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Since she was a little girl, she has imagined soaring above Earth and proving her bravery. No one will let Spensa forget what her father did, but she is determined to fly. And the Krell just made that a possibility. Who cares that the prize for the Sun City Originals contest is fifteen grand? It used to be the three of them, Dia, Jules, and Hanna, messing around and making music and planning for the future. But that was then, and this is now—and now means a baby, a failed relationship, a stint in rehab, all kinds of off beats that have interrupted the rhythm of their friendship. And for Dia, Jules, and Hanna, this impossible challenge—to ignore the past, in order to jump start the future—will only become possible if they finally make peace with the girls they once were, and the girls they are finally letting themselves be.
The mission was a failure. Even though Zivah and Dineas discovered a secret that could bring down the empire, their information is useless without proof. Now, with their cover blown and their quest abandoned, their only remaining hope is to get home before Ampara brings the full might of its armies against their peoples. As Shidadi and Dara alike prepare for war, Zivah and Dineas grapple with the toll of their time in the capital. After fighting alongside the Amparans against his own kin, can Dineas convince the Shidadi—and himself—where his loyalties lie?
And after reluctantly falling in love, what will the two do with their lingering feelings, now that the Dineas from Sehmar City is gone forever? Time is running out for all of them, but especially Zivah whose plague symptoms surface once again. Together, healer and warrior must find the courage to save their people, expose the truth, and face the devastating consequences headed their way.
But now that power lies with the Judges, who are set on destroying the Augurs for good. In a desperate bid to save her family, Wren takes a dangerous undercover assignment as an intern amidst those who want her dead. But as the web of lies, deceit, and betrayal thickens around her, she finds herself hurtling towards a truth that threatens to consume her and reveal who she really is. A body that is definitely male, definitely still alive. Yet one lies before her, sick, suffering, and at her mercy.
Neither was her boyfriend, Chandler. And so was Rudy, a cute stranger Go shared a connection with the night before. And Caroline, a girl whose silence ended up costing nineteen people their lives. With Chan completely closed off to even talking about it, Go makes an impulsive decision: There they will board an art installation made of the charred remnants of Bus 21 and hopefully reach some sort of resolution.
But things are never easy when it comes to rehashing the past. Uniting the four stirs up conflicting feelings of anger and forgiveness, and shows them that, although they all survived, they may still need saving. I was one of five. The five girls Kyle texted that day. The girls it could have been. Only Jamie—beautiful, saintly Jamie—was kind enough to respond. And it got her killed. But our tenacious narrator is full of anger, stuck somewhere between the horrifying past and the unknown future as she tries to piece together why she gets to live, while Jamie is dead.
Is hope possible in the face of such violence? How do you go on living when you know it could have been you instead? The town of Griffin Flat is known for almost nothing other than its nuclear missile silos. When sixteen-year-old Laura Ratliff wins a walk-on role with a plus-one! Mingling with Hollywood stars on the set of a phony nuclear war is a perfect distraction from being the only child in her real nuclear family—which has also been annihilated. Her parents are divorced. Her mother has recently married one of the only African-American men in town.
Her father, an officer in the Strategic Air Command, is absent…except when he phones at odd hours to hint at an impending catastrophe. She picks him as her plus-one and manages to enrage both her fair-weather friends and film crew. Because nobody seems to know if a real nuclear bomb has detonated or not. Owen Foster has never wanted for anything. Then his mother shows up at his elite New Orleans boarding school cradling a bombshell: In , eighteen-year-old Janet Jones keeps the love she shares with her best friend Marie a secret.
As she juggles a romance she must keep hidden and a newfound ambition to write and publish her own story, she risks exposing herself—and Marie—to a danger all too real. From hiking trips to four-person birthday parties to never-ending group texts, Jess, Lee, Ryan, and Nora have always been inseparable. And so, as always, Jess makes a plan. But as the year unfolds, Jess, Lee, Ryan, and Nora each test the bonds that hold them together. And amid first loves, heartbreaks, and life-changing decisions, beginning again is never as simple as it seems.
No one is safe, not with a horrifying new strain of Sleeping Sickness tearing through the population. After fleeing the City with her friends, Sev has one goal: With no leads, Sev is running out of options—until she discovers someone hiding in the cargo hold of her heli plane. Someone she thought was dead.
Someone with maps that could point the way to Port North, if only she could read them. Unfortunately, the one person Sev never wants to see again might be the one person who can help her find the cure. Faris has been forced to give up the man she loves for a dangerous but necessary alliance. Her loyalty is bound by a powerful spell to his future bride, the villainous Bryn. She wants nothing to do with Faris. Faris will again be faced with impossible choices. Or does she succumb to the poison inside that begs her to think this time, finally, of herself? The Book, the ancient, infinite codex of the past, present and future, tells of a prophecy that will plunge Kelanna in that bloody war, but it requires a boy—Archer—and Sefia will stop at nothing to ensure his safety.
The Guard has already stolen her mother, her father, and her Aunt Nin. Sefia would sooner die than let them take anymore from her—especially the boy she loves. Full of magic, suspense, and mystery, Traci Chee brings her Sea of Ink and Gold trilogy to a close in this spellbinding final installment. When a member of the surviving second generation dies from symptoms that look just like the deadly virus, though, Lindley feels her world shrinking even smaller.
And as more people die, Lindley must face the terrifying reality—that either the virus has mutated, or one of their own is a killer. Born into a family of privilege and wealth, he was sent to military school at the age of After an unremarkable academic career, he joined the family business in real estate and built his fortune. From no-holds-barred reality TV star to unlikely candidate, Donald J. Trump rose to the highest political office: President of the United States of America.
I met Melissa in the rubber room, a. She had secrets, I had enemies. Jason Wilder is in permanent in-school suspension for fighting. Two people who would never cross paths—outsiders from radically different backgrounds—they form an exhilarating, unpredictable bond. When circumstances push, they push back. How can you stand being with me? Three candidates, three platforms, and a whirlwind of social media, gaffes, high school drama, and protests make for a ridiculously hilarious political circus that just may hold some poignant truth somewhere in the mix.
