5/20/2023 0 Comments The monarchs book kass morgan![]() ![]() When Scarlett assigns Vivi the coveted role of social chair, Vivi is determined to live up to her Big's expectations. She has her Kappa Rho Nusistersbehind her and, with Scarlett's blessing, Vivi's happily dating her first college crush (whoalsojust happens to be Scarlett's ex). As a new member of Kappa Rho Nu, Vivi Devereaux finally knows what it's like tobelong. ![]() And with the pressures of alumni bureaucracy and past failures weighing on her, Scarlett finds herself atriskof losing the very thing that defined her: her magic. But thepowersof the presidency have their own pitfalls. Unlike her mother or older sister before her, Scarlett has a vision for amoreunified Kappa, one where no sister falls to the forces of wicked magic. ScarlettWinter, a legacyRaven, has finally gotten what she's always wanted: Scarlett is Kappa Rho Nu's newest president. After destroying an ancient talisman and barely saving their sorority in the process, they'll go to any lengths to keep their secret as Westerly's most powerful coven of witches. The ultra-exclusive Kappa Rho Nu-the Ravens-are determined to restore balance to the world. In this thrilling conclusion to New York Times best-selling authors Kass Morgan and Danielle Paige's The Ravensduology,loyalty, love, and friendships are tested as sororitysisters Scarlett and Vivi must face the forces of hell itself when a rival sorority threatens to wreak havoc on campus. ![]()
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5/20/2023 0 Comments Surrender the Key by D.J. MacHale![]() ![]() ![]() H., age 11 "I read enough in just one day to fill my school reading log for a week." -Michael C., age 10 "A unique, intriguing book filled with page-turning adventures." -Madeline H., age 12 "Couldn't put it down. I can't wait to hear what adventures they have next." -A.J. Kids love Surrender the Key (The Library, Book 1)- "A mysterious, hard-to-put-down book with a twisting plot, funny characters, and haunting souls. Because on these library shelves, the stories you don't finish might just finish you. The Library may hold some answers,but the clock is running out. A strange guy in a bathrobe haunts them fires rage and flare out in an instant a peculiar old lady keeps telling them, "Surrender the key."At first Marcus thinks he's going nuts, until the mystery gets personal. And they need to use it, because, clearly, something is up. Marcus and his friends have found the key to open it-the Paradox Key. It's a place for unexplainable things- puzzles without solutions. Check out a book-and unlock an adventure! There's a place beyond this world where spirits tell their tales. A fast-paced, thrilling series opener from bestselling author D. Previously published as Curse of the Boggin. ![]() ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Fingersmith![]() ![]() ![]() in Bordo 142) - I am going to argue, that hysteria – contrary to Victorian psychiatrist beliefs – can be considered the result, not of women’s physical and mental “fragility”, but rather of the era’s problematic conception of femininity.1 As I will demonstrate, the example of Maud (who was brought up within the rules and restrictions common to Victorian upper-class femininity) illustrates how women, in a culture that sought to control and censure the female body, might have internalized these anxieties about their own bodies that then manifested themselves in the physical symptoms of hysteria. Tammy Kaye Drawing on the findings of Susan Bordo – who, in her book, Unbearable Weight, Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, explores to what extent predominantly female nervous disorders (just like the very construct of the female body) can be seen as “constituted by culture” (Foucault qtd. ![]() While the “madness” for which Sue (as Maud) is confined to the asylum is merely a sham, what I am going to focus on is the Victorian phenomenon of female hysteria and how Maud in Fingersmith actually exhibits disordered symptoms which at the time may have been considered a sign of hysteria. ![]() The aim of this paper is to examine how exactly female mental illness in the Victorian era is represented in Waters’ novel. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Locke & Key, Vol. 1 by Joe Hill![]() ![]() In the Eisner-nominated Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft, collaborators Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez unlock the door to a dark world of wonder and suspense, in one of the most acclaimed graphic novels of the year. It isn’t long before the youngest of the Locke children discovers the other secret of Keyhouse… a living echo hiding in the well, an echo that calls itself Dodge, and that wants oh so badly to be free… But Keyhouse is a place of secrets and shadows, a repository for a very old collection of keys, with the power to unlock the impossible. The remaining members of the Locke family pick up the pieces of their lives, and haul themselves across the country, hoping for a fresh start in the family’s ancestral home in Lovecraft, Massachusetts. On a hot and indolent day in high summer, the killers arrive on the doorstep of a small cottage in northern California before the afternoon is over, two people are dead, and for the survivors, nothing will ever be the same again. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Robert a heinlein revolt in 2100![]() ![]() ![]() Or, more likely, for Adolf Hitler, with the religious element of the Prophet’s regime serving as a parallel to Nazism. So I was left thinking that, for Heinlein, maybe the Prophet Incarnate was a stand-in for the Japanese emperor and the quasi-religious governmental structure that supported him. But then I realized that Israel was nothing more than a gleam in Zionist eyes in 19 when the novella and the other stories first saw the light of day. I thought at first that maybe Heinlein was thinking about the potential of a faith-centered nation, like Israel, evolving into something repressively rigid. That’s because the novella “ ‘If This Goes On…,’ ” which opens the book, centers on the efforts to overthrow a theocratic, totalitarian United States of America, governed by a Prophet Incarnate. Initially, I wondered if, in 1953, Robert Heinlein had had the still-very-new state of Israel in mind when he published “Revolt in 2100,” a collection of two short stories and a novella. