Kate quinn the diamond eye7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() When news of her three hundredth kill makes her a national heroine, Mila finds herself torn from the bloody battlefields of the eastern front and sent to America on a goodwill tour. Given a rifle and sent to join the fight, Mila must forge herself from studious girl to deadly sniper-a lethal hunter of Nazis known as Lady Death. In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kiev (now known as Kyiv), wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son-but Hitler's invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path. ![]() The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history's deadliest female sniper. Published by HarperAudio on March 29, 2022 ![]()
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The royals next door karina halle7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() With careers, hearts, and friendships on the line, Piper and Harrison will have to decide what they’re willing to give up for a chance at their own happily ever after.” (Goodreads) But beneath Harrison’s no-nonsense exterior lies a soft heart, one that could tempt a woman who’s sworn off attachments into believing in white knights.īut when Piper finds herself smack in the middle of a royal scandal that rocks the island she’ll need more than Harrison’s strong arms to shield her–she’ll have to do a little rescuing herself. ![]() Piper quickly realizes that one person’s fairy tale is an ordinary woman’s nightmare as a media frenzy takes over the island and each run-in with Harrison Cole is hotter and more confusing than the last. ![]() She lives a quiet, reclusive life, taking care of her mother, who struggles with mental illness, avoiding her regrettable ex, who bartends in town, and trying to make inroads in the tight-knit island community that still sees her, five years in, as an outsider.Īnd she’s happy with how things are–really–until British royals rent the property next to hers and their brooding bodyguard decides she’s a security threat. Piper Evans: elementary school teacher by day–avid romance reader and anonymous podcaster by night. “ An ordinary summer goes royally awry when a prince and princess move next door, bringing their handsome bodyguard with them, from New York Times bestselling author Karina Halle. Thank you to the publisher and netgalley for an earc to read in exchange for a review. ![]() Carl sagan earth quote7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() It was Druyan's photos of Earth that largely inspired Sagan to write his book "Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space. That will change with the upcoming "Voyagers." As announced by Variety on May 5, 2023, Andrew Garfield will star in the film as Sagan, with Daisy Edgar-Jones playing author/SETI scientist Ann Druyan, Sagan's third wife, to whom he was married to from 1981 until his death. ![]() It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. The only mystery is why it's taken Hollywood so long to make a biopic of his life. The Earth is the only world known, so far, to harbor life. Sagan was also a major advocate for marijuana use, and was rather spiritual, despite often speaking out against religion or the existence of an intelligent God. ![]() The film "Contact" is based on his novel. He was affable and well-spoken, and he talked about fun scientific concepts like the existence of UFOs, and the actual, mathematical odds that an alien civilization might someday visit Earth given the size of the universe, Sagan calculated that there are at least a million Earth-like civilizations out there somewhere. ![]() O Teorema Katherine by John Green7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() As she begins digging into the past, she unexpectedly befriends Midnight, a young white boy who is also adrift and looking for connection. She had promised her family she’d never look back, but Ruth knows that to move forward, she must make peace with the past.Returning home, Ruth discovers the Indiana factory town of her youth is plagued by unemployment, racism, and despair. ![]() She has never gotten over the baby she gave birth to-and was forced to leave behind-when she was a teenager. He’s eager to start a family, but Ruth is uncertain. In Chicago, Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated Black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man. ![]() Recommended by O Magazine * GMA * Elle * Marie Claire * Good Housekeeping * NBC News * Shondaland * Chicago Tribune * Woman's Day * Refinery 29 * Bustle * The Millions * New York Post * Parade * Hello! Magazine * PopSugar * and more!“The Kindest Lie is a deep dive into how we define family, what it means to be a mother, and what it means to grow up Black.beautifully crafted.” -JODI PICOULT"A fantastic story.well-written, timely, and oh-so-memorable."-Good Morning America“The Kindest Lie is a layered, complex exploration of race and class." -The Washington PostEvery family has its secrets.It’s 2008, and the inauguration of President Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. ![]() The midnight folk by john masefield7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet there is also plenty of humour that adults will appreciate, from Miss Piney Trigger, who swigs champagne in bed and prides herself on having backed a host of Derby winners, to Kay’s lessons: ‘Divinity was easy, as it was about Noah’s Ark. Masefield perfectly captures a child’s perspective, from the terrors of tigers under the bed to the horrors of declining a Latin adjective. Although it was published in 1927, it evokes an older world: houses are lit by oil lamps, and travel is by horse, carriage – or broomstick. The Midnight Folk is a feast of imaginative story-telling, a glorious cornucopia of pirates and witches, lost treasure and talking animals. ![]() The evil Abner Brown is searching for it too, but Kay is helped by the midnight folk: creatures like Nibbins the cat and Rollicum Bitem Lightfoot the fox, and even his lost toys, who will join him on his dangerous quest. Life is lonely and dull, until one night Kay’s great-grandpapa Harker, a sea captain, steps out of his portrait to tell him about a stolen treasure that belongs to Kay’s family. His only companions are his unpleasant guardian Sir Theopompus and his governess Sylvia Daisy Pouncer (who, Kay suspects, has stolen all his toys). Young Kay Harker lives in an old house in the country, filled with portraits of his ancestors. We hear that the house has gone all to sixes and sevens since we left it, but that’s going to be remedied now’ ![]() Moonstruck by Onley James7/2/2023 ![]() But no amount of brute force can show Jericho how to scale the walls of a psychopath’s heart. And, truthfully, Atticus doesn’t want him to.