Several drug addictions, some major hospitalizations, and over $100,000 later, she finally had a diagnosis: late-stage Lyme disease. For most of that time, she didn't know why. Khakpour takes us all the way in on her struggle toward health with an intelligence and intimacy that moved, informed, and astonished me.” - Cheryl Strayed, New York Times bestselling author of WildĪ powerful, beautifully rendered memoir of chronic illness, misdiagnosis, addiction, and the myth of full recovery.įor as long as author Porochista Khakpour can remember, she has been sick. Humane, searching, and unapologetic, Sick is about the thin lines and vast distances between illness and wellness, healing and suffering, the body and the self. “Porochista Khakpour’s powerful memoir, Sick, reads like a mystery and a reckoning with a love song at its core.
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They are kind of “guilty pleasure” books, but I enjoyed them so much that I’m past whatever “guilt” I felt .ĭamen is a warrior hero to his people, and the truthful heir to the throne of Akielos, but when his half brother seizes power, Damen is captured, stripped of his identity and sent to serve the prince of an enemy nation as a pleasure slave.īeautiful, manipulative and deadly, his new master Prince Laurent epitomizes the worst of the court at Vere. It’s a really enjoyable, really interesting series. Despite that, I ended up staying awake until 3AM reading Captive Prince, and when I finished it up the next day, I began hunting down copies of the second and third book. I didn’t read the synopsis when I bought it, so I’d forgotten that the books were going to deal quite so closely with slavery. To be honest, when I started reading Captive Prince I really wasn’t sure that I was going to like it. With the release of the third and final book a couple of months ago, it started popping up on my Tumblr dash again, so I impulse bought the first book. I first heard about them a few years ago, and for whatever reason I was never tempted enough to pick them up. I put off reading these books for the longest time. Surely a harmless prank is a small price to pay for something you so desire. Each item is priced at exactly the amount the customer can afford with one tiny caveat, you must also be willing to play a prank on someone whenever Gaunt decides. Surely with so many special items in stock the merchandise on the shelves of Needful Things must cost a small fortune. Looking for a rare baseball card? Needful Things has just the one your collection is missing! Looking for a piece of carnival glass? Needful Things has the most unique piece you’ve ever seen! Always wanted a picture of The King to stare lovingly at? Needful Things has the best one ever taken!Įveryone loves something for nothing…even if it costs everything. What exactly does a store with such a strange name sell? The proprietor, Leland Gaunt, would tell you that Needful Things is a store that sells exactly what it’s customers desire. Needful Things is the name of the town’s newest establishment. The town of Castle Rock has a new store opening up. (First published October 1991) | Hodder & Stoughton The faeries are desperate to find out who is murdering their kind-and they need the Shadowhunters' help to do it. Making things even more complicated, Julian's brother Mark-who was captured by the faeries five years ago-has been returned as a bargaining chip. If only her heart didn't lead her in treacherous directions. Together with her parabatai Julian Blackthorn, Emma must learn to trust her head and her heart as she investigates a demonic plot that stretches across Los Angeles, from the Sunset Strip to the enchanted sea that pounds the beaches of Santa Monica. Emma Carstairs is no longer a child in mourning, but a young woman bent on discovering what killed her parents and avenging her losses. It's been five years since the events of City of Heavenly Fire that brought the Shadowhunters to the brink of oblivion. The Shadowhunters of Los Angeles star in the first novel in Cassandra Clare's newest series, The Dark Artifices, a sequel to the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series. A limited hardback edition of Lady Midnight the latest Shadowhunters novel from bestselling author Cassandra Clare. That’s what everyone’s been telling them anyway. Molly and Kip are driving a fish cart, pulled by a horse named Galileo, to their deaths. Here we have a book that ostensibly gives us an old-fashioned tale worthy of Edgar Allan Poe, but that steeps it in a serious and thought provoking discussion of the roles of both lies and stories when you’re facing difficulties in your life. I hope I’m not giving too much away by saying that. Long story short this novel is Little Shop of Horrors meets The Secret Garden. Auxier took his whimsy, pulled out a long sharp stick, and stabbed it repeatedly in the heart and left it to die in the snow so as to give us a sublimely horrific little novel. A relatively new middle grade author, still young in the field, reading this book it’s hard to reconcile it with Auxier's previous novel Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes. And though none would contest the fact that they are creepy, only Jonathan Auxier’s The Night Gardener has had the chutzpah to actually write, “A Scary Story” on its title pages as a kind of thoughtful dare. Fantasy in particular has been steeped in a kind of thoughtful darkness, from The Glass Sentence and The Thickety to The Riverman and Twelve Minutes to Midnight with varying levels of success. For whatever reason, 2014 is a dark year in children’s middle grade fiction. The van drove over a large hole in the road and Felix’s body raised