![]() But Chyna is now trapped in his dangerous orbit. The killer, unaware of her presence, drives away. Not knowing Laura is already dead, Chyna follows, hoping to save her friend, as Vess carries her body to his motor home – a dungeon and morgue on wheels. ![]() When he attacks her friend, Laura, Chyna Shepherd is saved by the instincts developed during a dark and turbulent childhood. ![]() He lives for one purpose only: to satisfy all appetites as they arise, seeking ever more outrageous experience. ‘Tumbling, hallucinogenic prose… The story does not move so much as rocket up the… gloomy highway with the reader in violent pursuit’ – The New York TimesĮdgler Vess is a sociopath intent on murder. Perfect for fans of Stephen King and Richard Laymon. ![]() Terrifyingly suspenseful, inventive and emotionally intricate, Intensity is a gripping novel from bestselling author Dean Koontz. ![]()
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![]() Jane feels a sense of triumph and exultation, and Mrs. Reed is not her relation, and, finally, that Mrs. Angry and hurt, Jane declares that she is not a liar, that she is glad Mrs. Reed's statements about her character, and when the two are alone together, Jane retaliates against her aunt. Reed declares that her niece is a liar, and Brocklehurst promises to alert the other members of the school to Jane's deceitful nature. Her aunt's worst suspicions about her moral character are confirmed when Jane declares to Brocklehurst that the "Psalms are not interesting." As a final poke at Jane, Mrs. Brocklehurst interviews Jane about hell, sin, and the Bible. ![]() ![]() ![]() On January 15, after three months of waiting for a change, Jane is finally summoned to the breakfast-room. But the only change Jane notices in her status following her experience in the red-room is that the boundary between Jane and the Reed children is more solid. Lloyd, Jane expects that she will soon be sent away to school. ![]() ![]() ![]() To save her mother, Xingyin embarks on a perilous quest, confronting legendary creatures and vicious enemies across the earth and skies. Disguising her identity, she seizes an opportunity to learn alongside the emperor’s son, mastering archery and magic, even as passion flames between her and the prince. But when Xingyin’s magic flares and her existence is discovered, she is forced to flee her home, leaving her mother behind.Īlone, powerless, and afraid, she makes her way to the Celestial Kingdom, a land of wonder and secrets. ![]() Growing up on the moon, Xingyin is accustomed to solitude, unaware that she is being hidden from the feared Celestial Emperor who exiled her mother for stealing his elixir of immortality. ![]() ![]() ![]() Picoult abandons her usual efforts to present an equal view of both sides of an issue-Max is a pitiful right-wing puppet Zoe, Vanessa, and their attorney are saintly-but her devoted fans will nevertheless find everything they expect: big emotion, diligent research, legal conflict, and a few twists at the end. Max's discomfort with Zoe's same-sex relationship and his desire to repay Reid and Liddy, who have their own fertility problems, mean a legal battle looms. social hot potatoes in her latest novel, including same-sex marriage, infertility. Max, meanwhile, converts to an evangelical brand of Christianity that pits him against Zoe when she asks Max for permission to use their frozen embryos. After their divorce, Max moves in with his brother and sister-in-law, Reid and Liddy, and backslides into self-destructive drinking, while Zoe devotes herself to music therapy (the book is accompanied by a CD in Zoe's voice, with awkward lyrics by Picoult) and develops a friendship with guidance counselor Vanessa that eventually turns into love and marriage. Max and Zoe's marriage, stressed by infertility problems and miscarriages, is finally destroyed by a stillborn baby. ![]() ![]() Picoult's overstuffed latest (after House Rules) is stretched just to the breaking point. ![]() ![]() There are people who wish to uncover the secret and use the power that the secret holds for their own purpose, one woman in particular who seeks power more than anything else. She soon finds herself in the middle of an ancient mystery-one where a secret long protected now risks being revealed. Reason for Reading: The comments made by fellow book readers made me curious and so when the book was selected as a group read for one of my online book groups, I decided to give it a try.Ĭomments: The novel begins in July of 2005, set in the Pyrenees Mountains, as the main character, Alice, is drawn to a cave where she finds two skeletons, an altar, and what appears to be the pattern of a labyrinth. ![]() First Sentence: A single line of blood trickles down the pale underside of her arm, a red seam on a white sleeve. ![]() ![]() But seriously, 700 words are a lot of words. And anyway, I've learned that 700 words are about all I'm good for on any given day, and if I write more than that I usually end up getting rid of most of it later. So I try not to look at FACEBOOK when I'm writing. I know this because writers like to tell you about how many words they've written on FACEBOOK. I know there are lots of writers out there who can write way more than that. I try to write 700 words a day - about three pages. Sometimes that means I have