There’s also a teeny element of mystery with the map and as readers learn more about the developer threatening the camp and his family. The treasure map Ryanna finds adds a bit more structure to the plot and gives the kids a reason to adventure and work together. I also liked that the camp was unscheduled for the kids so they could spend the day as they liked for the most part instead of having a daily itinerary. This book had peak summer vibes and I loved reading the history of the camp and learning about Ryanna’s mother through the stories from the other family members. But when she discovers that the campgrounds will be torn down by a developer, Ryanna and her cousins have to band together to save the day. After a rocky start, she starts to learn more about her mom, even discovering a treasure map she created as a kid and reading the detective novels she used to enjoy. Ryanna goes to camp hoping for a low-key situation where she can spend time in peace and quiet with her grandparents but is surprised to find a slew of aunts, uncles, and cousins at Camp Van Camp. The Firefly Summer follows young Ryanna who gets sent to a family summer camp with her her mother’s extended family - who she hasn’t seen since her mom died when she was three.
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THE SHUNNING was published in 1997 by Bethany House Publishers, and along with its sequels, has touched a nerve in millions of readers intrigued by the Plain tradition of Lancaster County, PA. I wrote another long-running series for girls, titled "SummerHill Secrets," which was set very close to Neffsville, PA, where I grew up-near the heart of Amish country.īut it was the story of my grandmother Ada Buchwalter's shunning by her ultra-strict father and subsequently her old order Mennonite community that nudged me toward writing adult fiction. Soon after, my first chapter book was published for 7-10-year-old readers ("Big Bad Beans") which later became part of my 24-book series, The Cul-de-Sac Kids. My first book (Holly's First Love) was published in May 1993, the start of a 14-book series for pre-teen girls. By sixth grade, I'd hand-written a 66-page semi-autobiographical book titled, "She Shall Have Music."Īfter I was married and our three children were in middle school, I began submitting articles and short fiction to various magazines. When I was about 9 years old, I started writing my own stories. I've had my nose in a book, for as long as I remember. This groundbreaking sequel by science fiction legend Alan Dean Foster, with the wonderful characters and rapid-fire action that make Aliens one of the greatest science fiction films of all time. Marlow was placed under arrest by the Colonial Marshals for his role in the disaster while Anesidora remained parked in orbit around KG-348. And to destroy any Aliens found on the planet known as Acheron. The official novelization of the famous Alien movie starring Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley A crew of spaceship Nostromo is suddenly awoken from cryogenic. Foster was taken to Sevastopol's medical center, but the Chestburster duly emerged, killing Foster and beginning a Xenomorph infestation that rapidly overtook the station. But contact with the colonists has been lost, so she must accompany a unit of Colonial Marines to discover their fate. Returned to Earth, Ellen Ripley learns that a colony has been established on LV-426, the planet where the crew of the Nostromo found the original Alien. They wield impressive firepower, but will it be enough? Num Pages: 320 pages. But contact has been lost, and a rescue team is sent. Ellen Ripley has been rescued, only to learn that the planet from Alien - where the deadly creature was discovered - has been colonized. Description for Aliens: The Official Movie Novelization Mass Market Paperback. But it isn’t until she becomes the fiercest, most feared dragon slayer in the land that she takes on the role of the next Iskari-a lonely destiny that leaves her feeling more like a weapon than a girl.Īsha conquers each dragon and brings its head to the king, but no kill can free her from the shackles that await at home: her betrothal to the cruel commandant, a man who holds the truth about her nature in his palm. These are the legends that Asha, daughter of the king of Firgaard, has grown up learning in hushed whispers, drawn to the forbidden figures of the past. But where there is light, there must be darkness-and so there was also the Iskari. In the beginning, there was the Namsara: the child of sky and spirit, who carried love and laughter wherever he went. So when an opportunity arises for Ethan to change his economic and social position, he is tempted, even if it exists in a moral grey zone. At one point, Ethan ponders the fact that his own son will be merely the son of a grocery clerk, rather than an equal amongst the upper class citizens of New Baytown. While he maintains his local standing due to his family name, Ethan can see that he no longer has the prestige that he was once used to. The Hawleys were once one of the wealthy and powerful families of the town but after losing the family money Ethan has to work at the grocery store, owned by an Italian named Marullo. The year is 1960, in the village of New Baytown, a former whaling ship port. (Steinbeck makes the interesting choice to begin both sections of the book with an omniscient narrator before then bringing us directly into Ethan’s mind. Not just because it’s set in New England, in a WASPish type of town, dealing with larger upper class folk, but because it deals with the more subtle issues surrounding money and morality.