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Bluets poetry5/11/2023 What makes us feel the way we do, and why? And more importantly: does it matter, the reason? Bluets is a complex dive into the wide blue ocean from a very high diving board. There's a way in which Nelson's "Bluets" is bereft meditation on not just the color blue, but the things we love. It would be wet - like tears, like medicine, like libido. It would be sad but sexy, researched, but not dry. That book would be quick, lovely, and deeply intelligent. Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a book. No matter what you call it, Nelson's language is precise like poetry, startling like memoir, and captivating like fiction. Is Bluets poetry? Is it memoir? Some have shelved it as fiction, which it most certainly is not. "In which case blue is something of an ecstatic accident produced by void and fire." A little late to this party I nevertheless feel Nelson's blue, its radiance.
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Romiette and julio by sharon m draper5/11/2023 Urn:oclc:232648588 Republisher_date 20151231073525 Republisher_operator Scandate 20151229012225 Scanner . When Romiette Cappelle meets Julio Montague, she feels as though she has met the soul mate who can rescue her from her recurring nightmare about fire and water. OL12497W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 94.76 Pages 250 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0613337239 Draper(Author), Sisi Aisha Johnson(Narrator) 4. See search resultsfor this author Sharon M. Draper Page Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Urn:lcp:isbn_9780689821806:lcpdf:316cc2ec-4bb4-45f3-aa43-32aea7bd81e4 Romiette and Julio Preloaded Digital Audio Player Unabridged, Augby Sharon M. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 13:26:29.391689 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1138919 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Containerid S0022 DonorĪllen_county Edition 1st ed. Romiette, an African-American girl, and Julio, a Hispanic boy, discover that they attend the same high school after falling in love on the Internet, but are harrassed by a gang whose members object to their interracial dating.
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Clementine books by sara pennypacker5/11/2023 Case in point: the view out the window, of the lunchroom lady kissing the janitor. It’s just that some things are more interesting to pay attention to than what her teacher is saying. People are constantly telling her to pay attention, but she is. (If nothing else, she helps Marla Frazee by giving her lots of ridiculous hairdos to illustrate.) Then she cuts off her own hair to make Margaret feel better…on a day when - she forgot - Margaret’s not going to be at school. She cuts off Margaret’s hair to erase the damage that Margaret did in the first place. “Someone should tell you not to answer the phone in the principal’s office, if that’s a rule,” she says almost as soon as we’ve met her. She just doesn’t always know what that is. But just look at how much we learn about her - at how much is specific to her - beyond the usual penchant for unladylike shenanigans.įor one thing, she’s trying hard to do exactly what she’s supposed to do. Sure, its protagonist is a spunky girl in the grand tradition of spunky girls. Clementine, a 2007 Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book for Fiction and Poetry, is a 136-page master class in characterization.
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Traitor in Her Arms by Shana Galen5/11/2023 If Ramsey fails, his blackmailer will ruin him. His whole life has been based on a lie why change now? Although it pains him to deceive the tantalizing Gabrielle, he’s working toward an altogether different objective: unmasking the Scarlet Pimpernel. Ramsey Barnes would not say he is an honorable man. The man is not to be trusted-nor is Gabrielle’s body when he’s near. Accompanying her is the Earl of Sedgwick, a thief in his own right and an enticingly masculine presence. After being recruited by the Scarlet Pimpernel, the mysterious do-gooder spiriting aristocrats out of revolutionary France, Gabrielle crosses the Channel for the most daring mission of her life. In the intervening years, her skills have not gone unnoticed. Two morally compromised souls wage a battle of wits-and seduction-against the backdrop of the French Revolution in this slow-burn romance from bestselling author Shana Galen.Īfter her late husband leaves her in debt to some dangerous people, Lady Gabrielle McCullough is forced to become a thief.
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Phantazein by Tehani Croft Wessely5/10/2023
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The andromeda strain novel5/10/2023 The scientists believe the satellite, which was actually designed to capture upper-atmosphere microorganisms for bio-weapon exploitation, returned with a deadly microorganism that kills by nearly instantaneous disseminated intravascular coagulation. Christian Kirke, electrolytes specialist, was unavailable for duty because of appendicitis. The Robertson Odd Man Hypothesis states that unmarried men are capable of carrying out the best, most dispassionate decisions during crisis and he is given the only key that can disarm the self-destruct mechanism. He is the "odd man", since he is the only one without a spouse. Mark Hall, M.D., surgeon, biochemistry and pH specialist. Charles Burton, infection vectors specialist and Dr. Jeremy Stone, bacteriologist specialist Dr. The Wildfire scientific team studying the unknown strain is composed of Dr. The base commander suspects the satellite returned with an extraterrestrial organism and recommends activating Wildfire, the government-sponsored team that counters extraterrestrial biological infestation. Aerial surveillance reveals that everyone in Piedmont, Arizona, the town closest to where the satellite landed, is apparently dead. When a military satellite returns to Earth, a recovery team is dispatched to retrieve it during a live radio communication with their base, the team members suddenly die.
