5/12/2023 0 Comments Lore book alexandra bracken![]() ![]() The goddess offers an alliance against their mutual enemy and a way to leave the Agon behind forever. Yet as the next hunt dawns over New York City, two participants seek her out: Castor, a childhood friend Lore believed to be dead, and Athena, one of the last of the original gods, now gravely wounded. For years she’s pushed away any thought of revenge against the man-now a god-responsible for their deaths. Long ago, Lore Perseous fled that brutal world, turning her back on the hunt’s promises of eternal glory after her family was murdered by a rival line. They are hunted by the descendants of ancient bloodlines, all eager to kill a god and seize their divine power and immortality. ![]() As punishment for a past rebellion, nine Greek gods are forced to walk the earth as mortals. From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Darkest Minds comes a sweepingly ambitious, high-octane tale of power, destiny, love, and redemption.Įvery seven years, the Agon begins. ![]() The Barnes & Noble edition will include special jacket effects and a chapter annotated by the author with fun facts and behind-the-scenes information. ![]()
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5/12/2023 0 Comments Unfollow megan![]() ![]() In November 2012, at the age of twenty-six, she left the church, her family, and her life behind. Megan Phelps-Roper was raised in the Westboro Baptist Church - the fire-and-brimstone religious sect at once aggressively homophobic and anti-Semitic, rejoiceful for AIDS and natural disasters, and notorious for its picketing the funerals of American soldiers.įrom her first public protest, aged five, to her instrumental role in spreading the church's invective via social media, her formative years brought their difficulties. Yet in other ways it was the precise opposite: a revolving door of TV camera crews and documentary makers, a world of extreme discipline, of siblings vanishing in the night. A loving home, shared with squabbling siblings, overseen by devoted parents. ![]() It was an upbringing in many ways normal. As featured on the BBC documentaries, 'The Most Hated Family in America' and 'Surviving America's Most Hated Family.' ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Frindle full book online free![]() ![]() His books have been translated into multiple languages and are popular around the world. ![]() Clements has won many awards for his books, including the Parents’ Choice Award and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor. When he’s not writing, he enjoys playing the piano and hiking. After college, he worked as a teacher and a writer. He graduated from Cornell University with a degree in English. He has also written many other popular books for kids, including The Jacket, No Talking, and Lunch Money.Ĭlements was born in New York City and grew up on Long Island. Book EditionsĪndrew Clements is the author of Frindle. The Frindle book has been translated into multiple languages including Spanish, French, and Japanese. Multiple Languages Editions of Frindle Book This is a fun, fast-paced read that will leave you laughing and thinking about the power of words. Nick has to stand up to his teacher and principal when they try to ban the use of “frindle.” He has to convince them that the word is here to stay. It’s about taking risks, being creative, and standing up for what you believe in. ![]() This story is about more than just a new word. He comes up with an idea for a new word, “frindle.” With the help of his friends, he starts using the word and it quickly catches on. ![]() Nick Allen is a fifth-grader with a knack for questioning things. Multiple Languages Editions of Frindle Book. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Possessing Nature by Paula Findlen![]() ![]() ![]() She is the author of Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), which received the 1995 Howard Marraro Prize in Italian History and the 1996 Pfizer Prize for best book in History of Science. from UC Berkeley and taught at the University of California, Davis and Harvard before coming to Stanford. Her main interests are the scientific revolution, natural history before Darwin, and the history of medicine her regional emphasis is on Italy in the age of Galileo. Paula Findlen teaches history of science before it was "science" (which is, after all, a nineteenth-century word). Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley Ubaldo Pierotti Professor in Italian History, Department of Historyĭirector of the Patrick Suppes Center for the History and Philosophy of Science ![]() Co-Chair, History and Philosophy of Science ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments The family upstairs novel![]() ![]() Her parents and a third, unidentified man were found dead Libby was upstairs, perfectly happy and the other children in the house disappeared. When Libby was a baby, she was found in a house at the scene of what was apparently a ritualistic suicide, and now the house is hers. When Libby turns twenty-five, she inherits a house that was in a trust for her. Despite some decent writing, The Family Upstairs is ultimately a poorly constructed mystery that falls apart the closer you look and which expresses some deeply unsettling ideas (and not the good, thriller-y kind). I was willing to go into The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell expecting the best, but unfortunately I did not get the best. ![]() Thrillers aren’t my thing, but I have read some exceptional ones ( Gone Girl comes to mind). I have my favorite genres, but I always hope that when I read something else I’ll love it so much that I’ll be converted. I try to keep an open mind when I read outside my comfort zone. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Roth portnoy's complaint![]() ![]() They range from the comical to the disgusting. His descriptions of Portnoy’s sexual depravity from puberty to adulthood are very bold and clear. ‘Good Christ, a Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen year-old boy,Īnd will remain a fifteen year-old boy till they die’.