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Book beautiful little fools5/28/2023 ![]() Beautiful Little Fools concocts a new mystery and sets up a dramatic (and different) conclusion involving the women. ![]() Detective Frank Charles, a newly invented character, wades in to investigate the murder of Gatsby, the event which ends Fitzgerald’s book. It focuses more on Fitzgerald’s women-Daisy Buchanan, her friend Jordan Baker, Myrtle Wilson, the mistress of Daisy’s husband, and Myrtle’s sister Catherine.Ĭantor’s novel is in part a police procedural. It’s a love story wrapped in a mystery.īeautiful Little Fools is a different take on the same story. Writing from the point of view of Nick Carraway, Daisy’s Princeton-educated second cousin and Gatsby’s best friend, Fitzgerald weaves a brittle and delicate web of upper-class romantic intrigue that slowly unwraps Gatsby’s elusive, shady, sentimental, and somewhat naive character. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age masterpiece, The Great Gatsby.įitzgerald’s novel focuses on the rich and mysterious Jay Gatsby, who throws great parties for his wealthy neighbors in West Egg, Long Island, and Gatsby’s obsession with a married woman named Daisy Buchanan. Beautiful Little Fools is Jillian Cantor’s spin-off of F. ![]()
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Heidi grandit johanna spyri5/28/2023 ![]() An icon in Switzerland, Johanna Spyri's portrait was placed on a postage stamp in 1951 and on a 20 CHF commemorative coin in 2001. She was interred in the family plot at the Sihlfeld-A Cemetery in Zürich, Switzerland. Alone, she devoted herself to charitable causes and wrote over fifty more stories before her death in 1901. Her husband and her only child, a son named Bernard, both died in 1884. ![]() Heidi, the story of an orphan girl who lives with her grandfather in the Alps, is not only famous for its vivid portrayal of the landscape but also for its understanding of how children see life and their feelings. Her first book titled A Leaf on Vrony's Grave, was published in 1871 and the following year further stories for both adults and children appeared, among them the tale of Heidi that became an instant and enduring success. While living in the city of Zürich she began to write about life in the country. ![]() ![]() In 1852, Johanna Heusser married Bernhard Spyri, a lawyer. ![]()
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Fallen crest high series5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() When she sees them torch a car belonging to a rival school’s football team member and keeps quiet about it, she earns their trust - and their protection. In the Kade brothers, she finds unexpected allies. Sam lashes out - she physically fights with her mother, torches her non-biological father’s car and goes running for hours on end. ![]() Her mother wants to keep the man she knew to be her father away from her and worse still, Sam’s mother has never told her real father about her. She finds out her boyfriend cheated on her with one of her best friends, while her other best friend knew about it for two years. ![]() Most girls would be thrilled at the idea of moving into the Kade Mansion, but not Sam - she’s doing all she can to stay sane, expounded by a mother who seems to only look out for her own interests and a father who actually turns out to not be her biological dad.ĭrama keeps coming into Sam’s life. Suddenly Sam has a reason to care what people think about her family life, especially since her mother announces her new beau is the rich father of Mason and Logan Kade, two of the coolest boys in town. But when she gets home from a party one night to find her mother packing up all her things, telling Sam she’s leaving her father and they’re moving in with her new lover, her life turns upside down. Samantha Strattan has become used to playing sober driver for her two best friends, Lydia and Jessica, as they hop from party to party, looking to see and be seen. ![]()
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Shadow game feehan5/28/2023 ![]() Shadow Game is available for purchase on The rest of the story falls into place nicely. Reciprocated, both on the physical and mental planes. ![]() This is a fast read, full of action and raw passion.Īlthough Ryland's overpowering, instant attraction to Lily seems a bit much (his dialogue at first makes him sound much too needy), eventually his love is fully With this story of government conspiracies, dark secrets and telepathic powers. Trail, the two must find a way to expose the corruption that has permeated the entire projectĪnd give Ryland and his men their freedom. ![]() Lily and Ryland make an immediate mental connection and plot to release Ryland and his men.īut when Lily's father is murdered, Lily finds out some terrible secrets that he had hidden from her. ![]() Determined to escape from the hellish underground lab in which he is imprisoned, Ryland turns for help to Dr. Volunteered for the experiment, but now realizes that was a terrible mistake: one by one his men are dying painful deaths. Personnel as guinea pigs for an experiment in ![]() Government project which is using elite military Brilliant scientist Peter Whitney is the creator of a classified Bestselling author Christine Feehan takes a break from her popular Carpathian romance series with this new stand alone. ![]()
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Scale by Geoffrey B. West5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() We have proposed a set of principles based on the observation that almost all life is sustained by hierarchical branching networks, which we assume have invariant terminal units, are space-filling and are optimised by the process of natural selection. The universality and simplicity of these relationships suggest that fundamental universal principles underly much of the coarse-grained generic structure and organisation of living systems. Similarly, time-scales (such as lifespans and growth rates) and sizes (such as bacterial genome lengths, tree heights and mitochondrial densities) scale with exponents that are typically simple powers of 1/4. For example, metabolic rate scales as the 3/4-power of mass over 27 orders of magnitude, from molecular and intracellular levels up to the largest organisms. Despite this many of its most fundamental and complex phenomena scale with size in a surprisingly simple fashion. Life is the most complex physical phenomenon in the Universe, manifesting an extraordinary diversity of form and function over an enormous scale from the largest animals and plants to the smallest microbes and subcellular units. ![]()
