![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, the only comic shop in town-her main destination for character reference-is staffed by a dudebro owner who challenges every woman who comes into the shop.Īt her twin brother's suggestion, Cameron borrows a set of his clothes and uses her costuming expertise to waltz into the shop as Boy Cameron, where she's shocked at how easily she's accepted into the nerd inner sanctum. When Cameron's family moves the summer before her senior year, she hopes to complete her costume portfolio in peace and quiet away from the abuse. But after she wins a major competition, she inadvertently sets off a firestorm of angry comments from male fans online. Cosplay, comic shops, and college applications collide in this illustrated novel, perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Noelle Steveson!Ĭameron's cosplay creations are finally starting to earn her attention-attention she hopes to use to get into the CalArts costume design department for college. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() And Palliser’s youngest, Lord Gerald, has managed to get himself expelled from Oxford. Meanwhile, Silverbridge has followed his father’s wishes by entering Parliament only to become enamored with an American heiress who refuses to marry unless Palliser willingly welcomes her into the family. Unbeknownst to Palliser, his late wife had given their daughter, Lady Mary, her blessing to pursue a courtship with a poor gentleman friend of the duke’s eldest son, Lord Silverbridge. ![]() And it does not take him long to realize that his children have somehow become adults of their own accord-though not for the better. Palliser has never been a doting father, what with the responsibilities of title and duty constantly beckoning him away, but now his government no longer needs him. Plantagenet Palliser must face new challenges and a changing world if he is to hold his family together in the final installment of the Palliser Novels.Īfter losing his devoted wife, Glencora, Duke Plantagenet Palliser takes on a task he has never had the time or skills to bother with before: dealing with his children. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Long-held ties will sever packs will divide.Īnd a cocky playboy will need to dig deeper than the easy charm that carried him through four centuries to prove that sometimes an absence of light is only the void between beings who are destined to collide. ![]() With the fate of humankind hanging in the balance and the supernatural war of the century underway, cultures and parenting styles will clash. It’s even tougher when there’s a nasty prophecy floating around about your kid being a purported abomination fated to destroy the human race. He never expected to fall for the mother of the well-prophesied Rogue werelock he’s been hunting. No Light No Light A Werelock Evolution Series Standalone Novel by Hettie Ivers Book 4 - Werelock Evolution Synopsis Expand/Collapse Synopsis A badass single mom Being a single mom is tough. With the supernatural world on the hunt for her only child, Avery sees no alternative but to adopt an offensive, preemptive approach: Hunt the hunters and take them out first.Ĭenturies old and still living his life on the edge like the formidable werelock and self-assured player he’s always been, Alcaeus long ago dismissed the notion he’d ever find his true mate. ![]() ![]() “It can’t be said often enough,” historian Kenneth Whyte says infrequently in his new history of auto regulation, “that 40,000 or more people dying on American highways every year was a tragedy and a colossal waste of human potential.” This specific version of this declaration, saved for the epilogue of The Sack of Detroit: General Motors and the End of American Enterprise, is intended to show the author is not unsympathetic to the road carnage that preceded the 1960s and the advent of carmaker accountability. Image courtesy of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group ![]() “The Sack of Detroit: General Motors and the End of American Enterprise” by Kenneth Whyte argues that the rise of widespread consumer protection regulation is bad, unnecessary, and perhaps anti-American. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His big dreams for his children are what gets them across the border, but his alcoholism and rage undermine all his hard work and good intentions. Her father isn’t the man she dreamed about all those years in Mexico. Filled with hope, she quickly realizes that life in America is far from perfect. as an undocumented immigrant to live with her father. The 10th Anniversary Edition of The Distance Between Us is now available, with a foreword by Sandra Cisneros and an introduction by the author!įrom award-winning author, Reyna Grande, an eye-opening memoir about life before and after illegally immigrating from Mexico to the United States.