![]() He hadn’t expected Katherine to be so charming. ![]() ![]() But when a mysterious lover at a masquerade turns out to be his would-be fiancée, Preston’s resolve begins to crumble. Because no matter what happens, she and Preston will never marry.Īfter a tormented childhood, Preston is done letting his father control his life-including choosing his bride. But this isn’t going to stop Katherine from living life to the fullest as she ditches all silly notions of love and marriage and sets out to sample all the excitement New York City has to offer. The only problem is Preston refuses to acknowledge it. ![]() Her father arranged an engagement to the much sought-after tycoon Preston Clarke ages ago. The charismatic and vivacious Katherine Delafield should be married by now. By beloved USA Today bestselling author Joanna Shupe, the third installment in the Fifth Avenue Rebels series about an arranged engagement destined for disaster. ![]()
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![]() ![]() more romanceSPOILER ALERT!!!It was obvious that this was a Harlequin-type of plastic surgery/posing as someone else type of plot and that Jake was Leo because the author kept switching back to childhood scenes that wouldn't have been important if Leo were really dead. Review 2: The H and h are among the most likable romance characters I've ever readThey are extremely cute and funny togetherBut the hero wasn't really an alpha male and alphas are my preference in. Evie and Leo met in foster care as children and formed a bond of friendship. ![]() Regardless of how we got there, all any of us can do is move forward from where we are.�This book takes you through a lifelong journey of two foster children who beat the odds and fell in love. Leo is a full-length, standalone romance. But the only thing we'll get from trying to figure out where another path would have taken us are questions there are no answers to and heartbreak that can't be healed. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. ![]() I was dealt some, just like a lot of us are, and I made a lot of poor choices too. Leo A Sign of Love Novel Mia Sheridan This book is a work of fiction. Some we choose and some are chosen for us. ![]() Review 1: �there are a lot of paths in life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He held a chair at the Collège de France with the title "History of Systems of Thought," but before he was Professor at University of Tunis, Tunisia, and then Professor at University Paris VIII. Michel Foucault was a French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas. Lucidly reasoned and deftly marshaling a vast body of research, Discipline and Punish is a genuinely revolutionary book, whose implications extend beyond the prison to the minute power relations of our society. ![]() For as he examines innovations that range from the abolition of torture to the institution of forced labor and the appearance of the modern penitentiary, Michel Foucault suggests that punishment has shifted its focus from the prisoner's body to the soul - and that our very concern with rehabilitation encourages and refines criminal activity. This groundbreaking book by the most influential philosopher since Sartre compels us to reevaluate our assumptions about all the ensuing reforms in the penal institutions of the West. ![]() Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.īarely two hundred and fifty years ago a man condemned of attempting to assassinate the King of France was drawn and quartered in a grisly spectacle that suggested an unmediated duel between the violence of the criminal and the violence of the state. ![]() ![]() ![]() But why would the professor target one of his students? And why does he keep returning to the rites of Persephone, the maiden, and her journey to the underworld? And she becomes convinced that, despite his alibi, Edward Fosca is guilty of the murder. ![]() Mariana, who was once herself a student at the university, quickly suspects that behind the idyllic beauty of the spires and turrets, and beneath the ancient traditions, lies something sinister. Mariana Andros is a brilliant but troubled group therapist who becomes fixated on The Maidens when one member, a friend of Mariana’s niece Zoe, is found murdered in Cambridge. ![]() A handsome and charismatic Greek tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike-particularly by the members of a secret society of female students known as The Maidens. Lucy Foley, New York Times bestselling author of The Guest Listįrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient comes a spellbinding tale of psychological suspense, weaving together Greek mythology, murder, and obsession, that further cements “Michaelides as a major player in the field” ( Publishers Weekly).Įdward Fosca is a murderer. I loved this even more than I loved The Silent Patient and that's saying something!" "A deliciously dark, elegant, utterly compulsive read -with a twist that blew my mind. "Alex Michaelides’s long-awaited next novel, 'The Maidens,' is finally here.the premise is enticing and the elements irresistible." **THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** St Joseph's University (Brooklyn Voices Series). ![]() ![]() ![]() She is best known for her young adult novel American Street, which was a finalist for the National Book Award for Young Adult's Literature in 2017. ![]() All the while, Zoboi ( Pride, Punching the Air) strikes a delicate balance with the. The novel depicts the horrors of generational trauma while also placing the personal traumas of one girl, one family and one community within a national and even global context. A selection of the Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List.īlack is.sisters navigating their relationship at summer camp in Portland, Oregon, as written by Renée Watson.īlack is.three friends walking back from the community pool talking about nothing and everything, in a story by Jason Reynolds.īlack is.Nic Stone's high-class beauty dating a boy her momma would never approve of.