![]() ![]() They were twelve when they walked down the impossible staircase and discovered that the pretense of love can never be enough to prepare you a life filled with magic in a land filled with mad scientists and death and choices. They were five when they learned that grown-ups can’t be trusted. He really would have preferred a son, but you work with what you've got. ![]() Jillian was her father’s perfect daughter-adventurous, thrill-seeking, and a bit of a tom-boy. If her mother was sometimes a little strict, it’s because crafting the perfect daughter takes discipline. This is the story of what happened first… Jacqueline was her mother’s perfect daughter-polite and quiet, always dressed as a princess. ![]() Winner: 2022 Hugo Award for Best Series Winner: 2018 Alex Award Winner: 2018 ALA RUSA Fantasy Award Seanan McGuire returns to her popular Wayward Children series with Down Among the Sticks and Bones- a truly standalone story suitable for adult and young adult readers of urban fantasy, and the follow-up to the Alex, Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning, World Fantasy Award finalist, Tiptree Honor List book Every Heart a Doorway Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children. ![]()
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![]() If she’d written “owned a farm,” the sentence would not have resonated with such personal loss. ![]() Tells us we will hear the story from the person who experienced it.Įstablishes the distance where we join her in remembering and from where she will draw us into her love affair with her beautiful and haunting Africa. It’s a master teacher, whether for writing memoir or fiction, so perfectly crafted that seeing the 13 words with comma again, years after finishing the book, catapults me into Dinesen’s feelings for the landscape, animals, people-even the air-as if I’d glimpsed the face of my own long-ago lover. The sentence gives just enough information and makes us want to read on. It has stayed in my mind since first reading it years ago-the gentle, sure voice, solid grounding, and ring “Ngong” that echos throughout the book. I could go on an on about this sentence and what we can learn from it for our own writing. The first sentence is a simple declaration that sets up her longing: “I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.” ![]() Reading her descriptive passages, I too fall head over heels with the Africa that exists in her memory. ![]() Out of Africa, a memoir by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) is a love story. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ten Trends to Seduce Your Bestfriend is a full-length, complete standalone, adult contemporary romantic comedy. Sometimes, it takes a public audience to reveal the truth of private feelings, and rarely-very rarely-you should believe what you see online. When a simple case of tit-for-tat trends between nonfriends leads to a wholly unexpected kind of pretend, nothing is simple. So why are they faking a #bestfriend relationship for millions of online spectators? She’s looking for a side hustle to help pay down a mountain of student debt, and his financial portfolio is the stuff of fiduciary wet dreams. Homecoming King (1) Drama King (2, coming Christmas 2022) Prom King (3, coming Christmas 2023) Standalones Ten Trends to Seduce Your Best Friend. She loves sharing her passion for promulgating women in STEM careers and building community via social media, and he eschews all socialization, virtual or otherwise. ![]() She’s a public school science teacher with stars in her eyes, and he’s a pretentious, joyless double PhD turned world-famous bestselling fiction author. The truth is, they have nothing in common. Winnie considers them more like casual, distant acquaintances who find each other barely tolerable, especially when he's being condescending (which is all the time). Yes, they’ve known each other for years, but they’re not even friendly. Winnifred Gobaldi and Byron Visser are not best friends. Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestseller ![]() ![]() ![]() Dramatically Missing the Point: Roch's mother claims that he should at least try the jersey he was given and has no idea how important having the right jersey is for his peers.Canadian Equals Hockey Fan: The story is set in Montreal and tells about the author's experience with how seriously hockey is taken.All of the Other Reindeer: Once Roch is forced to wear his Toronto Maple Leafs sweater, all his other teammates no longer allowed him to play hockey with them.Adults Are Useless: At least from Roch's perspective, all of the adults are completely out of touch with him and make no effort to understand why he's upset about having the wrong hockey jersey.This book provide examples of the following tropes: This short story was well received thanks to how it gave a great insight on the culture of hockey and how Canadians took it very seriously, and even got an animated film adaptation which won several awards. ![]() When it worn out, his mother orders a new one, but to his horror, there was a mix-up with his order and he received the sweater of the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Canadiens' biggest rival, instead. ![]() Set before Quebec's Quiet Revolution, it tells the story about how, as a fan of the Montreal Canadiens, used to wear a sweater bearing the hockey team's symbol and color scheme along with his friends. A short story written by Canadian author Roch Carrier (originally titled 'Le chandail de hockey' in Canadian French) published in 1979, based on his own personal experience. ![]() |