![]() ![]() He pushed his sleeves up and looked up at me. ![]() He had an ambiguous look to him, so he could be fourteen just as easily as eighteen. He was definitely high school, but I couldn't put a finger on an exact age. This kid looked like he fell somewhere in the middle. Kids who genuinely wanted to understand a subject, and kids whose parents decided for them that they needed outside help. I had a lot of different people come to me for help, but generally they fell into two categories. He took out his science textbook and a notebook, scrounging around the bottom of his bag for a pen. He nodded and sat down across from me at the table I was occupying. I brushed my long wavy hair back from my face with one hand and straightened up from the slouch I was in. I snapped to attention and realized he was my four o'clock appointment and staring at me expectantly. "The lady at the counter said you were Alex," a guy half-said, half-asked. If they spoke first, however, I would have to respond, no matter who they were. I avoided looking at him until he spoke to me, just in case it was someone I'd rather avoid. ![]() I was absently staring at a shelf crammed with books, but I still noticed when someone slowly approached in my peripheral vision. Dedicated to my best friend Jessica, for being with me every step of the way, listening to me drone on for hours at a time about fictional characters who live inside my head, and for talking me into reading romance novels in the first place. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Milkman takes place in the late 1970s, and its main character is an introspective 18-year old who has unwittingly garnered the attention of a much older man, a high-ranking republican paramilitary called Milkman. A common reference in reviews of Anna Burns’ Booker Prize-winning Milkman is head judge Kwame Anthony Appiah’s comments in praise of the novel: that it will help people to think about #Metoo, that its portrayal of the Troubles is comparable to the fractured societies in contemporary Lebanon and Syria, and that although it is a difficult read – akin to ‘climbing to the summit of Snowdon’ – it is ‘worth it when you reach the top.’ While Appiah’s associations (which Burns has remarked were unintentional) are not unwarranted, to dwell on them risks deviating from what this book squarely presents: an intense psychological journey into the traumatic impact of the Troubles in Northern Ireland on its inhabitants. ![]() ![]() ![]() While Lucien, barely in his teens, sees the trip as a great adventure, the older and worldlier Emile has no illusions about the dangers they will face. They must return to Grenada, the island they once called home, and smuggle back the 42 slaves claimed by English invaders at the hospital plantation in Fort Royal. Beautifully cadenced.' IRISH TIMES Martinique, 1765, and brothers Emile and Lucien are charged by their French master, Father Cleophas, with a mission. ![]() The stunning return from the Orange Prize shortlisted author of The Observations and Gillespie and I 'Pitches you headfirst into this outstanding, heartbreaking story of siblings, slavery and the savagery of the colonial past.' SUNDAY EXPRESS 'Harris builds a lush sense of place, and the pace and tension of a rip-roaring adventure here, with derring-do and double-crossing.' THE TIMES 'Through masterful detail, Harris shows the dehumanisation of the brothers and their fellow slaves. ![]() ![]() Behind the scenes, he’s cold, awkward, and emotionally closed-off.Īs Dev fights to get Charlie to connect with the contestants on a whirlwind, worldwide tour, they begin to open up to each other, and Charlie realizes he has better chemistry with Dev than with any of his female co-stars. In front of the cameras, he’s a stiff, anxious mess with no idea how to date twenty women on national television. He doesn’t believe in true love, and only agreed to the show as a last-ditch effort to rehabilitate his image. But then the show casts disgraced tech wunderkind Charlie Winshaw as its star.Ĭharlie is far from the romantic Prince Charming Ever After expects. As the most successful producer in the franchise’s history, Dev always scripts the perfect love story for his contestants, even as his own love life crashes and burns. ![]() So it’s no wonder then that he’s spent his career crafting them on the long-running reality dating show Ever After. And it is my one of my favorite books so far this year! Publisher’s Synopsisĭev Deshpande has always believed in fairy tales. ![]() The Charm Offensive is a sweet, funny queer romance about an awkward tech wunderkind on a Bachelor-type dating show who goes off-script when sparks fly with his producer. ![]() ![]() ![]() As the Russian Formalist theoretician Boris Tomashevsky observed, widely shared legends shape readers’ experience and so become “literary facts” in themselves. Not surprisingly, the real and imagined lives of Pushkin, Griboedov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Mandelstam, and others have prompted novelistic treatment by significant writers, from Yuri Tynyanov to J.M. The special importance Russians have traditionally assigned to literature has conferred on writers a mythic aura. All three recognize the difficulty of distinguishing Dostoevsky’s actual life from the legends about him. ![]() (A third volume is still to come.) The novelist Alex Christofi was similarly inspired, and while his innovative biography, Dostoevsky in Love, occasionally intrigues, it ultimately