![]() ![]() When I first received the book for review and saw cover quotes from Brandon Sanderson and Lawrence Watt-Evans (two of my all-time favorites), I knew I was in for a good read, I just didn’t know how good. GoodreadsĪn Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors was such a cool book! It had interesting character profiles, totally immersive world-building, and an abundance of drop-in details that I found totally original. ![]() ![]() Then, a surprising offer of an arranged royal marriage blows her life wide open and launches her and Jeane-Claude on an adventure that will take them from the Isle des Zephyrs in l’Empire Céleste to the very different Kingdom of Aragoth, where magic deals not with blood, but with mirrors. She is happy to be neglected so she can secretly pursue her illicit passion for math and science. Born with a deformed hand and utter lack of the family’s blood magic, Isabelle is despised by her cruel father. Suspended by magic, they float in the upper layers of Caelum’s clouds. Remnants of a shattered world, these vast disks of soaring stone may be a thousand miles across. High above it are the Risen Kingdoms, occupying flying continents called cratons. Caelum is an uninhabitable gas giant like Jupiter. The Overview: A polymath princess and her faithful musketeer must unravel the plot of a thousand-year-old madman in order to save an a foreign kingdom from a disastrous civil war. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() It's a gorgeously written blend of Beauty and the Beast retelling and Greek mythology.Even if she could bring herself to love her sworn enemy, how can she refuse her duty to kill him? With time running out, Nyx must decide what is more important: the future of her kingdom, or the man she was never supposed to love. The strangely charming lord beguiles her, and his castle-a shifting maze of magical rooms-enthralls her.Īs Nyx searches for a way to free her homeland by uncovering Ignifex's secrets, she finds herself unwillingly drawn to him. Her plan? Seduce him, destroy his enchanted castle, and break the nine-hundred-year-old curse he put on her people.īut Ignifex is not at all what Nyx expected. ![]() Still, on her seventeenth birthday, Nyx abandons everything she's ever known to marry the all-powerful, immortal Ignifex. With no choice but to fulfill her duty, Nyx resents her family for never trying to save her and hates herself for wanting to escape her fate. And since birth, she has been in training to kill him. Since birth, Nyx has been betrothed to the evil ruler of her kingdom-all because of a foolish bargain struck by her father. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are over 40 books in the Discworld series, of which four are written for children. Terry worked for many years as a journalist and press officer, writing in his spare time and publishing a number of novels, including his first Discworld novel, The Color of Magic, in 1983. His first novel, a humorous fantasy entitled The Carpet People, appeared in 1971 from the publisher Colin Smythe. Born Terence David John Pratchett, Sir Terry Pratchett sold his first story when he was thirteen, which earned him enough money to buy a second-hand typewriter. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She finds her racy pictures in a juicy tabloid that become an instant scandal, she turns to her co-star Madison Parker for refuge without realizing that her fame-hungry fake fried is the one who has stabbed her in the back. Jane Roberts is living an envious life as a Hollywood reality starlet, but soon the grim world of fame gets a piece of her. But as soon as fame comes, so do fake friends, and how Jane has to deal with her new life and cope up being the best of herself makes a fun and interesting read. The show is a hit, and it catapults them into the world of fast cars, swanky dates, expensive restaurants, VIP reservations, movie premieres, red carpet attendances, and filthy rich lifestyle that changes their lives forever. Luck comes knocking on their door when Trevor Lord, a debacled TV producer on the look out for four characters based like ‘Sex and the City’, spots them and casts them on his next show. as a fashion intern, so she and her best friend, Scarlett Harp, embark on a life of glam and fun. series shows life can be bittersweet in the land of dreams, Jane Roberts has just landed herself the job of her dreams in L.A. She tapped into the teen hearts with her series of books drawing inspiration from her life as a style icon, actress, and an entrepreneur. She has launched her own clothing lines LC Lauren Conrad in 2009, and Paper Crown, in 2011. She simultaneously attended the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising while holding position at Teen Vogue as an intern, she was featured as their cover girl in June 2006. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With no cheat codes, guidebooks, save points, or do-overs, they'll need all their cunning and video-game hacks to beat the game? and survive in real life.Īction-packed and unputdownable, Dragon Ops will thrill gamers and reluctant readers alike with high-tech adventure and electrifying twists and turns. Set on a once-deserted island, our three beta players-classic gamer geek Ian his adventure-seeking sister, Lily and their too-cool-for-gaming cousin, Derek-have been lucky enough to score an invite to play before the fully immersive experience opens to the public.īut once inside, they find themselves trapped in a game taken over by a rogue AI dragon called Atreus, and suddenly the stakes go beyond the virtual world. ![]() Welcome to DRAGON OPS, the world's first augmented-reality video-game theme park. 2022-2023 Sunshine State Young Readers Award Book!