Since then, Ghost has been the one causing problems-and running away from them-until he meets Coach, an ex-Olympic Medalist who sees something in Ghost: crazy natural talent. But Ghost has been running for the wrong reasons-it all started with running away from his father, who, when Ghost was a very little boy, chased him and his mother through their apartment, then down the street, with a loaded gun, aiming to kill. That’s all Ghost (real name Castle Cranshaw) has ever known. They all have a lot to lose, but they also have a lot to prove, not only to each other, but to themselves. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team-a team that could qualify them for the Junior Olympics if they can get their acts together. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds with personalities that are explosive when they clash. Ghost wants to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school track team, but his past is slowing him down in this first electrifying novel of the acclaimed Track series from Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award–winning author Jason Reynolds. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read A National Book Award Finalist for Young People’s Literature
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He pushed them in the swing until he got tired and then he took them all upstairs to the room that he shared with his brother, Blair. It was also a good vantage point, with a view of lots of doors and hallway, both upstairs and down.ĭavid got up after a while and went outside and found his little brother and sisters. There was a central feeling about it, as if it were the heart of the old house. Even then, before anything happened, he felt there was something unusual about that spot on the landing. He sat a minute longer enjoying the deep silence of the big old house, empty now except for him. Would you keep an eye on the kids while I’m gone? They were down by the swing a minute ago.”ĭavid said he would and Molly left, smiling back at him from the doorway. Molly, who at that time had been David’s stepmother for about three weeks, was an artist, and around the house she dressed like an artist, very informally. When Molly appeared at the foot of the stairs, David knew she was leaving because she had her shoes on and there was no paint on her hands and clothes. DAVID OFTEN WONDERED ABOUT HOW HE HAPPENED TO BE SITTING THERE on the stair landing, within arm’s reach of the headless cupid, at the very moment when his stepmother left Westerly House to bring Amanda home. Both action-packed and emotionally engaging, A Reaper at the Gates is the perfect summer read.” - The Washington Post “The book deftly handles serious issues like the costs of genocide and war. But in doing so, he has vowed himself to an ancient power that demands his complete surrender-even if that means abandoning the woman he loves. But in the hunt to bring him down, Laia faces unexpected threats from those she hoped would help her, and is drawn into a battle she never thought she'd have to fight.Īnd in the land between the living and the dead, Elias Veturius has given up his freedom to serve as Soul Catcher. But she knows that danger lurks on all sides: Emperor Marcus, haunted by his past, grows increasingly unstable and violent, while Keris Veturia, the ruthless Commandant, capitalizes on the Emperor's volatility to grow her own power-regardless of the carnage she leaves in her path.įar to the east, Laia of Serra knows the fate of the world lies not in the machinations of the Martial court, but in stopping the Nightbringer. Helene Aquilla, the Blood Shrike, is desperate to protect her sister's life and the lives of everyone in the Empire. BOOK THREE IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES:Īn Entertainment Weekly Summer Reads pick and New York Times bestseller!īeyond the Martial Empire and within it, the threat of war looms ever larger. Like his revered comics hero, Super Amoeba, blobby Squish is determined to do what’s right. Countering the (perceived, at least) girliness of their Babymouse series, the talented Holms turn to the microbial world for new graphic material. Squish may be an amorphous blob, but he needs to whip his supporting cast into shape for issue two. The hilarious misadventures of a hapless young everylad who happens to be an amoeba. Add to that a disappointing two-color palette, and the whole undertaking seems flatter than a microscope slide. Can even our precocious protozoan hero get himself out of this one? The Holms strike a breezy, goofy tone right out of the gate, and Squish is a likably put-upon lead character, but beyond him the book doesn't offer much his pals are annoying and the villain has as many dimensions as he has cells (that is, one). When yet another bout of tardiness lands the whole group in detention, Squish is faced with a full-blown moral dilemma: in order to save Peggy from becoming Lynwood's next between-meal snack, he has to let the big bully copy his next science test. His two best friends Pod, a bowtie-wearing amoeba nerd, and Peggy, a pathologically cheerful paramecium are a constant thorn in his side he just can't seem to make it to school in time and Lynwood the school bully wants to swallow him whole. For a single-celled organism, Squish the amoeba leads an awfully complicated existence. Not since Misery has King written with such visceral power about a reader with such a dangerous obsession.įinders Keepers is spectacular suspense, and it is King writing about how literature shapes a life for good, for bad, for ever. Now it's up to retired detective Bill Hodges - running an investigative company called 'Finders Keepers' - to rescue Pete from an ever-more deranged and vengeful Morris. And he's hell-bent on recovering his treasure. Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. 2014: After thirty-five years in prison, Morris is up for parole. 2009: Pete Saubers, a boy whose father was brutally injured by a stolen Mercedes, discovers a buried trunk containing cash and Rothstein's notebooks. Mercedes, Finders Keepers, End of Watch), an AT&T Audience Original Series, now in its second. 