![]() She’s become accustom to being dismissed and looked down upon because others consider the sideshow people "Freeks". Mara is a family member in a struggling traveling side show her mother is the fortune teller. Important questions about poverty and privilege are at the core of this standalone novel, and they'll keep readers hooked just as much as the paranormal peril. ![]() ![]() The story is set in 1987, allowing for playful nods to the pop culture and fashion of the day. Although Mara doesn't seem to have the same gifts as her fellow travelers, she is strong, independent, and pragmatic no damsel in distress. Hocking (the Kanin Chronicles) takes time to examine Mara's complex emotions regarding Gabe, her ramshackle life on the road, and her mother. Mara and Gabe's whirlwind, class-crossing romance plays an important role without drowning out other central relationships. But her family of misfits is falling prey, one by one, to a beast that is stalking the campsite, and a series of shadowy encounters and twists builds to a battle-driven reckoning. ![]() ![]() A traveling supernatural sideshow has just arrived in a sleepy Louisiana town, and Mara Beznik, daughter of the troupe's fortune-teller, quickly becomes smitten with Gabe Alvarado, a wealthy local boy. ![]()
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![]() It's all about working long hours, having side hustles and making as much money as possible. Everyone is trying to make it to the top, only they don't know what the top really is. While Power and Peace are drugs, these opposing drugs serve as an allegory about the world we live in. The book gives the reader much to think about. This book is beautifully written, the world building amazing. The Peacekeepers want to loosen the hold of Power of the City and distribute Peace freely starting a drug war. Power has control of the city, with the poor and rich alike either addicting or using recreationally. ![]() 'Peace' calms the mind and cures the addiction to Power. Everyone wants power, even if it comes in a pill. 'Power' gives one delusions of grandeur and makes them feel more powerful than they are. ![]() Two drug lords, with two different drugs, vie for the soul of a city. Terminus is a dystopic cyberpunk/biopunk novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() The next day, the patient’s eyes roll upward, his cheeks lose their colour, and his mouth falls open. He asks the doctor not to wake him, but to let him die without pain. The dying man feels no pain and responds to questions without rising from his trance. As the patient’s breath and heartbeat slow, the doctor successfully hypnotizes him. Seven months later, the doctor is called to the dying man’s bedside. A friend agrees to be the subject of this experiment. He is curious to see what would happen to an individual put under hypnosis while dying. ![]() A doctor has become fascinated by mesmerism. Robert Collyer, an English magnetic healer visiting Boston, wrote to Poe saying that he himself had performed a similar act to revive a man who had been pronounced dead (in truth, the man was actually a drunken sailor. Many readers thought that the story was a scientific report. Sidney Doane that recounted a surgical operation performed while a patient was "in magnetic sleep." The letter served as inspiration for Poe's tale. While editor of The Broadway Journal, Poe printed a letter from a New York physician named Dr A. Valdemar is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. ![]() ![]() Lissy decides to start her own company and that the perfect place to get new clients would be her high school reunion where everyone loves her. ![]() ![]() Moving back into her parents house in her 30s she has hit rock bottom. Super job and super marriage until she is fired and her husband leaves her. She was popular in high school and married her high school boyfriend. Similar to Kinsella it was laugh out loud hilarious, but also emotional and real at times where I could connect to the main characters thoughts, feelings, and actions. LOL I mostly only read Chick Lit from Sophie Kinsella but I'm so glad I accidentally requested this because it was so much fun. I've seen Peggy Sue Got Married a million times. I love books and movies where people go back to high school to learn a lesson or change their lives. ![]() You know what I'm going to give it the full 5! It was fun, hilarious, cute, emotional and ended perfectly. ![]() ![]() ![]() On the last spread, he responds that he does like her hat, and they drive off together into the sunset. She is always wearing a different hat, and until the end of the book, he always replies that he does not like it, and she leaves, disappointed. A presumably male dog (maybe that is in itself sexist?) meets a feminine dog, who asks him if he likes her hat. Scattered throughout the book are these repeated meetings of two dogs that I have seen people reference on the internet as being subtly sexist. Most of the dogs aren't "doing" anything. These aren't even complete sentences, just noun phrases. ![]() The second page is: "Big dog." The third page is "Little dog." Thankfully, it builds a little bit from there, and the next page is, "Big dogs and little dogs." More than twice the word count of the previous ones! It's like teaching children