![]() Trusting Roth could ruin her chances with Zayne, but as Layla discovers she's the reason for a violent demon uprising, kissing the enemy suddenly pales in comparison to the looming end of the world. Though Layla knows she should stay away, it's tough when that whole no-kissing thing isn't an issue. Then she meets Roth-a demon who claims to know her secrets. And even though Zayne is a Warden, part of the race of gargoyles tasked with keeping humanity safe, Layla's kiss will kill anything with a soul-including him. ![]() Trouble is, Zayne treats Layla like a sister-and Layla is a half demon, half gargoyle with abilities no one else possesses. Layla just wants to fit in at school and go on a date with Zayne, whom she's crushed on since forever. In the instant New York Times bestseller that started the Dark Elements series, one kiss is enough to kill. ![]() Download White Hot Kiss Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle ![]()
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![]() The book garnered wide acclaim, and Verne knew that he had finally found his place in the world. After making the acquaintance of editor and publisher Jules Hetzel, who would become Verne’s champion, the author’s literary career truly began, with the 1863 publication of Five Weeks in a Balloon (serialized in Hetzel’s Magazine d’Éducation et de Récréation, as most of his works were). At first he wrote many works for the stage encouraged by his friend, Alexandre Dumas. ![]() ![]() Verne, born in Nantes, France in 1828, was a prolific writer all his life. No wonder that these novels, written in the mid-nineteenth century, are still in print and are still read avidly by those who desire adventures out of the ordinary. He wrote about space travel, journeying down into the depths of the earth and exploring the deep oceans of the world. However this wasn’t a path trodden by Jules Verne whose works of fiction explode with wild dreamlike imaginative ideas that take the reader away from reality into an exciting fantasy universe. One piece of advice given to budding authors is to write about what you know. ![]() David Stuart Davies looks at Jules Verne’s classic adventure, and the many TV, stage and film adaptions of it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Filled with intrigue, romance, and an adorable baby dragon, this own-voices Gaslamp Epic Fantasy puts a disabled, lgbtq+ protagonist front and center.īorn in a small Italian village, I went on a quest around the world and have finally settled into a magical cottage in PA. A monster with a thousand faces fingers his knife, ready to kill, and a pair of fugitives run for their lives, unaware of the danger they carry with them. Ancient forces move in the shadows, calling in debts and striking deals. Meanwhile, from the rainy streets of Lirin to the scorching dunes of the Mondaer Desert, the death of the Chosen One has inadvertently broken a chain of events five centuries in the making. With time ticking down until someone manages to kill her too, Elenor will be forced to choose between accepting her father’s despotic rule or risking everything for her late brother’s lofty ideals. Now she’s next in line for the throne and beset on all sides by factions out for blood. Disabled since childhood, Elenor was content to live in her brother’s shadow, besting her cousins at cards and sneaking her girlfriend into her room at night. ![]() ![]() ![]() A third season titled A Certain Scientific Railgun T aired between January and September 2020. A spin-off manga series titled A Certain Scientific Railgun: Astral Buddy began serialization in Dengeki Daioh from April 2017 to July 2020. A second season titled A Certain Scientific Railgun S aired between April and September 2013. An anime television series adaptation by J.C.Staff aired in Japan between October 2009 and March 2010, followed by an original video animation released in October 2010. Seven Seas Entertainment began publishing the series in North America in June 2011. The manga is a spin-off of Kamachi's A Certain Magical Index light novel series, taking place before and during the events of the main story. ![]() A Certain Scientific Railgun: Astral Buddy (spin-off)Ī Certain Scientific Railgun ( Japanese: とある科学の 超電磁砲 ( レールガン ), Hepburn: Toaru Kagaku no Rērugan) is a Japanese manga series written by Kazuma Kamachi and illustrated by Motoi Fuyukawa, which began serialization in the April 2007 issue of ASCII Media Works' Dengeki Daioh magazine.A Certain Scientific Railgun: Spectrum Story ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It all makes for a witty, laugh-out-loud play on the old favorite about the old lady who swallowed a fly.” –ALA Booklist *(Starred Review)* “Feiffer’s characters are unforgettable…the pictures burst with the sort of broad physical comedy that a lot of children just love. ![]() Plus don’t miss Jules Feiffer’s wonderful new follow-up: Smart George!ĪLA Booklist Editors’ Choice Maryland Children’s Book Award Parents’ Choice Silver Honor Keystone to Reading Book Award (Pennsylvania) Georgia Children’s Picture Storybook Award Flicker Tale Children’s Book Award (North Dakota) Florida Children’s Book Award Charlotte Zolotow Award Honor Book Buckeye Children’s Book Award (Ohio) Arizona Young Readers’ Award ALA Notable Children’s Book When she asks him again, he goes “Oink.” What’s going on with George? Readers will delight at the surprise ending! When George’s mother tells her son to bark, George goes “Meow,” which definitely isn’t right because George is a dog. bark! This picture book geared for the youngest readers is perfect for those who love Mo Willems’s Pigeon series. Named one of 100 Great Children’s Books by The New York Public Library and #9 on School Library Journal ‘s list of the Top 100 Picture Books!