![]() ![]() My upper lip curled when I took in all that skin covered by nothing but triangles of fabric and stings. This is Braeden's book, and I hope you all enjoy reading about him as much as I have loved writing about him! If you enjoy this book please leave a review! thank you!!From the Inside FlapExcerpt from #Selfie I ripped the cotton dress over her head and threw it onto the floor. Until it follows you home.From the AuthorSelfie is the fourth book in the #Hashtag Series. ![]() What happens during spring break stays in spring break. Especially for a girl everyone knows I hate. Friendships are tested and the feels get real. When it shows up on the school Buzzfeed, rumors fly. The one piece of evidence that could remind us both. #Selfie is the fourth book in the Hashtag Series***It's all about the #Selfie.*She was the one girl I never wanted. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Wells’ The Time Machine (MGM, 1960), starring Rod Taylor, the entirety of which I watched while almost bleeding out. ![]() I was a bit faint and in something of a science fictional mood. At that point, I assumed I bled out in an alternate universe. As he stitched up my arm, the doctor muttered that if the cut had been another centimeter toward my wrist, I’d be dead already. She sat me in front of the TV and wrapped my arm in a yellow beach towel, which soon turned dark red, so leaden with blood that it made a squishing noise when I moved. My mother telephoned for someone to watch my sister, and then for a doctor who might open his office on a Sunday. But when I saw shards of glass in the frame, I jerked away, leaving a two-inch gash in my forearm. At the age of ten, while running on my family’s patio I slipped and put my arm through the window of the kitchen door. ![]() ![]() ![]() Published shortly after the beginning (and rapid end) of the first Gulf War, Baghdad Without a Map collects Horwitz’s dispatches from places like Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, Iran and Sudan to paint a multi-faceted human face on a region that is too often obscured by crisis-driven news stories. The Middle East is a region that is constantly in the news, though amidst all the headlines and analysis coming from the area, it is rare that we ever learn about the lives of the people who dwell there. ![]() ![]() To mark our five-year anniversary, we’re counting down the top 30 travel books of all time, adding a new title each day this month. ![]() ![]() ![]() This also took the thriller somewhere else, in that it incorporated real people and events into the story to dramatic effect. The proposition of how you get somebody to read a book from start to finish when they know the ending is handled magnificently. It's a chase story, about the hunt for somebody, but what makes it so special is that it has a remarkable narrative engine to it, given that we know before we start the book that the assassin is going to fail in his bid to kill a real head of state. ![]() It was the first of the heightened-detail thrillers filled with the sort of in-depth procedural and technical information that have become a large part of the fascination for readers of such books. ![]() ![]() ![]() But can this elevation only happen with stories of kindness? Must the rest of the news abandon us to despair?The world is asking us to consider that question deeply. She defined kindness and heroism as “moral beauty,” which “triggers ‘elevation’ – a positive and uplifting feeling” that “acts as an emotional reset button, replacing feelings of cynicism with hope, love and optimism.”The study suggested this happens when one watches a news story about kindness after watching ones about bombings, cruelty, and violence. They support “the belief that the world and people in it are good.” And they provide “relief to the pain we experience when we see others suffering.”It was her fourth point that stuck with me. A week ago, a British researcher published an article titled “Stories of kindness may counteract the negative effects of looking at bad news.” As you might imagine, I was intrigued.Kathryn Buchanan of the University of Essex shared four main takeaways from her research: Stories of kindness remind us of our shared values. ![]() ![]() His novels are critically acclaimed, and reviewers from the Boston Globe and The New York Times have compared his work with the novels of Graham Greene and John le Carré. ![]() His stories are set in the period between World War II and 1950, and he has often used a real event, such as the Potsdam Conference or the Manhattan Project, as the background for a murder case. Further novels followed, including The Prodigal Spy, The Good German and Alibi. His first novel, Los Alamos (1997), became a bestseller and received the Edgar Award for Best First Novel in 1998. Kanon was the editor in chief, CEO, and president of the publishing houses Houghton Mifflin and E. As an undergraduate, he published his first stories in The Atlantic Monthly. Kanon studied at Harvard University, and at Trinity College in Cambridge. ![]() ![]() In 1946, Kanon was born in Pennsylvania, U.S. Joseph Kanon (born 1946) is an American author, best known for thriller and spy novels set in the period immediately after World War II. ![]() ![]() ![]() This class was to deep dive into the effects of the transatlantic slave trade on the formation of diasporic black identity. The clever name drew me in, but I was arrested by the intended lesson plan for the year. It was called How to Lose Your Mother, taking its inspiration from a similarly named book by Saidiya Hartman. I was young, confused, and angry, remember? My delusions were my own.