Her first class with her mysterious idol, former ballerina and her professor Victoria, almost ruins her career before it starts. The Music and the Mirror by Lola Keeley - Anna is the newest member of an elite ballet company. Each chapter begins with Neve talking to her therapist and we get to see various stages of Neve's growth and healing. Neve Blackthorne is head of one of the biggest Studios in Hollywood and she has been having an affair with younger employee, Audrey Avens rising star in her company. Storytelling is unique because we only have ice queen's point of view and it's so beautifully written. These are my favorite Lesbian / WLW Ice Queen Books (some of them are my overall favorites - Fiction / Romance)īooks by Lee Winter: The Brutal Truth, Breaking Character, The Red Files, Hotel Queensīooks by Milena McKay: The Delicate Things We Make, The HeadmistressĪ Whisper of Solace by Milena McKay - This is by far my favorite book of the year. If you want to read well written Ice Queen trope, you can't make wrong choice with their books. My favorite authors for this type of books are Lee Winter and Milena McKay.
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5/24/2023 0 Comments The earthsea cycle book 1Le Guin strongly disliked both the Sci-Fi Channel miniseries Legend of Earthsea and the Miyazaki film Tales from Earthsea, so I recommend not bothering with either (but if you do, read at least the first three novels first). The Radio 4 drama based on A Wizard of Earthsea looks decent I recommend reading the original (the first three novels, in fact) before. I haven't seen or heard any of the adaptations. The fifth novel, The Other Wind, a sequel to Tehanu and the short story Dragonfly also featuring Tenar, Tehanu (and Ged). Earthsea Cycle Series 1 book chapter 264 Pages 1 in Series Paperback 9.99 9. The short stories collected in Tales from Earthsea, which provide more background on the world (some of the stories star characters met in the novels).The fourth novel, Tehanu, furthering the story of Tenar who was the heroine of The Tombs of Atuan, with Ged also playing a major part.The first three novels: A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, telling the story of Ged. The original two short stories The World of Unbinding and The Rule of Names, collected in The Wind's Twelve Quarters and others. The first three novels: A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, telling the story of Ged. ISFDB has the list of stories in the Earthsea cycle with publication information.The original two short stories The World of Unbinding and The Rule of Names, collected in The Wind's Twelve Quarters and others.ISFDB has the list of stories in the Earthsea cycle with publication information. For the stories written by Le Guin, I suggest reading in publication order, except that you can start straight with the first three or even four novels. 5/24/2023 0 Comments Blackhearts by nicole castromanSimon Teen you BETTER pick up the sequel!!!! Omg I freaking LOVED this book! There has to be more. Faced with an impossible choice, they must decide to chase their dreams and go, or follow their hearts and stay. Drawn to each other, they’re trapped by society and their own circumstances. How will she ever realize her dream of sailing to Curaçao-where her mother was born-when she's stuck in England?įrom the moment Teach and Anne meet, they set the world ablaze. Lonely days stretch into weeks, and Anne longs for escape. Though she’s barely worked a day in her life, Anne is forced to take a job as a maid in the home of Master Drummond. There's just one problem: convincing his father to let him leave and never come back.įollowing her parents' deaths, Anne Barrett is left penniless and soon to be homeless. Betrothed to a girl he doesn’t love and sick of the high society he was born into, Teach dreams only of returning to the vast ocean he’d begun to call home. Nothing could stop him-until he met the one girl who would change everything.Įdward "Teach" Drummond, son of one of Bristol's richest merchants, has just returned from a year-long journey on the high seas to find his life in shambles. But once he was just a young man who dreamed of leaving his rigid life behind to chase adventure in faraway lands. | Barnes & Noble | iBooks | Goodreads Blackbeard the pirate was known for striking fear in the hearts of the bravest of sailors. 5/24/2023 0 Comments The Authentics by Abdi NazemianLockhart, Kathleen Glasgow, and Jandy Nelson, with crossover appeal for readers of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History and Curtis Sittenfeld’s Prep.īeth Kramer is a “townie” who returns to her sophomore year after having endured a year of tension with her roommate, Sarah.īut Sarah Brunson knows there’s more to that story.Īmanda Priya “Spence” Spencer is the privileged daughter of NYC elites, who is reeling from the realization that her family name shielded her from the same fate as Sarah. From the Stonewall Honor–winning author of Like a Love Story comes a revelatory novel about the enclosed world of privilege and silence at an elite boarding school and the unlikely group of friends who dare to challenge the status quo through their writing. 5/24/2023 0 Comments Boat Kid by Melanie NealeBoat Kid weaves all this together into a story about a girl who, once all is said and done, simply wants her own boat and the freedom to live her own life. And as her father published articles about how living on a boat brings families together, Melanie secretly struggled with an eating disorder, the alienation of being a boat kid, and her developing sexuality. They dodged hurricanes, federal agents, and bullying land kids. The family had to work hard to pay for their way of life. And the cruising life was not all fun in the sun. Despite their unique lifestyle, her parents were determined to raise proper young ladies while surrounded by sea-gypsies, mystics, nudists, boat bums, sharks, and smugglers. Melanie and her sister were homeschooled, the family fished for dinner and made their own bread, but her parents were far from hippie dropouts. Throughout the 1980s and 90s, Melanie's family lived aboard a 47-foot sailboat, spending their summers along the US East Coast and their winters in the Bahamas. "item_description" : "Boat Kid is the engaging memoir of what it's like to grow up aboard a sailboat. 