![]() ![]() She Persisted Around the World is a book for everyone who has ever aimed high and been told to step down, for everyone who has ever raised their voice and been told to quiet down, and for everyone who has ever felt small, unimportant or unworthy.Īlexandra Boiger's vibrant artwork accompanies this inspiring text that shows readers of all ages that, no matter what obstacles come their way, they have the power to persist and succeed. In this companion book to She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World, Chelsea Clinton introduces readers to a group of thirteen incredible women who have shaped history all across the globe. They haven't let anyone get in their way and have helped us better understand our world and what's possible. ![]() Whether in science, the arts, sports or activism, women and girls throughout history have been determined to break barriers and change the status quo. ![]() ![]() They've spoken out, risen up and fought for what's right, even when they've been told to be quiet. Women around the world have long dreamed big, even when they've been told their dreams didn't matter. Perfect for tiny activists, mini feminists and little kids who are ready to take on the world. The companion to Chelsea Clinton & Alexandra Boiger's #1 New York Times bestseller, She Persisted. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Maya is an outstanding narrator, full of dark wit and keen insights. ![]() ![]() Dot Hutchison effectively uses these alternating first- and third-person narrative styles to maintain a heightened level of suspense throughout the novel, keeping the reader guessing until the very end. The story alternates between the first-person narration of Maya, one of the kidnapped girls and the main character of the novel, and Maya’s third-person interview with the FBI agents who are investigating the case. There is a glimmer of hope in the Gardener’s younger son, but will he have the courage to stand up to his elder brother and tyrannical father? This is only the beginning of the horrors that the girls will encounter at the hands of the Gardener and his even more sadistic firstborn son in The Butterfly Garden. The Gardener tattoos giant butterfly wings onto the backs of the unwilling girls and rechristens them with new names as they are imprisoned in his secret butterfly garden. The plot of The Butterfly Garden involves a group of girls who are kidnapped and held captive by a deranged wannabe lepidopterist known only as the Gardener. ![]() All these elements come together fluidly in this exceptionally well-written book that is full of suspense and unnervingly dark plot twists. Dot Hutchison’s The Butterfly Garden is a dark masterpiece, a disturbing psychological thriller and gruesome crime novel overlaid with a relentless sense of horror. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And, one must consider that even if it was customary for men to take wives in first-century Jewish custom, Jesus was a radical character who didn’t always adhere to custom, anyway. Thus, Jesus having a wife might be entirely plausible - but, unless there’s some evidence of this (which the author, in an author’s note at the end of the book, admits might not be enough), we will never know for certain. ![]() Of course, the Bible says nothing on the matter, but it was customary at the time for men of about age 20 in Jesus’ time to take wives to secure their manhood and standing in Jewish tradition and culture. The reason he would have to make that pronouncement is because this is a book about Jesus’ wife. My pastor has even referenced it in not one, but at least two Sunday morning reflections that I’m aware of - though taking great pains to indicate that this is a work of fiction. This is the book everyone in my church is seemingly talking about. “The Book of Longings” Paperback Book Cover ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "We've said it before and we'll say it again: Hilderbrand is the queen of the summer. But this summer, something's changed, and if there's anything Nantucket likes better than cocktails on the beach at sunset, it's a good rumor.Īnd rumor has it. that Madeline, a novelist, is battling writer's block, with a deadline looming, bills piling up, and blank pages driving her to desperation - and a desperately bad decision and that Grace, hard at work to transform her backyard into a garden paradise, has been collaborating a bit more closely than necessary with her ruggedly handsome landscape architect.Īs the gossip escalates, and they have the possible loss of the happy lives they've worked so hard to create, Grace and Madeline try mightily to set the record straight - but the truth might be even worse than rumor has it. Madeline King and Grace Pancik are best friends and the envy of Nantucket for their perfect marriages, their beautiful kids, their Saturday night double dates with their devoted husbands. A friendship is tested in this "thrilling" page-turner from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand ( Us Weekly). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Within the text of Olive’s best-selling pandemic novel lies a strange passage: a man plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal as the trees of a forest rise around him. She’s traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal-an experience that shocks him to his core. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. “One of finest novels and one of her most satisfying forays into the arena of speculative fiction yet.” - The New York TimesĮdwin St. ![]() One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times, NPR, GoodReads The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.St Joseph's University (Brooklyn Voices Series). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Within Haxahaven’s glittering walls, Frances finds the sisterhood she craves, but the headmistress warns Frances that magic is dangerous. But Frances finds Haxahaven isn’t a sanitarium at all: it’s a school for witches. ![]() Everything changes when she’s attacked and a man ends up dead at her feet-her scissors in his neck, and she can’t explain how they got there.īefore she can be condemned as a murderess, two cape-wearing nurses arrive to inform her she is deathly ill and ordered to report to Haxahaven Sanitarium. In 1911 New York City, seventeen-year-old Frances Hallowell spends her days as a seamstress, mourning the mysterious death of her brother months prior. The Last Magician meets The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy in this “spectacular, singular, and spellbinding” (Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue) historical fantasy following a young woman who discovers she has magical powers and is thrust into a battle between witches and wizards. ![]() ![]() ![]() Is he visionary or madman, patriot or traitor? Dead or alive? Or, somehow, all of the above? Because the reader perceives the Colonel (as he is reverently known) through the eyes of other characters, he shimmers like a kaleidoscope of shifting impressions. ![]() There are echoes here of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (particularly as transformed by Francis Ford Coppola into Apocalypse Now) and Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, yet Johnson’s achievement suggests that each generation gets the war-and the war novel-it deserves.Īt the center of Johnson’s epic sprawl is Colonel Francis Sands, the novel’s Captain Ahab, a character of profound, obsessive complexity and contradiction. Tree of Smoke is less concerned with any individual war than with the nature of war, and with the essence of war novels. Yet Denis Johnson has bigger whales to land in his longest and most ambitious work to date. Within the current political climate, the reader might expect a new novel about the war in Vietnam to provide a metaphor for Iraq. ![]() ![]() ![]() Great against large opponents, bad in small spaces.Įffect: Creates a 3 foot diameter invisible metal shield on your left arm.Įffect: Unlocks all non-magically locked doorsĮffect: Doubles a weapon’s damage for a single battle Non-intelligent creatures only, short durationĮffect: Creature becomes clumsy and uncoordinated and drops its weaponĮffect: Makes you massive. strong and malleableĮffect: Creates an invisible wall, impervious to missiles, creatures etcĮffect: Takes control of an attacker’s will. ![]() Great unless something is flame-retardantĮffect: Magical/physical barrier, keeps out all magic/non-magic intruders. ![]() Effective against most non-magically defended creaturesĮffect: Fireball equivalent of ZAP. ![]() ![]() Because Selenka's new mate has a terrible secret, his mind surging with a power that is a creature of madness and death. Even if the mating bond is full of static and not quite as it should be. Yet Selenka's wolf is resolute: Ethan Night, broken Arrow and a man capable of obsessive devotion, is the mate it has chosen. Mating at first sight is a myth, a fairytale. Then violence erupts and Ethan finds himself crashing into the heart and soul of an alpha wolf. Assigned as part of the security force at a world-first symposium, he carries a dark agenda tied to the power-hungry and murderous Consortium. Numb and disengaged from the world, he's loyal only to himself. Ethan Night is an Arrow who isn't an Arrow. That currently includes the empaths who've flowed into her city for a symposium that is a security nightmare, a powder keg just waiting for a match. ![]() Alpha wolf Selenka Durev's devotion to her pack is equaled only by her anger at anyone who would harm those under her care. New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh returns to her breathtaking Psy-Changeling Trinity series with a mating that shouldn't exist. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was terrified of it, I didn’t know what had been in it, if it had been contaminated, who had touched it. “I stood there examining my body beneath the stream of water and decided, I don’t want my body anymore. I still remember the feeling of my hands touching my skin and grabbing nothing.”Ģ. When I was finally allowed to use the restroom, I pulled down the hospital pants they had given me, went to pull down my underwear, and felt nothing. I still remained calm, assured he was speaking to the wrong person. “A deputy explained I had been assaulted. Here are some of the most powerful excerpts from the statement. ![]() “You don’t know me, but you’ve been inside me, and that’s why we’re here today,” she said. The victim’s extraordinary 7000-word statement explaining how the attack left her emotionally scarred was published online yesterday and has since gone viral. Actress Debra Messing praised journalist Ashleigh Banfield for giving the Stanford rape victim’s impact statement ‘a voice’. ![]() |