Rain rolled off the awning above the front window of Ink Springs. This previously published book is #4 in the Tucker Springs series, and can be read as a standalone. Seth needs to figure it out soon, because while Darren may be a patient man, he won’t wait around for eternity. While this hardcore atheist enjoys a hearty debate, Seth’s painful past has led him to avoid believers-not out of judgment but out of self-preservation.ĭarren is everything Seth wants in a man except for that one massive detail that’s impossible to overlook.īut is Darren’s religion the real problem? Or is it just a convenient smokescreen to keep Seth from facing a deeper fear? Well, except for the part where he moved to Tucker Springs to take a job as the youth pastor at the New Light Church. The new guy is gorgeous, witty, and single, plus he’s just the right amount of bold and flirtatious. Tattoo artist Seth Wheeler thinks he’s struck gold when Darren Romero rents the apartment across the hall. – Geoff Whaley, The Oddness of Moving Things The last two novels in this series (Covet Thy Neighbor and Never a Hero) have seriously raised the bar.  delved pretty deep into the issues without being disrespectful, campy or insensitive. Witt articulates both sides of the debate better and more entertainingly than many non-fiction religion books I’ve read. Thinking adults usually grapple at some point with the question of what they believe in terms of God and religion. This is why I call it a “Wow” book – the kind of book where I become so enamored of the characters and immersed in their back-stories that by the end of the first chapter I feel as if I have a personal stake in the relationship. The audio version is currently unavailable. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.GENRE(S): Contemporary, Religious Themes, Tattoos Which means he needs to decide what's more important: protecting himself, or his feelings for his neighbor. In a small town like Tucker Springs, Seth can't avoid Darren-or how much he wants him. But Darren's perseverance and the chemistry bubbling between them steadily wear down his defenses. As a gay man whose parents threw him out, Seth has a strict policy of keeping believers at arm's length for self-preservation. Then Darren drops the bomb: he moved to Tucker Springs to be a pastor at the New Light Church. Darren Romero is everything Seth wants in a man: hot, clever, single, and interested.  Welcome to Tucker Springs, Colorado, where sparks fly when opposites attract-but are some obstacles too great to overcome? When tattoo artist Seth Wheeler meets his new neighbor, it's like a revelation.

Covet Thy Neighbor by L.A. Witt

Ross King skilfully illuminates the career, interests and connections of a fifteenth-century maker of manuscript books, and in the process paints a compelling picture of Florence in the age of the Medici, and of the fascinating, fractured world of the European Renaissance, in the decades witnessing the final fall of the Byzantine Empire and the fateful appearance of the new technology of print Peter Marshall, author of Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation Written with an exquisite touch and enviable flair, King has written a book in defence of the pursuit of knowledge that's needed today more than ever Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in Twelve MapsĪ beautifully constructed work of popular scholarship, at once celebratory and elegiac. The Bookseller of Florence does for books what Ross King did for the art of Brunelleschi, Leonardo and Michelangelo: it conjures a vivid, lost world of manuscripts and learning. In this deft, sparkling book, Ross King reanimates the Street of Booksellers and the life of its most fascinating figure: Vespasiano da Bisticci Peter Moore, author of Endeavour: The Ship and the Attitude that Changed the WorldĪ brilliant narrative that seamlessly weaves together intellectual debate, technological exploration and the excitement of new ways of thinking about ethics, politics and human capability Rowan Williams In the mid-fifteenth-century it must have seemed as if all the wisdom of the world was distilled into a single street in Florence. 'A spectacular life of the book trade's Renaissance man' JOHN CAREY, SUNDAY TIMES Read more But by 1480 a new invention had appeared: the printed book, and Europe's most prolific merchant of knowledge faced a formidable new challenge. With a client list that included popes and royalty, Vespasiano became the 'king of the world's booksellers'. His books were works of art in their own right, copied by talented scribes and illuminated by the finest miniaturists. At a time where all books were made by hand, these people helped imagine a new and enlightened world.Īt the heart of this activity was a remarkable bookseller: Vespasiano da Bisticci.  But equally important were geniuses of another kind: Florence's manuscript hunters, scribes, scholars and booksellers.  The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings - the dazzling handiwork of the city's artists and architects. 'A marvel of storytelling and a masterclass in the history of the book' WALL STREET JOURNAL A gripping story of ancient wisdom, new technology and 'the king of the world’s booksellers', set in Renaissance Florence

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