Jake is shocked to find the gangly kid he once knew has grown into a gorgeous young man. Then he’s traded to a team that wants a vet behind the plate to tame their new star pitcher. His team doesn’t have a prayer of making the playoffs, but who needs the stress? Jake lost his passion for the game-and life-after driving away the man he loved, and he swore he’d never risk his heart again. His father’s made it clear there should be no queers on the field, but if Nico can win Rookie of the Year like his dad and brother did, maybe he can prove he’s worthy after all.Īt 34, veteran catcher Jake Fitzgerald just wants to finish out his contract and retire. Since he was a teenager crushing on his big brother’s teammate, he’s known he can’t act on his desires. Pitcher Nico Agresta is desperate to live up to his family’s baseball legacy. This hot-headed rookie needs discipline-on and off the field. So when we were offered a copy for review, I jumped at the chance to see how this author wrote this trope. I am also a fan of this author’s other works. Why I read this: I love stories with gay players in sports, wondering about the parallels in real life. 295 pages) A copy was provided in exchange for an honest review. Dana reviews Reading the Signs by Keira Andrews (Published by KA Books, September 22.
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As time goes by, the two become close and Teru falls for Kurosaki. Thus begins an unlikely friendship between a 16-year-old high school girl and a sly but smart 24-year-old man. As Teru begins working for the unlikable school janitor, her feelings begin to surpass that of master and servant and she begins to question Daisy's true identity. One afternoon, after bullies from the student council are mysteriously driven away, Teru accidentally breaks a school window, which results in her working for the grouchy, cruel school janitor named Tasuku Kurosaki. Daisy became Teru's pillar of strength over the next few years, as he sent her encouraging words through his phone, whether inspiring or mere chatter, as she faces her life alone. When Teru's older brother died, she was left with little more than a cellphone containing the address of an elusive character called Daisy, whom Teru's brother said would watch over her. Viz Media licensed the series for an English-language release in North America. Shogakukan later collected the individual chapters into 16 bound volumes under the Flower Comics imprint. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Betsucomi magazine from May 2007 to October 2013. "Electric Shock Daisy") is a Japanese shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Kyousuke Motomi. Still a best-selling classic, Journey of Souls summarizes Dr. Many books have been written about past lives, but there has been very scant information about the ongoing existence of our souls as we await rebirth – until Journey of Souls was published in 1994. What will happen to you when you get there? This book has changed the lives of hundreds, upon hundreds of thousands of people… What makes it even more special is that Michael didn’t believe what he was finding at first, though through the eyes of thousands of client cases he was able to build a working model of the afterlife, an understanding of our connection to it and the possibilities of having the wisdom it offers within a life rather that wait for the end of it. Decades of detailed research made this book possible and it finally emerged when it was most needed, as humanity was starting to open more to the metaphysical roots of our existence. Michael Newton’s groundbreaking first book on the Afterlife is one of the great spiritual books of our time. Books like this come along once in a lifetime. I loved visiting so many varied locations and reading about the distinct Peculiar locals. The world-building in Hollow City is thorough and readers will be brought to new loops where there are peculiar animals and other unexpected creatures (for lack of a better term). The first novel in the series had a very closed environment to it and it was amazing to see the expanded world of the Peculiars. It was exciting to see the world outside of Cairnholm (Miss P's island) and to read about the Peculiar children who are traveling to London. I'm not diminishing audiobooks and ebooks at all, but there's something beautiful and raw about seeing the photographs on a page and not a screen. Each photo provides readers with a visual treat and I feel like reading Hollow City in a physical book is an extraordinary experience. I love the way the photos tie into the story and how each photo seems to tell a story of it's own. The photographs in Hollow City are just as bizarre and outlandish as the ones in the first book. Hollow City does an excellent job of creating a captivating, magical world and accompanying the plot with finely selected vintage photos. Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children is one of my all-time favorite books and I've been waiting to read Hollow City for ages! As soon as I received Hollow City, I began to devour this strange book and I believe Hollow City is even better than Mrs. Check out Scott Reads It for more reviews! A title in the Caribbean Modern Classics series. 'My Bones and My Flute' is the story of the Nevinson Family and Milton Woodsley, who are determined to solve the mistery of Jan Pieter Voorman. Why Well, he wrote all kinds of books, including this ghost story. Told in Woodsley s skeptical, self-mocking and good humoured voice, Mittelholzer creates a brilliantly atmospheric setting for his characters and their terrified discovery that this is not a place where they can be at home. 