![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Scarlett assigns Vivi the coveted role of social chair, Vivi is determined to live up to her Big's expectations. She has her Kappa Rho Nu sisters behind her and, with Scarlett's blessing, Vivi's happily dating her first college crush (who also just happens to be Scarlett's ex). As a new member of Kappa Rho Nu, Vivi Devereaux finally knows what it's like to belong. And with the pressures of alumni bureaucracy and past failures weighing on her, Scarlett finds herself at risk of losing the very thing that defined her: her magic. But the powers of the presidency have their own pitfalls. Unlike her mother or older sister before her, Scarlett has a vision for a more unified Kappa, one where no sister falls to the forces of wicked magic. Scarlett Winter, a legacy Raven, has finally gotten what she's always wanted: Scarlett is Kappa Rho Nu's newest president. After destroying an ancient talisman and barely saving their sorority in the process, they'll go to any lengths to keep their secret as Westerly's most powerful coven of witches. The ultra-exclusive Kappa Rho Nu - the Ravens - are determined to restore balance to the world. Loyalty, love, and friendships are tested as sorority sisters Scarlett and Vivi face the forces of hell itself in the thrilling conclusion to New York Times bestselling authors Kass Morgan and Danielle Paige's The Ravens duology. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The mountains surrounding the school-usually sparkling with glaciers and lakes, alive with Faeries, and sheltering a quaint town with really great bakeries-are now crowded with Shadow Mages, casting a noticeable pall, and clearly-to Esther-signifying something very dark and threatening. Then things go from unfortunate to outright dangerous. Pollock is rumored to be an ogre-and maybe she IS one. ![]() And it's bad luck that her new teacher makes Esther the butt of all kinds of jokes. Why didn't they tell her they wouldn't be coming back? Why were they silent all summer? But stuff like that happens. Still, she's content to go back to school, do her best, hang out with her friends, and let others take care of things.īut her best friends aren't AT school when she gets there. Her mother doesn't show the slightest bit of interest, no matter what Esther does. ![]() Esther is a middle child, in her own mind a pale reflection of siblings who are bright, shining stars. ![]() ![]() ![]() Earthworms, mosquitoes, and cockroaches honeybees, dandelions, and African grasses bacteria, fungi, and viruses rats of every description-all of them rushed like eager tourists into lands that had never seen their like before, changing lives and landscapes across the planet.Įight decades after Columbus, a Spaniard named Legazpi succeeded where Columbus had failed. More important, creatures the colonists knew nothing about hitched along for the ride. The Columbian Exchange, as researchers call it, is the reason there are tomatoes in Italy, oranges in Florida, chocolates in Switzerland, and chili peppers in Thailand. Driven by the economic goal of establishing trade with China, he accidentally set off an ecological convulsion as European vessels carried thousands of species to new homes across the oceans. ![]() ![]() When Christopher Columbus set foot in the Americas, he ended that separation at a stroke. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. From the author of 1491-the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas-a deeply engaging new history of the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Dark Tower is a series of eight installments penned by Stephen King. The Dark Tower Book 1, The Dark Tower I Books in Series: The Dark Tower I (Book 1), The Dark Tower II (Book 2), The Dark Tower III (Book 3), The Dark Tower IV (Book 4), The Wind Through the Keyhole (Book 4.5), Wolves of the Calla (Book 5), Song of Susannah (Book 6), The Dark Tower (Book 7) And whichever genre you prefer, there is no shortage of great listening for you to dive into. Thankfully, many audiobook series have figured out this magic formula-in many cases coming up with something totally new. ![]() How do you capture the thrill of a good mystery, the sprawling worlds of a fantasy realm, or the strife of a literary fiction saga, all on a recorded format? How do you find the perfect narrator and achieve the perfect balance of accents, music, and sound effects? How do you capture the power of the story itself? Translating the magic of a book series to audio can be a daunting-but thrilling-task. But the universal element of a truly great series is that it sticks with you long after the last word. For still others, it might be elongated character studies or an in-depth analysis of a particular time and place. For others, it might be ongoing romantic twists and tensions. ![]() What makes a good audiobook series? There are as many answers to this question as there are listeners. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. By AUTHOR Jane Austen Eric Carle Lewis Carroll Roald Dahl Charles Dickens Sydney Hanson C. ![]() Indestructubles Little Golden Books Magic School Bus Magic Tree House Pete the Cat Step Into Reading Book The Hunger Games
