However, I don’t know that I liked the writing style- I found the interview style made it difficult to keep track of who the characters were. I finished because I found it fairly interesting. I picked up this novel because my boyfriend thought it was good and I had just seen the movie. We are then able to see the aftermath and the hardships of trying to rebuild society after the human race nearly went extinct. He accounts for politics and how greed, fear, and worrying about how we appear to others often get the best of humanity. Max Brooks takes us through the battle with the undead, from the horrors families experienced with their loved ones to the battles where the undead proved to be very difficult to defeat. There are discussions with people in Texas, Denver, South Korea, Greenland, Virginia, Barbados, Canada, Nebraska, Antarctica, Palestine, Israel, Brazil, and many more. This novel is written in the form of interviews and gives a horrifying account of a war between zombies and humans. Natrona County Library Serving Natrona County, Wyoming, we promote literacy, support discovery and creation, and build community.
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In this sexy, action-packed sequel to the #1 bestseller House of Earth and Blood, Sarah J. And they've never been very good at staying silent. But as they learn more about the rebel cause, they face a choice: stay silent while others are oppressed, or fight. Dragged into a rebel movement they want no part of, Bryce, Hunt and their friends find themselves pitted against the terrifying Asteri - whose notice they must avoid at all costs. But can they resist when the crackling tension between them is enough to set the whole of Crescent City aflame?Īnd they are not out of danger yet. As they process the events of the Spring they will keep things platonic until Winter Solstice. Maas's sexy, groundbreaking CRESCENT CITY series continues with this second instalment.īryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar have made a pact. The #1 Sunday Times bestseller and sequel to the #1 New York Times bestseller. 'Think Game of Thrones meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer with a drizzle of E.L. “I’m honored to reimagine one of my favorite books, Forever….I am thrilled to have the opportunity of a lifetime to partner with a childhood icon and bring this story to my Netflix home, where the idea of your first love being with you Forever is shared with the world through the lens of Black love.” “Judy Blume’s ability to capture the real emotions we experience during the various rites of passage of our youth influenced my life choices and writing voice,” Brock Akil told Variety. The novel was previously adapted for the small screen, as a 1978 television movie starring Stephanie Zimbalist and Dean Butler. 7 the American Library Association’s list of the most challenged books of the 1990s. 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A Sweet Upper Young Adult / New Adult Paranormal Romance, perfect for fans of CHARMED, WITCHES OF EAST END and THE SECRET CIRCLE. As Reza and Art grow closer, Reza struggles to find a way out of his deception that won’t break Judy’s heart-and destroy the most meaningful friendship he’s ever known. Reflecting on the 50 th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, Nazemian’s novel explores what it means to be your truest self while facing a world full of ignorance, fear, love, and hope. And then there’s Art, Judy’s best friend and their school’s only out and proud teen. Judy has never imagined finding romance…until she falls for Reza, and they start dating. There’s Judy, an aspiring fashion designer who worships her uncle Stephen, a gay man with AIDS who devotes his time to activism as a member of ACT UP. Reza knows he’s gay, but all he knows of gay life are the media’s images of men dying of AIDS. He’s terrified that someone will guess the truth he can barely acknowledge about himself. There’s Reza, an Iranian boy who has just moved to the city with his mother to live with his stepfather and stepbrother. Like a Love Story follows three teens living in New York City in 1989. With trademark candor and fierce intelligence, hooks addresses the most common concerns of men, such as fear of intimacy and loss of their patriarchal place in society, in new and challenging ways. But toxic masculinity punishes those fundamental emotions, and it’s so deeply ingrained in our society that it’s hard for men to not comply-but hooks wants to help change that. In The Will to Change, bell hooks gets to the heart of the matter and shows men how to express the emotions that are a fundamental part of who they are-whatever their age, marital status, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways that patriarchal culture keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving. From the New York Times bestselling author of All About Love, a brave and astonishing work that challenges patriarchal culture and encourages men to reclaim the best part of themselves.Įveryone needs to love and be loved-even men. If the manga made Hokusai’s name, the Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (there are in fact 46 prints in the series) ensured his fame. In their observation and invention they have been compared to Rembrandt and Van Gogh, and rightly so for the thrilling panorama they provide both of the world and of Hokusai’s imagination. Leafing through the manga in the original or a facsimile is a mind-expanding experience, one that should be prescribed for all aspiring artists. They stretched to 15 volumes (the last three published posthumously), and covered every subject imaginable: real and imaginary figures and animals, plants and natural scenes, landscapes and seascapes, dragons, poets and deities combined together in a way that defies all attempts to weave a story around them. It was a good boast but not quite true – he had begun his manga, woodblock print books of sketches that were wildly popular, in his 50s. |