6/10/2023 0 Comments Hideaway by Nora Roberts![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Due to her scrappy and tenacious nature, she was able to escape and was found by Dillon and Callan Cooper in their kitchen. When Caitlyn Sullivan was ten years old, she was kidnapped from her family's home in Big Sur. What she didn’t yet know was that two seeds had been planted that long-ago night-one of a great love, and one of a terrible vengeance… Then, finally, she returned to Los Angeles, hoping to act again and get past the trauma that had derailed her life. Then there were years away in Ireland, sheltered and protected but with restlessness growing in her soul. First came the discovery of a betrayal that would send someone she’d trusted to prison. Dillon Cooper was shocked to find the bruised and terrified girl huddled in his ranch house kitchen-but when the teenager and his family heard her story they provided refuge and comfort, reuniting her with her loved ones.Ĭate’s ordeal, though, was far from over. It was during one of those games that she disappeared.ĭespite her glamorous background, Cate was a shrewd, scrappy survivor, and she managed to escape her abductors. A family ranch in Big Sur country and a legacy of Hollywood royalty set the stage for Nora Roberts’ emotional new suspense novel, Hideaway.Ĭaitlyn Sullivan, a daughter of Hollywood royalty, was already a star at ten, but still loved to play hide-and-seek with her cousins at the family home in Big Sur. ![]()
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6/10/2023 0 Comments Sophie jordan firelight saga![]() SerieThis Raging Light, La magia de las pequeñas c.Pero lo que Jacinda nunca pudo haber previsto es que escapar sería sólo el comienzo.Las lealtades se ponen a prueba y se hacen sacrificios en la explosiva conclusión de la trilogía Firelight de Sophie Jordan. A medida que aprende más acerca de sus captores, se da cuenta de que incluso si Will y Cassian pueden llevar a cabo su parte del plan, no hay garantía de que todos logren salir con vida. Sin embargo, para ello tendrá que aventurarse en el corazón del territorio enemigo.La única manera de que Jacinda puede llegar a Miriam es haciéndose pasar por un presa a sí misma, aunque una vez que ella asume ese disfraz, las cosas rápidamente se saldrán de control. ![]() Agobiada por la culpa, Jacinda sabe que debe rescatarla para arreglar las cosas. ![]() Cuando ella se escapó con Will, aquello terminó en un desastre, con la hermana de Cassian, Miriam, siendo capturada. Pero ella se resistió mucho antes cuando ella se enamoró de Will-un ser humano y, peor aún, un cazador. Jacinda se suponía que debía enlazar con Cassian, el "príncipe" de su tribu. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments The surrogate by toni halleen![]() Hal has two teenage sons from a previous marriage and isn’t as eager to begin child care again, but he wants his wife to be happy. Hal and Ruth are newlyweds who decided to hire a surrogate because Ruth wants a baby desperately. ![]() He’s surprised at this whole venture, wondering why he answered the late-night call from his former girlfriend, whom he hadn’t seen in months, asking him to pick her up at the hospital. Her ex is Digger, with whom she’s had an on-and-off relationship for years. They take off in the cold winter night heading north to a cabin where, Cally says, she just wants a few more days with her baby before she turns her over to the parents, Ruth and Hal, for whom she was a surrogate. It begins with a young woman named Cally bundling up her day-old baby, tossing the child to her ex-boyfriend standing below in the snow, then jumping out the hospital window. Is Toni Halleen’s debut novel, “The Surrogate,” a mystery, a thriller, a family story? It’s all of the above, and it’s a heck of a ride. The simple fact was that he’d made a baby with this woman, not with me, and I was supposed to be happy about it. And I didn’t like the way he’d looked at her it was like she was the mother, not me. ![]() While I was holding her, he’d decided my turn was up, and he’d taken the baby out of my arms and given her to Cally. ![]() ![]() ![]() They are standing side by side on an auction block. “Lillian sees her great-great-grandparents Elijah and Sarah. As the fictional Lillian trudges uphill, she reflects on her ancestors and the long and difficult history that led to her ability to vote on this day. But her arduous climb also serves as an effective metaphor for the struggle for equal voting rights. The steep hill is a nod to the neighborhood where the real Lillian walked door-to-door urging neighbors to vote. It’s Voting Day, she’s an American, and by God, she is going to vote. “A very old woman stands at the bottom of a very steep hill. Evans pulled it off in Lillian’s Right to Vote, a beautiful new book published to coincide with the 50 th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.