![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Margot's invitation to the ultimate beach party is within reach and she has no intention of letting her family's drama or Moises - the admittedly good looking but outspoken boy from the neighborhood - keep her from her goal. The Education Of Margot Sanchez is first & foremost a Own Voices book about a Puerto-Rican family living in the Bronx, New York. More books from this author: Lilliam Rivera. ![]() With each order of deli meat she slices, Margot can feel her carefully cultivated prep school reputation slipping through her fingers, and she's willing to do anything to get out of this punishment. The Education of Margot Sanchez By Lilliam Rivera LIST PRICE 9.99 PRICE MAY VARY BY RETAILER Get a FREE ebook by joining our mailing list today Plus, receive recommendations and exclusive offers on all of your favorite books and authors from Simon & Schuster. The Education of Margot Sanchez by Lilliam Rivera - Ebook Scribd Enjoy millions of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, and more, with a free trial Only 11.99/month after trial. And by grounded, she means working as an indentured servant in her family's struggling grocery store to pay off her debts. Papi, for allowing Junior to become a NeanderthalĪfter "borrowing" her father's credit card to finance a more stylish wardrobe, Margot Sanchez suddenly finds herself grounded.John Hughes's Pretty in Pink comes to the South Bronx in this bold and "emotional story about class, race, hard work, and finding one's place" ( Publishers Weekly) - from debut author Lilliam Rivera. ![]()
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7/6/2023 0 Comments The Sheriff by Gerry O'Carroll![]() ![]() ![]() OL13670596W Page_number_confidence 94.44 Pages 362 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.7 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210203145431 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 838 Scandate 20210131083658 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781845961831 Tts_version 4. Urn:lcp:sheriffdetective0000ocar:epub:340031a7-3645-41b1-aa51-d417d279c7f4 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier sheriffdetective0000ocar Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t1tf9wp1m Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781845961831ġ845961838 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9365 Ocr_module_version 0.0.11 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000241 Openlibrary_edition ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:03:45 Boxid IA40054324 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments The wanderers by chuck wendig![]() But only Swan knows that they must endure more than just a trek across an irradiated country of mutated animals, starvation, madmen, and wasteland warriors. ![]() In Manhattan, a homeless woman stumbles from the sewers, guided by the prophecies of a mysterious amulet, and pursued by something wicked on Idaho’s Blue Dome Mountain, an orphaned boy falls under the influence of depraved survivalists and discovers the value of a killer instinct and amid the devastating dust storms on the Great Plains of Nebraska, Swan forms a heart-and-soul bond with an unlikely new companion. In a blinding flash, nuclear bombs annihilate civilization, leaving only a few buried survivors to crawl onto a scorched landscape that was once America. ![]() "Swan is a nine-year-old Idaho girl following her struggling mother from one trailer park to the next when she receives visions of doom-something far wider than the narrow scope of her own beleaguered life. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Nightflyer book![]() ![]() ![]() This is a horror story in space (did you guess?). The powerful telepath d’Branin has employed is convinced that the crew are in danger from the get-go and only becomes more distressed as the journey continues … For this purpose d’Branin has chartered a Nightflyer and her captain Royd Eris, an eccentric individual who will only interact with the group via his hologrammatic self. Ugh, life gets in the way sometimes, you know?Ī group of scientists have been drawn together by Karoly d’Branin, a man obsessed with the as yet unseen alien volcryn, who is determined to intercept this mythical race out in deep space and study them. And, yeah, it’s a short, quick scifi read and my month is going to hell in a handcart so I’ve had to restack a couple of bigger tomes I intended to read. ![]() I wouldn’t have picked it up but for the fact that this new edition is illustrated by David Palumbo (the man responsible for those gorgeous painterly Binti novella covers *all the hearts*) and I really love his stuff. Originally published back in 1980, Nightflyers is a novella-length story that was recently repackaged and turned up on the shelves at work. Banner by imyril of There’s Always Room for One More image by Sebastien Decoret from ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "With lots of practice with my own kids, I know how challenging it can be to find snacks that I feel good about but also that my kids will actually eat," she told Guinness. One celebrity mother, Vanessa Lachey, broke the record for the most bagged lunches assembled in three minutes in 2019. ![]() Mothers have become Guinness recordholders for centuries including for climbing Mount Everest, for running races with their children, and for the numbers of children they have given birth to. Some say being a mother isn’t an easy feat, but neither is breaking a world record.įrom running the fastest marathon to rowing across the ocean, some extraordinary moms have earned Guinness World Record titles to add to their lists of accomplishments – and some had their daughters along with them. Watch Video: Mother's Day is Sunday - these mom moments are our faves ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Hush hush second book![]() After reading the latter, which had some well-thought out criticisms, I braced myself not to like the book as much as I hoped but I was not prepared for what I eventually got. There has been great hype and positive reviews over Hush, Hush until last week when a couple of negative reviews started to surface. And he seems to have taken a shine to Nora…Love certainly is dangerous…and someone is going to have to make the ultimate sacrifice for itĪ warning: this review contains spoilers. ![]() Nora suspects Patch, but there are other suspects too – not least a new boy who has transferred from a different college after being wrongly accused of murdering his girlfriend. ![]() Meanwhile creepy things are going on with a mysterious stalker following her car, breaking into her house and attacking her best friend, Vi. Together they find themselves at the centre of a centuries-old feud between a fallen angel and a Nephilim…Forced to sit next to Patch in science class, Nora attempts to resist his flirting, though gradually falls for him against her better judgment. How did I get the book: I received an ARC from the publishers in the UK.