Compete by vera nazarian5/23/2023 The oldest brother George was let down by his team, when the entire team (except for George) was wiped out during the final qualifying race in the 1st book of this series. Gwen Lark and 2 of her 3 siblings have Qualified to be saved from Earth and to be taken to Atlantis. Before the end of the journey, Gwen must convince him that she has what it takes to compete in the deadly Games of the Atlantis Grail. And now, her unique Logos voice makes her an extremely valuable commodity to the Atlanteans-so much so that her enigmatic commanding officer Aeson Kassiopei, who is also the Imperial Prince of Atlantis, has taken an increasingly personal interest in her. Fleet Cadet or Civilian? Friend or lover? Average or extraordinary? Can she make new friends? Can she trust the old ones, such as Logan Sangre, her sexy high school crush and an Earth special operative? Time and time again, Gwen's uncanny ability to come up with the best answer in a crisis saves her life and others. Now faced with a year-long journey in space, life in a wondrously alien environment, and many tough life choices, Gwen must decide who or what she will become. But do you have what it takes to Compete? With Earth about to be destroyed by an extinction level asteroid, teenage nerd, geek, and awkward smart girl Gwen Lark, barely Qualified for rescue onboard one of the thousands of ark-ships headed to the ancient colony planet Atlantis.
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Initially, the title and the cover drew my attention. Recently, Ben Campbell's family in THE LAST EXIT TO NORMAL drove into my life. The sometimes odd and annoying people who: use your things, wear your clothes without permission, read your diary, needle into your business, boss you around, ground you and generally drive you batty. You know `em by heart, by name, by shoe size and possibly by sock color. Skillful, often witty insights into human nature. * “Tracking Ben’ transformation from rebellious city boy to hardworking cowboy, Harmon digs beneath the stereotypes. In an authentic, unaffected, and mordantly funny voice, Michael Harmon tells the compelling story of an uprooted and uncomfortable teenaged guy trying to fix the lives around him-while figuring out his own. He’s hiding a secret about his family, and Ben is determined to uncover it and set things right. As if it’s not bad enough living in a hick town with spiked hair, a skateboard habit, and two dads, he soon realizes something’s not quite right with Billy, the boy next door. But he never thinks he’ll end up yanked out of his city life and plunked down into a small Montana town with his dad and Edward, the Boyfriend. It's true: After 17-year-old Ben’s father announces he’s gay and the family splits apart, Ben does everything he can to tick him off: skip school, smoke pot, skateboard nonstop, get arrested. * “An excellent read.”-School Library Journal, Starred The baller by vi keeland5/22/2023 previous 1 2 3 4 next sort by previous 1 2 3 4 next Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. Authors note The Baller is a full-length standalone novel. Due to strong language and sexual content, this book is not intended for readers under the age of 18. Books by Vi Keeland Vi Keeland Average rating 4.09 996,347 ratings 93,018 reviews shelved 2,219,936 times Showing 30 distinct works. From New York Times & USA Today Bestseller, Vi Keeland, comes a sexy new standalone novel. There's a story between once upon a time and happily ever after.Īuthor's note - The Baller is a full-length standalone novel. Good looking, strong, cocky, always looking to get laid.Įvery woman wanted to be the one to change him.īut the truth was, all he needed was a girl worth changing for. It's the other kind of player I don't date. When I pushed back, he shifted from wanting to screw with me, to wanting to screw me.Īnd it's not because I'm one of the few women working in the world of professional football. The Super Bowl MVP quickly adopted a new hobby-screwing with me. The arrogant ass decided to drop his towel, just as I asked the first question. The famed quarterback decided to bare all.Īnd by all, I don't mean he told me any of his secrets. The first time I met Brody Easton was in the men's locker room. It was my first interview as a professional sportscaster. The fantastic art of beksinski5/22/2023 Located in the royal castle in Sanok, the Historical Museum is now the repository for several thousand of Beksiński’s works, including photographs, drawings, graphics and paintings. And the reason for the murder, it was later determined, was that Beksiński had refused to loan Kupiec the equivalent of approximately $100. It later came to light that he was killed by 19-year old Robert Kupiec, the teenage son of his longtime caretaker, and one of his son's friends. Then, on February 21, 2005, Beksiński was found dead with 17 stab wounds in his Warsaw apartment. Heartbroken, he is said to never have been able to come to terms with these events. However, along with artistic experimentation, the 1990s also brought great tragedy his wife Zofia passed away in 1998, and a year later, on Christmas Eve, his son Tomasz committed suicide and Beksiński was the one who found the body. Brittainy c cherry loving mr daniels5/22/2023 Then we find out he is actually her teacher during her senior year of high school (and her dad is assistant principal. The two lock eyes on a train, and then reunite at a bar over music and Shakespeare.īasically love at first sight, and they both heal with each other and it's beautiful and your heart does all the swoops and stuff. Enter Daniel- fresh from the death of his dad, and his mom a year earlier, and a brother who was in prison and is now a little MIA, he isn't handling any of it well at all. We have Ashlyn, fresh off the death of her twin sister and being unceremoniously sent to her dad's house (who she doesn't know very well), she isn't handling any of it well at all and is dealing with it mostly alone. I swear I'm not a freak! If this was my daughter I would be appropriately pissed off, CALM DOWN.