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Sweet Water by Cara Reinard5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() On Sundays, they would drive through the upscale neighborhoods in their corner of Pennsylvania and make up nicknames for their favorite mansions. Sarah and her father lived on the wrong side of the tracks. ISBN: 1542024935 (ISBN13: 978-1542024938) To buy the book, click on any of the following links: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | GoodreadsĪ compelling page-turner, Sweet Water is a sweet read. As each troubling event unfolds, Sarah must decide how far she’ll go to save her perfect life. Even the secrets of the old house she lives in seem to be connected to the incident. Finn’s lies to the authorities are too comfortable, too proficient, not to arouse her suspicions. Convinced he’s innocent, Sarah and Martin agree to protect their son at any cost and not report the crime.īut there are things Sarah finds hard to reconcile: a cover-up by Martin’s family that’s so unnervingly cold-blooded. Until…A call for help in the middle of the night leads Sarah and Martin to the woods, where they find Finn, injured, dazed, and weeping near his girlfriend’s dead body. ![]() ![]() And Finn, a teenage son with so much promise. Living in a historic mansion in Pennsylvania’s most exclusive borough. Marriage to her childhood sweetheart, Martin. What did her son do in the woods last night? Does a mother really want to know? Review + Book & Author info + Rafflecopter Giveaway ![]() Visit all the stops along the Partners in Crime Virtual Book Tour. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Water rises from Brighton Beach and coalesces into the form of a huge being looking like a man- the god Poseidon ( Kevin McKidd). The movie begins with the camera panning over New York City, past Coney Island and along a pier. Will they be able to succeed? - Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Grover and Annabeth join him and Luke gives a powerful shield of his own to protect Percy. ![]() ![]() Percy decides to travel on a dangerous quest to retrieve the lightning bolt and save his mother. In the camp, Percy befriends the gorgeous Annabeth when they are attacked by Hades who wants the lighting bolt for himself, Percy discovers that his mother is in the Underworld with Hades. However Sally is attacked by a Minotaur and vanishes before Percy can help her. They go to Percy's house and together with his mother Sally they drive to the Camp Half-Blood. ![]() His physically handicapped best friend Grover reveals that Percy is a demigod and that he is his protector and his teacher Mr Brunner gives him a pen telling him that it is a powerful weapon. Meanwhile the teenager, Percy, who is dyslexic and has ADHD is visiting The Museum of Metropolitan of Art and is attacked by a Fury disguised in his teacher. When his lightning bolt is stolen, Zeus accuses Poseidon's son Percy Jackson and gives Poseidon's son fourteen days to return it, otherwise he will initiate a war amongst the gods. ![]()
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Scream All Night by Derek Milman5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() A way for him to get closure on his pastand reunite with Hayley, his first love and costar of Zombie Children of the Harvest Sun, a production fraught with real-life tragedyand say good-bye for good. But then Darios brother invites him home to a mysterious ceremony involving his father and a tribute to his first film The Curse of the Mummys Tongue. Dario swears his homecoming will be a one-time visit. ![]() Its been three years since Darios even seen the place, after getting legally emancipated from his father, the infamous director of Moldavias creature features. ![]() Goodreads Hottest YA Books of Summer * B&N Teen Blog Most Anticipated YA Debuts of 2018 * Buzzfeed 27 YA Books Youll Want to Devour by the Pool This Summer DARIO HEYWARD KNOWS ONE THING: Hes never going back to Moldavia Studios, the iconic castle that served as the set, studio, and home to the cast and crew of dozens of cult classic B-horror movies. A darkly hilarious contemporary realistic young adult novel about growing up and finding your place in the world, perfect for fans of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and Running with Scissors. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Jacquetta’s great aunt, the powerful Demoiselle, takes Joan into her household while the French and English decide the fate of the warrior maid. Near death, the Demoiselle informs Jacquetta that she is a true heiress to the powers conferred on certain women of her family by their ancestor, the water goddess Melusina. ![]() The story opens as Jacquetta, a young princess of Luxembourg, befriends Joan of Arc. A duchess endowed with second sight is caught up in the War of the Roses, in another installment of Gregory’s Cousins’ War series ( The Red Queen, 2010). ![]()
