![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kristen, born in Gary and raised in Brownsburg, Indiana, was a fourth-generation graduate of Purdue University. Kristen's titles Motorcycle Man, The Will, Ride Steady (which won the Reader's Choice award from Romance Reviews) and The Hookup all made the final rounds for Goodreads Choice Awards in the Romance category. Her independently published title Hold On was nominated for RT Book Reviews best Independent Contemporary Romance and her traditionally published title Breathe was nominated for best Contemporary Romance. Kristen's novel, Law Man, won the RT Book Reviews Reviewer's Choice Award for best Romantic Suspense. She's a hybrid author, publishing titles both independently and traditionally, her books have been translated in fourteen languages and she's sold over three million books. Kristen Ashley is the New York Times bestselling author of over sixty romance novels including the Rock Chick, Colorado Mountain, Dream Man, Chaos, Unfinished Hero, The 'Burg, Magdalene, Fantasyland, The Three, Ghost and Reincarnation, Moonlight and Motor Oil and Honey series along with several standalone novels. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Kossula tells of European guns and large knives used by the soldiers to slaughter villagers, slicing some of their heads off, and taking others captive.ĭespite an attempt to avoid capture, Kossula was caught by a soldier. Kossula’s village of Takkoi, was raided by male and female soldiers of the Dahomey, a neighboring tribe that sold the captives of their enemies to European slave traders. ![]() Timothy Meaher, a wealthy shipyard owner and captain who built the Clotilda, commissioned William Foster to lead an illegal voyage to West Africa to purchase captured Africans for $50-$60 a piece. The year was 1860, Kossula, only 19 years old at the time, became one of more than 100 Africans kidnapped from a village in Benin and transported to Alabama. ![]() ![]() From New York Times best-selling author Danielle Paige (Dorothy Must Die) and artist Stephen Byrne comes a Mera and Aquaman origin story that explores Mera's first steps on land, and her first steps as a hero or villain, forcing her to choose to follow her heart or her mission to kill. ![]() Will Arthur Curry be the king at Mera's side, or will he die under her blade as she attempts to free her people from persecution? An astonishing graphic novel that explores duty, love, heroism and freedom, all through the eyes of readers' favorite undersea royalty. But her mission gets sidetracked when Mera and Arthur unexpectedly fall in love. When the Xebellian military plots to overthrow Atlantis and break free of its oppressive regime, Mera seizes the opportunity to take control over her own destiny by assassinating Arthur Curry-the long-lost prince and heir to the kingdom of Atlantis. But Mera is destined to wear a different crown. Her father, his court and the entire kingdom are expecting her to marry and introduce a new king. ![]() ![]() When the Xebellian military plots to overthrow Atlantis and break free of its. Princess Mera is teenage royalty and heir to the throne of Xebel, a penal colony ruled by the other no-so-lost land under the sea, Atlantis. Writer/musician Amerie will be joining Danielle Paige in conversation. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the book revolves more on Ijeoma’s life and the repercussions of the war follow as a social commentary in the background. To be honest, I was expecting more details of the civil war, after being fascinated by the descriptions in Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun. We follow Ijeoma into adulthood and how she succumbs to pressures to live in a country that criminalizes homosexual relationships. Later we see the Bible study classes Ijeoma has with her mother for redemption from the ‘abominable act’ she has committed. She falls in love with Amina and their young love is discovered by the elders. Here she meets Amina, a young girl from a different tribe and religion who will become a turning point in Ijeoma’s life. Nigeria is shaken up by the civil war and so is Ijeoma’s household – her father has died in the war and her mother sends her away to stay as a servant girl in the house of an old friend. ![]() Under the Udala Trees is the story of Ijeoma, a young lesbian woman who comes of age in the 1960s. Under the Udala Trees is a coming of age story set in Nigeria in the midst of the civil war of 1960s. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Dirtbag, Massachusetts, Fitzgerald, with warmth and humor, recounts his ongoing search for forgiveness, a more far-reaching vision of masculinity, and a more expansive definition of family and self. But before all that, he was a bomb that exploded his parents' lives-or so he was told. He's been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, a biker, a prince of New England. pulling no punches on the path to truth, but it always finds the capacity for grace and joy." - Esquire, "Best Memoirs of the Year" A TIME Must-Read Book of the Year * A Rolling Stone Top Culture Pick * A Publishers Weekly Best Memoir of the Season * A Buzzfeed Book Pick * A Goodreads Readers' Most Anticipated Book * A Chicago Tribune Book Pick * A Book You Should Read * A Los Angeles Times Book to Add to Your Reading List * An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Month Isaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives. ![]() Winner of the New England Book Award for Nonfiction "The best of what memoir can accomplish. ![]() pulling no punches on the path to truth, but it always finds the capacity for grace and joy." - Esquire, "Best Memoirs of the Year" ![]() ![]() Weren’t you amazed by the caution of human gesture on Attic steles? Weren’t love and departure laid so lightly on shoulders, they seemed to be made of other matter than ours? Think of the hands how they rest without weight, though there is power in the torso. And