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![]() When she takes a risk to help an abused woman, she is horrified to find her house ransacked and her life threatened. Unfamiliar with the twenty-first century, he must determine who plots against Beth while playing Finn's sensual game, a game designed to awaken her repressed passion and keep them on the run together.īeth has no recollection of their lives together and didn't ask this sexually charged stranger to come to her aid. Left behind in the Upper World, he sees a wrongful imprisonment in her future, so he bargains with Finn, an elven trickster, to return to Earth, rescue Beth, and reclaim her heart. ![]() ![]() While their lives are often turbulent, their eternal bond is secure - or so Calum thinks - until Beth decides to live a life on her own. Calum and Beth are soul mates who have lived many lives together, lusting, loving, and dying for each other. ![]() ![]() ![]() By AUTHOR Jane Austen Eric Carle Lewis Carroll Roald Dahl Charles Dickens Sydney Hanson C. ![]() Indestructubles Little Golden Books Magic School Bus Magic Tree House Pete the Cat Step Into Reading Book The Hunger Games By POPULAR SERIES Chronicles of Narnia Curious Geoge Diary of a Wimpy Kid Fancy Nancy Harry Potter I Survived If You Give.By TOPIC Award Winning Books African American Children's Books Biography & Autobiography Diversity & Inclusion Foreign Language & Bilingual Books Hispanic & Latino Children's Books Holidays & Celebrations Holocaust Books Juvenile Nonfiction New York Times Bestsellers Professional Development Reference Books Test Prep.By GRADE Elementary School Middle School High Schoolīy AGE Board Books (newborn to age 3) Early Childhood Readers (ages 4-8) Children's Picture Books (ages 3-8) Juvenile Fiction (ages 8-12) Young Adult Fiction (ages 12+).BESTSELLERS in EDUCATION Shop All Education Books. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Dead souls must line up at counters to start the process of passing on completely and they are expected to finish that process by seven moons, if not, they could be stuck in between forever. So, the story is set in a place called ‘the in between’, where souls find themselves after dying, and not very surprisingly, the place is just as bureaucratic as the living world. ![]() It’s 1990, Almeida is dead, he cannot remember how and has seven days to solve his murder, after which he can ‘pass over’ into the light and not be stuck in the afterlife. ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida’ by Shehan Karunatilaka (2022 Booker Prize winner) follows Maali Almeida, a Sri Lankan war photographer who is casually in the closet, not like ‘casually in the closet’ is a phrase, but I say ‘casually’ because the protagonist has no qualms about making out with men in public places but lies as easily about having a girlfriend when questioned about his orientation… where were we? Yes, Maali Almeida – queer war photographer, fixer, risk-taker, liar, gambler, and now a specter. ![]() Click here for the audio version of this review or scroll to the bottom ![]() ![]() ![]() With the realization that Gemma is something other than a depressed teenager, the young woman discovers there are ‘others’ who wish to do her harm. Sent by his father to ‘protect’ Gemma, Alex must keep secret everything he knows about Gemma’s history, but life has a funny way of throwing curveballs, especially when Gemma begins to ask questions of everyone she has encountered since meeting Alex and his sister Aislin. ![]() Only these emotions were buried for a reason.Īlex is on a mission. But the sensation of being watched and the spark of electricity she encounters whenever she is in the presence of the new boy at school will eventually send shock waves through her system, as the stirrings of long buried feelings rise to the surface. The nightmares and visions are increasing, and her normally withdrawn grandparents are purposely pushing her emotions down. But over the course of a few months, she begins to ‘feel’. ![]() ![]() Gemma Lucas is a 17 year old girl, morbidly withdrawn, desolate and without any emotions. With so many featured characters, their growth wasn’t possible in a novel that only covered a few weeks in the life. As any introductory storyline goes, The Fallen Star is packed with plenty of background information and the beginnings of character development. THE FALLEN STAR is the first book in Jessica Sorensen’s Fallen Star series where we are first introduced to a fantasy world of vampires, faeries, witches, Keepers and Forseers. THE FALLEN STAR (Fallen Star Series #1) by Jessica Sorensen THE FALLEN STAR by Jessica Sorensen -a review ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While Zeller attenuates