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The deep enders by dave reardon5/12/2023 But even as the Japanese armada closes in on the northern coastline, the trio is suddenly thrust into a murderous adventure-all set against the backdrop of a true wartime tragedy. An outsider in a bewildering land of red dust and paranoia, Murph is quickly taken under wing by Banjo-a cheeky Aboriginal scamp with a passion for pyrotechnics-and Micki, a beautiful teenager on the run from authorities. Instead, he discovers a lawless place brimming with espionage, treachery, and murder. In the throes of the Pacific War, a troubled young man, Murph Turner, seeks solace in the Western Australia pearling town of Broome after his home was destroyed, but instead he finds true friendship, romance, adventure, and wartime treachery.Ī teen and young adult novel filled with adventure, danger, and more His home destroyed in The Pacific War, a troubled young man, Murph Turner, stumbles into the exotic pearling town of Broome hoping for safe harbor. The Deep Enders is a wild ride for readers " - Leah James, film producer "An action-packed adventure filled with wonderful characters, life, and color. #1 New Release in Teen & Young Adult Boys & Men Fiction, Teen & Young Adult Military Historical Fiction, Action & Adventure, and Australia Teen and Young Adult Novel Based on Actual World War II Events
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The long song levy5/12/2023 Taught to read and write so that she can help her mistress run the business, July remains bound to the plantation despite her freedom. It is the arrival of a young English overseer, Robert Goodwin, that will dramatically change life in the great house for both July and her mistress. Together they live through the bloody Baptist war, followed by the violent and chaotic end of slavery. Resourceful and mischievous, July soon becomes indispensable to her mistress. Caroline Mortimer, a recently transplanted English widow, decides to move her into the great house and rename her Marguerite. The child of a field slave on the Amity sugar plantation, July lives with her mother until Mrs. Told in the irresistibly willful and intimate voice of Miss July, with some editorial assistance from her son, Thomas, The Long Song is at once defiant, funny, and shocking. With The Long Song, Levy once again reinvents the historical novel. It won both the Orange Prize and the Whitbread Book of the Year Award, and has sold over a million copies worldwide. Small Island introduced Andrea Levy to America and was acclaimed as a triumph ( San Francisco Chronicle).
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The [Un]popular Vote by Jasper Sanchez5/12/2023 But with an investigative journalist digging into his past, a father trying to silence him, and a bully front-runner who stands in his way, Mark will have to decide which matters most: perception or truth, when both are just as dangerous. Soon Mark feels emboldened to get in front of and engage with voters-and even start a new romance. Still, thanks to countless seasons of Scandal and The West Wing, these nerds know where to start: from campaign stops to voter polling to a fashion makeover. He didn’t grow up in this town, and he has few friends plus, the ones he does have aren’t exactly with the in-crowd. One big problem? No one really knows Mark. But when he sees a manipulatively charming candidate for student body president inflame dangerous rhetoric, Mark decides to risk the low profile he assured his father and insert himself as a political challenger. To protect his father’s image, Mark promises to keep his past hidden and pretend to be the cis guy everyone assumes he is. It’s a cheap stunt, but Mark Adams knows it’s optics that can win or ruin an election.Įverything Mark learned about politics, he learned from his father, the congressman who still pretends he has a daughter and not a son. Vaseline on the teeth makes a smile shine.
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The fugitive colours nancy bilyeau5/12/2023 Runyan, bestselling author of The School for German Brides McMillan is a rising star in historical fiction.” - Aimie K. “ The Mozart Code is a smart, luscious romance, a thrilling suspense, and a thunderously good read. Readers will be riveted from the very first page.” - Publisher’s Weekly “McMillan’s vivid descriptions of a postwar Vienna add allure to the simmering, romantic mystery. THE MOZART CODE: A NOVEL, by Rachel McMillan (March 15) I hope that it helps you discover your next great read for the Spring season. The range of stories and settings are diverse: Georgian, Regency, WWII, and post war England to Gilded Age Newport and 1930s Hollywood. Here is a curated list of my favorites for March, April, and May. My tulips are sprouting! Spring is on its way here in the Pacific Northwest along with a great selection of new historical novels.
