![]() ![]() It all feels like one challenge too many, until Ellie starts to make her first-ever friends. Jamie Sumner is the author of the critically-acclaimed middle-grade novels, Roll with It, Tune It Out, and One Kids Trash. Except she’s not just the new kid-she’s the new kid in the wheelchair who lives in the trailer park on the wrong side of town. If she’s not writing fan letters to her favorite celebrity chefs, she’s practicing recipes on her well-meaning, if overworked, mother.īut when Ellie and her mom move so they can help take care of her ailing grandpa, Ellie has to start all over again in a new town at a new school. The thing is, Ellie has big dreams: She might be eating Stouffer’s for dinner, but one day she’s going to be a professional baker. That surprises some people, who see a kid in a wheelchair and think she’s going to be all sunshine and cuddles. ![]() ![]() In the tradition of Wonder and Out of My Mind, this big-hearted middle grade debut tells the story of an irrepressible girl with cerebral palsy whose life takes an unexpected turn when she moves to a new town.Įllie’s a girl who tells it like it is. “An honest, emotionally rich take on disability, family, and growing up.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “A big-hearted story that’s as sweet as it is awesome.” -R.J. Bulletin of the Center for Childrens Books, Volume 73, Number 2. ![]()
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![]() This book is not meant to be read as a standalone. But the sensual brooding vampire she ran from isn't about to let her go. As Violet struggles to stay alive, she believes all hope is lost. She's taken by a brutal slaver and hauled to a primitive cabin. However, the New Orleans of the past is not the one Violet knows. But when Violet discovers its master is a vampire-a gorgeous, decadent vampire with an appetite for blood-she runs. She believes the beautiful mansion in the French Quarter holds the key, so she pretends to be an indentured servant in order to search. Trapped in 1797, Violet is desperate to return to her own time. ![]() But please don't worry, you still have more than 500,000 other books you can enjoy! The Vampire's House of Pleasure Part Two - The Vampire's House of Pleasure #2 Rose Wynters ![]() ![]() We are sorry! The publisher (or author) gave us the instruction to take down this book from our catalog. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I love being asked to share what my typical day looks like because it is hard to explain how insanely busy a published author can be! All too often I get the impression that the majority of people think we sit around thinking, playing games and generally wasting away our time. But if he and Carrie can overcome their fears, this Christmas could bring them the best gift of all. Scott’s issues with his own dad make the prospect of parenthood a minefield. Scott still finds Carrie irresistible, and he’s not one to shirk responsibility. The last thing he needs is Carrie Jameson, the beauty he never forgot, arriving in Templeton Cove over the holidays with some unexpected news. The sexy mechanic has career ambitions, not to mention a mother and three sisters to take care of. Scott Walker doesn’t have time for a relationship. In Book Giveaway, Book Tour, Guest Post, Uncategorized / 5 Christmas at the Cove by Rachel Brimble – Guest Post + Giveaway ![]() ![]() Patrons pay to shoot this Black man in whiteface. ![]() The top hat and long coat are more customary and less cosplay since Link is employed as an Abraham Lincoln impersonator at a local arcade. That older brother is Lincoln (“Link”), who enters the room abruptly dressed as his namesake: Abraham Lincoln. Booth is a little hectic with his hands (a recurring theme) but takes a measured approach to the ritual: throwing the playing cards, running from pretend police and even threatening an invisible “mark” (scam victim) not to touch his cards - as he has heard his older brother do several times. Twenty years after it first arrived to shake up a complacent Broadway and make a Pulitzer Prize winner of its author Suzan-Lori Parks, Topdog/Underdog has lost none of its vitality and power. When we enter the story within “Topdog/Underdog,” Booth, the younger of the two siblings central to the text, sloppily practices a three-card-monte scam in his bedroom. His murderer? A member of the same gang Hussle formerly ran with. ![]() In 2019, Hussle - a Crenshaw-born, community-oriented rapper and entrepreneur - was gunned down outside his clothing store in South LA. House lights fade to the song “Grinding All My Life” by Nipsey Hussle. “Topdog/Underdog” tells on itself before the curtain rises in the first scene. ![]() ![]() If I’d had known I would have watched it in high school and not been the least bit sorry about skipping my homework this time around. They adapted the play into a movie with Dustin Hoffman and John Malkovich in 1985. And, I didn’t like to listen to them either. ![]() The dialogue also went off on too many tangents: no one listened to each other, they just liked to hear themselves talk. I guess to spark discussion on the American Dream and such, and I get that but the adult me just felt like they whined too much. Not sure why it was required reading in school. I felt accomplished checking off another book from my reading list (at least it gave me that). It is a very quick read and only took a few hours. Willy lives in a fragile world of elaborate excuses and daydreams, conflating past and present in a desperate attempt to make sense of himself and of a world that once promised so much. At age 63, he searches for the moment his life took a wrong turn, the moment of betrayal that undermined his relationship with his wife and destroyed his relationship with Biff, the son in whom he invested his faith. ![]() But somehow the riches and respect he covets have eluded him. ![]() Willy Loman, the protagonist