![]() Sage and Shane grabbed my attention and quickly took up residence in my heart. I can’t get over how absorbed I was in this story. I was so right! The Queen of Bright and Shiny Things is a new favorite! When I heard Ann talk about it I knew I needed it in my life. I first learned about this book at a Fierce Reads tour event back in September. He never counted on a girl like Sage.īut love doesn’t mend all broken things, and sometimes life has to fall apart before it can be put back together again… My Thoughts: ![]() He doesn’t expect to be happy he only wants to graduate and move on. He’s got heartbreak and loneliness in his rearview mirror, and this new school represents his last chance. Shane Cavendish just wants to be left alone to play guitar and work on his music. He’s a little antisocial, a lot beautiful, and everything she never knew she always wanted. She’s learned to substitute causes for relationships, and it’s working just fine… until Shane Cavendish strolls into her math class. If she manages it, people won’t peer beyond the surface, or ask hard questions about her past. Sage Czinski is trying really hard to be perfect. Published by Macmillan on April 7th, 2015 ![]() The Queen of Bright and Shiny Things by Ann Aguirre This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this ARC from Publisher for free in exchange for an honest review. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Theirs becomes a partnership of the mind and of the heart, but there might not be room for more than one genius in a marriage. Then fellow student Albert Einstein takes an interest in her, and the world turns sideways. But Mitza is smart enough to know that, for her, math is an easier path than marriage. Most twenty-year-olds are wives by now, not studying physics at an elite Zurich university with only male students trying to outdo her clever calculations. Mitza Maric has always been a little different from other girls. Was she simply Einstein's sounding board, an assistant performing complex mathematical equations? Or did she contribute something more? This novel resurrects Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special theory of relativity is hotly debated. In the tradition of Beatriz Williams and Paula McClain, Marie Benedict's The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. ![]() From beloved New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Marie Benedict comes the story of a not-so-famous scientist who not only loved Albert Einstein, but also shaped the theories that brought him lasting renown. ![]() ![]() Shelf Awareness 2018 Best Children's & Teen Books of the Year, Middle Gradeįavorites of 2019, Americas Society / Council of the AmericasĪ product of a Mexican-American family, David Bowles has lived most of his life in deep South Texas, where he teaches at the University of Texas Río Grande Valley. TIL Jean Flynn Award for Best Middle Grade Book 2018 ![]() Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award Life is tough for a border kid, but Güero has figured out how to cope.Ĭlaudia Lewis Award for Excellence in Poetry, Bank Street 2019 Watch out for Joanna! She's tough as nails.īut trusting in his family's traditions, his accordion and his bookworm squad, he faces seventh grade with book smarts and a big heart. Sure, they get in trouble like anybody else, and like other middle-school boys, they discover girls. Güero is also a nerd-reader, gamer, musician-who runs with a squad of misfits like him, Los Bobbys. But make no mistake: our red-headed, freckled hero is puro mexicano, like Canelo Álvarez, the Mexican boxer. In Spanish, "Güero" is a nickname for guys with pale skin, Latino or Anglo. ![]() He's starting 7th grade with a woke English teacher who knows how to make poetry cool. Twelve-year-old Güero is Mexican American, at home with Spanish or English and on both sides of the river. ![]() ![]() The Good Man Jesus owes as much to the Old Testament as the New. The wicked institution of the church rises the humane teachings of Jesus are supplanted with rules and mumbo-jumbo. It spoils nothing about the plot to say that Christ winds up betraying his brother. This infuriates Jesus, who detests lies, euphemism, and institutions. Again and again, he tells us that miracles are essential because they will persuade Jesus’ followers to believe and will legitimize the church. Christ claims that he only wants to strengthen the authority of Jesus. Egged on by a mysterious stranger-Guess who!-Christ starts to “improve” the stories about his brother, fabricating miracles and claiming bogus divine interventions. Eventually, Christ becomes the chronicler of Jesus, recording the parables and sermons. Christ does have magical powers-he brings clay birds to life-but lacks his brother’s wisdom, kindness, and charisma. We see and hear him only from a distance, through his younger twin, Christ. ![]() ![]() That Lord’s Prayer is better than the real one! ![]() ![]() ![]() The book is divided into two main sections: FEATURES includes a selection of sensationalistic, semi-factual confessions and case histories on such subjects as rape in Soviet prisons, Hitler’s secret sex life, prostitution, the persecution of witches, and other aberrations and FICTION collects vivid examples of garishly illustrated short pulp fiction, with categories including war, white slavery, Nazi horror, jungle savagery, Red menace, Devil worship, torture, sadism and erotic carnage. ![]() SOFT NUDES FOR THE DEVIl’S BUTCHERâ ^is a new anthology which collects some prime examples of text and artwork from a range of men’s adventure magazines published during the prime years of the genre. The prime years of the men’s adventure magazine unleashed a visual and verbal deluge of exposed and tormented flesh, bloody mayhem and sexual delinquency, representing a unique cultural phenomenon in US publishing and art. They arose partly in response to the inauguration of the Comics Code in 1954, as a way of circumventing censorship by presenting material in a new, “adults-only” format. Men’s adventure magazines were a form of pulp publishing which flourished in 1950s and 1960s America, pandering to the cruelty and lust of young men with luridly illustrated stories of war, sleaze and savagery. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Maze Runner is the first book in the series and was released on October 6, 2009.Ī group of teenagers, who call themselves "Gladers", are left in a strange place which they call the "Glade". The series, revealing details in non-chronological order, tells how the world was devastated by a series of massive solar flares and coronal mass ejections. The sixth novel, titled The Maze Cutter, set 73 years following the events of The Death Cure, was released on October 4th, 2022. The series consists of The Maze Runner (2009), The Scorch Trials (2010) and The Death Cure (2011), as well as two prequel novels, The Kill Order (2012) and The Fever Code (2016), a novella titled Crank Palace (2020), and a companion book titled The Maze Runner Files (2013). The Maze Runner is a series of young adult dystopian science fiction novels written by American author James Dashner. Print ( hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-book ![]() ![]() The Manitou became an instant bestseller and was filmed with Tony Curtis, Susan Strasberg and Burgess Meredith. The book features the first appearance of the rogue fortune teller, Harry Erskine, who, with the help of medicine man, Singing Rock enters into battle against the shaman, Misquamacus. A harrowing story of the reincarnation of an Indian Medicine Man in modern day New York seeking retribution against the white man for what they did to his people. Graham Masterton's debut as a horror author began with The Manitou in 1976. ![]() You may own the deeds, but the house itself still belongs to the ghosts.' ![]() This is still their land, spiritually, even if we took it away from them. 'You have to remember that every tree and every rock and every river from one side of the country to the other harbors a Native American manitou. ![]() ![]() Bianca must hide her supernatural heritage or risk certain death at their hands. ![]() ![]() Get a sneak peek at the Stargazer prologue and chapter 1! Available for Purchase From…Īfter escaping from Evernight Academy, the vampire boarding school where they met, Bianca and Lucas seek refuge with Black Cross, an elite group of vampire hunters. Will powerful forces within Evernight Academy keep her from deciding her own fate, or claim her forever? But even as Bianca finds herself torn between two worlds, she soon discovers they aren’t the only ones keeping secrets. Both she and Lucas will stop at nothing to see each other again-even if it means living a life of secrets and lies. Stargazer (March 2009) returns to Bianca’s story a few months later. Get a sneak peek at the Evernight prologue! Available for Purchase From… She would risk anything to be with him-but dark secrets are fated to tear them apart… and to make Bianca question everything she’s ever believed to be true. Then she meets Lucas, another loner, who seems fiercely determined not to be the “Evernight type.” There’s a connection between Bianca and Lucas that can’t be denied. ![]() She’s a new student at Evernight Academy, a creepily Gothic boarding school where her classmates are somehow too perfect: smart, sleek and almost predatory. When the story begins in Evernight, Bianca has just left the small town where she’s spent her whole life. The Evernight series, four books from HarperCollins beginning in May 2008, follows the story of Bianca Olivier. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Dorothy told Glinda her long story, all about the Kansas cyclone and about the Wicked Witches. There Glinda sat in her chamber upon her ruby throne. And after a set of several more adventures such as encountering Fighting Trees, crossing over the mountain of the Hammer-Heads and traveling through the Dainty China Country, they all arrived at her ruby red palace. Together, they went on an adventure to ask help from the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, along with the help of the Good Witch of the North.ĭorothy and her companions then traveled out to the country of the red Quadlings to find the beautiful enchantress Glinda, the Good Witch of the South. There, she met the Scarecrow, who wants a brain, the Tin Woodman, who wants a heart, and the Cowardly Lion, who wants courage. She also wants everything in accordance to her likings.ĭorothy is known as the girl who came from the cyclone because she was able to go to Oz by being swept by a cyclone, along with her dog Toto. She is portrayed as someone who is very wicked and bossy. She is portrayed as someone of Amy Gumm's age. ![]() It is stated that once she gets things, she will want more. She is the child protagonist and heroine of Baum's first Oz book, which is considered to be one of the first American Fairytales written titled: 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz', published in 1900.ĭorothy Gale is now known to be evil. Frank Baum, author and creator of the Oz Legacy. Dorothy Gale is a fictional character created by L. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1918, Borges was awarded a baccalauréat from the College de Geneve. It was then that Borges started to read the works of German philosophers and expressionist poets. The outbreak of World War I forced his family to stay temporarily in Switzerland, where Borges started to learn French, Latin and German. ![]() In 1914, Borges moved with his family to Switzerland in order to treat his father’s eye illness, condition that would later lead Borges to blindness. ![]() This was something that was taken for granted… I was expected to be a writer." (The Poetry Foundation) ("Ultraism") As said by Borges: "From the time I was a boy, it was tacitly understood that I had to fulfill the literary destiny that circumstances had denied my father. Because of that, he wrote his first story when he was only seven years old, having his Spanish translation of Oscar Wilde’s “ The Happy Prince” published in a Buenos Aires newspaper when he was nine. ("Jorge Luis Borges") Both his father and his grandmother, with whom he spoke in English, always encouraged him to read and write. Brought up in a literary household and having an English ancestry, Borges was used to reading European and American literatures since very young ages. Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and raised in the neighborhood of Palermo. ![]() |