īlack is.two girls kissing in Justina Ireland's story set in Maryland.īlack is urban and rural, wealthy and poor, mixed race, immigrants, and more-because there are countless ways to be Black enough. Ibi Zoboi is a Haitian-American author of young adult fiction. The best word to describe acclaimed author Ibi Zoboi’s Nigeria Jones is heavy. ![]() An essential collection of short fiction for and about teens about so. Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi, and featuring some of the most acclaimed bestselling Black authors writing for teens today- Black Enough is an essential collection of captivating stories about what it's like to be young and Black in America. Stories of Being Young & Black in America edited by Ibi Zoboi. ![]() ![]() ![]() More of a cold case being picked over Matt Wesolowski style. Whereas WWZ was zombies Devolution is Big Foot (or should that be Sasquatch?) Straight off the bat though this felt different. World War Z is possibly one of my favourite reads so I was excited to lay my hands on Devolution that promised similar vibes. ![]() ![]() We must accept that the creature known as Bigfoot walks among us – and that it is a beast of terrible strength and ferocity Something’s watching you until now.īut the journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town’s bloody wreckage, capture a tale too harrowing – and too earth-shattering in its implications – to be forgotten.īecause if what Kate Holland saw in those days is real, then we must accept the impossible. A volcano, a massacre……… and a Big Foot? Devolution – the blurbĪs the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined. ![]() ![]() ![]() While she left an impression on her former colleagues after suing for discrimination and settling for an undisclosed figure, Sandhu “genuinely believe the Metropolitan Police Service is institutionally racist” – and in worse shape than after the landmark Macpherson report in 1999, which found the investigation into the racist killing of the black teenager Stephen Lawrence by white youths in Eltham, south-east London, six years earlier was marred by “institutional racism”. “I genuinely believe that you are not going to change organisations by standing on the outside… The only way you’re going to do that is by being the voice within.” “I like a good fight, a fair fight,” Sandhu tells i. She almost did, until a fellow Asian woman in the force offered her a moment of clarity and they made a pact to support each other in the job. It’s a wonder that Sandhu, who lives in Kent, did not hand in her badge after her experience in east London. ![]() ![]() I was a police officer for 14 years – tackling racism within the force will take decades ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The reason why Homura is more "on the ball" than her fellow magical girls is then revealed and peeled away to take up a major portion of this volume, in a move which also marks a rare occasion where this manga adaptation sports some subtle differences to its source material. If the scenes which closed out the second volume weren't harrowing enough, the impacts of Sayaka's decision-making also reverberate through the early part of this final instalment, swallowing up all and sundry into its rather particular mire as Homura Akemi continues to be the only one with any real knowledge as to what's going on and why. After two volumes of closely following the anime upon which it is based, we reach the end game of Puella Magi Madoka Magica via this third English translated volume of the series from Yen Press. ![]() ![]() ![]() This volume, the second of a two-volume collector’s set, gathers four classic works that together reveal the vital and unacknowledged lineage to today’s leading crime writers. ![]() Their work, influential in its day and still vibrant and extraordinarily riveting today, is long overdue for rediscovery. Turning in many cases from the mean streets of the hardboiled school to explore the anxieties and terrors lurking in everyday life, these groundbreaking novelists found the roots of fear and violence in a quiet suburban neighborhood, on a college campus, or in a comfortable midtown hotel. Though women crime and suspense writers dominate today’s bestseller lists, the extraordinary work of the mid-century pioneers of the genre is largely unknown. The Library of America and editor Sarah Weinman redefine the classic era of American crime fiction with a landmark collection of four brilliant novels by the female pioneers of the genre, the women who paved the way for Gillian Flynn, Tana French, and Lisa Scottoline. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This description comes from the publisher. Set in a richly detailed world inspired by ancient Arabia, We Hunt the Flame is a gripping debut of discovery, conquering fear, and taking identity into your own hands. But an ancient evil stirs as their journey unfolds-and the prize they seek may pose a threat greater than either can imagine. ![]() While Zafira embarks on a quest to uncover a lost artifact that can restore magic to her suffering world and stop the Arz, Nasir is sent by the sultan on a similar mission: retrieve the artifact and kill the Hunter. War is brewing, and the Arz sweeps closer with each passing day, engulfing the land in shadow. Both Zafira and Nasir are legends in the kingdom of Arawiya-but neither wants to be. Hafsah Faizal is the New York Times bestselling author of We Hunt the Flame, and the founder of IceyDesigns, where she creates websites for authors and beauteous goodies for everyone else.When she’s not writing, she can be found designing, deciding between Assassin’s Creed and Skyrim, or traversing the world. If Zafira is exposed as a girl, all of her achievements will be rejected if Nasir displays his compassion, his father will punish him in the most brutal of ways. ![]() Nasir is the Prince of Death, assassinating those foolish enough to defy his autocratic father, the sultan. ZAFIRA IS THE HUNTER, disguising herself as a man when she braves the cursed forest of the Arz to feed her people. ![]() |