5/28/2023 0 Comments Nineteen Minutes by Jodi PicoultThe rise of the internet and the problem of cyberbullying and online radicalization also prominently feature in the novel. These attacks led to increased anxiety in the U.S. Other historical events connected to the novel include the terrorist attacks of September 11, which are described in the novel as occurring when the main characters, Peter and Josie, have just started middle school. These events were the Heath High School shooting, which took place in Kentucky in 1997, and the Columbine High School massacre, which occurred in Colorado in 1999. Picoult really knows how to develop her characters. This book, which centers on a school shooting, is one of her best yet. has escalated rapidly since 2010, Nineteen Minutes was written in 2007, and two shootings that most directly inspired the novel both took place in the late 1990s. After a very disappointing THE TENTH CIRCLE, Jodi Picoult rebounds with the excellent NINETEEN MINUTES. Yet while the number of school shootings taking place in the U.S. Some of the most high-profile school shootings that have taken place in recent years include the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 and the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. While school shootings are not unique to the U.S., they occur at a much higher rate there than any other country, triggering an ongoing debate about whether attacks on schools (as well as other mass shootings committed on civilians) should be taken as grounds to implement gun control laws. The most important historical phenomenon connected to the novel is, of course, school shootings.
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5/27/2023 0 Comments Sarra cannon beautiful demonsThe writing style was simplistic, yet concise, and drew the reader in easily, engaging with the new world that Harper was introduced to. She’s strong and independent and a role model for her readers, which I loved. She makes mistakes, she fails and yet she gets back up again and continues. Harper Madison does develop a little more in this instalment, her growth being gradual but consistent, and it was wonderful to see. This meant that this novel has taken me around a month to read, however, I finished it! And I really enjoyed it. I initially decided to continue this series for a quick and easy read, however, shortly after I fell into a reading slump – of no fault to the story at all. Harper isn’t there to learn dances and cheers, she became a cheerleader in order to finally learn how to control the magic inside. Only, this is no normal group of cheerleaders. Now that she’s an official member of the squad, her training can begin. ‘Inner Demons’ continues the story of Harper Madison, where becoming a Demons cheerleader was the last thing she expected when she moved to the small town of Peachville. Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Demons, WitchesĬontains: Violence, Anger, Strong Language, Blood/Gore, Death, Murder 5/27/2023 0 Comments Medusa and the blind woman bookThe small indie studio has created hundreds of fantasy maps, short adventures, and DM content for three years straight. He is a DM, Dad, and Drama teacher.Įlven Tower is a powerhouse of RPG content creation. This is his first ever contribution.Ĭiaran is a new contributor to the DMs Guild. Harm wanted to give something back to the community after years of impressing his players with stuff he mooched off the DMs Guild. He is working on other projects to be released soon! LenschĬhad is a contributor to Villains and Lairs. Alan also has several fantasy and science fiction novels to his name. If you enjoy this FREE product, please consider supporting these content creators by checking out their other works!Īlan is a contributor and author of a number of bestselling products on the DMs Guild, including Hey, Mister, Can You Help Me? and the highly acclaimed Myriad, City of Tiers. That can make that long journey to the next adventure much more interesting… A treasure trove of short encounters, story hooks, and random tables 5/27/2023 0 Comments Negroland review“He was not really a negro anymore,” Jefferson writes. Jefferson's parents' looked down on Uncle Lucious not because he passed,"but because he had risen no higher than a traveling salesman.”Īnd Uncle Archie, in retirement, he returned to his racial roots. Jefferson writes about Uncle Lucious who passed for white and worked as a traveling salesman. That is the racial turncoats, the former tribal members who absconded with their ambivalent racial bloodlines and passed for white. But there is a fate worst than living in Negroland. This memoir is about flawed people – those who lived with the racial burden of being ‘Negro.” The inhabitants of Negroland are torn and tormented to outsiders, they are neither white enough nor black enough. “Life in Negroland meant that any conversation could be taken over by the White Man at any moment,” Jefferson writes. Home does not even provide shelter from the spectre of racism. The celebrant’s mother, after all, is from Georgia. The lack of an invite to a sweet sixteen birthday party. For example, on a cross country trip with an unfortunate stopover in Atlantic City, where despite their hotel reservations, the Jeffersons were consigned to inferior accommodations and couldn’t eat in the hotel’s restaurant. 5/26/2023 0 Comments Sidetracked st abby epubThis is for the ones who lost their voice. Or email me at know this shit is fucked up, so don’t bother writing to tell me I’m twisted in the head. I also have a book club you’re more than welcome to join, and you can talk books all day with like-minded peeps. But for now, you can find me here My Facebook. No one, except the owner of this property, may reproduce, copy or publish in any medium any individual story or part of this novel without the expressed permission of the author of this work.