6/28/2023 0 Comments The slammed series colleen hooverThey introduce themselves and there is an instant connection between them. She's acting like a zombie playing with her brother and the kid next door when she comes up on Will. Lake and Will meet within minutes of pulling into the new house. He is the new neighbor to Lake and her family. Will Cooper is 21, into slam poetry and is raising his little brother because his parents were killed in a car accident. She moves from Texas to Michigan with her mother and little brother after her father dies. Daily interactions become impossibly painful as they struggle to find a balance between the feelings that pull them together, and the secret that keeps them apart. Not long after an intense, heart-stopping first date, they are slammed to the core when a shocking revelation forces their new relationship to a sudden halt. Within days of their introduction, Will and Layken form an intense emotional connection, leaving Layken with a renewed sense of hope. Outwardly, she appears resilient and tenacious, but inwardly, she's losing hope.Įnter Will Cooper: The attractive, 21-year-old new neighbor with an intriguing passion for slam poetry and a unique sense of humor. Following the unexpected death of her father, 18-year-old Layken is forced to be the rock for both her mother and younger brother.
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Terrified yet determined, Amy retraces her sister’s movements, flying to the last place Sylvie was seen. Timid and shy, Amy has always looked up to her sister, the fierce and fearless protector who showered her with unconditional love.īut what happened to Sylvie? Amy and her parents are distraught and desperate for answers. Seven years older, Sylvie was raised by a distant relative in a faraway, foreign place, and didn’t rejoin her family in America until age nine. Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older daughter of the Lee family, flies to the Netherlands for one final visit with her dying grandmother-and then vanishes.Īmy, the sheltered baby of the Lee family, is too young to remember a time when her parents were newly immigrated and too poor to keep Sylvie. A twisting tale of love, loss, and dark family secrets.” - Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train and Into the WaterĪ poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women-two sisters and their mother-in one Chinese immigrant family and explores what happens when the eldest daughter disappears, and a series of family secrets emerge, from the New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Translation NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY New York Times A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick & Emma Roberts Belletrist Book Club Pick! 6/28/2023 0 Comments The everlasting rose bookHaving dubbed themselves the Fab Four after Michigan’s freshman class that went to the NCAA championship, the film quickly jumps ahead four years, to the group making the controversial decision to jointly attend St. LeBron and his buddies are introduced at age 10 in 1996 in Akron, Ohio, playing basketball under the watchful eye of one of the boys’ dads, Dru Joyce II (“The Wire’s” Wood Harris), and fantasizing about what life will be like when they make it to “the league.” Basically “It takes a village to raise an all-star,” it’s a familiar B-level sports story about the strains of success buoyed only slightly by its talented young cast. LeBron James continues paving the way for his post-basketball media career, this time by producing a superstar origin story adapted from his book, “Shooting Stars,” about how his hoops heroism came with an assist from a close-knit group of friends. 6/28/2023 0 Comments Silver borne by patricia briggsAs innocent friends get drawn into danger, Mercy has to again walk into the lion’s den and use her wits, and her magic, to outsmart no less than a fairy queen. More involved with the fae and their rare magic-infused objects than anybody would like her to be – an ancient walking stick from folk legend is still appearing out of thin air occasionally for its own mysterious reasons – Mercy also has a book of fae legends, and somebody wants it back. The fifth book of the Mercy Thompson series, our werecoyote heroine is still recovering from her most recent run in with the vicious vampire queen of the local seethe and powerful fae, as well as dealing with her new place as mate of the area’s alpha werewolf and looking after her unstable lone wolf roommate Samuel, when once more somebody kicks down the door. 6/27/2023 0 Comments Under a painted sky bookand yet, you read the description and you're just not that excited for it. You know the kind - they win a bunch of awards, get a kirkus starred review, feature in Goodreads "best books of the month". I admit that there are some books I only read to satisfy my curiosity after I see all the hype. But above all else, it’s a story about perseverance and trust that will restore your faith in the power of friendship. This beautifully written debut is an exciting adventure and heart-wrenching survival tale. With the law closing in on them and new setbacks coming each day, the girls quickly learn that there are not many places to hide on the open trail. But when they cross paths with a band of cowboys, the light-hearted troupe turn out to be unexpected allies. But life on the Oregon Trail is unsafe for two girls, so they disguise themselves