And now nothing is the same. Drawn together by their dark pasts, Maya and Eli know it takes only seconds for their entire worlds to change. But time will tell if meeting each other will change them for better or worse. Lady Helen has retreated to a country estate outside Bath to prepare for her wedding to the Duke of Selburn, yet she knows she has unfinished business to complete. She and the dangerously charismatic Lord Carlston have learned they are a dyad, bonded in blood, and only they are strong enough to defeat the Grand Deceiver, who threatens to throw mankind into chaos.
Its power, if unleashed, will annihilate both Helen and Carlston unless they can find a way to harness its ghastly force and defeat their enemy. Stella Grant likes to be in control—even though her totally out of control lungs have sent her in and out of the hospital most of her life. At this point, what Stella needs to control most is keeping herself away from anyone or anything that might pass along an infection and jeopardize the possibility of a lung transplant. The only thing Will Newman wants to be in control of is getting out of this hospital. If he so much as breathes on Stella she could lose her spot on the transplant list.
Either one of them could die. The only way to stay alive is to stay apart. It feels like punishment. What if they could steal back just a little bit of the space their broken lungs have stolen from them? Would five feet apart really be so dangerous if it stops their hearts from breaking too? Belle has gone rogue, Chae Rin and Lake have disappeared, and the Sect is being dismantled and replaced by a terrifying new world order helmed by Blackwell. As for Saul, his ultimate plan still remains a mystery.
Sylvie has always known she deserves more. Out in the permanent twilight of the Dusklands, her guardians called her power to create illusions a curse. So Sylvie sets off toward the Amber City, a glittering jewel under a sun that never sets, to take what is hers. But her hope for a better life is quickly dimmed. The empress invites her in only as part of a wicked wager among her powerful courtiers. Sylvie must assume a new name, Mirage, and begin to navigate secretive social circles and deadly games of intrigue in order to claim her spot.
Soon it becomes apparent that nothing is as it appears and no one, including her cruel yet captivating sponsor, Sunder, will answer her questions. Take two American teen chefs, add one heaping cup of Paris, toss in a pinch of romance, and stir…Rosie Radeke firmly believes that happiness can be found at the bottom of a mixing bowl. Faced with a challenging curriculum and a nightmare professor, Rosie begins to doubt her dishes. Desperate to prove themselves, Rosie and Henry cook like never before while sparks fly between them. But as they reach their breaking points, they wonder whether they have what it takes to become real chefs.
The Huntresses of Artemis must obey two rules: After being rescued from a harrowing life as an Oracle of Delphi, Kahina is glad to be a part of the Hunt; living among a group of female warriors gives her a chance to reclaim her strength. But when a routine mission goes awry, Kahina breaks the first rule in order to save the legendary huntress Atalanta.
Aidan desires only one thing: Arrogant, headstrong and driven by the element of Fire, he will stop at nothing to bring the evil Howls that destroyed Scotland to their knees. But Fire is a treacherous element, and the very magic that brought him to power could burn his world to ash. Even at the risk of confronting the Church.
Even at the risk of losing his humanity. Danny Manion has been fighting his entire life. Sometimes with his fists. Sometimes with his words.
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Fortunately, the very same qualities that got him in trouble at home make him a natural-born commando in a secret war. National Book Award finalist Chris Lynch begins a new, explosive fiction series based on the real-life, top-secret history of US black ops. After the terrifying events on Mount Raksha, the witches have returned, and River has betrayed Kamzin to regain his dark powers. If Kamzin is to save Azmiri and prevent the destruction of the Empire, she must find a star that fell in the Ash Mountains to the north. Fallen stars have immense power, and if Kamzin and Lusha can find the star, they can use its magic to protect their homeland.
To get there, Kamzin has allied with Azar-at, the dangerous and deceptive fire demon, who can grant her great power—in exchange for pieces of her soul. But River wants the star too, and as their paths collide in dangerous and unexpected ways, Kamzin must wrestle with both her guilt and her conflicted feelings for the person who betrayed her. Facing dark magic, a perilous journey, and a standoff against the witches, can Kamzin, Lusha, and Tem find the star and save their Empire? With a handpicked crew by her side, Sky knows she has everything she needs to complete her first heist, and get her boyfriend and mother back in the process.
But then she uncovers a dark truth about were-dragon society—a truth more valuable and dangerous than gold or jewels could ever be. A girl with the power to control the wind, torn between duty and following her dreams. For twenty years, Channelers—women with a magical ability—have been persecuted in Malam by those without magic. Now King Aodren wants to end the bloody divide and unite his kingdom. Lirra has every reason to distrust Aodren.
With Lirra by his side, Aodren sees a way forward for his people. Erin Summerill returns with a high-stakes fantasy full of romance, magic, and revenge perfect for fans of Susan Dennard and C. Innocent blood has been spilled on the steps of the Council Hall, the sacred stronghold of the Shadowhunters. In the wake of the tragic death of Livia Blackthorn, the Clave teeters on the brink of civil war.
One fragment of the Blackthorn family flees to Los Angeles, seeking to discover the source of the disease that is destroying the race of warlocks. Meanwhile, Julian and Emma take desperate measures to put their forbidden love aside and undertake a perilous mission to Faerie to retrieve the Black Volume of the Dead. What they find in the Courts is a secret that may tear the Shadow World asunder and open a dark path into a future they could never have imagined. A century after her ancestors overcame a bloodthirsty tyrant, seventeen-year-old Valory Braiosa attends a training academy for elicromancers, immortal beings with magical gifts.
Then a resurrection spell awakens a long-dormant evil, and Valory may be the only one who can vanquish this terrifying villain. Together with a band of allies—including an old friend; a haughty princess; and a mysterious, handsome stranger—Valory learns to channel her power and fight back. On the run, Alex finds himself led to the compound of tech guru Jeffrey Sabazios, the only public figure who stands firm in his belief that aliens are coming.
