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![]() ![]() In that book, Jemma had recently returned from nine years of self-imposed exile in France where she was rumored to have run rampant. These characters were first introduced in book one of the series. This is book five of the Desperate Duchesses series and it is about Jemma and Elijah, Duchess and Duke of Beaumont. ![]() Worth a credit? Yes, it's a 'must have' for us historical/romance lovers - but please try not to miss the whole series. It also gives us an insight of London long ago. It's got romance, passion, fun, great characters but it's sad and very touching too. This, in my opinion, is the best in the series so far as it focuses mainly on the two main characters who deeply love each other but, because of outside influences, their relationship never runs smoothly. She thinks she knows him but there is a lot that she's unaware of but she's willing to woo him back and he's desperate to oblige her. 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My heart told me that nothing good could come from heading back to the place I’d grown up, but I knew we had nowhere else to go. ![]() I’d spent the last five years running, and now, it seemed I was going to have to retrace every excruciating step. How could someone make decision after decision attempting to get away from their past and somehow end up right back where they started? ![]() ![]() Truly fantastic.' The Times 'Whip-smart, creepy as hell, and masterfully plotted, Hidden Pictures is the best new thriller I've read in years. But if Teddy isn't drawing the pictures anymore, who is? And what are they trying to tell Mallory about her new home? ' gets points for attempting from the high board what must be the boldest, if least likely, double twist of the year. But the drawings somehow keep coming, telling a frightening story of a woman murdered. Mallory Quinn is fresh out of rehab when she takes a job as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell. ![]() Teddy's crayons are confiscated, and his paper locked away. From Edgar Award-finalist Jason Rekulak comes a wildly inventive spin on the supernatural thriller, for fans of Stranger Things and Riley Sager, about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets. ![]() It is quite clear to Mallory and to Teddy's parents, even in his crude childlike style, that the woman Teddy is drawing in his pictures is dead. That is until Teddy starts to draw disturbing pictures of his imaginary friend, Anya. ![]() She's been sober for a year and a half and she's sure her new nannying role in the affluent suburbs will help keep her on the straight and narrow. And the pictures are terrific!' Stephen King WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS FOR BEST HORROR AND AN AMAZON.COM BEST MYSTERY/THRILLER OF THE YEAR Mallory is delighted to have a new job looking after gorgeous four-year-old, Teddy. The surprises really surprise and it has that hard-to-achieve propulsiveness that won't let you put it down. ![]() ![]() The exuberance and experimentalism of The Passion (1987) and Sexing The Cherry (1989) were soon subsumed within her own weighty prophesies. The evangelical fervour of her childhood, which she used as a basis for Oranges, had transmuted into an absurd, messianic self-belief in adulthood, it was said. ![]() ![]() Almost a decade after the rapturous reception of her debut, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, in 1985, the primacy of Winterson's image was swiftly outflanking her own modernist agenda of the primacy of the text. The period she is describing with such elliptical rawness followed the publication of Art And Lies, her sixth novel, in 1994. It's jarring - she normally speaks demandingly swiftly, in complete and perfectly grammatical sentences. "If you come through that with your joy returned to you. "It's no secret that the 90s weren't a great decade for me, so maybe that's why I'm glad they're gone," says Winterson, neat and tiny in the parlour of the east London house she renovated from derelict, and which remains her occasional city base. ![]() Where does she end and the story around her begin? How does reputation happen? But the truth is many-minded, and the easiest facts mislead. ![]() ![]() Oltre a «L usignolo e la rosa», il volume contiene: «Il Principe felice», «Il Gigante egoista», «L amico devoto» e «Fuochi d artificio». ![]() Prima edizione italiana curata dal poeta e saggista Leonardo Sinisgalli con illustrazioni di Domenico Purificato della raccolta di fiabe di Oscar Wilde «The Happy Prince and Other Tales», originariamente pubblicata nel 1888. Esemplare in stato più che buono (brossura con normali segni d usura e piccola lacerazione al piede del dorso, abrasione al piatto posteriore carte e tagli leggermente bruniti con occasionali fioriture). ![]() Bottega dell antiquario (Istituto grafico Tiberino), collana «Biblioteca rosa per la gioventù», 1946 (finito di stampare il 12 dicembre 1945), Prima edizione italiana. ![]() ![]() To begin, click the purple email icon to send this author a private email, and be sure to describe your book or include a link to your Readers' Favorite review page or Amazon page. What sites your reviews are posted on (B&N, Amazon, etc.) and whether you send digital (eBook, PDF, Word, etc.) or hard copies of your books to each other for review is up to you. Simply put, you agree to provide an honest review an author's book in exchange for the author doing the same for you. 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