![]() ![]() I know I am looking forward to reading more books by this author. Praise for DINERS, DIVES & DEAD ENDS "Austin's debut kicks off her planned series by introducing a quirky, feisty heroine and a great supporting cast of characters and.quite a number of interesting twists." – Kirkus Reviews"This traditional mystery captured my attention from the opening pages to the exhilarating finale.this was an enjoyable read in this debut series and I look forward to more adventures with Rose and the gang for years to come." – Dru Ann Love, The Cozy Chicks Blog"I predict this will be a long and successful series.I strongly recommend picking a copy up to read this summer. She's gone from zero to sixty and quickly learns when you're speeding down the fast lane, it's easy to crash and burn. With her anime-loving bestie, her septuagenarian boss, and a pair of IT wise men along for the ride, Rose discovers political corruption, illegal gambling, and shady corporations. ![]() Now she's hashing it out with sexy bad guys and scrambling to find clues in a race to save Axton before his time runs out. But when her close friend, Axton, disappears, Rose suddenly finds herself serving up more than hot coffee and flapjacks. I absolutely can't wait to see what is in store for Rose and her quirky friends next." – Cozy Mystery Book ReviewsAs a struggling waitress and part-time college student, Rose Strickland's life is stalled in the slow lane. A QUIRKY, FEISTY HEROINE."With twists, turns and surprises that left me hanging on right to the end, I couldn't put it down. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It's only with her email friend John that she can really be herself. From the roots of her dyed blonde hair.There are a lot of things Jamie hates about her life: her dark hair, her dad's Stone Age Charter of Curfew Rights, her real name – Jamilah Towfeek.For the past three years Jamie has hidden her Lebanese background from everyone at school. Jamie or Jamilah?ĪB - Jamie wants to be the real thing. Will she risk it all? And does she know who she is. The only way she'll be allowed to attend is by revealing her true identity. As for John, he seems to have a pretty big secret of his own.To top it all off, Jamie's school formal is coming up. Then there's Timothy, the school loner, who for some reason Jamie just can't stop thinking about. But now things are getting complicated: the most popular boy in school is interested in her, but there's no way he would be if he knew the truth. ![]() ![]() ![]() After that, their contact with each other ended. It turns out that the two friends had sex with each other during a summer vacation two years before the present date. However, on the last evening Alex takes a picture to remember their time together.įrom this point on, the narrative weaves the present and past summer vacations together to explain the current relationship between Alex and Poppy. The Sanibel Island vacation is not perfect. She was bullied in high school, and her parents tend to make people feel uncomfortable. Poppy has worked hard to escape the town. Alex is now a high-school literary teacher who still lives in his and Poppy’s home town, Linfield. In spite of having opposite personality traits, they became friends after carpooling home during their first college summer vacation. Poppy Wright, a travel blogger, is on vacation on Sanibel Island with her best friend, Alex Nilsen. ![]() ![]() ![]() The narrative opens five summers before the present day. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Henry, Emily. ![]() ![]() People of both genders were fascinated by what they could see through the holes in a lattice or the gap in a hedge-a man’s cherry-red hunting cloak, say, or a woman’s hazy but elegant figure bent over a scroll. In the Heian era, aristocratic women lived in a kind of purdah, hidden behind curtains and screens, an arrangement that didn’t blunt the male gaze so much as intensify it to the point of shared obsession, saturating court life. It’s possible to wonder whether the author’s mode of life was an influence on the book’s construction. Instead, it makes the writerly argument for the emotional resonance of surfaces. As such, it somehow manages to feel intensely intimate without ever becoming particularly introspective. ![]() ![]() Not quite a diary or journal, not really a memoir, The Pillow Book stubbornly refuses to fit a ready-made category-refuses to be anything other than what it is: an unapologetic emanation of Sei Shonagon’s personality. ![]() It’s been an acknowledged classic for centuries, and yet readers still struggle with its unusual form, a nonlinear structure combining many different types of personal writing, including anecdote, memoir, essay, aphorism, and reverie. The Pillow Book was written over a thousand years ago by Sei Shonagon, a lady-in-waiting to Japan’s Empress Teishi. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Red Tent is historical fiction, an extended midrash on the biblical story of Dinah, the daughter of Jacob and his wife Leah. Though vastly different in setting, story, and style, both novels deal with the theme of women’s friendships - a delectable topic, for, as Diamant said at the reading in Concord, “Women’s friendship is the chocolate of life.” She told the audience that her non-fiction books have all been about “making choices as a Jew in a non-Jewish world,” and readers of her fiction can see that she continues to write about this topic in her new career as a novelist. ![]() Her first two novels, The Red Tent and Good Harbor, show that she is quite successfully managing her career change. ![]() ![]() When the syndicated columnist and author of several successful non-fiction books about being Jewish, including Choosing a Jewish Life (New York: Schoken, 1998) turned 40, she was ready for a career change. In an author reading I attended last January in Concord, Massachusetts, Anita Diamant told listeners about her work as a novelist. The Friendships of Women- A review of two novels by Anita Diamant ![]() ![]() The judges shared how hard it was because there are now so many great books being published. In order to handle this large number of books, the Awards had 198 judges in 2021. ![]() and Int’l publishers, up from 19% five years ago. The 2021 Finalists for the 23rd Annual International Latino Book Awards are another reflection of the growing quality of books by and about Latinos. ![]() In 2020 Latinos will purchase over $750 million in books in The size of the Awards is proof that books by and about Latinos are in high demand. Latino cultural Awards in the USA and with the 276 finalists this year in 105 categories, it has now honored the greatness of 3,470 authors and publishers over the The International Latino Book Awards is a major reflection that the fastest growing group in the USA has truly arrived. ![]() The 23rd International Latino Book Awards Finalists: Major Publishers Are Paying Attention to Books By & About Latinos ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Or perhaps, it has been these last couple years of official violence directed at the poor and the black in many of our biggest cities (St Louis, Baltimore, Las Angeles, New York). You could say Ta-Nehisi Coates brought me here (after reading Between the World and Me). So I turned my TV off, tuned out, and read me some James Baldwin. I'm not exactly in love with the Democrats either, but the GOP clown car is just too long, too tiring, too damn depressing. I knew I couldn't face the Donald and his band of equally exquisite misfits. If we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophesy, re-created from the Bible in a song by a slave, is upon us: "God gave Noah the rainbow sign, No more water, the fire next time!" - James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time I just couldn't watch the second GOP debates tonight. ![]() If we - an now I mean the relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks, who must, like lovers, insist on, or create, the consciousness of the others- do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world. Sad and moving and powerful and beautiful ![]() ![]() For five months Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways on one of the most savage regions of the world. In October 1915, still half a continent away from their intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in ice. The object of the expedition was to cross the Antarctic overland. ![]() In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men set sail for the South Atlantic on board a ship called the Endurance. ![]() ![]() The story is gripping and the book is a classic of its kind' Sir Ranulph Fiennes Endurance is the story of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded. 'One of the most remarkable tales of human courage and determination. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pike has his teenagers dwell a realistic amount on sex, making-out and the dubious perks of virginity, but Jean doesn't have to 'degrade' herself for a buck. I also liked how self-conscious she was about being a 'new' flier. Her rueful thoughts about the school assignment that made her two days late to join them and the thankless JELLO-job she performed to make the money to pay for the trip were endearing. In this story, Jean is excited to join her friend Mandy and congenial acquaintance Michele on their long-planned trip to Maui. I love the supernatural, but visions and dreams only do so much for a book. Unfortunately, while these are all good things, Pike's plots do tend to fizzle out and lean heavily on late-game psychic explanations. ![]() ![]() Pike's books are psychologically more complex, filled with detail that engrosses the reader on a subject while serving up a scary plot - in this case scuba-diving - and the covers are objectively cooler. Stine and, after reading 'Bury Me Deep', I'm not sure why. Christopher Pike always came second to me after R.L. ![]() ![]() ![]() Illustrator Clement Hurd included dozens of intentional, minor variations from page to page. Take a closer look at the illustrations next time you read Goodnight Moon and you’ll find surprising complexity. ![]() This helps to explain both why the book has a wonderfully hypnotic effect on sleepy children, and why it bores parents to tears. ![]()
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