![]() Nine mysterious items have been stolen from Mount Olympus and if Daphne cannot find them, the gods’ waning powers will fade away, the mortal world will descend into chaos, and her brother’s life will be forfeit. ![]() But an unexpected encounter with the goddess Artemis-who holds Daphne’s brother’s fate in her hands-upends the life she’s worked so hard to build. Seventeen-year-old Daphne has spent her entire life honing her body and mind into that of a warrior, hoping to be accepted by the unyielding people of ancient Sparta. Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Retelling, Greek Mythology Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway! ![]() Andrews! Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. ![]() I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the DAUGHTER OF SPARTA by Claire M. ![]()
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![]() "Gripping."- YM Magazine "Prejudice, homophobia, friendship, tolerance, individuality, and the possibility that something spiritually bigger than all of us rules this universe are wonderfully woven into this powerfully told story. But within days of Lani's arrival, tragedy strikes, and Claire is left questioning herself, her friendships, and, most interesting of all, the possibility that angels may exist on earth. ![]() Instead, she decides to befriend the intriguing outcast. Everything about this new kid is a mystery: Where does Lani come from? How old is Lani? And most disturbing of all, is Lani a boy or a girl? Popular Claire McKenzie isn't up to tormenting Lani with the rest of the high school elite. The close-knit residents of Hackett Island have never seen anyone quite like Lani Garver. ![]() crackles with suspense" ( Publishers Weekly). The appearance of a mysterious teen leads to tragedy on a small fishing island in this "taut, provocative novel. ![]() ![]() Both the emerging nature of the field and the genre-challenging creative scholarship of its creators have guaranteed that key historiographical questions and assumptions about periodization are very much open to debate. Located within the larger interdisciplinary arena of childhood studies, as well as alongside complementary subfields of American social history, the history of youth attracts a range of scholars with training in a diversity of disciplines, including (but certainly not limited to) the history of education and the family, folklore, American studies, and children’s literature. Befitting a burgeoning field, historians are currently engaged in all areas of scholarship-compiling anthologies, creating reference works, and crafting both monographs and comprehensive synthetic overviews. The history of childhood and youth is a relatively new field in American history that has grown exponentially in size and sophistication over the past twenty years. ![]() ![]() Then Adrien tries to shove a wrench in Viola’s plans. While there, secreats finally start to unfold. Her next mission is to find Jude and get him out safely. Viola is in custody of the instiution where Jude is being held. ![]() Viola’s final book begins where A Promise of Torment ended. This is the final installment in the A Violent Agenda Series. While the end kind of leaves me wanting, I also feel it's a fitting end for these characters and their lifestyle! I will definitely be checking out the upcoming offshoot series as soon as it's completed. There were fights left and right, people getting tortured, backstabbing/betrayals, family secrets coming out and we of course can't forget about the orgies :P This has been a wild and crazy journey and I really enjoyed it. This particular book ramped up all the crazy and all the drama. Unfortunately one of her men has to learn that the hard way when they get in her way. Viola is not your average woman or heroine, she's in my interpretation a sociopath and the only thing that keeps her going is death and mayhem. In a relationship with four men yet she can't say she loves them nor do I think she ever will. For me the best part of the series has been the heroine. ![]() While the serial killer genre is becoming more widely used in romance, this series still managed to be unique, riveting and over the top. This series was a whole lot of crazy and I really enjoyed the ride. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Little White Bird is a series of short episodes, including both accounts of the narrator's day-to-day activities in contemporary London and fanciful tales set in Kensington Gardens and elsewhere. The complete book has also been published under the title The Little White Bird, or Adventures in Kensington Gardens. The Peter Pan story began as one chapter and grew to an "elaborate book-within-a-book" of more than one hundred pages during the four years Barrie worked on The Little White Bird. In 1906, those chapters were published separately as a children's book, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. The book attained prominence and longevity thanks to several chapters written in a softer tone than the rest of the book, which introduced the character and mythology of Peter Pan. It was published in November 1902, by Hodder & Stoughton in the UK and Scribner's in the US (and the latter also published it serially in the monthly Scribner's Magazine from August to November). ![]() Barrie, ranging in tone from fantasy and whimsy to social comedy with dark, aggressive undertones. The Little White Bird is a novel by the Scottish writer J. ![]() ![]() Not in the form of the Dark Queen or an invading army, but in the form of the real Guinevere’s younger sister. When a rescue goes awry and results in the death of something precious, a devastated Guinevere returns to Camelot to find the greatest threat yet has arrived. The more she tries to claim herself as queen, the more she wonders if Mordred was right: she doesn’t belong. She has no sense of who she truly was before she was