Set in 1931 Malaya, when Malaya (today’s Malaysia) was part of the British empire, The Night Tiger creates a world where wild beasts snatch victims in the night, numerology and homonyms impact key decisions, and dancehall girls adhere to a strict code of conduct while feigning interest in lonely men. To her credit, Choo manages to intertwine all these plots and subplots with themes of superstition, Confucianism, and the desire for personal fulfillment versus the tug of familial loyalty. Instead, what author Yangsze Choo has given readers is a darn good yarn replete with shape-shifting tigers, severed fingers, complex sibling bonds, an evil stepparent, vivid dreamscapes, thwarted love, a psychopathic serial killer, poison, and grave-robbing. The Night Tiger is a galloping good read that’s blessedly free of political polemics and post-colonial self-righteousness.
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It seemed a bit slower than the first book. It wasn’t a bad read, but it failed to meet my expectations. Well, I ended up liking this book, but I didn’t enjoy it as much as the author’s other works. When I heard there’s going to be a sequel with a new set of characters, I was very excited. I loved the author’s One Of Us is Lying, and Two Can Keep a secret. And this time, there’s a whole new set of rules. Simon’s gone, but someone’s determined to keep his legacy at Bayview High alive. The dares have become deadly, and if Maeve learned anything from Bronwyn last year, it’s that they can’t count on the police for help. Then comes Maeve and she should know better-always choose the dare.īut by the time Knox is about to be tagged, things have gotten dangerous. This time it’s not an app, though-it’s a game. GENRE: Young-Adult, Contemporary, Thriller.Ĭome on, Bayview, you know you’ve missed this.Ī ton of copycat gossip apps have popped up since Simon died, but in the year since the Bayview four were cleared of his shocking death, no one’s been able to fill the gossip void quite like he could. I was probably 8 or 9 when I read this book, so I was at the younger end of the target age group. The two of them discover the secret of Inez, the dead girl, and embark on a mission to return her body to her home in New Orleans. He wants nothing to do with ghosts and even less to do with Blossom, who lives in a shack on the wrong side of the tracks with her alcoholic mother (Alexander is kind of a prig, but apparently I dig that). More specifically, Blossom has been directed to help him by her gypsy mother who has “the sight.” Alexander is not about it. Another problem for Alexander is Blossom Culp, a seventh-grade classmate of his from Horace Mann Elementary, who says she wants to help. He hates this and goes into full-blown early-onset male denial. Alexander Armsworth, a young boy from a well-to-do local family, discovers, to his complete dismay, that he can see ghosts: one ghost in particular-a girl with a mysterious story. The story is set in turn of the century Bluff City, Missouri. The Ghost Belonged to Me is a novel by Richard Peck, author of Newbery Medal winning A Year Down Yonder. Pretty much love every single part that has Zach. I really love the part when Zach and Cammie are one their first date and Zach says' "Just so you know, Gallagher Girl, I'm gonna kiss you now" but DeeDee stops him before he can, then at the end when Zach dips Cammie in front of the whole school then says, "I always finished what I start." then I squeal. I love how Joe Solomon always pair Cammie with Zach, it's like he wanted them to get together form the beginning. A part of me wants to see them in book six but most likely we wont. The sad part for me is that you never see them again in the books. Grant is kind of the love interest for Bex and Jonas is for Liz. At first Cammie doesn't like Zach at all but that changes little by little as the book goes on. Cammie is kind of heartbroken over her breakup with Josh in the last book, and it probably didn't help when she saw him in town with his new girlfriend (but that's okay because she has Zach now). I love how he knows a lot about Cammie and she knows nothing about him and she's like "How do you know that?" and he just points to himself and says, "Spy." I love it when he does that! We find out later on in the books that Zach is a very important character, but I'll talk more about that in another book review. In case you can't tell, I LOVE Zach! He is hot, cocky, awesome, did I mention he's incredibly hot? Because he is. However, once Sarah becomes involved with the historical aspect of the story she becomes a believable character. The initial characterization of Sarah as a stereotypical spoiled city girl who is annoyed by the clumsy but cute country boy Luke seems awkward and forced. The scenes in present day that lead up to the story’s climax are less engaging. Even though the deportation is inevitable, the question of the individual outcome for the LeBlanc family is filled with suspense and danger. The strength of this story lies in the depiction of the Acadian deportation and the details of daily life at that time. Returning to present day, she enlists the help of her friend Luke, and although they cannot change history, they manage to go back just in time to warn the Acadian family and prepare them for the deportation before it happens. She grows to feel close to the family and responsible for their welfare. Her interest becomes more than historical when a magical object takes her back to 1755, where she lives with an Acadian family for several weeks. Sarah finds herself drawn to the history of Acadia and particularly to the plight of the Acadians who were deported from the area in 1755. Sarah leads a pampered and glamorous life in Toronto that contrasts sharply with her grandparent’s simple rural life in Nova Scotia, where she has come to spend the summer. But their mother has strict rules to keep their gifts a secret, even in their secluded sea-side town. Iris sees flowers as fractals and turns her kaleidoscope visions into glasswork, while Malina interprets moods as music. “ Wicked Like a Wildfire was like devouring a succulent fairy fruit-it will rob your time, settle into your dreams, and leave you starving for more.” -Roshani Chokshi, New York Times bestselling author of The Star-Touched Queenįans of Holly Black and Leigh Bardugo will be bewitched by Lana Popovic's debut YA fantasy novel about a bargain that binds the fates-and hearts-of twin sisters to a force larger than life.