Ĭurrently setting up all social networks. The story in this book is the property of the author, in all media both physical and digital. It may not be re-sold or given away to other people. This eBook is licensed for your enjoyment only. No part of this book may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without express written permission of the author. Public libraries are places of joy, freedom, community and discovery - and they are under threat from funding cuts and widespread closures across the UK and further afield. These stories are about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us how they shock us, change us, challenge us, banish time while making us older, wiser and ageless all at once how they remind us to pay attention to the world we make. Sheer inventive power'' ObserverĪnd what does the vanishing of public libraries say about us? A richly inventive collection of stories about our enduring love of books from the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Women''s Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet 5/26/2023 0 Comments Stephen king elevationHe looks at the sky and sees “a half-moonĪnd what seemed like a trillion stars.” All those stars seem to match “the By the novel’sĮnd, Scott is very light indeed, his thoughts drifting toward the cosmic. The next thing that happens is that Scott loses weight even faster. The events of the Turkey Trot race do makeĪ large difference to Deirdre’s standing in the town. Infuriated by his presumption-the man still looks old, still looks fat-she The air), he gets to take her out to dinner and try to establish a real friendship. Scott gives Deirdre a wager: If he beats her (by this time he weighs under 100 pounds and almost leaps through Deirdre is aįormer competitive athlete, sure to win the race. Problem and the weight-loss conundrum work in tandem throughout Elevation, colliding finally in the fateful day of the Turkey Trot 12-kilometer run. Help them, if they won’t trust his friendship? In the town, which is affecting business at their joint, Frijole. Even worse, Deirdre and Missy are the object of some serious homophobia Stay away from her slightly more friendly wife. Deirdre especially isĮxtraordinarily rude to Scott, seemingly without reason, and she tells him to Up the road from Scott live a married couple, Deirdre McComb and Missy Donaldson, who own a restaurant in town. Scott and Bob are also flummoxed by another matter. Know whom to turn to besides his doctor and friend, Bob Ellis, who figures there’s no medical explanation for Scott’s condition. 5/26/2023 0 Comments In Deeper Waters by F.T. LukensTal must escape if he hopes to save his family and the kingdom. Lukens (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating 16,520 ratings published 2021 22 editions. But before they can pursue anything further, Tal is kidnapped by pirates and held ransom in a plot to reveal his rumored powers and instigate a war. That is, until Tal runs into Athlen days later on dry land, very much alive, and as charming-and secretive-as ever. So when Athlen leaps overboard and disappears, Tal feels responsible and heartbroken, knowing Athlen could not have survived in the open ocean. Tasked with watching over the prisoner, Tal is surprised to feel an intense connection with the roguish Athlen. His first taste of adventure comes just two days into the journey, when their crew discovers a mysterious prisoner on a burning derelict vessel. After spending most of his life cloistered behind palace walls as he learns to keep his forbidden magic secret, he can finally see his family's kingdom for the first time. Prince Tal has long awaited his coming-of-age tour. "A frothy confection of sea-foam, young love, and derring-do." -NPRįrom the New York Times bestselling author of So This Is Ever After, a young prince must rely on a mysterious stranger to save him when he is kidnapped during his coming-of-age tour in this swoony adventure that is The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue meets Pirates of the Caribbean. 5/26/2023 0 Comments The kill order and the fever codeThe third movie, Maze Runner: The Death Cure, will hit screens in 2018.Ī Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Book of the YearĪn ALA-YASLA Best Fiction for Young Adults Book The Maze Runner and Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials are now major motion pictures featuring the star of MTV's Teen Wolf, Dylan O’Brien Kaya Scodelario Aml Ameen Will Poulter and Thomas Brodie-Sangster. This is the story of that boy, Thomas, and how he built a maze that only he could tear down. The boy’s name was Thomas, and Thomas built a maze.Īnd there are loyalties history could never have foreseen. Next came WICKED, who were looking for an answer. Families died, violence reigned, and man killed man. Then came a plague, and fever spread across the globe. The forests burned, the lakes and rivers dried up, and the oceans swelled. Also look for James Dashner’s newest bestselling series-The Mortality Doctrine: The Eye of Minds, The Rule of Thoughts, and The Game of Lives! Book five in the blockbuster Maze Runner series that spawned a movie franchise and ushered in a worldwide phenomenon! Don’t miss the highly-anticipated series conclusion that finally reveals the story of how Thomas and WICKED built the Maze. After finding that the Vangers themselves are the prime suspects, Blomkvist drafts the mysterious Lisbeth in to help uncover the truth. Blomkvist’s reputation is in tatters after a very public, very expensive libel case, when he’s invited by wealthy industrialist Henrik Vanger (Christopher Plummer) to investigate the disappearance of his daughter Harriet, 40 years prior. The film stars Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig in the lead roles, and faithfully goes through the motions of the first story in the series. Producer Scott Rudin developed the project and enlisted director David Fincher and writer Steven Zaillian to mount a new adaptation of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, with plans to adapt the other two books later. Around the same time, Sony optioned the books for what film fans have come to know as ‘an American language remake’. |