Guinevere. ![]() The closer she gets to Brangien, pining for her lost love Isolde, Lancelot, fighting to prove her worth as Queen’s knight, and Arthur, everything to everyone and thus never quite enough for Guinevere–the more she realizes how empty she is. Guinevere might have accepted her role, but she still cannot find a place for herself in all of it. Yet every night, dreams of darkness and unknowable power plague her. Listen online or offline with Android, iOS, web, Chromecast, and Google Assistant. ![]() Get instant access to all your favorite books. ![]() EVERYTHING IS AS IT SHOULD BE IN CAMELOT: King Arthur is expanding his kingdom’s influence with Queen Guinevere at his side. The Camelot Betrayal audiobook written by Kiersten White. ![]() ![]() ![]() Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse ![]() Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() With fraud, bribery, corruption and torture exposed at every turn, Red Notice is a shocking political roller-coaster. This is his explosive journey from the heady world of finance in New York and London in the 1990s, through battles with ruthless oligarchs in turbulent post-Soviet Union Moscow, to the shadowy heart of the Kremlin. Bill Browder is still campaigning for justice for his late lawyer and friend. Red Notice is a searing exposé of the whitewash of this imprisonment and murder. His crime? Testifying against Russian officials who were involved in a conspiracy to steal $230 million of taxes. In November 2009, the young lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was beaten to death by eight police officers in a freezing cell in a Moscow prison. ![]() 'An unburdening, a witness statement and a thriller all at the same time … electrifying.' 'Reads like a classic thriller, with an everyman hero alone and in danger in a hostile foreign city … but it’s all true, and it’s a story that needs to be told.' When my enemies read this book, they will know that you know. I have to assume that there is a very real chance that Putin or members of his regime will have me killed some day. ![]() ![]() She's one of a cohort of women in their early thirties who are now recounting their stories about working in the tech industry. ![]() That often included being the only person who identified as female in a room. ![]() Several former tech workers are releasing non-fiction accounts about their experiences in Silicon Valley and one of them says it's largely because tech companies have fed women a story that, itself, is fictional.Īnna Wiener wrote “Uncanny Valley” as a memoir that recounts her personal experiences of ambivalence and disillusionment working in San Francisco start-ups in her early twenties during the last decade. “Uncanny Valley” author Anna Wiener says more women are coming forward with long-form testimonies about Silicon Valley ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That’s ostensibly the plot, but like I said, this isn’t really a novel and the story isn’t really a story. Lawrence’s grandson, Randy, ends up interacting with the descendants of many of the other characters from Lawrence’s story, as he and a friend try to set up a data haven off the coast of the Philippines. Stephenson develops this plot in parallel with one set in the present day (which is to say, 1999, which is, gosh, 18 years ago now). Waterhouse serves in the American armed forces during World War II, where he breaks codes (duh) and gets involved in other unlikely shenanigans. Rather, Cryptonomicon follows a fictional friend of Turing’s, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse, who is a genius codebreaker. I’d liken it to The Imitation Game, except I also have managed to skip that one somehow-and anyway, Alan Turing and Bletchley Park feature much less prominently here. ![]() This book is ostensibly about codes and code-breaking. This past week was probably not the best week to read it-then again, would there have been a best week? I got lots of programming done on my website while avoiding this book, though. I put off reading it for a few weeks, because I knew that it would take a while. I borrowed Cryptonomicon from a friend’s mother, because it’s truly not on that I’m a mathematician by training yet haven’t read the most mathematical Stephenson work. I was thinking it had been several years since I last read a Neal Stephenson novel, but it turns out to be just under a year. ![]() ![]() ![]() Many children will relate to this funny character! In Diary of a Worm: Teacher's Pet, Worm makes a surprising discovery-teachers have birthdays. Worm is all about having fun, respecting the earth, and never taking baths. She currently resides in New York with her husband and dog “Ruffie.” ![]() ![]() She graduated from Pennsylvannia State University and St. Who knew that the underground dwellings and activities of worms could be so funny? Readers may even find that worm’s life is much the same as theirs except worm eats his homework and his head looks a whole lot like his rear!ĭoreen was born in Queens and grew up in Long Island. In Doreen’s latest book, Diary of a Worm, she explores the daily life of a lovable worm. She then teamed up once again with illustrator Betsy Lewin to write another hilarious barnyard tale, Giggle, Giggle, Quack, that continues the escapades of these lovable animals on a farm. The busy life of a writer left no room for courtroom litigation and arbitration so Doreen made the leap to being a full-time children’s book author. Five years after submitting the original manuscript she got a call from a publisher who wanted to turn her story into a book and the rest is history! In fact, she had written this barnyard tale even before attending law school but only received rejection letters from publishers. But her book was not published overnight. Doreen Cronin was a practicing attorney in Manhattan when her first book Click, Clack Moo: Cows That Type became a publishing success. ![]() |