![]() ![]() Evie recalls that all the trouble started the day before her stepfather took the family on a vacation to Florida. ![]() The next morning, Evie takes a bike ride to the beach, reflecting on how the events of the past year could have happened and how she could have prevented them without letting the reader in on the actual events in question. Evie lies awake on the bed beside her mother, pretending to be asleep but very aware of her mother’s presence. They are afraid to leave the room as they fear people might recognize them from the headlines of the newspapers. The two women are alone in a hotel room in Palm Beach, Florida. The novel opens with Evie and her mother, Beverly. Through her narration, Evie tells the reader about the events of the past year, politically as well as the goings on in her own personal life. ![]() This coming-of-age tale follows the story of Evie, a teenage girl in the year 1947. The novel is a work of historical fiction set in post-World War II America. National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. The book was published by Scholastic in 2008, and went on to win the annual U.S. What I Saw And How I Lied is a young adult novel written by Judy Blundell. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She challenges witch-doctrine at every turn. ![]() Sabrina's intelligent, compassionate, and brave to the point of recklessness. She is just beginning her dark education as a sorceress, even as she tries to maintain some semblance of a normal life as a sophomore at Baxter High. Sabrina is an empowered young woman, half-human, half-witch, struggling to reconcile her dual natures. Sabrina Spellman: Female, Open ethnicity, legal 18 or 18+ to play 16.Michelle Gomez as Mary Wardwell / Lilith.Magic and mischief collide as half-human, half-witch Sabrina navigates between two worlds: mortal teen life and her family's legacy, the Church of Night. The new iteration is described as in the vein of Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist and finds Sabrina wrestling to reconcile her dual nature as a half-witch, half-mortal while fighting the evil forces that threaten her, her family and the daylight world humans inhabit." ![]() "The hourlong drama reimagines the story of Sabrina the Teenage Witch as a dark coming-of-age tale that traffics in horror, the occult and witchcraft, naturally. ![]() ![]() ![]() There's one problem: The zoo isn't one bit interested in Spot's talents, and they don't think he's a good fit for them.Īfter his elaborate performance, Spot asks the children a question: "Tell me. Spot continues to plead, "Oh! They would put me in the zoo, if they could see what I can do." The remainder of the book consists of Spot parading his talents, all of which are quite impressive. When he protests this rejection, the children ask him, "Why should they put you in the zoo? What good are you? What can you do?" ![]() However, when he tries to get in the zoo, he's thrown out and told, "We do not want you in the zoo. ![]() Spot, a polka-dot leopard who can change colors and even juggle his own spots, tries to convince two children that he's special enough to be exhibited in the zoo. Tonight I read my daughter "Put Me in the Zoo" by Robert Lopshire for her bedtime story and was struck by the lesson in this book, and how it applies to job seekers. ![]() ![]() ![]() We’ve been invited to a Lakota Sioux powwow celebrating the powerful place that women held before patriarchy arrived from Europe, and efforts now to restore that place. We are a diverse group of women- a Cherokee activist and her grown-up daughter, two African American writers and one musician, and me. Our story moves on to the airport, where Gloria meets “five friends from different parts of the country. “ If I could, I would leave an open space for your story on every page.” She foreshadows her own circular mentality with the Ursula Le Guin quote, “There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories,” then ends the introduction to start the autobiography on another selfless note that reflects Gloria’s wish for her readers: Gloria Steinem beckons, “ Because this book is all about stories, I hope some here might lead you to tell your own and also to get hooked on the revolutionary act of listening to others” (xxvi). (To read more of my writings on intersectional feminism, journey here.) The first book that Gloria Steinem has published in twenty years is here! Sure, it’s an autobiography, but it’s not really about her… It’s about you. Note: My Life on the Road is the inaugural book in Emma Watson’s feminist book club, #OurSharedShelf, for which she will interview Gloria Steinem February 24, 2016. ![]() ![]() ![]() When her own health fails her, she has the choice of staying at home and receiving care. Just as Paige begins to feel settled in Texas, her dad's worsening Crohn's disease brings her home to Seattle. He even makes her forget about the debilitating stomach cramps she struggles to hide. ![]() He's so different from her, but Paige realizes that may not be a bad thing, especially since being around Joey curbs her urge to vandalize and ignore the rules. Meanwhile, Paige reluctantly befriends her sister's straight-laced teenage neighbor, Joey, who is a frequent guest. Paige's parents sign her up for a rebuilding project in Texas where her sister lives. To make things worse, her parents threaten her with boarding school in the fall if she can't prove she's changed her bad habits. Paige just wants to have fun, spray paint a few walls, and block out everything stressful, including her growing concern that she might be sick as well. Not when her dad gets sick, not when her relationship implodes, not even when her parents send her to another-freaking-state for the summer to live with her sister. ![]() Book excerpt: "Satisfying fare for fans of romantic and family dramas." - Kirkus Reviews Sixteen-year-old Paige Williams can't stop self-sabotaging. This book was released on with total page 270 pages. Book Synopsis A Feeling Like Home by : Haleigh Wengerĭownload or read book A Feeling Like Home written by Haleigh Wenger and published by Sword and Silk Books. ![]() ![]() ![]() By the time Jaouad flew home to New York, she had lost her job, her apartment, and her independence. Just like that, the life she had imagined for herself had gone up in flames. Then a trip to the doctor and, a few weeks shy of her twenty-third birthday, a diagnosis: leukemia, with a 35 percent chance of survival. ![]() Next came the exhaustion, and the six-hour naps that only deepened her fatigue. It started with an itch-first on her feet, then up her legs, like a thousand invisible mosquito bites. The real world she found, however, would take her into a very different kind of conflict zone. ![]() ![]() Jaouad’s insights about the self, connectedness, uncertainty and time speak to all of us.”-The Washington Post In the summer after graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad was preparing, as they say in commencement speeches, to enter “the real world.” She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. Her writing restores the moon, lights the way as we learn to endure the unknown.”-Chanel Miller, The New York Times Book Review “Beautifully crafted.
