![]() ![]() All of this culminates in a unique, incredible adventure steeped with mythology, Maori fairies, monsters, betrayal, and an epic battle. The strong, fresh voice of the narrator will pull readers in, along with all the deliciously scary details: the serial killer who removes victim's eyes the mysterious crazy bum who forces a Bible on Ellie telling her she needs it handsome, mysterious Mark who steals the Bible from her and then casts a forgetting charm on her. In an effort to save him, Ellie is thrown into the world of Maori lore, and eventually finds herself in an all-out war with mist dwelling Maori fairy people called the patupaiarehe who need human lives to gain immortality. ious older woman seems to set her sights on Kevin, who is Maori, and has more than just romantic plans for him. ![]() Set in New Zealand, Ellie's main concerns at her boarding school are hanging out with her best friend Kevin, her crush on the mysterious Mark, and her paper deadline. Guardian of the Dead Karen Healey 342 pages first pub 2010 ( editions) fiction fantasy young adult adventurous medium-paced Description 'Youre Ellie Spencer.'I opened my mouth, just as he added, 'And your eyes are opening.'Seventeen-year-old Ellie Spencer is just like any other teenager at her boarding school. ![]() This is an intriguing YA urban fantasy in the tradition of Holly Black and Wicked Lovely. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She is head over heels in love with her boyfriend, Peter her dad's finally getting remarried to their next door neighbor, Ms. Lara Jean is having the best senior year a girl could ever hope for. Lara Jean and her love letters are back in this utterly irresistible third book in the hit series - now a NETFLIX feature film with the all-star cast of To All The Boys I've Loved Before. ![]() To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. 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We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() Dick, James Tiptree, Jr., Jorge Luis Borges, Ursula K. ![]() ![]() Like such eclectic predecessors as Philip K. “ Exhalation by Ted Chiang is a collection of short stories that will make you think, grapple with big questions, and feel more human. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES.In “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom,” the ability to glimpse into alternate universes necessitates a radically new examination of the concepts of choice and free will. ![]() In “Exhalation,” an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications that are literally universal. In “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate,” a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and second chances. Ted Chiang tackles some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine. They are Ted Chiang at his best: profound, sympathetic, revelatory. Tackling some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine, these stories will change the way you think, feel, and see the world. ![]() ![]() The Arab Section emerged at the tail end of British colonialism, at a moment when the Palestine was filling with Jews. Spies of No Country focuses on a fledgling Israeli intelligence unit called the Arab Section, and on four of its spies. In his third book, Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel, Friedman rejects the narrative of Israel as a country filled with Europeans and their descendants, motivated by memories and guilt like my grandfather's. His perspective is unusual: Israeli by choice, he clarifies his own bias in every piece but he writes to complicate, not to defend. ![]() He rose to attention - and controversy - through a pair of essays about media bias in coverage of Israel, and has remained on the beat ever since. Then he would say, without ceremony, that my grandfather's version of Zionism is done.įor half a decade, Friedman has been working hard, and publicly, to dispel easy narratives about Israel. I imagine that the Israeli Canadian writer Matti Friedman would empathize. ![]() Stories like his are common, and easy to empathize with. He believed, unshakably, that Jews needed a place of refuge. The helplessness and guilt he felt underpinned his lifelong Zionism. as Hitler, then Stalin, murdered unspeakable numbers of Jews, including most of his family. My grandfather was too young to serve in World War II. ![]() ![]() ![]() The last thing they ever thought they'd do again is hole up in the tiny Florida town where they wrote their previous book, trying to finish a new manuscript quickly and painlessly. They haven't spoken since, and never planned to, except they have one final book due on contract.įacing crossroads in their personal and professional lives, they're forced to reunite. But on the heels of their greatest success, they ended their partnership on bad terms, for reasons neither would divulge to the public. ![]() Three years ago, Katrina Freeling and Nathan Van Huysen were the brightest literary stars on the horizon, their cowritten books topping bestseller lists. ![]() They were cowriting literary darlings until they hit a plot hole that turned their lives upside down. ![]() ![]() ![]() i think there are some pretty relevant themes and a good commentary on the role of women. there are also a few things that are left unresolved at the end, which is annoying.