![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Most Anticipated by: Buzzfeed * Lambda Literary * LGBTQ Reads * Bustle * Book Riot * Autostraddle * The Nerd Daily * Epic Reads * Frolic "A breezy, snappy story about fandom, friendships, and being true to yourself."-TJ Klune One small fandom convention. more details below” Read Less about the seller notes Pageant queen Teagan Miller (Miss Virginia) has her eye on the much-needed prize: the $25,000 scholarship awarded to the winner of the Miss Cosmic Teen USA pageant. But there's this con-sponsored publishing contest, and the chance to meet her fandom idols and then, there's Teagan. Especially when her hometown bully, Miss North Carolina, shows up in the very same hotel. It's a lot, and Kay mostly wants to lie face down on the hotel floor. She also has a side quest for the weekend: Try out they/them pronouns to see how it feels Wear more masculine-presenting cosplay Kiss a girl for the first time. Up and coming fanfic author Kaylee Beaumont is internally screaming at the chance to finally meet her fandom friends in real life and spend a weekend at GreatCon. Read more about the seller notes “First edition. ![]()
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Ariane’s survival-and that of her adoptive father-depends on her ability to blend in among the full-blooded humans in a small Wisconsin town, to hide in plain sight at her high school from those who seek to recover their lost (and expensive) “project.”īut when a cruel prank at school goes awry, it puts her in the path of Zane Bradshaw, the police chief’s son and someone who sees too much. Ariane Tucker has followed them since the night she escaped from the genetics lab where she was created, the result of combining human and extraterrestrial DNA. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this new tale, Alice is different than other eighteen-year-old ladies in Kexford, which is perfectly fine with her. ![]() This story asks the question What if Wonderland was in peril and Alice was the only one who could save it…but was running late. In this Disney Twisted Tale Alice in Wonderland is tasked with saving Wonderland. Amazing that this is still a story relevant today! Because let’s face it everything keeps getting curiouser and curiouser and who better to help show us the way than Alice? We were gifted this book by the Disney Book Group. With Alice all wrapped up in her own life, will she be able to read the signs that Wonderland is in trouble and needs her help? Here’s everything you can look forward to in this new story.Ī Disney Twisted Tale Alice in WonderlandĢ020 marks the 155th anniversary of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The newest Twisted Tale is a take on Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, crafted by Liz Braswell. Disney Books has come out with yet another Twisted Tale and we just can’t get enough of this series! With fairy tale twists and turns on stories, we know by heart there is so much to wrap your head around in these new tales. ![]() ![]() These visions of modern life wrestle with themes of death and technological consequence, guilt and sexuality, and unmask the contradictions that exist within all of us. Each story builds a new world all its own: a group of children steal a haunted doll a runaway bride encounters a sea monster a vendor sells toy boxes that seemingly control the passage of time an insomniac is seduced by the Sandman. ![]() In the twelve unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made familiar and the familiar strange, such that a girl growing wings on her legs feels like an ordinary rite of passage, while a bug-infested house becomes an impossible, Kafkaesque nightmare. ![]() ![]() A dazzling and daring story collection by PEN/Hemingway finalist, Kim Fu. ![]() ![]() ![]() And apart from this high-stakes conspiracy, there’s a killer out there with their own agenda, and Devine is the bullseye.ĭavid Baldacci has been writing since childhood, when his mother gave him a lined notebook in which to write down his stories. This treacherous role will take Travis from the impossibly glittering lives he once saw only through a train window, to the darkest corners of the country’s economic halls of power…where something rotten lurks. ![]() ![]() If that wasn’t enough, Devine receives another ominous visit, a confrontation that threatens to dredge up grim secrets from his past in the Army unless he participates in a clandestine investigation into his firm. Sara Ewes, Devine’s coworker and former girlfriend, has been found hanging in a storage room of his office building-presumably a suicide, prompting the NYPD to come calling on him. Then one morning Devine’s tedious routine is shattered by an anonymous email: She is dead. In the evenings, he listens to the fiscal news on his phone, already preparing for the next grueling day in the cutthroat realm of finance. In the mornings, he gazes out the train window at the lavish homes of the uberwealthy, dreaming about joining their ranks. Every day without fail, Travis Devine puts on a cheap suit, grabs his faux-leather briefcase, and boards the 6:20 commuter train to Manhattan, where he works as an entry-level analyst at the city’s most prestigious investment firm. ![]() ![]() ![]() She lives in the Kansas City area with her husband and their two sons.