![]() ![]() Praise for the first book in The Outcasts series "Minerva Spencer's writing is sophisticated and wickedly witty. and uncovering the secrets in her cool blue eyes. His only challenge? Unearthing the enemy who threatens her life. But the prim, almost severe, way she looks at him suggests this might be the one woman who can make him forget all the others. ![]() She could be his salvation Daphne Redvers' distant, untouchable beauty and eminently touchable body are hard enough to resist. Because he is also the man Daphne has secretly cheated of title, lands, and fortune. And her instant attraction to the notorious privateer is not only wildly inappropriate for a proper widow but potentially disastrous. ![]() So the appearance of the sun-bronzed giant with the piratical black eye patch is deeply disturbing to Lady Daphne Davenport. Spencer is my new auto-buy!" -New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Hoyt He could be her ruin Hugh Redvers is supposed to be dead. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() After all, ten days of bliss is worth having to assume the role of loving newlyweds, right? But the weird thing is…Olive doesn’t mind playing pretend. Suddenly there’s a free honeymoon up for grabs, and Olive will be damned if Ethan gets to enjoy paradise solo.Īgreeing to a temporary truce, the pair head for Maui. Olive braces herself for wedding hell, determined to put on a brave face, but when the entire wedding party gets food poisoning, the only people who aren’t affected are Olive and Ethan. ![]() Unfortunately for Olive, the only thing worse than constant bad luck is having to spend the wedding day with the best man (and her nemesis), Ethan Thomas. ![]() By contrast, her sister Ami is an eternal champion…she even managed to finance her entire wedding by winning a slew of contests. Olive Torres is used to being the unlucky twin: from inexplicable mishaps to a recent layoff, her life seems to be almost comically jinxed. Olive and Ethan don’t get along but when they are the only two left standing at Olive sister’s wedding when the rest of the wedding party comes down with food poisoning, neither are willing to let a free trip to paradise pass them by. The Unhoneymoonersis about two enemies who become lovers while pretending to be a newly married couple in Maui. ![]() ![]() This fortieth anniversary edition contains not only Schlesinger’s illuminating and inspiring portrait of Robert Kennedy, but a new introduction by Michael Beschloss, in which the acclaimed bestselling author and historian discusses the book’s initial reception, Schlesinger’s thoughts on it, and expounds on why Robert Kennedy is still such an important figure today. Robert Kennedy and His Times is “a picture of a deeply compassionate man hiding his vulnerability, drawn to the underdogs and the unfortunates in society by his life experiences and sufferings” ( Los Angeles Times). ![]() Schlesinger’s account vividly recalls the forces that shaped Robert Kennedy, from his position as the third son of a powerful Irish Catholic political clan to his concern for issues of social justice in the turbulent 1960s. The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian chronicles the short life of the Kennedy family’s second presidential hopeful. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You can find Secrets & Shadows on Goodreads With over a million words and more than 900 combined four and five-star reviews, this is your ultimate young adult collection of mesmerizing paranormal, action-packed urban fantasy, enthralling time travel, gripping dystopian and captivating space operas from 10 Award Winning, New York Times, USA Today, and International Bestselling authors!Ĭheck out this epic line up and secure your Limited Edition copy today! They will stop at nothing to protect everyone and everything they love. Packed with fairies, witches, aliens, shifters, ghosts, space soldiers, deadly magic, gritty dystopian worlds, complicated relationships, and the ultimate swoon-worthy love interests, follow ten badass heroines with remarkable powers and gifts as they face extraordinary challenges and decisions with potentially deadly consequences. The Secrets and Shadows Boxed Set is a compilation of TEN not to be missed Young Adult Paranormal, Fantasy and Science Fiction full-length novels that will have you turning the pages faster than ever before. ![]() ![]() ![]() Smith’s sketches depicted a range of black American laborers, washerwomen, gravediggers, and other diverse and sundry folk. Thompson-Spires, who holds a PhD in English from Vanderbilt University and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois, states in the collection’s afterword that the inspiration for the title and, to some degree, the subject matter, was a series of literary sketches written in the 1850s by James McCune Smith and published in Frederick Douglass’ Paper. Heads of the Colored People captures black lives in this current, divided, Facebook-Live-Black-Lives-Matter-#MeToo moment, and catalogues trauma’s impacts on black bodies, minds and souls, female and male, adult and child alike, as perpetrated against us, by us and between us in stunningly myriad forms: systemic racism and unconscious bias, police brutality, double consciousness, body consciousness, self-hatred, and more. In Nafissa Thompson-Spires’s debut short story collection, Heads of the Colored People, a doctor suggests that an adolescent girl’s sudden and overwhelming bout of hyperhidrosis is caused by anxiety, and then asks, “Is there a history of trauma?” The heart of this collection of twelve stories, the thing that Thompson-Spires communicates with great verve, humor, and empathy, is the answer to that question-a booming “Yes!”