![]() ![]() Worse, Phee risks losing Bear as she falls for Cash, her charming new teammate. When she and her best friend, Bear, attract the attention of Charles Benroyal, they are blackmailed into racing for Benroyal Corp, a company that represents everything Phee detests. ![]() Phee’s legendary racer father disappeared mysteriously, but that hasn’t stopped her from speeding headlong into trouble. On corporately controlled Castra, rally racing is a high-stakes game that seventeen-year-old Phoebe Van Zant knows all too well. The Fast and the Furious gets a futuristic twist in this action-packed debut! Jenny Martin’s debut book is a fun, action-packed book that combines some very different genres into a surprisingly compelling story.Īs one reviewer on GoodReads said, it’s like a mix between Star Wars and Speed Racer – and it’s a mix you never realized you needed! We’ve been spotlighting a lot of great books this week in conjunction with Rockstar Book Tours and Tracked is no exception. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Vividly told and with a dazzling cast of characters, The Map of Knowledge is an evocative, nuanced and vibrant account of our common intellectual heritage. In tracing these fragile strands of knowledge from century to century, from east to west and north to south, Moller also reveals the web of connections between the Islamic world and Christendom, connections that would both preserve and transform astronomy, mathematics and medicine from the early Middle Ages to the Renaissance. In it, we follow them from sixth-century Alexandria to ninth-century Baghdad, from Muslim Cordoba to Catholic Toledo, from Salerno's medieval medical school to Palermo, capital of Sicily's vibrant mix of cultures, and – finally – to Venice, where that great merchant city's printing presses would enable Euclid's geometry, Ptolemy's system of the stars and Galen's vast body of writings on medicine to spread even more widely. The Map of Knowledge follows three key textsEuclid's Elements, Ptolemy's The Almagest, and Galen's writings on medicineon a perilous journey driven by insatiable curiosity about the world. ![]() ![]() In The Map of Knowledge Violet Moller traces the journey taken by the ideas of three of the greatest scientists of antiquity – Euclid, Galen and Ptolemy – through seven cities and over a thousand years. ![]() 'An epic treasure hunt into the highways and byways of stored knowledge across faiths and continents.' John Agard, poet and playwright ![]() ![]() As Keefe says in his preface, "They reflect on some of my abiding preoccupations: crime and corruption, secrets and lies, the permeable membrane separating licit and illicit worlds, the bonds of family, the power of denial." Keefe brilliantly explores the intricacies of forging $150,000 vintage wines, examines whether a whistle-blower who dared to expose money laundering at a Swiss bank is a hero or a fabulist, spends time in Vietnam with Anthony Bourdain, chronicles the quest to bring down a cheerful international black-market arms merchant, and profiles a passionate death-penalty attorney who represents the "worst of the worst," among other bravura works of literary journalism. ![]() Rogues brings together a dozen of his most celebrated articles from The New Yorker. He's a national treasure." -Rachel Maddow, host of MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Blowout Patrick Radden Keefe has garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award to the Orwell Prize to the National Book Critics Circle Award for his meticulously reported, hypnotically engaging work on the many ways people behave badly. Every time he writes an article, I read it. From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelve enthralling stories of misbehavior and skullduggery by one of the most decorated journalists of our time."I read everything he writes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Noelle Northwood wants Miriam Blum gone-even if her ingenious ideas and sensitive soul keep showing Noelle there’s more to Cass’s niece than meets the eye. ![]() To have any chance at turning things around, she’ll need to work with the farm’s grumpy manager-as long as the attraction sparking between them doesn’t set all their trees on fire first. Her beloved great-aunt Cass has passed and left Miriam part-owner of Carrigan’s, her (ironically) Jewish-run Christmas tree farm.īut Miriam’s plans to sit shiva, avoid her parents, then put Carrigan’s in her rearview mirror are spoiled when she learns the business is at risk of going under. Thanks to her thriving art career, Miriam Blum finally has her decoupaged glitter ducks in a row-until devastating news forces her to a very unwanted family reunion. Miriam Blum has no choice but to face the past she thought she’d left behind when she inherits her great-aunt’s Christmas tree farm in this witty, glittering, heart-filled romcom. Buzzfeed’s Most Anticipated LGBTQ Romances of 2022 ![]() ![]() ![]() When Colton Drake takes her home, she quickly learns nothing is as it seems with this beautifully troubled man. ![]() ![]() With her sister’s life hanging in the balance, the only choice is to claw her way out, even if that means selling her virginity to the highest bidder at an exclusive erotic club. Sophie Evans has been backed into a corner. And training a virgin takes finesse and patience – both of which I lack. My cock is a bit more discriminatory than most. I have certain tastes, certain sexual proclivities. Regardless, I’m now the proud new owner of a perfectly intact hymen. I have no idea why she auctioned off her virginity for a cool mill. **Warning: this book contains an addictively filthy alpha male who will dampen your panties and own your days and nights. Filthy Beautiful Love, book 2, comes out on September 29th. Oooooh talk about sexy intrigue! I’m excited to reveal the prologue for Kendall Ryan’s upcoming book, Filthy Beautiful Lies, which will be out August 18th. ![]() ![]() It is 1906, and when her family is cheated out of their tavern, fourteen-year-old Minnie Bonner is forced to become a maid to the Sump family, who are moving to San Francisco three weeks before the great earthquake.Women household employees - California | San Francisco - Juvenile fiction.San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 - Juvenile fiction. ![]()
![]() ![]() One reviewer said of Changó's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes that it was "written with such brio and encompassing humanity that it may well deserve to be called the best of the bunch". Kennedy's works include The Ink Truck (1969), Legs (1975), Billy Phelan's Greatest Game (1978), Ironweed (1983), Roscoe (2002) and Changó's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes (2011). The novels make use of incidents from the city's history as well as the supernatural. Many of his novels feature the interactions of members of the fictional Irish-American Phelan family in Albany, New York. William Joseph Kennedy (born January 16, 1928) is an American writer and journalist who won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for his novel Ironweed. ![]() ![]() They also bring transcendental love, a love stronger than we are used to feeling and recognizing, and can make a huge impact to this world. They are excellent at helping you ground and becoming a healing temple of Kuan Yin. They can help clear your soul’s karma and help you stand tall in times of need. ![]() Right now on this earth, they are deepening the hearts of many. Kuan Yin Dragons carry the wisdom of Kuan Yin and are known for wisdom, strength, transformation and healing and can be motherly for you. This healing impacted not only me, but all those I love deeply and had karma with. I have worked closely with this Goddess of Compassion, one who supported me with the protection and love when I least expected it, and when needed it the most. ![]() She who unconditionally loves this world. She could also be considered our universal mother who loves us unconditionally and is our guide to happiness, love, joy and freedom. Kuan Yin is the master of dragons and is known as the goddess of compassion, mercy, protection and intervention. ![]() ![]() ![]() To her surprise, a handwritten inscription on the title page provides a clue to unraveling a complex mystery in Addie’s family. As the owner of Beyond the Page Books and Curios and a lifelong bibliophile, Addie is delighted to find a rare collection of classic children’s books gathering dust in a secret room beneath the rafters, including a first edition of The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams. But a discovery in her attic leads her to startling revelations about the past. Wedding bells are about to ring again in Greyborne Harbor, and as Addie slips into her white dress her thoughts are focused on a bright future with Dr. ![]() You can read this before Dedication to Murder (Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery, #9) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.Ī first edition of The Velveteen Rabbit provides bookshop owner Addie Greyborne a telling clue to a cold case in her family’s past. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Dedication to Murder (Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery, #9) written by Lauren Elliott which was published in April 25, 2023. Brief Summary of Book: Dedication to Murder (Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery, #9) by Lauren Elliott ![]() ![]() ![]() Case in point is the story “The Haircuts” which tells the tale of how calm Ling gets her haircut without any fuss or bother, whereas fidgety Ting cannot sit still. Ling and Ting look alike and sound alike (and sometimes even dress alike) but they are not exactly the same, in spite of the world claiming the contrary. Six very short stories tell tales about these twin girls. ![]() Grace Lin has given us Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same!, a book in the same vein as your Frog & Toad or Amelia Bedelia tales. Past success is no indication of future talent. When I heard that author Grace Lin, master of the novel, the early chapter book, and the picture book, was trying her hand at the easy reader format I was concerned. Some authors whip them out so easily it shocks the senses (see: Mo Willems’ Elephant & Piggy books). Easy books (I should say GOOD easy books) are an acquired talent. ![]() Harder than a child-friendly mystery series. Harder than asking them to write a romantic vampire novel. I am personally convinced that this is probably the most difficult thing you can ask an author to do. Now ask them to create a good easy-to-read book for children. Sit them down in a comfortable chair in front of a table. ![]() Simply hand them a piece of paper and a pencil. If you want to gauge the merit of a children’s author it’s easy as pie. ![]() |