![]() Louisiana needs the prize money to rescue her cat, Archie, from the Very Friendly Animal Shelter, where “they will feed Archie three times a day and scratch him behind the ears exactly the way he likes,” according to her eccentric grandmother. At the first lesson she meets Louisiana Elefante, a frail girl with “swampy lungs” who is also determined to win the contest. ![]() Raymie decides to learn baton-twirling for the talent portion of the contest. ![]() She will win the 1975 Little Miss Florida Central Tire contest, and when her father sees the news stories about her triumph, he will leave the dental hygienist he has run off with and come back to his newly famous daughter. In Kate DiCamillo’s newest middle-grade novel, Ramie Nightingale, ten-year-old Raymie Clarke has cooked up a plan to convince her father to return home. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Thread comes from the Red Star, actually another planet. Humans have colonized the planet Pern in the Rukbat star system, but have lost much of their technology and history (including their origin on Earth) due to periodic onslaughts of Thread, a mycorrhizoid spore that voraciously consumes all organic material, including humans and their crops, given the opportunity. ![]() The two novellas included in the first novel, Dragonflight, made McCaffrey the first woman to win a Hugo Award for writing fiction as well as the first to win a Nebula Award. The series (as of 2022) comprises 24 novels and two collections of short stories. Beginning in 2003, her middle child Todd McCaffrey has written Pern novels, both solo and jointly with Anne. Dragonriders of Pern is a science fantasy series written primarily by American author Anne McCaffrey, who initiated it in 1967. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sleazy and about to do something criminal. ![]() He reminds me of the rich gangsters from those classic films my mom used to watch. His styled hair is slicked back, and a large gold watch is prominent on his wrist. His expensive pinstriped suit is flawless, and it looks as if he just put it on. Now he's all business, looking as if he’s come from a serious meeting. He isn't the relaxed, just off work guy he was when he picked us up from the mall. Now he resembles the man from the articles I researched the previous week, suave and handsome. Arabella's fiancé looks different than when I last saw him. I'm in the office only a few minutes before Jack walks in and interrupts my work. My main goal was to publish a novel, or multiple novels. Writing had always been my career of choice. I was writing a lot for a local blog¾something unchanged from my memories. When she's tucked into bed, I go over to her office, ready to dive into my most recent project, an upcoming post on the social scene in our city, the very scene Arabella is a major part of. Arabella keeps every detail locked up tight. Despite being maid of honour, I have been given very little information about it all. The lunch was a chance to discuss the upcoming wedding that is only a couple of weeks away. Now, I’m certain it's more than a calming tactic. I’d tried voicing my concern about her drinking at lunch, but she brushed it off as stress. The following day, I help a drunken Arabella into her bed after another liquid lunch, one at which I'm glad I didn't drink much. ![]() ![]() ![]() Can she make even the System itself fear the Drone Marauder? Drone Rising is a hard Sci-fi LitRPG series. Faced with enemies both without and within, with even the all-powerful System standing against her, Benning will need every skill and talent she has, every ounce of her astonishing will just to survive. She'll make her hunters fear her name, one way or the other, no matter what it takes or who has to suffer in the process. ![]() The Stellar Corsair is done following the Collective's laws and rules. With the Fleet seeking her, intending to steal her hard-earned levels and rob her of her accomplishments, though, that's no longer an option. Weber(Author) 4. See search resultsfor this author Playwars aka Alex S. Weber Page Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Weber (Author) Visit Amazon's Playwars aka Alex S. She's avoided them when she could and tried to convince them to leave her be when she couldn't. Dungeon Engineer: A Dungeon Core Fantasy Paperback Novemby Playwars aka Alex S. Bounty hunters, vengeful enemies, and near-omnipotent Nobles have hounded her through the Collective. ![]() When the all-powerful System tries to destroy you, you can accept your fate - or bring it down! Benning Kidd has been hunted since the day the System tried and failed to destroy her, turning her from a Drone into a Citizen in the process. ![]() ![]() I highly recommend this holiday novella, it sure kick started me and put me into the holiday spirit. What more could you need to kick off the holiday season? I giggled, yelled a couple of times, smiled, and got a little steamed up. Entrance and side of log cabin, Birch Lake, Alaska. There are laughs, shenanigans, Christmas tree capers, sexy times, and our favorite (and not so favorite) characters from Behind My Words. Savannah Miller, the 28 year old daughter of New City Mayor Doug Fox, is kidnapped and held captive in a remote cabin in Mexico. Two Chinese-American children with Christmas tree, toys and gifts, Portland, Oregon. I liked it! Blake, Spencer, G, Lisa, Kim and Shannen are all back in this short holiday read to celebrate Christmas at the Cabin.Ĭhristmas at the Cabin starts off with a bang and it just keeps on going from there. ![]() Drake (Author) 104 ratings 4.6 on Goodreads 109 ratings Kindle 2.99 Read with Our Free App Paperback 5.99 1 New from 5.99 Read more Print length 52 pages Language English Publication date NovemDimensions 5 x 0. ![]() What happens when that holiday novella features the characters from Behind My Words? Christmas at the Cabin Paperback Novemby J.L. So what happens when your mood towards Christmas is totally bah humbug and grinch-like and one of your favorite authors writes a holiday novella? You read it of course! ![]() ![]() ![]() “Showing a keen understanding of loss, Isler’s compassionate debut is written with stark honesty, showcasing various responses to tragedy. ![]() ![]() Gripping, moving, and inspiring- Isler’s debut is a must-read for generations to come.