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![]() She was hired to teach junior high math, but she'll make room in her lesson plans.Falling for her boss wasn't part of the plan either, but.Maybe it's time she let her heart, not her head, teach her something new. Life, Unscheduled: Rockaway, Kristin: 9781542027717: : Books Books Literature & Fiction Genre Fiction Buy new: 8.48 List Price: 12.95 Save: 4.47 (35) Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime FREE Returns FREE delivery Saturday, December 31 if you spend 25 on items shipped by Amazon Arrives after Christmas. As a user experience designer at Virtuality, an artificial intelligence company in Los Angeles, Nicole is at her desk from sunrise to sunset. Their strained relationship could use some mending, though, and Abby can help. A smart, modern novel about a woman trying to balance her career, her best friend, and falling in love without crashing and burning. ![]() As big as his bank account is, his heart's that much bigger, especially when it comes to his daughter. ![]() She'll just have to do it for six weeks on a superyacht with a billionaire and his daughter.A playboy billionaire, according to the tabloids - but Abby's not so sure. tion might be dead, but she can still teach. Nothing a little eat, pray, love across the Mediterranean can't fix, right?Or eat, pray, tutor, more like. ![]() With three young children, a career, and a happy marriage, she should be grateful-on paper, she. A thieving PhD adviser, a screeching halt to her grad program, and zero job offers have left her high and dry. Maya Rao is a gynecologist trying to balance a busy life. ![]() This summer's not going as Abby Atkinson planned. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments The Bidden by Ben Leech![]() ![]() Last year, President Biden called on Congress to pass Senator Luján’s signature voting rights legislation, the Native American Voting Rights Act (NAVRA), to protect the sacred right to vote and ensure equal access to the electoral process for AI/ANs and voters living on Tribal lands. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.), Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), and Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.) urged President Biden and the Indian Health Service (IHS) to select a pilot a voter registration site in New Mexico to increase American Indian and Alaskan Native (AI/AN) voter participation.įollowing President Biden’s “Executive Order on Promoting Access to Voting,” this letter urges the Administration to continue their voter rights expansion efforts by establishing at least one IHS voter registration site in the IHS Albuquerque or Navajo Area or 638 facilities in New Mexico before the end of 2023. Senators Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and U.S. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Twilight life and death![]() The front cover features the traditional Twilight image that fans know and love, but the Life and Death cover on the back swaps Twilight's iconic red apple for a green one. Released in 2015, Twilight: Life & Death was an attempt to revisit the story of the original novel (and subsequent movie adaptation) and stayed largely true to the original story. The 10th anniversary edition of Twilight containing Life and Death is available today online and in bookstores around the country. And as far as a new movie goes, "I don't really see that happening." "This is just one version of Beau," she said when asked about further books. ![]() ![]() Will we see a new book series out of this? A movie maybe? Not likely, said Meyers. My hope is that maybe the younger readers may be introduced," the author continued, noting that her original fans are 10 years older now. Kristen Stewart has a message for all the 'Twilight' haters out there ![]() "The further you get in the more it changes because the personalities get different," Meyer explained. "It’s just a love story, it doesn’t matter who’s the boy and who’s the girl." What changes when the genders change? Not too much. ![]() 5/8/2023 0 Comments The books of jacob book review![]() ![]() A US publication by Riverhead Books was released on 1 February 2022. Croft won a 2015 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for The Books of Jacob. An English translation by Jennifer Croft was published by Fitzcarraldo Editions on 15 November 2021. When Tokarczuk was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel Committee said that it was "very impressed" by The Books of Jacob. By October 2015, the novel's circulation had reached 100,000 copies. Upon publication, it was an instant best-seller and won Poland's most prestigious literary prize, the Nike Award. ![]() The novel combines dozens of third-person perspectives of those connected to Jacob Frank. Its title subject is Jacob Frank, a Polish Jew who claimed to be the messiah. ![]() It begins in 1752 in Rohatyn and ends in Holocaust-era Korolówka. ![]() The Books of Jacob is a 912-page novel divided into seven books. It is Tokarczuk's ninth novel and is the product of extensive historical research, taking her seven years to write. The Books of Jacob ( Polish: Księgi Jakubowe ) is an epic historical novel by Olga Tokarczuk, published by Wydawnictwo Literackie in October 2014. ![]() 5/8/2023 0 Comments Off Base by Annabeth Albert![]() ![]() He discovers how well they fit together in bed…in the shower…in the hallway… He needs Pike more than he could have imagined, yet he doesn’t know how to be the man Pike deserves. Living with Pike crumbles Zack’s restraint and fuels his curiosity. Still, Pike has to tread carefully he’s had his fill of tourists in the past, and he can’t risk his heart on another, not even one as hot, as built-and, okay, yeah, as adorable-as Zack. ![]() Also, teasing the uptight SEAL will be hella fun. ![]() But he needs this chance to get his life together. Pike Reynolds knows there won’t be a warm welcome in his new home. And the questions Pike’s arrival would spark from Zack’s teammates about his own sexuality? Nope. Pike’s flirting puts virgin Zack on edge. OFF BASE (Out of Uniform, book one) AT ATTENTION (Out of Uniform. Hard Job (A-List Security 2) by Annabeth Albert. ![]() Bad Deal (A-List Security 3) by Annabeth Albert. Rocky Start (A-List Security 4) by Annabeth Albert. “ Off Base combines a sexy romance with an emotionally dramatic story and is a great start to the Out of Uniform series.”