Shane is loving and supportive from thousands of miles away, but his homecoming brings a betrayal Kate never saw coming. Now with Shane deployed for seven months, Kate is on her own and struggling with being a single parent. Kate's ability to read him like a book may have once sent Shane running, but their lives are forever entwined and they are growing closer. Shane's been angry for a year, and now he feels guilty too - for sleeping with his wife's best friend and liking it. Then on the first anniversary of Rachel's death, Kate and Shane take comfort in each other in a night that they both soon regret. The fact that Shane's in the military and away for long periods helps-but when tragedy strikes, everything changes.Īfter Rachel, pregnant with her fourth child, dies in a car accident and the baby miraculously survives, Kate upends her entire life to share parenting duties. If you're Kate Evans, you keep your friend Rachel, bond with her kids, and bury your feelings for her husband. A 'heartbreaking, heartwarming' (Heidi McLaughlin, New York Times bestselling author) love story that asks the question: what do you do when your soul mate marries your best friend?
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As objects go missing and tempers flare, Milo and Meddy, the cook’s daughter, must decipher clues and untangle the web of deepening mysteries to discover the truth about Greenglass House-and themselves. Soon Milo’s home is bursting with odd, secretive guests, each one bearing a strange story that is somehow connected to the rambling old house. But on the first icy night of vacation, out of nowhere, the guest bell rings. The creaky smuggler’s inn is always quiet during this season, and twelve-year-old Milo, the innkeepers’ adopted son, plans to spend his holidays relaxing. Greenglass House: Greenglass House series (Book 1) You will also find a more complete list of books by each author under TBF Book List. Not sure which books to read? Let our TBF authors tell you which ones they recommend! Visit our Resources page, then scroll down to "TBF One Book Recommendations". Champion The Graphic Novel Legend ~ Marie Lu is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels Legend Prodigy and Champion as well as The Young Elites She graduated from the University of Southern California and jumped into the video game industry working for Disney Interactive Studios as a Flash artistĬhampion The Graphic Novel Legend Book 3 ~ Marie Lu is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels Legend Prodigy and Champion as well as The Young Elites She graduated from the University of Southern California and jumped into the video game industry working for Disney Interactive Studios as a Flash artistĬhampion The Graphic Novel by Marie Lu 9780451534347 ~ About Champion The Graphic Novel The final book in Marie Lu’s bestselling Legend trilogy draws to a thrilling conclusion in this vibrant graphic novel adaptation June and Day have sacrificed so much for the people of the Republic–and each other–and now their country is on the brink of a new existenceĬhampion The Graphic Novel by Marie Lu Goodreads ~ This graphic novel told the bare bones of the story nothing more I’ve been trying to read more graphic novels lately and I did like the book but the graphic novel is nowhere near as good as the book itself Still a good supplement to the series Day and June didn’t look anything like how I pictured them however Add in a generously embarrassing family, an exhaustingly cheerful cyborg partner, and a hate-filled boss, and life just won’t let up on this by-the-rules cop. Recruited by the FDA – now the world’s most powerful law enforcement agency in the wake of an avian flu pandemic that took hundreds of millions of lives – for his singular talent, Tony finds himself taking bites of stranger and stranger substances as his casework, increasingly muddied by connections to shadowy criminal organizations and possibly extraterrestrial conspiracies, takes him from New York chicken speakeasies to Siberian research stations staffed by vampire ladies in ushankas to tropical dictator states. Dates read: Various dates between November 2010 and spring 2011īooks from: Personal collection, or borrowed from KakanerĬhew, Volume 2: International Flavor (2010)Ĭhew is the story of Tony Chu, a humorless detective who has the unfortunate ability to gain psychic impressions from anything he eats (except beets). While James doesn’t romanticize the exclusivity or elitism of having an experience only 1% of American students get to have, she only scratched on the surface of how lonely and cold a place these school are for black students (and employees!) The second half of the book delves a bit more into issues such as racism by other students, daily verbal insults, everyday microaggressions, otherings, racial segregation, and derogatory or harmful attitudes towards students of color. And Legacy or no, the narrator realizes she is not part of the elite. Who was wearing what? Who had money? Who didn’t? Who was wearing their hair how? Who came from where? Pretty much all the same stuff any teenager would worry about. The book starts as “coming of age” biography. James, an adolescent Black nerdy (Blerd) whose father was a graduate of the Taft School, a very elite, predominantly white private boarding school in Connecticut, discovered that Taft was not built with Black people or any people of color in mind. Here is my review.