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Daisy and marcus kristen ashley![]() ![]() In Rock Chick Reckoning, it's used as a safe house for the entire extended tribe. During the party, Billy Flynn attempts to kidnap Roxie Logan during a Daisy's party. In Rock Chick Redemption, Daisy has a big party here where all the Rock Chick Series characters are invited. When Daisy meets her and sees her Smithie's costume, they bond. In Rock Chick Rescue, Jet McAlister is kidnapped and brought here by Marcus' men in order to send a message to her father, Ray McAlister. From New York Times bestselling author, Kristen Ashley, comes the long-awaited story of Daisy and Marcus, Rock Chick Reawakening. ![]() Rock Chick Reckoning (Kindle Locations 530-531). It was indescribable." - Ashley, Kristen (). "A long, stone-walled hall, a bright red carpet runner punctuated by shiny brass rods holding it down, crossed swords, wrought iron torches with electrical lights in and full suits of armor decorating it down either side. ![]() Rock Chick Reckoning (Kindle Locations 476-477). It looks just like a real castle, complete with turrets and a moat.ĭescription "down a winding lane in a heavily wooded area and, all lit up with a shitload of lights that would make even your average environmentalist shudder, was a stone castle, complete with turrets and a moat." Ashley, Kristen (). ![]() Daisy and Marcus Sloan's home in Englewood. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments The lake yoshimoto![]() They eventually embark on a hesitant romance, until she learns that he has been the victim of some form of childhood trauma. She finds herself spending too much time staring out her window, though … until she realizes she’s gotten used to seeing a young man across the street staring out his window, too. It tells the tale of a young woman who moves to Tokyo after the death of her mother, hoping to get over her grief and start a career as a graphic artist. While The Lake shows off many of the features that have made Banana Yoshimoto famous-a cast of vivid and quirky characters, simple yet nuanced prose, a tight plot with an upbeat pace-it’s also one of the most darkly mysterious books she’s ever written. You can read this before The Lake PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.Ī major literary sensation is back with a quietly stunning tour de force. ![]() Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Lake written by Banana Yoshimoto which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Bright side book kim holden![]() ![]() I also loved the new friends she made in Grant, with darling Clayton, sweet Pete, cool Shelley and the wonderful Keller Banks… This book has a really great representation and a lot of amazing character developments. (Hence Gus’s nickname for her, ‘Bright Side’.) I immediately rooted for her, and read this story with a beating heart, wishing so much for her tragedies to be left behind and not come haunting her anymore. ![]() ![]() Kate was such a wonderful character! So badass, strong-willed, sassy and unbelievably optimistic despite all bad things happening to her. The story follows college student Kate Sedgwick as she leaves San Diego to start a new life attending college in small town Grant, Minnesota, leaving grief and sorrow behind, as well as the best night of her life after sleeping with her best friend since childhood, and rock-star-in-the-making, Gus. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin's forced-work camps, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of the most extraordinary literary works to have emerged from the Soviet Union. On every page of this graphic depiction of Ivan Denisovich's struggles, the pain of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's own decade-long experience in the gulag is apparent-which makes its ultimate tribute to one man's will to triumph over relentless dehumanization all the more moving. First published (in censored form) in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, it is the story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov as he struggles to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. About the Book Ivan Denisovich is a prisoner in a Stalinist labor camp who faces daily hardships and struggles to maintain his humanity.įor the centenary of the Russian Revolution, a new edition of the Russian Nobel Prize-winning author's most accessible novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is an undisputed classic of contemporary literature. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Choosing to run des linden![]() Has your perspective on your behavior changed? You put yourself in some danger by not dealing with a serious medical condition and resisting medication. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Last month, one day after she finished as the top American at the New York City Half-Marathon, she talked about life and running. Linden, 39, who will run Boston for the 10th time on Monday, plans to try to make her third Olympic team next year. In her recently published memoir, “Choosing to Run,” the only American woman to win the Boston Marathon this century writes about that race, the up-and-down years leading up to it and her battles with hyperthyroidism, which she ignored for a dangerously long time and was still adjusting to when the gun sounded in Hopkinton in 2018. That win is her legacy, even though she hates that word. When she did so in the frozen deluge of 2018, in a race she had planned to drop out of in the early miles, it was all the sweeter. ![]() It made her want to win the race one day even more, which did not seem possible, because she had wanted it so badly for years. She did some television commentary, went for a jog and was in her hotel room when the bombs went off. ![]() Injuries kept Des Linden out of the Boston Marathon in 2013. ![]() |