![]() If Ghost can stay on track, literally and figuratively, he could be the best sprinter in the city. Since then, Ghost has been the one causing problems-and running away from them-until he meets Coach, an ex-Olympic Medalist who sees something in Ghost: crazy natural talent. But Ghost has been running for the wrong reasons-it all started with running away from his father, who, when Ghost was a very little boy, chased him and his mother through their apartment, then down the street, with a loaded gun, aiming to kill. They all have a lot to lose, but they also have a lot to prove, not only to each other, but to themselves. ![]() A fast but fiery group of kids from wildly different backgrounds, chosen to compete on an elite track team. That's all Ghost (real name Castle Cranshaw) has ever known. Track Series by Jason Reynolds Book Trailer. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team-a team that could qualify them for the Junior Olympics if they can get their acts together. ![]() ![]() Four kids from wildly different backgrounds with personalities that are explosive when they clash. Ghost wants to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school track team, but his past is slowing him down in this first electrifying novel of the acclaimed Track series from Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award–winning author Jason Reynolds. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read A National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature ![]()
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He quoted such data as “families in the top 20 percent receive almost 40 percent more in government subsidies than families in the bottom 20 percent.” Stemming from a myriad of research and data, Desmond expressed example after example of policies and trends that, if turned around, could eliminate poverty in America. ![]() Desmond calls for the reader to become a poverty abolitionist, and to work towards a future without poverty. ![]() The book examines the ways in which affluent Americans keep poor people poor-the pitfalls of a society based on consumption and profit, in which individuals of high wealth benefit from the poverty created by the exploitation of labor and the tax code. ![]() Matt Desmond explores why 38 million people live in poverty in the United States, one of the richest countries in the world. The event came as the book debuted at #1 on the New York Times Nonfiction Best Seller list. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hadley Donavan is a consultant at a charitable-giving firm working in Harbor City. What you need to know about The Wedding Date Disaster: The Wedding Date Disaster has everything you want in a romance: deep connections, a bit of angst, sizzling chemistry, a hot and steamy romance, the love of family, a lot of laughs and ultimately, redemption. The book also gives you an amazing array of supporting characters who are completely realized and funny as hell. I absolutely loved Hadley and Will, as even while I was shaking my head at Will’s hardheadedness, I understood where it was coming from. ![]() This doesn’t lessen the comedic aspects of the story, it gives you a well-balanced book that allows you to both laugh and cry. ![]() It is also a romantic comedy with a unique depth to its main characters who are each overcoming their own broken history. The Wedding Date Disaster by Avery Flynn presents an electric duo in Will and Hadley, with chemistry that is off the charts. Book Review: The Wedding Date Disaster by Avery Flynn Chemistry Doesn’t Lie: There’s Only the Lies We Tell Ourselves ![]() ![]() ![]() 'I freaking love this book.' Kiersten White, NYT bestselling author of And I Darkenīuy Lifel1k3: Lifel1k3 1 (Lifelike: Lifelike 1) by Jay Kristoff from Australia's Online Independent Bookstore, BooksDirect. 'It is every kind of badass.' Laini Taylor, author of the Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy With her best friend and her robotic sidekick in tow, she and Ezekiel will trek across deserts of irradiated glass, battle cyborg assassins, and scour abandoned megacities to save the ones she loves. ![]() I love Jay’s writing and I was NOT disappointed by Lifelike I’ve been meaning to read it for so long and I don’t know why I waited. When Eve finds the ruins of an android boy named Ezekiel in the scrap pile she calls home, her entire world comes crashing down. Lifelike by Jay Kristoff was really enjoyable. It's just another day on the Scrap: lose the last of your credits at the WarDome, dodge the gangs and religious fanatics, discover you can destroy electronics with your mind, stumble upon the deadliest robot ever built. LONG-LISTED: Indie Book Awards, Best Young Adult Fiction, 2019 Jay Kristoff has emerged on the literary scene only a few years ago, but has already penned a number of award winners, amazing readers time and time again with his creative prose. ![]() SHORT-LISTED: WAYBRA awards, Older Readers, 2019 SHORT-LISTED: Aurealis Awards, Best Young Adult Novel, 2018 LIFEL1K3 Series - 3 book set by Jay Kristoff - LifeL1k3 (Lifelike) / Dev1at3 (Deviated) / True L1f3. Description - Lifel1k3: Lifel1k3 1 (Lifelike: Lifelike 1) by Jay Kristoff WINNER: Aurealis Awards, Best Science Fiction Novel, 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We are drawn into the world of a fictional French battalion with canteen mistress Marianne, her partner Fronsac and daughter Florisette (Poppy). This is a complete departure from my normal reads and proved an interesting journey. Includes a Battlefield Tour Guide for those wanting to follow the route taken by the story’s main characters or to visit the sites of the 1815 Waterloo Campaign. Field, author of Waterloo: The French Perspective and its companion volume, Prelude to Waterloo: Quatre Bras)Ī novel of action and intrigue based on the real-life exploits of two women who fought, in their own right, within Napoleon’s army. His description of the fighting is particularly vivid and compelling.” (Andrew W. “Superb! David Ebsworth has really brought these dramatic events to life. 1815 – On the bloody fields of Waterloo, a battle-weary canteen mistress of Bonaparte’s Imperial Guard battalions must fight to free her daughter from all the perils that war will hurl against them – before this last campaign can kill them both. ![]() ![]() is used to highlight the general talent of the candidate rather than specific skills for a specific position.