![]() ![]() Is the world ready for yet another account of this tragedy? With this novel, the answer is a resounding yes.” New York Journal of Books (on The Girl Who Came Home) “ The Girl Who Came Home follows on the centenary remembrance of the Titanic in 2012. ![]() The unexpected twists and turns of the plot and jumping of timelines holds readers’ attention to the satisfying climax.” Romantic Times Book Review (on A Memory of Violets) “Gaynor’s talent for evoking a time and place, as well as her ability to write a beautifully heart-wrenching story with realistic characters, enables her to touch readers. ![]() 11, 1918, the day the Great War ended and its memory began.” New York Times (on Fall of Poppies) “… a collection of short stories inspired by the plangent, romantic landscape of imperiled mansions, trench warfare and Anglo-American overlap, contains nine loamy tributes to the genre. ![]()
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![]() The novel’s prologue depicts the territorial disputes and survival challenges facing ThunderClan, one of the four feral cat clans that dwell in the forest and surrounding swamps and moorlands. Page citations in this guide refer to the First Avon, 2004 edition. At first, Firepaw faces discrimination from his new Clanmates because of his house cat roots, but he ultimately learns that loyalty is determined by choice, not origin, a lesson reinforced by the discovery of treachery within his very own Clan. Into the Wild follows Firepaw, a house cat-turned-warrior who discovers the difficulties of survival and the rewards of fellowship after he leaves his domestic life behind to become a warrior of ThunderClan. ![]() ![]() It was published by HarperCollins in 2003 to largely positive critical reviews the novel was later nominated for the Young Reader’s Choice Award in 2006. ![]() Into the Wild is the first novel in the first Warriors saga, The Prophecies Begin. ![]() ![]() He briefly attended the California Institute of Technology and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics (with a minor in psychology) from Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas, in 1962. In fact, much of his writing since the 1970s has been in collaboration, particularly with Pournelle, Steven Barnes, Brenda Cooper, or Edward M. He co-authored a number of novels with Jerry Pournelle. Niven created an alien species, the Kzin, which were featured in a series of twelve collection books, the Man-Kzin Wars. ![]() His fantasy includes The Magic Goes Away series, which utilizes an exhaustible resource, called Mana, to make the magic a non-renewable resource. Niven also often includes elements of detective fiction and adventure stories. The creation of thoroughly worked-out alien species, which are very different from humans both physically and mentally, is recognized as one of Niven's main strengths. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics. Laurence van Cott Niven's best known work is Ringworld(Ringworld, #1) (1970), which received the Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. ![]() ![]() ![]() She's not the only one who will mourn Sophie's death- many women in Sophie's support group depended on her strength, her common sense, and her humor to help them improve their lives. In order to do that, she's always looked to her friend Sophie London, a plus-sized activist, to be her inspiration.īut when Sophie sits down in front of a webcam, puts a gun in her mouth, and commits suicide, the bottom drops out of Odelia's life. But she could stand up for herself a little more. She's a much-valued employee, and she makes no excuses for her weight, her age, or her lack of husband and children. ![]() Odelia Grey is a middle-aged, never married, plus-sized paralegal who has a boss from hell and a family that- if she had the choice between being beaten up or going to visit her relatives, she just might choose the beating. ![]() ![]() Told in the pitch-perfect voices of Gertrude, Retta, and Annie, Call Your Daughter Home is an emotional, timeless story about the power of family, community, and ferocity of motherhood. These three women seemingly have nothing in common, yet as they unite to stand up to injustices that have long plagued the small town, they find strength in the bond that ties women together. Annie, the matriarch of the influential Coles family, offers Gertrude employment at her sewing circle, while facing problems of her own at home. Retta, a first-generation freed slave, comes to Gertrude’s aid by watching her children, despite the gossip it causes in her community. Gertrude, a mother of four, must make an unconscionable decision to save her daughters. It’s 1924 in Branchville, South Carolina and three women have come to a crossroads. Featured on Oprah’s Summer Reading List For readers of Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing and Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees, this extraordinary historical debut novel follows three fierce Southern women in an unforgettable story of motherhood and womanhood. ![]() ![]() ![]() And as she continues to meet the nameless man each night, she finds common ground - and fiery passion - in his arms.