![]() Percy's old life, the gods, and the entire world might be destroyed. ![]() He and fellow demigods Frank and Hazel must face the most important quest of all- the Prophecy of Seven.If they fail, it's not just their camp at risk. Only one thing is certain – Percy's questing days aren't over. ![]() There's just one name he remembers from his past. Because Percy finds himself at a camp for half-bloods, which doesn't ring any bells for him. Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon, God of the Sea, has woken from a very deep sleep and come face to face with two snake-haired ladies who refuse to die.īut they're the least of his problems. This crazy messed up world of gods and monsters is Percy Jackson's reality, which pretty much sucks for him. The SECOND title in this number one, bestselling spin-off series from Percy Jackson creator, Rick Riordan. The SECOND title in this number one, bestselling spin-off series from Percy Jackson creator, Rick Riordan – now in paperback. ![]()
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![]() ![]() A janitor, a teacher and a teenager seem to be just the start of this ruthless killers' victim list- and the police don't have a clue as to what is happening. In the small town of Livingston, where everybody knows everybody (or think they do), a serial killer is on the loose. Trained in physical combat, like in the army, as well as how to use their Variant, soon each of them leave the nest to venture out into the big bad world, to try and make it a safer place for everyone else to live in. ![]() This secret centre is a place where she doesn't have to hide who she really is, or more specifically, what she can do, because everybody there is just like her - different! People there can become invisible, have super human strength and even read other people's minds. Meet Tessa, a not-yet-active agent of a secret branch of the FBI, the FEA (Forces with Extraordinary Abilities) with the unique power (or Variant, as it they call it) to turn into just about. ![]() As much as she wishes her mother would just accept her for who she is and love her regardless, Tessa finds herself taking a liking to her new world and all the training that comes along with it. ![]() ![]() Stella sees their union as the perfect opportunity to get to the boys' club executives at her company who keep overlooking her for a long-deserved promotion. Luckily for her, Stella Soriano, the stunning type A copilot, offers to give her a ride.Īfter the two spend a magical day together, Stella makes a surprising Will Olive be her fake girlfriend?Ī video of Olive saving a life has gone viral and started generating big sales for Stella's airline. ![]() Olive leaps into action and saves a life, but ends up getting stuck in the airport hours away from the marathon she's running in honor of her brother. A sparkling and steamy opposites-attract romance, Fly with Me by Andie Burke is filled with sharp banter and that sweet, swooping feeling of finding “the one” when and where you least expect it.Ī one-way ticket to love or a bumpy ride ahead?įlying-phobic ER nurse Olive Murphy is still gripping the armrest from her first-ever take-off when the pilot announces an in-flight medical emergency. ![]() ![]() It is sure to satisfy Foster's fan base-and kudos to her for making a full-figured character the star of the show. Billed as "a novel of erotic romance," this is harmless entertainment for readers who favor brisk romps between the sheets with a little story thrown in. Of course, the reader knows all along that the two will fall in love it's merely a question of when they'll realize it themselves and what complications they'll stumble over on the path to knowledge. Insecure and inexperienced, but with a huge, unrequited crush on Noah, Grace agrees to Noah's terms: she'll become his sex slave and he'll teach her how to enjoy her body. ![]() Enter Agatha's unassuming secretary, Grace Jenkins. ![]() Grace Jenkins is a lady who alot of us can relate to she's not perfect She's shy, she feels like she's overweight, she's not completely satisfied in her job, and she has the hots for her boss's grandson (who just happens to be. Besides, he was marrying Kara only to please his difficult grandmother, Agatha, whose popular Gillespe, Ky., restaurant he manages. Lori Foster just continues to get better and better, and in Too Much Temptation she delivers another 100 read. ![]() After Noah Harper finds the fiancée he does not love in bed with another man, he breaks off the engagement, deciding uncomplicated sex is all he needs. ![]() The fact that its contrived plot sounds more like a fabricated story for a sex column in a glossy mag than anything that might happen in the real world-pleasingly plump, virginal 25-year-old secretary wins undying lust from her boss's bad-boy grandson-does not necessarily diminish the fun to be had in the latest contemporary romance from Foster ( Sex Appeal). ![]() ![]() I suppose I could do it, but what do you say? If you’ve seen Law & Order, what else is there to do? It's not a crime novel.ĪW: How would you describe it without trying to pin it down to one thing? If I sat down to write a crime novel, I wouldn't be able to do it. ![]() I don't think I'm good enough to write a crime novel. I mean, it's certainly set off with a crime, but no, I don't think of it as a crime novel. But in fact, I think it's dangerous if you just classify your work as this or that. I've seen it described as a crime novel, but it's also filled with vibrant characters in your hilarious prose. It then follows how the shooting affects the witnesses, the victim, ancillary characters who are not actually ancillary, and even Sportcoat himself. ![]() Delighted to be here.ĪW: Deacon King Kong starts off with a very public shooting of a drug dealer by a seemingly harmless old drunk known as Sportcoat in a housing project in Brooklyn in 1969. But we're here today to talk about his new novel, Deacon King Kong. ![]() Note: Text has been edited and may not match audio exactly.