![]() ![]() ![]() is striking, and rather haunting.” -Tor.com “The complexity of the pairing of real and the unreal. ★ “The unpredictability of curses, magic, and love are inexorably entwined in this gracefully written story.” - Publishers Weekly, Starred Now, Aidan must find his way between the past and the present to protect those he loves, and to keep the invisible world at bay. Visions from this invisible world come to him unbidden: a great-grandfather on the field of battle his own father, stumbling upon an unspeakable tragedy and a mysterious young boy, whose whispered words may be at the heart of the curse that holds Aidan’s family in its grip. But when Jarrod, his former best friend, suddenly moves back home, Aidan begins to see clearly for the first time-not only to feelings that go beyond mere friendship, but to a world that is haunted by the stories of his past. The captivating Stonewall Honor-winning novel of love, family, and ghosts of the pastĪidan Lockwood lives in a sleepy farming town, day after unremarkable day. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book contains dark themes and possible triggers, so please read at your own discretion. Empire of Ruin is a full length mafia/gang new adult romance featuring a slightly psycho heroine and four even more psychotic men. ![]() ![]() I fell for the Kings of Chaos, and now I have something to fight for besides just vengeance. Because people like me don’t fall in love either. But I won’t do it by your rules, and I’ll do whatever it takes to win. The man who was responsible for the worst torment of my life has decided he wants me as a member of his secret society, a permanent player in his game of manipulation and power. ![]() Alec Beckham forced me to do the unthinkable, shredding my heart with the squeeze of a trigger. But I should’ve remembered the brutal truth that’s been beaten into me over and over again… People like me don’t get happily ever afters. When Julian Maduro and his wretched sister breathed their last, I thought that would be the end of it. You've been warned! *** I was a good girl once, but now I’ve got bloody hands and a broken heart. Note: The blurb below contains spoilers, so I'd highly recommend not reading it until you're caught up on the series, starting with book one, Kings of Chaos. A book that I have quite enjoyed reading, feisty MC and some racy scenes with thier romantic interest. Empire of Ruin is the heart-pounding final installment in the Dirty Broken Savages series. Eva Ashwood has been a reader her whole life and a writer for several years. ![]() ![]() ![]() One family that split: the Pankhursts, who had been some of the most militant supporters of the British suffragist movement before the war began. The book frames the Great War not as a struggle between nations but as a struggle between individual people - sometimes even family members - who supported and opposed the war. Hochschild traces the patriotic fervor that catapulted Great Britain into war during the summer of 1914 - as well as the small, but determined British pacifist movement - in his historical narrative To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918. It's pretty hard to imagine the second world war without the first." ![]() "But there was also a human cost in a larger sense, in that I think the war remade the world for the worse in every conceivable way: It ignited the Russian Revolution, it laid the ground for Nazism and it made World War II almost certain. "Many of them were missing arms, legs, hands, genitals or driven mad by shell shock," says historian Adam Hochschild. More than 9 million soldiers and an estimated 12 million civilians died in the four-year-long conflict, which also left 21 million military men wounded. ![]() The human cost of World War I was enormous. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title To End All Wars Subtitle A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 Author Adam Hochschild ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He pins reminder notes about his life on his suit and he greets his housekeeper anew each day unaware of the relationship that has built up slowly between them and her son Root – nicknamed because this shape of his head resembles the sign for a square root. He can only form new memories for 80 minutes before his memory is lost again and he finds solace and the ability to cope through his love of baseball and mathematics. The book features a brilliant mathematics professor who has lost his long-term memory following a car accident in 1975. I tend to read in fits and starts nowadays, but this book had a flow and a smoothness to it, that took me away from daily life for just a few hours and was completely immersive. The Housekeeper and The Professor by Yoko Ogawa is a beautiful, deceptively simple book that made me remember why I love reading. ![]() ![]() ![]() REMINDER: Please flair your posts AFTER submission and mark spoilers accordingly. ![]()
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