Books like stephen king the institute5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, “like the roach motel,” Kalisha says. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents-telekinesis and telepathy-who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. The operation takes less than two minutes. ![]() In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. ![]()
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Persepolis rising the expanse5/31/2023 ![]() I received this novel from Orbit Books, through NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review: my thanks to both of them for the opportunity to read this new installment in my very favorite space opera series.Īpart from a brief synopsis of the story, something you could find on GoodReads or the back cover of the book, there will be no spoilers in this review: more than any other, this is a novel that must be enjoyed with a minimum of foreknowledge.Īt the end of Babylon’s Ashes, as many narrative threads seemed to have come to a conclusion, I wondered where the authors would next take the story, and after reading the novella Strange Dogs I had an inkling that the focus might be shifted toward the colonies established in the worlds beyond the alien portals accessed through Medina station. ![]() Beth and amy virginia kantra5/31/2023 ![]() We even see some insights from the girls' mother, Abbey, as she has some self-revelations of her own. Beth is redeeming and though she has her battles, by the end of the story she is finding solid ground to stand on. Keener (toujours.katie) on Instagram: Beth & Amy by Virginia Kantra Finally finished with this contemporary Little Women. Amy March is more like her older sister Jo than she’d like to admit. ![]() This was such an endearing, charming story about Beth and Amy! Kantra has given Amy such a fitting personality- a strong, independent entrepreneur. Read a sample Read a sample Description Details Reviews Four sisters face new beginnings in this heartfelt modern take on Little Women by New York Times bestselling author Virginia Kantra. While they are both fighting their own personal demons, the two women try to navigate their lives and where their future paths could lead them. Amy continues struggling with stepping out from Jo's shadow, in regards to both her dreams and Trey, and Beth grapples with an illness and the need to live up to the expectations of everyone around her. ![]() Amy's getting her business, “Baggage,” up and running in New York, but can't forget her time in Paris with longtime family friend, and sister Jo's ex-boyfriend, Trey.īoth girls embark on a journey home for Jo's wedding and find themselves missing their little hometown in North Carolina, and the family they have there. But the limelight is too much for her and her health takes a toll. Beth is on the road with country music star (and boyfriend) Colt Henderson. ![]() Kantra has taken the two younger March sisters from Little Women and weaved a compelling, contemporary story. ![]() ![]() I will mention about three main characters though to give you an idea of what is happening: This book, Valor is loaded with so much action that I could hear the swords and shields clashing and banging together as I read the story!Īgain for this series I am not giving a backstory because there is just so much happening within this story with so many characters that it is hard to narrow it down of what happens within as with this book the action and the characters kick it all up a notch. This sequel was action packed to the hilt! ![]() Book ancestor trouble5/31/2023 ![]() She set out to research her genealogy-her grandfather’s marriages, the accused witch, her ancestors’ roles in slavery and other harms. Newton’s family inspired in her a desire to understand family patterns: what we are destined to replicate and what we can leave behind. Mental illness and religious fanaticism percolated Maud’s maternal lines back to an ancestor accused of being a witch in Puritan-era Massachusetts. ![]() Her mother’s grandfather killed a man with a hay hook. Her mother’s father was said to have married thirteen times. Maud Newton’s ancestors have fascinated her since she was a girl. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, NPR, Time, Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Esquire, Garden & Gun An acclaimed writer goes searching for the truth about her complicated Southern family-and finds that our obsession with ancestors opens up new ways of seeing ourselves-in this “brilliant mix of personal memoir and cultural observation” ( The Boston Globe).Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize. ![]() ![]() a literary feat that simultaneously builds and excavates identity.”- The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) ![]() |