t appreciate the simple things in life. The beautiful, raven-haired reporter assumed I was a delivery guy because of the way I was dressed. She was on her way to interview me when we got stuck.
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In his new book, Cobalt Red, Kara writes that much of the DRC's cobalt is being extracted by so-called "artisanal" miners - freelance workers who do extremely dangerous labor for the equivalent of just a few dollars a day. He says that although the DRC has more cobalt reserves than the rest of the planet combined, there's no such thing as a "clean" supply chain of cobalt from the country. Chan School of Public Health and at the Kennedy School, has been researching modern-day slavery, human trafficking and child labor for two decades. Smartphones, computers and electric vehicles may be emblems of the modern world, but, says Siddharth Kara, their rechargeable batteries are frequently powered by cobalt mined by workers laboring in slave-like conditions in the Democratic Republic of Congo. An artisanal miner carries a sack of ore at the Shabara artisanal mine near Kolwezi, DRC, on Oct. But his sense of humor makes it impossible to resist playing the ill-bred yokel of the Darracotts' worst fears. Hugo is actually very, very rich and was raised to be a credit to both sides of his family. The family members are ordered to lick Hugo into shape for his new status. The new heir is Major Hugo Darracott, “that damned weaver's brat” from the Yorkshire wilderness. Yet none of that beleaguered family are prepared for the arrival of the weaver's brat and heir apparent. He also summons his bickering descendants to the rundown family estate. For now, he must send for the next heir apparent-the unknown offspring of the uncle whom the family is never permitted to mention. The tragic accident that killed his eldest son by drowning has done nothing to improve his temper. Irascible Lord Darracott rules his barony with a firm hand. Miles from anywhere, Darracott Place is presided over by elderly Lord Darracott. This shows that Holmes is less concerned about any financial incentives than doing good in the world. “As to reward, my profession is its own reward,” he claims. When Helen visits Holmes and Watson, for instance, she asks whether she can pay him at a later point for his detective services. This is clear in his constant ruminations about the nature of justice and his personal concern for Helen’s safety. In this particular case, his ambition is less to make sure that whoever murdered Julia Stoner is caught and taken to court than it is to personally stop an inherently evil person from doing harm again. More than a mere detective solving crimes, Holmes see himself as a conduit for justice. Roylott, Doyle suggests that justice is a natural condition of human life and that goodness or fairness will always prevail in the end. Through the triumph of the eminently good Holmes and Watson over the evil Dr. Doyle’s stories depict a straightforward division between good and evil, in which characters are generally not nuanced blends of both characteristics, but rather embodiments of either extreme. One of the overarching ideas of most Sherlock Holmes stories, including “The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” is that justice and goodness must triumph over evil and injustice. Gone is Emily as lonely spinster here is Dickinson in her own words, passionate and fully alive. For the millions of readers who love Emily Dickinson's poetry, Open Me Carefully brings new light to the meaning of the poet's life and work. Open Me Carefully invites a dramatic new understanding of Emily Dickinson's life and work, overcoming a century of censorship and misinterpretation. Emily Dickinson's uncensored and breathtaking letters, poems, and letter-poems to her sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson For the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson's thirty-six year correspondence with her childhood friend, neighbor, and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, are compiled in a single volume. If you want a break down of what’s objectively not good in this book: I rolled my eyes a couple of times, but lord, I was entertained. I was honestly the popcorn.gif the whole time or most of it. Like, my rational side (which is 90% of my own personality) would give this one 2 stars and the series a goodbye □īUT. 20% escamotage from a beautiful episode Trapped in the city, Cordelia's friends discover that a dark legacy has gifted them with incredible powers-and forced a brutal choice that will reveal the true cruel price of being a hero. These monsters are nothing like those Shadowhunters have fought before-these demons walk in daylight, strike down the unwary with incurable poison, and seem impossible to kill. All the while, she must hide her secret love for James, who is sworn to marry someone else.