![]() ![]() Bahni Turpin's ability to transition from teenagers to adults to children was (almost) unbelievable. ![]() ![]() While listening, I found myself checking the product detail page over and over to confirm that this is a solo performance. It's about making sense of the senseless, and finding your voice amidst the noise. But it's also a profound story about the systematic failures and institutional dilemmas that our country faces. Yes, it is about a 16-year-old high schooler dealing with parents, with friends, with relationships, with fitting in. Starr, who witnesses an unthinkable trauma, is, in one moment propelled into the forefront of a much larger, and much more complex, national issue. It's hard to believe that this is Angie Thomas' debut novel, as she created a strong and insightful protagonist who is not only believable but relatable. The Hate U Give completely challenged my (incorrect) assumptions. So when I hear that a book is YA, I'll usually pass. I know it's a generalization, but I tend to assume that YA books just focus on a teenager lamenting over high school issues. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The moment he lays eyes on Eli, he wants him back, and to hell with what his parents think.Īnd there’s that little boy, Eli’s son, who tugs on Matt’s heart as hard as Eli does. It does, when he runs into the omega he’d fallen for as a college senior and never quite managed to forget. Mercy Hills Pack - Bundle One Mercy Hills Pack Extras - Short Story Collection One Mercy Hills Pack-Bundle Two Mercy Hills Pack Extras: Short Story Collection Two Mercy Hills Pack Bundle Three plus Extras Mercy Hills Pack Bundle Three Short Story Collection. Besides, Matt ran off and married someone else, so he couldn’t have felt that much for Eli, could he?Īfter years of trying to make his arranged marriage work, Matt’s getting divorced–much to his high society family’s dismay and fury. Mercy Hills Pack Bundles and Short Story Collections. But Matt’s upper class family doesn’t think an omega is good enough for their son, and Eli’s not going to expose his kid to that kind of prejudice. Contrary to popular belief, he does know who the other father is-the irresistible alpha from his youth. ![]() Now a single dad to the best little boy in the world, he’s working at an animal shelter and trying his hardest to ignore the small town gossip that follows him and his son around. Omegas Heart is 256,000 words of slow burn passion between two exceptional shifters, warm family moments, surprising new friends, even more surprising new opportunities, political intrigue, and a turning point in the path that all the packs will eventually follow. An omega, an alpha, and a seven year-old secret…Įight years ago, Eli gave up his future as a veterinarian because of a blue line on a pregnancy test. ![]() ![]() ![]() Zone One’s narrator, nicknamed “Mark Spitz,” is one of them once a marketing cog and law-school applicant, he ran for his life after seeing his parents infected, and wound up hiding out in toy stores and in trees before being assigned to “sweeper” duty in New York City. ![]() has brought survivors into refugee camps, encouraging them to help rebuilding efforts under the banner of the “American Phoenix” nevertheless, suicides are rampant, and 75 percent of Americans suffer from Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder. ![]() With the initial zombie infestation, an event known as “Last Night,” having subsided, the northeastern U.S. He’s a morose guard of the new world order. Even with bloodthirsty zombies lurking around every corner, Whitehead’s chosen mouthpiece for plague-ridden America dwells on the crushing inevitability of his situation. ![]() Zone One, the fifth novel from Colson Whitehead (The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Sag Harbor) takes place after the apocalypse, but its plot is formed from puzzle, not pursuit. ![]() ![]() ![]() A masterpiece of Steinbeck's later years, East of Eden is a powerful and vastly ambitious novel that is at once a family saga and a modern retelling of the Book of Genesis. One boy thrives nurtured by the love of all those around him the other grows up in loneliness enveloped by a mysterious darkness.įirst published in 1952, East of Eden is the work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence. The book started out like books written in the middle of last century. But the birth of his twins, Cal and Aaron, brings his wife to the brink of madness, and Adam is left alone to raise his boys to manhood. East of Eden By John Steinbeck, David Wyatt (Introduction by) Cover Image. Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families-the Trasks and the Hamiltons-whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.Īdam Trask came to California from the East to farm and raise his family on the new rich land. ![]() ![]() In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Glennon decided to let go of the world’s expectations of her and reclaim her true untamed self. ![]() This was the voice she had buried beneath decades of numbing addictions and social conditioning. At first, Glennon assumed these words came to her from on high but soon she realised they had come to her from within. Then, while speaking at a conference, she looked at a woman across the room and fell instantly in love. From the beloved New York Times bestselling author, speaker and activist Glennon Doyle.