![]() And soon enough he's got more of Nia's attention than he bargained for when he learns she's a slayer. But how could a girl like Nia Winters ever like plain vanilla AJ when she only has eyes for vampires? When AJ and Nia are paired up for a group project on Transylvania, it may be AJ's chance to win over Nia's affection by dressing up like the vamp of her dreams. So AJ decides to take matters into his own hands. He even has the same crush he's harbored for years. He hasn't grown or had any exciting summer adventures like his best friends have. ![]() It's the beginning of the new school year and AJ feels like everyone is changing but him. "LOL funny." - Girls Life A Huffington Post Best Children's Book of 2018 A middle schooler comes head-to-head with his vampire slayer crush in this laugh-out-loud funny graphic novel that's a perfect coming-of-age story for anyone who's ever felt too young, too small, or too average. ![]()
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Illustration by Mabel Lucie Attwell from Hans Andersen's Fairy Stories (1901). ![]() ![]() ![]() They may begin with irony and end in lyric transcendence. ![]() Whether old or new, these poems will catch their readers by exhilarating ![]() New poems, including "Man Listening to Disc," a jazz trip with headphones,Īnd "The Iron Bridge," a wildly speculative, moving elegy. 'Yes.' 'Bull's-eye.' 'My man!' " And he also serves us a generous portion of Readers: " 'Absolutely,' they shout to Duns Scotus and James Baldwin. "Marginalia," he catalogs the scrawled comments of books' previous Phones." In "Osso Buco," a poem about gustatory pleasure, the "lion ofĬontent-ment" places a warm heavy paw on the poet's chest. Southern hemisphere of the brain, to a little fishing village where there are no In "Forgetful-ness," memories of the contents of a novel "retire to the Reputation, Collins offers the lyric equivalent of an album of Greatest Hits. New York Public Library "Literary Lion," and incomparably popularįrom four earlier collections, which have secured for him a national New and selected poems by this Guggenheim Fellow, NPR contributor, Phrase applies, just as joyfully, to the arrival of SailingĪlone Around the Room, a landmark collection of Singing group The Sensational Nightingales. "High, most encouraging tidings" that is how BillyĬollins, the widely read and widely acclaimed poet,ĭescribes the music in his poem about the gospel ![]() ![]() ![]() I know plenty of girls who have taken one of the brothers for a test drive in the bedroom, but until Bonnie I’ve never met anyone who actually got to keep one. They’re all tall, dark and fuckable, but the fact that Bonnie landed herself one that seems just as obsessed with her as she is with him is new. ![]() All the Barnett brothers are hot as fuck. I know her hot as fuck boyfriend Beau turned up and dragged her off to the backroom, and that when she came back she was looking hella flustered, with that just fucked vibe pouring from her. I know Bonnie and I danced-a lot-and drank-a lot. ![]() I know what happened last night, or at least most of it. Taking a moment, I assess the state of my body and mind. At least not until my eyes are swimming and I wake up like this, regretting my over indulgence enough for me to swear off alcohol, at least for an hour or two. ![]() I love dancing, I love being with friends and enjoying myself, but I never seem to learn which cocktail is one too many. Even as memories of last night invade my thoughts, I already know that I’m hungover, and the moment I open my eyes and accept my wakefulness, I’m going to be making a run for the bathroom, to lose all of the cocktails I stupidly overindulged in. The sunlight bleeds through the blinds, hitting me square in the forehead and making pain stab through me like a knife through my skull. ![]() ![]() Since I love books with sports and romance I bought it. I was looking at what friends were reading and saw a lot where reading it. I came across The Deal completely randomly. ![]() Now he just has to convince Hannah that the man she wants looks a lot like him. But when one unexpected kiss leads to the wildest sex of both their lives, it doesn’t take long for Garrett to realize that pretend isn’t going to cut it. If helping a sarcastic brunette make another guy jealous will help him secure his position on the team, he’s all for it. If she wants to get her crush’s attention, she’ll have to step out of her comfort zone and make him take notice…even if it means tutoring the annoying, childish, cocky captain of the hockey team in exchange for a pretend date.Īll Garrett Graham has ever wanted is to play professional hockey after graduation, but his plummeting GPA is threatening everything he’s worked so hard for. But while she might be confident in every other area of her life, she’s carting around a full set of baggage when it comes to sex and seduction. ![]() Hannah Wells has finally found someone who turns her on. She’s about to make a deal with the college bad boy. ![]() ![]() ![]() When you finish the last page of Alyan’s book, turn back to the start and reread the first entry, the story of the young man’s death. And some revelations delivered more than others. For stretches, I felt trapped in a room with arguing siblings, my patience growing thin. Through such lyrical language Alyan, a Palestinian-American living in Brooklyn, marries her trades as a poet and clinical psychologist, unspooling inner monologues