![]() ![]() From an author whose work has been called 'haunted and joyous and heartbreaking all at once' ( Washington Post Book World) comes an unforgettable novel of two lost souls who find love and salvation against all odds.Ĭan love save those who believe they are beyond redemption? In and out of a swank north–eastern rehab centre more than a dozen times in ten years, Alba Elliot, a 25–year–old children's book writer and manic–depressive, believes she is a hopeless case. ![]()
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![]() The two grow up together and as Bridei comes to manhood he sees the shy girl Tuala blossom into a beautiful woman. But Bridei sees an old and precious magic at work here and heedless of the danger fights to save the child. It is uncommonly bad luck to have truck with the Fair Folk and all counsel the babe's death. For Bridei finds a child on their doorstep on a bitter MidWinter Eve, a child seemingly abandoned by the fairie folk. What that purpose is Bridei cannot fathom but he trusts the man and is content to learn all he can about the ways of the world.īut something happens that will change Bridei's world forever.and possible wreck all of Broichan's plans. The tasks that he sets Bridei appear to have one goal-to make him a vessel for some distant purpose. ![]() His earliest memories are not of hearth and kin but of this dark stranger who while not unkind is mysterious in his ways. ![]() THE DARK MIRROR is the first book in Juliet Marillier's Bridei Chronicles.īridei is a young nobleman fostered at the home of Broichan, one of the most powerful druids in the land. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Among the great teacher's followers Alexias meets Lysis, and the two youths become inseparable - together they wrestle in the palaestra, journey to the Olympic Games, and fight in the wars against Sparta. Alexias finds himself drawn to the controversial teachings of Socrates, following him even though it at times endangers both his own life and his family's place in society. The adult world he enters is one in which the power and influence of his class have been undermined by the forces of war. Her characters live vividly both in their own time, and in ours' MADELINE MILLERĬombining the scholarship of a historian with the imagination of a novelist, Mary Renault masterfully brings the ancient world to life in this page-turning drama of the Peloponnesian War.Īlexias, a young Athenian of good family, comes of age during the last phases of the Peloponnesian War. 'Mary Renault's portraits of the ancient world are fierce, complex and eloquent, infused at every turn with her life-long passion for the Classics. I turned to writing historical fiction because of something I learned from Renault: that it lets you shake off the mental shackles of your own era, all the categories and labels, and write freely about what really matters to you' EMMA DONOGHUE Her Theseus novels are perhaps the most exciting of her Greek fictions, and The Last of the Wine the most moving. 'All my sense of the ancient world - its values, its style, the scent of its wars and passions - comes from Mary Renault. ![]() ![]() and bring about a battle that will shake the foundations of the earth. A book of forbidden magic with the power to raise the wolf god Ulfrir from the dead. Their hope lies within the mad writings of a chained god. ![]() Yet even the might of the Bloodsworn and Battle-Grim cannot stand alone against a dragon god. ![]() Now she plots a new age of blood and conquest.Īs Orka continues the hunt for her missing son, the Bloodsworn sweep south in a desperate race to save one of their own–and Varg takes the first steps on the path of vengeance.Įlvar has sworn to fulfil her blood oath and rescue a prisoner from the clutches of Lik-Rifa and her dragonborn followers, but first she must persuade the Battle-Grim to follow her. Lik-Rifa, the dragon god of legend, has been freed from her eternal prison. ![]() Set in a Norse-inspired world and packed with myth, magic, and vengeance, this epic saga follows a band of warriors as they face the wrath of ancient gods and change the shape of the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Which of course makes sense as he is a Scrooge. The Scrooge she is helping also is an unlikable character. In the start of the book she is given an assistant and immediately she starts judging her assistant's appearance and fashion sense. ![]() She is pretty much a mean girl even after five years of being the Ghost of Christmas Past. The main character, Holly Chase, is an unlikable protagonist. I don't think one can fully enjoy this book without having a knowledge of the original. ![]() Five years into this gig, she is assigned to a Scrooge who she closely relates to and will stop at nothing to save.My rating:5/5Before I start this review I want to say that if you haven't read the Christmas Carol or at least watched some of the movies (the Muppet version is my favorite) then do that before reading. Upon her death she became the Ghost of Christmas Past. Synopsis: This is a retelling of Dickens the Christmas Carol.Holly Chase is a selfish seventeen year old Scrooge who refused to change her ways. ![]() ![]() *"Key weaves an intriguing mystery together with a sensitive exploration of gender identity, mental health, and family relationships in the historical and present-day settings."