I really like the way that art was a part of the story. Warning: Color May Fade| Leah Henderson | Leah Henderson’s story follows an artist at a boarding school. I love the women in this story, especially Cam’s grandma, who does not take crap from anyone. It’s about a boy named Cam and his internal struggle about being “Black enough,” and it also touches on police brutality. □ Black Enough | Varian Johnson | I loved this one! It was a nice mix of funny and serious. Half a Moon | Renée Watson | This is a sweet story about half sisters connecting at a week-long summer camp. I’m not going to rate them individually, but I’ve starred my favorites! From summer camp stories to forbidden romance to struggling with a sibling’s death, Black Enough has something for everyone.īelow are my thoughts on each of the 17 stories in this anthology in the order that they appear in the book. I am so happy to have had the chance to read this amazing anthology! With 17 different Black YA writers, this book portrays a multitude of perspectives and voices. Published January 19th, 2019 by HarperTeen
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Limbus, Inc. by Jonathan Maberry5/29/2023 Jonathan is the creator, editor and co-author of V-WARS, a shared-world vampire anthology from IDW Publishing that was adapted into a NETFLIX series starring Ian Somerhalder (LOST, VAMPIRE DIARIES). He writes in several genres including thriller, horror, science fiction, epic fantasy, and mystery and he writes for adults, middle grade, and young adult. His books have been sold to more than thirty countries. He is the recipient of the Inkpot Award, three Scribe Awards, and was named one of the Today’s Top Ten Horror Writers. He is the editor of WEIRD TALES Magazine and president of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers. JONATHAN MABERRY is a New York Times best-seller and Audible #1 bestseller, five-time Bram Stoker Award-winner, anthology editor, comic book writer, executive producer, magazine feature writer, playwright, and writing teacher/lecturer. It's not as if I'd never read about her before, but let's face it, I've read lots of English history and I still can't always keep the Plantagenets and the Yorks and the Lancasters and the Stuarts and so on straight, plus there's that whole Cromwell interlude. This book was so good that I spoiled myself for the rest of the trilogy by, uh, looking up Eleanor of Aquitaine on Wikipedia. But 300 years before that was a much earlier civil war that lasted for almost 20 years, and was very much a squabble for the throne with a large cast of characters. Martin's Game of Thrones is loosely based on England's War of the Roses, which took place in the 15th century. Sharon Kay Penman's magnificent fifth novel summons to life a spectacular medieval tragedy whose unfolding breaks the heart even as it prepares the way for splendors to come-the glorious age of Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Plantagenets that would soon illumine the world.Įveryone knows that George R.R. In their long and bitter struggle, all of England bled and burned. But before Maude could claim her throne, her cousin Stephen seized it. As church bells tolled for the death of England's King Henry I, his barons faced the unwelcome prospect of being ruled by a woman: Henry's beautiful daughter Maude, Countess of Anjou. A shorter summa5/29/2023 This little book is designed for beginners, either for classroom use or individually. The Summa Theologica is timeless, but particularly important today because of his synthesis of faith and reason, revelation and philosophy, and the Biblical and the classical Greco-Roman heritages. He is a master of metaphysics and technical terminology, yet so full of both theoretical and practical wisdom. His writings combine the two fundamental ideals of philosophical writing: clarity and profundity. Thomas Aquinas is universally recognized as one of the greatest philosophers who ever lived. In it, there is also much philosophy, which is selected, excerpted, arranged, introduced, and explained in footnotes here by Kreeft, a popular Thomist teacher and writer. The reason for the double shortening is pretty obvious: the original runs some 4000 pages! (The Summa of the Summa was just over 500.) The Summa is certainly the greatest, most ambitious, most rational book of theology ever written. A shortened version of Kreeft's much larger Summa of the Summa, which in turn was a shortened version of the Summa Theologica. White magic elissa washuta5/29/2023 By dismantling traditional ideas of chronology and plot, White Magic challenges us to rethink narrative, place, meaning, and inheritance. Washuta divides