![]() ![]() Marshington who was also called as Ryland was the friend of her brother Griffith whom she thinks as a hero from the letters which Griffith sent her. As Miranda couldn’t stand those rules, she starts writing letters in a blue paper for a Duke called Marsh (Marshington) whom she had never met before. Lady Miranda disliked her blue chair on which her mother forced her to sit and teaches her an earful of lady lessons after she breaks the etiquettes. Due to her clumsiness and despise for etiquettes things were getting harder. From a very young age, Lady Miranda despised lady etiquettes and rules. Miranda Hawthorne, the young lady of Hawthorne house is the daughter and sister of a Duke. ![]() “Honour was all well and good, but good sense was valuable as well.” A Noble Masquerade, Kristi Ann Hunter ![]()
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![]() ![]() Arrow of God takes up the ongoing conflict between continuity and change as Ezeulu, the headstrong chief priest, finds his authority is under threat from rivals and colonial functionaries. The trilogy opens with the groundbreaking Things Fall Apart, the tale of Okonkwo, a hero in his village, whose clashes with missionaries-coupled with his own tragic pride-lead to his fall from grace. In these masterly novels, Achebe brilliantly imagines the lives of three generations of an African community as their world is upended by the forces of colonialism from the first arrival of the British to the waning days of empire. ![]() Synopsis: Chinua Achebe is considered the father of modern African literature, the writer who "opened the magic casements of African fiction." The African Trilogy-comprised of Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God, and No Longer at Ease-is his magnum opus. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Of sf interest are Anderson's first two novels. The deliberate evocation of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ( 1884) fixes the tale into a dark understanding of the myth of America. The Octavian Nothing series – comprising The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: The Pox Party ( 2006) and The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: The Kingdom of the Waves ( 2008) – is not literally fantastic, though the cruel intricacies of its portrayal of a young Black man at the end of the eighteenth century in America justly tax the conventions of realism and the close of the second volume, as Octavian lights out for the territory, is a kind of Slingshot Ending whose trajectory leads into an unknown future. (1968- ) US author who has written almost exclusively for younger readers and the Young Adult audience for the former market – in series like the Norumbegan Quartet, which is set partly in an Alternate World, and the spoofish Pals in Peril/Thrilling Tales – he has restricted himself to Fantasy. ![]() ![]() We see her rise to the top of her class as a doctor in the making and be forced to give it up to raise her children. We see Marilyn, Lydia’s mother struggle with making a different life from that of her mother who was a homemaker. We see James, Lydia’s father desperately attempting to fit in and be accepted as a true American. The many sacrifices they make towards that and the indignities they bear stoically. It reveals immigrant parents’ high expectations and desires for a better life for their children. The story touches on racism in this case against Asians. Without looking too hard, we easily see ourselves and our families in hers. Her death and her family’s grieving process lead us down a path that reveals the inner workings of her family and their many relationships. Her lifeless body is found in the local lake. Lydia is the favourite child of Chinese-American James Lee and blond blue-eyed Marilyn Lee. But they don’t know it yet” and holds your attention in a tight grip to the very end. It is a veritable page-turner that opens with the words: “Lydia is dead. (Excerpt from Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng)Įverything I Never Told You is an exquisite young adult novel at par with the best in the genre which is a remarkable feat considering it is Celeste Ng’s (pronounced ing) first novel. ![]() Because of Lydia’s mother and father, because of her mother’s and father’s mothers and fathers. ![]() Quote: How had it begun? Like everything: with mothers and fathers. ![]() ![]() I have read all of the Light Novels I linked to above, and I loved some of them, but not because they were a perfect format of novel and anime - mainly because I already loved the world building that was done in the manga, anime or both and then got a deeper dive into the characters as a whole (in some ways). ![]() I LOVE manga, but I also love reading novels, and I wanted something in between, and Light Novels were not what I was looking for. That said, I have done my own searching for novel formatted anime-style books and Light Novels weren't the solution for me (Though the specific Naruto Light Novels ARE very good the style of light novels is just not what I was looking for). The length is comparable to a novella in US publishing terms. They are usually published in bunkobon size (A6 – 105 x 148mm). These novels contain mostly illustrations in anime or manga style. First things first: this would not be a fair list of books to read if you like anime if I didn't start by mentioning light novels as a whole.