6/9/2023 0 Comments Paperback crush gabrielle moss![]() ![]() Journey back to your younger days, a time of girl power nourished by sustained silent reading. From friendship clubs and school newspapers to pesky siblings and glamorous beauty queens, these stories feature girl protagonists in all their glory. ![]() In Paperback Crush, author Gabrielle Moss explores the history of this genre with affection and humor, highlighting the best-known series along with their many diverse knockoffs. Nestled in between were the girl-centric teen books of the ’80s and ’90s-short, cheap, and utterly adored. These were not the serious-issue novels of the 1970s, nor the blockbuster YA trilogies that arrived in the 2000s. The nonstop series installments that hooked readers throughout their entire adolescence. For fans of vintage YA, a humorous and in-depth history of beloved teen literature from the 1980s and 1990s, full of trivia and pop culture fun. ![]()
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Louis Post-Dispatch "Immensely satisfying.an old-fashioned page-turner, tweaked by this witty and sophisticated writer.Egan is masterly at displaying mastery.she works a formidable kind of magic." -Dwight Garner, The New York Times The long-awaited novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. ![]() ![]() Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction * New York Times Bestseller * A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of 2017 * Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction * Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, The Guardian, Vogue, Esquire, Kirkus Reviews, Philadelphia Inquirer, BookPage, Bustle, Southern Living, and St. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The film was shot in Morristown, New Jersey and Maplewood, New Jersey, as well as at the campus of Princeton University.Įllen Gulden has a high-pressure job writing for New York magazine. The track was first released on Midler's 1998 album Bathhouse Betty. Bette Midler sings the lead song, " My One True Friend", over the end credits. The film stars Meryl Streep, Renée Zellweger, William Hurt and Tom Everett Scott. ![]() The script was adapted by Karen Croner from the novel by Anna Quindlen, with the story being based on Quindlen's own struggle with the death of her mother, Prudence Pantano Quindlen, from ovarian cancer in 1972. It tells the story of a woman in her 20s who is forced to put her life on hold in order to care for her mother, who is dying of cancer. One True Thing is a 1998 American drama film directed by Carl Franklin. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Review buddha in the attic![]() Never take the last piece of food from a plate. ![]() Touching on the hardships of raising children in the US with knowledge of their heritage, the narrator says, “We told them stories about tongue-cut sparrows and grateful cranes and baby doves that always remembered to let their parents perch on the higher branch. However, life goes on and the women have children. They were destined to be farmer’s wives, the exact same fate they had left Japan for. When they arrive in the U.S, they discover that the lives that were painted for them in the letters that their husbands sent to them were a fantasy. ![]() ![]() It begins with the voyage of Japanese women to America to become picture brides for the Japanese men that were in the U.S. The novel is about the trials and obstacles of Japanese women in America during the pre-war era and World War II era. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments And i darken book![]() ![]() ![]() When their father betrays them, Radu and Lada must join forces to protect each other in the foreign Ottoman Empire, but can they protect their hearts as well as their souls? On the other hand, the son of the dragon, Radu, is beautiful and meek, and his only desire is to gain knowledge and be loved by those around him. She desires the ability to rule the world as a man, and she has worked tirelessly all her life to prove to her father that she is just as strong as any man. Women are weak, powerless creatures whose sole purpose is to have children and please their men. The story follows Lada and her brother Radu as they struggle to find their place in a monstrous, brutal world. Lada Dracul is the daughter of the dragon, but does the daughter of the dragon really have any power? Set in the ancient, Ottoman Empire, And I Darken is the first book in Kiersten White’s Claim the Throne Series. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Princess Ballot by Jaymin Eve![]() ![]() ![]() Monarchies rule the world now, and every waking breath is a competition for the princes. Prince Rafe of the Switzerlands and Prince Alex of the Australasias are bitter enemies both on the soccer field and in the political arena. Despite her best efforts at remaining off the radar, Violet finds herself a pawn between two of the most powerful monarchies in the world. It’s a dark world of politics, intrigue, and dangerous guys who will stop at nothing to get their own way. It's a worldwide lottery, and one that Violet entered without giving it any serious thought.