![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It's a jam-packed smorgasbord of diverse experiences and nuggets of wisdom about love, life and success, served up in 16 chapters full of practical tips, entertaining stories and laugh out loud humor. The author shares her own powerful and thoughtful discoveries which can be translated and personalized into your life. It's a jam-packed smorgasbord of diverse experiences and nuggets of wisdom about love, life and success, served up in 16 chapters full of practical tips, entertaining stories and laugh out loud humor.īy the end of this light hearted, witty book "Things I Only Tell My Friends" you'll feel like you've chatted with your best friend, mentoring you through the stories she tells and the lessons she has learned. By the end of this light hearted, witty book "Things I Only Tell My Friends" you'll feel like you've chatted with your best friend, mentoring you through the stories she tells and the lessons she has learned. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The author later speculated that he was drawn to the chunky, vibrant colors of painted tissue paper collage in part as reaction to the grimness of his childhood. When Carle's father returned, he wasn't the warm, encouraging paternal figure the then-18-year-old remembered from before the war, but a distant and broken man. His father was drafted into the German army and was captured by the Soviets, and was away from the family for 8 years. World War II cast a bleak pallor of violence and loss over Carle’s childhood. It was 1935-so precisely the wrong time to move back to Europe. But when Carle was 6, his father relocated the family back to his native Stuttgart, Germany. The Very Hungry Caterpillar's bright colors contrast a dark period in Eric Carle's childhood.Įric Carle was born in Syracuse, New York, on June 25, 1929. Here are a few things you might not know about The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Eric Carle's bright, beloved children's classic about an insatiable caterpillar has been collecting awards-and fans-since it was first published in 1969. ![]() ![]() ![]() A U.S Marshall is sent to an eerily bleak island to investigate the disappearance of a patient from an asylum for the criminally insane. By Shutterstock | Dudarev Mikhail Shutter Island by Dennis LehaneĮven if you’ve seen the movie with Leonardo DiCaprio, Dennis Lehane’s 2003 novel is one of the most well-written thrillers of the modern era and will keep you glued to every page. ![]() If you have an upcoming trip somewhere tropical, check out our list of the best beach reads to take your vacation game to the next level. Sultry romances, plot-driven page-turners, mysteries, and thrillers are usually the genres that suit the white sand experience. The best beach reads are books that captivate you enough to completely block out the outside world - a vacation from your vacation. ![]() Nothing says ‘vacation’ like sprawling out on a beautiful beach with a cold drink and an amazing book. ← Back to ‘Without Borders: Countries U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() OL17730778W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 94.18 Pages 294 Ppi 650 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0263222888 Urn:lcp:isbn_9780373296149:lcpdf:9f246ae6-6081-48d5-b274-a32e9482f9ed In Butterfly Swords, Jeannie Lin tells a classic tale of courage, adventure, and impossible loveand she sets it in a fascinating new world: Tang China, where a warrior princess must fight for her family and her country with only a barbarian swordsman to help her. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:52:30 Boxid IA177801 Boxid_2 CH120601 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Toronto Donor ![]() ![]() ![]() Agent: Lucienne Diver, the Knight Agency. Price provides a satisfying, slightly melancholy end to the series that serves as a jam-packed adventure in its own right while gracefully wrapping up most of the series’ ongoing story lines. Now Alex must unravel deceptions and vanquish her enemies before faerie land is lost forever. Alex, now the lead investigator of the Fae Investigation Bureau, is thrown even deeper into the magical world she’s been trying to avoid after Ryese destroys the doors to faerie land, stranding fae courtiers and independents alike in the mortal world. As a grave witch, Alex Craft can speak to the dead-she's even on good terms with Death himself. Along the way, she’s picked up a few enemies-most notably the maniacal Ryese, nephew of the late winter queen. A novel by Kalayna Price Buy from Amazon Search Sorry, we've not found any editions of this book at Amazon Find this book at Not even death can save her now. I have totally become a fan of Alex Craft and Kalaynas writing. Alex Craft, a grave witch, has been through the wringer, what with discovering her fae side and reluctantly spending time in faerie land, helping to solve supernatural murders, and seeing her love interest Falin Andrews ascend to the throne of the winter court. Shes a grave witch with reasonable rates and extraordinary powers who specializes in. ![]() ![]() Price concludes the Alex Craft urban fantasy series (after Grave Destiny) with a heaping serving of chills, adventure, and romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() He just said if the Butterfly lands on something of yours, you should expect Death to come knocking at your door.ĭad described the Butterfly as being black as a starless night sky. If you see the Butterfly, somebody you know will die. Was the Butterfly right? Perhaps Sab is doomed after all! ![]() But Sab’s adventures across Manila reveal truths about her family more difficult - and dangerous - than she ever anticipated. So Sab and her best friend Pepper start spying on Nadine and digging into their family’s past to determine why, exactly, Nadine won’t speak to their father. If Sab’s going to get Ate Nadine and their father to reconcile, she’ll have to overcome her fears - of her sister’s anger, of leaving the bubble of her sheltered community, of her upcoming doom - and figure out the cause of their rift. But her sister, Ate Nadine, stopped speaking to their father one year ago, and Sab doesn’t even know why. With her time running out, all she wants is to celebrate her birthday with her entire family. When superstitious Sab sees a giant black butterfly, an omen of death, she knows that she’s doomed! According to legend, she has one week before her fate catches up with her - on her 11th birthday. Light and deep, smart and funny, crushing and hopeful all at the same time, My Fate According to the Butterfly will open your eyes to both the world’s potential for magic, and to its harsh realities. Book Review: My Fate According to the Butterfly ![]() ![]() ![]() The Witch tucked her broom under her arm. Beneath, hidden by the fronds, her prey had paused to take their rest. She finished up on the topmost bough of a black willow tree. She used the broom as a sort of balustrade, stepping down from the sky like one of her flying monkeys. But it was not up to the Witch to enlighten them. The Witch could see the companions trudging along, maneuvering around the buckled sections, skirting trenches, skipping when the way was clear. Though winter storms and the crowbars of agitators had torn up the road, still it led, relentlessly, to the Emerald City. Below, the Yellow Brick Road looped back on itself, like a relaxed noose. White and purple summer thunderheads mounded around her. A mile above Oz, the Witch balanced on the wind’s forward edge, as if she were a green fleck of the land itself, flung up and sent wheeling away by the turbulent air. ![]() ![]() ![]() The plan is to inject a singular designer poison into the head of the North Korean military and in exchange for the nuclear plans, provide him with the one existing dose of the antidote. But he’s the only available agent with the skills to carry out the CIA’s plan to stop North Korea. An exchange, if it goes through, that will create two new nuclear powers, both with dangerous plans.ĭewey Andreas, still reeling from recent revelations about his own past, is ready to retire from the CIA. ![]() ![]() In exchange for effective missiles from Iran, they will trade nuclear triggers and fissionable material. doesn’t know is that North Korea has made a deal with Iran. 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