Convincing Gwen to align herself with me was supposed to the hard part, but with my recent accident, and Gwen insisting on nursing me back to health, I'm starting to realize just how complicated things were.And with Gwen's ex-boyfriend Sam, lurking about and asking for a second chance, I might just have my work cut out for me. With an emergency drawing me back to the city, I have to trust that Gwen can fend for herself, warding off prospective buyers and her ex all in one fell swoop. It isn't going to be easy, but if anyone is up to the challenge, it's Gwen. The problem is that I'm not sure if returning is the answer, especially with everything that's happening.Add in the return of my ex Brenda, and it's just one big telenovela. Views: 602
Best Books of 2019 —Cosmopolitan Camille couldn't be having a better summer—she kills it as Ophelia in her community theater's production of Hamlet, catches the eye of the cutest boy in the play, and nabs a spot in a prestigious theater program. But on the very night she learns she got into the program, she also finds out she's pregnant. She definitely can't tell her parents. And her best friend Bea doesn't agree with the decision Camille has made.Camille is forced to try to solve her problem alone...and the system is very much working against her. At her most vulnerable, Camille reaches out to Annabelle Ponsonby, a girl she only barely knows from the theater. Happily, Annabelle agrees to drive her wherever she needs to go. And in a last minute change of heart, Bea decides to come with.Over the course of more than a thousand miles, friendships will be tested and dreams will be challenged. But ultimately, the girls... Views: 602
Sinan Antoon returns to the Iraq war in a poetic and provocative tribute to reclaiming memoryWidely-celebrated author Sinan Antoon's fourth and most sophisticated novel follows Nameer, a young Iraqi scholar earning his doctorate at Harvard, who is hired by filmmakers to help document the devastation of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. During the excursion, Nameer ventures to al-Mutanabbi street in Baghdad, famed for its bookshops, and encounters Wadood, an eccentric bookseller who is trying to catalogue everything destroyed by war, from objects, buildings, books and manuscripts, flora and fauna, to humans.Entrusted with the catalogue and obsessed with Wadood's project, Nameer finds life in New York movingly intertwined with fragments from his homeland's past and its present—destroyed letters, verses, epigraphs, and anecdotes—in this stylistically ambitious panorama of the wreckage of war and the power of memory. Views: 602
A legend of Space Opera is back with Knight, the second book in Timothy Zahn's Sibyl's War seriesNicole Hammond was just trying to survive on the streets of Philidelphia, then she and her partner Bungie were abducted by a race of mysterious moth-like aliens and taken to a strange ship called the Fyrantha.Now she is a Sibyl, a special human that has the ability to communicate with the aliens and their ship, and no one is happy. Competing factions control different parts of the Fyrantha with the humans and other sentient aliens caught in the middle. But Nicole is done being bullied, and now she has a plan to take control of the ship. She just has to outsmart war profiteers and slavers to do it.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Views: 602
