![]() ![]() ![]() Harriet's business booms after a line of key-shaped pendants, inspired by Ruby's necklace, becomes an instant hit. One of Nate's clients, a high-strung woman named Harriet, offers Ruby a job at her jewelry store in the mall. Having seen resemblances between herself and her mother that night, Ruby becomes determined to change her ways. Ruby comes home to a furious Jamie, who accuses her for being ungrateful to him and her sister. Ruby feels overwhelmed with all this, so she skips school to take alcohol and drugs, and later finds herself in Nate's car when he picks her up. Over the span of the story, Ruby slowly becomes closer to Nate.Īs Ruby adjusts to her new life, she learns Cora had not been avoiding her in fact, Cora had been trying to rescue Ruby from their mother but had always been stopped. Nate Cross, Jamie and Cora's next-door neighbor, covers for her. After learning she will be transferring to a new high school, Ruby attempts to run away but is found out. Ruby is upset about this arrangement and continues to wear the key to her old home on a chain around her neck. ![]() It was published by Viking's Children's Books in 2008.Īfter her drug and alcohol addicted mother abandons her, child services forces 17-year-old Ruby Cooper to move in with her sister, Cora, who had left for college when Ruby was young. Lock and Key is a novel written by author Sarah Dessen. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Follow her on Instagram and Twitter PRAISE FOR THE SHATTER ME SERIES: "Dangerous, sexy, romantic, and intense. She can usually be found overcaffeinated and stuck in a book. She was born in a small city somewhere in Connecticut and currently resides in Santa Monica, California, with her husband, Ransom Riggs, fellow bestselling author of Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children, and their young daughter. But will the choice of which side to fight on be hers? Tahereh Mafi is the New York Times bestselling author of the Shatter Me series which has been published in over 30 languages around the world. The day of reckoning for the Reestablishment is coming. And with old enemies looming, her destiny may not be her own to control. As she struggles to understand the past that haunts her and looks to a future more uncertain than ever, the lines between right and wrong - between Ella and Juliette - blur. Which is the truth and which is the lie? Now that Ella knows who Juliette is and what she was created for, things have only become more complicated. Maas, Victoria Aveyard's The Red Queen, Stranger Things and Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows Juliette Ferrars. ![]() The finale of Tahereh Mafi's New York Times bestselling YA fantasy series perfect for fans of Sarah J. The book that all SHATTER ME fans have been waiting for is finally here. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() TheWertzone The shining star for me is the novella A Second Chance at Eden as it runs at just the right pace and is the perfect length to keep you trapped and awake at night as you race towards the end to find out who did it and whyįlickeringMyth Books by Peter F. An excellent collection of short SF set in one of the most thoroughly-realized SF settings ever created Having never read Peter Hamilton and being leery of picking up the first book of a long series that might disappoint I bought a 'Second Chance at Eden'. A Second Chance at Eden is a collection of one novella and seven short stories (separated by decades in some cases) all of which are set within the universe that Peter has created, but they. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A graduate of the University of London and a journalist and editor in Israel for many years, he now lives and writes in New York. His trailblazing books have been translated into more than twenty languages his first one, an oft-quoted classic, celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of its publication. When you buy books using these links the Internet Archive may earn a small commission. One of a handful of scholars able to read the Sumerian cuneiform tablets, he has combined archaeology, ancient texts, and the Bible with the latest scientific discoveries to retell the history and prehistory of mankind and planet Earth. The 12th Planet by Zecharia Sitchin, 1976, Stein and Day edition. ![]() About the Author: Zecharia Sitchin is an internationally acclaimed author and researcher whose books offer evidence that we are not alone in our own solar system. "The 12th Planet" is the critical sourcebook on the ancient astronauts-how they got there, when they came, and how their technology and culture have influenced the human race for hundreds of thousands of years. Weaving the story of humanity's origins by means of archaeology, mythology, and ancient texts, Zecharia Sitchin documents extraterrestrial involvement in Earth's history in "The 12th Planet." Focusing primarily on ancient Sumeria, he reveals with awesome precision a complete history of the Solar System as told by the visitors from another planet that orbits close to Earth every 3,600 years. ![]() ![]() ![]() With abundant examples of painting and sculpture ranging from ancient Greek amphorae to Bosch, Brueghel, and Goya among others, and with quotations from the most celebrated writers and philosophers of each age, this provocative discussion explores in-depth the concepts of evil, depravity, and darkness in art and literature. ![]() ![]() Topics range from Milton's Satan to Goethe's Mephistopheles from witchcraft and medieval torture tactics to martyrs, hermits, and penitents from lunar births and disemboweled corpses to mythic monsters and sideshow freaks and from Decadentism and picturesque ugliness to the tacky, kitsch, and camp, and the aesthetics of excess and vice. What is the voyeuristic impulse behind our attraction to the gruesome and the horrible? Where does the magnetic appeal of the sordid and the scandalous come from? Is ugliness also in the eye of the beholder?