![]() ![]() Summer reading at its finest! Readers are raving about this white-hot, deeply emotional survival romance: The bulky football muscles had streamlined into a harder, leaner package and the look in his deep green eyes held no trace of boyish innocence. The man approaching was nothing like the boy she'd known. When a searing kiss reignites their passion, Liv realizes this rough-around-the-edges man might be exactly what she needs… Suddenly her old flame, Finn Dorsey, is closer than ever, and their attraction is still white-hot. The goth girl and the popular boy The best friends turned something more Sworn enemies in love The hot nerd and the life of the party And their second chance to get things rightLiv Arias thought she'd never return to Long Acre-until a documentary brings her and the other survivors back home. Now, twelve years later, the kids once called The Ones Who Got Away are back…and ready to claim the lives they never truly got to live. There were only a few survivors of that one fateful night. ![]()
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![]() Aurora showed great courage and determination in the face of great adversity, and I applauded her unwavering conviction to rule and make Pavan a better place for everyone, especially the previously persecuted. The beginning was rather quiet as the team struggled to acquire information and enter Pavan, but the strong writing made it a quick read until the intrigue and action kicked in. A definitive middle book, it spent most of its time in search of answers to large questions from Book 1 and setting up final questions for Book 3. Rage was an engaging if predictable fantasy sequel of fierce females and thrilling storms. Rage continues the story and characters of Roar and the books should be read consecutively. ![]() You can read my review of the first book, Roar, here. ![]() Series: This is the second book in the Stormheart series. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Bird’s-Eye View: A Brief Background on “Hope” is the thing with feathers This is one of my favorite pieces from Dickinson, and it’s one that I hope would bring a spot of brightness to your day. ![]() Or, more accurately, I would like to write about the poem “Hope” is the thing with feathers by the great American poet, Emily Dickinson. So today, I would like to write about Hope. ![]() Hope is what will make it possible for us to put one foot in front of the other, to persevere and stand resilient in the face of utter chaos and uncertainty. And yet these are the moments when we need hope the most. With most countries under strict lockdown and the global economy sliding towards a worldwide recession, with so many people sick or starving or both, times like these make it difficult to even muster a sliver of hope. The great South African cleric, theologian, and activist, Desmond Tutu once said, “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” To say that the last two months have spelled dark times for mankind is an understatement. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is not your typical romantic suspense story and it moves more like an espionage thriller. He's not your typical agent for a not so typical organization and has his own reservations about Chloe, wondering if she's working for someone else and out to do him in. One of the participants, Bastien Toussaint, is actually an undercover agent for a private organization battling terrorist operations. ![]() They are actually participating in illegal arms trade and debate whether they need to kill her. Things start to go south pretty quickly when the participants of the meeting are immediately suspicious of the change in translators. Chloe decides to do so because the money is appealing. Sophie makes a last minute request of Chloe to replace her on a weekend job at a business meeting held at a Chateau outside of Paris. She is fluent in a number of languages and shares an apartment with her co-worker Sophie, who is only looking for wealthy boyfriends to support her lifestyle. ![]() ![]() She decided to forgo the medical career path taken by the rest of her family and is living abroad trying to gain some excitement in her life. Chloe Underwood is an American living in Paris, working as a children's book translator. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Marco Polo was born in 1254, at a time when Europe was looking not westward to the Atlantic, but eastward with fascination and trepidation. Polo’s book reawakened Europe to the possibilities of international trade and expansion, and became a text that heavily influenced the age of discovery that dawned in Europe two centuries later. ![]() His book became a best seller, spreading throughout the Italian Peninsula in a matter of months-a remarkable feat in an age before Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press around 1439. He wrote of fabulous things, but also of everyday matters relating to commerce. Although fantastic legends and rumours from such far-off places had filtered through to Europe on the numerous east-west trading routes of the Silk Road, Polo’s eye brought them alive in a new way. The names of the places they traveled-Hormuz, Balkh, and Kashgar-became for Europeans indelible parts of a new mental map of the world. It tells the story, beginning in 1271, of an odyssey undertaken by a trio of Venetians, who travelled through extraordinary lands and into places where few Christians had ever been, all the way to the court of the Mongolian emperor, Kublai Khan. Gorgeously rendered, the Bodleian copy contains what many scholars consider to be an authoritative text. The Bodleian Library in Oxford, England, holds one of the earliest versions, dating from about 1400. ![]() ![]() For there is one cardinal rule, enforced by Requin, the house’s cold-blooded master: it is death to cheat at any game at the Sinspire.Brazenly undeterred, Locke and Jean have orchestrated an elaborate plan to lie, trick, and swindle their way up the nine floors…straight to Requin’s teeming vault. ![]() Its nine floors attract the wealthiest clientele – and to rise to the top, one must impress with good credit, amusing