![]() ![]() The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith.The Mystic Marriage by Heather Rose Jones (Historical).If You Kiss Me Like That by Harper Bliss ( Amz).Finding Jessica Lambert by Clare Ashton. ![]() All should be readable as standalones, however, unless noted otherwise.Īdditionally, please be advised that this is more of a database than a rec list I have not read most of these titles, and strongly advocate reading reviews for potential triggers etc. Please note that as is common with Romance, many of these books are in a series with recurring characters. A small percentage of each purchased using this link earns money for the site, so please use these if you’re so inclined! *Beginning of a romantic ARC in a series but not resolved in this book alone T/NB/GQ = MC and/or LI identifies as transgender, non-binary, and/or genderqueer ![]() Find LGBTQIAP+ Romances by trope, archetype, and/or theme here! All Romances are adult and contemporary unless otherwise listed.ī/P notes MC and/or LI identifies as bisexual or pansexualĪ/D/Aro = MC and/or LI identifies on the asexual spectrum, as demisexual, or as aromantic ![]()
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![]() ![]() Her employer isn't who he seems and the person she's trying to find might be running for a good reason. But when she takes on a job from a music producer to find a missing girl, things get sticky. And that's how she survives: finding things for people for a modest fee. Zinzi can see the threads that connect people to their lost things. Some can create protective charms while others can dampen magical fields. Every aposymbiot is gifted with an ability. ![]() But there's also the Undertow - a mysterious force that some claim is Hell reaching out for the damned souls of aposymbiots like Zinzi. Mark of her crime in the form of a semi-intelligent animal - in her case, it's a sloth. Zoo City is concerned with Zinzi December, a former convict who, like many others, must bear the ![]() ![]() You might even call it a brilliant example of worldbuilding from outside of the traditional modern fantasy genre. It is a gloriously complicated novel with equally complicated characters. On the one hand it is a noir murder mystery with a semi-New Weird slant, but on the other it is a novel about refugees, the music industry, South Africa, guilt, revenge, drugs, prejudice, poverty, and so much more. When my friend and I asked Lauren Beukes to describe Zoo City, she understandably remarked that the book is rather difficult to explain. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is interesting to understand the decisions that went behind these products and how Amazon pushed towards market leadership in each segment. The second part deals with the many products that Amazon has brought forth, mainly, Kindle, Prime, Prime video and AWS. Each team communicated to the others using services and API calls This enabled Amazon to expose any internal product from a team to the outsde world quickly gaining first mover advantage.Metrics measure achievement, not activity with emphasis on customer facing variables rather than internal variables.Any idea is condensed to a six pager which is read before meetings by everyone involved in teh meeting.Leadership is single threaded: every major priority has one leader responsible for it whose 100% reponsibility is delivering that product eliminating dropped balls from multitasking or leadership vacuums.Development at Amazon works backwards from the desired customer experience and any idea begins with a press release that elicits discussion, critique and customer feedback on a development proposal.A quote that stuck with me was : every company has a culture, if you don’t actively create it, you’ll learn about it once it is made. ![]() ![]() Amazon culture places a lot of stress on its 14 leadership principles. The first part deals with the culture of Amazon ranging from hiring, organization, in house communication and metrics of achievement. Working Backwards is a business book on the story and culture of Amazon. Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And no wonder - from these two trees sprang most of the chestnuts now grown in the United States. It’s not often that a couple of trees are singled out in real estate ads, but these were. ¶ But pride of place belongs to a pair of chestnut trees, probably 60 feet tall and at least a yard across. The grapevine that covers a backyard arbor has a trunk at least a foot around. ¶ There are craggy cherry and plum trees and an apple tree so old it’s little more than a hollowed-out stump that somehow still manages to sprout green branches. On a hill just outside the Gold Rush town of Nevada City, Calif., about an hour northeast of Sacramento, stands a sweet 1890s Victorian farmhouse surrounded by several acres of venerable-looking gardens. ![]() ![]() “Love & Friendship” has the air of one of those movies where you sense the actors had the time of their lives on the set, what with getting to wear the garb of the time and reciting such sublime dialogue and performing such exquisitely choreographed scenes. See, the thing of it is, Lady Susan doesn’t really have any money to speak of, and she needs to marry well and to marry as soon as it’s acceptable in the eyes of society. ![]() Lady Susan has a plan: She’ll seduce Catherine’s younger brother Reginald (Xavier Samuel), a charming but not terribly bright fellow who will think it’s HIS idea to propose to the lady. The recently widowed Lady Susan glides into the country residence of her late husband’s brother Charles (Justin Edwards) and his wife Catherine (Emma Greenwell), who is perhaps the only one in this story with a clear grasp of just how evil Lady Susan can be. ![]() Alicia Johnson, an American who married an older Brit (the wonderful Stephen Fry) for a huge upgrade in the class system, even though she despises the poor fellow and openly roots for him to die, die, die already.Īnd Mrs. While Beckinsale gets most of the deliciously wicked speeches and has the much showier role, Segivny is equally stellar in a lower key as Mrs. ![]() ![]() ![]() Financing his own team of scientists and artists, Banks battled high seas, hailstorms, treacherous coral reefs and hostile locals to expand the world's knowledge of life on distant shores. In 1768, as a gallivanting young playboy, he joined Captain James Cook's Endeavour expedition to the South Pacific. A fearless adventurer, his fascination with beautiful women was only trumped by his obsession with the natural world and his lust for scientific knowledge.įabulously wealthy, Banks was the driving force behind monumental voyages and scientific discoveries in Australia, New Zealand, the South Pacific, Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Africa and the Arctic. Sir Joseph Banks was a man of passion whose influence spanned the globe. The extraordinary life of one of the world's most famous and notorious adventurers ![]() Lust, science, adventure - Joseph Banks and his voyages of discovery ![]() ![]() ![]() Jerkins observed that Gullah Geechee communities are continually threatened with dispersal due to the economic encroachment of corporations and wealthy white people. Gullah Geechee is a specific ethnic group of people descended from West African people who were forcibly brought to the United States as slaves. The Lowcountry is home to many Gullah Geechee people. The book’s first part focuses on the geographical region known as the Lowcountry, which covers parts of Georgia and parts of South Carolina. In researching this book, Jerkins traveled to various locations around the United States that have salient connections to the relevant history. Morgan Jerkins is a writer who focuses on Black American history, and she is interested in exploring her genealogical heritage, with the larger goal of understanding Black American history more fully. In the book’s prologue, author Morgan Jerkins writes about her parents, one of whom is from the New Jersey, and one of whom is from the North Carolina. Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Jerkins, Morgan. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And when he encounters her again, he finds that his love for her is one part of himself that will never die. Brandon is killed in a horrifying wreck, along with everyone on board.And his day only gets worse from there.To survive his own demise, Brandon must confront these riddles head-on, until he realizes that the person with the answers may be his late brother's own wife - a woman he once loved himself. Without warning, Scott deliberately crashes the plane into a downtown London skyscraper. The series was very loosely based on the DC superhero character Deadman, although the similarities between the properties are few. Deadman is a supernatural comic book series written by Bruce Jones and published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics. With his older brother Scott at the controls, Brandon is "deadheading" a free flight with a hangover that won't quit. Deadman 1 (October 2006), art by John Watkiss. Combining over-the-top action and brain-tingling speculation, this is Deadman as only Vertigo could deliver in an ongoing series about sex and string theory parapsychology and political conspiracy where the "wonder years" and the afterlife are just two dimensions of the same reality.Brandon Cayce is cocky young pilot for a major airline who likes to fly right and party all night. The superstar veteran team of fan-favorite writer Bruce Jones (NIGHTWING, THE WARLORD) and innovative artist John Watkiss (SANDMAN MYSTERY THEATRE, TRIGGER) explores the mysteries of life - and love - after death in this original re-imagining of the classic DC character. ![]() |