![]() ![]() ![]() Someone has to pay for the sins of the fathers.Īnd they’ll be paying the price with their souls. Soon his wants turn into an obsession, one that sweeps Violet into his games as they fall madly, deeply in love with each other, the type of first love that can drive a person mad.īut it’s a love with tragic consequences.īoth the truth – and the lies – not only threaten to tear them apart, but threaten their very lives. Besides, Vicente has always gotten everything he wants – why shouldn’t he have Violet too? Beautiful and edgy with a vulnerability he can’t resist, Violet tempts Vicente from afar and though he promised himself he’d stay away from her, curiosity and lust are powerful forces. ![]() What Vicente doesn’t expect to find in San Francisco is Violet McQueen, the woman’s twenty-year old daughter. ![]() But when Vicente stumbles across someone he’s not supposed to know about – a woman from his father’s checkered past – he sets out to California to find her behind his father’s back. The son of an infamous drug lord, Vicente was born to help run the family business, which means he’s been raised on a throne of sordid pasts and dirty laundry, violence and pride. For Vicente Bernal, truth is all he’s known. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() Some people decide to swap genders and can split their consciousness into two sleeves rather than one. This body-swapping explores the idea of identity on multiple levels. Only the wealthy, known as Meths, can afford stacks and the new human sleeves to place them in. ![]() ![]() A person's consciousness can live forever as long as it moves from sleeve to sleeve. Stacks can also be transplanted into new human bodies called sleeves. A person's memories and consciousness can be stored in an alien-engineered disk called a cortical stack, which is then implanted into the back of a person's neck. The world of Altered Carbon ( based on the novel of the same name) is a mix of weird science and personal identity issues. I have notes on random sheets of paper I scribbled while watching, just to stay on top of who's who and what they were doing in the show. ![]() Whenever I would attempt to explain Altered Carbon to friends, they would respond with perplexed expressions as if to say, "This sounds like a lot of work." They're not wrong. So when news hit on Wednesday that Netflix canceled the mind-bending sci-fi thriller Altered Carbon, I was sad, but not shocked. Heck, I'm still not over Firefly never getting a second season. As a fan of weird and wacky sci-fi TV shows, I'm used to having my hopes dashed by sudden network cancelations. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But it's going to take someone very special to unlock the truths, penetrate his mask and melt those icy walls around his now dormant heart. but there's an angry little boy with a heartbreaking tortured tale waiting to be told beneath this teenager's cool facade of indifference. and one of them is the handsome hot 18 yr old Party-boy Vicious who first comes across as an arrogant, indulged, rude, fearless a$$hole with a careless f off vibe persona - and YES, that's him. The All Saints High School's wild and wicked Four HotHoles are privileged notorious womanizing bad boys. ![]() There's no wonder LJS is a No.1 Best selling Author in the contemporary romance genre. Because LJS has taken an old 'enemies-to-lovers' theme, spun it on its axis, and very skilfully given it a fresh new approach, a fresh new vibe and a fresh new voice. and, after this shockingly awesome book, I intend to download many more based on her amazing abilities which were showcased throughout this compelling story. ![]() ![]() All of our characters are teenagers, but the violence found in this novel as opposed to THG is intense. It’s hard to say whether Battle Royale is a YA novel or not. The bells are ringing now, aren’t they? One very important thing to note is that Battle Royale was published in Japan in 1999, then translated to English in 2003–many years prior to Collins’s Hunger Games. The two works are similar in a lot of ways, but their differences make for a much more interesting discussion… The conceit of both novels is nearly the same: Teens forced by a brutal totalitarian regime to kill one another while the public is helpless to do anything about it. Ring any bells? The reason why I’m bringing this up is because Battle Royale and The Hunger Games are cut from the same cloth. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you aren’t familiar with Battle Royale by Koushun Takami, then you might be familiar with its American counterpart, The Hunger Games. ![]() ![]() ![]() His first glimpse of the girl would then have been indoors, seated, with her hair bound tidily back, and their first dialogue would have been an inquisition so tedious as to temper the allure of those great swooping clean-edged curves that made up her prodigal mouth.īut with no way of knowing what lay in store, he hadn’t any reason to avoid the detour. ![]() The trouble, Andrew Blackshear would later reflect, might all have been avoided if he’d simply kept to the main road. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or to events or locales, is entirely coincidental.