![]() ![]() ![]() ★ “Lukoff combines gothic horror vibes with a slow-building trans awakening…The spooks and mysteries are an added bonus that sets this narrative apart from similar titles.” - BCCB A hopeful examination of grief and gender, and a good ghost story to boot." – School Library Journal, starred review ![]() Lukoff navigates Bug’s journey of identity and discovery with grace, welcoming. ★ "Lukoff’s three primary themes-gender identity, grief, and ghostly hauntings-work in elegant harmony despite the load. ![]() ★ “Equal parts unsettling, heartwarming, and satisfying…a nuanced and compelling exploration of gender, friendship, and family.” – Booklist, starred review Through Bug’s journey to self-realization and self-acceptance, and the wonderfully nuanced understanding of gender he comes to, Lukoff provides a tender rumination on grief, love, and identity." – Publishers Weekly, starred review ★ “This coming-of-age and coming-out story takes a needed departure from other stories about transgender youth.A chilling, suspenseful ghost story balances the intimate, introspective narrative style.… Haunting and healing.” – Kirkus, starred review “A tender portrayal of a kid who is just coming to understand who he is.” – TIME It will almost certainly be banned in many places, but your child almost certainly needs to read it." – The New York Times Book Review "This book is a gentle, glowing wonder, full of love and understanding, full of everything any of us would wish for our children. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Ball lightning three body problem![]() The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience the Hugo Award-winning phenomenon from China’s most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin. A new standalone military science fiction adventure from the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Three-Body Trilogy. ![]() ![]() ![]() A copy of the book is not included in this set of resources. This set of instructional resources is for use with the book What Will the Weather Be? by Linda Dewitt.Interactive vocabulary games and activities Will it be warm or cold Should we wear shorts or pants Shoes or rain boots This picture book explores why the weather can be so.Word work lesson plan and activities focused on Blends.Comprehension worksheets and answer keys. ![]() 4 comprehension strategy lesson plans and student resources for What Will the Weather Be?.Full of colorful illustrations and diagrams, What Will the Weather Be? shows readers how warm and cold fronts affect weather, how meteorologists predict the weather, and what can happen when the weatherman is wrong. This engaging informational book about weather makes it easy for children to learn about meteorology. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Claimed by cupid dana isaly pdf![]() ![]() But there she is, crying in the bar’s bathroom and wishing the ground would swallow her whole. Claus is not the way Holly saw her day going. Summary: Dumped in a bar a week before Christmas, all while dressed as a slutty Mrs. Note: If you like this book, I definitely recommend their sequels, Secrets We Hunt and Burdens We Carry. ![]() The Joker has specific states, however, and Quinlan must decide if she wants to stay and play. The chemistry is definitely there, and so is the sexual tension. Summary: Journalist Quinlan visits a popular online gamer known only as The Joker to interview him. The opportunity sounded like the perfect escape, but when she finally meets him, the attraction between them is undeniable. Summary: A woman takes on a job cooking and cleaning(and living with) for a recluse billionaire. Summary: A lawyer and a paralegal are trapped in an elevator for 11 hours. ![]() After getting lost during a hike, she meets a sexy lumberjack who is more than eager to give her everything she needs and more. Summary: A woman is burned out by city life and seeks refuge in a week-long vacation in the mountains. I’m also not affiliated with any of the authors listed here. (Note: There are no affiliate links in this article. If you’re slumping your way through your TBR and need a pick-me-up, try out the following books. Short and spicy books are my go-to category, especially when I’m in the middle of a reading slump. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Made for love by alissa nutting![]() ![]() The book begins, and races along, as an antic thriller, through a circus’s worth of set pieces (sex dolls, lawn flamingoes, motorized wheelchairs, bestiality with dolphins), but throughout and underneath this supersaturated masquerade Hazel tells the darkest, baldest, saddest truths. After 10 years as the captive, increasingly unwilling test subject in the development of her husband’s increasingly invasive technological innovations, Hazel runs away to hide in a trailer park for senior citizens. She’s a hostage to the all-too-recognizable work of imagining each moment packaged as the past, viewed from the future: thinking in broadcast. No thought or act can be hidden from him, forcing Hazel’s experience of the present into a brilliant pantomime of the curated self. Not only does he know where she is at all times each day he downloads the previous 24 hours of her life. Hazel’s husband, Byron Gogol - a tech impresario/overlord who mashes up Bill Gates’s pioneering genius, Steve Jobs’s visionary particularity and Jeff Bezos’ ruthless drive to subjugate all minds through objects - installed the chip in her head without her knowledge. Fast-forward through a dozen improvements on fast-forwarding technology into the future present, barely a generation later: It’s 2019 and 30-something Hazel, the protagonist of Alissa Nutting’s smart, riveting novel “Made for Love,” has a chip in her brain. ![]() In 1989, if you didn’t know where your girlfriend was, chances are you had to just go find her, with something analog like your legs. ![]() ![]() He relocated to Covington and won election as Prosecuting Attorney of Indiana's 1st Congressional District. In 1849, he was admitted to the bar and established a law practice in Indianapolis with his older brother William. Greer operated a Free-Soil newspaper, The Free Soil Banner, in Indianapolis. He rose to the position of Regimental Adjutant and the rank of 1st Lieutenant, serving in the Army of General Zachary Taylor, although he personally did not participate in combat.