![]() ![]() ![]() The urban fantasy genre likes strong female protagonists with complicated love lives. ![]() While it is not impossible for urban fantasy and romance to co-exist within one story these genres do seem to pull their characters in opposite directions. Halfway To The Grave is a mixture of the urban fantasy and romance genres and it is hard to say which genre it fits into best. Along the way they manage to kill some evil vampires, destroy a white slavery ring and fall in love, making for an action packed novel. It follows the story of Cat a vampire/human hybrid, as she goes from being an amateur vampire slayer to being a force to be reckoned with after she teams up with Bones, the master vampire who teaches her all about killing vampires. ![]() Halfway To The Grave is the debut novel from new author Jeaniene Frost. Teaming up with one of “them” wasn’t in her plans, but now that the stakes have been raised, she is faced with the most difficult fight of all…. The half-vampire is out to rid the world of these hideous night creatures, and when she’s captured by Bones, she realizes the master vampire has a few things to teach her. If Buffy and Angel had a daughter, she’d be just like Cat Crawfield, a vampire hunter with some vampire blood and an attitude.Ĭat’s got a few skeletons in her closet… and some buried in the backyard. Published 2007 358 pages Summary (from the book jacket) ![]()
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![]() ![]() Becker perfectly captures the heady roller coaster of feelings that accompanies cross-cultural immersion, with ordinary activities serving as barometers of successful adaptation in a new country. Blending English, Japanese, Korean, and Singlish, the group bonds over meals, excursions, K-dramas, and never-ending conversations about life, love, and family. Also resident are two Japanese brothers, outgoing, friendly Shinichi and taciturn, broodingly handsome Masaki. ![]() She moves into Himawari House, which she shares with Korean Hyejung and Chinese Singaporean Tina, girls who are attending the same Japanese language institute as Nao. as a child with her Japanese mother and White American father, Nao has returned to Japan for a gap year before college to explore the language and cultural heritage that she deliberately shed-at great emotional cost-in an effort to assimilate. ![]() A shared house in Tokyo brings five young people together.Īfter moving to the U.S. ![]() ![]() It’s race, it’s humanity, and it’s inequity. ![]() Yes, To Kill A Mockingbird‘s main characters are Scout and Jem, however the main theme (and subsequent fuel for its controversial fire) is not growing up, it’s something much bigger than the children can even comprehend. I think this quote accurately describes the overarching nature of the book however in a way it romanticizes the experiences of the main characters. However, the most intriguing thing on this cover is the quote at the top: “The Timeless Classic Of Growing Up and the Human Dignity That Unites Us All”. In the distance, what is assumed to be a mockingbird is flying in the distance. Like the first rendition, this cover features the tree in the foreground but with actual gifts in it (a watch and a ball of string). The second version of the cover, published just a year later, is still quite simple but it is more explicit in its visual representation of certain symbols. The first incarnation is simple and features a tree which seems to be a reference to the tree in the story in which Boo and the children left each other gifts. While its contested nature has been quite static over the past few decades, the book’s cover art has changed considerably since its publication in 1960. The inclusion of Lee’s novel in school curriculums has been (and continues to be, to some degree) controversial due to its dealings with racism and the portrayal of black characters. ![]() It’s #bannedbooksweek2016 and I wanted to take a closer look at one of the most famous banned books: Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird. ![]() ![]() ![]() The mansion is beautiful, but eerie, too with its moving shadows and odd noises. Bel feels apprehensive about spending the lead-up to Christmas with her grandma at Lamont House, a sheltered housing complex converted from a grand Victorian home. She follows its footprints through the snow and is transported into the past.įrom best-selling author Holly Webb comes a heart-warming winter tale just in time for Christmas. One night, Bel is sure she sees a cat wandering across the grounds, even though there are no pets allowed. ![]() From best-selling author Holly Webb comes a heart-warming winter tale just in time for Christmas. ![]() ![]() ![]() And she's about to discover that the neighbors she'd always kept at a distance have come to mean more to her than she ever could have imagined. But when the threatened closure of the Lissbeg Library puts her personal plans in jeopardy, Hanna finds herself leading a battle to restore the heart and soul of the Finfarran Peninsula's fragmented community. ![]() With her teenage daughter, Jazz, off traveling the world and her relationship with her own mother growing increasingly tense, Hanna is determined to reclaim her independence by restoring a derelict cottage left to her by her great-aunt. Or, worse yet, her nagging fear that, as the local librarian and a prominent figure in the community, her failed marriage and ignominious return have made her a focus of gossip. Or that she's back in Lissbeg, the rural Irish town she walked away from in her teens, living in the back bedroom of her overbearing mother's retirement bungalow. Like the sophisticated lifestyle she abandoned after finding her English barrister husband in bed with another woman. debut about a local librarian who must find a way to rebuild her community and her own life in this touching, enchanting novel set on Ireland's stunning West Coast.