![]() Russel thinks that he is the only gay guy in his high school and he soon learns that he is one of a few - definitely more than he ever imagined. And I love how Russel shares his story by talking directly to the reader - Ferris Bueller style. His take on navigating high-school as a gay teenager is done with such heart and humor. From the very beginning of Geography Club, with a semi-awkward locker room scene, I immediately adored the main character, Russel Middlebrook. With this one book, Brent Hartinger has easily gained a fan in me. Treacherous social terrain of high school and the even more dangerous Geography in their latest club, but who learn plenty about the Portrait of contemporary teenagers who may not learn any actual We could call it Geography Club!"īrent Hartinger's debut novel is a fast-paced, funny, and trenchant Just choose a club that's so boring, nobody in their right mind wouldĮver in a million years join it. ![]() There's Terese's politically active friend, Ike.īut how can kids this diverse get together without drawing attention to themselves? That she is bisexual, and her soccer-playing girlfriend Terese. ![]() Popular but closeted star of the school's baseball team. ![]() ![]() His online gay chat buddy turns out to be none other than Kevin, the Russel Middlebrook is convinced he's the only gay kid at Goodkind High School. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Jess is a flute-playing, punch-throwing sophomore in Indiana whose dream is to someday own a "cherried-out" motorcycle and be able to call herself Mrs. ![]() ![]() "You don't know anyone whose name isn't followed by an A in a little circle and the words AOL dot com." Just like our MC Jess Mastriani, come to think of it. It's YA in the mid-2000s, all terribly fragmented, snarky prose-no frills, all sass. In this first book of the 1-800-WHERE-R-U series, Jenny Carroll aka Meg Cabot is in her PRIME, y'all. I guess it's time to start trusting my younger self a bit more! Or that my tastes have changed so much, I just won't feel the same anymore-but that really wasn't the case here (or with Elise Broach's twisty, heartwarming children's mystery, Shakespeare's Secret, which remains one of my favourite books of all time). My biggest worry when I reread books yung Jenny adored is that I've somehow blown them out of proportion in my head. So I just reread this book for the first time in YEARS (the last time was probably when i was in fifth grade, and I've just graduated college). ![]() ![]() ![]() What happened to his brother? Who betrayed him? And what does the DOD want from them-from me? And I have to tell Daemon, even though I know he’s never going to stop searching until he gets the truth. I’ve seen someone who shouldn’t be alive. Against all common sense, I’m falling for Daemon. He knows what’s happened to me and he can help, but to do so, I have to lie to Daemon and stay away from him. And there’s this new boy in school who’s got a secret of his own. If they ever find out what Daemon can do and that we’re linked, I’m a goner. Something worse than the Arum has come to town… So I’ve sworn him off, even though he’s running more hot than cold these days. Thanks to his alien mojo, Daemon’s determined to prove what he feels for me is more than a product of our bizarro connection. ![]() Goodreads Synopsis: Being connected to Daemon Black sucks… Main Characters – Katy Swartz / Dee Black / Daemon Black / Blake Saunders ![]() ![]() Cet ouvrage qui présente non seulement une approche théorique sur le symbole et le mythe, mais aussi un vasterépertoire de récits mythiques, est devenu l'une des sources principales de Flaubert pour tout travail sur l'Orient et les mythes. Creuzer, dont l'adaptation française était publiée àParis entre 1825 et 1851. ![]() Parmi les ouvrages mythographiques, le plus important pour Flaubert était incontestablement la Symboliquede F. À l'opposé des étudesanciennes qui s'employaient surtout à élucider les sources utiliséespar le romancier, la critique actuelle semble élargir le cadre de larecherche en focalisant, avant tout, sur le contexte mythographique de l'œuvre.Selon les spécialistes de ce domaine, notamment, Frank Paul Bowman et Gisèle Séginger, Flaubert était au courant de toutes les contributions importantes des débats scientifiques et philosophiques que suscitait l'interprétation des mythes et de la religion àl'époque romantique. Le problème des mythes et des religions apparaît commeune constante dans les textes flaubertiens. ![]() ![]() Where to Start with Sarah Maclean Books: the Middle A Scot in the Dark But here’s an attempt to offer a pathway through her books for intrigued first-time readers. ![]() They are all gorgeous and completely engrossing. There’s no wrong Sarah MacLean book to start with. And through her advocacy, Sarah helped me stop feeling ashamed I wasn’t reading so-called serious literature. Through her beautiful, emotional, sexy as hell books I remembered how much I loved reading about strong women finding happily ever afters. Personally, Sarah MacLean brought me back to the romance genre I’d loved in high school and college. Sarah also serves as an important advocate for the romance genre, through her monthly Washington Post column, the legendary book recommendation list on her website, and her podcast Fated Mates. Sarah MacLean books also show the scandalous, outrageous aspects of history often left out of our image of the nineteenth century. They feature women with big personalities who go after what-and who-they want with unapologetic vigor. ![]() ![]() Her regency romances are feminist, fat-positive, and (perhaps most importantly) fun. Rioters have long been in love with Sarah MacLean and her romance novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() She lives in