![]() ![]() ![]() This skillfully crafted tale of faith and redemption hits its mark. *** "Ever-escalating tension, well-developed characters, and some clever misdirection will keep readers glued to their seats. USA Today bestselling author Elizabeth Goddard weaves a tangled web of nail-biting suspense and heart-stopping romance in this fast-paced conclusion to her Rocky Mountain Courage series. When the situation turns deadly, Alex and Mackenzie will have to work together to find the answers they need-before someone silences Mackenzie for good. ![]() Buy a discounted Hardcover of Critical Alliance online from Australias. But even as he's trying to relax, he's drawn into another mystery, complete with suspicious deaths, lethal threats, and whispers of espionage that all have one thing in common-a beautiful cybersecurity expert with a dark past. Booktopia has Critical Alliance, Rocky Mountain Courage by Elizabeth Goddard. Diplomatic Security Services special agent Alex Knight is back home in Montana to decompress from a mission gone wrong. But when a long-ago partner in crime delivers a cryptic message about her father's tech company being under cyberattack, she heads for Montana to secure exposed assets, close security breaches, and hopefully save lives. Mackenzie Hanson's special set of skills opened the door to a successful career as a professor of cybersecurity at a Michigan university, allowing her to put her criminal past behind her. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments Let Me Be Frank by Tracy Dawson![]() ![]() In 2014 Tracy worked as a writer on the TBS sitcom YOUR FAMILY OR MINE. Also in 2009 (it was a big year!) Tracy starred in the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Ben Elton musical The Boys in the Photograph at Toronto’s historic Royal Alexandra Theatre. ![]() Tracy's play, them & us, was produced in 2009 by the prestigious Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto. Tracy went on to win the Gemini Award and the Canadian Screen Award for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her work opposite Jason Priestley on Fitz. ![]() In 2009, Tracy won an emerging TV writer award at the Banff World Television Festival and was soon staffed as a writer (and later cast as a lead actor) on the Canadian comedy series, Call Me Fitz. ![]() She is an alum of the renowned Second City in Toronto and the Shaw Festival, the second largest repertory theatre in North America. Tracy is also an award-winning actress and a TV writer who began her career on the alt-comedy stages of Toronto. Frank is her first book, and it was sold in a pre-emptive deal to HarperCollins in March 2020, a month when nothing much else happened in the world. Tracy Dawson is the author of Let Me Be Frank: A Book About Women Who Dressed Like Men to Do Shit They Weren’t Supposed to Do, which came out in Summer 2022 from Harper Design/HarperCollins. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Although this may have resulted in some pushing of contemporary ideology onto a historical setting, most critics have praised the story's accuracy. In writing about the life of an ordinary citizen of Boston at that time, Forbes wanted to show, in her words, "not merely what was done but why and how people felt." Originally intending to keep Johnny neutral during the Revolution, she changed her mind as a result of the advent of World War II, because she saw parallels between the two wars and wanted to show young readers those parallels. Johnny Tremain follows the story of a silversmith's apprentice as he stumbles into the American Revolution and gains insight into his own character. Yet Forbes's reputation is primarily as a children's writer, resting particularly on Johnny Tremain (1942), an offshoot of her research for the adult Paul Revere biography and considered by many the best example of historical fiction ever written for children. ![]() ![]() Forbes was the author of six historical novels and four books of nonfiction for adults, as well as the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1942 for her adult biography, Paul Revere and the World He Lived In Paul Revere and the World He Lived In (1942). ![]() |