![]() The art style wasn't my favorite, it was nice and simple which made the story easy to follow, but it was very stereotypical "manga". All of these small details just added up and made the reading experience 10x better. The appearance of the characters were spot on. There were quotes in the graphic novel that came straight from the book. They hit all of the major plot points of the book and even added a couple details that added to the plot. This graphic novel was very similar to the book, which I really appreciated. ![]() ![]() I know you aren't supposed to judge a book by it's cover but I think judging a graphic novel by it's cover is acceptable. I usually don't read that many book to graphic novel adaptations but the cover art looked promising. So, when I saw this at the library I had to pick it up. And the two uncover the truth of what has really brought them together and the lengths their country will go to in order to keep its secrets. Now, Day is in a race for his family’s survival, while June tries desperately to avenge her brother’s death. One day June’s brother is murdered and Day becomes the prime suspect. But his motives are not as sinister as they often they seem. Born into the slums of the Republic’s Lake Sector, fifteen-year-old Day is the country’s most wanted criminal. ![]() Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a military prodigy. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The story is interesting to children, it offers children a variety of things to think about/consider and question, it is age-appropriate, it includes a rich and thick plot, it includes a problem and a resolution, it utilizes style and language that is appropriate for children, and it includes realistic and convincing characters.The illustrations were accurate, they corresponded to the text, they held the children's interest, and they enhanced and added to the story. ![]() This book met a lot of the qualifications of a quality picture book. The genre of the book is Fable, and it is appropriate for children in Preschool through Third Grade. This goes along with my topic of families and shows a diverse family structure. ![]() This story has an accurate representation of this culture group, including accurate dialects, and also highlights several moral lessons. She finds out in the end that she should have listened to her grandmother all along. She goes through the normal plot of the original story, except there is a constant reminder for the reader of her grandmother's words. The main character Leola, an African American girl raised by her grandmother, goes against her grandmother's words and walks out of sight and into the woods. This retelling of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" does a lot of things right. ![]() ![]() I left Washington in 1981 and am astonished to discover how many people I knew, subjects of this book, remain, anxiously plying their trade. They become part of a system that rewards, more than anything, self-perpetuation." ![]() Politicians, lobbyists, consultants and "media personalities" convene in a ritual of outward charm and inner fear, "a game played by the nation's most ambitious and insecure class."Īnxiety haunts those in "the Inner Ring, the place where decisions are made, where one is privy to the information that allows them to be 'in the know.' 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But something isn?t right at the motel, something haunting and scary. Viv Delaney wants to move to New York City, and to help pay for it she takes a job as the night clerk at the Sun Down Motel in Fell, New York. Something hasn't been right at the roadside Sun Down Motel for a very long time, and Carly Kirk is about to find out why in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls. The Sun Down Motel Simone St James € 22.99 This item arrived at our Amsterdam store within the past 8 weeks If not in stock, the expected delivery time to our store for this item will be 7-10 working days. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Norrbotten became her destiny in 1919, the year she and her husband moved north to the Sandträsk Sanatorium where he had been hired as medical superintendent. She acquired a wide readership with her novel Hitom himlen (1946 This Side of Heaven) after many years of a distinguished writing career. I simply murdered her.Īronson, who published seventeen books, is best known for her depictions of life in the ‘wasteland’ of Norrbotten province. She wanted to be cautious – I pounded her with evidence. I overwhelmed her with my heartless proof the moment we started talking about something. Kurt: The horrible thing about it is that I also killed her another way, besides sending her into the jaws of danger. She seems to be obsessed by the prospect of being literally talked to death, like the victim in her play Dockdans (1928 A Doll’s Dance): The works of Stina Aronson (1892-1956) live and breathe under the constant threat that the personal (the other) language, her personal experience of the self and the world, will be “strangled with the soul’s fingers”. ![]() ![]() Award, and a four-time finalist for the Women Writing the West Willa Award. In addition, she was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award, the Mountain and Plains Booksellers Assn. ![]() Sandra is the recipient of the Women Writing the West Willa Award for New Mercies, and two-time winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award, for The Chili Queen and Tallgrass. Turning to fiction in 1990, Sandra has published eight novels, including Prayers For Sale. ![]() They include Sacred Paint, which won the National Cowboy Hall of Fame Western Heritage Wrangler Award, and The Quilt That Walked to Golden, recipient of the Independent Publishers Assn. While a reporter, she began writing the first of ten nonfiction books. Many of her experiences have been incorporated into her novels. A staff member for twenty-five years (and the magazine’s first female bureau chief,) she covered the Rocky Mountain region, writing about everything from penny-stock scandals to hard-rock mining, western energy development to contemporary polygamy. ![]() Sandra’s novels with their themes of loyalty, friendship, and human dignity have been translated into a dozen foreign languages and have been optioned for films.Ī journalism graduate of the University of Denver, Sandra began her writing career as a reporter with Business Week. Description: Award-winning author SANDRA DALLAS was dubbed “a quintessential American voice” by Jane Smiley, in Vogue Magazine. ![]() ![]() ![]() Drethi is drawn to flawed and disturbed characters, whom she loves to put through the wringer before she gives them the Happily Ever After that suits their flaws and personalities. When COVID hit worldwide she decided to use her spare time creatively and wrote her very first series. She is all about angst and dark themes in her books, with a side of psychology.ĭrethi loves to turn negatives into positives, which is how she became an author. ![]() When she’s not busy planning a special day, she can be found planning out ways to put her characters through hell. Check the author's complete content warnings before proceeding.ĭrethi Anis lives close to DC with her husband, where she runs her own wedding planning business. *This book isn't listed in the Romance category, and Axel shouldn't be considered a hero. even though I already belonged to someone else. He was fixated on me and would never stop chasing me. Manipulative, cold, and remorseless, Axel Trimalchio was a certified psychopath hiding in plain sight. The world adored him, but no one knew the devil lurking underneath the beautiful mask-no one except for me. He had wedged himself into my life, cornering me with nowhere to run. It was too late by the time I found the monster hiding under my bed. I recognized his smell lingering within my home. There is no Prince Charming, only an irredeemable villain and the object of his desire. This dark book is a standalone by USA Today Bestselling Author, Drethi Anis. ![]() |