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In the weeds lovelight farms5/10/2023 This is the second book in a series of interconnected standalones following the three Lovelight owners.īy B.K. It features a grumpy farmer, a no-nonsense social media influencer, a small town of busybodies, and four very cute kittens. In The Weeds is a sweet and steamy second-chance romance about finding your happiness. It has absolutely nothing to do with the hot farmer she spent two incredible nights with. She returns to the last place she was happy, Lovelight Farms and the tiny town of Inglewild. Feeling disconnected from her work and increasingly unhappy, she’s trying to find her way back to something real. When she disappears again, Beckett resolves to finally forget her and move on. He had no idea that the sweet and sexy woman he met at a bar is actually a global social media influencer Evelyn St. So when she suddenly appears on his farm as part of a social media contest, he is … confused. But Evie wove some sort of magic over him during their tumble in the sheets. He’s not unfamiliar with hot and heavy flings. One incredible weekend in Maine, and he’s officially a man distracted. James isn’t the kind of woman you forget.
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All of the Rogers by Erin Lockwood5/10/2023 His wife is currently recovering from gallbladder surgery. Currently, the Mussumba family is living in two hotel rooms with a hot pot they have been told that General Assistance will no longer pay and they are heading to a shelter either in Portland or South Portland. While Pedro is awaiting his work papers, he and his family are also waiting for housing. Pedro’s dream is to raise his family of four children with his wife here in Maine among friends and community. They applied for asylum and were able to come to the United States eventually. They traveled to Brazil where they spent 6 months in the rainforest in a tent until they could get to Mexico. The Mussumba family of 6 has had a long journey to get to the United States from their native country of Angola.
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Written in the mythic style of the Igbo literary tradition, Chigozie Obioma weaves a heart-wrenching epic about destiny and determination. Spanning continents, traversing the earth and cosmic spaces, and told by a narrator who has lived for hundreds of years, the novel is a contemporary twist of Homer’s Odyssey. Penniless, homeless, and furious at a world which continues to relegate him to the sidelines, Chinonso gets further away from his dream, from Ndali and the farm he called home. But when he arrives he discovers there is no place at the school for him, and that he has been utterly duped by the young Nigerian who has made the arrangements. When her family objects to the union because he is uneducated, Chinonso sells most of his possessions to attend a college in Cyprus. But Ndali is from a wealthy family and struggles to imagine a future near a chicken coop. The woman, Ndali, is stopped her in her tracks.īonded by this night on the bridge, Chinonso and Ndali fall in love. Horrified by her recklessness, Chinonso joins her on the roadside and hurls two of his prized chickens into the water below to express the severity of such a fall. Set on the outskirts of Umuahia, Nigeria and narrated by a chi, or guardian spirit, AN ORCHESTRA OF MINORITIES tells the story of Chinonso, a young poultry farmer whose soul is ignited when he sees a woman attempting to jump from a highway bridge.
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What Princess Magnolia hadn’t realised was that another monster had crept out of his hole and was now following the Princess. One afternoon after sending another monster back to his world, the princess heads off for a playdate with her friend, Princess Sneezewort. When she hears the monster alarm she changes into her superhero outfit and becomes ‘The Princess in Black’. Princess Magnolia is a secret monster fighting princess. But all is not as it seems! Action and humor abound in this ode to friendship that proves that when shape-shifting monsters intrude on your plans, two heroes are better than one. Yet when the Princess in Black gets there, she finds only a masked stranger and no monster in sight. It’s a monster! This is a job for the Princess in Black. mysterious plans, like a princess playdate! They dress-up slam! They karaoke jam! But then a shout from outside Princess Sneezewort’s castle interrupts their fun. Princess Magnolia and Princess Sneezewort have plans. Noseholes and elephants! A pet-eating monster interrupts a perfect playdate with Princess Sneezewort. The Princess in Black and the Mysterious Playdate |