'My Bones and My Flute' is another proof that Edgar Mittelholzer was a versatile writer. But when the Nevinsons mention a flute player that no one else can hear, Woodsley begins to glean that there is more to their stay. Milton, an artist, thinks he has been invited to do some paintings for Nevinson, a rich businessman. Only when he is on board the steamer halfway to their remote destination up river in Guyana does Milton Woodsley realize that there is more to Henry Nevinson s invitation to spend time with his family in their jungle cottage. Tiny knocks to front corners but hardly noticeable. Originally published in 1955 by Secker and Warburg. She doesn’t need his protection anymore.When life throws a curveball at All Saints’ golden boy, he’s forced to realize not all knights are heroes.Sometimes, the greatest love stories flourish in tragedy. This daredevil hell-raiser could knock you up with his gaze alone, but he only has eyes for the girl across the Luna. Knight Cole is everyone’s favorite football .Popular.Liar. Luna Rexroth is everyone’s favorite. the meek, tomboy exterior everyone loves (yet pities) is a girl who knows exactly what, and who, she wants-namely, the boy from the treehouse who taught her how to curse in sign language.Who taught her how to laugh.To live.To love. Ours had torn chapters, missing paragraphs, and a bittersweet ending. Not all love stories are written the same way. Shen comes a new, standalone romance about first loves, betrayal and loss. From USA Today and Washington Post bestselling author L.J. " - Harloe Rae, USA Today Bestselling author. I’m certain you won’t feel a single regret. When a simple case of tit-for-tat trends between non-friends leads to a wholly unexpected kind of pretend, nothing is simple. So why are they faking a #bestfriend relationship for millions of online spectators? She’s looking for a side hustle to help pay down a mountain of student debt, and his financial portfolio is the stuff of fiduciary wet dreams. She loves sharing her passion for promulgating women in STEM careers and building community via social media, and he eschews all socialization, virtual or otherwise. She’s a public school science teacher with stars in her eyes, and he’s a pretentious, joyless double PhD turned world-famous best-selling fiction author. The truth is, they have nothing in common. Winnie considers them more like casual, distant acquaintances who find each other barely tolerable, especially when he's being condescending (which is all the time). Yes, they’ve known each other for years, but they’re not even friendly. Winnifred Gobaldi and Byron Visser are not best friends. In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account. For years, January was as molten glass in Locke’s hands, to be spun into the (dutiful, docile, " un-temerarious") shape he liked. January Scaller grew up uneasily lodged with the immensely wealthy Cornelius Locke, her childhood a half-painted picture without her father in it while he disappeared for days, months, to buy off with Locke’s gold coins marvels and oddities from all around the world. But that isn’t the true beginning of the story. The rush of turning a page and a story beginning. The Ten Thousand Doors of January starts, as great tales often do, with a book. When one enters a door, one must be brave enough to see the other side. Even the morning’s clarity couldn’t snatch that away. The sensible part of me informed me, patiently, that none of it had any more bearing on real life than a dream, yet in the surreal fuzziness of the night, I felt-on a bone-deep, irrational level-the possibility that I might turn a key, open a door and unlock the mysteries of the world. It seemed hardly credible when I finished reading that I couldn’t follow the words back to a world where this wasn’t mere fiction. The Ten Thousand Doors of January is almost less a novel than an experience: never have I felt more like I was part of things, moved by the same current, like my soul had disconnected from my body and drifted among fictional souls in a mist somewhere between fantasy and reality. I felt that to speak of this book would be to contain what it did to me, to diminish it somehow. A historical note explains the actual events surrounding the Georgia swamp’s protection. Absence of racial markers implies that they are white. Elsie Mae narrates, and characters’ dialogue is rendered in a broad dialect. The mystery surrounding the hog thefts falls flat, but the distinctive setting, the intriguing characters, and the glimpse at a culture that is unfamiliar to most are enough to carry it through. Elsie Mae is spunky, headstrong, and kind, but she also has moments of jealousy and recklessness. Is this the fall her cousin warned would follow her pride? Or are the complications really just blessings in disguise? Gators, huckleberry pie, and sweet tea on the porch are all part of the swamper way of life. She seems to create more problems than she solves. But Elsie Mae is so focused on making a name for herself that she neglects to consider how her actions will affect those around her. A hog thief, a Bible-thumping cousin, and a dog that cannot seem to stay out of trouble all conspire to make this the most exciting and problem-filled summer ever. The canal project is only part of the drama in this Depression-era tale. Eleven-year-old Elsie Mae lives for her summers spent with her grandparents on Honey Island in the Okefenokee Swamp-so when the swamp is threatened by a developer, she decides to do something to save the most beautiful place on Earth. Her newspaper column was written about whatever personally interested her, such as how pointless it is to date over 35, and led to an invitation from Picadilly Press to write a teenage diary book. She began to write for Woman's Hour on Radio Four, for comedians, and for a London newspaper. Rennison's first major success was her one-woman autobiographical show, "Stevie Wonder Felt My Face." She went on tour performing this show, including at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and the BBC later produced a one-off special of it. While there, she was part of an all-female cabaret group called Women with Beards, a performing group that poked fun at men and why they are responsible "for all the ills of society." Career On returning to the UK, Rennison lived in a small flat in Notting Hill doing an assortment of jobs until she decided to pursue her dream of acting and enrolled in a Performing Arts course at the University of Brighton. When she was 15, her family moved to Wairakei, New Zealand, where she became pregnant and later gave up a daughter for adoption. She attended Parklands High School, an all-girls school, from the age of 11, which she later credited with inspiring her as a comedic writer. Rennison was brought up in Leeds, Yorkshire, in a three-bedroomed council house in Seacroft with her mum, dad, grandparents, aunt, uncle and cousin. |
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