![]() Because that works with you.” His lips brush my ear. Bend you over another table and pound you into submission. It makes me wanna soothe the tiger in you. What you don’t get is,” he leans down and whispers, “that does something to me. Ever since we… You’ve been ten times the bitch you normally are. ![]() Ghost stops swaying us and says sharply, “I don’t make it this way, Nat. “Are we going to do this every single time?” I’m having a ball.” I roll my eyes and sigh. His brow furrows and his eyes flash, then he hisses right back, “With me? What the fuck is wrong with you?” I blink then hiss, “What is wrong with you?” I’m unsure what’s going on right now, so I react the only way I’m programmed to. He holds me tight with one hand on the middle of my back, while the other is half on my lower back, half on my ass. He takes my hands, winds them around the back of his neck and steps closer to me. Then he tightens his hold around my waist and drags me to the dance floor. His bowtie is undone and it hangs around his collar. I look up and see Ghost frowning down at me. I’m about to stand when an arm goes around my waist. ![]() ![]() Hope I get the chance again this Saturday.” He kisses my hand, and I smile softly at him. I’ve had the real thing, and I know how good it is. He’s blonde, brown eyed, tall and muscular. I take a moment to ponder why I never noticed this before. He’s easy to talk to, funny and attractive. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Her mother, Cora, will do anything and go anywhere for the man she loves, even if means following him into the unknown.Īt first, Alaska seems to be the answer to their prayers. Thirteen-year-old Leni, a girl coming of age in a tumultuous time, caught in the riptide of her parents' passionate, stormy relationship, dares to hope that a new land will lead to a better future for her family. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: he will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America's last true frontier. Kristin Hannah reads the acknowledgements.įor a family in crisis, the ultimate test of survival.Įrnt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. ![]() This program is read by acclaimed narrator Julia Whelan, whose enchanting voice brought Gone Girl and Fates and Furies to life. The newest audiobook sensation from Kristin Hannah, bestselling author of The Nightingale. ![]() ![]() ![]() There, she was awarded the Eleanor Rooke Memorial Prize, the Principal's Prize of St Hilda's College, as well as a State Studentship Award. ![]() At seventeen, she was accepted at St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she studied English literature, Anglo-Saxon, Middle English, Latin and French. From the age of ten, Miles attended the King Edward VI High School for Girls, where she obtained a working knowledge of Latin and Greek, along with a lifelong love of Shakespeare. Due to it, she had to undergo several months of treatment. As a child, Miles suffered from polio, which she acquired at the age of four. Rosalind Miles was born in Warwickshire, the youngest of three sisters. She has two grown children, and married to the historian Robin Cross. Dr Miles' international best-selling book 'Who Cooked the Last Supper?' charts the untold history of women. (born Rosalind Mary Simpson on January 6, 1943) is an English author, historian, university lecturer, broadcaster, journalist, magistrate and activist who has written 23 works of fiction and non-fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Believing herself ugly, she’s convinced that if she could only get a nose job her boss Tommy would treat her differently, and her chances for advancement would improve. ![]() In “Paris,” Red, an immigrant, works shiftwork at a chicken plant and is careful to never be late. ![]() “The majority of Thammavongsa’s stories revolve around the immigrant experience: the aspirations, disappointments, the blunt-force strategies for survival that people are compelled to adopt in the struggle to adjust to unfamiliar, confusing, sometimes hostile environments.” After this experience she sees him with new eyes, recognizing his limitations and realizing that a lonely, gruelling struggle awaits her. Because his wisdom is unquestioned (he is “the only one in their home who knew how to read”), she consults her father about the puzzling word “knife.” But the advice he provides is flawed, and she is humiliated in class. The title story, which opens the collection, describes the struggle of a school-age Laotian child to learn English. The majority of Thammavongsa’s stories revolve around the immigrant experience: the aspirations, disappointments, the blunt-force strategies for survival that people are compelled to adopt in the struggle to adjust to unfamiliar, confusing, sometimes hostile environments. It is prose that thrusts hard and deep, its emotional impact landing with little to cushion the blow. The fourteen stories in Souvankham Thammavongsa’s first collection of short fiction are narrated in terse, economical prose largely shorn of lyrical embellishment. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We operate a Platform on which participating retailers, merchants, stores or owners of websites of online stores (“Merchants”) offer you the option to make payment for their goods and/or services (“Merchant Services”) on a deferred and interest-free basis (“Deferred Payment Structure”). These Terms shall govern your use of the Atome website, including any subdomains thereof, and any other websites through which Atome makes its services available, our mobile, tablet and other smart device applications, and application program interfaces (collectively, the “Platform”) and the services provided through the Platform in the manner described in Clause 2.1. 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Author Deonn was brought up in central North Carolina. She is grateful for all the support she has received from her fans across the globe and says that she will always keep them in mind while writing her future novels. Deonn is quite proud of her achievements so far and is hopeful of taking her success to new heights in the times to come. Her debut novel has achieved worldwide success in a very less time and has helped her establish herself as a prominent author. Deonn is also the winner of the prestigious Coretta Scott King John Steptoe Award. She is particularly famous for writing the novel, Legendborn. ![]() Tracy Deonn is a NY Times bestselling American writer of contemporary, fantasy, and young adult stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Peter Hessler’s “Country Driving: A Journey Through China From Farm to Factory” is a brilliant evocation of modern China and its conundrum, as Hessler drives far into the now-emptied empire. ![]() Several in this year’s literary travel highlights were road books. Per la serie de “ i dieci libri più belli del 2010“, oggi è la volta dei libri di viaggio scelti da WorldHum (avevamo già scritto di WorldHum a proposito dei cento migliori libri di viaggio).Īlcuni sembrano proprio interessanti: per esempio quello sui viaggi in Siberia di Ian Frazier (l’autore di Great Plains), e soprattutto, per chi ama i libri, diciamo così, di “reference”, Book Lust to Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers, di Nancy Pearl, ex blibiotecaria a Seattle, una star dei consigli di lettura negli Usa.Įcco comunque l’elenco (potete anche leggerlo sul sito di WorldHum): ![]() ![]() When he’s offered a spot alongside them to find the truth about the mutating virus Rot that’s plaguing the kingdom, Remy faces a choice.īut as the three face dangerous hardships during their journey, Remy develops fond and complicated feelings for the couple. But then he encounters the shockingly warmhearted vampire heiress Xiaodan Song and her infuriatingly arrogant fiancé, vampire lord Zidan Malekh, who may hold the key to defeating the creatures-though he knows associating with them won’t do his reputation any favors. When a terrifying new breed of vampire is sighted outside of the city, Remy prepares to investigate alone. ![]() Though the kingdom of Aluria barely tolerates him, Remy’s father has been shaping him into a weapon to fight for the kingdom at any cost. His mother was the subject of gossip even before she eloped with a vampire, giving rise to the rumors that Remy is half-vampire himself. ![]() ![]() Remy Pendergast is many things: the only son of the Duke of Valenbonne (though his father might wish otherwise), an elite bounty hunter of rogue vampires, and an outcast among his fellow Reapers. ![]() Full of court intrigue, queer romance, and terrifying monsters-this gothic epic fantasy will appeal to fans of Samantha Shannon’s The Priory of the Orange Tree and the adult animated series Castlevania. ![]() ![]() Learning How to Fly: Life Lessons for the Youth (2018). ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() Eventually, the owners of the farms that many migrant workers worked on gave in and signed contracts with Chavez, which paved the way for fair treatment of all farmworkers. As word spread, more and more people joined in his protest through non-violent means. He talked to various workers and persuaded them to join his fight. Later, he was inspired by outsiders to fight for change. ![]() He dropped out after the eighth grade and continued to do farmwork. Cesar also went to an “English only” school, where he was ridiculed by his teacher for speaking Spanish. This caused his family to become migrant workers, where they worked long hours in harsh conditions only to earn thirty cents a day (total of the whole family’s wages!). The book begins by describing Cesar’s childhood, which were filled with happy memories, until a drought in 1937 caused his family to lose their eighty acre ranch. Before the creation of this organization, workers were not protected against harsh working conditions. Harvesting Hope is a short biography of Cesar Chavez, a civil rights leader who founded the National Farm Workers Association. ![]() Author: Kathleen Krull, Illustrator: Yuyi Morales ![]() |