as Sammy and Andy, two boys headed for the California gold rush. Sammy and Andy forge a powerful bond as they each search for a link to their past, and struggle to avoid any unwanted attention. With the help of a runaway slave named Annamae, Samantha flees town for the unknown frontier. But a tragic accident dashes any hopes of fulfilling her dream, and instead, leaves her fearing for her life. Missouri, 1849: Samantha dreams of moving back to New York to be a professional musician-not an easy thing if you’re a girl, and harder still if you’re Chinese. The author really has the rhythms of family dinner discussion down pat, just as the illustrator, Diane de Groat, has her characters' lapine charm captured perfectly, in her artwork. I really liked the fact that Lucy Bate neither confirms nor denies the existence of the tooth fairy in her narrative, and that Little Rabbit's parents - whose comments seem so typically parental, in a familiar and funny way - are so obviously involved, without seeming overly cloying, in their affection. Wondering what she should do with the tooth - throw it away? make a necklace of it? leave it for the tooth-fairy? - she explores the options with her patient parents, who allow her to make her own decisions, and come to her own conclusions. Little Rabbit experiences one of the common childhood rites of passage in this charming picture-book, first published in 1975, and a favorite with young readers ever since! To wit: she loses her first tooth, a momentous occasion that takes place at the dinner table, as she is eating chocolate ice cream. 6/27/2023 0 Comments The sixth extinction bookShe introduces us to a dozen species, some already gone, others facing extinction, including the Panamian golden frog, staghorn coral, the great auk and the Sumatran rhino. In The Sixth Extinction, two-time winner of the National Magazine Award and New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert draws on the work of scores of researchers in half a dozen disciplines, accompanying many of them into the field: geologists who study deep ocean cores, botanists who follow the tree line as it climbs up the Andes, marine biologists who dive off the Great Barrier Reef. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. This major book about the future of the world blends intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes. From October 2019 through February 2020, we explored the theme from multiple perspectives, as recounted through personal experience, imagined in literature, presented in politics, or synthesized in music and art. 6/26/2023 0 Comments Red Country by Joe AbercrombieEven worse, it will force them into an alliance with Nicomo Cosca, infamous soldier of fortune, and his feckless lawyer Temple, two men no one should ever have to trust. Their journey will take them across the barren plains to a frontier town gripped by gold fever, through feud, duel and massacre, high into the unmapped mountains to a reckoning with the Ghosts. And out in the lawless Far Country the past never stays buried. But it turns out Lamb's buried a bloody past of his own. She sets off in pursuit with only a pair of oxen and her cowardly old step father Lamb for company. Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she'll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she's not a woman to flinch from what needs doing. A New York Times bestseller! They burned her home. 6/26/2023 0 Comments The essex serpent by sarah perryIt was adapted into a tv series for Apple TV, starring Claire Danes and Tom Hiddleston. This novel experienced immediate success and acclaim, named the Waterstones Book of the Year in 2016 and being shortlisted for several awards. The nature and limits of friendship the moral limits of medicine. Superstition and faith vs Science and fact. It is set in the 19th century, but its themes and plot lines resonate with modern day issues. It is a magnificent work by Perry, using the Gothic format to explore real world, and very human, concerns. The novel explores the boundaries of love, friendship, and the allegiances we have with one another. In all, this is a beautiful signed example of Sarah Perry's award winning novel. It is vibrant and bright, with no signs of wear or damage to speak of. This lovely book is housed in its original first issue jacket, which is in equally smart condition. The book is flat signed by the author to the title page. Inside, the pages are clean, bright and blemish-free. The binding is in beautiful condition, square and tight and free from marking or damage. Bound in original black cloth binding with title in gilt to the spine. 6/26/2023 0 Comments Hellboy, Vol. 9 by Mike MignolaMike Mignola is best known for creating Hellboy for Dark Horse Comics, after a long career at Marvel and DC Comics – including drawing the Rocket Raccoon series which has been adapted for the big screen for Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 3. John Kissee: Holy crap, couldn't be more excited either!.Danny Gay-da-Lore-ian: It's really nice that you also still get hyped to write page 1 in the corner.Kevin Nowlan: Holy cow!! Congratulations, Mike!. Matthew Dow Smith:Can't wait, Mike! Whatever it turns out to be.Friction Press: In case you need a reason to live a little bit longer….Francesco Francavilla: Congrats my friend- can't wait for it whatever that is!.The tweet had plenty of responses from all manner of comic book creators and associated fellows… |