![]() ![]() ![]() Yolk acquaints us with two sisters who lead starkly different lives but remain inextricably linked, not only through DNA but also a history spanning the mundane and the unforgivable. And Jayne becomes the only one who can help her.įlung together by circumstance, housing woes, and family secrets, will the sisters learn more about each other than they’re willing to confront? And what if while helping June, Jayne has to confront the fact that maybe she’s sick, too? ![]() Once thick as thieves, these sisters who moved from Seoul to San Antonio to New York together now don’t want anything to do with each other. Jayne is an emotionally stunted, self-obsessed basket case who lives in squalor, has egregious taste in men, and needs to get to class and stop wasting Mom and Dad’s money (if you ask June). June’s three years older, a classic first-born, know-it-all narc with a problematic finance job and an equally soulless apartment (according to Jayne). Choi comes a funny and emotional story about two estranged sisters and how far they’ll go to save one of their lives - even if it means swapping identities. “Sneaks up on you with its insight and poignancy.” ( Entertainment Weekly )įrom New York Times best-selling author Mary H.K. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I may have only had those 3 special years with Granda Cookie. While reading this AMAZING GEM of a story.I often reflected back on my grandma Cookie!Īfter my dad died -when I was 4yrs old- (her son, Max, was only 34). The issues at heart are family bonds, Family history, reflections of the past, life lessons, love, forgiveness, acceptance, laughter. The fairytales add to the enjoyment and depths of issues of the heart! Trolls, dragons, kingdoms, magical treasures, Harry Potter, ice cream, cookies, beer, cinnamon buns, cloud animals, Star Wars, and more. ![]() She is strong independent woman, who wants to say "I am sorry" to those she loves. Grandmother is eccentric, a little nutty, a superhero.both a sword and a shield. manages not only to write a unique-charming-heartwarming novel.īut he has created extraordinary memorable characters, 'AGAIN'!!!Įlsa is the greatest combinations of both her parents, and grandparents, but mostly she is unique and different. (sometimes all at the same time)!įredrik Beckman, author of "A Man Called Ove", does it again. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When a wealthy businessman is murdered in New Chicago’s seediest district, the two are partnered, and there’s no escaping what they both want: each other. But to be with her, he risks destroying her. For the first time, his stone-cold resistance is tested. She is beautiful and rich, with a party girl smile that hides a shocking vulnerability, and from the beginning his sizzling attraction to her is undeniable. His syn-cotton shirt was torn, his jeans dirty, and his boots scuffed. One was tall, muscled, with dark hair and a busted-up face. ![]() But Noelle Tremain is a temptation like no other. TWO MEN STOOD IN the middle of a shadowed, barren field. Gena captures the love, romance and action so theres always a big bang. Little wonder he’s determined to remain on his own. Dark Taste of Rapture has everything you could possibly want in a paranormal romance. He is a walking weapon, capable of killing with a single brush of his fingertips. Hector Dean is shaved, tattooed, and totally ripped-and he has a deadly secret. ![]() New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter captivates with a dark, tantalizing world of humans, otherworlders, and a powerful AIR agent consumed by his desire for a woman he can never have… With one caress, he can give unforgettable pleasure… or unending pain… ![]() ![]() ![]() That wild streak, as much as nostalgia and genuine heart, is part of the reason fans are still talking about the series today.Īnimorphs wasn't afraid to take itself pretty seriously for a book about teens transforming into animals to stop alien invaders. Amongst all the teen drama and thermal riding, there are some seriously dark moments in Animorphs. There are a lot of weird things you forgot about Animorphs, and no, the fact that one of the main characters is permanently trapped as a red-tailed hawk isn't one of them. This isn't the happy, everything's-okay-in-the-end world of many other popular YA series. ![]() ![]() Animorphs is one of those series that probably would have faded into obscurity were it not for its intense commitment to leaning as hard into darkness as possible. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It also considers Fonda’s early life and the effect it had on her behavior and beliefs in her later years, her audience of American POWs who were forced by the Vietnamese to listen to her broadcasts condemning them as war criminals, her arrival in Vietnam and how it was viewed by American servicemen and civilians, the crime of treason throughout history, and the only Congressional inquiry into her actions, which resulted in the government’s decision to take no legal action against her. This work investigates Fonda’s activities in North Vietnam and argues that she could have been indicted for treason, that there would have been enough evidence to take the case to a jury, that she could have been convicted, and that a conviction probably would have been upheld on appeal. Instead, she has made millions, been the recipient of countless awards, and remained an honored American icon. In their eyes, she was guilty of treason, but she was never charged by the American legal system. Jane Fonda’s visit to Hanoi in July 1972 and her pro–North Vietnamese, anti–American conduct, especially her pose with an anti-aircraft gun used to shoot down American planes and her propaganda broadcasts directed toward American troops, angered many Americans. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() MN – What sparked your ongoing interest in the Star Wars saga? So they’re all very different, but also very satisfying. And Indy was a blast, especially because it meant going to Lucasfilm to read the script.