The staff (and guests) have complicated pasts, and the hotel can’t seem to overcome the bad reputation it earned in 1922 when a tragic fire killed nineteen-year-old chambermaid Grace Hadley. And while the Hotel Nantucket appears to be a blissful paradise, complete with a celebrity chef-run restaurant and an idyllic wellness center, there’s a lot of drama behind closed doors. When she’s named the new general manager of the Hotel Nantucket, a once Gilded Age gem turned abandoned eyesore, she hopes that her local expertise and charismatic staff can win the favor of their new London billionaire owner, Xavier Darling, as well as that of Shelly Carpenter, the wildly popular Instagram tastemaker who can help put them back on the map. Check into a storied Nantucket hotel for a summer of scandal in this immensely satisfying page turner from "the queen of beach reads" (New York Magazine) and #1 New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand.įresh off a bad breakup with a longtime boyfriend, Nantucket sweetheart Lizbet Keaton is desperately seeking a second act.
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The angular figures posing stiffly in Curte’s randomly scattered tableaux do little to either raise or turn down the heat of a narrative that runs to lines like: “He was about to crush his lips to Alastair’s…when a scream split the air. With 11 ensemble characters (not counting the odd Greater Demon) to juggle, Clare uses up most of her chunky page count untangling the romantic snarls of the first two volumes-plus chucking in occasional attacks by lesser demons or raving maniac Tatiana Blackthorn to give her demon-slaying Edwardian-era Nephilim something to do besides steamily tonguing one another, lengthily weltering in secret longing and self-loathing, or (at last!) explicitly consummating their ardor. Belial, Prince of Hell, makes his move on London in this trilogy closer. I’ve often asked myself this very thing and have always come up with a different answer. However, you know her as Livvie and so I’ll continue to call her that for your benefit, but of course, that would beg the question: Who am I? She changed her name when she entered the witness protection program in the United States in exchange for her testimony against her kidnapper and ra**st (that’s me). Shakespeare asked, “What is in a name?” I can tell you-a whole hell of a lot. They were very important in Livvie’s books and it’s worth mentioning. However, because you begged so nicely, I will endeavor to tell you the story you want to hear.īefore I move on, a word about names. Livvie and I have changed considerably from the people you read about. Livvie is eight years my junior, but you wouldn’t know it by the way she talks to me sometimes (I think she just likes getting a spanking). Sometimes I wish I didn’t because I have to face turning thirty in August. I’m twenty-nine now and I finally know it for a fact. In May it will have been four years since I sat in a tinted sedan and contemplated kidnapping Livvie. It’s been a long time since Captive in the Dark today is Friday, February 8th, 2013. In fact, you probably know too many things and know them far too well. The pair play together in the woods behind Leslie’s house, which happens to be next door to Jess’s, and they use their imaginations and create a magical kingdom where they are the king and queen. While you would imagine the two would not get along, they end up being the best of friends after a slightly uncertain start. Jess has been practicing all summer long by running through the fields surrounding his family’s farmhouse, and he would have been the fastest if, on the first day of school, Leslie hadn’t shown up and outrun everyone, even the boys. Bridge to Terabithia is a poignant story about a new friendship between Leslie Burke, the new girl at school, and Jess Aarons, who wants to be the fastest runner in fifth grade. When Katherine Paterson’s son David was eight years old, his friend Lisa Hill was struck by lightning and died. This book was inspired by a real tragedy that happened in 1976. It has also been made into two different movies, one was a feature film, and one was a TV movie. Bridge to Terabithia won the Newbery Medal in 1978 and other significant awards. “As a black person watching this film,” Dyson said in an interview, “what struck me was that finally a white auteur, a white director, a white thinker on film is grappling organically with difference, with hardship, with trying to come to grips with who’s been left out and who’s marginal and seeing that also attached to the issue of race.” Alec Baldwin is at his scoundrelly best (or is it worst?) as New York City planner Moses Randolph, who could care less about the people being pushed out by urban renewal and gentrification. 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While many have diligently directed attention to questions in art history, theory or criticism, the author, in a powerful and original shift of focus, considers the roots of our personal engagement with art. How many of us have stopped before a famous painting or building only to realise, with quiet disappointment, that we can't quite see what the fuss is about? What do we have to do - beyond just staring - to get the most out of art? How do we come to develop an attachment to individual works and find them deeply fascinating? How do they come to matter to us? While many have diligently directed attention to questions in art history, theory or criticism, the author, in a powerful and original shift of focus, considers the roots. Some may have considered her a pampered princess, but Cate was in fact a smart, scrappy fighter, and she managed to escape her abductors. It was during one of those games that she disappeared. At nine, she was already a star-yet still an innocent child who loved to play hide and seek with her cousins at the family home in Big Sur. "Reading Hideaway is like a mini vacation, as Roberts transports you from the sun-drenched mountains of Big Sur to the rolling hills of Ireland to the bustling streets of New York City." - Associated PressĪ family ranch in Big Sur country and a legacy of Hollywood royalty set the stage for Nora Roberts’ emotional new suspense novel, Hideaway.Ĭaitlyn Sullivan had come from a long line of Hollywood royalty, stretching back to her Irish immigrant great-grandfather. He becomes the catalyst for Mamah’s awakening, opening her eyes to new possibilities, new ideas and new concepts. Surely there is more to life than this “domestic bliss,” being “the angel in the house,” providing a feminine hand to soothe her troubled man’s brow? Mamah’s desire for self-expression and her quest for individualism and for meaning in her life, leads her to question her choices and leads her to Frank L. What woman in the early 1900s wouldn’t be happy with all this? But attitudes are starting to change, and Mamah is no exception. Mamah (prounced May-mah) is articulate, multilingual, highly intelligent, financially secure and an imposing beauty to boot, she has it all: a loving husband, two happy children, a supportive sister, staff and a beautiful home. An ambitious blend of fact and fiction, Loving Frank tells the story of Mamah Borthwick Cheney, her love for Frank Lloyd Wright (the Frank of the title), and the consequences of that love. But he’s going to have to play real dirty. Only, relationships – a new thing for the player – are a lot harder to be in than he thought.Ĭan he win at love? Maybe. 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It is difficult to imagine any reader putting this beguiling book down without a smile and a tear.’ New York Times ‘To say that Atkinson can tell a story is like saying Sinatra can sing … A powerful new voice has been added to the dialogue about origins as a people and a nation. |