History – “I read it a little as duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me.”Īs her first book conceived and written as an adult, “Mansfield Park” reads tonally very different than her prior two works. Soon after Sir Thomas absents himself on estate business in Antigua (the family’s investment in slavery and sugar is considered in the Introduction in a new, post-colonial light), Mary Crawford and her brother Henry arrive at Mansfield, bringing with them London glamour, and the seductive taste for flirtation and theatre that precipitates a crisis. Book Description: Adopted into the household of her uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, Fanny Price grows up a meek outsider among her cousins in the unaccustomed elegance of Mansfield Park.
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She paints mortal sorrow in his eyes-a weakness that could cost him his life.įurious and devastated, Rook spirits her away to the autumnlands to stand trial for her crime. But when she receives her first royal patron-Rook, the autumn prince-she makes a terrible mistake. They crave human Craft with a terrible thirst, and Isobel’s paintings are highly prized. Isobel is a prodigy portrait artist with a dangerous set of clients: the sinister fair folk, immortal creatures who cannot bake bread, weave cloth, or put a pen to paper without crumbling to dust. Let’s get into the synopsis!Ī skilled painter must stand up to the ancient power of the faerie courts-even as she falls in love with a faerie prince-in this gorgeous debut novel. This book ended up being ALMOST a five star read for me. I knew that it was a YA fantasy but not much else. I had been curious about An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson for awhile so when I found it for just a few dollars at an Ollie’s store, I grabbed it. *Today’s usual video game review has been moved to next Wednesday because I wasn’t able to get it finished. The American and English officers there were also very nice to me, although they themselves were, without them knowing it, the cause for which I stopped believing in Santa Claus. When I was just seven, I began spending a lot of time with Colonel Anderson, the head of the American Red Cross in Romania, and I was very proud to be an interpreter when distributing supplies and organizing charity events in cities and villages. I followed closely my mother’s work with the people in the hospital, so I managed to get close to them in a way that would not have been possible under normal circumstances. “I also have more beautiful memories from those days spent in Iași. This was the case with Princess Ileana, who later wrote in her diary: The most affected were, as was normal, the children. During the First World War, when the whole of Muntenia was in exile in Iași, Christmas was not celebrated the same as before, especially because of the bad news on the front, but also because of the lack of food. Usually, dinner was held at the palace followed by church, but the people in need were not forgotten, members of the Royal Family offering them gifts. Christmas was an important celebration for the Royal Family of Romania, even during the reign of Carol I. When a misunderstanding results in the two teams sharing a rink, and Anastasia’s partner gets hurt in the aftermath, Nate finds himself swapping his stick for tights, and one scary coach for an even scarier one. 2023 by Hannah Grace (Author) 35,332 ratings Book 1 of 2: The Maple Hills 1 Best Seller in Erotic Romance See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 2.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Paperback 4.50 Other new and used from 4. As captain of the Maple Hills Titans, he knows the responsibility of keeping the hockey team on the ice rests on his shoulders. Nathan Hawkins has never had a problem he couldn’t solve. Icebreaker by Hannah Grace - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A TikTok sensation Sparks fly when a competitive figure skater and hockey team captain are forced to. Synopsis: Anastasia Allen has worked her entire life for a shot at Team USA.Ī competitive figure skater since she was five years old, a full college scholarship thanks to her place on the Maple Hills skating team, and a schedule that would make even the most driven person weep, Stassie comes to win. Be quiet, look sexy, follow orders.Ĭaroline's plans for maintaining a harem of eager young men are going as smooth as could be, until a troublesome newcomer arrives and throws her tidy kingdom into disorder. It also features an unlikely mix of romance, lust and hate-sex, plus a ton of way crazier crap that the author delights in not preparing you for. Reader Advisory: This book features the recreational use of illicit substances, and non-explicit references to childhood abuse and trauma. In this contest where even knives and guns are fair game, sex may prove the most dangerous weapon of all. With five hundred grand up for grabs at the end of the battle royal, the stakes are high and the tension blazing.