![]() With college just around the corner, Liza agrees to help out at the bakery's annual junior competition to prove to her mom that she's more than her rebellious tendencies once and for all. Yang is the owner of Houston's popular Yin & Yang Bakery. Yang's traditional values, especially when it comes to dating.The one thing mother and daughter do agree on is their love of baking. Compared to her older sister Jeannie, Liza is stubborn, rebellious, and worst of all, determined to push back against all of Mrs. Smart, kind, and pretty, she dreams big and never shies away from a challenge. Summary For fans of Jenny Han, Jane Austen, and The Great British Baking Show, A Taste for Love, is a delicious rom com about first love, familial expectations, and making the perfect bao.To her friends, high school senior Liza Yang is nearly perfect. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The one thing she was bred to defeat.ĭeleriel. In doing so, she uncovers a far greater evil than she’s ever come up against. When one little girl goes missing in Mattie’s neighborhood, it’s up to her and Officer Dan Richards to find the truth. Fear is spiraling out of control in the Queen City as parents glance nervously around each corner, seeing the boogeyman in every shadow. When their bodies are recovered, they are always the same-broken, beaten, and bruised. She’s heeded his warning, but hiding it may no longer be an option.Ĭhildren are disappearing all over the Charlotte area. The demon Silas has warned her to never reveal this ability, not even to her father who shares her power to communicate with the dead. ![]() One gift that will allow him to walk amongst all the precious little children.Īnd it’s the one gift Mattie Hathaway possesses…the ability to bring images to life with just a drop of her blood. There is but one gift he needs in order to gain the power he seeks. With each soul he takes, he grows stronger. Once every one hundred and fifty years he emerges from the darkest depths to feed. He’ll make sure that you wish you were dead! ![]() ![]() ![]() Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human - and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do. ![]() A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. ![]() ![]() ![]() Agent: Kate McKean, Howard Morhaim Literary. ![]() This entertaining, deeply disturbing, and clever story hits all the right notes for those who like a little horror with their SF. Scenes of violence are gory but not gratuitous, and Roux will leave readers wondering whether the real source of evil is in human minds and hearts. Rosalyn Devar is on the run from her famous family, the bioengineering job shes come to hate, and her messed-up life. Stranded aboard the Brigantine, Rosalyn and Edison try to outwit the other crew members and Mother, while looking for a way to stop Foxfire from spreading and wondering whether her father’s business is behind Foxfire and other horrors. In this dark science fiction thriller, a young woman must confront her past so the human race will have a future. They are infected with a mysterious fungus, Foxfire, that has taken root in their minds, convincing them that it is their mother and that Rosalyn needs to join them. Aboard the Brigantine, she meets Edison Aries, the captain, and his undead crew. When caught drinking on the job, she’s given one more chance: clean up the Brigantine, a research ship whose crew is dead. ![]() In a spacefaring future, Rosalyn Devar is a xenobiologist who takes a job as a salvager-janitor of dead space crews-to get away from her father, his business, and the man who hurt her. titles for adults including salvaged and reclaimed she has made contributions to star wars world of warcraft and dungeons asylum by madeleine roux audiobook. This taut thriller/mystery from Roux, best known for YA horror ( House of Furies, etc.), pits a girl on the run from her past against a parasitic monster named Mother. ![]() ![]() The above plot elements are from the first two episodes of Lovecraft’s story, while also being updated (by Norris) to the 1980s and expanded to include Halsey’s pretty daughter, Dan Cain’s girlfriend, Megan (Crampton). The dean himself dies and is reanimated, making him a wild, cannibalistic, zombie-like monster and forcing him to be committed in an asylum. ![]() ![]() Alan Halsey (Sampson), dean of the fictional Miskatonic University medical school, refuses to let West and the narrator (Dan Cain in the film–played by Abbott) do the reanimating experiments on corpses on the campus. Norris, and Gordon the film is loosely based on parts of the HP Lovecraft 1922 horror serial novelette, “ Herbert West–Reanimator.” The film stars Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, and Barbara Crampton it costars David Gale and Robert Sampson.Īpart from the basic premise of Lovecraft’s story–namely, a serum that brings the dead back to life, created by the narcissistic young scientist Herbert West (Combs)–not much is taken from the tale and put directly into the film. ![]() Re-Animator is a 1985 horror-comedy film directed by Stuart Gordon and written by Dennis Paoli, William J. ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Cross discovers that one of The Gentleman Caller's notes published in the Los Angeles Times mentions Naomi. ![]() ![]() FBI agent Kyle Craig meets Lieberman in LA.