![]() I went in, with high hopes that I would read more or even balanced between the romance and ice skating/ice hockey. As expected, this book was a complete disaster. ![]() I was doubtful to start this book as I saw Deidre not liking the book but because it was all about ice sports which I enjoy reading about so I decide to give it a chance. Icebreaker by Hannah Grace started with a frenemies between a figure skater and the captain of a ice hockey team where they’re always up to shenanigans that lead to trouble. The pair find themselves stuck together in more ways than one, but it’s fine, because Anastasia doesn’t even like hockey players…right? When a misunderstanding results in the two teams sharing a rink, and Anastasia’s partner gets hurt in the aftermath, Nate finds himself swapping his stick for tights, and one scary coach for an even scarier one. ![]() As captain of the Maple Hills Titans, he knows the responsibility of keeping the hockey team on the ice rests on his shoulders. ![]() Nathan Hawkins has never had a problem he couldn’t solve. Anastasia Allen has worked her entire life for a shot at Team USA.Ī competitive figure skater since she was five years old, a full college scholarship thanks to her place on the Maple Hills skating team, and a schedule that would make even the most driven person weep, Stassie comes to win. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Yet if I had the chance to fall again, I’d fall with him forever.Įven if we were destined to crash against solid ground. Graham Russell wasn’t a man who knew how to love, and I wasn’t a woman who knew how to either. Those seconds left us floating, but when reality knocked us sideways, gravity forced us to descend. Seconds when we both imagined what it would be like to love one another. Seconds when his lips tasted my fears, and I breathed in his pains. Seconds when our eyes locked and we saw each other’s secrets. I cried when he had no tears to shed.ĭespite his frozen heart and my readiness to run, we sometimes shared seconds. I was driven by emotion he was apathetic. ![]() ![]() Graham Russell and I weren’t made for one another. Let’s start with what the author has to say… I’m going to keep it mostly pretty on this one with just a tiny bit a mess. If there were a few more happy moments then I may have given it 4 STARS – catch the may. Cherry was a decent book with a decent story, but it was depressing – at least 75% of it was. It was just waaaaayyyyy to sensitive for me. What I found for myself was a true 3 STARS Danielle read. With so many people giving this book 5 STARS, I just had to pick it up. ![]() ![]() ![]() She seems to have the perfect life, but even her best friends don’t realize how unhappy she is. ![]() She’s also the cheerleading captain and dating the star quarterback, Colin. She’s wealthy, popular, and white the world is her oyster. ![]() She has, for all of her life, been a straight A student, and she plans to continue her academic success in her last year of high school. It’s the first day of her senior year, and she’s determined to make everything perfect. The novel opens as Brittany Ellis walks into chemistry class. The themes of Perfect Chemistry include looking beyond appearances, prejudice, being true to one's self, and the courage required to declare an unpopular love. The novel is written in alternating first person point of view, offering the perspective of both protagonists this structure complicates the story and contributes to its considerable suspense. Perfect Chemistry won the RITA award for Young Adult Romance, the top honor within the romance genre. Elkeles was raised around Chicago, where the story is set. The novel won praise for its humor, heart, and suspense, and became a New York Times bestseller. This urban romance story follows two 18-year-olds as they overcome stereotypes and fall in love. YA novelist Simone Elkeles published the first of her three-part trilogy, Perfect Chemistry, in 2008. ![]() ![]() ![]() There is a Miss Juneteenth competition that had been held on the local level for years, but in 2020 the first national competition was held in Memphis, Tennessee, where Saniya Gay won the title. Today it is still celebrated within families, with gatherings and food, but it’s also celebrated on a larger scale in many cities with parades, freedom walks, and festivals, especially since it became a federal holiday last year. In 1872, a group of Black ministers and businessmen purchased 10 acres of land, which they turned into Emancipation Park, a place to hold Juneteenth celebrations. ![]() Traditionally, the day was celebrated by praying and bringing families together. Juneteenth is also known as “Juneteenth Independence Day,” “Emancipation Day,” or “Freedom Day.” The holiday is the oldest national holiday commemorating the end of slavery. Communities nationwide are celebrating by walking 2.5 miles, in recognition of the 2.5 years it took for the news of freedom to reach all enslaved people in the United States. Opal Lee has been campaigning for decades to have Juneteenth nationally recognized, and when she was 94 years old, she saw President Biden sign the bill. ![]() On June 17th, 2021, it officially became a federal holiday. June 19th is the day that federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, in 1865 to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation that all enslaved people be freed. Juneteenth, short for June nineteenth, commemorates the effective end of slavery in the United States. ![]() ![]() Teachers who use this book might scaffold it with additional resources that teach about the intensive planning and organization that went into this and other activist campaigns." - Booklist "The art throughout is a vibrant representation of the determination and courage of the civil rights movement. The experiences of segregation are sensitively depicted.A highly readable historical account which deserves a place on picture book and nonfiction shelves alike.