Ībby West: Hi, I'm your Audible editor, Abby West, and I'm delighted to be here today with James McBride, former reporter and author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, his modern-day classic memoir The Color of Water, and many other works. ![]() ![]() ![]() Val’s relationship with Ashton is complicated. ![]() Most people can’t imagine him wanting for anything, but Ashton yearns for friendship, respect, and the love of his best friend-amateur boxer Valdrin Leka. The black sheep of his wealthy family, he’s known for his club appearances, Instagram account, and sex tape. Feelings that could kill them both.Īshton Townsend is the most famous celebutante of Manhattan’s glitterati. What the boys don’t expect are feelings that are outside of their training. They have to be – whoever the girl doesn’t choose will die. They are well-trained and at the top of their games. Will she choose a Nice or the Bad?īoth Caden and Dylan are living in the outside world for the first time. ![]() The girl they are competing for is important to the organization, and each boy will pursue her. ![]() Dylan is a Bad: The brooding, dark-souled guy, and dangerously handsome. The agents are called Love Interests because getting close to people destined for great power means getting valuable secrets.Ĭaden is a Nice: The boy next door, sculpted to physical perfection. There is a secret organization that cultivates teenage spies. This one releases on May 16, and you’re gonna wanna nab it ASAP! Not only is the premise utterly delightful, but I love the way it spins the YA love triangle on its head, and it’s chock full of lighthearted meta digs at the prevalent, unrealistic image of the hardbodied, green-eyed teen boyfriends that’ve become a category convention. ![]() ![]() You were to have universal concord, and were to get it by eliminating all the people who wouldn’t, or conscientiously couldn’t, be concordant. You were to have no capital punishment, but were first to sweep off the face of the earth all legislators, jurists, and judges, who were of the contrary opinion. You were to abolish war, but were to make converts by making war upon them, and charging them with loving war as the apple of their eye. You were to abolish military force, but you were first to bring all commanding officers who had done their duty, to trial by court-martial for that offence, and shoot them. ![]() Though it was not literally true, as was facetiously charged against him by public unbelievers, that he called aloud to his fellow-creatures: ‘Curse your souls and bodies, come here and be blessed!’ still his philanthropy was of that gunpowderous sort that the difference between it and animosity was hard to determine. ![]() Honeythunder expanded into an inflammatory Wen in Minor Canon Corner. Always something in the nature of a Boil upon the face of society, Mr. Crisparkle had need of her own share of philanthropy when she beheld this very large and very loud excrescence on the little party. ![]() ![]() ![]() The value gap limited explicitly the scope and range of democratic life in this country. Hell, the ability to vote for the majority of black people wasn’t guaranteed until 1965. The ideas of freedom and equality, of liberty and citizenship did not apply to us, precisely because we were black. Black folk were never meant to be full-fledged participants in this society. But the fact is that we’ve built the country true. We keep treating America like we have a great blueprint and we’ve just strayed from it. Americans can celebrate the founding fathers even when we hear John Adams declare to King George, “We will not be your negroes” or learn that Thomas Jefferson wasn’t so consistent in his defense of freedom. That separation allows us to maintain a pristine idea of America despite all of the ugly things we have done. “We like to keep separate the evils of our national past from the sacredness of our ideals. ![]() ![]() In spite of the injury of her trance like state, Jenna is free and anxious to settle on her own choices from the beginning. Jenna is strangely strict and talks in an excessively formal manner. “How might you love somebody you don’t have the foggiest idea? ” (9), she inquires. She calls her grandma by her first name, Lily, showing a disengagement from others, and proclaims that she doesn’t cherish her mom. “I don’t have the foggiest idea how to coordinate different articulations” (3). “I’ve just barely figured out how to grin” (3), she reports. She is naturally careful about her folks and her grandma, and is at first cold towards them, as she isn’t yet ready to process feelings. Toward the start of The Love of Jenna Fox, she has quite recently risen up out of a year-long trance like state and remembers nothing of her past life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jenna Fox is a seventeen-year-old young lady initially from Boston who currently lives in southern California. ![]() ![]() She'll have to work with the rough and rusticated vineyard manager to keep the laborers content without pay and discover the key to finding her father's fortune-before someone else finds it first.Īward-winning author Joanna Davidson Politano welcomes readers to Trevelyan Castle, home of the poorest heiress in Victorian England, for a treasure hunt they'll not soon forget. It doesn't take long for a bevy of opportunists to flock to the estate under the guise of offering condolences. Tressa and her ailing mother are left with a mansion and an immense vineyard and no money to run it. He kept his vast fortune hidden somewhere on his estate in the south of England and died suddenly, without telling anyone where he had concealed it. Can Tressa and the no-nonsense estate manager find the fortune before the greedy relatives get to it first?Tressa Harlowe's father did not trust banks, but neither did he trust his greedy extended family. Award-winning author Joanna Davidson Politano welcomes readers to Trevelyan Castle, home of the poorest heiress in Victorian England, for a treasure hunt theyll not soon forget. Biblical Criticism & Interpretation (158)Ī lonely young heiress becomes the poorest wealthy woman in Victorian England when her father dies without telling anyone where he hid his fortune. ![]() ![]() Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (24).Human Resources & Personnel Management (43). ![]() |