![]() ![]() Everybody loves Lilah – she grew up in the area and is always there to help out whenever needed. Lilah runs the local animal rescue/boarding service and is finishing her degree in her not-so-spare time. Brady isn’t interested in being tied down to a place or to any relationships. And if someone were interested in signing on as its full-time pilot (hint, hint Brady), that would be just fine with them too. They have an ancient helicopter that needs some TLC. ![]() Brady has returned to his hometown for a month-long visit to help out his foster brothers. Our hero is Brady Miller, a former military pilot who now flies for a company that handles all kinds of dangerous stuff. Books like that can be hard to find, but Animal Magnetism more than fills the bill. ![]() You know those times you are in the mood for a good, straight-up contemporary romance? No paranormal creatures lurking around, no crazy spies doing stealthy stuff, no serial killers, ax in hand – just a good story between two regular folks. C2’s review of Animal Magnetism by Jill ShalvisĬontemporary Romance published by Berkley 1 Feb 11 ![]()
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![]() ![]() This is a movement with considerable momentum-in popular culture, education, and even public policy. As Ryan Anderson, a Senior Research Fellow in American Principles and Public Policy at The Heritage Foundation warns, Americans can expect more cases just like this one.Īnderson's in-depth research of the transgender movement and sexual ideology is now available in his new book, When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment. And I don't say this lightly, this book is one every single Christian needs to read and understand. That's exactly what happened in Ohio recently.Īnd we shouldn't be surprised. Even though she's a minor under your care, the judge decides your beliefs are a danger to your daughter, and takes her from your custody. ![]() You want to look at other options to help her. As her parent, you love your daughter, but you disagree. Imagine this scenario: Your 17-year-old daughter tells you she's trapped in the wrong body, is really a boy, and wants hormone therapy to begin the process of transitioning. And so, every Christian must know how to engage the transgender moment. ![]() What was once unthinkable has become unquestionable. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Set against an enclosed rural Cornish landscape, Ritual follows the trail of English police officer, David Hanlin, who is requested to investigate the murder of a local child. Four decades since it first hit the bookshelves, rediscover this true modern rarity and historical keystone in the well-trodden bridge between occult fiction and cinematic pop culture. "Shrouded in the same brand of mystery and contradiction that forms its tangled plot, Ritual, the 1967 debut by RADA-trained playwright David Pinner is commonly recognised by cult cinema fanatics as the original seed that grew into the towering movie enigma The Wicker Man. But, be warned, like The Wicker Man, it is quite likely to test your dreams of leaving the city for a shady nook by a babbling brook." - Bob Stanley "Ritual's opulent dialogue, with the sickly richness of its countryside, and Pinner's decaying village, can stand alone from the book's illustrious successor. The original seed from which grew the towering movie enigma The Wicker Man. David Pinner, Ritual, Finders Keepers, 2011. ![]() ![]() ![]() But I like Lauren Kate’s writing style, and I liked the sound of the story behind Teardrop, so I wanted to read it. I really enjoyed the first Fallen novel, and became less in love with the books as time went on. ![]() So I can’t blame the old expectations for this one. I didn’t go into this book with high expectations, as I sometimes do when I have read and enjoyed an author’s previous works. Suddenly her mother’s death and Ander’s appearance seem connected, and her life takes on dark undercurrents that don’t make sense. She wants to escape, but one thing holds her back: Ander, the boy who is everywhere she goes, whose turquoise eyes are like the ocean.Īnd then Eureka uncovers an ancient tale of romance and heartbreak, about a girl who cried an entire continent into the sea. After her mother was killed in a freak accident, the things she used to love hold no meaning. ![]() Seventeen-year-old Eureka won’t let anyone close enough to feel her pain. Why: I enjoyed Kate’s Fallen series, and I liked the sound of this one, too. Where: Goodreads – Kobo – Amazon – Book Depository ![]() ![]() ![]() "A dark, thrilling fantasy-meets-contemporary story with a kickass heroine. a delectable urban twist on beloved fairy tales." - Entertainment Weekly ![]() "Mixing elements of Alice in Wonderland and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. ![]() The second book in the series is called A Dream So Dark. This Poet is looking to claim the Black Queen's power-and Alice's budding abilities-as their own.ĭreams have never been so dark in Wonderland, and if there is any hope of defeating this mystery poet's magic, Alice must confront the worst in herself, in the people she loves, and in the very nature of fear itself. McKinney Books in both chronological order and publication order. There's a new player on the board a poet capable of using Nightmares to not only influence the living but raise the dead. Still reeling from her recent battle (and grounded until she. It's not until she's at her wits end that she realizes-Wonderland is trying to save her. McKinney's A Dream So Dark, the thrilling sequel to A Blade So Black, Alice goes deeper into a dark version of Wonderland. But the deeper she ventures into Wonderland, the more topsy-turvy everything becomes. ![]() Still reeling from her recent battle (and grounded until she graduates), Alice must abandon her friends to complete her mission: find The Heart and prevent the Red Lady's rise. McKinney's A Dream So Dark, the thrilling sequel to A Blade So Black, Alice goes deeper into a dark version of Wonderland. Alice is Black Girl Magic personified." - Angie Thomas, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Hate U Give "With memorable characters and page-turning thrills, A Blade So Black is the fantasy book I've been waiting for my whole life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() it can also turn out to have a happy ending. ![]() But when her mother dies, Tilda goes back to Brighton and with the help of her beloved Queenie sets about unraveling the mystery of her exile from The Paradise Hotel and discovers that her mother was not the woman she thought she knew at all. Wary of people, her only friend is her dog, Eli. Now, Tilda has grown into an independent woman still damaged by her mother's unaccountable cruelty. She loved fizzy drinks, swear words, fish fingers and Catholic churches, but most of all she loved living in Brighton in Queenie Malone's Magnificent Paradise Hotel with its endearing and loving family of misfits - staff and guests alike.