to get up really early. What's your writing day like? Do you stick to a routine? I went to law school, which I know doesn't count as a job, but hey, that was a lot of work. I also worked for FRONTLINE on PBS and Peter Jennings at ABC. I've waited tables, worked with adolescents in foster care, read the slush pile at a publishing house, and fact checked for a movie magazine. And I really like to walk near the Golden Gate Bridge. What are you doing when you aren't writing? Except for the summers where I go back to Los Angeles in search of the sun. I'm from Los Angeles, but now I live in San Francisco. ![]() But wouldn't that be easier than answering a whole bunch of FAQs? ![]() ![]() ![]() Writer Bill Watterson overlays these moments with Calvin’s imagination and laces the punchlines with Calvin learning only the wrong lessons from his misadventures. Punctuating the chaos of their adventures are moments of philosophical wonder. In the classic strip Calvin and Hobbes, six-year-old Calvin barges through school and his home, bringing stuffed-tiger Hobbes along for the ride. Should Calvin and Hobbes endure as art 30 years later? Spoiler: yes, but it’s never simple. ![]() This is the greatest reward of cartooning for me. I love the solitude of this work and the opportunity to work with ideas that interest me. Sometimes I resent the pressure to exploit every waking moment for strip ideas, but at its best, the strip makes me examine events and live more thoughtfully. Putting myself in the head of a fictitious six-year-old and a tiger encourages me to be more alert and inquisitive than I would otherwise be. Middle Grade, Young Adult, New Adult Non-Fiction, Graphic Novel, Comedy/Humour The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book, by Bill WattersonĢ08 pages, paperback, $21.99 CAD, ISBN: 9780836204384 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Du Bois, Richard Wright, Rosa Parks, Duke Ellington, Muhammad Ali, Marcus Garvey, Jesse Jackson, Eubie Blake, Mother Hale, Thurgood Marshall, Katherine Dunham, Marian Anderson, and many others. Forty-five ready-to-color illustrations depict a group of remarkable people - Dred Scott, a slave who sued for his freedom in 1838 Sojourner Truth, a crusader for womens rights and racial equality author Toni Morrison Colin Powell, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other notables, including Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, W. Spanning over 150 years of American history, the volume pays tribute to figures in civil rights, music, sports, politics, literature, government, and other areas. Book Synopsis The lives and achievements of notable African Americans spring to life in this carefully researched and finely rendered coloring book. About the Book Accurately rendered, ready-to-color collection of illustrations spotlights 45 remarkable individuals: Frederick Douglass, Thurgood Marshall, Marian Anderson, Althea Gibson, Duke Ellington, many more. ![]() ![]() ![]() I know that sounds super idealistic and typical of a cancer kid YA book, but believe me it’s not. So off they go with Perry, Cam’s little sister, for a summer in Maine in the search of miracles. Her mom however has very different ideas and has heard of a magical place called Miracle, Maine. After finding out that her cancer is back, Cam has decided to just let things take their course and live as normal a life as possible. Her mom and late father work at the Polynesian resort as dancers, and much to Cam’s mom’s dismay, Cam herself does not dance on stage anymore after cutting her hair short for treatment. Cam grew up around Disney, and as a result works there and has seen all the magic it holds. ![]() We’re used to the “survivor” types who have the will and urge to live, and those who have come to accept it, but Cam is a whole new type of cancer kid. While the idea of a teenager with cancer isn’t new, the whole take on it is. In a sea of dystopian, vampire, zombie, and awkward teenage romance novels, The Probability of Miracles is a fresh new novel from Wendy Wunder. Genre(s): YA, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction ![]() ![]() ![]() He’s a very decent performer, but for me he delivered a tone that gave the characters and situations within the novel, a ‘young adult fiction’ style, cartoon like quality, and I think this was one of the reasons I found it difficult to ever feel there were multidimensional characters peopling this book. Almost immediately I was aware that the choice of performer was a problem. I preordered the hard back (it’s still not arrived), but I wasn’t too miffed, because I had a credit, so I got the audiobook too. News that he’d chosen to set Utopia Avenue in the mid to late 60s and to focus on the brief life of a band that almost made it, had me genuinely excited for this book. I disagreed entirely with the professional critics who found fault in the supernatural elements of Bone Clocks, personally I found the strange alternate existence he conjured, quite brilliant, and I was happy to read that Utopia Avenue would continue with these Atemporal parallel lives. Over the years all I’ve found in Mitchell’s works are positives. I love his writing and the worlds he creates, and I really didn’t want to be writing a negative review today. For me, every book by David Mitchell is an event. ![]() |