![]() Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. The Afterlife of Holly Chase is a witty, poignant, and insightful novel about life, love, and seizing second (or third) chances, perfect for readers who loved Before I Fall or Dash & Lily's Book of Dares. They tried to convince her to mend her ways. This year's Scrooge might change everything. Title: The Afterlife Of Holly Chase Author: Cynthia Hand Published: 2017 Genre: YA/Contemporary/Holiday Rating: Synopsis On Christmas Eve five years ago, seventeen-year-old Holly Chase was visited by three Ghosts who showed her how selfish and spoiled she’d become. So far, Holly's afterlife has been miserable. Now she's stuck working for the top-secret company Project Scrooge-as their latest Ghost of Christmas Past. ![]() On Christmas Eve five years ago, seventeen-year-old Holly Chase was visited by three Ghosts who showed her how selfish and spoiled she'd become. ![]() ![]() Before I Fall meets "bah, humbug" in this contemporary YA reimagining of A Christmas Carol from New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Hand. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Stella, who is white, returns from a prestigious academic summer program to discover, and fully embrace, this radically bold version of Mattie. A seemingly mismatched friendship develops between the two, and within their growing trust, they find the space to express their genuine selves. Will, a white basketball player with a secret, finds himself pulled into Mattie's orbit. Mattie keeps meeting the outrageous demands of her curmudgeonly mentor, including being pushed from her private comfort zone into public performance the summer before senior year. Miyu is a gruff 30-something who would much prefer to be secluded in her crumbling home than train the relentlessly persistent white teenager who turns up uninvited. Escapology legend Akiko Miyake came from Japan, settling in Rhode Island before she died in a plane crash, leaving her tools and methods with her daughter. ![]() Mattie has a few obsessions-jazz records, Star Trek, vintage dresses-but not even her best friend, Stella, knows about the one that propels her to the home of Miyu Miyake: her desire to learn how to pick locks and escape from straitjackets. ![]() ![]() ![]() Matthew Drutt is lead curatorial advisor on photography at the Guggenheim Museum. The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. Writer, artist, rock musician, Frederick Barthelme is the author of eleven books, the most recent being Bob the Gambler. On Photography Susan Sontag Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality.One cant possess reality, one can possess images-one cant possess the present but one can possess the past. Susan Lipper’s first book Grapevine received significant critical acclaim and is now recognised as one of the classic photobooks. ![]() Sophisticated, funny and urbane, trip re-appropriates the documentary tradition to create a new American narrative that casts us adrift in a world of vernacular objects – signs and symbols that read at so many levels. ![]() Lipper’s images and the accompanying texts by writer Frederick Barthelme play against each other throughout the book juxtaposing ideas and sensations. Trip is Susan Lipper’s fictional road trip through America – destination, starting point – even date unknown. PayPal accepted, any questions please get in touch. First impression large format hardback in new condition. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His son-in-law Mark Gaskell, and daughter-in-law Adelaide react variously to the news. 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The title character was played by Geraldine McEwan from the first to third series, until her retirement from the role. Agatha Christie's Marple is a British ITV television series based on the Miss Marple and other murder mystery novels by Agatha Christie. ![]() ![]() ![]() Luckily, someone's looking out for our little favorite toy. I won't give away any spoilers, but imagine getting someone to do your evil bidding? Only to learn your mother or creator has an even darker web to discover. ![]() Although his name isn't Pinocchio, the concept of lying is definitely important to the plot. It easily captured my attention, as it focuses on a wooden marionette. Take, for instance, my favorite, which also happens to be the first one. ![]() But they're modern, twisted in a gruesome way, and meant to tickle your imagination. ![]() Most resemble a bit of a fairy tale or well-known story we've heard a bunch about before. There are about ten letters and stories in this collection. I am very curious if these will be the only two main characters in the series, or will others be introduced. He writes her a letter and shares a tale with each correspondence during his quest to locate her. In the first book, Dearest Clementine Dark and Romantic Monstruous Tales, Dorin is searching for his beloved, as she's gone missing. This time, she's begun a new series entitled Letters, and it's meant to be a conversation between two lovers, Clementine and Dorin. I've read many of her short stories before, and I've always adored her fantasy books and young adult novels. Candace Robinson is quite the versatile and varied authoress. ![]() ![]() ![]() They probably should have added that hearts are, too.īlind Side is a fake dating college sports romance with "lessons" and opposites attract. ![]() We put the safeguards in place.īut they say rules are meant to be broken. So, to sweeten the deal, I convince him to help me - not just to get my crush’s attention, but to knock his socks off once I have it.