Each character is very different, but important in her own way, and together they make a funny, lovable team. In addition to the brave, level-headed Cinder, the fiery Scarlet, and the sweet, intelligent Cress, we now have Ms beautiful and crazy. In Winter, I loved the title character so much. Lots of funny and touching dynamics, lots of great friendships to remind us that romance isn't everything. I also love how far the relationships have come. She gets the amount of each just right, changing up enough to keep it surprising and exciting, but slotting in many parallels to the original stories that often catch me by surprise and make me smile. I've come to the conclusion that I really like how Meyer balances retelling with the traditional story. I was a bit concerned seeing as I generally think any YA book over 500 pages feels too long, but I needn't have worried. You know, I actually checked and this is the longest YA book I have ever read at over 820 pages, the second longest being Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix at 766 pages. And this longass final installment was a heart-pounding, fast-paced finale. After finally giving in and picking up Scarlet, even though I hated Cinder, I just haven't been able to get enough of this series. The last few weeks have been a whirlwind of Lunar Chronicles. “She was prettier than a bouquet of roses and crazier than a headless chicken.
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Everyone has an angle or two, and once the plots stumble through an awkward first third, Leonard's hallmark breakneck pacing, crackling dialogue, and scalpel-sharp prose kick in. Rogues they encounter include a "whirlwind Texas entrepreneur" sailing around the world a crooked diplomat in league with a charismatic pirate, both eyeing a payday and a pair of kidnapped al-Qaeda operatives, one an American citizen with a bounty on his head. Dara Barr, a documentary filmmaker newly arrived in Djibouti to make a film about pirates as a follow-up to her Oscar-winning Katrina documentary, and Dara's savvy friend and fixer, Xavier, stumble into a thicket of intrigue before the two are on the open water. Leonard (Road Dogs) goes exotic with this eventually killer story of contemporary piracy set on the horn of Africa. Enchantments run deep on Cadence: gossip is carried by the wind, plaid shawls can be as strong as armor, and the smallest cut of a knife can instill fathomless fear. But when young girls start disappearing from the isle, Jack is summoned home to help find them. Jack Tamerlaine hasn’t stepped foot on Cadence in ten long years, content to study music at the mainland university. House of Earth and Blood meets The Witch's Heart in New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Ross’s brilliant first adult fantasy, set on the magical isle of Cadence where two childhood enemies must team up to discover why girls are going missing from their clan. “With lush world building and lyrical prose, A River Enchanted feels like the echo of a folktale from a world right next to our own.” -Hannah Whitten, New York Times bestselling author of For the Wolf To make matters worse, Shannon’s eccentric and opinionated grandmother moves in with her and her mom after a fluke house fire. She lands a lead role, and everyone in her life is ecstatic. But when she braves the audition, she discovers that center stage is the one place where she doesn’t feel anxious. As a twelve-year-old with obsessive-compulsive disorder, she depends on routine. But when the director of the summer musical hears Shannon singing, he encourages her to step out of the wings and into the spotlight.Īt first, Shannon is hesitant. Shannon’s always been content to stay backstage, helping wherever she can. Not like her two BFFs, Elise, an actress, and Fatima, a techie. Shannon Carter never considered herself much of a theater person. After Shannon accidentally lands a lead role in the summer musical, she realizes she has bigger things to worry about than stage fright in this contemporary middle-school novel about strained friendships, the positive power of theater, and the realities of being a tween with OCD. In this warm and witty memoir, she describes finding and keeping a personal faith in the quirky settings of her ultra-Christian childhood. Sarah Cunningham, a moderate middle-class white girl who grew up in the Michigan countryside, speaks about God with humor and honesty more characteristic of liberal west-coast writers in this Picking Dandelions Ebook. Living with a Disability or Chronic Condition.Your Library Staff Offer Their Favorites-AUDIOBOOKS.Audie Awards Winners & Finalists: 2004-2021. It's All Greek to Me No More - Great Courses and Pimsleur Audio.Find and Listen to a Classic That You Missed. Sara, an Atlanta attorney, struggles with her own slowly unraveling marriage. Mel, a mystery writer living in New York, is grappling with the aftermath of two failed marriages and a stalled writing career. But as the week wears on and each woman’s hidden story is gradually revealed, these four friends learn that they must inevitably confront their shared past, and a secret that threatens to change their bond, and their lives, forever. Mel, Sara, Annie, and Lola have traveled diverse paths since their years together at a small Southern liberal arts college during the early 1980s. Now the friends, all in their forties, converge on Lola’s lavish North Carolina beach house in an attempt to relive the carefree days of their college years. And sweet-tempered Lola whiles away her hours-and her husband’s money-on little pills that keep her happy. Annie, a successful Nashville businesswoman married to her childhood sweetheart, can’t seem to leave behind the regrets of her youth. Mel, Sara, Annie, and Lola have traveled diverse paths since their years together at a small Southern liberal arts college during the early 1980s. Holton refreshes the action with winning humor.”- Publishers Weekly “Break out the tissues, sunblock, and margarita mix as four friends reunite after twenty-three years for a beach party in feast of Southern friendship. Teig is fascinated by the culture along the Road of Bones, and encounters strange characters on the way to the Oymyakon, but when the team arrives, they find the village mysteriously abandoned apart from a mysterious 9-year-old girl. Accompanied by his camera operator, Teig hires a local Yakut guide to take them to Oymyakon, the coldest settlement on Earth. Their bodies were buried where they fell, plowed under the permafrost, underneath the road.įelix Teigland, or “Teig,” is a documentary producer, and when he learns about the Road of Bones, he realizes he’s stumbled upon untapped potential. Under Stalin, at least eighty Soviet gulags were built along the route to supply the USSR with a readily available workforce, and over time hundreds of thousands of prisoners died in the midst of their labors. Kolyma Highway, otherwise known as the Road of Bones, is a 1200 mile stretch of Siberian road where winter temperatures can drop as low as sixty degrees below zero. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. Afterward, the quality of the series quickly dropped off, and its probably not a coincidence that happened after Barker exited the creative side. Barker then wrote the story for, and executive produced, 1988s Hellbound: Hellraiser 2. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Barker wrote and directed the first Hellraiser, based on his own novella The Hellbound Heart. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. The Hellbound Heart is an intense little book, a tightly locked chamber of story with only four characters: Frank, Julia, Rory, and Rory’s hapless friend Kirsty. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. I’m usually not a fan of cozy mysteries, as they can tend to be insipid and shallow, but this one is intelligent and engaging. The story had lots of red herrings and I will admit to not knowing who was behind all the murders until the end. I also appreciated that the true detective was not a dolt but equally intelligent. I enjoyed watching Heath become a detective as a way to save himself. But Lenox is barely at his uncle’s house for Christmas when his uncle’s fiancé is shot dead and he’s set up to take the fall. The story starts when a dead fat man is found at the entrance of Major Heathcliff Lenox’s house. But it’s also got a nice element of humor thrown in. It’s been described as a mix of Downton Abbey and Agatha Christie and it’s an apt description. I needed a bit of a breather from listening to deep books. |