Ĭasanova plans to kill Kate McTiernan because she has broken his rules, but she fights him and manages to escape, running into a forest and jumping off a cliff into a river. He threatens "bonus kills" if his letters are not published in her newspaper. In Los Angeles, reporter Beth Lieberman is working on a serial killer story about The Gentleman Caller, who has just raped and murdered a 14-year-old girl. Kate McTiernan, and makes her part of his harem of young, attractive, and exceptional women. Around the same time, Casanova abducts another woman, Dr. Around the same time, Police Detective Alex Cross returns to his FBI and DEA are involved and that eight to ten women are missing, all from different states all have received notes from someone calling himself Casanova. ![]() Years later, Casanova leaves a young woman to die in the woods. Elsewhere in 1981 Chapel Hill, North Carolina, another killer calling himself The Gentleman Caller kills a young couple on a lake. ![]() As a teenage boy in 1975 Boca Raton, Florida, a future serial killer calling himself Casanova kills his first four victims. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not only that, but while Todd eagerly helped himself to the amateur chef’s concoctions, he ended up eating corn smut, aka mold, and ended up sick to his stomach. The suspect had a molecular gastronomy lab in the basement, and the nitrogen displaced the oxygen, causing Todd to faint. ![]() Ignoring Lyle’s warnings not to break and enter, Todd walked into a storm cellar and passed out when he reached the bottom. On a sleuthing mission at a suspect's house, Lyle and Todd broke into their usual antics, bickering over Todd’s less than legal investigative tactics. Beverly sat in as Margaret and the team investigated online restaurant reviews and while Margaret buckled under the pressure, Lyle demonstrated his incredible online detective skills, wowing Beverly and annoying Todd. Meanwhile, Senior partner Beverly Crest was still interviewing candidates for the named partner opening, and Margaret was on pins and needles, doing whatever she could to impress her. ![]() ![]() ![]() Smith’, Ranft describes Afrofuturism as a framework through which to interpret the marriage between sci-fi, technology, and human identity. In the article ‘ The Afrofuturist Poetry of Tracie Morris and Tracy K. In Solstice, Smith uses symbolism and makes many allusions which give the poem a more in-depth meaning. In Sci-Fi, Smith uses symbolism, similes, and overstatements to express the impression of a world that is quite dominated by technology so that humanity no longer sustains itself without technical devices. Specifically, this essay analyzes two poems Sci-Fi and Solstice. Smith herself acknowledges that the use of space in the book was an intentional use of metaphor to represents some of the world’s problems (Smith ‘Life on Mars’: Q&A ). Each of these elements is evident in each stanza and the author’s ability to capture and keep the reader’s attention is undeniable. ![]() ![]() In, Life on Mars, Smith uses different literary elements to appeal to the reader. ![]() ![]() The letters that span these nearly forty years form the most significant correspondence-and reveal one of the most intriguing and inspiring partnerships-in American history.Īs a pivotal player in the American Revolution and the early republic, John had a front-row seat at critical moments in the creation of the United States, from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to negotiating peace with Great Britain to serving as the first vice president and second president under the U.S. ![]() In 1801, Abigail wrote to wish her husband John a safe journey as he headed home to Quincy after serving as president of the nation he helped create. In 1762, John Adams penned a flirtatious note to "Miss Adorable," the 17-year-old Abigail Smith. ![]() "A wonderfully vivid account of the momentous era they lived through, underscoring the chaotic, often improvisatory circumstances that attended the birth of the fledgling nation and the hardships of daily life." ![]() ![]() Once the book is read and the scope of the book is understood by the reader, it's easy to understand where this perspective comes from. I am sure, however, that as I write this my own opinions will come through, so I'll be sure to make it clear if I fear I'm slipping too close to my opinion over fact (where it might not be obvious).Īrtlu correctly says in another writeup about this book that shortly summarizing this book is impossible. So, bear with me if I occasionally slip in some subjectiveness into what I hope will be largely an objective discussion of this book. Rand's personal beliefs and ideas are expressed throughout this book and are so tightly intermingled with the plot that it is difficult to separate them. Writing a summary of this book is very difficult it is a great example of a mixture of novel and philosophy. It is also available in an online audio format at. If you are looking for it, it has ISBN numbers 0451191153 (mass market paperback), 0452273331 (paperback), 0684869713 ( Scribner hardcover), 0453009115 ( abridged audio book), and 07861039108789 ( Blackstone audio book in two parts). ![]() ![]() It was originally published in 1943 today, it is published by Signet Books. ![]() The Fountainhead is a novel written by objectivist founder and advocate Ayn Rand. ![]() |