But as they untangle a web of secret alliances and ancient evils, they realize their foe is more familiar, and more powerful, than they could have ever imagined. With their house in peril, Merit and her Master, the centuries-old Ethan Sullivan, must race to stop the disappearances. Someone is targeting Chicago’s vampires, and anyone could be next. Now she’ll see her mettle-and her metal-tested like never before. Since then, she’s become the protector of her House, watched Chicago nearly burn to the ground, and seen her Master fall and rise. In a city full of vampires, trouble never sleeps.Īt the tender age of twenty-seven, Merit became a sword-wielding vampire. Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, RomanceĪlso by this author: Some Girls Bite (Chicagoland Vampires, #1), Friday Night Bites (Chicagoland Vampires, #2), Twice Bitten (Chicagoland Vampires, #3)
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Only one thing is certain: he'll never be the same again.Ĭombining his signature wit with a unique blend of adventure and deeply felt characters, Sachar explores issues of race, the nature of celebrity, the invisible connections that shape a person's life, and what it takes to stay the course. X-Ray's plan leads to a chance encounter with teen pop sensation Kaira DeLeon, the Beyonc of her time, and suddenly Armpit's life spins out of control. Together, they are learning to take small steps.Īrmpit seems to be on the right path until X-Ray, a buddy from Camp Green Lake, comes up with a get-rich-quick scheme. The only person who believes in Armpit is Ginny, his ten-year-old disabled neighbor. But it's hard when you have a record and everyone expects the worst from you. Two years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is home in Austin, Texas, trying to turn his life around. SMALL STEPS is a contemporary young adult novel from Louis Sachar, the New York Times bestselling author of the Newbery Award-winning smash hit phenomenon book and movie/DVD sensation Holes, and The Cardturner. Khan will direct the production, which is based on Patricia C. Jerome Hairston's Color Me Dark kicks off the season in November. The 25th Anniversary Season at the theatre, which specializes in works by and about African-Americans, will feature a revival (the one-woman musical The Late Great Ladies of Blues and Jazz that will play in December starring Sandra Reaves-Phillips) and three new works. That's one thing I want to do at Crossroads now that I'm back." Khan told the New Jersey paper, "These three years that I've been in Trinidad and Africa has allowed me to see how other cultures interact with our own. The New Jersey Star-Ledger reports that Khan, who left his reign as artistic director three years ago, is currently working on the theatre's upcoming four-play season. Praise for Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children “Riggs has created a fresh and original world in these Peregrine novels, with likable, quirky characters and a very readable style.”- Library Journal Xpress Review The only downside: waiting for the third installment to find out what happens to Jacob and his peculiar friends.”- School Library Journal “New readers of the series will find this novel a treat.Fans of the first title will find this book a treasure. “A tasty adventure for any reader with an appetite for the…peculiar.”- Kirkus Reviews “Ideal for fans of Neil Gaiman and Daniel Kraus, Hollow City blends fantasy and horror into a world that will engross readers and leave them eager for more.”- Shelf Awareness for Readers “What makes the series soar, however, is not the world-building, as intriguing as it is, but the heartfelt intensity of the emotions.”- Virginian-Pilot “A stunning achievement… Hollow City is even richer than Riggs’s imaginative debut, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.”- Boston Globe “A perfect blend of creepiness and thoughtfulness.”- PopMatters “ Hollow City mixes spooky vintage photos and action-packed storytelling to continue the story of Jacob Portman and his fellow “peculiars” as they travel through time to war-torn London.”-Dan Kois, Slate “A worthy follow-up, and as addictive a read as the first.”- Hypable Sadly, different groups in society such as women, the mentally disabled, and children have taken the brunt of an unfair type of “special treatment.” After reading this eye-opening book, you will be shocked by the injustice rampant in the legal system and want to do something about it. He takes a hard look at the system that is meant to safeguard its citizen’s rights but has become a cruel way to mistreat vulnerable members of society. So how about we hear some real, hands-on experiences from someone who actually has worked as a lawyer inside America’s prisons and courtrooms? In Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, Bryan Stevenson gives us exactly that. Your average person may not know it, but there are actually a lot of injustices happening there. But maybe not so shockingly, the real-life criminal justice system is pretty different. Maybe you feel like you know a lot about America’s criminal justice system because you love shows like Law & Order. Listen to the audio of this summary with a free reading.fm account*: When Raphael asks for her help in tracking down the kidnappers, Cyn's happy to accept. But when, in a brazen and deadly daylight attack, a gang of human killers kidnaps the one female vampire he'd give his life for, Raphael turns to a human investigator to find his enemies before it's too late.Ĭynthia Leighton is smart, tough and sexy, a private investigator and former cop who's tired of spying on cheating spouses and digging out old bank accounts. Thousands call him Master and have pledged absolute loyalty on their very lives. Powerful and charismatic, Raphael is a Vampire Lord, one of the few who hold the power of life and death over every vampire in existence. Malibu, California-home to rock-and-roll gods and movie stars, the beautiful, the rich. ReynoldsĪmazon | Barnes & Noble | The Ripped Bodice | Google Play Books Raphael (Vampires in America, #1) by D.B. The author had previously worked in a wartime munitions factory, before becoming an actor herself for 10 years, and writing for adults. The children in Streatfeild’s novel swear: “We three Fossils vow to try and put our names in history books because it’s our very own and nobody can say it’s because of our grandfathers.” Published in 1936, it was Streatfeild’s first book for children. There’s so much more to family than what you’re born into.” “There is a real simplicity to warmth and its magic … It really resonated with me, the idea that you don’t have to be related to someone by blood in order to consider them your family. “The thing that gets me right in the feels, right in the centre of my heart, is the fact it is endorsed by Noel Streatfeild’s estate,” Fletcher said. The yet-to-be-titled Ballet Shoes novel, which will be published in September, is her first book for children. She is also a vlogger with more than a million subscribers. 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"A beautiful, spooky spell." -Jenny Slate, actress and author of Little WeirdsĪ breathtaking and hypnotic novel about poison, antidotes, and obsessive love " Hex is some dark and joyous witchery." -Lauren Groff, author of Florida Knight's writing feels a little wild and charged, as if you're constantly on the edge of discovering something new with her." "A sophisticated, surprising take on the campus novel (with a welcome dose of witchery). "As precise as any scientific observation and far more tantalizing." - Vogue One of Vanity Fair's 21 Best Books of 2020 (So Far)Ī Vulture, LitHub, and PureWow Most Anticipated Book of 2020 In Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, however, the fence, for three young girls, is 'a symbol of love, home and security' those most coveted and most mourned entitlements for generations of stolen people. In fact, in a kind of carnivalesque humour, Pilkington contends that there were more rabbits on the Western Australian side of the fence than on the South Australian side. In 1907 a fence 1,834 kms in length was built from the Great Southern Ocean to the coast of the top end for the purpose of preventing rabbits invading Western Australia from the eastern states. "In Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence Pilkington recalls with a searing irony one of the more farcical projects of land management in the newly federated states of Australia. |