Guided by Sabazios, befriended by his fellow time travelers, and maybe even falling in love, Alex starts feeling like the compound is a real home—until a rogue glide shows him the dangerous truth about his new situation. Now in a race against time, Alex is forced to reevaluate who he can love, who he can trust, and who he needs to leave behind. This extraordinary work explores the amazing possibilities of genetic manipulation and life extension, as well as the ethical quandaries that will arise with these advances. The results range from the heavenly to the monstrous.
Twin brothers Ty and Cory Bic are on the run. When they encounter a dying deer in the middle of a remote mountain road with fresh tire tracks swerving down into a ravine, they know they have to help. But when they reach the wrecked car the vehicle appears empty, with signs that the driver escaped. Ty and Cory are escaping demons of their own.
But what they discover in the trunk puts them in the crosshairs of something darker and more sinister than their wildest nightmares. Told through a gripping, lightning-fast narrative that alternates between present and past, this unputdownable survival thriller unravels the tangled circumstances that led Ty and Cory to the deer in the road and set them on a perilous course through the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest. Four girls went missing several years ago, and the police never solved the case.
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How else can she explain the hostile presence in her house? The ghostly girls need something from her. And unless Haley can figure out what they want…she might be next. Wil, the exiled princess of northern Arrod, must do what she never thought possible: And with time running out, Wil must navigate the dangerous secrets within her family to find the truth. Nothing goes as planned, and suddenly Wil and her allies are fighting for their lives as the Southern king is out to ensure neither of his children will survive to take the throne.
Traveling across cursed seas and treacherous kingdoms, Wil and Loom must make peace with their pasts if they hope to secure the future of their world. But when their plans lead them right back to evil marveler Pahn, and to Baren—who is more dangerous than ever—can Wil and her friends outsmart their enemies, this time for good?
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Hotshot pilot Nax Hall has a history of making poor life choices. And the perfect scapegoats. On the run, Nax and his fellow failures plan to pull off a dangerous heist to spread the truth. Kenzie Caine is enrolled at Vanderbilt University, with the goal of becoming a veterinarian. When she lands a summer job caring for and helping to rehabilitate abused horses at the Bellmeade Estate stables, she is over-the-moon happy. One place she does not want to be is at home with her parents.
At the stables, Kenzie is in her element. But a serious heart condition limits her ability to complete the more physical aspects of the job, so her employers have tasked the charming Austin Boyd with helping her. But Austin has secrets. And as Kenzie and Austin become closer, those secrets threaten to harm their relationship, as well as reveal other startling truths. I read a book in eighth grade; the book was about a young girl that was beautiful with black hair and her stepmother was jealous.
This was pretty much like the modern version of Snow White. Anyways, the stepmother, when younger, had red hair and a big nose, the kids called her a witch and ugly. The stepmother gained magic from another lady down the street which made her be beautiful. The stepmother revived a bird, which scared her classmates. Back to the main character, the girl plays in the school play and ends up falling in love with one of the cast members.
However, the guy is super short and pessimistic. Together, they have to fight the stepmother who brainwashes the father of the main character. Okay i remember reading a book about 5 or 6th grade. I believe it was about three children that are in an orphanage. They are the only kids in there. The rest of the kids are sent to the person who literally puts them in holes before Eating each of them.
The kids escape the orphanage and run somewhere. I have been searching for a book I read a long time ago. It's a Christmas time romance clean. A woman loses her daughter one Christmas and the following Christmas the child is looking down from heaven wishing her mother would smile again. The mother leaves the city to get away from Christmas. Wrecks her car in a storm and is rescued by "Santa Claus" his name is Nick and he rescued her in a horse drawn sleigh. He takes her back to his place which is called the north pole. During her stay she learns that in his barn he is part of a group doing a Christmas play with some kids.
I read the book so many times I can picture many points but it got lost in a move and I cannot remember the name. Any help is great! Thank you and Merry Christmas! I am searching for a book I read in that was about a young girl looking for her father or he may have died. He was an inventor who left behind a lot of inventions that she used to find people.
There was a character who would drain the blood of his enemies from their wrist in order to get them to be his mutations. Looking for an early 70's book- autobiography. Looking for an autobiography from the early '70's. Talks about her experiences training and showing her dog. Was available through scholastic. Hi there as a 90s slacker a friend if mine told me about a comic novel he was reading about a producer making a film about the Wreck of the Deutschland.
I think there was some problem with the nuns' costumes being too racy, or maybe safety issues, but I can't be sure. Happy times in Hammersmith pubs and semi derelict houses. I'm looking for a children's book from either the 's or late 70's. It was an illustrated storybook that was accompanied with an audio cassette of a man telling the story along with sound effects. As I was only a child when I had it I can't remember much about it apart from there was a young person with a small wooden dog possibly that was on wheels and they head into a dark forest covered in snow.
Sorry I know those details are very sketchy but thats all I can remember! I do remember loving the story so much and would love to get my hands on it again after all these years to read with my own children! If anyone can help I'd be forever grateful!! Kaung4life Thirteen Days to Midnight sounds like the last book you described, good luck in finding all your books!! Kaung4life the last book you described sounds like Thirteen Days to Midnight, hope you find all your books!
The events of this urban novel focuses on the husband after his wife kills herself in front of him and his mistress. Has anyone heard of this story? Hi I've been looking for this book hoping its not a figment of my imagination because the same year I checked it out from my middle school library, I went to go back to look for it and there was no record of it. I can't remember BIG details but its a girl and her best friend who want to train to become soldiers for their town?
And there also exist healing magic that everyone looks down upon. She visits a healing doctor in which she becomes somewhat interested in magic. I believe this magic involves talking to plants. The cover of the book, the print is a girl holding a leaf to her chest. The hard copy of the book is just a brown book with the outline of a leaf in gold.
I'm looking for a book that I read in Middle or High school about a girl who draws her own comics and gets bullied a lot for it so she retreats to an online RPG to meet a guy on it who helps her feel better and then later finds out he's a guy who goes to her school and is one of the most popular guys in school. The cover is white and has a drawing of 2 girls meeting in the middle of the book at the waist and are opposite to each other horizontally. One girl has long blonde hair and is an Elf and the other girl I think has brown hair.
