![]() ![]() Although reluctant, the man agrees to teach her the music of the night. When Aria stumbles across a mysterious man in a dark tower, she begs to learn the power of song from him. She can avoid an arranged marriage if she learns to sing for him. Determined to take her life back into her hands, she and the Count make a deal. Many are warned to stay away from High Tower’s dangerous enchantments, but it’s a warning Aria is forced to ignore. Lords and ladies come from afar to be seduced by a night of unforgettable entertainment. High Tower is a gloomy place with one vivid attraction: the theater. To avoid working the streets, she becomes the ward of a Count and moves to a remote town called High Tower. ![]() Love dark and steamy romance? Get ready to be lured into a world of mystery, desire and danger.Ī haunted tower, a mysterious instructor, and the lure of the music of the night.Īfter the death of her father, Aria is left penniless and destitute. Phantom of the Opera meets Beauty and the Beast in this gothic-inspired dark fantasy romance. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He will try to fulfill a new-found destiny before his path leads to its inevitable conclusion-and one last meeting with his best friend. ![]() ![]() Taking place during the latter events of The Death Cure, Crank Palace tells the story of Newt like never before, from inside his own mind, as he searches for meaning in a life gone horribly wrong. Taking place during the latter events of The Death Cure, Crank Palace tells the story of Newt like never before, from inside his own mind, as he searches for meaning in a life gone horribly wrong. Although Newt thought he was running away from his friends to save them from himself, along the way he meets a young mother named Keisha and her son, Dante, who end up saving Newt in a way he could never have imagined. ![]() From there, he experiences the gritty nightmare of life on the streets, running from the infected and those hunting them, until he ends up in the Crank Palace, the last dumping ground of those without hope. Leaving only a note, Newt departs the Berg before the Gladers return from their mission into Denver, Colorado. And Newt can't bear the thought of his friends watching him descend into madness as he succumbs to the virus. But now he has a burden that can't be shared with Thomas and the others-the Flare. Newt has been to hell and back with his friends. Crank Palace: A Maze Runner Novella (Hardcover) ISBN: 9781626015685 ISBN-10: 1626015686 Publisher: Riverdale Avenue Books Publication Date: November 23rd. Available in audio, hardback, and paperback in English, and many other languages coming soon Visit my website for more. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this life, she loves Eric and wants to trust him, but everything she discovers about him-including a connection to a mysterious tech startup-tells her she shouldn't. ![]() Racing to get back to her old life, Kelly's search leads only to more questions. Suddenly her life is unrecognizable: She's got twelve years of the wrong memories in her head and she's married to Eric, a man she barely knew in high school. The next, she opens a door and mysteriously emerges in her Michigan hometown. One minute Kelly’s a free-spirited artist in Chicago going to her best friend’s art show. Margarita Montimore, USA Today bestselling author of Oona Out of OrderĪn inventive page-turner about the choices we make and the ones made for us. “Who hasn't wondered what alternate versions of their lives might look like?.As relatable as it is suspenseful cleverly exploring adulthood, identity, and shifting realities.” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Many Twitter readers were reasonably distressed by Jerkins' musings about her darker, lower-income black classmate, which, amongst other belated comebacks to her high school bullies (if we're calling them that), included a police violence fantasy. ![]() I think she tries to do the same in This Will Be My Undoing, but often fails miserably. Instead of scapegoating faceless institutions or white hipsters, Jerkins put her own privilege and complicity on the table. As a student attending a university responsible for many of our city's gentrification problems, I found the article to be introspective in a way many pieces aren't. My first introduction to Jerkins was her black gentrifier essay, which I read in my freshman year at Penn. Wow.I think my main question about Morgan Jerkins' debut is similar to many on my timeline-what book were the rest of y'all reading? ![]() ![]() ![]() Stephanie Landsem, author of The Tomb: a Novel of Martha (The Living Water Series) “Mesu Andrews shines brilliant new light on the epic we only thought we knew, transforming the familiar biblical account of the Exodus with a narrative grounded in a deep love for God and his word. Miriam illuminates the power and majesty of Yahweh, while weaving a story of real people waiting for deliverance from a God they have not yet learned to trust.” ![]() This novel is biblical fiction at its finest. ![]() Andrews is gifted at bringing the past to life, and readers will thrill at God’s victory even as they struggle, as Miriam did, to understand God’s plan. Before the story ends with the Israelites’ miraculous freedom after the final, horrible plague, Andrews offers readers a beautiful and nuanced picture of Miriam and other characters: Eleazer, Miriam’s beloved nephew and slave soldier Taliah, his young and headstrong wife Hoshea, Eleazer’s right-hand man, of gigantic faith and even stubborn Pharaoh Ramesses himself. Miriam’s strong faith comes into question when she begins to experience her gentle husband, El-Shaddai, as Yahweh, God of Moses, as well as plagues and death. "Andrews ( The Pharaoh’s Daughter) offers her unique brand of in-depth Bible knowledge and storytelling flair in this tale of Miriam, sister of the famous Moses and Israel’s prophetess during the slavery of Israelites in Egypt. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This was a world of violence, alcoholism, suicide and dysfunction. One of Capote's devices in In Cold Blood is to juxtapose the perfect 1950s American family with as different a world that was possible in rural America: the environment of Perry Smith and Dick Hickock. As the resident of Holcomb would later testify, there was no one who didn't like the Clutters. Herbert Clutter and his wife and two children were bound, gagged, robbed and shot by two ex-convicts who left with $40 and a pair of binoculars. It was only six years later, when the two drifters were executed on the same day, that Capote could finish his book. Capote immediately went down to Holcomb in Kansas, to the scene of the crime. The book was six years in the making, and originally came about when Capote seized upon a 300-word article in the back of the New York Times about a brutal, unsolved murder of Kansas farmer and his family. With it, he invented the "nonfiction novel," becoming a leading practitioner of New Journalism, together with Tom Wolfe and others. Video of guest speakers and Master Classes (requires RealPlayer)Ĭapote was one of the most famous and controversial figures in contemporary American literature, and In Cold Blood: An Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences is perhaps his best-known work.KEEP UP with journalists' beats in Blogfolio, updated throughout the day. READ the Best of Portfolio, featuring a selection of the best published work from Portfolio students. ![]() ![]() ![]() I honestly had no idea what to expect and the cover is so ambiguous that it could've really gone in any direction. I stumbled upon this book months ago and it was such a pleasant surprise. ![]() She knows she is heading for heartbreak, but how can she run when he won’t let her? He wants her and is determined to have her. Every instinct is telling her to run, so she does, but Jesse Ward is not so willing to let her go. Ava desperately does not want to be attracted to him, but she can’t control the overwhelming affect he has on her. He is also a conceited, hedonistic playboy, who knows no boundaries. How wrong could she be? This Man is devastatingly handsome, charming and confident. ![]() She is expecting nothing more than an overweight, cravat wearing, well-to-do countryman, and on arrival, nothing would suggest otherwise. Young interior designer Ava O’Shea has an appointment for a first consultation at The Manor with the owner, Mr Jesse Ward. ![]() ![]() ![]() Being the new kid in school is hard enough, but what about when nobody can pronounce your name? Having just moved from Korea, Unhei is anxious that American kids will like her. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Hardcover. A well-meaning and visually attractive effort, but uninspired.ĭorian Chong, School of Library and Information Science, San Jose State University, CAĬopyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Unfortunately, the text sags under the weight of its mission to describe how it might feel to immigrate. The bold, bright paintings that illustrate the story are realistic, warm, and appealing. ![]() Attractive golden endpapers feature random repetitions of the stamp imprint interspersed with her classmates' handwritten suggestions on scraps of torn paper. To be helpful the children put their suggestions into a "name jar." Eventually the girl decides to keep her own name as one of her classmates takes pride in the new Korean nickname he has chosen, Chinku, meaning "friend." The round, red imprint of the Korean character for Unhei's name provides the graphic manifestation of the story's theme. When she reaches her classroom and is asked her name, she tells her classmates that she has not yet decided on one. K-Gr 2-On the way to her first day of school, Unhei is teased by the children on the bus for her Korean name. ![]() ![]() A sexy encounter with freshman Grace Ivers is just the distraction he needs, but when a thoughtless mistake pushes her away, Logan plans to spend his final year proving to her that he’s worth a second chance. ![]() For this hockey star, life is a parade of parties and hook-ups, but behind his killer grins and easygoing charm, he hides growing despair about the dead-end road he’ll be forced to walk after graduation. He’s a player in more ways than one… College junior John Logan can get any girl he wants. If she wants to get her crush's attention, she'll have to step out of her comfort zone and make him take notice.even if it means tutoring the annoying, childish, cocky captain of the hockey team in exchange for a pretend date. But while she might be confident in every other area of her life, she's carting around a full set of baggage when it comes to sex and seduction. ![]() Hannah Wells has finally found someone who turns her on. ![]() She's about to make a deal with the college bad boy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Gabon Republic, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greenland, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S. Beast: A Tale of Love and Revenge by Jensen Lisa from. ![]() |