![]() If you’d like to see some of my travel snapshots, have a look at the Travel Diary page (updated every month). I’m back in New Zealand now, but I’m always plotting new trips. I also spent three years living and working in Japan, during which time I took the chance to travel around Asia. I was born in Fiji and raised in New Zealand. I hope to continue living the dream until I keel over of old age on my keyboard. In September 2002, when I got the call that Silhouette Desire wanted to buy my first book, Desert Warrior, it was a dream come true. There's no other job I would rather be doing. ![]() I love creating unique characters, love giving them happy endings and I even love the voices in my head. I've been writing as long as I can remember and all of my stories always held a thread of romance (even when I was writing about a prince who could shoot lasers out of his eyes). ![]()
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![]() The past holds lessons for Ava and Nadeem that help them face their own problems in the present–from bullies, to babysitting gone wrong, to the worst family vacation ever.Įach book in the Button Box series is a new adventure, grounded in real history, with back matter to encourage more learning. Can Ava, Nadeem, and their ancestor– a fierce young Jewish girl named Ester–help the prince escape to Spain and fulfill his destiny, creating a legendary Golden Age of peace? Or will Ava and Nadeem mess this up, and stay stuck in the distant past forever? ![]() With the help of Granny’s mysterious cat Sheba, Ava and Nadeem make an exciting discovery: if they sew a button from the Button Box onto their clothes, it will take them back to the time and place of the ancestor who wore it! The friends find themselves in ancient Morocco, where a Muslim prince, Abdur Rahman, is fleeing for his life. ![]() It’s packed with buttons that generations of Ava’s Sephardic ancestors have cherished for hundreds of years. After Sephardic Jewish fifth-grader Ava and her Muslim cousin Nadeem are called hateful names at school, Ava’s Granny Buena rummages in her closet and pulls out a glittering crystal button box. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() pour la jeunesse, Friendship, Mutiny, Pirates, Sailors, Treasure Island (Imaginary place), Treasure troves, Caribbean Area - History - 18th century - Juvenile fiction, Caraïbes (Région) - Histoire - 18e siècle - Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse, Mutineries - Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse, Amitié - Romans, nouvelles, etc. Treasure Island (Great Illustrated Classics) Stevenson, Robert Louis, Laiken, Deidre S., McAllister, A. ![]() pour la jeunesse, Marins - Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse, Pirates - Romans, nouvelles, etc. ![]() Publication date 1989 Topics Treasure Island (Imaginary place) - Juvenile fiction, Treasure troves - Juvenile fiction, Pirates - Juvenile fiction, Sailors - Juvenile fiction, Friendship - Juvenile fiction, Mutiny - Juvenile fiction, Buried treasure - Fiction, Trésors - Recherche - Romans, nouvelles, etc. Editions for Treasure Island: 0866119582 (Hardcover published in 1989), 1577658051 (Hardcover published in 2006), 1603400265 (Paperback published in 2008. An adaptation of Robert Louis Stevensons story in which an innkeeper and her son, going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owes them money, find a. ![]() ![]() Will you get down on your knees and show your allegience? and you're on Chapter 6: "Do U RP?"ĭeep in Carver City's premium BDSM club, Jafar is getting ready for one hell of a night with his princess. The Underworld is a sea of envy are you ready to strut your stuff? Chapter 5: Boss ManĪ meeting between Jafar and Hades turns into a tug of war for domination the rope. ![]() You'll be a good girl, right.? Chapter 3: Wardrobe MalfunctionĪ field trip to an infamous BDSM club means you're going to need a new look! Thankfully, Jafar is willing to foot the bill. Jafar's crib isn't so bad! But when he leaves you alone in his apartment, he expects you to behave. Smoother than the Arabian sands with a voice to match, who better to help Jasmine out of an arranged marriage than the devilishly handsome Jafar? Having usurped your father's mafia, all Jafar asks for is a night with you - but in this fairytale, there's always a catch. But you might be enough to melt this cutthroat's heart. ![]() ![]() Tall, dark, and downright gorgeous, Jafar's set his eyes on the Sarraf Mob Empire, and you're his way in. Jafar gets what he wants, and Jasmine on his list. ![]() She feel nothing for Ali, whom she's arranged to marriage. Sassy heiress to the Sarraf Mob, Jasmine's confidence belies a deeper desire: To love, submit, and squirm. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you are ever in the mood for horror fiction and you have never read anything by James Herbert you have been outrageously remiss. It’s almost Halloween as I write so I’m in the mood for some creepy read. ![]() His novels THE FOG, THE DARK, and THE SURVIVOR have been hailed as classics of the genre. His bestsellers, THE MAGIC COTTAGE, HAUNTED, SEPULCHRE, and CREED, enhanced his reputation as a writer of depth and originality. He relentlessly draws the reader through the story's ultimate revelation - one that will stay to chill the mind long after the book has been laid aside. With a skillful blend of horror and thriller fiction, he explored the shaded territories of evil, evoking a sense of brooding menace and rising tension. Widely imitated and hugely influential, his 19 novels have sold more than 42 million copies worldwide.