Verity novel5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() In November 2011, Hoover began writing her debut novel, Slammed, with no intention of getting published. She worked various social work and teaching jobs, prior to starting her career as an author. Hoover graduated from Texas A&M-Commerce with a degree in social work. She married Heath Hoover in 2000, and they have three sons. She grew up in Saltillo, Texas, and she graduated from Saltillo High School in 1998. Hoover was born on December 11, 1979, in Sulphur Springs, Texas, to Vannoy Fite and Eddie Fennell. She was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2023. ![]() Hoover has sold approximately 20 million books, as of October 2022. Many of her works were self-published, before being picked up by a publishing house. She is best known for her 2016 romance novel, It Ends with Us. Colleen Hoover (born Margaret Colleen Fennell December 11, 1979) is an American author who primarily writes novels in the romance and young adult fiction genres. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The country was larger, richer, and more extensive, but also more diverse. The unity that the Civil War supposedly secured had proved ephemeral. ![]() Thirty years later Americans occupied an unimagined world. The South and West were to be reconstructed in the image of the North. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of Reconstruction and the Gilded Age as the seedbed of modern America.Īt the end of the Civil War the leaders and citizens of the victorious North envisioned the country's future as a free-labor republic, with a homogenous citizenry, both black and white. The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. ![]() Embassytown by china miéville5/29/2023 ![]() Catastrophe looms, and Avice is torn between competing loyalties: to a husband she no longer loves, to a system she no longer trusts, and to her place in a language she cannot speak-but which speaks through her, whether she likes it or not. When distant political machinations deliver a new ambassador to Arieka, the fragile equilibrium between humans and aliens is violently upset. She cannot speak the Ariekei tongue, but she is an indelible part of it, having long ago been made a figure of speech, a living simile in their language. Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist, has returned to Embassytown after years of deep-space adventure. ![]() In the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient beings famed for a language unique in the universe, one that only a few altered human ambassadors can speak. ![]() ![]() “Wrong fucking place and wrong fucking time. The hero would say and think such wonderful thingsĪbout the heroine that made this truly a romantic delight for all. ![]() The storyline might have really worked for me here if the hero had not been such a giant DICK!Īnd this was all in the name of messed up love/hate or whatever the f*ck you call what that was!Ĭlick the spoiler below to find out more. With these characters having grown up together, and now this story which is taking place 10 years later but don't worry we do get flashbacks. Honestly, this book had all the crazy coming out to play. It was very Young adult with physical abuse, verbal abuse, bullying, humiliation, random sexual hookup, and revenge f*cks on ex-boyfriend bed and blackmailing mom and pop and not to mention threatening the very existence of her sick sister. To say I mostly hated this book would be putting it mildly. Well, I will freely admit that I am NOT the intended audience for this one. ![]() The island of doctor moreau5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Wow, there's a lot of whys up there, but we've got one more. But then Montgomery dies, and we still don't know anything about him. Having such a mysterious character certainly makes it iffy as to whether or not Prendick is really safe with Montgomery. After all, there are many dangerous times when Prendick must rely on Montgomery, such as before he discovers Moreau's secret and after Moreau dies. He could have escaped anytime he went to the mainland for supplies, so why keep coming back?įor that matter, why did Wells choose to have Montgomery be such an ambiguous character? Why not just tell us about him and his past? It adds suspense to the novel, sure. Moreau's work clearly agitates Montgomery emotionally in chapter eight, the man winces every time the puma cries. ![]() Maybe more importantly, we are left in the dark as to why he stays with Moreau. We are never told how he came to know Moreau or why he decided to work for the doctor. What exactly he did is punctuated with a big-old question mark. We understand he left London society after he "made a young ass of " (2.21) and "lost head for ten minutes on a foggy night" (4.12). Montgomery is Moreau's assistant on the island, and we know little else about the man, his past, or his motivations. ![]() From Darkness Into Light by A. Helwa5/28/2023 ![]() ![]()
My left foot book5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() She is the bedrock of his life and the one constant feminine presence in the movie upon whom he can always count. Bridget Brownīridget Brown is Christy’s fiercely loyal mum who never sacrifices her belief in the special qualities of her afflicted son even when communication seems impossible. Using just that one single appendage, Brown was able to write and paint with such flair that he became another addition to the list of legendary Irish creative artists. The protagonist of the film is the real-life historical figure Christy Brown who was born with a case of cerebral palsy so severe that the only part of his body over which he could exert any autonomous control was the titular left foot. ![]() We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() I have to go munsch5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() I didn't think of it as a job, but just a neat thing to do. I worked in an orphanage on the weekends, and it was there that I discovered that I likeworking with little kids and telling stories to them. When I was a young adult, I was studying to be a Catholic priest. ROBERT MUNSCH: I wasn't a good writer in school, and I had trouble spelling, so I didn't like to write. TEACHINGBOOKS: How did you become a writer? I thought, "My goodness, they're university students, and they kept these books." Once I was walking through the student union at the University of Western Ontario, and a girl looked up and said, "Bob Munsch?" I said, "Yes," and the students startedrunning to their rooms to get their copies of Love You Forever and Paper Bag Princess. But it is not like I'm a rock star who has no life. ROBERT MUNSCH: In the United States, you walk into a bookstore, and there are 20different books by Dr. TEACHINGBOOKS: You are one of Canada's most beloved children's authors, and your books, including Love You Forever and The Paper Bag Princess, have sold millions upon millions of copies. Robert Munsch, interviewed in his home in Guelph, Ontario, on April 1, 2008. ![]() The churchill factor5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() He was famous for his ability to combine wining and dining with many late nights of crucial wartime decision-making. ![]() He was a celebrated journalist, a great orator and won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Fearless on the battlefield, Churchill had to be ordered by the King to stay out of action on D-Day he pioneered aerial bombing, yet hated the destruction of war and scorned politicians who had not experienced its horrors. Taking on the myths and misconceptions along with the outsized reality, he portrays - with characteristic wit and passion - a man of multiple contradictions, contagious bravery, breath-taking eloquence, matchless strategizing, and deep humanity. Marking the fiftieth anniversary of Winston Churchill's death, Boris Johnson explores what makes up the Churchill Factor - the singular brilliance of one of the most important leaders of the twentieth century. 'The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.' ![]() the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely clever. ![]() Stardoc sl viehl5/28/2023 ![]() Some of his pen names include S L Viehl, Gea Hale, Jessica Hall, as well as Rebecca Kelly. ![]() Throughout her writing career, she has written novels based on a variety of genres and by using a number of pen names. ![]() Click on a plot link to find similar books! Plot & Themes Composition of Book planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives 60% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development 20% Descript. Viehl and the StarDoc series I don't read much science fiction, but I got ahold of a manuscript copy of StarDoc and just loved it. Lynn Viehl is one of the pen names used by the popular author of the paranormal romance series from America known as Sheila Kelly. ![]() |