![]() ![]() This is Lane Whitt’s first book from what I can tell and she does a pretty good job of sucking in the reader and giving them a nice little emotional roller-coaster. (Ps feel free to send me a friend invite if we aren’t friends!) I finally found a book that combines two of my favorite things: werewolves and reverse harem. If you’re my friend on Goodreads you’ve probably seen all the books I’ve been gobbling up. ![]() ![]() Ok so, obviously I’m on a huge reverse harem kick. What will happen when she finds out the secrets they keep? They may be more connected than they all thought when secrets about Kitten begin to surface as well. When Kitten is at her lowest point and thinks she can’t carry on, she meets an extraordinary group of men who welcome her into their home and their hearts, showing her more kindness than she has ever known. Genre: Young Adult- Paranormal, Werewolves, Shifters, Romance, Thriller, New Adultĭescription: Abandoned as a baby and forced to grow up way too fast, Kitten has learned to live and survive by her own unique code. Title & Author: Finding My Pack by Lane Whitt ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World The whole scene was repeated every night for as long as the tulips were in bloom, for as long as Sultan Ahmed managed to cling to his throne.” ![]() At the appointed moment a cannon sounded, the doors to the harem were flung open, and the sultan's mistresses stepped into the garden led by eunuchs bearing torches. All the guests were required to dress in colors that flattered those of the tulips. ![]() Songbirds in gilded cages supplied the music, and hundreds of giant tortoises carrying candles on their backs lumbered through the gardens, further illuminating the display. In place of every fourth flower a candle, its wick trimmed to tulip height, was set into the ground. Each variety was marked with a label made from silver filigree. Most of the bulbs had been grown in place, but these were supplemented by thousands of cut stems held in glass bottles the scale of the display was further compounded by mirrors placed strategically around the garden. Tulips whose petals had flexed wide were held shut with fine threads hand-tied. ![]() “Each spring for a period of weeks the imperial gardens were filled with prize tulips (Turkish, Dutch, Iranian), all of them shown to their best advantage. ![]() ![]() In Breakout, a middle-grade novel for readers ages 9 to 14, Plattsburgh, N.Y., author Kate Messner has once again tackled a challenging subject with creativity, sensitivity and tact. Meanwhile, Wolf Creek's local market is inundated with national reporters, as well as inmates' out-of-town families who can't visit their loved ones, now under 24-hour lockdown.Īs the search for the escapees unfolds, Nora and her friends confront some difficult realities about race, white privilege and the previously invisible lives of the prison inmates. ![]() ![]() When Nora Tucker, a seventh grader at Wolf Creek Middle School, begins her summer vacation by compiling students' submissions to a community time-capsule project, she expects it'll be filled with essays about the usual summertime fare: swimming in the creek, marching in the Fourth of July parade and competing in the annual Mad Mile foot race.īut when two inmates escape from the town's maximum-security prison, where Nora's father works as superintendent, her previously quiet hometown turns into an armed fortress, besieged by search parties, police roadblocks and helicopters circling ominously overhead. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gloriously and lyrically written, Islandborn is a celebration of creativity, diversity, and our imagination's boundless ability to connect us - to our families, to our past, and to ourselves. From New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz comes a debut picture book about the magic of memory and the infinite power of the imagination.A 2019 Pura Belpré Honor Book for Illustration Every kid in Lolas school was from somewhere else. As she draws closer to the heart of her family's story, Lola comes to understand the truth of her abuela's words: "Just because you don't remember a place doesn't mean it's not in you." But with the help of her family and friends, and their memories - joyous, fantastical, heartbreaking, and frightening - Lola's imagination takes her on an extraordinary journey back to The Island. ![]() She can't remember The Island - she left when she was just a baby. So when Lola's teacher asks the students to draw a picture of where their families immigrated from, all the kids are excited. ![]() From New York Times best seller and Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz comes a debut audiobook about the magic of memory and the infinite power of the imagination.Ī 2019 Pura Belpré Honor Book for Illustration.