![]() ![]() Craig’s reimagining of the Twelve Dancing Princesses fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. House of Salt and Sorrows is author Erin A. However, Annaleigh’s not buying the gossip that her family’s cursed, and she sets out on a mission to prove her family’s targeted for murder in this sweeping, magical, and enchanting fantasy novel. Pretty soon, the remaining Thaumas sisters are nervously eyeing each other up, wondering who’s going down for the count next. ![]() The more you read, the more you’re like, Sheesh, hasn’t this family been through enough?ĭespite having more money than Pontus, the one thing they don’t have is the ability to keep their women out of harm’s way: in the past few years, Annaleigh Thaumas has lost her mother and four - four! - sisters. House of Salt and Sorrows is aptly named: there’s a heck of a lot of Salt, and there’s way more sorrow than necessary plaguing the Thaumas family. ![]()
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![]() “In this retelling of Persuasion we are given a real treat. Historical Novels Review (Editor’s Choice) “Amanda Grange has taken on the challenge of reworking a much-loved romance and succeeds brilliantly.” “A sympathetic portrait of a young man struggling with the difficult choices that life throws at us all.” ![]() Pure fun, with the story told in a diary format that makes the reader feel like she’s taking a peek into Edmund’s innermost thoughts. “Once again, Amanda Grange has provided a highly entertaining retelling of a classic Jane Austen novel, as seen through the hero’s eyes. “Amanda Grange has hit upon a winning formula and retells the familiar story with great verve.” ![]() As always, Grange is one of the most gifted writers in the Austen subgenre, giving us a touching inside story that is hard to put down.” “In her fifth novel in the Austen Heroes series, Amanda Grange has actually succeeded in improving upon Austen’s character Colonel Brandon. ![]() Elopements! Duels! Adultery! Love children! This is Jane Austen? the skeptic might ask we reply, it sure is! It’s all in Sense and Sensibility, cunningly hidden in the backstory, but Amanda Grange has brought this dramatic tale to full life in the best book yet in her series of heroes’ diaries.” “The hero of Colonel Brandon’s Diary has more tragedy and romance in his life than any three or four bodice-ripping Regency rakes. ![]() ![]() ![]() For years, this football program has brought glory to Algiers, winning three consecutive state championships and sending dozens of young men to college on football scholarships.Īlthough he is preparing for a fourth title, head coach Brice Brown is focused on something else: keeping his players alive. An epidemic of gun violence plagues New Orleans and its surrounding communities and has claimed many innocent lives, including Brown’s former star quarterback, Tollette “Tonka” George, shot near a local gas station. ![]() In Across the River, award-winning sports journalist Kent Babb follows the Karr football team through its 2019 season as Brown and his team-perhaps the scrappiest and most rebellious group in the program’s history-vie to again succeed on and off the field. ![]() ![]() ![]() Challenging and comical, the problems are perfectly matched with the witty surrealist tone of the Wayside School stories. At Wayside School, Elf plus Elf equals Fool, and Moth plus Took equals Hmmmm. Louis Sachar has since written two more novels about the Wayside School, Wayside School Is Falling Down (1989) and Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger (1995), as well as Sideways Arithmetic from the Way side School (1989) and More Sideways Arithmetic from the Wayside School (1994)> in which Sachar’s characters present his own unusual brand of mathematical puzzles. ![]() For the next six years Louis Sachar wrote children’s books while studying and later practicing law, until his books finally earned enough money for him to give up his law career, The book was accepted for publication the same week Sachar began law school. It is full of intelligent, offbeat humor and kids who are familiar and yet a bit unreal. ![]() The book contains thirty stories about a thirty-story school. He was inspired to write classroom stories while working as a teacher s aide to earn college credits after dropping a Russian class. 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I felt like I was in the story watching and holding my breath the entire time' 5***** Reader Review THE DARK FANTASY TIKTOK SENSATION AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THAT'S SOLD OVER A MILLION COPIES ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Each book is a standalone, full length (110k words), contemporary romantic comedy novel, and follows the misadventures and exploits of seven friends in Chicago, all members of the same knitting group. But when Elizabeth’s plans for benefits without friendship are disarmed by the irritatingly charismatic and chauvinistic Nico Manganiello-her former nemesis-she finds herself struggling to maintain the electric fence around her heart while avoiding a Nico charisma-electrocution or, worse, falling in love.įriends Without Benefits is book #2 in the Knitting in the City series. 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Taking readers from ancient Rome to today, Helena Rosenblatt traces the evolution of the words “liberal” and “liberalism,” revealing the heated debates that have taken place over their meaning. The Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a political creed that has become a rallying cry-and a term of derision-in today’s increasingly divided public square. The changing face of the liberal creed from the ancient world to today ![]() ![]() ![]() It is plain to see why the colored episodes immediately caught the reader’s attention with their surreal ideas, art deco environments and bright colors in newspaper size when they were published in the early years of the last century.Ĭompared to other comics of the time, Little Nemo enjoyed the luxurious color full page space of the Sunday editions, while most other comics were limited to just a black-and-white strip (or a tier) of a few single pictures in the ordinary daily editions. So what you get in this edition is the complete Little Nemo in Slumberland (27) as well as Little Nemo in the Land of Wonderful Dreams (1911-1914), when McCay was under contract from another newspaper. Who, w hile asleep, imagines and dreams his way through various scenarios on different planets, while he encounters the strangest of all creatures, friends, machines and antagonists. ![]() Winsor McCay’s inventions of perspective, his psychedelic and fantastic renderings of breath-taking strange environments are presented here for the first time ever in the complete edition containing every (really every!) 549 episodes of Little Nemo. Not just comic art fans but any student of popular culture or architecture will be delighted by this edition. ![]() |