What could terrify grown alphas? Jules will have to investigate!īut his investigation comes with surprises…like the Beast’s overwhelming effect on Jules’s omega nature. He sometimes hears growls and screams coming from the basement, and the men guarding the door look positively terrified. There’s a beast in the Blake family mansion Jules is sure of it. So when strange things start happening in their house, it piques Jules’s curiosity. “Nothing special” describes Jules’s whole life. He isn’t ugly or anything, but by omega standards, he’s nothing special. He’s not the most beautiful, or the smartest, or the strongest of the four Blake siblings. Jules is an ordinary nineteen-year-old omega from a perfectly respectable family. Sometimes kissing the Beast doesn't turn it into a Prince Charming-instead, he's a charming prince you want to punch.
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When seventeen year old Majesty overhears two young men plotting to massacre a church. But, when their agenda turns out to be far bigger than she ever assumed, and even friends start looking suspect, the truth and her actions threaten to haunt her forever, especially since she’s left with blood on her hands, the blood of someone she loves. Kings & Queens, by Courtney Vail, is a YA thriller of the first magnitude. So, she does what any habitual winner with zero cred would do…try to I.D. They’d be freaked too, but they’re not the ones suffering from bloody dreams that hint at disaster like some crazy, street guy forecasting the Apocalypse. She doubts cops will follow up on her tip since they’re sick of her coming around with notions of possible crimes-in-the-works. And she mostly wishes to retract the hateful words she said to her dad right before slamming the door in his face, only to never see him again.Īll her desires get sidelined, though, when she overhears two fellow students planning a church massacre. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to. Seventeen-year-old Majesty Alistair wants police to look further into her father’s fatal car wreck, hopes the baseball team she manages can reclaim the state crown, aches for Derek…or, no…maybe Alec…maybe. Kings & Queens: 1 (Royal Blood) : Vail, Courtney: .uk: Books. Addictive to the point of being intoxicating, Kings & Queens from author Courtney Vail is the exact reason why YA books are so popular with adults. A new Princess Diaries book, Royal Wedding, was released this month, and t wo new titles are due by 2016. She has published more than 80 books, which have sold upward of 25 million copies worldwide. 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As a young woman in Japan during WWII, she saw the impact on her own life of the rapid change in Japan’s war fortunes. Hiroko Tanaka has had the misfortune of experiencing the pain of some of the twentieth century’s most horrific man-made tragedies. Still, it manages to carry this ambition with a style that is fluid and elusive and plot that builds in tension while the reader fears for the characters’ fate. As you can imagine, tragedy in this story cannot be avoided. It’s narrative moves with its characters from war time Japan, to pre-Partition India, to Pakistan during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, to New York after September 11 and the subsequent war in Afghanistan. Burnt Shadows is an immensely ambitious novel by Kamila Shamsie. But more than ever, it needs a vigorous defense. Far from being a nave hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. It is a gift of the Enlightenment: the conviction that reason and science can enhance human flourishing. 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When Ernt returns home after being a POW in Vietnam, he is not the same happy husband and father he once was. Powerful and heartbreaking, author Kristin Hannah tells the story of passionate yet struggling husband and wife, Ernt and Cora, and teenage daughter Leni in 1974, showing the capacity for endurance, tolerance, strength, and dedication to family. LOVED THIS BOOK! The Great Aloneis an epic story of love of family and love of home – full of emotion with picturesque descriptions of the beautiful and dangerous Alaskan landscape and the depiction of a non traditional way of life. |