Ĭould the seemingly mild-mannered nice guy win it all? The cutthroat alpha female? The strongest or the smartest, the idealist or the cynic? It's anyone's guess as teams are undercut by alliances, loyalties tendered and tested, and passions enflamed by both affection and animosity. Welcome to The Ant Farm, a social study in the wilds of interior Alaska, documenting the dynamics between a dozen competitors as they take part in a series of physical and psychological face-offs. The art and dialogue complement each other as they express the tension that Kim and her friends felt as they tried to balance school, family, and romance with surviving in a dangerous political environment. The disturbing elements of political corruption and loss of human rights are lightened by moving depictions of sweet, funny moments between friends as well as deft political maneuvering by Kim herself when she was eventually questioned by authorities. The kinetic manhwa drawing style skillfully captures the personal and political history of this eye-opening memoir. As she learned the truth of her country’s oppressive fascist political environment, Kim became closer to the other book club members while the authorities grew increasingly desperate to identify and punish student dissidents. Kim was fearful at first, but her thirst for knowledge soon won out. Following an administrator’s advice to avoid trouble and pursue extracurriculars, she joined a folk dance team where she met a fellow student who invited her into a banned book club. The daughter of modest restaurant owners, Kim was apolitical-she just wanted to make her parents proud and be worthy of her tuition expenses. In 1983 South Korea, Kim was learning to navigate university and student political activism. In the United States, until about 100 years ago at least, one in five children died before they were five years old, according to Our World in Data.Īs Steven Johnson has written in his wonderful book, Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer, life expectancy has doubled over the past 100 years or so. That would be an unimaginable tragedy now, but it was common then, even if it still meant devastating grief (just read the letters and diaries). I was reading the new biography of Samuel Adams, and one sentence, in passing, tells you that he lost four of his six children. That may sound a bit anticlimactic, but for almost all of human history it really would have been miraculous. Here is a truly remarkable, extraordinary, indeed miraculous fact about me: I’m 67 years old and my parents, husband, five brothers and sisters, three children, five grandchildren, nine nephews and nieces, and six great-nephews and great-nieces are all alive. Psychological science may play an especially important role in dealing with this revolution.įirst, the good news. For the first time in history, there are more old people than young ones in the United States, and this trend will only accelerate worldwide. While we are fussing about the artificial-intelligence revolution, a demographic revolution may have much more radical consequences. We always overestimate the effects of technology and underestimate the effects of demography. It may have a pretty cover, but it's a dark read. I would consider this book appropriate for New Adult age range (16+) and up. CWs: This book is creepy and sort of disgusting, mentions of suicid3, bullying etc. "Can I leave you behind if you die or do you expect me to be heroic and drag your corpse home?" - A bit of comedic relief was good in this one. Sutherland's story has some majorly good points and I think that's more the point of this atmospheric style of writing than the actual story line. When reading fantasy/horror that's not fantasy-romance, I must remind myself to look for deeper meanings. Krystal is the author of many beautiful novels. Krystal Sutherland is the author of this fantastic novel. The way the story developed in all of its grotesque glory is beautiful but also super creepy and unsettling. House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland Review House of Hollow: A Novel is one the best and most entertaining novels with a very unique and impressive story. It's nothing like I thought it would be - but in the best way? I don't think the horror genre is for me, though, and probably won't read anything like this for a long time! This is one of those books I can't summarize because my mind is whirling after finishing. but House of Hollow will haunt me just as the author intended.įind all the best YA & New Adult Fantasy Reads here! I'm rating this book 5 stars because it's a beautifully written tale surrounding what we let our minds believe and the dangers of beautiful things. The book is a deconstruction of the fairy tale narrative by breaking down stereotypes and modernizing them to apply to the real world. By banding together instead of competing with each other, Miri and her companions manage to overcome Olana's abuse. This works out in their favor when they learn that they must study under a strict headmistress named Olana who prides herself on disciplinary tactics such as beating girls on their wrists for speaking out of turn and locking them in closets for misbehaving. Mount Eskel girls are hard workers who are fiercely loyal to their homeland and all who reside there. Though this sounds like the perfect set-up for a modern-day reality TV show where girls are jealous and catty, that turns out not to be the case at all. Per Danlandian tradition, all girls in the mountain territory who are of age must attend an academy to learn how to become proper princesses so they will be prepared when the prince makes his selection. Princess Academy tells the story of Miri, a simple mountain girl whose village gets selected by the king's priests for the prince to find his future bride. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. This meticulously researched analysis of the abiding repercussions of European colonialism on the continent of Africa has not only informed decades of scholarship and activism, it remains an indispensable study for grasping global inequality today. In his magnum opus, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Rodney incisively argues that grasping "the great divergence" between the west and the rest can only be explained as the exploitation of the latter by the former. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney would be assassinated. His deportation catalyzed 20th century Jamaica's most significant rebellion, the 1968 Rodney riots, and his scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power. In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis |