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Pitts likes to experiment with unconventional teaching methods. While Hadley is a traditional student, her English teacher Ms. ![]() Though not yet in high school, she is already worrying about how she will get into Stanford. ![]() Thirteen-year-old Hadley Fox is the typical overachieving, overscheduled, and overwhelmed straight-A student. ![]() ![]() Jennifer McMahon is the author of nine novels, including Promise Not to Tell, The Winter People, The Children on the Hill, My Darling Girl, and The Drowning Kind. And as the holiday festivities turn into a nightmare, she must confront just how far she is willing to go to protect her family. Happy Rose Day, my darling Sending you a bunch of handpicked roses on this day to express my love for you, which is eternal. No matter which day it is, our love for each other will remain the same. Still, she eventually agrees to take in Mavis, hoping that she and her mother could finally heal and have the relationship she’s always dreamed of.īut when mysterious and otherworldly things start happening upon Mavis’s arrival, Alison begins to suspect her mother is not quite who she seems. Like the moon embraces the sun, let me protect you all my life. ![]() But Alison grew up with her mother’s alcoholism and violent abuse and is reluctant to unearth these traumatic memories. She wants to spend her remaining days with her daughter, son-in-law, and two granddaughters. Mavis, Alison’s estranged mother, has been diagnosed with cancer and has only weeks to live. But with it right around the corner and her husband busily decorating their cozy Vermont home, she has no choice but to face it. ![]() ![]() Alison has never been a fan of Christmas. ![]() ![]() Elementary school principal Kyle Archer is a fellow fish-out-of-water who volunteers to show Margot the picture-postcard side of Southern living. As Margot finds her footing in a town where everybody knows not only your name, but what you had for dinner last Saturday night and what you’ll wear to church on Sunday morning, she grudgingly has to admit that there are some things Lake Sackett does better than Chicago-including the dating prospects. Now she’s blackballed by the gala set and in dire need of a fresh start-and apparently the McCreadys are in need of an event planner with a tarnished reputation. She’s riding high until one event goes tragically, spectacularly wrong. As an elite event planner, Margot’s rubbed elbows with the cream of Chicago society, and made elegance and glamour her business. Margot Cary has spent her life immersed in everything Lake Sackett is not. And true to form in small Southern towns, family business becomes everybody’s business. ![]() (What, you have a problem with one-stop shopping?) Two McCready brothers started two separate businesses in the same building back in 1928, and now it’s become one big family affair. From beloved author Molly Harper comes the first novel in the contemporary romance series, Southern Eclectic, about a big-city party planner who finds true love in a small Georgia town.Nestled on the shore of Lake Sackett, Georgia is the McCready Family Funeral Home and Bait Shop. ![]() ![]() ![]() Indestructubles Little Golden Books Magic School Bus Magic Tree House Pete the Cat Step Into Reading Book The Hunger Games By POPULAR SERIES Chronicles of Narnia Curious Geoge Diary of a Wimpy Kid Fancy Nancy Harry Potter I Survived If You Give. ![]() By TOPIC Award Winning Books African American Children's Books Biography & Autobiography Diversity & Inclusion Foreign Language & Bilingual Books Hispanic & Latino Children's Books Holidays & Celebrations Holocaust Books Juvenile Nonfiction New York Times Bestsellers Professional Development Reference Books Test Prep.By GRADE Elementary School Middle School High Schoolīy AGE Board Books (newborn to age 3) Early Childhood Readers (ages 4-8) Children's Picture Books (ages 3-8) Juvenile Fiction (ages 8-12) Young Adult Fiction (ages 12+). ![]() ![]() ![]() But has perhaps had a wild past, or has some skeletons in her past, so she has been keeping men romantically at a distance. She is the girl with the overactive sex drive. Natsuki assesses Sophie as a 2 on the Kinsey scale. But she didn't really have time for men, she was all work and almost no play. ![]() literally experimented! She determined that she was a 1 on the Kinsey scale (0 being heterosexual and 6 being lesbian). In a very funny passage, she explains to the captain that she experimented in college. ![]() Doesn't really believe in soul mates and spiritual stuff. We have Natsuki - a Japanese scientist and all-around big brain beauty. And while in book 1, they were fleshed out with the quick broad strokes you would expect, in book 2 he adds more detail. He continues to flesh out the 3 girls he introduced us to in book 1. An author has only has so much page time, so you tend to get a group of blank slate girls rather than 2 or 3 very well fleshed out girls.īut Lucas Webber has decided to take a slower path, and I like it. I find with some books the personalities of the girls are hard to discern. You get from A to B, C, and D character-wise very quickly, and that is fine as far as things go, but it is nice sometimes to take things slower. Maybe readers are impatient these days, I am not sure. These days it seems like a lot of harem series are quick on the draw. ![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. ![]() She must cope with storms, shipwrecks, intrigue, and warfare, even as she makes a discovery that offers a revolutionary new insight into the ancient history of dragons. Science is, of course, the primary objective of the voyage, but Isabella's life is rarely so simple. Accompanying her is her young son and a chivalrous foreign archaeologist whose interests converge with Isabella s in ways both professional and personal. From feathered serpents sunning themselves in the ruins of a fallen civilization to the mighty sea serpents of the tropics, these creatures are a source of both endless fascination and frequent peril. ![]() Six years after her perilous exploits in Eriga, Lady Trent embarks on her most ambitious expedition yet: a two-year trip around the world aboard the Royal Survey Ship Basilisk, to study all manner of dragons. Wonders terrestrial and aquatic, ancient ruins, near drownings, and more kinds of dragon than you can shake a wing at. ![]() ![]() I have attended most of the NBA ceremonies over the last 10 years, and each time, when the appointed night arrives, the publishing industry puts away the controversy and puts on its best manners. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. She wrote, "The National Book Award in fiction, more than any other American literary prize, illustrates the ever-broadening cultural gap between the literary community and the reading public." An arguable point.Ĭlose overlay Buy Featured Book Title Salvage the Bones Author Jesmyn Ward This year, Laura Miller at accused the judges of overlooking such well-known books as The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach and The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides, in favor of small-press books (with the exception of Téa Obreht's The Tiger's Wife). ![]() In a celebratory National Book Awards on Wall Street last night, Stephen Greenblatt took the nonfiction award for Swerve, while, in a surprise turn in fiction, Jesmyn Ward won for Salvage the Bones.Įveryone loves to gripe about the National Book Award judges - for nominating only women, for not including genre or mainstream fiction, for selecting too-obvious titles, for omitting big-hitting literary names. ![]() ![]() Jesmyn Ward, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction for her book Salvage the Bones, poses at the National Book Awards Wednesday night. ![]() ![]() While abroad he was influenced by the art of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, the novels of James Joyce and Thomas Mann, and the psychological studies of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. 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Then one terrible night, the secrets they have all been keeping lead to an unspeakable tragedy. ![]() It seems no one is above questioning her allegiances-not the Crown Prince Dorian not Chaol, the Captain of the Guard not even her best friend, Nehemia, a foreign princess with a rebel heart. As she tries to untangle the mysteries buried deep within the glass castle, her closest relationships suffer. Keeping up the deadly charade becomes increasingly difficult when Celaena realizes she is not the only one seeking justice. She hides her secret vigilantly she knows that the man she serves is bent on evil. Yet Celaena is far from loyal to the crown. Assassin Celaena Sardothien won a brutal contest to become his Champion. It puts this entire castle in jeopardy-and the life of your friend."įrom the throne of glass rules a king with a fist of iron and a soul as black as pitch. "A line that should never be crossed is about to be breached. ![]() |