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Magic study maria v snyder6/27/2023 ![]() She loves dogs, but is allergic, instead she has a big black tom cat named…Kitty (apparently naming cats isn’t in her skill set either). ![]() She’s been on the New York Times bestseller list, won a dozen awards, and has earned her Masters of Arts degree in Writing from Seton Hill University, where she is now a faculty member. ![]() Over twenty novels and numerous short stories later, Maria’s learned a thing or three about writing. Bored at work and needing a creative outlet, she started writing fantasy and science fiction stories. ![]() Much to her chagrin, forecasting the weather wasn’t in her skill set so she spent a number of years as an environmental meteorologist, which is not exciting.at all. Snyder was younger, she aspired to be a storm chaser in the American Midwest so she attended Pennsylvania State University and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Meteorology. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Ben insists she is in danger, and that he can help-but can he be trusted? She knows he's hiding something. But soon, Camelia is receiving eerie phone calls and strange packages with threatening notes. Instead, she’s inexplicably drawn to Ben&and to his touch. She’s reluctant to believe he's trouble, even when her friends try to convince her otherwise. Rumored to be somehow responsible for his ex-girlfriend’s accidental death, Ben is immediately ostracized by everyone on campus. But when a mysterious boy named Ben starts junior year at her high school, Camelia’s life becomes anything but ordinary. ![]() Until three months ago, everything in sixteen-year-old Camelia’s life had been fairly ordinary: decent grades, an okay relationship with her parents, and a pretty cool part-time job at the art studio downtown. ![]()
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Any way the wind blows book review6/26/2023 ![]() And Agatha? Well, Agatha Wellbelove has had enough.Īny Way the Wind Blows takes the gang back to England, back to Watford, and back to their families for their longest and most emotionally wrenching adventure yet. ![]() Penelope would love to help, but she’s smuggled an American Normal into London, and now she isn’t sure what to do with him. In Any Way the Wind Blows, Simon and Baz and Penelope and Agatha have to decide how to move forward.įor Simon, that means deciding whether he still wants to be part of the World of Mages – and if he doesn’t, what does that mean for his relationship with Baz? Meanwhile Baz is bouncing between two family crises and not finding any time to talk to anyone about his newfound vampire knowledge. ![]() And in Wayward Son, they wondered whether everything they understood about themselves might be wrong. In Carry On, Simon Snow and his friends realized that everything they thought they understood about the world might be wrong. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The story is moving, endearing, and emotional. Climax: When Santiago finally catches the marlinĮrnest Hemingway and The Old Man and the SeaĮrnest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea is one of his most popular novels. ![]() Setting: 1940s, Cuban fishing village, the Gulf of Mexico.Point-of-View: Third-person omniscient, mostly limited to Santiago.He hooks an enormous marlin, the biggest he’s ever seen and the majority of the novella follows him trying to reel in this gigantic fish. The story follows Santiago, a poor Cuban fisherman who is suffering from a long streak without successfully catching anything. This short novella was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and is often cited as one of the defining factors (along with several near-death experiences) in Hemingway’s selection for the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway is the last of Hemingway’s great fiction books. ![]()
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My american duchess by eloisa james vk6/26/2023 ![]() Currently she is an associate professor and head of the Creative Writing program at Fordham University in New York City. from Yale and eventually became a Shakespeare professor, publishing an academic book with Oxford University Press. A reviewer from USA Today wrote of Eloisa's very first book that she "found herself devouring the book like a dieter with a Hershey bar" later People Magazine raved that "romance writing does not get much better than this." Her novels have repeatedly received starred reviews from Publishers' Weekly and Library Journal and regularly appear on the best-seller lists.Īfter graduating from Harvard University, Eloisa got an M.Phil. ![]() Her novels have been published to great acclaim. New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James writes historical romances for HarperCollins Publishers. ![]()
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The Bridge Kingdom by Danielle L. Jensen6/25/2023 ![]() As her mission drives her to deeper understanding of the fight to possess the bridge, Lara finds the simmering attraction between her and Aren impossible to ignore. Around her, she sees a kingdom fighting for survival, and in Aren, a man fiercely protective of his people. So when she is sent as a bride under the guise of fulfilling a treaty of peace, Lara is prepared to do whatever it takes to fracture the defenses of the impenetrable Bridge Kingdom.īut as she infiltrates her new home - a lush paradise surrounded by tempest seas - and comes to know her new husband, Aren, Lara begins to question where the true evil resides. ![]() The only route through a storm-ravaged world, the Bridge Kingdom controls all trade and travel between lands, allowing its ruler to enrich himself and deprive his enemies, including Lara’s homeland. A princess trained from childhood to be a lethal spy, Lara knows that the Bridge Kingdom represents both legendary evil - and legendary promise. Lara has only one thought for her husband on their wedding day: I will bring your kingdom to its knees. What if you fell in love with the one person you’d sworn to destroy? ![]()
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Judd Goobey by M. Tompson Lane6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() I invited the 5 Kids Blog advertisers (see the column to your right) to join me for 7 (or more!) days of giveaways. ( Day 5 is still accepting entries: click here.) If you ever need anyone to define the word Bastards for you, my 7-year-olds can help you out. ![]() ![]() You MIGHT want to double check what they were saying. So BEFORE you take your 1st graders to task for hollering, “TAKE THAT, BASTARDS” at the video game over and over (and over and over),Īnd BEFORE you turn off said video game mid-play,Īnd BEFORE you sit down with the Stern Look and provide a rather loooong winded explanation about what, exactly, a bastard is, and why, exactly, it’s inappropriate to call someone that, EVER, even an inanimate video character,Īnd BEFORE you talk eloquently and with passion about your family’s respect for ALL PEOPLE and honoring their stories of origin,Īnd BEFORE you mention that if you hear your boys using language like Bastard again, there will have to be Serious Consequences, Not to toot my own horn, but these tips will probably change your life. From time to time I offer unsolicited, but important, parenting tips. ![]()
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The Sumage Solution by G.L. Carriger6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() The San Andreas Shifter stories include blue language, dirty deeds, and outright admiration for the San Francisco Bay Area. If you get offended easily, then you probably will. This story contains M/M sexitimes and horrible puns. Bryan is determined to prove everyone wrong, even the mage himself. Except, there’s a good chance Max might be reason enough to come out, if Bryan can only get the sumage to go on a date.Įveryone knows werewolves hate mages. Unfortunately, there’s something irresistible about the sexy muscled Beta visiting his office.īryan is Beta to a new pack in a new city. The job sucks and he’s in no mood to cope with redneck werewolves. So he works as a sumage, cleaning up other mages’ messes. Max fails at magic, relationships, and life. ![]() Max needs 3 things – magic, a boyfriend, and a wolf.īad boy mage with an attitude problem meets a sexy werewolf with a white knight complex in this charming gay romance from a New York Times best selling author. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Plus, it describes Fairyland from the perspective of someone who couldn’t be more accustomed to its ways. ![]() The stories are taken from before, during and after the Folk Of The Air but they had similarities running through them that made it feel more like a novella than a collection of stories. I’d recommend that you check out my review of the first book, ‘The Cruel Prince’, here and read the book! or this might not make much sense! It’s one of my favourite fantasy series and I highly recommend them.Īnyway, this book gives the unheard narrative of Cardan’s side of the series. In case you’re confused, How The King Of Elfhame Learned To Hate Stories is a (heavily) illustrated novella to accompany the Folk Of The Air series by Holly Black. ![]() |