ĪDMISSIONS: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School by Kendra James (she/her) is a memoir by the first African-American legacy student to graduate from one of the world’s most elite prep schools. The students of color at the Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts, picked a memoir about a Black student’s time at a white boarding school for the summer of 2022 book. She’s expressed her concern about the car’s mysterious presence to her husband, but he chalks it up to nothing more than Phoebe’s overactive imagination. When we first meet her, her days consist of little more than drinking expensive wine, watching trashy reality shows, and obsessing about the rusty blue car that has shown up outside her house far too often. She feels as if her life has no meaning, as if everything she does is by rote. Phoebe Miller is in a rut, and she honestly couldn’t tell you how long she’s been there. On the surface, it’s just one more in a long line of books about couples keeping secrets from one another, but as the story progresses and the characters begin to give up some of those secrets, we’re is treated to a deeper, darker story than originally expected. Miller is Allison Dickson’s debut novel, and it’s one of those books that constantly challenges the reader’s perception of what is real. Mill was an acclaimed liberal philosopher, publicist, politician and scientist who championed the march for an egalitarian society. John Stuart Mill’s views on gender equality are expressed in The Subjection of Women. The essay is regarded as one of the most fundamental texts to the formation of modern day feminism influencing the likes of Betty Friedan who was in-part responsible for ‘second-wave’ feminism in the 1960’s. I think the first person POV would have been perfect for this story and would've let me connect more deeply with Elena and invest in the story on a higher level. I honestly believe that if the story had been written in the first person POV with Elena as the narrator, I would've had a completely different reading experience. That definitely was the case with this novel. I personally don't care much for this style and almost always prefer the first person POV. She used the third person point of view with Elena as the main character. The first I already mentioned - the plot being boring and not at all what I had been expecting, and the writing style the author chose to write the story. There were two big issues I had with the book. The setting was perfect and the author did a fantastic job of describing it to the point where I could close my eyes and picture it all perfectly. I loved learning everything I could about Elena and her vine magic as well as the other types of magic out there. The two things that I loved the most were what I was most excited about - the magic and the setting. They were all pretty realistic and I could identify with them at least a bit. I liked getting to know Elena and the other major characters throughout the story. I did generally enjoy the story, although the plot ended up being a little dull for my tastes. Steph knows that Ranger will soon be calling in his marker, but with her ex- fiancé Joe Morelli out of the picture, that should be OK-shouldn't it? In the meantime, she's got other fugitives to catch, aided by the usual band of misfits, plus a bumbling correspondence-school lawyer who's developed the hots for Stephanie's sister, Valerie. Stephanie doesn't scare easily, but when Abruzzi's henchmen leave a bag of snakes on her doorknob and tarantulas in her car, she has no choice but to call Ranger, the hunky man of mystery whom she already owes too many favors. Stephanie's first clue that there's more to it than that comes in the form of Eddie Abruzzi, a shady local businessman who warns her to butt out of the case. Evelyn Soder and her young daughter have gone on the run, leaving an angry ex-husband who's planning to collect on a child custody bond that will leave Evelyn's grandmother homeless. In Hard Eight, Stephanie Plum picks up a case a little nastier than anything the wisecracking bounty hunter's seen before. Nick nodded like he wasn’t expecting a problem with the plane. I’m just going to do my preflight check-then I’ll be on my way.” The plane’s all gassed up supplies are all loaded. My home was back in Cedar Creek, Idaho, but that was too far of a trip for a bush plane like this, so Nick kept it secure for me, kept it ready for my annual trip into the wilderness. He stored my plane for me up here in Alaska. I looked over at the grizzled man watching me. There was nothing quite like watching the world from above. That wasn’t the primary purpose of the trip I was about to take, but it was definitely a perk. I was dying to get the small plane into the air, feel the rush and freedom that came along with exploring the skies. No part of this book may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without express written permission of the publisher.Īmazon, the Amazon logo, and Montlake Romance are trademarks of, Inc., or its affiliates.įor my “mountain man.” Thank you for giving me hope.Įagerness surged through me as I stared at the bright-yellow Piper Super Cub waiting patiently for me on a bed of crisp white snow. Names, characters, organizations, places, events, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. “Addicting and heart pounding-you won’t be able to put it down until you’ve devoured every word.” “From page one, this book is impossible to put down.” |