Īs Winter explains in the Author’s Note, the story was inspired by Lillian Allen-the granddaughter of a slave-who was 100 years old in 2008 when she campaigned and voted for Barack Obama. I’m just looking at how Jonah Winter and Shane W. (4) Illustrate it with vivid, powerful images. (2) Tell it in a clear and distinctive voice ![]() How do you take something unwieldy, complex, and often painful to look at-like, say, the history of voting rights in America-and turn it into a picture book that is engaging, relatable, and understandable to kids? ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Animalia by Graeme Base![]() ![]() ![]() Like other books by Base, the book can appeal to many age groups, each group looking at the levels that are appropriate and being unaware of shared levels within.Īs a final challenge, Base warns, “In Animalia, you see, It’s possible you might find me.” With care and effort, the boy Graeme can be found on each page in the book. All are detailed and linked to the letter – even the can is a coke can and the wolf is white! ![]() In fact, there at least a thousand different alphabetised things in the book to find! Some are subtle, some are well hidden and some may take time to identify (such as the philosopher and politician, or the hamster, Humpty and hook). The overall page scene relates to the letter’s verse for instance, “Eight Enormous Elephants Expertly eating Easter Eggs” has a picture of eight elephants with Easter eggs!īeyond that, the page contains many other items beginning with the letter for the page. T and U, N and O share two pages between them.Įach letter has a poem that conjures up bizarre and interesting animal images, yet seems almost insignificant in the face of the illustrations.Įach page of the book is packed with pictures within pictures. One of Graeme Base’s earlier and best known books, Animaliais a treat.īase himself didn’t think another alphabet book was needed in the world, so didn’t expect much of this book how wrong he was! Animalia is an alphabet book, with most letters being allocated a single or double page. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Brutal Obsession by S. Massery![]() ![]() Massery isn't writing, she can be found devouring books, playing outside with her dog, or trying to make people smile. She has a love affair with coffee and chocolate. Description : He shattered my leg, and now he wants to ruin the rest of me. She lives in Western Massachusetts with her dog, Alice.īefore adventuring into the world of writing, she went to college in Boston and held a wide variety of jobs–including working on a dude ranch in Wyoming (a personal highlight). ![]() Massery is a dark romance author who loves injecting a good dose of suspense into her stories. Lucky for me, she attends this new school of mine.Īnd there are a thousand ways to ruin her. And a resentment like I've never felt before directed at the girl who set me off course. Turns out, my plan didn't account for a night in jail-and the news articles that followed it. I was on track to do just that… until Violet Reece and I collided. He shattered my leg, and now he wants to ruin the rest of me. Greyson Devereux is a menacebut only to me. Download Now : Downlload Now Brutal Obsession. Make my senator father at least a little proud of me. Massery Category: Romance New Adult Total pages: 195 Start Reading Page List Share this Book Brutal Obsession He shattered my leg, and now he wants to ruin the rest of me. Massery and more I am so OBSESSED with Steele and Aspen it isnt even funny. ![]() He's a hockey god… and she's the one who got in his way.įinish college playing the best sport on earth. Devious Obsession is absolutely everything I could have wanted from S. Massery has revealed the cover for Brutal Obsession! ![]() ![]() ![]() A celebration of creativity, this collective graphic biography is sprinkled throughout with writing wisdom and inspiring quotes. Children will see themselves in these portraits and wonder if they, too, might have it in them to make art. ![]() Featuring beloved artists such as Wanda Gág, Maurice Sendak, Tove Jansson, Jerry Pinkney, Yuyi Morales and Hayao Miyazaki, these stories capture the childhood triumphs, failures, and inspirations that predated their careers. What makes an artist? What sparks their imagination? Where do their creativity and unique style come from? Striking illustrations and a graphic novel format bring to life this anthology of legendary artists and their childhoods. Stylish illustrations paired with small vignettes and anecdotes from the artists' early lives helps illuminate the hard work, triumphs, failures, and inspiration that helped forge their successful careers. This vibrantly illustrated graphic novel anthology brings to life the childhood experiences of beloved artists and illustrators such as Wanda Gág, Maurice Sendak, and Jerry Pinkney. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Cheng nien![]() ![]() But he was to die, of cancer, in 1957, while serving as a general manager for Shell, one of the few foreign companies that maintained a presence in Mao's China.Īfter his death, Nien took up the position of political adviser to Shell and lived with their daughter, Meiping, a successful actor, in a large house in Shanghai, with antique furniture, servants and a good standard of living. ![]() The foundation of the People's Republic of China in 1949 meant that Kang-chi's political affiliations were potentially a problem. A supporter of the Nationalists, on the couple's return to wartorn China in the 1940s he joined the ministry of foreign affairs, and they lived in Australia briefly, setting up an embassy there. She was born Yao Nien Yuan into a rich landowning family in Beijing and was studying at the London School of Economics in 1935 when she met her future husband, Kang-chi Cheng. Life and Death in Shanghai (1987) is a memoir of huge sorrow and triumph by Nien Cheng, who has died aged 94 it could be read as symbolic of the story of modern China itself. Several years before Jung Chang's Wild Swans (1991) proved a sensation in the west, the work of another Chinese woman who suffered badly during the Cultural Revolution's years of turbulence had become the first bestseller in English about this period. ![]() ![]() The chapters are divided into seven divisions for the sake of this guide, with many branches in each component. Rae has the even chapters, whereas Ivan has the odd chapters. Spoon and Coyote will launch the book in Vancouver on April 9 at the Rio Theatre as part of the Verses Festival of Words. Each chapter of Gender Failure’s 36 chapters is written from the first-person perspectives of either Ivan or Rae. “I hope to reach other gender failures,” Coyote says, “and to use the book to continue the discussions and to learn from the folks who read it as well, about their own experiences within or out of the gender binary.” ![]() “The challenge was to represent the live element of the work on the page,” Coyote notes. It’s the positive response the pair got touring their live show of Gender Failure that prompted them to turn it into a book. Ivan frequently performs at high schools. Coyote is the author of six story collections and the award-winning novel Bow Grip, and is co-editor of Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme. Read millions of eBooks and audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. “So far, the response has been 100 percent positive and supportive.” Read Gender Failure by Ivan Coyote,Rae Spoon with a free trial. And then, with the book, I knew from many years of working with Arsenal Pulp Press that I would have complete creative control over my work in the Gender Failure manuscript,” Coyote says. ![]() ![]() “I decided to share my experiences when I realized that by writing and performing these stories live, I could control my words and how they were delivered. Coyote shares the decades-long thought process that led to that decision, the hoop-jumping required to get approved for health coverage, and the courage to publicly discuss such a private process now. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Fx great expectations![]() ![]() Entangled in Miss Havisham’s bitter web are memorable elements from the tale, including the decaying Satis House, clocks stopped at 20 minutes to nine, as well as the prison ship and manacles that led Magwitch to Pip, thus beginning the story of Dickens’ beloved Great Expectations. The newly released key art, true to FX and Steven Knight’s style, features one of literature’s most iconic characters, Miss Havisham ensnaring her pawns, Pip and Estella, in the headdress she still wears from her wedding that never was. ![]() Internationally, it will be available to stream on Star+ in Latin America and on Disney+ under the Star banner at a later date. Great Expectations is produced in association with the BBC, who will air the series in the UK. Disney’s FX and the BBC has released the trailer for the upcoming limited series, “Great Expectations”, which will premiere on Sunday, 26th March 2023 exclusively on Hulu in the U.S. ![]() |