![]() She needs someone to help her, defend her…and the kids. Now I'm going to Mommy & Me classes, One Direction concerts, the emergency room, and arguing cases in the principal's office.Ĭhelsea’s too sweet, too innocent, and too gorgeous for her own good. Then Chelsea McQuaid and her six orphaned nieces and nephews came along and complicated the ever-loving hell out of my life. I’m not a therapist or Prince Charming-and I don’t pretend to be. ![]() If you’re my date, stick to what will turn you on. If you’re my client, tell me the basic facts. In fact, it’s necessary when I’m breaking down a witness on the stand.Ĭomplications don’t work for me-I’m a “need-to-know” type of man. I, Jake Becker, have a reputation for being cold, callous, and intimidating-and that suits me just fine. When you’re a defense attorney in Washington, DC, you see firsthand how hard life can be, and that sometimes the only way to survive is to be harder. A knight in tarnished armor is still a knight. Sustained by Emma Chase - 9781501102073 Categories: Contemporary Fiction Thriller Books Romance Romance Books Adult & Contemporary Romance Share Sustained 4.26 (31,749 ratings by Goodreads) Paperback The Legal Briefs Series English By (author) Emma Chase US17.91 US17.99 You save US0. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() But staying undetected when the mob is searching for her is a challenge that takes everything, especially as one of their best hunters and assassins is after her: Matteo Vitiello.After six months on the run, Gianna finally settles into a tentative routine in Munich, but then Matteo and a couple of her father’s soldiers find her with another man.Despite her pleads they kill her boyfriend, and Gianna is forced to marry Matteo. ![]() She has enough money to flee to Europe and begin a new life. A few months before the wedding, Gianna escapes her bodyguards and runs away. When Gianna watched her sister Aria getting married to a man she barely knew, she promised herself she wouldn’t let the same thing happen to her.Matteo – The Blade – Vitiello set his eyes on Gianna the moment he saw her on his brother Luca’s wedding, and Rocco Scuderi is more than willing to give his daughter to him, but Gianna has no intention of marrying for any other reason than love. ![]() ![]() This is a great book because it conveys to youngsters a positive message of respect and acceptance to different cultures and self-recognition and value. She comes to accept both her English name and her new American self, recognizing that however it is written, she is still Yoon. In the end, she realizes that she is actually accepted by people surrounded her. In fact, she yearns for gaining the acceptance of her peers. Although her teacher encourages her to practice writing “Yoon”, the child substitutes other words for her name, words that better express her inner fears and hopes such as “cat” that can hide in a corner and cuddle with her mother, “bird” that can fly back to Korea, and finally, “cupcake” that is loved by her classmates. She struggles to please her parents by learning an unfamiliar language while surrounded by strangers. ![]() ![]() With a name “Yoon” meaning “shining wisdom”, the main character thinks that her name looks much happier written in Korean than in English. ![]() My Name Is Yoon is a moving story depicting a seven-year-old Korean girl’s difficult adjustment to her new life in America. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() This nonfiction book for readers age 6 and up won multiple awards at the 2020 Information Book Awards. Anyone who loves Anna Hibiscus books as much as I do will recognize the opening refrain from the Nigerian-English author’s books: “Anna Hibiscus lives in Africa. In light of this occasion, today’s book is Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country by Atinuke. Happy belated Africa Day! Every year on May 25th, Africans observe the anniversary of the African Union (AU), an organization founded to eradicate colonialism and promote solidarity among African people all over the world. These are new countries that are struggling to become independent from old countries. ![]() So we are all from Africa, originally! Did you know that Africa is gigantic? It is as big as Europe, the USA, Mexico, India and Japan all put together! Did you know that no one can decide on the official number of African countries? This is because there are countries that are still unofficial. Did you know that the first human beings to walk this earth were African? They went on to populate the whole planet. ![]() ![]() ![]() See, it's about a fantastically unique individual named – you guessed it – Stargirl. He is the author of several wonderful books for young readers, including Maniac McGee, which won the Newbery Medal, which is a Pretty Big Deal. Chances are you may have