![]() ![]() Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why? But after so long apart and so many changes, will they find the courage to meet again, face to face?įearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Americanah is a richly told story of love and expectation set in today’s globalised world. ![]() Thirteen years later, Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria, while Ifemelu has achieved success as a blogger. Obinze had hoped to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. ![]() There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. Shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2014.įrom the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a powerful story of love, race and identity.Īs teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Tiffany made me laugh sometimes, and I really just wanted to smack Eric, but then again so did people in the book. ] As for side characters, they worked for the story. ![]() I really felt for Meg, but I also felt for John (another surprise twist, although I guessed that part.) He overall was a nice character as well, Makes me want to find myself a copper. ![]() (which doesn’t happen often) I love that she had blue hair, why? I have no idea. Meg’s angst is really explained towards the end of the book and I was surprised. The cover looked like other Young Adult contemporary novels, but I did enjoy this novel. My first book by Jennifer Echols, I enjoyed it more than I expected. ![]() And when he pushes back, demanding to know why she won’t be tied down, they will drive each other to the edge - and over….” But Meg pushes him to the limit by questioning everything he learned at the police academy. He has nothing but contempt for what he sees as childish rebellion, and he wants to teach Meg a lesson she won’t soon forget. But one crazy evening involving a dare and forbidden railroad tracks, she goes way too far…and almost doesn’t make it back. Away from her parents who seem determined to keep her imprisoned in their dead-end lives. Published March 17th 2009 by Pocket Books/MTV BooksĪll Meg has ever wanted is to get away. ![]() ![]() ![]() Welp.įorbidden is the extremely melodramatic story of Lochan and Maya, teenage children of a single mother, and siblings of several other children who they're increasingly responsible for. At least, it seems that way! As a huge fan of Flowers in the Attic, I decided that I could definitely handle the subject matter and that I'd probably love this too. As the novel careens toward an explosive and shocking finale, only one thing is certain: a love this devastating has no happy ending.Įveryone has told me to read Forbidden over the past few years. And yet, they cannot stop what feels so incredibly right. They know their relationship is wrong and cannot possibly continue. Their clandestine romance quickly blooms into deep, desperate love. So close, in fact, that they have fallen in love. And the stress of their lives-and the way they understand each other so completely-has also brought them closer than two siblings would ordinarily be. As defacto parents to the little ones, Lochan and Maya have had to grow up fast. Together they have stepped in for their alcoholic, wayward mother to take care of their three younger siblings. ![]() ![]() Seventeen-year-old Lochan and sixteen-year-old Maya have always felt more like friends than siblings. He is seventeen gorgeous and on the brink of a bright future. She is pretty and talented - sweet sixteen and never been kissed. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2007, a short blogpost on Valleywag, the Silicon Valley-vertical of Gawker Media, outed PayPal founder and billionaire investor Peter Thiel as gay. You can read this before Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.Īn NPR Book Concierge Best Book of 2018! A stunning story about how power works in the modern age–the book the New York Times called “one helluva page-turner” and The Sunday Times of London celebrated as “riveting…an astonishing modern media conspiracy that is a fantastic read.” Pick up the book everyone is talking about. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue written by Ryan Holiday which was published in. ![]() Brief Summary of Book: Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue by Ryan Holiday ![]() ![]() ![]() Enjoy!įor this episode we had the pleasure of a chat with the lovely K. Enjoy!įor this episode we had the pleasure to talk to dystopian sci-fi author Anne Joyce about her book "Arid", the appeal of sci-fi, creating dystopian landscapes and how the appeal of the dark, doom and gloom comes from real life experience. You can do so here:įeedback is always welcome: English Country Garden by Aaron Kennyįor this episode we had the pleasure to talk to Robert Creekmore about his first two books in the Prophet's trilogy, about dangerous cults, American politics, how to fight for what is right, your life and your love and a lot more. If you like what we do, you might consider buying us a coffee. In episode 100 we celebrated with six lovely ladies! We heard excerpts from their books, spoke about the impact of war, the question of class differences, writing to evoke emotions and a lot more! Enjoy! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thankfully, Blue Bunny makes sharing easy! Keep the good times rolling this summer with signature Bunny Tracks ice cream, classic Simply Vanilla ice cream sandwiches or irresistibly fun Mini Swirls. This story has a surprising ending, and sparked some great discussion in our family. ![]() ![]() I love that the book shows Gerald the Elephant’s very relatable thought process as he analyzes, rationalizes, and justifies different scenarios in his decision to share (or not to share!) his ice cream with his best friend, Piggie. Should I Share My Ice Cream? is about the (sometimes difficult) decision to share with someone else. From a reading-teacher perspective, these books are perfect for teaching the comprehension strategy of inferring feelings. The stories are simple in dialog and illustration, but have a way of sucking them in with the silly characters’ animated facial expressions. My kids love his books too, especially the ones about Elephant and Piggie. Opinions are my own.ĭo have a favorite children’s author you cling to, collecting everything he/she writes? ![]() ![]() Leaders were arrested, and Chief Sitting Bull was killed during an attempt to apprehend him. Confined to reservations, they had increasingly turned to the teachings of a self-proclaimed messiah, who advocated the mystic powers of the ghost dance. Trouble among the Sioux had been brewing for months. ![]() It concludes with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee, in South Dakota, the confrontation that brought the so-called Indian wars to a bloody close after the 7th US Cavalry disarmed and slaughtered 300 Sioux, including women and children. ![]() Much of the material in the book's 446 pages derived from accounts by native American interpreters who had attended treaty sessions, tribal councils, meetings with US army officers and other proceedings, including eye-witness accounts of battles. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Super-Infinite, Katherine Rundell embarks on a fleet-footed act of evangelism, showing us the many sides of Donne’s extraordinary life, his obsessions, his blazing words, and his tempestuous Elizabethan times-unveiling Donne as the most remarkable mind and as a lesson in living. He was a man who suffered from surges of misery, yet expressed in his verse many breathtaking impressions of electric joy and love. He converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for marrying a sixteen-year-old girl without her father’s consent, struggled to feed a family of ten children, and was often ill and in pain. ![]() He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, a priest, a member of Parliament-and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. ![]() Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Times Literary Supplement, and Literary Hubįrom the standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death. ![]() Winner of the 2022 Slightly Foxed Best First Biography PrizeĪ Wall Street Journal Top 10 Best Book of 2022Ī New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction ![]() ![]() ![]() A suspenseful story of unexpected connections between present and past. ![]() Reading Level: 4.8 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 4.0įrom ghost story master Mary Downing Hahn, the haunting tale of a mysterious doll discovered in a young girl's garden, and its owner, a girl from seventy years in the past, who wants it back. Physical Information: 0.36" H x 6.6" W x 7.64" (0.30 lbs) 144 pagesįeatures: Ikids, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents Juvenile Fiction | Toys, Dolls & Puppets Juvenile Fiction | Mysteries, Espionage, & Detective Stories ![]() After Ashley and Kristi find an antique doll buried in old Miss Cooper's garden, they discover that they can enter a ghostly turn-of-the-century world by going through a hole in the hedge. WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guaranteeīinding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & EditionsĪnnotation: This award-winning novel is now available in paperback. Contributor(s): Hahn, Mary Downing (Author) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He wrote over 500 books, pamphlets and journals across a range of subjects, and helped popularize the English novel.īorn in 1660, Defoe witnessed significant historical events in England early in his life: the Great Plague of London, in which 70,000 people died in 1665, the Great Fire of London in which all but Defoe's and two other homes were left standing in his neighborhood, and an attack by a Dutch fleet on the City of Chatham near the River Thames. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, which may have been the first modern novel in English (publishing industry hadn't been invented yet). Pen Name: Born: SeptemDied: April 24, 1731ĭaniel Defoe (1660-1731) had an eclectic range of professions: English trader, pamphleteer, spy, and pioneer of economic journalism, before he became an author. ![]() |