1978: Morris Bellamy is a reader so obsessed by America's iconic author John Rothstein that he is prepared to kill for a trove of notebooks containing at least one more unpublished novel. The second book in Stephen Kings Bill Hodges trilogy (Mr. The second standalone novel in Stephen King's Bill Hodges trilogy (Mr Mercedes, Finders Keepers, End of Watch) - and the basis of the third season of Mr Mercedes, an AT&T Audience Original Series (10 September 2019). This was the beginning of The Maid of Sker – not, in fact, completed until many years later, and eventually published in 1872 - which he himself would come to consider his finest novel. ĭuring a university vacation he made his first attempt at writing a novel. He excelled in classical studies, and later won a scholarship to Exeter College, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1847. In 1837, Blackmore entered Blundell's School in Tiverton. Having spent much of his childhood in the lush and pastoral "Doone Country" of Exmoor, and along the Badgworthy Water (where there is now a memorial stone in Blackmore's honour), Blackmore came to love the very countryside he immortalised in Lorna Doone. His father married again in 1831, whereupon Richard returned to live with him. Richard Gordon, moved with her to Elsfield rectory, near Oxford. Richard, however, was taken by his aunt, Mary Frances Knight, and after her marriage to the Rev. After this loss John Blackmore moved to Bushey, Herts, then to his native Devon, first to Kings Nympton, then Culmstock, Tor Mohun and later to Ashford, in the same county. His mother died a few months after his birth – the victim of an outbreak of typhus which had occurred in the village. Richard Doddridge Blackmore was born on 7 June 1825 at Longworth in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), one year after his elder brother Henry (1824–1875), where his father, John Blackmore, was Curate-in-charge of the parish. Set 25,000 years in the past, yet utterly relatable today, The Clan of the Cave Bear is an epic tale of love, identity and the struggle to survive. Where others see similarity, he can only see difference, and as his hatred for the strange girl of the Others deepens, he grows determined to get his revenge. Everyone, that is, except Brun, the brutal and proud youth who is destined to become their next leader. Through Jean Auels magnificent storytelling, we are taken back to the dawn of mankind and swept up in the wonderful world of a very special heroine, Ayla. Yet Iza, the Clan’s medicine woman cannot leave the child to die.Īs Ayla learns the ways of the Clan and Iza’s ways of healing, Iza grows to love her, and the rest of the Clan to accept her. To them Ayla looks peculiar and ugly, her blonde hair and blue eyes marking her out as one of the Others, who have recently invaded their ancient homeland. When an earthquake destroys her family’s camp, Ayla is left orphaned and alone in an unfamiliar and dangerous land, her likelihood of survival slim.īut then she is found by a woman of the Clan, a people very different from her own kind. Her Earth's Children series has sold more than 45 million copies worldwide and includes The Clan of the Cave Bear, The Valley of Horses, The Mammoth Hunters, The Plains of Passage, The Shelters of Stone, and The Land of Painted Caves. The first book in the internationally bestselling Earth’s Children series, an epic work of prehistoric fiction beloved by generations of readers. Preventive Medicine also provides revealing outlines of feminine social primacy, Hypergamy, the ‘Hierarchies of Love’ and the importance of understanding the conventional nature of complementary masculinity in a world designed to keep men ignorant of it. Rational and pragmatic, the book explores the intergender and social dynamics of each stage of women’s maturity and provides a practical understanding for men in dealing with women in those phases. You can read this before The Rational Male – Preventive Medicine PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.īuilding on the core works of The Rational Male – Preventive Medicine presents a poignant outline of the phases of maturity and the most commonly predictable experiences men can expect from women as they progress through various stages of life. Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Rational Male – Preventive Medicine written by Rollo Tomassi which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: The Rational Male – Preventive Medicine by Rollo Tomassi The boys must leave behind their sleepy town of Endsborough and risk their lives in the Wild Wood, crossing the perilous Oddmire swamp and journeying through the Deep Dark to reach the goblin horde and discover who they truly are. Then when they are twelve years old, a mysterious message arrives, calling the brothers to be heroes and protectors of magic. Tinn and Cole are raised as human twins, neither knowing what secrets may be buried deep inside one of them. Not knowing which to bring back, he leaves both babies behind. Too perfectly: Kull cannot tell them apart. By the time he turns back, the changeling has already perfectly mimicked the human child. After laying the changeling in a human infant's crib, the goblin Kull is briefly distracted from his task. But when the fateful night arrives to trade a human baby for a goblin one, something goes terribly wrong. To renew it, goblins must perform an ancient ritual involving the rarest of their kind-a newborn changeling. The first book in an action-packed fantasy adventure series featuring witches, shape-shifters, and other creatures of fairytale and folklore, including two brothers-one human and one a goblin changeling-on a life-changing quest into the Oddmire. It is known by another name to locals, El Camino del Diablo or the Devil’s Road. Who Knows What Lurks in the Pecos Triangle by GG Collins (Copyright 2023) In New Mexico near Pecos is a notorious road called county road 63A. On her side: best friend Chloe, a Hopi shaman and her psychic cat Chile Pod. The learning curve is steep as Rachel tries to rise to each new challenge. It could be anything from an evil spirit to a man-eating Mesoamerican deity or an alien trying to steal government secrets. One never knows what Rachel will be faced with next. Rachel Blackstone Paranormal Mystery Series: In this series, Collins uses a mix of mystery, fantasy, horror and paranormal elements. Taylor hasn’t learned yet, she can’t edit her way out of real murder! “Looking Glass Editor” is the second in the series. Her home life is complicated too by Oscar, her cat, who runs a tight ship. Unfortunately, that tends to land her in dastardly situations. People keep dropping dead around her and she just can’t help but do a little sleuthing. But there is more to her life than review copies, proofing bluelines and coping with demanding authors. Taylor Browning is the mystery editor at Santa Fe’s premier book publishing house. “Dead Editor File” is the first in this new series. |