5/24/2023 0 Comments Berkeley three dialoguesHylas and Philonous īerkeley's views are represented by Philonous (Greek: "lover of mind"), while Hylas (" hyle", Greek: "matter") embodies the Irish thinker's opponents, in particular John Locke. This foreshadowed his chief philosophical work, A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710), which, after its poor reception, he rewrote into the Three Dialogues (1713). In 1709, Berkeley published his first major work, An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision, in which he discussed the limitations of human vision and advanced the theory that the proper objects of sight are not material objects, but light and colour. Since objective features of objects cannot change without an inherent change in the object itself, shape must not be an objective feature. shape) depending on the observer's perspective. Perceptual relativity argues that the same object can appear to have different characteristics (e.g. Three important concepts discussed in the Three Dialogues are perceptual relativity, the conceivability/ master argument and Berkeley's phenomenalism. Taking the form of a dialogue, the book was written as a response to the criticism Berkeley experienced after publishing A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, or simply Three Dialogues, is a 1713 book on metaphysics and idealism written by George Berkeley. 5/24/2023 0 Comments Sleeping Giants by Sylvain NeuvelBut once the pieces of the puzzle are in place, will the result prove to be an instrument of lasting peace or a weapon of mass destruction? What’s clear is that Rose and her compatriots are on the edge of unraveling history’s most perplexing discovery-and figuring out what it portends for humanity. And along with her colleagues, she is being interviewed by a nameless interrogator whose power and purview are as enigmatic as the provenance of the relic. Rose Franklin is now a highly trained physicist leading a top secret team to crack the hand’s code. Its carbon dating defies belief military reports are redacted theories are floated, then rejected.īut some can never stop searching for answers. Seventeen years later, the mystery of the bizarre artifact remains unsolved-its origins, architects, and purpose unknown. But the firemen who come to save her peer down upon something even stranger: a little girl in the palm of a giant metal hand. She wakes up at the bottom of a square hole, its walls glowing with intricate carvings. Winner - 2018 Seiun Award (Japan) - Best translated novelįinalist - Best Science Fiction 2016 - Goodreads Choice Awardsįinalist - 2017 Audie Awards in Science FictionĢ017 ALA Listen List: Outstanding Audiobook NarrationĪ page-turning debut in the tradition of Michael Crichton, World War Z, and The Martian, Sleeping Giants is a thriller fueled by an earthshaking mystery-and a fight to control a gargantuan power.Ī girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth. 5/24/2023 0 Comments Justin cronin the passage seriesBut for Amy, escaping the bloody fallout is only the beginning of a much longer odyssey-spanning miles and decades-towards the time and place where she must finish what should never have begun. He is determined to protect her from the horror set loose by her captors. Six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte is a refugee from the doomed scientific project that has triggered apocalypse. FBI agent Brad Wolgast is a good man haunted by what he’s done in the line of duty. All that remains for the stunned survivors is the long fight ahead and a future ruled by fear-of darkness, of death, of a fate far worse.Īs civilization swiftly crumbles into a primal landscape of predators and prey, two people flee in search of sanctuary. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.”įirst, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. Genre: Horror, (Post-)Apocalyptic, Fiction, Speculative Fiction 5/24/2023 0 Comments Headcase onley jamesHe has one week to prove to Felix that he's the exception to his rule. Felix belongs to no man, but Avi is determined. But they're trapped together and there's only one bed, and it's so hard to hate Avi in the dark when he's whispering how Felix belongs to him. Ever.Įxcept, Avi's being sent to help take down a dangerous crime ring and he's ordered Felix to come along. It was still hate sex, and it would never happen again. He's also sexy, brilliant, and twice as lethal as Felix. He's cocky, condescending, overbearing, and inappropriate. But all good things come with a cost and, for Felix, that's enduring Avi Mulvaney each day, which inevitably leads to thinking about him every night.įelix doesn't like Avi. While he's not happy that his big brother married a Mulvaney, the union has its perks. History proves Avi and Asa don't do well apart, but their father has decided to test that theory.įelix Navarro knows exactly who he is. Together, he and his brother, Asa, make one brutally efficient monster, ridding the world of predators who victimize the innocent. There’s a kiss that takes place early on in this story…and that kiss. The easy-going, rolling with flow, dreadlocked cutie Micah totally captivated me in the first book. I was so excited to get to Micah’s story after Unwrapping Hank. Leo’s play may be saved, but what about his heart?īetween Micah’s sweet lips, his family’s welcoming arms, and a devious bulldog who is determined to play Puck, Leo may find himself falling under the spell of Christmas magic. When his venue cancels at the last minute, Micah offers the use of his parent’s barn in rural Pennsylvania. His senior project is directing Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream just before the Christmas break. When a chance spin of a bottle at a party has him locking lips with Micah Springfield, president of the Delts, dread-headed, serial-dating, straight Micah, Leo is determined to forget about it, no matter how incendiary the sparks or how gorgeous Micah may be. He stays focused and in control, and he never, ever, dates straight guys. Leo is passionate about two things: gay rights activism and acting. Sure, Micah’s always been a little bi-curious, but he never thought he’d pursue a guy, much less a guy who doesn’t seem to be interested in getting caught. But when he gets the hottest kiss of his life from a cute guy during a game of ‘spin the bottle’, Micah’s cool turns into a puddle of anxious goo. Micah is the hippest, most chill guy on campus. |