![]() ![]() Amidst all this, Jim Holden and his crew make a dangerous discovery near Saturn, while detective Joe Miller attempts to track down a missing girl in the Belt. The premise involves a future where humans have expanded beyond the Earth to the Moon, Mars, and the asteroid belt beyond, and these settlements have become locked in a perpetual power struggle for dwindling resources and control of the solar system. Corey’s The Expanse series includes nine books, a number of spin-off stories, and six seasons of the show adaptation on Amazon. It’s led to me looking for even more books like The Expanse. I’m forever thankful for that friend’s recommendation and for not losing that sticky note. When I finally sat down to watch the show, I was completely drawn in, lost in space in the most perfect way. ![]() I remember writing the show’s name on a little sticky note at work and tucking it away to look into later. When I replied I hadn’t, he told me to check it out. One of my co-workers at the time asked me if I’d ever heard of the TV series The Expanse, based off the books by James S. ![]() A hint of spring hung in the air, yet I still hadn’t shaken off the last dregs of the retreating cold and dark season. It had been a few years ago, and we were just getting to the end of a long and dreary winter. I’ll never forget the first time I heard about The Expanse. ![]()
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![]() So begins the journey around the world in eighty days – but the question is, can Fogg possibly win the wager? They find themselves in the midst of riots, on the run from the police, flying hot air balloons, crossing deserts and oceans. And to Fogg's dismay, he realizes that headstrong journalist Abigail Fix is going with them to chronicle the journey – seeing as how her article inspired the original wager. Fogg is accompanied by quick-witted valet Passepartout, who has managed to convince Fogg they've never met before despite serving him his lunch at the Reform Club. ![]() ![]() So much so, that the usual teasing at the hands of Bellamy provokes Fogg into undertaking a wager – to travel around the world in eighty days. But when he receives a hand-delivered postcard, with only the word 'COWARD' written on the back, it turns his world upside down. ![]() Phileas Fogg lives a comfortable but utterly unfulfilling life in London, spending every day at his club with his friends Fortescue and Bellamy. Get ready to set sail in the hot air balloon with Phileas Fogg, Passepartout and Fix in a brand-new adaptation of Jules Verne's. ![]() ![]() ![]() Old friends and new - including annoyingly cheerful companion drone, Apple-Moth - hold the key to their slim chance of victory. How can they stay hidden, let alone win the war? Hiding out in the heart of the destroyed city, Luka realises the scale of their mission to defeat all-powerful AI, Happy. But an audacious breakout reunites Luka and his friends at last. ![]() He's in the Block, a place where reality and simulation start to blur. Luka is in prison again - but this time it's worse. Thrilling and terrifying in equal measure.' OBSERVER 'Fans of The Hunger Games and The Maze Runner should look no further. 'If you like dystopia, sci-fi or adventure books, then you will inhale this novel.' ANNA DAY, author of THE FANDOM 'A terrifying and sinister look into the future that will leave your jaw on the floor.' KASS MORGAN, New York Times bestselling author of THE 100 The sequel to THE LOOP: dark, twisty and completely unputdownable. ![]() Kids Licensed Party Themes Expand submenu.Party Decorations & Candles Expand submenu. ![]() ![]() ![]() Van gets engaged and married rather fast after the experience with Alec, but is written later in the novel as REALLY SUPER GAY. ![]() Significantly, perhaps, WDiC gives Alec his first sexual experience with a man from his home village (Van) who does exactly that. Girls ( of course) like DiC’s Alec, and because DiC’s Alec is able to feel some low-key arousal with girls when they ‘touch him the right way’, until he meets Maurice he assumes/hopes he could marry a woman and go under the radar as ‘straight’. His novel therefore has to account for Alec’s flirtation with the maids – DiC explains this away as a parallel to Clive’s flip into ‘straight’ marriage rather than actual bisexual attraction. WDiC makes it totally explicit that all of ‘his’ Alec’s early erotic attractions are to males. Yes, I have.ĭi Canzio’s replies in last month’s Free Library of Philadelphia online ‘in conversation’ book promo event with Wendy Moffat are all very close to what you’ll find in the novel itself, and his reply on this is no exception: his novel expressly treats Alec as really strictly gay, not bisexual. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ollie would have to be an idiot to trust him with it again. The last time he gave Will his heart, Will handed it back to him trampled and battered. But then Will starts "coincidentally" popping up in every area of Ollie's life, from music class to the lunch table, and Ollie finds his resolve weakening. Ollie has no intention of pining after a guy who clearly isn't ready for a relationship, especially since this new, bro-y jock version of Will seems to go from hot to cold every other week. This Will is a class clown, closeted―and, to be honest, a bit of a jerk. Which he minds a little less when he realizes it's the same school Will goes to.except Ollie finds that the sweet, comfortably queer guy he knew from summer isn't the same one attending Collinswood High. Now Ollie is one prince short of his fairytale ending, and to complicate the fairytale further, a family emergency sees Ollie uprooted and enrolled at a new school across the country. Will Tavares is the dream summer fling―he's fun, affectionate, kind―but just when Ollie thinks he's found his Happily Ever After, summer vacation ends and Will stops texting Ollie back. the Homo Sapiens Agenda meets Clueless in this boy-meets-boy spin on Grease. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. There aren’t many guys who can protect the rim at all costs and. By AUTHOR Jane Austen Eric Carle Lewis Carroll Roald Dahl Charles Dickens Sydney Hanson C. Michael Scotto: LeBron on Anthony Davis: He’s the best defensive player in the league.Sheriff Tate arrives and discovers Ewell dead from a knife wound. Indestructubles Little Golden Books Magic School Bus Magic Tree House Pete the Cat Step Into Reading Book The Hunger Games The mysterious man carries Jem home, where Scout realizes that he is Boo Radley. By POPULAR SERIES Chronicles of Narnia Curious Geoge Diary of a Wimpy Kid Fancy Nancy Harry Potter I Survived If You Give.By TOPIC Award Winning Books African American Children's Books Biography & Autobiography Diversity & Inclusion Foreign Language & Bilingual Books Hispanic & Latino Children's Books Holidays & Celebrations Holocaust Books Juvenile Nonfiction New York Times Bestsellers Professional Development Reference Books Test Prep. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Great Aunt Reba dies, she leaves some money to the family. The Heffley family’s house undergoes a disastrous attempt at home improvement. ![]() Despite having little material means and few human connections, this kid creates life in the inanimate and fosters community where none could exist before. This delightful, nearly wordless graphic novel portrays a kid with gumption enough to take on big business and smarts enough to advise the factory’s fix-it robot on repairs even though she just might be too young for kindergarten. But when the factory misses Little Robot and sends a large, scary-looking yellow robot to retrieve it, the main character needs more than a wrench to save her new friend and friendship. Together, they explore frogs, cats, sunsets, and more. Never at a loss for how to fix any machine, she tinkers with the robot, and suddenly, she has a running buddy. Unfettered and unsupervised by adults (or other humans), the protagonist dons her tool belt and soon discovers a little broken blue robot that has lost its way. The short, round-faced protagonist escapes from a window of her trailer home clad only in a white nightshirt and heads for a neighbor’s swingset, then to the junkyard-her daily routine, apparently. Possibilities abound for a small, brown-skinned girl with time, a tool belt, and a penchant for urban adventure.įrom the imaginative creator of Zita the Spacegirl comes this techy take on a warm friendship born in a junkyard. ![]() ![]() ![]() Silvey says it was not an immediate bestseller. It was over 300 pages and featured animals. MONTAGNE: Jacques was well into his 40s when his first book, "Redwall," was published. And he just did so many occupations that when he finally came to writing, he had an enormous reservoir to draw upon. He was a truck driver and he was a longshoreman. INSKEEP: That's the children's book expert Anita Silvey. ANITA SILVEY (Editor/Literary Critic): He always said he got his degree in the University of Life. The books pull from Jacques' own experiences in Liverpool, England where he was born and raised. Those creatures fight their beloved abbey from marauding hordes of rats and weasels. They include some 21 books starring mice, the heroes of his stories, along with badgers and squirrels. Jacques died on Saturday, and this morning we remember him and his creations. ![]() MONTAGNE: That's author Brian Jacques, and the abbey he's speaking of is Redwall Abbey, for which his children's series is named. BRIAN JACQUES (Author, "Redwall"): (Reading) Down long ages, the beautiful old abbey had stood for happiness, peace and refuge to all. Fans of children's literature might recognize this voice. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ruck: My wife ran off to the church, and took all my money because Nun School's apparently real expensive, and I'm pretty sure I got put under a vow of chastity and I'm only seventeen! Fuck my life. The Plot: (the following has been translated from Middle English) ![]() and discovers that his holy virtuous princess is actually an ice-cold bitch with a scandalous reputation, which doesn't sit well with the devout and rigidly honourable life he built for himself in her name. Now a full-fledged knight, he encounters her again. Years ago, when unfortunate circumstances left him nearly destitute, a random act of charity from a foreign princess saved his life, and he swore himself into her service, using her memory to guide his chivalrous exploits and keep him chaste for thirteen years. Love will only weaken her, especially love for a nameless knight who disapproves of her just as much as he adores her. ![]() The Rub: Herself no stranger to scheming, all her hopes for escaping her pursuers depend on her maintaining calm, emotionless control. A widow of a wealthy Italian prince, as well as heir to powerful lands in her own right, Melanthe lives a life surrounded by intrigue, stealth, and machinations, as warring factions strive to kill her, marry her, or use her to further their own agenda. ![]() The Chick: Melanthe, Princess of Monteverde. ![]() ![]() The Cambridge edition also includes Appendix I “Odour of Chrysanthemums Fragment” and Appendix II “Two Marriages.”ģ England, My England and Other Stories. ![]() ![]() Print.Ĭontains “The Prussian Officer” (first appeared in the English Review and in Metropolitan in 1914 as “Honour and Arms”), “The Thorn in the Flesh” (first published in the English Review as “Vin Ordinaire” in 1914), “Daughters of the Vicar” (a version appeared in Time and Tide in 1934 as “Two Marriages”), “A Fragment of Stained Glass” ( English Review 1911), “The Shades of Spring” (first appeared in the Forum in 1913 as “The Soiled Rose”), “Second Best” ( English Review 1912), “The Shadow in the Rose Garden” ( Smart Set 1914), “Goose Fair” ( English Review 1910), “The White Stocking” ( Smart Set 1914), “A Sick Collier” ( New Statesman 1913), “The Christening” ( Smart Set 1914), “Odour of Chrysanthemums” ( English Review 1911 later adapted into a play The Widowing of Mrs. ![]() Standard scholarly edition(s).Ģ The Prussian Officer and Other Stories. ![]() |
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