![]() ![]() ![]() Like his best friend, Tony, he worries he’s going to be the next “has-been.” To complicate things further, a certain sexy and dangerous amber-haired stripper is changing him into another person-one that he isn't sure he can handle. Irresponsible decisions and self-destructive actions have his career on the rocks. ![]() His friends and their bachelor lifestyle are fading in the hot L.A. Drugs and alcohol patch the remaining leaks those things can’t fix. Friends are his new family, money satisfies his every wish, and endless lines of willing and ready women fulfill any voids his jaded childhood left behind. Rod Stick-though his birth certificate says Rodney Moore- has everything a top-notch porn star ever wanted. ![]()
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![]() But as their relationship grows more heated and she learns more about the world he moves in, she finds herself unsure if she’s falling for the man known as James or the monster known as Hook. As much as she knows James is dangerous, Wendy can’t seem to shake her desire for him. Wendy has been cloistered away most of her life by her wealthy cold father, but a spontaneous night out with friends turns into an intense and addictive love affair with the dark and brooding James. ![]() Suddenly, he has to find the traitor in his midst, and his plan for revenge gets murkier as James starts to see Wendy as more than just a pawn in his game. ![]() It’s the perfect plan, until things in James’s organization begin to crumble. Seduce the girl and use her for his revenge. ![]() When Peter’s twenty-year-old daughter Wendy shows up in James’s bar, he sees his way in. James has always had one agenda: destroy his enemy, Peter Michaels. From international bestselling author Emily McIntire comes a dark and delicious fractured fairy tale reimagining of Peter Pan. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This unflinching, troubling exposé from Prins (All the Presidents’ Bankers), a journalist and former banker at Lehman Brothers, forecasts impending doom for the global economy-all at the hands of central bankers.The book’s most chilling section consists of Prins’s predictions of what awaits a world economy threatened by rising income inequality and an elite class bent on preserving its dominance: a bigger collapse than the 2008 crisis. Meanwhile, the open door between private and central banking ensures endless manipulation upon a backdrop of government support. AVAILABLE at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or IndieBound.ĬOMPANION SONG TO COLLUSION - YOU AND ME BY DANNY McGAW HERE. They are directing the flow of money to catapult markets without any checks or balances. Central banks overstepped the boundaries of their mandates. The financial crisis unleashed a chain reaction that turbo-boosted central bankers' influence and triggered a massive shift in the world order. Selected one of 2018's Best Business and Leadership Books by Amazon!Ī searing exposé of the collusion between central bankers as they control global markets and dictate economic policy. ![]() ![]() What follows for Laurie, Sarah and Jack is ten years of friendship, heartbreak, missed opportunities, roads not taken, and destinies reconsidered. Instead they “reunite” at a Christmas party, when her best friend Sarah giddily introduces her new boyfriend to Laurie. ![]() ![]() But she doesn’t find him, not when it matters anyway. Certain they’re fated to find each other again, Laurie spends a year scanning every bus stop and cafe in London for him. Their eyes meet, there’s a moment of pure magic… and then her bus drives away. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. ![]() Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn’t exist anywhere but the movies. The battered library copy, in all it’s glory. ![]() ![]() Jackaby’s voice was softer still: “Death.” “What is it?” My question came as a whisper, my eyes straining to see the invisible. Genre-defying historical paranormal mystery with a touch of humour, anyone? The police are convinced it’s an ordinary villain, but Jackaby is certain it’s a nonhuman creature, whose existence the police-with the exception of a handsome young detective named Charlie Cane-deny.ĭoctor Who meets Sherlock in William Ritter’s debut novel, which features a detective of the paranormal as seen through the eyes of his adventurous and intelligent assistant in a tale brimming with cheeky humor and a dose of the macabre. On her first day, Abigail finds herself in the midst of a thrilling case: A serial killer is on the loose. Abigail has a gift for noticing ordinary but important details, which makes her perfect for the position of Jackaby’s assistant. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with a keen eye for the extraordinary-including the ability to see supernatural beings. ![]() Newly arrived in New Fiddleham, New England, 1892, and in need of a job, Abigail Rook meets R. ![]() All the world’s a stage, as they say, and I seem to have the only seat in the house with a view behind the curtain.” “I have a gift that allows me to see truth where others see the illusion-and there are many illusions. “Miss Rook, I am not an occultist,” Jackaby said. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “I Love Zita” drawing by my 7-year-old daughter. Throughout the books there are little hints and nods to other sci-fi stories, TV shows, and books, though my kids didn’t necessarily catch all of those. We love all the crazy aliens, the colorful characters, Randy the timid robot and One the vengeful battle orb. My daughters are huge fans: I’ve actually read the books aloud to them, and they’ve read them on their own countless times. ![]() ![]() Sure, she gets help from a host of characters throughout the book, but she’s certainly no damsel in distress. One of the things I loved about them was that the protagonist is a strong female character. The books are delicious eye candy, and a really fun read. In case you’re not familiar with the series, Zita is a young girl from Earth who, along with her friend Joseph, gets zapped through an interdimensional portal and finds herself on a strange world filled with aliens, robots, and a giant mouse named Pizzicato. To celebrate, First Second Books asked bloggers and librarians and teachers and authors to write or draw a piece called “ My Favorite Thing About Zita the Spacegirl,” and I was happy to join the party. Zita is back! The final volume of Ben Hatke’s sci-fi graphic novel trilogy is out now: The Return of Zita the Spacegirl. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cranford is all about how we cling to the past, for good or ill: it is a novel about the pleasures, and pain, of nostalgia – the hank of string we cling to, lest we unravel altogether. Hoarding string might seem a perverse way to come at the charm of Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell’s much loved but somewhat under-valued series of stories from the early 1850s. ![]() I have really tried to use it: but my heart failed me, and I could not commit the extravagance.’ Oh, don’t talk about India-rubber rings! ‘I have one which is not new,’ our narrator tells us, ‘one that I picked up off the floor, nearly six years ago. My pockets get full of little hanks of it, picked up and twisted together, ready for uses that never come.’ And elastic bands – or, as Cranford puts it, India-rubber rings. The narrator of Cranford (1851–3) knows all about hoarding. It’s no use turning to Marie Kondo in this sort of situation what I recommend is Elizabeth Gaskell. These are a few of the reasons why I cannot sit in my own front room, although there are more. But now she’s propped against moving boxes, still not unpacked. Look: here she is, smiling in her nurse’s uniform in the photograph that used to sit upon the mantelpiece. A bundle of yellowing letters, in my mother’s hand. A tin of buttons, their parent garments long decayed. ![]() ![]() ![]() Teach Counting by 7’s by Holly Goldberg Sloan: Journal Responses I like to keep definitions as simple as possible because when you use long definitions there is a low chance of student retention. Students are to write a simple synonym for the definition. I start by passing out a vocabulary sheet in which students have the page number and the vocabulary word. ![]() Teach Counting by 7’s by Holly Goldberg Sloan: Vocabulary They all work together to take care of Willow while she embarks on a long and painful journey of healing. She is taken in by her friend and her friends mom, an uber driver and her school counselor. Counting by 7’s is a heartbreaking-yet heartwarming story about a young girl named Willow who loses her parents. ![]() Teach Counting by 7’s by Holly Goldberg Sloan will outline how to teach the novel step-by-step. Teach Counting by 7’s by Holly Goldberg Sloan What it’s about: Click HERE for the full lesson ![]() ![]() Morpheus also changes, although in much more subtle ways. His time in AnyElsewhere really alters him and I liked the stronger, deeper, Jeb that emerged. ![]() Jeb is the character, in my opinion, that changed the most in this installment. Alyssa also really starts taking responsibility and I found myself liking her a lot more. In this installment Alyssa continues to lead them both on but I think she does a better job of justifying it. I felt like she was leading on Morpheus and Jeb and that she treated Morpheus really poorly. I make no secret about the fact that Alyssa got on my nerves in Unhinged. She is trying to get to AnyElsewhere to rescue Morpheus and Jeb and to face down Queen Red. ![]() Alyssa is on the memory train with her father. ![]() Luckily, Ensnared was able to tap in the series Splintered beginnings and I enjoyed the ending to this trilogy.Įnsnared begins where Unhinged left off. I didn’t like how Alyssa treated both Jeb and Morpheus and I thought the story lost some of its magic because it wasn’t set in Wonderland. I gave Splintered 5 Stars but the sequel left me wanting. ![]() After finishing Unhinged I wasn’t particularly excited to start Ensnared. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Let's chill on the ripped couch at the back. With touching, warm, and funny observations, each entry ends with the big booming feeling you'll get when you read through them: AWESOME! The Book of Awesome reminds us of all the little things that we often overlook but that make us smile. Read it and you'll remember all the things there are to feel good about. With laugh-out-loud observations from award- winning comedy writer Neil Pasricha, The Book of Awesome is filled with smile-inducing moments on every page that make you feel like a kid looking at the world for the first time. The Book of Awesome reminds us that the best things in life are free (yes, your grandma was right). But awesome things are all around us-sometimes we just need someone to point them out. ![]() With a 24/7 news cycle reporting that the polar ice caps are melting, hurricanes are swirling in the seas, wars are heating up around the world, and the job market is in a deep freeze, it's tempting to feel that the world is falling apart. ![]() Sometimes it's easy to forget the things that make us smile.
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