5/21/2023 0 Comments Wink poppy midnight audiobook![]() ![]() Read by Michael Crouch, Caitlin Davies, and Alicyn Packard. Poppy is the blond bully and the beautiful, manipulative high school queen bee. ![]() Wink is the odd, mysterious neighbor girl, wild red hair and freckles. Three voices that burst onto the page in short, sharp, bewitching chapters, and spiral swiftly and inexorably toward something terrible or tricky or tremendous.įor fans of Holly Black, We Were Liars, and The Virgin Suicides, this mysterious tale full of intrigue, dread, beauty, and a whiff of something strange will leave you utterly entranced. Wink Poppy Midnight April Genevieve Tucholke 3.25 15,509 ratings3,425 reviews Every story needs a hero. Midnight is the sweet, uncertain boy caught between them. The intrigue of The Raven Boys and the "supernatural or not" question of The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer coalesce in this young adult mystery, where nothing is quite as it seems, no one is quite who you think, and everything can change on a dime. ![]()
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5/21/2023 0 Comments War horse by michael morpurgo![]() Maggie Fergusson is Secretary of the Royal Society of Literature and Literary Editor of the Economist magazine Intelligent Life. The biographical portrait that emerges is one of light and shade: the light very bright, the shade complex and often painful. ![]() How did this supremely unbookish boy who dreamed of becoming an army officer become a bestselling author instead? What personal price has he paid for success? And why, amidst his triumphs, is he now haunted by regret? In a unique collaboration, Maggie Fergusson explores Michael Morpurgo’s life through seven biographical chapters, to which he responds with seven stories. Michael’s own story is as strange and surprising as any he has written, and is shot through with the same thread of sadness found in almost all his work. The story of a Devon horse sent to fight on the Western Front has made Michael Morpurgo a household name. Steven Spielberg, meantime, has made it into a film. Five years on, it continues to play to packed audiences of all ages in the West End and New York, and later this year it will tour America, as well as opening in Toronto and Australia. In 2007, Michael’s novel ‘War Horse’ was adapted for the stage by the National Theatre. ![]() But it is not only children he holds in his thrall. Through books such as ‘Private Peaceful’, ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ and ‘The Wreck of the Zanzibar’ he has enchanted a whole generation of children, weaving stories for them in a way that is neither contrived nor condescending. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Wings of ebony book![]() ![]() And I wasn't a fan of the chosen one narrative. Rue was more insecure in this story as she takes on this new role as the chosen one. I really wanted to love Ashes of Gold because I did enjoy Wing of Ebony but I felt like I was reading a completely different story rather than the continuation of one I already knew. When a betrayal sends her into a tailspin, Rue must decide who to trust and how to be the leader that her people deserve…because if she doesn’t, it isn’t just Yiyo that will be destroyed-it will be Rue herself. ![]() ![]() Yet even on Yiyo Peak, Rue is a misfit-with half a foot back in Houston and half a heart that is human as well as god, she’s not sure she’s the right person to lead the fight to reclaim a glorious past. When she finds them again, Rue makes a vow: she will find a way to return the magic that the Chancellor has stolen from her father’s people. ![]() Girls from the East Row break themselves out.īut reuniting with her friends is only half the battle. Girls from the East Row pick themselves back up when they fall. And girls from the East Row don’t give up. Rue has no memory of how she ended up locked in a basement prison without her magic or her allies. In the heart-pounding conclusion to the Wings of Ebony duology, Rue makes her final stand to reclaim her people’s stolen magic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Everyone seems more interested in practicing English than in teaching me Urdu.” “After a few anxious days”–this is Maryam, or allegedly Maryam, writing a week or two later– “I am now completely at home in the Mawdudi household. Or is it? The letters from Margaret/Maryam, which are the backbone of Deborah Baker’s attempt at a biography of this extraordinary, tormented woman, are open to suspicion on at least two levels. This is Maryam Jameelah, the former Margaret Marcus, writing to her Jewish parents in New York in July 1962, from her new home in Lahore, Pakistan. ![]() But if I don’t try then we will never be able to put the difficulties of the last ten years behind us.” Deborah Baker, “The Convert” (2011). It seems I have spent my entire life trying to get to this moment, to explain myself in terms that make sense to you. ![]() “Now that I have settled myself here, I would like to explain how I came to be a part of the Mawlana Mawdudi’s family. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments The Black Swan by Mercedes Lackey![]() ![]() Odile's inner monologue is full of acid comments about how hideous this would be by daylight. Cry Cute: One of the freshly-caught swan maidens at the beginning of the book.Benno is particularly convinced that high-class women are to be adored but not touched neither he nor Siegfried hold lower-class girls in such esteem. Courtly Love: Discussed between Siegfried, Benno, and Wolfgang. ![]() Even Odile seems embarrassed at how over-the-top it is. Think Pimped-Out Dress plus Domino Mask plus black swan wings plus jewels all over.
