![]() ![]() And while she’s used to laughing her way out of any situation, as she finds herself first the center of high school gossip and then in the middle of a national scandal, it’s hard even for her to find humor in the situation. Izzy is certain that the whole thing will blow over and she can get back to worrying about how she doesn’t reciprocate her best friend Danny’s feelings for her and wondering how she is ever going to find a way out of their small town. But after she’s caught in a compromising position with the son of a politician, it seems like everyone around her is eager to give her a new slut. ![]() Eighteen-year-old Izzy O’Neill knows exactly who she is-a loyal friend, an aspiring comedian, and a person who believes that milk shakes and Reese’s peanut butter cups are major food groups. THE HOMO SAPIENS AGENDA Bitingly funny and shockingly relevant, The Exact Opposite of Okay is a bold, brave, and necessary read for fans of Louise O’Neill and Jennifer Mathieu. ![]() I will protect Izzy O'Neill with my life.” -Becky Albertalli, author of SIMON VS. “Laura Steven simultaneously destroyed the patriarchy and made me laugh so hard I choked. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ' Kaufman fully grasped the thankless position of the teachers left to impart knowledge and instill citizenship in the face of awesome obstacles. It is poignant, devastating, laugh-out-loud funny, and - in our current moment of debate around the future of education - more relevant than ever. Up the Down Staircasestands as the seminal novel of a beleaguered public school system that is redeemed by teachers who love to teach and students who long to be recognised. ![]() Her bumpy yet ultimately rewarding journey is depicted through an extraordinary collection of correspondence - sternly worded yet nonsensical administrative memos, furtive notes of wisdom from teacher to teacher, 'polio consent slips', and student homework assignments that unwittingly speak from the heart. ![]() ![]() Instead she encounters broken windows, a lack of supplies, a stifling bureaucracy, and students with no interest in Chaucer. Sylvia Barrett arrives at New York City's Calvin Coolidge High fresh from earning literature degrees at Hunter College and eager to shape young minds. With an introduction by Diane Ravitch and foreword by Gabbie Stroud. Our Scribe reissue of Bel Kaufman's classic 1964 novel Up the Down Staircase timelessly depicts the shambolic joys and frustrations of a young teacher. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With critically acclaimed titles in history, science, higher education, consumer health, humanities, classics, and public health, the Books Division publishes 150 new books each year and maintains a backlist in excess of 3,000 titles. The division also manages membership services for more than 50 scholarly and professional associations and societies. The Journals Division publishes 85 journals in the arts and humanities, technology and medicine, higher education, history, political science, and library science. The Press is home to the largest journal publication program of any U.S.-based university press. ![]() One of the largest publishers in the United States, the Johns Hopkins University Press combines traditional books and journals publishing units with cutting-edge service divisions that sustain diversity and independence among nonprofit, scholarly publishers, societies, and associations. ![]() ![]() Not just anyone may become a Dark Hunter, nor is the process easy.Ī person must die as the direct result of a terrible betrayal, such as their best friend or a family member killing them in a brutal way. Knowing this, she created her immortal warriors and manipulated him into leading, training, and being responsible for them. ![]() She knew of Acheron's love and compassion for humans and his unwillingness to allow others to suffer when he could stop it. Once they've had their revenge, they are dedicated to defending mankind against Daimons (a psychic race cursed by Apollo) and other preternatural enemies. ![]() The Dark-Hunters are immortal warriors who sell their souls to the Greek goddess Artemis for an Act of Vengeance against the one who murdered them. ![]() Kenyon began writing the series in 1986 in horror, fantasy and science fiction magazines. Dark-Hunter is a term from a paranormal romance and fantasy series by Sherrilyn Kenyon. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, it sounds like he's gone for months at a time every now and again, off on some diplomatic errand or other. He has a job with the British government (my fangirling heart burst knowing that he works at MI6!) and he's away from home most of the time. You have adventures together, spend gads of time in each other's company, bear children together, and somehow settle into that daily grind of life where nothing new ever happens. Most people marry relatively young, as did Tommy and Tuppence. Now that you've had my prologue (although I confess that Anthony doesn't have nearly enough scenes for a die-hard fangirl like me!), we can move on to the meat of Tommy and Tuppence's relationship. Now I do, and I wish to high heaven that some genius had leapt to his/her feet and declared the necessity of a Tommy and Tuppence miniseries! Just a single season, possibly only 4 episodes, but each one casting this brilliant duo of Anthony Andrews and Greta Scacchi. ![]() It didn't snag my interest for very long, possibly because I didn't have a visual to go with the story. I vaguely remember reading this Agatha Christie novel once, quite a few years back, and being surprised that she'd written something without either Poirot or Miss Marple. ![]() ![]() ![]() Brink’s presence triggers a chain of events that threaten not only Micah’s daily routine