![]() ![]() Something more sinister is in the works and if she can't save him Christmas will be ruined forever. Especially since his Pride's made it abundantly clear that there's no way they'll let him mate anyone but another weretiger.Īs Raine investigates the disappearance of Gabriel, she discovers that he hasn't just run off with a set of twin Christmas Elves for the weekend. Hurt by everyone she's ever cared about Raine isn't about to open up her heart to her "bad boy" best friend Jordan who's been in love with her for years. Problem is, she'd rather he just stayed missing. But when her ex-boyfriend Gabriel Kringle, heir to the Santa Claus legacy, goes missing, it's her job to find him. Banished to live among "Mundanes" in the Human world she works as a Private Investigator for Otherworlders. ![]() ![]() She's the Outcast no one wants - until they get into trouble. ![]()
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![]() At the event, Henry's name is drawn in a raffle to receive $50 worth of beauty-treatment coupons at the supermarket's beauty parlor. One day Henry and his family attend the grand opening of the town's new supermarket. Each chapter centers around Henry's ideas to get a bicycle, including selling boxes of bubble gum he found abandoned in an alley and buying a bike from an auction. But he only earns a penny for every empty Coke bottle turned in for recycling, so it will take a long time to get that bike. ![]() So he decides to start a bicycle fund, and save up the $59.95 himself. One of the older boys in the neighborhood, Scooter McCarthy, has a new red bike, and Henry imagines himself riding one up and down Klickitat Street just like Scooter. Henry Huggins really wants a bicycle, but his family can't afford one this year. Finally his friend Beezus gives him an idea that actually works. Henry comes up with many ways to earn money for the new red bicycle he wants, but they all seem to end up with him in trouble. This humorous children's novel was written by Beverly Cleary and published in 1952. ![]() Henry and Beezus is the second book in the Henry Huggins series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I ended up bingeing it in 24 hours over a weekend. I expected to enjoy this, but I didn’t know how much I would. The comparison in plot to a beloved movie is really fun, but the characters and the story are unique and hold up on their own. I absolutely adored this Young Adult book! It’s You’ve Got Mail, but with grilled cheese instead of books and Twitter instead of newspaper articles/tv interviews. In real life Jack and Pepper set the online war aside and start becoming friend and, unbeknownst to them, they’re also falling for each other in an anonymous chat app. Pepper reluctantly joins the Twitter battle, which quickly turns viral. When Jack sees that Big League Burger is launching their new grilled cheese, which has the same name and ingredients as their deli’s special, he can’t keep quiet and he turns to Twitter. He spends his after school and summer breaks working at his family’s small local diner, Girl Cheesing. Jack is more the laid back type, letting his identical twin brother take all the attention. She’s busy trying to tick all the boxes a college could want, but her mom still wants her running the social media for Big League Burger, their once small local burger joint turned national franchise. Pepper is your typical high school overachiever. Martin’s Press and Wednesday Books for the free eARC. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Its left to the outlying Pre-Raphaelite, Simeon Solomon, to skewer the amusing obsessions of his colleagues with his Sir Galipot Bearing the Holy Gruel. Similarly a photograph by pioneering 19th-century photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, Lancelot and Elaine (1875), reveals the Victorian artist-craze for Medieval ‘re-enactment’ with its cloaked man (Charles Hay Cameron, Cameron’s husband) rowing a boat bearing the body of Elaine (unknown sitter) down the river to King Arthur’s castle, Camelot. Attainment of the Holy Grail Tapestry, Morris & Co., (1891-4) © Creative Commons Images (Birmingham Museum Trust)īut apart from the back stories of the artists, the exhibition explore each strand of the Arthurian legends, beginning with Merlin as depicted through Arthur Hughes’ painting, The Rift with the Lute (1861-2) and Herbert Alfred Bone’s drawing The Head of King Arthur (1879).ĭe Morgan’s Study of Armour (1919) offers an insight into the work the artists put into their pursuit of authenticity in their depiction of the medieval world and Siddal’s drawing of The Lady of Shalott (1853) shows how deeply Tennyson’s evocation of Arthurian Medieval construct permeated the Pre-Raphaelite scene. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lia Francesca Block’s 1989 novel, Weetzie Bat, is a young-adult novel that examines themes of lifestyle, friendship, and acceptance in an urban environment that features homosexual relationships, unorthodox parenting arrangements, and elements of magic. Fairy tales have historically been used to create a cohesive cultural identity through values and characteristics exhibited by the characters. Consider reading a bit more about it from other excellent reviewers on GoodReads.