![]() ![]() And in Aza’s hands lies the fate of the whole of humanity-including the boy who loves her. Magonia and Earth are on the cusp of a reckoning. Better, she has immense power-and as she navigates her new life, she discovers that war is coming. In Magonia, she can breathe for the first time. Magonia.Ībove the clouds, in a land of trading ships, Aza is not the weak and dying thing she was. ![]() Aza is lost to our world-and found, by another. ![]() But before Aza can consider that thrilling idea, something goes terribly wrong. Jason, for whom she might have more-than-friendly feelings. She can hear someone on the ship calling her name. But Aza doesn't think this is a hallucination. So when Aza catches a glimpse of a ship in the sky, her family chalks it up to a cruel side effect of her medication. Since she was a baby, Aza has suffered from a mysterious lung disease that makes it ever harder for her to breathe, to speak-to live. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Thank you to NetGalley and Tilbury House Publishers for providing a digital ARC. But I just can't see this appealing to children. If this were aimed at adults, I might've given it a higher rating. Kids might enjoy looking at the illustrations, but are they really going to want to sit and listen to what is, essentially, a really long free-verse poem? But, again, there's that mismatch with the audience. ![]() The pictures are cute and really highlight the text nicely. But the vocabulary is just too much, and I don't know how many kids would sit through something that's so wordy. The words are evocative, and I like the way each flowery description of a shade of brown is tied back to the little girl narrating the story. Were I to have viewed it as something aimed at adults, I probably would've liked it better. This is yet another picture book for adults disguised as one for children. Like honey harvested from the hive in Auntie's yard.Ī sacred, healing elixir, a balm for beleagueredīorn from the billowing bustle of industriousīees, stretching into a soft, squiggly line as it ![]() ![]() ![]() That is, until a phone call shatters the fragile grasp she has on her new life. ![]() This time, she is sticking to her guns, no matter what. She has made up her mind about where her life is headed. Two years after walking out of Jack’s wedding, Lexi has finally put her past behind her. Linde Genre: Contemporary Romance Cover By: Okay Creations Photo By: Toski Covey Photography **Go grab the book, then make sure you enter the giveaway for a chance to win free books from some of your favorite authors!!** She does heart-wrenching, stomach-twisting emotion, and she does it better than anyone. Jack or Ramsey? Which one would you choose? ![]() Linde and I go way back, so when she asked if I could help her promote her final book in the Avoiding series, I jumped at the chance!!! If you haven’t read her books yet–what are you waiting for! It’s an angst-filled joyride that will leave you with some unforgettable moments and some unforgettable characters. ![]() ![]() No woman in the country had ever escaped from the FLDS and managed to get her children out, too. Carolyn was miserable for years and wanted out, but she knew that if she tried to leave and got caught, her children would be taken away from her. For in the FLDS, a wife’s compliance with her husband determined how much status both she and her children held in the family. He chose when they had sex Carolyn could only refuse-at her peril. He controlled the money she earned as a school teacher. He decided where she lived and how her children would be treated. Over the next fifteen years, Carolyn had eight children and withstood her husband’s psychological abuse and the watchful eyes of his other wives who were locked in a constant battle for supremacy.Ĭarolyn’s every move was dictated by her husband’s whims. But arranged plural marriages were an integral part of Carolyn’s heritage: She was born into and raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the radical offshoot of the Mormon Church that had settled in small communities along the Arizona-Utah border. When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two years her senior. ![]() ![]() ![]() The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman’s courageous flight to freedom with her eight children. ![]() ![]() ![]() During this era he went to school full time during the day, worked nights to pay for his schooling, and wrote as much as he could. Upon his return to BYU, Brandon became an English major, much to the dismay of his mother, who had always hoped he would become a doctor.