![]() Exploring themes of love versus duty, social status, and whether a monarchy can survive without changing with the times, The Crown was seen as a satisfying conclusion to the five-book series. ![]() ![]() At the same time, unrest in society threatens to topple the monarchy that Eadlyn grew up in. The final two volumes shift the focus to Princess Eadlyn, the first-born daughter of America and now-King Maxon, as she observes her own selection and grapples with her complex feelings about the Selection process. Set in a society with a tight caste system and centered on the titular Selection, a competition for the current king’s heir, Prince Maxon’s hand in marriage, the first three installments focused on America Singer, a common girl whose mother bribed her way into the competition despite America being in love with a boy from a lower caste. It follows The Selection, The Elite, The One, and The Heir. American author Kiera Cass’s young adult novel The Crown is the final installment of a five-volume series titled The Selection Series. ![]()
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![]() The Score follows Allie Hayes who has a rebound relationship with Dean Di Laurentis, the team’s most notorious player off the ice. The Mistake centers on Grace Ivers who has a second chance romance with John Logan after a quick encounter with the hockey player during her freshman year. ![]() The Deal focuses on Hannah Wells, who tutors Garret Graham, the hockey team captain. There is an additional novella, The Legacy, which occurs after the events of the first four novels. ![]() For my review, I will focus on the four main books in the series: The Deal, The Mistake, The Score, and The Goal. ![]() The Off-Campus series by Elle Kennedy is a four-part companion series which follows four different girls as they develop relationships with four college hockey team members who live together in one house. Off-Campus was a little off from five stars for me. ![]() ![]() ![]() Coincidentally, on the first day of Katie's trial, Ellie finds out she is pregnant with Coop's baby. ![]() During that time, Ellie begins a relationship with her former lover Coop, a legal psychologist whom she trusts with Katie's interviews, and whom she had previously left years before. ![]() As part of the bail conditions of the pre-trial hearing, Ellie has to remain on the farm with Katie prior to the trial-a period that lasts several months.Ī doctor is able to determine that the infant was born prematurely, and could have died from natural causes due to listeriosis, a bacterial infection that Katie contracted from drinking unpasteurized milk from their Amish dairy farm. Ellie Hathaway, an experienced defense attorney and a distant relative of Katie, reluctantly accepts the case after a confrontation with her aunt (the relative who connects Ellie with Katie by marriage). However, Katie denies ever being pregnant. An 18-year-old, unmarried Amish girl, Katie Fisher, is charged with the murder of her newborn son. Police were able to find cloth fibers in the infant's mouth and throat, including bruises on the mouth, which leads them to conclude that he was suffocated. As the police investigate the death, they discover that the baby was not stillborn, but instead had died shortly after birth. The novel recounts the story of how a dead infant found on an Amish farm rocks the entire community. The story follows a murder on an Amish farm. Plain Truth (2001) is the seventh novel written by the American author Jodi Picoult. ![]() ![]() ![]() The idea of joining in her "project" is unthinkable, but this enchantress refuses to give up! So what else is there for a self-respecting rake to do but seduce the lady? Yet soon it is he who is beingseduced by Evie's tender heart and fiery blushes. Evelyn Ruddick knows she should avoid him at all costs - but the strikingly beautiful lady wants to aid the children of the Heart of Hope Orphanage, and he heads the board of trustees.Įvie is determined to teachthe charming, arrogant man a lesson in compassion, but it won't be so easy - especially since his touch is setting her desire aflame, making Evie yearn to submit to his passionate instruction. Aubyn has well earned his reputation as London's perfect scoundrel. A determined young lady vows to give one of London's infamous rakes his comeuppance - but when the rogue turns the tables, who truly learns a lesson in love? Beloved Sinner The ton gossips call him "Saint" - but the Marquisof St. If I liked Londons Perfect Scoundrel (Lessons in Love) by Suzanne Enoch, what should I read next The Rake Englands Perfect Hero The Fortune Hunter To Wed. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was not until the publishing of Uzumaki, his phenomenal horror series that he would come into his own. He would soon decide to pursue a comically bland career as a dental technician. While it was quite a successful series of novels, Tomie did not propel him into the halls of famous artists and writers immediately. The writer made his writing debut with “Tomie,” when he was just twenty four and has never stopped writing since. Ito has been called a mangaka with his stories drawn and written with an off kilter, surreal and otherworldly eeriness. Born in 1963 in the Gifu Prefecture, he is a unique storyteller as he is not a short story writer or novelist in the conventional sense. ![]() Junji Ito is Japan’s most lauded and successful horror writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Youngsters will be swept up in the action as Dorothy and her entourage match wits with the Nome King and his devilish Nomes in a forbidding underground fortress. ![]() The danger mounts as Princess Ozma herself falls victim to the Nome King's magic and is transformed into an emerald grasshopper. ![]() When Dorothy learns that the Queen of Ev and her ten children are prisoners of the wicked Nome King, she sets out on a magic carpet with her new friends and some old favorites - Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion, and Tin Woodman - to rescue them. A raging sea storm carries Dorothy Gale (charming heroine of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) to the fairy land of Ev, where an exciting new adventure awaits her and all young readers who venture into this enchanting realm of fantasy.