![]() ![]() But if you get over that bit of imagination, (and I had no problem doing so), the book is quite a good overall read, and eye-opening. ![]() Her brother, Pat, is a radical on the run from the police. She meets people who write for the newspaper that is agitating to free Ireland from England's control. Phyllis is literate, for example, which would not have been common for girls. Obviously, since the point of this series of 'first person' books is to educate young people, Phyllis knows far more about what is happening than the average 14 year old of the time would have known. The Hunger tells the story from the perspective of Phyllis who is 14 in 1845 when the first potato blight appeared. More than one million people died between 18, some from starvation, and some from the diseases that preyed on the weakened people. I picked up Carol Drinkwater's book about the Irish potato famine because my mother's family came from Ireland and I was interested to know what my ancestors experienced in this terrible crisis. ![]()
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![]() “Superhero is the perfect summer coming-of-age read” - The Novel Approach NOTE: This coming-of-age story contains explicit sexual content. Any information you publish in a comment, profile, work, or Content that you post or import onto AO3 including in summaries, notes and tags, will be accessible. ![]() Owen will have to face the nature of their relationship if he’s to win Jordan back. Owen won’t let anything take Jordan’s friendship away, but he never counted on Jordan running off to find a life of his own. ![]() Book Blurb (from Goodreads): It’s not easy for a young gay artist like Jordan Carson to grow up in Jefferson, Wisconsin, where all anyone seems to care about in middle school and high school are the sports teams. Their friendship survives, but Jordan’s worst enemy may be himself: he can’t seem to help the fact that he is head-over-heels in love with a hopeless case-his straight friend, Owen. Title: Superhero Author: Eli Easton Release Date: JPublisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages: 136 Read: January 1, 2013. No one messes with Owen, or with anyone close to him, and he bucks popular opinion by keeping Jordan as his wingman even after Jordan comes out at school. Owen is a big, beautiful blond and their school’s champion wrestler. Superhero By Eli Easton Superhero By Eli Easton It s not easy for a young gay artist like Jordan Carson to grow up in Jefferson, Wisconsin, where all anyone. He met Owen Nelson in the second grade, and they’ve been BFFs ever since. ![]() ![]() It’s not easy for a young gay artist like Jordan Carson to grow up in Jefferson, Wisconsin, where all anyone seems to care about in middle school and high school are the sports teams. ![]() ![]() THE LOWDOWN: This is the best film adaptation to Shakespeare's work that I have seen. ![]() THE NEGATIVE: Outside of a relentlessly bleak visual style that may be too much for some there really isn't anything negative about it. The action is well mounted and paced so anyone would be able to follow it even if they are not able to completely grasp the language. This would be a good version to show to teenagers and others who might not ordinarily be into Shakespeare. The facial expressions that he show during Macbeth's different phases are fascinating and right on target. ![]() The characters seem to be having real conversations and their lines are spoken in a much more natural way. This is one Shakespeare rendition that doesn't have any of the stiff staginess. The scene in their coven where you see dozens of fully nude elderly women is grotesquely brilliant. The witches also come off as looking very frightening here. The gory special effects are very realistic and top anything that I have seen in any slasher movie especially the decapitation scene. Although some may argue that the violence is excessive it is still well done and works in a nice lyrical fashion with the script. The photography of the Scottish landscape seems almost surreal. ![]() THE POSITIVE: This is visually stunning from beginning to end. THE PLOT: Through ambition, greed, and the spurring of his wife a man rises to the ranks of King, but leaves murder, destruction, guilt, and a wide array of enemies in his wake. ![]() ![]() I'm afraid someone might have dropped the ball and either forgotten the rest of the series or because they don't realize it's the same book series they will no longer have Robin Bloodworth reading them when they do get audio book releases. The series was later re-titled The Dracula Sequence. I hope they are aware that there are actually ten books to this book series. ![]() I'm concerned that audibles has only listed three books for The New Dracula series. If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be? Which character – as performed by Robin Bloodworth – was your favorite?ĭracula, there's something very amusing about his delivery, particularly the conversation with Joe about the mutilated kidnapper. Though he is still ruthless and vicious he is somehow still becomes likable. This is probably my second favorite audio book, right after an Old Friend of the Family from the same book series.