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![]() Korey sends his bodyguards to pick her up and he promises to protect her. At one of their parties, she is sexually assaulted by a boy she believed to be one of her friends. The pair begin a text relationship despite Korey being over a decade older than Enchanted.Įnchanted is active in a Will and Willow Black teen group. Korey invites Enchanted and her family to his next concert where he passes her his cell phone number as well. Enchanted is excited to get to know Korey better and learn from him. ![]() One of the judges, superstar Korey Fields, singles her out and offers her private singing lessons. She sings beautifully but is not selected. She convinces her mother to let her go to an audition in New York. HarperCollins Publishers, 2020.Įnchanted, a Black teenage girl who dreams of becoming a famous singer, swims and spends time with her friends at school. ![]() The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Jackson, Tiffany D. ![]() ![]() “ Must Love Books is a heartfelt and exciting debut. Kelly Harms, Washington Post bestselling author of The Overdue Life of Amy Byler With emotional honesty and a surprising wit that I found addictive, Robinson's debut is everything a book-about-books fan wants in a novel." Within the pages of Must Love Books the lucky reader will find themselves on an poignant journey of a young booklover with too little support and too many dreams-a place we've all been at one point or another. "A compelling love story, dishy publishing goss, and a chic urban setting? Yes, yes, yes! But like the works she shepherds through publication, Shauna Robinson's true-to-life story of a struggling editorial assistant is much more than the sum of its parts. KJ Dell’Antonia, New York Times bestselling author of The Chicken Sisters “Honest, relatable, and real, Must Love Books is a tender reflection on finding your person while you’re still desperately searching for yourself rolled up in a thoughtful novel about the changing work world.” ![]() ![]() Sutanto, National Bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties I enjoyed all of the inside look at the publishing industry from the perspective of a young woman scraping together all of her wits just to get by. “A book for book lovers that takes a hard look at the predatory approach of the corporate world with a heroine who's easy to love and root for. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Definitely needs a hug.” - Perfect on Paper Okay, so all she has to do is help an entitled, bratty, (annoyingly hot) guy win over a girl who’s already fallen for him once? What could go wrong? If word gets out that she’s behind the locker, some things she's not proud of will come to light, and there’s a good chance Brooke will never speak to her again. The goal? To help him win his ex-girlfriend back.ĭarcy has a good reason to keep her identity secret. ![]() In exchange for keeping her secret, Darcy begrudgingly agrees to become his personal dating coach-at a generous hourly rate, at least. However, when Brougham catches her in the act of collecting letters from locker 89-out of which she’s been running her questionably legal, anonymous relationship advice service-that’s exactly what happens.
![]() Robert Birnbaum: As long as we are in the belly of the beast, let's talk about Billy Beane's courtship by the Red Sox. As he asks (and answers) in what follows, “How many truly original stories does baseball produce?” Moneyball is certainly that and more. It is greatly to Lewis' credit that he has put together a book about baseball that is appealing to long-time fans as well as those recently attracted by the game's charms. Moneyball is a well-researched, well-written look at the methodology and the people (mainly general manager Billy Beane) who help make a small-budget baseball team (the Oakland Athletics) extremely competitive in the big money world of Major League baseball. He is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, a contributor to Slate and a columnist for Bloomberg News, and he has also done work for "Nightline" and "This American Life." Michael Lewis lives in Berkeley, California with his family. That experience led to his first book, Liar's Poker. ![]() ![]() He attended Princeton University and The London School of Economics and has been an investment banker for Salomon Brothers. ![]() Michael Lewis is the author of Liar's Poker, The Money Culture, Pacific Rift, Losers, The New New Thing, Next and now Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. ![]() ![]() ![]() I ask Rundell to take us back 400 years to the days of Donne. As the last tourists and worshippers leave the building, mice come out and scuttle across the stone floor of the cavernous chamber. The sound of a choir singing evensong floats through the circular grates above us. We meet in the crypt at St Paul’s Cathedral, where the poet preached for the final decade of his life. My hope was that they would finish the book and immediately go and find his poetry.” I wanted to write something that would be gripping enough to take hold of people by the wrist, even those who perhaps wouldn’t think they could be interested in John Donne, and pull them through