Īs an author he produced some of the most powerful horror fiction of the past decade. He was one of our greatest popular novelists, whose books are sold in thirty-three other languages, including Russian and Chinese. James Herbert was Britain's number one bestselling writer (a position he held ever since publication of his first novel) and one of the world's top writers of thriller/horror fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() He looked dapper, as always, even though his hair was receding and his waistcoat bulged a little beneath the gold watch chain. Father was somberly dressed in a dark gray suit, starched white shirt, and black satin tie. They were sitting at opposite ends of the kitchen table. It was so embarrassing.īut once in a while they had a quarrel. It had nothing to do with.” He had trailed off, and Mother and he had giggled conspiratorially, as if Carla at the age of eleven knew nothing about sex. “Your mother is the cleverest woman I ever met,” he had said here in the kitchen just a few days ago. Now I never tire of it.”įather was just as bad. “We thought the war would last three months, but I didn’t see him again for five years. “I stayed in London while he came home to Germany and joined the army.” Carla had heard this story many times, but Mother never tired of telling it. ![]() Mother had laughed in a pleased way and said: “The day after our wedding, your father and I were separated by the Great War.” She had been born English, though you could hardly tell. Her friends thought it was strange: their parents did not do that. Carla cringed when they kissed in front of other people. Mostly they were affectionate- too much so. She almost turned and walked back out again. ![]() The second she walked into the kitchen she felt the hostility, like the bone-deep cold of the wind that blew through the streets of Berlin before a February snowstorm. Carla knew her parents were about to have a row. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Madison, like other founders, held slaves. Theirs was a loving marriage and while detailed in few letters, their affection for each other was epic. Her influence on early Washington, D.C., social life, Madison’s political prospects, the early diplomacy of the republic, and the position of first lady was monumental. She was charismatic, attractive, and gregarious: all things that Madison was not. In Philadelphia, Aaron Burr set up a meeting with a woman 17 years his younger, named Dolley Todd. Madison was a small shy man but had a powerful mind, and is said to have a fondness for ribald humor and doing his homework. He graduated the College of New Jersey (now Princeton) in two years. He came from a wealthy family and had a classical education. Known as the architect of the Constitution, James Madison was born in Virginia on March 16, 1751. ![]() ![]() ![]() Of the origins of human intelligence she argues that our capacity for intelligence is a byproduct of evolving babyhood. Morgan focuses on the relationship between these two facts as she develops a stunning theory ![]() We are seldom reminded that over the same period infants became more helpless, more vulnerable, and more inert. We are often told how, in the course of a million years,Īdults acquired increased dexterity, adaptability, intelligence, and powers of communication. ![]() Elaine Morgan, an internationallyīestselling science writer known for her iconoclastic take on evolutionary theory, addresses these questions and more in The Descent of the Child, an intriguing and controversial look at human evolution from the point of view of infant development.īeginning with the assertion that much of our thinking about human evolution exercises an unconscious bias-that we envision an archetypal human being as an adult -Morgan sets out to explain why human infants evolved in the way they did. Why are chimp babies skinny, while human babies are so fat they float? As humans developed greater intelligence-and increased cranial capacity-how did babies and mothers adapt to increased fetal brain size? And how did humans develop our unique intelligence. ![]() ![]() ![]() One section of the book deals with the problem of depression. There is also a science fiction section involving an encounter with extraterrestrial intelligences. Sometimes it looks like a textbook elsewhere it transitions into a parody of the bygone Phil Donahue Show. The book is filled with quizzes, questionnaires, thought-experiments and diagrams. ‘How you can survive in the Cosmos about which you know more and more while knowing less and less about yourself, this despite 10,000 self-help books, 100,000 psychotherapists, and 100 million fundamentalist Christians…’ With a nice blend of irony and earnestness, the theme of his book is indicated at the opening: This same observation applies to Lost in the Cosmos. ![]() His fictional work is funny and perceptive but he tends to make his point in roundabout ways. ![]() The author, Walker Percy, had already written several critically acclaimed novels one of which, The Moviegoer, won the National Book Award. The full title of this work of nonfiction (published in 1983) is Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Originally published in 2014, Deborah has now revisited and significantly expanded her story, and the result is greater insight into her quest to discover herself and the true meaning of home. And in Exodus, Revisited she delves into what happened next-taking the reader on a journey that starts with her beginning life anew as a single mother, a religious refugee, and an independent woman in search of a place and a community where she can belong. She was determined to find a better life for herself, away from the oppression and isolation of her Satmar upbringing in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. In 2009, at the age of twenty-three, Deborah Feldman packed up her young son and their few possessions and walked away from her insular Hasidic roots. ![]() The definitive follow-up to Unorthodox (the basis for the award-winning Netflix series) -now updated with more than 50 percent new material-the unforgettable story of what happened in the years after Deborah Feldman left a religious sect in Williamsburg in order to forge her own path in the world. ![]() |