![]() ![]() Their hunt lures them far from Paris and into the icy heart of Russia, where crystalline ice animals stalk forgotten mansions, broken goddesses carry deadly secrets, and a string of unsolved murders makes the crew question whether an ancient myth is a myth after all.Īs hidden secrets come to the light and the ghosts of the past catch up to them, the crew will discover new dimensions of themselves. Desperate to make amends, Séverin pursues a dangerous lead to find a long lost artifact rumored to grant its possessor the power of God. Séverin and his team members might have successfully thwarted the Fallen House, but victory came at a terrible cost-one that still haunts all of them. ![]() They are each other’s fiercest love, greatest danger, and only hope. Returning to the dark and glamorous 19th century world of her New York Times bestseller, The Gilded Wolves, Roshani Chokshi dazzles with another riveting tale full of mystery and danger in The Silvered Serpents. ![]()
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![]() Greetings, my fellow rom-com readers! I am delighted to share another rom-com from author Sariah Wilson, whose heroines are always memorable, hilarious, and oh so relatable. This title will be released on February 1, 2023. If Anna and Marco are really falling in love, who are they to argue with science? It’s unpredictable, exciting, and occasionally combustible. With every fake date, Anna’s feelings are starting to become dizzyingly real.īlame it on chemistry. There’s more to Marco than meets the eye. ![]() If the experiment in attraction works, a jealous Craig will swoop in and give Anna her happily ever after-if it weren’t for one hitch in the plan. ![]() That can be Anna, if she’s game to play.Īll Anna and Marco have to do is pretend they’re falling in love and let the rumors begin. The makeup mogul knows Craig for the ridiculously competitive rival he is. ![]() How can Anna Ellis, a geeky, brilliant, and hopelessly smitten cosmetic chemist possibly win over Craig Kimball, the man of her dreams-who also happens to be her boss? The answer is Craig’s empathetic (and handsome) CEO half brother, Marco. ![]() Synopsis: True love requires a little research and development in a funny, heart-racing romance by Sariah Wilson, the bestselling author of The Paid Bridesmaid. ![]() ![]() ![]() Outside the projections of Anna’s mind are the people in her life who embody the qualities of walls for example, Walter and Carl are sources of safety because of their monetary contributions, yet more so, they are forces of entrapment as Anna becomes dependent upon their emotional and financial support. She describes walls as obstacles, dividers, traps, or types of surveillance. ![]() Each flat Anna occupies surrounds her with dark, high, enclosing walls that seem claustrophobic and shrinking. In Anna’s first person narrative, she demonstrates a constant awareness of the walls around her, always noticing curtains being closed, the color of wallpaper, the presence of windows, and even the feeling walls evoke. Throughout Jean Rhys’s novel Voyage in the Dark, Anna Morgan encounters both real and imaged walls, yet they do not function in the typical way of a shelter or safeguard. Voyage in the Dark: Anna’s Psychological Walls ![]() ![]() ![]() Before she knows it, she has everything she’s ever wanted: friendship, a boyfriend, access to wealth, and, most of all, for the first time in her life, the sense that she belongs.īut as Mabel becomes an insider, a terrible discovery leads to shocking violence and reveals what the Winslows may have done to keep their power intact-and what they might do to anyone who threatens them. Mabel must choose: either expose the ugliness surrounding her and face expulsion from paradise, or keep the family’s dark secrets and make Ev's world her own. ![]() ![]() On scholarship at a prestigious East Coast college, ordinary Mabel Dagmar is surprised to befriend her roommate, the beautiful, wild, blue-blooded Genevra Winslow. Ev invites Mabel to spend the summer at Bittersweet, her cottage on the Vermont estate where her family has been holding court for more than a century it’s the kind of place where children twirl sparklers across the lawn during cocktail hour. Mabel falls in love with midnight skinny-dipping, the wet dog smell that lingers near the yachts, and the moneyed laughter that carries across the still lake while fireworks burst overhead. ![]() ![]() Joan tries to settle into her new life, but family secrets cast a longer shadow than any of them expected.Īs she grows up, Joan finds relief in her artwork, painting portraits of the community in Memphis. Half a century earlier, Joan’s grandfather built this majestic house in the historic Black neighborhood of Douglass-only to be lynched days after becoming the first Black detective in the city. ![]() This is not the first time violence has altered the course of the family’s trajectory. Summer 1995: Ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father’s explosive temper and seek refuge at her mother’s ancestral home in Memphis. ![]() A spellbinding debut novel tracing three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter’s discovery that she has the power to change her family’s legacy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Look at examples of newspaper articles in your local newspaper. Have your student write a newspaper article for one of the extreme weather