įor a novel written in 1969, Roth doesn’t hold back. It is more of a confession in places rather than a complaint as Roth details the suffocation he felt as a kid at the hands of his overbearing Jewish parents as he goes through puberty and tries to take hold (literally) of his sexual needs and integrate (seduce) his non-Jewish neighbours. The style can take a while to get used to but it allows Roth to fully flesh out the depravity of his protagonist by giving us an insight into a brutally honest conversation between doctor and patient, one that lacks social propriety. The novel is one long monologue by Alexander Portnoy about his sexuality and frustrations in life directed at his psychiatrist. ![]() ![]() The latter one will take me a bit longer to ingest but Portnoy’s Complaint is a relatively short novel. Roth’s work struck me as something that would complement my love for Kundera so I brought a couple more of Roth’s books: Portnoy’s Complaint and The Plot Against America. I read Philip Roth’s The Professor of Desire earlier in the year and although it is a little impenetrable in places, I found the character and storyline very compelling. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments The diabolic nemesis![]() ![]() Kincaid is the New York Times bestselling author of The Diabolic trilogy. That she will rise and rally the people to topple the man who was once her truest love-and is now her fiercest enemy. They whisper of her shadow spotted in distant star systems. He has bent the Grandiloquy to their knees, and none has the power to stand against him.īut there is a muttering among the Excess. ![]() ![]() Now, the once-idealistic heir apparent has become the cruel Emperor Tyrus, wielding his authority with an iron fist, capable of destroying planets with a single word, controlling all technology with a simple thought. The woman with whom he wanted to build a new and brighter future. The woman for whom he upended the Empire. Three years ago, Tyrus Domitrian shocked the galaxy by killing the woman he swore to love forever. In the “intense and captivating” ( Kirkus Reviews) conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Diabolic series, the Empire teeters on the edge of destruction as rumors spread that Nemesis is still alive. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It actually became a very influential book in the genre of travel writing. This was one of his early works, but he already had the power of description and fun storytelling, so it is an enjoyable recount of his travels. If you have read some of his other books, like Treasure Island, Kidnapped, or his book of children’s poems, A Child’s Garden of Verses, you know he is a wonderful writer and storyteller. ![]() Repeated blows seemed not to influence her until he learned to use the magical word “Proot” to get her moving. At first he loathed her for her intractable differences of opinion displayed concerning the rate of travel to be maintained. Modestine, the donkey, demanded that her owner exercise all his ingenuity. One morning after a night’s sleep out of doors Stevenson scattered coins along the road upon the turf in payment for his night’s lodging. He traveled as his fancy led him, stopping to sleep whenever occasion offered. His only companion was Modestine, a donkey. In twelve days, from September 22, 1878, until October 3, 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson walked from Le Monastier to St. He wrote of his adventures in his book Travels With a Donkey in the Cévennes. He took with him a companion - a donkey he named Modestine. It was a hiking journey of approximately 120 miles through the Cévennes Mountains of France, but it was not a solo hike. When Robert Louis Stevenson was in his late 20’s, he set out on a journey that he hoped would provide material for writing a book. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Valley of the dolls paperback![]() ![]() In airing her grievances, she aired the grievances of an entire gender.”–Brooke Hauser, author of Enter Helen “I think it is a feminist book, but I don’t think the label really matters. The kind of language that she uses and the kind of imagination she has are totally contemporary.” –Camille Paglia There’s a punchy, masculine, brazen quality to writing that I identify with as a reader. “ Valley of the Dolls is one of the great books of the postwar era. Valley of the Dolls will live forever.” –Simon Doonan “I tell every millennial they should read it. ![]() “It’s the most unputdownable book.” –Candace Bushnell a kaleidoscope of fame, sex, addiction, homosexuality, cancer, adultery, suicide, divorce, abortion.” –Holly Millea, Elle A shocker at the time, VOTD was a racy roman ” clef depicting. “A cult classic about three girls, striving to become stars, whose dreams come true–only to be derailed by their dependence on “dolls,” Susann’s slang for uppers and downers. ![]() Jackie was among other things utterly sincere in what she wrote.” –Anne Rice “I marvel as always at the raw energy, the detail, and the grim authenticity of the book’s depiction of New York show biz society. Sure, it’s gossipy, salacious and packed with pop culture, but it also tackles some pretty important issues head-on– Valley of the Dolls was way, way ahead of its time.” – Running in Heels (UK) ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Kiss the Girls by James Patterson![]() Kiss the Girls includes familiar characters that are frequent throughout the series such as Alex's partner, the "Man Mountain" Detective John Sampson and also his FBI contact, Special Agent Kyle Craig. to Carolina where he aligns himself with the local force and the FBI investigating these mysterious disappearances which have left no evidence or even the smallest lead. ![]() As this is personal, Alex talks his way from Washington D.C. This has happened to at least six attractive, intelligent women recently so the police are suspecting a serial kidnapper. To make matters more complex, this is not an isolated incident. They are shocked and devastated of course. The reason being that his niece Naomi has gone missing whilst she is away from the family studying law in Carolina. The story starts with Alex arriving home one day to find a houseful of crying relatives. ![]() ![]() Kiss the Girls is the second outing featuring detective and psychologist Alex Cross and it follows on from the excellent Along Came A Spider. Although this is a well-known classic thriller, first released in 1995, a new version with that strikingly awesome cover is being published on 29 June 2017. ![]() I received an ARC of Kiss the Girls via NetGalley and I would like to thank James Patterson, Random House UK, Cornerstone and Arrow. ![]() |