īrandon began writing in earnest, taking a job as the night desk clerk at a hotel because they allowed him to write while at work. ![]() Brandon often says that it was during this time in Seoul, Korea that he realized that he didn’t miss chemistry one bit, but he did miss writing. From 1995 to 1997 he took time away from his studies to serve as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1994 Brandon enrolled at Brigham Young University as a biochemistry major. ![]() ![]() ![]() The publisher printed only one thousand copies, of which 456 were sold, bringing the author royalties of $68.40. The book had been accepted by Doubleday's partner, but Doubleday was appalled by what he considered an immoral, crudely written and potentially uncommercial book and tried to break his contract with Dreiser. ![]() Among the readers aggrieved by "Sister Carrie" was Dreiser's publisher, Frank Doubleday. ![]() ![]() Rather than punish her for her sins, Dreiser saw to it that she was rewarded. The city's literary flowering, called the Chicago Renaissance, included authors Edgar Lee Masters, Floyd Dell, Vachel Lindsay, Sherwood Anderson and Carl Sandburg, as well as vital literary journals, from Margaret Anderson's Little Review to Harriet Monroe's Poetry to Ben Hecht's Chicago Literary Times.ĭreiser shared their opposition to the genteel tradition, and his pivotal novel established an enduring Chicago tradition: fiction in the raw, tawdry but compassionate.ĭreiser's novel tells the story of Carrie Meeber, an 18-year-old who arrives in Chicago from Indiana "ambitious to gain in material things" and becomes the mistress of a salesman and manager of a saloon. Mencken saw Chicago, the "abattoir by Lake Michigan," as the source of inspiration to the nation's most important new writers at the beginning of the 20th Century. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and technology. He produced the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. ![]() He shows how Leonardo's genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy. Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. ![]() ![]() The beginning was a little disappointing. I think I expected a little more out of this than I got. To get back home, Courtney realizes that she needs to unravel the secrets of Jane’s past, including her relationship with Edgeworth, and confront her own insecurities and problems with the men in her life. Edgeworth for what he is, a womanizer just like her ex-fiance who broke her heart by cheating on her. Courtney/Jane recovers and begins to settle into Regency life with the addition of the extremely handsome and polite Mr. When she wakes up in Regency England one morning, with the Austen-like name of Jane Mansfield, she is at first in shock, especially when she is threatened with a mental institution and bled to the point of weakness. She owns all the books and sinks into them every time she needs comfort, entertainment, or love. ![]() Courtney Stone is a certified Jane Austen addict. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gifty was born a few years later, and was an unwanted pregnancy. ![]() Gifty's father eventually relocated to America to be with his family but was only able to find unstable work as a janitor. Gifty's mother was forced to take menial jobs, eventually become a caretaker to abusive and racist elderly patients. They had a brilliant son, Nana, and after his birth Gifty's mother, seeking a better life for her child, relocated to Huntsville, Alabama where a cousin of hers was studying. ![]() Gifty's mother and her father, affectionately nick-named The Chin-chin man, were Ghanaians who met and married late. She sends for her mother so she can take care of her and is overwhelmed by the remembrance of the first time her mother fell into a similar depression, when Gifty was 11. While experimenting on lab mice for her research, Gifty gets a call that her mother is not feeling well. The novel follows 28-year-old Gifty, a PhD candidate in neuroscience in her fifth year at Stanford University, and her Ghanaian-American mother, who is suffering from a deep depression. Transcendent Kingdom was found in Literary Hub to have made 17 lists of the best books of 2020. Transcendent Kingdom is the second novel by Ghanaian-American author Yaa Gyasi, published in 2020 by Alfred A. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon Jess is thrown up against the question she fears most: what is the true cost of an extraordinary life? ~ My thoughts ~ But the dynamic between the friends begins to darken as they share secrets, lovers and finally a tragedy. But when she arrives at a concrete university campus under flat, grey, East Anglian skies, her world flares with colour.ĭrawn into a tightly-knit group of rule breakers – led by their maverick teacher, Lorna Clay – Jess begins to experiment with a new version of herself. Jess Walker, middle child of a middle-class family, has perfected the art of vanishing in plain sight. People disappear when they most want to be seen My thanks to Anne Cater at Random Things Tours for inviting me to take part in the blog tour and to Bloomsbury Publishing for sending me a paperback copy of the book in return for my honest review.īefore I share my thoughts with you, here is what The Truants is about. I am thrilled to be sharing my review of The Truants by Kate Weinberg with you today. ![]() |