When Lucia is not hard at work on her next novel, you can find her relaxing with her toes in the sand at a nearby beach. Paranormal romance was her first love, but she has a soft spot in her heart for small-town and reunion romance stories. But this time they may have gone too far.Īmazon US | Amazon UK | Amazon CA | Amazon AUĪ competitive athlete for over ten years, Lucia Franco currently resides in sunny South Florida with her husband and two boys. Passions reignite and their actions grow bolder, creating an endless link between them. No one is left unscathed as they succumb to their darkest hunger. Unable to stand by as she continues to endanger herself, he surrenders to what he wants most, even if it means losing himself in the process.Īs Adrianna fights for her life, Kova battles for them both. Tired and torn, Kova embraces his flaws as he watches Adrianna reach her breaking point. With one last chance, and despite her doctor’s orders, Adrianna struggles harder than ever to achieve her dream. She’s aware of what she’s up against and is willing to risk what’s left of her for what she loves. HBO (US) Rai 1 (Italy) TIMvision (Italy, s. Rocked to her core, Adrianna is faced with an incurable illness. My Brilliant Friend (Italian: Lamica geniale) is an Italian- and Neapolitan-language.
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Women and Sufism provides a detailed insight into religious healing, sufi rituals and sufi pilgrimage, and is essential reading for those seeking to understand Islam in Morocco, or those with an interest in Anthropology and Middle East studies more generally. Marta Dominguez Diaz About This Book Exploring the diverse myriad of female religious identities that exist within the various branches of the Moroccan Sufi Order, Qdiriyya Bdshshiyya, today, this book evidences a wide array of religious identities, from those more typical of Berber culture, to those characterised by a 'sober' approach to. It analyses pilgrimage by assessing the annual visit that followers of Hamza Būdshīsh make to the central lodge of the Order in Madāgh it explores bodily religious enactments in ritual performance, by discussing the central practices of Sufi ritual as manifested in the Būdshīshiyya, and delves attention into diverse understandings of faith healing and health issues. After providing an overview of the Order historically and today, enunciating the processes by which this local tarīqa from North-eastern Morocco has become the international organization that it is now, the book explores the religious body in movement, in performance, and in relation to the social order. The book researches the ways in which religious discourses are corporeally endorsed. Exploring the diverse myriad of female religious identities that exist within the various branches of the Moroccan Sufi Order, Qādiriyya Būdshīshiyya, today, this book evidences a wide array of religious identities, from those more typical of Berber culture, to those characterised by a ‘sober’ approach to Sufism, as well as those that denote New Age eclecticism. The series spends its first few episodes introducing the core group of immune survivors who make up the new world, bringing together the sprawling cast in piecemeal fashion. An overly complicated structure and poor pacing renders a story that should be epic in scale and impact to just another lackluster "Walking Dead" knockoff. It isn't a close association with COVID-19 that hobbles "Stand," but rather a deliberate convolution. Despite a talented, A-list cast, plenty of time to develop the complex story, a seemingly hefty budget and one of King's most celebrated works as inspiration, the new "Stand" adaptation (streaming Thursdays, ★★ out of four) falls mostly flat. Pandemics and the apocalypse have never been more top of mind, and our fears of them seem more rational than ever. If TV about the COVID-19 pandemic is a tough sell for escapism, how hard is it to watch a show about a pandemic with a 99% fatality rate?Ģ020 might feel like the best and worst time for CBS All Access' new adaptation of Stephen King's "The Stand," the prolific author's lengthy novel about a postapocalyptic battle between the forces of light and darkness. Watch Video: 6 new and returning shows to watch this fall A terrific teaching tool that just may help slow the spread of sexual diseases and ignorance. But for parents who fear that a school sex-ed class may not be informative enough, it will certainly aid that dreaded birds-and-bees discussion. With affirmations of homosexuality and masturbation-``it's perfectly normal''-and a choice-leaning (yet cautious) discussion on abortion, this volume will be anathema to social conservatives. Emberley's illustrations are often as funny as they are informative. The book intelligently covers birth-control options, how to have safer sex, how to treat STDs, and, in an especially impressive chapter, how to combat sexual abuse-all without patronizing the pre- or post-pubescent. But there's more information than polemic here, as the reader is guided by a corny but never condescending pair-an uninhibited bird and a repressed bee-through puberty, anatomy, reproduction, and a sense of the emotional weight that accompanies sexuality. Illustrator Emberley (Welcome Back, Sun, 1993, etc.) has teamed up with Harris (Hot Henry, 1987, etc.) to present more ethnic and sexual diversity than New York City's Rainbow Curriculum ever bargained for as they battle all concepts non-PC: They take swings at ageism (``People have sexual intercourse well into old age'') and at homophobia in the military (pointing out that, in ancient Sparta, it was thought ``that if a warrior was in the same regiment as his lover, he would fight harder in order to impress him''). Beryl stayed in Nairobi, setting up her own training business at the tender age of 19. When her father's farm collapsed in the economic downturn after World War I, he chose to move to South America. Young Beryl inherited his love of horses another of her many firsts was earning her official trainer's certification, which she did at 18, the first woman and one of the youngest persons ever to do so. Her father was a horse trainer and at one point he had more than 1,000 horses in his stables. Africa has been many things to many people, she wrote in "West with the Night," but "to me it has always been home." For the rest of her life, despite having traveled around the world and living at various points in Britain and the United States, Markham considered herself a Kenyan. Her family moved to Kenya when she was 4, and Markham grew up on a large plantation outside Nairobi. Indeed, her account of the flight, a spectacle at the time, is written with such off-handed humility in her memoir, "West with the Night," as to seem almost an afterthought. It turned out to be just one of many firsts for Markham. Beryl Markham was an extraordinary woman who lived an extraordinary life.