ĭorothy meets some new friends - Billina, a friendly talking hen Tiktok, a remarkable Copper Man the lovely Princess Ozma of Oz and some strange characters too - Wheelers, with wheels for hands and feet and Princess Langwidere who wears a different head each day. ![]() ![]() This concept of progressive revelation as “the bedrock of Baha’i belief” permeates every aspect of the Baha’i Faith. The fundamental principle enunciated by Baha’u’llah … is that religious truth is not absolute but relative, that Divine Revelation is a continuous and progressive process, that all the great religions of the world are divine in origin, … and that their missions represent successive stages in the spiritual evolution of human society. Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Baha’i Faith, summarized the idea of progressive revelation this way: ![]() ![]() The Baha’i writings contain extensive references to the prophecies found in Judeo-Christian and Islamic scriptures – and directly connect them to the Baha’i concept of progressive revelation. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book is straight bonkerballs in the most gripping, beautifully written and fleshed out (ewww) way possible. If books with wild endings and shitty people are your thing, I don’t know that you’ll ever find a story more suited to you than Just Like Home. But sometimes you can sort of see someone who loves her daughter, but is just irreparably broken inside. She’s just so bitter and cruel and relentlessly nasty. 'Come home.' Veras mother called and Vera obeyed. Her mom comes off to me as having less positive traits, but…I’m sure they’re there. Just Like Home is a darkly gothic thriller from nationally bestselling author Sarah Gailey, perfect for fans of Netflixs The Haunting of Hill House as well as HBOs true crime masterpiece Ill Be Gone in the Dark. He spends time with her (not killing – they fish and stuff). Even Vera’s dad (who you may recall is a serial murderer) has his high points. And I love even more that they’re nuanced-awful. The place where her mother was going to die.” Vera breathed in the windows-shut smell of the place where she’d been born. “The house swallowed the sound immediately, because it was a house that knew how to stay quiet. Like, she really does know everything about everyone. ![]() ![]() It’s always the right time for a Mean Girls gifĪctually, pretty much all the things that Janice and Ian have to say about Gretchen Weiner in the ‘Katy learns about the Plastics’ scene in Mean Girls kind of applies to Crowder house. ![]() ![]() ![]() “We collected samples of their faeces and found they contained extremely high levels of cadmium and other elements such as mercury,” said Constanza Toro-Valdivieso of Cambridge University’s conservation research institute. Little else was known about the seal’s detailed biology until scientists began studying the Arctocephalus philippii in detail recently – making some startling discoveries in the process. Adults forage at sea while pups are born in November and December with soft black fur that fades to light brown in a few years. Since then, the Juan Fernández seal, which has become a protected species, has slowly recovered and has a population of around 80,000 living on the island’s rocky shores, according to the most recent figures. By the 19th century, the species had disappeared and was believed to be extinct until, in the 1960s, a small colony was found in a cave on the island. However, the animals were hunted for their fur and meat with such vigour that around 4 million are now thought to have been slaughtered. ![]() In the early 18th century, the shores of Robinson Crusoe island teemed with Juan Fernández seals. ![]() It was here that sailor Alexander Selkirk was marooned from 1704 to 1709, an experience that was fictionalised by Daniel Defoe in Robinson Crusoe after whom the archipelago’s main island is now named. philippii is the second smallest species of fur seal and lives only on the Juan Fernández archipelago and one or two nearby islands in the Pacific Ocean, hundreds of miles off the coast of Chile. ![]() ![]() Frequently selected as assigned reading for middle school students, The Breadwinner won the Peter Pan Award and the Middle East Book Award. ![]() Her book Women of the Afghan War is the outgrowth of her conversations with women in the refugee camps, and her interviews with children there prompted her to write The Breadwinner. Prior to beginning the series, Ellis spent several months interviewing Afghan refugees in Pakistan. ![]() Four sequels followed it: Parvana’s Journey Mud City My Name is Parvana and One More Mountain. Exploring themes of human connection, maturation and bravery, and the repression of women, The Breadwinner was critically acclaimed upon its release and has had over 40 print runs in the United States alone. It centers on an 11-year-old girl named Parvana who, due to her family’s circumstances, is forced to defy the Taliban and their repressive laws to become the breadwinner for her family. The Breadwinner, also known as Parvana, is a 2000 children’s novel by Canadian author and activist Deborah Ellis. ![]() |