In this second volume, as Edward IV lay on his deathbed, he had no knowledge of the dark conspiracy which was to surround his son, and his brother Richard after his death. He decreed that Richard should act as protector to the young Edward, but his wish was honoured for just a short time - until Edward was named a bastard and the crown placed on Richard's unwilling head. This is the story of the two tumultuous years of his reign - told by the Man of Keen Sight who befriended and then betrayed him, and by the Nun, who had known him in happier times. Here is the story of the last Plantagenet, who died a king on Bosworth Field... Views: 16
"Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to
another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a piece of my
floor. But if I let him inside the line between us would blur, my own
slow-motion car wreck would speed up." Nick Flynn met his father for
the third time when he was twenty-seven years old, working as a
caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. As a teenager he'd received
letters from this stranger, a self-proclaimed poet and con man doing
time in federal prison for bank robbery. Nick, his own life precariously
unsettled, was living alternately in a ramshackle boat and in a
warehouse that was once a strip joint. In bold, dazzling prose, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
(a phrase Flynn senior uses to describe his life on the streets) tells
the story of two lives and the trajectory that led Nick and his father
into that homeless shelter, onto those streets, and finally to each
other. Views: 16
If you like sharks, evil Nazi scum, sexy babes in bikinis, big boobs, stupid shark movies, sexy babes not in bikinis, Kevin Costner, synchronized swimming, and/or SyFy movies, Nazi Sharks! belongs in your e-reader or brain. Views: 16
A boy with one arm who dreams of becoming a great knight.His mother, dying from a mysterious illness, is the only one who believes in him.An evil king hungry for power at any cost.Two servants of the king, in love but torn apart.Evil invisible monsters that kill for fun.A magic flower that will change all of their lives.There's good versus evil.There's magic.There's love, there's adventure and there's lots, lots more.This book has everything!Except giraffes. It doesn't have any giraffes.Sorry.I hope you like it anyway. Views: 16
Blake finds himself drawn to his best friend's Rubenesque sister. Views: 16
From School Library JournalGrade 6 Up-Matty, who has lived in Village with the blind Seer since running away from an abusive childhood, is looking forward to receiving his true name, which he hopes will be Messenger. But he is deeply unsettled by what is going on. He has discovered his own power to heal others and learned of disturbing changes within his community. Under the gentle guidance of Leader, who arrived in Village on a red sled as a young boy and who has the power of Seeing Beyond, the citizens have always welcomed newcomers, especially those who are disabled. But a sinister force is at work, which has prompted them to close admission to outsiders. Also, it seems that Matty's beloved Mentor has been trading away parts of his inner self in order to become more attractive to Stocktender's widow. When the date for the close of the border is decided, Matty must make one more trip through the increasingly sinister Forest to bring back Seer's daughter, the gifted weaver Kira. On the return journey, Matty must decide if he should use his healing but self-destructive power to reverse the inexorable decline of Forest, Village, and its people. While readers may be left mystified as to what is behind the dramatic change in Village, Lowry's skillful writing imbues the story with a strong sense of foreboding, and her descriptions of the encroaching Forest are particularly vivid and terrifying. The gifted young people, introduced in The Giver(1993) and Gathering Blue (2000, both Houghton), are brought together in a gripping final scene, and the shocking conclusion without benefit of denouement is bound to spark much discussion and debate.-Marie Orlando, Suffolk Cooperative Library System, Bellport, NY Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From BooklistStarred Review Gr. 6-10. Like Lowry's hugely popular Newbery winner, The Giver (1993), this story dramatizes ideas of utopia gone wrong and focuses on a young person who must save his world. Teenage Matty lives with his caregiver in the Village, a place of refuge, where those fleeing poverty and persecution are welcomed with kindness and find a home. But the Village people are changing, and many have voted to build a wall to keep the newcomers out. The metaphor of the wall and the rage against immigrants ("They can't even speak right") will certainly reach out to today's news images for many readers. But Lowry moves far beyond message, writing with a beautiful simplicity rooted in political fable, in warm domestic detail, and in a wild natural world, just on the edge of realism. Matty lives with his blind caregiver, Seer. Both of them were driven from home and nearly perished. The drama is in their affection; in the small details of how they cook, care for their puppy, and tease one another. Matty teases Seer about his blindness, even though they both know Seer sees more than most. In contrast is the terror of Matty's secret powers and the perilous journey he must undertake to save the Village. The physical immediacy of his quest through a dark forest turned hostile brings the myth very close and builds suspense to the last heart-wrenching page. Hazel RochmanCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Views: 16
From master storyteller and Printz Award–winning author An Na comes a dark, intensely moving story of a girl desperately determined to find a cure for the illness that swept her mother away, and could possibly destroy her own life as well.Sixteen-year-old Grace is in a race against time—and in a race for her life—even if she doesn't realize it yet... She is smart, responsible, and contending with more than what most teens ever should. Her mother struggled with schizophrenia for years until, one day, she simply disappeared—fleeing in fear that she was going to hurt those she cared about most. Ever since, Grace's father has worked as a recruiter at one of the leading labs dedicated to studying the disease, trying to lure the world's top scientists to the faculty to find a cure, hoping against hope it can happen in time to help his wife if she is ever found. But this makes him distant. Consumed. Grace, in turn, does her part, interning at... Views: 16
Everyone knows kids don't take things seriously. Jim was a typical kids. His mistake was not understanding some legends are based in fact. Now, as an adult, actions from his childhood are coming back to haunt him. Something is killing his friends and threatening his loved ones. If he can't figure out how to stop it he may lose everything. Including his life. Views: 16
EDITORIAL REVIEW: From one of the hottest voices in contemporary fiction, a novel about love and redemption. Lance is doing just fine for himself in New Orleans, except that he can't stop thinking about the one girl who broke his heart-and their engagement. When she found out about his bad-boy past-a past that included one of her best friends-she called the whole thing off. Now he's on a quest to win her back with a little help from his best friend Akhet, an ex-thug turned local rap star. But when Akhet suddenly has to face some unfinished business from his former life, Lance learns a dangerous lesson: Before you can start on the future, you have to put the past to rest. Views: 16
To anyone else, being unemployed in your mid-20s, living in your ex co-worker's house and dating a schoolgirl who's flunking all her classes might not seem ideal. But to Min Lee, it's the perfect fresh start. A chance to do-over her life and reinvent herself as the man she was always supposed to be... if she's actually supposed to be a man, that is. Min still has lots of unanswered questions about her gender, but none of them can stop her from looking forward to her bright future as a boyfriend, student and artist.There's just one thing that can: her conservative mother in South Korea doesn't know about any of it, and is sick of waiting for her 'daughter' to get married.With the looming threat of her mother finding out, Min would rather focus on living her brand new life and supporting her girlfriend and friends through their family dramas than deal with her own. But the clock is ticking on her big secret, and one thing is for sure: she can't keep her meddling mother in the dark... Views: 16