- School Library Journal, starred review "This remarkable story remains relevant today as young readers think about their roles in the ongoing struggle for justice. ![]() ![]() ![]() Coretta Scott King Honor Award for Illustration 2019 Kirkus' Best Picture Books of 2018 Chicago Public Library's Best of 2018 The Children's Book Review Best of nonfiction 2018 ? "A powerful retrospective glimpse at a key event." -Kirkus, starred review ? "Much of the text will provoke questions and important conversations between children and adult readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() This electronic edition of the autobiography of St. The Little Flower Enters the CarmelĬhapter VIII. First Communion and ConfirmationĬhapter VII. ![]() This free version of the Story of a Soul is in the public domain and may be used and copied without restriction thanks to the Gutenberg Project.Īdditionally, you may want to read Lessons from Saint Thérèse: The Wisdom of God’s Little Flower as a companion to this spiritual masterpiece from Saint Thérèse.Ĭhapter IV. Her autobiography reveals her deep love of God and draws the reader into the beautiful workings of grace within her soul. Sister Thérèse wrote this autobiography out of obedience to Mother Agnes of Jesus (her religious superior who was also her sister, Pauline). The Story of a Soul, the autobiography of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, is a spiritual classic and is one of the most beautiful autobiographies ever written. L’Histoire D’Une Âme The Autobiography of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of Saint Thérèse ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Smith’s latest book is The War on Humans (Discovery Institute Press, 2014) in which he investigates the views of anti-human activists who want to grant legal rights to animals, plants, and “Mother Earth,” and who want to reduce the human population by up to 90%. His Human Exceptionalism blog, hosted by National Review Online, is one of the premier blogs dealing with human life and dignity. He is the author or coauthor of twelve books. Smith left the full time practice of law in 1985 to pursue a career in writing and public advocacy. In 2008, the Human Life Foundation named him a Great Defender of Life for his work against assisted suicide and euthanasia. In May 2004, because of his work in bioethics, Smith was named one of the nation’s premier expert thinkers in bioengineering by the National Journal. He is also a consultant to the Patients Rights Council. Smith, is a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism. ![]() Lawyer and award winning author, Wesley J. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But the weird thing is that she doesn’t mind playing pretend. She and Ethan now have to pretend to be loving newlyweds, and her luck seems worse than ever. But when Olive runs into her future boss, the little white lie she tells him is suddenly at risk to become a whole lot bigger. Putting their mutual hatred aside for the sake of a free vacation, Olive and Ethan head for paradise, determined to avoid each other at all costs. And now there’s an all-expenses-paid honeymoon in Hawaii up for grabs. But when the entire wedding party gets food poisoning from eating bad shellfish, the only people who aren’t affected are Olive and Ethan. ![]() Olive braces herself to get through 24 hours of wedding hell before she can return to her comfortable, unlucky life. Worst of all, she’s forcing Olive to spend the day with her sworn enemy, Ethan, who just happens to be the best man. Her meet-cute with her fiancé is something out of a romantic comedy (gag) and she’s managed to finance her entire wedding by winning a series of Internet contests (double gag). Her identical twin sister Ami, on the other hand, is probably the luckiest person in the world. Olive is always unlucky: in her career, in love, in…well, everything. ![]() ![]() When Detective Marasi Colms and her partner Wayne find stockpiled weapons bound for the Outer City of Bilming, this opens a new lead. Return to #1 New York Times bestseller Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn world of Scadrial as its second era, which began with The Alloy of Law, comes to its earth-shattering conclusion in The Lost Metal.įor years, frontier lawman turned big-city senator Waxillium Ladrian has hunted the shadowy organization the Set-with his late uncle and his sister among their leaders-since they started kidnapping people with the power of Allomancy in their bloodlines. I was thrilled to have him on the Mistborn series, and he did such an amazing job I can't imagine having anyone else be the voice of these characters." -Brandon Sanderson ![]() ![]() "Michael Kramer is my favorite among all audiobook narrators. ![]() ![]() It’s only Napoleon’s original vision, but he was a century ahead of his time.” Somebody has to be ruthless enough to do it, since the peoples with their ancient hatreds will never do it themselves. The balance of power is dangerous foolishness in the industrial age. The medieval jigsaw of nations is obsolete. He understands them, and he may just succeed. Hitler means to hammer out a united Europe. ![]() He uses racism because that’s the pure distillate of German romantic egotism, just as Lenin used utopian Marxism because it appealed to Russia’s messianic streak. He uses doctrines as he uses money, to get things done. I’m impressed with Hitler’s ability to use socialist prattle when necessary, and then discard it. The concentration camps are for anybody who still wants the socialist part of National Socialism." ![]() The big Nazis live like barons, like sultans. He’s frozen the German economy just as it was, smashed the labor unions, lengthened the working hours, cut the pay, and kept all the old rich crowd on top, the Krupps and Thyssens, the men who gave him the money to run for office. Hitler’s socialism was a sham to get a mob of gangsters into power. ![]() You may like it or detest it, but it’s new. The abolition of private property has created a new world. “The Russian Revolution is a radical change in history. ![]() |