![]() ![]() ![]() As Frank turns to alcohol to numb his problems, Cleo grows frustrated with his frequent substance use. Frank faces similar struggles, with an estranged father and a mother who provided him with a less-than-healthy idea of love. Cleo is dealing with her mother’s passing and her strained relationship with her father. They’re from different walks of life and different generations, but both have demons nipping at their heels. ![]() Mellors weaves an enticing tale of companionship and conflict within Cleo and Frank’s marriage. The novel continues jumping through several months as the couple’s enigmatic connection unravels, affecting the lives of those around them. The novel then jumps ahead a few months to Frank and Cleo getting married following a whirlwind romance. ![]() Right off the bat, Frank and Cleo’s electric dynamic pulls readers in. Frank is the 40-something-year-old owner of an advertising firm and Cleo is a 24-year-old aspiring artist from England. Set in New York City, the novel opens with an endearing elevator meet-cute between protagonists Cleo and Frank. The recently released “Cleopatra and Frankenstein” by NYU alum Coco Mellor has taken social media by storm, particularly TikTok, where a hashtag for the book has garnered more than 3.1 million views on videos using it. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Safety is not meant for Sadie: After the Forgotten Waters wash her away, she finds her way to shore, travels through a burnt forest, and finds refuge in a small cabin. The Arrow Garden is a delicately-wrought tale of truth, selfhood, and acceptance, which transcends time in its lyrical exploration of what it means to live. To visit the past or the future, even in imagination, is to change it. Setting out on a hike to a mountain village shrine, away from the charred city, she begins a life to which she is not sure she is entitled, a life which feels like living on the other side of the sky. ![]() In wartime Tokyo, Tanaka Mie finds herself wandering the burned-out ruins of her dead parents' fire-bombed home with only hazy recollections of how she survived. When lonely and socially isolated translator, Gareth, takes up traditional Japanese archery in 1990s Bristol, he learns that to study Kyudo is to reach out, to another culture, another time, other people… But when one of them reaches back, two lives that should never have touched become strangely entangled. ![]() ![]() ![]() Your Uncle Scrooge asks for your help, but some friendly Christmas ghosts have other plans. This edition reprints the story alongside Dickenss four other Christmas Books: The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man. ![]() With its memorable cast of characters such as Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come, Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol is the most heart-warming of seasonal tales, a timeless classic that continues to enchant readers around the world and a lesson in charity and hopefulness that is as powerful today as when it was first written in 1843. Everyone deserves a second chance even the stingiest of them all. Discover the English Audiobook at Audible. This experience teaches Scrooge the true meaning of the holiday and leaves him a transformed man. A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories as its meant to be heard, narrated by Amanda Friday, Rob Goll. ![]() One Christmas Eve, however, he is visited by a series of ghosts who reveal to him the innocence he has lost, the wretchedness of his future and the poverty of the present, which he has so far ignored. ![]() Ebenezer Scrooge is a lonely, miserly old man who hates Christmas, which he dismisses as “humbug”. ![]() ![]() ![]() From its initial print run of 3.7 million copies, over 1.3 million were sold in the US and 20,000 in the UK in the first 24 hours of the book's release, setting a record in first-day sales performance for the Hachette Book Group USA. ![]() Little, Brown and Company took certain measures to prevent the book's contents from leaking, such as closing forums and message boards on several fansites and providing a special e-mail address for fans to send in links to leaks and spoilers online.īreaking Dawn was released on Augat midnight release parties in over 4,000 bookstores throughout the US. ![]() Meyer finished an outline of the book in 2003, but developed and changed it as she wrote New Moon and Eclipse, though the main and most significant storylines remained unchanged. When Bella faces unexpected and life-threatening situations, she willingly risks her human life and possible vampire immortality. The novel directly follows the events of the previous novel, Eclipse, as Bella and Edward Cullen get married, leaving behind a heartbroken Jacob. ![]() Divided into three parts, the first and third sections are written from Bella Swan's perspective, and the second is written from the perspective of Jacob Black. Breaking Dawn (stylized as breaking dawn) is the 2008 fourth novel in The Twilight Saga by American author Stephenie Meyer. ![]() ![]() ![]() The first, the celebrated Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, took the story to the fall of 1958, closing with the death of Elvis’s beloved mother, Gladys. There’s an awful match for this moment early on in Peter Guralnick’s Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley, the second and last volume of what is now a twelve-hundred-page Presley biography. The only thing I moved was my little finger.” They said, ‘Man, he’s gotta be crazy.’ So, the police came out and filmed the show, so I couldn’t move. It was 1956, he remembered, in the midst of the national scandal over his celebration of his own body: “The police filmed a show one time in Florida, ’cause, uh, the PTA, the YMCA, or somebody thought I was… something. In a signal moment during the jam sessions that highlighted Elvis Presley’s 1968 TV comeback special-the most explosive music of his life-he told a funny story. ![]() ![]() ![]() And at that time, so different and so fresh.Īnd yes, if you hold it up to current paranormal stuff, it doesn't hold up as well, but at the time, whoah boy!Īnd it is one of the few series I haven't given up on, or lose interest in. I was actually having this convo with a friend the other day, that the DH series will always hold a special place in our hearts, as it is among the first of the paranormals that we read. This series will always hold a place in my heart.Ī Buckeye Girl Reads 9:36 AM, March 13, 2010 I usually only like every other DH book, for some bizarre reason.Īh, Talon. ![]() This isn't my favorite DH, I have to say. ![]() Saying that, I did read Night Play, as I loved the heroine. I started the In Death book without realizing how many there were, but.I can't start the Dark Hunter series. I actually had to put it down several times it was so hard to read. I love Z's story and will promise that Ash's story will kill you if you haven't read his book. I've read all of them at least once and a few twice. Nigh Play is probably my favorite with Z's story a close second. Probably one of the first vamp series I read, Christine Feehan being my first. ![]() I just can't say not to Kenyon's DH series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But when Sally and Zero accidentally uncover a long-hidden doorway to an ancient realm called Dream Town, she'll unknowingly set into motion a chain of sinister events that put her future as Pumpkin Queen, and the future of Halloween Town itself, into jeopardy. Cast into the spotlight and tasked with all sorts of queenly duties, Sally can't help but wonder if all she's done is trade her captivity under Dr. or are they? Sally Skellington is the official, newly-minted Pumpkin Queen after a whirlwind courtship with her true love, Jack, who Sally adores with every inch of her fabric seams- if only she could say the same for her new role as Queen of Halloween Town. **THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** Read Sally's story in this young adult companion to Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas written by New York Times best-selling author Shea Ernshaw. ![]() ![]() ![]() When she decides to post her latest Lavinia creation on Twitter, her photo goes viral. ![]() A hardcore Lavinia fan, she’s hidden her fanfiction and cosplay hobby from her “real life” for years-but not anymore. Immediately.Īpril Whittier has secrets of her own. But if anyone ever found out about his online persona, he’d be fired. Marcus is able to get out his own frustrations with his character through his stories, especially the ones that feature the internet’s favorite couple to ship, Aeneas and Lavinia. While the world knows him as Aeneas, the star of the biggest show on TV, Gods of the Gates, he’s known to fanfiction readers as Book!AeneasWouldNever, an anonymous and popular poster. ![]() ![]() ![]() She currently lives in Connecticut with her family and a pair of feral kittens they adopted from their backyard. Suzanne also has a rhyming picture book illustrated by Mike Lester entitled When Charlie McButton Lost Power. What you might find.? Well, that’s the story of Gregor the Overlander, the first book in her five-part series, The Underland Chronicles. ![]() In New York City, you’re much more likely to fall down a manhole than a rabbit hole and, if you do, you’re not going to find a tea party. ![]() Thinking one day about Alice in Wonderland, she was struck by how pastoral the setting must seem to kids who, like her own, lived in urban surroundings. ![]() While working on a Kids WB show called Generation O! she met children’s author James Proimos, who talked her into giving children’s books a try. She also co-wrote the critically acclaimed Rankin/Bass Christmas special, Santa, Baby! Most recently she was the Head Writer for Scholastic Entertainment’s Clifford’s Puppy Days. For preschool viewers, she penned multiple stories for the Emmy-nominated Little Bear and Oswald. She has worked on the staffs of several Nickelodeon shows, including the Emmy-nominated hit Clarissa Explains it All and The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo. Since 1991, Suzanne Collins has been busy writing for children’s television. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unlike regular humans, these humans are bred in captivity, pumped up with growth hormones, categorized by race, quality and purity and then slaughtered on an assembly line. In a world where a deadly virus has rendered all livestock unfit for consumption, the agriculture industry has adapted by breeding and slaughtering humans like cattle. The context and timing of its publication give the book a veneer of eerie realism and relatability that it would not have otherwise had, casting a sinister shadow over the novel. Initially published in Argentina in 2017, the book’s 2020 debut into the English-speaking world coincided perfectly with the social trauma inflicted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica is one of the most polarizing works of fiction I’ve had the pleasure (or rather, agony) of reading. However, I now find myself in the unusual position of having read a good book that I cannot recommend-not without a sharp pang of misgiving in my chest. Generally speaking, when I read a good book, I have no qualms recommending it to others. ![]() |