It is probably a teen novel. I am looking for a book that I read in highschool around This boy found a book or a box of some sort that allowed him to go to this like spirit world. There he learned about this prophecy that he was involved in. Come to realize it was him and his sister that were needed to defeat the evil immortal.
I think the sister had this blossoming relationship with one of the knowledge immortals or something like that. I have a hard time remembering the author, titke, and basic ploy of the book but I would really love to read the series again.
I think it was like 3 or 4 books. I'd appreciate any help from the very vague description lol. I am looking for a book about these girls that live in a time where people are all broke and oppressed and like this girl and her best friend who pretended to be her sister to got to the same like boarding school and like the one girls parents had money and the friends didn't and so like they trick the school with like fake id bracelets and they like have their entire lives on like technology and the school takes it away from them and they go in to some remote place in the woods and they learn survival skills and like how to use guns but it turns out the school is really an enemy like spy training school and so they escape and like they meet some boys spend the night in a cabin that is also the enemy's and so they run away that's all I know tho so.
I need help finding a book I believe its a short series, maybe 2 or 3 books total. Its about a boy that was born and mother was killed while he was young. A man took him in and raised him. He grew up and had powers many people in the book have a particular power but most keep secret. He gets arrested and has to help a King's youngest son get landed or face execution. One of the King's advisors is also someone with powers and is trying to kill and take all other powers from those that have them.
This is a fantasy series and for the life of me cant remember the name or author. It's a harlequin romance book. Hero and heroine are in love and heroine becomes pregnant. Hero's father tries to pay her off. So heroine leaves hero and have the baby. Hero meets his son. I need help with a title and author of a book i read in the last year or so.. Female teacher possibly named Holly who is dumped before Christmas holiday break and a male teacher a widower possibly named Simon invites her to go to a cabin in Scotland with him.
It is a novel I believe it's called believers or something of the sort. The author I believe is a native American, and the book is very complex I didn't get far enough to find the underlying plot. It's filled with underworlds and corrupt cops and murder and there's a scene where children are in hell and helping each other survive while a corrupt god tortures them.
In the scene with the kids in the beggining of the book, they escape from the back of a cop car and run for hours while they're epoxied zombies bodies fall apart. The book bounces around a timeline and different settings, making it like a puzzle.
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There's a scene where the cop talks about how his dad would show him a crop circle or something which led to the underworld, and another scene where they find the pieces of children sewed together in the back of a native Americans car that the cops framed or something. It sounds fucked up but it's a great book and it's been years and I am unable to find it. I thought I'd take a shot and ask around.
I don't believe it's a very famous author. And the cop had took a young girl to prom and killed her. The cop could smell a storm coming. I read this book when I was younger. It's about a woman who is in a relation ship with a singer, but they fell apart because she fell in love with another man. I know the woman had a small animal. I am pretty sure the Title had the word diva in it, but I'm not completely sure. I read a book when I was younger It's about a woman in a relationship with a singer, but they drifted apart after a while. The woman fell in love with another man, but he left her because she couldn't make up her mind at first over which man to choose in the end she chose the second man.
I know she had a little dog. I'm pretty sure the title had to word diva in it, but i'm not entirely certain. I read a book maybe years ago about an older gentleman whose wife had died and he was just existing. The wife had a beautiful garden that was just overgrown and neglected and I think a college student or grandchild - maybe - came and was trying to get him to reconnect to life. Seems there was a flood towards the end. I might be mixing books, but would love it if someone could help me remember this book. I read a book series in the early 's called Seven. There were seven books in the series, each titled the name of the main character I believe.
I cannot find a mention of this series anywhere. The characters are all former childhood friends that share a secret and have drifted apart because of it, yet believe their ill-fortune all stems from the secret they each feel responsible for shooting a friend at a birthday party when they were 8, even though it was an accident. I can't remember what all they go through, but I do remember a few of the books plot points: One girl was an Asian adopted as a baby by a white couple and is assaulted by a friend of her parents, one boy is half-black and paralyzed in an accident, another boy whose parents run a shelter and is a sports star at the high school struggles with being gay, another girl that is a cheerleader tries to hold onto her romance with her boyfriend that went to college but he uses her instead, the other boy is trying not to outdo his brother in football, but ends up playing and stealing his brother's scholarship or maybe just gets a better one.
I would like to get this book series to hold onto for my daughter when she is in high school because it did help me and others I knew that read it get through certain traumas and hardships in school. Trying to find a book where starts of with a young lad on his way to school and on his way be picks up random objects.
These were used then at school. The elastic band to keep some artwork together and the safety pin was used to help pin a girls broken dress strap. I read it when I was at school in the 90s. I read a book about 6 years ago, it was so good. Theres this book i read about 5 years ago and i cant remember the title or anything but it was about this boy who felt like he was being watched by these strange people. He starts having these dreams of horrid scenes and his best freind whom he has a crush on later finds out they are moments in history like when he had a dream of being on a slave ship.
Later on in the story the people who watch him reveal that they along with him have live basically foreverbut in different bodies and by different names.
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Well thats all i can remember about it at the moment but ide like to know what its called so i can read it again. I was reading a book i was admitted in a children's hospital back in And when I was there they had a LOT of books to read. There was a particular book I keep rememb but not a lot of details of it. The book was about a kid who lived in a zoo. He never went to school, I think, and mer this kid that became his friend. She would play games with him and stuff.
She tells him about a event of this big ball of knots that no one is able to until. And he comes along to try to untie it. That's all I can remember of it. I'm hoping someone here can help me find the book again. I believe there was a story about this blind person going on a blind date with someone who was not blind, a character had two different eye colors, and another thing I remember are these two characters a guy and a girl who met in a church and there was this electric connection between them.
Anything would be helpful, thank you. I partially read this book in college, someone had suggested, but never had the chance to finish it before returning it. I forgot the title, but I think the title was a double entendre. The book is a story being told by a primate, chimpanzee or ape. The primate is discussing where we are heading as humans, a kind of warning about how we are impacting the environment. I do recall a metaphor where the primate describes a person believing they were flying a pedal powered craft, and the primate said, from the pilot's point of view they may believe they are flying even as we can observe they are falling, and until impact they may maintain their belief; something to that affect.
