![]() ![]() They make a plan to spend the holidays together at his family cabin to keep up the ruse. But after a betrayal the next morning and the loss of her job soon after, she finds herself adrift, alone, and desperate for money.įinding work at a local coffee shop, she’s just getting through the days-until Andrew, the shop’s landlord, proposes a shocking, drunken plan: a marriage of convenience that will give him his recent inheritance and alleviate Ellie’s financial woes and isolation. One year ago, recent Portland transplant Ellie Oliver had her dream job in animation and a Christmas Eve meet-cute with a woman at a bookstore that led her to fall in love over the course of a single night. The author of the “swoon-worthy debut” ( Harper’s Bazaar) The Charm Offensive returns with a festive romantic comedy about a woman who fakes an engagement with her landlord…only to fall for his sister. A Best New Holiday Romance by PopSugar, BuzzFeed, Refinery29, and more! ![]()
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![]() *“Shusterman and Elfman have crafted a plot more devious, characters far quirkier, climaxes (yes, there are two) more breathless, and a narration much, much funnier than recent mad-science offerings. ![]() "Brisk pacing, zany humor, and endearingly quirky characters.Shusterman and Elfman (co-authors of the Accelerati trilogy) deliver the goods in this entertaining science fiction romp, leaving readers eager for the next installment."- The Horn Book "The sharp humor is effective and terrific, but it is likely Noah himself, a protagonist so worth rooting for as a loyal, earnest, and innocent victim of an interplanetary war, that will likely have readers eagerly anticipating the sequel." - BCCB ![]() “Often-ludicrous scenarios and pop culture punch lines deliver surprises and laughs throughout, ramping up to a smash-bang ending.”- Publishers Weekly ![]() *"Readers who fasten their tusks on this opener won't want to let go until the next one swims by."- Booklist, starred review ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments A year down yonder![]() ![]() Day one in the new high school finds Mary Alice getting on the wrong side of the local bully, Mildred Burdick. ![]() Having no choice in the matter, Mary Alice arrives by train in September with her beloved cat Bootsie and prized Philco radio. Grandma's Hickory farming community could not be more different from Chicago if it tried, and the grandmother Mary Alice remembers from childhood is a no-nonsense country gal. Her brother, Joey Dowdel, joins the army while Mary Alice is less than thrilled with the arrangement. 15-year-old Mary Alice is sent downstate to live with Grandma Dowdel while her mother and father remain in Chicago. The year is 1938, and the Great Depression has hit the Dowdel family hard. It is a sequel to A Long Way from Chicago, which itself received a Newbery Honor. ![]() 144 pp (first edition, hardback)130 pp (2000)Ī Year Down Yonder is a novel by Richard Peck published in 2000 and won the Newbery Medal in 2001. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Wollstonecraft mary![]() ![]() The seven-volume The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, edited by Janet Todd and Marilyn Butler (Pickering, 1989), is the first edition containing all the known published writings. Revised editions of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and A Vindication of the Rights of Men and other collected works of Wollstonecraft are completed by Wollstonecraft scholars and published in single volumes. In 1974 Claire Tomalin publishes a substantial new biography The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1974) and wins the Whitbread First Book Prize. ![]() Vindication is republished, edited by Eleanor Louise Nicholes (Scholar’s, 1960) and Miriam Brody Kramnick for Pelican Classics (Penguin, 1972) and thereafter repeatedly republished under that series. Wollstonecraft’s work and intellectual contributions are reclaimed by historians during the second-wave feminist movement. Vindication is published within Everyman Classics making copies more readily available. The Times articulates the establishment view that the interest of her work is “mainly historical”. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is republished with an introduction by Fawcett (1891). ![]() Vindication: the rise of Wollstonecraft’s reputationĭetails of Wollstonecraft’s unorthodox personal life that emerge after her death in 1797 overshadow her literary output during the Victorian period.Īs women campaign for the vote, suffragist Millicent Garrett Fawcett argues for a reappraisal of Wollstonecraft. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments The band nicholas eames![]() Do not engage in hate speech, harassment, arguing in bad faith, sealioning, or general pot stirring. Rules Be KindĮvery interaction on the subreddit must be kind, respectful, and welcoming. 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For updated information regarding ongoing community features, please visit 'new' Reddit. ![]() Resource links will direct you to Wiki pages, which we are maintaining. ![]() Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with information about Book Clubs and AMAs as of October 2018. ![]() ![]() ![]() Features: To Afghanistan in Disguise - Part I - the story of a British officer's remarkable exploit - a journey, disguised as an Oriental, across a large part of India and finally into forbidden Afghanistan and beyond, living among the natives as one of themselves Two Wanderers in the Faroes - John Dickson's account of the wild nature and unsophisticated people - article with excellent photos "Grip" and I - Count Nils Cronstedt saved a doomed thoroughbred bull-terrier which proceeded to save him on several occasions during his stay in West Africa as Commander of H.M.S. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Edwards, Lionel De Walton, John Webb, Arch. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Nightbird by alice hoffman![]() ![]() Yes, the book comes as the book, ready for its audience. So when you get a story idea, you already know which audience you’ll be writing for? When I was a kid, even if my mother and I weren’t talking, we would be reading the same books at the same time. ![]() And I also wanted Nightbird to be a real mother-daughter book – a book mothers and daughters could share. With Nightbird, I wanted to write a book for my 10- or 11-year-old self. I write for different audiences because I’m always writing for myself at different points in my life. ![]() I believe that the best books are the ones you write for yourself. I never know why I write something for a certain age group. Why did you decide to write for this audience? You’ve written many novels for adults and teenagers, as well as several picture books, and your latest, Nightbird, is a middle-grade book. We recently spoke via telephone with the author, snowbound in her Boston home, and she talked about how being an “escapist reader” turned her into an “escapist writer.” Hoffman last spoke with PW in 2006, upon the publication of her YA novel Incantations. The prolific, award-winning author has written for a variety of audiences for more than 30 years, for adults as well as for children her latest book, Nightbird, laced with her signature magical realism, is for middle-grade readers and tells the story of 12-year-old Twig, whose family has lived under a witch’s curse for 200 years. ![]() ![]() As the continent edges closer to the brink of war, a charismatic British army captain enters her life, drawing her into an audacious gamble that could lead to happiness.or disaster. In 1912, Violet Schuyler Grant moved to Europe to study physics, and made a disastrous marriage to a philandering fellow scientist. ![]() But this is 1964, and the editor dismisses her.until a parcel lands on Vivian's Greenwich Village doorstep that starts a journey into the life of an aunt she never knew, who might give her just the story she's been waiting for. Fresh from college, irrepressible Vivian Schuyler defies her wealthy Fifth Avenue family to work at cut-throat Metropolitan magazine. ![]() From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wicked City: a story of love and intrigue that travels from Kennedy-era Manhattan to World War I Europe. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a book that I would recommend to anyone but would read by myself due to the emotions that can get caught from the novel and the personal emotions for certain people. ![]() ![]() The twist of Lexi liking certain boys (if you have read it then you know what I mean) is one of my favourite parts of the story as well as the Kiss *wink wink*. Russia is plotting a 'large-scale provocation' at Europes largest nuclear power station to delay Ukraines long-awaited spring counteroffensive, Kyivs defence ministry has said. In the story though, love and loyalty is still shown from the boys and Lexi, and shows the true meaning of friendship. Because Lexi is shown as a bad ass in this series, it is easy to realise when she actually cares or is truly broken, and this is shown in this book. In fact this whole series so far is still one of my favourites. Moving from town to town every few months never helped either. For years I've been struggling to survive the souls still roaming around. So.okay, I'm not your average 17-year-old girl. In my experience, a lot of series have an awesome first book but then a pretty disappointing second - for this one the second one wasn’t boring, and neither is this one. And push them away and, well, help them move on. As this is a series, you need to read the first and second book before this one but you won’t be disappointed. Brunnemer is the author of the Veil Diaries series, including the novels Trying to Live with the Dead and When the Dead Come a Knockin. It has huge trigger factors though, so if you don’t like that then this is definitely not a book you want to read. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Into the Wind by Shira Anthony![]() ![]() ![]() Marvel is finally starting to slow down, however, with merely six releases - three films, and three Disney+ series - inaugurating Phase 5 in 2023. That’s also dramatically accelerated the pace of Marvel’s storytelling: When the Multiverse Saga - which is currently set to span at least 37 titles across feature films and TV series (live-action and animation) - concludes in May 2026 with “Avengers: Secret Wars,” it will have spanned roughly half the time as the Infinity Saga. The abrupt explosion in Marvel content is a direct result of the launch of Disney+, of course, and the mandate to populate Disney’s streaming service with a regular pipeline of episodic TV series within the MCU. Then, over just two years, Marvel Studios released 17 movies and streaming titles in Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the first act what studio chief Kevin Feige has christened the Multiverse Saga. From 2008 to 2019, Marvel Studios released 23 feature films in the three phases of the Infinity Saga, the most ambitious cohesive storytelling endeavor ever mounted by a single studio. ![]() |