![]() Told in verse from the alternating perspectives of Hannah and Cal, this is a story of two cousins who are more alike than they realize and the family they both want to save. For the most part, Hannah's life is just how she wants it. ![]() Humor and stories might be his defense mechanism, but if Cal doesn't let his walls down soon, he might push away the very people who are trying their best to love him. 1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins's poignant middle grade novel in verse about coming to terms with indelible truths of family and belonging. She knows that Cal went through a lot after his mom died and she is trying to be patient, but most days Hannah just wishes Cal never moved in.įor his part, Cal is trying his hardest to fit in, but not everyone is as appreciative of his unique sense of humor and storytelling gifts as he is. Cal tells half-truths and tall tales, pranks Hannah constantly, and seems to be the reason her parents are fighting more and more. But when her cousin Cal moves in with her family, everything changes. She has two supportive parents, she's popular at school, and she's been killing it at gymnastics. ![]() ![]() #1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins's poignant middle grade novel in verse about coming to terms with indelible truths of family and belonging.įor the most part, Hannah's life is just how she wants it. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() "The plot line, conveyed with just a few sentences, is simple enough, but the dramatic illustrations illuminate the story.Not all young readers will have experienced a blackout, but this engaging snapshot could easily have them wishing for one." This story will make a feel-good impression on budding comic book/superhero fans." "Bold, colorful pen-and-ink illustrations burst with power from each spread in comic-book style. "With a light, humorous touch, Rocco reveals that sometimes the Kryptonite is all in your head." Praise for Super Hair-o and the Barber of Doom This book about the wonder of a winter storm is as delicious as a mug of hot cocoa by the fire on a snowy day. ![]() John uses an increasing amount of white space in his playful images, which include a gatefold spread of the boy's expedition to the store. In between the boy watches his familiar landscape transform into something alien, and readers watch him transform into a hero who puts the needs of others first. ![]() It ends with the neighborhood’s immense relief upon seeing the first snowplow break through on their street. Told with a brief text and dynamic illustrations, the book opens with a boy’s excitement upon seeing the first snowflake fall outside his classroom window. Blizzard is based on John Rocco's childhood experience during the now infamous Blizzard of 1978, which brought fifty-three inches of snow to his town in Rhode Island. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He had to earn her trust but, honestly, she also had very few options as the person who wanted Evie to be his ‘Sweet Sixteen’ was well connected and had all the resources needed to find her. I liked that Evie’s character did not just swoon and let Nick swoop in and play her knight in shining armor. Evie and Nick were both great characters who were interesting and memorable. The pacing of this story is just perfect for a romantic suspense. Nick was a man who had dealt with corrupt people before and he would do everything he could to see that Evie was not captured again. Luckily, karma was on her side in the form of Nick Franklin. After she managed to escape a house of horrors, Evie was on the run for her life and she did not know where to turn or who to trust. The opening scene from The Girl Who Got Away absolutely had me glued to the pages! It was straight out of a nightmare but Evie Longfellow managed to keep her wits about her and she turned what would have been a death sentence into a situation that had some hope. ![]() ![]() The series includes eight books each sharing the love story of a Bridgerton child. Lately I am in to all of the beautiful books.Īny product sales links are affiliate links and if you make a purchase I might receive a small commission. I just wanted to share how beautiful these books are. Now, I haven’t read them all yet but I am looking forward to doing so as the year goes on. ![]() I bought the Bridgerton Collection and the balance of the books in the series arrived recently. To sum up, it’s a fun way to read! In addition to receiving a new book you also get gifts to open while you read.Īs you enjoy the tale you will find notes within that instruct you to “open your gift.” It will be something that is happening in the story at the time and it does make reading fun. I have written about Once Upon a Book Club before – you can read my review here. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the bitter aftermath of a terrible, bloody war, as a divided nation tries to come together once again, Madge, Sadie, and Hemp will be caught up in a desperate, unexpected battle for survival in a community desperate to lay the pain of the past to rest.