![]() ![]() When Neil is named valedictorian, Rowan has only one chance at victory: Howl, a senior class game that takes them all over Seattle, a farewell tour of the city she loves. While Rowan, who secretly wants to write romance novels, is anxious about the future, she’d love to beat her infuriating nemesis one last time. ![]() ![]() Rowan Roth and Neil McNair have been bitter rivals for all of high school, clashing on test scores, student council elections, and even gym class pull-up contests. The Hating Game meets Booksmart by way of Morgan Matson in this unforgettable romantic comedy about two rival overachievers whose relationship completely transforms over the course of twenty-four hours. “Brilliant, hilarious, and oh-so-romantic.” - BuzzFeed ![]()
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![]() Kat writes novels about the world’s sexiest rugby team. Kats other career involves writing and editing for charities, and shes traveled to Kenya, Ethiopia and India to meet heroic people helping their communities survive disasters. She taught English in Prague and worked as an editor in London before she and her British husband moved to the Netherlands. Kat Latham is a California girl who moved to Europe the day after graduating from UCLA, ditching her tank tops for raincoats. ![]() So I was thrilled when the awesome Kat Latham agreed to visit downunder and showcase her new release Playing it Close, book two in the London Legends series. ![]() There is nothing I love more than a good sports romance but if you know me at all you can appreciate that I have a special place in my heart for rugby themed books. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He gets upset when Stacey has to ask permission to do anything. He hangs with college kids and rides a motorcycle. It was Stacey who they harped about, and she was less than two years younger than Jim.Īnyway, Stacey takes up with new boy Garr Garwin, who does his own thing. He was still 17, not an adult, but it seemed like since he was a boy nobody gave a hoot. What also bothered me was that Stacey had an older brother who was a senior, nearly 18, and they didn't seem to care what he did. They were still hurting from Corinne's death. The parents got on my bad side, but I understood them. ![]() She has to ask permission to even go get a coke after school at the hangout. They want to know where Stacey is every single second. Stacey is sick and tired of living by her parent's overly strict rules her older sister and a friend was killed six months earlier in a crash. Even though Corinne is dead from the start, I felt like I missed her. One of the better First love from Silhouette books before they turned all Sci-fi and what not. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today. ![]() Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions.Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives.Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions. ![]() ![]() I think Neiderman implemented so much foreshadowing that the end being predictable was in some ways a foregone conclusion, and especially considering how eerie and atmospheric and unsettling the beginning and middle had been, I would have expected more from the end. At around the halfway to two-thirds point, everything became clearer (to me, at least-I know other readers in my book club who felt differently), so that I found the ending fairly predictable, and a lot less interesting than I might have hoped. ![]() I found that the end dragged, although I was pulled along non-stop for the first half of the book. The depravity pictured here is obscene in many spots, and hard to read in some, so the book is an unsettling one. ![]() As the book goes further, there's more and more material that will, at least, make any reader raise an eyebrow and feel a bit of shock. For much of the work, the reader questions what's real and what's not, uncertain even if there's a supernatural element to the book, or if it's only a matter of psychosis. ![]() Andrews (certainly helping to explain why Neiderman became the ghostwriter for her later books), Pin is an eerie, strange read that revolves around a brother and sister who live with the life-size dummy which their father once used for his medical practice. Gothic in nature, and told in a style similar to that of V.C. ![]() ![]() ![]() And Don, Sylvia's unworthy but charming husband, just won't stop hanging around. Ava's mother, Sylvia, caters to and meddles with the lives of those around her, trying to fill the void left by her absent son. Her husband, Henry, has grown distant, frustrated by the demise of the furniture industry, which has outsourced to China and stripped the area of jobs. Ava is now married and desperate for a baby, though she can't seem to carry one to term. But as he reenters his former world, where factories are in decline and the legacy of Jim Crow is still felt, he's startled to find that the people he once knew and loved have changed just as much as he has. The Chicago Review of Books JJ Ferguson has returned home to Pinewood, North Carolina, to