5/11/2023 0 Comments Sweetest secret by lucy darlingAsher tries to avoid Molly but can’t stay away. Unfortunately Molly has a terrible impression of him, she overhears him talking bad about her mom, she’s fiercely protective of her mom. He thinks there something wrong with himself. When Asher meets Molly he is thunder struck by love at first sight, but he just doesn’t recognize it as love. Thankfully Grace and Molly are genuinely nice, Grace doesn’t care about Thomas’s wealth. He doesn’t want his dad to suffer again if Grace, his new stepmother is a gold digger. She was staying because of the money, it took Asher giving her a hundred million dollars for her to sign the divorce papers and leave them all alone. He's worried because his mother was a real piece of work who made his father, his sister, and him miserable. He’s also going to meet his new stepsister for the first time. He is on his way home from Japan, his father has remarried and he is going to make sure everything is good with his new stepmother. I must have been in the mood for a jerky bossy asshole hero because I liked Asher. My reviews always contain spoilers, I write them so I can remember the story.
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5/11/2023 0 Comments Rice from Heaven by Tina M. ChoWith renewed spirit, volunteers gather in groups, fill the balloons with air, and tie the Styrofoam containers filled with rice to the tails of the balloons. People right over the border don't have food. Villagers glare and grumble, and children protest feeding the enemy, but Yoori doesn't back down. Yoori doesn't know how she can help as she's only a little "grain of rice" herself, but Appa tells her that they can secretly help the starving people by sending special balloons that carry rice over the border. Starving, he fled to South Korea in search of a better life. Appa grew up in North Korea, where he did not have enough food to eat. Yoori lives in South Korea and doesn't know what North Korea is like, but her father (Appa) does. Beyond that wall and across the sea live children just like me, except they do not have food to eat." " We reach a place where mountains become a wall. Rice from Heaven is a true story about compassion and bravery as a young girl and her community in South Korea help deliver rice via balloons to the starving and oppressed people in North Korea. 5/11/2023 0 Comments Cool Story, Bro by Lisa HenryIn July of that year, the first Yahoo! Answers inquiry about the phrase was asked. "Cool story, bro" was first defined on Urban Dictionary on January 5th, 2009. The issue was inked by Clayton Henry and Salvador Espin and published on October 29th, 2008, showing Hercules during a flashback right before he finds out his friend Queen Hippolyta had been killed. Image macros followed, initially paired with a panel from Marvel Comics' The Incredible Hercules #122. "Cool Story, Bro" began on 4chan's /v/ (video games) board, used as a response to posts containing personal or lengthy stories as early as July 18th, 2008 in a thread for sad moments in a person's gaming life. In response, a background character named Olaf yells out from across the room, "Cool story, Hansel" while laughing. The phrase "cool story" used as a sarcastic response to a narrative was first seen in the 2001 film Zoolander, where actor Owen Wilson's character Hansel tells a long winded story about a drug-induced hallucination. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Jelly joltPRAISE FOR Narwhal: Unicorn of the Sea: 'Undersea adventures have never been so darn cute. A wonderfully silly early graphic novel series featuring three short stories and super fun ocean facts and jokes! The perfect first book for young readers, just moving on from picture books, discovering the joys of friendship, working together and the power of imagination. In the third story, Jelly is feeling blue and Narwhal comes to the rescue. Next, Narwhal uses his superpower to help a friend find his way back home. In the first story, Narwhal reveals his superhero alter-ego and enlists Jelly to help him figure out what his superpower is. The most loveable duo since Frog and Toad' - Dav Pilkey, bestselling author of Dogman and Captain Underpants Narwhal and Jelly are back in action for a SUPER adventure - join Super Narwhal and sidekick Jelly Jolt in three awesome underwater adventures! Happy-go-lucky Narwhal and no-nonsense Jelly find their inner superheroes in three new under-the-sea adventures. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Razorland book seriesAnd when Deuce and Fade are exiled from the enclave, the girl born in darkness must survive in daylight-guided by Fade's long-ago memories-in the ruins of a city whose population has dwindled to a few dangerous gangs.Īnn Aguirre's thrilling young adult novel is the story of two young people in an apocalyptic world-facing dangers, and feelings, unlike any they've ever known. When she and Fade discover that the neighboring enclave has been decimated by the tunnel monsters-or Freaks-who seem to be growing more organized, the elders refuse to listen to warnings. When Deuce turns 15, she takes on her role as a Huntress, and is paired with Fade, a teenage Hunter who lived Topside as a young boy. New York City has been decimated by war and plague, and most of civilization has migrated to underground enclaves, where life expectancy is no more than the early 20's. Praise for Ann Aguirre and the Razorland series: In her first young adult novel, Aguirre has created a gritty and highly. IsPublicPerformanceAllowed False languages Deuce has always wanted to be a huntress for the enclave and is overjoyed when she achieves her desire. This novel tells the story of Deuce and Fade, two teens living in the College Enclave in what were once the underground subway tunnels beneath New York City. OverDrive Product Record readingOrder 1 images Enclave is the first novel in the Razorland Series by Ann Aguirre. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Prairie lotus by linda sue parkI didn’t notice the casual, sometimes vicious racism, and I didn’t think about how Laura’s life on the prairie was enabled by genocide.Īs an adult I did, helped along by less-credulous readers, most notably Debbie Reese, a Nambé Pueblo Indian critic and educator who has written often about the Little House books on her blog, American Indians in Children’s Literature. I never noticed, as I was reading and loving these books as a child, how their celebration of the rugged white pioneer spirit as embodied in the Ingalls family was inextricably bound up in the darker aspects of U.S. Haven’t we been trying to move beyond them? On the one hand: a new Linda Sue Park! On the other hand: a book that explicitly revisits Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie series. When I opened the box that contained my review copies of Linda Sue Park’s Prairie Lotus (Clarion, March 3), my feelings were…complicated. 5/10/2023 0 Comments A Marked Man by Sandrine Gasq-DionHe has a job that he loves, and another one that he hates. As things heat up on the case and in their hearts, Bobby finds himself falling for Danny, and Danny has eyes only for Bobby.īut can they catch a killer before one of them ends up as the next headline?īlurb: Ryan Carter always hoped his life would turn around for the better. It would put him right back on the streets he’s been trying so hard to avoid.īobby reluctantly takes on the task of teaching Danny how to work the streets. Working with the the sexy cop could be dangerous. Bobby was attracted to Danny the first time he saw him - when the boyish-looking cop took Bobby’s statement after a client beat him brutally. He is trying to get his life back on track when officer Danny Finnegan walks back into his life. He spends most of his time on Fire Island working at a bar. They need help to make Danny’s cover convincing.īobby Laughlin left the back streets of Manhattan behind when he came way too close to becoming another number in the rent boy killings. He and his partner, Tiernan Callahan, gear up to hit the seedy side of the city that never sleeps. Ten rent boys have been murdered, and Danny knows it won’t be long before another one turns up dead in an alley. As one of the youngest faces on the police force, he has taken on the challenge of going undercover to catch a serial killer in Manhattan. Blurb: Officer Danny Finnegan loves his job. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Pillar of light gerald n lundThe film was followed by two sequels, The Work and the Glory: American Zion released in 2005, and The Work and the Glory III: A House Divided released in 2006. Lund, Pillar of Light 4 likes Like First of all, there is a difference between redemption and restoration. On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 17% based on reviews from 12 critics. Lund in the nine-part The Work and the Glory series. This movie is based on the first novel, The Work and the Glory: Pillar of Light by Gerald N. I love the way that Gerald N Lund has been able to weave fact and fiction together to make this book and the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day. Sign In or Create Account Help You have items in your cart. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers. It tells the story of the fictional Steed family in the 1820s and their struggles trying to adopt the new Mormon religion, and it explores their relationship with their community, with its founder, Joseph Smith and the rest of the Smith family. Find Pillar Of Light by Lund, Gerald N at Biblio. The Work and the Glory is a 2004 historical fiction drama film directed by Russell Holt and starring Sam Hennings, Brenda Strong, Eric Johnson, Alexander Carroll, Tiffany Dupont, and Jonathan Scarfe. There is only one problem - he commands the worst-armed, worst-trained, worst-led army in the world.Īnd Bayaz, the First of the Magi, is leading a party of bold adventurers on a perilous mission through the ruins of the past. Crown Prince Ladisla is poised to drive them back and win undying glory. Northmen have spilled over the border of Angland and are spreading fire and death across the frozen country. How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when your allies can by no means be trusted, and your predecessor vanished without a trace? It's enough to make a torturer want to run - if he could even walk without a stick. The second novel in the wildly popular First Law Trilogy from New York Times bestseller Joe Abercrombie. 5/9/2023 0 Comments Batwoman by Greg RuckaAll of these wonderful toys are provided by her army colonel father, an incredibly charming character whose bond with Kane becomes the most moving element of this tale. Que cape and cowl, plenty of gadgets and a secret bunker under her house. The military’s altogether stupid and embarrassing policy regarding “homosexual conduct” ended her career but opened the way for her to find a new one. Suffering through standard issue superhero childhood trauma (with a twist), Kate Kane hoped to find fulfillment in the army and came close with a sterling career at West Point. Only tangentially connected to the Batman mythos, Kate Kane’s story holds in tension all the themes of identity, trauma and vengeance that are at the dark heart of the Dark Knight narrative. The reinvention of the modern Batwoman has been a major achievement. (Rather ironic, given her current incarnation, don’t you think?) Her character, Kathy Kane, was meant to be a romantic interest for Batman and to counter claims by early ’50s comic book critics that Batman and Robin’s relationship had homoerotic overtones. Not many superheroes get headlines in the mainstream press like “The red-headed lesbian is unleashed at last” or “Holy Lipstick Lesbian!” DC comics’ new incarnation of Batwoman has garnered both praise as a compelling character and wholly predictable criticism from homophobic culture warriors.īatwoman first appeared in Detective Comics #233 in 1954. |