īut i did enjoy the story for the most part. ![]() maybe its meant to make the story more accessible, but it often took me out of the moment. every day events, modern language, the characters behaving as if they were living in todays world. there are just so many things about the writing and characters that make this feel like a contemporary romance, rather than historical fiction. but with this, if it hadnt been explicitly stated that this is set in first century pompeii, i would have never believed it. a story set in the 1500s doesnt need to be written in old shakespearean english). while i do want accuracy with historical fiction, i dont expect the writing to necessarily reflect the time period (ie. The thing that bothered me is how modern the story feels. amara is definitely a character worth rooting for. but in the midst of that brutal honesty, this is also a story about friendship and sisterhood, rising after hardships, the value of humanity and self-worth, and the price of freedom. i think it would have done a disservice to the story and characters had it been sugarcoated. this does not shy away from the blunt, violent, explicit living conditions of a brothel slave. The best thing this book has going for it is its candidness. ![]() ![]() ![]() On his first night in town he meets a woman who has just been stood up by a blind date. After a bad experience with his coach, he has been traded to Dallas, to play on the same team as his cousin, Cooper, and hopefully get the fresh start to his career he so badly needs. ![]() ![]() Michael is the son of Max and Allison (from Something So Irresistible), and he’s all grown up and playing in the NHL like his father, uncles and grandfather before him… and a handful of cousins. This is a gorgeously functional, angst-free romance, and I loved it! What a fun read! A surprise pregnancy story that is sweet, funny, sexy and swoony, with one of my favourite book families along for the ride. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wives who displeased the husband were treated no better than a dying chicken in a hen house: shunned, verbally and physically attacked, even left on the side of the road. His preferred sexual partner could expect at least some protection for her own children, so competition among the wives was fierce. The husband's favorite wives were free to beat, torment, starve, and humiliate the children of the less favored wives. ![]() Wives were forced to compete for the husband's favor, or watch their children suffer. I was stunned by Carolyn's retelling of her married life to a power-hungry bully with growing numbers of wives and dozens of children, a life ruled by constant fear of physical and emotional abuse of her children and herself. ![]() The world of the cult that Carolyn grew up in, the FLDS, is another ballgame entirely. Vicious competition for husband's favorI thought I knew a little bit about polygamous marriages from watching the tame and amiable reality show "Sister Wives" on the TLC channel. The story is Carolyn's memoir, moving through her childhood within the cult, where parents were encouraged to routinely beat their children, and her vivid descriptions of her arranged marriage at age 18 to a 50-year-old stranger. Married to a stranger 32 years olderBut the book is not about Jeffs, he's just part of the horrifying backdrop. Warren Jeffs and one of his 12-year-old brides ![]() ![]() ![]() There's layers here, people, and I'm not doing them any justice. ![]() So, off he goes with her on an adventure to find out who is killing paranormals and why. Zane ends up believing she is not the bad person everyone has made her out to be - gee I wonder if his little Zane is doing all the talking now? Course, it's the size of Jana's wrist so maybe that's a not-so-little Zane. Love it!) that she is.Īnd cue the perfect set up for a little demon on demon action.Īnyhoo, she's got some cray internal dialogue about not telling Zane why she has killed people or started fires and this gets repeated ad nauseum.Īnd another anyhoo, I'm over that part. Right now, he's hot on the trail of Jana, half demon firestarter (right now I can hear Prodigy's Firestarter on my mental playlist. Oh, and he just happens to be a demon himself. Zane is a hunter.of the paranormal sort, not the four-legged little beastie sort. Plan on reading more by the author: I do! ![]() Sexy times: Yea, in fact this is the book where the peen width is compared to the width of a woman's wrist. Read for Halloween 2017 Reading Challenge - Demon category ![]() ![]() With the help of a sympathetic nurse and a fellow patient, Ricky needs to escape now. But when Ricky is selected by the sinister Warden Crawford for a very special program-a program that the warden claims will not cure him but perfect him-Ricky realizes that he may not be able to wait for his mom a second longer. ![]() From the man who thinks he can fly to the woman who killed her husband, the other patients are nothing like him all he did was lose his temper just a little bit, just the once. ![]() If he could just get through to his mother, he could convince her that he doesn’t belong at Brookline. Ricky Desmond has been through this all before. ![]() With the page-turning suspense and unsettling found photographs from real asylums that led Publishers Weekly to call Asylum “a strong YA debut,” Escape from Asylum is perfect for fans of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. In this terrifying prequel novel to the New York Times bestselling Asylum series, a teen is wrongfully committed to the Brookline psychiatric hospital and must find a way out-before he becomes the next victim of the evil warden’s experiments. ![]() |