![]() If you’ve ever felt disappointed in a love of any kind, betrayed in your expectations about what should have been or doubted God’s goodness in the hardships of it all, you’ll understand Orual as she tells us her story. She will have us hear her story: a story of her love for Psyche and the trickery of the god who wished to have her youngest sister as his bride. ![]() Orual is a compelling narrator: a strong female utterly convinced of the injustice done to her. His narrator is not the innocent Psyche, the beloved of Eros himself, but a character of Lewis’ own creation: Psyche’s older sister Orual, who addresses us by announcing that she’s come to lay out her case against the gods. Lewis takes an imaginative risk in his masterful retelling of the classic Cupid and Psyche myth. Lewis offers a tale that slips by stealth beneath those masks and releases us into the slow liberation of becoming our true selves. ![]() ![]() In Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold C.S. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Something stronger than fear…and way more bloody dangerous. ![]() Now we’ll have to work together not only to survive, but to save all those we’ve come to call family who live here.īecause there’s something connecting us. But I have a nasty suspicion that Grace isn’t as human as she thinks, and she’s the one keeping us trapped. It’s a truth universally known-at least according to Grace-that everything is my fault. The question is whether we’ll find a way out before I kill him…or run out of time. She is unaware that this school is for paranormal students, just as she is unaware of her own paranormal half. He might be Jaxon’s brother and ridiculously hot, but he’s a complete bona fide pain in my ass. She relocates to Alaska after the terrible death of her parents to enroll at Katmere Academy, where her cousin Macy studies, and her Uncle Finn serves as headmaster. Yet here I am, stuck in a strange, dangerous place with the worst of the supernaturals, the monster that other monsters fear: Hudson Vega. Including the existence of a world beyond my world called the Shadow Realm. Goodreads Most Anticipated YA Book of Novemberīarnes & Noble Most Anticipated New YA Releaseįinally find out what happened during those missing four months, as the thrilling adventure continues!Īfter Katmere, I shouldn’t be surprised by anything. ![]() The instant #1 New York Times Bestselling Series ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Griffin Brews had been around for thirty-plus years, and now their children managed it, allowing their parents to retire early. They’d settled in Polperro to run a coffee shop and bakery. She even made your favourite kind of rice.” The Griffin twins took after their Tamil mother, Leena, who’d been a Bollywood star before falling in love with Cadan Griffin, a Cornish-Indian cricket player. ![]() She wanted to let the sambar simmer a little longer. “I’m….” How do I finish the sentence? Panicked? In the middle of the biggest mistake I’ve ever made? Just slightly overcome by irrational fear? Nish moved forward to take Cactus from her arms while Vina led her inside. “For goodness sake.” “Motts? You okay?” She spun around and yanked the door open to find the welcome sight of her exgirlfriend, Pravina Griffin, and Vina’s twin brother, Nish. “Ahh!” She jumped when a rapid knocking on the door jolted her. ![]() ![]() As an entrepreneur and mother, Rowe is most concerned with putting family first, maintaining financial security, and doing something that makes an impact in the world. Like a tiny house, a tiny business is built on maintaining a laser focus on what is essential by living an intentional life. Eco-Bags Products founder Sharon Rowe says there's another way: go tiny. We fantasize about starting our own business, yet we're warned against falling into debt, working eighty hours a week, and coping with the pressure to grow. Too many of us feel trapped by work that keeps us from living our purpose. ![]() Sharon Rowe's simple shift in thinking is a profound idea, precisely what we need to hear. Description This is a powerful book-tiny is mighty. ![]() ![]() Arlo, a wealthy entrepreneur who invests in biotech, may be his father's last, best hope. Meanwhile, Spence's estranged son from his first marriage has come back into their lives. One day, feeling especially isolated, Pru meets a man, and the possibility of new romance blooms. With their daughter, Sarah, away at medical school, Pru must struggle on her own to care for him. The Great Man can't concentrate he falls asleep reading The New York Review of Books. Thirty years later, something is wrong with Spence. ![]() ![]() But when she falls in love with and marries Spence Robin, her hotshot young Shakespeare professor, her life takes a turn she couldn't have anticipated. ![]() Description A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Book - When Ohio-born Pru Steiner arrives in New York in 1976, she follows in a long tradition of young people determined to take the city by storm. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book was adapted into a 1955 film, directed by Elia Kazan and starring James Dean in his breakout role as Cal. Years later, the now-grown boys meet a girl named Abra, whose presence drives a wedge between the two. ![]() Just after the birth of the two sons, Cathy vanishes from their lives. The Trask family grows, adding a wife, Cathy, a Devil in Plain Sight, and sons Cal and Aron. When the kids set out to seek their fortunes, the land is settled by the wealthy Adam Trask. The Hamiltons, headed by patriarch Samuel Hamilton and wife Liza, initially settle into the valley with their nine kids. The novel concerns two families, the Trasks and the Hamiltons, who live in the Salinas Valley, California. The Hamilton family in the novel is based off that of Steinbeck's maternal grandfather. ![]() A 1952 novel by John Steinbeck, East of Eden was considered the author's most ambitious work. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Six chapters focus on each year of war and its aftermath, offering an adroit biographical and historical overview, followed by a selection of poems that chronicle the writers’ spirits, as they changed “from enthusiasm to pitiful weariness,” from hope to disillusion. During the war, Egremont writes, “the poets began to be lionized,” invited to give readings in elite salons and sought by publishers. Many of the author’s subjects are likely to be familiar to readers, including Rupert Brooke, Charles Sorley, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, Edward Thomas, Wilfred Owen and Robert Graves others, such as Edmund Blunden and Julian Grenfell, are lesser known today. On the centennial anniversary of the start of World War I, historian Egremont ( Forgotten Land: Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia, 2011, etc.) considers the intersecting lives and work of 11 British poets who were soldiers and esteemed contributors to the burgeoning genre of war poetry. Poetry reveals the devastating trajectory of war. ![]() ![]() Seeing Jace, Clarey, Isabelle, and Simon again was something that some might’ve felt was missing from the first book of the series. The adventure this time brings along some other familiar characters that we’ve all grown to love from Clare’s past books, and they were welcomed with open arms. ![]() That doesn’t mean their lives are in no less danger, however, and The Lost Book of the White pretty much shows how much that’s true. Unlike the first book of the series, Alec and Magnus have become fully committed to each other, their love unwavering and only growing more even with raising a child. This time around, Alec and Magnus are fully established in their relationship with each other, along with an adopted toddler son by the name of Max Lightwood-Bane, something that was realized in a previous book series of Clare’s The Shadowhunter Chronicles. ![]() ![]() Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu continue the adventures of Alec and Magnus with book two of The Eldest Curses Trilogy, The Lost Book of the White. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the framing story, Lazarus has decided that life is no longer worth living, but (in what is described as a reverse Arabian Nights scenario) will consent not to end his life as long as his companions will listen to his stories. The first half of the book takes the form of several novellas connected by Lazarus's retrospective narrative. ![]() Episodes from the life of Lazarus Long (birth name: Woodrow Wilson Smith), the oldest living human, now more than two thousand years old. One of Heinlein's (1907-88) best and longest science fiction books. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly rubbed and bruised, jacket still bright and unsunned, some yellowing to page block and page fore edges, price clipped, no inscriptions, slight lean, internally clean and tight, overall a vg copy for its age. First published in 1973 in the US by Putnam & Co, this is the first UK edition, first impression published by NEL of 1974. ![]() ![]() ![]() But then Callum Royal appears, a man who says he was best friends with her unknown, and now late, father. ![]() ![]() Struggling to make ends meet, and determined to climb out of the gutter, Ella is fiercely resolute and wants nothing more than to make something of herself, especially after the death of her mother. The novel follows Ella Harper, who has spent her entire life flitting from town to town with her unreliable mother. What followed was two days of confusion, occasional interest, boredom and antagonism. This book was recommended to me by several people, so I went out and borrowed it immediately. It felt like almost all of my Goodreads friends had read, devoured, and fallen in love with this novel and the subsequent series. Paper Princess had been stalking me for many months. Sometimes I look around at my surroundings and think, I don’t belong here.” Sometimes that feels too young to have lived the life I have. ![]() |