![]() “Intense, suspenseful, passionate…Insanely good. An emotionally damaged sixteen-year-old girl begins a relationship with a deeply troubled older man. ![]() “…takes hold of you and doesn’t let you go until the very last page.”–Ashley Perez, author of The Knife and the Butterfly ![]() “DROWNING INSTINCT builds and builds … while there are many monsters in the story, some are more monstrous than others.”– (These are the most interesting stories of all.) Drowning Instinct is a novel of pain, deception, desperation, and love against the odds-and the rules. “Bick’s deft handling of a controversial subject will have readers waiting to see what she writes next.”– “Bick …writes about dysfunction with a professional’s insight.”–Booklist “…a compelling study of brokenness that persists across generations and of salvation by unconventional means.”–A RECOMMENDED READ, Bulletin for the Center for Children’s Books ![]() Anderson.Ī 2012 FLAMINGNET TOP CHOICE AWARD WINNER I am lucky, a liar, a good girl, a princess, a thief–and a killer.Īnd my reality–my story–begins with Mr. I don’t want to tell this story, and you know why?īecause this is a fairy tale with teeth and claws. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Pay your Bill Make a secure payment online.Subscription Services Everything you need to know about subscriptions.Subscribe to AudioFile Get print, digital, or gift magazine subscriptions.Newsletters Sign up for FREE e-newsletters.Kids and Teens Listening selections for kids & teens with age levels.Upcoming Titles Find upcoming audiobook release announcements.Authors Authors talking about their audiobooks.Narrators Spotlight on popular narrators.Articles Discover the diverse voices of audiobooks.Digital Edition AudioFile Digital Edition.Podcast Audiobook Break, audiobooks chapter-by-chapter.Professional Resources Hire a Narrator: Talent & Industry Guide. ![]() Index U-Z Find your favorite narrators by name from U to Z.Index P-T Find your favorite narrators by name from P to T.Index K-O Find your favorite narrators by name from K to O.Index E-J Find your favorite narrators by name from E to J.Index A-D Find your favorite narrators by name from A to D.Narrators Spotlight on some popular narrators.Golden Voices Explore & listen to the "Best of the Best" narrators.Curated Lists Editors' Picks on special topics.Podcast Check out our Behind the Mic podcast.Earphones Awards Search our favorite listens with these award winners.Search Reviews Find a pick by author, narrator or title.New Reviews Check out our recent audiobook reviews. ![]() ![]() ![]() Through a long series of events, this historian becomes President of the United States, and helps put down a rebellion with the help of the second-string main characters. ![]() ![]() Hidden Empire is a sequel to a novel that was written as a companion product to a video game (hence, evidently, the need to kill off the main character half-way through), and is based on the premise that a historian, learning from history, can foresee the decline and fall of America, and has determined the only way to save it is to turn it into an empire run by an enlightened dictator. I did, however, put it on my Christmas wish list, and by golly, my wife bought for me! (Thank you, dear!) ![]() For one, I was knee-deep in writing a novel of my own at the time, and for another…well, there were other by him I’d rather read first. So when Hidden Empire came out last year I didn’t rush to buy it. It was a good book, but not one that got me excited. Perhaps it’s because it reads almost more like a Tom Clancy. Perhaps it’s just a little too close to our current time. Perhaps it was the fact that his main character gets killed half-way into the book. That said, I was not as impressed with his book “ Empire“, when it came out a few years ago. I like the way he writes, and like the people he writes about. Anyone who knows me knows that I’m an Orson Scott Card junkie. ![]() ![]() we are still flesh and blood - Juana's fleet - Twice married, but a virgin when she died - The third knife-thrust of pain - The dirty Tiber - We Germans call them rats - The end of Islam? - The Sultan of Egypt - Like a wild lioness - The final judgement - Afterword: A beam of glory - Appendix: Monetary values and coinage. ![]() When she was eighteen she already favored jewels and. Queen's daughter - Two kings, two brothers - Bulls - Choosing Ferdinand - Marrying Ferdinand - Rebel princess - The Borgias - Queen - and King! - Clouds of war - Under attack - Though I am just a woman - The turning point - Degrading the grandees - Rough justice - Adiós Beltraneja - The Inquisition : populism and purity - Crusade - They smote us town by town - God save King Boabdil! - The Tudors - Granada falls - Handover - Expulsion of the Jews - The vale of tears - The race to Asia - Partying women - A hellish night - A new world - Indians, parrots, and hammocks - Dividing up the world - A new continent - Borgia weddings - All the thrones of Europe - Though we are clerics. Isabella of Castile was a powerful queen as Europe passed from the Late Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Introduction: Europe's first great queen - No man ever held such power - The impotent - The. ![]() ![]() ![]() And the sisters discover their grandmother's will has a stipulation: the two of them must live there, work out their issues. And after their mother's funeral the two sisters had an argument that left them not speaking for six years-why, Harper didn't even know she has a niece!