When both boys take their rivalry too far, the dance is on the verge of being canceled. But when Jeremy threatens to break his heart and steal his crown, Lukas kick starts a plot to sabotage Jeremy’s campaign. Lukas Rivers, football star and head of the Homecoming Committee, is just trying to find order in his life after his older brother’s funeral and the loss of his long-term girlfriend?who turned out to be a boy. Instead of bowing to the bigots and outdate school administration, Jeremy decides to make some noise?and how better than by challenging his all-star ex-boyfriend, Lukas for the title of Homecoming King? Jeremy Harkiss, cheer captain and student body president, won’t let coming out as a transgender boy ruin his senior year. A trans boy enters a throw-down battle for the title of Homecoming King with the boy he dumped last summer in ZR Ellor's contemporary YA debut.
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7/4/2023 0 Comments The player of games bookSomehow he had survived he had not expected to. They were approaching a tall dune, from which they ought to be able to see the coast. They must be nearly there the noise of distant surf boomed through the helmet soundfield. He limped across the desert, following the suited figure in front. The story starts with a battle that is not a battle, and ends with a game that is not a game.ĭust drifted with each footstep. The man is a game-player called 'Gurgeh'. This is the story of a man who went far away for a long time, just to play a game. Mocked, blackmailed, almost murdered, Gurgeh accepts the game, and with it the challenge of his life - and very possibly his death. Master of every board, computer and strategy.īored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game … a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Banks - The Player of Games (1988) v1.0 : Scanned by HugHug Iain M. Moving in its frankness, this is the most satisfying, startlingly funny, and genuinely affecting tour through hell you’ll ever take. She stumbled into gangbanging, drug dealing, hustling, prostitution, theft, and, eventually, the best scam of all: a series of 9-to-5 jobs.Ī Piece of Cake is unlike any memoir you’ll ever read. Orphaned by the death of her mother and left in the hands of a sadistic foster parent, young Cupcake Brown learned to survive by turning tricks, downing hard liquor, and ingesting every drug she could find while hitchhiking up and down the California coast. There are shelves of memoirs about overcoming the death of a parent, childhood abuse, rape, drug addiction, miscarriage, alcoholism, hustling, gangbanging, near-death injuries, drug dealing, prostitution, and homelessness.Ĭupcake Brown survived all these things before she’d even turned twenty.Īnd that’s when things got interesting. Her life is nothing short of a miracle.”- Chicago Sun-Times The heart-wrenching, uplifting tale about a woman named Cupcake. 7/4/2023 0 Comments The tailor of gloucesterHoused in a quarter brown morocco clamshell case with felt lining. Otherwise a spectacular copy in very fine condition. Small circular bookseller's label on rear pastedown. Color pictorial endpapers (Quinby Plate I, a single-page endpaper occurring four times). Color pictorial label on front cover within a blind panel in the shape of a truncated pyramid outlined in blind. Original maroon boards ruled and lettered in white on front cover and lettered in white on spine. Seventeen illustrations are entirely new for this edition eleven of the illustrations are repeated from the December 1902 privately printed edition. Color frontispiece and twenty-six color plates (included in pagination). First published edition, first issue (printed October 1903), with a single-page endpaper occurring four times. First Published Edition In the Rare Original Printed Glassine Dust Jacket POTTER, Beatrix. Even when life seems perfect, midlife raises all sorts of existential questions. Jen Mann is leading the movement to just be honest. M ust-Read New Books Coming Out In 2022, According to Zibby Owens Must-Read Books Coming Out In Januaryġ/4: Laura Lippman, Seasonal Work: Storiesīestselling author Laura Lippman’s latest book is a collection of stories using the psychological suspense she employs in her books like Dream Girl and Lady in the Lake.ġ/4: Jen Mann, Midlife Bites: Anyone Else Falling Apart, Or Is It Just Me? We have a lot of our to-do lists already. The books I’m most excited about are by authors I adore, all of whom have been or will be on my podcast, Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books, with new books coming out.Īnd if you’re looking for some great bookstores to buy them in, check out my #22in22 initiative from Zibby Books, which encourages readers to visit bookstores in person 22 times in 2022. I’ve already compiled my reading list for 2022, filled with the books I intend on tearing through as soon as they’re out. I should really just plunk myself down on the couch on January 1 and read straight through until 2023 (it sounds lovely, doesn’t it? But, we all know by now…moms don’t have that much time to read books!). There are so many exciting books coming out in 2022 that I don’t know how I’ll find time to read them all. At first, it seems as if Henri is on top of it all-but the reader soon realizes that Henri is juggling too much. Published on September 8, 2020, Charming as a Verb by Ben Philippe is an authentic young adult contemporary novel that portrays a realistic account of a teenager as he is about to embark on the next stage of his life.