įrom acclaimed author-illustrator Jules Feiffer, Bark, George is a hilarious, subversive story about a dog who can’t. ![]() ![]() ![]() Deck the Halls is a heartwarming story filled with twists and turns, intrique and danger, as well as a hearty dose of holiday cheer. Jack Reilly, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, is called back from his Christmas holiday to lead the investigation, after the laughably inept pair of kidnappers make known their demands. ![]() ![]() When a call comes through on Regan's cell phone telling her that her father and his driver, Rosita Gonzalez, are being held for $1,000,000 ransom, Alvirah insists that Regan allow her to lend a hand in trying to gain their release because Alvirah has many valuable contacts in New York's law enforcement community. Alvirah offers the deeply troubled Regan a lift home. Once it becomes apparent that Luke Reilly is not going to keep his appointment. ![]() Alvirah is to accompany her husband home after a particularly grueling session, while Regan is there in hopes of connecting with her busy father, who is scheduled for a routine visit. Three days before Christmas, Regan Reilly, the dynamic young sleuth featured in the novels of Carol Higgins Clark, meets Alvirah Meehan, the famous lottery winner and amateur detective who has appeared in several books by Mary Higgins Clark, at a New Jersey dentist's office. Mary Higgins Clark, America's Queen of Suspense, and her daughter bestselling author Carol Higgins Clark, have joined forces for the first time to create a brilliant and exciting story of high-stakes intrique and detection with a kidnapping layed out against a holiday setting. ![]() ![]() Food has become simply ‘nourishment’ to be taken in at appropriate times. The logic of productivity and the demands of the organisation are paramount, regulating every aspect of days and nights. Life on board the Six-Thousand Ship is governed by work. ![]() ![]() Both powerful and poetic, the chilling prescience and emotional eloquence of Ravn’s prose is wonderfully rendered in Martin Aitken’s translation. At its heart is a fundamental question: what does it really mean to be human? Each short testimony has its own answer, as those who were born and those who were made all start to question their roles and what it means to them to be alive. ![]() Structured as a series of witness statements from the crew - both human and non-human - of the Six-Thousand Ship as it orbits the planet New Discovery, it charts the impact of some strange objects taken on board and the effect they have on those that come into contact with them. ![]() Billed as a ‘workplace novel for the 22nd century’, Olga Ravn’s The Employees takes science fiction down a new path. ![]() ![]() The author describes the priests in Flatland. Part 1, Section 11: Concerning Our Priests The author discusses anarchy and a battle between the shapes. Part 1, Section 10: Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition The author discusses the Art of Sight Recognition and the Universal Color Bill. Part 1, Section 9: Of the Universal Colour Bill Part 1, Section 8: Of the Ancient Practice of Painting The author clarifies a few things for the reader. ![]() Part 1, Section 7: Concerning Irregular Figures The author continues to use geometric shapes to describe Flatland’s population. Part 1, Section 6: Of Recognition by Sight The author explains how inhabitants of Flatland recognize each other. Part 1, Section 5: Of Our Methods of Recognizing One Another The author describes the inhabitants of Flatland in regard to men and women. ![]() Part 1, Section 3: Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland The author uses shapes as a metaphor for males and females. Part 1, Section 2: Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland ![]() ![]() The author explains to the reader the nature of Flatland. Part 1, This World, Section 1: Of the Nature of Flatland Preface to the second and revised edition Opening quotes, dedication, and illustrations. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a classic 19th century novella that satirizes the social hierarchy of Victorian society using mathematical figures and ideas.Ībbott, E. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What is American? Who gets to decide? When the world is against you, what can one person do?"- … ( more) They Called Us Enemy is Takei's firsthand account of those years behind barbed wire, the joys and terrors of growing up under legalized racism, his mother's hard choices, his father's faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future. Roosevelt, every person of Japanese descent on the west coast was rounded up and shipped to one of ten 'relocation centers', hundreds or thousands of miles from home, where they would be held for years under armed guard. In 1942, at the order of President Franklin D. But long before he braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke up as a four-year-old boy to find his own birth country at war with his father's - and their entire family forced from their home into an uncertain future. ![]() George Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwide with his captivating stage presence and outspoken commitment to equal rights. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon - and America itself - in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love. "A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kraegel’s format-defying tale is an unexpected story of love, determination, and parenting. This adequate but unnecessary new version could be left sleeping on the shelf.Ī determined mother embarks on a surreal adventure. The princess and her parents are white, and the prince is also pale-complexioned. ![]() Described as old by Perrault, the eighth, uninvited fairy, responsible for the curse, has angry features some may read as Asian (there is no “good” Asian fairy) and looks just a bit older than the others, who resemble cute young teens. The seven invited fairies have different skin tones. The painterly, digital illustrations have a modern Disney-esque feeling but are not actively linked to the 1959 movie or Maleficent. ![]() (In the original they leave the castle.) Rylant’s name is a draw, but the text is not distinguished. A few other details vary: the princess finds the old woman spinning in a little cottage rather than in a castle upper room, and here the girl’s parents ask to be put to sleep along with all the courtiers. With no source information or attribution to Perrault, the clear, readable, but unadorned text generally follows the first part of the French version, up to the awakening of Sleeping Beauty (a kiss on the hand here but just the end of the enchantment in the original). But for a sleeping beauty, Time was a promise.” ![]() This version of the oft-told story opens with a fusty philosophical frontispiece: “Many see Time as a friend, and many see Time as a foe. ![]() |