![]() ![]() ![]() And only Naema can discover the true purpose of her power, and how to use it.Ī Chorus Rises is a timely confrontation of the evolving nature of popularity in a society that chooses "exceptions" and rewards "model minorities."Ī Chorus Rises is a timely confrontation of the evolving nature of popularity in a society that chooses "exceptions" and rewards "model minorities. But when her online advocates start targeting other Black girls, Naema will realize that - for Black girls like her - even the privilege of fame has its limits. What she finds is a new community in a flourishing group of online fans who support her. ![]() to her family, her real self, and the truth about her magic. ![]() Villified by those closest to her, Naema heads to the Southwest where she is determined to stage a comeback. Parents need to know that A Chorus Rises, by Bethany C. Until she's cast as the villain who exposed a Siren to the whole world.ĭragged by the media, and canceled by her fans, no one understands her side: not her boyfriend, not her friends, not even her fellow Eloko. Teen influencer Naema Bradshaw has it all: she’s famous, stylish, gorgeous - and she’s an Eloko, a charismatic person gifted with a melody that people adore. ![]()
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![]() But if she's wrong about what she saw.she'll be making the biggest mistake of her life.Ĭompulsive, creepy, and inspired by some of our darkest fairy tales, Little Darlings will have you checking-and rechecking-your own little ones. ![]() ![]() As everyone around her celebrates their return, Lauren begins to scream, These are not my babies.ĭetermined to bring her true infant sons home, Lauren will risk the unthinkable. The infants look like Morgan and Riley-to everyone else. ![]() When they're found, something is different about them. Everyone, from her doctor to her husband, thinks she's imagining things.Ī month passes and one bright summer morning, the babies disappear from Lauren's side in a park. Yet when the police arrived, they saw no one. But she knows what she saw: that night, in her hospital room, a woman tried to take her babies and replace them with her own. And they're right with newborn twins, Morgan and Riley, she's never been more tired in her life. The anxieties of motherhood take center stage in this "atmospheric and very creepy" debut psychological thriller that reinvents the changeling myth with the flair of Angela Carter ( Guardian).Įveryone says Lauren Tranter is exhausted, that she needs rest. ![]() Description A Refinery29 Best Summer Thriller - An Amazon Best Book of the Month ![]() ![]() However, she soon realizes that leading a country and leading a revolution are two very different tasks. Touraine has found a home in the newly free country of Qazal. When he calls for a "Trial of Competence" and Luca's allies start disappearing from her side, she will have to prove her might. Luca needs to oust her uncle from the Balladairan throne once and for all and take her rightful place as Queen. But undoing the tangled web that binds the two nations won't be easy, and Touraine and Luca will face their greatest challenge yet. ![]() ![]() The rebels have won, and the empire is withdrawing from Qazal. Clark's Magic of the Lost trilogy, soldier Touraine and princess Luca must return to Balladaire to reclaim Luca's throne and to face the consequences of dismantling an empire. ![]() ![]() Will those two find the love they had craved for so long?Īlpha of My Dreams: Jaden Griffin had given up on finding her mate and was looking forward to graduating high school and going away to college, while all her friends were still holding on to the hope of finding that one person for them. Damon Jackson had been searching all his life for his mate, and after years of searching, he came home empty-handed. My first 2 paranormal stories in one book and it has received great reviews so far!Īlpha, I Need You: Rachel Manning has been waiting all her life to finally be the Alpha of her pack, and when it finally happened, she realized she was still missing the most important thing in her life, her mate. ![]() Not to mention, we also have a few great anthologies that can be preordered and a Christmas in July sale that you don't want to miss. We have a couple of free reads that you will love to grab. ![]() ![]() We have a new edition available, preorders, free reads, and more!! ![]() ![]() ![]() “England, since the conquest, hath known some few good monarchs, but groaned beneath a much larger number of bad ones yet no man in his senses can say that their claim under William the Conqueror is a very honourable one. His attitude to monarchy in general is entertainingly severe: With breath-taking chutzpah, Paine singled out George as “the royal brute” responsible for all the ills of America. Rarely has a single volume achieved such an instantaneous effect, possibly because it was published on the same day that George III pledged in parliament to put “a speedy end to these disorders” in the 13 colonies.Ĭommon Sense is a model of popular journalistic brio, written to be understood by all readers, high and low. ![]() ![]() A down-on-his-luck emigrant, landing in Philadelphia with few prospects, he had written Common Sense (the title belonged to another revolutionary, Benjamin Rush) in a few hectic weeks. He made his name by out-Englishing the English: exaggerating the most distinctive traits and selling it as a basis for revolt. Thomas Paine, unmasked as the author of this sensational broadside, is a key figure in the making of the Anglo-American tradition, a man of fierce libertarian language and mercenary political instincts. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mallory begins to suspect these are glimpses of an unsolved murder from long ago, perhaps relayed by a supernatural force lingering in the forest behind the Maxwell’s house. But one day, he draws something different: a man in a forest, dragging a woman’s lifeless body.Īs the days pass, Teddy’s artwork becomes more and more sinister, and his stick figures steadily evolve into more detailed, complex, and lifelike sketches well beyond the ability of any five-year-old. His drawings are the usual fare: trees, rabbits, balloons. And she sincerely bonds with Teddy, a sweet, shy boy who is never without his sketchbook and pencil. She lives in the Maxwell’s pool house, goes out for nightly runs, and has the stability she craves. ![]() She is to look after their five-year-old son, Teddy. Jayne B+ Reviews / Book Reviews addict / Contemporary / Dark / Drugs / dysfunctional family / First-Person / horror elements / murder mystery / nanny / New-Jersey / Paranormal / present tense / Young-Adult 6 Commentsįrom Jason Rekulak, Edgar-nominated author of The Impossible Fortress, comes a wildly inventive spin on the classic horror story in Hidden Pictures, a creepy and warm-hearted mystery about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets.įresh out of rehab, Mallory Quinn takes a job in the affluent suburb of Spring Brook, New Jersey as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell. ![]() ![]() Barbara Goldsmith is the brilliant discoverer of Marie Curie." Marie Curie was the brilliant discoverer of radium and the radioactivity crucial to modern science. Barbara Goldsmith gives us a flesh-and-blood woman whose life and work will inspire our own. "History has treated Marie Curie as a mysterious genius, as if she sprang full-blown from the head of Zeus-or perhaps her husband. Timothy Ferris, author of Coming of Age in the Milky Way and Seeing in the Dark “An uncommonly heartfelt and empathic profile of a scientific hero.” Walter Isaacson, Director or the Aspen Institute for Physics and the Humanities “In this fascinating life of Madame Curie, Barbara Goldsmith powerfully conveys both the magic of science and the struggle of being a woman in a man’s universe.” PRAISE FOR OBSESSIVE GENIUS: THE INNER WORLD OF MARIE CURIE ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A sequel, Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life, was published in March 2021. The book is written in a more accessible style than his previous academic book, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief (1999). ![]() Peterson went on a world tour to promote the book, receiving much attention following an interview with Channel 4 News. The book topped bestseller lists in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom, and had sold over five million copies worldwide by the end of 2020. In the book, Peterson offers practical advice for how to navigate the complexities of life and find meaning and purpose. It provides life advice through essays in abstract ethical principles, psychology, mythology, religion, and personal anecdotes. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos is a 2018 self-help book by the Canadian clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson. ![]() ![]() ![]() Next she was hired to help control tsetse fly in the dense bush on the banks of the Zambezi in Zimbabwe. She spent more than a year on Lake Cabora Bassa in Mozambique, monitoring water weeds. ![]() Nancy eventually got to Africa on a legal ship. She and a friend tried to hitchhike by boat but the ship they'd selected turned out to be stolen and was boarded by the Coast Guard just outside the Golden Gate Bridge. Restless, again, she decided to visit Africa. When she returned, she moved into a commune in Berkeley, sold newspapers on the street for a while, then got a job in the Entomology department at UC Berkeley and also took courses in Chemistry there. Instead of taking a regular job, she joined the Peace Corps and was sent to India (1963-1965). She attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, earning her BA in 1963. She also found time to hang out in the old state prison and the hobo jungle along the banks of the Colorado River. Nancy was born in 1941 in Phoenix and grew up in a hotel on the Arizona-Mexico border where she worked the switchboard at the age of nine. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rich's work has achieved international recognition and has been translated into German, Spanish, Swedish, Dutch, Hebrew, Greek, Italian, and Japanese. Over the last forty years she has published more than sixteen volumes of poetry and four books of nonfiction prose. The only thing missing from this slender volume, that I find is often illuminating, is an introduction or afterward from the author.įrom the publisher's website - One of our country's most distinguished poets, Adrienne Rich was born in Baltimore in l929. I figured it was a not to be missed book and so it is. ![]() ![]() I bought this particular collection because it was highly recommended in the books by artist/author/poet Tee Corinne in `Courting Pleasure', `The Body of Love' and `Dreams of the Woman Who loved Sex' - she particularly noted `The Floating Poem, Unnumbered' from the selection "Twenty-One Love Poems". ![]() |