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The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() In Alaska, she feels both confined and free. She devoured books for entertainment to escape. Her body is present with her parents, but her mind is in the warren of Watership Down or the Shire of the Lord of Rings. She escapes the bleakness of her home and poverty by reading books. School is her escape from her parents' emotional upheavals. When the novel begins, she leaves her home to go to school. All these physical journeys mirror her emotional journey. ![]() She escapes from Kaneq on a ferry, escapes from Homer on a small airplane and comes back to Kaneq. Leni travels from Seattle, Washington to Kaneq, Alaska on a beat-up Volkswagen bus. The beauty and danger of the wilderness we experience through her. It is her mind the reader inhabits it is through her eyes that the reader experiences the narrative. The story is told from her point of view. A Complete Summary of The Great Alone The novel is Leni's hero-journey as well as a coming-of-age tale. ![]()
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Lie to me book jt ellison7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() But when a popular student is found dead, the truth cannot be ignored. ![]() In a world where appearances are everything, as long as students pretend to follow the rules, no one questions the cruelties of the secret societies or the dubious behavior of the privileged young women who expect to get away with murder. But a stranger has come to Goode, and this ivy has turned poisonous. Its elite status, long-held traditions and honor code are ideal for preparing exceptional young women for brilliant futures at Ivy League universities and beyond. The boarding school of choice for daughters of the rich and influential, it accepts only the best and the brightest. Perched atop a hill in the tiny town of Marchburg, Virginia, The Goode School is a prestigious prep school known as a Silent Ivy. ![]()
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Ruthless empire rina7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I knew Cole was kinky, and I love him for it. I’ve been waiting for Cole and Silver’s story ever since the first book of the series as I knew the two of them would be fire together! Boy, was I right. I say I hate her too as I trap her, own her. ![]() I cross every limit with blood-coated fingers. ![]() Why sleep when you can read? Rina Kent, Ruthless Empire, 2020 Ruthless Empire – Rina Kent I’ve always thought sleep is a waste of time. Maybe one day soon I’ll post about the previous books.Īlso, this quote from Cole is one of my favourites! You get to see Cole and Silver in the background of the other books and it would explain certain scenes in this book. This book can be read as a standalone but you for sure would get the most enjoyment out of it if you read the previous books in the series. This book is the culmination of so much angst between the two of them and I am so happy that this book was everything I expected and had hope it would be! Silver is given a bad rep throughout the series as being the mean girl but I knew she was just misunderstood. And clearly obsessed and infatuated with Silver. I’ve been reading the Royal Elite series by Rina Kent for some time now, and the series has definitely been improving!Īnd baby boy Cole has been my favourite of the four horsemen since the first book. ![]()
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Marathon by Brian Freeman7/6/2023 ![]() It would become the first in his Jonathan Stride and Serena Dial series. That book would become Immoral, the author’s debut thriller, which was published when Brian Freeman was 41. A colleague liked his manuscript and he passed it on to a literary agent. This move proved to be the ticket for Brian Freeman. Brian was hoping that this job would give him some much-needed connections in the field. He kept writing books, but he couldn’t find an agent to publish his work. He also worked as a communication strategist and a business writer of freelance articles for a Twin Cities business magazine. After school, he started working for Faegre & Benson, a law firm where he became director of marketing and public relations. He attended Carleton College, from where in 1984 he graduated in English with Magna Cum Laude. He started writing his first novel while he was in high school, and he completed it as he just finished his school. ![]() During that class he wrote his first crime mystery about the murder of a chess grandmaster. ![]() ![]() ![]() Brian credits much of his success to his grandmother, who was a major crime fiction reader, and his 8th-grade composition teacher who gave him free rein to write whatever he wanted and let him bypass the actual class material. It was his lifelong goal to become an established writer. As a child, he loved reading books by authors like James Michener, Leon Uris, and Irving Wallace. Brian Freeman was born in 1963, in Chicago, Illinois. ![]()
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Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Along the way she just might figure out what she is looking for, save a wondrous thing, and realize that some of the talents which she takes for granted are mighty useful indeed. Join Summer as she attempts to follow glimpses of turquoise across Orcus with the help of a weasel, a wolf with a house problem, and an aristocratic hoopoe with a penchant for trouble. ![]() Like any girl of her age, she's read lots of fantasy books about people thrust into strange lands but they usually seemed to have had some idea what they were supposed to do there. Summer has no idea what this might be, but with the lighting of a frog-shaped beeswax candle she finds herself transported to the strange world of Orcus with nothing but a weasel in her pocket. maybe?Īlong comes the crone Baba Yaga in her magical walking house, who spies Summer through the alley gate and offers to provide her heart s desire. Summer loves her mother and would never dream of running away, but wonders deep down if it wouldn't be nice to escape for just a little while and do something adventurous. She always does what she is told and has become very good at listening and consoling her mother s fears, but finds the experience increasingly exhausting. This is the name she uses when writing things for grown-ups. ![]() In another life, she writes children's books and weird comics, and has won the Hugo, Sequoyah, and Ursa Major awards, as well as a half-dozen Junior Library Guild selections. ![]() Summer is a perfectly ordinary 11 year old girl with a perfectly ordinary, needy, over-protective single mother. Kingfisher is the vaguely absurd pen-name of Ursula Vernon. ![]()
