![]() ![]() And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, Tris also learns that her secret might help her save the ones she loves. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. ![]() This edition of the ebook is not available for sale in your country. ![]() As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are-and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. Divergent Series (Books 1-3) Plus Free Four, The Transfer and World of Divergent. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.ĭuring the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. ![]() For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is-she can't have both. On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue-Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). ![]()
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![]() Praise for The Scorpio Races:* “Masterful. ![]() The Scorpio Races is an unforgettable reading experience. As she did in her bestselling Shiver trilogy, author Maggie Stiefvater takes us to the breaking point, where both love and life meet their greatest obstacles, and only the strong of heart can survive. She is in no way prepared for what is going to happen. So she enters the competition - the first girl ever to do so. But fate hasn't given her much of a choice. She never meant to ride in the Scorpio Races. He is a young man of few words, and if he has any fears, he keeps them buried deep, where no one else can see them. At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the returning champion. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. ![]() From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Shiver and Linger comes a brand new, heartstopping novel. ![]() ![]() However, Peck is not cast wholly as a villain, nor does Li’l Bit always reject his advances. It also illuminates how women are molded and manipulated not only by their abusers but by society at-large. Well-received by critics as well as survivors of sexual assault, the play addresses sexual double standards women face and how women are often blamed for their own abuse. Each scene is designated a driving rule that also reflects the life lesson Li’l Bit learns therein. Through non-chronological flashbacks, Li’l Bit, now in her forties, uses learning to drive as a metaphor for her learning about sex, and about life, from her aunt’s husband, Peck, with whom she has a sexual relationship. ![]() It addresses pedophilia, victim blaming, and misogyny, as well as the complexities of love and family. How I Learned to Drive, a play written by Paula Vogel, premiered Off-Broadway in 1997 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1998. ![]() ![]() Thirteen stories from the pulp magazines "Black Mask" and "Dime Detective" include such classics as "Red Wind" and "Trouble Is My Business." The volume, with its companion, "Later Novels and Other Writings, " comprise the most comprehensive edition available of America's greatest mystery writer. In "The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, " and "The High WIndow, " Marlow's investigations lead him from Los Angeles shanties and honkey tonks to the highest reaches of power, encountering a world of gangsters and crooked politicans, lost souls and small-time operators. "Stories and Early Novels" includes the first three novels featuring Chandler's great creation, private eye Philip Marlow: tough, disillusioned, and sensitive. In the process, he transformed both the crime novel and American writing. A RAYMOND CHANDLER DOUBLE FEATURE STARRING ROBERT MITCHUMPhilip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum) is involved in a case of deception, double-cross and murder in. With humor, and an unerring sense of dialogue and the telling detail he created a fictional universe out of the dark side of sunlit Los Angeles. In Raymond Chandler's hands, the pulp crime story became a haunting mystery of power and corruption, set against a modern cityscape both lyrical and violent. ![]() ![]() ![]() Luster by Raven Leilani is written with stunning attention to detail and intention. Edie may be the only Black woman young Akila knows.” She becomes a hesitant ally to his wife and a de facto role model to his adopted daughter. As if navigating the constantly shifting landscapes of contemporary sexual manners and racial politics weren’t hard enough, Edie finds herself unemployed and invited into Eric’s home―though not by Eric. ![]() ![]() And then she meets Eric, a digital archivist with a family in New Jersey, including an autopsist wife who has agreed to an open marriage ―with rules. She is also haltingly, fitfully giving heat and air to the art that simmers inside her. Quick Book Summary (from the official blurb): “Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties ―sharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking in and out of her admin job, making a series of inappropriate sexual choices. Raven Leilani’s Luster, recent winner of The John Leonard Prize from the National Book Critics Circle, is our next selection. In a continuation of our series of micro-reviews, assistant editor Brandon Williams brought together a group of ardent readers to give their quick-hit impressions of recent novels which have won major awards from the literary world. ![]() ![]() ![]() One third of these companies reached the public markets. He went on to work at SRI International and the Institute for the Future, where he directed the project to build the world’s first network-based groupware system as a Principal Investigator on Arpanet, the prototype for the Internet.Ī venture capitalist with Euro-America since 1987, Jacques Vallee has spearheaded early-stage investments in over 60 high technology start-ups. ![]() as an astronomer at the University of Texas, where he co-developed the first computer-based map of Mars for NASA, Jacques later moved to Northwestern University where he received his Ph.D. in mathematics at the Sorbonne and an M.S. He was born in France, where he received a B.S. ![]() Vallee serves as a General Partner of Euro-America Ventures, a Silicon Valley group that invests in North America and Europe, primarily in high-technology. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Hollywood Reporter revealed some of the main cast and crew for the project earlier today. She is kept hidden by her family in a Victorian mansion in the Southeastern United States where she is haunted by nightmares of an older sister, also named Audrina, being attacked and left to die in the woods.Īs you might expect, the rest of Audrina’s family (including father Damian, mother Lucietta, Aunt Ellsbeth and cousin Vera) know what happened to her sister - and Audrina slowly discovers the truth for herself. ![]() It is the only standalone novel published by Andrews during her lifetime and is about Audrina Adare, a young girl who has difficulty with memories. My Sweet Audrina will be the first non-Dollanganger novel given the Lifetime treatment. Andrews novels that began with Flowers In the Attic in 2014, which was viewed by more than 6 million people when it premiered! Flowers in the Attic was followed by three other adaptations in the Dollanganger series, including Petals on the Wind, If There Be Thorns and Seeds of Yesterday. The My Sweet Audrina movie project has been rumored for more than a year now, and will be the fifth in a series of Lifetime adaptations of V.C. ![]() Andrews are the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups of cable TV movie combos, and today it was revealed the successful partnership will continue as Lifetime has officially given the greenlight to a movie adaptation of Andrews’ novel My Sweet Audrina. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Story: Kayla’s house is driving her crazy. He keeps writing to her, knowing that he is making her nervous, but he has plans and they include her. ![]() The Hero: Dante – He says he knows Kayla, the sight, sound and taste of her, all her dreams and desires. Kayla is trying to get used to life on her own, taking care of a house that seems to have a mind of its own and learning to go on without her husband. ![]() She gets a feeling that something is coming and it isn’t good. The letter was from Washington State Penitentiary and the writer says he will wait forever if he has to. The heroine: Kayla – her husband Michael has died and she is drowning in grief when she gets a letter in the mail. When I found out why, it was already too late.Īnd nothing on earth could have prepared me for what happened next. We went back and forth, exchanging letters every week that grew increasingly more intimate. I said we’d never met, but he said I was wrong. I told the mystery man he had the wrong girl. Out of simple curiosity, I wrote back to ask him what exactly he was waiting for. It was signed by Dante, a man I didn’t know. It was postmarked from the state penitentiary, and contained a single sentence: The first letter arrived the day my husband was buried. ![]() ![]() ![]() An author’s note mentions Edison’s battle with Tesla and the public electrocutions he staged there’s also a bibliography of four sources. Recommended for ages 6 to 9. I recommend this one for the writing, but far preferred the illustrations of Adler’s book. One thing I appreciated is the explanation of how a telegraph works. The writing style of this book is more lively than Adler’s biography and the text focuses on Edison’s childhood and inventions, as the subtitle states (no mention of his wives and children, for example). A Wizard from the Start: The Incredible Boyhood and Amazing Inventions of Thomas Edisonby Don Brown (HMH Books for Young Readers, 2010) This book made me want to check out more of Adler’s series of approximately 30 picture book biographies. There’s a lot of info here, but the fun, detailed illustrations make it child-friendly. It focuses on his curiosity, his experiments, and his inventions. This picture book is a straightforward biography of Edison’s whole life, including his childhood and his marriages. Adler, illustrated by John and Alexandra Wallner (Holiday House, 1996) ![]() A Picture Book of Thomas Alva Edisonby David A. ![]() I recently read four picture books about Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla, of electricity fame. I think picture books are a great way to learn about historical figures and famous inventors should be particularly interesting to inquisitive children, especially when they are old enough to understand some of the details. ![]() ![]() ![]() While Luna is torn between family loyalty and her own feelings, Alec wonders if he might have been wrong about love and marriage all along. But as they bicker over color swatches and mood boards, they find themselves fighting something else: their growing mutual attraction. But when his recently engaged brother begs him to participate in The Wedding Game, Alec grudgingly picks up a glue gun and prepares for some family bonding.īoth fierce competitors, Luna and Alec clash on national TV as harsh words and glitter fly with abandon. So it's only natural that Luna would convince her brother and his husband-to-be to compete on The Wedding Game, a "do-it-yourself" TV show, for the title of Top DIY Wedding Expert.Īs a jaded divorce lawyer, Alec Baxter scoffs at weddings and romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() Luna Rossi is a veritable crafting genius-she can bedazzle and bead so hard her Etsy site is one of the hottest in the world. The narrative is full of hilarious instances that are sure to make viewers giggle, and Luna and Alec’s conversation is funny and captivating. USA Today bestselling author Meghan Quinn's latest bauble is the charming story of a crafting queen battling a jaded divorce lawyer on a wedding reality show. Meghan Quinn’s ability to integrate humor through the plot distinguishes The Wedding Game from other humorous romantic fiction. ![]() |