īut life has a way of changing when you least expect it. For years, Flannery had held down the home front, taking care of their sick mother and raising a daughter, while Harper sent nothing but checks. It was an inheritance neither sister expected-a lighthouse in Moonglow Cove, left to them by a grandmother they never knew! Harper and Flannery weren't exactly best friends either. ![]() Lori Wilde returns to Moonglow Cove, Texas, with a heartwarming novel about two estranged sisters who must come together after they receive a bizarre inheritance from their grandmother. Genres: Family & Relationships, Fiction, Fiction / Romance / Contemporary ![]() Purchase Here Buy on Amazon US - Buy on Apple - Buy on Kobo - Buy on Google - Buy at Barnes and Noble - Buy on Waterstones - Buy on Audible - Buy on Amazon UK ![]() ![]() Okay, so first off, I read this with my seven year old. See, the thing most people forget is that in a lot of ways.maybe the most important ways.we can never really leave.even when we do." (p. ![]() "Y'know how people always say:: 'You can't go home again?'" "I think a lot of the important things in life you only learn by screwing up." (p. We all really enjoyed reading this book and look forward to reading more of the books in this series. Overall, I love the complexities of the emotions and the tough subjects that are handled with both humor and sensitivity. I loved the side stories and the numerous comic strips that pay homage to famous comic strips like Peanuts, Doonesbury, Dilbert, and others. The book is broken up into five short stories that are consecutive in time and show how the friends' relationship develops and changes over time and introduces new characters. They are really into reading graphic novels right now and we all love that it features a strong female main character who has other strong women in her life. We recently discovered this series and our girls just love it - they will argue over who gets to read the books first. This is the second book in the Amelia Rules! series by Jimmy Gownley. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Beers are offered to adults and a baby is drugged to keep her quiet on a dangerous night. There are mentions of deaths and disappearances, too, including the death of the main character's sister, who was hit by a car before the story begins. Expect some tense moments between kids and Nazi soldiers, once on the street, other times in their homes, and another time a girl is alone in the country with soldiers who have two large dogs. Parents need to know that Number the Stars, by Lois Lowry ( The Giver), is a poignant read about the Nazi occupation of Denmark that won the Newbery Medal, the highest honor in children's literature, in 1990. A baby drugged to keep her quiet on a dangerous night.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. Mention that Papa misses his cigarettes and that the men in his office will smoke anything - weeds, paper - because they can no longer get the real thing in wartime. ![]() ![]() ![]() She also spends time mentoring other teen and adult authors. In her spare time she's the Hockey Mom for her kids hockey teams and is an active Girl Scout leader specially trained in outdoor education. She loves animals (she has two dogs - a labradoodle and a German Shepherd), kids (she also has two of those) and her family. She continued her education at Loyola University-Chicago where she received her Masters of Science degree in Industrial Relations while working for a manufacturing company creating diversity programs for their employees. Simone went to the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and received her Bachelors of Science there in Psychology in 1992. Simone Elkeles was born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago, where she still lives today. ![]() ![]() ![]() Purvis’s sometimes-clunky art suggests a more juvenile volume than is actually delivered in this fully three-dimensional portrait of a man whose contributions-to the modern world as well as the war-was only recognized long after his tragic disgrace. But the book’s thought-provoking core is Turing’s pursuit of his groundbreaking idea of the universal computer and using his imitation game (a method of telling artificial intelligence from the real thing) to plumb the corners of his own personality. Editions for The Imitation Game: (ebook published in 2014), 1419718932 (Hardcover published in 2016), (Kindle Edition published in 2016), 1419736450 (Pap. Writer Ottaviani (Feynman) threads the particulars of Turing’s life, from school to top-secret wartime cryptography to postwar scandal. Here, the great brain of Bletchley Park was just one of many odd geniuses (albeit possibly the most innovative) who helped crack the Nazis’ seemingly unbreakable Enigma code machine. Imitation Game is written by Jim Ottaviani and Leland Purvis. The novel is decidedly not a primer on the Tur-ing Machine or its underlying philosophical issues.It traverses critical points in the evolution of Tur-ings thought processes in a manner assuming a fairlysophisticated knowledge on the part of the reader,knowledge this reviewer did not possess. ![]() ![]() Yet, deciphering the Enigma codes used by the German Military during world war 2 is considered his second-largest achievement. A powerful, sympathetic portrait of one of the 20th century’s great minds, this graphic biography of Alan Turing doesn’t play the usual game of establishing its hero as the only smart person in the room. The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded Check Price on Amazon Alan Turing has numerous achievements on his account that are unmatched in the scientific history. ![]() ![]() Fontayne, Caldwell and Nash doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, does it? But it's not really a true trio with three lead singers à la Crosby, Stills & Nash. In his first of three nights at the Dakota (Thursday and Friday are sold out), the "and Nash" guy was performing in a trio once again. It happened as a recorded version of Crosby's "Critical Mass" led into Nash's own "Wind on the Water," it happened on a spirited reading of Stills' "Love the One You're With" and on Young's heart-aching "Only Love Can Break Your Heart." When Nash told a story about one of them, he similarly seemed more invested in his singing. And thankful, too, for his other famous collaborators, namely David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Neil Young. ![]() It happened when Nash explained how after they broke up, he wrote "I Used to Be a King" it happened when he told the tale about going to breakfast with her on a cold California day and buying an antique vase and writing "Our House," and it happened when he poured himself into her "A Case of You."Ī sold-out Dakota crowd had to be thankful that Joni was in the house and in Nash's life. Because every time Graham Nash mentioned Joni, sang a song inspired by Joni (Joan, as he called her) or performed a tune written by Joni, something came over him.Ī new intensity, a profound emotionalism, a heartfelt something - be it a loving warmth or an unrequited ache - surfaced in his singing. ![]() ![]() Joni Mitchell, with a stylish beret, might as well have been sitting in the corner booth at the Dakota Tuesday night. ![]() |