Ĭover design by Book Beautiful Designs, Cover photographs © Masson / Shutterstock and Anja Kaiser / FotoliaĪ Lady Awakened excerpt reproduced with permission from Bantam Books. The names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Epigenetics Revolution traces the thrilling path this discipline has taken over the last twenty years. This is epigenetics and it's the fastest-moving field in biology today. It turns out that cells read the genetic code in DNA more like a script to be interpreted than a mould that replicates the same result each time. How is it that, despite each cell in your body carrying exactly the same DNA, you don't have teeth growing out of your eyeballs or toenails on your liver? How is it that identical twins share exactly the same DNA and yet can exhibit dramatic differences in the way that they live and grow? ![]() The cutting-edge of biology, however, is telling us that we still don't even know all of the questions. It seemed it was only a matter of time until we had all the answers to the secrets of life on this planet. The Human Genome Project finished sequencing human DNA. 'A book that would have had Darwin swooning - anyone seriously interested in who we are and how we function should read this.' GuardianĪt the beginning of this century enormous progress had been made in genetics. ![]() ![]() ![]() "A wonderful book.Guralnick gives us an Elvis of real flesh and blood.the richest and most detailed protrait of Presely we have ever had. Paperback Published 1 November 1995 592 pages The first of two volumes, covering Presley's rise to prominence up to his departure for Germany in 1958, LAST TRAIN to MEMPHIS will undoubtedly become the benchmark by which other biographies of him are judged. Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley Hardcover 1,083 ratings Book 1 of 2: Elvis Kindle Edition £2.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover £75.86 1 Used from £72.48 2 New from £68.09 Paperback £9.99 1 New from £9.99 Audio, cassette £19.00 3 Used from £19.00 Language English Dimensions 16.51 x 4.13 x 24. Aiming instead to portray in vivid, dramatic terms the life and career of this outstanding artistic and cultural phenomenon, it draws together a plethora of documentary and interview material to create a superbly coherent and plausible narrative. ![]() Based on the 1995 Peter Guralnick biography, the film. LAST TRAIN TO MEMPHIS is arguably the first serious biography that refuses to dwell on the myth of Elvis. Last Train to Memphis begins with Elvis birth in a 'shotgun shack' in Tupelo, Mississippi on January 8th, 1935, the only surviving twin son of Gladys and Vernon Presley. 'Last King of Scotland' director Kevin MacDonald is on board to direct the Elvis Presley biopic 'Last Train to Memphis' for Fox 2000. The definitive biography of Elvis and an excellent slice of social history. ![]() ![]() ![]() 100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find. ![]() ![]() ![]() This time her marriage lasted a whole 45 minutes. In order to save someone dear to her, she’ll have to straighten things out in Twisted Twenty-Six the latest, novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich. Stephanie Plum’s career has taken more wrong turns than a student driver on the Jersey Turnpike, and her love life is a hopeless tangle. Check out the cover art and official plot details below. ![]() This time around, Stephanie is said to be trying to save someone she cares about when things take a complicated turn. Plum, though, is still her most beloved and cherished character to date, and her return is always one of the most talked-about releases each fall. ![]() The Big Kahuna-the sixth book in her Fox and O’Hare series, which she co-wrote with her son and longtime editor, Peter Evanovich-comes out on May 7th. Her last Plum book, Look Alive Twenty-Five (2018), was a hit with fans, and the author has at least one other book coming out this year. ![]() Now twenty-six books in, Evanovich is reaching rarified air and showing zero signs of slowing down anytime soon. On November 12th, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum will return in Twisted Twenty-Six, the latest must-read thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I was most curious how they’ll work once things started to go south. I feel like I was holding my breath through the whole story because I was waiting for the other shoe to drop. There were no boring parts, no wasted words, it was all straightforward. I thought it would be a good read to pass time between breaks at work but once I started I couldn’t put it down. I never expected to love this book so much. “I don’t want to lose you, and I don’t want to lose them. Could they trust each other enough to do right by each other and their kids? ![]() They came from different side of tracks but when it comes to the matters of heart they’re on even ground. Gemma Wright came to their lives despite Tru’s reservations in accepting help from strangers. Except for his little brother, Quincy, who was lured to their mother’s lifestyle. When his mother overdosed, Tru steps in to take care of the siblings he never knew existed. * free copy in exchange for an honest review*Īfter spending six years in prison, Truman Gritt was faced again to protect his family. ![]() |