![]() ![]() However, the narration is riddled with so many small but distracting errors and slight misreadings that it shatters the suspension of disbelief. ![]() With a voice that has the gravel of Jack Webb (minus the stiffness) and the confidence of Morgan Freeman, Weinberger takes listeners on what should be a smooth and exhilarating ride. Mosley is a master of dialogue and his quick-witted narrative is full of Chandler-esque twists. When the police suspect him of murder, he relies on his old street connections to help him out. Tired of the street life, ex-hustler Rawlins has carved out a life on the straight and narrow, working for a public school and trying to raise his two adopted children. In this fifth installment in the Easy Rawlins series, Mosley has allowed his character to evolve with age (the first book in the series took place in the mid-'40s). ![]() "You had to kill someone white to get any kind of news splash in the '60s," Easy Rawlins says of Los Angeles. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After all, they’ve been best friends since childhood without a single romantic entanglement. One of O, The Oprah Magazine’s “22 Romance Novels That Are Set to Be the Best of 2020” and one of Goodreads’s “ 28 of the Hottest Romances of 2020”įrom New York Times bestselling author Lauren Layne, the “queen of witty dialogue” (Rachel Van Dyken, New York Times bestselling author), comes the final installment of the Central Park Pact series, a heartfelt and laugh-out-loud romantic comedy that’s perfect for fans of Sally Thorne and Christina Lauren.Ĭan guys and girls ever be just friends? According to Audrey Tate and Clarke West, absolutely. ![]() ![]() ![]() But while for many of my classmates, Bruno and Boots, the two main protagonists, were of course their favourites, I for one, and being a bit of a nerd myself, developed a huge literary crush on science-obsessed classmate Elmer (and absolutely loved how at the end of This Can't be Happening at MacDonald Hall!, the supposed UFO Elmer claims to have seen, turns out to be a young diplomat's son stuck in a hot air balloon, in retrospect, a scenario almost as strange as the possibility of the supposed visitors from outer space, especially considering that the diplomat hails from an imaginary country, but oh boy, did I ever enjoy that entire final sequence as a teenager and did I ever love reading about Bruno, Boots, Elmer, the neighbouring all girls' academy, and yes, even MacDonald Hall's principal, Mr. A fun and totally engaging Canadian-themed boys' boarding school story (and which was in fact originally penned by author Gordon Korman as a school writing project when he supposedly was only twelve years old), as young teenagers, my friends and I read This Can't be Happening at MacDonald Hall! (and post this, also a number of the sequels) over and over again, as they were quick reads and kept us smiling and laughing. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments The lightning tree lene fogelberg![]() ![]() Flora, Carl, and Aaron are sure the trees are attacking humans after marking them, but no one believes them. ![]() ![]() Each boys had an X scratched into his forehead, and then Carl receives a similar mark while running through the woods. Soon, the other two boys are found dead in the woods, twisted into tree branches. The next morning, Flora sees one of the boys that attacked her the night before, hanging from the very tree she and Fauna had climbed before lightning struck. Three boys there aggressively demand to see Flora’s scars and rip her T-shirt from her body before Carl and his friend Aaron rescue her. However, her best friend, Carl Nielsen, convinces her to attend an end-of-the-school-year party to celebrate summer. In addition, Flora still struggles with the fact that their scientist father went missing years ago. ![]() She has strange scars on her skin, but her 14-year-old sister, Fauna, is in a catatonic state. In Derwyn, Pennsylvania, high school junior Flora Reed has been an outcast for a year, ever since she and her sister were struck by lightning. In Fogelberg’s YA fantasy series starter, trees begin attacking and killing humans, and three teens investigate why. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Rage of the dragon book![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Dance of the Dragons was a civil war during Targaryen rule of the Seven Kingdoms. King Aegon II Queen Dowager Alicent Hightower Ser Otto Hightower, Hand of the King Lord Commander Criston Cole, Hand of the King Prince Regent Aemond Targaryen Prince Daeron Targaryen Lord Ormund Hightower Admiral Sharako Lohar of Lys Ser Tyland Lannister Lord Borros Baratheon, Lord Paramount of the Stormlands Lord Unwin Peake Queen Rhaenyra I Prince Daemon Targaryen Princess Rhaenys Targaryen Prince Jacaerys Velaryon Lord Corlys Velaryon Lord Cregan Stark, Warden of the North Lord Roderick Dustin Lord Dalton Greyjoy, Lord of the Iron Islands Lord Kermit Tully Lord Benjicot Blackwood House Ambrose House Baratheon House Bourney (originally black) House Butterwell (originally black) House Crakehall House Fossoway of Cider Hall House Graceford House Hightower House Lannister House Lefford House Leygood House Mooton (originally black) House Norcross House Peake House Redwyne House Reyne House Risley House Rodden House Rosby (originally black) House Roxton House Stokeworth (originally black) House Strong House Swann House Swyft House Tarbeck House Thorne House Vance of Atranta House Velaryon (originally black) House Wylde The Triarchy ![]() |