Īccording to Webster’s Dictionary, a fairly tale can be defined as “a story (as for children) involving fantastic forces and beings (as fairies, wizards, and goblins)” or “a story in which improbable events lead to a happy ending” (). While I didn’t particularly favor the text, it doesn’t mean that you wouldn’t like it. While the book was not amongst my favorites due to its style of prose, I do appreciate its depth despite its brevity. While Block’s Weetzie Bat is a peculiar text, it is certainly worthy of discussion as a work of literature that has a lot to say. ![]() Certainly an interesting course, it’s important to realize that all literature (not just the canon) is worthy of study, from children’s literature to comic books, and even things as non-canonical as picture books. NOTE: This essay was written for a course in Young Adult Literature I completed in the Fall of 2014. ![]() ![]() The stories were true for the most part, but the truth wasn’t like the dream. People told stories of how you could eat fruit right off the trees and get enough work to retire one day. California was like heaven for the Southern Negro. All of them and John and half the people in that crowded room had migrated from Houston after the war, and some before that. I had been hearing Lips and Willie and Flattop since I was a boy in Houston. “When I opened the door I was slapped in the face by the force of Lips’ alto horn. ![]() Within the first 50 pages, Walter Mosley takes us through the back door of a little market at the corner of Central Avenue and 89th Place in Los Angeles and into an illegal black nightclub: Reflexively you blink from the sting of the dark, smoky surroundings and lick your lips to wipe away the taste of the cheap Scotch, as the sweet sounds of an alto saxophone whine up out of the pages of this richly atmospheric detective novel of the ‘40s. ![]() ![]() So when bad things start to happen, Grace is determined to figure out what’s going on, and to save herself from whatever comes her way. As if moving to Alaska from San Diego isn’t hard enough, once she gets there, she figures out that no one is quite what they seem-especially not the broody, sexy boy she can’t get out of her mind. ![]() Grace, my heroine and narrator, has a sarcastic sense of humor that winds its way through the book, so that even as she faces some really terrible things, I think she does it with wit and (terrible pun coming) grace.Ĭrave is the story of a girl who, because she has nowhere else to go, ends up at a boarding school in Alaska, where her uncle is headmaster. I actually think Crave is a lot of fun! Yes, there is angst and darkness and lots of danger, but I really wanted to keep it a little lighter too. We chat to author Tracy Wolff about her new novel ‘Crave’, which is a young adult novel about vampires, and she chats about writing, events, and more! Can you tell us a little about yourself, and what Craveis about? Suffice it to say: I have a new book boyfriend!” -NYT Bestselling Author Pintip Dunn The temperatures may be freezing, but Jaxon smolders. ![]() The landscape may be barren, but the story is lush. ![]() “From the first page, CRAVE sucks me into its dangerous - but oh so delicious - world. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Imp was last seen in the novels preparing for the Battle of Meereen with Ser Jorah Mormont at his side. He plans to make Daenerys Targaryen his bride. The Admiral of the Iron Fleet and brother of Euron and Aeron is absent from the television series but will return for the next novel. The abused Ironborn prince was last seen in the novels as a captive of King Stannis Baratheon after escaping Ramsay Bolton with Jeyne Poole. The "Damphair" and Ironborn brother to King Euron Greyjoy will return in a precarious situation. The heir to Dorne is absent from the television series, but the Princess is a major character in the novels and is due to marry the man claiming to be Aegon Targaryen, the son of Prince Rhaegar Targaryen and his first wife Elia Martell. In the novels, Arya was last seen being trained as a Faceless Man in the House of Black and White. In the novels, Sansa was last seen in A Feast for Crows posing as Littlefinger's bastard daughter Alayne Stone in the Vale of Arryn where he intends to marry her to the heir of the Vale, Harrald Hardyng. The following characters have been confirmed to return as viewpoint characters in The Winds of Winter. ![]() ![]() ![]() He died, struck down by a heart attack, in 1973, but there are some who swear that his spirit still haunts the apartment at no. He designed legendary works of architecture and astonishing pieces of furniture-which we will not attempt to list-and was systematically and impulsively in love with women, skiing, the mountains, speed, flight, photography, forms, the occult and the geometry of life. ![]() ![]() At the age of 28 he published a fictionalized autobiography, Vita di Oberon. A peerless designer and aesthete, born into an upper middle-class family in Turin in 1905, Mollino displayed an extraordinary talent for drawing from an early age: he was able to work on two different projects at the same time, drawing with two hands and two pencils, on two sheets of paper. If someone were to draw up a league table of the geniuses who made the 20th century great, Carlo Mollino would certainly be in the top ten. ![]() ![]() The film was released on DVD and VHS on Augby Warner Home Video. The film received numerous accolades, including winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Written and directed by Mark Jonathan Harris, produced by Deborah Oppenheimer, narrated by Judi Dench, and made with the cooperation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, it utilized rare and extensive footage, photographs, and artifacts, and is told in the words of the child survivors, rescuers, parents, and foster parents. The majority of them never saw their families again. ![]() These children, or Kinder in German, were taken into foster homes and hostels in Britain, expecting eventually to be reunited with their parents. ![]() Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport is a 2000 documentary film about the British rescue operation known as the Kindertransport, which saved the lives of over 10,000 Jewish and other children from Nazi Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Danzig by transporting them via train, boat, and plane to Great Britain. ![]() |