Īdvance Praise for Emily Barth Isler’s AfterMath: Turning to her love of math and new friends for comfort, Lucy discovers that, just as grief and pain are infinite, so is the power of love and friendship. However, their new town experienced a devastating school shooting just four years earlier, so it is now up to Lucy to navigate not only her own grief, but her classmates’ traumas as well. Isler uses her voice to create a narrative around the critical and devastating topic of gun violence in an effort to raise awareness and spark discussions between kids and their parents, teachers, and families.ĪfterMath tells the story of twelve-year-old Lucy, whose younger brother died from a congenital-heart defect and whose family has moved to a new town in search of a fresh start. ![]() Described by actor and comedian Amy Schumer as “a gift to the culture,” this middle grade novel is a heart-wrenching book that deals with life after loss and is an empowering story for any child that has ever felt alone in their grief and sorrow. MINNEAPOLIS, MN- This September, in partnership with Carolrhoda Books®, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group™, Emily Barth Isler will release her debut novel, AfterMath. ![]() ![]() This chapter, titled “August,” ends with him driving the panicked girls off to parts unknown. At the beach, the two girls meet a man and, out of innocence and admiration for his magnificent car, accept his offer of a ride. ![]() Each of the novel’s thirteen chapters is told from the perspective of a different female character, beginning with eleven-year-old Alyona Golosovskaya, who is looking after her younger sister, Sophia, while their mother works during the day. Women novelists have been ingeniously dismantling this convention of late, both within the crime-fiction genre (Gillian Flynn’s “ Gone Girl”) and outside of it, as in Julia Phillips’s invigoratingly hard-to-classify new novel, “ Disappearing Earth” (Knopf). ![]() The violence redoubles her loss is just the means to his gain. In “ Dead Girls,” Alice Bolin writes about television series, like “ Twin Peaks” and “ True Detective,” in which “the victim’s body is a neutral arena on which to work out male problems.” The girl is merely an opportunity for the detective to confront and to redeem his own capacity for violence: confront it by discovering the identity of the culprit (often an authority figure, not unlike the detective himself) and redeem it by capturing and punishing the culprit. A dead or missing girl is such a common device in crime fiction that its use now prompts raised eyebrows. ![]() ![]() ![]() For the longer story, go to my blog on this site. Check it out on Bandcamp (preferably) or wherever else you listen to music. New album! "Something to Hold" is out today. It hasn't arrived yet but I hear it is made of granite and I may need to reinforce the shelf. ![]() "Two Truths And A Lie" won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette!!! My first Hugo out of five nominations. "Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather" won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story! Go here for more info! For those keeping track, the story won the Nebula and the Locus Award and is currently still a finalist for the Hugo, the Eugie Foster, and now the WFA. "Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather" is a finalist for the World Fantasy Award. "Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather" won the Hugo Award and the Eugie Foster Memorial Award for short fiction!Īlso the new collection Lost Places is available for pre-order from your favorite indie bookstore or direct from the publisher, Small Beer Press. ![]() If not, stay tuned for other events as they're announced.Īlso, check out the amazing starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and ALA Booklist! ![]() If you're in Baltimore, come on out to the book launch party. The new publication date is May 2! The good news is that this gives you more time to pre-order from your favorite indie bookstore or direct from the publisher, Small Beer Press. My new collection Lost Places is slightly delayed. ![]() ![]() ![]() Additionally, he has also taught part-time faculties of Multnomah University and Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon. He has ministered in several countries across the globe including China. EPM aims to meet the needs of the unfed, unreached, uneducated, unborn, unsupported and unreconciled people around the globe.īefore founding his nonprofit organization, Randy Alcorn served as a co-pastor for over a decade Good Shepherd Church in Oregon. ![]() He is the founder of Eternal Perspective Ministries an organization that’s dedicated spreading bible teaching and helping the needy. ![]() Randy Alcorn is an English author of religion and spiritual, inspirational and general fiction books best known for his Ollie Chandler Series. The Resolution for Men (With: Stephen Kendrick)ĭoes the Birth Control Pill Cause Abortions? We Shall See God (With: Charles Haddon Spurgeon) Heaven: Biblical Answers to Common Questions Heaven: A Comprehensive Guide to Everything the Bible Says About Our Eternal Home ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He made all-district in football at Bishop Watterson High School in Dublin, Ohio. ![]() Then-Ohio State coach Urban Meyer with wife Shelley Meyer, son Nathan Meyer and daughter Gisela Meyer celebrate after the team won the Rose Bowl on Jan. I changed my major to psychology like you were and I want to be a football coach,” Urban Meyer said with a laugh by phone on Wednesday. ![]() Nate Meyer called his father a few days later. Urban Meyer recalled Nate Meyer being back in Columbus on fall break from Cincinnati in 2018, after he’d spent a few days with the Buckeyes as they prepared to play Nebraska. That’s the same major Urban Meyer had as a student at Cincinnati, where he played football after a failed minor league baseball stint and eventually got into football coaching. Urban Meyer said that his son changed his major at Cincinnati from business to psychology after the fall of his freshman year. After that, I had a fall season that didn’t have football. “I fell in love with the whole environment and the people there,” Nate Meyer said. That experience ultimately planted the seed for him to become a football coach. Nate Meyer said he has a sense of the competition level from spending the summer before his freshman year working out with Ohio State’s football team. He joins one of the hottest programs in college football, as Fickell has led Cincinnati to a 22-5 record the past two seasons and a likely top-20 preseason ranking. Nate Meyer is looking forward to the experience to help him on his coaching path. ![]() |