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Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() She neither knows nor cares whether her father's leaks are a hoax, and wants nothing to do with him-until she learns just how deeply entrenched her family is in the cover-up, and that an extraterrestrial presence has been on Earth for decades. Even though Cora hasn't spoken to him in years, his celebrity has caught the attention of the press, the Internet, the paparazzi, and the government-and with him in hiding, that attention is on her. Cora Sabino is doing everything she can to avoid the whole mess, since the force driving the controversy is her whistleblower father. A well-timed leak has revealed that the US government might have engaged in first contact. ![]() The alternate history first contact adventure Axiom's End is an extraordinary debut from Hugo finalist and video essayist Lindsay Ellis. ![]()
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Clap when you land yahaira5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() In a dual narrative novel in verse that brims with both grief and love, award-winning and bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives. Separated by distance - and Papi's secrets - the two girls are forced to face a new reality in which their father is dead and their lives are forever altered.Īnd then, when it seems like they've lost everything of their father, they learn of each other. In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. When their father dies in a plane crash they learn of each other for the first time. ![]() But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people. Acevedo has created a fast-moving, absorbing verse novel which delves into the very different lives of half-sisters Camino and Yahaira. Yahaira lives in New York with her father. 2020 Goodreads Choice Award Winner of CLAP WHEN YOU LAND.Ĭamino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. ![]() The stunning New York Times bestselling novel from the 2019 Carnegie Medal winning, Waterstones Book Prize shortlisted author of THE POET X. ![]()
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Twisted emotions series in order5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() After her father betrayed his Capo and paid with his life, her family thinks marriage is her only chance to bring honor to her name but only Kiara knows she’s a faulty prize given in return for peace. Kiara Vitiello, cousin of the Capo of the New York Famiglia, is chosen to marry Nino Falcone to prevent war with the Camorra, but what she hears about Las Vegas makes her veins pulse with terror. ![]() As the right hand man and brother of the Capo of the Camorra, his lack of feelings is a blessing, not a curse – until his brother asks him to marry for the sake of the Camorra. After her father betrayed his Capo and paid with his life, her family thinks marriage is her only chance to bring honor to her name but only Kiara knows shes. ![]() Twisted Emotions is the second novel of the Camorra Chronicles and the spin off series by Cora Reilly, preceded by Twisted Loyalties and followed by Twisted Pride. ![]()
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The God Box by Alex Sanchez5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() He loves hanging out with Xio and her crew, but he doesn’t like her that way. They become fast friends but when Xio decides she wants to be more than friends, Frederick isn’t so sure. ![]() But will being the ‘third wheel’ in a trio ruin his friendships with Kyle and Jason? During an eye opening postgraduation summer road trip, each of the three very different boys also embarks on a personal journey across a landscape of love, sexuality, homophobia, and above all, friendship.įrederick is the shy new boy, and Xio is the bubbly chica who lends him a pen on the first day of class. ![]() Now he’s looking for his own true love and hopes he might find his soul mate during the road trip. Yet he can’t help worrying: Will their romance survive two weeks crammed together in a car? Nelson Glassman is happy his best friend Kyle has found love with Jason. When Jason tells him about his speaking invitation, Kyle jumps at the chance to drive across country with him. But after spending years in the closet and losing his scholarship dream, what message can he offer? Kyle Meeks is getting ready to go to Princeton in the fall and trying to see as much as possible of his boyfriend Jason before they have to separate. Now, with graduation behind him and summer ending, he’s asked to speak at the opening of a gay and lesbian high school across the country. ![]() Jason Carrillo came out to his basketball team senior year and lost his university scholarship. ![]()
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Lord of chaos wheel of time5/27/2023 ![]() Honestly, I’m not too worried over this – it seems Elayne, Min and Aviendha can share Rand without getting into catfights over it. This is actually much less of an issue with the latter, because of the Aiel’s sister-wives concept. Meanwhile, Elayne and Aviendha discuss their shared love of Rand. But he and Juilin have well and truly accepted that there’s no controlling or guiding these women, you can only go along with their plans and try to keep them safe, which is the advice he also gives Mat. Having completely failed to convince the supergirls to come with him, Mat is trying a different tactic – asking Thom for help. In my plan to read The Wheel of Time, and post about my experience, I’m now on book 6, Lord of Chaos. ![]() Spoilers for books 1-5 and Lord of Chaos to ch.55| More info and previous posts | Please no spoilers for future books/events ![]() |