![]() ![]() ![]() But as the days turn to weeks and their mother doesn’t return, they realize it’s up to them to find the truth. Promising that she knows someone who can help, her mother leaves Hannah and Gabe behind to find a cure. No roots, no family but one another, and no explanations.Īll that changes on Hannah’s seventeenth birthday when she wakes up transformed, a pair of golden eyes with knife-slit pupils blinking back at her from the mirror-the first of many such impossible mutations. Her mother has kept her and her brother, Gabe, on the road for as long as she can remember, leaving a trail of rental homes and faded relationships behind them. Hannah’s whole life has been spent in motion. ![]() Rebecca Podos, Lambda Award-winning author of Like Water, returns with a contemporary Jewish fantasy of enduring love, unfathomable loss, and the power of stories to hold us together when it seems that nothing else can. ![]()
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![]() ![]() For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a bookĪnd to carry with us the author’s best ideas. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a More via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become Memorable and interesting quotes from great books. Siren by Tricia Rayburn About BookQuotersīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, But The Wife Store was still on her shelf at home, if only to remind her that there were assholes in the world who would write such things, believe such things.” If Petey were keeping one of her lists of the things she hated, she wold have to add: the fact that there was no justice. ![]() Not because she liked it, but because she kept waiting for the story to change, kept waiting for the day she'd turn the page and a woman would get to the husband store. After that, the two of them went to the children store to buy a few kids. So he went to the wife store, where endless women lined enormous shelves. It was about a very lonely man who decided that he wanted to get married. “When she was little, someone gave her some weird book called The Wife Store. ![]() ![]() ![]() Everyone except Beth, who Coach quickly dethrones as captain and catapults off the top of the pyramid - both literally and figuratively. Coach Colette French is tough, bordering on sadistic - in one memorable scene, she pinches a squad member's midsection and decimates her with an icy "fix this" - but somehow manages to win everyone over. That all changes when a new coach arrives in town to whip the squad into shape and drive a wedge between the two girls. Beth is the manipulative queen bee, Addy her little minion. Roll Call: Beth, Addy, and Coachīeth Cassidy and Addy Hanlon are high-school cheerleaders and best friends. ![]() Read on, if you wanna know everything that goes down in the book, too. 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When his old colleague Jerry is shot dead in a parking lot, Mickey is surprised to learn Jerry has handed over the keys to his law practice (and all the subsequent cases he was working on) to him. The man in the driving seat of all this is Mickey Haller, a brilliant defence lawyer who has had a year off thanks to a bad accident and an addiction to pills. Adapting Michael Connelly’s Mickey Haller novels, The Lincoln Lawyer is an interesting production but gets bogged down with way too much going on in its 10 episodes and not enough care taken to flesh out the subplots along the way. Originally, this show was in development at CBS (with a different cast, mind) before shifting to Netflix. Now, this strange mix may not be quite so surprising when digging into the history of this production. It’s not, by the way, and as you reach episodes 3 and 4, it becomes clear that this has been designed to be binged. 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Carmen’s Habanera? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The setting, the story, the characters, the plot, the pacing of the story was perfect for me.įive stars!!!"-Sandee Quimbao, Random Ramblings" - Random Ramblings ""Gothic, dark and oh so good!"-Novia Chang, - Twitter Mention ![]() Leanna Renee Hieber takes you to a time and place where anything and everything is possible."-Colette chmiel, A Buckeye Girl Reads" - A Buckeye Girl Reads ""This is one of the most amazing Young Adult books I've read this year. I highly recommend Darker Still as a must read."-Debbie Wentlein, I Heart YA Books" - I Heart YA Books a masterpiece-twisted, dark, and chillingly possessive. "" Darker Still screamed eerie, spooky suspense from the first page and its claws dug into me and didn't let go. ""I highly recommend this book! It was just the right mix of paranormal and romance and I hope you all like it as much as I did!"-Sara Teitelman, Catching Books" - Catching Books This novel is chock-full of mystery, suspense and a most magical romance! I absolutely loved it and I absolutely recommend it."-Kristin Feliz, Growing Up YA" - Growing Up YA The book absorbed me within its first couple of pages. "" Darker Still was delightfully strange and charming. Her depiction of the dark magic involved and of the demon's murderous activities adds some good suspense. "Hieber applies some real imagination to the story. """Darker Still" is such a unique novel, in a very good way!"-Novia Chang, Truly Bookish" - Barnes & Noble Review ![]() ![]() ![]() OL491810W Page_number_confidence 95.64 Pages 346 Ppi 300 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0373483627 Sarah lingered over a picture of him lying on his back in the grass, wearing only a brief pair of denim shorts, holding Justin dangling over his head. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 13:13:57.042934 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA1144605 City Detroit DonorĪllen_county Edition Large Print Famous Authors ed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In his new book, “ Al Franken, Giant of the Senate,” Franken recalls his first Senate race, when, to his frustration, old jokes from his comedy career were resurfaced, out of context, by political opponents. Now he’s a second-term senator, still a progressive with unapologetically partisan views, but one eager to explain the new friendships he’s struck up with some of the most conservative members of the Senate, such as Pat Roberts, of Kansas, and Jeff Sessions, of Alabama, who is now the Attorney General and whose wife once knit a blanket for Franken’s grandson.įranken is also a member of a minority party facing a hostile and in many ways baffling new President. “No Joke: Franken Announces Senate Bid,” “No Joke: Franken Wins DFL Nomination,” “No Joke: Franken Wins Recount.” There were fewer “no joke” headlines in 2014, when he ran for, and easily won, reëlection. Senator Al Franken, of Minnesota, hates headlines that say “no joke.” He was subjected to a perhaps unprecedented run of them back when he was running for office for the first time, in 2008. ![]() ![]() Kelsea will need them all to survive a cabal of enemies who will use every weapon - from crimson-caped assassins to the darkest blood magic - to prevent her from wearing the crown.ĭespite her royal blood, Kelsea feels like nothing so much as an insecure girl, a child called upon to lead a people and a kingdom about which she knows almost nothing. But though she may be inexperienced and sheltered, Kelsea is not defenseless: Around her neck hangs the Tearling sapphire, a jewel of immense magical power and accompanying her is the Queen’s Guard, a cadre of brave knights led by the enigmatic and dedicated Lazarus. Plain and serious, a girl who loves books and learning, Kelsea bears little resemblance to her mother, the vain and frivolous Queen Elyssa. ![]() On her 19th birthday, Princess Kelsea Raleigh Glynn, raised in exile, sets out on a perilous journey back to the castle of her birth to ascend her rightful throne. Magic, adventure, mystery, and romance combine in this epic debut in which a young princess must reclaim her dead mother’s throne, learn to be a ruler - and defeat the Red Queen, a powerful and malevolent sorceress determined to destroy her. ![]() |