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Author of el deafo6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Someone readers will enjoy getting to know.” ![]() After some trouble, she is finally able to harness the power of the Phonic Ear and become “El Deafo, Listener for All.” And more importantly, declare a place for herself in the world and find the friend she’s longed for. She really just wants to fit in and find a true friend, someone who appreciates her as she is. The Phonic Ear gives Cece the ability to hear – sometimes things she shouldn’t – but also isolates her from her classmates. But going to school and making new friends while wearing a bulky hearing aid strapped to your chest? That requires superpowers! In this funny, poignant graphic novel memoir, author/illustrator Cece Bell chronicles her hearing loss at a young age and her subsequent experiences with the Phonic Ear, a very powerful – and very awkward – hearing aid. A 2015 Newbery Honor Book Going to school and making new friends can be tough. ![]()
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Bad for You by J. Daniels6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() "The perfect mix of funny, hot and heartwarming. But what will happen if the only way to truly give each other what they want most.is to let each other go? Soon the two are sharing their biggest dreams and satisfying their deepest desires. He's tried to keep his feelings for her in check, but a single, reckless impulse pulls them closer than ever before. Beautiful on the inside and out, Shay is the kind of woman who should be cared for and protected-especially from a man like Sean. All he wants now is to make up for his past by doing good in the present. Of course, it still doesn't mean he's interested in her. Until the sexy, silent, unavailable Sean makes Shay a very personal offer. So when he gives her the world's biggest rejection, that's it-she's done. Shayla Perkins isn't the kind of girl who makes the same mistake twice, especially when it comes to Sean "Stitch" Molina. "If you're a fan of Kristen Ashley, then you will love this book." -Aestas Book Blog on Four Letter Word ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Grey knows he should avoid the bewitching Sophia, but he’s never been able to say no to what he wants. On the boards and in the bedroom, he lives exactly how he wants to, shunning all the trappings of respectability and society. Responsibility isn’t something Grey is very familiar with. But when she learns Grey’s younger sister Liddy has gone missing, she can’t deny her desire to solve the mystery…or her attraction to the incorrigible scoundrel. She certainly isn’t interested in associating with the dashing Jasper Grey, the wayward heir to the Earl of Stanhope, and one of the stage’s leading men. On paper at least, as long as that paper isn’t from one of the lady detective stories she secretly pens. Sophia Ruthven is the epitome of proper behavior. ![]()
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The house on mango street pages6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() These three, along with Esperanza’s little sister Nenny, have many small adventures in the first part of the book, including searching through a labyrinthine junk store and learning from an older girl named Marin. Esperanza makes friends with two other Chicana girls of Mango Street, Rachel and Lucy. ![]() Over the course of the year Esperanza grows emotionally, artistically, and sexually, and the novel meanders through her experiences with her neighbors and classmates. The house on Mango Street is an improvement over Esperanza’s previous residences, but it is still not the house she or her family dreams of, and throughout the book Esperanza feels that she doesn’t belong there. The story encompasses a year in Esperanza’s life, as she moves to a house on Mango Street in a barrio (Latino neighborhood) of Chicago, Illinois. The book is told in small vignettes which act as both chapters of a novel and independent short stories or prose poems. The House on Mango Street is a bildungsroman (coming-of-age story) of a young Chicana (Mexican-American) girl named Esperanza Cordero. ![]()
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Swim Back to Me by Ann Packer6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() In the opener, "Walk for Mankind," teenager Richard Appleby describes his bittersweet relationship with Sasha Horowitz, a rebellious, risk-taking 14-year-old, who has a clandestine affair with a drug dealer. Packer's sterling collection is framed by two novellas. With Swim Back to Me, she delivers shimmering psychological precision, unfailing intelligence, and page-turning drama: her most enticing work yet. And, in the masterly opening novella, two teenagers from very different families forge a sustaining friendship, only to discover the disruptive and unsettling power of sex.Īnn Packer is one of our most talented archivists of family life, with its hidden crevasses and unforeseeable perils, and in these stories she explores the moral predicaments that define our social and emotional lives, the frailty of ordinary grace, and the ways in which we are shattered and remade by loss. A young man comes to grips with the joy-and vulnerability-of fatherhood. A woman shepherds her estranged parents through her brother’s wedding and reflects on the year her family collapsed. ![]() A mother mourns her teenage son through the music collection he left behind. From Ann Packer, author of the New York Times best-selling novels The Dive from Clausen’s Pier and Songs Without Words, a collection of burnished, emotionally searing stories, framed by two unforgettable linked narratives that express the transformation of a single family over the course of a lifetime.Ī wife struggles to make sense of her husband’s sudden disappearance. ![]()
