Defiance redwine5/24/2023 ![]() “Her name is Rachel, and her dad is missing so she has to go find him using the skills he taught her–“ That fact that it makes no sense will be beside the point. “Um, I guess we could just say that the world got destroyed and this is what’s leftover?” ![]() “So, I’ve got this manuscript about a girl who lives in this fantasy setting–” I can just imagine the conversation that must have taken place with this book… Left with nothing but fierce belief in her father’s survival, Rachel decides to escape and find him herself.Īs Rachel and Logan battle their way through the Wasteland, stalked by a monster that can’t be killed and an army of assassins out for blood, they discover romance, heartbreak, and a truth that will incite a war decades in the making. ![]() When Rachel’s father fails to return from a courier mission and is declared dead, the city’s brutal Commander assigns Rachel a new Protector: her father’s apprentice, Logan-the boy she declared her love to and who turned her down two years before. While they bend like reeds to the will of their male Protectors, she uses hers for sparring practice. ![]() While the other girls in the walled city-state of Baalboden learn to sew and dance, Rachel Adams learns to track and hunt. Whitley’s review of Defiance (Defiance #1) by CJ Redwine. ![]()
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El deafo superpowered edition5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() After some trouble, she is finally able to harness the power of the Phonic Ear and become "El Deafo, Listener for All." And more importantly, declare a place for herself in the world and find the friend she's longed for. She really just wants to fit in and find a true friend, someone who appreciates her as she is. The Phonic Ear gives Cece the ability to hear-sometimes things she shouldn't-but also isolates her from her classmates. But going to school and making new friends while wearing a bulky hearing aid strapped to your chest? That requires superpowers! In this funny, poignant graphic novel memoir, author/illustrator Cece Bell chronicles her hearing loss at a young age and her subsequent experiences with the Phonic Ear, a very powerful-and very awkward-hearing aid. ![]() Going to school and making new friends can be tough. Genres: Children, Graphic Novels, Leading Ladies ![]() These violent delights book review5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() The retelling of Shakespeare managed to feel similar to the original albeit with so many changes (perhaps the names helped with the connections). The monsters and mysteries were fascinating, and it was interesting to follow it through to the end. Juliette and Roma are the potential heirs to each gang, but with past romance and betrayal hanging over their heads, others are edging their ways in.Īs the deaths are piling up on both sides, Roma and Juliette must decide whether they can put aside their differences to discern what is going on before the death toll rises too high. ![]() The rising Communists are also coming into play and the gangs are on edge - even more so now that mysterious deaths are rising in both gangs with rumors of monsters and self-inflicted wounds. Things are changing, with foreigners moving in and edging on their territories. ![]() The White Flowers and Scarlet Gang rule the city with battle lines drawn to separate their territories. THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS is an intriguing Romeo and Juliet retelling in 1920s Shanghai. ![]() Deeds not words helen pankhurst5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Or how when male officers in Northern Ireland were issued with a personal protection firearm and baton in the 1970s, women police officers were issued with a handbag. Consider that as recently as 1996, there were only 60 women MPs in Parliament. The numbers supporting women’s testimonies are startling. Some are amusing or inspiring, others disturbing. In each, she asks women to share their experiences to allow for a collective consideration of how to move forward. Her analysis is divided into six sections: politics, money, identity, violence, culture and power. Why must women wait until 2069 for the gender pay gap to close completely? Why are one in three women globally still experiencing sexual or physical violence? How can we work together to create a fairer society? Amusing, inspiring and disturbing Why is equality taking so long, asks Pankhurst. Series: 100 years since women got the vote ![]() Goodnight moon cloth book5/24/2023 ![]() Hurd estuvo casado con la escritora Edith Thacher Hurd, con quien también creó muchos libros que se convirtieron en favoritos de los niños. ![]() Allí fue donde desarrolló su estilo característico, compuesto de colores de fuerte contraste. Estudió pintura en París en los años 1930 con Fernand Léger, entre otros. A native of New York City, he lived most of his life in Vermont and California.Ĭlement Hurd (1908–1988) se graduó de Yale University. He illustrated more than one hundred books, many of them with his wife, Edith Thacher Hurd, including the Johnny Lion books, The Day the Sun Danced, and The Merry Chase. After his return to the United States in 1935, he began to work in children's books. He studied painting in Paris with Fernand Léger and others in the early 1930s. Brown include My World Christmas in the Barn The Dead Bird North, South, East, West and Good Day, Good Night.