![]() ![]() ![]() Obsession!Įve Vaughn and Theodora Taylor's collaboration has brought new meaning to sci-fi for me. He’s huge, all-powerful, and determined to claim me!Īnd how will I answer when the question becomes, do I want to? ![]() But rather than killing me for my insolence, the future overlord vows to return to the planet. I should accept my fate, but I can’t! When they come for my sister’s baby boy, I dare to defy the alien, they call “Tel”. That is the way it has always been, on our small planet and that is the way it will always be. If the baby is a boy, it will be taken away, never to be seen again. If the baby born from our taking is a girl, we will be allowed to keep it. But, this is the deal our leaders struck, so that they would provide our human colony with desperately needed supplies. The Xalthurians are rough, domineering, and huge all over. My alien overlord is huge, all-powerful, and determined to claim me!Įvery human girl growing up on New Terrhan knows one thing… that she will be taken by one or several Xalthurian males when she turns twenty-one. ![]()
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![]() ![]() And it is here that she learns the rules of magic and the lesson that she will carry with her for the rest of her life. Here she invokes the curse that will haunt her family. When Maria is abandoned by the man who has declared his love for her, she follows him to Salem, Massachusetts. ![]() Always love someone who will love you back. It is here that she learns her first important lesson. Hannah recognizes that Maria has a gift and she teaches the girl all she knows. Under the care of Hannah Owens, Maria learns about the “Unnamed Arts”. Where does the story of the Owens bloodline begin? With Maria Owens, in the 1600s, when she’s abandoned in a snowy field in rural England as a baby. In an unforgettable novel that traces a centuries-old curse to its source, beloved author Alice Hoffman unveils the story of Maria Owens, accused of witchcraft in Salem, and matriarch of a line of the amazing Owens women and men featured in Practical Magic and The Rules of Magic. Buy the Book: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop, IndieBound, Books-A-Million, Hudson Booksellers, Powell's, Simon & Schuster, Target, Audible, Google Play, Libro.fm, Apple Books ![]() ![]() I also love how it promotes new ideas as a bulwark against stagnation. She learns her own unique power and loses the fears that have held her back. I love how it leads you to discover January as she discovers herself. It has an intricate and intriguing plot and it snags you and winds you in as it goes back and forth between the story of Adelade and January and Yule. The story is exciting, mysterious, with wonderfully concieved elements of magic. The third story is that of Yule - a gentle scholar from another world, whose very life is turned upside down by love, by mystery, by curiousity and the power of stories. A fearless wanderer hurtling herself between worlds with laughter and spirit. A life that is such a contrast to January, she leaves her poor farm at a young age seeking not just adventure but questing for one person she met as a child. One is the story of Adelade, a wild girl. Interspersed into January’s tale are two others. ![]() She is cooped up in his house, or protected on his travels and remains beholden to and almost fearfully obedient to the polite and usually pleasant Mr. She loves adventure stories, misses her father, has no idea what happened to her mother. ![]() ![]() Locke scouring the world for his collectibles. Set around the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, this book tells the story of January, a girl and then young woman who is looked after in a big old mansion in New England filled with collectibles from around the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Users on Amazon gave the novel a rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars. Heavy is a truly exceptional book its reviews indicate as much. Ultimately, though, Laymon overcomes this to lead a reasonably happy life. His life is hard - he deals with things like abuse and anorexia and obesity. He explores his childhood, his young adulthood, and ends with his life as a college professor in New York. He tells his story, starting with his childhood in Mississippi as a black kid. Heavy represents Laymon's third book and his second memoir. ![]() Prior to the release of Heavy: An American Memoirin 2018, he'd only written two books, both of which released in 2013: a novel called Long Division and a memoir called How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America (both of which received rave reviews and quite a few notable awards). Kiese Laymon generally writes essays and articles for sites like ESPN, Gawker, and the New York Times. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maria, with new daughter Faith, whose birthmark is a half-moon, follows him. Enchanted by the island, Puritan Hathorne loses his rigidity long enough to impregnate Maria before returning to Salem, Massachusetts, without saying goodbye. At 15 she is seduced by 37-year-old American businessman John Hathorne (his name an allusion to Nathaniel Hawthorne, who wrote about mistreatment of marked women). After vengeful men murder Hannah in 1674, Maria escapes first to her unmotherly birth mother, a troubled practitioner of dark, self-serving magic, then to Curaçao as an indentured servant. She lovingly teaches ancient healing methods to Maria, whose star birthmark indicates inherent magical powers and since Hannah considers ink and paper the most powerful magic, she also teaches Maria reading and writing. ![]() In 1664, Hannah Owens, practitioner of “the Nameless Art” sometimes called witchcraft, finds baby Maria abandoned near her isolated cottage in Essex County, England. ![]() Set in late-17th-century England and America, the pre-prequel to Hoffman’s Practical Magic (1995) and The Rules of Magic (2017) covers the earliest generations of magically empowered Owens women and the legacy they created. ![]() ![]() ![]() Would you swallow a parasite if it meant your quality of life would improve? For example, let’s say you have epilepsy and are on these daily anti-seizure medications. Parasitology hits some excellent ethical questions. You occasionally would get some flavor, but most of the time, it’s just that – thinned-out broth that needed more seasoning. Yet, despite the length, the books were like tasteless, thin broth. Parasite, Symbiont, and Chimera – but especially the second book, Symbiont – suffer because of this choice to expand the series.