Ī pioneering aviator and one of Africa's first commercial bush pilots, Markham was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west - a feat much harder to achieve than from west to east (as Charles Lindberg did) because it meant flying into the prevailing winds. Now she has to decide if she’ll stop him there, or if she’ll finally let her fear go and allow Gui to reach for her heart.Ĭompanion novel of Breaking Free and Breaking Away. Despite knowing better, Hil can’t help it as Gui slowly breaks through the walls she’s built. The more support Gui offers, the more she wants to accept…and the more the lines of friendship blur. But what was supposed to be a one time thing, soon turns into a weekly date.Īs Gui helps her discover a new found love for horses, Hil’s guard begins to crumble. So when she decides she’d like to learn more about horses, Gui is happy to find himself in the right place at the right time. Gui is too focused on his polo career to waste time on relationships, however he can’t help but be intrigued by the beautiful yet troubled Hil. To Guilherme Fernandes life is about three things: polo, parties and pretty girls-only one of which he takes seriously. But Hil knows it’s time to face her fears, and the best way to do that is to start small. Especially one who sees her as nothing more than a pretty face. No matter how much progress she’s made, Hil isn’t sure she’ll ever be able to trust men again. Events from the past forever changed her, and though years of therapy have helped, she still has a long way to go…. From the outside, Hilary Taylor has it all-beauty, money, a caring family, good friends-but inside she’s struggling, full of fears. Yet, there is a purpose and meaning to all things, and Merlin never fails to point this out to me as a reader, not by preaching but simply by showing. Loss speaks to him in a manner that parallels what he understands to be the retreat of those gods. In The Last Enchantment, Merlin must come to terms with a shift in his power and have faith in the will of his gods. His love and devotion to King Arthur is steadfast and akin to that of a father for his son this feeling is justly returned by Arthur. Not a crazed wizard lurking in the shadows with his potions and wacky prophecies, Merlin is instead a very compassionate, charismatic, intelligent, worldly and very mortal human being. Stewart, has quickly become one of my favorite literary characters. Reading this felt as if I was having my own little heart-to-heart by the fireside with Merlin himself. This holds true for this divine last installment of the trilogy as well. There has been nothing more comforting to me than to sit curled up with Mary Stewart's Arthurian series these past several weeks. Music can take them, and the moon's light, and, I suppose, love, though I had not known it then, except in worship." Some power there is that draws men's eyes and hearts up and outwards, beyond the heavy clay that fastens them to earth. "Here, away from lights and sounds of town or village, the night was deep, the black sky stretching, fathomless, away between the spheres, to some unimaginable world where gods walked, and suns and moons showered down like petals falling. Andrew Taylor’s series of historical fiction was sure to be exciting, based on the little I know before starting. I chose to return to this book again, having had a mediocre audiobook experience last summer. But at a time of dangerous internal dissent and the threat of foreign invasion, Marwood finds his investigation leads him into treacherous waters – and across the path of a determined, beautiful and vengeful young woman. Under orders from the government, Marwood is tasked with hunting down the killer across the devastated city. The man’s body has been mutilated and his thumbs have been tied behind his back. Paul’s, in a tomb that should have been empty. In the aftermath of the fire, a semi-mummified body is discovered in the ashes of St. Among the crowds watching its destruction is James Marwood, son of a disgraced printer, and reluctant government informer. Paul’s is engulfed in flames and reduced to ruins. The Great Fire rages through the city, consuming everything in its path. The first of an exciting new series of novels. From the No.1 best-selling author of The American Boy and The Silent Boy comes a brand new historical thriller set during the time of the Great Fire of London. The Loric are classified into two factions: the overseers known as the Cepân and the guardians known as the Garde, the latter of whom possess unique abilities known as Legacies. The first book of the "Lorian Legacies Series" "I am Number Four", centers on the conflict between two extraterrestrial species: the Loric and the Mogadorians. The novel is the first of a seven-book series. ĭreamWorks Pictures bought the rights to the film in June 2009 it was released on February 18, 2011, and was the first DreamWorks movie to be distributed by Disney's Touchstone Pictures. The book was published by HarperCollins on August 3, 2010, and spent seven successive weeks at #1 on the children's chapter of the New York Times bestseller list. I Am Number Four is a young adult science fiction novel by Pittacus Lore (the pseudonym of James Frey and Jobie Hughes) and the first book in the Lorien Legacies series. |