![]() ![]() A gossip-inducing affair with a gorgeous actress might be just the ticket, even if it’s the last thing he wants to do. ![]() But if he ever wants to produce the last movie he and his partner wrote together, Ethan needs to clean up his reputation and step back into the spotlight. Between his high-profile divorce, his struggles with drinking, and his grief over the death of his longtime creative partner and best friend, he’s slowly let himself fade into the background. faking a love affair with a disgraced Hollywood heartthrob who needs the publicity, but for very different reasons.Įthan Atkins just wants to be left alone. With a life-changing role on the line, she’s finally desperate enough to agree to her publicist’s scheme. ![]() Grey Brooks is on a mission to keep her career afloat now that the end of her long-running teen soap has her (unsuccessfully) pounding the pavement again. and discover that their feelings might be more than a PR stunt in this sexy debut for fans of Beach Read and The Unhoneymooners. How to Fake It in Hollywood by Ava Wilder is $2.99! I picked this one up on a recommendation from a romance loving friend, Estelle! Estelle works in romance publishing and has been a guest on the podcast.Ī talented Hollywood starlet and a reclusive A-lister enter into a fake relationship. ![]() ![]() Days after finishing, I was still thinking about it.” -Sabaa Tahir, New York Times bestselling author of An Ember in the Ashes series “Fonda Lee’s Exo is a deeply immersive story that balances fantastic, original world building with spine-tingling adventure. ![]() Read An Excerpt Listen to A Sample Extras Because if Sapience kills him, it could spark another galactic war. Left in the hands of terrorists who have more uses for him dead than alive, the fate of Earth rests on Donovan’s survival. But the Prime Liaison doesn’t negotiate with terrorists, not even for his own son. When Sapience realizes whose son Donovan is, they think they’ve found the ultimate bargaining chip. That is, until a routine patrol goes awry and Donovan’s abducted by the human revolutionary group Sapience, determined to end alien control. His dad holds the prestigious position of Prime Liaison in the collaborationist government, and Donovan’s high social standing along with his exocel (a remarkable alien technology fused to his body) guarantee him a bright future in the security forces. ![]() Some die-hard extremists still oppose alien rule on Earth, but Donovan Reyes isn’t one of them. ![]() ![]() It’s been a century of peace since Earth became a colony of an alien race with far reaches into the galaxy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With chapters from the past interspersed throughout the novel, Williams juxtaposes Shane and Eva as reined-in adults with their terrifyingly out-of-control teen selves. Now Shane has been clean for two years and Eva’s finally found a doctor who properly medicates her chronic, debilitating migraines. As seniors in high school, Shane and Eva shared one week of passionate connection they revealed to each other their raw pain and the extreme coping mechanisms (addiction, cutting) they used to survive. At a Brooklyn literary panel, she has a surprising public reunion with Shane Hall, the reclusive, award-winning author of four books of literary fiction. ![]() She can’t afford to give up the series, which keeps her and her 12-year-old daughter, Audre, financially afloat, so her dream of researching and writing the stories of the Louisiana Creole women who are her ancestors is permanently on hold. Two writers reunite 15 years after an intense, weeklong affair changed both of their lives.Įva Mercy is the successful author of a long-running erotica series with a devoted fan base, but as the deadline for the 15th book approaches, she has to admit she’s run out of ideas. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is a temptress, a schemer, a manipulator, and an all-around Jezebel. There are few women in literature who I believe were created with such villany as Lydia Gwilt. ![]() Unfortunately, there is one other person in the world who knows the secret - a villainous woman named Lydia Gwilt, who decides to use this secret to her advantage. He is horrified and vows never to reveal the secret to his dear friend. Due to the miraculous coincidences of the Victorian sensation novels, Midwinter has by chance befriended the other Armadale, and come to love him as a brother. After his father's death, this Armadale takes the name of Ozias Midwinter, after a foster father (which is very convenient for the plot, since it makes them easier to tell them apart.) When he comes of age, he learns his father's terrible secret, which involves the father of the other Allan Armadale. The story begins with the father of one of the men making a long deathbed confession as his toddler son plays nearby. For convoluted reasons, there are two men who are named Allan Armadale, as were both their fathers. The plot of this novel is really hard to sum up quickly. Two of the books I added to my Classics Club list are from his lesser-known works I read and enjoyed No Name just a couple of months ago, so I was eager to read Armadale. His most famous novels are The Moonstone and The Woman in White, but he was quite a prolific author. Wilkie Collins is really well known for his early detective novels, and his Victorian sensation stories. ![]() |