Jack Stapleton’s a household name-captured by paparazzi on beaches the world over, famous for, among other things, rising out of the waves in all manner of clingy board shorts and glistening like a Roman deity. But the truth is, she’s an Executive Protection Agent (aka "bodyguard"), and she just got hired to protect superstar actor Jack Stapleton from his middle-aged, corgi-breeding stalker. Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine bottle opener. “Great rollicking fun! Prepare to laugh and swoon and grin your pants off.”-Helen Hoang, New York Times bestselling author of The Heart Principle New York Times bestselling author Katherine Center's The Bodyguard is unabashedly romantic, laugh-out-loud funny, and the perfect summer read. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.*** ***I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review. Reading Challenges: 20 Books of Summer 2022 Genres: Fiction / Family Life / General, Fiction / Romance / Romantic Comedy, Fiction / Women Purchase Here Buy on Amazon US - Buy on Apple - Buy on Kobo - Buy on Google - Buy at Barnes and Noble - Buy on Waterstones - Buy on Audible - Buy on Amazon UK
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And Riley must make a choice: walk away from what the blog has created - a lifeline, new friends, a cause to believe in - or stand up, come out, and risk everything.įrom debut author Jeff Garvin comes a powerful and uplifting portrait of a modern teen struggling with high school, relationships, and what it means to be a person. But just as Riley's starting to settle in at school - even developing feelings for a mysterious outcast - the blog goes viral, and an unnamed commenter discovers Riley's real identity, threatening exposure. On the advice of a therapist, Riley starts an anonymous blog to vent those pent-up feelings and tell the truth of what it's really like to be a gender fluid teenager. Before becoming a writer, Jeff Garvin acted in films and TV and was the front man of a nationally touring rock band. 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Many will hone their talents, spending 24/7 invested in K-pop, but only a handful will make it. Korean American teen Rachel Kim has spent six years in Seoul as a K-pop trainee for one of the city’s biggest entertainment agencies. And now she knows she must face her fears – and her ghosts – to find a new way forward for herself and her people. It has shaped her life and her mother’s before her. What secrets does she keep amidst the charred remains of the Big House? Which spells has she conjured to threaten their children? And why is she so wary of the charismatic preacher man who promises to save them all? When sickness sweeps across her tight-knit community, Rue finds herself the focus of suspicion. But this new world brings new dangers, and Rue’s old magic may be no match for them. Times have changed since her mother Miss May Belle held the power to influence the life and death of her fellow slaves. 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How will the winning candidate piece together a victory in 2020?ĭavid Byler, a data analyst for The Washington Post who anticipates a Biden victory, sees the presidential election as the first true affirmation in this century of the “ The Emerging Democratic Majority,” an argument developed by John Judis and Ruy Teixeira in a prescient 2002 book. But it took a second reading for me to realize this wasn’t an inherent impatience, but a post-war hunger to live meaningfully a thirst for life that was born from too much time around death. Hemingway was always defined by his impatience. And so many of Hemingway’s character traits are defined by the repercussions of having survived those years of war and constant death – particularly his need for “truthful prose,” and his disdain for anyone who sought otherwise. Hovering over Hemingway’s romantic cafés and ateliers is the fresh memory of WWI. But so was the nature of Hemingway’s Paris in the ‘20s: a la vie en rose and “anything goes” kind of town. The two were so in love, and like so many characters in “A Moveable Feast”, you wanted both to slap and to congratulate them for their untethered passion. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald were champions of the latter themes, given their tumultuous relationship in the book. Sure, I’d thought of Ernest Hemingway’s classic as a book about the obvious: hunger and gratitude, honesty and unrelenting love. I’d never meditated on “ A Moveable Feast“ ’s relationship with death. |