![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Isadora, or Izzie, is such a wonderful character. I look forward to every book this author puts out because I can count on great romance, quirky characters, and laugh-out-loud situations. Neither Isadora nor Ian expected to find the other so intriguing, but when a chain of mysterious incidents on the farm point to a larger threat, they’ll have to set aside everything they thought they wanted for a chance at happy-ever-after.Īnother lovely and swoony historical romance from a talented storyteller. But when his adopted parents are in need of a housekeeper and Isadora is thrown into his path, he’s unexpectedly charmed by her unconventional manner. Ian MacKenzie is known for his savvy business sense and has built his reputation and fortune completely through traditional hard work. When her mother begins pressuring her to marry an elderly and uncouth duke, she escapes from the high-society world she’s always known and finds herself an unlikely candidate for a housekeeper position in rural Pennsylvania. Miss Isadora Delafield may be an heiress, but her life is far from carefree. But if you do use my links, I appreciate your support. ![]() If you click a link and buy something, I receive a commission for the sale. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I remember reading the scene in Starbucks and laughing to hard. The book opens with Brad’s daughter having a fit in the bathrooms after pooping her pants. Cara is resistant, but agrees to a trial period to help Brad get his dad-footing. But Cara has a way with Brad’s daughter and he decides that he has to have Cara for a nanny. She’s not looking to end up in the tabloids by nannying for a celeb. She’s really good at what she does, though she’d rather work for well-off clients in the business sector. His former fling dies in a car accident and now he has to adjust to raising a five year old daughter.Ĭara DuMont is a nanny extraordinaire. He slept with a woman before his career took off and it resulted in a pregnancy, one Brad knew nothing about. ![]() To sum up, Brad Sinclair is a big time actor (with a secret I won’t reveal). Reiss is also a new-to-me author, but after this, I will definitely be checking out Reiss’ future books. ![]() I’m not big on single parent characters and sometimes, with celebrity heroes, romances can often fall into the trap of including bitchy, rival female characters. Based on the description, I wasn’t entirely sure I’d enjoy it. Reiss really took me by surprise in the best of ways. ![]() ![]() ![]() The two men have made it their lives’ work to travel together all over the world, telling their daughters’ stories in their quest for peace.Īpeirogon takes place during a single day as the men make their separate ways to a monastery in Beit Jala, a Palestinian Christian town in Bethlehem, where they have a speaking engagement. There, he met graphic designer Rami Elhanan, 19 years his senior, whose daughter was killed in a suicide bombing in 1997. ![]() After Bassam’s daughter was shot and killed by an Israeli border guard in 2005, he joined the Parents Circle-Families Forum, an organization founded for Israeli and Palestinian families who have lost relatives to the violence. Upon release, Bassam co-founded Combatants for Peace, a grassroots movement committed to nonviolence in Israel and the West Bank, and got a degree in Holocaust Studies in England. Palestinian Bassam Aramin’s life was transformed when, jailed as a teenager, he became interested in Dr. The title, Apeirogon, refers to a shape with an infinite but countable number of sides, and this image serves as a metaphor for both political complexity as well as the episodic manner in which the story unfolds. ![]() Colum McCann’s ambitious new novel tells the true story of the friendship between two men brought together by tragedy. ![]() ![]() spent five seasons primarily coaching the outside linebackers, Porter Jr. He returned in 2014 when his dad joined the staff as a defensive assistant. was born a year after his father's professional career began and spent the first seven years of his childhood running around the Steelers' sidelines. Then-and-now: Steelers CB Joey Porter Jr.It would be amazing to see if something like that happened." Editor's Picks "You couldn't write this stuff in a storybook. told ESPN before this year's draft, when asked about the possibility of the Steelers selecting his son. "You talk about legacies and a son not only making it, but playing for the same franchise - that in itself would be amazing," Joey Porter Sr. Twenty-four years earlier, the Steelers also drafted his father, Joey Porter Sr., in the third round of the 1999 draft. 32 overall pick in the NFL draft.ĭespite receiving multiple offers for the pick - the first of the second round - the Steelers opted to draft the Penn State cornerback rather than trade down out of the spot for more capital. walked through the doors of the Pittsburgh Steelers' facility not only as the son of a four-time Pro Bowler and Super Bowl champion, but as the No. ![]() Less than two hours after he received the long-awaited phone call from a 412 area code, Joey Porter Jr. ![]() ![]() What Mave doesn’t know is that it’s all about to change. ![]() Those will only get her killed.Īlone, she’s stood against everything they have ever thrown at her, refusing to give them what they want. Keeping her head down and her blades sharp has carried her this far, and she refuses to acknowledge the deepest wishes she holds in her heart. Hated, distrusted, and despised, she knows the name of her people, but not much else.īut she knows where she stands. She’s the Champion of the Colosseum, and has been for roughly nine hundred years.Īll of these things have marked her as an outcast among her own people. She’s a gladiator, thrown onto the sands of the Colosseum to die, though it backfired on those who wanted her dead. She’s a slave, and has been one for a thousand years, the personal property of the Empress of the Elvasi Empire, since the end of the War. ![]() A member of the winged, horned, and tailed warrior race that the Elvasi Empire defeated in the Hundred Year War and then enslaved. ![]() |