into the air before thumping back down against the vehicle’s top. But, of course, the straps he’d bought had torn almost the moment the van first accelerated, only minutes after that poor sixteen-year-old had been blindfolded and led inside. He was supposed to be safely hooked in place right, not clutching the roof rack’s sun-hot metal with bare, tiring hands. That’s why he’d brought the ratchet straps and carabineers. It wasn’t supposed to have been like this. The voice he heard was muffled, but some of the words it used were clear: dead, teeth, don’t panic. He pulled himself forward against the sixty-miles-per-hour wind and leaned his ear against the metal below him. They ran across another bump in the road and Felix’s hands tightened. Losing his grip now would mean losing the van and probably worse, his life. It had been five hours now they had to be getting closer. Felix snapped himself awake as his left hand began to slip from the roof rack. Despite the author's claim that Julie represents a new challenge to Ishmael, the little girl is no Phaedrus, and in any case the gorilla hardly seems to need an interlocutor. The simian scholar tries to distill thousands of years of human wisdom and experience into a few simplistic preachments and parables. Must have an earnest desire to save the world."" So begins a 300-page lecture by a silverback gorilla who expounds his theories on the suicidal plunge of contemporary culture (the Takers) and his belief that learning from tribal cultures (the Leavers) is our only path to survival. In this predictable sequel, disenchanted 12-year-old Julie Gerchak responds to a classified ad: ""Teacher seeks pupil. The book featured a wise, telepathic gorilla who engaged in Socratic dialogue with a young man, teaching him how he could help save the world from its self-destructive path. Out of 2500 entries worldwide, Quinn's quirky first novel, Ishmael, won the prize (which after some controversy, was never awarded again). In 1989, Ted Turner offered a $500,000 fellowship for a work of fiction that offered positive solutions to global problems. But within weeks, his new beginning is tested after multiple run-ins with the gruff, infuriating Detective Hale. Tough as nails former soldier and mercenary Jagger Varos has returned to Seattle after years of running from his past, and he's hoping that joining Barretti Security Group will help him finally call the city he left behind home. And even though there's no future for them, keeping Ren safe is all that matters, and Declan will risk anything to make that happen. But even though the Ren who has come home isn't the one who left, all of Declan's feelings come rushing back to the surface, and he steps in to help the only man he's ever truly wanted. Police Detective Declan Hale has felt an undeniable pull toward the very straight Ren Barretti since the day Ren's brother married Declan's younger sister almost a dozen years earlier. The life his older brothers have brought him home to doesn't exist for him anymore, and to keep them and their loved ones safe from the rage and pain that consume him, Ren needs to disappear. But he can't escape the nightmares that torment him or the guilt that he was the only one to walk away. Ren Barretti has finally come home after a year of being held captive by the terrorists who slaughtered his entire Special Forces team. Three men brought together by circumstance who found something none of them knew they needed. Not suitable for anyone under 18 years of age. Besides, it’s all for the sake of the team, right? *Iced Out is the first in a five book standalone college sports romance series featuring two misunderstood rival teammates, pages of snarky banter, and more secret spicy times than any book should be filled with. sort by Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. But athletes are a superstitious bunch, and when our hook-ups lead to victories, we tell ourselves we can’t stop. CE Ricci, CE Ricci Iced-Out.pdf ISBN: 9798823164856 394 pages 10 Mb Iced Out CE Ricci, CE Ricci Page: 394 Format: pdf, ePub, fb2, mobi ISBN: 9798823164856 Publisher: Barnes & Noble Press Download Iced Out Public domain book for download Iced Out 9798823164856 All's fair in hate and hockey. Ricci Average rating 4.18 29,523 ratings 4,467 reviews shelved 78,898 times Showing 13 distinct works. I never imagined that drive would lead me to do the unthinkable: falling into bed with my not-so-straight rival. The only thing we can agree on is hockey is our true love, and we’ll do whatever it takes to come out on top. Constantly at odds or at each other’s throats. We’re as completely opposite as two people can be the golden boy and the black sheep. Clawing under my skin is his favorite pastime, only feeding the animosity between us as the years pass. My path to success never included an enemy as a teammate, especially one as infuriating as Quinton de Haas. NOW AN AMAZON TOP 100 BEST SELLER! All's fair in hate and hockey. But Robinson's impact extended far beyond baseball: he opened the door for Black Americans to participate in other sports, and was a national figure who spoke and wrote eloquently about inequality. Now, a half-century since Robinson's death, letters come to his widow, Rachel, by the score. For players, fans, managers, and executives, Jackie Robinson remains baseball's singular figure, the person who most profoundly extended, and continues to extend, the reach of the game. Winner of the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year True is a probing, richly-detailed, unique biography of Jackie Robinson, one of baseball's-and America's-most significant figures. For players, fans, managers, and executives, Jackie Robi. |