It can be messy, painful and even hopeless at times. Many women go through similar situations that Rowena had gone through. This book also has all of the feels! Through this beautiful story, we see heartbreak, redemption, healing, and a growing faith. Brice disturbed when Rowena’s father tries to force him to marry her, but when he realizes the situation she’s really in, he finds himself making a choice he didn’t expect. While he has never shied away from the manor-born ladies, the last thing he needs is the distraction of Lady Rowena. But after a shocking attack, she’s willing to spend the rest of her life as an outcast if it means escaping Loch Morar.īrice Myersteron, the Duke of Nottingham, finds himself in grave danger when it comes to a set of rare rubies that he had come into possession of. She never felt enough for her father, the man that she thought she’d marry, or even for God. She is the heiress to a Highland earl, but she has never felt like she was enough. Lady Rowena Kinnaird is inspiring because she grows so much throughout the book. We begin in Scotland and discover a girl who is timid and frightened. I definitely want to find myself a matching necklace now! I mean, isn’t it just beautiful? If I wasn’t captured by the cover, I was definitely drawn in from the very first chapter. The Reluctant Duchess is inspiring, engaging, and fun. White has succeeded in delivering a thrilling novel.
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"One of America's most courageous young journalists" and the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Brain on Fire investigates the shocking mystery behind the dramatic experiment that revolutionized modern medicine in this international bestseller (NPR ).ĭoctors have struggled for centuries to define insanity–how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what it is? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people–sane, healthy, well-adjusted members of society–went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Named a Best Book of 2020 by The Guardian * The Telegraph * The Times Shortlisted for the 2020 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize Only now she seeks to find it in the sweet romance novels she secretly checks out from Sarah Anne's bookmobile. But despite losing those she holds most dear, she hasn't completely given up on love. 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Det finnes en (eller strengt talt flere) liste(r) over 1001 bøker som hevdes å være absolutte must-reads. The main plot is what’s going on with the island (the people, the land, and the spirits are all out of balance because of the split between east and west) and the missing girls. When young girls start going missing, the lives of our four characters start to change and intertwine in new ways than before, and old secrets begin to come to light. The book follows four main characters: Jack, a bard who has come home to the island for the first time in over ten years Adaira, the daughter of the clan leader Sidra, a healer and her husband and captain of the guard, Torin. I found it a very satisfying, almost cozy read, but if you are looking for something with more action and plot, this is not the book for you. A River Enchanted is a slower-paced, highly atmospheric, character-based fantasy set on a magical island inspired by Scottish folklore. 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Zoya Nazyalensky has lost too much to war. But a dark threat looms that cannot be defeated by a young king's gift for the impossible. As Fjerda's massive army prepares to invade, Nikolai Lantsov will summon every bit of his ingenuity and charm-and even the monster within-to win this fight. wolves are circling and a young king will face his greatest challenge in the explosive finale of the instant #1 New York Times –bestselling King of Scars Duology. See the Grishaverse come to life on screen with Shadow and Bone, now a Netflix original series. The book theorizes a “perish-performative” that allows for agency in practices of abeyance, and it discovers within queerness’s ample archive of vanishing acts an environmental ethos antithetical to inflationary versions of the human. Queer Disappearance in Modern and Contemporary Fiction breaks with appearance-based models of queer performativity and argues for the experiential richness and political potentials of recessive tendencies in 20 th and 21st-century queer literary production. His newest book, also with Oxford University Press, is entitled Queer Disappearance in Modern and Contemporary Fiction, and it will be published in 2023. His first book, The Modernist Art of Queer Survival-published by Oxford University Press in 2017-examines precarious and collaborative forms of survival in the fiction and autobiographical prose of Oscar Wilde, Henry James, E.M. Benjamin's primary research interests lie in modern and contemporary literature, queer theory, and the environmental humanities. It asks what, if anything, can be accomplished or preserved in. Beirut Hellfire Society is at once propulsive, elegiac, outrageous, profane and transcendenta profoundly moving meditation on what it means to live through war. Deftly combining comedy with tragedy, gritty reality with surreal absurdity, Beirut Hellfire Society asks: What, after all, can be preserved in the face of certain change and imminent death? The answer is at once propulsive, elegiac, outrageous, profane, and transcendent - and a profoundly moving fable on what it means to live through war. Join us when this prize-winning author praised for his fierce poetic originality and uncompromising vision presents this searing and visionary novel. Visual indication that the title is an audiobook. His new role introduces him to an unconventional cast of characters, including a father searching for his son's body, a mysterious woman who takes up residence on Pavlov's stairs after a bombing, and the flamboyant head of the Hellfire Society, El-Marquis. Pavlov agrees to take on his father's work for the society, and over the course of the novel he becomes a survivor-chronicler of his embattled and fading community at the heart of Lebanon's civil war. When his father meets a sudden and untimely death, Pavlov is approached by a colorful member of the mysterious Hellfire Society - an anti-religious sect that, among many rebellious and often salacious activities, arranges secret burial for outcasts who have been denied last rites because of their religion or sexuality. On a ravaged street overlooking a cemetery in Beirut's Christian enclave, we meet an eccentric young man named Pavlov, the son of a local undertaker. |