I wish I could remember the name of this book as I was enjoying it before I returned it. I read a short story in college as part of Southern gothic literature course. Story is from perspective of adolescent black boy who lives with his grandmother in Jim Crow south. I read a southern gothic short story in college that has always stuck in my mind except for the title. The girl has nothing but disdain for her uneducated poor family and neighbors.
She wants the items to decorate her city dwelling and to impress her intellectual circle. When a dog gets hydrophobia he becomes convinced that there are only bones. The dog becomes jealous when his mistress acquires a male admirer. I am looking for a romance book, I do not know the name or what year it was published just that I read it before Here is what I know.
The heroine is from England and the hero is not English or American. She had a child with him, that he did not know about. The heroine was hit by a car while walking across the street, she is very sick, has pneumonia, but the hero thinks she is a drug addict because when DFS was called on her to check on the child, because they live in poverty the heroine, the DFS person noted a white powder on the counter top, which was actually flu powder, the heroine also had a knife because she was cutting carrots.
The hero hires a nurse to take care of the heroine also. My boyfriend read a book when he was about 15, he said it had the word game in the title. He does these things for money and the price increases with every new task he is given. Samantha - I don't know the title of the children's ghost story book you're looking for, but I do know the story about the marble knight is called Man Size in Marble, by Edith Nesbit. The one about the artist may be Schalken the Painter, by J.
Sheridan Le Fanu - the artist paints a portrait of a young woman called Rose. Sorry I couldn't be more help! I'm trying to remember the name of this horror book my brother had in the 90's, i can vaguely remember the plot and the cover and nothing else. I don't know why i'm thinking font in the title was like goosebumps but this was from what i remember it was way to dark and graphic for that series.
I am looking for a book I read a few years ago. I remember there being a unicorn somewhere. Looking for a book I read a while ago about a blind woman who was raped while in college after the ordeal she isolates her self. One day a doctor shows up at her door about a surgery that could help her regain her eyesight.
She's hesitant to trust him at first but eventually does. Some of its a haze but I believe her sister was getting married and while preparing she discovers the man her sister is about to marry is the man that raped her. Looking for novel I read years ago about a man who is on a ship, does something wrong and is penalized to sail on ship after ship through many many years sailing with some of the most famous captains of all time and I believe some pirates..
Would love to read again if I could remember what book it was!!! Looking for a book that I read in the 70s about a Native American girl. It was basically about her life but what I remember is that she had a pet rabbit that she loved and which she eventually had to sacrifice to save a sibling's life. Looking for a book that I read in the 70s.
It might have been a Scholastic book. It was about a young Native American girl and her life with her tribe. What I remember best is that she had a pet rabbit that she loved and which she eventually had to sacrifice to save the life of her sibling. American couple, baby and nanny on flight to Ireland when the plane crashes. The sole survivor is the baby, who is rescued and taken to Ireland. Story ends with the baby's brother meeting her and falling in love.
American couple, baby and nanny on flight to Ireland. Plane crashes en route to Ireland, only the baby survives. American brother meets her years later and falls in love. Small book - Christmas theme - daughter becomes sick and a male visitor appears and acts as an angel to save the child.
Twin sisters from the same coven, one is really without a soul as a bad woman who was murdered by a demon centuries bf, who betrayed him, split the soul of two sisters The two fall in love and she becomes pregnant but she has a vision of what the end will be. The bad woman who is working with another, end up dying and only one of the two sisters can survive, as there is only one soul.
Also, the coven is murdered, her sister is taken to hell, where she is impregnated by the devil or another demon, who is the one working with the bad woman. The 2nd sister is glamored into not remembering she had a twin during that time. It ends with the 2nd sister and her baby dying as she gives the remaining soul to her sister. Some details may be a little mixed up. Twin sister comes home to join her coven, after a death in the family, and there are strange neighbors with powers, who murder someone, bury and glamor all evidence away.
They take an interest in her and she ends up falling in love with the main male character, who I believe is part demon or something. There is a prophecy that this demon tries to prevent, which is by killing each woman reborn, of the love of his life who betrayed him and he inturn killed her, after she cursed him. Lucifer or another demon, r working with this woman, and they entwines and split a soul between two sisters to hide the evidence of her rebirth, kill a lot of the coven and then steal and impregnate the other sister.
She becomes preganant and the bad lady tries to kill her and the only way to save herself and her sister, is to sacrifice her life and that of her child, so her sister gets the good soul. I think it somehow was entwined with the baby but some areas are vague. What is the name of book where girl is taken in by bird people and raised in a library and threatened by dragon people I know she had a friend that clung to her hair and her shoulders a lot.
Please help with the name of the book? I cant remember the title if someone could please help i would appreciate it!! This may be a short story and it's about two young boys that are twins. The "bad" twin does bad stuff and the "good" twin tries to cover it up or be helpful But in the end there is a twist and you find out it's only one boy. I read this in an English high school class in the late 80's.
For some reason I think of Ten Little Indians but not sure if that's part of it. I read a book in when I was a 6th grader about a guy who is struck by lightening and wakes up in a war. The war had Japanese or Vietnamese soldiers I forget which. I believe the story begins with him in the attic or basement of his house and looking through old war items his father had because he was a veteran. He is struck by lightening when he is riding his bike.
I am not sure of anything else but I remember this book being short. I'm looking for a book I read a few years ago when I wasn't quite a young adult. I remember that it had like a pink and green cover, it was a young adult novel. The summary of it is that there were 2 girls who were best friends but the best friend of the main character was getting "too popular" for the main character and they split ways because of that.
She became a bully towards her. Then our main character went to visit her dad at work and met his new assistant and they clicked. He brought her to parties and such without the dad knowing. They had a secret relationship. But then at the end, when it was her school dance, her former best friend was trying to take away her man because she didnt deserve someone so hot. But main character just laughed and her bf asked the former best friend to dance, knowing that former best friend was way to insecure and main character knew that he loved her for her and not because shes hot or unpopular.