īut a taboo romance is kind of my jam. (I'm including the purchase links for that below because if you love romance you will likely really, really enjoy that one as well.) I know the teacher-student relationship trope is kind of taboo and people hate it but I kind of love it. Right off the bat, this book kind of reminded me of Eighteen by J.A. The Ginger Survival Guide by Tim Collins5/22/2023 This is done sparingly, and doesn’t intrude on the narrative too much, and it will be interesting to see what bearing will have on other books in the series. The playful use of first-person narration allows Cowell to reflect on the nature of storytelling. It’s great to find a fantastical realm where plastic, rather than gold or silver, is an important material. When their baby sister Annipeck is stolen by a strange man claiming to be a geography teacher, they have to journey to a strange desert world to rescue her, at the same time as through their own differences.Ĭowell makes inventive choices at every turn, blending elements of SF and fantasy. K2, Izzabird, Mabel and Theo are a modern blended family that aren’t blending too well. When their baby sister Annipeck is stolen by a strange Which Way to Anywhere is an inventive midgrade portal fantasy featuring maps, robots and latent superpowers. Which Way to Anywhere is an inventive midgrade portal fantasy featuring maps, robots and latent superpowers. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars The book is an incredibly dangerous approach to understanding a topic. This is clearly one of the worst books I’ve ever read and I can’t believe that I had such high esteem for the author before having read this. Testimonials belong inside a comic book and offer nothing but anecdotal curiosities for those who already believe without sufficient reason or for those who like to pretend to know things they don’t really know. He wasn't just describing the transcendental condition of mankind, he was establishing and building a framework for others to follow for over 100 years.įeeling, testimonials, pragmatism leads no where He wants to know and explain his hypothesis. A drive to discover how we work and what really makes us tick. And it isn't a clinical curiosity either (although his precision could be called clinical). I believe the magic of this book is James isn't selling a belief. He looks at it normatively and then he tries to look at each speck and piece through a value lens. He artfully and carefully presents a measured approach to religion. You have thousand of books written every year proclaiming their strain of Christianity, Judaism, Vegetarianism, Atheism, Mormonism, Buddhism, as being the only true and living way to view the divine AND the only mirror to view and judge ourselves. Most writers run at the subject with some large bias of the mystical, the. The amazing thing about James is he can write with precision and humility about something so completely intrinsic and fraught with pit falls. Anna malaika tubbs the three mothers5/22/2023 The mothers’ lives span from the 1890s to the late 1990s, through two world wars, the Great Depression, the Great Migration, the Harlem Renaissance, the women’s suffrage movement, the Civil Rights Movement and the deaths - in two cases, assassinations - of their sons. Tubbs, a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Cambridge, encompasses the lives of Alberta King, Louise Little and Berdis Baldwin. Anna Malaika Tubbs’ biography, “The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation” honors the women who reared some of the most famous men in history, but were subsequently all but erased from their legacies. Before the world came to know three revolutionary men, they were sons whose mothers’ deep, honest love prepared each for lives of activism. But he did not just comment on events, he also actively served in a number of public roles before, during, and after the war. Troeltsch was one of the most famous figures of his day, a renowned historian, philosopher, sociologist, and theologian. Norton offers the first comprehensive study in any language devoted to Ernst Troeltsch (1865-1923) and his activities during the First World War. This book provides a concise introduction to these dramatic changes.ĭescription: Robert E. India may have become by 1885 the jewel in the British crown, but by that same year a series of changes had occurred within Indian society that would set the foundations for the modern states of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Yet it is not simply a history of conquest and subjugation, or dominance and defeat: interaction and interdependency powerfully shaped the histories of all involved. It was a massive empire, inspiring both pride and anxiety amongst the British, and forcing change upon and disrupting the lives of its Indian subjects. Description: Between 17 the British became the paramount power on the Indian subcontinent, their authority extending from Sri Lankain the south to the Himalayasin the north. Lady Meets Earl by Christy Carlyle5/21/2023 Already owing money to an unsavory man because of a business deal that went awry, he has no choice but to travel to Scotland to sell the manor. James Pembroke just learned that not only is he the new Earl of Rossbury, he's also inherited his late uncle's debts and a manor house deep in Scotland. An invitation to visit her free-spirited and scandalous aunt in the wild Scottish countryside is the perfect opportunity to discover how to live the life she wants. USA Today bestselling author Christy Carlyle sweeps readers away on an all-new romantic holiday to the wilds of Scotland where a young woman discovers her vacation home is unexpectedly owned by a strange, devastatingly handsome earl.Īfter a lifetime of living for her friends, family, even strangers, Lady Lucy Westmont knows something must change or she'll lose herself forever. |