![]() ![]() Spencer, a despised classmate’s mom, to a qualified defense of intellectual freedom at a school board meeting: “Nobody has the right to tell you what books you can and can’t read except your parents.” Meanwhile, as more books vanish, Amy Anne sets up a secret lending library of banned titles in her locker-a ploy that eventually gets her briefly suspended by the same unsympathetic principal who fires the school’s doctorate-holding white librarian for defiantly inviting Dav Pilkey in for an author visit. Frankweiler has been removed from the library at the behest of Mrs. In a tale that is dominated but not overwhelmed by its agenda, Gratz takes Amy Anne, a young black bibliophile, from the devastating discovery that her beloved From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. A shy fourth-grader leads the revolt when censors decimate her North Carolina school’s library. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Otherwise, the whole "She's such a badass" just wouldn't make any sense. There was another writer aside from James that has their main MC just utterly incapable of fighting off their libido. I loved the dedication and extreme love between Kate and her men, without it being cliche or too lovey-dovey and the narration really exuded that emotion and portrayal. A couple moments I had to pause because it just hit me right in the feels. ![]() The emotion that was in this finale was spectacular. In terms of the narration, this was just as spot on as the others. I am so happy Tate went in this direction, I love her muse and hope it doesn't stop on this contemporary train!! See a lot of love comments, I could ramble on all day haha. I loved how Tate opened it up for a future spinoff or two. It made for some mindf-^& moments, but I was happy about every single one of them haha. I liked that we couldn't figure out who the stalker was 100% and we had no clue about Hades haha. I loved every minute of it (even with the cliffhangers and all the heart palpitating moments hahaha). Thank you Tate for writing this gritty, hilarious, and sexy RH contemporary series. I cannot say enough good things about this series. The twists and turns in this series kept me on my toes. I love this series so much, definitely going to be at or above Kit Davenport in my top 10 RH series. I sped read through it because of how we were left in book 3. ![]() I am not going to give away any spoilers, but all I can say is I am already wishing I made Kate last longer haha. ![]() ![]() The first part of the book, titled “Being,” recounts events in Sybil’s journey to wellness before this episode in Philadelphia, from Sybil’s first becoming a patient of Dr. It recounts a crucial turning point in Sybil’s analysis, the course of which is the subject of the book. This episode vividly illustrates the unnamed, terrifying, and crippling illness Sybil suffers from, from her own perspective. She realizes she has “lost” five days since she her last memory, which was standing by the elevator at Columbia. ![]() ![]() Using a room key, she finds in her purse and lets herself into a hotel room filled with objects she doesn’t recognize. Finally, Sybil discovers that she is in Philadelphia. Panicked, she wanders around in the emptiness, trying to figure out where she is, how she got there, where to go. ![]() When the book opens, Sybil Dorsett has found herself suddenly transported from the halls of Columbia University, where she is obtaining her master’s degree, to a dark, unrecognizable city block. ![]() ![]() A site where early humans butchered each other across sixty thousand years. Disturbing subterranean noises he recorded prior to vanishing, draw her to Brickburgh's caves. Helene, a disillusioned lone parent, lost her brother, Lincoln, six years ago. But when a vast hoard of human remains and prehistoric artefacts is discovered in nearby Brickburgh, a hideous shadow engulfs her life. ![]() Lifestyle journalist Katrine escaped past traumas by moving to a coast renowned for seaside holidays and natural beauty. Ancient rites, old deities and savage ways can reappear in the places you least expect. ![]() ![]() Nor did it bury the horrors predating civilisation. "One million years of evolution didn't change our nature. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sovereign individuals in their natural surroundings are in a perpetual ‘state of war’ against each other with the primal goal of self-preservation. Hobbesian description of the state of nature has been termed as the bedrock of the realist theory. Politics Among Nations and the State of Nature I conclude by arguing that both classical realists and neorealists fail to address the theoretical gaps in their appropriation of Hobbes. ![]() The last section further differentiates between the positivism of neorealism and the rationalism of Hobbes to argue the incongruence of the Hobbesian state of nature with the international system. The second section emphasizes the ontology of the state in Leviathan and contrasts it with realist claims of the anarchic international system. ![]() The first section compares the arguments in Morgenthau’s Politics Among Nations and Hobbesian political thought with reference to the analogy of the state of nature. In this essay, I examine the criterion for interpreting Hobbesian political thought, specifically his work Leviathan, as a precursor to classical realism and neorealism. While Machiavelli’s contribution to realism is the dichotomy of politics and morality, Hobbes is credited for the relevance of his anarchic state of nature in the international realm. The realist school of international relations is known to draw heavily from the political thought of Thomas Hobbes and Niccolo Machiavelli. ![]() ![]() ![]() Disguising her identity, she seizes an opportunity to train in the Crown Prince's service, learning to master archery and magic, despite the passion which flames between her and the emperor's son. ![]() But when her magic flares and her existence is discovered, Xingyin is forced to flee her home, leaving her mother behind.