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The magi o henry5/10/2023 ![]() She’s ecstatic for a moment before she begins crying, and Jim has to comfort her. Della opens the package to find expensive tortoiseshell combs for her long hair. He explains that no haircut could make him love her any less, but that he was surprised because of the present that he bought for her. Jim snaps out of his shock, hugs Della, and throws a package on the table. Della tells him that she did it in order to buy a proper Christmas present for him. When Jim walks into the door, he freezes, staring at Della’s hair. The chain is described as possessing “quietness and value,” like Jim.ĭella returns home to fix her hair into curls and make dinner. Then she uses the money to buy Jim a simple platinum watch chain. Della’s brown hair and Jim’s gold watch that had been passed down from his grandfather are the couple’s most prized possessions.ĭella runs to a hair shop and sells her hair for twenty dollars. ![]() ![]() Della suddenly goes to gaze at her reflection in a window, letting her hair fall to its full length below her knee. She had been hoping to save enough to buy her husband Jim a worthy Christmas present. The story begins with Della despairing over the meager amount of money she’s managed to save over the past few months by pinching pennies. ![]()
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Unraveled by Courtney Milan5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() In 2021, Kourtney took a swipe at her sister on Instagram. The argument escalated and the sisters came to physical blows. Literally, shut the f-k up! Change the narrative in your mind! I work my f-ing ass off," Kourtney snapped back. I will literally f-k you up if you mention it again. In Season 18, Episode 1, Kim upset Kourtney when she dismissed her older sister's filming anxiety and desire to spend more time with her family, as well as confronted Kourtney for her "negativity" and "bad vibes." However, her disinterest in filming sparked some tension between her and Kim. The sisters' on-again, off-again fighting and feuding dates back to their hit E! reality TV show Keeping Up With the Kardashians, which aired from 2007 to 2021.Īccording to BuzzFeed, in 2017 Kourtney pulled away from the show in an effort to spend more time with her kids. Kourtney and Kim have always had a somewhat contemptuous relationship. ![]() Kourtney shares more insight, insinuating Kim's "Ciao, Kim" collaboration upstaged her wedding and claiming that it was not a "misunderstanding," but rather who Kim is "to the core." Do Kourtney and Kim Kardashian Get Along? I said, ‘Don’t do anything that Kourtney wore to her wedding,'" she explains. ![]() "I’m really confused at how this narrative came into her head. Like, I couldn’t have been more mindful. During a confessional, Kim admits she doesn't understand why Kourtney is upset with her. ![]()
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Becoming Malka by Mirta Ines Trupp5/9/2023 ![]() David Abramovitz began recounting tales of great-grandparents trekking across Mother Russia when his daughter was still quite young. She and her father had delighted in spending long, cozy, afternoons cuddled in the library studying ancient family history. Intriguingly, her mother, Judith, evokes a favorite Yiddish proverb, Man plans and God laughs. If Judith had her way, her daughter would still be dressing up in fairy wings and princess crowns- collecting wild flowers and connecting with her spiritual energy, but for Molly making plans and compiling data came as second nature. Never one to miss an opportunity for genealogical research methodical and meticulous Molly plans a side trip to Ukraine. ![]() ![]() In pursuit of her Masters degree in Imperial Russian History, 24 year-old Molly Abramovitz is heading to Moscow for a week long seminar. ![]()
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Incarceron book 35/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Her novels of this kind have been translated into over 30 languages, and many of her works have won or been shortlisted for literary awards. Since the late 1980s, Fisher has been writing children's fantasy. She won the Cardiff International Poetry Competition in the same year with her poem 'Marginalia'. The collection Immrama won the Welsh Arts Council Young Writers' Prize in 1989. She has also published a pamphlet, Folklore (2003), with Smith/Doorstop Books, and many poems in magazines and anthologies. ![]() She also taught writing for children at the University of Glamorgan.įisher has published four poetry collections with Seren Books: Immrama (1988), The Unexplored Ocean (c. She lives in the city of Newport, Wales.Ĭatherine Fisher has worked as a primary-school teacher and as an archaeologist. ![]() She has also worked as a school and university teacher. Catherine Fisher (born 1957) is a Welsh poet and children's novelist. ![]()
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DarkShip Thieves by Sarah A. Hoyt5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Married in 1985 to Dan Hoyt (a science fiction author and mathematician), she has two sons. She also speaks Swedish, Italian and French, with varying degrees of fluency. Educated in both Portugal and the United States, she graduated from University of Porto, with a Master's equivalent in Modern Languages and Literatures with a major in English and a minor in German. Hoyt was born on Novemin the village of Granja, Águas Santas, Maia and grew up in Porto, Portugal. She was the leader of the Sad Puppies campaign in the year that it ceased nominating candidates. ![]() She has written under the noms de plume Sarah D'Almeida, Elise Hyatt, Sarah Marques, Laurien Gardner, and Sarah Marques de Almeida Hoyt. She won the 2011 Prometheus Award for Best Libertarian SF Novel for her science fiction novel Darkship Thieves, and the 2018 Dragon Award for Best Alternate History Novel for Uncharted, which she co-authored with Kevin J. She moved to the United States in the early 1980s, married Dan Hoyt in 1985, and became an American citizen in 1988. Hoyt (born November 18, 1962) is an American science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and historical fiction writer. ![]() |