![]() ![]() Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so. ![]() And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable - and even more powerful. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves - and herself - while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love. One choice can transform you - or it can destroy you. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Unfortunately, a Russian winter is the coldest of them all, and Mila soon learns the only way to escape intact is to do the impossible and thaw her captor’s heart. But it doesn’t take long for his caress to become a rough grasp muffling her screams. ![]() One with unexplained wealth, tattoos on his hands, and secrets in his eyes. She never expected to fall for a man on the way. ![]() Suffocated by the rules and unanswered questions, Mila does what she’s always wanted to. Not about her papa’s absences or his refusal to let her set foot in her birthplace-Russia. Having always done what is expected of her, Mila dresses the part, only dates college boys with exemplary backgrounds, and doesn’t ask questions. She refrained from telling her it would be literally while Mila ran for her life. Simply perfection!" – Charmaine Pauls, USA Today bestselling author A fortune teller once told Mila she’d find a man who would take her breath away. ![]() ![]() ![]() and her very presence is turning his world upside down. But there’s something so familiar about her. ![]() For a man who irons his socks and runs on tight schedules, her sunny chaotic energy makes zero sense. Like the flowers she plants all over town, Hallie is a burst of color in Julian’s grayscale life. ![]() Until he finds an anonymous letter sent by a woman from his past.Įven as Julian wonders about this admirer, he’s sucked further into Hallie’s orbit. She’s eccentric, chronically late, often literally covered in dirt-and so unbelievably beautiful, he can’t focus on anything else. But having Hallie gardening right outside his window is the ultimate distraction. On sabbatical from his ivy league job, Julian plans to write a novel. One wine-fueled girls’ night later, Hallie can’t shake the sense that she did something reckless-and then she remembers the drunken secret admirer letter she left for Julian. But the starchy professor isn’t the teenager she remembers and their polar opposite personalities clash spectacularly. Now the prodigal hottie has returned to Napa Valley, and when Hallie is hired to revamp the gardens on the Vos estate, she wonders if she'll finally get that smooch. ![]() Hallie Welch fell hard for Julian Vos at fourteen, after they almost kissed in the dark vineyards of his family’s winery. From Tessa Bailey- #1 New York Times bestselling author, TikTok favorite, and "the Michelangelo of dirty talk" ( Entertainment Weekly)- comes a spicy small town rom-com about a grumpy professor and the bubbly neighbor he clashes with at every turn. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is contemporary fiction at its finest. It will challenge you, it will have you by the heartstrings. In this collection of award-winning stories, Melbourne writer Maxine Beneba Clarke has given a voice to the disenfranchised, the lost, the downtrodden and the mistreated. ![]() Her debut short story collection, Foreign Soil, won the 2013 Victorian Premier’s Award for an Unpublished Manuscript and will be published by Hachette Australia in early 2014.Īs a spoken word performer, Maxine’s work has been delivered on stages and airways, and in festivals across the country, including at the Melbourne Writers Festival (2008, 2010, 2013), Melbourne International Arts Festival (2012), the Arts Centre (2009) and the Melbourne Jazz Fringe Festival (2013). She is the author of the poetry collections Gil Scott Heron is on Parole (Picaro Press, 2009) and Nothing Here Needs Fixing (Picaro Press, 2013), the title poem of which won the 2013 Ada Cambridge Poetry Prize. Maxine Beneba Clarke is an Australian writer and slam-poetry champion of Afro-Caribbean descent. Social Media: Goodreads, Facebook, and Twitterįormat and Price: Audio-book at $14.95 (with Audible membership) ![]() The circles/clumps are all different shapes and sizes. The audiobook cover has a black background, with multi-coloured circles/clumps decorating the cover the cover in a sporadic pattern. Image Description: the audiobook cover of Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke. ![]() ![]() ![]() After they sleep together that night, the two begin a love affair. He says he found court records involving her and warns Charlie against becoming further involved. That night, just before Miranda comes over for dinner, Adam tells Charlie not to trust her as she is a liar. He feels Adam is both markedly lifelike, yet distinctly nonhuman. Once Adam awakens, Charlie attempts to adjust to his presence. ![]() Realizing he is in love with Miranda, he decides if they program him together Adam can be like their child. After Miranda retreats to her doctoral studies and while Adam charges, Charlie considers how he should program Adam's personality. When Adam arrives at the apartment, Charlie and his upstairs neighbor, Miranda Blacke, carry him in on a stretcher, plug him in, and wait for him to come to life. In Machines Like Me, Charlie Friend uses the money he inherits after his mother's death to buy the newest model of the artificial human, Adam. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: McEwan, Ian. ![]() ![]() ![]() In some cases they will be expanded into longer entries as the Literary Encyclopedia evolves. First published 04 July 2003 1939 Sonnets from the Portuguese 3 Historical context notes are intended to give basic and preliminary information on a topic. For more information on how to subscribe as an individual user, please see under Individual Subcriptions.Ĭotto, Maggie. Robert Browning’s stature as a poet rendered him one of the most noted and. ![]() Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese unveil a marvelous testimony to the love and respect that the poet fostered for her suitor and future husband Robert Browning. You are not a member of a subscribing institution, you will need to purchase a personal Introduction with Text of Sonnet 1: 'I thought once how Theocritus had sung'. Offer, or via your institution's remote access facilities, or by creating a personal user account with your institutional email address. ![]() Institution ( see List), you should be able to access the LE onĬampus directly (without the need to log in), and off-campus either via the institutional log in we If you are a member (student of staff) of a subscribing ![]() ![]() ![]() This is New Age science fiction at its most evocative. Her acts may send Tyson on another cycle of his ongoing supernatural reincarnation epic journey, or they might provide the catalyst he needs to truly change.A contemporary spiritual urban fantasy, Recurring Consequences thrusts you into a psychic redemption mystery unlike any other. Tyson opens his life-and his heart-to her, never suspecting she harbors a dangerous obsession for him. Amber is an exotic dancer who needs a safe place to stay. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. At the same time, an old acquaintance reenters his life. Recurring Consequences: Change is on the way - Kindle edition by Parker, Irie. Somehow, he must change.A vision of a blood-red moon convinces Tyson his moment for self-transformation has finally arrived. ![]() For Tyson has been reincarnated thousands of times, living each life as a murderer. Actually, he has thousands of them.A racy paranormal romance from Irie Parker, Recurring Consequences follows Tyson Van Hann as he searches for love-and redemption for his past lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Similarly, “Sex Appeal” is narrated by a girl watching her older cousin primp for a date only to realize that she herself is the lecherous man’s lust object-a discovery Berlin presents with both a sense of surprise and foreboding. The title story, for instance, balances wry commentary about housecleaning work (“never make friends with cats”) and deadpan observation (“I clean their coke mirror with Windex”) with a sad, thrumming back story. One suspects she might have had a higher profile had her subject matter been less gloomy: she mined her history of alcoholism in stories like “Her First Detox” and “Unmanageable,” which detail the turmoil of the DTs and lost potential, and her work in hospitals in stories like “Emergency Room Notebook, 1977,” which establishes a milieu of “rich massive coronaries, matronly phenobarbital suicides, children in swimming pools.” Yet the prevailing sensibility of this book, collecting 43 of the 76 stories Berlin published, is cleareyed and even comic in the face of life hitting the skids. A posthumous collection of stories, almost uniformly narrated by hard-living women, that makes a case for the author as a major talent.įrom the 1960s through the '80s, Lucia Berlin (1936-2004) published brilliant stories for low-profile publications-her six collections all appeared with reputable but small presses. ![]() ![]() In this way, Son of a Trickster illustrates how children from dysfunctional families often have to grow up more quickly than their peers do, because they’re forced to take on the responsibilities that adults in their lives fail to carry out. Alongside this, he deals with typical teenage drama, but Jared often doesn’t have the time or energy to be a normal teenager since he has to shoulder adult responsibilities at home. ![]() As a result of these circumstances, Jared has to take care of his parents and other adults around him both physically and financially, because they are unable to take care of themselves. Jared’s father Phil, meanwhile, lives nearby with his new wife and daughter, but he is disabled from a back injury and addicted to pain medication. Jared Martin is a 16-year-old Native boy living in Kitimat, British Columbia, with his emotionally volatile mother Maggie and her drug-dealing boyfriend Richie. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was a place where he first learned to walk, to ride horses, to express his feelings… So he decides to escape the overwhelming feelings and went to Mexico with a loyal friend.īeing in another country always means being confronted by foreign cultures and outlooks. His mother was about to sell their family ranch where he grew up and spent all his childhood. Who didn’t try or at least dreamed of running away from parents in the childhood years? The protagonist of the story, John Grady Cole, managed to do it for real. It has been nominated and won numerous book awards. This book is about becoming independent – from your parents, from your own insecurities, from the society that entraps you. ![]() “All the Pretty Horses” is the book that made its author, Cormac McCarthy, popular after its publishing in 1992. ![]() |