īut Cordelia’s new life is blown apart when a shocking series of demon attacks devastate London. Soon Cordelia encounters childhood friends James and Lucie Herondale and is drawn into their world of glittering ballrooms, secret assignations, and supernatural salons, where vampires and warlocks mingle with mermaids and magicians. Cordelia’s mother wants to marry her off, but Cordelia is determined to be a hero rather than a bride. When her father is accused of a terrible crime, she and her brother travel to London in hopes of preventing the family’s ruin. An unconquerable foe.Ĭordelia Carstairs is a Shadowhunter, a warrior trained since childhood to battle demons. Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. … Crying in a woman’s kitchen doesn’t embarrass him he’s seen his grandfather’s eyes fill with tears nearly every time he looked at a beautiful horse or a woman with dark hair. His grandfather used to say that holding tears back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you’re left with a stub of a neck and nothing more.If a woman is in trouble, she should always wear blue for protection.Trouble is just like love, after all it comes in unannounced and takes over before you’ve had a chance to reconsider, or even to think. The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.Sometimes, running away means you’re headed in the exact right direction. I think they are either touching, make me think, are funny, or are wise. This time, I thought I would make a post of my personal favorite lines from all four of the Practical Magic book series. If I am going to reread any of the books, I also tend to do so in October. Happy Halloween, everyone! It has long been my practice to watch the 1998 film version of Practical Magic. Like Well Met, her voice shines through in the protagonist’s inner dialogue. I was so excited to return to the Willow Creek’s Renaissance Faire! To Stacey’s shock, it isn’t Dex-she’s been falling in love with a man she barely knows. So when she receives a tender email from the typically monosyllabic hunk, she’s not sure what to make of it.įaire returns to Willow Creek, and Stacey comes face-to-face with the man with whom she’s exchanged hundreds of online messages over the past nine months. While Dex is easy on the eyes onstage with his band The Dueling Kilts, Stacey has never felt an emotional connection with him. When Stacey imagined “The One,” it never occurred to her that her summertime Faire fling, Dex MacLean, might fit the bill. Stacey vows to have her life figured out by the time her friends get hitched at Faire next summer. She knew she was putting her life on hold when she stayed in Willow Creek to care for her sick mother, but it’s been years now, and even though Stacey loves spending her summers pouring drinks and flirting with patrons at the local Renaissance Faire, she wants more out of life. Stacey is jolted when her friends Simon and Emily get engaged. Also of note is Watson's statement in the last story of the cycle that Holmes has retired, and forbids him to publish any more stories. The first story is set in 1894 and has Holmes returning in London and explaining the period from 1891–94, a period called "The Great Hiatus" by Sherlockian enthusiasts. Having published The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901–1902 (setting it before Holmes' death) Doyle came under intense pressure to revive his famous character. Doyle wasnt just an author but a notorious sportsman: An avid boxer, cricketer, and golfer. (London) and was the first Holmes collection since 1893, when Holmes had "died" in The Final Problem. The third key element was Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, who came to Davos to cure his wife Louisa in 1893. 5. (New York) then on Maby Georges Newnes, Ltd. The book was first published in February 1905 by McClure, Phillips & Co. Download cover art Download CD case insert The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Version 3) Only the look of innocent longing in the eyes of a convent-bred French lass could make him question his vow to escape and return to the Rangers. Though forced to fight for the hated British, Morgan MacKinnon would no more betray the men he leads than slit his own throat - not even when he was captured by the French and threatened with an agonizing death by fire at the hands of their Abenaki allies. They were a band of brothers, their loyalty to one another forged by hardship and battle, the bond between these Highland warriors, rugged colonials, and fierce Native Americans stronger even than blood ties. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo Pamela Clare brings her expert plotting, sizzling chemistry and thrilling adventure to her breathtaking MacKinnon's Rangers series, in the grand tradition of The Last of the Mohicans, perfect for fans of Maya Banks, Monica McCarty and Zoe Archer. |