Īs Jericho’s mission begins to bleed into Atticus’s life, two separate but equally brutal families will need to learn how to fight together to take out a common enemy. Atticus is a buttoned-up closeted scientist and Jericho is a man on a mission, determined to find and punish those responsible for the death of his sister. When Atticus and Jericho come face to face over a shared enemy, their accidental meeting ends in an explosively hot hookup neither can forget. But to a ragtag group of social misfits, he’s Peter Pan, teaching them to eliminate those who prey on the weak with extreme prejudice. Jericho Navarro is no psychopath, but he is a vicious killer. Unlike his brothers, he’s not very good at it. Like his brothers, Atticus is a psychopath, raised to right the wrongs of a broken justice system. ![]() ![]() ![]() Atticus Mulvaney is the eldest son of eccentric billionaire, Thomas Mulvaney-a role he takes very seriously. ![]() Polarity in Motion by Brenda Vicars7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() OL24721245W Pages 274 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.14 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210529072741 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 304 Scandate 20210527084352 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781940215372 Tts_version 4. Polarity in Motion should grace every library and reading list Dii TOP 500 REVIEWER. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:35:59 Boxid IA40125402 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() The heir kiera cass7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() Now, back to the review I wrote a year ago… But, these were my feelings when I first finished it, I won’t be rereading it again to rewrite it so I’m going to trust in the fact that I enjoyed myself, so this review is what you’ll get. ![]() I also think I rated this novel waaaaay too high, and this review is definitely sugarcoated this novel deserves three and a half stars at least. This is from my old blog, and I’m rereading it and all I’m thinking is that the Michelle who wrote this review had no idea the type of disappointment (and anger) she was going to face after reading The Crown. So I wanted to post this review before I posted the one of The Crown. and proving that finding her own happily ever after isn’t as impossible as she’s always thought. But as the competition begins, one entry may just capture Eadlyn’s heart, showing her all the possibilities that lie in front of her. If it were up to her, she’d put off marriage for as long as possible.īut a princess’s life is never entirely her own, and Eadlyn can’t escape her very own Selection-no matter how fervently she protests.Įadlyn doesn’t expect her story to end in romance. Eadlyn has always found their fairy-tale story romantic, but she has no interest in trying to repeat it. Twenty years ago, America Singer entered the Selection and won the heart of Prince Maxon-and they lived happily ever after. Princess Eadlyn has grown up hearing endless stories about how her mother and father met. ![]() Everless sara holland summary7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() So in an attempt to save her Papa and get more time for them both, she returns to Everless. Her Papa has been behind on his rent and when you miss rent, you guessed it, you pay with your blood – losing time and getting closer to death. The more ‘blood-iron’ you have, the more time you have, the longer you live, the richer you get and so on so forth. ![]() If you have ever seen the movie “In Time,” starring Justin Timberlake then it follows a similar hierarchy. ![]() So, basic summary – you have your female protagonist Jules Ember who is living in poverty with her Papa in a land where your blood is money, and when you bleed you lose days, months, years off your life span. This is perfect for the fantasy and YA genre lovers out there, it has a feel of Hunger Games survival instincts with just enough 1800’s hierarchies to keep every page turning until the crack of dawn, and that’s all fun and games until your alarm goes off 3 hours later. I had only 3 hours sleep because of this book and it was worth it. ![]() Yes, you heard right… to be precise it must have took me about 7 hours with a gap in between when I ate my dinner. Blood is money, Time is Power, Desire is Treachery. ![]() Moon at nine by deborah ellis7/1/2023 ![]() Paperback edition originally published in the United States 2016Īccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:11:04 Autocrop_version 0.0.5_books-20210916-0.1 Boxid IA40396016 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Will her family find a way to save them both? Separated from Sadira, Farrin can only pray as she awaits execution. Despite their efforts to keep their love secret, the girls are discovered and arrested. It is against the law to be a homosexual in Iran the punishment is death. But as their friendship deepens into romance, the relationship takes a dangerous turn. Sadira is funny, wise and outgoing the two girls become inseparable. The day she meets Sadira, Farrin's life changes forever. If the Revolutionary Guard finds out about her mother's Bring Back the Shah activities, her family could be thrown in jail or worse. ![]() ![]() It is 1988 ever since the Shah was overthrown, the deeply conservative and religious government controls every facet of life in Iran. ![]() Although she goes to a school for gifted girls in Tehran, as the daughter of an aristocratic mother and wealthy father Farrin must keep a low profile. Fifteen-year-old Farrin has many secrets. ![]() |