![]() ![]() ” -The New York Times Book ReviewĪ New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and “one of our greatest living writers” ( Shondaland) reimagines the love story in this fresh and seductive novel about a young woman seeking joy while healing from loss.įeyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again. ![]() “ An unabashed ode to living with, and despite, pain and mortality. “A deeply heartfelt romance novel.” - Marie Claire A Good Morning America Buzz Pick, a Best Romance of 2022 by The New York Times and The Washington Post, and a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Oprah Daily, Vulture, Harper’ s Bazaar, Thrillist, Essence, Good Housekeeping, Glamour, Marie Claire, Parade, Bustle, BuzzFeed, Refinery29, Business Insider, The Guardian, Financial Times, PopSugar, Book Riot, LitHub, Bookish, LGBTQ Reads, and more! ![]()
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![]() ![]() " This book is great for science in introducing the solar system. This is a book about the magic school bus going into space. This is a book about the magic school bus. " This is a book about the solar the system and how you go close and far and what it looks like. " What can I say? Packed full of information presented in a fun format! LOVE THESE!! " - Lisa, Guess this one is out of date now - Pluto! :-( - but not lowering its rating. " This series was just heaps of fun :D I remember watching some TV episodes as well! " - Sally, They go on a fun adventure in the solar system and learn all about the planets. " This a fun and really educational book for children. " The Magic school bus books have always been some of my favorites! This one I love because it is fun and teaches you about the solar system at the same time. ![]() ![]() ![]() " Gotta love the Friz- always a hit with my science loving students! " - Julia, " I love astronomy!! This is a great book in Joanna Cole's series written to introduce students to our solar neighborhood as they explore the moon and other planets!! A good book for introducing Kindergarten and first graders to the science of Astronomy. " One of the most popular editions this was a special favorite of an autistic boy I worked with who as space savvy. " Classic Magic School Bus, this time in SPAAAACE! " - Peter, " this is a real coo kid science book ask mr.driscoll about it lol " - Juan, Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:. ![]() ![]() ![]() In desperation, a team of CIA agents drags Charlie into the hunt, needing her brilliance to find it first-even though this means placing her life in grave danger. Fearing what would happen if the equation fell into the wrong hands, he hid it.īut now, a diabolical group known as the Furies are closing in on its location. Lemoncello’s Library seriesįrom New York Times bestselling author Stuart Gibbs comes the first novel in a thrilling new series about the world’s youngest and smartest genius who’s forced to use her unbelievable code-breaking skills to outsmart Einstein.Ĭharlie Thorne isn’t old enough to drive.Īnd now it’s up to her to save the world…ĭecades ago, Albert Einstein devised an equation that could benefit all life on earth-or destroy it. “Fast-paced, smart, and action-packed.a real page-burner.” -Chris Grabenstein, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Mr. ![]() ![]() ![]() A Hindi feature film adaptation of the novel, titled Dil Bechara, which was directed by Mukesh Chhabra and starring Sushant Singh Rajput, Sanjana Sanghi, Saswata Chatterjee, Swastika Mukherjee and Saif Ali Khan was released on July 24, 2020, on Disney+ Hotstar. Hazel is forced by her parents to attend a support group where she subsequently meets and falls in love with 17-year-old Augustus Waters, an ex-basketball player, amputee, and survivor of osteosarcoma.Īn American feature film adaptation of the same name as the novel directed by Josh Boone and starring Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, and Nat Wolff was released on June 6, 2014. ![]() The title is inspired by Act 1, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, in which the nobleman Cassius says to Brutus: "Men at some time were masters of their fates, / The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings." The story is narrated by Hazel Grace Lancaster, a 16-year-old girl with thyroid cancer that has affected her lungs. It is his fourth solo novel, and sixth novel overall. The Fault in Our Stars is a novel by John Green. ![]() Print ( hardcover, paperback), audiobook, ebook ![]() ![]() Apparently to win over Glauce, who would persuade Creon not to exile her sons, Medea sends the princess a robe and a golden chaplet, which the gullible woman dons and dies from in great pain. ![]() But Medea extracts a stay of execution from Creon, and then the promise of sanctuary from the visiting Aegeus, King of Athens. ![]() The repudiated wife plotted revenge, and, as the play opens, faces exile for speaking against the royal house. Unfortunately, though she had borne him two sons, Jason then threw Medea over for Glauce, the daughter of Creon, King of Corinth. ![]() After the voyage of the Argonaughts, and the dangers which the love-smitten princess helped him escape, Jason married Medea and brought her to Iolchus, fleeing to Corinth when Medea contrived to have King Peleas murdered by his own daughters. The Medea legend was well known to Greek audiences. ![]() ![]() ![]() Will the pasts of Autumn or Grier cause them to die? Who is he? He obviously has military training, and medical skills, but he won’t tell Autumn his secrets.