6/25/2023 0 Comments Running by natalia sylvester![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout his successful political career he has always had his daughter’s vote, but a presidential campaign brings a whole new level of scrutiny to sheltered fifteen-year-old Mariana and the rest of her Cuban American family, from a 60 Minutes –style tour of their house to tabloids doctoring photos and inventing scandals. As tensions rise within the Ruiz family, Mari begins to learn about the details of her father’s political positions, and she realizes that her father is not the man she thought he was. In this authentic, humorous, and gorgeously written debut novel about privacy, waking up, and speaking up, Senator Anthony Ruiz is running for president. A novel about waking up and standing up, and what happens when you stop seeing your dad as your herowhile the whole country is watching. ![]() A novel about waking up and standing up, and what happens when you stop seeing your dad as your hero-while the whole country is watching. When fifteen-year-old Cuban American Mariana Ruiz’s father runs for president, Mari starts to see him with new eyes. ![]()
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6/25/2023 0 Comments The darkest minds series order![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() MORE PRAISE FOR THE DARKEST MINDS'The story's quick-paced action leads to a heartbreaking cliffhanger that will have readers eager for the next book. But what if winning the war means losing herself.The second book in the NYT bestselling series, that is soon to become a major motion picture. Ruby will do anything to protect the people she loves. As Ruby sets out across a desperate, lawless country to find Liam, she is torn between old friends and the promise she made to serve the League. But the truth is only saved in one place - in the hands of Liam Stewart, the boy Ruby once believed was her future and who now wouldn't recognize her. Crucial information about the disease that killed most of America's children - and turned Ruby and the others who lived into feared and hated outcasts - has survived every attempt to destroy it. When Ruby is entrusted with an explosive secret, she must embark on her most dangerous mission yet - leaving the Children's League behind. League call Ruby 'Leader', but she knows what she really is - a monster. Now she must call upon them on a daily basis. 'A riveting emotional read that kept me on the edge!'- Melissa Marr, author of the bestselling Wicked Lovely series, on The Darkest Minds Ruby never asked for the abilities that almost cost her her life. Never Fade (The Darkest Minds, #2) (Paperback) ![]() 6/23/2023 0 Comments How to train your dragon pirate![]() Poor: We rarely sell poor condition books, unless the books are in demand and difficult to find in a better condition. 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We are very proud of the condition of the books we sell (please read our testimonials to find out more!)Īs New: Pretty much new but shows small signs of having been read inside it will be clean without any inscriptions or stamps might contain a remainder mark. ![]() 6/23/2023 0 Comments Book blueberries for![]() ![]() What they don't realize is that a mother bear and her cub have also come to Blueberry Hill to eat berries for the winter. This continues as she and her mother concentrate on the berries and gradually get separated on the hill. Sal drops three berries in her bucket, then eats them. Little Sal's mother takes her to Blueberry Hill to pick berries. She gets into mischief and causes her mom no end of trouble.” This is not to be the overly diligent or angelic girl of so many other books, Sal is a real child figure. One sees in this opening picture Sal entertaining herself by placing the canning rings on her wrist and a spoon, a simple childlike act which helps to set the stage for Sal's obvious child actions throughout the books. "The book opens and closes with a picture of little Sal and her mother in the kitchen, the mother is canning blueberries. It was ranked number 31 in a reiteration three years later. Blueberries for Sal was ranked number 13 among the "Top 100 Picture Books" in a 2009 survey published by School Library Journal. The book was awarded the Caldecott Honor in 1949. The story is set in Maine, following the adventures of a young girl named Sal and a bear cub named Little Bear as they both go blueberry picking with their respective mothers before winter. ![]() ![]() Blueberries for Sal is a classic children's picture book written and illustrated by Robert McCloskey in 1948. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We find Mack Robinson in Pasadena, California, setting an example for his younger brother, Jackie Robinson and the unlikely competitor Archie Williams, a lanky book-smart teen in Oakland takes home a gold medal. There's a young and sometimes feisty Tidye Pickett from Chicago, whose lithe speed makes her the first African American woman to compete in the Olympic Games a quiet Louise Stokes from Malden, Massachusetts, who breaks records across the Northeast with humble beginnings training on railroad tracks. Yet, if they stayed, would they ever have a chance to prove them wrong on a global stage' To be better than anyone ever expected' Five athletes, full of discipline and heart, guide readers through this harrowing and inspiring journey. If they go, they would represent a country that considered them second-class citizens and would compete amid a strong undercurrent of Aryan superiority that considered them inferior. Set against the turbulent backdrop of a segregated United States, sixteen black men and two black women are torn between boycotting the Olympic Games in Nazi Germany or participating. American athletes who competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, defying the racism of both Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow South. ![]() Discover the astonishing, inspirational, and largely unknown true story of the eighteen African. ![]() 6/22/2023 0 Comments An absolutely remarkable thing![]() ![]() Now April has to deal with the pressure on her relationships, her