īut the media got it wrong and Arbon Academy is much more than a simple college for future leaders. except for the one scholarship student accepted every five years. Only the rich, powerful, or heir to a throne gain entry. Those four words change Violet Spencer’s whole life, when against staggering odds, she's selected in the "princess ballot."Īrbon Academy is affectionately known as the school for Royals. It includes a-hole princes, nasty princesses, and one chick who will take none of their sh!t, all the while doing her best to make it out alive. ![]() Author Note: This is book one in a dark college romance.Genre: Dark Contemporary Romance - Dystopian Collage Romance - MFM. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Cs lewis autobiography book![]() ![]() He then, for the first time, stopped having private tuition and went to school. Lewis’s childhood can best be described as chaotic. Lewis’s comment on this friendship in his autobiography Surprised by Joy (1955) is characteristic: “At my first coming into the world I had been (implicitly) warned never to trust a Papist, and at my first coming into the English Faculty (explicitly) never to trust a philologist. It is no surprise that later one of his closest friends was another outsider – the South African Catholic J.R.R. In a majority Catholic country, his family were Ulster Protestants – but not the mainstream, nonconformist Protestants he was born into the Church of Ireland, a minority faith even within the Irish Protestant tradition. ![]() Later he reinvented himself as a quintessential Englishman who loved long walks in the country followed by a pint in the local pub but he was born doubly an outsider. Lewis by Darren McAndrew From Protestantism to Atheism and Back AgainĬlive Staples Lewis was born on November 29th 1898 in Belfast. ![]() ![]() ![]() in Reaktion Books's Kosmos series is a concise summary of our know ledge of both planets, as well as their numerous moons. ![]() Its pages packed with information, facts, and historical stories will make for a good read on many cloudy nights., This latest book. Well-designed and lavishly illustrated, Kennett's book will appeal to anyone wishing to discover more about these elusive, distant worlds. Neptune is the only planet whose discovery was predicted-a result of perturbations in Uranus's orbit-and the book carefully unpicks the complex tale of this discovery, showing who should be credited with which aspect., Uranus and Neptune were just points of green blue light until modern times, as the secrets of these two ice giants, located in the cold outer regions of our solar system, have only recently been revealed. in Reaktion Books's Kosmos series is a concise summary of our knowledge of both planets, as well as their numerous moons. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments A walk across the sun![]() ![]() Battling to cope with the breakdown of his marriage and the death of his baby daughter he opts to take a sabbatical and joins an international anti-trafficking group in Mumbai. ![]() ![]() On the opposite side of the globe, high-flying lawyer Thomas Clarke has problems of his own. With only their faith, memories and one another to cling to, the girls find solace and build some resilience to their abuse and seedy surroundings that is until they are separated. Orphaned and alone, the sisters are abducted and subsequently sold before being plunged into the disturbing world of human trafficking and sexual slavery. ![]() The brutal attack, from which the young woman died 13 days later, made headlines across the world and raised pertinent questions about India’s patriarchal societies and how it treats its women.Ī Walk Across the Sun tells the story of young sisters Ahalya and Sita, children from a loving and enriching family whose lives and understanding of the world they live in are devastated by a tsunami that hits their coastal village. Although this is a belated review, having been first published in the early part of 2012, A Walk Across the Sun is a book that has become more topical and arguably prophetic since December last year, after an unidentified Indian student was beaten and gang raped in Delhi. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Akata warrior book 3![]() ![]() This exceptionally well-written novel is all about suspense, thrill, and drama, including the relationships between generations and what happens between long-standing friends. It is an extraordinary piece of work, a perfect balancing act with terror on one side and love on the other. They made readers love them, they made readers sad, they made readers angry, they made readers laugh, they made readers cry, and they made readers believe in the promise of love and home. The characters in this novel bring life and heart to this story, each with a distinct voice and personality. 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