Ĭlement Hurd (1908–1988) is best known for illustrating Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny, the classic picture books by Margaret Wise Brown. ![]() ![]() Margaret Wise Brown, cherished for her unique ability to convey a child’s experience and perspective of the world, transformed the landscape of children’s literature with such beloved classics as Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny. ![]() The Uncut Wood by Slade James5/24/2023 ![]() There is a certain amount of edumacation in this story, as Gunner schools slightly uptight Hank on his lingering internalized homophobia. For a couple of years, average "masc" dude Hank has carried a torch for Gunner, a flamboyant Scottish (and of course kilt-wearing) ginger-mohawked stud committed to a fabulous genderfuck wardrobe. Hank and Gunner are employees of the camp who face off in a pun-laden wood-splitting competition, the "Jackolympics," for an appreciative audience of hooting campers. This is a nice little friends-to-lovers romance set in a gay campsite during the camps's annual lumberjack competition. ![]() ![]() I'm finally getting to my big pile of m/m shorts from the Prolific Works Winter Wonderland Story Giveaway from January 2021, and Slade James's cute prequel to his new Bear Camp series was a nice way to kick that off. ![]() Fire Touched by Patricia Briggs5/23/2023 ![]() They have a small herd of horses that they enjoy. The most recent of that series debuted in 2012, and came in at #4 on the NYT bestsellers list.īriggs still lives in Washington state with her husband and children. A unique mark of her novels is that even in a series, each novel can serve as a stand-alone story without leaving the reader to wonder what happens next.īriggs also writes the Alpha and Omega series, and they are set in the same environment as the Mercy Thomas series. Now she’s back, and she’ll soon discover that when the fae stalk the human world, it’s the children who suffer. Her most famous series, Mercy Thompson and the Columbia Basin Pack, we're fictional residents of the area in which she resides, the Tri-Cities Washington.įrom 1990 on, Briggs has published 17 novels beginning with traditional fantasy, then in 2006 moving to urban fantasy. Mercy Thompson has been hailed as “a heroine who.always remains true to herself” (Library Journal). It is constantly well composed, the tales differed and also loaded with rotates. She chose to live mostly in the Pacific Northwest which is not typically the hotbed of authors, but she has managed to live a quieter life and still become a New York Times bestselling author. Patricia Briggs Fire Touched Audiobook (A Grace Thompson Unique, Book 9) Fire Touched Audiobook Download text The Grace Thompson collection has actually been simply among my faves because I obtained book 1 many years previously. ![]() ![]() Montana born author, Patricia Briggs, has worked her way into a very successful author of fantasy novels. ![]() Jordan peterson beyond order rules list5/23/2023 ![]() Drawing on the hard-won truths of ancient wisdom, as well as deeply personal lessons from his own life and clinical practice, Dr. Peterson reminds us that there are sources of strength on which we can all draw: insights borrowed from psychology, philosophy, and humanity’s greatest myths and stories. In times of instability and suffering, Dr. Beyond Order therefore calls on us to balance the two fundamental principles of reality – order and chaos – and reveals the profound meaning that can be found on the path that divides them. While an excess of chaos threatens us with uncertainty, an excess of order leads to a lack of curiosity and creative vitality. Peterson goes further, showing that part of life’s meaning comes from reaching out into the domain beyond what we know, and adapting to an ever- transforming world. Now in this long-awaited companion volume, Dr. His insights have helped millions of readers and resonated powerfully around the world. ![]() ![]() Peterson offered an antidote to the chaos in our lives: eternal truths applied to modern anxieties. In 12 Rules For Life, which has sold over 5 million copies around the world, acclaimed public thinker and clinical psychologist Dr. ![]() My sister the serial5/23/2023 ![]() Police received a call about the third stabbing at 11:46 p.m. That suggests bold behavior that causes police “significant concern,” Pytel said. Pytel highlighted the similarities between them: The two “particularly brutal” homicides occurred in city parks, he said, while the suspect or suspects in the second homicide and Monday night’s attack both interacted with witnesses. KCRAĬollege student killed at California park in the area's 2nd stabbing death this week, police sayĪttacks were ‘particularly violent and brazen,’ police chief saysĪuthorities are combing through hundreds of tips, but they have not positively linked the three attacks, which Davis Police Chief Darren Pytel said in a news conference Tuesday were “particularly violent and brazen.” ![]() ![]() A police officer patrols a park in Davis, California, on April 30, 2023. ![]() Red white and royal blue second book5/23/2023 ![]() Soon Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret romance with a surprisingly unstuffy Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations. What at first begins as a fake, Instragramable friendship grows deeper, and more dangerous, than either Alex or Henry could have imagined. Heads of family, state, and other handlers devise a plan for damage control: staging a truce between the two rivals. And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an Alex-Henry altercation, U.S./British relations take a turn for the worse. There's only one problem: Alex has a beef with the actual prince, Henry, across the pond. ![]() Handsome, charismatic, genius-his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales? * BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR* for VOGUE, NPR, VANITY FAIR, and more! * * GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER for BEST DEBUT and BEST ROMANCE of 2019 * ![]() ![]() * Instant NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY bestseller * ![]() |