5/27/2023 0 Comments Just listen sarah dessen pdfIt was a shot of three beautiful girls, obviously sisters, all blonde, posing together by a pool, and even at first glance all I could think was that they looked like the kind of girls who had everything. I picked it open and started to flip through it, looking at the sports shots, different classes, and finally the senior pages, which were filled with personal photos from each of the graduates. One day, I was sitting in the lobby of a private school, waiting to do a talk, when I saw a yearbook on the table beside me. I had a couple of ideas kicking around in my head, some things I knew I wanted to do, but nothing concrete just yet. It was the fall of 2004, and I was about to start a new book. Other times, though, you can trace a story’s beginning back to a specific moment. The truth is, sometimes I don’t even know: rather than just one big moment, it’s often a lot of little random thoughts, scribbled notes on scraps of paper and backs of receipts, that make up a novel. People are always interested to learn where a story comes from, and I’m often asked where I get the ideas for my books. The finely nuanced characters she creates have life and breath, talents and flaws. Aimed at high schoolers, it has Mom appeal too.ĭessen is a sharp observer of modern teen life. A cut above chick lit, Dessen’s tale of an It girl who only seems to have it all has sharply drawn characters, serious themes, and a page-turner of a plot.
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Theirs is a love twisted with secrets and tainted by lies…and when the truths are finally revealed, they could shatter everything. Sweet, shy, and introverted despite her social media fame, Stella Alonso is a romantic who keeps her heart in a cage.īetween her two jobs, she has little time or desire for a relationship.īut when a threat from her past drives her into the arms-and house-of the most dangerous man she’s ever met, she’s tempted to let herself feel something for the first time in a long time.īecause despite Christian’s cold nature, he makes her feel everything when she’s with him. And when the opportunity to get closer to her arises, he breaks his own rules to offer her a deal she can’t refuse.Įvery monster has their weakness. She’s the object of his darkest desires, the only puzzle he can’t solve. He has little use for morals and even less use for love, but he can’t deny the strange pull he feels toward the woman living just one floor below him. He'll do anything to have her.including lie.Ĭharming, deadly, and smart enough to hide it, Christian Harper is a monster dressed in the perfectly tailored suits of a gentleman. 5/26/2023 0 Comments The Real Lolita by Sarah WeinmanThat story may have been true, or it may have been a clever marketing ploy to heighten interest for readers at the time. IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT by John Ball Penguin Classics, 176 pp. Ball had said he’d conjured up the idea as far back as 1933, while making an itinerant living as a magician working the coasts, but claimed he had to wait for a more hospitable time in America to write it. The best thing about John Ball’s 1965 detective novel In the Heat of the Nightmay be its setup: While visiting the South, a black homicide investigator from Pasadena reluctantly joins forces with the town’s racist white police chief to solve a murder, and both gain a grudging respect for the other in the process. MacManus may have had good intentions, but those, Allison wrote, “are seldom consistent with the harsh facts of history.” The history of this matter is well documented - so well documented that those who are informed can tell at a glance who knows and who is guessing. You have to know Negro life as Negroes live it - and they live on numerous political, economic, social, and intellectual levels growing out of cause-and-effect patterns, the character of which is historical. When you begin handling Negroes as major characters in fiction you immediately enter into that big and enormous and important and most complex area of American life called the Negro Question - where no answer can be secured from any part of that question if conjecture is allowed to play even a small part. 5/26/2023 0 Comments Charley boorman long way downThis is a huge adventure, involving the crossing of the most dangerous and unstable continent in the world from north to south, but it all feels a little slick and sanitised. Where Long Way Round was entertaining from start to finish, Long Way Down feels a little off as a book. Again it was all done by motorbike, a few ferry crossings excepted. This time their plan was to ride from John O'Groats at the northern-most tip of Scotland to Cape Angelhus, the southern-most point in Africa where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Indian, a journey of some 14,000 miles. Three years later McGregor and Boorman regrouped to do it all again. A thoroughly entertaining documentary series (and DVD) and an interesting book were released to accompany the journey. They started in London, crossed to France and then drove by road and dirt track across Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Siberia, from where they caught a plane to Anchorage, Alaska, and continued by road through Canada and the USA to New York City. Back in 2004, actors Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman took off on a trip from London to New York, travelling the 'long way round' by motorbike. 5/26/2023 0 Comments Cthulhu casebooks"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. “What’s great about these books is that Holmes and Watson aren’t so much reimagined as their context is reinvented Lovegrove has a lot of fun peering at the classic mysteries through this terrifying new lens, completely distorting the canon and leaving you to decide which universe was “real” and which was just “fiction.”” - Barnes & Noble mini review I look forward to seeing Lovegrove meet it with future installments." San Francisco Book Review (4/5 star) "Lovegrove does an outstanding job of evoking Doyle’s style and mixing in healthy dollops of the macabre and fantastic that define the Cthulhu Mythos.Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows sets a pretty high bar.
