Gingerbread by rachel cohn5/24/2023 ![]() Summer in the city is not what Cyd Charisse expects - and Cyd isn't what her newfound family expects, either. But when her incarceration proves too painful for the whole family, Cyd's parents decide to send her to New York to meet her biological father and his family, whom Cyd has always longed to know. Lucky for Cyd, she's always had Gingerbread, her childhood rag doll and confidante.Īfter Cyd tests her parents' permissiveness, she is grounded in Alcatraz (as Cyd calls her room) and forbidden to see Shrimp, her surfer boyfriend. ![]() I will be as wild as I wanna be."Īfter being kicked out of a fancy New England boarding school, Cyd Charisse is back home in San Francisco with her parents, Sid and Nancy, in a household that drives her crazy. ![]() "I have promised to be a model citizen daughter.I have confined my Shrimp time to making out with him in the Java the Hut supply closet and quick feels on the cold hard sand at the beach during our breaks, but enough is enough.Delia and I are planning a party at Wallace and Shrimp's house and I am spending the night whether Sid and Nancy notice or not. ![]()
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All the ugly and beautiful things book5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mom promised Leslie and me new toys, but we were so excited about meeting our cousin that we didn’t care. The day after that second phone call, Grandma visited, and argued with Mom behind closed doors about “reaping what you sow,” and “blood is thicker than water.” Grandma, my soft-in-the-middle, cookie-baking grandma shouted, “She’s family! If you won’t take her, I will!” Then Aunt Val got arrested for something Mom wouldn’t say, leaving no one to take care of Wavy. The first news she had was that Uncle Liam had been arrested for dealing drugs, and Aunt Val needed money. That was where Mom first started polishing The Tragic and Edifying Story of Wavonna Quinn.Īfter Wavy was born, Mom didn’t hear from Aunt Val for almost five years. Sometimes they talked about books, but mostly they gossiped. I learned all this from eavesdropping on Mom’s Tuesday night book club. If you ever consider playing Good Samaritan to a pregnant woman, think about cleaning that up. Nine months pregnant, Aunt Val hitchhiked to the next town for help. She was born in the backseat of a stranger’s car, because Uncle Liam and Aunt Val were homeless, driving through Texas when their old beat-up van broke down. Maybe on the way to the hospital, your parents’ respectable, middle-class car broke down. It seemed to me that could happen to anybody. My mother always started the story by saying, “Well, she was born in the backseat of a stranger’s car,” as though that explained why Wavy wasn’t normal. ![]() White fang first edition5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Upon its release, it was an immediate success worldwide, and became especially popular among younger readers. It is a companion novel (and a thematic mirror) to London's best-known work, The Call of the Wild, which is about a kidnapped, domesticated dog embracing his wild ancestry to survive and thrive in the wild. White Fang takes place in Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush and details White Fang's journey to domestication. The ranch was ultimately an economic failure, but it was during this period that London published some of his best-known works including White Fang (1906), The Iron Heel (1908), and Adventure (1911). ![]() Desirous that the ranch become a successful business enterprise, he continued to write purely as a commercial enterprise. Selmhardt $2.00 Jack London.” In 1905, London purchased a 1,000-acre ranch in Glen Ellen, Sonoma County, California, on the eastern slope of Sonoma Mountain. Dated June 29 1905, the check is paid to the order of “E. Accompanied by a rare Oakland Central Bank check signed by London. BAL notes that the cancel page occurs printed on either wove or on laid paper (the rest of the text sheets are all laid paper) but no priority or other significance. ![]() Frontispiece and 6 color plates by Charles Livingston Bull. Octavo, original pictorial cloth with white and gilt lettering. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 28 January 2015 641 Kindle Edition 000 Free with Kindle Unlimited membership Learn More Available instantly Or 7. Thornfax seems interested in Leo…but why? And does he have a connection to the mysterious Black Glove group that has London in its terrifying grasp? Trapped in a city under siege by terror attacks and gripped by opium fever, where doctors (including her brother-in-law) race to patent an injectable formula, Leo must search for truth in increasingly dangerous situations – but to do so, she must first find her voice. Sarah Lyons Fleming Narrator Julia Whelan Audible release date 21 April 2015 Language English Publisher Podium Audio ASIN B00VRXSVBE Version Unabridged Program Type Audiobook See all details Read & Listen Switch back and forth between reading the Kindle book and listening to Audible audiobook. All the Stars in the Sky: Until the End of the World, Book 3 by Sarah Lyons Fleming Sold by: Amazon Australia Services, Inc. Servants and ladies alike call her “Mad Miss Mimic” behind her back… and watch as she unintentionally scares off every potential suitor. ![]() But Leo has a crippling speech impediment that makes it difficult for her to speak but curiously allows her to mimic other people’s voices flawlessly. ![]() “Born into an affluent family, Leo outwardly seems like a typical daughter of English privilege in the 1870s: she lives with her wealthy married sister Christabel, and lacks for neither dresses nor trinkets. (YA) Fiction | Historical | Mystery | Romance ![]() Hons and rebels5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Both refused to testify in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Jessica married her second cousin Esmond Romilly, who was killed in World War II, and then American civil rights lawyer Robert Treuhaft, with