![]() As soon as she enters the water and her tail appears, she becomes graceful and feels tremendous power and control.Įmily begins sneaking out whenever she can, enjoying every minute in the water. Despite wanting out of the swimming classes, Emily loves the water. ![]() The first Wednesday of Year Seven will be one she remembers forever.Īlthough no one sees her tail appear, or thankfully disappear when she gets out of the water again, Emily is still too afraid to attend another class, especially after sneaking out that night and repeating the performance off the pier where King is docked. Shocked, and afraid, the swimming teacher helps her out of the water, but no one notices her legs joined and scaled. Emily's first lesson changes her life, beginning with the appearance of a tail where her legs should be when she first immerses herself in the pool. ![]() ![]() Until now, her mother's fear of the water had prevented Emily from learning to swim, despite repeated requests. Emily's life is fairly normal until she finally convinces her mother to allow her to take swimming lessons when she begins secondary school. ![]() The Tail of Emily Windsnap by Liz Kessler is a story about a 12-year-old girl who lives with her mother on a boat called the King of the Sea. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She meets women from all walks of life, who surprise her with small tokens of generosity, hard words of wisdom, and simple acts of acceptance. From her first strip search to her final release, Kerman learns to navigate this strange world with its strictly enforced codes of behavior and arbitrary rules. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at the infamous federal correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, the well-heeled Smith College alumna is now inmate #11187-424-one of the millions of people who disappear "down the rabbit hole" of the American penal system. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. ![]() ![]() ![]() So why can’t he keep his eyes off the striking single mother? He knows just what the perfect woman will be like: sweet, decent, maybe a little naive. Tom Cavanaugh may think he wants a traditional woman, but in Virgin River, the greatest tradition is falling in love unexpectedly.įormer Marine Tom Cavanaugh’s come home to Virgin River, ready to take over his family’s apple orchard and settle down. ![]() Also in this series: Virgin River, Whispering Rock, Virgin River, A Virgin River Christmas, Second Chance Pass, Second Chance Pass, Second Chance Pass, Temptation Ridge, Paradise Valley, Forbidden Falls, Forbidden Falls, Angel's Peak, Forbidden Falls, Promise Canyon, Wild Man Creek, Promise Canyon, Harvest Moon, Bring Me Home for Christmas, Redwood Bend, Shelter Mountain, Moonlight Road, Moonlight RoadĪmazon | Barnes & Noble | The Ripped Bodice | Google Play Books ![]() ![]() ![]() But unfortunately for Rackham, his artwork can get a little creepy, and though Dulac and Goble use similar art styles, Goble’s command of watercolor just shines more vibrantly. Warwick Goble is, I think, probably my all-time favorite fairy tale artist, although I will admit that he does have to compete with Edmund Dulac and Arthur Rackham. Warwick Goble’s artwork is exactly like that. You know, the ones that have all the colors and everyone looks so youthful and magical? But I have a soft spot for the softer, prettier types of artwork that often gets included alongside fairy tales. ![]() Fairy tale artwork can be some of the most beautiful or most terrifying artwork out there, especially when certain art styles meet certain dark, creepy, or downright strange fairy tales. ![]() ![]() ![]() that he can claim the considerable achievement of having assembled enough powerful evidence to support Isaiah Berlin’s judgment of Churchill as ‘the largest human being of our time.’” - The New Yorker “Manchester has such control over a huge and moving narrative, such illumination of character. As Parliament received with jeers and scorn his warnings against the growing Nazi threat, Churchill stood alone-only to be vindicated by history as a beacon of hope amid the gathering storm. Manchester contends that even more than his leadership in combat, Churchill’s finest hour was the uphill battle against appeasement. In this powerful biography, the middle volume of William Manchester’s critically acclaimed trilogy, Winston Churchill wages his defining campaign: not against Hitler’s war machine but against his own reluctant countrymen. Even readers who know the basic story will find much that is new.”- Newsweek ![]() ![]() “The best Churchill biography this generation. ![]() ![]() Asimov wrote the Lucky Starr series of juvenile science-fiction novels using the pen name Paul French. ![]() He also wrote mysteries and fantasy, as well as a great amount of nonfiction. He penned numerous short stories, among them "Nightfall", which in 1964 was voted by the Science Fiction Writers of America the best short science fiction story of all time, a title many still honor. ![]() Heinlein and previously produced by Cordwainer Smith and Poul Anderson. Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation Series his other major series are the Galactic Empire series and the Robot series, both of which he later tied into the same fictional universe as the Foundation Series to create a unified "future history" for his stories much like those pioneered by Robert A. Clarke, was considered one of the "Big Three" science-fiction writers during his lifetime. He has works published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey Decimal System (lacking only an entry in the 100s category of Philosophy).Īsimov is widely considered a master of the science-fiction genre and, along with Robert A. Professor Asimov is generally considered one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. Isaac Asimov was a Russian-born, American author, a professor of biochemistry, and a highly successful writer, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. ![]() ![]() That’s funny, right?! So I keep reading along, chuckling away… until we hit the first speed-bump of self-indulgent teenage wankery. I laughed out loud at the story of local figure Dr Jefferson Jefferson, who is actually not a doctor of any kind – he’s just a powerful, wealthy man who petitioned the courts to change his first name to “Dr”. There were some surprisingly clever and funny bits. Still, that’s what Green chose for a plot, and I’m hardly in a position to argue with him. ![]() I mean, I’ve never met a teenager with enough foresight to leave complex metaphorical breadcrumbs when they run away, and, indeed, why would they? The whole point of running away is, y’know, to not get caught. You have to suspend your disbelief for a minute here. ![]() ![]() Margo goes missing, and Quentin goes looking for her, following her trail of clues. She is (surprise, surprise) beautiful, mysterious, and edgy. The nerdy, underappreciated boy-next-door (Quentin “Q” Jacobsen) “loves” Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar for years. There’s a prologue positioning the two central characters as childhood friends. Paper Towns is your standard coming-of-age story. (Help a girl out: making a purchase through an affiliate link on this page will send a small commission my way, at no cost to you!) ![]() ![]() ![]() Dealing in equal parts humor alongside shame, guilt and despair, Topdog/Underdog covers the world without running itself ragged. She masterfully navigates all that her work wants to hold. Parks’ writing is already something to behold. Through it all, the brothers’ kinship runs deep. Even their names hold a destined quality (their father’s idea of a joke, says elder Lincoln). ![]() The two brothers share a bevy of trauma: parents that abandoned each one with only $500, trying to rise above their impoverished circumstances. But Topdog/Underdog is a fated tale laced with woe. The premise is surreal, with plenty of comedic stretch. While he tries to rope Lincoln into his enterprise, Lincoln is adamant about only doing honest work: performing as an Abraham Lincoln impersonator at a local arcade, where mostly white attendees shoot at him. Booth spends his days lifting goods from stores and practicing the art of the card game hustle. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, I’m not so sure it’s a fairytale at all. Flags that make me think there is more to this fairytale than meets the eye. ![]() To make matters worse, I am slowly stumbling along and finding red flags. But when that glorious package is attached to a man that won’t give me a second glance, much less a piece of his heart, what good is a wedding ring and boatloads of cash? Even if it does come complete with eight inches of wontleavemealone steel. It is as if she has materialized out of thin air, and wearing Chanel. No family history, private school chums, or expensively hidden skeletons in couture closets. But nothing can be found on the new Mrs.Dumont. When Nathan Dumont, heir to Dumont Shipping, steps onto the scene with a new wife, the media sits up and takes notice. I combined all of the Dumont Diaries novellas into a standalone novel, which was rewritten, expanded, and retitled as Trophy Wife. Author's Note: This novella is no longer available. ![]() ![]() As Marcie pushes her way into his rugged and reclusive life, she discovers a sweet but damaged soul beneath a rough exterior.Ian doesn't know what to make of the determined young widow who forces him to look into the painful past and, what's worse, the uncertain future. Since then, Marcie's letters to Ian have gone unanswered.Marcie tracks Ian to the tiny mountain town of Virgin River and finds a man as wounded emotionally as Bobby was physically. ![]() Fallujah four years ago, then disappeared as soon as their unit arrived stateside. ![]() This Christmas she's come to Virgin River to find the man who saved his life and gave her three more years to love him.Fellow marine Ian Buchanan dragged Bobby's shattered body onto a medical transport in. Last Christmas Marcie Sullivan said a final goodbye to her husband, Bobby. ![]() |