![]() I don’t know how to say this politely, but everyone should definitely check out Nevermoor. To stay in the safety of Nevermoor for good, Morrigan will need to find a way to pass the tests – or she’ll have to leave the city to confront her deadly fate.įind it on Amazon | Find it on My thoughts In order to join, she must compete in four difficult and dangerous trials against hundreds of other children, each boasting an extraordinary talent that sets them apart – an extraordinary talent that Morrigan insists she does not have. ![]() It’s then that Morrigan discovers Jupiter has chosen her to contend for a place in the city’s most prestigious organization: the Wundrous Society. Chased by black-smoke hounds and shadowy hunters on horseback, he whisks her away into the safety of a secret, magical city called Nevermoor. Having been born on Eventide, the unluckiest day for any child to be born, she’s blamed for all local misfortunes, from hailstorms to heart attacks–and, worst of all, the curse means that Morrigan is doomed to die at midnight on her eleventh birthday.īut as Morrigan awaits her fate, a strange and remarkable man named Jupiter North appears. ![]() ![]() A cursed girl escapes death and finds herself in a magical world – but is then tested beyond her wildest imagination ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Xeones' tale covers his years of training and adventure as the loyal and devoted servant of Dienekes, a noble Spartan soldier, and he describes the six-day ordeal during which a few hundred Greeks held off thousands of Persian spears and arrows, until a Greek traitor led the Persians to an alternate route. ![]() Driven to understand the courage and sacrifice of his Greek foes, the Persian king, Xerxes, compels Xeones, a captured Greek slave, to explain why the Greeks would give their lives to fight against overwhelming odds. The terrifying spectacle of classical infantry battle becomes vividly clear in his epic treatment of the Greeks' magnificent last stand against the invading Persians. Pressfield's first novel, The Legend of Bagger Vance, was about golf, but here he puts aside his putter and picks up sword and shield as he cleverly and convincingly portrays the clash between Greek hoplites and Persian heavy infantry in the most heroic confrontation of the Hellenic Age: the battle of Thermopylae (""the Hot Gates"") in 480 B.C. ![]() ![]() Feeling guilty and wrong about what she was doing, Auden leaves for home. ![]() At the Tip she runs into a guy named Jake, with whom she almost ends up having a one-night stand with. One night Auden heads down to the Tip, a stretch of beach where all the teens hang out. However, she is disappointed to find that that will not be the case since her father spends all his time working on his novel. When she arrives, she hopes she can have some bonding time with her father. After receiving a package from her brother Hollis who is touring Europe, she decides to take up her father's offer to spend her summer before college in the beach town Colby. After being accepted into Defriese University upon graduating high school, Auden is not sure on how to spend her summer. She learns that second chances are possible and questions if people can truly change.Īuden West is an academically accomplished girl who didn't get the chance to enjoy the activities young children often got to do (such as riding a bike) when she was a child. ![]() Auden also ends up spending her nights making up for her lost childhood with Eli, a loner and insomniac with an intriguing past. Although Auden is at first reluctant, she comes to really like her stepmother and half-sister. ![]() Before heading off to college, Auden decides to spend her summer before college with her father, his wife and their new baby. The novel focuses on Auden West, who never sleeps at night due to her parents' continuous fighting when she was in high school. Along for the Ride is a novel by Sarah Dessen. ![]() ![]() ![]() David quickly becomes more adept at jumping, as he calls it, and runs away from home, ending up in New York City at seventeen with no diploma, no ID, and no money. ![]() ![]() Trigger warnings in this book for scenes of child abuse and domestic violence, child sexual abuse, terrorist attacks (particularly hijackings), alcoholism, and discussions about parental abandonment/neglect.ĭavid Rice first discovers he can teleport while being beaten, again, by his alcoholic and abusive father. Why haven’t I read it yet? Is it because I can sense it’s bad? What if I don’t like this book? I’m on vacation I want my reading to be good!! Fortunately, although by no means a home run-by dint of Gould’s somewhat blah narration- Jumper managed to captivate me and keep me reading right until the end, and I’m almost tempted to pick up the sequel now. Sometimes with books like that, I feel extra trepidation going into it. I’ve had Jumper on my computer for a while now and never got around to reading it, not sure why. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() The Manual of Aeronautics is a guide to the inner workings of the Darwinist and Clanker powers. ![]() In addition to the three novels, there is The Manual of Aeronautics, a lavishly illustrated, full-color companion. But their paths cross in the most unexpected way, and together they embark on an around-the-world adventure, one that will change both their lives forever. In this striking, futuristic rendition of an alternate past where machines are pitted against genetically modified beasts, Aleksandar Ferdinand, a Clanker, and Deryn Sharp, a Darwinist, are on opposite sides in the war. Their Leviathan is a whale airship and the most masterful beast in the British fleet. ![]() The British Darwinists employ genetically fabricated animals as their weaponry. ![]() The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. ![]() ![]() ![]() With remarkably adept word craft from a debut author, Thorpe explores issues that are both intensely private and startlingly universal. You'll find yourself shaking your head in wonder as Trish uses her wide-angle (fisheye) observations to guide us through jaw-dropping experiences. ![]() A nineteen-year-old boyfriend introduced her to sex at thirteen and became her gateway into a world that her parents never could have imagined. Left on her own, Trish descended into a desperate world of addiction and risk-both physical and emotional-unimaginable from the spoiled, fantasy life of her childhood. ![]() Eventually dreams of stardom eroded, tension became unbearable, and the family imploded. Life for the author and her siblings ricocheted between forced conversations with beautiful people and a house rife with deafening silence. Add an alcoholic wannabe movie star mom and a Southern California community full of itself like no other and you have the ingredients for an unforgettable story. Wedged between talkative, fidgety older brother Spencer (more equipped to interact with electronics than people) and younger sister Grace (a bubbly, pink-sequined, girly girl), tomboy Trish grew into the family golden child - unwittingly providing fuel for her narcissist father's cruelty. Written with the taut, plot-driven momentum of a fictional yarn, this true story reveals an insider's intimate details of the California dream gone horribly wrong. ![]() ![]() He continued by paraphrasing the religion’s scripture, but in reference to Trump: “He seeks not power, but to pull it down. “To my Mormon friends, my Latter-day Saint friends, think of him as Captain Moroni,” Lee yelled, comparing Trump to a prophet in the Book of Mormon. He then turned his attention to his co-congregants. He first addressed his comments to his “hermanos hispanohablantes,” dusting off his rusty Spanish from a two-year Latter-day Saint mission in Texas. When Trump invited him onstage, Lee offered an impromptu pitch to two of Trump’s most unconvinced voting blocs, Hispanics and Latter-day Saints. ![]() ![]() It occurred at an October 2020 Trump rally in Arizona, where Lee was in attendance, but didn’t expect to speak. While Utahns warmed up considerably toward Trump after his election, it was not enough to overcome one of Lee’s Trump-related transgressions - his seeming use of his Latter-day Saint faith as a justification for his support. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1903, she organized child laborers to take part in a march with banners demanding "We want to go to school and not the mines!" She attempted to get newspaper publicity for the bad conditions experienced by child laborers, and she tried to meet with the president to discuss the plight of child laborers, but the president refused to meet with the marchers. ![]() After 1900, she began to fight against child labor. She assumed the persona of "Mother Jones" by claiming to be older than she was, wearing outdated dresses and calling the male workers that she helped as "her boys". She was known for organizing the wives and children of striking workers in demonstrations on their behalf. After this she joined the Knights of Labor, then became involved mainly with the United Mine Workers, as an organizer and educator. She returned to Chicago, then she lost everything she owned in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. George and their four children died in 1867 during a yellow fever epidemic. ![]() ![]() She moved to Chicago, and later to Memphis, where in 1861 she married George E. She became a teacher in Michigan in 1859. She was born in Ireland, moved to Canada with her family when they fled the Great Famine in the late 1840s, and then when she was 23, she moved to the United States. ![]() ![]() A wonderful, emotional, important and romantic read. ![]() I have waited so long for this book to be released and it checks every single box. Oh the feeling of mile-high expectations actually being fulfilled: pure bliss. Again, I just wanted more, but some moments never come to fruition. ![]() I found myself many times wishing this scene or that conversation more fully played out, but the author often plays it close to the chest. ![]() The development of familial attachments alongside romantic and platonic ones could have carried a lot more vivacity. In addition, Deaver builds believable secondary characters but they beg for more page time. For most of the novel, the plot just plods along. The book's heart does not always help it overcome much of its dryness. That said, my primary critique of Deaver’s novel is a longing for more. What follows is a story that is both tender and devastating, a reminder that the body’s need to speak its truth is primal and profound and that compassion and love can overcome hate and intolerance. What we see is Benjamin, barefoot, walking to a payphone to call an estranged sister they haven’t seen, or spoken to, in a decade. The reader is spared the immediate fallout-but the imagination conjures up enough horrors. Benjamin De Backer, buoyant with hopes of swift acceptance, is planning on coming out as non-binary to their parents. ![]() The beginning of I Wish You All the Best jarred me. ![]() |