![]() ![]() ![]() In the same city, Andre De Leon, king of the vampires, stands trial for the massacre at Bishopcourt, and his coven’s justice system is infamous for its cruelty. But the clues keep slipping through her fingers someone is always one step ahead. So when a ritualistic murder occurs on a ley line in Romania and Gabrielle is called in to investigate, it seems like a harbinger of things to come.Īngelic victims, a killer that smells like ash and roses, and wounds that speak of pagan sacraments-it should be enough evidence for Gabrielle to solve the case and get back to her winter break. Her nights are plagued by dreams of him, and she wakes to find that she’s creeping closer to that unholy reunion. Two months since she learned that she might have to face him again. Two months since she slipped from the devil’s clutches. Two months since Gabrielle survived the horror that was Samhain. ***Due to language, violence, and sexual situations, this book is recommended for mature audiences.*** ![]()
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![]() ![]() When Meddelin Chan ends up accidentally killing her blind date, her meddlesome mother calls for her even more meddlesome aunties to help get rid of the body. You get 4 meddling Asian aunties coming to the rescue! What happens when you mix 1 (accidental) murder with 2 thousand wedding guests, and then toss in a possible curse on 3 generations of an immigrant Chinese-Indonesian family? ![]() One of PopSugar’s "42 Books Everyone Will Be Talking About in 2021"! This book had me laughing aloud within its first five pages… Utterly clever, deeply funny, and altogether charming, this book is sure to be one of the best of the year!”-Emily Henry, New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read “A hilarious, heartfelt romp of a novel about-what else?-accidental murder and the bond of family. "Sutanto brilliantly infuses comedy and culture into the unpredictable rom-com/murder mystery mashup as Meddy navigates familial duty, possible arrest and a groomzilla. I laughed out loud and you will too.”- USA Today (four-star review) You Can Do It!: Motivation and Self-Help Audiobooks. ![]()
![]() She will take over instead, then leverage their combined strength to force her society to stop failing its women and girls. But now that Zetian has had a taste of power, she will not cower so easily. To tame her frightening yet valuable mental strength, she is paired up with Li Shimin, the strongest male pilot in Huaxia, yet feared and ostracized for killing his father and brothers. But when she gets her vengeance, it becomes clear that she is an Iron Widow, a rare kind of female pilot who can sacrifice males to power up Chrysalises instead. ![]() When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister's death. It doesn't matter that the girls die from the mental strain. The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall of China. ![]() ![]() Pacific Rim meets The Handmaid's Tale in this blend of Chinese history and mecha science fiction for YA readers. The instant #1 New York Times bestseller, now available in a stunning new paperback look with bonus content. ![]() ![]() ![]() ĭouglass wrote three autobiographies, describing his experiences as an enslaved person in his Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845), which became a bestseller and was influential in promoting the cause of abolition, as was his second book, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855). It was in response to this disbelief that Douglass wrote his first autobiography. Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been enslaved. Accordingly, he was described by abolitionists in his time as a living counterexample to enslavers' arguments that enslaved people lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. ![]() After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. February 1817 or 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. ![]() Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. ![]() ![]() From the beginning, the reader knows that he is not Patrick but an imposter. ![]() Just before this milestone, a young man turns up claiming to be Patrick Ashby. ![]() Precarious, that is, until Simon, now the heir to his mother's fortune after Patrick's death, turns 21 when he will inherit. Beatrice Ashby (known as Bee) had stepped in to look after her nephews & nieces & take on the running of The Latchetts, the estate & horse stud that would provide a precarious living for the family. His parents had been killed in a plane crash shortly before but his family - twin brother Simon, sisters Eleanor, Jane & Ruth & Aunt Beatrice - & friends had no idea that he was distressed enough to take such a drastic step. He threw himself off a cliff or swam out to sea until he could swim no more. Patrick Ashby committed suicide when he was just thirteen. ![]() ![]() ![]() Oh, and a character comes back from the grave because nobody stays dead in comic books. This happens just as a new alien villain called Ord starts causing trouble. No sooner