Įco's encyclopedic knowledge and captivating storytelling skills combine in this ingenious study of the Ugly, revealing that what we often shield ourselves from and shun in everyday life is what we're most attracted to subliminally. In the mold of his acclaimed "History of Beauty," renowned cultural critic Umberto Eco's "On Ugliness" is an exploration of the monstrous and the repellant in visual culture and the arts. ![]() ![]() All of which means Moon Witch, Spider King can stand on its own, with James’s inventive language offering an exciting, fresh and typically gory take on the genre. Here, Sogolon, the 177-year-old witch who clashed with Tracker in the first book, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, gets to tell her story, one full of quests, superpowers and violent clashes. The second in James’s lurid Dark Star fantasy trilogy, the immense Moon Witch, Spider King sees the Booker winner doubling down on the idea of a decolonised, African Lord of the Rings. It’s fun, too, as Choudry muses on growing up as a Muslim Asian Mancunian in late 20th-century Britain. ![]() Not a particularly original thought – there is a banner at the Stretford End that declares “For Every Manc a Religion” – but it’s the way Choudry examines this idea of belonging to something bigger than himself that makes Inshallah United so thoughtful. Inshallah United: A Story of Faith and FootballĪt the start of Choudry’s memoir about faith and football, he equates going to see Manchester United with Friday prayers at the mosque. Lady Mac Bethad explores the predicament of a woman fighting for her position in life. ![]() ![]() There’s genuine commitment to character and storytelling in this tale of Gruoch, the prophesied Queen of Alba, who finds herself at the mercy of heir elect Duncan’s court as she travels to take the royal seat. ![]() Alternative takes on Shakespeare are ubiquitous, but this origin story of the real Lady Macbeth – the debut novel by Swiss Hawaiian-American screenwriter Schuler – is distinctive. ![]() ![]() And in great orientalist fashion Nick looks to the east for the mystery - but the innate provincialism he so desperately fights against allows him to venture only as far as Greece. I needed a new land, a new race, a new language and although I couldn't have put it into words then, I needed a new mystery," ends the first chapter. "I didn't know where I was going, but I knew what I needed. "The Magus" starts in London where our hero and narrator, Nicholas Urfe, a recent graduate of Oxford, is at a loose end, trying to spice up his life. ![]() ![]() Talking about "The Magus" to someone who hasn't read it is a bit like assuming the role of Conchis, the character who acts as the magician, the master of revels in this novel: what to reveal and what to keep secret so that you give no spoilers, so that the unsuspecting reader gets the same sense of mystification and shock you experienced first time you read it. ![]() ![]() ![]() In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs writes about what makes streets safe or unsafe about what constitutes a neighborhood, and what function it serves within the larger organism of the city about why some neighborhoods remain impoverished while others regenerate themselves. It fairly crackles with bright honesty and common sense." - The New York TimesĪ direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. "The most refreshing, provacative, stimulating and exciting study of this which I have seen. ![]() Compassionate, bracingly indignant, and keenly detailed, a monumental work that provides an essential framework for assessing the vitality of all cities. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Belt” refers to roads and railways while, paradoxically, “road” refers to sea-lanes together they aim for nothing less than the unification of almost all of Asia and Africa. Projects include ports, airports, rail lines, utilities, industrial centers, highways, and even entire new cities and urban sectors. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), launched in 2013 by Chinese president Xi Jinping, includes hundreds of infrastructure projects financed and constructed in part or in whole by Chinese entities in lands far beyond China’s borders. ![]() While that empire faded by the mid-14th century, it gave the world a precursor to the modern-day state of China, which has embarked on its own ambitious-and, to some, unsettling-quest to link a considerable portion of the world through trade. Consolidating ancient Silk Road mercantile connections, it brought currency into widespread use and generally sought win-win trade deals with conquered territories. In addition to the more infamous killing and pillaging conducted by its various hordes, the Mongol Empire, first led by Genghis Khan and later by his grandson Kublai, brought nearly all of Asia, much of the Middle East, and some of Europe under a unified system of trade and commerce in the 13th century. ![]() ![]() Lucille Recht Penner, The Tea Party Book, Random House (New York, NY), 1993.Īn Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (based on a story by Louisa May Alcott), Ideals Publishing (Nashville, TN), 1993. The First Noel, Ideals Publishing (Nashville, TN), 1992. Very Scary Halloween, Scholastic (New York, NY), 1991. ![]() ![]() The Gift of the Magi, Ideals Publishing (Nashville, TN), 1990. Joanne Barkan, My First Garden Tools, three volumes, Warner (New York, NY), 1990. What a Teddy Bear Needs, Ladybird Books (London, England), 1989. Joanne Barkan, My First Kitchen Gadget Books, six volumes, Warner (New York, NY), 1989. Sharon Gordon, Home for a Puppy, Troll (Mahwah, NJ), 1988. Pierre, Mystery in the Woods, Marvel (New York, NY), 1988. Lyn Sandow, My First Tool Books, Warner (New York, NY), 1988. The Night before Christmas, Ideals Publishing ( Nashville, TN), 1988. The City Mouse and the Country Mouse, Grosset & Dunlap (New York, NY), 1985. Lawrence Weinberg, The ABC's, Little Simon (New York, NY), 1982. ![]() Lawrence Weinberg, What Is This For?, Little Simon ( New York, NY), 1982. Dial Press, New York, NY, worked as a design assistant and secretary for two years owner of freelance illustration business, 1980. attended School of Visual Arts, and New School for Social Research. (a physical education teacher and union negotiator) Wheeler. ![]() |