but also his entire carefully structured life. ![]() He’s gotten into some trouble in college and is reluctant to go home and face his parents. They quickly determine the math makes that scenario impossible, but Brink lingers. Brink is the son of Micah’s college girlfriend, and he is convinced Micah is his father. Micah’s carefully calibrated world is upended when he returns from his morning run to find a teenage boy named Brink on his stoop. “Sometimes when he was dealing with people, he felt like he was operating one of those claw machines on a boardwalk, those shovel things where you tried to scoop up a prize but the controls were too unwieldy and you worked at too great a remove.” He lives alone, managing an apartment building. Micah Mortimer is a single, middle-aged man whose life is governed by routine. ![]() ![]() There is only one alternative: the Wilderness State, the last swath of untouched, protected land, where people have always been forbidden. If they stay in the city, Agnes will die. Nature.īea’s five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away, consumed by the smog and pollution of the overdeveloped metropolis that most of the population now calls home. Margaret Atwood meets Miranda July in this wildly imaginative debut novel of a mother's battle to save her daughter in a world ravaged by climate change A prescient and suspenseful book from the author of the acclaimed story collection, Man V. Gripping, fierce, terrifying examination of what people are capable of when they want to survive in both the best and worst ways. ![]() But at its core, The New Wilderness is really about motherhood, and about the world we make (or unmake) for our children.” - Washington Post ![]() “More than timely, the novel feels timeless, solid, like a forgotten classic recently resurfaced - a brutal, beguiling fairy tale about humanity. A Washington Post, NPR, and Buzzfeed Best Book of the Year ![]() ![]() The circus seems almost to cast a spell over its aficionados, who call themselves the rêveurs - the dreamers.Īt the heart of the story is the tangled relationship between two young magicians, Celia, the enchanter’s daughter, and Marco, the sorcerer’s apprentice. Although there are acrobats, fortune-tellers, and contortionists, the Circus of Dreams is no conventional spectacle. Open only at night, constructed entirely in black and white, Le Cirque des Rêves delights all who wander its circular paths and warm themselves at its bonfire. In 1886, a mysterious travelling circus becomes an international sensation. Longlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction. Wells, Erin Morgenstern's world is as dark and thrilling as it is monochromatic. Telling her tale with all the attention to detail that has led fans to compare her to such literary greats as H. ![]() ![]() The Transfer - Was this one reallllly necessary?įrom the main books, we already know that Four picked Dauntless because he wanted to escape his abusive father.Īnd this short story. It felt more like the author was frantically filling in plot holes rather than writing something new. ![]() It will fly off the shelves and for good reason.” -ALA BooklistĪnd that is as about as positive as I can get. “Fans of Divergent who can’t get enough-and maybe even the rare reader who missed the first rush-will snap up this story collection told. A welcome trip down memory lane.” - Publishers Weekly “The same mix of tension, uncertainty, and hope that made the original stories irresistible. ![]() When read together, these long narrative pieces illuminate the defining moments in Tobias's life, from his transfer from Abnegation to Dauntless, his initiation, and the decisions of loyalty-and love-that Tobias makes in the weeks after he meets Tris Prior. ![]() ![]() Readers first encountered Tobias as "Four" in Divergent and will find more of this charismatic character's backstory told from his own perspective in Four: A Divergent Collection. This edition features exclusive content from Veronica Roth and beautiful reimagined cover art from award-winning illustrator Victo Ngai. Celebrate the 10th anniversary of Divergent with a special edition of Four, a collection in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that captured the hearts of millions of readers and inspired a series of major motion pictures starring Shailene Woodley. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mini Review: Broadway, musicians, Irishmen, Midwesterner in NYC-a recipe for a book I knew I’d enjoy! This was my first Christina Lauren novel and I enjoyed the writing and romance-what a complicated and frightening, confusing situation Holland and Calvin found themselves in-all of it still somehow so grounded and relatable. As their relationship evolves and Calvin becomes the darling of Broadway-in the middle of the theatrics and the acting-not-acting-will Holland and Calvin to realize that they both stopped pretending a long time ago? Impulsively, she marries the Irishman, her infatuation a secret only to him. Seeing that her uncle needs Calvin as much as Calvin needs him, a wild idea takes hold of her. ![]() ![]() Calvin is set for a great entry into Broadway-until his reason for disappearing earlier becomes clear: he’s in the country illegally, his student visa having expired years ago. Using the only resource she has to pay the brilliant musician back, Holland gets Calvin an audition with her uncle, Broadway’s hottest musical director. Calvin Mcloughlin rescues her, but quickly disappears when the police start asking questions. Fate steps in one night in the form of a drunken attacker. Summary: For months Holland Bakker has invented excuses to descend into the subway station near her apartment, drawn to the captivating music performed by her street musician crush. ![]() |