![]() ![]() With tales of loves won and lost, battles waged in the hearts of men, and a legacy of faith spanning generations, The Lost Castle is a sweeping story of three strong women making history. Embarking on a journey to France’s Loire Valley, Ellie can only hope to unearth the secrets of the mysterious castle before time silences them forever.Īs Ellie’s journey unfolds, so too do the journeys of the two other women, each of their stories woven together through their connection with the forgotten French castle-a castle that plays a part in saving each one of them. Present day: Ellie Carver is in a race against time to deliver a decades-overdue message as her grandmother fades into the shadows of Alzheimer’s. ![]() Bridging the past and present in three time periods-the French Revolution, World War II, and present day-The Lost Castle is an enchanting, interwoven story of three resilient women connected by a storybook castle that stands witness to their lives.ġ789: Aveline Saint-Moreau is a wealthy and beautiful young aristocrat preparing for her betrothal to the Duc et Vivay’s heir Philippe, but the French Revolution looms as the Bastille is stormed in Paris.ġ944: Viola Hart is a Resistance fighter in France during World War II, desperately trying to root out the evil taking hold in her country as the Nazis occupy France. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Noah Zajack, on the other hand, has no money, may have to sacrifice his morals to get a scholarship, and he has no love prospects on the horizon. ![]() He has plenty of money, he is the popular quarterback on his way to the NFL, and he has his pick of the girls. Will Ashford’s life is enviable to just about everyone. Review: The grass always seems greener on the other side, doesn’t it? I believe both MCs in Outing the Quarterback subscribe to this way of thinking. Stay in the closet and keep his family’s wealth, or let the doors fall off and walk out with nothing. Hounded by the press and harassed by other players, Will has to choose. When a gossipmonger with a popular YouTube channel finds evidence that Will is gay, the quarterback’s closet doors begin to crumble. Noah wants the scholarship too and may have a way to get it since the teacher of his class has designs on him, a plan Will isn’t happy about. Will’s problems seem like nothing compared to Noah’s. ![]() A scarred orphan who’s slept on park benches and eaten from trash cans, Noah carefully plans his life and multiple jobs so he has money and time to go to art school. In a painting master class, Will meets his divergent opposite, Noah Zajack. But if he can win the coveted Milton Scholarship for art, he’ll be able to break from his father at the end of his senior year. He meets his wealthy father’s goals as both the quarterback for the famous SCU football team and a business major, but secretly he attends art school and longs to live as a painter. Blurb: Will Ashford lives in two closets. ![]() ![]() The future of Rin in this world may appear quite dark, but that of the series seems bright indeed. Frankly, it's also just wonderful to have more genre stories told through an Asian cultural tableau. ![]() ![]() Where the children's "Avatar" animated-series ultimately is about optimism in the face of unending warfare, "The Poppy War" delivers a tale more fatalistic, but still relatable. The Poppy War, a grimdark fantasy, draws its plot and politics from mid-20th-century China, 1 2 3 with the conflict in the novel based on the Second Sino-Japanese War, and an atmosphere inspired by the Song dynasty. Kuang ambitiously begins a trilogy that doesn't shy away from the darkest sides of her characters, wrapped in a confectionery of high-fantasy pulp. A brilliantly imaginative talent makes her exciting debut with this epic historical military fantasy, inspired by the bloody history of Chinas twentieth. Despite the sometimes disturbing paths that we follow down with Rin and her allies, there is debate and nuance. More "Hunger Games," less "Sorcerer's Stone." A larger world of war atrocities, mad gods and demented scientists ups the stakes for the peasant girl of iron will, but despite the terrible violence that Kuang describes in excruciating detail, there is a gallows humor at work and the principle characters never entirely lose their charm enough to disconnect from the reader. ![]() ![]() The ensuing campaigns, trials and adventures go from quaintly Potter-esque to drama of historic scale. ![]() ![]() ![]() In a way, Mackintosh is just picking up the thread laid down by the authors of Genesis. But now we talk about toxic masculinity, which instead reminds us of a poison that sickens poisoners and victims alike. We used to talk about patriarchy, rule by men, which carries a sense of top-down power and hierarchy. But after half a century of oil spills, chemical runoff, and nuclear waste, it now carries the sense of seepage and pollution - in our water supply, air, food and, most recently, culture. The word toxic has its origins in the poison arrows Greek archers carried into battle. The Water Cure, a tart, uncanny debut novel by Sophie Mackintosh, is an unlikely thought experiment that asks: What if men were literally as well as figuratively toxic? Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Water Cure Author Sophie Mackintosh ![]() ![]() ![]() While the small town is devastated by the deaths caused by the fire, Jennifer seduces the school's football captain in the woods and then attacks him his disemboweled corpse is later found. The next morning at school, Jennifer appears fine and shrugs off Needy's concerns. ![]() Unable to digest the matter, she vomits a trail of black, spiny fluid and then leaves in a hurry as Needy calls after her. Later that evening, Jennifer, covered in blood, appears in Needy's kitchen and proceeds to eat food from the refrigerator. A suspicious fire engulfs the bar, killing several, and Jennifer who is in shock, agrees to leave with the band despite Needy's attempts to stop her. One night, Jennifer takes Needy to a local dive bar to attend a concert by indie rock band Low Shoulder. She has been friends with a selfish and popular cheerleader, Jennifer Check (Megan Fox), since childhood, despite having little in common. Anita "Needy" Lesnicki (Amanda Seyfried), once an insecure teenager, is now a violent mental inmate who narrates the story as a flashback while in solitary confinement. