![]() Grace sets out on a dangerous, mystical journey to find him, and along the way, she discovers the meaning of true love.Ĭontributor Bio(s): Dokey, Cameron: - Cameron Dokey is the author of nearly thirty young adult novels. In Winter's Child, Grace's best friend is lured from home by a dazzling Snow Queen. Yet as Mina and her prince encounter trials of love and fate, Mina must summon the strength to find her own happiness. Desperate to be reunited with her daughter, the Queen of the Night promises Mina's hand in marriage to the prince who can rescue her. In Sunlight and Shadow, Princess Mina is kidnapped. But when her father is held captive by a terrifying Beast, Belle is the only one with the courage and creativity to save him.though she must first believe in herself. ![]() Belle lacks her sisters' awe-inspiring beauty, so she withdraws from society to focus on her art in Belle. Physical Information: 1.7" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" (1.10 lbs) 624 pagesĪbsence makes the heart grow fonder-and love grow stronger-in three romantic fairy tale retellings from the author of Once. ![]() ![]() ![]() Juvenile Fiction | Fairy Tales & Folklore - Adaptations Temporarily out of stock - Will ship within 2 to 5 weeks Kissed: Belle/Sunlight and Shadow/Winter's Child Bind-Up Edition ![]()
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![]() ![]() The book will be published by her estate. ![]() ![]() At the time of Warren's death, she was putting the finishing touches on the 4th book in The Front Runner Series. Warren published two sequels to The Front Runner ( Harlan's Race in 1994 and Billy's Boy in 1997). The Front Runner, considered a world classic in gay literature, has sold over 10 million copies in 11 languages, was published in 1974. Warren is best known for her groundbreaking novel The Front Runner, a love story about an out gay runner and his closeted track coach. LOS ANGELES - Patricia Nell Warren, age 82, died on Saturday February 9th at the UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica, California after a long battle with cancer. The Front Runner, published in 1974, was the first affirmative gay story. Patricia Nell Warren, Activist and Author of The Front Runner, First Gay Novel to Make New York Times Best Seller List, Dies at 82 ![]() ![]() The epic tale of Harry Clifton's life begins in 1920, with the words "I was told that my father was killed in the war." A dock worker in Bristol, Harry never knew his father and expects to continue on at the shipyard, until a remarkable gift wins him a scholarship to an exclusive boys' school, and his life will never be the same again.Īs Harry enters into adulthood, he finally learns how his father really died, but the awful truth only leads him to question: Was he even his father? Is he the son of Arthur Clifton, a stevedore, or the firstborn son of a scion of West Country society, whose family owns a shipping line? From the ravages of the Great War and the docks of working-class England to the streets of 1940 New York City and the outbreak of the Second World War, this is a powerful journey that will bring to life one hundred years of history to reveal a family story that neither the reader nor Harry Clifton himself could ever have imagined. Only Time Will Tell (The Clifton Chronicles 1) is a Historical Novel By Jeffrey Archer. With Louisa Connolly-Burnham, Miranda Wilson, McKell David, Mark Fleischmann. Read Only Time Will Tell (The Clifton Chronicles 1) Online Free. ![]() ![]() ![]() The first novel in the Clifton Chronicles, an ambitious new series that tells the story of a family across generations and oceans, from heartbreak to triumph, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Archer Time Will Tell: Directed by Tonnie Dinjens. ![]() ![]() ![]() One is that some of the girls like cute boys and some like ugly older men and sometimes women. Hecht teaches at The New School and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and children.)Įvolution settles for a while on various stable balances. Her books include Doubt: A History (2003) The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology in France (2003), which won the prestigious Ralph Waldo Emerson Award from the Phi Beta Kappa Society and The Happiness Myth: The Historical Antidote to What Isn’t Working Today (2008). Hecht’s prose has also been widely praised for the breadth of its scholarship. The Next Ancient World mixes contemporary and ancient world views, histories, myths, and ideas, and Funny explores the implications of the human love of humor and jokes. Known for her wit and erudition, Hecht’s poetry frequently draws on her work as an intellectual historian. ![]() Her collections of poetry include the highly praised The Next Ancient World (2001), which won the Tupelo Press Judge’s Prize in Poetry, the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award, and ForeWord Review’s Poetry Book of the Year Award Funny (2005), winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry and Who Said(2013). Poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht earned a BA in history from Adelphi University and a PhD in the history of science from Columbia University. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thing Explainer is Randall's second published book, not including xkcd comic books, which he announced on May 13th, 2015 in the blag following the amazing success of his what if? book based on the what if? blog. See a summary below and also the entire index from the book listing all the 45 different explanations. The book explores, among other things, computer buildings (datacenters), the flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates), the things you use to steer a plane (airliner cockpit controls), and the little bags of water you're made of (cells). Randall found his own method to determine which words would go on his list, a list that is revealed in the book. Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words is a book by Randall Munroe where things are explained in the style of Up Goer Five (which is also included in the book), using only blueprint like drawings and a vocabulary of the 1,000 (or ten hundred) most common words in the English language. ![]() ![]() After families and loved ones separate from one another, life continues in very different ways for men and women, boys and girls. On a lazy, quiet afternoon, in the blink of an eye, our world shatters into two parallel universes as men vanish from women and women from men. The event occurred universally at the same instant, without regard to time belts, and was followed by such phenomena as might be expected after happenings of that nature." ![]() "The female of the species vanished on the afternoon of the second Tuesday of February at four minutes and fifty-two seconds past four o'clock, Eastern Standard Time. ![]() ![]() "One of the most harrowing chronicles of disaster that our age of anxiety has produced."-New York Times Book Review. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Whether your hero is traversing the continent to save the world or working through the everyday adversities of what it takes to be in high school, universal challenges teens all face include death, growing up, first love, and establishing a moral compass. ![]() To write an authentic YA perspective, the conflict has to be relevant to adolescent struggles. Young adult novels require a protagonist between the ages of 12 and 18, but it’s not enough to make their age match. Let’s discuss 10 tips to help you write a great young adult novel and how to write an authentic YA perspective, even if you’re well past the age of 18. But with finesse and a good understanding of what is appropriate for young audiences, the subject matter can take on any topic. The genre is unique in its accessibility to a wide audience because, while the content often interests adults, the language and perspective are written for adolescents. YA stories are told by or about protagonists between the ages of 12 and 18 in a way that would be appropriate for readers of the same age group. ![]() But what exactly is young adult? And how do you write a YA perspective in an authentic, marketable way? Since its establishment, YA narrative has grown in popularity to become a commonly read and appreciated category of novel. Young adult (YA) fiction is a unique, modern form of narration that appeals to readers of all ages. 10 tips for writing young adult (YA) fiction that's true to the adolescent experience ![]() ![]() ![]() To add to the weirdness, she receives an anonymous letter telling her there's a job waiting for her at the county morgue-and that it's an offer she doesn't dare refuse.īefore she knows it she's dealing wth a huge crush on a certain hunky deputy and a brand new addiction: an overpowering craving for brains. Angel remembers being in a horrible car crash, but she doesn't have a mark on her. ![]() That is, until the day she wakes up in the ER after overdosing on painkillers. Now on probation for a felony, it seems that Angel will never pull herself out of the downward spiral her life has taken. Living with her alcoholic deadbeat dad in the swamps of southern Louisiana, she's a high school dropout with a pill habit and a criminal record who's been fired from more crap jobs than she can count. Winner of the 2012 Best Urban Fantasy Protagonist by the RT Awards.Horror meets humorous urban fantasy in first book of the White Trash Zombie series ![]() ![]() ![]() As Enne unearths an impossible secret about her past, Levi’s enemies catch up to them, ensnaring him in a vicious execution game where the players always lose. Their search for clues leads them through glamorous casinos, illicit cabarets and into the clutches of a ruthless mafia donna. Enne’s offer of compensation, however, could be the solution to all his problems. Levi is also only one payment away from cleaning up a rapidly unraveling investment scam, so he doesn’t have time to investigate a woman leading a dangerous double life. ![]() Unfortunately, Levi is not the gentleman she expected-he’s a street lord and a con man. But when her mother goes missing, Enne must leave her finishing school-and her reputation-behind to follow her mother’s trail to the city where no one survives uncorrupted.įrightened and alone, her only lead is a name: Levi Glaisyer. From Goodreads: Welcome to the City of Sin, where casino families reign, gangs infest the streets…Įnne Salta was raised as a proper young lady, and no lady would willingly visit New Reynes, the so-called City of Sin. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are people who will help you get through this.” Even the title itself sets the movie up as a call to those who would pick up the phone to say, “Hey, you’re not alone. What happens in the movie is just a metaphor for the process of confronting your pain and fears and opening up to others who have experienced the same. Despite the darkness of his past, his future is bright.Īnd that’s the ultimate statement The Black Phone makes: there’s hope. ![]() ![]() When he returns to school, it’s with a confidence that had previously been stripped from him by his father’s actions. Instead, as we see at the end of the movie, through the experience, Finney finds connection with other victims, learns from them, takes comfort from them, and ultimately succeeds because of them, choosing to survive and thrive in their honor. What Finney escapes isn’t just The Grabber but a potential future where his victimization becomes, like it did with The Grabber, the major influence on his life. The Grabber isn’t just a child abductor but a victim himself who has grown up to victimize others, continuing the cycle. But the film’s thematic subtext is about abuse and explores several sub-topics like the impact of abuse on children, why a parent would do such a thing, and the potential end-result of living in such a household. The overall story is about Finney Blake’s attempts to escape The Grabber, a child abductor in a Denver suburb. The Black Phone adapts a short story by Joe Hill. ![]() |