Īs she drives her mobile library van between villages of Ireland's West Coast, Hanna Casey tries not to think about a lot of things. ![]() In the bestselling tradition of Fannie Flagg and Jenny Colgan comes Felicity Hayes-McCoy's U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is not above bribery and would not necessarily refuse an offer involving exotic travel, champagne or yellow diamonds from Graff. Her hobbies are listed in Who’s Who as: “mooching, lounging, strutting, strumming, priest-baiting and quiet subversion of the system”, although she also enjoys obfuscation, sleaze, rebellion, witchcraft, armed robbery, tea and biscuits. ![]() ![]() In 2004, Joanne was one of the judges of the Whitbread prize (categories first novel and overall winner) and in 2005 she was a judge of the Orange prize. ![]() Her books are now published in over 40 countries and have won a number of British and international awards. Since then, she has written five more novels Blackberry Wine, Five Quarters of the Orange, Coastliners, Holy Fools, and, most recently, Gentlemen and Players, plus Jigs & Reels, a collection of short stories and, with cookery writer Fran Warde, two cookbooks The French Kitchen and The French Market. She studied Modern and Mediaeval Languages at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge and was a teacher for fifteen years, during which time she published three novels The Evil Seed (1989), Sleep, Pale Sister (1993) and Chocolat (1999), which was made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. Joanne Harris was born in Barnsley in 1964, of a French mother and an English father. ![]() ![]() ![]() It has also been making me think about my house, which is late Georgian/early Victorian, and the history of its predecessors and servants. Imagine a younger Mary Beard talking enthusiastically about the Victorians, instead of Romans, and you can almost get the gist and I am sure you will understand why we have been gripped. Starting from the Victorian era and on to the not too distant past over three episodes, Dr Cox looks at how the life of domestic servants has changed, their conditions and the struggle of power and rites. What has really made me fascinated, and sparked this interest, is the wonderful BBC series ‘Servants: The True Story of Life Below Stairs’ presented by Dr Pamela Cox. This probably started off a good while back when Downton Abbey, though I have to say that I have started both series two and series three, after adoring series one, and alas have given up with them both – its lost a certain something, even Maggie’s lines aren’t as good as they once were. This might sound a little bit random, but recently servants and their history have really taken a hold of me. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now she spends her time writing and taking care of her husband and two daughters near Huntsville, Alabama. She has taught children with special needs in Georgia and Tennessee, and English to adults in Germany and Ukraine. She earned her bachelor’s degree in special education from The University of Alabama. Melanie Dickerson is the author of The Healer’s Apprentice and The Merchant’s Daughter, both Christy Award finalists, winner of The National Reader’s Choice Award for 2010’s Best First Book, and winner of the 2012 Carol Award in Young Adult fiction. Now both must not only protect each other from the dangers around them - they must also protect their hearts. When the pair flee to the Cottage of the Seven, they find help-but also find their feelings for each other have grown. Though romance is impossible-she is his brother’s future wife, and Gabe himself is betrothed to someone else-he promises himself he will see the mission through, no matter what. ![]() This could be Sophie’s one chance at freedom-but can she trust another person to keep her safe? Gabe defied his parents Rose and Wilhelm by going to find Sophie, and now he believes they had a right to worry: the girl’s inner and outer beauty has enchanted him. Then a young man named Gabe arrives from Hagenheim Castle, claiming she is betrothed to his older brother, and everything twists upside down. Sophie desperately wants to get away from her stepmother’s jealousy, and believes escape is her only chance to be happy. ![]() ![]() ![]() He talks about what Parkinson's has given him: the chance. In this candid book, with his trademark ironic sensibility and sense of the absurd, he tells his life story - from his childhood in western Canada to his meteoric rise in film and television and, most importantly, the years in which - with the unswerving support of his wife, family and friends - he has dealt with his illness. ![]() Fox stunned the world by announcing that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease - in fact, he had been secretly fighting it for seven years. ![]() This book tells his life story - from his childhood in western Canada to his meteoric rise in film and television and, most importantly, the years in which - with the unswerving support of his wife, family and friends. In September 1998, the author stunned the world by announcing that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Description for Lucky Man: A Memoir Paperback. ![]() ![]() ![]() the set up for the story is for arjun to find a healer and pippa to find celine, but they never actually actively do this (i understand that RA is trying to get the reader to know arjun and pippa better, and i enjoyed seeing them in the land of fae, but it felt weird to ignore the plot that was introduced in the beginning) ![]() taking the two old main characters and making them feel completely different (celine and bastian get major downgrades personality-wise in this, for the whole two pages they make an appearance lol) Things that caught me off guard and how i feel about them: - making two side characters now be the main characters (but i ended up loving arjun and pippa, so honestly, not the biggest deal) This wasnt the book i was expecting, there are a lot of decisions RA made that im not quite sure i understand, but i still enjoyed this overall. ![]() |