![]() ![]() Where is his ID and cell phone? Why hasn’t his wife and son come for him? Why do the residents of the town view him with such contempt? Why are there no cars on the road? Why does nobody ever leave? Why do the phones not work the way they are supposed to? Why does the main road that leads out of town loop back right into town? And most ominous of all, what is the purpose of the huge electrified fence circling the town? Is it to keep residents from leaving or to prevent someone or something from entering? With no one to help him or answer his questions and his memory failing him, he is completely alone. The idyllic town of Idaho has clear blue skies, pristine Victorian houses framed by white picket fences, quaint stores, picture-perfect mountains and verdant pine forests all of which scream paradise but it is impossible to ignore the gnawing feeling that in this quintessential small American town, something is very off. It feels oddly familiar yet so disquieting. He is injured, disoriented and has a sinister feeling about the bucolic town of Wayward Pines he finds himself in. US Secret Service agent Ethan Burke wakes up with transient amnesia in a strange town after a near-fatal accident. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It all felt kind of predictable and cliche - like, of course, that was the ending? So I thought this book had good spice, but everything that sat around it was just okay. Kings of Chaos is a full length dark new adult romance with enemies-to-lovers/love-hate themes, featuring a slightly psycho heroine and four even more psychotic men. But maybe these Kings of Chaos have let my pretty face fool them. Even though they've agreed to help me, I know they want to punish me too. They’ll give me a chance to exact my vengeance, and in exchange, all they want is… Me. Lucky for me, the last name on my list is someone they’ve got their own grudge against, so instead of killing me, they offer me a deal. But it turns out revenge is a messy business, and when I end up in the wrong place at the wrong time, I royally piss off four brutal, twisted, gorgeous men. Should be simple, right? Yeah, you’d think so. Six people who turned me into the monster I am now. Six people who wronged me, who hurt me, who took everything from me. Some people wear their heart on their sleeve. I was a good girl once, but now I dance with devils. ![]() ![]() ![]() No, Agnes’s encounter with a mummy is happening on Lord Showalter’s verdant green lawn, where butlers abound and strolling sitar players strain to create an exotic “atmosphere” for the first party of the season. Because reality for a seventeen-year-old debutante in 1815 London does not allow for camels-or dust even. She sees herself as a young Egyptologist who has arrived in Cairo on camelback. ![]() She sees herself wearing a pith helmet with antique dust swirling around her. An adventurous debutante refuses to settle for society’s expectations-and unleashes international intrigue (and possibly an ancient curse) along the way.Īgnes Wilkins is standing in front of an Egyptian mummy, about to make the first cut into the wrappings-about to unlock ancient (and not-so-ancient) history. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Just before the last stroke of midnight, Death arrives and takes Mort on as an apprentice (though his father thinks he has been apprenticed to an undertaker). Mort's father Lezek takes him to a local hiring fair in the hope that Mort will land an apprenticeship not only would this provide a job for his son, but it would also make his son's propensity for thinking someone else's problem. Plot summary Īs a teenager, Mort has a personality and temperament that makes him unsuited to the family farming business. In 2004, Pratchett stated that Mort was the first Discworld novel with which he was "pleased", stating that in previous books, the plot had existed to support the jokes, but that in Mort, the plot was integral. In the BBC's 2003 Big Read contest, viewers voted on the "Nation's Best-loved Book" Mort was among the Top 100 and chosen as the most popular of Pratchett's novels. The French language edition is titled Mortimer, and the Catalan language edition is titled Morth. The title is the name of its main character, and is also a play on words: in French and Catalan, mort means "death". Published in 1987, it is the fourth Discworld novel and the first to focus on the character Death, who only appeared as a side character in the previous novels. Mort is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jake by now had stepped way back near the hallway to the front door. The two of you, once again old, decide to start all over again, becoming teenagers the same way you did 46 years earlier. ![]() ![]() ![]() Decades of international missions pass, and your wife reminds you that you are 127 years old, and that your 100th anniversary is around the corner. Escaping from that world back to your home in Alabama, you use science to discover how you and your bride became teenagers again, and struggle to use that knowledge to bring health and long life to all humanity. Then you are stabbed in a fight and approach death. But you bring joy and health to hundreds of the natives as a result. The mirth ends when you both end up sleeping on the dirt floor of your own mud hut in Kenya, Africa. When you two undo that mess, you have to celebrate Thanksgiving with your adult children and grandchildren, who still expect you to be that same old doddering couple, not teenagers. You are soon arrested as a sexual predator for sleeping with your wife, and she is placed into Child Protective Custody. Two days later, your wife becomes a 16-year-old knockout. On your 54th wedding anniversary, an accident happens and you wake up the next morning as a 19-year-old hunk. H.L.Osterman, Editor of Time Travel and Other Science Fiction Journeys yet as up-to-date as modern-day hydrogeology. A science fiction fantasy written with the wonderment we used to love in those classic pulp magazines. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her decision to take the job (partly because things are difficult between her and Nick’s father) triggers the first major change in Nick’s life: the realization that his family is no longer a unified one. Narration also reveals that Nick’s mother loves horses, and has been invited to work with high-level racing horses in another state. Narration reveals that Nick’s father is a writer, and has published a dictionary of unusual but meaningful words, a dictionary that he wants Nick to memorize (throughout the book, examples of those words and their definitions appear in the text). ![]() ![]() Nick’s story begins on a day when everything seems to be relatively normal: he sleeps late, after playing on-line soccer into the night his parents are arguing and he is caught daydreaming in school. A "/" in the summary or a quote indicates a line break within a stanza a "//" in the summary or a quote indicates a break between stanzas. Dialogue poems, of which there are several, are printed with Nick’s dialogue in regular typeset, with the words of other speakers printed in italics. Most material is present tense, with the exception of remembered material, which is in past tense. The entire book is written, except where noted, in blank verse. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, New York. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Alexander, Kwame. ![]() ![]() ![]() And very often they listened to us because it was funny but it wasn’t me. I don’t know, there’s just something wrong about that line.’ And I would say ‘Don’t you think that’s a better line coming out of Rose’s mouth?’ And the writers would take notes and go back to work. “And sometimes at the first read-through on Monday for the new show – Bea never knew what was wrong but she would say, ‘I don’t know. ![]() Author of New York Times best-selling book Golden Girls Forever (. We all respected each other and thought each other was funny,” said McClanahan. Jim Colucci is the author of Golden Girls Forever (4.40 avg rating, 1053 ratings, 140 reviews, published 2016), Will & Grace (4.07 avg rating, 60 ratings. Author, with Norman Lear, of All in the Family: The Show That Changed Television (2021). “We weren’t envious or jealous of each other. During an interview in 2006, Rue McClanahan and Betty White talked about the making of The Golden Girls and their co-star Estelle Getty. Getty played the hilarious matriarch, Sophia Petrillo, on the show. However, that wasn’t the case for The Golden Girls star Estelle Getty. Most actors want as many lines and as much spotlight as possible. ![]() Have you ever heard of an actress who wanted fewer lines? We never had before we watched this Golden Girls interview. ![]() ![]() The ending was also very unexpected and I didn’t see it coming at all. In the start, it took a bit of time to pick up, but then once it catches your attention it is fun to read. The starting and the ending of this book were also good. They were all very clear and easily understood. I also loved how she had written all the thoughts of Circe. Imagining scenes happening in the book were so effortless. My favorite thing about it was how descriptive she was. I liked, no wait, loved how Madeline wrote the book. ![]() The writing style of this book is also very good. It exactly tells us what this book is going to be about. And I found the title ‘Circe’ also to be very apt and relatable to the book. It was soo beautiful!!! It is one of my favorite covers. The very first thing that I saw was its cover. And also this book, Circe was on my to-be-read list for a long time, so I decided to give it a try and bought it. I had seen many of my bookstagram friends recommending this book. You will find this book to be full of witchy magic, power-hungry people, love, loss, and drama. And then there she develops her skills here and tames wild beasts. ![]() And when this power of hers threatens the Gods, she is exiled to an island called Aiaia. ![]() But she has a power of her own – witchcraft. Circe is a strange child – not powerful and terrible, like her father, nor gorgeous and mercenary like her mother. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Beautiful Ones is a charming tale of love and betrayal and the struggle between conformity and passion, set in a world where scandal is a razor-sharp weapon. Under his tutelage, Nina’s talent blossoms – as does her love for the great man.īut great romances are for fairy-tales, and Hector is hiding a secret bitter truth from Nina – and himself – that threatens their courtship. Nina is dazzled by Hector, for he sees her not as a witch, but ripe with magical potential. ![]() She has always struggled to control her telekinesis: the haphazard manifestations of her powers have long made her the subject of gossip – malicious neighbours even call her the Witch of Oldhouse.īut Nina’s life is about to change, for there is a new arrival in town: Hector Auvray, the renowned entertainer, who has used his own telekinetic talent to perform for admiring audiences around the world. But the Grand Season has just begun and already Nina’s debut has gone disastrously awry. They are the Beautiful Ones, Loisail’s most notable socialites, and this spring is Nina’s chance to join their ranks, courtesy of her well-connected cousin and his calculating wife. ‘One of the most beautiful books I’ve read in a long time’ MJ Rose, New York Times bestselling author of the Reincarnationalist series ![]() From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a sweeping romance rich with love and betrayal, with more than a dash of magic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Safia Elhillo, author of Home Is Not a Country and Girls That Never Die Propulsively readable and experimental in form, this is an unflinching look at family, grief, and reclamationof self and other. ![]() ![]() This novel works language into its most jeweled form. When We Were Sisters tenderly examines the bonds and fractures of sisterhood, names the perils of being three Muslim American girls alone against the world, and ultimately illustrates how those who've lost everything might still make homes in one another. The Millions When We Were Sisters is a stunning accomplishment in form, storytelling, and heart. As Kausar grows up, she must contend with the collision of her private and public worlds, and choose whether to remain in the life of love, sorrow, and codependency that she's known or carve out a new path for herself. The youngest, Kausar, grapples with the incomprehensible loss of their parents as she also charts out her own understanding of gender Aisha, the middle sister, spars with her "crybaby" younger sibling as she desperately tries to hold on to her sense of family in an impossible situation and Noreen, the eldest, does her best in the role of sister-mother while also trying to create a life for herself, on her own terms. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, NPR, Time, Vox, PopSugar, Autostraddle In this heartrending, lyrical debut work of fiction, the acclaimed author of If They Come for Us traces the intense bond of three orphaned siblings who, after their parents die, are left to raise one another. a knife-sharp story of self-discovery."- People LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD - "This exquisite debut wrestles with gender, siblinghood, family, and what it means to be Muslim in America-all through the lens of love."- Time "Haunting. ![]() |