When being yourself isn't good enough, who should you be? Told in dual perspectives, this provocative and timely novel for middle-school readers by Paula Chase, the acclaimed author of So Done and Dough Boys, will resonate with fans of Jason Reynolds, Rebecca Stead, and Renée Watson. Best friends Rasheeda and Monique are both good girls. For Sheeda, that means keeping her friends close and following her deeply religious and strict aunt's every rule. For Mo, that means not making waves in the prestigious and mostly White ballet intensive she's been accepted to. But what happens when Sheeda catches the eye of Mo's older brother, and the invisible racial barriers to Mo's success as a ballerina turn out to be not so invisible? What happens when you discover that being yourself isn't good enough? How do you fight back? Paula Chase explores the complex and emotional issues that affect... Views: 517
This hard Sci-Fi novel is the fourth book in the “Stasis Stories,” a series of optimistic tales of technological innovation in the near future. They follow Kaem Seba, a sickly and financially destitute young man with extraordinary math talents. With his friends, he’s developing a device that allows them to stop time within limited volumes of space-time. In this 4th story, Kaem has been treated with gene therapy for the anemias that made him so weak. In combination with his extraordinary memory, his newfound physical fitness is letting him perform at a high level in a karate class. The company he, Arya Vaii, and Gunnar Schmidt founded to commercially develop his time-stopping discovery is starting to make money. Currently their profits come from their use of the phenomenal physical properties of a time-stopped segment of space-time to build rockets.But people are also clamoring to use Kaem’s invention to stop time for those who are dying. Not just the ones who want to skip a few years until there’s a cure for their disease, but also the patients in critical condition who will die for the lack of blood, or for the lack of the right surgeon, or because there are too many sick patients for the hospital to save them all.Oh, and they’re still working on their plans for a space elevator…
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Bradley Wright and two friends terrorized their high school.Rafferty watched the whole thing go down, clear as day. It's as open and shut as he's ever seen.So why does the killer's mother want him on the case?Rafferty couldn't do anything but stand and watch as Bradley Wright and two friends terrorized their high school; unable to do a damn thing until it was already too late.Two of the killers are dead, Bradley's on life-support, and if he ever wakes up the cops will be right there waiting to make sure he pays the ultimate price for the crime. After what he witnessed, Rafferty can live with that.So, when Bradley's mother knocks on the office door and asks him to help prove her son's innocence, Rafferty's first reaction is to tell the lady to go to hell.On the other hand, getting paid good money to poke around the edges of an open and shut case?It almost sounds too... Views: 517
A lesbian erotic novel featuring the Seven Deadly Sins.
The Sins are back in this highly anticipated second installment of the Pride trilogy.
Sexy meets romantic as Lara and Zoe take their relationship to the next level. Unfortunately, our sinful women aren’t so lucky.
A weekend in Brighton turns dark after a horrific truth is uncovered that will change Harry’s life forever, forcing her to make a heartbreaking decision that could tear her and Althea apart. Faced with an impossible choice, nothing will ever be the same again.
*Content Warning: 18+, mature content. All sexually explicit scenes are f/f only and completely consensual, however the story line contains sensitive issues that deal with the aftermath of rape trauma. The rape is NOT graphic; only hinted at for story line purposes. Views: 517
Lola has a mind of her own and a love for books. With the help of Grandpa Ed and the support of her mother and friends, she learns how to use her determination to right a wrong at school. Views: 517
"Capitalism and religious fundamentalism collide in Girod's shimmering account of one man's heresy and imminent execution."—Publishers Weekly, Starred ReviewMansour al-Jazaïri is on his way to his public execution. As his faithful friend Hussein looks on, the crowd calls for his head. Gassouh! Gassouh! It is a time when age-old rituals play out amid skyscrapers and are replayed on smartphone screens in the air-conditioned corridors of shopping malls. Set over the course of a single day in the Saudi Arabian capital, Mansour's Eyes weaves together several historical pasts: the time of Mansour's great-grandfather, the Emir Abdelkader; that of Algerian independence; and that of another Mansour, Mansur Al-Hallaj, a Sufi mystic executed in 922. In this lyrical and ambitious novel, Ryad Girod looks at the post-Arab Spring world as its drive toward modernity threatens to sever its relationship with the ethos of Sufi thought and mysticism. Views: 517