ĬORE (division of ALA) 2021 Excellence in Children’s and Young Adult Science Fiction Notable Bookįeatured selection in Scholastic Book Fairs and Clubs ![]() ![]() ![]() So begins Chloé Cooper Jones’s bold, revealing account of moving through the world in a body that looks different than most. “I am in a bar in Brooklyn, listening to two men, my friends, discuss whether my life is worth living.” “Soul-stretching, breathtaking…A game-changing gift to readers.” - Booklist (starred review)įrom Chloé Cooper Jones-Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient-a groundbreaking memoir about disability, motherhood, and a journey to far-flung places in search of a new way of seeing and being seen. ![]() Her work has appeared in publications including GQ, The Verge, VICE, Bookforum, New York magazine, and The Believer, and has been selected for both The Best American Travel Writing and The Best American Sports Writing. ![]() Join in a virtual event with Chloé Cooper Jones, author of “Easy Beauty.”Ĭhloé Cooper Jones is a philosophy professor and freelance journalist who was a finalist for a 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing. Join in an in-person event with Chloé Cooper Jones, author of “Easy Beauty.” ![]() ![]() ![]() His instrumental role in the creation of Liberation magazine in 1956 launched him onto the national stage. Rejecting his parents' affluent lifestyle, he endured lengthy prison sentences as a conscientious objector to World War II and created a commune in northern New Jersey in the 1940s, a prototype for those to follow twenty years later. Born in 1915 in the upscale Boston suburb of Wakefield to privilege, Dellinger attended Yale during the Depression, where he became an ardent pacifist and antiwar activist. ![]() Dellinger, a long-time but relatively unknown activist, was suddenly, at fifty-three, catapulted into the limelight for his part in this intense courtroom drama.įrom obscurity to leader of the antiwar movement, David Dellinger is the first full biography of a man who bridged the gap between the Old Left and the New Left. In a Chicago courthouse, David Dellinger, one of the Chicago Eight, stood trial for conspiring to disrupt the National Democratic Convention. ![]() ![]() ![]() Draper has woven characters and events from Tears of a Tiger in an unflinchingly realistic portrayal of poverty and child abuse. In this second book of the Hazelwood High trilogy, Sharon M. In the end he must stand up to his stepfather alone in a blazing confrontation. And Gerald learns, painfully, that young friends can die and old enemies must be faced. Somehow Gerald manages to finds success as a member of the Hazelwood Tigers basketball team, and Angel develops her talents as a dancer, despite the trouble that still haunts them. The one bright light in Gerald's life is his little half sister, Angel, whom he struggles to protect from her father, who is abusing her. ![]() Then he loses the loving generosity of a favorite aunt, and a brutal stepfather with a flaming temper and an evil secret makes his life miserable. His substance-addicted mother is taken from him. But fire is dangerous and powerful, and tragedy strikes. When Gerald was a child he was fascinated by fire. Draper’s award-winning Hazelwood High trilogy. ![]() The flame of love burns bright in the second book of Sharon M. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As the violence snowballed and spilled onto the streets I walked past the museum door, looked at the building’s red facade and tried imagining the silence inside. ![]() During the early days of protests, when local youths marched to the park, tourists continued to fill Pamuk’s museum. Four weeks after the cancellation of the May Day gathering a small group of die-hard environmentalists kick-started the events in Gezi park, struggling to protect one of the last green areas in Taksim, where the government wanted to install a kitschy shopping mall. When the government had opened the square for the May Day gathering in 2010, after a 32-year-long ban by previous administrations, the move was much praised by the country’s leftists and liberals. The loss of Istanbul’s innocence had been a gradual process: on (four days after Pamuk’s museum celebrated its first anniversary), the city’s governor abruptly canceled the May Day gathering in Taksim square. ![]() It has been a lively, intense, and dangerous 500 days, during which time Istanbul witnessed frequent outbursts of violence and the destruction of any trace of innocence it might still have possessed. A LITTLE MORE than 500 days has passed since Orhan Pamuk opened the doors of his Museum of Innocence to the public in Istanbul’s Çukurcuma neighborhood. ![]() ![]() ![]() They planned to stay in touch and keep their friendship long distance. This book followed Vega as she said goodbye to her best friend Halley from Portland, OR because she’s moving to Seattle, WA. The mystery got the characters involved and they determined to solve a problem that they forgot about being awkward trying to make a friend. It reminded readers that more minds are better than a couple. It’s a plus that the problem only got solved when others joined the siblings. ![]() ![]() However, the characters do live up to this chapter’s advice because activities and situations gave them the opportunities to reach out and talked to each other. At chapter 3, “take the first step,” I thought Vega has an opportunity to make friends if she accepted Isaac’s offer to look at something but Vega refused because she still thought she’s fine with her long distance friend from back home. I liked the steps to making friends and how each chapter showed the characters applying it. I have moved away from my friends a few times and it’s hard making friends every time. A fantastic book for kids! How to make friends is definitely something everyone need including myself. ![]() |