![]() ![]() Her other sci-fi series, PLANET OF DESIRE series features a sex planet, kick-ass heroines and, of course, ultra hot aliens. Her newest sci-fi romance series on KU is ALIEN QUARANTINE RESCUE. When not writing with her cat, she’s busy embracing untamable curly hair and adventuring in the outdoors with her husband. To feed her coffee and chocolate addictions, she can frequently be found overdosing on mochas. ![]() ![]() Check out her extra free stories available through her email li ROBIN LOVETT enjoys writing romance to avoid the more unsavory things in life, like day jobs, housework, and personal demons. Her dark romance thrillers STRANGER, DECEIVER, and KEEPER feature heroines who know what they want and sexy anti-heroes who know how to give it to them. ROBIN LOVETT enjoys writing romance to avoid the more unsavory things in life, like day jobs, housework, and personal demons. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Romantic-suspense novelist Mary Stewart dies aged 97 by Alison Flood, The Guardian.(from an interview with Mary Stewart by Raymond H. Then one day a friend said to me, everybody who is worth his salt has a Grail, and everybody’s Grail is different. Thank you Mary Stewart for sparking my love for the Arthurian tales. She was a supreme “teller of tales” and her magic brought Merlin and the whole Arthurian world to life in an utterly compelling way. ![]() What I (and millions of others) remember Mary best for is her series of Arthurian books The Merlin trilogy: The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills, The Last Enchantment – and the later volume on Mordred The Wicked Day. She became well-known for her stories blending mystery, romance, and suspense. This “came as naturally as leaves to a tree”, as she told The New York Times in 1979. Mary started her writing career as a poet, but her husband suggested she try storytelling. Her father, as a young adventurer, had sailed around Cape Horn to New Zealand, where he met and married Mary’s mother. Mary Florence Elinor Rainbow was born on Septemin Sunderland, County Durham, England. ![]() Mary Stewart – author of romantic and suspenseful tales – died recently at the age of 97.Ī quick sortie into her fansite showed me how little I knew about her – there is even a Kiwi connection: ![]() ![]() truly believed that their finely tuned computer models had tamed the genie of risk, and would allow them to bet on the future with near mathematical certainty. ![]() They promised that the investors' money would be placed in a variety of trades simultaneously-a "hedging" strategy designed to minimize the possibility of loss. ![]() In a decade that had seen the longest and most rewarding bull market in history, hedge funds were the ne plus ultra of investments: discreet, private clubs limited to those rich enough to pony up millions. And so Long-Term Capital Management was born. He gathered together his former disciples and a handful of supereconomists from academia and proposed that they become partners in a new hedge fund different from any Wall Street had ever seen. Then, in 1993, Meriwether made a historic offer. For two years, his fiercely loyal team-convinced that the chief had been unfairly victimized-plotted their boss's return. ![]() Then, in 1991, in the wake of a scandal involving one of his traders, Meriwether abruptly resigned. A mysterious and shy midwesterner, he knitted together a group of Ph.D.-certified arbitrageurs who rewarded him with filial devotion and fabulous profits. John Meriwether, a famously successful Wall Street trader, spent the 1980s as a partner at Salomon Brothers, establishing the best-and the brainiest-bond arbitrage group in the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sanders shows how making the right diagnosis requires expertise, painstaking procedure, and sometimes a little luck. In each of these cases, the path to diagnosis-and treatment-is winding, sometimes frustratingly unclear. ![]() A young elephant trainer in a traveling circus, once head-butted by a rogue zebra, is suddenly beset with splitting headaches, as if someone were “slamming a door inside his head.” Now the rash has turned purple and has spread across her entire body in whiplike streaks. A middle-aged woman returns to her doctor, after visiting two days earlier with a mild rash on the back of her hands. Hours later, he collapses on the dance floor with crippling stomach pains. And yet she is often confounded by the cases she describes in her column: unexpected collections of symptoms that she and other physicians struggle to diagnose.Ī twenty-eight-year-old man, vacationing in the Bahamas for his birthday, tries some barracuda for dinner. “Lisa Sanders is a paragon of the modern medical detective storyteller.”-Atul Gawande, author of Being MortalĪs a Yale School of Medicine physician, the New York Times bestselling author of Every Patient Tells a Story, and an inspiration and adviser for the hit Fox TV drama House, M.D., Lisa Sanders has seen it all. ![]() A collection of more than fifty hard-to-crack medical quandaries, featuring the best of The New York Times Magazine's popular Diagnosis column-now a Netflix original series ![]() ![]() ![]() Sainsbury's latest price cuts follow it and Tesco cutting the price of milk by at least 5p, followed by Aldi, Lidl and Asda. Grocery inflation leapt by more than 19% in March compared with a year ago, as energy and supply chain costs were passed on to shoppers. ![]() It comes after UK Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation peaked at 11.1% late last year and food prices continued to soar. We are committed to offering our customers the best value possible so they can be confident that they are getting a great deal on their everyday essentials when they shop with us." As we see the commodity prices starting to fall for wheat and butter, we're able to lower our prices on two of the products people buy most often, bread and butter. Rhian Bartlett, food commercial director at Sainsbury's, said: "We have been battling hard to beat inflation and whenever we are paying less for the products we buy from our suppliers, we will pass those savings on to customers. ![]() The grocer said it was able to lower some prices due to commodity prices for wheat and butter beginning to fall. ![]() It is