![]() ![]() He controls his friends and others using his nearly-hypnotic voice. While he first kills in self-defense, he later learns to enjoy it. This is a retelling of the story of the Phantom of the Opera, beginning before his birth, and carrying us through his childhood, youth, and adulthood.Įrik doesn't have much morality. Then, one day, he hears the exquisite Christine sing for the first time, and will risk everything in his obsession to make her love him in return. Escaping, he makes his way through a difficult life, as a stonemason's apprentice in Rome, a magician in Russia, an executioner in the dangerous Persian court, and finally on to Paris, to become the mastermind behind the construction of the Paris Opera House.ĭetermined to hide away from humanity, he fashions an underground house for himself below the building. ![]() Unwanted by his mother, he runs away only to find himself exhibited as a freak in a gypsy carnival. Great retelling of a classic story, but contains violence and sexual contentĪ baby, Erik, is born with a horribly disfigured face. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() And though he never planned on true love, Adrian is definitely in danger of losing his heart. Yet this marriage of convenience brings the groom more than he bargained for when he finds his sweet, innocent wife surprising him at every turn. Soon shy Violet is a high-society wife, trying to keep her real identity a secret while living out the fantasies of her wildest dreams.Īdrian thinks he knows exactly what he’s gotten himself into: Jeannette may be flighty and, well, a bit self-involved, but she’s the picture-perfect wife to carry on the Winter name. ![]() But when Jeannette refuses to go through with the ceremony mere minutes before it is to begin, soft-spoken Violet finds herself walking down the aisle and taking vows in her sister’s place. Problem is, he’s set to marry Violet’s vivacious, more socially polished look-alike twin sister, Jeannette. Violet Brantford has always longed for the passionate embrace of Adrian Winter, the wealthy Duke of Raeburn. ![]() ![]() And everyone who lists gets entered to be one of 10 lucky winners of $10k! Go to to list your product today and cash in on this amazing deal. List your product on AppSumo between September 15th – November 17th and the first 400 offers to go live will receive $1000, the next 2000 to list a product get $250. ![]() Pinker is also the author of eight books and was named in Time’s “The 100 Most Influential People in the World Today” in 2004. Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, and his academic specializations are visual cognition and developmental linguistics. Steven Pinker is an experimental cognitive psychologist and a popular writer on language, mind, and human nature. Ryan reads today’s daily meditation and talks to author Steven Pinker about his new book Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters, the importance of pursuing effective altruism, the responsibility of institutions to protect the common good, and more. ![]() ![]() I used to love it when my mother read these letters out loud. Classic Children's Christmas Booksįather Christmas' Lettersby J.R.R. ![]() Want a printable list? You can get one at the end of this post. I did, however, include the publication dates for your information! I also tried hard to include Christmas books with diverse characters ( which would have been more difficult if I had stuck to old-fashioned "classics") but you can find even more on my list of multicultural Christmas books list. One of the reasons I didn't go by the publication date of the book is because I wouldn't have been able to include a variety of books that would have pleased me, nor would I have been able to include enough new-to-you books to make the list interesting. (Note: book covers and titles are affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) I try hard to make my book lists unique so when it came to making a "classic children's Christmas books" list I struggled to make the collection of titles very different from a typical Christmas picture book list with well-worn classics! I decided, much like my 20th century classics lists that I would not feel obligated to include The Polar Express or The Grinch. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To put it simply, this book is the product of the hard work of many, many people. Rachael Lippincott’s Connection to Five Feet Apart It’s so nice to get a little background on it, and what inspired its creation before the movie, starring Cole Sprouse and Haley Lu Richardson, hits theaters on March 20, 2019. I have a bit of a personal connection to this story, as someone I care about has cystic fibrosis. I’m pleased to kick off the official Five Feet Apart blog tour with this lovely guest post by author, Rachael Lippincott! I didn’t know that this story was a screenplay before a book, and that a movie is currently in production. ![]() ![]() ![]() Just because he has thoughts of rebellion, greater plans for Miraji, he doesn't deserve to die, so Amani and the Eastern Snake come up with a plan. The owner of the establishment wants them each to take shots at a bottle he's balancing on his head, but the third competitor in the final round is wasted and won't be able to make the shot without killing the boy. Things get out of control at the event when her and another participant - a foreigner referred to as the Eastern Snake - attempt to save