Įach book in Parasitology is about 500 pages long. While expanding a duology to a trilogy can work, there’s also the possibility it doesn’t work. ![]() I can’t speak to whether this is a widespread problem in Mira’s other books however, from my experience with the Parasitology trilogy? The pacing is awful.Ī part of me wants to blame the fact that this series was initially a duology. However, I can’t deny that there are various issues hindering my enjoyment. ![]() I read them when I was incredibly stressed out and exhausted from work. I’ve tried to give them the benefit of the doubt. Individually, Parasite, Symbiont, and Chimera are not great books. The only character I thought was exciting and had some spice to them?.But hard-hitting questions and science aren’t enough. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How do you think Kris’ presence in the village affected Monique? How was Kris’ life changed by having known Monique? Have you ever known someone that well from another culture?.How does your culture affect how you think about childbirth? What do you think we could learn from working with Monique? Where would you rather give birth? Why?.Is Kris’ experience as a Peace Corps volunteer what you thought it would be? What would have been the hard parts to adapt to in village life? What do you think you would miss when you came back to the U.S.?.What makes these rare connections possible? Monique and Kris grew to be very close friends, yet they came from radically different background and faced many cultural barriers.This reading guide is intended for educators teaching Monique and the Mango Rains in the classroom, or for readers seeking a deeper engagement with the questions at the heart of Monique Dembele's story. ![]() ![]() The door, beside which I sit, is not locked and nor do the two windows have bars nonetheless escape is impossible. I'm in a cage, but it's not a cage that you or anyone else would recognise. ![]() No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the author's permission.Ĭhapter… The number that comes after twelve Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.Īll rights reserved. ![]() Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Layout design and Copyright (C) 2017 by Creativia ![]() ![]() Not having been a young lesbian in the 1950s, I can't really comment on that aspect. It appears that back in the 1950s and '60s it was only at the pulp end of the market that a young gay woman could find any kind of depiction of herself, and that these books are therefore of some significance. If you do an online search for this book, you'll probably turn up a few sites claiming that it's a key text in populist lesbian fiction. ![]() Mickey, who liked to hear what a beautiful body she had and couldn't bear to waste it.įrom the raw material of her own experiences as a volunteer in the Free French Forces, Toreska Torres has woven the story of a group of young girls in war-time, many of them utterly innocent when they entered the service where they were thrown together with women who had lived through every type of experience. ![]() Jacqueline, the sullen precious-looking aristocrat who paid a price for her pride.Īnn, who never let any man touch her except for the brother of the woman she loved. Ursula, innocent and doomed, a powerless victim of those who exploited her.Ĭlaude, a handsome woman of forty who preyed on men and women equally in her quest for novelty. ![]() An old house in Down Street turned into a barracks for the women's division of the Free French Forces. (first published by Sphere in 1968, copyright 1950) ![]() ![]() ![]() Funded by four anonymous billionaires, their mission is to stop Alboroto before his next “gift” to the city leaves a million New Yorkers blind. ![]() A trusted friend recruits Corcoran to a team of top cops-all retired. ![]() The task falls on the shoulders of former NYPD captain Danny Corcoran. But the only NYPD unit trained to go up against this level of terrorism has been disbanded, and the new police commissioner is a bureaucrat, not a wartime commander. In this heart-stopping, unflinching, and highly entertaining thriller of life and death, drugs and heroism, Corcoran leads a team of retired top cops, funded by four anonymous billionaires, on a mission to stop Alboroto before it’s too late. So begins the war between Joaquín Alboroto, the most powerful drug lord on the planet, and his most hated enemy: the city of New York. Marshall Karp is an international 1 bestselling author. Knocking birds from the sky, dropping carriage horses to the pavement, and cutting a swath of death through the thousands of unsuspecting joggers, cyclists, and picnickers enjoying a summer afternoon in Central Park. See Marshall Karps selection of books & audiobooks on Scribd. Imagine Central Park buried under tons of snow. Snowstorm in August features a sneak peek at the forthcoming NYPD Red 7. Imagine Central Park buried under tons of snow. The new novel from Marshall Karp, cocreator and coauthor of the 1 New York Times bestselling series NYPD Red. ![]() The new novel from Marshall Karp, cocreator and coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestselling series NYPD Red. ![]() |