![]() ![]() How Are You Going to Save Yourself illuminates in breathtaking detail an entire world-one that has been underrepresented in American fiction. Whether it’s a family cookout gone wrong, a raucous night in high-society Manhattan turned dark, or the troubled efforts of a hustler to go legit, JM Holmes brings the thump and heat of his scenes to life with the kind of ease that makes us not just eavesdroppers but participants. ![]() ![]() Gio proves himself an unforgettable narrator, beautifully flawed and unstintingly honest, as he recounts his friends’ triumphs and failures. With potent immediacy and bracing candor, this provocative debut follows a decade in the lives of Dub, Rolls, Rye, and Gio as they grapple with the complexity of their family histories, the allure of sex and drugs, and the ferocity of their desires. Bound together by shared experience but pulled apart by their changing fortunes, four young friends growing up in the postindustrial enclave of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, struggle to liberate themselves from the legacies left to them as black men in America. ![]()
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![]() Once inseparable, they now lead very different lives.Pax and his mate, Bristle, have welcomed a litter of kits they must protect in a dangerous world. A New York Times bestseller!It’s been a year since Peter and his pet fox, Pax, have seen each other. Now both boy and fox find themselves on journeys toward home, healing-and each other, once again.As he didįrom award-winning author Sara Pennypacker comes the long-awaited sequel to Pax this is a gorgeously crafted, utterly compelling novel about chosen families and the healing power of love. And no matter how hard Peter tries to harden his broken heart, love keeps finding a way in. Meanwhile Peter-newly orphaned after the war, racked with guilt and loneliness-leaves his adopted home with Vola to join the Water Warriors, a group of people determined to heal the land from the scars of the war.When one of Pax's kits falls desperately ill, he turns to the one human he knows he can trust. ![]() ![]() ![]() 2 minutes ago - ▶️▶️ COPY LINK TO DOWNLOAD ▶️▶️įrom award-winning author Sara Pennypacker comes the long-awaited sequel to Pax this is a gorgeously crafted, utterly compelling novel about chosen families and the healing power of love. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Vengeful by ve schwab![]() ![]() ![]() Set between the end of Vicious and the beginning of Vengeful and illustrated by artist Enid Balam ( Hawkeye: Kate Bishop, Omni) the story introduces new characters into the world of those with extraordinary powers. This year, the award-winning author did give fans a taste of the future of the Villains series in her comic Extraordinary. But Schwab, with 22 books under her belt to date, has been busy with her Shades of Magic series, The Adventures of Addie LaRue, her children's books, an upcoming Netflix series, and a host of other projects. Fans have been clamoring for a third novel in the Villains series for years. Schwab's hit 2013 novel Vicious and 2015 sequel Vengeful. If you're a fan of YA science fiction, you're probably familiar with Victor Vale and Eli Ever, the protagonists of author V.E. ![]() ![]() ![]() Seven years later, her gifts have manifested in different ways for Marimar, Rey, and Rhiannon, granting them unexpected blessings and powers. Instead, Orquídea is transformed into a ceiba tree, leaving them with more questions than answers. But when Orquídea Divina invites them to her funeral and to collect their inheritance, they hope to learn the secrets that she has held onto so tightly their whole lives. They know better than to ask why the pantry never seems to run low, or why their matriarch won’t ever leave their home in Four Rivers-not for graduations, weddings, or baptisms. The Montoyas are used to a life without explanations. Schwab, #1 New York Times bestselling author). Perfect for fans of Alice Hoffman, Isabel Allende, and Sarah Addison Allen, a family searches for the truth hidden in their past in this “expertly woven tale of family power, threaded with as much mystery as magic” (V.E. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments The Fire Rose by Mercedes Lackey![]() ![]() That, and its references to Celtic, African and East Indian legends and myths. This novel’s model was Hans Christian Anderson’s The Snow Queen. As I started reading I felt myself drawn further and further into the story, utterly fascinated by its complicated social, political and philosophical tensions. Each of the books in this series are loosely based on fairy tales. The first novel from the series I read was The Wizard of London (2006), its fifth installment. (Is my back story boring you? I apologize. I looked to her skeptically, shrugged and finally began reading. ![]() This was only after I had exhausted my library and bored myself into insanity. Others take a 180-degree turn and make beloved tales modern, sensual garbage. Somehow, my sister convinced me to try this series. Most lack substance or identifiable heroines or heroes. ![]() If I have problems with Fantasy novels you can imagine how I feel about fairy tale remakes. Most of them I feel are simply copy cats of Lord of the Rings or fail miserably at being philosophical or original. Out of all book genres, Fantasy grates on my nerves the most. Though I enjoyed novels like Eragon and series like Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and The Wheel of Time I grew out of the genre. If it makes you feel better, I am probably more well read them most my age and enjoy one of the widest variety of novels and genres you will ever see). I am not an adamant fan of fantasy literature. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Rees by Allyson James![]() This series would probably get a higher rating from me if I could read more of that story. It feels like the background is building to a great Shareem revolt, but 5 books in and I'm only seeing hints of a type of 'underground railroad' where the men can escape the planet. I like the plot, but we get enough of a hint of one that the stories feel incomplete without exploring it further. They also have a bit of a running plot, which is where it loses some points with me. Notes/Review: This series is full of great erotic tales that aren't too formulaic. They know how to bring a woman to ecstasy and exactly how to keep her there. ![]() They come in one of three levels-pure sensual pleasure, games and wicked fun, or the ultimate barbarian complete with whip. Males created to be tall, muscled, sexy, and… enhanced. ![]() Title: Tales of the Shareem (Books 1 - 5) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Published between 20, this is what you need to read to familiarize yourself with the character.Ĭollects Alias #1-28, What If Jessica Jones Had Joined the Avengers? (2005) #1 Previously known as just ‘Alias’, this is the first solo series of Jessica Jones. Unlike a lot of characters, Jessica Jones started a career with her own ongoing series. Jessica Jones Reading Order Jessica Jones: Alias But when she uncovers a hero’s true identity, Jessica becomes the target of a far-reaching conspiracy.Īt first, Bendis introduced her as a former superhero who becomes a private investigator, but she was retconned in the regular Marvel universe, becoming a student who was in school with Peter Parker and an ex-avenger. Now a chain-smoking, self-destructive alcoholic, Jessica is the owner and sole employee of Alias Investigations, specializing in superhuman cases. Once upon a time, Jessica Jones was a costumed superhero-but not a very good one. Created by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Michael Gaydos, Jessica Jones first appeared in Alias #1 (November 2001), a Max imprint-which means adult content and language. She’s a PI with an avenger past (and future). ![]() Popularized by her Netflix Show, Jessica Jones started in the pages of her own Marvel comic book. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Friday's Child by Georgette Heyer![]() ![]() ![]() Hero may be young and naïve, but Sherry is only a few years older and no more mature. ![]() ![]() It will be a marriage of convenience only, but even this is so much more than Hero could ever have hoped for that she has no hesitation in accepting. Hero is under no illusions that Sheringham – or Sherry, as he is known – is actually in love with her she knows that he needs to marry in order to receive his inheritance and that he has already been rejected by the beautiful Isabella Milborne. As an orphan treated as a poor relation in her cousin’s household, Hero’s marriage prospects are not good and she is facing a future as a governess when she receives a surprise proposal from her childhood friend, Lord Sheringham. “Friday’s child is loving and giving” says the famous rhyme and that is how the heroine of the novel, seventeen-year-old Hero Wantage, is described by her friends. It’s still an entertaining read in the twenty-first century too and although it hasn’t become a favourite, I did enjoy it. This Heyer novel was published in 1944 and as it’s a particularly lively and humorous one, I expect it provided her wartime readers with some welcome escapism. ![]() ![]() The Toltecs have never required allegiance or claimed to be the only source of wisdom and truth. “Artists of the spirit,” Toltecs are a society of artists and scientists who organized to unearth and instill ancient spiritual teachings and practices. ![]() Truth be told, if you can live from your heart and incarnate unconditional love, you too, are a Toltec. Toltecs are not a nation, race, or religion. For thousands of years, they’ve been known as “men and women of knowledge.” At the sacred Teotihuacan site, where “Man Becomes God,” naguals taught the Toltec lessons to eager and open students. Their sacred work began sometime between 8 CE. In Nahuatl, “Tōltēcatl”, translates to “artisan” in English. ![]() “ Toltec” derives from the ancient Mesoamerican language, Nahuatl. Proceeding the Aztecs, Toltecs were a Mesoamerican people. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Genome by matt ridley![]() From Huntington's disease to cancer, from the applications of gene therapy to the horrors of eugenics, Ridley probes the scientific, philosophical, and moral issues arising as a result of the mapping of the genome. By picking one newly discovered gene from each pair of chromosomes and telling its story, Matt Ridley recounts the history of our species and its ancestors from the dawn of life to the brink of future medicine. ![]() Genome offers extraordinary insight into the ramifications of this incredible breakthrough. Questions that will affect the rest of your life. Questions that will profoundly impact the way we think about disease, about longevity, and about free will. But what does it mean? Matt Ridley’s Genome is the book that explains it all: what it is, how it works, and what it portends for the futureĪrguably the most significant scientific discovery of the new century, the mapping of the twenty-three pairs of chromosomes that make up the human genome raises almost as many questions as it answers. He addresses not only the ethical quandaries faced by contemporary scientists but the reductionist danger in equating inheritability with inevitability.” - The New Yorker ![]() ![]() “Ridley leaps from chromosome to chromosome in a handy summation of our ever increasing understanding of the roles that genes play in disease, behavior, sexual differences, and even intelligence. ![]() |