Įvery kid in Lola's school was from somewhere else. ![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. The lives include the guardians that need to stand together before it is TOO LATE! ![]() A concern that her brother, Gargan, and others dedicated to her will put their lives on the line for. The queen, Phoenix, of the Sacred Island though has another concern that deals with her royalty first. With the help of his blood brother and Cousin Zach Preston he sets his goals on destroying the agency with the secret power. As we follow the story of Slade Wesley and his blood brother, Zach Preston, we discover that the predator dragon, a gorgeous female in human form, is only. As he accepts his guardian duties he learns of a secret island in the "devil's triangle." An island hidden from the Sanctum that hides magic that could destroy the agency, however to use this magic he must first learn how to get the creatures on the island on his side and that is through the queen. While on the run, he accepts his ancestor's given gift to him to become a guardian. Soon a feeling overtakes him and he leaves the assassins. ![]() He joined an elite assassin group called the Secret Sanctum to help dim the flames. Slade Wesley always hid the fire that burned deeply within him. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Though she’s all but forgotten today, Hannah Duston was probably the first American woman to be memorialized in a public monument, and this statue is one of three built in her honor between 18. Erected in 1874, the statue bears close resemblance to contemporary depictions of Columbia, the popular “goddess of liberty” and female allegorical symbol of the nation, except for what she holds in her hands: in one, a tomahawk in the other, a fistful of human scalps. On a small island north of Concord, New Hampshire, stands a 25-foot-tall granite statue of Hannah Duston, an English colonist taken captive by Native Americans in 1697, during King William’s War. ![]() ![]() ![]() I literally spent 319/323 pages reading about America's ever-changing feelings for Aspen and Maxon, which, by the way, was by far one of the most infuriating and unrealistic love triangles I have ever read about. Just a reminder, in case you're thinking about ripping me apart.* I don't like to bash books and insult the author, but I will say why I did give it such a low rating, in a hopefully non-rude way. Which, by the way, is extremely disappointing, considering that I really did like the first book. This was just one books of those books that was not my cup of tea. I spent a good hour thinking about a reason, any reason to rate it two, but I can't. ![]() So, you see my rating, and you're probably like, ONE STAR? And my answer is yes, one star. When someone else remembers some great story about me/us that I’ve forgotten. Not walking up but looking at a beautiful staircase. Spending an hour typing at a coffee shop. ![]() That my wedding dress was tea length, not floor. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nicholas grew up with the whole world watching, and now Marriage Watch is in full force. While they’ve traded in horse drawn carriages for Rolls Royces and haven’t chopped anyone’s head off lately―the royals are far from accepting of this commoner. There’s a disapproving queen, a wildly inappropriate spare heir, relentless paparazzi, and brutal public scrutiny. Nicholas wants to find out if she tastes as good as her pie, and this heir apparent is used to getting what he wants.ĭating a prince isn’t what waitress Olivia Hammond ever imagined it would be. Then, one snowy night in Manhattan, the prince meets a dark haired beauty who doesn’t bow down. ![]() Nicholas Arthur Frederick Edward Pembrook, Crowned Prince of Wessco, aka “His Royal Hotness,” is wickedly charming, devastatingly handsome, and unabashedly arrogant―hard not to be when people are constantly bowing down to you. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This unusual approach allows for a rich accounting of the multitude of forces at work in the novel, enabling her to determine as precisely as possible the events, beliefs, values, and cultural assumptions that inform it. In her ample, well-furnished response to Forster's masterpiece, Judith Scherer Herz combines a political and historical reading with one focusing on narrative technique. It is a colonial as well as a postcolonial text, a participant in both the realist and modernist traditions. It accommodates the workings of reason and the supernatural, the sensibilities of West and East, the experiences of conqueror and subject. It is at once political tract, personal memoir, philosophical meditation, comedy of manners, mystery, even ghost story. Forster's fifth and last novel, A Passage to India, rests in part on its agility. ![]() ![]() It is not about simply ‘getting over’ them it is about listening to what they are trying to tell us about our experience. ![]() Some of the emotions that are most strongly connected with self-sabotaging behaviors are actually important for us to better understand. Brianna Wiest Negative emotions=messengers. It’s going to cost you being liked and understood. It’s going to cost you relationships and friends. It’s going to cost you your comfort zone and your sense of direction. Your new life is going to cost you your old one. You cannot stay where you stand if you want change your perspective and life. Here are the deepest quotes from The Mountain Is You that will inspire you to confront the mountain and finally climb to your new life. In The Mountain Is You, Wiest tackles self-sabotage and how we can get out of our own ways. From 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think to Ceremony to When You’re Ready, This Is How You Heal, Wiest’s books have become cornerstone works in emotional intelligence, personal growth, spirituality, healing, and self-love. Over the past decade, author Brianna Wiest has inspired millions of readers around the world. ![]() |