īorn in Mexico and raised by her grandparents after her parents left to find work in the U.S., at nine years old, Reyna enters the U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() These include the books of the BROMELIAD TRILOGY (HarperCollins, 2003), as well as THE WEE FREE MEN (HarperCollins, 2003), A HAT FULL OF SKY (HarperCollins, 2004), WINTERSMITH (HarperCollins, 2006), I SHALL WEAR MIDNIGHT (HarperCollins, 2010), NATION (HarperCollins, 2008)-a Michael L. In addition to his phenomenal-and phenomenally popular-Discworld series for adults, Terry is the multi-award-winning author several children's books. ![]() His books have sold more than 85 million copies worldwide. He wrote his first published story when he was 13 and his first novel, THE CARPET PEOPLE, when he was 17. Sir Terry Pratchett, the author of more than three dozen novels, is one of the world's best-selling and best-loved novelists writing in the English language. ![]() ![]() ![]() Faustus's servant, Wagner, has already procured his own "devil familiar" in the form of an apprentice named Robin now Robin and his friend Dick try their hand at conjuring, with free booze as their goal. Meanwhile, similar deals with the devil are going down among the town's peasants. We're thinking maybe he should have pursued that law degree after all… He agrees to Faustus's bargain as long as he signs his soul away in a document written and signed in his blood, which Faustus promptly produces. This idea is way worse.Įspecially when Lucifer is all, yeah that sounds awesome. Okay, remember what we said about calling Mephistopheles being the baddest of bad ideas? We were wrong. But Mephistopheles serves Lucifer first and foremost, so Faustus makes Lucifer an offer he can't refuse: he will sell his soul to the devil himself in exchange for twenty-four years of life with Mephistopheles at his beck and call. ![]() His new teachers give him the scoop and it's time for Faustus to get his magical groove on, all on his own.įor his first trick, he calls the devil Mephistopheles (uh, does anyone else think this is the baddest of bad ideas?) and asks ol' Meph to be his servant. So it's time for Faustus to have a chat with renowned magicians Valdes and Cornelius-they'll know the ins and outs of the magical trade. How about… magic? That sounds downright delightful. ![]() Doctor Faustus sits in his study, trying to decide what he should become an expert in. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here's the first trailer (+ poster) for Tod Williams's Cell, direct from YouTube: Maybe I'm just tired of the everyone-turns-into-a-zombie movies. Despite the fact this is a Stephen King movie starring Cusack & Jackson, it doesn't actually look that good. Another angry zombie movie, but this time it's our cell phones that have turned everyone into zombies, how apt. This is an adaptation of the best-selling Stephen King novel of the same name, about an electronic signal sent to people's cell phones that turns them into "rabid killers". ![]() "If we're gunna survive, people are gunna die." Saban Films has released an official trailer for a film called Cell, starring John Cusack and Samuel L. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If I had an upper-high school daughter, especially one who didn’t like reading, I would totally give her this book. ![]() BUT, for older high school students who can handle it (the majority, in my opinion), Ten Tiny Breaths is an absolute gem. And sure, there are some high school students who are not yet mature enough to handle that. Any book that can do that is worth its weight in gold as far as I am concerned.Īs a New Adult book, Ten Tiny Breaths includes intense (but not pornographic) sexual situations. Ten Tiny Breaths is definitely something special, and I am reviewing it here because I think it will make readers out of non-readers. REVIEW: Although I read the New Adult genre from time to time, I do not typically review New Adult books on my blog unless they are something special. They end up in Miami, where with the help of a few new friends and a hot new neighbor, they must find jobs and learn to survive on their own. Now nineteen, Kasey and her sister Olivia (who was not in the car) have run away from their aunt and uncle after the uncle makes a pass at Olivia. After a year of surgeries and physical therapy, Kacey survived. ![]() SUMMARY: Kacey Cleary’s life was shattered four years ago when her parents, best friend, and boyfriend were all killed in a car accident. ![]() ![]() Trouble the Saints is a dazzling, daring novel―a magical love story, a compelling exposure of racial fault lines―and an altogether brilliant and deeply American saga. ![]() And so Phyllis will have to make a harrowing choice, before it's too late―is there ever enough blood in the world to wash clean generations of injustice? Still, the ghosts from her past are always by her side―and history has appeared on her doorstep to threaten the people she keeps in her heart. Phyllis LeBlanc, a Black woman living in Harlem on the cusp of World War II, has two distinctive qualities. While I was drawn in by the glittering, dangerous world, with its blend of unearthly magics and rich historical reality, as well as by the intriguingly complex characters, the meandering, uneven pace and confusing structure left me cold until. Ten years later, Phyllis LeBlanc has given up everything―not just her own past, and Dev, the man she loved, but even her own dreams. Trouble the Saints is an ambitious novel, but one that doesn’t quite reach all of its aspirations. Plot 3.0 Characters 4.0 Writing 5.0 Ending 3.0 Concept 5. ![]() The dangerous magic of The Night Circus meets the powerful historical exploration of The Underground Railroad in Alaya Dawn Johnson's timely and unsettling novel, set against the darkly glamorous backdrop of New York City, where an assassin falls in love and tries to change her fate at the dawn of World War II.Īmid the whir of city life, a young woman from Harlem is drawn into the glittering underworld of Manhattan, where she's hired to use her knives to strike fear among its most dangerous denizens. Set in New York, at the dawn of WWII, Trouble the Saints is a story that starts with a notorious assassin whose ‘hands’ gift her deadly precision with knives. ![]() |