This is not your childhood’s little mermaid story, because in this story, two girls make it to land. One for true love. The other to save her sister. After seeing her sister on land, one look spells it all out for Runa and she knows that her sister Alia won’t be able to kill the prince to stay alive. Runa asks for help from the evil Sea Witch. Still locked in her cove by the sea king, Evie agrees to help but not without a price. Evie doesn’t realize that by helping Runa she will also have to pay her own price to the sea king. As his daughters go to land, he loses more of his magical power. He weaves lies and deceit around their disappearances making Evie the only person who can stop him and make the balance of magic even again.
Read MoreOne thing after another and Queenie’s life hits a dead spin. It all started at her doctor’s office - she ‘was’ pregnant. As her longtime boyfriend asks for a break, Queenie can’t make herself tell him that she had a miscarriage. That maybe a break up isn’t the best thing right now. Things go from bad to even worse as she makes one wrong decision after another. She lets guys use her, friends walk all over her, and barely scrapes by at work. Eventually she hits rock bottom at the same time that her Jamaican community begins to disappear before her eyes.
Read MoreKya is just a little girl when one by one her family leaves her. Even her father, the last person left, disappears one day. Forgotten in the swamps of North Carolina, Kya is raised by her own wits, nature, and a kind black man. She becomes a legend in the local town and draws in dared boys who think her old shack is haunted. Nasty rumors follow her anytime she’s forced to go into town for basic supplies. Years drift until 1969 when the town’s star boy is found dead. As Kya’s past unfolds, her upbringing and respect for nature plays out in stark contrast to the girl they think she is.
Read MoreTyler missed the draft but it wasn’t the worst thing that could have happened. Maybe trying to protect a 200 year old human with a glowing eye and the strength to stop your spaceship takes the cake. After rescuing said human from the fringe, Tyler heads with his ragtag team to provide supplies to an alien refuge, discovering along the way that the same human rescued has stowed away on his ship. The human attracts the presence of the GIA, forcing the team to run for their lives. Becoming fugitives, they must believe in the human that has brought them this trouble and hope her gifts can really save the galaxy.
Read MoreTen long years and, finally, Oliver can walk as a free man. Detective Colbourne just has one last favor. Since he’s going into the private sector, could Olvier tell him what really happened that night on the dock? But it doesn’t come down to one single moment. There are seven characters in this play and Oliver takes Colbourne to the start where their lives changed forever. When the life of the stage bled into reality.
Read MoreAsh and Solomon are best friends who live in different worlds. Ash’s is in the real world where she’s forced to watch Solomon spiral deeper into his delusions. Solomon lives in the Darkside where being different is persecuted. As things become dire in Ash’s world, Solomon’s magic begins to blend with reality and Ash wonders what really changed their lives when they were twelve. Together they learn about real monster as Ash prays that she can get her best friend back.
Read MoreShe didn’t eat the buffet. Thank God she didn’t eat the buffet. And because of that, there’s only two people who can go on the nonrefundable honeymoon, and they’re not the bride and groom - just their siblings. Olive begrudgingly accepts the dream vacation, dreading every minute she’ll be forced to spend with Ethan, her new brother-in-law, who’s hated her since the first day they met. Top it off with having to pretend to be her twin sister and Olive already feels like the trip is off to a rocky start. It’s made even rockier when the two have to actually pretend to be married.
Read MoreIt was supposed to be an experience to broaden her horizons. She was supposed to be going with her boyfriend. But right out of the gate, the trip has turned into Kim’s worst nightmare as she watches another girl sit on Connor’s lap. That’s why when Nicki, a girl on Kim’s flight, befriend’s Kim, Kim turns into an open book, spilling every last sorted detail of what happened between her and Connor. Nicki jokes that the two of them could take care of each other’s little problem - the police would never guess it was either of them. When Connor ends up dead, Kim fears Nicki has taken her own suggestion seriously.
Read More*Warning* - Synopsis contains spoilers from the first book, Contagion.
They’re captured… they’re captured… But Thea says she has a plan. Locked inside a spaceship, Thea squeezes out of her cell and frees Coen only to find there’s no way out. There’s no help coming. There’s no hope while the contagion runs through their veins. A contagion that could spell disaster if one drop of blood is spilled. Luckily, the people holding Coen and Thea don’t know everything - like the two of them being able to talk telepathically. They silently plot an escape, counting the different ways they could possibly get out alive. Can they find a way out before their captors discover a way to control them?
Read MoreA female spy, thirty years, and two World Wars make up this heart wrenching story. Eve has lived her whole life believed to be less than her worth, until one man recruits her as a spy for the infamous Alice Network. Charlie has been taught to look good and nothing else, her skills squashed by her mother. When Charlie finds herself pregnant and with no husband her only option is to go to Europe and fix the little problem. But going to Europe also means a chance to finally learn the fate of her cousin in WWII. She abandons her mother in England to follow her one lead, Eve. Along the way, Eve’s past comes back into startling focus when Charlie’s cousin and her life start to take similar paths, just thirty years apart.
