His world is thrown into upheaval, and the only one he trusts is Merritt. Keir doesn’t know why someone wants him dead until fate reveals his secret connection to one of England’s most powerful families. One: don’t fall in love with the dazzling Lady Merritt Sterling. They couldn’t be more different, but their attraction is powerful, raw and irresistible.įrom the moment Keir MacRae arrives in London, he has two goals. But then she meets Keir MacRae, a rough-and-rugged Scottish whisky distiller, and all her sensible plans vanish like smoke. So far, she’s been too smart to provide them with one. Lady Merritt Sterling, a strong-willed young widow who’s running her late husband’s shipping company, knows London society is dying to catch her in a scandal. “The devil never tries to make people do the wrong thing by scaring them. New York Times bestseller Lisa Kleypas returns with an enthralling and steaming romance between a widowed lady and a Scot on the run-who may have connections to one of London’s most noble families.
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The show is inspired by the best-selling book by Abigail Pogrebin, who will be in attendance at the performance at the JCC. An off- Broadway hit, this hysterical musical revue celebrated the lives of your favorite Jewish public figures including Andy Cohen, Kenneth Cole, Fran Drescher, Joan Rivers and more. 15, get ready to laugh with the Stars of David Musical. Years later, Golinkin set out to retrace his family’s journey and locate the strangers who fought for their freedom. 14, New Jersey resident Lev Golinkin will share his incredible life story as chronicled in his book club pick memoir, “A Backpack, A Bear and Eight Crates of Vodka.” Golinkin shares the events of his family as they crossed the Soviet border in the late 1980s with just suitcases, a few hundred dollars and the vague promise of help waiting for them in Vienna. Come out this weekend to hear some of these great speakers. The remainder of the Festival still has many fabulous speakers in store as well as great entertainment. The Bank of America Festival of Arts, Books and Culture at the Katz JCC in Cherry Hill is proud to be celebrating its 25th year, and the Festival has brought in top notch speakers such as comedian Larry Miller, travel photographer Peter Guttman, and famed author Rabbi Joseph Telushkin. We perceive them by going beyond the information given to us, making meaning from them using knowledge from past experience, that is, concepts.”Īnd so, our brains are constantly guessing about what’s around us and creating a navigable, experience-able “reality” of conceptual shortcuts, educated guesses, to optimize our survival chances. It’s an interesting point-“Changes in air pressure and wavelengths of light exist in the world, but to us, they are sounds and colors. Her point is that these brains of ours create the reality we see, and then move us through it accordingly. Instead, she posits, of entering the world with an instruction manual or user’s guide already in place, our brains are gloriously complex prediction engines-highly attuned to (and also influenced by) our bodily systems, which require constant regulation, and able to make increasingly well-informed guesses about what we need to survive and thrive in the world around us. In How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain, author Lisa Feldman Barrett cheerfully, brutally overthrows hundreds of years of false assumptions related to our understanding of the human brain, the notion of self and the study of human emotion, doing away with the idea that brains are pre-loaded with shared concepts and ideals (emotion, truth, language, etc.). A subversive triumph masked by wonky charm Then again, it's been a long time since I read it, so I could be wrong. If anything, the film could have done with being twenty minutes longer, as I felt there wasn't quite enough content from the book. I liked the way the film dealt with the period look and the social differences, and while there was a lot of the pride I would have liked to have seen a little more of the prejudice. I liked Matthew MacFadyen as Mr Darcy, with his handsome looks and all that, but I will say I do prefer Colin Firth's interpretation from the sublime 1995 mini-series, Firth seemed to adopt a more likable and sympathetic approach to the character. Donald Sutherland (yeah, you saw right) was quite charming as Mr Bennett if you put his awkward accent aside. The film is certainly handsome looking, with some truly beautiful locations and costumes, with a nice script and some excellent performances from Keira Knightly as Lizzie and in particular Judi Dench as Lady Catherine. The book by the wonderful Jane Austen is definitely better than the film, dealing with the consequences of love, and the social differences of the late 18th century. Her whole life, Manu had waited for them to find her and her mother. The possibility of being snapped up by ICE, or of her father’s past catching up to her first, is always there, hovering in the air like an axe. Manuela Azul’s life is laden with eggshells, and she walked on afraid, fraying a little more every time she has to put on her mirrored sunglasses to hide the unnatural bright yellow engulfing her eyes from the whites to the irises. The beginning of Lobizona is nightmarish. A world where her unusual eyes allow her to belong.Īs Manu uncovers her own story and traces her real heritage all the way back to a cursed city in Argentina, she learns it's not just her U.S. A world straight out of Argentine folklore, where the seventh consecutive daughter is born a bruja and the seventh consecutive son is a lobizón, a werewolf. A world connected to her dead father and his criminal past. Without a home, without answers, and finally without shackles, Manu investigates the only clue she has about her past-a mysterious "Z" emblem-which leads her to a secret world buried within our own. Her surrogate grandmother is attacked, lifelong lies are exposed, and her mother is arrested by ICE. Until Manu's protective bubble is shattered. As an undocumented immigrant who's on the run from her father's Argentine crime-family, Manu is confined to a small apartment and a small life in Miami, Florida. Manuela Azul has been crammed into an existence that feels too small for her. Two storylines, 160 years apart, meet in a shared house and a lost painting. Lauren Willig’s That Summer is a dual narrative historical fiction full of romance and intrigue. But everything changes when three young painters come to see Arthur’s collection of medieval artefacts, including Gavin Thorne, a quiet man with the unsettling ability to read Imogen better than anyone ever has.“ Book Review: That Summer The one bright spot in her life is her stepdaughter. And then she discovers a pre-Raphaelite painting, hidden behind the false back of an old wardrobe, and a window onto the house’s shrouded history begins to open… RELATED: ‘THE SUMMER COUNTRY’ BY LAUREN WILLIG: A BEAUTIFUL HISTORICAL EPICġ849: Imogen Grantham has spent nearly a decade trapped in a loveless marriage to a much older man, Arthur. But when she arrives at Herne Hill to sort through the house-with the help of her cousin Natasha and sexy antiques dealer Nicholas-bits of memory start coming back. She hasn’t been back to England since the car crash that killed her mother when she was six (and gave her nightmares that have lasted into adulthood). “ 2009: When Julia Conley hears that she has inherited a house outside London from an unknown great-aunt, she assumes it’s a joke. Two storylines, 160 years apart, meet in a shared house and a lost painting in Lauren Willig’s That Summer.īook Synopsis: That Summer (2014) by Lauren Willig He held the American 24-hour record and he was one of the elite runners profiled in the runaway bestseller Born to Run. Scott Jurek's phenomenal success as an ultra-marathoner demonstrates that meat and other animal foods are not necessary for optimum health, strength, and endurance."?-?Andrew Weil, #1 New York Times bestelling author of Spontaneous Happinessįor nearly two decades, Scott Jurek has been a dominant force ?-? and darling ?-? in the grueling and growing sport of ultrarunning. The New York Times bestseller Eat and Run is "the inspiring story of an inspired man. Not long after being granted human consciousness, twelve of the dogs escape the clinic and attempt to survive without “masters,” roaming the city’s lakeshore before settling in a pocket of High Park. Out of convenience, this supernatural social experiment is conducted on fifteen dogs, who happen to be spending the night at a veterinary clinic near the Wheat Sheaf Tavern in Toronto, where the gods have spent a debaucherous night being worshipped. ‘I’ll wager a year’s servitude,’ said Apollo, ‘that animals - any animal you choose - would be even more unhappy than humans are, if they had human intelligence.’”įor Hermes to win, at least one of the animals must be happy at the end of his or her life. It all begins with a bet between two immortal gods, Apollo and Hermes: “‘I wonder,’ said Hermes, ‘what it would be like if animals had human intelligence.’. Yet this story endeavours to delve even deeper by examining what German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once called humanity’s greatest conceit: our ability to invent knowledge. Like his previous book, Pastoral, which explores a Catholic priest’s crisis of faith, Fifteen Dogs is teeming with existential reflections. André Alexis’s new novella is an allegorical take on the value and detriment of human consciousness. Schmidt , two-time Newbery Honor medalist and author of The Wednesday Wars Reader, be prepared to have your foundations shaken: this is a world that is deeper, more wondrous, more spiritually charged than you may have ever imagined.”-Gary D. Set amid the swamps, red soil, and sweltering heat of small-town Alabama in the 1930s, Hoodoo is infused with a big dose of creepiness leavened with gentle humor. He’ll just need to learn how to conjure first. The entire town is at risk from the Stranger’s black magic, and only Hoodoo can defeat him. Even worse, he soon learns the Stranger is looking for a boy. Then a mysterious man called the Stranger comes to town, and Hoodoo starts dreaming of the dead rising from their graves. But even though his name is Hoodoo, he can’t seem to cast a simple spell. Twelve-year-old Hoodoo Hatcher was born into a family with a rich tradition of practicing folk magic: hoodoo, as most people call it. ”- Keith Donohue, New York Times bestselling author Told by a narrator you won ’ t soon forget, it is filled with myth and legend, danger and bravery. The degree, which she acquired from Brigham Young University, enticed Jessica because she thought it would let her read as many books as she could possibly want. This obsession had a direct impact on Jessica’s decisions in life, especially when she chose to pursue a Humanities/Comparative Literature degree. It isn’t even that surprising to learn that Jessica was accompanied by books to her honeymoon. Where other authors might select their bags with fashion in mind, Jessica doesn’t waste money on any purse that cannot fit her paperback book. Everything she did and thought about was merely an obstacle waiting to be moved so she could finally get to her books, not only with regards to reading them and writing them.Īll her friends and family can tell you as much. And as far as she can remember, her life has always revolved around books. Jessica Day George, who sometimes just goes by the name Jessica Day, is an American author and bestseller that has written numerous adaptations of famous fairy tales. |