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![]() ![]() Getting tangled up with a shallow jerk is the last thing Francesca needs right now, so she vows to keep Tuck from recognizing her (not that she’s his type anyway).īut fate has a teeny-tiny trick up her sleeve…a plus sign on a pregnancy test. His hobbies include parties and supermodels-or so the tabloids say. ![]() Unfortunately, Francesca realizes quickly that her masked prince is the wealthy jock who lives in the penthouse of her apartment building. For one night, Francesca and Tuck indulge in a wickedly incognito affair. ![]() There, she meets unknown-to-her NFL star Tuck Avery, dressed as a prince and hiding behind a mask-he’s there to celebrate his birthday. But when her fiancé betrays her, she puts on her wedding dress and ditches the altar for a masquerade ball-at an exclusive lifestyle club. Levelheaded Francesca Lane never thought she’d miss her own wedding. Princess and the Player, an all-new sexy, surprise pregnancy sports romance featuring a meet cute at a masquerade ball from Wall Street Journal bestselling author Ilsa Madden-Mills, is out now!Ī masquerade ball brings together an NFL player and a penniless princess in this smart and sexy romance from Wall Street Journal bestselling author Ilsa Madden-Mills. ![]() Returning readers will be pleased.” - Publishers Weekly “The couple has chemistry to spare and Madden-Mills packs in the feels. Princess and the Player by Ilsa Madden-Mills ![]() ![]() ![]() On an island where the spirits of the dead are part of life and the afterworld reunites you with your family, suicide offers Tamiko the promise of peace. In l945, Tamiko has lost everyone-the older sister she idolized and her entire family-and finds herself trapped between the occupying Japanese and the invading Americans whom she has been taught are demons that live to rape. Unmoored by her death, unable to lean on her mother, Luz contemplates taking her own life. Luz's older sister, her best friend and emotional center, has died in the Afghan war. Air Force brat, lives with her no-nonsense sergeant mother at Kadena Air Base. ![]() Set on the island of Okinawa today and during World War II, this deeply moving and evocative novel tells the entwined stories of two teenage girls-an American and an Okinawan-whose lives are connected across 70 years by the shared experience of both profound loss and renewal. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The difference is that while Lord of the Flies‘ surface story is quite interesting to follow, The Inheritors is a semi-experimental work of fiction which is very focused on the physical, of living Lok’s day-to-day experience as a sequence of actions, with a limited capacity for remembering the past or imagining the future. So as with Lord of the Flies, The Inheritors is an allegorical story about humankind’s deeper brutality. They aren’t very bright and seem to communicate through a form of low-grade telepathy, sharing “pictures.” Their simple and relatively happy way of life is thrown into turmoil when some of their number start disappearing, and they realise that their local area has a new group of people in it – not Neanderthals, but much smarter and more ruthless homo sapiens. The popular image of Neanderthals (or any cavemen) is as thuggish brutes, but Golding depicts them as sweet-natured and pacifistic they gather but don’t hunt, and though at one point they scavenge meat from a sabre-toothed tiger’s fresh kill they feel very guilty about it. ![]() Nonetheless, we have a story told from the point of view of Lok, a member of “the people,” who are evidently a small family of Neanderthals somewhere in the paleolithic era. The quote at the beginning makes it clear that this is a book about Neanderthals, which is a shame, because it would be a more interesting book if the reader was left to figure that out themselves. ![]() The Inheritors by William Golding (1955) 271 p. ![]() ![]() The first-person narration is very blunt and dry, with a lot more telling than showing I was disgusted rather than actually showing or conveying that disgust. So I have read the first third, rather than the first fifth, and I was not impressed. ![]() I seem to break that rule a lot, though, and I broke it here I pushed to 33% before I called it quits. ![]() If I read the first fifth of a story and don’t care about where it’s going, it’s a DNF. If you’ve followed this blog for a while, you know my rule 20% is my cut-off point for a book. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. ![]() But the secret behind that success is anything but holy. ![]() Nestled high up in the mountains is Camp Damascus, the self-proclaimed “most effective” gay conversion camp in the country. Welcome to Neverton, Montana: home to a God-fearing community with a heart of gold. From beloved internet icon Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus is a searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price of keeping secrets, and finding the courage to burn it all down. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As she’s a self-proclaimed dystopian addict and one of my favorite kindred book spirits, I knew I had to give this series a second look. I had this book lined up next on my reading list until a couple of negative reviews surfaced… and then it got moved to the back-burner. Several months later, Tara, The Librarian Who Doesn’t Say Shhhh! gave it a promising review and included it in her top ten books of 2013 list. To survive, Cia must choose: love without truth or life without trust. ![]() But on the eve of her departure, her father’s advice hints at a darker side to her upcoming studies–trust no one. But surely she can trust Tomas, her handsome childhood friend who offers an alliance? Tomas, who seems to care more about her with the passing of every grueling (and deadly) day of the Testing. ![]() But to enter this elite group, candidates must first pass The Testing-their one chance at a college education and a rewarding career.Ĭia Vale is honored to be chosen as a Testing candidate eager to prove her worthiness as a University student and future leader of the United Commonwealth. The future belongs to the next generation’s chosen few who must rebuild it. Isn’t that what they say? But how close is too close when they may be one in the same? The Seven Stages War left much of the planet a charred wasteland. The Overview: Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ![]() ![]() Only she can save the Medorans, but what if doing so prevents her from ever returning home? She soon starts to enjoy her bizarre new world and the friends who embrace her as one of their own, but strange things are happening at Akarnae, and Alex can’t ignore her fear that something unexpected… something sinister… is looming.Īn unwilling pawn in a deadly game, Alex’s shoulders bear the crushing weight of an entire race’s survival. While waiting for him to reappear, Alex attends Akarnae Academy, Medora’s boarding school for teenagers with extraordinary gifts. ![]() With just one step, sixteen-year-old Alexandra Jennings’ world changes – literally.ĭreading her first day at a new school, Alex is stunned when she walks through a doorway and finds herself stranded in Medora, a fantasy world full of impossibilities.ĭesperate to return home, she learns that only a man named Professor Marselle can help her… but he’s missing. ![]() ![]() Fragments from other plays have survived in quotations, and more continue to be discovered on Egyptian papyri. ![]() ![]() There is a long-standing debate regarding the authorship of one of them, Prometheus Bound, with some scholars arguing that it may be the work of his son Euphorion. Only seven of his estimated seventy to ninety plays have survived. Formerly, characters interacted only with the chorus. According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of characters in the theatre and allowed conflict among them. Academic knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier Greek tragedy is largely based on inferences made from reading his surviving plays. 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian, and is often described as the father of tragedy. Aeschylus ( UK: / ˈ iː s k ɪ l ə s/, US: / ˈ ɛ s k ɪ l ə s/ Greek: Αἰσχύλος Aiskhýlos c. ![]() ![]() ![]() FairfaxĪ Guidebook to Virginia's Historical Markers - Virginia Dept. BrunsĪ Guidebook to Virginia's African American Historical Markers - originally published by Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Edited and translated by Craig Koslofsky and Roberto ZauggĪ Guide to Documentary Editing - Mary-Jo Kline and Susan Holbrook Perdue. 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"Esteemed Bookes of Lawe" and the Legal Culture of Early Virginia - Edited by Warren M. "Beyond Our Wildest Dreams" - Ineke van Kessel ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Dark and uncover his evil intentions, making themselves a very powerful enemy in the process. One evening, the two boys witness the carnival's carousel change someone's age, and it becomes apparent that a sinister menace lurks behind all the bells and whistles. ![]() Dark and his acolytes, a man covered in tattoos, a menacing dwarf and a blind gypsy witch. One day, on midnight, a carnival suddenly arrives into town, run by Mr. Despite the former being innocent and naive and the latter more knowledgeable and darker in his thoughts, the two boys have been inseparable friends for as long as they have existed. The story begins as we are introduced to two boys, Will Holloway and Jim Nightshade, born just seconds apart, one of them on Halloween's eve and the other on the day of the celebration. Nostalgia is a feeling that comes us over every single one of us at some point or another, whether we're simply lost in the carefree days of our childhood or just daydreaming of a time when things were better.įor the most part, we can only experience that feeling in relation to our own past after all, how can one feel nostalgic for something they never had? Nevertheless, that's exactly what Ray Bradbury does to us in his classic novel Something Wicked This Way Comes: he makes us yearn for a time and a life we've never lived. ![]() |