behavior…and excruciatingly impeccable play. This time, however, they have targeted the grandest prize of all: the Sinspire, the most exclusive and heavily guarded gambling house in the world. ![]() But even at this westernmost edge of civilization, they can’t rest for long-and they are soon back doing what they do best: stealing from the undeserving rich and pocketing the proceeds for themselves. ![]() After a brutal battle with the underworld that nearly destroyed him, Locke Lamora and his trusted sidekick, Jean, fled the island city of their birth and landed on the exotic shores of Tal Verrar to nurse their wounds. Librarian note: An older cover for this edition can be found here: 3. You can read this before Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastard, #2) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastard, #2) written by Scott Lynch which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastard, #2) by Scott Lynch ![]() ![]() Some information is disclosed on the first page, while other parts of the story don’t become clear until the very end.Ĭontroversial questions about how people become numbed to violence in modern society, and about timeless human weaknesses, are combined with perfectly calibrated doses of emotion in a way that is reminiscent of Ian McEwan. ![]() Sometimes the pieces of the puzzle are fairly straightforward, at other times there is more ambivalence. How exactly this relationship failed, what the lawsuit is about, and who is guilty of what – all is revealed bit by bit. Kayleigh also looks back at a failed relationship. She isn’t the only one traumatised by the work: a group of former employees are suing the platform for severe psychological trauma. ![]() She is part of a team who review offensive videos and decide, following guidelines, what may or may not be left online. In We Had to Remove This Post, 27-year-old Kayleigh, recounts her time as a content moderator for a large online platform. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They say that abstinence-only programs backfire because they fail to teach teens about safe sex - maybe that was Vincent's inspiration there? ![]() This includes the "crime" of teen pregnancy, which is the impetus of our heroine's adventure because it happens to her sister - and from there, all hell proceeds to break loose. They have too much fun staging public exorcisms (read: public witch-burnings) for anything they can pass off as a sign of "possession." Many of these, of course, are "offenses" of a sexual nature. Naturally, though, the Church in this book isn't interested in helping teach people to recognize the truth about demonic degenerates, or how to fight them - which would be quite a useful skill, no? Instead, the Church is corrupt and false and determined to maintain their controlling stranglehold on society, even at the cost of the people's lives. But unlike the real-life Salem, where I'm inclined to believe the theory that all the witch hunts were the result of the Puritans repressing the people's sexuality and leading to serious psychological trauma, Rachel Vincent's story world plays out a little more like the WGN series version of Salem, where the demonic threat is all too real. Here, the Church is empowered to hurt and/or kill anyone who breaks their inhumanly strict rules, like the second coming of the Spanish Inquisition. Ever wonder what'll happen if religious fascists take over this country? It might look a little something like this book's horrifying post-apocalypse. ![]() ![]() Therefore, it justifies a closer look at how spirits operated in certain environments and experiences. A key current throughout the thesis is whereas theologians argued an overarching theory of the supernatural, popular belief, on the other hand, was held in bundle form. It shows how Protestantism not only competed with Catholic teachings on spirits but also confronted more atavistic models of spirit belief with varying degrees of success. It shows how Protestants, like Catholics before them, had attempted to appropriate and impose order upon these spirits, places and experiences. Looking at war, we see how the intense experience of conflict and its aftermath were negotiated through spirit tropes, how these lessons were applied to wider society’s morality and how war was a catalyst for ghost belief. Emphasising the importance of place within legend telling and ghost stories, it recreates a landscape of memory whose bounds, both physical and moral, were patrolled by spirits. Stressing continuities between the medieval period and what followed, it shows how ghosts continued to embody anxieties of place, experience and morality. It reconstructs an enchanted world, one where ghosts and spirits were not tied down to simple Catholic or Protestant tropes but were more multifaceted than previous studies have shown. ![]() This thesis focuses on themes of place and war in the development of ghostlore in Early Modern Protestant Germany and England. ![]() ![]() Massie keeps their private middle school-Octavian Country Day, or “OCD” as she likes to call it-under pretty controlling leadership, using snarky insults and expensive style as her weapons. ![]() Other members include Alicia Rivera (Massie’s second-in-command), Dylan Marvil, and Kristen Gregory. Massie Block is the “alpha” of her clique-the Pretty Committee. And after I devoured that book, I looked up from the last page with the same confusion and question I had asked for the other 13 books in the series: What did I just read?įor context, “The Clique” follows five middle school girls living in Westchester, NY. ![]() Even after the magic wore off, I still kept with the series until 2011, when the last sequel-“A Tale of Two Pretties”-was published. That was my first encounter with “The Clique” series, and it launched a three year obsession with finding every existing novel in the series and reading them voraciously. ![]() “That book has the word…” Her eyes flickered to a copy of Lisi Harrison’s “The Clique.” Her voice dropped, and I had to lean in to hear: “. “Grace, I have to warn you,” my fifth grade classmate whispered during our quiet library time. ![]() |