Īnd Lost Tribe of the Sith has let me take the prose-comics combo in yet another direction - as we’re dealing with stories that are separated by many years and often centuries. Knight Errant with its prose and comics portions has really allowed me to focus on a single character - Kerra Holt - while also developing a realm more or less from scratch. Knights of the Old Republic, of course, gave us the chance to build some long-form stories that you don’t see much in comics any more I think the soon-to-be-ten volumes of trade paperbacks hold together very nicely as a single narrative. JJM – They’re all different, all satisfying on different levels. All succesful, but which project gave you the most satisfaction? MN – Since we last spoke your Star Wars writings have taken you from a fan-favourite 50 issue run on Knights of the Old Republic to Lost Tribe of the Sith, the adaptation of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull to Knight Errant. We continue our look back to interviews conducted in years past by members of the Fantha Tracks team, and our 2012 interview with one of the saga’s most prolific authors – John Jackson Miller. ![]() ![]() ![]() Orphaned at an early age, Jane has been educated by her father’s friends, the Campbells. Meanwhile, Jane Fairfax, another accomplished and beautiful young woman, returns to Highbury to visit her aunt and grandmother, Miss Bates and Mrs. She resolves to never play matchmaker in the future. Emma realizes that personal pride in her judgment and her desires for Harriet blinded her to the real situation. ![]() Humiliated by Emma’s rejection of him and her attempt to pair him with Harriet, Mr. Harriet is heartbroken, and Emma mortified. Elton’s interest in Harriet were in fact intended for Emma herself. It turns out that all the signs that Emma has been interpreting as evidence of Mr. Knightley, a long-time friend and Emma’s brother-in-law, discourages Emma’s matchmaking efforts. Martin, a farmer whom Emma believes below Harriet, and she instead encourages her friend to admire Mr. ![]() She is convinced that her friend deserves a gentleman, though Harriet’s own parentage is unknown. ![]() Weston, a match that Emma views herself to have made, Emma befriends the lower class Harriet Smith and sets out to similarly assist her. When her governess marries the well-to-do widower Mr. Rich, beautiful, and privileged Emma Woodhouse fancies herself to be an excellent matchmaker. ![]() ![]() It is an alternative history of the Partition - the first and only one told through material memory that makes the event tangible even seven decades later. Written as a crossover between history and anthropology, Remnants of a Separation is the product of years of passionate research. A refugee certificate created in Calcutta evokes in a daughter the feelings of displacement her father had experienced upon leaving Mymensingh zila, now in Bangladesh. A notebook of poems, brought from Lahore to Kalyan, shows one woman's determination to pursue the written word despite the turmoil around her. A string of pearls gifted by a maharaja, carried from Dalhousie to Lahore, reveals the grandeur of a life that once was. The author of Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory, Aanchal takes notes meticulously. They now speak of their owner's pasts as they emerge as testaments to the struggle, sacrifice, pain and belonging at an unparalleled moment in history. These belongings absorbed the memory of a time and place, remaining latent and undisturbed for generations. Aanchal Malhotra's Remnants of a Separation is one such book that captures the stories of families who were a part of biggest human migration the world has ever seen, the partition of Indian subcontinent, now known as India and Pakistan. ![]() oral historian Aanchal Malhotra too had thought little about the Partition. ![]() Remnants of a Separation is a unique attempt to revisit the Partition through objects that refugees carried with them across the border. Remnants of a separation : a history of the partition through material memory. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My son wanted to keep reading as he liked the prison part, which I found was too little in between all the baseball and situations Moose found himself in by not telling the truth. ![]() My son and I are not traditional sports fans so I found there was way too much baseball in this book. Piper”, the warden’s daughter who causes trouble whereever she goes. “Moose has to learn to stand up to people: his parents. In order to join the team, the captain requests something impossible to get from Alcatraz. In this book, it’s the summer before high school for Moose and he desperately wants to get on the school’s baseball team. Moose’s father is the assistant warden so he, his his sister Natalie, who is autistic, and their mother, who seems to have mental health issues, live on the island, riding the ferry to mainland to go to school. My son was interested in reading this book because it was about prison (great!), specifically Alcatraz when it held the infamous Al Capone, Prisoner No. If there is one thing I can say about Gennifer Choldenko‘s Al Capone Throws me a Curve, A Tale from Alcatraz ($22.99, Random House Kids) is that my 10-year-old son recognized the importance of telling the truth.Īt least that is what he kept shouting throughout the book as the main character, Moose Flanagan, makes what we believe is the wrong choice even if it was for the right reason. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yang's words ultimately led his campaign to cancel a planned trip to help distribute groceries in Queens ahead of Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim celebration marking the end of Ramadan. Yang had tweeted Monday that he is "standing with the people of Israel" amid the escalating violence between Israeli forces and Hamas, which stems from the government threatening to evict Palestinian families from their homes in east Jerusalem. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has mostly stayed out of New York City's mayoral race, but she had some harsh words for candidate Andrew Yang, the presumptive favorite, on Tuesday. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had harsh words for Andrew Yang after his Israel-Palestine comments ![]() |