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Now You Access The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential GhostsMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :Folktales and spirits animate this lively coming-of-age tale of two Jamaican-Trinidadian sisters in Brooklyn grappling with their mother?s illness, their father's infidelity, and the truth of their family's pastSisters Zora and Sasha Porter are drifting apart. Bearing witness to their father?s violence and their mother?s worsening illness, an unsettled Zora escapes into her journal, dreaming of being a writer, while Sasha discovers sex and chest binding, spending more time with her new girlfriend than at home.But the sisters, like their parents, must come together to answer to beings greater than themselves, and reckon with a family secret buried in the past. A tale told from the perspective of a mischievous narrator, featuring the Rolling Calf who haunts butchers, Mama Dglo who lives in the ocean, a vain tiger, and an outsmarted snake, The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter & Other Essential Ghosts is set in a world as alive and unpredictable as Helen Oyeyemi?s.Telling of the love .Book Details :Author : Soraya Palmer

Now You Access Empire of WildMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :?Empire of Wild?is doing everything I love in a contemporary novel and more. It is tough, funny, beautiful, honest and propulsive?all the while telling a story that needs to be told by a person who needs to be telling it.??Tommy Orange, author of?There ThereA bold and brilliant new indigenous voice in contemporary literature makes her American debut with this kinetic, imaginative, and sensuous fable inspired by the traditional Canadian M?tis legend of the Rogarou?a werewolf-like creature that haunts the roads and woods of native people?s communities.Joan has been searching for her missing husband, Victor, for nearly a year?ever since that terrible night they?d had their first serious argument hours before he mysteriously vanished. Her M?tis family has lived in their tightly knit rural community for generations, but no one keeps the old ways . . . until they have to. That moment has arrived for Joan.One morning, grieving and severely hungover, Joan hears a shocking sound coming from .Book Details :Author : Cherie Dimaline

Now You Access I?m Glad My Mom DiedMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor?including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother?and how she retook control of her life.Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother?s dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called ?calorie restriction,? eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, ?Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn?t tint hers?? She was even showered by Mom until age sixteen while sharing her diaries, email, and all her income.In I?m Glad My Mom Died , Jennette recounts all this in unflinching detail?just as she chronicles what happens when the dream .Book Details :Author : Jennette McCurdy

Now You Access ReputationMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :A classic romcom with a Regency-era twist, for fans of Mean Girls and Bridgerton.Abandoned by her parents in favour of a sea view, middle class Georgiana Ellers has moved to a new town to live with her dreary aunt and uncle. At a particularly dull dinner party, she meets the enigmatic Frances Campbell, a wealthy socialite and enchanting member of the in-crowd.Through Frances and her friends, Georgiana is introduced to a new world of wild parties, drunken debauchery, mysterious young men with strangely alluring hands, and the sparkling upper echelons of Regency society.But high society isn't all it's cracked up to be, and the price of entry might be more than Georgiana is willing to pay . . .Full of lavish parties, handsome men on horseback and laugh-out-loud humour, this is the summer read everyone's talking about. .Book Details :Author : Lex Croucher

Now You Access The Fallen Star (Star Wars: The High Republic)More Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :In this gripping sequel to Star Wars: The Rising Storm, the light of the Jedi faces its darkest hour.Time and again, the vicious raiders known as the Nihil have sought to bring the golden age of the High Republic to a fiery end. Time and again, the High Republic has emerged battered and weary but victorious thanks to its Jedi protectors?and there is no monument to their cause grander than the Starlight Beacon.Hanging like a jewel in the Outer Rim, the Beacon embodies the High Republic at the apex of its aspirations: a hub of culture and knowledge, a bright torch against the darkness of the unknown, and an extended hand of welcome to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As survivors and refugees flee the Nihil?s attacks, the Beacon and its crew stand ready to shelter and heal. The grateful Knights and Padawans of the Jedi Order stationed there finally have a chance to recover?from the pain of their injuries and the grief of their losses. But the storm they thought had passed still .Book Details :Author : Claudia Gray

Now You Access The Lantern's Dance (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #18)More Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, hoping for a respite in the French countryside, are instead caught up in a case that turns both bewildering and intensely personal.After their recent adventures in Transylvania, Russell and Holmes look forward to spending time with Holmes' son, the famous artist Damian Adler, and his family. But when they arrive at Damian?s house, they discover that the Adlers have fled from a mysterious threat.Holmes rushes after Damian while Russell, slowed down by a recent injury, stays behind to search the empty house. In Damian?s studio, she discovers four crates packed with memorabilia related to Holmes? grand-uncle, the artist Horace Vernet. It?s an odd mix of treasures and clutter, including a tarnished silver lamp with a rotating an antique yet sophisticated form of zoetrope, fitted with strips of paper whose images dance with the lantern?s spin.In the same crate is an old journal written in a nearly impenetrable code. Intrigued, Russell sets about .Book Details :Author : Laurie R. King

Now You Access Azula in the Spirit Temple (Avatar: The Last Airbender)More Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :Azula continues her destabilizing campaign against the Fire Nation and her brother, Fire Lord Zuko.But after a failed attack on her latest target, Azula finds herself in a mysterious forest temple inhabited by a solitary monk?or is it something more mysterious? Azula must confront her past, and finally face her chance at redemption.Written in consultation with Avatar Studios, the veteran team of Faith Erin Hicks, Peter Wartman and Adele Matera is back with a new story in the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender. .Book Details :Author : Faith Erin Hicks

Now You Access For the FansMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :Kyran Harbor is everything I?m not. Rich. Popular. A superstar football player who?s awfully broody for someone who has it all. Basically, he?s a preppy jock who hates me. Oh, and he?s also my stepbrother. That?s right. We?re stuck together, sharing a school, a house? A bathroom. Honestly, I wouldn?t care? If he wasn?t such an uptight control-freak who messes with me just because we?re different. I had every intention of avoiding him when we got to college? Until abrupt misfortune forces us both into a compromising position. Now the grouchy jerk I was hoping to evade might be the only person who can help me out of it. Avi Vega is everything I despise.A dreamer. A flake. An artist who smokes too much weed and thinks aliens exist. And by some sick cosmic joke, he?s now my stepbrother, following me on what should?ve been my escape plan. It was already a disaster. Add a sudden financial disruption to the mix, and let?s just say my options are heavily limited. If I want to stay an .Book Details :Author : Nyla K.

Now You Access Uglies (Uglies, #1)More Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. In just a few weeks she'll have the operation that will turn her from a repellent ugly into a stunning pretty. And as a pretty, she'll be catapulted into a high-tech paradise where her only job is to have fun.But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to become a pretty. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world?and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally a choice: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. Tally's choice will change her world forever.... .Book Details :Author : Scott Westerfeld

Now You Access Do Your WorstMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :Riley Rhodes finally has the chance to turn her family?s knack for the supernatural into a legitimate business when she?s hired to break the curse on an infamous Scottish castle. Used to working alone in her alienating occupation, she's pleasantly surprised to meet a handsome stranger upon arrival?until he tries to get her fired.Fresh off a professional scandal, Clark Edgeware can?t allow a self-proclaimed ?curse breaker? to threaten his last chance for redemption. After he fails to get Riley kicked off his survey site, he vows to avoid her. Unfortunately for him, she vows to get even.Riley expects the curse to do her dirty work by driving Clark away, but instead, they keep finding themselves in close proximity. Too close. Turns out, the only thing they do better than fight is fool around. If they?re not careful, by the end of all this, more than the castle will end up in ruins. .Book Details :Author : Rosie Danan