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![]() ![]() Her father died before she was born, but Ella Benton knows they. What if, like her father, she’s suffering from a breakdown? Ella desperately needs to find answers, no matter how disturbing the truth might be. Affordable digital textbook from RedShelf: Black Flowers, White Lies by: Yvonne Ventresca. ![]() WANT A NOOK Explore Now Get Free eBook Sample Buy As Gift Overview Her father died before she was born, but Ella Benton knows they have a supernatural connection. Soon the evidence points to someone else entirely: Ella herself. Black Flowers, White Lies by Yvonne Ventresca 5.0 eBook 9.99 Instant Purchase Available on Compatible NOOK Devices and the free NOOK Apps. If it’s not a warning, could her new too-good-to-be-true boyfriend be responsible for the strange occurrences? Or maybe it’s the grieving building superintendent whose dead daughter strongly resembles Ella? 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The maintenance man/cook of the guest House is Dean. Claire sort of inherits a guest house where there's a hole to Hell in the basement and a "Sleeping Beauty-ed" Keeper in one of the rooms. It holds true that if there is a snarky talking cat, you're usually off to a good start. Summon the Keeper introduces Claire Hansen, Keeper, and her talking cat, Austin. There are just so many wonderful nuggets in it for a fantasy/mythology nerd like myself. ![]() I also love rereading it, which I don't get to do often. ![]() I mentioned earlier that this is one of my all-time favorite books so we'll go out on a limb and say that I loved it. Previously posted to my old blog at about the same time ![]() ![]() ![]() But maybe fate is at play a little bit, when her ex spots her through the train window.įabiola is an up and coming jewelry maker, who is social media famous, bisexual, and is also Haitian and from a family of immigrants, who are having problems with deportation. 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Alyssa Cole just keeps proving, over and over, that she is the queen of romance, and that the Reluctant Royals series is such a bright shining light for the romance genre. ![]() “Out of all the train cars in all the world you had to walk into mine.” ![]() ![]() ![]() One of his fellow voyagers, a Chelsea FC obsessive, jokes about becoming a World Service commentator (see how these boys are just like our own?). ![]() Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, 14.99 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-4926-6214-3 This achingly poignant graphic. The story comes alive in the details: at his lowest ebb, Ebo lucks upon a packet of antiseptic wipes that he can trade, one by one, for food. BUY THIS BOOK Illegal Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin, illus. 8 Inches (D) Weight: 1. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Illegal: Graphic Novel by Eoin Colfer & Andrew Donkin (Like New) at the best online prices at. 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Although fictional, it is based on the real struggles that thousands of immigrants experience each year as they flee their home countries in search of safer lives.Ī kind of documentary fiction, the book weaves real stories of migration into the tale of Ebo, a spirited, motherless 12-year-old from Niger who follows his older brother from his hopeless village to the city of Agadez, where traffickers take them across the Sahara to Tripoli. ![]() Illegal is a graphic novel written by Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin, (illustrated by Giovanni Rigano) about one boy’s journey from Africa to Europe. ![]() ![]() ![]() This exquisitely simple picture book provides many reasons trees are nice, and some reasons just one tree is nice too. They offer shade, they make the woods, they’re good for hanging swings on and they make sticks! In the black and white illustrations Simont uses a gray wash and thicker, more strategic strokes, generating a quiet, meditative feeling.Īnd every spread evokes serenity and comfort. The luxuriant, saturated color art arouses warm, joyous feelings. The spreads alternate between black and white and color. ![]() Giving just enough information and omitting fine details, he’s creating a feeling with each scene as much as a picture. In A Tree is Nice his drawing style is loose and unrestricted he doesn’t squander lines. Marc Simont has appeared on TurtleAndRobot before, see The Philharmonic Gets Dressedand My Brother Ant. Her unpretentious text is direct and expressive. A Tree is Nice was her first picture book, and it is divine. Janice May Udry wrote seven picture books, including Let’s Be Enemies and Moon Jumpers, both illustrated by Maurice Sendak. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With sales of six million books in less than a decade, Zane is the leading name in a fiction genre dubbed urban erotica. OL18150243W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 94.48 Pages 346 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0743446577 Zane is a literary pseudonym used by the writer of best-selling erotic fiction whose works consistently dominate the Essence bestseller lists. 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Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.', 'Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.', and 'Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 09:06:59 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40405310 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier 1411 quotes from Gregory David Roberts: 'Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Shantaram Gregory David Roberts Paperback US22.68 Add to basket Shantaram Gregory David Roberts Paperback US22.77 Add to basket The Mountain Shadow Gregory David Roberts Paperback US20. ![]() ![]() ![]() KARL JASPERS Preface to the First Edition Es kommt darauf an, ganz gegenwärtig zu sein. Weder dem Vergangenen anheimfallen noch dem Zukünftigen. 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