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She's staying with her grandmother, who's trying to help by taking her to the knitting class at A Good Yarn.įour women, brought together by the craft of knitting, find companionship and comfort in each other. Courtney Pulanski is a depressed and overweight teenager. Bethanne Hamlin is facing the fallout from a divorce and joins the knitting class as the first step in her effort to recover a sense of dignity and hope. In her novels, Macomber brings to life compelling relationships that embrace family and enduring friendships, uplifting her readers with stories of connection and hope. Living with her daughter, Aurora, Elise learns that her onetime husband plans to visit and that Aurora wants a relationship with her father, regardless of how Elise feels about him. Debbie Macomber is a 1 New York Times bestselling author and one of today’s most popular writers with more than 200 million copies of her books in print worldwide. Elise Beaumont joins one of Lydia's popular knitting classes. But when Brad's ex-wife reappears, Lydia is suddenly afraid to trust her newfound happiness. In the year since it opened, A Good Yarn has thrived - and so has Lydia Hoffman, the owner. ![]() ![]() You might have heard about a wonderful little yarn store in downtown Seattle. ![]() ![]() ![]() Le Guin’s Catwings series Skeleton Hiccups and Monster Mess!, both by Margery Cuyler Big Pumpkin and the ALA Notable Children’s Book Don’t Fidget a Feather!, both by Erica Silverman How Santa Got His Job by Stephen Krensky and Johnny Appleseed by Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benét. Schindler is the popular and versatile illustrator of many books for children, including Ursula K. Edwards Award. She received lifetime achievement awards from the World Fantasy Convention, Los Angeles Times, Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, and Willamette Writers, as well as the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Grand Master Award and the Library of Congress Living Legend Award. ![]() Le Guin’s bestselling Catwings chapter book × Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. ![]() Le Guin was also the recipient of the Association for Library Service to Children’s May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award and the Margaret A. A litter of winged kittens flee the city and have charming adventures in legendary author Ursula K. ![]() In 2014, she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2016 joined the short list of authors to be published in their lifetimes by the Library of America. Le Guin (1929–2018) was the celebrated author of twenty-three novels, twelve volumes of short stories, eleven volumes of poetry, thirteen children’s books, five essay collections, and four works of translation. Her acclaimed books received the Hugo, Nebula, Endeavor, Locus, Otherwise, Theodore Sturgeon, PEN/Malamud, and National Book Awards a Newbery Honor and the Pushcart and Janet Heidinger Kafka Prizes, among others. ![]() ![]() She is the second oldest of six girls with an avid reader mom and her dad, the family’s single drop of t Sue has been writing since high school but never became serious about it until a skiing accident laid her up for an entire summer and she turned on the word processor to combat the boredom. Her creativity extends into her garden and the culinary arts. Sue is a member of the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers and The Pikes Peak Writers. By day, she’s a dedicated speech-language therapist in an inner city school district to pay the bills but her life as a writer is her true passion and the creative outlet keeps her sane. A couple years later, her first urban fantasy novel, Fade to Black, was a finalist in the RMFW Colorado Gold Writing Contest. ![]() Sue has been writing since high school but never became serious about it until a skiing accident laid her up for an entire summer and she turned on the word processor to combat the boredom. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fanon proposes that revolutionaries should seek the help of the lumpenproletariat to provide the force required to effect the expulsion of the colonists. Through critiques of nationalism and of imperialism, Fanon presents a discussion of personal and societal mental health, a discussion of how the use of language (vocabulary) is applied to the establishment of imperialist identities, such as colonizer and colonized, to teach and psychologically mold the native and the colonist into their respective roles as slave and master, and a discussion of the role of the intellectual in a revolution. ![]() The French-language title derives from the opening lyrics of " The Internationale". ![]() The Wretched of the Earth ( French: Les Damnés de la Terre) is a 1961 book by the philosopher Frantz Fanon, in which the author provides a psychoanalysis of the dehumanizing effects of colonization upon the individual and the nation, and discusses the broader social, cultural, and political implications of establishing a social movement for the decolonization of a person and of a people. ![]() ![]() The woman says that they can’t see much because of her condition and her family won’t leave her. Then a man arrives, Mr Jefferson Cope, who approaches Mrs Boynton, and he talks about the city’s sights. The mother who is an invalid is huge and ugly Raymond and Carol are in their twenties there is another son, Lennox, who is married to beautiful Nadine and there is a pretty young woman, Ginevra (Ginny). When they are talking, a big American family arrive, and Sarah recognises them because they were on the train with her, and she talked to the younger son, Raymond. In the hotel Sarah King, a graduate in medicine, finds the prestigious Dr Theodore Gerard, who has published several books on schizophrenia in the writing room. The person who he thinks should die is their mother, and they agree that they need to do it because there is no way out. The person who has uttered this sentence is Raymond Boynton, and he is talking to his sister, Carol. ![]() Poirot thinks that whoever is having this conversation is probably talking about a book or a play. ![]() It is someone saying that ‘she has to die’. Poirot is in his hotel room in Jerusalem when he hears a voice out of the window. ![]() |