yet, when you’ve endured the first terrible glances, and the yearning at windows, and the first walk together, just once, through the garden: Lovers, are you the same? When you raise yourselves one to another’s mouth, and hang there – sip against sip: O, how strangely the drinker then escapes from their action. So that you promise eternity almost, from the embrace. I know you touch so blissfully because the caress withholds, because the place you cover so tenderly does not disappear: because beneath it you feel pure duration. ![]() ![]() But who would dare to exist only for that? You, though, who grow in the other’s delight until, overwhelmed, they beg: ‘No more’ -: you, who under your hands grow richer like vintage years of the vine: who sometimes vanish, because the other has so gained the ascendancy: I ask you of us. Have you a sign? Look, it happens to me, that at times my hands become aware of each other, or that my worn face hides itself in them. Lovers, each satisfied in the other, I ask you about us. And all is at one, in keeping us secret, half out of shame perhaps, half out of inexpressible hope. ![]() Only we pass everything by, like an exchange of air. Look, trees exist houses, we live in, still stand. Lovers, if they knew how, might utter strange things in night air. ![]() ![]() This time, someone wants to kill Nora ( again ) and no one could imagine who the bad guy was!! With the “Black Hand” on his tail, Scott can trust no one and when Nora tries to figure out what’s going on maybe will find more than she was ready about. ![]() Nora and Patch break up while Scott looks more dangerous than everyone thought. Her mother on the other side tries to keep her away from Patch and the perfect opportunity comes on the way when Nora’s childhood friend, Scott, returns to the town. Meanwhile, her best friend, Vee, starts dating Rixon. ![]() Patch, her boyfriend/fallen angel acts weirdly and even tries to avoid her, something that makes Nora worry about the stability of their relationship. ![]() The story continues right after the events of the first book and we see Nora attends the summer school in the same class with Marcie, her mortal enemy.! She tries to avoid Marcie’s annoying character and at the same time, Nora has to deal with more important things. At first, I wasn’t so sure about this one but let me tell you that I loved it! ![]() After a great first book ( Hush, Hush ) Fitzpatrick returns with the second book of the series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Awkward and uncomfortable with adults, he bloomed in the company of children and had a special insight into their world. He suffered from lifelong shyness, a debilitating stammer and several physical deformities including partial deafness. Lewis Carroll was the pseudonym of Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a gifted mathematics professor at Oxford during the late 19th century. Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll is thematically much more structured and cleverly constructed as compared to the earlier Alice book but still retains its childhood elements of wonder, curiosity and imagination. ![]() If you've read and loved Alice in Wonderland, you wouldn't want to miss reading about her further adventures, the strange and fantastical creatures she meets and the delightful style and word-play that made the first book so appealing. ![]() ![]() Though neither the novel nor the film adaptations thereof (including 1963's Enough Rope) are considered the best representation of a Highsmith thriller, it's impossible to fully dismiss the thoroughly bleak outlook on humanity both succeed in delivering on. ![]() A story about obsession as well as the way assumptions can guide our actions in corrupting and self-harming ways, the novel on which this is based is one of Highsmith's moodiest works. While that is happening, a detective is investigating both Walter and Kimmel, convinced that they are both guilty. When Clara dies suddenly, Walter himself is a suspect. He becomes obsessed with the case of a bookstore owner named Kimmel who is under investigation for his wife's death, going so far as to visit the bookstore in hopes of gaining insight into Kimmel's actions. ![]() ![]() This film is based on The Blunderer, a novel in which a man named Walter has grown to resent his wife due to her manipulative and petty actions. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first two tales told in The Magic Fish are " Cinderella" stories, and were chosen by the author to highlight the different backgrounds of the son and mother characters. Throughout Nguyen's graphic novel, three fairy tales are shared by the main characters. Nguyen was born in a refugee camp and moved to the United States with his parents, where they learned English together, which included reading fairy tales. The story told in The Magic Fish is partially based on the author's life. ![]() One aspect noted by reviewers in Trung Le Nguyen's graphic novel is the use of different colors to "distinguish each story line." Kirkus Reviews called it "a road map for readers", with the three colors being used to highlight whether the current panel is "set in the present, the past, or within the fairy tale." Nguyen uses the color red for panels in the present, yellow for those in the past, and purple for panels representing fairy tales, filling the panels with those colors. Nguyen was nominated for an Eisner Award for his work, and the book was shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award, GLAAD Media Award and Lambda Literary Award. Nguyen's debut graphic novel was published in 2020 by Random House Graphic, an imprint of Penguin Random House. The novel tells the story of Tiến Phong, a second generation American Vietnamese teenager, who helps his mother learn English through fairy tales while struggling to tell her about his sexuality. The Magic Fish is a semi-autobiographical graphic novel written and illustrated by Trung Le Nguyen. ![]() |