![]() The next day her father abandoned her on a legendary island filled with thieves and little food. It’s been four years since the night she watched her mother drown during an unforgiving storm. Synopsis: As the daughter of the most powerful trader in the Narrows, the sea is the only home seventeen-year-old Fable has ever known. If you like YA fiction with amazing characters, writing, and world-building, as well as a well layered plot, then you should totally check out the Fable Duology! Plus, there are pirates! And romance! And a high seas adventure!! ![]() I actually enjoyed Fable so much that I bought Young’s other books as soon as I finished the story. Beautiful imagery and powerful lines captivated me throughout both books. I love Adrienne Young’s writing, which sounds almost poetic at times. Isn’t this picture from Wednesday Books gorgeous? I adore these stunning covers, and when you put them together – absolute perfection!!!įable was one of my favorite reads of 2020, and it completely entranced me. ![]() Today, that author and book series is: The Fable Duology by Adrienne Young I’m often moved by passages and lines from the books I read, and I thought this would be a great way to show the love!! Many thanks to all the wonderful writers who inspire, empower, entertain, and make people think. Hey there! Today, I have another Loving the Lines for you! Loving the Lines is dedicated to books with stand-out quotes that need to be shared. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Not everyone is welcoming, and Red's experience as a wishtree is more important than ever. Along with a crow named Bongo and other animals who seek refuge in Red's hollows, this wishtree watches over the neighborhood. Red is the neighborhood wishtree-people write their wishes on pieces of cloth and tie them to Red's branches. Red is an oak tree who is many rings old. Trees can't tell jokes, but they can certainly tell stories. About the Book An oak tree and a crow help their neighbors embrace their differences in this beautiful, nuanced middle-grade novel from Newbery Medalist and New York Times-bestselling author Katherine Applegate.Īn oak tree and a crow help their neighbors embrace their differences in this beautiful, nuanced, New York Times-bestselling middle-grade novel from Newbery Medalist author Katherine Applegate. ![]() ![]() ![]() I picked up this book right after I had finished Priceless and had intended just to read the last story but then I decided I might as well read the entire book. Note: this book includes light BDSM, Daddy kink/roleplay, reverse harem, bondage, erotic humiliation, and spanking, as well as steamy vanilla encounters.ġ00% of the proceeds will be donated to Feeding America.Ĭrave by Miranda Silver is a collection of seven erotica short stories, the last story (The Wedding And The Wolf) is an epilogue for Miranda Silver's other book Priceless. "The Wedding and the Wolf" features characters from the book Priceless, but can be read as a standalone. ![]() Perfect for a bite-sized treat before bed - or any time. And in a spin on the Big Bad Wolf, Christina begs her fiancé Patrick to unleash his inner beast on their wedding night.Ĭrave is a 40,000 word collection of naughty, dirty, steamy stories. The singer in an all-girl punk band lusts after a virginal guitarist. And spying on a sexy neighbor leads to trouble - in the best way.īoundaries are shattered between strangers at a silent retreat, while a shy girl yearns to be taught by a dominant older man. A tease acts out her ultimate fantasy with a group of guys. What happens when your deepest fantasy - the one you crave most - comes true?Ī busy lawyer longs to be disciplined by her crush. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Spike is swathed in white as a mummy, and Plank is a skeleton, and Splat's usual self-confidence is shaken. ![]() But his classmates have been equally creative. His mom is sympathetic and quickly comes up with a creative spider costume of her own design, and Splat sets forth for school with his usual high hopes and his own cheering squad, a black spider in a jar and Seymour the mouse in costume as well. "I'm a scary witch's cat," he tells himself.īut Splat's imagined glory begins to look like a disaster when he trips and breaks his witchy broom. As always, Splat is a strong-minded little cat who this time sees himself copping the prize as the scariest cat in the classroom. Rob Scotton's first-grade cat is back in his new Halloween story, Scaredy-Cat, Splat! (Splat the Cat) (Harper, 2010). P-L-E-A-S-E?" said Splat without taking a breath. So please, can I take the spider to school. Wimpydimple is going to tell a ghost story, and there is a prize for the scariest cat, and I want to be the scariest cat! "We have all made jack o' lanterns and everyone is dressing up in costumes, and Mrs. ![]() ![]() ![]() What explains such stupefying disparities? Robinson, two energetic, widely respected development scholars, start with a bit of perspective: Even in today’s glum economic climate, the average American is seven times as prosperous as the average Mexican, 10 times as prosperous as the average Peruvian, about 20 times as prosperous as the average inhabitant of sub-Saharan Africa and about 40 times as prosperous as the average citizen of such particularly desperate African countries as Mali, Ethiopia and Sierra Leone. It may, in fact, be a bit of a masterpiece.ĭaron Acemoglu and James A. It’s bracing, garrulous, wildly ambitious and ultimately hopeful. You might expect it to be a bleak, numbing read. “Why Nations Fail” is a sweeping attempt to explain the gut-wrenching poverty that leaves 1.29 billion people in the developing world struggling to live on less than $1.25 a day. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nor could the arrival of a certain Mr Snape, the rude and arrogant Alpha who deems Harry “barely tolerable. After all, it couldn’t possibly affect him. And despite the ability which Miss Austen has shown in working out the story, I for one should put Pride and Prejudice far lower if it did not contain what seem to me the very masterpieces of Miss Austen’s humour and of her faculty of character-creationmasterpieces who may indeed admit John Thorpe, the Eltons, Mrs. Nothing much interests him apart from his books and the letters he receives from his brothers, so when the news arrives that the Longbottom heir has returned to take ownership of his father’s estate, Harry doesn’t make much of it. ![]() Now that most of his siblings have moved on, Harry occupies his time the best he can while dreaming of London high society. Darcy acts snobbishly during his first meeting with Elizabeth that eventually makes her hate him. Pride is pronounced through the character of Darcy and prejudice is highlighted through Elizabeth. He would not say that he is lonely, just that the days are too long. As the title of the novel suggests, both pride and prejudice play a vital role in the novel. ![]() At twenty years old, Harry Weasley is a clever, if somewhat sheltered Omega who has hardly ever left the small town of Hogsmeade, where he grew up. Implied/Referenced Underage ProstitutionĮngland, 1814.Charlie Weasley/Original Male Character(s). ![]() ![]() ![]() The title of the book comes from an incident where hundreds of ducks died in a toxic accident in the oil fields.ĭucks begins with Beaton describing her early life growing up in Cape Breton, an economically depressed region of Canada, with her parents and three sisters. Beaton started working on Ducks as a five-part webcomic that she posted to Tumblr in 2014. Ducks is a coming-of-age story and a memoir of the two years Beaton spent living and working as a woman in the male-dominated oil fields located in in Alberta, Canada. Kate Beaton is a Canadian cartoonist and comic book artist best known for being the creator of the award-winning comic strip Hark! A Vagrant. It is 460-pages long and was published by Jonathan Cape on 15 October 2022. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is an autobiographical graphic novel by New York Times bestselling author Kate Beaton. ![]() ![]() Anastasia soon suspects that these two ladies with sharp metal teeth are not truly her aunts, that the boy who wanders the hall wearing a birdcage is not an insane gardener, and that she is not safe if she remains in the old asylum. ![]() She is locked in her room at night, given mysterious lumps to eat (so she starts eating moths), and told not to go outside or she will be eaten by the Beast (not to mention the attack poodles). ![]() Agony's Asylum for the Criminally Insane. After her parents die in a vacuum cleaner accident, two very old and previously unknown aunts, Prim and Prude, pick her up from school, drug her, and take her to the abandoned St. She isn't remarkable in any way, except for having very dreadful things happen to her. ![]() ![]() ![]() You really get a sense of the town’s desperation and isolation as the drought ruins their farms and livelihoods. ![]() I enjoyed the back-country Australian setting of Kiewarra and colloquialisms that the characters used. The chapters are just the right length to move you ahead in the story. What The Dry gets right: The Dry is written in an easy-to-read, no-nonsense style of writing. Aaron Falk, a policeman and former outcast of Kiewarra, comes back to pay his respects and ends up investigating the murders that were supposedly committed by one of his childhood friends. The Dry is a murder mystery that takes place in a small town experiencing drought and soaring temperatures in Australia. Alone, in that monstrous wound, Falk put his face in his hands and, just once, screamed himself. He stood on shaky legs, his vision blurred, as all around cockatoos whirled and screamed into the scorching red sky. ![]() ![]() But Tucker wants her he keeps perusing her. ![]() Tucker and Sabrina hook up one night in tucker's truck but Sabrina doesn't do boyfriends she has a plan get into law school get out of her home with her mean grandma and creep of a stepfather. Review : I loved this book I loved this series sabrina is tough and Tucker is sweet If he wants a life with the woman of his dreams, he’ll have to convince her that some goals can only be made with an assist. The problem is, Sabrina’s heart is locked up tight, and the fiery brunette is too stubborn to accept his help. It doesn’t hurt that the soon-to-be mother of his child is beautiful, whip-smart, and keeps him on his toes. On the ice, he’s fine staying out of the spotlight, but when it comes to becoming a daddy at the age of twenty-two, he refuses to be a bench warmer. Tucker believes being a team player is as important as being the star. ![]() ![]() One night of sizzling heat and surprising tenderness is all she’s willing to give John Tucker, but sometimes, one night is all it takes for your entire life to change.īut the game just got a whole lot more complicated. Her path to escaping her shameful past certainly doesn’t include a gorgeous hockey player who believes in love at first sight. ![]() College senior Sabrina James has her whole future planned out: graduate from college, kick butt in law school, and land a high-paying job at a cutthroat firm. ![]() |