Īutumn is shocked to find her own family has dangerous skeletons in their closet. He does so much good that many call him the town hero. Grier, a new guy in town, is often on the scene when these things happen, and steps in with much needed help. Autumn herself is kidnapped and left for dead. Then Autumn’s father is attacked, shot and fighting for his life in the hospital. Strangers with foreign accents have been showing up in their isolated town. In an area that rarely has one murder, multiple murder victims have appeared throughout the community. He is trying everything to get Autumn thrown out, and it looks like he might be successful. A local man, with lots of pull, wants the police chief job for his nephew. Suddenly, everything around her spins out of control. ![]() There is hardly ever any crime, or much excitement. ![]() Autumn is the police chief in a very small town in the Alaskan wilderness. ![]() ![]() ![]() When her kitecycle (!) is destroyed in a mid air collision with ex-Air Marshall Tucker Gentry's zeppelin, the two join forces, although Tuck wants the money to buy his freedom and return to the United States.Īll this dashing about in search of the treasure/historical object takes place in an alternate history setting where a time machine cased people from the 1960's to move to Victorian England. She must find an invention of historical importance in time for Queen Victoria's Jubilee. It involves the adventures of Amelia Darcy, an inventor and pilot who is trying to restore her family's fortune and good name by winning a contest. This is the first book in “The Glorious Victorious Darcys” trilogy. Her Sky Cowboy is a steampunk romance, which takes place in and above England, Paris, and Italy. ![]() The odds of my filling said void through direct personal experience seem to be low, but thanks to the book at least I got to read about it. ![]() Thanks to Her Sky Cowboy, I now realize that the void in my soul was caused by never having seen Janis Joplin perform “ Piece Of My Heart” in a bar on a floating zeppelin in Victorian England. All my life, I've felt something was missing, and now I know what it was. ![]() ![]() ![]() In doing so, he must face many dangers and privations.Īlthough Anthem did not attract much attention on first publication, the success of Rand's later novels gave it a boost, and it has maintained its popularity for nearly half a century. The novel describes the efforts of the main character, Equality 7-2521, to reestablish a sense of personal identity and restore the knowledge of the past by objective scientific inquiry. Even the word "I" has disappeared from the language. In this society, there is no concept of individuality. The novel is set in some unspecified time and place in the future, many years after human civilization has undergone a cataclysm in which all knowledge was lost and a primitive, rigidly collectivist society was established. Anthem is a novella by American writer Ayn Rand, first published in Great Britain in 1938 and revised for its first American edition in 1946. ![]() ![]() ![]() You can always change your vote at any time so nothing is lost. If you do not see your favorite book about the American Civil War on this list then just comment or pop me a note and I will immediately add it to this poll. ![]() Vote as soon as possible because the first book will be launched in February. Bryan Craig will be the Assisting Moderator leading this book discussion.Ĭhoose and vote for one book. The book which garners the most votes and comes out on top will be discussed beginning in February 2012. So take your time and make sure to vote because if a book does not get at least one vote it will be relegated to the bottom of the list. We wanted to make sure that we included "all of them". Just as an FYI: this poll took me forever to put together because there were so many group member suggestions and recommendations. Killer Angels was already completed by the group so that book was not added to the list for voting purposes. Therefore we are now voting for the first Military Series selection from books which were all nominated by group members. ![]() Therefore, the first Military Series discussion will focus on the American Civil War. The American Civil War received the most votes from the group membership. The reason that we did this was because we are launching a Military Series of book discussions similar to how we conduct the Presidential Series at the HBC. Recently, the History Book Club conducted a Military Series Poll. American Civil War - Military Series Selection ![]() ![]() Eleven days later, she reappears, just as mysteriously as she disappeared, claiming amnesia and providing no explanations for her time away. Her World War I veteran husband and her daughter have no knowledge of her whereabouts, and England unleashes an unprecedented manhunt to find the up-and-coming mystery author. Investigators find her empty car on the edge of a deep, gloomy pond, the only clues some tire tracks nearby and a fur coat left in the car-strange for a frigid night. ![]() In December 1926, Agatha Christie goes missing. The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Only Woman in the Room returns with a thrilling reconstruction of one of the most notorious events in literary history: Agatha Christie's mysterious 11-day disappearance in 1926. ![]() The ending is ingenious, and it's possible that Benedict has brought to life the most plausible explanation for why Christie disappeared for 11 days in 1926."- The Washington Post THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER! ![]() |
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