his life. ![]() She describes Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne as “both a biography and act of evangelism. Rundell wants to share her passion for Donne. Reciting it, she brings the fantastic imagery to life: One poem that captured her imagination was “ Go and Catch a Falling Star,” which sparked a lifelong passion for John Donne. They’d pin poems next to the bathroom sink and pay her a few cents for each one she learned by heart. She also loved reading, something her parents encouraged. School finished at midday, after which she’d head outside to climb trees and build rafts. Katherine Rundell’s childhood in Zimbabwe was the stuff of dreams. ![]() The following first appeared in Trust Magazine ![]() ![]() ![]() Although, there's a secret between them that could ruin everything. As new neighbours, Mason and Sienna discover they cherish similar things in life and are drawn to each other. ![]() A sneaky peek at the first chapter of Home Sweet. Little does he know that Max, having seen sparks fly between Mason and Sienna, has set up his own plan to bring Sienna to town. Mandy writes great storiessexy and uniquely Australian ADAM BRAND - AUSTRALIAN COUNTRY MUSIC ARTIST. Mason King has worked tirelessly to follow in the footsteps of his beloved cattleman neighbour, Max, by raising ethically farmed cattle - despite the stream of disapproval from his old-fashioned father. But when she connects with a new patient who has driven away nearly everyone in his life, she is astounded when he leaves her his sprawling Far-North Queensland property. For now, Sienna can only focus on her work at the hospital. One day she dreams of giving Zara the life and big family she deserves. What happens when fate gets a little helping hand? Sienna Lewis knows firsthand about being an Aussie battler, but she has her beautiful daughter, Zara, to keep fighting for. Set in the heart of the Australian countryside comes a gorgeous romance about the power of fate from bestselling author Mandy Magro. ![]() ![]() ![]() Quills garnered the 1995 Joseph Kesselring Prize for Best New American Play from the National Arts Club and, for Wright, a 1996 Village Voice Obie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting. The play recounts the imagined final days in the life of the Marquis de Sade. ![]() Wright's play Quills premiered at Washington, D.C.'s Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in 1995 and subsequently had its debut Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop. He earned his Master of Fine Arts from New York University. He earned his bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1985. ![]() He attended and graduated from Highland Park High School, a suburb of Dallas, Texas, where he excelled in the theater department and was President of the Thespian Club in 1981. His play Good Night, Oscar made its Broadway debut in 2023. He also wrote the books to the Broadway musicals Grey Gardens in 2006, The Little Mermaid in 2007, Hands on a Hard Body in 2012, and War Paint in 2017. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play in 2004 for his play I Am My Own Wife. Douglas Wright (born December 20, 1962) is an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter. ![]() ![]() Each installment of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ partnership shows consistent growth, making it hard not to say my favorite book by the pair is whatever their latest release is at the time. Losing your world might not be as scary as losing the people you shared it with.ĭestroy All Monsters is a thoughtful tale about how we cope with the inevitability of change. Not only has the world changed, not only have we changed, but those that help us through thick and thin have changed as well. How far along the checklist of life are you by this point? When the music stops, where will you sit? In Destroy All Monsters - the third book of the Reckless series by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips and Jacob Philips - we take a meditative dive into the various growing pains and anxieties of age. At the same time, leaving your 20s can be a terrifying proposition for the opposite reason: now is the time for you to solidify who you are. ![]() Going from 36 to 37, for example, doesn’t necessarily mean your material circumstances change but rather your ability to maneuver in those circumstances. ![]() ![]() Dynamic characters who form part of his stories include his sidekick rhino-tracking dog, Wilma, and a black rhino named Elmore who becomes an integral part of his life. Nick shares raw moments of heartbreak and hope from the frontline, while taking the reader on an honest and humorous trip of his years spent in Africa. Under constant threat of being poached for their horns, the rhinos become the pivot around which Nick and the Anti-Poaching Unit's lives revolve. Tasked to monitor and protect critically endangered black rhinos, Nick soon cultivates an understanding of the different individual personalities and their temperamental behaviour by studying the animals in their natural environment. ![]() Catapulted into the grim world of rhino poaching, Nick Newman trades life in London for a humble, yet adventurous existence in South Africa. ![]() |