![]() ![]() Even Nina’s good friends wonder if Simon is supremely devoted-or dangerously possessive. Nina's sixteen-year-old son, Connor, embraces Simon as the father he wishes his dad could have been, but Maggie thinks she sees another side to this new man in their lives-a far darker side. ![]() His charm and affections help break through to a heart hardened by betrayal. A year-and-a-half after the accident, Nina considers herself a widow, even though the police never found a body. Following a chance encounter with Simon Fitch, a social studies teacher from her daughter Maggie's middle school, Nina finds love again and has hopes of putting her shattered life back together. Simon, a widower still grieving the suicide of his first wife, has found his dream girl in Nina. ![]() But Glen's gone-presumably drowned while fishing on his boat-so she can't confront him about the affair or any of his other misdeeds. ![]() Just because you love someone doesn’t mean you know them. Nina Garrity learned this lesson the hard way after discovering that her missing husband, Glen, had been leading a double life with another woman. ![]()
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![]() “ Tweet Cute delivers in every possible way: a perfect enemies-to-lovers romance, a whip-smart plotline, and endearingly real characters. ![]() Little do they know, while they’re publicly duking it out with snarky memes and retweet battles, they’re also falling for each other in real life - on an anonymous chat app Jack built.Īs their relationship deepens and their online shenanigans escalate - people on the internet are shipping them? - their battle gets more and more personal, until even these two rivals can’t ignore they were destined for the most unexpected, awkward, all-the-feels romance that neither of them expected. His relationship with the business that holds his future might be love/hate, but when Big League Burger steals his grandma’s iconic grilled cheese recipe, he’ll do whatever it takes to take them down, one tweet at a time.Īll’s fair in love and cheese - that is, until Pepper and Jack’s spat turns into a viral Twitter war. When he isn’t trying to duck out of his obscenely popular twin’s shadow, he’s busy working in his family’s deli. Her family may be falling apart, but their massive fast-food chain is booming - mainly thanks to Pepper, who is barely managing to juggle real life while secretly running Big League Burger’s massive Twitter account.Įnter Jack, class clown and constant thorn in Pepper’s side. Meet Pepper, swim team captain, chronic overachiever, and all-around perfectionist. I’ll be sharing an excerpt and my review today. ![]() This tour is being hosted by Wednesday Books. ![]() Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Tweet Cute by Emma Lord. ![]() ![]() Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus follows Achilles into war, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they have learned, everything they hold dear. Seduced by the promise of a glorious destiny, Achilles joins their cause. ![]() When word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, the men of Greece are called upon to lay siege to Troy in her name. As they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine, their bond blossoms into something far deeper-despite the displeasure of Achilles’ mother Thetis, a cruel sea goddess with a hatred of mortals.įate is never far from the heels of Achilles. ![]() Yet one day, Achilles takes the shamed prince under his wing and soon their tentative connection gives way to a steadfast friendship. ![]() Here he is nobody, just another unwanted boy living in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles.Īchilles, “best of all the Greeks,” is everything Patroclus is not-strong, beautiful, the child of a goddess-and by all rights their paths should never cross. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia. ![]() ![]() ![]() But in this brave new memoir, Arce digs deep to reveal the physical, financial, and emotional costs of the stunning secret that she, like many other high-achieving, successful individuals in the United States, had been forced to keep not only from her bosses, but even from her close st friends. ![]() The level of professi onal and financial success that she achieved was the very definition of the American dream. On the surface, Arce's story reads like a how-to manual for achieving the A merican dream: growing up in an apartment on the outskirts of San Antonio, she worked tirelessly, achieved academic excellence, and landed a coveted j ob on Wall Street, complete with a six-figure salary. A National Bestseller! What does an undocumented immigrant look like? What kind of family must she come from? How could she get into this country? What is the true price she must pay to remain in the United States? JULISSA ARCE knows firsthand that the most common, preconceived answers to those questions are sometimes far too simple-and often just plain wrong. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. ![]() A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Brokefang, the head of the Snowsdale wolf pack, summoned them to Dunlath to speak with the humans. The novel begins with Daine and Numair arriving at Dunlath, a fief in northern Tortall. Spoilers for all of Pierce’s previous work. Finally, she talks about how we can change and outgrow those biases. She also discusses how humans interact with each other and the ugly biases that everyone has. ![]() Pierce spends Wolf Speaker talking about how humans interact with the environment. For a book largely based around various philosophical debates about humanity, showing her sources is important. While some information is out of date, due to being published in 1994, it’s clear that Pierce cares about accuracy in her work. Pierce included a staggering amount of animal behavior theory in this book. Tamora Pierce’s Wolf Speaker starts with an acknowledgments section. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() River ‘Styx’ Nash knows one thing for certain in life - he was born and bred to wear a cut. A life she believes she is destined to always lead, until a horrific event sets her free.įleeing the absolute safety of all she has ever known, Salome is thrust into the world outside, a frightening world full of uncertainty and sin into the protective arms of a person she believed she would never see again. In the commune she calls home, Salome knows nothing of life beyond her strict faith, nor of life beyond the Fence - the fence that cages her, keeps her trapped in an endless cycle of misery. ![]() Salome knows only one way to live - under Prophet David’s rule. Many years ago, two children from completely different worlds forged a connection, a fateful connection, an unbreakable bond that would change their lives forever. A meeting that should never have happened. ![]() ![]() “Taken together form a work among the best that the science of anthropology has produced.” – The New York Times Book Review Whether read as ethnographic fact or creative fiction, it is the story of a remarkable journey that has left an indelible impression on the life of more than a million readers around the world. ![]() Castaneda’s now classic book remains controversial for the alternative way of seeing that it presents and the revolution in cognition it demands. ![]() ![]() The Teachings of Don Juan enthralled a generation of seekers dissatisfied with the limitations of the Western worldview. In 1968 University of California Press published an unusual manuscript by an anthropology student named Carlos Castaneda. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Annie is sent to an insane asylum hoping to remove Elsie from her life, but poor Annie’s torment is just beginning. It isn’t until they go to the wake of Elsie that Annie discovers she is being haunted by Elsie’s lost soul. School is soon cancelled due to the outbreak of influenza and the girls take advantage of this by attending wakes of those who have passed, enjoying the free cakes and cookies. After that, Annie joins the other girls in their taunting and cruelty toward Elsie. Elsie is mean to Annie, but Annie is afraid to leave Elsie despite her mean spirit until the week Elsie goes missing from school. At first Annie is appreciative of the friendship until she realizes Elsie is a social outcast. ![]() Annie is immediately greeted by Elsie who demands instant friendship. One for Sorrow gives us Annie, an only child who has recently moved to a small town. Her newest book, One for Sorrow: A Ghost Story, can easily be classified as fantasy with a some useful crossover into historical fiction. I never hesitate, and she has never disappointed. America’s Review: Mary Downing Hahn is an author I quickly give to any middle school student asking for a ghost story. The mean girls who chanted this discover that they can’t cheat death as quickly as they can wish it upon others. Bookshelf Blurb: “In flew Enza” was a playground chant, but influenza was a real epidemic in 1918. ![]() ![]() ![]() Will lets us know on the opening page that he’s telling the story eight years after the fact. Along the way he paints a vivid picture of what life was like in rural Georgia at the turn of the twentieth century, with highlights such as the arrival of automobiles and the social tension between the “lintheads” who work in the cotton mills and the merchants and professionals who live on their own side of the tracks. In Cold Sassy Tree Will narrates how the scandal played out in this small town. The announcement causes a scandal in the town of Cold Sassy, Georgia, since Grandma Blakeslee has been dead only three weeks and Miss Simpson is half Grandpa’s age, and a Yankee. Grandpa then informs the family that he intends to marry Miss Love Simpson. On July 5, 1906, Grandpa Blakeslee instructs his grandson, 14-year-old Will Tweedy, to summon relatives to a family meeting. ![]() ![]() ![]() The turning point in the story is when Mooch’s father sneezes and wants to go to bed, in turn Mooch cleans up the dust to make his father feel better and proud of his little hole under the hill. ![]() Eventually Mooch’s father comments on the mess and slowly Mooch starts to tidy his little hole under the hill all to make his father happy. Mooch explains to his father that he likes to see all his things and mooch proudly gives his father a tour of his little hole under the hill. Clothes on door-knobs, lamps, pictures, and shoes on the table. ![]() Little does Mooch know that unlike him his father doesn’t like clutter and isn’t impressed with where mooch stores his items. One day Mooch receives a letter and reads that his father will shortly be visiting him and his little hole under the hill. Mooch the rat lives in a little hole under the hill and loves his place and all that is stored inside. ‘Mooch the Messy’ Written by Marjorie Sharmat and excellently illustrated by Ben Shecter. ![]() |