įor many years, Glennon Doyle denied her discontent. Part inspiration, part memoir, Untamed explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet the expectations of the world, and instead dare to listen to and trust in the voice deep inside us. Who were you before the world told you who to be? ![]() ![]() Feeney is an army brat who finally settled down in Birmingham, UK with her other half, two kids and a dog. Writing to John Davids not only cements her desire to study in the UK, but gives her more if a reason to leave her family in the US. That’s all she wants in her immediate future. Do well in her Senior Year at High School before going to study in London, England. Tyler King has moved away from his family in order to help himself move on from the mistakes he made in High School.Ī summer romance could lead to so much more, it could lead to him finally surrendering to his repentance for his past actions.Įllie King has a plan. ![]() ![]() When she discovers that the King family includes two teenage boys, will she be glad she came or ready to hightail it back across the pond?Īiden King’s heart has been broken, and he’s taking his anger out on his brother, Tyler.Ĭan he, with the help of his High School Guidance Counsellor, work through his problems. The Kings, a host family in the US, have invited her to stay with them and get a chance to experience life as an American. ![]() Born and bred in the UK, Holly is getting the chance of a lifetime-six weeks abroad. ![]() ![]() He delves into the archaeology of witchcraft, tracing the origin and uses of wands and cauldrons as revealed at ancient European dig sites. Highfield uses the amazing elements of the Harry Potter books as a springboard into discussions of fascinating scientific issues. Like Highfield's The Physics of Christmas, The Science of Harry Potter teases out the scientific explanations and surprising factual foundation of marvels and mysteries-only this time instead of reindeer and Santa, Highfield trains his eye on dragons, broomsticks, and all the wonderful oddities of J. ![]() ![]() Magic and science may seem like strange bedfellows, but in this captivating and far-ranging book, respected science journalist Roger Highfield nimbly illustrates how the two disciplines are actually deeply intertwined in the Harry Potter books. ![]() ![]() This constitutive dimension of character occurs simultaneously and in intimate connection with its use as an instrument of persuasion concerning specific issues. This construct allows King to criticize his target audience without alienating himself from it and also allows the “eavesdropping” black audience to discover a model for reconstructing their own sense of agency. Using Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” as a case study, we argue that the text develops a complex and nuanced construction of King’s character. This generative function of character becomes especially important in cases where suppressed groups attempt to find rhetorical means to alter their cir- cumstances. ![]() Traditional conceptions of rhetorical ethos treat character exclusively as an instru- ment of persuasion, but the persona of the rhetor often functions as a means of con- stituting the self in relation to a complex network of social and cultural relationships. ![]() ![]() Instead of cockiness, however, he displays bedrock focus. His muted confidence is revealed in the way he strolls to the plate. Salas seems unruffled by what surely is coming his way, health pending, by leaps and brisk bounds as he begins the climb on baseball’s ladder. JBerrios Osīryce Miller of the San Diego Union-Tribune profiles j u s t t u r n e d 17-year-old catching prospect Ethan Salas: ![]() This entry was posted in Stadiums, Team Movements and tagged Oakland Athletics on Jby David Pinto. We will if Oakland makes a last ditch effort to save the team. Joe Lombardo had proposed the stadium spending plan. The Senate accepted the changes with no debate on a voice vote Wednesday night and sent it to the governor’s desk as an “emergency measure” adopted during the special legislative session that convened with Democratic majorities in both houses June 7. ![]() The Assembly approved the final version of the bill with $380 million in taxpayer money on a 25-15 vote after making minor changes to the measure the Senate approved on a 13-8 vote Tuesday just hours before the Vegas Golden Knights won the Stanley Cup. The deal still needs the governor’s signature, and MLB must approve the A’s move to Las Vegas, but both are anticipated. The approval for a new stadium for the Athletics in Las Vegas passed the Nevada legislature and is headed to the governor: ![]() ![]() ![]() Sapphique is the stunning sequel to Incarceron. Sapphique was the only prisoner Incarceron ever loved and it is desperate to see the wonders he spoke of Outside, desperate enough to try an Escape of its own.Įveryone is wants to Escape, but life Outside can be as perilous as life Inside in Sapphique (December 2010*) by Catherine Fisher. There are rumors in the prison of a magical glove–a glove that Sapphique himself used to escape. Meanwhile Finn’s friends Keiro and Attia are still trapped Inside. Instead she finds herself with new ones as her fate is tied dangerously to Finn’s and his attempts to reclaim the throne. Instead, Finn finds himself trapped in a complicated game of intrigue and lies he can’t seem to escape still unable to remember his past or help his friends Inside.Ĭlaudia, daughter of Incarceron’s Warden, thought helping Finn escape and declaring him the long lost heir to the Realm would be the end of her problems. Outside isn’t the paradise he or his fellow prisoners dreamt of. He is the long lost heir to the throne of the Realm. Finn has finally Escaped Incarceron, the living prison and the only home he remembers. ![]() |