A love story serves as backdrop for The Map of the Sky when New York socialite Emma Harlow agrees to marry millionaire Montgomery Gilmore, but only if he accepts her audacious challenge: to reproduce the extraterrestrial invasion featured in Wells’s War of the Worlds. What follows are three brilliantly interconnected plots to create a breathtaking tale of time travel and mystery, replete with cameos by a young Edgar Allan Poe, and Captain Shackleton and Charles Winslow from The Map of Time.
Personification: Is It Passe? by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro September 2012 Rochelle Shapiro is a regular columnist for Authorlink. Watch for her insights every month on Authorlink. How many times have you read about flowers dancing? Breezes whispering? Winds...
Lilly Hawkins dreads the day that her boyfriend pops the question. She found the ring, so she knows the day is not far away, especially since it is Christmas Eve. The newsroom where she works is running on a skeleton shift and more shooters (camera journalists) have lost their jobs as more on air personalities shoot and cut their own videos. One thing she does not need is death in the family, and that is what she gets.
There are no literary lights so high, their private moments will not topple them from their pedestals.
Edith Wharton brings to mind an age where appearances were everything and the slightest misstep could cause a fatal social fall. Nothing would be forgiven without at least paying the social price—in public.
The Nanny, Ali, came to work for Nick and Bryony Skinner to take care of their four children and is present when the economy falls to dust in 2008, finding herself privy to most all of the ‘talk’ and problems that befall the family. The Skinner’s are one of those ‘groups’ who were at the top of the heap financially and had no problems looming in the future, but when the stock market took a tumble they, like many, crumbled right along with it.
More than a million home chefs across the country have enjoyed America’s Most Wanted Recipes, More of America’s Most Wanted Recipes, and America’s Most Wanted Recipes Without the Guilt, in which author Ron Douglas uncovers the best of the best recipes from hundreds of popular restaurants, including Applebee’s, Arby’s, Baskin- Robbins, The Cheesecake Factory, Chili’s, IHOP, and more.
Roane, a young archaeologist, makes planetfall on a previously off-limits world where the inhabitants have been implanted with false memories and conditioned to obey their oligarchic masters. Now Roane must fight to save the enslaved populace and her own inner essence by finding a powerful artifact that could bring new freedom to a planet that has spent eons in darkness.
As an avid reader looking for the ‘best of the best’ in titles out there at the moment, this book is one of the most heartbreaking and amazing stories you will ever read. Although some may feel as if they need to be a ‘historian’ for this one, that is absolutely untrue.
METAPHOR : This is That by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro August 2012 The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor, it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an eye for resemblance....
Jessica has it all: handsome husband, wealth, good job at the top of her field, and youth. It is not enough, and her job will probably end soon. She is bored with her life and her marriage and Andrew, her husband, has settled into a respectable and well-furnished rut. She wants more. She needs more.
