She strives to be the Guillermo del Toro of the publishing industry, knowing what works visu With over a decade of experience in the entertainment and publishing industries, Shayne Leighton is a creative professional with edge and quirkiness. Having a background in film science, Shayne has produced book trailers and marketing materials for New York Times bestselling authors and major publishers such as Cynthia Leitich Smith (Tantalize, Candlewick Press), Alex Flinn (Towering, Harper Teen), and Kimberley Griffiths Little (When The Butterflies Came, Scholastic Press). Her debut novel, Of Light and Darkness hit Amazon's coveted Top 100 overall bestsellers list once during the fall of 2015, and again in the summer of 2016, reaching the #4 spot. With over a decade of experience in the entertainment and publishing industries, Shayne Leighton is a creative professional with edge and quirkiness.
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Maisy is a favorite of mine and someone I wanted to get her HEA from very early on. I am so glad I took the leap this book is as good as the first two in my opinion. But I LOVED the first 2 and well I was invested in this series so I had to see how it was going to play out. I have to admit I was worried, the last 2 book were just ok for me. Because his only chance at a future with her is by burying his past. Maybe if he can disguise the lies and hide the deceit, he can keep her from learning the truth. The promise of the good she could bring into his life is too hard to resist. He shouldn't have tried to find her but he never was good at rejecting temptation. But years later, he's back in Montana and unable to keep his distance. He took one look at her and ran in the opposite direction. Hunter was a different man when he first saw Maisy Holt from afar. She made that mistake before with another man. None of those feelings can be trusted, though. But when a handsome stranger walks into the lobby of her motel, her simple life is swept up in a wave of affection for his gentle heart. Her child is thriving, her business is growing, and her family is as close as they've ever been. Maisy is happily content with the life she's built for herself and her young son in small-town Prescott, Montana. Michael Lewis's beautiful obsession with the idea of value has once again yielded gold. Lev Grossman (Time)Ī journalistic tour de force. Provides plenty of action, both numerical and athletic, on the field and in the draft-day war room. Ritter (New York Times Book Review)Įbullient, invigorating. Mark Gerson (Weekly Standard)īy playing Boswell to Beane's Samuel Johnson, Lewis has given us one of the most enjoyable baseball books in years. It may be the best business book anyone has written. Moneyball is the best business book Lewis has written. You need know absolutely nothing about baseball to appreciate the wit, snap, economy and incisiveness of thoughts about it. Lewis has hit another one out of the park. If you're a baseball fan, Moneyball is a must. The best book of the year, already feels like the most influential book on sports ever written. They are all in search of new baseball knowledge-insights that will give the little guy who is willing to discard old wisdom the edge over big money. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis follows the low-budget Oakland A's, visionary general manager Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball theorists. Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. I loved hearing the stories of the gods and myths of Korean folklore, and of the quiet inner strength of the Korean women. I know very little about Korean culture, and nothing about the folktales within. 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But everything changes the day Owen sees the impossible happen-his classmate Bethany climb out of a book in the library. Owen knows that better than anyone, what with the real world's homework and chores. Life is boring when you live in the real world, instead of starring in your own book series. This "clever opener likely to leave readers breathless both with laughter and anticipation" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review) is the first in the New York Times bestselling series from the author of the Half Upon a Time trilogy. She's everything he knew she would be.except for her bullheaded determination to be "normal". As a dominant and sadist, he can give her what she needs, and when an opportunity arises, he slips into her life, intending to make amends. Sinclair managed the impossible I actually fell in love with a sadist that has scared me beyond spitless throughout this series! Kinky Book Reviews When trying to save a woman from slavers, Master Sam screwed up. 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Fresh out of prison, Travis sets out on a solo Alaskan trek, wanting nothing more than quiet time for introspection. Lee's debut thriller pits ex-con ex-cop Travis Chase against increasingly dire odds as the action ratchets up like levels in a complex video game. Lindbergh was born in 1944 in Leszno, Poland. His images became homage to the new modern women. In the 1990s Lindbergh garnered international acclaim for launching the careers of the “Supermodels”-Cindy Crawford, Kate Moss, Stephanie Seymour, Naomi Campbell, and Linda Evangelista. He uses body movement-in particular modern dance-to celebrate the human form in a way that carries elements of both antiquity and modernity. In his editorial work for Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Interview, and many other international magazines, Lindbergh replaces staged, calculated glamour with a vérité approach, enhanced by his use of high-contrast black-and-white photography. His Eastern European heritage can be traced in the stark and guileless realism that frames the feminine beauty of his subjects. Peter Lindbergh’s now-iconic photographs of women derive inspiration from early narrative cinema and street photography in their fleeting observations and compositional elegance. |