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It’s not merely added explanations of how someone got from one place to another or background information on locations – although those are both a part of this book. Overall Freed’s novelization adds nuance the movie lacked. While Rogue One itself was close but not quite what I was expecting, Alexander Freed was still an excellent choice for the novelization. Freed had previously written Star Wars Battlefront: Twilight Company and shown he had a good handle on portraying military conflict while growing characters. When Alexander Freed was announced as the author of the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story novelization, it sounded like a good idea. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lady Rowan finds her one night in the library, looking for books to read – reading and learning are some of Maisie's truest passions. Though her father sent her to make a good living and to contribute to the family, Maisie, however, is suited to more than life as a housemaid. Maisie begins her life as a maid for Lady Rowan, living in her home, Belgravia Mansion. Part of the mystery of the book surrounds Maisie's life, and particularly a romance that she begins with a soldier Captain Lynch, whom she follows into war when she takes a position as a nurse on the English front. The second part of the novel takes place much later, in 1929, after the war is over. This part of the narrative begins in 1910, years before the First World War. ![]() ![]() Maisie Dobbs is split into two disparate parts – the first part of the novel follows Maisie as a young girl, who at age thirteen loses her mother and has to help her father make ends meet by becoming a maid in the house of the socialite and philanthropist Lady Rowan Compton. Set between 19, the book features quirky female private investigator Maisie Dobbs as she solves crimes in post-World-War-I era England. Maisie Dobbs (2003) is the first book of fourteen in a historical mystery novel series by Jacquline Winspear. ![]() ![]() ![]() Walk away from that sink full of dishes and make it romance night! If you like your romance with a dose of suspense, danger and desire, book 1 of WEST Protection, RESCUED BY THE COWBOY is your 1-click now. Traveling with a sexy, alpha, muscled bodyguard who brings all the heat to places a nerdy doctor ignores is hard enough without wondering if Ross will save her-or break her. Ross fears he’s too distracted and missing something, while Pippa battles to keep her wits to fight for the medical discovery she believes in. So does easing that fear he sees in her beautiful hazel eyes…and fighting to keep his hands off her tallies is a close second. While she still burns for the man, she hopes he’ll help her reach Seattle for a big conference without meeting more danger.ĭiscovering who is threatening Pippa becomes Ross’s number one priority. On the run, she turns to the only person she knows who can protect her-the hot cowboy crush from her gawky teen years. ![]() Then in walks the one person who reminds him that he’s also a man.Īfter a big breakthrough with her gene editing project, Doctor Pippa Hamlin is neck-deep in danger and threats. ![]() ![]() He’s got a head for the tactical and an instinct for danger. ![]() ![]() ![]() And we should be unapologetic about not really fitting into boxes. We should all be so open and curious and brave in our pursuit of our true self. ![]() ![]() He really has things to say and lessons to teach that have come from a long and full life of self discovery. ![]() I was stricken by what a philosopher he is. He narrates it himself, so it’s basically like sitting with him while he narrates the story of his life. I listened to this on audio, and I really feel like there’s no other way to read this book. He brings the ugly, the perfect, the funny, the shameful, and the unbelievable of his life in vivid detail. McConaughey is up front, honest, and visceral in the details of his life. In Matthew McConaughey’s case, he took it whether it was offered or not. Everyone should be allowed their complexities and unique ability to shine as a human. The world looks at them and thinks there’s not much more to them than that: a pretty face and rockin’ bod. Let’s be real, there are prejudices against everyone, including beautiful people. This is an excessively difficult thing to do in Hollywood, especially for someone so handsome. He purposely almost tanked his career in order to break free from his typecasting as the romcom leading man, something he does outline in his memoir. Earlier ones with the pretty and often brainless leading man? Not so much. There is a brilliance to Matthew McConaughey that isn’t often conveyed in his films. I had been hearing a lot of buzz about this memoir, and after reading it I can see what all the fuss is about. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. ![]() We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() N OT LONG AFTER THEY heard the first clink of iron, the boys and girls in the cornfield would have been able to smell the grownups’ bodies, perhaps even before they saw the double line coming around the bend. Told through the intimate testimonies of survivors of slavery, plantation records, newspapers, as well as the words of politicians and entrepreneurs, The Half Has Never Been Told offers a radical new interpretation of American history. In the span of a single lifetime, the South grew from a narrow coastal strip of worn-out tobacco plantations to a continental cotton empire, and the United States grew into a modern, industrial, and capitalist economy. Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States. ![]() But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy. ![]() Craven Prize from the Organization of American HistoriansĪmericans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution - the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. ![]() A groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people ![]() ![]() ![]() Nora Roberts published over 225 romance novels under various pen names. This was the start of a long and lucrative writing career. Though her manuscripts were repeatedly rejected for publication, she kept trying until they were eventually accepted. Nora Roberts began writing for the first time while trapped inside during a blizzard when she was 29. She met her second husband two years later when she hired him to build some custom bookshelves for her home. The couple had two children but eventually divorced after 15 years of marriage. This is where she met her first husband, who she married as soon as she graduated high school. Though she had grown up in a Catholic school, she transferred to a public school when she was 16. She was in Maryland to an Irish Catholic couple who already had four other children. 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