![]() Still reeling from war wounds and devastated by loss, Mila finds herself isolated and lonely in the glittering world of Washington, DC-until an unexpected friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and an even more unexpected connection with a silent fellow sniper offer the possibility of happiness.īut when an old enemy from Mila’s past joins forces with a deadly new foe lurking in the shadows, Lady Death finds herself battling her own demons and enemy bullets in the deadliest duel of her life.īased on a true story, The Diamond Eye is a haunting novel of heroism born of desperation, of a mother who became a soldier, of a woman who found her place in the world and changed the course of history forever. When news of her three hundredth kill makes her a national heroine, Mila finds herself torn from the bloody battlefields of the eastern front and sent to America on a goodwill tour. Given a rifle and sent to join the fight, Mila must forge herself from studious girl to deadly sniper-a lethal hunter of Nazis known as Lady Death. In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kyiv, wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son-but Hitler’s invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path. The bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history’s deadliest female sniper. ![]()
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![]() Thirteen-year-old Olia loves her family's ramble-shamble wooden castle. (Mar.)Ī girl journeys to save her family and her home. Again drawing on Slavic myth, Anderson (The Girl Who Speaks Bear) writes an intimately cadenced adventure, rendering the magically charged setting a character of its own while emphasizing themes of perspective, family legacy, and following one's gut. To save her home and prevent a catastrophe, Olia must join with several nature spirits to fight the wizard. ![]() But as the magic seeks to break through castle and realm, both are in danger of being destroyed forever. ![]() While her carpenter parents maintain the ancient structure, which is built entirely of wood and boasts 13 domes, narrator Olia, an artist, delights in discovering its secrets and seeking her way into the domes, which her Babusya insists "are filled with magic that has been locked away from the world." When a terrible storm threatens the building, Olia and her new companion, a foxlike domovoi named Feliks, must travel to the Land of Forbidden Magic-a realm locked away following a rivalry between a wizard and one of Olia's ancestors. ![]() Even though a revolution a century earlier ended with a "fallen throne," 13-year-old Olia's formerly royal family, which reads as white, has continued to dwell in Castle Mila leading up to its 500th birthday. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this unique collection of finely wrought tales Wharton demonstrates her mastery of the ghost story genre. Wharton imbues this potent irrational and imaginative fear into her ghostly fiction to great effect. While claiming not to believe in ghosts, paradoxically she did confess that she was frightened of them. ![]() Traumatised by ghost stories in her youth, Pulitzer Prize winning author Edith Wharton (1862 -1937) channelled her fear and obsession into creating a series of spine-tingling tales filled with spirits beyond the grave and other supernatural phenomena. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() one woman's choice that she made as a teenager and kept as a secret until her death will bring two women together and change their lives forever. Could one choice, one secret, bond two unlikely women forever? … ( more)Ĭhoices and secrets. In a moment of haste, Addison divulges her deepest secret to her closest friend Emily - a secret she never intended to disclose. Addison Reynolds resides in her posh Manhattan condominium and wraps her personal identity around running Urbane, the magazine empire built by her father. But when the unexpected death of her mother turns her world upside down, she discovers there is a missing piece of her treasured family tradition and her life as she once knew it may never be the same. Each piece crafted in the shape of a puzzle piece, each one interlinking perfectly together. Away at college, even the necklace she wears serves as a constant connection home - a family tradition created when her grandfather handmade each immediate relative an interlinking charm. What do you do when your once charmed life falls to pieces? Karsen Woods's life seems charmed from her handsome boyfriend to her picture-perfect midwestern roots. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m still wrapping my head around the magnitude of what was revealed in this book. Narrated by Juliette, Warner, and Kenji Kishimoto, this gripping novel perfectly sets the stage for the highly anticipated forthcoming conclusion to the Shatter Me series.ĭefy Me, is the fifth book that just released in the Shatter Me series. Stronger, braver, and more resilient than ever, Juliette will fight for life and love with her friends by her side-but first, she has to survive the war being waged against her mind: But Juliette has only just begun to unravel a lifetime of lies, and she finds herself faced with a familiar choice: She thought she’d finally taken control of her life, her power, and her pain. ![]() She thought she’d finally defeated the Reestablishment. Juliette Ferrars isn’t who she thinks she is. ![]() Categories: Dystopian, Young Adult, Romance ![]() ![]() ![]() A company realistically would have to learn how to be more of a hybrid-adapting appropriate managerial behavior to its diverse employees. Of course that explains what could be the downfall of the book/theory: How do you treat different parts of a single company differently and then make it all blend together? The examples within the book were often "all in" ROWE, or results-only workplace environments. What I liked was that it broke down which types of work can be motivated by carrots and sticks and which types of work can't. ![]() While Drive is like a lot of business books that focus on a new trend-i.e., really just an extended magazine article-it does hammer home some salient points. Drive says for 21st century work, we need to upgrade to autonomy, mastery & purpose." ![]() In a nutshell-or should I say, in a "tweet"-which Pink so gamely prepares for us: "Carrots & sticks are so last century. Pink is one of those books that makes you wonder why we are having so much trouble getting over the command-and-control/face- time-and-billable-hours business models. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. ![]() ![]() ![]() When he wakes up on Christmas Day he is full of excitement, and buys the biggest turkey in the shop for the Cratchit family before spending the day with his nephew, full of the joys of Christmas. ![]() The ghosts’ journey through time teaches Scrooge the error of his ways. Desperate to become cleaneven though it feels so good to be dirty. We are told to scourge our souls with prayer and pain to become clean once again. ![]() The ghost then takes him to see his nephew Fred’s Christmas celebrations - which he had been invited to, but rebuffed.įinally, The Ghost of Christmas Future terrifies Scrooge by showing him visions of his own death… Midnight Mass by Sierra Simone 2015 0.00 Avg rating0 Votes We are told that God will punish the wicked. At Bob Cratchit’s house Scrooge sees Tiny Tim, who is very ill, but full of spirit. The Ghost of Christmas Present shows Scrooge his clerk, Bob Cratchit’s family. The Ghost of Christmas Past takes Scrooge on a journey through Christmases from his past, taking Scrooge to see himself as an unhappy child and a young man more in love with money than his fiancé. When Scrooge gets home, he is visited by the ghost of his old business partner Jacob Marley – and then by three ghosts! They are the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Future. One cold Christmas Eve, Scrooge is unkind to the people who work for him, then refuses to give to charity, and then is rude to his nephew when he invites him to spend Christmas with him. A Christmas Carol is a play about a mean-spirited and selfish old man, Ebenezer Scrooge, who hates Christmas. ![]() ![]() ![]() He watches as a man pretending to be a meter reader tries to abduct Alison. ![]() Kyle Boot is the hero in the story "Victory Lap." He is Alison Pope's next-door neighbor. After he saves her from her attackers, she has recurring nightmares where Kyle actually kills her abductor with the rock instead of just injuring him. Her opinion of Kyle does not fit her ideal of her expected prince charming. She now considers him to be a wimp and a geek. She remembers the way that she and Kyle Boot had been friends when they were younger. This view of the world is shattered when a man pretending to be a meter reader tries to abduct her from her home.Īlison's salvation comes from an unexpected source. ![]() To her, the world is filled with love and goodness and beautiful people who will never be anything but kind to her. Alison Pope is the damsel in distress character in the story "Victory Lap." She is a fifteen year old who dreams of finding her prince charming in a world filled with ordinary men. ![]() ![]() ![]() Board book, Abridged (January 12th, 2016): $6. Combining brief and funny stories, easy words, catchy rhythm, and lively illustrations, Bright and Early Books are an ideal way to introduce the joys of reading.Juvenile Fiction / Concepts / Opposites.Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Works based on his original stories have won three Oscars, three Emmys, three Grammys, and a Peabody. Seuss’s long list of awards includes Caldecott Honors for McElligot’s Pool, If I Ran the Zoo, and Bartholomew and the Oobleck, the Pulitzer Prize, and eight honorary doctorates. Hundreds of millions of copies have found their way into homes and hearts around the world. It explores a range of descriptive, location and quantity concepts. LeSieg and Rosetta Stone) have been translated into thirty languages. Dr Seusss The Foot Book uses rhythm and rhyme to teach young children about opposites. ![]() Seuss (and others that he wrote but did not illustrate, including some under the pseudonyms Theo. The books he wrote and illustrated under the name Dr. From The Cat in the Hat to Oh, the Places You’ll Go!, his iconic characters, stories, and art style have been a lasting influence on generations of children and adults. Seuss-is one of the most beloved children’s book authors of all time. ![]() ![]() ![]() I often protested that it was no longer safe for Alden to be there however, he stood fast in his belief that the Guild could be saved. ![]() Ristan had been spending more time with Alden, and was now acting as his shadow on all things Guild, bringing back any information he or Alden discovered. These were powerful creatures that could do damage on a scale that Humans had never witnessed before. Even in my world, wars left devastation in their wake, but these were creatures who didn’t want control they wanted to destroy. ![]() For all we held, and all we cherished, peace would come at a steep price-because it always had. I wasn’t an idiot either I knew we wouldn’t make it out of this fight unscathed. I could smell the conflict brewing in the air, thick and dangerously near. He was trying to shield me from what was coming, but I wasn’t a fool. Ryder was one of the deadliest creatures that existed, and yet, despite my best efforts, he behaved as though I was too frail in my current condition to protect myself, so he had his brothers watching over me night and day as war loomed on the horizon. Those who gathered in the walls of the keep did so with the pretense of wanting to protect my glorious beast-as if he needed protection. Some came to see the birth of the miracle babies-as they now referred to the wee beasties inside of me-who grew stronger with every rising of the suns. The process seemed unreal, as thousands of our allies had gathered around to protect us and gain favor with the newly crowned Horde King. ![]() |