īio Data is the short form for Biographical Data and is an archaic terminology for Resume or C.V. lists out every skill, all the jobs and positions held, degrees, professional affiliations the applicant has acquired, and in chronological order. It is more detailed than a resume, generally 2 to 3 pages, or even longer as per the requirement. Curriculum Vitae are a Latin word meaning " course of life". A resume is usually written in the third person to give it an objective and formal tone. ![]() It thus, is usually 1 or at the max 2 pages long. ![]() A resume does not list out all details of a profile, but only some specific skills customized to the target job profile. A resume is ideally a summary of one's education, skills and employment when applying for a new job. Resume is a French word meaning " summary". Hindi Typing Tutor (Mangal / Remington). ![]() ![]() The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. ![]() ![]() Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy.įorty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. He hasn’t thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she’d claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. By signing up you agree to our terms of use Thank you for signing up! Keep an eye on your inbox. ![]() ![]() ![]() There's a literary road trip around the UK, to locations like Bath, Stratford Upon Avon and the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, West Yorkshire, as well as Harry Potter movie marathons and Jane Austen dance parties. Because there she meets Olivia, Cassie, Henry and Ed, four SUPER bookish teenagers who take her under their wing and teach Tabby how to live her best bookish life possible. What if they don't like her? What if she makes a fool of herself? Plus, she doesn't think she really needs any more friends, not when Jess, a girl from her old school, won't leave her alone.īut when she goes along to the first meeting of The Paper & Hearts Society, Tabby is surprised. ![]() When Tabby finds a leaflet for a book club run by teenagers at the local library, Gran convinces her to go along, but Tabby isn't sure. The main character is Tabby, who is fifteen years old and has just moved to a new town in the south of England, where she knows nobody and has to put up with her Gran, who loves OAP Zumba and using "The Facebook". ![]() It's about being bookish, understanding your mental health, and the effects social media can have on us, and it's the book of my heart. The Paper & Hearts Society is the first book in a new series for teenagers (11+) about finding your people, not being afraid to be your true self, and speaking loud and proud about what you're passionate about. This is my book! I wrote a book! It's REAL! ![]() ![]() ![]() Her first novel, Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments, with Recipes, Romances and Home Remedies, published in 1989, became a bestseller in Mexico and the United States and has been translated into numerous languages. Accompanied by a collection of music, her second novel “The Law of Love” (1996) combined romance and science fiction. “Between the Fires” (2000) featured essays on life, love, and food and “Malinche” (2006), explores the life of a near mythic figure in Mexican history. When The Law of Love was published in 1996, Laura Esquivel was already a successful author. Esquivel has continued to show her creative flair and lyrical style in her later work. character who embodies love, passion and the communication of emotions through food in early 20th Century Mexico. The book has sold more than 4.5 million copies. After the release of the film version in 1992, “Like Water for Chocolate” became internationally known and loved. ![]() For more than 20 years now, she is heralded as the most famous and celebrated Mexican writer of her generation, a startling commercial success that once again affirms the crucial place of women in contemporary literature, challenges the borders of globalization and multiculturalism and develops a sophisticated taste for the exotic and the culturally idiosyncratic. Ever since her debut novel “Like Water for Chocolate” (1989), Laura Esquivel has entranced the world with her immaculate magical realism – an intensely sensual work of art that explores in the most indigenous of fashions the intertwining universes of food, passion and heartbreak. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book is listed as a children’s book (grades 3-7), and is a quick and fast-paced read. They are given an hourglass that keeps track of time remaining for each challenge and a map that changes and moves around to reflect the constantly-shifting world. The object is ultimately to destroy the city each challenge reduces an area to sand, which begins to slowly reform as they continue around the gameboard. The gamemaster, who is herself a former player trapped in the game, informs the trio that in order to escape, they have to win three rounds of challenges designed by an omnipotent being known only as the Architect. The Gauntlet is set up as a massive city with an intricate layout and beautiful architecture. When Farah’s excitable 7-year-old brother, who also suffers from ADHD, unexpectedly jumps into the gameboard, Farah and her friends are forced to follow him into its world. On Farah Mirza’s 12th birthday, one of her birthday presents mysteriously transforms into a magical board game called The Gauntlet of Blood and Sand and a voice emanates from the game, inviting her and her friends Essie and Alex to play. ![]() |