![]() The book explores methods of reasserting a sense of control within a life that was once ruled by illness. The novel explores the strain that chronic pain can place on both familial and romantic relationships, as well as showing a person with chronic pain is deserving and capable of having a loving relationship. ![]() Hibbert's multiple issues with doctors influenced the topic of medical discrimination in her novel. For much of her life, Hibbert struggled with undiagnosed health issues, until it was diagnosed as fibromyalgia. Hibbert has identified Get a Life, Chloe Brown as an #OwnVoices work the main character lives with chronic pain, like Hibbert herself. The audiobook of Get a Life, Chloe Brown was narrated by Adjoa Andoh and published by HarperAudio. The novel was followed by Take A Hint, Dani Brown in 2020 and Act Your Age, Eve Brown in 2021. ![]() It is Hibbert's first traditionally published book from and is the first book of a trilogy following the Brown sisters. ![]() Get a Life, Chloe Brown is a 2019 romance novel written by Talia Hibbert and published by Avon Romance. ![]()
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And this Christmas sees the release of Into the Woods, a musical mix-up of a whole clutch of fairy tales. ![]() One of Disney's biggest hits this year, Maleficent, was a sideways telling of Sleeping Beauty. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is good to have new ship types and new antagonists from time to time. If every fictional commander who fought at the Battle of the Nile, in one novel or another, actually showed up, there would have been serious danger of collision. There is absolutely nothing wrong with Georgian naval fiction but at times it does seems that the literary waters can get awfully crowded. Peter Thorton, who for a range of reasons, both logistical and personal, gets caught up with the corsairs and eventually joins them. The main character is a young, British officer, Lt. The corsairs are the somewhat more heroic of the novel’s contending forces. ![]() In this novel the Spanish are the villains while British are not necessarily the heroes. The novel is not set during the Napoleonic wars and features, as the title suggests, Sallee Rovers, Barbary Coast corsairs, sailing from the Atlantic coast of what is now Morocco. Kei is well written nautical adventure fiction with a twist or two, or perhaps three. ![]() Pirates of the Narrow Sea, Book 1 – Sallee Rovers by M. Originally published on the The Old Salt Blog ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Within a chronological organization, the book has topical chapters that compare the political, economic, social, and cultural contributions of African Americans to life in the U.S., the Caribbean, Brazil, and Spanish America. Īfricans in the Americas provides a comparative history of African Americans, from the arrival of the first Africans in the Western Hemisphere to the present. By offering a complete view of African-American history and by considering the roles of Africans and their descendants in the development of all. Africans in the Americas provides a comparative history of African Americans, from the arrival of the first Africans in the Western Hemisphere to the present. ![]() ![]() ![]() Moreover, Protestants were not allowed to leave the kingdom and if they were caught doing so they would be prosecuted and imprisoned. Louis XIV revoked it in 1685, requiring all the French to be practicing Catholics. It was the first time two religions were formally approved in a single political entity, introducing a measure of religious tolerance. The “Revocation” refers to the Edict of Nantes, which Henri IV had introduced in 1598 to end the Catholic-Protestant strife between Catholics and Calvinist Protestants. She spoke about the book at last month’s A Company of Authors event, and this post excerpts her talk. Pinkney Prize and the 2017 Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize for her book, Facing the Revocation: Huguenot Families, Faith, and the King’s Will. 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From the bestselling author of Boyfriend Material comes a sweet and scrumptious romantic comedy about facing your insecurities, finding love, and baking it off, no matter what people say. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In DREAMFALL and NEVERWAKE a radical experiment to cure chronic insomnia goes wrong, and its seven teenage test subjects are plunged into a shared coma populated by one another’s nightmares those who die in the dream will also die in real life.Īmy's action/adventure/magic duology, AFTER THE END and UNTIL THE BEGINNING, received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, 4 1/2 stars from RT Book Reviews, and enthusiastic reviews from Kirkus, USA Today, ALA Booklist and School Library Journal.Īfter being raised in Birmingham, Alabama, in a rather restrictive environment, AMY PLUM escaped to Chicago to an even more restrictive environment at a university that expelled people for dancing. The trilogy is accompanied by three novellas entitled DIE FOR HER, DIE ONCE MORE, TO DIE FOR and a compendium entitled INSIDE THE WORLD OF DIE FOR ME. The books have been translated into thirteen foreign languages. Amy Plum is the international bestselling author of the DIE FOR ME series (Indie Next List pick, Romance Times top pick, and recipient of a starred review from School Library Journal). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (Bookstore bombings and murderous attacks on a publisher and translators, he notes, show how serious the threat was.) But once Rushdie regains his nerve, his fetters accommodate much jet-setting lionization as he travels the world, collects awards and ovations, and parties with glitterati at the Playboy Mansion. The British-Indian novelist's third-person account of the firestorm surrounding The Satanic Verses is harrowing as he's hounded, under the pseudonym "Joseph Anton," and moved from one hiding place to another under constant police guard while Islamists everywhere call for his death, and the British government treats him as an undeserving troublemaker. Hailed as a literary martyr and derided as a prima donna, Rushdie emerges as both inspiring and insufferable in this memoir of his life following the 1989 fatwa issued against him by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini. ![]() |