does the line-up get set than they get word that a scientists has created a so-called cure to the mutant gene that causes a variety of ethical debates as well as fear of what that could do in the wrong hands. Kitty Pryde returns to the school as Cyclops is forming a new team with the goal to promote the mutant cause by putting a flashy group out in public that would be more like the better known superheroes than a bunch of underground militant activists. (It’s reasonable to assume that his work here was a big reason that he’d later get the gig writing and directing the Avengers movies.) ![]() Marvel made a wise choice when they tapped Joss Whedon, lord of the TV geeks back then, to help get the X-Men out of the black leather and back into spandex. Grant Morrison did an ambitious run on New X-Men, but that story had to be walked back in the interests of continuing it in on-going mainstream superhero comics. ![]() ![]() ![]() His writing is characterized by frequent asides where he injects his own comments, giving the impression of a verbatim, unedited text. The second centers around Barthes’ discovery of a childhood photograph of his mother posthumously as he grapples with reality, truth, and time in images. The text is separated into two parts, the first discusses his efforts to classify photography. Among his most famous published works was Camera Lucida, a writing that explores photography through his attempts to reconcile his mother’s death through an old photograph he found of her. ![]() Roland Barthes, a French theorist, philosopher, and semiotician was born in 1915. ![]() Shayan Abbasi on The Wasteland: A Poem about De… Street Photography R… on Henri Cartier Bresson’s… ![]() ![]() I’m always a bit skeptical when an unplanned sequel comes out, and a part of me was concerned that this sequel was a cash grab inspired more by the public’s newfound interest than by the story itself. Considering that the first book has found new life on #booktok after its original publication in 2012 there was extra pressure on it. That’s a lot for a sequel to stand up to, and Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World would have had a lot to live up to regardless of circumstances. It’s painful but affirming, and while it doesn’t shy away from the ugliness of the world, it is ultimately a beautiful novel about love and hope. ![]() The characters are often unsure, but Saénz never is, deftly navigating the complexities of adolescence as Ari and Dante experience it. The simple, pared back prose is paired with a deeply emotional story of a conflicted young man whose complicated relationships with himself, his family, and the world around him change forever when a charming stranger offers to teach him how to swim. ![]() It’s always dangerous to reread books you remember as being brilliant, because it’s hard to stand up to ‘brilliant.’ Aristotle and Dante absolutely does, though. ![]() I’d only read it one time previously, but I remembered it as a quietly profound novel that was both beautiful and heartbreaking. In preparation for the sequel’s release, I reread Benjamin Alire Saénz’s novel Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe. ![]() ![]() How can he keep his family safe in this new land when the weight of his history threatens to drag them down? Yet how can Lily learn who she is if she can never know her family’s story? Though his daughter is desperate to understand her heritage, he refuses to talk about his childhood. Years later, Renshu has settled in America as Henry Dao. Relying on little but their wits and a beautifully illustrated hand scroll, filled with ancient fables that offer solace and wisdom, they must travel through a ravaged country, seeking refuge. But with the Japanese army approaching, Meilin and her four year old son, Renshu, are forced to flee their home. It is 1938 in China and, as a young wife, Meilin’s future is bright. Keep reading this book review for my full thoughts. Peach Blossom Spring is a nuanced adult historical fiction debut that is also perfect for readers who want to explore diasporic identity. Fu’s debut explores the different forms of resistance and survival. Peach Blossom Spring is a multi-generational story about identity and survival. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Innocence" and "Experience" are definitions of consciousness that rethink Milton's existential-mythic states of "Paradise" and "Fall". Blake was also a painter before the creation of Songs of Innocence and Experience and had painted such subjects as Oberon, Titania, and Puck dancing with fairies. It appeared in two phases: a few first copies were printed and illuminated by Blake himself in 1789 five years later, he bound these poems with a set of new poems in a volume titled Songs of Innocence and of Experience Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul. Songs of Innocence and of Experience is a collection of illustrated poems by William Blake. ![]() ![]() Songs of Innocence and of Experience Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul title page ![]() |