![]() ![]() ![]() The Mirror of Her Dreams and A Man Rides Through by Stephen R. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The dating app only works at her school and Simi personally has a hand in every match that occurs. ![]() As a way to sort of test her interest and also gauge if she’s any good at matchmaking, she works with her friends to design an app that uses all of her family’s techniques to pair individuals. Armed with her family’s ancient guide to finding love, Simi starts a matchmaking service-via an app, of course.īut when she helps connect a wallflower of a girl with the star of the boys’ soccer team, she turns the high school hierarchy topsy-turvy, soon making herself public enemy number one.ĭisclosure: I received an ARC of this book at Book Con.Ī Match Made in Mehendi is a cute, light read following Simi, who isn’t quite sure that she wants to join the family matchmaking business because she dreams of becoming an artist. That is, until she realizes this might be just the thing to improve her and her best friend Noah’s social status. When Simi accidentally sets up her cousin and a soon-to-be lawyer, her family is thrilled that she has the “gift.”īut Simi is an artist, and she doesn’t want to have anything to do with relationships, helicopter parents, and family drama. Fifteen-year-old Simran “Simi” Sangha comes from a long line of Indian vichole-matchmakers-with a rich history for helping parents find good matches for their grown children. ![]() ![]() Review: I am so excited to be back in this world! The Bridge Kingdom and The Traitor Queen were highlights of my spring reads and I am so happy to say that The Inadequate Heir ranks up there with them. Their predicament could lead Keris and Zarrah to peace if they play their cards right and survive the war hungry plans of their families. Enter Aren and Lara, former King and Queen of Ithicana. Both dream of a world without war, but are powerless to sway their ruling families. ![]() That is, until they meet and divulge that neither has the desire for history to keep repeating itself. Synopsis: The Endless War rages and the political heirs, Keris and Zarrah, have no choice but to play their roles. ![]() Maas, ACOTAR, TOG, fantasy, NA fantasy, political marriage, arranged marriage, enemies-to-lovers, political intrigue, Romeo and Juliet ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet his work has continued to live on in the decades since his tragic death, including The Royal Game. Zweig was one of them the day after he sent the manuscript of The Royal Game off to his publishers, he and his wife took a fatal dose of sleeping pills. But for so many great writers, artists, and intellectuals of the Weimar period, exile was its own form of torture it was hard for them to keep living and working in a foreign, often unwelcoming place while knowing that they would likely never see their beloved homeland ever again - and if they did, it would be irrevocably changed by the horrors inflicted by the Nazis. Stefan Zweig’s final work, a novella titled The Royal Game, was written in 1941-1942 while the author was living in exile in Brazil, having fled his home country of Austria due to the rise of National Socialism and the insidious anti-Semitism that came with it. ![]() ![]() Once he comes back to the practice court, Nadal hopes to complete a farewell tour of his favourite events. He doesn’t know how long for, although he offered six weeks as a best-case scenario and four months as a more pessimistic option. What is more revealing is that Nadal has decided to stop training for an indefinite period. The fact that Nadal cannot play in the French Open – which starts a week on Sunday – is no great surprise, when you consider that the hip problem he picked up in January has resolutely refused to clear up. ![]() ![]() Rafael Nadal’s press conference confirmed what we all suspected as soon as he sent his first, downbeat injury update a month ago: that he is all but done as a competitive force. ![]() ![]() ![]() After the Civil War, Douglass remained an active campaigner against slavery and wrote his last autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. He described his experiences as a slave in his 1845 autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, which became a bestseller, and was influential in promoting the cause of abolition, as was his second book, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855). Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave.Douglass wrote several autobiographies. In his time, he was described by abolitionists as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. ![]() After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. ![]() Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey c. February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. ![]() ![]() ![]() They hated political parties but parties nonetheless emerged. Government had high hopes for the future, but few of their hopes and dreams worked out quite as they expected. As Wood reveals, the period was marked by tumultuous change in all aspects of American life-in politics, society, economy, and culture. Wood, offers a brilliant account of the early American Republic, ranging from 1789 and the beginning of the national government to Now, in the newest volume in the series, one of America's most esteemed historians, Gordon S. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, two New York Times bestsellers, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. ![]() ![]() The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. ![]() ![]() Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger contains seven new stories blended with seven from older collections the result is a lyrical, moving mix of tales featuring strong and complex characters, delivered with Smith’s trademark wit and insight. ![]() The Southern-born Smith has been a lauded force on the literary scene since the early 1970s, with a dozen novels and three previous collections of stories to her name. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger, is a treat. Lee Smith is one of those writers, and her new collection, Mrs. ![]() Though the short story’s popularity may be debatable, there are a number of talented writers making great contributions to the genre-and bringing the too-often overlooked short story to the foreground of the literary community. In recent years, many in the literary world have declared the short story to be a format that, while not dead, is in decidedly poor health. ![]() ![]() ![]() With their totally demoralized father Ernest hovering on the periphery of their lives, Betty, Emily and Annie Ruth get about the business of burial. As the emotionally scarred Lovejoys prepare for their mother’s funeral, Mudear’s spirit hovers above them, complaining about her daughters “ugly ways” in death as she did in life. In life, Mudear, a complicated, self-focused woman, ruled her house and raised her daughters with an iron hand, wise sayings and a distant interest after her “change.” Selfish, manipulative, complex Mudear may be dead, but she is far from gone. ![]() The sisters have had a complicated love-hate relationship with the woman who insisted on being called Mudear even though she is as far from a Mother Dear as anyone could get. UGLY WAYS is the powerful tale of the three Lovejoy sisters – Betty, Emily and Annie Ruth - reunited in their hometown of Mulberry, Georgia on the occasion of their mother’s death. Ultimately, she must accept that those she loves can give her love and nothing more and she must find her own uncertain way. So, Lena grows from a special child to a fearful adolescent not understanding why she is so different. ![]() But Lena’s mother breaks the ritualistic process that would have protected her little girl from evil spirits. From the moment of her birth in a small all-black hospital in the tiny Georgia town of Mulberry, Lena McPherson is recognized as a special child, born with a caul over her face, able to see ghosts and predict the future. ![]() ![]() ![]() And these actors almost always had such cultured voices, a result, no doubt, of all those elocution lessons that were once (and for all I know, may still be) an essential component of the training for any aspiring actor. This was largely due to the fact that an actor with a working-class accent was unlikely to get cast in the lead role of a movie back then, unless they'd already made their name for themselves in music hall or radio, of course. In the films of pre-1960s British cinema, there was nothing more resolute and dignified in the face of adversity than the upper middle-class. Slarek is gripped and moved by the film, and enjoys Network's new Blu-ray. ![]() Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch are excellent in A TOWN LIKE ALICE, Jack Lee's compelling 1956 adaptation of Nevil Shute's tale of a group of British women forced to walk across Malaya by the invading Japanese. ![]() |