When Zen comes across Lan, he recognizes what she is: a practitioner with a powerful ability hidden in the mark on her arm. Now it must be hidden from the Elantians at all costs. Their magic was rumored to have been drawn from the demons they communed with. Zen is a practitioner-one of the fabled magicians of the Last Kingdom. Until the night a boy appears at her teahouse and saves her life. The mark is mysterious-an untranslatable Hin character-and no one but Lan can see it. Anything to understand the strange mark burned into her arm by her mother in her last act before she died. She spends her nights as a songgirl in Haak’gong, a city transformed by the conquerors, and her days scavenging for what she can find of the past. Now she goes by the one the Elantian colonizers gave her when they invaded her kingdom, killed her mother, and outlawed her people’s magic. An epic fantasy series inspired by the mythology and folklore of ancient China. In a fallen kingdom, one girl carries the key to discovering the secrets of her nation’s past-and unleashing the demons that sleep at its heart.
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She is also the author-illustrator of Hug? When they are not making art, they enjoy cooking, reading, and playing with their cats. Elizabeth Warren and the Amy Wu book series. Learn more: Charlene Chua (she/they) is the illustrator of several picture books, including Pinkie Promises by Sen. Originally from frosty Minnesota, she now lives wherever her wife is stationed, recently in San Antonio, Texas and then Italy with a flock of spirited hens. She has previously worked as an educator, bookseller, volunteer radio host, and creator of children’s literature events. Her debut picture book The Amazing Idea of You was illustrated by Mary Lundquist. Love, Violet, illustrated by Charlene Chua, was a Stonewall Book Award winner, Charlotte Huck Honor Book, Lambda Literary Award Finalist, and Bookstagang’s Best of 2022 winner for Future Classics and Community Favorites. Charlotte Sullivan Wild is the author of several picture books. 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Soon seeing the benefit, Jackson became a slaveholder as he started a family, which included a son, Jass. While Jackson did not see the need, he was encouraged to take slaves as he set himself up to prosper in his new country. After a short time, Jackson settled in Nashville, alongside another family member whose rise to fame was in the making. When he arrived, Jackson felt the electricity of a country that had recently shed its shackles and wanted to be free. Hailing from a a Protestant family, Jackson knew he could only be safe by traveling to the recently established United States of America at the end of the 18th century. James ‘Jamie’ Jackson was a youth in an Ireland that offered no mercy for its religious minority. Collaborating with David Stevens, Haley develops a strong story that is an essential read for anyone wishing to understand just how intense things got in the South. The book proves to be an epic overview of the slave era in America, told in a multi-generational narrative that will pull the reader in while exploring a country coming of age. After reading some of Alex Haley’s other work, I could not wait to get my hands on this piece. The episode is over so quickly it leaves her shaken but amused. Then one morning Martie experiences a sudden and inexplicable fear of her own, a fleeting but disquieting terror of.her own shadow. Susan is so afraid of leaving her apartment that even these trips to the doctor's office become ordeals for both women-but with each trip a deeper emotional bond forms between them. Martie Rhodes is a young wife, a successful video game designer, and a compassionate woman who takes her agoraphobic friend, Susan, to therapy sessions. In this unforgettable novel he weaves a tale of madness, suspense, love, and terror from a startling and true-life psychological condition so close to home it will stun even his most seasoned readers: autophobia-fear of oneself. As anyone who has ever read one of his novels knows, he creates atmospheric settings, believable characters, and all-too-plausible situations through which he explores the terror that we all suspect lurks just out of sight in our ordinary lives. A Dean Koontz novel is not just an unforgettable read-it is a life-changing experience. Just when you thought he couldn't top himself, Dean Koontz has done it again with a novel that will chill you to the bone and demonstrate why he has earned the distinction "America's most popular suspense novelist" (Rolling Stone). Callie’s punishment is she’s kicked off the dance team and must pay her debt to the business by working there for free. Millie is able to identify one person in the video - Callie - thanks to a one-of-a-kind necklace Callie was wearing. Millie’s uncle owns that business, and when she gets to work the next morning and finds the place trashed, she calls the police. When the dance team’s only sponsor pulls funding because the business is struggling, Callie and the team vandalize the business to get revenge. Callie is a member of the high school dance team, a team that wins championships but is financially neglected in favor of the always-losing football team. Yes, Callie, the “horrible human” who stole Willowdean’s best friend in Dumplin’. The chapters alternate between Millie Michaelchuck and Callie Reyes (though Callie’s chapters are always longer). Another fat girl and one of my favorite characters in Dumplin’, the focus is now Millie Michalchuck. However, Puddin’ takes place after the end of Dumplin’ and we’ve switched narrators. It was my impression that a companion novel is one in which we get the same time period from a different perspective. I’ve heard Puddin’ by Julie Murphy described as a companion novel to Dumplin’. Ginger got her name because Pratchett wanted to use the Fred Astaire quote (see a few annotations further down) about her partner, and so Ginger was an obvious choice for the leading lady's name. Instead, Ruby got her name because like all trolls she needed a mineral name. Pratchett said that he did not intend this as a reference to Gone with the Wind's Scarlett. The two femmes fatale of this novel are called Ginger and Ruby, both names signifying a red colour. Pratchett intended for Gaspode to die at the end of the book, but his editors/beta-readers made him reconsider. Meanwhile, it gradually becomes clear that the production of movies is having a deleterious effect on the structure of reality. Can handle a sword a little."), a dropout from Ankh-Morpork's Unseen University and Theda "Ginger" Withel, a girl "from a little town you never ever heard of", who become stars, and the Discworld's most infamous salesman, Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler, who introduces commerce to the equation and becomes a successful producer. Many hopefuls are drawn by the siren call of Holy Wood, home of the fledgling "clicks" industry – among them Victor Tugelbend ("Can't sing. The alchemists of the Discworld have invented moving pictures. |