identity, and her safety that this new position brings, all while being on the front lines of the quest to find out not just what the Carls are, but what they want from us. News quickly spreads that there are Carls in dozens of cities around the world-everywhere from Beijing to Buenos Aires-and April, as their first documentarian, finds herself at the center of an intense international media spotlight. ![]() The next day April wakes up to a viral video and a new life. ![]() Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship-like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armor-April and her friend Andy make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube. Coming home from work at three a.m., twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. Published by Hachette Australia on September 25, 2018Īmazon | Book Depository | Publisher | Angus & Robertson | Booktopia | Barnes & Noble Series: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing #1 An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green ![]() 6/22/2023 0 Comments Nevada imogen binnie buy![]() ![]() One of the most beloved cult novels of our time and a landmark of trans literature, Imogen Binnie’s Nevada is a blistering, heartfelt, and evergreen coming-of-age story, and a punk-smeared excavation of marginalized life under capitalism. As Maria finds herself in the awkward position of trans role model, she realizes that she could become James’s savior-or his downfall. She ends up in the backwater town of Star City, Nevada, where she meets James, who is probably but not certainly trans, and who reminds Maria of her younger self. Everything is mostly fine until Maria and Steph break up, sending Maria into a tailspin, and then onto a cross-country trek in the car she steals from Steph. ![]() ![]() She takes random pills and drinks more than is good for her, but doesn’t inject anything except, when she remembers, estrogen, because she’s trans. She’s in love with her bike but not with her girlfriend, Steph. Maria Griffiths is almost thirty and works at a used bookstore in New York City while trying to stay true to her punk values. ![]() And it did so by the oldest of methods, by telling a wise, hilarious, and gripping story." -Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, BabyĪ beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction finally back in print, Nevada follows a disaffected trans woman as she embarks on a cross-country road trip. " Nevada is a book that changed my life: it shaped both my worldview and personhood, making me the writer I am. ![]() 6/22/2023 0 Comments The federalist hamilton![]() ![]() ![]() There can be no need however to multiply arguments or examples on this head. Every man the least conversant in Roman story knows how often that republic was obliged to take refuge in the absolute power of a single man, under the formidable title of dictator, as well against the intrigues of ambitious individuals, who aspired to the tyranny, and the seditions of whole classes of the community, whose conduct threatened the existence of all government, as against the invasions of external enemies, who menaced the conquest and destruction of Rome. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign attacks: It is not less essential to the steady administration of the laws, to the protection of property against those irregular and high handed combinations, which sometimes interrupt the ordinary course of justice to the security of liberty against the enterprises and assaults of ambition, of faction and of anarchy. Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. The enlightened well wishers to this species of government must at least hope that the supposition is destitute of foundation since they can never admit its truth, without at the same time admitting the condemnation of their own principles. THERE is an idea, which is not without its advocates, that a vigorous executive is inconsistent with the genius of republican government. ![]() 6/21/2023 0 Comments Mulan twisted tale![]() However, in the process of trying to save her from the oncoming avalanche, Captain Shang gets fatally injured by Shan Yu and makes his way to Diyu, the underworld. In the middle of a battle, Mulan, sparked by an idea that has the potential to save her warriors turned friends and the entirety of China from the Huns, decides to risk everything and light a cannon that could cause an avalanche. Reflection, part of the Twisted Tale series where classic Disney movies are reimagined with major plot points undergoing unexpected twists, is a sharp, lyrical novel where Fa Mulan, the protagonist, has to travel to the underworld to save her captain from permanent death. When I went into Reflection, expecting fresh characterization and an entrancing plot, I was treated to that and then some. ![]() With stellar musical renditions and a vivid storyline, Mulan had always been one of my favorites. ![]() In 1 998, Disney released the animated film Mulan, a musical set in Han China that centers around Fa Mulan, an ambitious girl from a traditional family who takes her father’s place to join the Imperial Army by disguising herself as a boy. ![]() 6/21/2023 0 Comments Creepers by David Morrell![]() ![]() The plot develops rapidly, with various twists and turns. The atmosphere of doom and foreboding pervades the entirety of the text, as the storm beats down on the creepers in the near-darkness. ![]() ![]() Morrell ratchets up the pace and tension from the very beginning of the novel and he never lets go. Will they escape from the Paragon with their lives?ĬREEPERS is a fantastic thriller. They are expecting an interesting evening, roaming the huge building, but they certainly do not expect the death, destruction and hidden secrets that are awaiting them inside. One group of creepers ventures into the Paragon, a New Jersey hotel built by a reclusive and strange millionaire. These buildings have often been left pristine from the time they were abandoned, giving the 'creepers', as they are known, a real insight into the past. Urban explorers are people who illegally enter abandoned hotels, offices, tunnels and other buildings. ![]() |