how to use plurals. Half of it is opposites and descriptions. This is a very basic book, like "baby's first book of words" basic. ![]() But if I did have this book, it apparently didn't stick in my mind as much as lots of other books I had, like "Fox in Socks" or "The Maggie B." There are just parts of it that seem really familiar, like the part with the different-colored dogs on different-colored trees, and the picture of the dog sitting on top of a house and another dog sitting underneath the house. ![]() I think maybe I had this book as a child. ![]() ![]() Humanity has about two years to turn a twenty-years-in-the-future-at-the-present-pace ISS into an Ark for the Earth biosphere, starting with humans, before the Earth burns. In this world, we have petered along with the ISS in almost its present configuration for a few more decades, adding a small torus and a captured asteroid, but gone no further. So he has some unexplained agent destroy the Moon, and in doing so, trigger a series of events which eventually render Earth uninhabitable. The premise to this new novel is Neal Stephenson looking at the rent-chasing, conservative, unambitious government bureaucracy that NASA-as-funded-by-Congress has become, and asking: What would it take to change that? ![]() ![]() He has previously meditated on the space exploration business as a fascinating tale of path dependency: and I am happy to say he finally got around to writing a space novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How their love for each other and just about everyone else survived visits from the sheriff, the Ku Klux Klan, a host of hungry hoboes, a murder and the rigors of the Depression makes lively reading - the kind that eventually nourishes Evelyn and the reader as well. Most of the town's life centered around its one cafe, whose owners, gentle Ruth and tomboyish Idgie, served up grits (both true and hominy) to anyone who passed by. On the other hand, 86-year-old Cleo is still being nurtured by memories of a lifetime spent in Whistle Stop, a pocket-sized town outside of Birmingham, which flourished in the days of the Great Depression. At 48, Evelyn is falling apart: none of the middle-class values she grew up with seem to signify in today's world. When Cleo Threadgood and Evelyn Couch meet in the visitors lounge of an Alabama nursing home, they find themselves exchanging the sort of confidences that are sometimes only safe to reveal to strangers. The writer's imaginative skill transforms simple, everyday events into complex happenings that take on universal meanings. If you put an ear to the pages, you can almost hear the characters speak. The people in Miss Flagg's book are as real as the people in books can be. ![]() ![]() It is good combination right, you still need to miss it? What kind of hang type is it? Oh come on its mind hangout folks. Even you love 3 Novels by Doris Mortman: First Born, The Lucky Ones, Rightfully Mine, you can enjoy both. 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Tracy comes up with a crazy plan to get back at the person who dumped her and sent her to prison for 15 years. She is about to marry the man she loves and start a new, exciting, glamorous life when the Mafia betrayed and framed her for a crime she didn't commit. It's a story of backroom deals, vengeance, heartbreak, and victory for her. As the daughter of a diamond dealer, she had a lot of money and used it to build up an empire. On her 90th birthday, Kate Blackwell, a powerful woman, looks back on her life and what she's done in the world. That makes sense, because it's the most popular one. On Goodreads, a lot of people say this is the first Sidney Sheldon book they ever read. ![]() This is a list of the best Sidney Sheldon books based on how many Goodreads users gave them a good review. You can use Goodreads to figure out which Sidney Sheldon book to start with if you're not sure which one to start with yet. They have sold more than 300 million copies. In 2007, he died, but his 18 novels are still being read by people all over the world. The best-selling author of crime and thriller novels, Sidney Sheldon also wrote Broadway plays and movies, which made him a big name. ![]() ![]() His eyebrows, like Devyn’s nose, are a little big and if you stare at him long enough you realize that his lips are a bit lopsided. He’s all dark skin and dark hair and dark eyes. He’s ridiculously cute in his PE shorts and dark green T-shirt and people that good-looking seem vulnerable, almost like they can’t be real. “Nick saunters into the gym and my heart basically stops. He just tilts his head down, moves his fingers into my hair, and his lips touch mine in a forever kiss. Stretching out my spine so my lips are nearly touching his I say, “And will you press yourself against me and we’ll move really close together and then your hand will stretch out across the back of my head and your fingers will wrap into my hair and then. ![]() ![]() His bottom lip turns in toward his mouth for a second, just disappears and then comes back. Something inside my chest warms up like a nice kind of heartburn and I say, “And will we slow dance?” I move forward so my hands are flat on the towel and my face is much closer to his face. ![]() “So there’s this annual dance in a couple of weeks.” ![]() |