the book into three acts, each given its own tarot reading, each delving into a different angle of the relationship -before, during, and after. Part exploration of inherited trauma, part feat of universal understanding, White Magic follows Washuta through the life and end of an important romantic relationship, which she uses to give structure to her odyssey. Something I found myself remembering in reading Elissa Washuta’s White Magic. “If you want to spot the trick in a magic trick, read the movements and do not follow the magician’s gaze,” my father used to remind me as he stealthily pulled a quarter out of my young ear. “A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.” – Carl Sagan Bloody rose nicholas eames5/28/2023 Oh, she could fire a bow with passing skill, but anyone with two arms and an arrow to spare could do the same. “What brings you to the Monster Market? You in a band or something?” ” He scratched a scab on the bald crown of his head. She straightened, as if being taller meant seeming older. A merchant with whiskered jowls and a fringe of yellowed hair was sizing her up. Not before his wife’s Wyld Heart got her killed, and never once after. Tuck Hashford had never been much for laughing. Tam remembered her mother’s laughter as a kind of music. “Branigan? You know I love him, Lil, but your brother would eat yellow snow if you told him it tasted like whiskey.” “A Wyld Heart needs a wise mind to temper it, and a strong arm to keep it safe.” “It means you ought to be careful,” her father had added. “It means you’re a dreamer,” she’d told her daughter. Tam’s mother used to say she had a Wyld Heart. Those who wait haley cass read online5/28/2023
Reckless cornelia funke series5/28/2023 Jacob’s younger, abandoned brother Will discovers the magic portal and, with their mother now gone, tracks down the enigmatic, usually missing Jacob in Mirrorworld. Jacob is his father’s son, fully deserving of his father’s name.įast forward a dozen years, when Jacob is somewhat of a legend in Mirrorworld, accompanied by Fox who is part vixen, part young woman, but always Jacob’s shadow. At 12, Jacob discovers a magic mirror in his father’s off-limits office, and enters Mirrorworld, where incomparable experiences await to distract him, challenge him, strengthen him … and, most of all, detach him from the ‘real’ world where his brokenhearted mother and timid brother live frightened lives. Jacob Reckless’s father has gone missing. That said, compared to what teenagers could be reading, this remains relatively tame. While definitely filled with swash-buckling fun and heart-thumping adventure, Reckless aims at an older audience from Funke’s other titles: her hero Jacob Reckless ages from 12 to 24 in the first two chapters, not to mention the year of sexual enchantment (entrapment?) with a somewhat explicitly beguiling fairy from whom he must escape. Two brothers, a girlfriend, and a part-time fox set up what will certainly be a multi-volume, another-world adventure from internationally bestselling Cornelia Funke, creator of Inkworld, her last alternate universe series. Dragon bones by lisa see5/28/2023 At stake in this investigation is control of China’s history and national pride, and even stability between China and the United States. Everyone-from the Chinese government, to a religious cult, to an unscrupulous American art collector-wants this relic, and some, it seems, may be willing to kill to get it. This artifact is not only an object of great monetary value but one that is emblematic of the very soul of China. As Hulan scrutinizes this death-or is it a murder?-David, on behalf of the National Relics Bureau, tries to discover who has stolen from the site an artifact that may prove to the world China’s claim that it is the oldest uninterrupted civilization on earth. When the body of an American archaeologist is found floating in the Yangzi River, Ministry of Public Security agent Liu Hulan and her husband, American attorney David Stark, are dispatched to Site 518 to investigate. The Sound of the Sea by Cynthia Barnett5/28/2023 Spiraling out from the great cities of shell that once rose in North America to the warming waters of the Maldives and the slave castles of Ghana, Barnett has created an unforgettable account of the world's most iconic seashells. In The Sound of the Sea, acclaimed environmental author Cynthia Barnett blends cultural history and science to trace our long love affair with seashells and the hidden lives of the mollusks that make them. They were money before coins, jewelry before gems, art before canvas. Seashells have been the most coveted and collected of nature's creations since the dawn of humanity. |