- BCCB, starred review ![]() When Maren connects the clues to Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, she and her new friends are off searching through lighting booths, orchestra pits and costume storages, discovering the trail and dodging camp counselors. But they’re not the only ones searching for the ring, and with the growing threat of camp closing forever, they're almost out of time. But when a prank goes wrong, Maren gets drawn into the hunt for a diamond ring that, legend has it, is linked to the camp’s namesake, Charlotte “Charlie” Goodman, a promising director in Blacklist Era Hollywood. Theater camp is for loud, confident, artsy people: people like her older sister, Hadley-the last person Maren wants to think about-and her cinema-obsessed, nonbinary bunkmate, Theo. Twelve-year-old Maren is sure theater camp isn’t for her. ![]() ![]() Better Nate Than Ever meets The Parker Inheritance in this heartwarming mystery about finding your people and accepting others as they are. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for individuals and for a nation. ![]() People are divided, she declares, by society's failure to provide a model for learning to love.Īs bell hooks uses her incisive mind to explore the question "What is love?" her answers strike at both the mind and heart. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft with lovelessness-not the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, and unity. "The word 'love' is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. ![]() ![]() ![]() I couldn’t put it down, nor could I choose which protagonist I was most drawn to. With grace and great detail, Cairo in White speaks of loneliness and love, of expectation of self versus obligation, and of cultures starkly different but, ultimately, blurred. ![]() “Kelly Jacobson brilliantly weaves the coming-of-age story of a headstrong Egyptian daughter, Aisha, with the remembered regrets of the mother who raised her within narrative so smooth the reader only remembers to pause during moments when Jacobson’s lyricism glints so brightly one must slow to admire. ”Anchored by family, culture and love, this story about enduring relationships is a joy to read.” – Kirkus Reviews Her short fiction has been published in places such as Northern Virginia Review, New Plains Review, and Iron Horse Literary Review. Kelly also writes young adult speculative novels under her pen name, Annabelle Jay. Kelly is the author of several novels, and her work can be found at. ![]() She recently received her MA in Fiction at Johns Hopkins University, and is now working toward her PhD in Fiction at Florida State University. Kelly Ann Jacobson is a fiction writer, poet, and lyricist who lives in Falls Church, Virginia. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Just when ChloÉ thinks she's got it all figured out, a bump in the road comes out of nowhere and sends her skidding. and pass chemistry so she doesn't lose Lolita forever. and get Rock to act mature whenever he's around. ![]() She has a great family, but she is beginning to have questions. All of her life, Chloe Rodriguez has known she was adopted. Ridiculously organized, Übersmart, and hot in a casual, doesn't-know-it kind of way, ChloÉ's peer tutor may have a thing or two to teach her besides chemistry. RIDING THE UNIVERSE GABY TRIANA ISBN: 9780060885700 HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishing Paperback 16.99 266 pages Teen (12 and up) Rating: 4 cups. So when a failing chemistry grade threatens to separate ChloÉ from her motorcycle, she vows not to let that happen. With a black body, blue airbrushed flames, and perfect sloping ape hangers, Lolita is ChloÉ's last connection to her beloved uncle, Seth, who left her the bike when he died last summer. ChloÉ Rodriguez values three things above all else-her family her best friend, Rock and Lolita, her Harley-Davidson 1200 Sportster. ![]() ![]() ![]() Clarke is the charming playboy Audrey can always count on, and he knows that the ever-loyal Audrey will never not play along with his strategy for dodging his matchmaking mother-announcing he's already engaged.to Audrey.īut what starts out as a playful game between two best friends turns into something infinitely more complicated, as just-for-show kisses begin to stir up forbidden feelings. ![]() After all, they've been best friends since childhood without a single romantic entanglement. ![]() One of O, The Oprah Magazine's "22 Romance Novels That Are Set to Be the Best of 2020" and one of Goodreads's " 28 of the Hottest Romances of 2020"įrom New York Times bestselling author Lauren Layne, the "queen of witty dialogue" (Rachel Van Dyken, New York Times bestselling author), comes the final installment of the Central Park Pact series, a heartfelt and laugh-out-loud romantic comedy that's perfect for fans of Sally Thorne and Christina Lauren.Ĭan guys and girls ever be just friends? According to Audrey Tate and Clarke West, absolutely. ![]() |