Linger maggie stiefvater hardcover5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() But will it be enough?Praise for Maggie Stiefvater:"If Shiver left fans wanting more, Linger will have them begging." -Romantic Times* "Beautiful and moving.The mythology surrounding the wolf pack is clever and so well written that it seems perfectly normal for the creatures to exist in today's world. As their world falls apart, love is what lingers. It is harrowing and euphoric, freeing and entrapping, enticing and alarming. He is wrestling with his own demons, embracing the life of a wolf while denying the ties of a human.the linger.For Grace, Sam, and Cole, life is a constant struggle between two forces-wolf and human-with love baring its two sides as well. For Grace, it means facing a future that is less and less certain.the loss.Into their world comes a new wolf named Cole, whose past is full of hurt and danger. ![]() For Sam, this means a reckoning with his werewolf past. ![]() The astonishing #1 New York Times bestselling novel!the longing.Once Grace and Sam have found each other, they know they must fight to stay together. ![]()
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Daufuskie is surrounded by the waters of Calibogue Sound, Mungen Creek, Cooper River, New River and the Atlantic Ocean.Īccessible only by ferry or barge, and with a full-time population of just over 400. ![]() ![]() Daufuskie Island, located between Hilton Head Island and Savannah, is the southernmost inhabited sea island in South Carolina. The Water Is Wide, by Pat Conroy, originally published in 1972 and a New York Times bestseller, is a brilliantly written inspiring memoir of the author’s teaching experiences on a impoverished, isolated South Carolina Island in 1969. ![]() Persépolis by Marjane Satrapi5/29/2023 ![]() Sharp yet gentle, the film is also a homage to a modern, warm family that has to survive in a tumultuous country with an uncertain future. A girl who is wrestling with the themes that can keep every teenager awake all over the world. Persepolis tells the painful and complex story of a country from within, but it also forms the idiosyncratic and often light-hearted ‘diary’ of an intelligent, lonely girl growing up in a diaspora. She grows up during the Islamic Revolution in Iran and was sent to a boarding school in Vienna for security reasons by her parents after the following coup. Both the original comic strips and the film portray the humorous, intimate and politically-critical story of nine-year-old Marjane. ![]() An animation film based on the autobiographical comic-strip books by the Iranian-born Marjane Satrapi, for which she herself wrote the screenplay and conceived the images along with cartoonist Vincent Paronnaud. ![]() Book carpentaria5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() There, the Aboriginal people of the Pricklebush clan are engaged in a number of argumentative conflicts with various enemies in the community, including the white inhabitants of Desperance, the local law enforcement and government officials, and a large multinational mining operation that has been established on their traditional sacred land. The novel tells the interconnected stories of several inhabitants of the fictional town of Desperance, situated on the Gulf of Carpentaria in northwest Queensland. It met with widespread critical acclaim when it was published in mid-2006, and went on to win Australia's premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award, in mid-2007. Carpentaria is the second novel by the Indigenous Australian author Alexis Wright. ![]() Do no harm christina mcdonald5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() My protagonist, Emma, does a lot of ruthless stuff in Do No Harm. And that was the moment I first thought of the story for Do No Harm. Then one day I saw a news story about a podiatrist in Indiana who’d been arrested for starting an opioid ring, and it got me thinking: why do people start selling drugs? Is it money, power, status? The only thing I believed I could ever understand, given that I’d watched my brother’s descent into addiction, was love. The experience profoundly changed me and my view of addiction and opioids. I’ve wanted to set a thriller against the backdrop of the opioid epidemic for a long time because I’ve spent much of my adult life watching my brother’s addiction to opioids. You bravely and boldly took on a hot topic here in Do Not Harm and I thought you handled it so well by showing us a few different sides to add." ![]() Brenda - Traveling Sisters Book Reviews wrote: "Thank for joining me Christina! I loved Do Not Harm. ![]() Daughter of Troy by Sarah B. Franklin5/29/2023 ![]() Record’s association as a Democratic party-aligned publication were all instrumental in leading to its final closure in 1947. The economic climate of the Great Depression, an ongoing and increasingly antagonistic competition with the Over the next decade, however, various factors arose which lead to the David Stern again raised readership to 315,000 by the early 1930s. Record had begun to decline, but its purchase by J. 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When a North Korean operative discovers the mission and blows it out of the water, Robie and Reel are sent to clean up the mess. ![]() But first he sends them to the Burner Box, a training facility in rural North Carolina, where they’re subjected to everything from near-fatal waterboarding to food and sleep deprivation. Evan Tucker, the slimy CIA head, decides to use Robie and Reel, whose last mission ended in the deaths of other agency personnel. The president, the director of the CIA and the president’s national security adviser meet in secret to hatch a plot to kill the dangerous and unpredictable leader of North Korea. Baldacci picks up where he left off with CIA assassins Will Robie and Jessica Reel in this no-holds-barred tale of perfidy and murder at the highest level. ![]() 1966 novel by daniel keyes5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Hundreds of African-American men involved in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study in Alabama from 1932 to 1972 were never told that they had the disease nor were they treated, despite the availability of penicillin from the 1940s. Other experiments, including some sanctioned by the US government, were much more egregious. A US Department of Energy committee concluded in 1994 that it was “extremely unlikely” that the boys had been harmed by the radiation, but the disregard for their human rights is breathtaking. The boys were told only that they were joining a science club, and consent forms sent to their parents made no mention of radiation exposure. 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The portrayal of groups of normal people falling into mob violence and hatred of the other groups is genuinely unnerving, and Tanzer resists simplistic moral takes. ![]() She is known for genre-bending fiction that combines horror and fantasy with strong female. She won the Colorado Book Award for historical fiction, and has been nominated for the Locus Award, British Fantasy Award, and the Wonderland Book Award. ![]() Fin and Ellie make an appealing team as they work to figure out what’s wrong and stop it, and the depiction of Long Island is a fine example of nuanced, lovely landscape writing. Molly Tanzer (born October 29, 1981) is an American fantasy, horror, and science fiction writer. Fin is out of her element in the endless parties of the Roaring ’20s, a situation only made worse by the nightmarish paranormal effects of the tainted liquor. One night, she inadvertently gets into an altercation with another sailor that ends in her acquiring some odd new bottles of moonshine those bottles end up at a party thrown by Delphine “Fin” Coulthead and her rich husband and friends. On Long Island in the 1920s, Ellie West does bootlegging by boat to help pay for her brother’s education. Lovecraft, with, of course, chaotic results. ![]() Tanzer’s charming, confident follow-up to Creatures of Will and Temper continues the conceit of drawing on famous literary source texts for character and plot material here, The Great Gatsby crashes into the works of H.P. ![]() AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
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