Ī light novel is a style of Japanese novel targeting teenagers and young adults. ![]() ![]() The stars of this narrative are the walls themselves-rising up in places as ancient and exotic as Mesopotamia, Babylon, Greece, China, Rome, Mongolia, Afghanistan, the lower Mississippi and even Central America. Ultimately, those same men would create edifices of mud, brick, and stone, and with them effectively divide humanity: on one side were those the walls protected on the other, those the walls kept out. With Frye as our raconteur-guide, we journey back to a time before barriers of brick and stone even existed-to an era in which nomadic tribes vied for scarce resources, and each man was bred to a life of struggle. It is a haunting and frequently eye-opening saga-one that reveals a startling link between what we build and how we live. ![]() Chosen as Main Selection, History Book Club In Walls historian David Frye tells the epic story of history's greatest manmade barriers, from ancient times to the present. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I shook my head, I needed to focus, leave these nutsos behind and go, go, go. She was smiling at me too, not like I was the butt of some joke, but in a kind way. “A week, she’s got spirit,” the other black lady said. “Three days,” Glamour girl said, smiling at me and I thought, in other circumstances, I would have liked to meet her. “For some reason, this was met with Shirleen saying, “I’ll put money down that she’s livin’ with him in four days.” My confused gaze swung to Shirleen but she was looking at the movie star glamour girl who was looking at me. I loved Good Ava and Bad Ava, they were hilarious. So excited to finally read his story, boy did he need a woman. Rock Chick Revenge is the story of Ava Barlow and Luke Stark. Kristen Ashley, seriously what is your deal? I want to spend a day inside your head. Okay, okay, excuse my blabbing, but seriously, Luke Stark… *swoooon* Oh and Ava, geez Ava, she is so freaking adorable and awesome. By far my favorite Rock Chick book and couple. Therefore, in Badass Motherfucker Land, that means he is.”Īhhhhhhhhhh, I loved this book. “Girl, it don’t matter you don’t think he is, he thinks he is. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In A Woman Makes a Plan, Maye shares experiences from her life conveying hard-earned wisdom on career, family, health, and adventure. But she made her way through it all with an indomitable spirit and a no-nonsense attitude to become a global success at what she calls the "prime of her life."Īs the twenty- and thirty-somethings who follow her obsessively on social media know, Maye is a fount of frank and practical advice on how the choices you make in every decade can pay off in surprising, exciting ways throughout your life. ![]() But things were not always so easy or glamourous-she became a single mom at thirty-one years old, struggling through poverty to provide for her three children dealt with weight issues as a plus-size model and overcame ageism in the modeling industry and established a lifelong career as a respected dietician, all the while starting over in eight different cities across three countries and two continents. Maye Musk at seventy-one is a fashionable, charming, jet-setting supermodel with a fascinating and tight-knit circle of family and friends. ![]() The international supermodel shares personal stories and lessons learned from a life of "living dangerously-carefully." ![]() ![]() She lives in New York City with her nerdy and supportive husband, and a million and one books. Her work has been featured in Huffington Post, New York Daily News and USA Today’s Happy Ever After. More often than not, her love stories are edgy, forbidden and passionate. Kent is a Top 100 Amazon Bestselling author of Contemporary and New Adult romance. Learn More About Dreams of 18 Heartstone Series 2 A Standalone Best Friend’s Dad Romance Violet Moore is in love with a man who hates her. Edwards, actually - again.īecause you don’t go around kissing your best friend’s dad, do you?Įven though that’s all you ever dream about. 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Violet Moore is in love with a man who hates her. ![]() ![]() His fans and friends also knew Adams as an environmental activist and a lover of fast cars, cameras, the Macintosh computer, and other "techno gizmos". A posthumous collection of essays and other material, including an incomplete novel, was published as The Salmon of Doubt in 2002. Adams also originated the idea for the computer game Starship Titanic, which was produced by a company that Adams co-founded, and adapted into a novel by Terry Jones. ![]() ![]() His other written works include the Dirk Gently novels, and he co-wrote two Liff books and Last Chance to See, itself based on a radio series. In addition to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams wrote or co-wrote three stories of the science fiction television series Doctor Who and served as Script Editor during the seventeenth season. He was known to some fans as Bop Ad (after his illegible signature), or by his initials "DNA". The series has also been adapted for live theatre using various scripts the earliest such productions used material newly written by Adams. ![]() Hitchhiker's began on radio, and developed into a "trilogy" of five books (which sold more than fifteen million copies during his lifetime) as well as a television series, a comic book series, a computer game, and a feature film that was completed after Adams' death. He is best known as the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. ![]() Douglas Noël Adams was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. ![]() |