![]() Livvie's internal growth is convincing, and her ultimate triumphs are inspiring. ![]() Dooley, a special education teacher, offers readers a rare opportunity to experience the day-to-day struggles of a special-needs student. It takes a lot of love, patience, and understanding from Livvie's parents, her two sisters, and her new substitute teacher to calm her frazzled nerves and help her accept hard truths. She was a special education teacher who now provides treatment to children with autism. Her desperate attempts to cling to the familiar lead to angry outbursts and secret late-night excursions, which create even more problems for the family. Author Notes: Sarah Dooley graduated from Marshall University in 2006. But Livvie doesn't want change ("It was hard to start fresh with a new group of neighbors when your daughter was a kid like me"). ![]() Since their house burned down years ago, the Owens have moved from one rental property to another, and now, after receiving their latest eviction notice, they may be forced to relocate to a neighboring town. Told from the perspective of an autistic 14-year-old, this poignant first novel explores the frustrations that come with being different. ![]()
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The novel follows the intersecting lives of various characters in a series of stylistically diverse short stories as they engage with a future in which individuals can upload their consciousness to a digital cloud. The Candy House is a speculative fiction novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan, first published in 2022. ![]() ![]() Tomasi (BRIGHTEST DAY), Patrick Gleason (GREEN LANTERN CORPS), and Mick Gray (BRIGHTEST DAY). 6: THE HUNT FOR ROBIN (THE NEW 52) By Peter J. 'A direct tie to Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's 'Death in the Family' Batman story comes the disturbingly creepy and psychological thriller of Batman and Robin by the all star team of Peter Tomasi and Patrick Gleason. The relationship between Gotham's greatest heroes is put to the test like never before in BATMAN AND ROBIN: DEATH OF THE FAMILY (collects issues #15-17, BATMAN AND ROBIN ANNUAL #1 and BATMAN #17), from the bestselling creative team of Peter J. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for BATMAN AND ROBIN VOL. And what better way to accomplish that than to pit father against son? Back with a vengeance, the Dark Knight's insane nemesis is out to destroy the Batman's connections to his closest friends and allies. But something binds this Dynamic Duo together that runs deeper even than the blood in their veins: trust.īut what happens if that trust is broken?Īfter a year of silence, the mad laughter of the Joker can be heard echoing through Gotham's streets once again. Damian Wayne is Robin, his partner in crimefighting-and his son. ![]() ![]() 3: Death of the Family (The New 52!)īruce Wayne is Batman, Gotham City's dark protector. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jane and Liz have carved out careers in Manhattan: the eldest Miss Bennet teaches yoga while her sister writes features for a magazine. Bennet’s life revolves around country club gossip and planning luncheons for the Women’s League. Bennet spends as much time as possible alone at his computer, while Mrs. Brief, episodic chapters mirror the short attention span of a digital era audience. In Eligible, the tension between the original story and Sittenfeld’s inventions kept me turning pages. Many of the issues that Austen’s characters grappled with are barely recognizable if they exist at all in modern daily life. While P&P-inspired books and films such as Bridget Jones’ Diary and Bride and Prejudice demonstrate that the story and its themes have broad appeal, I wondered how Sittenfeld’s Eligible would handle the main plot points in a modern setting. ![]() ![]() Curtis Sittenfeld, the author of four novels including Prep and American Wife, was chosen to take on Austen’s best-known work, Pride and Prejudice. Jane Austen is a tough act to follow and that is exactly what the Austen Project asks contemporary authors to do: reimagine one of Austen’s novels in the here and now. ![]() ![]() Garth Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and was a finalist for six other awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, A Public Space, and VICE, and he has written criticism for The New Yorker, the London Review of Books, and the New York Times Book Review, among others. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, it was named a Best Book of 2016 by over fifty publications in nine countries, and is being translated into a dozen languages. ![]() ![]() She told her parents she’d been the victim of a hit-and-run and they believed her. Joe's brooding good looks and T-shirt-straining muscles might be easy on the eyes, but how could Gabrielle be attracted to a straight-laced detective who's determined to find evidence to arrest her? Still, he invades her dreams and when they share a transcendent lovemaking experience, Gabrielle knows it must be love. Rachel Gibson began her fiction career at age sixteen, when she ran her car into the side of a hill, retrieved the bumper, and drove to a parking lot, where she strategically scattered the car’s broken glass all about. To make matters worse, his matchmaking sisters are picking out china patterns. ![]() She’d blown his coverbrought him down with a can of hairsprayand now his new assignment was to pose as her boyfriend. But spending as much time as possible with the utterly irresistible New Age beauty caused unexpected complications. If it’s fun, sexy and wildly romantic, then it must be Rachel GibsonUndercover cop Joe Shanahan’s bad luck hit bottom the morning he stared up into the face of sexy suspect Gabrielle Breedlove. She'd blown his cover-brought him down with a can of hairspray-and now his new assignment was to pose as her boyfriend. Undercover cop Joe Shanahan's bad luck hit bottom the morning he stared up into the face of sexy suspect Gabrielle Breedlove. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The authors have put their thinking caps on and broken out of the usual orthodoxy by presenting cogent ideas on why humans should go into space, including their lovely idea of going to and living on obscure (to most folks) Titan….Mr. “Refreshing….delightfully different from any other book I’ve ever read by human-spaceflight cheerleaders. In Beyond Earth, Charles Wohlforth and Amanda R.Hendrix offer groundbreaking research and argue persuasively that not Mars, but Titan-a moon of Saturn with a nitrogen atmosphere, a weather cycle, and an inexhaustible supply of cheap energy, where we will even be able to fly like birds in the minimal gravitational field-offers the most realistic and thrilling prospect of life without support from Earth. ![]() But Beyond Earth does not offer another wide-eyed technology fantasy: instead, it is grounded not only in the human capacity for invention and the appeal of adventure but also in the bureaucratic, political, and scientific realities that present obstacles to space travel-realities that have hampered NASA’s efforts ever since the Challenger disaster. We are at the cusp of a golden age in space science, as increasingly more entrepreneurs-Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos-are seduced by the commercial potential of human access to space. From a leading planetary scientist and an award-winning science writer, a propulsive account of the developments and initiatives that have transformed the dream of space colonization into something that may well be achievable. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rollin's early books, it shows his ability to depict action, story telling, characters, and trills he is perfecting with each books he writes. ![]() Part Michael Crichton, part Douglas Preston, part Indiana Jones, yet completely, exhilaratingly Rollins, Deep Fathom is an undersea roller coaster ride that never slows down from the first page through the explosive climax. The acclaimed creator of Sigma Force seamlessly combines action, science, lore, and breathtaking suspense in this classic tale of a lost civilization and a wondrous journey to a beguiling world beneath the sea. “James Rollins knows adventure.” - Chicago Sun TimesĪ sensational early work from “one of the most inventive storytellers writing today” (Lincoln Child)-the third pulse-pounding adventure novel from perennial New York Times bestselling thrill-master James Rollins- Deep Fathom is an extraordinary story of desperate survival and mysterious discoveries. “ will make your toes curl and your free hand clutch the armchair as you speed through the pages.” - Tampa Tribune ![]() ![]() ![]() That means that even if you can afford childcare, you're still out of luck if you're one of the 1 in 4 moms who have to go back to work within two weeks of a new baby arriving. It is impossible.Ĭhildcare still costs more than college in most states-and most childcare programs don't take infants under 6 weeks old. A choice to limit our economy and businesses as talented moms get pushed out of the labor force. A choice to ignore the deep circles of exhaustion under the eyes of the moms, the caregivers, and the care workers around us. A choice of missed opportunities to catch up with the rest of the world when it comes to building a care infrastructure. We have made raising kids and caring for parents something that simply can't be done in the United States of America. ![]() A daycare center employee pushes a KinderVan filled with preschool children on an outing along the National Mall in Washington, D.C. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Shadows: A Vampire Huntress Legend (Vampire Huntress Legends #11) (Paperback): The Darkness: A Vampire Huntress Legend (Vampire Huntress Legends #10) (Paperback): The Cursed: A Vampire Huntress Legend (Vampire Huntress Legends #9) (Paperback): The Wicked: A Vampire Huntress Legend (Vampire Huntress Legends #8) (Paperback): The Forsaken: A Vampire Huntress Legend (Vampire Huntress Legends #7) (Paperback): ![]() The Damned: A Vampire Huntress Legend (Vampire Huntress Legends #6) (Paperback): The Forbidden: A Vampire Huntress Legend (Vampire Huntress Legends #5) (Paperback): The Bitten: A Vampire Huntress Legend (Vampire Huntress Legends #4) (Paperback): The Hunted: A Vampire Huntress Legend (Vampire Huntress Legends #3) (Paperback): The Awakening: A Vampire Huntress Legend (Vampire Huntress Legends #2) (Paperback): This is book number 1 in the Vampire Huntress Legends series. ![]() |