Southern California with her family-and an embarrassing number of cats. Her books have been featured on multiple state reading lists, published in numerous countries, and translated into many different languages. ![]() She’s the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of the award-winning middle grade series, Keeper of the Lost Cities, as well as the Sky Fall series for young adults. She’s studied art, screenwriting, and film production, but she realized her real passion was writing stories for children. Also by Shannon Messenger The KEEPER OF THE LOST CITIES Series Keeper of the Lost Cities Exile Neverseen Lodestar Nightfall Flashback The SKY FALL Series. Shannon Messenger graduated from the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where she learned-among other things-that she liked watching movies much better than making them. ![]() ![]() Calder Gardens will provide the public with a singular place for contemplation and reflection, as well as abundant opportunities for learning and community building through a schedule of inclusive public programs and special events. ![]() “Familiarization is necessary.” Installed both indoors and outdoors, Calder’s art will be in constant dialogue with nature and the changing atmospheres of the seasons. “The esthetic value of these objects cannot be arrived at by reasoning,” Calder wrote in 1933. ![]() Featuring a building conceived by Pritzker Prize-winning design practice Herzog & de Meuron and gardens by internationally acclaimed Dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf, Calder Gardens is dedicated to the art and ideas of Alexander Calder, a native Philadelphian who is considered one of the most innovative and influential artists of the 20th century.įeaturing galleries illuminated by natural light, in a structure ensconced in a flowing landscape of native and flowering species, Calder Gardens will present a rotating selection of masterworks from the Calder Foundation, New York, including mobiles, stabiles, monumental sculptures, and paintings. ![]() ![]() If someone is looking for a hockey romance book, the Off-Campus series is usually recommended. The Off-Campus series is popular in the sport romance sphere of the BookTok community. Finally, The Goal concludes with Sabrina James, who unexpectedly becomes pregnant with hockey player John Tucker’s baby. The Score follows Allie Hayes who has a rebound relationship with Dean Di Laurentis, the team’s most notorious player off the ice. The Mistake centers on Grace Ivers who has a second chance romance with John Logan after a quick encounter with the hockey player during her freshman year. ![]() The Deal focuses on Hannah Wells, who tutors Garret Graham, the hockey team captain. There is an additional novella, The Legacy, which occurs after the events of the first four novels. ![]() For my review, I will focus on the four main books in the series: The Deal, The Mistake, The Score, and The Goal. ![]() The Off-Campus series by Elle Kennedy is a four-part companion series which follows four different girls as they develop relationships with four college hockey team members who live together in one house. Off-Campus was a little off from five stars for me. ![]() ![]() ![]() Winans…an artful man who makes it all seem so easy, a captive writer in his home port, San Francisco, a voice nailed onto the soil of his native land, capable of writing as he speaks.”Ī. He pulls no punches.”Īnd poet Neeli Cherkovski notes that “ Here is a word-slinger, A. He has great heart and compassion for people and his native city, San Francisco, I like his uncompromising spirit. The things and people he admires and loves get admirably straight-forward treatment as well. ![]() ![]() The books he put out under the Second Coming Press imprint as far back as the early 1970s did a lot to define an alternative literary sensibility of the times, and his own writings have always cast a jaundiced eye on the presumptions of the moneyed classes, the careerists and the poseurs, expressed with articulate and appropriate contempt. as a straight talker, poet and West Coast small press publisher of major importance. Winans will read from his first short story collection, In the Pink - erotic tales released in January by Pedestrian Press with a cover too scandalous for, and thus issued simultaneously in a cover tame enough for that demure literary institution.įor decades, we’ve admired A.D. ![]() ![]() ![]() Harry Keogh is that man, in whom Radu will rise up again, resurrected! Problems enough for the Necroscope, without that other vampire survivors - the last Drakul, and the Ferenczys - are also after his blood. The dog-Lord has dreamed of a Man With Two Faces who will be there in the hour of his resurgence. An original Lord of the Wamphyri, from Starside in an alien vampire world, Radu has lain preserved in resin in a state of suspended animation in his high Cairngorms lair for six hundred years! Now the time of his return is at hand. On the other hand, Radu Lykan is a man - or a monster - of two worlds. ![]() ![]() From its humble beginnings with a young Harry Keogh right up until its epic conclusions. But more than this - as a man revitalised in another man's body - he is the classic schizophrenic. A community to discuss anything and everything to do with Brian Lumley's Necroscope saga. From the Necroscope Harry Keogh's point of view, the missing years were empty, dead - or perhaps undead? Under mental restrictions imposed by E-branch, beguiled by Bonnie Jean Mirlu, a fledgling Lady of the Wamphyri, Harry is a man of two minds, a split personality. ![]() they came between 'Wamphyri!' and 'The Source' in the Necroscope series - the millenia-long struggle of humanity against the most horrific plague of vampires ever spawned. ![]() |