Īfter the war, he and William B. He was elected a 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Indiana Infantry Regiment. In 1846, at the start of the Mexican American War, he was studying law, but set it aside to raise a company of militia. When he was seven years old, his mother died, and, two years later, he joined his brother in Crawfordsville, Indiana, where he briefly attended Wabash Preparatory School before rejoining his father in Indianapolis, Indiana. ![]() His father was a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, and served as Lieutenant Governor and Governor of Indiana. ![]() He is best remembered for his historical novel "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ" (1880), a bestselling book since its publication, and deemed by many as the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century. Politician, American Civil War Major General, New Mexico Territorial Governor, Diplomat, and Author. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Clean sweep ilona andrews series![]() Under the circumstances, “normal” is a bit of a stretch for Dina.Īnd now, something with wicked claws and deepwater teeth has begun to hunt at night…Feeling responsible for her neighbors, Dina decides to get involved. ![]() Meant to be a lodging for otherworldly visitors, the only permanent guest is a retired Galactic aristocrat who can’t leave the grounds because she’s responsible for the deaths of millions and someone might shoot her on sight. But Dina is…different: Her broom is a deadly weapon her Inn is magic and thinks for itself. She runs a quaint Victorian Bed and Breakfast in a small Texas town, owns a Shih Tzu named Beast, and is a perfect neighbor, whose biggest problem should be what to serve her guests for breakfast. ![]() On the outside, Dina Demille is the epitome of normal. Clean Sweep (Innkeeper’s Chronicles – Book 1) by Ilona AndrewsĪvailable on Kindle, Paperback and on Audio Down & DirtyĪn older and much shorter release for this dynamic duo, but no less powerful and inventive. ![]() As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Divided we fall by trent reedy![]() His setup is terrifying in its plausibility and made all the more so by Daniel’s conflicted everyman nature, with both sides portrayed as sympathetic yet flawed. ![]() In a story line tied to current affairs, Reedy tackles pressing issues with prescient clarity and delicate sophistication. Caught between duty to family, loyalty to the military, and his own sense of honor, Daniel becomes a pawn in a much larger game between governor and president. ![]() When his unit is called to help with a potential riot in Boise, things get out of hand, eventually sparking a full-blown conflict between Idaho and the Feds. Daniel Wright, a football-playing, truck-driving, country music–loving high school senior and member of the Idaho National Guard. ![]() In this stunning trilogy opener, Reedy (Words in the Dust) envisions a near-future America on the verge of disaster, where political discord, economic crisis, and a controversial new law have created tension between state and federal governments. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Starblood by Carmilla Voiez![]() ![]() ![]() Rather than leave us crippled by response, though, Psychonaut bears you through the hurt towards the only paradise we can be assured of.a love past fault.? Jef Withonef, Houston Press. You feel uncomfortable reading it, like Alex strapped to the chair in Clockwork Orange being taught to feel sick at atrocity. ?Psychonaut is a book of mad impulses, inner vision, sadism, escape and belief. She tells her compelling story in a hypnotic, distinctive voice that brings her eerie world vividly to life." Graham Masterton "Carmilla Voiez is more of a singer than a writer. There are no heroes in this dark fairy tale. 15.19, new condition, Sold by BargainBookStores rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Grand Rapids, MI, UNITED STATES, published 2018 by Carmilla Voiez. ![]() With art by Anna Prashkovich, Psychonaut the graphic novel is a colourful treat of fantasy and horror. Add to Cart Add this copy of Starblood: the Graphic Novel (Paperback Or Softback) to cart. Psychonaut is the second book in the Starblood Trilogy and the sequel to Starblood. And what about the demon child? Is he really the result of an unholy ménage à trois? Whatever it takes Satori will keep his promise to find the woman he loves, but Star refuses to accept that she needs to wait to be saved. Now she is being tortured by Lilith in the demon?s realm and has to protect herself. Star tried to end it all, but gods and demons will not be denied. Starblood: the graphic novel (Starblood Trilogy Graphic Novels Book 1) - Kindle edition by Voiez, Carmilla, Prashkovich, Anna. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Hollow kingdom book review![]() ![]() The central metaphor in these narratives tends to be that humanity is really quite an awful, violent species that wars with itself constantly, and that our boundless curiosity and hubris - whether that involves scientific research gone awry or meddling with forces beyond our ken - ultimately lead to our own near-complete destruction. Plague, virus, and zombie apocalypse narratives tend to share a few common threads: Often, humanity brings such terrors upon itself usually, survivors or those with immunity come together in ragtag groups and attempt to find a cure and/or fight their way through to where the other healthy people are and, almost always, humanity survives - perhaps in drastically reduced numbers, sans modern technology - and must learn to rebuild itself anew. 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