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Glint book series7/6/2023 ![]() It’s an adult epic fantasy story blending romance, intrigue, and beautiful imagery. This is the captivating second book of The Plated Prisoner series. The question is, can I out maneuver them? In the game of kings and armies, I’m the gilded pawn. I may be out of my cage, but I’m not free, not even close. When he turns those black eyes on me, I feel captive for an entirely different reason. But his eyes-his eyes are the most compelling of all. Rip has power sizzling beneath this skin and glinting spikes down his spine. The ones who nearly destroyed Orea, wiping out Seventh Kingdom in the process. Known for his brutality on the battlefield, his viciousness is unsurpassed. They’re marching to battle, and I’m the bargaining chip that will either douse the fire or spark a war.Īt the heart of my fear, my worry, there’s him-Commander Rip. ![]() ![]() Now I’m here, a prisoner of Fourth Kingdom’s army, and I’m not sure if I’m going to make it out of this in one piece. “You want to make your life easier? Then be the caged bird that you are and sing.”įor ten years, I’ve lived in a gilded cage inside King Midas’s golden castle. Genres: adult, Fantasy & Magic, Romance, dark, Dark Fantasy Published by Amazon Digital Services on January 11, 2021 JanuMichelle Book Briefs Adult, Reviews 0 ![]()
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Brenda lozano witches7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Son voces super bonitas e inolvidables.” Julieta Venegas “ Brujas busca otras energías, que no tienen que ver con lo concreto real. "En Brujas, Brenda Lozano invoca al lenguaje que es territorio de lo desconocido, al que es puente entre mundos, al que teje vínculos, al lenguaje como sitio de revelación." Gabriela Jauregui El México ancestral, rural y mágico, y el México actual, urbano y acelerado se toman de la mano en esta extraordinaria novela que habla con suma delicadeza de la identidad femenina y de cómo las mujeres se conocen entre sí para conocerse mejor ellas mismas, sanar heridas y encontrar el propio camino. ![]() Para contar su historia quiere antes conocer también la de Zoe.ĭos mujeres. ![]() Es, sin quererlo, la curandera más legendaria de todo México, pero a Feliciana no le interesan la fama ni el dinero. Una joven periodista llamada Zoe viaja desde Ciudad de México hasta la lejana zona de San Felipe para escribir un reportaje sobre Feliciana, una anciana curandera cuyas artes sanadoras atraen a escritores, cineastas y millonarios del mundo entero. La esperada y más ambiciosa novela de Brenda Lozano, una de las voces más sobresalientes de la nueva generación de escritoras latinoamericanas ![]()
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![]() ![]() The relentlessly bright tone and artwork power the narrative through its less riveting segments. Like the almost overwhelmingly twee wedding (a barn raising, handmade wood boxes for the guests, midnight poutine) that she plans, Knisley (Displacement, Relish: My Life in the Kitchen) has a knack for presenting a highly precise type of whimsy that stops just shy of precious overkill. ![]() It is the story of what came after: The Wedding. Three long, lonely years later, John returned to New York, walked into Lucys apartment, and proposed. She, and in some sense the reader, comes out the other end a near expert in the kind of artisanal, ultra-personalized, not-too-pricey wedding that crafty, non-trust-fund millennials could drown their social media accounts in documenting. Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride Soft Cover 1 (First Second Books) - In 2010, Lucy and her long-term boyfriend John broke up. ![]() and being an expert.” By the end of her chirpy story about crafting the perfect ceremony for marrying her fiancé, John, Knisley has gone through all of those stages. This graphic novel, Something New-clocking in at almost 300 pages of humor, despair, and eternal love-is the story of how Lucy built a barn, invented a whole. ![]() “There’s a difference,” Knisley’s bespectacled self says at the start of this breezy yet substantial graphic memoir, “between being a nerd, a fan, an enthusiast. Something New : Tales from a Makeshift Bride. ![]()
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Sk ali saints and misfits7/6/2023 ![]() This quiet read builds to a satisfying conclusion readers will be glad to make space in their hearts-and bookshelves-for Janna Yusuf Set in a multicultural Muslim family, this book is long overdue, a delight for readers who will recognize the culture and essential for those unfamiliar with Muslim experiences. Ali pens a touching exposition of a girl’s evolution from terrified victim to someone who knows she’s worthy of support and is brave enough to get it. Finally, with the help of an unpredictable niqabi on her own mission to crush misogynists, Janna gets in touch with her rage and fights back, refusing to take on the shame that belongs on the aggressor. ![]() ![]() As she stumbles through her social dilemmas, Janna finds out who her allies are-the everyday “saints” she’s overlooked. It all comes to a head when her aggressor tries to publicly shame her by posting videos of her talking with her crush, a white boy named Jeremy, who, as a non-Muslim, is not considered a proper match for her…even if Janna did date, that is. Janna, a high school sophomore whose Egyptian mother and Indian father are divorced, is surrounded by caring friends and family, but there are things her non-Muslim friends don’t understand, and there are things she won’t tell her Muslim friends and family. Janna Yusuf has two major problems: the boy who assaults her at her friend’s party is well-respected in the local Muslim community, and now the boy from school she’s been crushing on likes her back. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She and David make out, but David leaves in disgust after Pam reveals that she's on her period in a bid to appeal to his "vampirism." Pam's ex then admits that she was part of a bet and competition between himself and David to make out with the most girls, and Pam is outraged when she is the only girl that David didn't send an apology letter to. She invites David over to her house when her parents are away, but is disconcerted when he invites an entire party of people, including her ex. ![]() Pam's best friend, Sam, is unimpressed, but Pam is smitten by David. Her first option, David, is an edgy, dramatic fellow skater who insists he's secretly a vampire. It's 1991, and Pam – a stubborn, imaginative 15-year-old from the outskirts of Houston – embarks on a comedic journey of disappointment and self-discovery as she seeks the right boy to lose her virginity with so she can become the fully realized woman she's imagined herself to be. The film was based on Pamela Ribon's 2014 comedic memoir Notes to Boys: And Other Things I Shouldn't Share in Public. ![]() My Year of Dicks is a 2022 American adult animated short film directed by Sara Gunnarsdóttir, created and written by Pamela Ribon. ![]() |