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Even with best friends Evie and Lottie’s advice, there’s no escaping the fact: love is hard. But Amber’s hoping that spending the summer with her can change all that.Īnd then there’s prom king Kyle, the guy all the girls want. Her mum has never been the caring type, even before she moved to California, got remarried and had a personality transplant. ![]() ![]() ![]() A book was written not for a nation but for the continent it needed no translation, and passed from country to country with a speed and freedom unknown today. They wrote their love letters in Latin, from the simplest billets-doux to the classic epistles of Heloise and Abelard. ![]() ![]() They spoke Latin as a living language, which almost daily developed a new word or phrase to denote the new or changing realities or ideas of their lives. Educated men in these countries used Latin for correspondence, business records, diplomacy, law, government, science, philosophy, and nearly all literature before the thirteenth century. The Transmission of Knowledge 1000-1300Īs the Church had preserved in some measure that political unity of western Europe that the Roman Empire had achieved, so her ritual, her sermons, and her schools maintained a Roman heritage now lost-an international language intelligible to all the literate population of Italy, Spain, France, England, Scandinavia, the Lowlands, Germany, Poland, Hungary, and the western Balkans. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sahara Foley, in collaboration with her beloved late husband, writes urban and dark fantasy, science fantasy, and the occasional horror tale. I hope you enjoy Naughty Angel and be sure to check out Worth the Wait as well! 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Title: Naughty Angel (Sexy Nerd Boys, 2) Genre: contemporary romance Synopsis: **Each book in this series can be read as a stand alone novel *** Recommended for readers 17+ due to strong language and sexual situations Asher: When most people first set eyes on me they assume I’m a delinquent, a thug, or at the very least that I’m in a band. ![]() ![]() ![]() As in Greek tragedy or a fairy tale, the mother was summoned to her daughter's side on the eve of calamity, and she was not to be spared a scintilla of the fate that befell her daughter.Īt the time the illness struck her down, in December 1991, Paula was 26 and in her first year of marriage to a man she loved deeply. The cause of Paula's illness was porphyria, an ancient and little-understood disease that Paula inherited from her father.Īllende's latest book, Paula, which began as a letter to her daughter while Isabel sat vigil at her bedside in a Madrid hospital, evolved into a search of Isabel's own-if not for God, then for a reason to go on living after all her maternal love and will power failed to bring her comatose daughter back to the world of the living.īy one of the coincidences that seem to shadow Isabel Allende in private life as well as in her writing, she was in Madrid to promote her novel The Infinite Plan the day Paula suffered violent seizures and sank into a coma. ![]() "I am seeking God, but he seems to elude me," Isabel Allende's daughter Paula wrote her mother shortly before she suffered a seizure and fell into a coma from which she never recovered. ![]() ![]() In her newest book, 'Paula,' novelist Isabel Allende searches for ancient meaning in the modern suffering of her daughter ![]() ![]() ![]() Since her pride won’t let her go to Sam’s concert, Ally decides to sell the tickets online. Just as Ally is about to graduate high school and leave behind the memory of Sam Stokes, superstar and traitor, she is gifted with tickets to one of his shows. Her short story, “Tickets on Himself,” features two music lovers and former friends, who burned all bridges between each other. After one of them was given a chance at stardom, their friendship, and possibly more, was obliterated. ![]() Now, she has written multiple short stories, one of which will be featured in The Art of Taking Chances. Kat and a friend decided they would each attempt to write a full-length YA novel, thinking that it, “Couldn’t be that hard.”įortunately for us, Kat was “badly bitten by the writing bug” after the first three weeks, even though her friend had already given up. Her first published novel, a young adult paranormal romance The Third Kiss, was the result of a 2011 dare. In fact, she says she has always had a “thing for words.” Her love for words led her to young adult literature, which has become a huge part of her life due to her profession as a teacher, librarian and author. ![]() Australian author Kat Colmer, is no stranger to writing. ![]() ![]() ![]() When the possibility of death at any time makes life absurd, the only thing to do is to give one's life meaning is to rebel against an unjust world, live passionately and strive for freedom. ![]() More generally, the book is an allegorical tale in which Camus expounds on his views about the human condition. Oran is the equivalent of France: cut off from the outside world, the inhabitants have to choose whether to submit to the inevitability of dying of the plague (the historical inevitability of Germany's dominance) or to fight back against the plague by joining the sanitary teams (the Resistance). The plague is generally accepted to be a metaphor for the "brown plague," fascism, which spread throughout Europe in the 30s, and more specifically for the occupation of France by Nazi Germany in 1940. Bernard Rieux, a man named Jean Tarrou, a visiting journalist Raymond Rambert, and a city clerk Joseph Grand must respond to the plague and find their place in the ensuing depressing conditions, while philosophizing on the nature of suffering and the proper response thereto. A classic 1947 novel by Albert Camus, The Plague, on the surface, tells the story of an epidemic of the bubonic plague that besets the Algerian city of Oran, imprisoning the citizens behind quarantine. ![]() ![]() ![]() The reader encounters his father Claus Ulenspiegel, the miller of their town, who is not like the others: he is able to read, loves books, and desires to study the mysteries of the world. "The Lord of the Air." This chapter presents the actual beginning of the narrative. The performance culminates in a high-wire act, through which Tyll initiates a prank that causes violent upheaval. The inhabitants of the town recognize Tyll from his widespread fame, even though they had never seen him before. "Shoes." Deep into the Thirty Years' War Tyll Ulenspiegel arrives in a town where the war had not yet come, along with Nele, an old woman, and the donkey. The chapter "Shoes" that serves as the novel's prologue tells a tale from the middle of the jester's life. Kehlmann does not narrate Tyll's story in a linear fashion. Between its initial publication in 2017, and its publication in English, Tyll had sold almost 600,000 copies in Germany. An English translation by Ross Benjamin was published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House, New York, in February 2020. ![]() The book was first published in October 2017 in the original German by Rowohlt Verlag. The book is based, in part, on the folkloristic tales about Till Eulenspiegel, a jester who was the subject of a chapbook in 16th century Germany, as well as on the history of the Thirty Years' War. Tyll is a 2017 novel, originally written in German, by the Austrian-German writer Daniel Kehlmann. ![]() |
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