Ĭharming as a Verb follows Haitian-American protagonist Henri Haltiwanger as he tries to navigate his life through his final year of high school at FATE Academy (an elite private arts school located in Manhattan), while juggling his own dog-walking business, applying to colleges, complicated romantic relationships, and parents who expect too much from him. (See the " Golden Horde" for the real-world history that Asimov drew upon and adapted.)Īsimov once called it his "least favorite novel." Publication history The ruler of Tyrann in the story is called the "Khan," suggesting that Asimov took the Mongol dominion over the Russian principalities as a model, much as he used the declining Roman Empire for his Foundation series. Tyrann suppressed science and space navigation training in the kingdoms to help maintain control over its subject worlds. The Tyranni, who come from the planet Tyrann, rule a minor empire of 50 planets near the Horsehead Nebula. The story starts with the news that his father has been caught conspiring against the Tyranni. Biron Farrill is the son of the greatest nobleman on the planet Nephelos, one of the Nebula Kingdoms. It starts with a young man attending the University of Earth. The book is part of Asimov's Galactic Empire series and takes place before the actual founding of the Galactic Empire, before even Trantor becomes important. The Stars, Like Dust is a 1951 science fiction mystery book by American writer Isaac Asimov. The Stars, Like Dust was serialized in Galaxy Science Fiction as Tyrann in early 1951, and issued in book form around the same time. 7/3/2023 0 Comments Rapunzel by Rachel IsadoraThe sorceress then found out, and was very upset, so she cut off Rapunzel hair and proceeded to leave her in the wilderness alone. Rapunzel and the prince said their marriage vows, and she became pregnant. The sorceress thought she was only one entering the tower by calling out, "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down you hair" but she was wrong because a prince was visiting Rapunzel during the nights. Once the sorceress received the baby, she locked her in a tower with no entryway. For the husband to keep his wife alive he traded the rapunzel for their baby who was to be born soon. In order to keep her alive he husband would fetch the rapunzel during the night until the sorceress stopped him. However, the mother then fell ill and was in great need of the rapunzel that was growing in the wicked sorceress' garden near by. The story starts off with two parents who were wishing to have a baby their wish was granted. Rapunzel retold by Rachel Isadora is a children's fairy tale that was published in 2008. 7/3/2023 0 Comments After the fall ben rhodesUltimately, Rhodes writes personally and powerfully about finding hope in the belief that looking squarely at where America has gone wrong can make clear how essential it is to fight for what America is supposed to be, for our own country and the entire world. The characters and issues that Rhodes illuminates paint a picture that shows us where we are today-from Barack Obama to a rising generation of international leaders from the authoritarian playbook endangering democracy to the flood of disinformation enabling authoritarianism. Along the way, he discusses the growing authoritarianism of Vladimir Putin, and his aggression towards Ukraine, with the foremost opposition leader in Russia, who was subsequently poisoned and imprisoned he profiled Hong Kong protesters who saw their movement snuffed out by China under Xi Jinping and America itself reached the precipice of losing democracy before giving itself a fragile second chance. He visited dozens of countries, meeting with politicians and activists confronting the same nationalism and authoritarianism that are tearing America apart. “Vital reading for Americans and people anywhere who seek to understand what is happening ‘after the fall’ of the global system created by the United States” ( New York Journal of Books), from the former White House aide, close confidant to President Barack Obama, and author of The World as It IsĪt a time when democracy in the United States is endangered as never before, Ben Rhodes spent years traveling the world to understand why. 7/3/2023 0 Comments Storm siren bookThe curse I've spent my entire life abhorringthe thing I trained so hard to controlno longer exists.'Nym risked her life to save Faelen, her homeland, from a losing war, only to discover that the shapeshifter Draewulf has stolen everything she holds dear. Because, eventually, accidentally, I will destroy you.'As a slave in the war-weary kingdom of Faelen, seventeen-year-old Nym isn't merely devoid of rights, her Elemental kind are only born male and always killed at birthmeaning, she shouldn't even exist.Siren's Fury' I thrust my hand toward the sky as my voice begs the Elemental inside me to waken and rise. Mary Weber's Storm Siren Trilogy now available in one e-collection!Storm Siren' I raise my chin as the buyers stare. |