6/27/2023 0 Comments Rebellion by Siobhan Davis![]() Sinner thinks he’s in control, but forcing me into initiation plays right into my hands. I’ll enjoy making Galen grovel, seducing Caz, frustrating Saint, and keeping Theo at arm’s length, because they deserve it for failing me. They all will, because I can’t pull this off alone, and they owe me. Saint is used to calling the shots, but there are new rules, my rules, and if he wants me in his life, and in his bed, he’ll toe the line. ![]() Galen did me a favor, reminding me the only person I can count on is myself, and I’m more determined than ever to avenge my father’s death and avoid the destiny Sinner has mapped out for me. ![]() Rebellion, the highly-anticipated second installment in the all-new dark, reverse harem series The Sainthood- Boys of Lowell High from USA Today bestselling author Siobhan Davis, is available now!Įverything changed the night he betrayed me, and now, the game has entered a new level. ![]() “Siobhan hits every button – steam, intrigue, in-depth plots, and STEAM!” S.E. Title: Rebellion (The Sainthood – Boys of Lowell High #2) ![]()
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![]() Every few years it looked a little different: a bleak undertow appeared in Holly’s jolly everyday carousel of parties and suitors, as did the poignant aspirationalism of her morning window-shopping walks. Cats were a cheap and easy way to my heart in a movie: the whiplash of panic and relief I felt over the rash disposal and cute retrieval of Holly’s ginger mog returns to me every time I watch it still.Īll of which is to say that Blake Edwards’ essentially modest romantic comedy became for me one of those strange texts by which you mark your own shifts in understanding and perspective. And not least of all – probably most of all, if I’m being honest – there was a cat. Audrey Hepburn, so perfectly doe-eyed and beehived and brightly funny and winsomely sad, seemed as much to me a force of magic as Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music, even if the person she was playing made less sense to me. 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Star Wars Victorys Price by Alexander Freed. ![]() With its leader, its strength has returned, and its Star Destroyers and TIE squadrons lurk in the darkness between stars, carrying out the fallen Emperor’s final edict of destruction-as well as another, stranger mission, one Keize has championed not for the dying Empire, but for its loyal soldiers. Shadow Wing is no longer wounded prey fleeing the hunters of the New Republic. Operation Cinder, the terrifying protocol of planetary extermination which began in the twilight of the Imperial era, burns throughout the galaxy. Soran Keize has returned to the tip of Shadow Wing’s spear. In the wake of Yrica Quell’s shocking decision-and one of the fiercest battles of their lives-the remnants of Alphabet Squadron seek answers and closure across a galaxy whose old war scars are threatening to reopen. 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Stewart, David Madison’s gift: Five Partnerships That Built America, Simon & Schuster, 2015 Labunski, Richard James Madison & the Struggle for the Bill of Rights, Oxford University Press, 2006īroadwater, Jeff James Madison: A Son of Virginia and a Founder of the Nation, University of North Carolina Press, 2012 ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Julia shaw bi book![]() ![]() Acting in such a manner will result in a warning, temporary ban or permanent ban as the circumstances warrant. In particular, please keep the following rules in mind:īigotry (biphobia, homophobia, transphobia, racism, etc.) is not allowed. We are not a strictly moderated subreddit but we ask that you are accepting of all people (particularly in your language) and treat everybody with respect. Whether sexual or asexual, everyone is welcome. or anyone who doesn't quite fit the otherwise binary "straight" and "gay" pattern. 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In this second installment in the New York Times bestselling series from Edgar Award winner James Ponti, the young group of spies returns for another international adventure perfect for fans of Spy School and Mrs. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster (pub: March 9th, 2021) April 2021 Middle Grade Book Selection | First Editions Club ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments The wizard of oz novel![]() ![]() You have Dorothy Gale who shows up in Oz and right away you will find a difference between the book and movie and that is that in the movie Dorothy was greeted by Glinda the Good, but in the book Dorothy is greeted by The Good Witch of the North. The plot was just like the movie.in a very bland way. The very first book in the Wizard of Oz series was VERY GOOD. Since this book contains a five book collection in one I'm going to review each book individually. ![]() Decorative, durable, and collectible, these books offer hours of pleasure to readers young and old and are an indispensable cornerstone for every home library. Each volume features authoritative texts by the world's greatest authors in an exquisitely designed bonded-leather binding, with distinctive gilt edging and a silk-ribbon bookmark. The Wizard of Oz: The First Five Novels is one of Barnes & Noble's Collectible Editions classics. ![]() The Wizard of Oz: The First Five Novels is your passport to this marvelous realm and wonders that have enchanted readers young and old for more than a century. Frank Baum's magical character conjures a world where diminutive munchkins live and work, wicked witches run riot, and the mighty Oz himself rules over an Emerald City reached by a yellow brick road. Oz, the Great Wizard! The very name of L. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Holy Skirts by Rene Steinke![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s an intimacy and rawness here that’s rare even in O’Connor’s outwardly autobiographical pieces, such as “The King of the Birds” and “On Her Own Work.” Written in 19, when O’Connor was in her early twenties, the journal has moments of youthful angst (“My mind is a most insecure thing, not to be depended on”). The manuscript was discovered in the form of a Sterling marble composition notebook among O’Connor’s papers, and is now being published for the first time, complete with its facsimile, which reveals the author’s ovoid handwriting and “innocent” spellings. But the book should also appeal to those who find this writer’s concern with “the action of grace” a puzzling aesthetic curiosity-because the prayer journal is also the journal of a writer scouting her own cosmology and beginning to discern its grand and peculiar design in her art. A Prayer Journal will naturally be embraced by the first group. Flannery O’Connor’s readers either revere her fiction because it’s immersed in the mystery of Christianity or admire the work in spite of this. ![]() ![]() ![]() He suggests redemption without ignoring the violence that attends it: “it’s never too late to become/ a new thing, to rip the fur// from your face and dive/ dimplefirst into the strange.” Akbar’s poems offer readers, religious or not, a way to cultivate faith in times of deepest fear: “it is not God but the flower behind God I treasure.” (Sept. The responsea wolf a wolfrecalls howling not only within the image, but in the sound of wolf, which is repeated the way cries are repeated. ![]() ![]() Addressing God, he pleads: “Do you not know how scary// it can get here?” Discussing embodiment, Akbar writes that “everyone/ looks uglier naked or at least/ I do,” while elsewhere exalting the body and its complex wants as “a mosque borrowed from Heaven.” A breathtaking addition to the canon of addiction literature, Akbar’s poetry confronts the pain and joy in denying oneself for the sake of oneself. These poems define life as an act of faith “so much/ of being alive is breaking,” yet we choose to go on. Though loss infuses the Divedapper founder and editor’s work, he animates myriad human struggles-addiction, estrangement from one’s body and language, faith and its absence-with empathy, intimacy, and expansive vision. ![]() “Regarding loss, I’m afraid/ to keep it in the story,/ worried what I might bring back to life,” writes Akbar as he opens his much-anticipated debut collection. Kaveh Akbar is the author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf and has received honors such as a Levis Reading Prize and multiple Pushcart Prizes. ![]() ![]() But what if racism, sexism, and ableism aren't just bugs in mostly functional machinery-they're coded into the system itself? In More Than a Glitch, Meredith Broussard demonstrates how technological neutrality is a myth and why algorithms need to be held accountable.īroussard, a data scientist who has worked in journalism and software development, masterfully synthesizes concepts from computer science and sociology alongside her own experience as one of the few Black female researchers in artificial intelligence. The word "glitch" implies an incidental error, as easy to patch up as it is to identify. When technology reinforces inequality, it's not just a glitch-it's a signal that we need to redesign our systems to create a more equitable world. ![]() |