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Cinderella ate my daughter5/12/2023 Yet, when I finally got pregnant myself, I was terrified at the thought of having a daughter. Here is my dirty little secret: as a journalist, I have spent nearly two decades writing about girls, thinking about girls, talking about how girls should be raised. So little girls may be drawn to pink, sparkly princess gowns as a way of asserting that they're definitely girls. Orenstein says very young children don't yet understand that your sex is fixed - that you can't go to sleep a girl and wake up a boy. That obsession with everything pink and princess is the focus of Orenstein's new book, Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture. "The dentist asked, 'Would you like to get in my princess chair so I can sparkle your teeth?' And I just thought, 'Oh my gosh, do you have a princess drill, too?'" The final straw came at Daisy's first dentist appointment. "The waitress at our breakfast joint would hand her her pancakes and say, 'Here's your princess pancakes,'" Orenstein says. Suddenly, Orenstein began noticing princess references everywhere, surrounding her daughter. "She came home having memorized, as if by osmosis, all the names and gown colors of the Disney princesses," Orenstein tells NPR's Linda Wertheimer. A few years ago, author Peggy Orenstein sent her daughter Daisy off to preschool - and within a week, she noticed a profound change.
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Killer, Come Back to Me by Ray Bradbury5/12/2023 Time travellers.dark carnivals.living automata.and detectives? Honouring the 100th birthday of Ray Bradbury, renowned author of Fahrenheit 451, this new, definitive collection of the master's less well-known crime fiction features classic stories and rare gems, a number of which became episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Ray Bradbury Theater, including the tale Bradbury called 'one of the best stories in any field that I have ever written'. Celebrating Ray Bradbury's centenary, this collection commemorates his finest crime stories – tales as strange and wonderful as his signature fantasy.
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The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis5/11/2023 The boy is Digory, a name which Polly makes fun of and begins to comment on his dirty face when she remembers her manners. Polly welcomes the boy with a hello and asks his name. Rubbing his wet face with dirty hands, thus explaining his grubby appearance. Since no children had ever been in that house before, Polly is curious. One day, while she is in her garden, a grubby faced young boy pokes his head over the wall from the garden next door. During this time in London lived a young girl named Polly Plummer A famous detective still lived at Baker Street and the schools were less pleasant than today's schools. The Magician's Nephew begins with a brief summary of the time period during which the story occurs.
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Fossil men by kermit pattison5/11/2023 It’s a journalistic maxim that readers prefer personalities to events, and Pattison describes plenty of ambitious, media-savvy researchers whose often bitter hostility has stalled progress but makes for lively reading. The result is a satisfying education on the status of the human family tree over the past 5 million years, and the author provides detailed explanations of how anthropologists tease information from bones, teeth, and local geology. Pattison caught the bug in 2012 and devoted seven years to gathering material. Perhaps once a decade, a journalist recounts the history and latest findings in human evolution, a subject of apparently endless appeal-Martin Meredith’s Born in Africa (2011) remains a page-turner. An entertaining update on a process as “red in tooth and claw” as nature itself.
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Carve the mark series order5/11/2023 When Akos and his brother are kidnapped by the ruling Noavek family, Akos is forced to serve Cyra, the sister of a dictator who governs with violence and fear. "Roth offers a richly imagined, often brutal world of political intrigue and adventure, with a slow-burning romance at its core." -ALA BooklistĬyra Noavek and Akos Kereseth have grown up in enemy countries locked in a long-standing fight for dominance over their shared planet. "Roth skillfully weaves the careful world-building and intricate web of characters that distinguished Divergent." - VOYA (starred review) #1 New York Times bestseller * Wall Street Journal bestseller * USA Today bestseller * #1 IndieBound bestseller Globally bestselling Divergent author Veronica Roth delivers a breathtaking fantasy featuring an unusual friendship, an epic love story, and a galaxy-sweeping adventure.
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Robert paxton the anatomy of fascism5/11/2023 Mussolini and Hitler were the prototypical fascist leaders, and Paxton chronicles their rise to power-and their global influence and ultimate fall-with a brilliant economy." – San Francisco Chronicle A splendid book." –The New York Times Book Review "So fair, so thorough and, in the end, so convincing, it may well become the most authoritative. Based on a lifetime of research, this compelling and important book transforms our knowledge of fascism–“the major political innovation of the twentieth century, and the source of much of its pain.” The Anatomy of Fascism will have a lasting impact on our understanding of modern European history, just as Paxton’s classic Vichy France redefined our vision of World War II. Historical analysis at its best." – The Economist "A deeply intelligent and very readable book. Paxton answers this question.įrom the first violent uniformed bands beating up “enemies of the state,” through Mussolini’s rise to power, to Germany’s fascist radicalization in World War II, Paxton shows clearly why fascists came to power in some countries and not others, and explores whether fascism could exist outside the early-twentieth-century European setting in which it emerged. What is fascism? By focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did, rather than what they said, the esteemed historian Robert O. |