īeautiful in its historical atmosphere and emotional depth, Balm is a stirring novel of love, loss, hope, and reconciliation set during one of the most critical periods in American history. ![]() But redemption cannot be possible until he is reunited with those taken from him. Searching for his missing family, Hemp arrives in this northern city that shimmers with possibility. Sadie can commune with the dead, but until she makes peace with her father, she, too, cannot fully engage her gift. To mend herself and help those in need, she must return to Tennessee to face the women healers who rejected her as a child. ![]() The Civil War has ended, and Madge, Sadie, and Hemp have each come to Chicago in search of a new life.īorn with magical hands, Madge has the power to discern others’ suffering, but she cannot heal her own damaged heart. The New York Times bestselling author of Wench returns to the Civil War era to explore the next chapter of history-the trauma of the War and the end of slavery-in this powerful story of love and healing about three people who struggle to overcome the pain of the past and define their own future. ![]() ![]() His investigation brings him into conflict with Jimmy, who finds his old criminal impulses tempt him to solve the crime with brutal justice. When Jimmy’s daughter is found murdered, Sean is assigned to the case. And Dave is trying to hold his marriage together and keep his demons at bay -demons that urge him to do terrible things. Jimmy is an ex-con who owns a corner store. Twenty-five years later, Sean is a homicide detective. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened-something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever. But then a strange car pulled up to their street. ![]() When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. This New York Times bestseller from Dennis Lehane is a gripping, unnerving psychological thriller about the effects of a savage killing on three former friends in a tightly knit, blue-collar Boston neighborhood. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jamie has friends among the Regulators and isn't unsympathetic to their cause, but as a landowner, he has little choice but to comply with the governor's orders. Rumblings of discontent are already simmering in the colony of North Carolina, and the governor has called upon Jamie to muster a militia unit to go after the Regulators whom the governor views as troublemakers. Life is relatively quiet, but with their knowledge of the future, Claire, Brianna, and Roger are increasingly aware of the impending Revolutionary War, which is only a few years away. Their daughter, Brianna, finally marries the love of her life, Roger, and they too settle in next-door to raise their baby son, Jemmy. Jamie has gathered many of his old friends around him as their tenants, and as such, he's once again taken up the leadership role to which he was born. ![]() Jamie and Claire have comfortably settled into life in their big new house on Fraser's Ridge. 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So I was super excited to get my hands on her latest novel (I am yet to read the third and final book of Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series yet) and I finally did!īut…this wasn’t as great as Good Girl’s Guide to Murder but it was good. Buried secrets are forced to light in the cramped, claustrophobic setting of the RV, and tensions within the group will reach deadly levels. One of the group has a secret that the sniper is willing to kill for.Ī game of cat-and-mouse plays out as the group desperately tries to get help and to work out which member of the group is the target. There’s a sniper out there in the dark watching them and he knows exactly who they are. And as the wheels are shot out, one by one, the friends realise that this is no accident. There’s no mobile phone reception and nobody around to help. ![]() Until the RV breaks down in the middle of nowhere. The brand new unmissable crime thriller from Holly Jackson, best-selling, award-winning author of the Good Girl’s Guide to Murder trilogy.Įighteen year old Red and her friends are on a road trip in an RV, heading to the beach for Spring Break. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Billy, true to his nature, performs his duties as foretopman cheerfully as a member. ![]() With no perceptible trace of the vainglorious about him, rather with the off-hand unaffectedness of natural regality, he seemed to accept the spontaneous homage of his shipmate. Billy Budd, Sailor, a classic confrontation between good and evil. That signal object was the “Handsome Sailor” of the less prosaic time alike of the military and merchant navies. In certain instances they would flank, or, like a body-guard quite surround some superior figure of their own class, moving along with them like Aldebaran among the lesser lights of his constellation. IN THE time before steamships, or then more frequently than now, a stroller along the docks of any considerable sea-port would occasionally have his attention arrested by a group of bronzed mariners, man-of-war's men or merchant-sailors in holiday attire ashore on liberty. Billy Budd, Foretopman: Re-reading Desire Serena Demichelis Abstract Herman Melville’s Billy Budd is hostile to interpretation (Kelley 2008): ambiguous, posthumous and possibly incomplete, it has left criticism at odds its symbolisms and allegories sending out messages at times coherent, at times deeply contradictory. ![]() |