The Plague is a disease that kills people and turns them into birds.
At least, that’s the rumor.
But when awkward eighteen-year-old village hunter Jay Hart journeys to the capitol and learns that the rumor is true, she’s quick to join The Nightingales: an underground resistance against the Plague and its creator.
However, she soon learns she must fight more than a plague.
Jay must fight her newfound blood relatives, her growing feelings for the enigmatic leader of the resistance, and her very destiny if she wishes to defeat the Plague… and come out alive.
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Candy hates boarding school. As a junior, graduation is still eons away, and making films is the only way to survive the boredom.Until she is kidnapped.Candy panics. Along Came a Spider, Ransom, Taken, Cellular... Candy knows how these movies end. The only reason anyone would abduct her is to get a payout from her rock star father. Except Candy and her father are estranged. There's no way he's going to pay.But with every hour that passes, Candy's fear slowly recedes. Being on the road is freeing, not to mention great material for a new documentary. And the more time she spends with her mysterious and handsome captor, Levon, the more she learns the whole scheme is not just about ransom. It's about revenge. What began as a kidnapping is spiraling into a crazy road trip adventure as Candy and Levon find a lot of wrong ways to do the right thing. Views: 5
Lauren Ramsey is a teacher whose mantra is to never let a child fall through the cracks. But Lauren is so concerned about the welfare of a little boy in her kindy class she doesn't realise her own daughter, Skye, needs help.At fourteen, Skye Ramsey is dealing with the usual pressures faced by teenage girls, from the pitfalls of social media to coping with fickle friends and the attention of boys. The only person who seems to listen to Skye is Tamara Thompson, the manager of her favourite clothes shop.Tamara knows what it's like to be a troubled teen because as an adolescent she felt unloved and overlooked. She now has a successful career and a partner who adores her, but her sense of worthlessness and fear of rejection are threatening to overwhelm her.All three women are searching for a happier future, but finding it may lie in resolving secrets from their pasts . . .From the bestselling author of Red Dust and Crimson Dawn comes a moving and intriguing... Views: 5
From Eva Moskowitz, the outspoken founder and CEO of the charter school Success Academy, comes an frank, feisty memoir about the rough-and-tumble battles to reform America's education system.Eva Moskowitz is a fighter with a reputation for having "sharp elbows"— if that's a synonym for getting the job done, she'll take it. A born and bred New Yorker, former City Councilmember, and "charter czarina," Moskowitz has taken on powerful unions and politicians to establish and grow her astonishingly effective and popular charter school program in four of the city's five boroughs.In this unabashedly candid memoir, Moskowitz tells of how she became a forward-thinking education entrepreneur and her fight to establish nearly three dozen schools—activism that has made her into one of the most polarizing figures in New York City and beyond. Now, having established a remarkable, even unprecedented, track record for guiding the city's most... Views: 5