events in the story. ![]() Discuss compound words with your student. There are lots of examples of compound words found throughout this story: meatball, pancake, breakfast, everyone, schoolhouse, leftovers, townspeople, northwest, sidewalks, overcooked, downpour, etc. Here are some sample lessons from the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Unit Study: This unit study includes lessons and printables based on the book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Unit Study Lessons Thanks to Lisa Martin for writing the lessons for this Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs unit study. This fun book about edible weather is the base for lessons on community helpers, maps, recycling, food sources, and more! Grab our free Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs unit study & lapbook and start your learning adventure. What if you didn’t like what fell? Or what if too much came? Have you ever thought of what it might be like to be squashed flat by a pancake? from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs at If food dropped like rain from the sky, wouldn’t it be marvelous! Or would it? It could, after all, be messy. ![]() ![]() This won’t cost you anything, but it helps us to keep the site running. We sometimes use affiliate links in our content. ![]() ![]() ![]() No electricity, no phones, no internet, and a ferry that isn't scheduled to return for three days. Suddenly, people are dying, and with a storm raging outside, the teens are cut off from the rest of the world. ![]() Fletcher, and look forward to three glorious days of boys, bonding, and fun-filled luxury.īut what they expect is definitely not what they get, and what starts out as fun turns dark and twisted after the discovery of a DVD with a sinister message: Vengeance is mine. Best friends Meg and Minnie each have their own reasons for wanting to be there, which involve their school's most eligible bachelor, T. ![]() It was supposed to be the weekend of their lives-three days on Henry Island at an exclusive house party. Don't spread the word! Three-day weekend. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This month, Leadercast is focused on the theme of exploration, and we couldn’t help but think of it in the context of the self. (Think of it like the directions you receive on a plane for when the oxygen masks deploy: “Put on your own mask first before assisting others.”) ![]() You may recall in 2018, Leadercast took a deep dive into self-awareness for its Leading Yourself theme, which covered the idea that before a leader has the ability to lead others, they must first learn how to lead themselves. Billie Jean King once shared, “I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.” Self-awareness is key in anything you do, whether you’re a champion tennis player like Billie or a leader of an organization. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The title comes from the first book that Vida Winter ever published - Thirteen Tales of Change and Desperation, which only contained twelve stories. Margaret becomes entranced by her tale, but finds that as the story is told the truth about Vida Winter's past becomes more and more shrouded in mystery. What follows is a story of incest, of child abuse and neglect, of a once rich and prosperous family slowly decaying, and the story of two twin girls: Adeline and Emmeline. Margaret has never read any of her books before, and so initially decides to turn her offer down, but after reading some of Vida Winter's books, reconsiders. Vida Winter has spent all of her public life inventing various stories about her past, but she's close to death, and has chosen Margaret to write the true story of her youth. One day she receives a letter from Vida Winter, one of the most prolific and well loved writers alive. The story is about Margaret Lea, an unassuming young biographer who lives with her bookstore owner father. ![]() The Thirteenth Tale is a 2006 novel written by Diane Setterfield. ![]() ![]() The book makes the reader so aware of how one person can make such a difference in a child’s life. ![]() ![]() Her lovely book is part-memoir and part nature story. Meredith May is now an award-winning journalist. As they harvested honey together in the dilapidated old bus on the back of his property, her gentle Grandpa taught her life lessons through the wisdom of bees. Meredith’s Grandpa, while eccentric, was a kind and wise figure and he involved Meredith in his life as a bee-keeper where she accompanied him as he drove around Big Sur in California tending his beehives. Her writing is included in the book, Best Newspaper Writing 2005, published by the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Her depressive and emotionally distant mother handed Meredith and her younger brother over to her parents to raise and virtually took no further part in their upbringing. When her parents divorced, Meredith was only five. Those who enjoy memoirs and especially coming-of-age, true stories. ![]() ![]() Her story is one of unconditional love and the healing power of nature. Virtually abandoned by her parents, Meredith is taken under the wing of her Grandpa. The Honey Bus Meredith May In a few wordsĪn engaging and moving memoir. The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees: May, Meredith: 9780778309758: : Books Books Science & Math Biological Sciences Buy new: 12.99 List Price: 16.99 Details Save: 4. ![]() |