It was an illustrated childrens' book in the library of the small private Catholic school I attended til I was 10 and I can still remember the pictures so clearly, and have searched for almost two decades with no luck. It has several short stories and there's faint blood splatter on nearly every page. There was a story about a couple who moved into a cottage in a small town -- the husband is warned about the stone knights in the church coming to life on a certain night and he goes to see if all is well, but only notices two fingers broken off one statue.
When he returns home, his wife is dead but in her clenched hand are the stone knight's fingers. There's one about a cowboy set to be hanged but his neck stretches crazy long and he runs around terrorizing everyone with his eyes bulged out until someone shoots him dead. There's one about a painter who meets this young woman and something about a rose and he paints her portrait and at the end finds out she was actually a ghost.
And one about a homeless? They move into a castle her aunt and some cousins are in but is maybe really supposed to belong to her and her sister now I think. She meets a handsome land owner, Adrian who has a black stallion. And then in the end they find out it was the crazy aunt the whole time trying to make her think the place was haunted and to drive her away. I am looking for a book It's about a woman who owns a civic center for her neighborhood trying to keep kids off the streets.
She teaches pole dancing classes to elderly women to. He is the leader of a rock band and is known as the dark prince. He chooses her as his mate when he is a child and now other races are hunting her to get to him. Because if they kill her they can weaken him. That is the basics of the story I remember way more than that but I can't seem to find the book anywhere now. Can someone please help me?
A short story about a Native American? After the week her brother and her are brought back home and while her brother is in bad shape after spending the week eating crickets and berries, she's healthy as ever. They ask how they did it and after she explains they don't consider it cheating since she did survive the week in the woods. She works at a marketing firm and rarely goes home to visit her father and step mom on the farm.
She gets laid off and goes home to the farm to regroup. She ends up using her skills to help her parents create a vacation spot out of the farm. Her brochure gets the attention of the high powered executive she had worked for and eventually gets her an even better position at the marketing firm. There's this book that I've been looking for. I remember a phrase on the front cover but not the title itself or the author.
The phrase is something along the lines of "would you rather have the perfect life or the perfect love. In both lives, she looks exactly the same but her lives are very different. In one, she's really rich and has the ideal family and boyfriend. In the other, she's really poor and only lives with her mom. Whenever she turns 18, her parents throw her a huge birthday party at her house. She's afraid that the party is going to last past midnight and experience the switch herself, which she's never done before. She's also met another guy in her other life where shes poor and starts to fall in love.
She starts contemplating what life she wants to stay in and plans to kill one of her selves just to stop the cycle. I don't remember the author or the title, just a phrase on the front cover. The phrase says something along the lines of "would you rather have the perfect life or the perfect love. She switches at midnight every night while she's sleeping. Her 2 bodies are exactly the same, but her lives in each are very different.
In the first one, she's really rich, has the ideal family, and has the perfect boyfriend. In the second, she is poor and only lives with her mom. In the life where shes poor, she's also met a man that she's starting to fall in love with. One day, in her second life, she injures her ankle. She's worried that she'll wake up in her other life with an injury as well, but the injury doesn't transfer over. She starts to contemplate what life she wants to live in and starts experimenting on her body.
She starts off by cutting herself to see if the injury transfers over. She dyes her hair to see if it also changes when she switches back and forth. She ends up in a mental hospital because her mom thinks she's suicidal from all the injuries and changes and stays there for a while. The man that she likes works there and she tells him about her switching.
He doesn't believe her at first but she ends up proving it to him. A girl gets in trouble for partying. Gets in trouble with drugs. Judge sentences her to Africa to help at an orphanage. The kids get kidnapped sometimes to either be used for soldiers or sold. A favourite book of mine 35 years ago Two sisters? One is grateful for life's basics.
One wants the best of everything even though it is beyond her means and she loses it all. The poorer sister is the happier of the two. The book alternates between her perspective and the perspective of an alien living on the same planet. The alien finds her hiding in a cave, approaches her, and they tentatively eventually become mutuals. There was this one part I remember about the difference in a smile between species — humans smile by showing their teeth, which the alien viewed as threatening, and the aliens smiled by sticking out their tongues, which the girl didn't initially recognize as a smile.
Theres this book, that has a lot of short stories in it, and I remember reading it when i was in 5th grade. An example of one of the short stories was about this kid who wore shoes for a few months straight without taking them off to fend off bullies from killing a turtle. Another one of the short stories was about a boy who wanted to whiten his teath with whitneres, but in the end, his teath had liquified because he kept them on for too long.
I am looking for a book with a sub plot of a dad working extra hard to buy his son a coat he wanted, that all the cool kids had. Poor family, dad not one to show affection. Boy was all excited to wear it to school, Dad was quietly proud. Kids made fun of boy because jacket was a knockoff and he got in a fight over it, I think the coat was torn, he never wore it again, and dad never mentioned it. I've been looking for a children's book that my siblings and I enjoyed around and my brother, eight years my senior also loved..
Grouchy retired sea captain, irritated by a rainbow, captures it, rolls it up and stows it in a hatch in his little home. Neighborhood boy frees the rainbow which unfurls into the sky. Beautiful and fun water color illustrations. Sea captain sees the error of his ways! I have been looking for a book I read in the nineties written by an American journalist who lived and worked as a reporter in Africa. He wrote about his life in Africa including some funny experiences. I think he worked for The York Times. Some American paper for sure. Thanks I have been trying to find it, but difficult without title or author!
Looking for a book I read in the nineties about an American Journalist living and working in Africa.
Cannot remember title or author. Some funny experiences he had in Africa. I think he worked for the New York Times? But was based in Africa. Thank you for helping me! I've been looking for an R rated book, I am an adult, about a woman with two daughters, works at a dentist office, and meets a man with a bad past.
The woman is also battling for custody of her daughters with her cheating ex husband. The book is about a woman with two daughters who works at a dentist, eventually meeting a man with a bad past who moves in next door. She's battling for custody of her daughters with her cheating ex husband. Things escalate with her and the man eventually. R rated book, I am an adult.
