![]() ![]() ![]() The store's security guard, seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, accuses Emira of kidnapping two-year-old Briar. ![]() So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket. Synopsis: Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. Unlike our normal reviews, this will contain spoilers, so if you haven’t read this book, be aware of that! Instead of hopping on Zoom (Zoom fatigue is real, y’all), we each came up with some questions for our co-bloggers to answer. This isn’t the first time we have done a book club read - it’s mainly when there’s a book we all want to review, tbh - but we are doing it a little differently this time. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ” “I can never get enough of Carol,” “Carol inspires me and fires me up every time!” I walked away confirming I was on the right path and excited to apply all she shared and inspired. She’s also a regular contributor to DIYMFA, where she pens the Author Marketing Toolkit column.Īttendees have said “Carol is a clear, articulate, organized speaker who is both an expert and excellent presenter,” “you can feel the love and passion for what she does as much as how knowledgeable she is. She’s keynoted and presented at conferences like Writer’s Digest, IBPA, NJ-SCBWI, International Women’s Writing Guild, Rutgers Writers’ Conference, Sisters-in-Crime and Women Who Write. Plus, she works in chocolate (there’s no ‘sweeter’ job!) Carol is passionate about simplifying marketing concepts into actionable steps for publishing success. ![]() ![]() CAROL VAN DEN HENDE is the award-winning author of the Goodbye, Orchid series, a public speaker, and MBA with 20+ years’ experience in marketing, strategy and insights. ![]() ![]() There is a great synchronicity between the words and what is shown on the page. I instantly became invested with him and his relationship with Sarah. The illustrations are adorable, Cummins has done a brilliant job depicting Truman to bring his little turtle self to life. ![]() I loved so much of this but one of my favourite lines was “She strapped on a backpack so big thirty-two small tortoises could ride alone in it – but zero tortoises did.” I loved seeing Truman’s deliberations about what it all means when Sarah left that day. The perspective focuses on Truman and his life with Sarah and when that changes suddenly Truman isn’t sure what to do. This is the story of a little turtle named Truman who decided to go on an adventure to find his owner. ![]() ![]() I picked up this book because the front cover was absolutely too cute to ignore and I was not disappointed by the story inside. She boards the bus!Īnd when he can wait no longer, he knows what he must do. He never worries about the world below…until one day, when Sarah straps on a big backpack and does something Truman has never seen before. Truman the tortoise lives with his Sarah, high above the taxis and the trash trucks and the number eleven bus, which travels south. Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers ![]() ![]() Their typical coloration ranges from grey-brown to a light grey underbelly, but some individuals can be entirely black. While black rats might appear similar to their brown counterparts, they possess unique physical features, including a more slender build, a lengthier tail, and bigger ears. These rodents are recognized for their exceptional climbing skills and their inclination to create nests in elevated locations, such as attics or beams close to rooftops. The black rat, commonly referred to as the roof rat, has been a frequent sight in Florida since 1800. ![]() Only The Top 1% Can Ace our Animal Quizzes Think You Can? Take Our Brand New A-Z-Animals Rodents Quiz ![]() ![]() ![]() Will Tick have the courage to follow the twelve clues M.G. promises to send Tick twelve riddles that will reveal on a certain day, at a certain time, at a certain place, something extraordinary will happen. Postmarked from Alaska and cryptically signed with the initials "M.G.," the letter informs Tick that dangerous-perhaps even deadly-events have been set in motion that could result in the destruction of reality itself. Tick, is an average thirteen-year-old boy until the day a strange letter arrives in his mailbox. ![]() What if every time you made a choice that had a significant consequence, a new, alternate reality was created-the life that would've been had you made the other choice? What if those new realities were in danger? What if it fell to you to save all the realities? Atticus Higginbottom, a.k.a. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With its split narrative structure that traces the rape and murder of a young Bedouin girl in 1949 in its first half, and then a young woman’s investigation of this crime in the present day in its second, the novel embodies structurally the mirage-like qualities of the past-its haziness and immateriality, and the way, depending on one’s angle of perception, it seems to assume a form one moment and slough it off the next. Set largely in contemporary Palestine, Adania Shibli’s new novel Minor Detail takes up similar concerns, centering on a quest for confirmation that increasingly comes to resemble the fool’s errand of attempting to pin down a mirage. There’s a “particular symbolic appropriateness” to these laws, under the proscriptions of which, Coetzee explains, it’s “as though the passer-by no means of confirming that what he saw-those buildings rising out of the sands in all their sprawl of gray monotony-was not a mirage or a bad dream.” Coetzee writes in his essay “Into the Dark Chamber,” a prescient interrogation of the representational voids typically found in novels produced under oppressive governmental regimes, “burgeon all over the face of South Africa.” Despite this ubiquity, he observes, a two-fold blindness reigns-the blindness of ubiquity itself, which buries any too-present phenomenon, and the institutional blindness produced by laws prohibiting the representation of these facilities. ![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.