![]() ![]() The situation is not good, also she has a mouth that is too smart for her own good, if you know what I mean. Amani lives with her aunt and uncle, after her mother died. Especially now that they are receiving less metal shipments to make guns. There is just no real hope where she lives. Amani lives in a good for nothing, end of the county town, called Dustwalk. ![]() Rebel Of The Sands by Alwyn Hamilton is about this girl named Amani. This is the kind of book where I think we’re all going to be plotting different ways to obtain book two like RIGHT NOW. This book is the kind of debut that I often find myself yearning for - where all the elements I love are molded together along with a snappy writing pace – because sometimes all the different elements are there, but something is off about the writing. THEY WERE SO RIGHT. Rebel Of The Sands has it all - an interesting locale, betrayal, kissing, magic, revolution and a main character who can definitely hold her own in a cage match. I was floundering a bit with regards to what I should read next - when a few friends on twitter recommended I start Hamilton’s debut book. For real, that is a statement that deserves all caps. ![]() I AM SO GLAD I READ REBEL OF THE SANDS by Alwyn Hamilton. ![]()
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![]() Suspenseful, mysterious, and heart-wrenching, this iconic King novella, populated by a cast of unforgettable characters, is about a fiercely compelling convict named Andy Dufresne who is seeking his ultimate revenge. A mesmerizing tale of unjust imprisonment and offbeat escape, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is one of Stephen King's most beloved and iconic stories, and it helped make Castle Rock a place readers would return to over and over again. ![]() Summary: #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King's beloved novella, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption'the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award'nominee The Shawshank Redemption'about an unjustly imprisoned convict who seeks a strangely satisfying revenge, is now available for the first time as a standalone book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Told with both wit and wonder, this memoir relates the touching, frustrating, and funny events of Wesley’s “growing up.” After being rescued from a fall that ensures he will never be able to survive in the wild, Wesley finds a new home with biologist Stacey O’Brien. ![]() Wesley the Owl is a love story that begins when a young, compassionate biologist adopts a baby bird–and unknowingly embarks on a relationship that will last almost two decades. Written with the same heartwarming sentiment that made the memoirs Marley and Me and Chosen by a Horse runaway bestsellers, biologist and barn owl expert O’Brien chronicles her rescue of an adorable, abandoned baby barn owl – and their astonishing and unprecedented nineteen-year life together. The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl ![]() ![]() ![]() Publishers Weekly About the Author Elizabeth Enright (1907-1968) was a talented writer whose many awards include the 1939 John Newbery Medal for Thimble Summer and a 1958 Newbery Honor for Gone-Away Lake. ardent approach to living is eternally relevant. Review Quotes The Melendys are the quintessential storybook family. The Four-Story Mistake is the second installment of Enrights Melendy Quartet, an engaging and warm series about the close-knit Melendy family and their surprising adventures. Here, they be absorbed in the adventures of the country, adjusting themselves with all their accustomed resourcefulness and discovering the many hidden attractions that the Four-Story Mistake has to offer. Though disappointed about leaving their old brownstone in New York City, and apprehensive about living the country life, the four Melendy kids soon settle into this unusual new home. Book Synopsis Into the Four-Story Mistake, an odd-looking house with a confused architectural history, move the Melendy family - Mona, Rush, Randy, Oliver, Father, and Cuffy, the housekeeper. ![]() ![]() The children-ages six through 13-live with their father, a writer, and Cuffy, their beloved housekeeper, who takes on the many roles of nurse, cook, substitute mother, grandmother, and aunt. ![]() About the Book Now published in new editions, these adventures follow the lively Melendy family as they move from the city to the country. ![]() ![]() One object she turns down, surprisingly (to me) as it offers her the chance to try to change her life, but I liked the choice for the surprise, and I also liked the punchline in the end, when she finds another magical object in the shop. No dice she likes it, so he hangs around, helps her around the house, gives rides on the horse to neighborhood kids, and offers her other mythical/mystical objects in exchange. The idea is that a woman finds the Holy Grail in a shop, and soon after, a dreamy knight on a white horse asks her for it. Whitaker found the Holy Grail it was under a fur coat.”Ī charming adaptation of a Neil Gaiman story by the team that brought us "Snow, Glass, Apples," which is to say the iconic comics legend Colleen Doran gets credit for this version, trying a very different, and classical style. ![]() |