![]() ![]() ![]() This exceptionally well-written novel is all about suspense, thrill, and drama, including the relationships between generations and what happens between long-standing friends. It is an extraordinary piece of work, a perfect balancing act with terror on one side and love on the other. ![]() They made readers love them, they made readers sad, they made readers angry, they made readers laugh, they made readers cry, and they made readers believe in the promise of love and home. The characters in this novel bring life and heart to this story, each with a distinct voice and personality. Goal is a heartfelt novel written with compassion and hope, reconciling the past to pave a road to happiness and second chances. It is an epic tale of family, secrets, loss, marriage, betrayal, friendships, laughter, and regrets. She is a true storyteller, and Goal is her best book. This novel is written by Alexandria House. Goal is a modern masterpiece, a powerful novel that can be read on its own. Be prepared to put everything aside as you will not be able to put the book down. The prose is beautifully written in a style that readers of Alexandria House work have come to expect. Goal is an absolute page-turner from page one. Download Goal by Alexandria House PDF novel free. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It was super easy to get pulled into this story and the world it takes place in.Ī entertaining cast of secondary characters, family ties to both the mob and the cops and lots of madcap charm will have you fully under this books spell and in absolutely no hurry to escape. ![]() ![]() The sizzling chemistry and snappy banter made Sam and Suds not only a likable couple but I thought a very memorable one. If you are looking for a book that can offer you an engaging blend of humor, mystery, action, heat and heart, you can stop looking because you just found it. At least I can sit out there now and then and maybe invite a friend over to social distance, sigh. I told you I lied about being ready for fall. Speaking of distractions, I bought a propane heater for my deck outside. I can see Friday in the distance! Hump day and book fair Wednesday with only 4 days until Halloween?! Sounds good to me! Lets get some great reads in to distract us from the real world, LOL. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you like your fairyales sweet and Disney-esque then Among the Beasts and Briars is for you! “You trekked among the beasts and briars, and the deep heart led you all the way to Voryn.” I would have liked more, but what I did get was lush. But the road is darker and more dangerous than she knows, and as secrets from the past are uncovered amid the teeth and roots of the forest, it’s going to take everything she has just to survive. It’s up to her to find the legendary Lady of the Wilds and beg for a way to save her home. Cerys is forced on the run, her only companions the small fox from the garden, a strange and powerful bear, and the magic in her veins. ![]() ![]() The most danger she faces now, as a gardener’s daughter, is the annoying fox who stalks the royal gardens and won’t leave her alone.Īs a new queen is crowned, however, things long hidden in the woods descend on the kingdom itself. Now Cerys carries a small bit of the curse-the magic-in her blood, a reminder of the day she lost everything. Cerys knows this all too well: when she was young, she barely escaped as the woods killed her friends and her mother. But as Aloriya prospered, the woods grew dark, cursed, and forbidden. ![]() It has been this way for hundreds of years, since the first king made a bargain with the Lady who ruled the forest that borders the kingdom. Here there are no droughts, disease, or famine, and peace is everlasting. ![]() ![]() ![]() From the moment Dionisio Vivo and Ramón "Cochinillo" Dario attend to the cravate corpse deposited in his garden by the coca lords, you become ensconced in the world of Ipasueño, its passions, ironies, and political intrigues, and cease to be aware of the hand of Bernières behind the scenes.ĭionisio, a professor of philosophy, writes a series of letters, published in the prestigious journal La Prensa, castigating the coca trade, and from there the story spins furiously in many directions and subplots. Louis de Bernières is a masterful writer, which is to say his command of the various crafts of writing-creating character, innovative description, telling a whopping good story-weaves a spell and sucks you into the magic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not to mention that he started writing Eragon and graduated high school when he was but 15 years old. It takes a brilliant,imaginative and intuitive mind to create a land the likes of Alagaesia the way he did. I love the way he layered in many culturally different peoples ways of living and folklore along with their unique cities, towns and villages. Christopher Paolini is a "fantasy world genius". ![]() I couldn't put it down after I started reading, I would just get lost in the world of Alagaesia, that Eragon and his charasmatic dragon Saphira lived,fought and survived in. ![]() I was captivated by these books more than I have ever been before. Aside from special effects that really were quite good, the rest of the movie could have been put together in a much better way. After reading just the first book you really realize what a hack job they did on the movie. I made the mistake of watching the movie "Eragon" before I read any of the books. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It will take all of her famed wisdom to sort out her own problems and help Heracles succeed!Īuthors Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams put a modern spin on classic myths with the Goddess Girls series (ages 8-12, Aladdin). When her dad, Principal Zeus, asks her to secretly watch out for the new boy, Athena winds ups capturing mythical beasts and shoveling poop. She started at MOA just a few months ago! Not only does Heracles need help fitting in, he also has to complete twelve “labors” or he’ll be kicked out of the academy. ![]() When a mortal named Heracles transfers in, she knows what he’s going through. PST.īook overview: Athena isn’t the only new kid at Mount Olympus Academy. One lucky reader will be the winner of Athena the Wise signed by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams, plus a colorful Goddess Girls bracelet made by the authors. By Bianca Schulze, The Children’s Book Reviewįans of Mythology and the Goddess Girls series will once again be thrilled to know that we have the next installment to giveaway. ![]() ![]() ![]() Libra-a ship assumed lost to the currents of Deep Time. ![]() Though she can't share the information with conventional law enforcement, Moss discovers that the missing SEAL was an astronaut aboard the spaceship U.S.S. In western Pennsylvania, 1997, she is assigned to solve the murder of a Navy SEAL's family-and to locate his vanished teenage daughter. Shannon Moss is part of a clandestine division within the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Inception meets True Detective in this science fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind. “I promise you have never read a story like this.” -Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter ![]() ![]() Had the man looked through another peep-hole he might have said: ‘Saints and angels and martyrs and holy men,’ and he would have meant the same thing.Ĭannery Row is quite a leisurely tour of the different inhabitants of the street – a mix of vignettes of their lives and something of an ongoing plot, though it is really more of an ongoing set of characters. ![]() Its inhabitants are, as the man once said, ‘whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,’ by which he meant Everybody. Cannery Row is the gathered and scattered, tin and iron and rust and splintered wood, chipped pavement and weedy lots and junk heaps, sardine canneries or corrugated iron, honky-tonks, restaurants and whore-houses, and little crowded groceries, and laboratories and flop-houses. Now it is neglected no longer! And I really enjoyed the atmosphere and tone of Steinbeck’s tribute to a small Californian town.Ĭannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. ![]() My friend Matt recommended Cannery Row (1939) by John Steinbeck back in 2009, and I ordered a copy which has sat on my shelves for 15 years. ![]() ![]() he's obviously been playing with the evolution of life on each of these planets.įrom this provocative launch point, Sawyer tells a fast-paced, and morally and intellectually challenging, SF story that just grows larger and larger in scope. Both alien races believe this proves the existence of God: i.e. It seems that Earth, and the alien's home planet, and the home planet of another alien species traveling on the alien mother ship, all experienced the same five cataclysmic events at about the same time (one example of these "cataclysmic events" would be the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs). A six-legged, two-armed alien emerges, who says, in perfect English, "Take me to a paleontologist." ![]() Sawyer.Īn alien shuttle craft lands outside the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. ![]() Calculating God is the new near-future SF thriller from the popular and award-winning Robert J. ![]() ![]() ![]() Twenty years from now, a boy from her class will launch World War III, and it is up to Alice to stop him. What she discovers shakes her to the core. Determined to figure out who the voice is and what it wants, Alice hurtles into a dangerous investigation into the tangled link between the future and the present. But submitting to the voice sets off a series of bizarre demands, tasks that don't seem to follow any rhyme or reason. Never mind that she's never spoken a word to him before.Ĭompelled by the excruciating pain in her head, Alice reluctantly obeys. Until the day a strange voice appears in her mind, demanding that she approach Bandit, the cute Thai boy in her physics class - and kiss him. ![]() ![]() And she's utterly content to stay there, as not taking risks means that she doesn't get hurt. Seventeen-year-old Alice has spent her entire life in the shadows of her charismatic twin brother. Can she kill his still-innocent self today in order to save millions of lives tomorrow?Ĭould you kill an innocent life today to save millions in the future? Dead Zone meets Sixth Sense when a girl learns that a boy in her class will one day launch World War III. ![]() |