whom she joined the Communist Party USA and worked closely in the Civil Rights Congress. Jessica Lucy " Decca" Treuhaft (née Freeman-Mitford, later Romilly 11 September 1917 – 23 July 1996) was an English author, one of the six aristocratic Mitford sisters noted for their sharply conflicting politics. David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale ![]() Promises to keep nan rossiter5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Along with her many contemporary fiction novels, she is the author/illustrator of several books for children, including RUGBY & ROSIE, winner of Nebraska's Golden Sower Award, and THE FO'C'SLE: Henry Beston's Outermost House. Nan is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and began her writing career in the world of children's books. Her novel, SUMMER DANCE, was the 2018 winner of the Nancy Pearl Award. ![]() Nan's books have been highly acclaimed by reviewers from Publisher's Weekly to Booklist. Compassionate, real, and funny, her books take readers on emotional journeys that often include heartbreak and joy, but also include threads of faith, a furry friend or two, and an uplifting ending. She draws from her own experiences to create authentic situations that mirror the trials and triumphs of life. New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Nan Rossiter loves to weave together stories about the complicated relationships to which all readers can relate - motherhood, sisterhood, friendship, marriage and romance. ![]() Miss Alaineus by Debra Frasier5/24/2023 ![]() Going’s manuscript, THIS IS THE PLANET WHERE I LIVE. Can you give us a bit of a run down of what your experience with this book has been from the start?ĭebra Frasier: In 2015, I agreed to illustrate the luminous, globally-unifying words of K.L. Going, I had the chance to talk to its illustrator, Debra Frasier, this very Earth Day, about her latest in a long line of books.īetsy Bird: Debra! Thank you so much for joining me on my blog today! Sometimes we say that a person has gone on a “journey” when they’ve made a book, but in your particular case I think the term applies far better than with most. ![]() Now, on the younger side, we’ve This Is the Planet Where I Live. Ziyue Chen, The Forest in the Sea: Seaweed Solutions to Planetary Problems by Anita Sanchez, and more. I’ve been impressed by a wide range of children’s books like Restoring: Prairie, Woods, and Pond: How a Small Trail Can Make a Big Difference by Laurie Lawlor, The Last Plastic Straw: A Plastic Problem and Finding Ways to Fix It by Dee Romito, ill. ![]() ![]() I’ve seen some interesting round-ups recently about children’s books with environmental bents. ![]() Battle royale 1 koushun takami5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() For this program, officially known as “Battle Experiment No. Instead, this government program forces the students to fight. Unfortunately for the class, this was not an educational program like they anticipated. ![]() We come to learn that Shuya’s class has been picked for the years “program”. Just before falling asleep, he sees an unknown man enter the bus. While his classmates begin to lose consciousness around him, Shuya fights to keep his eyes open. While initially we learn they are departing on a school field trip, things take a turn for the worst very quickly. ![]() The novel begins on a bus, following a high school Junior named Shuya Nanahara. In this action-packed thriller, author Koushun Takami will take you, the reader, on a gut wrenching ride that will leave you exhausted by its finish. If you enjoy stories that include themes of both loyalty and death, love and hate, and ultimately friendships and betrayal, then Battle Royale by Koushun Takami is a novel you will surely enjoy. ![]() Briar rose jane yolen summary5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The princess is placed in a traditional sexist role. Her character then lies there and waits for her prince to come to save her. ![]() One of the single actions the princess makes in the story is to touch a spindle, the one action she was not supposed to make, which causes her to fall into a 100-year long deep sleep. Through the Grimm’s use of indirect characterization, the readers perceive the princess as a character with no true aim. “She wanted to avenge herself for not having been invited… she cried out with a loud voice, ‘In the princess’s fifteenth year she shall prick herself with a spindle and fall over dead.’” The princess’s fate is controlled by external factors. The thirteenth wise woman goes to the celebration to curse the princess. The Grimm’s place emphasis on dinnerware as an arbitrary determiner of fate. However, there were only twelve golden plates and thirteen wise women. The king and queen host a celebration to which they invite the wise women in the kingdom so that they would be kindly disposed towards the princess. Throughout the tale, she continues to lack the gumption to alter her destiny, supporting the notion that her character does not have an aim. In the tale, her fate is determined before she is old enough to speak her first words. The princess in the Grimm’s tale is portrayed as an acquiescent main character and a passive heroine. ![]() Celine by Maegan Provan5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() When she starts to have visions of a second Night Touched named Celine, she immediately wants to find her, but here’s only one problem: Celine has been taken prisoner by the Slayers, a group of humans whose sole purpose is to wipe vampires from the face of the Earth. Harper is a Night Touch, a special breed of vampire, and she’s the only one – or so she thought. ![]() The vampires hearken back to the old days, when they were still creatures of the night who unapologetic-ally drank blood and kicked butt – when they need to. Twilight had it’s good points, but how many copy-cats does a person want to read? Thank goodness, Celine is NOT just another Twilight clone. Admittedly, it’s been awhile since I picked up a vampire book. ![]() |