her usual overemoting, she occasionally overcompensates, resulting in monotone narration, which might vaguely seem appropriate for Khai, but disappointingly not for Hoang’s more lively characters. Of course, sparks fly and delight ensues.for characters and readers both. Oh, and if everything works out, the wedding hall-yes, for Khai and Esme-has already been booked for auspicious August 8. In a case of mother-knows-best, Khai unexpectedly gets a roommate-cum-fiancée when his mother returns from Vietnam with Esme, a hotel maid who’s agreed-only for the sake of improving the lives of her daughter, mother, and grandmother-to accompany Khai to a summer’s worth of family weddings. He’s also autistic and convinced he’s incapable of emotional attachments. Initially introduced as the younger brother of Quotient’s protagonist’s best friend, Khai assumes leading man status here-he’s single, movie-star handsome, successful. Hoang transfers a minor character from her popular 2018 debut, The Kiss Quotient, into the spotlight in her engaging follow-up. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() About the Author Born in Hueytown, Alabama, Mark Waid has earned his living as a lounge singer, a magician, a disc jockey, an accountant, and in many other ways, but none of them as eclectic-or fun-as writing comic books. Collects JLA #18-21, 32-33, 43-46, and two stories from JLA Secret Files #3. Is one of the heroes truly responsible for the chaos across the planet? Will the JLA survive this shocking betrayal? JLA: The Tower of Babel The Deluxe Edition is a tale of epic proportions, by acclaimed writer Mark Waid (Kingdom Come, The Flash) and artist Howard Porter (The Flash, Scooby Apocalypse). ![]() The JLA is determined to set things right.but it turns out that one of their own may have played a role in this disaster. All language has seemingly turned to gibberish, and the world is plunged into a state of panic as communication bes impossible. The JLA has battled terrifying foes across the galaxy.but what will happen when the battle turns inward? A mysterious plague has swept across Earth. ![]() These are the worlds greatest heroes-the team known as the Justice League of America. About the Book Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster Superboy created by Jerry Seigel, by special arrangement with the Jerry Siegel family. ![]() ![]() She would have been like many other French queens that came before her. Yet, Stefan Zweig’s classic biography of this queen tells us that if it was not for the French Revolution Marie Antoinette would most likely be forgotten in history. My Review: Marie Antoinette is one of history’s most famous queens. An impassioned narrative, Zweig's biography focuses on the human emotions of the participants and victims of the French Revolution, making it both an engrossingly compelling read and a sweeping and informative history. Stefan Zweig's Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman is a dramatic account of the guillotine's most famous victim, from the time when as a fourteen-year-old she took Versailles by storm, to her frustrations with her aloof husband, her passionate love affair with the Swedish Count von Fersen, and ultimately to the chaos of the French Revolution and the savagery of the Terror. Synopsis: Life at the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette has long captivated readers, drawn by accounts of the intrigues and pageantry that came to such a sudden and unexpected end. ![]() Source: Edelweiss/Publisher in exchange for an honest review. Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman ![]() ![]() Otherwise, what everyone is drinking at all these Lunar galas is never really mentioned.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. A forced kiss by manipulation.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kid's entertainment guide. There's a near-drowning and a wolf killed. ![]() Heartless onlookers watch executions in the throne room. A disease kills a handful quickly after it's unleashed as bio warfare. Main characters are taken prisoner and tortured one loses a finger and is kept in a cage for Lunars to look at. People are shot in a town square at random, and a woman close to the main characters is made to break her own fingers before being shot. Wounds are serious and almost kill main characters. Numerous times friends turn on friends and stab or shoot them because their minds are being controlled. ![]() It's a nastier business with scary, genetically enhanced soldiers that partially eat their enemies and enemies that can control minds and make whole waves of oncoming opposition turn on each other with guns and knives. ![]() ![]() A whole moon must go to war before book's end. ![]() |