īut when identities are revealed, Zarrah must decide whether to embrace a chance at peace…or march to the drums of war.Īudio listeners looking for correct spellings of characters and places, I have a guide on my website. ![]() ![]() Yet a chance encounter with an anonymous, and handsome, Maridrinian causes Zarrah to question whether the violence she’s perpetrated is justice or a crime. ![]() And to kill the Veliant prince who leads them. So when she’s given command of the contested city of Nerastis, Zarrah is prepared to do whatever it takes to destroy the Maridrinian forces who oppose her. The Endless War between Maridrina and Valcotta has raged for generations, leaving thousands of Zarrah’s people dead and countless more orphaned. And the second is that her pursuit of vengeance will put every last one of them in their graves. The first is that the Veliant family murdered her mother. Return to the world of The Bridge Kingdom in this sensuous fantasy full of romance and intrigue that is perfect for fans of From Blood and Ash and A Court of Silver Flames.Ī soldier raised as heir to an empire, Zarrah is motivated by two truths. ![]() ![]() ![]() So what happened? How did a zany Henry VIII look-alike revolutionize airline food, and why were stewardesses serving flaming cherries jubilee onboard? What does the tradition of serving nuts on a flight have to do with NASA? How does sitting in the pressurized cabin of a plane roaring 36,000 feet above sea level affect our taste buds, and how are airlines trying to use sensory science to make food taste better? Plus: A grisly tale to explain why both pilots can never eat the same meal! Buckle up, and enjoy the ride.Įconomy class meals on Pan Am in the 1960s. ![]() They’re a far cry from airline meals decades ago, in the golden age of flying, when lobster thermidor and rack of lamb were served on real china. Maybe you miss the bustle of airports and the joy of seeing friends in far-off places-but chances are, you probably don’t miss the food handed out on planes: those sad little tinfoil-covered trays of rubbery chicken breasts, tired lettuce, and frozen cherry tomatoes. Like most people around the world, you probably didn’t do much flying this past year. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fans of Becky Albertalli, Adam Silvera, and Stephen Chbosky. ![]() ![]() Parents and educators looking for realistic historical fiction for teens.Readers who want stories centering gay boys coming of age.And Michael has to decide what he's willing to risk to be himself. A boy who, unlike seemingly everyone else in New York City, is interested in him and not James. ![]() Then he meets Gabriel, a boy who actually sees him. To pass the time before graduation, Michael hangs out at The Echo where he can dance and forget about his father's angry words, the pressures of school, and the looming threat of AIDS, a disease that everyone is talking about, but no one understands. Plus, his brother, Connor, has already been kicked out of the house for being gay and laying low seems to be Michael's only chance at avoiding the same fate. Michael is content to live in the shadow of his best friends, James and Becky. From "the queen of heartbreaking prose" (Paste) Helene Dunbar, We Are Lost and Found is a young adult realistic fiction novel in the vein of The Perks of Being a Wallflower about three friends coming-of-age against the backdrop of the AIDS crisis in the early 1980s. ![]() ![]() While she has her nurse and her ladies-in-waiting, they only spend time with her because they have to. That child, Coira, spends her life raised in isolation. ![]() Thanks to the trauma of this forced pregnancy that leads to her being forced to marry her rapist, the girl Arpazia grows into a cold, distant woman who is unwilling to bond with the child she never wanted but was forced to have. Unlike in the fairytale, she’s Snow White’s biological mother and conceives her daughter when she’s raped at fourteen by the king of the neighboring kingdom. Told from two points of view, we first see the life (and death) of the “Evil Queen,” Arpazia. The book is a darker retelling of Snow White, but with a Hades and Persephone twist. ![]() ![]() I was, interestingly enough, reading Tanith’s Lee 2000 novel White As Snow. ![]() ![]() ![]() Melanie has other ideas, however.Įven at the best of times, it can be hard to visualize certain concepts of science fiction for the big screen. ![]() For the Seeker(Diane Kruger), that is not out of the ordinary, as she hopes to get Wanderer to provide intelligence on other humans like Melanie's younger brother Jamie(Chandler Canterbury) and friend Jared(Max Irons). But somehow Melanie still resides in the back of her brain. ![]() Somehow she survives, even after literally putting a dent into the pavement. Instead of being assimilated into an alien intelligence that has conquered the earth, Melanie(Saoirse Ronan) jumps out of a window from a tall building. ![]() |
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