already read something written by Jerry Spinelli. That question, readers, is what Stargirl is all about. Do you go and introduce yourself, or do you smirk and give her the side eye while everyone around you calls her a freak? What do you do? Her name is Stargirl, and she is unlike anyone you have ever met. You arrive in the cafeteria and there she is. Readers, Shmoop has a question: what would you be thinking and doing at this point? Are you running up the stairs to the cafeteria? Do you hope to meet someone interesting and new who you will welcome with open arms, or are you secretly hoping to witness a train wreck of humiliation? Maybe it's a little bit of both? And no! She doesn't even know Alan! Oh, and did I mention that she has a pet rat with her? She is wearing the strangest outfit, and she's playing a ukulele and singing "Happy Birthday" to Alan Ferko in the cafeteria as we speak. Well, come on! You have to check her out. ![]() ![]() ![]() Somehow, the young Angelou perseveres, free of self-pity and armed with remarkable wisdom and patience, even through dark years of living in dire poverty. Amid moments of bonding with her mother are episodes of ugly racism and violence, including a vicious beating by a boyfriend and a rape that would result in the birth of her only child, a son named Guy, just after she graduated from high school. ![]() ![]() Page by page, Angelou’s story is astonishing as she recalls her difficult adolescence, immersing herself in literature while getting to know her charismatic mother. ![]() ![]() ![]() "I'm not a morning person, so my husband and kids know not to talk to me," she told NPR in video interview from her home office in Saltillo, Texas - a small town about 90 miles East of Dallas. It also had more pre-orders than any novel in Simon & Schuster's 98-year-old history.ĭespite all of the success, Hoover tries her best to cling on to the trappings of ordinary life. ![]() And her latest novel out this past week, It Starts With Us, published by the Simon & Schuster division Atria Books, set a company record for first day fiction sales.Īccording to the company, the novel sold a total of more than 800,000 copies on the day it was released (Oct. She's outsold the Bible by more than 3 million copies so far this year. The top-selling author in the country right now is a 42-year-old mom and former social worker who lives in the same small Texas town where she's spent practically her entire life.Ĭolleen Hoover's romance-heavy reads are regular fixtures on bestseller lists. Author Colleen Hoover signs her novel, "It Starts with Us." ![]() ![]() By examining Heaney’s use of language, we are able to almost gain an insight into the workings of human nature and the true meaning the he is trying to convey through “Blackberry Picking”.Īt its essentials, “Blackberry Picking” is not about blackberries or the act of harvesting, but it is a representation of people’s in ability to enjoy something until it is gone and that it only becomes important to them when they can’t have it. ![]() This notion is not uncommon in the literary world and can be seen in other poems, such as Robert Frost’s “Nothing Gold Can Stay” and Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ozymandias”. Seamus Heaney’s poem “Blackberry Picking”, published in 1966 in Death of a Naturalist, explores the hedonistic nature of human beings in not being able to enjoy something until it is gone. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Part bruisingly tender love story, part nerve-clanging submarine thriller … heart-slicing, cinematic. Living in the same space but suddenly separate, Miri comes to realize that the life that they had might be gone. Miri, her wife, is at first relieved to have her beloved back home safe. Leah, a research marine scientist, has returned from a trip to the bottom of the ocean. Memories of what they had before - the jokes they shared, the films they watched, all the small things that made Leah hers - only remind Miri of what she stands to lose. Our Wives Under the Sea is an utterly immersive, deeply moving story about love and grief, and the mysteries of the sea. To have the woman she loves back should mean a return to normal life, but Miri can feel Leah slipping from her grasp. ![]() ![]() Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded on the ocean floor, Leah has carried part of it with her, onto dry land and into their home. It soon becomes clear, though, that Leah may have come back wrong. Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep sea mission that ended in catastrophe. It’s a story of falling in love, loss, grief, and what life there is in the deep, deep sea. Our Wives Under The Sea is the debut novel Julia Armfiled, the critically acclaimed author of S alt Slow. ‘A gothic fairy tale, sublime in its creepiness’ - Florence Welch ![]() |