ĪBOUT THE NEW BOOK The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy: "A uniquely charming mixture of whimsy and the macabre that completely won me over. While most of her professional career has been spent behind the reference desk, she has also sold luggage, written grants, collected a few graduate degrees from various Kansas universities, and taught English at home and abroad. Megan reserves the right to edit Inscription requests.ĪBOUT THE AUTHOR: Megan Bannen is a former Public Librarian whose Young Adult (YA) Debut The Bird and the Blade was an Indies Introduce Summer/Fall 2018 Pick, a Summer 2018 Kids’ Indie Next List Pick, and a Kirkus Best Younf Adult (YA) Historical Fiction of 2018 Pick. For a limited time, Megan will Author Autograph & Inscribe your Softcover. Rainy Day Books is pleased to offer personally Author Autographed & Inscribed Books of Bestselling Author Megan Bannen's New Softcover Novel The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy. ![]() ![]() Can James continue toīe the master of his own fate, or will all of his charm, intelligence,Īnd wit finally fail him when he has to enter the lion’s den? Growing into feelings of quite a different sort. And his distaste for Alexis Malvern is slowly Ward, James’ former paramour, has a secret that couldĬhange his life forever. But even aĬharmed life like James’ is not without its setbacks.įire threatens to end his merchant career before it’s had a chance to Return, James’ ascent to head of the company seems inevitable. Running away to the country after a terrible tragedy and refusing to ![]() To being the right-hand man of Henry Malvern, head of the most James Lionel Falconer has risen quickly from a mere shop worker ![]() ![]() Martin’s Pressįrom New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes the highly anticipated second book in the House of Falconer saga. ![]() ![]() ![]() (In this, he notes, the Obama administration is not blameless.) Farrow profiles many men and women who have spent time in Foggy Bottom, the headquarters of a State Department that has been all but emptied. Bush administration has been militarized. “Diplomats perform many essential functions-” writes New Yorker contributor Farrow, perhaps best known for breaking the story of film executive Harvey Weinstein’s long pattern of sexual depredations, “spiriting Americans out of crises, holding together developing economies, hammering out deals between governments.” In the absence of diplomacy, the most likely alternative is war, and by the author’s account, the tendency of American foreign policy since the George W. Guess which one the current administration favors? Nations deal with each other through trade and diplomacy-or war. ![]() ![]() ![]() Stephanie hasn’t shared any details concerning her career with the public, and some of her fans believe that she’s not working, but is rather enjoying her parents’ wealth. Upon matriculating in 2012, she enrolled at Hamilton College, from which she graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in 2016. ![]() Her father has revealed that he knew little of raising a baby girl, but still spent the majority of his spare time with Dorothea and Stephanie he wrote a song for Stephanie, entitled “I Got the Girl”, and when he performed it at a concert in 2000, when Stephanie was seven years old, she joined him on the stage and sang it with him.Ī post shared by ✌□️□ was interested in various activities while attending a local high school, including playing sports such as volleyball and soccer, and appearing in school plays Stephanie also dreamed of becoming a popular singer, wanting to follow in her father’s footsteps, but it didn’t take long for her to learn that she wasn’t talented enough for it. ![]() Stephanie was raised in Los Angeles alongside her younger brothers Jesse Bongiovi, Romeo Jon Bongiovi and Jacob Hurley Bongiovi, by their father and their mother Dorothea Hurley, an American restaurant owner and karate instructor. She’s probably only known for being the daughter of Jon Bon Jovi, a famous American singer-songwriter and actor. ![]() Stephanie was born in Los Angeles, California USA, on – her zodiac sign is Gemini, and she holds American nationality. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The earlier books contained very few actual words, but this book changes things up with much more actual dialogue (except for Owly himself Owly still speaks in pictures and symbols). This book, Owly: The Way Home, the first in a new series, is a little different from previous Owly stories, as some readers may notice. Owly could never have predicted the amazing friendship that would form as a result! In a second story, Owly and Wormy befriend a pair of hummingbirds.Īrtist and author Andy Runton brings the popular comic character Owly to life in a new set of stories about the beauty of friendship. So when Owly rescues a lost little worm from a puddle on a rainy day, his only concern is the little creature’s safety and helping it find its way home. Being an owl, many of the birds and bugs in the forest where he lives are scared of Owly, even when all he’s doing is trying to help. Owly the owl wants nothing more in life than to have friends, but he doesn’t have the easiest time making new ones. ![]() |