6/27/2023 0 Comments Love sick jake coburnRather than alluding to them, he says them up front: the reader is inside Erica’s head as she binges and purges, seeing her thought process and the euphoria she experiences throughout. Through a mix of narrative and e-mail correspondence between characters, readers are taken on the emotional roller coaster that is addiction, and does not shy away from controversial issues like alcoholism and bulimia. Their paths cross when Erica’s father offers Ted the opportunity of a lifetime: keep an eye on Erica and have your college tuition paid for. Ted is a former basketball player whose life was turned upside down when he lost his college scholarship, and Erica is a bulimic girl from a wealthy family, determined to go to college despite her father unease about her moving out.
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I thought about what I am teaching her. I thought about the long-term effects that consistently showing her racist imagery may have. Most of all I thought of the effect that could have on the masses. Not only did the work itself and what I missed as a child make me think, but my young five-year-old daughter made me consider a lot of things as well. When it comes to classics remembered from childhood, I, like most parents, am eager to share them with my children. But my recent experience has me seriously needing to pause and reread and reconsider. I have read tons of books to my kids, and often I try to screen them first for content. It was a lot more surprising than I expected it to be. I would like to share my experience of reading titles such as these with my child. Titles such as If I Ran the Zoo and And To Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street are great examples of how our nostalgia filters may impede our ability to remember every aspect of a work. Seuss’ early work deserves a second look before sharing with your child. We have many such “classics” in our history. It is all too often we wish to share a little piece of our childhood with them without taking time to consider the work from a constructive standpoint. When reading to young children we all want to share loving, happy, warm stories that make them feel good. 6/26/2023 0 Comments Who Buries the Dead by C.S. HarrisWorking in concert with his fiercely independent wife, Hero, Sebastian finds his inquiries taking him from the wretched back alleys of Fish Street Hill to the glittering ballrooms of Mayfair as he amasses a list of suspects who range from an eccentric Chelsea curiosity collector to the brother of an unassuming but brilliantly observant spinster named Jane Austen.īut as one brutal murder follows another, it is the connection between the victims and ruthless former army officer Sinclair, Lord Oliphant, that dramatically raises the stakes. Once, Oliphant nearly destroyed Sebastian in a horrific wartime act of carnage and betrayal. Equally troubling, the victim’s kinship to the current Home Secretary draws the notice of Sebastian’s powerful father-in-law, Lord Jarvis, who will exploit any means to pursue his own clandestine ends. The discovery near the body of an aged lead coffin strap bearing the inscription King Charles, 1648 suggests a link between this killing and the beheading of the deposed seventeenth-century Stuart monarch. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, into a macabre and increasingly perilous investigation. The vicious decapitation of Stanley Preston, a wealthy, socially ambitious plantation owner, at Bloody Bridge draws Sebastian St. Harris’s “troubled but compelling antihero” (Booklist ) to the ultimate test in this taut, thrilling mystery. The grisly murder of a West Indies slave owner and the reappearance of a dangerous enemy from Sebastian St. 6/26/2023 0 Comments Thornyhold by Mary StewartThornyhold casts its own magical spell on us. There is enough tension throughout the book to keep the reader guessing. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. We experience the enchantment of the peculiar house, and we enjoy the sympathetic characters she enlivens in her narrative. Thornyhold - Ebook written by Mary Stewart. Mary Stewart’s style is engaging and her descriptions rich with sensory detail. Enter a kindly neighbor, Christopher John, and his son William who provide insight into the doings of the local community and potential romance for Geillis. As a result of eating Mrs.Trapp’s pie, Geillis has a strange dream in which she flies as a witch she realizes later the dream is a result of Agnes’s tampering with her food. 