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![]() ![]() Growing up in Russia Paullina dreamt of someday becoming a writer. At the age of ten her family immigrated to the United States. Many of Paullina's no Paullina Simons was born in Leningrad, USSR, in 1963. She continued with more novels, including Red Leaves, Eleven Hours, The Bronze Horseman, The Bridge to Holy Cross (also known as Tatiana and Alexander), The Summer Garden and The Girl in Times Square (also known as Lily). Through word of mouth that book was welcomed by readers all over the world. After graduating from university and after various jobs including working as a financial journalist and as a translator Paullina wrote her first novel Tully. Her dream was put on hold as she learned English and overcame the shock of a new culture. ![]() ![]() Paullina Simons was born in Leningrad, USSR, in 1963. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, Johnson’s short military career was not lackluster. ![]() He served in the Navy for a year before President Franklin Roosevelt recalled all Congressmen in the military back to the Capitol. He was also the first Congressman to enlist after Pearl Harbor. Both in Congress and as president, Johnson furthered the Civil Rights movement. However, his political career did yield some good results. Johnson and his poor handling of the Vietnam War. So many people focus on President Lyndon B. I am so glad that I was able to convince her to share some thoughts on the book about Lyndon Johnson by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Now that she is out of college she has more time for reading books that she wants to read. She got off to a great start and then slowed down once college started. ![]() This is a goal that she gave herself in high school. She has a goal to read a nonfiction book for every U.S. My oldest daughter recently finished the book Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns Goodwin. ![]() ![]() ![]() Trisha is balancing a lot of responsibility between school, work, and helping her mother take care of her foster siblings, but she makes time for Alexis and both are better for it. I particularly appreciated that she is in control of her mental health recovery, and knows what she needs to do to keep herself in a good place, even as she continues to try to meet her family’s expectations. The CharactersĪlexis is only 18 and is trying to balance her new life at university with her parents’ worry and disappointment following her difficulties the year before. Trisha remembers Alexis very well, and as they strike up a friendship, finds herself more attracted to the sweet, shy baby butch all the time. Except Treasure is Trisha Hamilton, who has finally pulled together the necessary credits to transfer to a four-year university. ![]() When Alexis walks into her computer science class a few weeks later, she’s surprised to see Treasure already sitting at a table. ![]() She’s uncomfortably aware that she’s the only lesbian of the group, and it’s all she can do to keep it together when one of her sister’s friends buys her a private dance with Treasure in a VIP room. ![]() I remember getting excited when she talked on Twitter about writing a stripper romance featuring two black girls, and this didn’t disappoint.Īlexis Chambers is at a strip club for her sister’s bachelorette party when she sees Treasure and can’t keep her eyes off her. Treasure by Rebekah Weatherspoon is a beautiful new adult romance novella that has a compelling, relatable rich girl/poor girl story. ![]() ![]() ![]() Additionally, each chapter includes illustrations by Wesley Allsbrook.įor veteran travelers, armchair enthusiasts, and those in between, World Travel offers a chance to experience the world like Anthony Bourdain. Supplementing Bourdain’s words are a handful of essays by friends, colleagues, and family that tell even deeper stories about a place, including sardonic accounts of traveling with Bourdain by his brother, Chris a guide to Chicago’s best cheap eats by legendary music producer Steve Albini, and more. Featuring essential advice on how to get there, what to eat, where to stay and, in some cases, what to avoid, World Travel provides essential context that will help readers further appreciate the reasons why Bourdain found a place enchanting and memorable. In World Travel, a life of experience is collected into an entertaining, practical, fun and frank travel guide that gives readers an introduction to some of his favorite places-in his own words. ![]() ![]() His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown of New York to a tribal longhouse in Borneo, from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, Paris, and Shanghai to Tanzania’s utter beauty and the stunning desert solitude of Oman’s Empty Quarter-and many places beyond. A guide to some of the world’s most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony BourdainĪnthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Before Shane disappears though, she needs a few questions answered. Over the next seven days, amidst a steamy Brooklyn summer, Eva and Shane reconnect – but Eva’s wary of the man who broke her heart, and wants him out of the city so her life can return to normal. While they may be pretending not to know each other, they can’t deny their chemistry – or the fact that they’ve been secretly writing to each other in their books through the years. What no one knows is that fifteen years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy, torrid week madly in love. When Shane and Eva meet at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their buried traumas, but also the eyebrows of the Black literati. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning novelist, who, to everyone’s surprise, shows up unexpectedly in New York. ![]() Seven days to fall in love, fifteen years to forget, and seven days to get it all back again…Įva Mercy is a single mother and bestselling erotica writer who is feeling pressed from all sides. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Vasya a clever, stalwart girl determined to forge her own path in a time when women had few choices.” ( The Christian Science Monitor) “Arden’s debut novel has the cadence of a beautiful fairy tale but is darker and more lyrical.” ( The Washington Post) As the village’s defenses weaken and evil from the forest creeps nearer, Vasilisa must call upon dangerous gifts she has long concealed - to protect her family from a threat sprung to life from her nurse’s most frightening tales. And indeed, misfortune begins to stalk the village.īut Vasya’s stepmother only grows harsher, determined to remake the village to her liking and to groom her rebellious stepdaughter for marriage or a convent. Fiercely devout, Vasya’s stepmother forbids her family from honoring their household spirits, but Vasya fears what this may bring. ![]() Then Vasya’s widowed father brings home a new wife from Moscow. Wise Russians fear him, for he claims unwary souls, and they honor the spirits that protect their homes from evil. ![]() Above all, Vasya loves the story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon. Winter lasts most of the year at the edge of the Russian wilderness, and in the long nights, Vasilisa and her siblings love to gather by the fire to listen to their nurse’s fairy tales. “A beautiful deep-winter story, full of magic and monsters and the sharp edges of growing up.” (Naomi Novik, best-selling author of Uprooted) Katherine Arden’s best-selling debut novel spins an irresistible spell as it announces the arrival of a singular talent with a gorgeous voice. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You’ll get adventure and suspense plus a whole new world! My teenagers love this type of dystopian fiction and I knew immediately that they would love this book. The Wonderland Trials is the first book in an exciting new series for young adults. Will she and her team solve the clues and find the missing players? Or will betrayal and distrust win, leaving Alice alone in a world of her own?įollow the White Rabbit into this topsy-turvy fantasy where players become prey, a sip of the wrong tea might as well be poison, and a queen’s ways do not always lead one where they ought to go. The stakes are raised when she discovers players go missing during the Trials each year. ![]() Now she has less than twenty-four hours to find her way into Wonderland where nothing is impossible. Soon, Alice receives a rather cryptic invitation to play for Team Heart in this year’s annual-and often deadly-Wonderland Trials. But she gets more than she bargained for when her older sister Charlotte is arrested for having the infamous Wonder Gene-the key to unlocking the curious Wonderland Reality. Survive the Trials.Īll Alice Liddell wants is to escape her Normal life in Oxford and find the parents who abandoned her ten years ago. ![]() Genre: YA Dystopian Fantasy / Alice in Wonderland retelling ![]() ![]() ![]() An acceptable book request includes at least one of the following: Low-effort book requests will be removed.
![]() ![]() He pulled up his photo gallery to see if he’d gotten a decent shot of Cody. As he waited for the phone to connect, a single last stray thought surfaced. He searched Director Carpenter’s number in his contact list. “Yes, sir,” Mitch ended the call as he hit the next red light. ![]() “Get there as quick as you can.” The last words Director Skinner said made him smile. I need to check in with Director Carpenter.” Aaron Stuart excelled in the world of technology and hackers. There’s no telling what’ll happen if we let him loose in our system.” “Stuart’s on probation for the last stunt he pulled, Knox. ![]() “That’s bullshit,” Mitch started, but the director jumped in. ” Mitch punched the gas as the light switched to green, turning on to Oak Lawn. I just can’t guarantee Stuart’s full access. ![]() |