ĭracula, naturally. ![]() Where does An Old Friend of the Family rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far? ![]() ![]() She knows handing Grayson her heart and expecting him not to break it would be the biggest mistake of her life. As their characters slowly spiral into love on screen, Kat struggles to keep herself from falling for real. Grayson is everything you’d expect the hottest actor alive to be - charming, disarming, and cocky as hell. Until she meets her co-star, Grayson Dunn… and all her plans are completely derailed. ![]() ![]() So, when she’s plucked from relative obscurity to land a lead role in Hollywood’s next big blockbuster, Kat is sure she’s finally on the right track. Between an acting career that’s never quite made lift-off to stardom, a pathetic love life of online-dating-app losers, and a maxed-out balance on every one of her credit cards, things can’t get much worse. ![]() ![]() Yet this same cycle, spinning in reverse, also created the chemical building blocks that enabled the emergence of life on our planet. ![]() Lane reveals the beautiful, violent world within our cells, where hydrogen atoms are stripped from the carbon skeletons of food and fed to the ravenous beast of oxygen. Transformer is Lane's voyage, as a biochemist, to find the inner meaning of the Krebs cycle-and its reverse-why it is still spinning at the heart of life and death today. Lane is among the vanguard of researchers asking why the Krebs cycle, the "perfect circle" at the heart of metabolism, remains so elusive more than eighty years after its discovery. In Transformer, biochemist Nick Lane reveals a scientific renaissance that is hiding in plain sight -how the same simple chemistry gives rise to life and causes our demise. Our inheritance also includes our living metabolic network, a flame passed from generation to generation, right back to the origin of life. ![]() Information is important, but it is only part of what makes us alive. What brings the Earth to life, and our own lives to an end? For decades, biology has been dominated by the study of genetic information. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fans of Tolkien, GAME OF THRONES, PLANET OF THE APES or Japanese anime will be entertained in these intelligent and beautifully written pages in a blend of science, fantasy and zoological speculation. See the complete Upper Kingdom series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles. Half feline, half human, their culture blends those of Dynastic China, Ancient India and Feudal Japan where humans are legend and kingdoms have risen in their stead. Leighton Dickson includes books To Journey in the Year of the Tiger, To Walk In The Way Of Lions, Songs in the Year of the Cat, and several more. Leighton Dickson (43) Kindle Edition 2. Leighton Dickson (68) Kindle Edition 2.99 4 Snow in the Year of the Dragon (The Rise of the Upper Kingdom Book 4) H. ![]() This is a sweeping post-apocalyptic tale of genetically altered lions and tigers, wolves and dragons in a world that has evolved in the wake of the fall of human civilization. Leighton Dickson (94) Kindle Edition 2.99 3 Songs In the Year of the Cat (The Rise of the Upper Kingdom Book 3) H. But a mysterious woman is changing things, manipulating behind the scenes as Sherah al Shiva, ninjaah and sorceress, slips back into his life with companions that could divide the known world. ![]() Captain Wynegarde-Grey has only just returned to the capital of the Upper Kingdom and he is immediately pulled into the conflict as cauldrons of oil are burning all along the Great Wall and the drums of war force all soldiers back into duty. Ancestors are rising in the west and armies are moving from the North and the East. Leighton Dickson and picks up where TO WALK IN THE WAY OF LIONS leaves off. ![]() SONGS IN THE YEAR OF THE CAT is the Third in the Original Series by H. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sally is infuriated and does not understand why her mother is not upset as well. The next day, Sally goes back to visit the black family and discovers that laws requiring racial segregation in the 1940s in the Southern United States force the family to move to another car on the train. The novel first touches on racism when, on the train to Florida, Sally meets a black woman traveling with her young sons about Sally's age and her infant daughter whom Sally gets to hold. This is because of her brother Douglas's health, for he caught nephritis from staying in wet clothes in the cold. Freedman moves from New Jersey to Miami, Florida with her brother and their mother and grandmother at the end of World War II. Blume has said, "Sally is the kind of kid I was at ten." This novel is her most autobiographical, with many parallels between Blume's own life and that of Sally. While not as controversial as some of her other novels, Blume does manage to address the following themes of late 1940s life in America: racism, anti-Semitism and sibling rivalry. The story is set in 1947 and follows the imaginative 10-year-old Sally, who likes to make up stories in her head, her family moves from New Jersey to Miami Beach. ![]() Freedman as Herself is a 1977 young adult novel by Judy Blume. ![]() ![]() ![]() No one, that is, but Caleb Calhoun, who has spent years trying not to notice his best friend’s beautiful, brash, brilliant sister. No one looks twice when she lures a gentleman into the dark gardens beyond a Mayfair ballroom…and no one realizes those trysts are not what they seem. ![]() This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Īmazon, Audible, Audiobook, Barnes & Noble, AppleĪfter years of living as London’s brightest scandal, Lady Sesily Talbot has embraced the reputation and the freedom that comes with the title. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Was it always going to come down to this? Sister against sister? Darkness against light? Except for her beloved phoenix, Xephyra, of course, and her new friend, Kade, who has his own reasons for wanting to save Tristan. Now that the secret is out, everyone at the Eyrie treats Veronyka differently, and with Tristan still a hostage of the scheming Lord Rolan-and Sev with him as a spy-Veronyka feels very much alone. Veronyka is no longer an orphaned stable boy or a nameless Phoenix Rider apprentice: she is the daughter of Pheronia Ashfire, the last queen of the Golden Empire… and the niece of Avalkyra Ashfire, the resurrected rebel queen who tore the empire apart. In the heart-stopping finale to the Crown of Feathers trilogy, which #1 New York Times bestselling author Kendare Blake calls “absolutely unforgettable,” Veronyka must face her most devastating enemy yet: her own sister. ![]() |