-especially as experienced by black Americans. ![]() ![]() Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires ![]() ![]() ![]() Experiment with how you might use your pencil or pen to recreate different surfaces.For example, how might the fingers be connected and function? Will they include wires, cogs, gadgets or special features? Think about the hand's potential functionality, mechanics and material/surface qualities. ![]() For example, will your robot have longer or shorter fingers? Or more, or less fingers? Will these be claw-like, rounded or square-tipped? Add to/edit your outline to create your imaginative robot hand. To do this, first think about how you might adapt its shape and design.Now, using a pencil or pen (or other media for different effects), you will develop your hand-shape into an Iron Man's hand!.On an A5 piece of paper, draw (around) the shape/outline of your hand. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And with time running out, and mistakes catching up with them, Sophie and her allies must join forces in ways they never have before. ![]() The problems they’re facing stretch deep into their history. But nothing can prepare them for what they discover. Maybe even time for Sophie to trust her enemies.Īll paths lead to Nightfall - an ominous door to an even more ominous place - and Sophie and her friends strike a dangerous bargain to get there. The Neverseen have had their victories - but the battle is far from over. But she knows one thing: She will not be defeated. Sophie and her friends face battles unlike anything they’ve seen before in this thrilling sixth book of the New York Times and USA Today best-selling Keeper of the Lost Cities series. A California Young Reader Medal - winning series ![]() ![]() ![]() I’d love to have brunch with Alice Munro. Sometimes you have to be your own cheerleader. I give that advice to myself every time I’m feeling low. What’s the best advice you’ve ever been given?ĭon’t give up. “I had to find out how challenging it was for myself – and also, how worth it.” “No one ever warned me that it’s hard to make a living as an artist, and I’m glad they didn’t,” she says. ![]() ” Marissa went on to write Things to Do When It’s Raining and her much-anticipated third novel, The Last Resort, which comes out this June. ![]() I gave up on the idea that it was going to be published and I wrote for the pleasure of it. So I wrote what would become my debut novel, Mating for Life, just for myself. “Then I realized I needed to write fiction, that it was an integral part of who I was. “With two novels languishing in a drawer, I felt I had no choice but to give up on my dream of becoming an author,” Marissa says. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yong recently discussed the astounding realms of animal sense and the urgent lessons of Covid and climate change with Oprah Daily. ![]() Biology geeks will dine out on the rich anecdotes, the historical detours and pithy footnotes, rendered in a witty, crystalline style. His sublime new book, An Immense World, delves into animal senses and what they reveal about Umwelt, “the part of those surroundings that an animal can sense and experience-its perceptual world.” From shrimp vision to sonar to mosquito tastebuds, Yong’s narrative brims with vivid scenes from laboratories and in the field, astute interviews with researchers across a spectrum of disciplines. His first book, I Contain Multitudes, investigated the surprising structures and rhythms of the microbiome-the amalgam of microbes and their environments and the biochemical give-and-take between them. Throughout the dark days of our pandemic, readers have turned to The Atlantic’s Ed Yong for his masterful reporting and trenchant analysis, which have netted a Pulitzer Prize and other accolades. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sure, kids can relate to that but how important is that to an understanding for what made Einstein tick? I think if I were a kid I'd finish the book thinking so why is this guy so famous? It is just too general,even for the age it is written for. I suppose a lot of what bugged me was the emphasis on his little oddities in behavior such as refusing to wear socks. However, it is a piece of info to consider when purchasing for the library. I agree, not all books can or should be report type books. ![]() Also, from a librarian point of view, this book is rather useless for a kid doing a report on Einstein. But I am not at all sure it would make sense to a kid. While I don't really have much that is negative about this book, I don't see a lot that is positive either. ![]() I don't know if it is the last page that gets them so excited with the author addressing the kid reader pointing out the kid might be the one to solve some of the questions Einstein left posterity or what. People have been singing their praises over this book. I seem to be having different opinions from most lately. ![]() |