īlack Sun is a bittersweet love story involving an iconoclastic forest ranger and a freckle-faced "American princess" half his age. ![]() The voice that speaks in this book is the passionate voice of the forest,” Abbey writes, “the madness of desire, and the joy of love, and the anguish of final loss.” “Like most honest novels, Black Sun is partly autobiographical, mostly invention, and entirely true. ![]() Then she mysteriously disappears, plunging him into desolation.īlack Sun is a singular novel in Abbey’s repertoire, a romantic story of a solitary man’s passion for the outdoors and for a woman who is his wilderness muse. She, in turn, awakens in him the pleasure of love. Like Lady Chatterley’s lover, he initiates her into the rites of sex and the stark, secret harmonies of his wilderness kingdom. Now in a Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition, the timeless novel that chronicles a reckless romance in the wilderness, from Edward Abbey, one of America’s foremost defenders of the natural environment.īlack Sun is a bittersweet love story involving an iconoclastic forest ranger and a freckle-faced “American princess” half his age. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As the pair are dragged from one event to the next as the “Diamond” pairing that could make GeneticAlly a mint in stock prices, Jess begins to realize that there might be more to the scientist – and the science behind a soul mate – than she thought. Jess – who is barely making ends meet – is in no position to turn it down, despite her skepticism about the project and her dislike for River. But GeneticAlly has a proposition: Get to know him and we’ll pay you. The stuck-up, stubborn man is without a doubt not her soul mate. This is one number she can’t wrap her head around, because she already knows Dr. Finding a soul mate through DNA? The reliability of numbers: This Jess understands.Īt least she thought she did, until her test shows an unheard-of 98 percent compatibility with another subject in the database: GeneticAlly’s founder, Dr. Jess holds her loved ones close, but working constantly to stay afloat is hard…and lonely.īut then Jess hears about GeneticAlly, a buzzy new DNA-based matchmaking company that’s predicted to change dating forever. After all, her father’s never been around, her hard-partying mother disappeared when she was six, and her ex decided he wasn’t “father material” before Juno was even born. ![]() Raised by her grandparents – who now help raise her seven-year-old daughter, Juno – Jess has been left behind too often to feel comfortable letting anyone in. Single mom Jess Davis is a data and statistics wizard, but no amount of number crunching can convince her to step back into the dating world. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the unbending conditions of the farm have worn her down, and by the story’s beginning she can no longer produce eggs with hard-enough shells. All she wants is to care for an egg until it hatches and raise a chick. The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly concerns Sprout, a chicken that has spent her life in a tiny coop on an industrial farm, laying eggs that are quickly taken away and sold. Having sold over two million copies, spent years on the national bestseller lists and shattered box office records with its film adaptation, it stands as one of South Korea’s biggest literary phenomena in contemporary times. ![]() ![]() Sun-mi Hwang’s 2000 novella, The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly, has finally made it to North American readers after some 13 years - in part because it lacks any of the overt national signifiers that would otherwise complicate its understanding.Ī well-known children’s author, Hwang’s sublime story is instead a fable of farm animals that belongs on a bookshelf somewhere between the innocent frivolity of Charlotte’s Web and subliminal politics of Animal Farm. English translations of South Korean literature are generally rare, given the vast difference between the two languages and the cultural connotations that must be overcome for fictional tapestries to be understood in all their depths. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Will Averil stay? Will Nina leave? And what about the men who claim to love them? Does love heal, or will finding their happy ending mean giving up all they've ever wanted? Her hopes of getting off the island seem to be stretching further away…until her mother makes a discovery that could change everything forever.īut before Nina and Averil can reach for the stars, they have to decide what they want. Averil doesn't seem to want the great guy she's married to, and doesn't seem to be making headway writing her first book their mom is living life just as recklessly as she always has and Nina's starting to realize that the control she once had is slipping out of her fingers. But as fun as all this romance is, Nina has real life to deal with. ![]() Nina unexpectedly finds herself juggling two men-her high school sweetheart and a younger maverick pilot who also wants to claim her heart. Which is why she isn't exactly thrilled to see Averil back on Blackberry Island, especially when Nina's life has suddenly become…complicated. More "Mom" than their mother ever was, she sacrificed medical school-and her first love-so her sister could break free. Small-town nurse Nina Wentworth has made a career out of being a caretaker. ![]() New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery returns to Blackberry Island with the poignant tale of two sisters on the verge of claiming their dreams. ![]() |