Īll the women in Iris and Malina’s family have the unique magical ability or “gleam” to manipulate beauty. Popovic has created a world that you tumble into from the very first words and wish you could stay in forever.” -Evelyn Skye, author of The Crown's Game Traveling to New York City in January 1882 to investigate, he finds a Manhattan teeming with a different kind of life, the waterfront unimpeded by skyscrapers, open-air markets packed with activity, Central Park bustling with horse drawn sleighs-a city on the precipice of great things. But he also has another motivation for going back in time: a half-burned letter that tells of a mysterious, tragic death and ominously of “fire which will destroy the whole world.” When advertising artist Si Morley is recruited to join a covert government operation exploring the possibility of time travel, he jumps at the chance to leave his mundane 20th-century existence and step into the past. The 50th anniversary edition of the beloved classic that Stephen King has called “ THE great time-travel story.” Featuring a brand-new introduction by the New York Times bestselling author of Recursion, Blake Crouch. This time the enemy is more dangerous because he has lost everything he cared about and is desperate. Twice he saved the world and twice he was almost killed doing it. After being shot at by international terrorists and staring pure evil in the face he is back to do it again. OL24173444W Page_number_confidence 95.00 Pages 362 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210127102616 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 988 Scandate 20210124084806 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781435233126 Tts_version 4. Skeleton Key is Alex Rider’s third adventure as a spy. Horowitz, Anthony, 1955-Publication date 2008 Topics. Urn:lcp:skeletonkeyalexr0000horo:epub:a7f2f6d0-813e-4b99-b0d3-f20d4a35d4bd Foldoutcount 0 Identifier skeletonkeyalexr0000horo Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t75v3pq73 Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781435233126ġ435233123 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9841 Ocr_module_version 0.0.10 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-1200093 Openlibrary_edition Skeleton key : an Alex Rider adventure Bookreader Item Preview. Teaming up with the CIA, Alex must go to a remote Caribbean island called Skeleton Key, where the insane general Sarov is hatching explosive plans to re-write history. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:14:04 Boxid IA40048707 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier In the third book in the number one bestselling Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz, teenage spy Alex faces his most dangerous challenge yet. Jamie, initially, despises Margaret, but when she gives birth to a son, Jamie develops extreme fondness of his son and consents to marrying Margaret for the sake of their young son, Jamie, Jr. The violation of Margaret's chastity becomes the talk of the town and Salomon plunges into depression and starts drinking he soon commits suicide, an unhappy man. However, when Jamie learns that Margaret is pregnant by him, he refuses to marry her and reveals to Salomon his true identity. Jamie, now rugged and unrecognizable, returns to Klipdrift, cons Salomon into believing him to be a rich businessman and violates his daughter Margaret who gradually falls in love with him. The two sneak into van der Merwe's heavily guarded diamond mines in the Namib Desert and succeed in stealing a load of diamonds worth a fortune. Jamie plans his revenge, joined by Banda, who seeks vengeance for his younger sister who was raped and killed by Salomon. Jamie is rescued and taken to Cape Town by van der Merwe's Bantu servant Banda. He is soon defrauded by a wealthy Dutch storekeeper, Salomon Van Der Merwe, who steals his diamonds and leaves him in the desert to die. The story then moves one hundred years back to the arrival of Scotsman Jamie MacGregor (1865–1894) in Klipdrift, South Africa in 1883 to seek his fortune. The story begins with Kate Blackwell's ninetieth birthday celebrations in 1982 and is told in flashback. Name, else very good in edgeworn, price-clipped dustjacket.ē0. The author received a Pulitzer Prize in 1940 and the Nobel Prize in 1962. War correspondent Steinbeck joined commando raids led by actor turned naval officer Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Although the weapons and ideologies may be of the present, they are only vehicles for the theme that a free brave people is unconquerable." One of John Steinbeck’s lesser-known works, The Moon Is Down, was among the most effective pieces of wartime propaganda ever written. The author has purposely refrained from making it literally true to actual events. In this masterful account set in Norway during World War II, Steinbeck explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the. The scene of the book is any conquered country in any time. The Moon is Down continues the experiment begun with Of Mice and Men, that of writing a short novel having the time and place disciplines of the stage. Its people are men and women like ourselves, and its hero, Mayor Orden, will stand with George and Lennie, Tom Joad and Jody Tiflin, among the immortal characters of fiction. Yet this book, more than any other he has written, is one of our times and of our hearts today. "For the first time since he wrote his first novel, twelve years ago, Steinbeck has gone outside of America for his setting. 8vo (128 x 193 mm), blue cloth, with silver lettering to spine, blind-stamped lettering to front board. |