![]() ![]() Their chance encounter turns into an unforgettable weekend, and against the backdrop of the lighthouse-obsessed town, the two of them forge a deep connection, opening their hearts, baring their souls, and revealing secrets long kept hidden.īut as they grow closer, and as the lighthouse glows ever brighter, a startling discovery about Ryan leaves Amy questioning everything she thought she knew. The town's lighthouse-dormant for over thirty years and famously haunted-has inexplicably started shining, and its mysterious glow is sparking feverish gossip throughout the spooked community.Īmy Tucker is only visiting for the night and has no plans to get caught up in the hysteria, but that changes when she meets Ryan, the loyal, hard-working son of a ranch owner who lives on the outskirts of town. Something strange is happening in Seabrook. Enchanting, mysterious, and deeply romantic, The Lighthouse follows a young woman's breathtaking journey far from home to discover where she truly belongs. ![]()
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![]() ![]() (Editor) Unexpected: Eleven Mysterious Stories, Scholastic (New York, NY), 2005. (And photographer) ABC Kids, Philomel (New York, NY), 2000. The Executioner's Daughter, Holt (New York, NY), 2000. The Ghost Stallion, Holt ( New York, NY), 1999. ![]() The Spider's Web, illustrated by Erica Magnus, Milkweed Editions (Minneapolis, MN) 1999. Torch Fishing with the Sun, illustrated by Fabricio Vanden Broeck, Boyds Mills Press (Honesdale, PA), 1999. Nancy Goldstein, Milkweed Editions (Minneapolis, MN), 1996. The Long Silk Thread: A Grandmother's Legacy to Her Granddaughter, illustrated by Grayce Bochak, Boyds Mills Press (Honesdale, PA), 1995.īehind the Bedroom Wall, illustrated by A. ![]() Manchester High School, Manchester, CT, English teacher. Williams, Laura Ellen Williams) Personalīorn in Korea. ![]() ![]() ![]() From Rita Lorraine Hubbard and rising star Oge More comes the inspirational story of Mary Walker, a woman whose long life spanned from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement, and who–with perseverance and dedication–proved that you’re never too old to learn. At 114, she was the last remaining member of her family. By age 68, she had worked numerous jobs, including cooking, cleaning, babysitting, and selling sandwiches to raise money for her church. ![]() ![]() At age 15, she was freed, and by age 20, she was married and had her first child. In 1848, Mary Walker was born into slavery. Genre: Picture Book, Children’s Nonfiction, BiographyĪBOUT : Imagine learning to read at the age of 116! Discover the true story of Mary Walker, the nation’s oldest student who did just that, in this picture book from a Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator and a rising star author. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Madeo and Jude take in a fellow magi after he’s attacked, part of helping Logan means being assigned to a team, permanently. But it’s pretty clear humans are on top, and they’re loving the power they have over the other two species. Both shifters and magi are tagged like cattle to identify and discriminate against them easier, with magi being the bottom of the food chain, and the shifters having slightly more rights. Essentially brothers, the two are forced to work for the Non-Human Specialties Operations (NHSO), helping shifter teams take out taragorians, beings from another dimension. ![]() Madeo is the weaver and Jude is his focus. Madeo and Jude are dyads, a bonded magi pair. This was a completely new (at least in my experience) take on shifters and magic. ![]() The Scars that Bind Us is one of those stories that absolutely turns what we know about something on its head. ![]() ![]() I read this book in two sittings which was roughly 6-7 hours… and damn I don’t even know where to begin. Book Factsįormat: e-Arc ✨ I received an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review ✨ Review To end what the Blood Queen has begun, Poppy might have to become what she has been prophesied to be-what she fears the most.Īs the Harbinger of Death and Destruction. Ancient primal powers have already stirred, revealing the horror of what began eons ago. ![]() Together, Poppy and Casteel must embrace traditions old and new to safeguard those they hold dear-to protect those who cannot defend themselves. Not if she has any hope of building a future where both kingdoms can reside in peace. With the strength of the Primal of Life’s guards behind her, and the support of the wolven, Poppy must convince the Atlantian generals to make war her way-because there can be no retreat this time. Nothing will stop Poppy from freeing her King and destroying everything the Blood Crown stands for. The magnitude of what the Blood Queen has done is almost unthinkable. Casteel Da’Neer knows all too well that very few are as cunning or vicious as the Blood Queen, but no one, not even him, could’ve prepared for the staggering revelations. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Decameron’s trick is that it does not offer a simple answer. Although Boccaccio laments the dissolution of social bonds in his Introduction, the hundred stories recounted by the brigata raise different questions: Which bonds are worth saving? How should we live? For whom should we have compassion? And how should we structure society once the plague has passed? ![]() Safely in the countryside, they do not ruminate on the conditions of the plague. After the Introduction, Boccaccio’s brigata-the group of seven young women and three young men who narrate the Decameron’s tales-escapes ravaged Florence. Reading these recent pieces, one might believe that the Decameron is mostly about the Black Death of 1348, but the plague takes up a relatively tiny fraction of the work. Commentators have astutely recognized the similarities between Giovanni Boccaccio’s description of plague-stricken Italy and our new normal as COVID-19 wreaks havoc across the globe. The fourteenth-century Italian masterpiece is “on Everyone’s Coronavirus Reading List” and “shows us how to survive coronavirus.” Decameron-inspired book clubs and collections of Coronavirus tales are popping up all over the Internet. This is part of a series on the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. ![]() ![]() She explains that her mate used to explore there, and that it's full of fierce wildcats that fight to survive, claiming that "those savages are a scourge on the name of all good cats." She looks at a picture of her mate, saying "Strange that none of them have your ginger fur. Tiny discovers a hole in the fence that leads to the forest, but doesn't explore. One day, their Twolegs take them outside to play. And she never says it or tries to make it obvious, but Tiny thinks that she likes his littermates better. Their mother, Quince, insists that the two bigger kits should play with him, but they only do so reluctantly - if they do at all. The Rise of Scourge is narrated by the eponymous character, but he wasn't always the feared leader of BloodClan - he starts his life as a runt named Tiny, bullied by his brother and sister, Socks and Ruby. The Rise of Scourge is a standalone manga, starting during the events of Bluestar's Prophecy about a half generation before the main series, and ending during the events of The Darkest Hour. ![]() ![]() ![]() But “The End of the Myth” has a shadow theme. ![]() Just who was welcome in that west-facing “haven,” Greg Grandin explains, was never as simple as Americans liked to proclaim. It is the mission of this fine, elegantly written history to explore the ever-shifting role of the frontier in the American story. “At the very worst,” Roosevelt declared, “there was always the possibility of climbing into a covered wagon and moving west where the untilled prairies afforded a haven for men to whom the East did not provide a place.” ![]() In a speech in 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt reminded a San Francisco audience of what had always distinguished the United States from other nations since its earliest days. THE END OF THE MYTH From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America By Greg Grandin ![]() ![]() Nick Thomas-Symonds’s new biography shows us a Wilson we do not know: a visionary, ‘a kind and generous man’, driven by his father’s long periods of unemployment to make a better world. ![]() It was partially rescued by Ben Pimlott in his 1993 biography, though even he saw Wilson as a mere tactician, albeit a very good one. His reputation suffered a catastrophic decline in the immediate aftermath of his premiership. ‘His face,’ we replied smugly.īritain has never quite forgiven Wilson for his cleverness. ‘What are the two worst things about Harold Wilson?’, we asked. But in 1968 we loftily despised Wilson for twisting and turning to stay out of Vietnam and keep his party together. ![]() Had Wilson not firmly resisted pressure from President Lyndon Johnson to send troops to Vietnam, Kellner and I were both old enough to have fought there. ‘Our generation owes an apology to the shades of Harold Wilson,’ the polling guru Peter Kellner once told me. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The application of conceptual metaphor theory on literary texts helps in a better understanding of how different feelings are communicated through metaphors. The study adopts insights from the conceptual metaphor theory (CMT) by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson (1980) as a model of analysis on selected metaphors from the novel. The paper investigates the ways the experiences of traumatic stress are communicated via metaphors. Therefore, the main focus of the current paper is to investigate the metaphorical representation of trauma stress in Eric Walters' We All Fall Down (2006). There are many stylistic attempts to examine the trauma in 9/11 literature(Jaff and Al-Jumaili 2020 Al-Jumaili and Jaff 2020 Jaff 2020), however, no study attempted to discuss Eric Walters' We All Fall Down (2006) stylistically. ![]() |