Read MoreRilla is stuck spending the summer with her park ranger sister after her life falls apart back home. With a one way bus ticket and a pile of homework to keep her from failing out of school, she’s determined to show everyone. To show everyone that she’s really okay. And it seems like things could be okay after she stumbles into a rock climbing group in the park. They take her under their wings, showing her the literal ropes. However, she can’t let go of her haunting past and starts to see the new group judge her in the same way. Losing faith in them, in her sister, and in herself, she makes one wrong decision that could change her future again.
Read MoreIn 9-11, Noam Chomsky comments on the September 11th attacks, the new war on terrorism, Osama bin Laden, U.S. involvement with Afghanistan, media control, and the long-term implications of America's military attacks abroad. Informed by his deep understanding of the gravity of these issues and the global stakes, 9-11 demonstrates Chomsky's impeccable knowledge of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and South Asia, and sheds light on the rapidly shifting balance of world power. Speaking out against escalating violence, Chomsky critically examines the United States' own foreign policy record and considers what international institutions might be employed against underground networks and national states accused of terrorism. 9-11's analysis still stands as a measure of how well the media is able to serve its role of informing the citizenry, so crucial to our democracy in times of war.
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Read MoreAmanda and Rosalie have nothing in common - except for dating the same guy, Carter Shaw. Golden boy, extraordinaire, Carter is set to inherit his father’s company and since the start of High School, Amanda and Carter have been pushed as the end goal, the power couple. But Carter can’t stay faithful. Players can be played however and Rosalie does just that by using Carter as a front, trying to conceal her true feelings from her fundamentalist church and family. Amanda and Rosalie’s futures become threatened when they both receive text messages from Private. Private promises to not just destroy their futures but also their lives if they don’t do as instructed.
Read MoreOne day Cass was just your normal girl; unpopular, a lover of cameras, and with crazy parents that write books about ghosts. Then the next day, she could actually see them… ghosts that is. With a tap, tap, tap, she’s drawn to the splits in the veil where she crosses over and watches ghosts relive their deaths. And all this with her best friend and sidekick, Jacob, the ghost that saved her on that frozen day. It’s not so bad, this new life. Cass figures out a rhythm. She can’t wait for summer vacation at the beach house, a place mostly devoid of the ghostly kind. But then her parents drop a massive bomb. They landed a TV show and will be heading straight to Edinburgh, one of the most haunted cities in the world. What was supposed to be a quiet, idyllic summer, turns into a crazy adventure where Cass learns what her new gift really means.
Read MoreCatherine, the heroine of her own story, sets off to Bath with friends. There she is to be a companion to Mrs. Allen and enjoy herself at the dances and theater. That is, until she meets a new friend, whose brother locks his sights on Catherine. However, he has no chance when Henry and his sister grace the scene. Catherine is taken by him, trying everything to stop her new friends from sabotaging the relationship. All seems well. She even gets invited to Northanger Abbey, but her friends’ reach goes further than she knows.
Read MoreWill is running away from it all - his religion, his family, his past - to the prestigious Edwards College on the East Coast. Feigning that he fits in, he meets Phoebe, a glamorous girl who eats her own emotions for supper and hides her dark past in questions. She never knows why she stays with Will, more used to the one night stands of college life. But something keeps drawing them together until a former Edwards’s student, hailing the word of God, blows into Phoebe’s life. He claims he was sent by her father, but all he speaks are sinister messages that send Phoebe and Will on a wild journey.
Read MoreIn 2014, award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge wrote about her frustration with the way that discussions of race and racism in Britain were being led by those who weren't affected by it. She posted a piece on her blog, entitled: 'Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race' that led to this book.
Exploring issues from eradicated black history to the political purpose of white dominance, whitewashed feminism to the inextricable link between class and race, Reni Eddo-Lodge offers a timely and essential new framework for how to see, acknowledge and counter racism. It is a searing, illuminating, absolutely necessary exploration of what it is to be a person of colour in Britain today.
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Read MoreOne random letter, one book, and one curious stranger change Juliet’s life. During her first book tour, when life isn’t feeling as grand or happy as she would like, a letter arrives from a stranger living on Guernsey Island. Could she help him find a book? Cut off from the world during the German occupation, he hopes she’ll help restore what has been lost for five years. This single chance letter starts a whirlwind discovery of the literary society that saved the lives of the people on the island. Juliet goes to learn the history of the island, and eventually finds out more about herself.
Read MoreAmani knows nothing else but a life with the oppressive rule of the Vath. Still, her people fight to maintain their culture, and on the night she is to receive her Daan, Amani’s life is flipped on its head when the Vath kidnap her. She’s taken to the palace to discover that she’s looks identical to their heir. Stripped of her identity, forced to become like the people she hates, Amani must decide between fighting for her people or staying alive and giving up all she loves.
Read MoreThree sisters, each married into different circumstances, live lives from the very poor to the very rich. One sister, Mrs. Norris, devises a plan to adopt her poorer sister’s daughter Fanny, but not at her own expense. The child is sent to grow and learn at the third sister’s house, Lady Bertram’s estate. There Fanny lives around her cousins. Instead of obtaining their follies, Fanny watches quietly from the sidelines as Lady Bertram’s household name falls into ruin.
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