I believe the series is titled "Class A. He has a pocket sized computer that he runs programs on written in BASIC, I believe and each book had programs you could run on your computer after typing them in. I remember in one book, The protagonist meets the president, who calls him a "Class Act", and our hero wonders if the President knows what he does on the side.
Another adventure has our hero paired up with a dog in a secret base in i believe the Alaskan wilderness. Protagonist goes through a series of emotions like fear, anxiety, etc because an alien ship has landed. Protagonist describes the ship and the creatures coming out of the ship, as having hair "all over their head" - as if that was crazy weird.
Big reveal at the end is that the protagonist is an extra-terrestrial and the aliens are humans from Earth. Really great story on perspective and looking at things egocentrically. And a kid really wants to meet a certain famous hockey player. But, the hockey player just happens to be her ex and father of her son that he knows nothing about I need help finding this book!! But, the hockey player just happens to be her ex and father of her son.. This is a book where the woman works for a company that helps kids with disabilities or illnesses. And this autistic kid really wants to meet a certain famous hockey player.
The hockey player happens to be her Ex and the father of her son. Can some on help me find this book i read it years ago its a young teen book that has a boy that has magic boots that grow with him he doesn't know where he came from all of his past he remembers about his mothers or some family member singing a line to him he starts off as a thief and meets a girl as they run him and the girl fall in love along the way he discovers that he can sing a few lines and make what he wants true but at a cost to him he will lose something as great of the value of what he wants to be done at the end of the book he trades his life for his girl companion but he comes back for he is not human so he is reborn and gets to live with his family that he thought he lost yet he found again Along the way in the middle of the book he a quires a dagger that has a string attached to his wrist that he can throw and pull back and his dagger will come back to him.
There's a fantasy book that my cousin forced me to read when I was younger and I didn't like it because it was confusing but now I want to read it it's about these people or creatures and they live in trees I think and I believe they're forced to go to war I have a memory of a scene where there in like a restaurant in one of the tree like they all live in the trees or like in the forest and they have to go to war and there's like a girl warrior there's a black group of friends and they go on and then I remember there's two brothers and they go to another dimension in one scene and when they come back one of the brothers is completely change then something happened to him like part of him died or something.
And then in the end I think that they come back after all of this and I remember like an engagement between two of the characters. I know this is very vague but I know it's a fantasy book. In this book there is a mexican girl who lives in the USa with her mother. She is made fun if at school and her only friends are two brothers they are twins. When they grow up she gets pregnant by one of the brothers, and the other one dies.
She gives birth to the baby but after a while she leaves cause she can't handle everything. After a year or so she comes back and after a row of events she lives happily ever after woth the father of her child and the love of her life. In this book a city girl quits her job to move to a farm with a man she just met. Can somebody help me find a book. It starts with a girl trying to find her twin sister in a garrage or some shady place. It is a fantasy paranormal book maybe involves farie world non mages. In this book a girl is surgically given the face of a princess in order to be her double.
The mother is leading a rebellion the king kills both mom and real princess thinking that the princess is the double. Two of my favorite children's books I loved the way the book was narrated; quick chapters told through the eyes of alternating characters both teenaged and adult. Do I feel like this was a traditional mystery thriller?
Absolutely not; I could understand why The Party would throw off people if that were what they were expecting. A novel that opens up with an incident and the journey is more of an inside look at the ramifications and the changes that occur in their community. If you are looking for a tension filled, twisted read, then yes, you will be disappointed.
However, if you enjoy a character centered, focused plot with wit and emotion, then I think you will be pleased. Jun 23, Sherwestonstec rated it did not like it. I didn't like this book at all! I thought by the time I get to the end it has to get better All the characters were quite unlikeable, not one character had any redeeming qualities! It was an interesting premise but overall it was a waste of time to read, there are too many good books out there to take time to read a book that is not even well written! The ending was ridiculous.
View all 6 comments. Dec 02, Lisa rated it really liked it Shelves: She was finally one of the cool girls at school and needed to maintain her social status. She invited four girls over for a sleepover. Hannah knew the party was not going to be just any party when she hid a bottle of vodka underneath the couch. The other girls brought contributions as well. The four girls were having fun until things went horribly wrong. An ambulance is called and Ronni is rushed to the hospital. Friends turn against the Sanders and dark secrets are revealed about their marriage and their lives.
And how easily one lie leads to another and another until you have a huge web of deceit. The book is an amazingly quick read and kept me turning pages until four in the morning. Any parent of a teen should read this book. The characters were believable and the story, while a work of fiction, could easily happen anywhere. May 23, Abby Crime by the Book rated it liked it. Read my full review here: I'd give this book between a 2. It's not a really bad read by any means - it honestly just fell flat for me. It was just too average.
A lack of psychological insight, tension, and suspense makes this a tough read to get invested in. But overall, with so many great thrillers releasing this summer, I wouldn't recommend it. Lately, I've gone through a very fast run of mediocre audio books. I'm sure these books are perfectly fine to read in print, but they absolutely did not work for me to listen to and in most cases, I did not listen very long. Either the narrators are no bueno or the format of the book does not lend itself well to audio. I want to keep a list, so I won't try them again on audio. View all 8 comments.
May 27, Debbie rated it it was amazing Shelves: It's all fun and games until someone loses an. This book showed the ugly side of everyone when a horrible tragedy happens at a sixteenth birthday party. The party starts innocent enough when Hannah's mother Kim starts it with the rules. No alcohol, no drugs and no boys. Then the party is on. The rules, a total waste of Kim's breath. A fact Kim discovers when she is awoken from her two glasses of wine and half an ambien idled sleep several hours later by her blood covered daughter, Hannah.
Ki It's all fun and games until someone loses an. Kim and her family's life goes downhill after that. It was amazing how people's personalities and opinions changed after this party. Just like the high schoolers, the parent's became selfish, greedy, and childish. The author did a great job with the characters and they became and were real people in my mind. There were so many times I wanted to jump up out of my chair and just beat the crap out of some of these people.
Seriously, how ridiculous can one be and still call themselves an adult?
