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![]() Maybe Miles should take his dad’s advice and focus on saving himself.Īs Miles tries to get his school life back on track, he can’t shake the vivid nightmares that continue to haunt him. Maybe kids like Miles aren’t meant to be superheroes. After all, his dad and uncle were Brooklyn jack-boys with criminal records. ![]() When a misunderstanding leads to his suspension from school, Miles begins to question his abilities. īut lately, Miles’s spidey-sense has been on the fritz. He’s even got a scholarship spot at the prestigious Brooklyn Visions Academy. Dinner every Sunday with his parents, chilling out playing old-school video games with his best friend, Ganke, crushing on brainy, beautiful poet Alicia. Miles Morales is just your average teenager. ![]() And Miles knew hustling was in his veins.” “Everyone gets mad at hustlers, especially if you’re on the victim side of the hustle. Genre: young adult, middle grade, superheroes, fantasy, urban fantasy ![]() Trigger Warnings: racism, violence, gang violence, drugs ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Crises can have different forms ranging from classic hunger crises to modern forms of demand crises, corporate crises and financial market crises. Explanations for the causes of a market crash can range from over-indebtedness, asset bubbles, speculation to massive leverage in the system. Seventy nine years after the Great Crash of 1929 (GC), the financial markets collapsed again in the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 (GFC) and threatened the financial stability of the world like in 1929. The market crash of 1929 is considered a unique, five sigma event, occurring only once-in–a-lifetime. The Great Crash of 1929 led to the Great Depression the longest period of unemployment and contraction in modern history. 90 years ago – in October 1929 - the crash on Wall Street created chaos in the financial markets. ![]() ![]() ![]() While she is known as a romance writer, I love that she focuses her books focus more on story and character development and less on “traditional” romance. Healing Hearts is another home run by Sarah M. Gideon and Miriam must decide if they are willing to risk their hearts for each other even as buried secrets are brought to light. Romance blossoms between the two, but when a former medical associate of Miriam’s arrives in town, Gideon and the other townsfolk must rally to protect Miriam from a dangerous fate. Embarrassed by the misunderstanding, he offers her a job, and the two begin an awkward-and often humorous-dance of getting to know each other as they work to care for the people of their town. When she refuses to marry him, she finds herself stranded in Savage Wells with some very unhappy townspeople.īut Gideon is not like the other men Miriam has met. He didn’t want a nurse, he wanted a wife. MacNamara’s message had gotten turned around. ![]() But when the town-and Gideon-meets her, ready for a wedding, her excitement quickly turns to shock. ![]() When Miriam steps off the stagecoach in Savage Wells, she sees a bright future in front of her. So, being a practical man, he decides to take advantage of the matchmaking service of the day-mail-order brides-and sends away for a woman with nursing experience. The few women in town are either too young, too old, or already spoken for. As the only doctor in the frontier town of Savage Wells, Wyoming, in 1876, Gideon MacNamara knows his prospects for a bride are limited. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() On the outside, she’s got it pretty good. Seventeen-year-old Macy Lyons has been through something no one should ever have to experience. One conversation is all it takes to break a world wide open. For now.įind Natasha on her website, Goodreads, and Twitter. She would like to have a dog and a cat, but she knows her limits, and can’t take care of another living thing. She lives in Northern Westchester, NY with her husband, three young sons and some fresh-water fish. After five years at Showtime Networks where she was Director of Marketing and Business Development, she left to begin her career writing young adult fiction. in English from Yale University and an M.B.A. Natasha Sinel grew up in Washington, D.C., received a B.A. ![]() Sweet Sixteener Sonya Mukherjee recently spoke to Fearless Fifteener Natasha Sinel about her debut contemporary YA novel, THE FIX (Septemfrom Sky Pony Press). ![]() ![]() ![]() Towards the end of her life, Wong ran a travel service in San Fra Jade Snow Wong was born in San Francisco and brought up in a family that maintained traditional Chinese customs. Her second volume, No Chinese Stranger, was published in 1975. In 1950, Wong published the first of her two autobiographical volumes, Fifth Chinese Daughter. ![]() Wong's pottery was later displayed in art museums across the United States. When she began to sell her work in a shop in Chinatown, it quickly found popularity. She worked as a secretary during World War II, and discovered a talent for ceramics. ![]() Due to the high importance her family placed on education and her own desire to learn, Wong graduated from Mills College in 1942 with a hard-earned Phi Beta Kappa key. Jade Snow Wong was born in San Francisco and brought up in a family that maintained traditional Chinese customs. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After a 20-year gestation period, this seed became The Exorcist, and the writer successfully adapted (and produced) the sensational 1973 screen version directed by William Friedkin, winning both the Golden Globe and the Oscar for his screenplay. Blatty became interested in exorcism while a junior at Georgetown University, following 1949 newspaper coverage of a reportedly possessed 14-year-old boy. It was one of four collaborations between Blatty and Edwards, ending with "Darling Lili" (1970). Together Edwards and Blatty turned it into a farce, reviving Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) from "The Pink Panther" (1964) as the film's lead. ![]() His first screenplay credit came for "The Man From the Diner's Club" (1963), and he was working on a script for "What Did You Do in the War, Daddy" (1966) for director Blake Edwards when Edwards replaced the original director of "A Shot in the Dark" (1964), in production as a drama based on the successful play by Harry Kurnitz. All of his work prior to "The Exorcist" was in that genre, beginning with his 1960 novel, Which Way to Mecca, Jack?. ![]() Although best known as the author of The Exorcist, the best-selling 1971 novel about a teenage girl's demonic possession which opened the door for a new generation of horrormeisters like Stephen King and Peter Straub, William Peter Blatty actually focused on writing comedy early in his career. ![]() ![]() ![]() Underland Chronicles Pack, 5 books, RRP £29. Gregor knows it mustay something awful but he never imagined just how awful: it calls for the warrior's death.ĩ781407172583 9781407172590 9780702303272 9780702303289 The Underland Chronicles Book 5: Gregor and the Code of Claw written by Suzanne Collins, narrated by Paul Bohemer. Everyone in the Underland has been taking great pains to keep The Prophecy of Time from Gregor. The stunning conclusion to the riveting Gregor the Overlander series. ![]() Though Gregor's family receives frequent updates on her condition, they all know Gregor must return to fulfill his role as the warrior who is key to the Underlanders' survival. ![]() It's only a few months since Gregor and Boots returned from the Underland, leaving their mother behind to heal from the plague. Gregor must summon all his power to end the biological wrfare that threatens the fate of every warmblooded creature. It is spreading fast, and when it claims one of Gregor's family, he begins to truly understand his role in the Prophecy of Blood. ![]() Gregor and Boots must return to the Underland to help ward off a plague. Recognizable by its tremendous size and snow-white coat, the Rat King is destined to bring a World War to the Underland. Spies have reported the sighting of a Rat King in the Underland, a character who has been legendary since the Middle Ages. When eleven-year-old Gregor falls through a grate in the laundry room of his apartment building, he hurtles into the dark Underland, where spiders, rats and giant cockroaches coexist uneasily with humans. ![]() ![]() ![]() But after he saves Emma from a life of indentured servitude and shame, Emma decides that it is her personal duty to save him from his wicked ways.Step one - Stop his drinking, his gaming, and his wild revelry.Step two - make him break up with his mistress, the superbly sensual Fae Moullé, and transform him into a suitable suitor for the ideal wife that prim and proper Lady Clarissa Partridge would be.Step three - don't fall in love with him. " 'Pon my word, Emma, I hope you are worth five thousand pounds."The infamous Lord Ragsdale is as rich as sin, as sinful as he is rich, and as heartless as he is handsome. But was she merely leaving the frying pan and diving into the fiery arms of this unrepentant rake? A Regency romance original."Don't cry, Emma," he said."I'm not crying," she murmured, attempting to wipe away the tears."Thank goodness for that," he replied, keeping his tone light. Reforming Lord Ragsdale is written by the author Carla Kelly,Is a wonderful light novel,Currently has been updated to Chapter 23,If you. She vowed to help him reform his ways so he could marry a woman of society. ![]() without his permission.The libertine Lord Ragsdale came to aid Emma, saving her from a lecherous brute's attempts to press her into indentured servitude. But after he saves Emma from a life of indentured servitude and shame, she decides it is her personal duty to save him from his reckless ways. ![]() The infamous Lord Ragsdale is as sinful as he is rich and as heartless as he is handsome. Houtou Kizoku O Kousei Saseru Ni Wa summary:Įmma Costello owes a debt of honor to one of the most dishonorable lords in the realm. ![]() ![]() ![]() Treats of Oliver Twist's Growth, Education, and Board ![]() Treats of the Place where Oliver Twist was Bom and of the Circumstances attending his Birth It is likely that Dickens's own experiences as a youth contributed as well, considering he spent two years of his life in the workhouse at the age of 12 and subsequently, missed out on some of his education. The novel may have been inspired by the story of Robert Blincoe, an orphan whose account of working as a child labourer in a cotton mill was widely read in the 1830s. ![]() In an early example of the social novel, Dickens satirises child labour, domestic violence, the recruitment of children as criminals, and the presence of street children. The alternative title, The Parish Boy's Progress, alludes to Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, as well as the 18th-century caricature series by painter William Hogarth, A Rake's Progress and A Harlot's Progress. Oliver Twist unromantically portrays the sordid lives of criminals, and exposes the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century. The story follows the titular orphan, who, after being raised in a workhouse, escapes to London, where he meets a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal Fagin, discovers the secrets of his parentage, and reconnects with his remaining family. It was originally published as a serial from 1837 to 1839, and as a three-volume book in 1838. Oliver Twist or, The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens. ![]() |