Īlone, powerless, and afraid, she makes her way to the Celestial Kingdom, a land of wonder and secrets. Growing up on the moon, Xingyin is accustomed to solitude, unaware that she is being hidden from the powerful Celestial Emperor who exiled her mother for stealing his elixir of immortality. ![]() A captivating debut fantasy inspired by the legend of the Chinese moon goddess.Ī young woman's quest to free her mother pits her against the most powerful immortal in the realm, setting her on a dangerous path where those she loves are not the only ones at risk. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mary Kubica, bestselling author of The Good Girl. ![]() I loved everything about Where I Lost Her. Sunday Independent (Ireland) Spellbinding. Eloquent, pacy and compelling, this is a book to be devoured whole - I couldn't put it down. A superbly crafted and suspenseful thriller, Where I Lost Her is a gripping, haunting novel from a remarkable storyteller. And yet Tess is compelled to keep looking, in a desperate effort to save the little girl she can't forget. As local police point out, Tess's imagination has played her false before. But there are no sightings, no other witnesses, no reports of missing children. The entire town begins searching for the little girl. Tess is visiting friends in rural Vermont when she is driving alone at night and sees a young, half-dressed toddler in the middle of the road, who then runs into the woods like a frightened deer. How far would you go to save a child? Where I Lost Her follows one woman's journey through heartbreak and loss, as she searches for the truth about a missing little girl. ![]() ![]() ![]() The first book in Eloisa James's dazzling new series set in the Georgian period glows with her trademark wit and sexy charm-and introduces a large, eccentric family. It’s set in the Georgian period, when people wore big wigs and bigger skirts. You might think of the series as a cross between Modern Family and Downton Abbey. He's never lost a battle.īut a spirited woman like Willa isn't going to make it easy. The Wildes of Lindow Castle follows the large, eccentric family of the Duke of Lindow, who live in a castle on the edge of a sprawling bog. She wants nothing to do with a man whose private life is splashed over every newspaper.Īlaric has never met a woman he wanted for his own. Her love of books and bawdy jokes is purely for the delight of her intimate friends. Willa presents the fa ade of a serene young lady to the world. 'Eloisa James is extraordinary.' People Magazine'Nothing gets me. Alaric escapes to his father's castle, but just as he grasps that he's not only famous but notorious, he encounters the very private, very witty, Miss Willa Ffynche. Read 745 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Arriving home from years abroad, he has no idea of his own celebrity until his boat is met by mobs of screaming ladies. ![]() ![]() Lord Alaric Wilde, son of the Duke of Lindow, is the most celebrated man in England, revered for his dangerous adventures and rakish good looks. ![]() ![]() True, a 200+ page novel had to be condensed into one hour and 42 minutes. ![]() Joan Hickson is most probably the Miss Marple that Agatha Christie envisioned - more so than Margaret Rutherford or Helen Hayes, for example, but the rest of the production is not. And while the original novel does this as well, it doesn't spring things on us totally out of the blue. The script is rather heavy-handed, moving quickly from one incident to another with little or no set-up. Here, Miss Marple is used to being involved, and police are used to consulting her, however much they resent having to do so. This edition was evidently produced later in the series. Murder at the Vicarage was Agatha's Christie's first adventure with Miss Marple. ![]() The underlying problem with this version of Murder at the Vicarage is that the producers took it out of order. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book also earned #1 best seller placement on Amazon's nonfiction list. Cylin and John co-wrote a memoir about the experience which went on to become a best seller, placing at #3 on the nonfiction lists for The Wall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly. ![]() During the resulting investigation, the family was relocated and lived in hiding for five years. In 1979, her police officer father, John Busby, was seriously injured in a shooting. Young Adult fiction, memoir, supernatural fiction, thrillerĬylin Busby is an author and screenwriter, known for the best-selling true crime memoir, The Year We Disappeared, written with her father John Busby.īorn the youngest of three children (she has two older brothers, Eric Busby and Shawn Busby), Cylin grew up in Falmouth on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. ![]() |