![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And keeping Alexa's secret makes Dalia realize one of her own: She might have more-than-friend feelings for Rani. But what starts out as a week of funnel cakes and Lazy River rides goes off the rails when Dalia discovers that Alexa's girlfriend is joining the trip. ![]() Luckily Dalia comes up with a new plan: If she joins Alexa on her trip and brings Rani, the new girl from her swim team, along maybe she can have the perfect summer after all. Withĭalia's future stepsister Alexa heading back to college soon, the grown-ups want the girls to spend the last weeks of summer bonding-meaning Alexa has to cancel the amusement park road trip she's been planning for months. But when her dad suddenly announces that he's engaged, Dalia's schemes come to a screeching halt. Would-be amusement park aficionado Dalia only has two items on her summer bucket list: (1) finally ride a roller coaster and (2) figure out how to make a new best friend. "Dalia’s journey to self-discovery is refreshingly honest, and this entire cast of characters will steal your heart.” – Maulik Pancholy, actor and Stonewall Honor-winning author of The Best At It In this Stonewall Honor book, a week-long amusement park road trip becomes a true roller coaster of emotion when Dalia realizes she has more-than-friend feelings for her new bestie. ![]()
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![]() Sulla is from one of the oldest and most noble families in Rome, though without any money. He takes as his assistant a young man named Sulla. After receiving this news he returns to Rome and is elected consul. While in Africa fighting under his rival Metellus, Marius meets with a prophetess who informs him that he will be consul seven times and become the First Man in Rome. With his alliance to the Caesars, Marius gains the political nobility that he needs to attempt to become consul. ![]() The novel begins with Marius, lacking political distinction and seemingly at the end of his career, forming an alliance with the Caesar family in marriage to their older daughter Julia. ![]() The book takes place over eleven years and shows Marius's journey to become the First Man in Rome with epic scope and historical accuracy. The First Man in Rome is the story of Marius's rise to power in the Roman republic and the story of his friendship with Sulla. ![]() ![]() ![]() The cliffhangers at the end of each book would make it unbearable to wait for the next book to come out on Audio! I've already purchased the audiobooks for two other series - they're next up. Thankfully, short the epilogue, this series is intact in audio already. ![]() Sometimes there is Redemption! Sometimes the Wrong Thing done for the Right Reason is Good. Sometimes one of the Good Guys doesn't make it to the end. Becoming vested in Needle and Kite, Nila and Jet, and their growth through the 6 books in this series - their fight and growth and evolution - their love and light - their F****d up family and circumstances - their fight and ultimate triumph over it all was emotionally draining and utterly fulfilling. I knew something big was coming - it was inevitable. ![]() I've been flipping between the ebook at my desk at work and the audiobook everywhere else, because I couldn't stand being away from the world so beautifully crafted and the people I'd come to care about, worry about, and so love to hate! I'm not going to give up any spoilers - others have done that already - and even having read other reviews I was not prepared for the impact of what happened. It is a rare story that can capture me so thoroughly - and this series did exactly that. I don't cry - seriously ! I don't! Haven't in years - until last night. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sheridan, the United States’ leading Western commander in the 1868–86 period, bears the blame for the cruel clearances of the tribes from traditional hunting-grounds. These books in turn have inspired a series of popular revisionist films, starting with Soldier Blue in 1970 through to Dances with Wolves in 1990. From works like Dee Brown’s Bury my heart at Wounded Knee he emerges as a racist bigot and an employer of inhumane methods of war. While he is still regarded as a highly effective field commander, a focus on the plight of American Indians has damaged Sheridan’s reputation. Time has somewhat diminished the lustre of his career. ![]() Sherman, three outstanding generals (two of them presidents), the regard in which Sheridan was held becomes obvious. When it is realised that the previous three were George Washington, Ulysses S. ![]() In 1888, on his deathbed, Sheridan became only the fourth person to be promoted to the rank of General of the Army. Kennedy, arguably no Irish-American rose as high in American esteem as Philip Henry Sheridan, who became general-in-chief of the United States Army in 1883. ![]() Sheridan gallops to Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864, where his Union army has been attacked by Confederates in his absence, and reverses a near disaster. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Austria in 2017, asylum-seekers were suspects in 11 percent of all reported rapes and sexual harassment cases, despite making up less than 1 percent of the total population. In 2018 Germany, "offences against sexual self-determination" rose 36 percent from their 2014 rate nearly two-fifths of the suspects were non-German. Among these facts: In 2014, sexual violence in Western Europe surged following a period of stability. ![]() In Prey, the best-selling author of Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, presents startling statistics, criminal cases and personal testimony. Why are so few people talking about the eruption of sexual violence and harassment in Europe's cities? No one in a position of power wants to admit that the problem is linked to the arrival of several million migrants-most of them young men-from Muslim-majority countries. ![]() ![]() The 12 Dukes of Christmas is a series of heartwarming Regency romps nestled in a picturesque snow-covered village. The other involves losing his heart to an ambitious journalist determined to expose the truth at any cost. One happens to be a wee international smuggling operation. He's a rakish dandy with a heart of stolen gold and two teeny tiny secrets. Local blacksmith Monsieur Sebastien le Duc is the pillar of his community - when he's not pillaging elsewhere. She's definitely not falling head-over-heels for the deceptively charming subject of her front-page column. ![]() ![]() ![]() Eve learned the hard way that men are not to be trusted. From a New York Times bestselling author: Unpaid and under-appreciated journalist Miss Eve Shelling never goes anywhere without a trusty notebook and her overprotective Duenna - who happens to be a bullmastiff. ![]() ![]() ![]() Delany, and Bob Flanagan, as well as extraordinary writers on the rise, including Nicole Wallace, Precious Okoyomon, and Will Farris. ![]() Their identification of "pathetic" as ripe for reinvention forms the need for this anthology, which includes a hearty 106 contributors, encompassing canonical global stars like Robert Walser, Jorge Luis Borges, Rumi, and Gwendolyn Brooks, literary libertines like Dodie Bellamy, Samuel R. Delany, and Gwendolyn Brooks to up-and-coming writers that examine pathos and feeling, giving a well-timed rehab to the word "pathetic" "Literature is pathetic." So claims Eileen Myles in their provocative and robust introduction to Pathetic Literature, a breathtaking mishmash of pieces ranging from poems to theater scripts to prose to anything in between, all exploring the so-called "pathetic" or awkwardly-felt moments and revelations around which lives are both built and undone.Myles first reclaimed the word for a seminar they taught at the University of California San Diego in the early 2000s, rescuing it from the derision into which it had slipped and restoring its original meaning of inspiring emotion or feeling, from the Ancient Greek rhetorical method pathos. Description An utterly unique collection composed by the award-winning poet and writer, a global anthology of pieces from lesser-known classics by luminaries like Franz Kafka, Samuel R. ![]() ![]() ![]() – What is Shape Up? – Key concepts in Shape Up – Benefits and challenges of Shape Up –Jump to Part 2: Why Shape Up Works for Us What is Shape Up? Our team officially decided to try Shape Up in the Spring of 2020. Scarred from many years of stressful sprints, we were ready for something new. We were still shipping pretty darn good products. ![]() Yet, despite a great amount of training and certifications, lots of work and some grey hairs, we often felt something was “off”. Our team (like many of you reading this) started off with traditional agile methodologies like Scrum. If you’re familiar with the methodology, head to Part 2 to read on-the-ground insights.Įndless backlogs, scope creep, unsatisfying sprints…sound familiar? Before we adopted Shape Up, this was our reality, too. ![]() You’re reading Part 1, which describes Shape Up in detail. Editor’s note: In response to reader feedback, we’ve split this piece into two articles. ![]() ![]() The Shotet and Thuvhesit live on the same planet, Urek/Thuvhe, and have a long history of violence, blaming certain historical events on each other. The names of the planets are: Othyr, Kollande, Ogra, Essander, Zold, Pitha, Trella, Tepes and Thuvhe/Urek. This general order is kept by the Assembly, composed of a leader and all Assembly associates who live on a large, travelling spaceship recently, the Assembly's authority has come into question with some suspecting the Assembly of corruption and opposing some beliefs the nations have continued to honor for thousands of years. ![]() Each planet has different rules, governments, people, and language, although each planet lives in accordance with general, interplanetary rules each has agreed to. The characters of Carve the Mark live among nine planets. Its sequel The Fates Divide was released on 10 April 2018. The story follows Akos and Cyra, young people from opposing cultures whose fates are intertwined. It is the fifth novel by Veronica Roth, published on Januby HarperCollins. ![]() Carve the Mark is a science fiction young adult novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together-lay everything on the table, make it all right. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. For most of the year they live far apart-she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown-but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. ![]() She has insatiable wanderlust he prefers to stay home with a book. One year, however, everything between Alex and Poppy goes up in flames, leading to the two not speaking for two years. One last chance to fall in love.įrom the New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read, a sparkling new novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations. ![]() Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Newsweek ∙ Oprah Magazine ∙ The Skimm ∙ Marie Claire ∙ Parade∙ The Wall Street Journal ∙ Chicago Tribune ∙ PopSugar ∙ BookPage ∙ BookBub ∙ Betches ∙ SheReads ∙ Good Housekeeping ∙ BuzzFeed ∙ Business Insider ∙ Real Simple ∙ Frolic ∙ and more! ! ![]() A TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON SUMMER READS NOMINEE! ![]() |
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