![]() ![]() And Josh is sweet and smart and has excellent taste in donuts… but he has no idea that CeCe is internet-famous. CeCe isn’t surprised to be falling for a guy she’s always known she’s bi. Things get even messier when CeCe meets Josh, a new boy in town who is very much Not Online. She’s lost her first love, and now she can’t help but wonder if she’ll lose her followers as well. ![]() So when Silvie breaks up with her, CeCe is devastated. She and her girlfriend, Silvie, are social media influencers with zillions of fans and followers, known for their cute outfits and being #relationshipgoals. Or I could just let the publisher describe the book in a slightly classier way:ĬeCe Ross is kind of a big deal. Today on the site I’m excited to be sharing the entire first chapter from Jessica Verdi’s upcoming Follow Your Arrow, which releases from Scholastic on March 2nd and centers on setting biphobia on fire. ![]()
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![]() ![]() How much she cares for her little brother and her family is just SO sweet. I guess you can call her your typical YA heroine but something about her just really intrigue me from the very first page. The MC, Mia, was such a likeable character. It was actually something that I've never seen before,Īnd the magic and action was just the perfect touch. How very picky I am of fantasy but I really love the other world Sara This debut by Sara Walsh is such an exhilarating read from start to finish, and a must read for fantasy fans.įirst came across this book (I think it was for its cover reveal), I I had such high expectations from it, and it didn't disappoint. Let me just say how much I very much enjoyed this book. August Wrap-Up 2012 and Book of the Month!.Blog Tour: The White Forest by Adam McOmber (Guest.Blog Tour: Wrong Bed, Right Guy by Katee Robert.Review: Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Predict.Blog Tour: Sweet Evil by Wendy Higgins (Creation a.Blog Tour: My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century - Rach.Cover Reveal: Fireblood by Trisha Wolfe.Review: My Heart Be Damned - Chanelle Gray. ![]() Review: Days of Blood and Starlight - Laini Taylor.Cover Reveal: Opal (Lux #3) by Jennifer L.Blog Tour: Toxic by Jus Accardo (Interview and Giv. ![]() ![]() ![]() What holds this novel together, stops it from becoming saturated with sorrow, is a wit so sharp it hurts to laugh at certain scenes. All My Puny Sorrows is based on the author’s own experience of her sister’s suicide, in 2010, 12 years after their father killed himself, explaining the novel’s urgency and rawness. It is with a “loving attention to every detail” that their father built their house a quality also governing this novel, written by someone who knows what happens when things fall apart. “We spent the whole time, it seemed, setting everything up and then tearing it down,” says Yoli. In the summer when the family “had a few days to kill” before they could move into their new house, they go camping in the “badlands of South Dakota”. The sisters’ father had built the house himself when he and his wife were “a newly married Mennonite couple”. ![]() ![]() “Our house was taken away on the back of a truck one afternoon late in the summer of 1979,” begins Yoli, the narrator. ![]() ![]() ![]() Was Operation Paperclip a moral outrage, or did it help America win the Cold War?ĭrawing on exclusive interviews with dozens of Paperclip family members, colleagues, and interrogators, and with access to German archival documents (including previously unseen papers made available by direct descendants of the Third Reich's ranking members), files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, and dossiers discovered in government archives and at Harvard University, Annie Jacobsen follows more than a dozen German scientists through their postwar lives and into a startling, complex, nefarious, and jealously guarded government secret of the twentieth century. They were also directly responsible for major advances in rocketry, medical treatments, and the U.S. Many of these men were accused of war crimes, and others had stood trial at Nuremberg one was convicted of mass murder and slavery. So began Operation Paperclip, a decades-long, covert project to bring Hitler's scientists and their families to the United States. These were the brains behind the Nazis' once-indomitable war machine. government faced many difficult decisions, including what to do with the Third Reich's scientific minds. ![]() In the chaos following World War II, the U.S. The “remarkable” story of America's secret post-WWII science programs ( The Boston Globe), from the New York Times bestselling author of Area 51. ![]() ![]() Tiggy-winkle, Benjamin Bunny, Jemima Puddle-duck, Mr. From her first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, published by Frederick Warne in 1902, she went on to create a series of stories based around animal characters including Mrs. Lucie spends a lovely day helping her, and it's only right at the end of the day that she realises Mrs Tiggy-winkle is a hedgehog! Beatrix Potter is regarded as one of the world's best-loved children's authors of all time. She knocks on the tiny door, and meets Mrs Tiggy-winkle who does all the washing and ironing for the neighbouring animals. ![]() It is discovered one day by a little girl called Lucie, who is in search of her missing pocket handkerchiefs. It tells the tale of a hidden home high in the hills. The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-winkle was first published in 1905, and is as charming today as it was then. ![]() ![]() The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-winkle is an original classic by Beatrix Potter. ![]() ![]() Woodward did not speak to Trump for his first book on the administration, Fear, which was released in 2018. Rage has caused huge controversy, not least over Trump telling Woodward he knew the danger the coronavirus presented early on but played it down in public.Īsked “why on earth would the president of United States, sit down and talk to Bob Woodward something like 18 times on tape” – the two men also spoke in August, a conversation which did not make the book – Trump said: “Well, because I assumed he was a little bit fair.” ![]() Nonetheless, the president claimed to have read Woodward’s new book in one evening in an interview with Fox & Friends on Tuesday morning, saying “it’s like lightweight reading and he doesn’t get it”. Some believed that for all practical purposes he was no more than semi-literate.” ![]() The president “didn’t process information in any conventional sense”, Wolff writes. ![]() In Michael Wolff’s infamous book Fire and Fury, for example, the former economic adviser Gary Cohn is quoted as writing: “It’s worse than you can imagine … Trump won’t read anything – not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers, nothing.” Multiple reports have said Trump does not often read, whether books or briefing materials. The Watergate reporter’s tome, published on Tuesday, is 392 pages long not including index, acknowledgments and notes on sources which chiefly consist of 18 on-the-record conversations with the president. ![]() ![]() ![]() 30 enticing chapter books for children who are newly independent readers.60 kids books about grief to explain death to children and help them grieve.LGBTQI+ Children's Books celebrating Pride in London and Pride Month this June.Sophie Cameron - our Author of the Month. ![]()
![]() Dakini Power, Michaela Haas (Snow Lion/Shambhala, 2013)Īfter studying Buddhism for nearly 20 years, international reporter and lecturer Michaela Haas, PhD, embarked on a mission to investigate these very questions. What drives a young London librarian to board a ship to India, meditate in a remote cave by herself for twelve years and then build a flourishing nunnery in the Himalayas? How does a surfer girl from Malibu become the head of the main international organization for Buddhist women? Why does the daughter of a famed music executive in Santa Monica dream so vividly of peacocks one night that she chases these images all the way to Nepal where she finds the love of her life in an unconventional young Tibetan master? "Dakini Power" (Snow Lion/Shambhala, 2013) by Michaela Haas (R). Quote Interview: Michaela Haas Showcases Women Pioneers of Tibetan Buddhism ![]() ![]() ![]() That’s when I strike a bargain with the devil. I’ll be ruined if my darkest secret gets out. ![]() ![]() And he promises to use my words against me. When he leaves me alone in the dead of night, he takes my journal with him. Let him possess every single part of me until I’m the one left a gasping, broken mess. My instincts scream to leave and let him suffer, but I can’t. When I stumble upon him one night alone, I find him broken. Yet his intense gaze scorches my blood, fills me with a longing I don’t understand. His taunting words carve into my skin, shredding me to ribbons. The school with his family name on the sign. Cold, heartless and devastatingly beautiful, like the statues in our prep school gardens. Whit Lancaster burst into my life like a storm. Things I Wanted To Say (But Never Did) by Monica Murphy is now live! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His other books include Ada or Ardor (1969), Laughter in the Dark (1933), Pale Fire (1962), the short story collection Details of a Sunset (1976) and Lolita (1955), his best-known novel. His first novel in English was The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, published in 1941. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. Read more United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. ![]() He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. Vladimir Nabokov (Author) One of the twentieth century's master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977) was born in St Petersburg, but left Russia when the Bolsheviks seized power. ![]() |