īut Tilly's childhood was shattered when her mother sent her away from the only home she'd ever loved to boarding school with little explanation and no warning. Tilly was a bright, outgoing little girl who liked playing with ghosts and matches. ![]() From the bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things and The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes - a novel of mothers and daughters, families and secrets and the astonishing power of friendship. ![]() ![]() But the ambitious scientist's gift is soon seen as a threat, and in the profound conflict that ensues, he must reexamine his beliefs even as he ignites the fires of change. ![]() Her reputation as an author of the first rank, and her role as ambassador for. To visit Urras-to learn, to teach, to share-will require great sacrifice and risks, which Shevek willingly accepts. The writer Ursula K Le Guin, who has died aged 88, presided over American science fiction for nearly half a century. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have kept them apart. Now Shevek, a brilliant physicist, is determined to reunite the two planets, which have been divided by centuries of distrust. ![]() ![]() Le Guin comes a classic tale of two planets torn apart by conflict and mistrust - and the man who risks everything to reunite them.Ī bleak moon settled by utopian anarchists, Anarres has long been isolated from other worlds, including its mother planet, Urras-a civilization of warring nations, great poverty, and immense wealth. "One of the greats.Not just a science fiction writer a literary icon." - Stephen Kingįrom the brilliant and award-winning author Ursula K. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan (2009) He expects a tedious job whacking zoms for cash, but what he gets is a vocation that will teach him what it means to be human. Benny doesn’t want to apprentice as a zombie hunter with his boring older brother Tom, but he has no choice. ![]() Summary from Goodreads: In the zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic America where Benny Imura lives, every teenager must find a job by the time they turn fifteen or get their rations cut in half. But can Cupid’s arrow pierce the hearts of the living and the dead – or rather, the undead? Can a proper young Victorian lady find true love in the arms of a dashing zombie?Īvailable as a book, CD audiobook, Playaway, and ebook. Then Nora meets Bram Griswold, a young soldier who is brave, handsome, noble. A teenager in high society, Nora Dearly is far more interested in military history and her country’s political unrest than in tea parties and debutante balls. Catapulted from her world of drawing-room civility, she’s suddenly gunning down ravenous zombies alongside mysterious black-clad commandos and confronting “The Laz,” a fatal virus that raises the dead – and hell along with them. The place is New Victoria – a high-tech nation modeled on the manners, mores, and fashions of an antique era. Summary from Goodreads: The year is 2195. Gone with the Respiration series, book 1.Īvailable as a book, CD audiobook, and ebook. If you like Dread Nation by Justina Ireland but you’re stuck on the wait list, here are some similar titles you can read. ![]() ![]() ![]() Taking refuge in the Oregon desert, he's turned his back on a humanity that shatters into strange new subspecies with every heartbeat. And it's all under surveillance by an alien presence that refuses to show itself.ĭaniel Bruks is a living fossil: a field biologist in a world where biology has turned computational, a cat's-paw used by terrorists to kill thousands. It's the eve of the twenty-second century: a world where the dearly departed send postcards back from Heaven and evangelicals make scientific breakthroughs by speaking in tongues where genetically engineered vampires solve problems intractable to baseline humans and soldiers come with zombie switches that shut off self-awareness during combat. ![]() Prepare for a different kind of singularity in Peter Watts' Echopraxia, the follow-up to the Hugo-nominated novel Blindsight ![]() ![]() ![]() Reflective of the dark and challenging times of today, Savinos message is. It is a win-win! The issue is that betrayal, scandal, and a deadly accident lie below the surface of this simple marriage for convenience. These relationships led Good Kid to branch out into the tech space in many. Joshua needs to marry a woman to keep his inheritance, and in return for entering this loveless marriage, Joshua will pay off the debt that looms over Paige’s parents. ![]() ![]() No, obviously not for love but to find their individual happiness. Paige and Joshua are friends more than that, they are engaged to be married. To further complicate things, Chelsea, their new wedding planner, wants to humiliate Paige to get back at her for their messy past with Leo. Perhaps a quarter of an hour later, Papa held a cigarette olive branch in. Unknown to the couple, Joey plans to sabotage the wedding because he is in love with Joshua. Next is a signature black, to show the poles of my versatility, if you like. The only problem is Paige is still in love with Leo, her college sweetheart, and Joshua has been sleeping with Joey, the best man. You are gathered here today to witness the scandalous union of Paige and Joshua. ![]() |