![]() ![]() In desperation, a team of CIA agents drags Charlie into the hunt, needing her brilliance to find it first-even though this means placing her life in grave danger. Fearing what would happen if the equation fell into the wrong hands, he hid it.īut now, a diabolical group known as the Furies are closing in on its location. Lemoncello’s Library seriesįrom New York Times bestselling author Stuart Gibbs comes the first novel in a thrilling new series about the world’s youngest and smartest genius who’s forced to use her unbelievable code-breaking skills to outsmart Einstein.Ĭharlie Thorne isn’t old enough to drive.Īnd now it’s up to her to save the world…ĭecades ago, Albert Einstein devised an equation that could benefit all life on earth-or destroy it. ![]() ![]() “Fast-paced, smart, and action-packed.a real page-burner.” -Chris Grabenstein, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Mr. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() However, the beguiling French photographer she'd entrusted with both her itinerary and her heart turned out to be as dangerously unpredictable as, well, a war. Kogan had not actually planned on shooting the Afghan war alone. She was dead wrong.Within weeks of arriving in Paris, after knocking on countless photo agency doors and begging to be sent where the action was, Kogan found herself on the back of a truck in Afghanistan, her tiny frame veiled from head to toe, the only woman - and the only journalis - in a convoy of rebel freedom fighters. Naively, she figured it would be easy to filter death through the prism of her wide-angle lens. ![]() She wanted to see what a war would look like when seen from up close, to immerse herself in a world where the gun is God. ![]() What if the protagonist in that age-old tale-boy goes to war, comes back a man-were a female? Shutterbabe, Deborah Copaken Kogan's remarkable debut, is just that: the story of a twenty-two-year-old girl from Potomac, Maryland, who goes off to photograph wars and comes back, four years and one too many adventures later, a woman.In 1988, fresh out of Harvard, Kogan moved to Paris with a small backpack, a couple of cameras, the hubris of a superhero, and a strong thirst for danger. ![]() ![]() “The first purification which ought to be made is from sin the means to make it is the sacrament of penance.” ( ) “I make use of a name applicable to all such as aspire to devotion for the Greek word, Philothea, signifies a soul loving, or in love with, God.” ( Pages viii–ix) ![]() “So, when the penitent hates his sin, but only with a light, though true contrition, he resolves indeed to sin no more but when he abhors it with a powerful and vigorous contrition, he then not only detests the sin, but all the affections, tendencies, and occasions of it.” ( ) ![]() ![]() “The ordinary purifying and healing, be it of the body or the soul, is only effected little and little, going on by degrees, with pain and labour.” ( ) ![]() ![]() ![]() What they found was that parents did provide that exact type of language stimulation, asking questions (e.g., what is that cow doing?) or relating past experiences to the child (e.g., “today we saw a cow at the farm”) while reading wordless picture books. Using recordings from 25 mothers, the researchers wanted to know if the parents provided any extra information (such as personal experiences or asking questions the child questions) while reading. In the study, researchers at the University of Waterloo decided to compare the language and vocabulary that parents used while reading wordless picture and picture-vocabulary books to their toddlers. This, according to a new study, may be especially important when teaching toddlers and can expose them to richer language. ![]() After all, how do you promote early literacy skills without text? And, how do you actually “read” the story? These types of books actually have a host of benefits for kids and if you’re not doing it already, using wordless picture books in speech therapy should be a part of your practice. Reading a book without words can seem a little counter intuitive. ![]() ![]() I couldn't put it down and it's worth a re-read! I now intend to read all in the series. But she will not go the path of her mother. ![]() Now back from years in captivity in the Baltic where he was taken in the Crusades as a slave, he fights to regain his rightful place, all the while wanting Moira by his side and without benefit of marriage. Addis married Claire, who was vain and selfish and deserted Addis when he was sorely wounded. She has secretly loved Addis since she was 12 and always seemed to be there when he needed care or comforting, though he was promised to the high born Claire, Moira's friend. It takes place in the time of King Edward II and tells the story of Addis de Valence, a high born nobleman and knight and Moira Falkner, the daughter of a nobleman's mistress and a bondwoman to Valence, though she claims her mother's lover freed her. It is an amazing eat historical setting, well drawn characters, realistic dialog for the period and a wonderful heartrending story of love that overcomes many obstacles. ![]() It is the 1st in her 14th Century London series (see list below). This was my first by Madeline Hunter but I will be reading more of hers. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Last House on Needless Street is being developed for film by Andy Serkis and Jonathan Cavendish’s production company, The Imaginarium. ![]() Rights have been sold in twenty-nine territories, it was a Richard and Judy Book Club selection, a Times Book of the Month, Observer Book of the Month, March Editor’s Pick on Radio 4’s Open Book, a Between the Covers BBC2 book club selection and a Sunday Times bestseller. Esquire magazine listed it as one of the top 25 best horror novels of all time. ![]() Ward’s third breakout novel The Last House on Needless Street (2021 - Viper, Tor Nightfire) won the August Derleth Prize and has been shortlisted for the Kitschies, the British Book Awards, the South Bank Award, and the World Fantasy Award. Stephen King called Sundial ‘Authentically terrifying…. Her fourth novel, the gothic thriller Sundial (2022 - Viper, Tor Nightfire) was Observer Thriller of the Month and a USA Today, CNN and Apple Books selection for best new fiction. She read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford and is a graduate of the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia. CATRIONA WARD was born in Washington, DC and grew up in the United States, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen, and Morocco. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Each of the characters are young, which is not only historically accurate, but also makes it easier for young readers to relate. Gratz does not shy away from the horrors of war-whether it be the violence of the battlefield or the ugliness of racism, antisemitism, and sexism from supposed allies. ![]() The diverse characters not only represent different nations and ethnicities, but differing reasons to be at war beyond ridding the world of Nazism. The story mostly follows Dee, but the others play integral roles in the mission. ![]() There are others who carry their own burdens: Samira, an Algerian girl with the French Resistance, must save her mother from the Nazis Canadian paratrooper James drops from a plane into a bullet-ridden night sky, asking What am I doing here? Bill, the British tank operator who wants to make it as far as Amiens to see the rock where his father carved his name when he was there during WWI and the medic James, who scours the beach under constant enemy fire searching for wounded soldiers, some of whom do not want his help.Īllies takes place over the course of twenty-four hours-from midnight Jto midnight on June 7. He carries a burden of responsibility unknown to his brothers-in-arms-even his best friend, Sid. Sixteen-year-old Dee Carpenter lands on Omaha Beach in the chaos of the first landings in Normandy and is immediately confronted with the violence and terror of war. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gregory is one of historical fictions superstars, and The Kingmakers Daughter shows why. When a young man who would be king leads his army and invades England, Elizabeth has to choose between the new husband she is coming to love and the boy who claims to be her beloved lost brother: the rose of York come home at last. Henry's greatest fear is that somewhere a prince is waiting to invade and reclaim the throne. While the new monarchy can win power, it cannot win hearts in an England that plots for the triumphant return of the House of York. But his bride is still in love with his slain enemy, Richard III-and her mother and half of England dream of a missing heir, sent into the unknown by the White Queen. When Henry Tudor picks up the crown of England from the mud of Bosworth field, he knows he must marry the princess of the enemy house-Elizabeth of York-to unify a country divided by war for nearly two decades. ![]() From "queen of royal fiction" ( USA TODAY ) Philippa Gregory comes this instant New York Times bestseller that tells the story of the remarkable Elizabeth of York, daughter of the White Queen, and mother to the House of Tudor. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() See search resultsfor this author Kai Cheng Thom(Author) 4. FIERCE FEMMES AND NOTORIOUS LIARS: A DANGEROUS TRANS GIRLS CONFABULOUS MEMOIR is the highly sensational, ultra-exciting, sort-of true coming-of-age story of a young Asian trans girl, pathological liar, and kung-fu expert who runs away from her parents abusive home in a rainy city called Gloom. But when things go terribly wrong, she must find the truth within herself in order to stop the violence and discover what it really means to grow up and find your family. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir Paperback by Kai Cheng Thom (Author) Visit Amazon's Kai Cheng Thom Page Find all the books, read about the author, and more. When one of their number is brutally murdered, the protagonist joins her sisters in forming a vigilante gang to fight back against the transphobes, violent johns, and cops that stalk the Street of Miracles. Under the wings of this fierce and fabulous flock, Dearly blossoms into the woman she has always dreamed of being, with a little help from the unscrupulous Doctor Crocodile. Striking off on her own, she finds her true family in a group of larger-than-life trans femmes who live in a mysterious pleasure district known only as the Street of Miracles. ![]() Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom is the highly sensational, ultra-exciting, sort-of true coming-of-age story of a young Asian trans girl, pathological liar, and kung-fu expert who runs away from her parents’ abusive home in a rainy city called Gloom. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sealts, Jr., and the authoritative Northwestern-Newberry text of The Piazza Tales. This Penguin Classics edition features the Reading Text of Billy Budd, Sailor, as edited from a genetic study of the manuscript by Harrison Hayford and Merton M. Except for the newly written title story, 'The Piazza,' all of the stories had appeared in Putnams Monthly between 18. Also including The Piazza Tales in full, this collection demonstrates why Melville stands not only among the greatest writers of the nineteenth century, but also as one of our greatest contemporaries. The Piazza Tales is a collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville, published by Dix & Edwards in the United States in May 1856 and in Britain in June. ![]() In these stories, Melville cuts to the heart of race, class, capitalism, and globalism in America, deftly navigating political and social issues that resonate as clearly in our time as they did in Melville's. In the sorrowful tragedy of Billy Budd,Sailor the controlled rage of Benito Cereno and the tantalizing enigma of Bartleby, the Scrivener Melville reveals himself as a singular storyteller of tremendous range and compelling power. Though best-known for his epic masterpiece Moby-Dick, Herman Melville also left a body of short stories arguably unmatched in American fiction. ![]() |