īut the more I come unraveled at the hands of Clay Johnson, the more trouble I have discerning what’s fake and what’s undoubtedly real - particularly, the way my heart flutters every time that breathtaking man touches me. What he doesn’t realize is that this bookworm is a virgin, and far from versed in seducing a musician. And he cooks up this absurd plan.Īll by pretending to be in a relationship. But when he witnesses how I fall to pieces in front of my guitar-toting crush, his wheels start turning. We meet to discuss his behavior and review media relations standards. He used to be the easiest of all the players for me to wrangle as the Public Relations Coordinator, but after a nasty breakup with his high school sweetheart, he’s a mess. ![]() There’s hardly a day he’s not headline material during football season, and never a day he isn’t a bullseye target for every girl on campus. The hottest college football safety in the nation just asked me to be his fake girlfriend.Īnd I just asked him to take my virginity.Ĭlay Johnson has the abs of Adonis and the deadly smirk of the devil, himself. ![]() ![]() ![]() Things are pretty good now, for the haves, and there aren’t many have-nots left. Wilf Netherton lives in London, seventy-some years later, on the far side of decades of slow-motion apocalypse. She made more as a combat scout in an online game, playing for a rich man, but she’s had to let the shooter games go. ![]() Flynne earns what she can by assembling product at the local 3D printshop. Her brother Burton lives on money from the Veterans Administration, for neurological damage suffered in the Marines’ elite Haptic Recon unit. The New York Times bestselling author of Neuromancer and Agency presents a fast-paced sci-fi thriller that takes a terrifying look into the future.ĭON'T MISS THE SERIES-NOW STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON PRIME VIDEO!įlynne Fisher lives down a country road, in a rural America where jobs are scarce, unless you count illegal drug manufacture, which she’s trying to avoid. ![]() ![]() You can’t just make up a new word and have it go into the dictionary. He frowned and shook his head, and said, “Nah-that’s impossible. ![]() There was a boy in the back of the room who didn’t believe me. And then I said, "No, really- if enough other people start to use our new word, then in five or ten years, frindle could be a real word in the dictionary.” frindle." I just made up the word frindle, and they all laughed because it sounded funny. Pulling a pen from my pocket I said, “For example, if all of us right here today said we would never call this thing a “pen” again, and that from now on we would call it a. They didn’t believe me when I pointed to a fat dictionary and told them that ordinary people like them and like me had made up all the words in that book-and that new words get made up all the time. ![]() ![]() I was trying to explain to them how words only mean what we decide they mean. ![]() I was teaching a little about the way words work, and about what words really are. It was shortly after my book Big Al had been published, and that was one of the first times I had been a visiting author. I was talking to a bunch of first and second grade kids one autumn afternoon in 1990 at the JFK Elementary School in Middletown, Rhode Island. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He's so far ahead of the doctors around him that he doesn't fit in, but he does finally find a place where he can put down roots and be surrounded by a loving family and community. Through comparison with those who have never left home, he realizes how he has grown in compassion, tolerance, and critical thinking. Rob returns to London after many years in foreign lands. ![]() The story is especially fulfilling because it comes full circle. He risks and sacrifices all for the chance to study in Persia with Ibn Sina, the greatest physician of the 11th century. He stays true to that calling, even when surrounded by other physicians who are motivated by greed and glory. Cole is a man who feels called to be a healer. There's a consistency of quality from cover to cover, owing to the perfect marriage of fine writing and graceful editing. This is one of the most satisfying novels I've read in a long time. ![]() ![]() " This celebration of geek culture and fandom promotes diversity and being true to oneself." - School Library Journal Read more "This fun book about fierce friendships gives voice to a group of diverse female characters who are so defined by so much more than just their mental health and sexuality." - Bustle "The book deals head on with issues of mental health, body shaming, sexuality, and internet celebrity, handling them with a delicate and skillful touch." - Teen Vogue ![]() Jen Wilde, author of Queens of Geek, which Seventeen called, “the geeky, queer book of our dreams” is back with a brand new cast of highly diverse and relatable characters for her fans to fall in love with. Will the inevitable fallout turn her into a clickbait scandal (again)? Or will she find the strength to stand on her own? She knows hooking up with a band member is exactly the kind of trouble she should be avoiding, and yet Emmy and Alfie Just. Luckily, Emmy has her friends and bandmates, including the super-swoonworthy Alfie, to help her pick up the pieces of her life. ![]() When a night of partying lands Emmy in hospital, she’s branded the latest tabloid train wreck. But there’s nothing the paparazzi love more than watching a celebrity crash and burn. ![]() A teen rockstar has to navigate family, love, coming out, and life in the spotlight after being labeled the latest celebrity trainwreck in Jen Wilde's quirky and utterly relatable novel.Īs a rock star drummer in the hit band The Brightsiders, Emmy King’s life should be perfect. ![]() |