6/26/2023 0 Comments Perfect chemistry author![]() But soon Alex realizes Brittany is a real person with real problems, and suddenly the bet he made in arrogance turns into something much more. So when he makes a bet with his friends to lure Brittany into his life, he thinks nothing of it. She's forced to be lab partners with Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, and he is about to threaten everything she's worked so hard for-her flawless reputation, her relationship with her boyfriend, and the secret that her home life is anything but perfect. ![]() When Brittany Ellis walks into chemistry class on the first day of senior year, she has no clue that her carefully created "perfect" life is about to unravel before her eyes. A fresh, urban twist on the classic tale of star-crossed lovers. ![]()
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6/25/2023 0 Comments Love and leftovers by sarah tregay![]() ![]() Why it’s rockin’: Fast-paced fun and a kick-butt heroine! Now she just has to survive the next 24 hours as a human while she’s the one marked for death. When Kali sees the mark of death on a fellow classmate, she knows she has to act fast. What Kali doesn’t expect is to be a host to one of those supernatural creatures. Kali knows how to kill and she knows what to anticipate. ![]() All she knows is on those non-human days, she has this insatiable drive to find and kill any and all things supernatural. Some days she’s not exactly sure what she is. Why it’s rockin’: The nostalgia that this story creates is as addicting as the story itself. Josh couldn’t be happier when he realizes he is married to the most popular girl in school, but Emma’s future doesn’t look as bright. They discover that Josh has a Facebook page too. Emma thinks she is installing a new AOL disc, only to have her computer open to her Facebook page… 15 years in the future! Unsure what exactly Facebook is, Emma enlists her friend Josh to solve the mystery. If you had the chance to change your future, would you? Josh and Emma face this very question in The Future of Us. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments When strivings cease book![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What is the goal anyway? Do we even know anymore? It’s the voice of the world, the message of our society: ‘You have what it takes if you dig deep enough, try hard enough, you are your own hero, you can achieve anything you set your mind on, go get it girl, it’s yours for the taking.’Īnd since we like control, standards that are measurable, and lists that are checkable, we run that little hamster wheel of striving to be the ever elusive perfect version of ourselves and it is truly never-ending. I don’t know about you, but I definitely feel the exhaustion of striving. Just that phrase- ‘when strivings cease’- doesn’t that sound nice? “Cease striving and know that I am God I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth” (Psalm 46:10) ![]() “Could it be that we are so worn and desperate for ways to better ourselves because we’ve missed the power, inherent in the grace of God, that eradicates self-improvement altogether?” When Strivings Cease: Replacing the Gospel of Self-Improvement with the Gospel of Life-Transforming Grace ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments The kiss of deception book 2![]() ![]() ![]() With war on the horizon, Lia has no choice but to assume her role as First Daughter, as soldier―as leader. Lia has survived Venda―but so has a great evil bent on the destruction of Morrighan. Desperate to save her life, Lia's erstwhile assassin, Kaden, has told the Vendan Komizar that she has the gift, and the Komizar's interest in Lia is greater than anyone could have foreseen. Held captive in the barbarian kingdom of Venda, Lia and Rafe have little chance of escape. As First Daughter, she is expected to have the revered gift of sight―but she doesn't―and she knows her parents are perpetrating a sham when they arrange her marriage to secure an alliance with a neighboring kingdom―to a prince she has never met. In a society steeped in tradition, Princess Lia's life follows a preordained course. The Remnant Chronicles, focuses on Lia, a princess who’s determined to change her preordained fate. Pearson, now in a beautiful paperback boxed set for the first time. The New York Times-bestselling Remnant Chronicles from YA fantasy author Mary E. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Rules of Prey by John Sandford![]() ![]() A big scary, suspenseful read, and I loved every minute of it' -Stephen King 'A cop and a killer you will remember for a long, long time' -Robert B. He left notes with every woman he killed. ![]() A crackle of surprises' -*Carl Hiaasen 'Sleek and nasty. 1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandfords haunting, unforgettable, ice-blooded thriller that introduced Lucas Davenport. He is the author of the Prey novels, the Kidd novels, the Virgil Flowers novels, and six other books, including three YA novels co-authored with his wife Michele Cook. unpredictable' -Chicago Tribune 'Rules of Prey is so chilling that you're almost afraid to turn the pages. John Sandford is the pseudonym for the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Camp. ![]() Sandford has crafted the kind of trimmed-to-the-bone thriller that is hard to put down. John Sandford is the pseudonym for the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Camp. ***Praise for RULES OF PREY*** 'Terrifying. But Lucas Davenport, the cop who's out to get him, isn't playing by the rules. Never carry a weapon after it has been used.So many rules to his sick, violent games of death. **Don't miss John Sandford's brand-new thriller Ocean Prey - out now** #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford's 'haunting, unforgettable, ice-blooded thriller' - first in the Lucas Davenport series! The killer was mad but brilliant. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Chimamanda ngozi adichie manifesto![]() It will start a new and urgently needed conversation about what it really means to be a woman today. From encouraging her to choose a helicopter, and not only a doll, as a toy if she so desires having open conversations with her about clothes, makeup, and sexuality debunking the myth that women are somehow biologically arranged to be in the kitchen making dinner, and that men can “allow” women to have full careers, Dear Ijeawele goes right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century. Adichie, who has a daughter of her own, writes from experience in a voice that’s companionable and open. Here are fifteen invaluable suggestions–compelling, direct, wryly funny, and perceptive–for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie’s letter of response. ![]() From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today–written as a letter to a friend.Ī few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby girl as a feminist. ![]() ![]() One species does not evolve from another: they merely share a common ancestor. Brilliant as we both are, I didn't evolve from Darwin. Why did it take so long for a Dawkins to arrive on the scene? Let's get one thing straight. Some of my best friends are theologians and although they are hopelessly deluded, even they can't deny evolution is an irrefutable fact. ![]() This book is not intended to be anti-religion. ![]() ![]() Many science teachers today are in a similar situation when they expound evolution: 40% of Americans believe the creation story, and the numbers are rising in this country because of the Islamist presence. Imagine you are a history teacher who is forced to give equal time to the theory that the Holocaust never happened. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments Sinclair upton the jungle![]() "Next to UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, the most famous propaganda novel in American literature." - Adams, Radical Literature in America, p. This exposé of the Chicago stockyards and packing houses, more a Socialist treatise than a work of fiction, led to the pure food campaign of the Theodore Roosevelt era. Sinclair's best known and most popular novel. and Doubleday, Page & Company were published simultaneously: Jungle's copies with integral title leaf and the "SUSTAINER'S EDITION" label on the front paste-down are the earliest, but the Doubleday, Page copies with tipped in title leaves precede Jungle's regular copies. ![]() The editions of The Jungle Publishing Co. March 6, 1906." The projected publication date of the The Jungle Publishing Co. A presentation copy with signed inscription by Sinclair to poet George Sterling on the front free endpaper: "To George Sterling / with the regards of / The Author." Below Sinclair's inscription Jack London has added a gift inscription: "Blessed Greek! / - Wolf. ![]() 1-413, original pictorial olive green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black and white. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments Taste by Cheryl Kahn![]() ![]() In ancient times, the idyllic scenery of the valley was the home of the 9 Muses, daughters of Zeus it was also the home of Hesiod, one of the greatest poets of ancient Greece, who was born and wrote his works in ancient Askra (modern Askri), a city “rich in grapes.” This is the place where the vineyards of the Muses Estate lie. Northwest of Athens, in the region of Viotia, lies the Valley of the Muses, formed on the slopes of Mount Helicon by the short course of the river Permissos on its way to the sea. Muses Estate Crispy Assyrtiko, Viotia, Greece ![]() Bill Hoey has been in the wine business for many years and is knowledgeable and happy to share these interesting and unusual wines with us. They specialize in boutique, small-production wines, favoring organic, biodynamic, sustainable wineries that produce a unique product for the discerning consumer. FINE WINE TASTING SAVOUR WITH BILL HOEY OF 21ST CENTURY WINESĢ1ST CENTURY WINES is a small distributor serving Massachusetts and New Hampshire. ![]() ![]() ![]() The first book in the Grand Tour series will take you on a journey of cultural refinement - but, moreover, on an inner journey of self-discovery.Ĭora Diehl was always secure in her identity and faith. But when an unbidden love begins to form, she realizes there are far greater challenges ahead. ![]() As she travels from England to France with kin she's never known, Cora encounters the blessings of a family name, as well as the curses. One fateful afternoon, a stranger comes to call, and Cora discovers a terrible secret abou ther past.a sercret that will radically change her future.Ĭora is invited to take the "Grand Tour" of Europe, a trip intended to finish a person's education and solidify an understanding of refinement and ancient culture. Not only are the crops failing, but someone dear to Cora is failing as well. It's the summer of 1913, and Cora Kensington's life on the family farm has taken a dark turn. ![]() |