5/13/2023 0 Comments Nana by brandon masseyAs the novel progresses, she begins to transform into something much younger while Grace begins to slowly age. It is clear from the very beginning that something is wrong with Grace. Desperate to get answers related to her family, Monica invites grace into her home to become better acquainted with her family. Nana focuses on the family of Monica and Troy who end up meeting Monica's supposed long lost mother Grace at the funeral of Monica's grandmother. Some scenes in this book are not for the faint of heart and definitely made me cringe. Massey definitely didn't fail in writing a compelling and fascinating horror story that appears to make so much commentary on mother figures and abandonment. I was extremely excited to get to this one for Blackoweenathon and was prepared to be completely and totally freaked out. I've been hearing so much about Nana lately specifically from Bre the Loc'D Booktician.
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5/13/2023 0 Comments After the fire by will hillBefore takes readers back to the events leading up to the fire of the title, while After details the life of Moonbeam after everything she has known is gone.Moonbeam is a great strong female narrator fighting to get her life back and help her fellow survivors while trying to deal with the two secrets inside her. Hill then brilliantly uses the trope of Before and After to build up the suspense. Now she has to figure out a life outside of the compound, outside of Father John's control, all while holding two secrets inside her that refuse to let her go.The opening is so powerful, it had me sucked in right away. This did not affect my opinion of the book or my review itself.There was a fire, a terrible fire with gunshots and people dying all around her. I received an ARC of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Cleopatra by stacy schiffAlready she was the wealthiest ruler in the Mediterranean the relationship with Antony confirmed her status as the most influential woman of the age. Cleopatra had a child with Caesar and - after his murder - three more with his protégé. They happen, however, to have been Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, among the most prominent Romans of the day. Cleopatra appears to have had sex with only two men. Ultimately she dispensed with an ambitious sister as well incest and assassination were family specialties. She waged a brutal civil war against the first when both were teenagers. She was married twice, each time to a brother. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. 5/13/2023 0 Comments For whom the bell tolls spanishThe novel’s tension, romance and political energy still capture the minds and hearts of many. The novel ends with Anselmo dead, Maria, Pilar and Pablo escaping, and a maimed Jordan awaiting his fate at the hands of an advancing enemy. The sacrificial love Jordan discovers for the cause and for Maria, a fellow guerrilla traumatised by rape and her parents’ murder, shines amid the bleak brutality of a (seemingly) futile assignment (from a Russian officer, Karkov) to detonate a strategic bridge near Segovia. The main characters – including Anselmo, an elderly guide who leads Jordan to a guerrilla camp Pablo, a vacillating guerrilla leader and, Pilar, his courageous, elderly wife who replaces her husband as the group’s leader – are part real, part fictional. It relates the exploits of Robert Jordan, a young American university teacher and dynamitist, who joins tens of thousands from outside Spain in defence of the Second Spanish Republic (1931-9). Based on Hemingway’s own experience as a war correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance, the novel is set in three nights on the Sierra de Guadarrama mountains (NW of Madrid). Like Donne’s poem, For Whom the Bell Tolls is a study in loyalty and our shared humanity. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Ice planet barbarians book 4Authors invoked a variety of mechanisms for superluminal travel (or generation starships) and placed their stories on worlds in planetary systems around other stars, an innovation that gave them the freedom to construct exotic fictional planets and themes. Īs science fiction became established in the early 20th century, destinations such as the Moon, Mars, Venus, and other bodies within the Solar System began to seem stale. One of these is found in Voltaire's Micromégas (1752), which features a traveller from Sirius. The notion that there might be inhabited extrasolar planets can be traced at least as far back as Giordano Bruno who, in his De l'infinito, universo e mondi ( On the Infinite, Universe and Worlds, 1584), declared that "There are then innumerable suns, and an infinite number of earths revolve around those suns, if not exactly as our own, and if not more nobly, at least no less inhabited and no less nobly." Allusions to inhabitants of other stars' planetary systems remained rare in literature for some centuries thereafter. Simak novel serialised in Galaxy Science Fiction Novels For Michael Stirling, London's most infamous rake, that moment came the first time he laid eyes on Francesca Bridgerton.Īfter a lifetime of chasing women, of smiling slyly as they chased him, of allowing himself to be caught but never permitting his heart to become engaged, he took one look at Francesca Bridgerton and fell so fast and hard into love it was a wonder he managed to remain standing. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and breathtaking, that one knows one's life will never be the same. When He Was Wicked (Bridgertons, #6) by Julia QuinnĪlso in this series: The Viscount Who Loved MeĪmazon | Barnes & Noble | The Ripped Bodice | Google Play BooksĮverything was so much simpler. Each book that I read from her delivers a delightful romance that I can’t get enough of and I want to remind you why she’s so great. Julia Quinn has been writing fabulous historical romances for as long as I can remember. We’ll be raving about the books we love and being total fangirls. This year we’re spotlighting our favorite books, old and new. Sunday Spotlight is a feature we began in 2016. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Pronoun Envy by Anna LiviaThe project aims to un-silence ancient (mythological) spaces of queer and trans* possibility from within Yoruba cosmology and draws on scholarly discussions of Eshu to uncover the potential of trans* inclusivity. Eshu is re-imagined in a queer reading (or more precisely writing) to propel us into new possibilities of addressing gender. The novel de-contextualizes Yoruba pronouns within the English text, marrying contemporary concepts of gender with Yoruba mythology, in form of the god of the crossroads, Eshu. We witness Karl and his best friend Abu’s coming of age, and explorations of gender, against the backdrop of gentrification in the King’s Cross area of London, oil exploitation in the Niger Delta, and the London (or UK) riots of 2011. In the novel, questions of positioning and representation are answered for the protagonist Karl, a young trans* person. Border-crossing, borrowed from Gloria Anzaldúa’s book Borderlands/La Frontera (1987), forms the overarching keyword and central tool to contextually tie together theoretical research and practical investigations around language, voice, character development and plot. This article discusses a practice-led PhD in creative writing that comprises a novel and critical reflection. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Something good munschUrn:oclc:230986059 Republisher_date 20151224030305 Republisher_operator Scandate 20151218070456 Scanner . He has written over 50 books including Love You Forever, Mortimer, Angelas Airplane, Andrews Loose Tooth, Stephanies Ponytail, Moiras Birthday, and Put Me in a Book. OL88691W Page-progression lr Pages 42 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:289021155X Something Good (Munsch for Kids) Paperback by Robert Munsch (Author), Michael Martchenko (Illustrator) 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings Library Binding from 28.00 1 Used from 28.00 Paperback 9.94 44 Used from 1.38 6 New from 4.87 Something good is exactly what Tyya, Andrew and Julie want to put into their shopping cart. It was followed by The Boy in the Drawer. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:49:48.058793 Boxid IA1138705 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Toronto Containerid S0022 Donor Something Good is the seventh episode of the CanadianAmerican animated anthology series, A Bunch of Munsch, after Mortimer, which is based on the 1990 Robert Munschs book of the same name. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Percy and sam every summer afterWhen Percy returns to the lake for Sam’s mother’s funeral, their connection is as undeniable as it had always been. Eventually that friendship turned into something breathtakingly more, before it fell spectacularly apart. For six summers, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm summer nights working in his family’s restaurant and curling up together with books-medical textbooks for him and work-in-progress horror short stories for her-Percy and Sam had been inseparable. Until she receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek-the man she never thought she’d have to live without. Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in a stylish apartment in the city, going out with friends, and keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart. Every Summer After by Carley Fortune: They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Lissa price booksThe release dates for Enders will be announced by the publishers of each country, with some starting in May 2013. See the book trailer that played in front of the Hunger Games film in selected theaters in the US and abroad at her site. Audiobooks have been recorded in English and German. In Germany, Starters launched a brand-new YA imprint of the established Piper Verlag publisher called IVI. Starters was chosen for the IRA Reading List and is the only book nominated for both the Florida Teens Read List and the SSYRA Middle School List 2013-14. It won the Crimezone Award for Best YA Thriller and is one of the LAPL's and Chicago Public Library's Best Teen Books of 2012. It was awarded the its Eselsohr for Best YA Book in 2012, selected by a jury of teens in Germany, and was chosen as a top ten favorite book of 2012 by both French and German readers. STARTERS was a Barnes & Noble pick of the month and one of only four debuts on the B&N Best Teen Books of 2012. Dean Koontz called this YA futuristic thriller “a smart, swift, inventive, altogether gripping story.” The LA Times said it is “Dystopian science-fiction at its best,” and “Readers who have been waiting for a worthy successor to ‘The Hunger Games’ will find it here.” Lissa Price’s debut novel STARTERS is an award-winning, international bestseller published in over thirty countries. |