the life of a supporter of the Rebel Prince. She's going to make it to the city of Izman, where aunt Safiyah lives, or she'll die trying. Girls aren't allowed to take part, but Amani needs the prize money - her uncle has just decided he's going to take her as his wife, extending his harem, and Amani will not allow this to happen. ![]() We meet Amani Al'Hiza at a pistol pit in Deadshot, where she's disguised herself as a man to be allowed to take part in the shooting. ![]() ![]() ![]() His skill at inductive reasoning enables him to know everything about the people he meets, but he gives away no information about himself. If she is to prevail, she must convince a detective-a man who views her as rat poison in silk stockings-to help her. ![]() Dash must stop him from finding this casket before he enslaves thousands, but she risks getting murdered for her efforts. ![]() The body is not one of the storm dead, but a murder victim who had been Dash’s client.īecause of her relationship to the dead woman, her reputation is ruined, her secrets exposed, and her children may be taken away before the adoption is final.ĭash dismisses the notion that she has fallen under a curse, despite the powerful and wealthy madman convinced that her disaster comes from an ancient evil that will only end when he is reunited with the source of his power, a magic casket. Dash’s world is destroyed once again when another body washes up on shore. Dash Gallagher, attempts to rise from the tides of the Great Hurricane of 1900 and make a life for herself and her adopted daughters. Dash Gallagher, Galveston's first lady attorney, has seen plenty of bodies wash up onto the beach since the Great Hurricane of 1900, but none like this. ![]() Now, a dead woman may take the rest.Ī widowed Galveston attorney, Mrs. Delightful historical mystery with a touch of the paranormal' The storm took almost everything she had. The storm took almost everything she had. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And it is, ultimately, a moving and hilarious chronicle of the ways in which humans and canines help each other find new lives, new selves, and new hope. It is a story of strays and rescues, kidnappings and homecomings, moving on and holding on and letting go. This is the story of two women and a whole pack of dogs who, having lost their way in the world, find a place at a training school-and radical rescue center-called the Sanctuary. ![]() But as they all learn, no one should stay prisoner to a life she didn't choose. Like the racing greyhound who refuses to move, the golden retriever who returns to his job as the Sanctuary's butler every time he's adopted, and the Rottweiler who's a hopeless candidate for search-and-rescue, Evie comes from a troubled past. ![]() Auberchon lets her pass, she will find her way. She has pretended to know more than she does about dogs, but she is learning fast. It is a place where the past does not exist, where hopelessness is chased away, where the future hasn't been written, where orphans and strays can begin to imagine a new meaning for "family." Evie is making her way to the Sanctuary. It is a place where humans save dogs, who, in turn, save the humans. High up on the mountain, the Sanctuary is a place of refuge. ![]() ![]() ![]() Writers often use real life narratives and personages to build fiction. Then there’s the controversy about Stegner’s use of Mary Hallock Foote, an author and illustrator best known for portraying the mining communities of the turn of the century American West. (After the novel won the Pulitzer in 1972, it was mentioned by the New York Times, but they managed to get Wallace’s name wrong, calling him William.) ![]() The novel is a meditation on marriage (what it takes, and what it takes out of you), time, the pioneer American West, home, and nature.Īngle of Repose was famously not reviewed by the New York Times, fomenting West Coast resentment against the East Coast Establishment’s obvious bias. Stegner winds multiple plot lines spanning centuries, using them to illuminate each other. Lyman is a retired amputee historian with a bone disease who becomes consumed with piecing together his grandmother’s life while bitterly protecting his lonely independence. ![]() I did, and I love this book.Īngle of Repose follows Susan Burling Ward during the 19th century, but the essence is the evolving consciousness of Susan’s grandson and the novel’s narrator, Lyman Ward. A fellow writer suggested I read Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner. I’ve been thinking about how to write fictionally about real events, people, and history. ![]() ![]() Get up close and personal with the most iconic human beings – the tallest, shortest, strongest and hairiest – and be amazed at the extraordinary skills on display from the world’s greatest jugglers, rock-climbers, freestylers and mermaids (yes, mermaids!). Back down to Earth, we delve into the natural world to encounter the animal kingdom’s mightiest and most bizarre beasts. We start with a tour of our Solar System and beyond, exploring astronomical superlatives in a chapter dedicated to the latest developments in the New Space Race. ![]() The result is Guinness World Records 2023! Keeping up with this dizzying revolution are the Guinness World Records adjudicators, who’ve been busier than ever documenting the Officially Amazing. ![]() Humanity’s horizons are expanding once again, and our world is experiencing unprecedented change. ![]() |