![]() The New York Times | Cosmopolitan | Buzzfeed | Bustle | E! News | Parade | The Washington Post | Vox | Entertainment Weekly | TIME | Vogue | Parade | CrimeReads | The Week | New York Post | The Millions | PopSugar | Kirkus | Publishers Weekly Top 10 "One of the greatest crime novelists writing today" (Vox) weaves a masterful, atmospheric tale of suspense, asking what we sacrifice in our search for truth and justice, and what we risk if we don't. But when a local kid whose brother has gone missing arm-twists him into investigating, Cal uncovers layers of darkness beneath his picturesque retreat, and starts to realize that even small towns shelter dangerous secrets. ![]() After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens. "This hushed suspense tale about thwarted dreams of escape may be her best one yet.its own kind of masterpiece." -Maureen Corrigan, The Washington PostĪ "taut, chiseled and propulsive" ( Vogue) new novel from the bestselling mystery writer who "is in a class by herself." ( The New York Times)Ĭal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a bucolic Irish village would be the perfect escape. ![]() A New York Times and NPR Best Book of 2020 ![]()
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![]() ![]() I remember really wanting to read WHEN DIMPLE MET RISHI when it came out. But when opposites clash, love works hard to prove itself in the most unexpected ways. The Shahs and Patels didn’t mean to start turning the wheels on this “suggested arrangement” so early in their children’s lives, but when they noticed them both gravitating toward the same summer program, they figured, Why not?ĭimple and Rishi may think they have each other figured out. Because as silly as it sounds to most people in his life, Rishi wants to be arranged, believes in the power of tradition, stability, and being a part of something much bigger than himself. So when his parents tell him that his future wife will be attending the same summer program-wherein he’ll have to woo her-he’s totally on board. ![]() If they truly believed she needed a husband right now, they wouldn’t have paid for her to attend a summer program for aspiring web developers…right? Dimple knows they must respect her principles on some level, though. With graduation behind her, she’s more than ready for a break from her family-and from Mamma’s inexplicable obsession with her finding the “Ideal Indian Husband.” Ugh. ![]() Published Amazon | Bookshop | Goodreads About When Dimple Met Rishiĭimple Shah has it all figured out. ![]() When Dimple Met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi #1) ![]() ![]() ![]() In this book Evelyn Welch presents a fresh picture of the Italian Renaissance. Emphasis has been placed on recreating the experience of contemporary Italians - the patrons who commissioned the works, the members of the public who viewed them, and the artists who produced them. Yet the traditional story of the Renaissance has been dramatically revised in the light of new scholarship, and new issues have greatly enriched our understanding of the period. Between the `Black Death' in the mid-fourteenth century and the French invasions at the end of the fifteenth, artists such as Masaccio, Donatello, Fra Angelico, and Leonardo, working in the kingdoms, princedoms, and republics of the Italian peninsula, created some of the most influential and exciting works in a variety of artistic fields. ![]() ![]() There was and there was not, as all stories begin, a princess cursed to be poisonous to the touch. “It was when I healed your wings,” she said, “when I touched you for the first time. Melissa Bashardoust's Girl, Serpent, Thorn is 'an alluring feminist fairy tale' (Kirkus) about a girl cursed to be poisonous to the touch and who discovers what power might lie in such a curse. Soraya tugged lightly on Parvaneh’s hair, making Parvaneh look up. She leaned in again, brushing her lips against Soraya’s shoulder. “Yours,” Soraya said, looking Parvaneh in the eye, as if the word were a challenge. Melissa Bashardoust's Girl, Serpent, Thorn is an alluring feminist fairy tale (Kirkus) about a girl cursed to be poisonous to the touch and who discovers what power might lie in such a. ![]() ![]() You’re still my friend? My ally? Tell me. Parvaneh lifted her head, eyes sparkling. It seemed ridiculous that she could still blush in her current position, and yet she felt an unmistakable heat warm her face. You said you were still with me, that you were still my … my what?” ![]() But Parvaneh remained within the circle of Soraya’s arms, her own hands gripping the bars on either side of her, and she whispered into the crook of Soraya’s neck, “What were you going to say before?” Girl, Serpent, Thorn is a tale a rose might tell, lushly perfumed and lined with thorns in all the right places. ![]() “They were pressed so tightly against each other that when Parvaneh withdrew, Soraya felt like a piece of her had been peeled away. ![]() |