Įthan Allen Hawley is our protagonist and narrator, most of the time. It’s been a while since I read either Steinbeck’s previous and more famous works but The Winter of our Discontent strikes me as quite different than his other novels. Can you make an immoral choice and still be a moral, good person? This is the question explored in John Steinbeck’s final novel. He reveals the physical reality behind our uncanny telepathic experiences and intuitive hunches, and he debunks the skeptical myths surrounding them. Radin surveys the origins of this research and explores, among many topics, the collective premonitions of 9/11. In this illuminating book, Radin shows how we know that psychic phenomena such as telepathy, clairvoyance, and psychokinesis are real, based on scientific evidence from thousands of controlled lab tests. Could a similar entanglement of minds explain our apparent psychic abilities? Dean Radin, senior scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, believes it might. But the latest scientific research shows that these phenomena are both real and widespread, and are an unavoidable consequence of the interconnected, entangled physical reality we live in.Īlbert Einstein called entanglement "spooky action at a distance" - the way two objects remain connected through time and space, without communicating in any conventional way, long after their initial interaction has taken place. Many people believe that such "psychic phenomena" are rare talents or divine gifts. Can we sense what's happening to loved ones thousands of miles away? Why are we sometimes certain of a caller's identity the instant the phone rings? Do intuitive hunches contain information about future events? Is it possible to perceive without the use of the ordinary senses? After Meg and her husband, Lewis, adopt one of the girls, Meg's love for her new daughter grows daily, but the tension, fear, and uncertainty of motherhood drive Meg to the brink of despair. Her only friend was a slightly older blind girl, Wen Ming. Unwanted because of a deformity and the lack of family registry, Little Zhen An was destined to spend her childhood in the orphanage. Two young girls lived in an orphanage in China. In Meg's opinion, no one could be a worse mother than the woman who gave birth to her-that is, until Meg has a child of her own to care for. Try as she might, Meg never measured up, and the emotional bruises still hurt as an adult. Can an adopted Chinese child bring her what she lacks? All her life, Meg Lindsay's mother told her what a disappointment she was. Meg Lindsay has everything a woman could want except happiness. Unwanted because of a deformity and the lack of. Gabriel and Pandora’s story is everything I hoped it would be. I was so looking forward to reading Devil in Spring -I loved Devil in Winter and to think about a story which centered on Evie and Sebastian’s son… well I was just bursting with excitement, eager to get my hands on this novel. Drawn in by her singular way of weaving together humor, sexiness, intrigue and romance. Every time I pick up one of her books, I’m instantly addicted, obsessed, consumed by the story. As Gabriel protects her from their unknown adversaries, they realize their devil’s bargain may just turn out to be a match made in heaven. But soon she discovers that her entrepreneurial endeavors have accidentally involved her in a dangerous conspiracy-and only her husband can keep her safe. He’ll do whatever it takes to possess her, even if their marriage of convenience turns out to be the devil’s own bargain.Īfter succumbing to Gabriel’s skilled and sensuous persuasion, Pandora agrees to become his bride. But Gabriel finds the high-spirited Pandora irresistible. In fact, she wants nothing to do with him. Vincent, has finally been caught by a rebellious girl who couldn’t be less suitable. But one night at a glittering society ball, she’s ensnared in a scandal with a wickedly handsome stranger.Īfter years of evading marital traps with ease, Gabriel, Lord St. The ambitious young beauty would much rather stay at home and plot out her new board game business than take part in the London Season. Lady Pandora Ravenel has different plans. Most debutantes dream of finding a husband. Set in the twenty-sixth century AD, We is the classic dystopian novel and was the forerunner of works such as George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the all-powerful 'Benefactor', the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState live out lives devoid of passion and creativity - until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual soul. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Russian with an introduction by Clarence Brown. A seminal work of dystopian fiction that foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia, Yevgeny Zamyatin's We is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. He is also the illustrator of House Held Up by Trees, written by Ted Kooser, which was named a New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Children’s Book, and Extra Yarn, written by Mac Barnett, which won a Caldecott Honor. Jon Klassen is the author-illustrator of I Want My Hat Back, a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor book, and This Is Not My Hat, winner of the Caldecott Medal. Mac Barnett is the author of several award-winning books for children, including President Taft Is Stuck in the Bath, illustrated by Chris Van Dusen, and Extra Yarn, illustrated by Jon Klassen, which won a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award and a Caldecott Honor. With perfect pacing, the multi-award-winning, New York Times best-selling team of Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen dig down for a deadpan tale full of visual humor.Īction & Adventure Humorous Stories Imagination & Play |