īut somehow, accidentally, I found myself in one of those dreaded Africana classes. ![]() Why rehash an ancestral history that lived deep within my bones? Why suffer through another shameful lesson on black suffering in front of my peers? Why be reminded of a distant traumatizing past, when I was trying to steer myself into a brighter future? I was committed to a blank state of being, where merit and intelligence ruled over this country’s whole messy racial business. By the time I found it, I had spent two years stubbornly avoiding the accursed Africana trap I had imagined in my head. ![]() Of course, on my predominantly white, liberal-ass college campus, at the dawn of Obama’s second presidency, this class was not an outlier by any means. ![]() During a particularly tumultuous phase of my early undergraduate career, marred by angry confusion at the unfamiliar metamorphosis of my identities, I stumbled upon a class about slavery. ![]() ![]() this narration of Coming Home by Helen Johns is like nails on a chaulk board, sadly there is an actual under lying whinning to this poor women’s voice.I have looked at her acting reel on line - and she has far more depth of being and aliveness. While I was eventually able to adjust to Jilly Bond reading Winter Solstice, and a few more of these newly released recordings. I listened to these stories once a year and was transported completely to the two places of my childhood Scotland and Cornwall. Full of Life, Deeply Heartfelt, Nuanced with an exquisite well trained and beautiful voice. The 1995 recording of Home Coming and the 2000 recording of Winter Solstice, were brillantly narrated by Lynn Redgrave. If you could sum up Coming Home in three words, what would they be?Ĭoming Home and Winter Solstice are two beloved stories by Rosamund Pilcher. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Praise for One of Us Is Next: ?"Full of exciting and unexpected twists and racing toward a shocking conclusion, McManus's tale will not disappoint fans, and those unfamiliar with her previous work will inhale this complicated story of friendship and revenge." -Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "A thrilling read. Fans of the hit thriller that started it all can watch the secrets of the Bayview Four be revealed in the One of Us is Lying TV series now streaming on NBC's Peacock! Read more ![]() Simon's gone, but someone's determined to keep his legacy at Bayview High alive. The dares have become deadly, and if Maeve learned anything from Bronwyn last year, it's that they can't count on the police for help. But by the time Knox is about to be tagged, things have gotten dangerous. Then comes Maeve and she should know better-always choose the dare. This time it's not an app, though-it's a game. ut in the year since the Bayview four were cleared of his shocking death, no one's been able to fill the gossip void quite like he could. A ton of copycat gossip apps have popped up since Simon died, b. The highly anticipated sequel to One of Us Is Lying! Come on, Bayview, you know you've missed this. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * There's a new mystery to solve at Bayview High, and there's a whole new set of rules. One of Us Is Next: The Sequel to One of Us Is Lying ![]() ![]() ![]() Because Lylla was killed by the High Evolutionary before ever getting to escape and travel the skies, she wouldn't be in Rocket's file. While that name-drop seemed to hint at Lylla initially being established as a known space bandit like Rocket and Groot, the reality is much sadder. 3's chain of events actually change - and counteract - how Lylla was first referenced in the first Guardians film, where she was listed as one of the known "associates" of Rocket on this Xandarian rap sheet. Rocket and Lylla manage to escape their cages, but the High Evolutionary shows up and shoots and kills Lylla. ![]() Over the course of the flashbacks, Rocket discovers that he and his friends are going to get killed in the High Evolutionary's latest plans, and maneuvers a way for them to escape and fly away in a nearby spaceship. By Rocket's side (through the bars of their adjoining cages) are a trio of other animal experiments, including an otter named Lylla (Linda Cardellini). 3 flashes back to Rocket's early days of being experimented on and tortured by the High Evolutionary (Chukwudi Iwuji). As the Guardians work to save the life of a dying Rocket Raccoon (Bradley Cooper) in the present day, Vol. ![]() |