build his dream house and to pursue his high school sweetheart, Ava.The Seattle Times NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2017 BY Entertainment Weekly. ![]() *THE INAUGURAL SARAH JESSICA PARKER PICK FOR BOOK CLUB CENTRAL* CHOSEN AS A 2017 BEST SUMMER READ PICK BY The Wall Street Journal ![]() ![]() We had brainstormed them all in the van over the last eight months on the road. There were, to my knowledge, one hundred and seventy-two ways to wreck a hotel room. ![]() But when she sees how the world could actually be, that won't be enough. Find the illegal concerts and bring musicians into the limelight they deserve. The only catch is that she'll have to do something she's never done before and go out in public. By lucky chance, she finds a new job and a new calling: discover amazing musicians and bring their concerts to everyone via virtual reality. She spends her days in Hoodspace, helping customers order all of their goods online for drone delivery-no physical contact with humans needed. Rosemary Laws barely remembers the Before times. She does what she has to do: she performs in illegal concerts to a small but passionate community, always evading the law. Now, in the After, terror attacks and deadly viruses have led the government to ban concerts, and Luce's connection to the world-her music, her purpose-is closed off forever. One of her songs had just taken off and she was on her way to becoming a star. ![]() In the Before, when the government didn't prohibit large public gatherings, Luce Cannon was on top of the world. A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction. ![]() 200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001. ![]() ![]() Marie Antoinette was caught up in her own little world, completely oblivious to what was going on outside her palace walls. She started spending more and more money on lavish gowns, balls and redecorating. ![]() The only thing that gave Marie solace was fashion and extravagant parties. ![]() They spread nasty rumors about her and prayed that she would fail. She gained countless enemies just by being Austrian. Marie was stuck being a outcast in a country that didn't want her, with a husband who didn't love her. ![]() Marie Antoinette was forced to marry the Dauphin of France, who knew little about ruling a country and even less about marriage. Marie spent her entire life trying to please her mother, who often pointed out her flaws and constantly emphasized the importance of perfection. The story is told through a series of journal entries, starting when she was twelve years old and ending at her death (at which point her daughter starts writing in the journal to finish the story). In this intriguing novel we see just how little we know about who the "bad" queen really was. ![]() Throughout history Marie Antoinette has been seen as a pompous and heartless ruler, a queen who cared more about parties and having the latest fashion than the welfare of her people. ![]() ![]() ![]() Check out the infographic below for a longer explanation:Īs the data visualization above suggests, this is simply how capitalism works. What makes this French economist’s conclusions worth global notice? The short answer is that Piketty and his research team amassed a mountain of data, much of it going back centuries, suggesting that the concentration of wealth in ever-fewer hands is not an anomaly or a recent development. ![]() (Watch Piketty’s TED Talk: New thoughts on capital in the twenty-first century.) That’s no small feat for a chart-heavy doorstop on “the dismal science” of economics.Ī fair portion of the book’s notoriety was due to its subject matter: wealth distribution, an intensely political topic if ever there was one. When Thomas Piketty’s “ Capital in the Twenty-first Century” was published earlier this year, it was something of a sensation. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a prayer hymn, a battle cry, a love song, a legendary call and response bonfire talisman tale. The world needed an epic fantasy from the unstoppably creative mind of Andrea Hairston, and it's right on time. Epic, courageous, unapologetically fierce. There is magic in the world, but good conjure is hard to find.ĭjola, righthand man and spymaster of the lord of the Arkhysian Empire, is desperately trying to save his adopted homeland, even in exile.Īwa, a young woman training to be a powerful griot, tests the limits of her knowledge and comes into her own in a world of sorcery, floating cities, kindly beasts, and uncertain men.Īwash in the rhythms of folklore and storytelling and rich with Hairston's characteristic lush prose, Master of Poisons is epic fantasy that will bleed your mind with its turns of phrase and leave you aching for the world it burns into being.Ī Macmillan Audio production from Tor. Praise for Master of Poisons: Master of Poisons is sheer, undiluted brilliance. The wind blows sand and sadness across the Empire. ![]() Award-winning author Andrea Hairston weaves together African folktales and postcolonial literature into unforgettable fantasy in Master of Poisons ![]() |