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A story that looked at teenagers and adults when a life changing crisis and small, insignificant at the time, mistakes can change their lives. Thanks to Gallery, Threshold, Pocket Books and Net Galley for providing me with a free e-galley in exchange for an honest, unbiased review. Aug 01, Chloe rated it liked it Shelves: The Party by Robyn Harding is a book about the ramifications of one wrong decision on your life and the society around you.
Hannah has a sweet sixteen sleepover party where she invites her four closest friends. Kim lays down the rules like any sensible parent no alcohol, no drugs and no boys. But the girls have different idea of fun and party. Soon in the middle of the night Kim is woken up by a panicked Hannah with her hands covered in The Party by Robyn Harding is a book about the ramifications of one wrong decision on your life and the society around you.
This book is not a thriller or a suspense but a fast paced family drama. Most of the characters were selfish , self-centered and unlikable but Robyn Harding did a good job presenting their perspective forward. This and more reviews at https: View all 3 comments. There's something about them that draws me in. The lies, the secrets, the drama. The Party is no exception. I really enjoyed this book more than I thought I would. With the mixed reviews, I expected to feel neutral about it. I had a great time. Hannah Sanders is prepared to throw a great sweet 16 party with a few of her friends.
Things go out of control when one of her friends gets hurt. Hanna 4 stars I've mentioned before how much I love family drama and scandals in books. Hannah's parents, Kim and Jeff, are now involved as they try to figure out what to do after the incident. Their lives are far from perfect and Kim wants to keep up the facade of a perfect family.
But in reality, it's not the perfect family. As hard as she tries, she's not the perfect mother. And their perfect daughter Hannah may not be as perfect. I love family dramas and both books delivered in that department. The Party had that effect of excitement and dread. The excitement coming from Kim and Jeff trying to take control of the situation and dread from the incoming consequences of Hannah's party. Is this book for everyone? I would say no because I did read other reviews and I found them to be valid. You either have to be in the mood or like family drama. Even then, there are the characters which are a hit or miss with some.
What I liked The characters and their actions were what made me really like the book. By no means are the characters perfect. They are flawed, damaged, and even unlikable. But it's the realness of them, their mistakes and flaws that made me like them. The major running themes are family and truth. The Sanders is far from the perfect family. You could sympathize with them, or you could dislike them.
While I did feel sorry for them at times, there were moments where I wanted to smack them in the head. Hannah wants to fit in and be part of the popular crowd. But high school isn't easy, as is being a teenager. High school is cruel and mean. And so are teenagers. Hannah wants it all but at the same time, she can't have it all. This was one of those books that I could not put down. It took me a while to read since I was busy, but in my free time, I flew through it. I wanted to know what the hell was going on. One tiny flaw This flaw wasn't a bad one by any means, but I did wish there was more closure in the end.
It wasn't a bad ending by any means. If anything, I thought it was good. I don't mind the open-ended ending, but I did wish for more closure. Verdict I was anticipating a mixed reaction from The Party, but it turns out I liked it! I'm so glad I was able to get my hands on it and read it before the new year! This is my final book of the year, completing my reading challenge! Would I recommend The Party? I would say this is a library read. I know this book won't be for everyone, but I do recommend giving it a shot if your library has it.
Thanks for reading my review! Jun 09, Sarah rated it liked it. You can find all of our reviews at https: I was Really looking forward to reading The Party. I loved how Robyn told the story of The Party through the eyes of a few different characters; I felt it added You can find all of our reviews at https: I loved how Robyn told the story of The Party through the eyes of a few different characters; I felt it added some depth to the story.
Oh what to say about this book It also felt like I was reading a YA novel. I'm a thriller lover so I was a little let down by the lack of mystery, but for a reader that likes contemporary drama, this book would be great. Seriously, everyone in this novel was hateful. It was extraordinarily compelling though and I devoured it in short order. I'll write up a fuller review for the website when I'm back from my down time but yeah, seriously, parents, be careful what you are teaching your children through learned behaviour! Jun 03, Brian rated it it was ok. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers.
To view it, click here. This book was kind of a hot mess in terms of characters, plot and pacing. Let's first dive into the basic plot: It's Hannah's sweet 16! Her dad, being the brown nosing type who just wants to be so "cool" decides to buy some bubbly for the party. He tells the girls, "don't tell your mother! The mother is very strict and has a ton of house rules. She acts like she's the perfect mother, but in reality, she's contempl This book was kind of a hot mess in terms of characters, plot and pacing. She acts like she's the perfect mother, but in reality, she's contemplating an affair with her colleague.
And she simply can't forgive her husband for being caught with some drugs last year. At the night of the sweet 16, things go horribly wrong and one of the girls becomes severely injured. What follows is a soap opera like plot that includes blackmail, disability, suicide, more affairs, and a lot more unlikable characters.
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I can safely say that by the end of this book, there wasn't a single character who I felt who had any sort of moral values. There was one section and keep in mind that this is an advanced reading copy that pissed me off. It was literally a chapter that was presented early that was copied word for word. It continued but surely there must has been a more elegant way of doing this. I am reading a book, not watching a TV show and seeing "on the last episode.. I kind of hesitated about even reading it because I am always afraid of what can happen with freak accidents.
Been there — done that! But as I dived into the story, I was pulled in by the twists and turns and the secrets of the family members held. You never really know what people are doing even when you expect more from those you love. The story is a fast read and deals with most of the family members and their reaction to the events of the party. Interesting plot twists and compelling character development meant that this book was a surprise with every page turn.
Raw and riveting, the author shows us the inside turmoil of a family torn apart at the seams. The good and bad side of people. The human condition as people choose sides amidst the hurt and anger, and even hostility. Her craftsmanship of this book pulls you in because you never know what to expect from the characters. With deep clarity of the human psyche, she brings a captivating story that leaves you with a surprise ending. Jun 21, Leah Bayer rated it it was ok Shelves: It was mindless fun, which sometimes you need, but not particularly well-executed mindless fun.
I have very few feelings about this one way or the other and not much to say about it. All the characters are terrible but the plot is interesting, though it never really delivers on the wham-moment reveal you are expecting. The drama is a bit 2. The drama is a bit trite and everyone acts like a moron, but the writing is solid and the pacing is excellent.