5/26/2023 0 Comments One day joanna hoOne Day is a mother’s ode to her baby boy-she shares her hopes and dreams for her son as she envisions him exploring the world. Above all, he will know that he is more than enough exactly as he is.Īn extraordinary gift for Mother’s Day and loved ones everywhere. From New York Times bestselling Joanna Ho, author of Eyes that Kiss in the Corners and Eyes that Speak to the Stars, comes a heartfelt picture book about the depths of a mother’s love. He will know that it is okay to cry, or be scared, or uncertain. Every textbook comes with a 21-day Any Reason. She’s a High School Vice Principal In Eyes That Kiss in the Corners, Joanna Ho’s protagonist realizes that her eyes carry tales of the past. Her son will be courageous and kind, powerful and curious, and blaze his own trail. Rent One Day 1st edition (978-0063056923) today, or search our site for other textbooks by Joanna Ho. "It’s cozy and hopeful in all the best ways."-Publishers WeeklyĪ 4-star Common Sense Selection recipient for Booksįrom New York Times bestselling Joanna Ho, author of Eyes that Kiss in the Corners and Eyes that Speak to the Stars, comes a heartfelt picture book about the depths of a mother’s love. One Day is a mother’s ode to her baby boy-she shares her hopes and dreams for her son as she envisions him exploring the world. "The heartfelt title will be welcomed by new parents as the narrator voices the universal dream of wishing the best in life for their newborn." -Booklist "An affirming and enchanting love letter from parent to child." - Kirkus (starred review) 5/26/2023 0 Comments Attack of the 50 foot cupidShe was interesting because she makes weird inventions that really work. Finally, her teacher Miss Shelly showed her how to do a valentine with a cupid and hearts. In addition, my favorite part was when she did not know how to do a valentine so she wrote creepy things and drew creepy things like, “Valentine you really caught my eye” and there was a person with an eyeball in the person’s hand. She drew a cupid on a valentine and put it in the machine by accident and it came alive and grew to 50 feet! It shot bow and arrows at people and buildings! Then she figures out a way to fix the machine to shrink the cupid. She makes an invention that made things really big. She doesn’t really like the dog in the beginning of the story, but later, the dog becomes more important to Franny. Her mom feels bad and gets her a lab assistant to help her do experiments. Her friends and family don’t take her work seriously. To begin with, Franny is a scientist who lives in a pretty pink house with purple shutters. Stein, Attack of the 50 Foot Cupid, written by Jim Benton. Whoa!! I never thought I’d hear of a 50 foot cupid! The title of this book is Franny K. 5/25/2023 0 Comments Ansel adams tetonsPaul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, and the University of Michigan Museum of Art, in Ann Arbor. There are prints of this picture in the collections of several art museums, including the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the J. ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984) American photographer-The Tetons an the Snake River-wood wall art- canvas wall art-art print- wall prints (32) 66.83 83. Art market Ī mural-sized print of this photograph was sold by $988,000 at Sotheby's New York, on 14 December 2020, the highest price ever reached by an Ansel Adams work. The sky is overcast in parts, but only partly cloudy in others, and the sun shines through to illuminate the scene and reflect off the river in these places. In the top half of the frame, there is a tall mountain range, dark but clearly covered in snow. Dark evergreen trees cover the steep left bank of the river, and lighter deciduous trees cover the right. A dramatically lit black-and-white photograph depicts a large river, which snakes from the bottom right to the center left of the picture. The picture was taken from an elevated point of view and depicts the Snake River in a mountainous valley. It is one of his best known and most critically acclaimed photographs. The Tetons and the Snake River is a black and white photograph taken by Ansel Adams in 1942, at the Grand Teton National Park, in Wyoming. Overmatted and Framed Ansel Adams Tetons and Snake River Poster: Outside Dimension approximately 25 tall x 29 wide mounted on adhesive foam core. 5/25/2023 0 Comments The soul seekers series in orderWhether Dace is meant to be her soulmate or if he is just a pawn in his brother's game, Daire has to figure out and fast. Daire has to strive to protect her powers from getting into the wrong hands, no matter what the cost. Her grandmother has to train Daire and teach her how to use her powers to her advantage if she wants to thwart the enemy, who is an evil shape-shifter. She discovers her true identity as a Soul Seeker, one who can travel between the world of the dead as well as the living. Daire Santo comes face to face with a life she never thought she could have, with supernatural beings in Alyson Noel's, the Soul Seeker Fated (Soul Seekers).ĭaire, on arriving in Enchantment, meets her grandmother, who has all the answers to the questions that have been hounding her ever since. Confusing these happening for Daire's mental instability, her mother sends her packing to live with her grandmother in Enchantment, New Mexico. Being followed by animals, spotting people who emit a strange unearthly light around her and being mocked by crows are daily occurrences in her life. Daire Santos is not an ordinary girl and there are episodes which would back that statement. 5/25/2023 0 Comments The devils you know mc atwoodMcCallum, Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing-review & editing, 7 Rodrigo Hamede, 6 Menna E. Fraik, Data curation, Methodology, Writing-review & editing, 3 Barbara Schönfeld, Investigation, Resources, 6 Hamish I. Hendricks, Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing-review & editing, 1 Anne Veillet, Investigation, Writing-review & editing, 1 Alexandra K. Patton, Methodology, Writing-review & editing, 3, 5 Sarah A. Margres, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing-review & editing, 3, 4 Austin H. 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