![]() ![]() There, you will find Guid’Antonio’s likeness as his contemporary, Domenico Ghirlandaio, depicted him in the Sistine Chapel, along with other images and tales of 1400s Italy.Īlana’s articles and book reviews appear regularly in the “Historical Novels Review.” Alana loves hearing from readers, and you can contact her at her website. She is a member of the Authors Guild, Sisters in Crime, the Women’s National Book Association, and the Historical Novel Society. ![]() There along cobbled streets unchanged over the centuries, she traces their footsteps, listening to their imagined voices: Guid’Antonio Vespucci, Sandro Botticelli, Michelangelo, Lorenzo de’ Medici.Īlana’s first short story featuring real-life fifteenth-century lawyer Guid’Antonio Vespucci and his favorite nephew, Amerigo Vespucci, was a Macavity Award finalist and led to the Guid’Antonio Vespucci Mystery Series featuring “The Sign of the Weeping Virgin” (Book I) and “The Hearts of All on Fire” (Book II), with Book III Coming Soon. Alana White’s passion for Renaissance Italy has taken her to Florence for research on the Vespucci and Medici families on numerous occasions. ![]()
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![]() For hundreds of years, the fighters of the Kusanagi Peninsula have held the Empire’s enemies at bay, earning their frozen spit of land the name ‘The Sword of Kaigen.’īorn into Kusanagi’s legendary Matsuda family, fourteen-year-old Mamoru has always known his purpose: to master his family’s fighting techniques and defend his homeland. ![]() High on a mountainside at the edge of the Kaigenese Empire live the most powerful warriors in the world, superhumans capable of raising the sea and wielding blades of ice. When the winds of war reach their peninsula, will the Matsuda family have the strength to defend their empire? Or will they tear each other apart before the true enemies even reach their shores? ![]() A mother struggling to repress her violent past,Ī son struggling to grasp his violent future,Ī father blind to the danger that threatens them all. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They find themselves pulled toward the one person who links them together, yet discover that it is in each other, and in themselves, that they find the trust, the courage, the hope to break the cycle. A new mother struggling-and failing-to stay clean, Kristina's downward spiral continues in Glass, and the outcome is chronicled in Fallout, which follows the lives of three of her children. Acting under the guise of her alter ego, Bree, Kristina explores drugs, sex, and her own dark side. This boxed set makes a perfect gift and features trade paperback editions of Crank, Glass, and Fallout with striking new covers and special bonus content, including an essay from author Ellen Hopkins on the true story behind Crank and an essay from her daughter, the real "Kristina." In Crank you'll meet Kristina-and Kristina will meet crank. 9781442499591 The complete New York Times bestselling Crank trilogy is now available with exclusive bonus content. ![]() ![]() ![]() Or try this link to use Google to search the subreddit. Find a Bookįind all-time favorites and popular recommendations on our subreddit resources page and check out our New Reader guide. 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Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with information about Book Clubs and AMAs as of October 2018. ![]() ![]() ![]() It won the Massachusetts Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, the American Library Associations Alex Award, and the Medici Book Club Prize. A profoundly moving story of family, secrets, and longing, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another. Everything I Never Told You was a New York Times bestseller, Amazons 1 Best Book of 2014, and named a best book of the year by over a dozen publications. But when Lydia's body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But they don't know this yet." So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Both a propulsive mystery and a profound examination of a mixed-race family." -Entertainment Weekly"Lydia is dead. ![]() The acclaimed debut novel by the author of Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts "A taut tale of ever deepening and quickening suspense." -O, the Oprah Magazine "Explosive. JUST MENTION IMAGECODE IN THE REMARKS FIELD AT THE TIME OF PLACING ORDER. LEATHER COLOUR OPTION:- CHOOSE ANY LEATHER COLOR OF YOUR CHOICE WITHOUT ANY EXTRA CHARGES. ![]() We will rebind this book after purchasing from the original Publisher/Distributor. We are bringing this book for our Elite readers in our Unique Premium Leather Bound. 336 It is a Bestselling Title, recommended by many readers around the Globe. ![]() ![]() The Three Little Pigs: An Old Story by Margot Zemach If you browse the titles online, you’ll also be able to read a bit about each version as well as find other similar titles. Most of these books you’ll be able to find in your local library, which of course will lead you to more and more fairy tales, depending on your library’s catalog. ![]() Some of the variants, such as those by Roald Dahl and Allan and Janet Ahlberg, are especially fun for children who are quite familiar with the traditional tales. ![]() Even though they are often written for a younger audience, many are delightful retellings that older children really appreciate. I also read many of these picture books with my students while teaching fourth and sixth grades, oh so long ago. The following is a list of some of the fairy tales that Ben and I enjoyed reading together when he was younger. Some were humorous, some were written in verse, some had amazing illustrations, and some told the stories beautifully even as wordless picture books. ![]() The more we read, the more we were able to find various retellings, often with plot twists or character differences that added new charm to the old stories. ![]() We read traditional tales, newer versions from favorite authors, and variants from different countries. Over the years, we enjoyed a wonderful collection of children’s fairy tales. ![]() ![]() ![]() The FBI rushed to launch an ambitious undercover operation aimed at tracking down this new kingpin other agencies around the world deployed dozens of moles and double agents. The word spread through the hacking underground like some unstoppable new virus: Someone-some brilliant, audacious crook-had just staged a hostile takeover of an online criminal network that siphoned billions of dollars from the US economy. ![]() ![]() In Kingpin, he pours his unmatched access and expertise into book form for the first time, delivering a gripping cat-and-mouse narrative-and an unprecedented view into the twenty-first century’s signature form of organized crime. Former hacker Kevin Poulsen has, over the past decade, built a reputation as one of the top investigative reporters on the cybercrime beat. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “If I’ve thought of my mother as callous, and many times I have, then it is important to remind myself what a callus is: the hardened tissue that forms over a wound.” It was a little clue to tuck safely into my pocket -the way I assume other people squirrel away inspirational quotes -and I (again, meanly) had a self-righteous urge to print it out and send it to any well-intentioned relative who had ever told me to suck it up and live-laugh-love myself through any hardship: I’ve always (meanly) prided myself as someone way above things like quotes or vision boards, but a few short chapters into Transcendent Kingdom, author Yaa Gyasi’s sophomore novel, I came across an idea that felt like therapy. Three syllables that melt the heart of a certain type of person while simultaneously turning them into a punchline, whether that‘s fair or not. There’s an unsettling emptiness in certain corners of the self-help world that can best be described in three words: Live, Laugh, Love. ![]() |