also cutting the price of its 800g Soft White Medium, Wholemeal Medium, Wholemeal Thick and Toastie White loaves of bread by 11% to 75p. The UK's second-biggest supermarket chain has lowered the price of its own-brand 250g salted and unsalted butter by 5% to £1.89. Sainsbury's has cut the price of some of its lines of bread and butter in response to falling commodity prices. ![]() ![]() ![]() Alyce vows to do anything to wake the woman she loves, even if it means turning into the monster Briar believes her to be. ![]() Humiliated and shamed by the same nobles who pay me to bottle hexes and then brand me a monster. ![]() And the dream of the world they would have built together is nothing but ash. One who isn’t bothered that I am Alyce, the Dark Grace, abhorred and feared for the mysterious dark magic that runs in my veins. But it is a love that came with a heavy price: Aurora now sleeps under a curse that even Alyce’s vast power cannot seem to break. Princess Aurora saw through Alyce’s thorny facade, earning a love that promised the dawn of a new age. Not even the one person who holds her heart. And no one will escape the consequences of her wrath. Walter gives the story an engaging foundation, establishing three different races. Malice stands apart from typical retellings, foremost with the world-building. Once a realm of decadence and beauty, Briar is now wholly Alyce’s wicked domain. A Sleeping Beauty retelling, Malice takes readers to a new realm and reinvents the fairy tale with a compelling narrative and beautiful LGBTQ romance. Feared and despised for the sinister power in her veins, Alyce wreaks her revenge on the kingdom that made her an outcast. “Fans of reimagined fairy tales and LGBTQ+ themes will be delighted with the conclusion of this fantasy duology.”- Booklist (starred review) The Dark Grace is dead. ![]() Does true love break curses or begin them? The dark sorceress of “Sleeping Beauty” reclaims her story in this sequel to Malice. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now the Volcano on Volcano Island is active and the tremors are hatching the eggs of the Exterminator dragons! Can Hiccup return the Fire Egg to the Volcano, stop the Volcano from erupting, AND save the Tribes from being wiped out by the terrible sword-claws of the Exterminators? How to Train Your Dragon is now a major DreamWorks franchise. Hiccup's memoirs look back to when Hiccup was just an ordinary boy, and finding it very hard to be a Hero. ![]() Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was an awesome sword-fighter, a dragon-whisperer and the greatest Viking Hero who ever lived. THE STORY CONTINUES in the fifth volume of Hiccup's How to Train Your Dragon memoirs. Read the books that inspired the How to Train Your Dragon films! This book will be a hit with children and adults alike. Download How to Twist a Dragon s Tale Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle ![]() ![]() ![]() In Doreen’s latest book, Diary of a Worm, she explores the daily life of a lovable worm. She then teamed up once again with illustrator Betsy Lewin to write another hilarious barnyard tale, Giggle, Giggle, Quack, that continues the escapades of these lovable animals on a farm. The busy life of a writer left no room for courtroom litigation and arbitration so Doreen made the leap to being a full-time children’s book author. Five years after submitting the original manuscript she got a call from a publisher who wanted to turn her story into a book and the rest is history! In fact, she had written this barnyard tale even before attending law school but only received rejection letters from publishers. But her book was not published overnight. Doreen Cronin was a practicing attorney in Manhattan when her first book Click, Clack Moo: Cows That Type became a publishing success. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tension mounts as the remaining guests attempt to discover the murderer's identity before they are all killed. After the guests start turning up dead, the mystery deepens. The novel focuses on a group of people invited by a mysterious Mr Owen to enjoy a holiday on Indian Island. Later, the title would be changed to Ten Little Indians. The original title was deemed too offensive for the American public. First published in England as Ten Little Niggers, the book Ten Little Indians was renamed And Then There Were None, from the closing line of the nursery rhyme, for publication in the United States. According to Index Translationum, she remains the most translated individual author, having been translated into at least 103 languages. Her novels have sold roughly 3 billion copies, and her estate claims that her works come third in the rankings of the world's most-widely published books, behind only Shakespeare's works and the Bible. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling novelist of all time. Agatha Christie was an English crime novelist, short-story writer and playwright. ![]() ![]() As the adoptive Prince of Atlantis, he has at times been forced to assume his mentor's responsibilities as ruler of the oceans during Aquaman's absences, and has in recent years acted as Atlantis' official ambassador to the surface world. As Tempest, he lost the marine communication powers, but gained mystic-based abilities that allow him to control the temperature of water and moisture surrounding him, as well as the ability to emit destructive force beams from his eyes. Image for Showcase Presents Superman, Vol. ![]() He also possesses superhuman strength and speed that allow him to move through the ocean with relative ease as well as withstand the high-pressure depths of the ocean. Binder And Bill Finger And Jerry Coleman And Robert Bernstein And Alvin Schwartz And Jerry Siegel. ![]() As Aqualad, he was the teen sidekick and protégé to his guardian, the super-hero known as Aquaman, bearing the same super-abilities as his mentor that allow him to breathe underwater and communicate with marine life. Robert Bernstein is the author of Showcase Presents (3.69 avg rating, 103 ratings, 11 reviews, published 2007), Action Comics (1938-2011) 252 (3.95 avg. ![]() Garth is a fictional character in publications from DC Comics, originally known as Aqualad since his first appearance in 1960, and later known by the codename Tempest. ![]() |