of “Death of a Salesman,” has spent his life following the American way, living out his belief in salesmanship as a way to reinvent himself. ![]() ![]() The two men become business partners, and James Jackson makes his fortune. From there we travel with Jackson to Nashville, where he meets Andrew Jackson, the future president of the United States. ![]() The story begins in Ireland, where Haley's white great-great-grandfather, James Jackson, Sr., is born. Once again, this is a personal saga, but one played out against the broad canvas of American history. Alex Haley's legacy has had as great an impact on American families as any story in the twentieth century.Now, from the author of Roots, comes Alex Haley's Queen - the saga of his father's family.Lovers of sweeping generational epics will find much to rejoice in here. Roots was an instant success, winning a Pulitzer Prize and spawning the most-watched miniseries in television history. ![]() ![]() For millions of people of all colors, that book was Alex Haley's Roots. Once in every generation, there is a landmark book that adds a new richness to all our lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() This style was developed (and potentially mastered) with Devil All The Time, his debut novel which cast the reader into world in which the membrane between reality and nightmare is leaky at best, with blood sacrifice and serial killer couples complicating an already bleak coming-of-age tale. As bizarre as it is violent, Knockemstiff introduced the literary world to small town Southern Ohio populated by every drunk, deviant and freak you would care to imagine.īut somehow, amidst the drugs and fighting and perversion, Pollock managed to create characters interesting beyond black curiosity, taking up the mantle of Southern greats such as William Gay and Flannery O’Connor in his ability to induce sympathy or at least complicate the antipathy his characters will garner. However, at forty-five he picked up a pen and began to write, at fifty enrolled in an English programme at Ohio State University and had a collection of short stories snaffled up by Doubleday before he finished his studies. Raised in Knockemstiff, Ohio, Donald Ray Pollock worked at the local paper mill, just like his father and grandfather before him. ![]() ![]() ![]() But wooing her will take more than a seasoned seducer's skill. He's enchanted by her fierce determination, her unusual beauty, and her quiet, unfailing strength. Bowen seizes his enemy's keep, unprepared for the brooding and reclusive woman who captures his heart. But Bowen's rugged sensuality stirs something deep inside her that longs to be awakened by his patient, gentle caress - something warm, wicked, and tempting. Unable to bear the shame of returning to a family that believes her dead or to abandon others at the keep to an imposing new laird, Genevieve opts for the peaceful life of an abbess. Still, her path toward freedom remains uncertain. ![]() Yet when Bowen Montgomery storms the gates on a mission of clan warfare, Genevieve finds that her spirit is bent but not broken. Genevieve McInnis is locked behind the fortified walls of McHugh Keep, captive of a cruel laird who takes great pleasure in ruining her for any other man. ![]() In Highlander Most Wanted, a reclusive woman content to live in the shadows shows a Highland warrior the true meaning of love. Maya Banks, the New York Times bestselling author of erotic romance, romantic suspense, and contemporary romance, has captivated readers with her steamy Scottish historical novels, perfect for fans of Julie Garwood. ![]() ![]() Still, it had the command, and narrative acuity perhaps, to be released through the continent (Poland, etc) under the one-word title Blackout. Not quite so – the author released four novels under his real name before this maiden outing for a pseudonym, and it was released in German markets in 2012. This thriller comes to us with the air of being an overnight success in Europe. So imagine a continent without it, all of a sudden – generating plants can't get back on, power networks can't deliver, and hundreds of millions suffer in a winter-time with nothing like as many utilities as they'd prefer… ![]() Traffic lights wouldn't guide us safely through junctions mobile phone and laptop charge would be a valued commodity those cow-milking robotic get-ups wouldn't operate – man and beast would literally all be tits up. And we'd all be going to hell in a handcart if it failed. Unless you're living in some kind of miracle world, you're using it to read this, and it is patently one of those things we take for granted. It's not brilliantly written, but even post-Brexit it's utterly relevant.Įlectricity. ![]() Summary: Europe is without electricity for days, due to some kind of attack. ![]() ![]() ![]() At the same time, however, she also discovered that her very being was rooted in the landscape of her childhood. Like Thea Kronborg in The Song of the Lark, Cather knew she would never find fulfillment unless she left her home. She knew that she had to leave the prairie in order to fulfill her compelling desire for broader experiences and for art. As long as her parents were alive, she made repeated trips back home to see them, and each time she crossed the Missouri River, she said, “the very smell of the soil tore to pieces.” As a young woman in Red Cloud and Lincoln, however, she was chafed by narrow attitudes and limited opportunities. That ambivalence is the central tension in her novels. ![]() That statement reveals the ambivalence in Cather that produced in her a lifelong tug-of-war between the East and the western prairie. She once said in an interview that the Nebraska landscape was “the happiness and the curse” of her life. ![]() ![]() Willa Cather (1873-1947) was a prolific American novelist noted for her portrayals of the settlers and frontier life on the American plains. ![]() |