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She controls fantastical beasts from myth and legend, and while they retain their individuality, they are tightly leashed indeed. Oh, she’s a benevolent master, but a slave master all the same. Sybel doesn’t conjure fireballs or ice towers, and yet is extremely powerful: gaining knowledge gives her total control over others who, bereft of free will, become her slaves. The Forgotten Beasts of Eld tell the story of Sybel, the heir to the wizarding family tradition of acquiring power over sentient creatures through the subtle yet ruthless art of name-calling. The prose of The Forgotten Beasts of Eld echoes the mythopoeic style of A Wizard of Earthsea, and McKillip’s novel seems to have been inspired by Le Guin’s masterpiece in more ways than one. And let’s be frank: her writing skill by that time was already masterful. McKillip won the first World Fantasy Award for this novel, third she had ever written. If Wil’s fate is truly written in the stars, then this summer is about to go supernova. But Wil must decide whether to trust her heart or her chart when she falls for a sensitive guitar player whose zodiac sign points to cosmic disaster. So when she discovers a planetary alignment that won’t repeat for a decade, she’s forced to tackle her greatest astrological fear: The Fifth House-relationships and love. Smith and Jenny Han will fall in love with this heartfelt and humor-laced debut following one zodiac-obsessed teen as she struggles to find the guy of her cosmic dreams.Īs the daughter of an expert astrologer, Wilamena Carlisle knows that truth lies within the stars. "Whether or not you believe in fate or reading the stars, if you believe in happiness and love to laugh, read Summer of Supernovas." -Jay Asher, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Thirteen Reasons Whyįans of Jennifer E. 6/25/2023 0 Comments Betsy tacy novelAmong its many children was a girl Maud’s age, Frances, nicknamed Bick, who was to be Maud’s best friend and the model for Tacy Kelly. Shortly before Maud’s fifth birthday a “large merry Irish family" moved into the house directly across the street. When Maud was a few months old, the Hart family moved two blocks up the street to 333 Center. The street, Center Street, dead-ended at one of the town’s many hills. Maud’s birthplace was a small house on a hilly residential street several blocks above Mankato’s center business district. “That dear family" was the model for the fictional Ray family. Her sister, Kathleen, was three years older, and her other sister, Helen, was six years younger. She was the middle of three children born to Thomas and Stella (Palmer) Hart. Maud Hart Lovelace was born on April 25, 1892, in Mankato, Minnesota. The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. An up-to-date annotated guide to further reading Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases Newly revised explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play Shakespeare’s play keeps this debate alive. Renaissance writers disagreed over the assassination, seeing Brutus, a leading conspirator, as either hero or villain. For it, he turned to a key event in Roman history: Caesar’s death at the hands of friends and fellow politicians. Shakespeare may have written Julius Caesar as the first of his plays to be performed at the Globe, in 1599. The authoritative edition of Julius Caesar from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers. I was a disciple of Jesus, I was present at the crucifixion, and I was the first person He appeared to after the resurrection. “MARY MAGDALENE: My name is Mary of Magdala. I tell the world the one true thing I know: If my son is in Hell, then there is no Heaven-because if my son sits in Hell, there is no God.” The world tells me that God is in Heaven and that my son is in Hell. On the day of my son's birth I was infused with a love beyond all measure and understanding. I loved my son every day of his life, and I will love him ferociously long after I've stopped breathing. I remember holding my son, and looking over at my own mother and saying, "Now I understand why the sun comes up at day and the stars come out at night. The moment the midwife placed him in my arms, I was infused with a love beyond all measure and understanding. I remember the morning my son was born as if it was yesterday. And though my heart keeps beating only to keep breaking-I do not question why. I was not able to finish burying him before sundown, and I'm not sure if that affected his fate. I discovered his body alone, I dug his grave alone, I placed him in a hole, and covered him with dirt and rock alone. It is not in the natural order of things. 6/25/2023 0 Comments Feral sins read onlineLuke Devereaux has only one: a fierce, lethal bush dog shifter who is also his mate. Not even the most ruthless of men are without a weakness. But the recent discovery on her porch comes as a shock, forcing Blair to face that she’s become the focus of a predator that lurks in the darkness and now intends to close in on her. Knowing her parents are extremely opposed to it, she isn’t surprised when her mother attempts to derail it. When she turns nineteen in a few months’ time, he’ll officially claim her and she’ll then join his pride. For the past six years, Luke has watched over and supported her. She’d known down to her bones that the broody alpha cat shifter was her true mate. Blair Kendrick was just twelve-years-old when she stared into slate blue eyes and sensed that her world was about to change. |