- All About RomanceĪfter trading the barracks for a fixer-upper rental, navy SEAL Zack Nelson wants peace, not a roommate-especially not Pike, who sees things about Zack he most wants to hide. A sexy new page-turning military series from male/male romance author Annabeth Albert. Read Annabeth Albert Books Online for Free ( of 2) Learning Cards for All Ages. ![]() 5/8/2023 0 Comments I want my hat back![]() Without sleight of hand an essential transformation took place, as the audience became part of the show. Holly Storck-Post at SLJ recommends these Jon Klassen books for use with older students in the classroom. ![]() The other two are This Is Not My Hat and We Found A Hat. The plots are not linked and the characters are different. Within minutes there was yelling from the front rows: “the rabbit’s got it”, “it’s over there”. I Want My Hat Back (2011) is one of a trilogy of books written and illustrated by Jon Klassen. The Time Out critic had a torch shone down his throat. A beaming tot had to prove his anorak was not concealing the bear’s shiny red cone. Hat checks were carried out among the audience. A gruesome neck-cracking sound rings out – and is met with saucer-eyed calm by an audience whose recommended age is from three upwards. Red woollen entrails dangle from the jaws of the dim hero. Though Fly Davis’s design, with a patchwork canopy above the stage over the band, looks comfortingly homespun, there is a touch more gore on stage than there is in the enigmatic book. ![]() The book and lyrics by Joel Horwood, and Darvill’s jazz-inflected music, with tuba bear footsteps and zippy accordion, amplify the story and give it extra sassiness. Jon Klassen’s short tale of a stolen titfer – elegantly drawn, simply told – takes vividly to the stage in Wils Wilson’s production. ![]() ![]() ![]() Buying a drink for a stranger turns into what should be an uncomplicated, amazing one-night stand. When Cassie Klein goes to an off-campus bar to escape her school's Family Weekend, she isn't looking for a hookup-it just happens. ![]() " erotic yearning in a class all their own." - Entertainment Weeklyįrom Meryl Wilsner, the acclaimed author of Something to Talk About, comes Mistakes Were Made, a sharp and sexy rom-com about a college senior who accidentally hooks up with her best friend's mom. This reader hopes Wilsner keeps these scorchers coming." - The Washington Post Cassie and Erin's romance is by turns delightfully raunchy and deeply emotional. ![]() "This blazing-hot forbidden romance manages to sensibly, and compassionately, capture the complexities of starting adult life after college and finding love and your identity in middle age. ![]() ![]() ![]() We underestimate the amount of strength that children have. Just like an adult’s life is a delicate balance of good and bad, a child’s is as well. Their lives are very messy, very complicated. I don’t know if it was a phrase that you picked or your publisher picked for you, but your books are described as having “grit and heart.” This sounds like a literary mantra that totally sums up what Caleb and Kit is all about.īeth: “Grit and heart” is very meaningful to me in that it can tell stories to children who often shy away from dealing with the reality of their lives. But as Caleb joins his new friend on adventures, he begins to realize that Kit has troubles of her own.Ĭat: This book is such a balance of tough stuff and sweetness. But this summer, Caleb wanders off into the woods rather than attend summer day camp, and he meets the nonjudgmental, wild and free Kit. He has cystic fibrosis, and his single mom does her best to keep him healthy and safe (while balancing her own life, like going on dates). ![]() ![]() Twelve-year-old Caleb is smaller and more protected than any other kid in his grade. In her new novel, Caleb and Kit, Beth Vrabel, the award-winning author of A Blind Guide to Stinkville, captures the power of new friendship - and the complicated heartbreak of needing to let someone go. ![]() ![]() ![]() Following graduation form Brooklyn’s Girls High, Bennett planned to become a graphic and visual artist. ![]() Gwendolyn Bennett, best known for her striking poetry largely composed during the decade of the 1920s, was actively involved in African American culture and the arts community over twenty years. The sunflower reminds me of a sunRISE, so I couldn’t resist placing them together. I recently moved it from my home office to my work office where it hangs as you see it with a sunflower art by Ty, one of my former students. ![]() This is one of two precious gifts she sent in honor of my 1LW. The “Rise” pennant in the photo above was made by my Love Notes friend Lori-Anne C. Be sure to check out her post on “boundaries,” her one little word. My friend, Cy, also posted about her 1LW today. Īnd look down on the things that fetter me,Īnd look down upon the things that fetter me. However, Johnson’s poem speaks to the journey I’m on as an individual wrestling with and rising above personal challenges. Georgia Douglas Johnson’s poem, “When I Rise Up Above the Earth” was the first poem I ran across related to my “one little word.” Of course, I am familiar with Maya Angelou’s popular “Still I Rise,” which gives voice to a collective Black “I”–talking back to and ascending in spite of an oppressive system. ![]() |