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The sunbearer trials series6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Indestructubles Little Golden Books Magic School Bus Magic Tree House Pete the Cat Step Into Reading Book The Hunger Games
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Cinder by marissa meyer6/7/2023 ![]() This book taught me to not judge someone by there cover cause cinder was a dirty mechanic that was a robot but prince kai still fell in love with her.My opinion on this book is that in the beginning of the book its kind of boring cause there is really no action but once you keep reading the book will be interesting. ![]() Cinder is a good book to read.this is a good book to read because its like Cinderella but with a little twist in the story.This book cinder is different from Cinderella because in this book cinder is a robot.This book is about a girl named cinder who is a mechanic.She fixes androids.one day prince kai came to cinder so she can fix his android.cinder was starting to fall in love with prince kai and he started to fall in love with her as they kept meeting.Prince kai knew she was a robot but he still loved her. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Its sensitive depiction of a broken friendship and wry take-down of unfairly great expectations will appeal to all readers of modern fantasy. But a routine investigation leads him and his partner, Sophie Stuart, to uncover a dangerous and powerful cult… one that seems to have drawn his former best friend into a plot to end the world.Ī deftly plotted, hysterically funny take on Chosen One narratives, A Hero at the End of the World expertly walks the fine line between satire and sincerity. His best friend, the clever and talented Oliver Abrams, defeats the villain for him, and Ewan’s bright future crumbles before his eyes.įive years later, Oliver has a job as an Unusual in the government’s Serious Magical Crimes Agency, the life he and Ewan always dreamed of. But when Ewan’s big moment comes, he freezes. Although he’s just a normal boy, deep down Ewan is confident that he has exactly what it takes to be a hero. Sixteen year-old Ewan Mao knows one thing for certain: according to prophecy, it’s his destiny to kill the evil tyrant whose dark reign has terrorized Britain. ![]()
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Diana gabaldon 20216/6/2023 ![]() ![]() "A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows" (2010), a short story in the anthology Songs of Love and Death, later collected in A Trail of Fire (2012), and Seven Stones to Stand or Fall (2017).Several of the Lord John books have been released in audiobook form, read by Jeff Woodman. The Outlander series has been released in unabridged (read by Davina Porter), and abridged audiobooks (read by Geraldine James). Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone (2021).Written in My Own Heart's Blood (2014).Outlander (1991) (published in the UK, New Zealand and Australia as Cross Stitch). ![]() Publishing history Outlander novel series Novels Īmong the many derived works are two short stories, three novellas, a novel series featuring recurring secondary character Lord John Grey, a graphic novel, a musical, and a television series. The books have sold over 50 million copies worldwide as of 2021. The Outlander series focuses on 20th-century British nurse Claire Randall, who time travels to 18th-century Scotland and finds adventure and romance with the dashing Highland warrior Jamie Fraser. The ninth novel in the series, Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone, was released on November 23, 2021. She has published nine out of a planned ten volumes. Gabaldon began the first volume of the series, Outlander, in the late 1980s, and it was published in 1991. Outlander is a series of historical fantasy novels by American author Diana Gabaldon. ![]()
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The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() This might have been acceptable in the early years of science fiction, but now it just seems like a bad novel.Īs for the science.I'm not a physicist, so I can't really discuss the physics. I won't say much more about this as it's a spoiler. ![]() ![]() For example, Mike Evans, an environmentalist, conveniently inherits his billionaire father's money at just the right time in the plot. It's impossible to care about these people.Īnd there are many unbelievable plot developments. A few of them commit murders for which they seem entirely unremorseful. Most of the characters are cold and unsympathetic. Although most of the characters are academics or intellectuals, the most believable and interesting character turns out to be a coarse and apparently ignorant policeman, She Qiang (nicknamed "Da Shi"). (Unfortunately I only have the audio for this, so I can't quote the text here).īut I found the writing wooden, the characters two-dimensional cartoonish stick figures, and the audio narration poor. I'm not sure if the problem was the translation, or the original text, or both. Plus, it's been nominated for both Hugo and Nebula awards.Īs often happens, I'm not with the majority opinion here. This got lots of four and five star reviews here on Goodreads. I'm not sure I read the same book as everyone else. Badly Written and Ill Conceived Science Fiction with a Few Interesting Ideas ![]() |