Ī sacred oath, a fallen angel, a forbidden love…This darkly romantic story features our heroine, Nora Grey, a seemingly normal teenage girl with her own shadowy connection to the Nephilim, and super-alluring bad boy, Patch, now her deskmate in biology class. Why did I read the book: I love the cover and the premise. ![]() Stand Alone or series: first in a planned duology ![]() Publishing Date: October 13 (US) / October 29 (UK) ![]() ![]() Mattel's line of imported Shogun Warriors toys became popular in the United States during the late 1970s, the same time period that Red Ronin first appeared in Marvel Comics. Super robots first came into the notice of American pop culture in the form of the Gigantor (Tetsujin 28) anime series that was imported into the United States from Japan during the 1960s. Publication History: Red Ronin's design was influenced by those of the super robots that were the staple of anime during the 1970s. Originally created by writer Doug Moench and artist Herb Trimpe as a foil for Godzilla, the robot went on to be a menace to other Marvel characters such as the Avengers and Wolverine. Red Ronin: is a gigantic humanoid robotic construct (a mecha) in the Marvel Comics universe. ![]() Includes: The Avengers #197-199 and The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #10 ![]() ![]() ![]() And the sex is hot without being too explicit-not an easy trick to pull off.”-Liberty Press ![]() The book is light, frothy, and fun to read. The characters have chemistry you want them to get together in the end. The book is well put together and more complex than most authors’ second or third books. “This is Brayden’s first novel, but we wouldn’t notice if she hadn’t told us. It’s always a pleasure to read a book set in a world like the theater/film that gets it right…a thoroughly enjoyable read.”-Lez Books “This was an engaging book with believable characters and story development. Other Melissa Brayden Titles Available via Amazon Isn’t it a bad idea to fall for one of your best friends? Samantha and Hunter are about to find out. But it’s not long before Samantha sparks a fire in Hunter that has her questioning her old habits and longing for new ones. Until recently, her biggest worry in the world was which of the girls in her cell phone to call on a Saturday night. Hunter Blair’s been the coolest one in the room since elementary school. ![]() When one of those best friends, laid back Hunter Blair, moves in to share her loft apartment, Sam’s carefully organized world is thrown wildly askew. ![]() As the bookkeeper at the boutique advertising agency she owns with her three best friends, it’s her job to apply logic to the chaos. Sometimes the one you want is the one you least suspect.Accountant Samantha Ennis craves order and structure. ![]() ![]() Now, in the wake of his father's death in May 2021 at the age of 98, Sedaris is less intent on garnering laughs than in gauging his feelings. In Calypso (2018), he memorably likened the two of them to "a pair of bad trapeze artists, reaching for each other's hands and missing every time." ![]() Sedaris has long been frank about his lifelong disconnect with his father, but he has reflected more openly - and movingly - about it since his father reached his nineties. He may have milked the material for laughs, but these stories were not like the inherently playful, fond ribbing he has given his sisters Amy, Lisa, and Gretchen, or his longtime partner, Hugh. Unlike his tender essays about his mother, who died in 1991, Sedaris' bitter-edged portraits of Lou Sedaris, an ultra-conservative crank who undercut him at every turn, are not flattering. The money was a comfort, but better yet was the roar of live audiences as they laughed at how petty and arrogant he was." ![]() ![]() Then I started to write about it, to actually profit from it. "As long as my father had power, he used it to hurt me," he writes in in his latest collection, Happy-Go-Lucky. For many, the gloves come off, relieved to finally have the last word.ĭavid Sedaris' situation is different, because he's been writing about his father for years. It's always interesting to see how a writer's work changes after their parents are gone. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Finding angela shelton![]() ![]() “Trauma touches all of our lives and has the potential to forever change us. ![]() This year she was a speaker for the Women's International Leadership Conference in Bremen, Germany. During her nine-year stint there, the organization saw a dramatic evolution, including nearly 4x annual revenue growth from $1.4 million to $5 million that helped Stand Up Placer become multi-location with 48 shelter beds, 52 full-time staff and 40 volunteers, and with services for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking.ĭavidson has an MBA from Drexel University and was named to the BBC's 100 Women in 2018 and she's frequently a reliable source for the media on domestic violence, such as this recent PBS piece. ![]() They bring unique skill sets, loads of enthusiasm and are making immediate contributions, which is exactly what we seek,” said Theresa’s Fund Board of Directors Vice President/Secretary Chris McMurry.ĭavidson is the former CEO/Executive Director of Stand Up Placer, located near Sacramento. “Expanding our legacy board has been on our minds for a number of years, and we’re delighted to have started the process with game-changers like Jenny and Angela. ![]() Twenty-five-year veteran of the domestic violence field and former CEO/Executive Director of a domestic violence program and shelter, Jenny Davidson, and award-winning entertainer Angela Shelton have been named to the Theresa’s Fund Board of Directors each for two-year terms. ![]() |