![]() ![]() Josh is married and lives in Southern California.įind other Josh Lanyon titles at Follow Josh on Twitter, Facebook, and Goodreads. Josh is an Eppie Award winner, a four-time Lambda Literary Award finalist (twice for Gay Mystery), an Edgar nominee and the first ever recipient of the Goodreads Favorite M/M Author Lifetime Achievement award. The Adrien English Series was awarded All Time Favorite Male Male Couple in the 2nd Annual contest held by the 20,000+ Goodreads M/M Group. ![]() ![]() In 2016 Fatal Shadows placed #5 in Japan’s annual Boy Love novel list (the first and only title by a foreign author to place). Stranger on the Shore (Harper Collins Italia) was the first M/M title to be published in print. The FBI thriller Fair Game was the first male/male title to be published by Harlequin Mondadori, the largest romance publisher in Italy. Her work has been translated into eleven languages. Josh Lanyon is the author of over sixty titles of classic Male/Male fiction featuring twisty mystery, kickass adventure and unapologetic man-on-man romance. ![]()
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The player can do so by typing the /party create command in game chat and the /party invite command to invite a player to the party. To run a co-op vault with a friend, the player need to create a vault party. ![]() ![]() ![]() The situation soon becomes even more personal for Juliet and her best friend Pete Bennett when one of their employees disappears during her shift. Even though she tries her best to stay out of it, Juliet’s involvement puts a strain on Ryder’s first homicide case. Juliet does her best to calm the girl’s nerves, but her worst fears are confirmed when she finds Chelsea dead. ![]() Suddenly every Nashville resident is on high alert, especially Juliet’s neighbor Chelsea. With him risking his life to catch the worst kind of criminals, Juliet’s growing sense of unease ignites when a local college student goes missing. But her good mood quickly turns as stale as day-old espresso when she finds out that Ryder has been promoted to his precinct’s homicide division. Her romance with the hunky detective Ryder Hamilton continues to simmer, and business at Java Jive has never been better. ![]() Juliet’s personal and professional lives have recently received an extra jolt of energy. Just as things are perking up in Nashville, a serial killer sends tensions foaming over. Coffeehouse manager and reluctant sleuth Juliet Langley returns in a gripping novel from the bestselling author of Death Before Decaf and Mug Shot. ![]() ![]() One meaning of her last name is lost places. ![]() While based in Paris as a reporter for The New York Times in 2003, Carvajal and her family traveled to villages in the south of Spain where her ancestors might have lived. By the time Carvajal was interested in asking questions, her grandmother and aunt, who held the family secrets, were no longer alive. Another hint: her grandfather never attended church services and scorned priests. Her parents didn’t talk much about their background, probably, she says, because they didn’t have much information to share. She had a book tracing her father’s family for 11 generations back to Spain, but she had no idea why it left. She knew that her family on her father’s side had made its way from Spain to Costa Rica, where her grandparents were born, to California. ![]() Caught up in other ambitions, she didn’t pay much attention.Ĭarvajal grew up in California with rosaries and communion, and she was taught to read by nuns. ![]() Over the years, people pointed out to Doreen Carvajal, who was raised Catholic, that her last name sounded like a name of conversos, Spanish Jews forced to convert during the Inquisition. ![]() ![]() ![]() Besides my parents, school, and Asher, she was always at the forefront of my mind for as long as I could remember. I’d go out of my way to celebrate in some way with her. I’d always remember her birthday or events happening in her life. ![]() I suppose maybe in the back of my mind there were some signs. Of course, that all came after I fucking broke her heart, but what the hell was I supposed to tell her back then? To me, she was still the young girl I was extremely protective of. The idea of the woman who would be my wife one day was still fuzzy in my mind. I’d made promises to myself years before that I wasn’t going to be like a lot of the men that run in the circles of our world. I was still a teenage boy confused as fuck. I don’t think she knows how much that not only hurt me, but it killed my mom too. Hell, she never came back to the Silverstein estate after that. I mean, she was barely a teenage girl telling me that she loved me, and one day she wanted me to be her husband and wouldn’t be happy if I took some other girl to prom. I’d bet my life all those years ago after I’d shut her down that she vowed to herself that she was done with me. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They’re always crowding around the shipowner, begging him and doing everything possible to get him to turn the rudder over to them. Indeed, they claim that it isn’t teachable and are ready to cut to pieces anyone who says that it is. ![]() The sailors are quarreling with one another about steering the ship, each of them thinking that he should be the captain, even though he’s never learned the art of navigation, cannot point to anyone who taught it to him, or to a time when he learned it. The shipowner is bigger and stronger than everyone else on board, but he’s hard of hearing, a bit short-sighted, and his knowledge of seafaring is equally deficient. Thus Socrates invites his listeners to imagine a seafaring vessel in dire straits: While Socrates-the Athenian philosopher and mentor of Plato-is discussing with his young friends the nature of justice and the ideal political community, he finds it necessary to describe one of the perennial dilemmas of mankind-corrupt, ignorant leadership. Although somewhat overshadowed by the allegory of the Cave, the myth of the ring of Gyges, and other powerful images found in Plato’s Republic, the account of the ship of fools is still memorable and compelling. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you found this review helpful please indicate so. He delivers crazy lines in dead pan that would have me rolling. But either way get ready for a real "humdinger" of a story. If you've never listened to a Flowers novel, they can be read as stand alone novels but for character development I would read/listen to them in the order they were written. If you're familiar with the Virgil Flowers series then you're already getting ready for the sarcasm, snappy comebacks and great humor his character is known for. ![]() They're turning them into little sex dolls that say things they were never supposed to say or look (especially Ken's addition). At the same time a woman from the toy company Mattel is trying to find who is messing with their Barbie line of dolls. The woman is the bank president (reason enough for many to dislike her), in the process of getting a divorce from a man questioning his sexual identity and having an S&M tryst with someone Virgil can't identify. By a bunch of women! While investigating the murder of another woman found in a frozen river. ![]() ![]() ![]() The craziest thing about “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret,” which opens in theaters today, is that it took Blume this long - over 50 years - to let Hollywood do it, at least officially. In one of the too-few shots illustrating Margaret’s literal point of view, the camera moves in to gaze at the armpit hair of a local boy, Moose. Not only are you dealing with the normal pains of everyday existence and coming to terms with the fact that your parents just might be people too - you and all of your classmates are morphing at wildly different and confusing rates. ![]() ![]() It’s one of many lovely moments that evoke the strangeness of being 11. Writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig ( “The Edge of Seventeen”) relishes in the excruciating awkwardness, letting time slow down as the conveyer belt screeches along. In a panic, Margaret throws a pack of mints on the boxes. The two girls watch in horror as the older woman at the checkout counter leaves for a break right as they approach and is replaced with a shaggy-haired teenage boy. In one scene, Margaret (Abby Ryder Fortson), who has not yet started menstruating, decides to get ready for it by buying some pads at the convenience store with her friend Janie (Amari Alexis Price). ![]() ![]() She gets the sarcastic tone of Lilo's voice in her own head just right. ![]() For starters try these stories that include Varley's suite of technologies that change human society: "Options" "Picnic on Nearside" "The Phantom of Kansas" "Lollipop and the Tar Baby" "Beatnik Bayou" "Equinoctial" Gabra Zackman reads THE OPHIUCHI HOTLINE well. If this sparks your interest but you find yourself at a loss on some of the issues dealt with in THE OPHIUCHI HOTLINE, go back and read (yes like pick up a book with paper and ink) some of his earlier short stories. The remnants of humanity that survived relocated to the moon and other planets. In the earlier stories Varley explores the societal impact of cloning, changing and memory recording through engaging characters and memorable events. In the next two years, ten billion humans starved to death. ![]() It is a shame that this is the only story from John Varley's 8-Worlds series presently available on Audible. ![]() An SF classic where Varley deftly combines cloning and memory recording to give a sort of pseudo-immortality to its practitioners. ![]() |