and memories to exhaustion, sometimes leaving me similarly spent. For those who’ve never known it, Alyan plants the riches of the city with stealthy precision, making the maddening conundrum of Beirut yours, whether you want it or not. For those familiar with the setting, this novel will dredge up long-held memories. ![]() Alyan takes command of all the senses to portray before, during and after the war, its beaches packed with oiled-up bathers, its smoke-filled bars and steamy street corners. ![]() ![]() With each revelation about a heartbreaking past he never imagined, Blue faces a choice between those he’s always trusted, and an uncertain future where he must risk everything in his quest for the truth. ![]() As secrets slowly unfurl, Blue’s beliefs-about Goji, the guidelines that govern their seemingly idyllic lives, and the nature of family itself-begin to shift. The passing months bring upheaval to their little clan and another member arrives, a beautiful runaway teen named Rain, sparking new tensions. For the first time, Goji’s answers fail to satisfy. ![]() With the urging of his fearless and funny best friend, Harmony, Clover Blue begins to ask questions. But despite his loyalty to the commune and its guru-like founder Goji, Blue grapples with invisible ties toward another family-the one he doesn’t remember. Here, everyone is family, regardless of their disparate backgrounds-surfer, midwife, Grateful Dead groupie, Vietnam deserter. What he does know with certainty is that among this close-knit, nature-loving group, he is happy. ![]() ![]() There are many things twelve-year-old Clover Blue isn’t sure of: his exact date of birth, his name before he was adopted into the Saffron Freedom Community, or who his first parents were. Set against the backdrop of a 1970s commune in Northern California, Clover Blue is a compelling, beautifully written story of a young boy’s search for identity. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She inspired Coleridge, Wordsworth and a whole new generation of writers, including her own daughter, who – with her young lover Percy Shelley – read Wollstonecraft’s work aloud by her graveside. Not only did Wollstonecraft declare the rights of women, her work ignited Romanticism. ![]() Wollstonecraft proclaimed that women’s liberty should matter to everyone. Shelley eloped in a fishing boat with a married man. Wollstonecraft sailed to Paris to witness the Revolution. And both women broke almost every rigid convention there was to break: Wollstonecraft chased pirates in Scandinavia. Nevertheless their lives were so closely intertwined, their choices, dreams and tragedies so eerily similar, it seems impossible to consider one without the other.īoth women became famous writers fell in love with brilliant but impossible men and were single mothers who had children out of wedlock both lived in exile fought for their position in society and thought deeply about how we should live. Romantic Outlaws is the first book to tell the story of the passionate and pioneering lives of Mary Wollstonecraft – English feminist and author of the landmark book, The Vindication of the Rights of Women – and her novelist daughter Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein.Īlthough mother and daughter, these two brilliant women never knew one another – Wollstonecraft died of an infection in 1797 at the age of thirty-eight, a week after giving birth. ![]() ![]() ![]() I want you, dear reader, to read the vague synopsis. But, I'm not going to do this for Speechless. Normally, this would be the part in my review where I'd write my own little synopsis explaining what the book is about. And let me just take a moment to say, that I'm so happy I took the chance and requested this on NetGalley. It wasn't until I saw glowing four and five star reviews for this book from trusted friends of mine that I decided to request this on NetGalley and see if I would end up liking it. However, based on the vague synopsis, I came to the conclusion that this book most likely wasn't for me, and decided to pass on it. ![]() The main reason I checked out Speechless was because of its cover: a cover without a pretty girl in a pretty dress on the it, a cover without a pretty girl about to kiss an equally as pretty boy on the it. **2/9/13 - raised rating from four stars to five, because this was perfect and I honestly couldn't care less about the few negatives mentioned below, because I still think about this book to this day, and if I were to ever reread a book soon, it'd undoubtedly be this one. ![]() ![]() ![]() The only hope for the endangered felines may be the determined Janina and her friends, along with the megalomaniac cat Pshaw-Ra, whose grandiose claims of feline supremacy are backed up with advanced, cat-friendly spacecraft. At the same time, a corrupt and well-connected landowner is using an insect infestation to justify a massive public health panic, hoping to acquire cheap land but instead sparking a Federation-wide overreaction that threatens to end in mass cat slaughter. ![]() ![]() When professional Cat Person Janina foolishly reveals to criminal Carl ""Ponty"" Poindexter just how valuable Barque cats are, her precious Barque Chessie is soon stolen, to be returned only after dangerous misadventures nearly kill the feline. Award winning authors McCaffrey and Scarborough team up for their 11th collaboration: a book that mixes science fiction and feline fetishism. ![]() |