offers little that’s new. The many fascinating primary sources about Dostoevsky’s life inspired Thomas Marullo to experiment with a new kind of biography in his brilliant Fyodor Dostoevsky: A Life in Letters, Memoirs, and Criticism. ![]() How should one narrate the life of a great writer? Joseph Frank’s five-volume biography of Dostoevsky, now supplemented by his Lectures on Dostoevsky, revivified the form by situating the novelist within the ideological struggles of his day. ![]() ![]() The cast of the Half Bad adaptation includes some recognisable stars including Titans actor Jay Lycurgo, Domina’s Nadia Parkes as Nathan and Annalise and Motherland’s Paul Ready as Soul. Mercury - Played by Róisín Murphy (award-winning musician).Penelope - Played by Liz White ( Unforgotten, Brexit: The Uncivil War).Niall - Played by: Misha Butler (Kiss Me First).Bjorn - Played by Fehinti Balogun (I May Destroy You, Dune). ![]() ![]() Esmie - Played by Kerry Fox (Conversations with Friends, Last Tango in Halifax).Ceelia - Played by Karen Connell (Vikings).Marcus Edge - Played by David Gyasi (Carnival Row, Troy: Fall of a City).Soul - Played by Paul Ready (Motherland, The Terror).Jessica- Played by Isobel Jesper Jones (professional debut).Gabriel - Played by Emilien Vekemans (Transferts).Annalise - Played by Nadia Parkes (Domina, Starstruck).Nathan Byrne - Played by Jay Lycurgo (Titans, The Batman, I May Destroy You). ![]() ![]() ![]() Offer applies to selected items for delivery by regular standard shipping only and excludes delivery to some remote locations. ![]() But as Marcus discovers, nothing great ever is-and if you want your dream to come true, you've got to put in the hustle to make it happen.Ĭomedy superstar Kevin Hart teams up with award-winning author Geoff Rodkey and lauded illustrator David Cooper for a hilarious, illustrated, and inspiring story about bringing your creative goals to life and never giving up, even when nothing's going your way. So he'll need help, from his friends, his teachers, Sierra, the strong-willed classmate with creative dreams of her own, even Tyrell, the local bully who'd be a perfect movie villain if he weren't too terrifying to talk to. until he realizes he can turn the story of the cartoon superhero he's been drawing for years into an actual MOVIE! There's just one problem: he has no idea what he's doing. Marcus is NOT happy to be stuck in after-school film class. Perfect for readers of James Patterson's Middle School series and Lincoln Peirce's Big Nate series. Stand-up comedian and Hollywood box-office hit Kevin Hart keeps the laughs coming in an illustrated middle-grade novel about a boy who has big dreams of making a blockbuster superhero film. ![]() ![]() The recent banning of books and other materials in the Central York (PA) School District is indicative of the uptick of censorship and challenges of books with BIPOC characters and by authors of marginalized descent. I think that the author’s illustrating that, not endorsing it.” You know, at this time men did sometimes treat women like sexual objects. ![]() When Bell voices concern about a particular phrase used in the text, Pérez responds, “So, it seems to me that the author’s using this coarse language for effect. Pérez, in her brief video, intersperses shouted comments from Bell with calm responses. Out of Darkness was the recipient of the 2016 Printz Honor. ![]() “With that real-life tragedy as a starting point, Pérez adds greater volatility with race, class, and family dysfunction, by introducing a love story between two teens from different worlds in a tiny community where nothing remains hidden for long,” says the SLJ review. ![]() The book in question recounts the 1937 school explosion in New London, TX, while focusing on the fictional love story between a Mexican American teenage girl and an African American boy. The video that went viral shows parent Kara Bell at a school board meeting in Austin, TX, presenting her concerns about a particular passage in Pérez’s book. When a video of a woman speaking out against the book Out of Darkness at a school board meeting went viral, author Ashley Hope Pérez responded with a video of her own. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dewey number 813/.6 Index no index present LC call number PR9199.4. ![]() Thorndike Press large print core seriesĬataloging source DLC 1978- Tucker, K.On the hunt for answers that will force the police to reopen the case, Maggie uncovers more than she bargained for about Celine's private life - and inadvertently puts herself on the radar of a killer who will stop at nothing to keep his crimes undiscovered Member of The man who Celine herself claimed would be her ruin. The man she never told anyone about, not even Maggie. Questions about the man Celine fell in love with. But when Maggie discovers secrets in the childhood lock box hidden in Celine's apartment, she begins asking questions. The police have deemed the evidence conclusive: Celine got into bed, downed a bottle of Xanax and a handle of Maker's Mark, and never woke up. ![]() Language eng Summary Twenty-eight-year-old Maggie Sparkes arrives in New York City to pack up what's left of her best friend's belongings after a suicide that has left everyone stunned. Tucker delivers a well-constructed, pulse-pounding suspense full of propulsive plot twists and searing seduction. ![]() Label He will be my ruin Title He will be my ruin Statement of responsibility by K. 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