![]() ![]() What Chloe needs is a teacher, and she knows just the man for the job: Redford 'Red' Morgan. do something bad But it's not easy being bad, even when you've written out step-by-step guidelines. ![]() After almost - but not quite - dying, she's come up with a list of directives to help her 'Get a Life': - Enjoy a drunken night out - Ride a motorbike - Go camping - Have meaningless but thoroughly enjoyable sex - Travel the world with nothing but hand luggage - And. 'I loved every page' Helen Hoang, USA Today bestselling author of The Kiss Quotient 'Smart, funny, and sexy' Meg Cabot, author of No Judgments and the Princess Diaries series Talia Hibbert delivers a witty, hilarious romantic comedy about a woman who's tired of being 'boring' and recruits her mysterious, sexy neighbour to help her get a life - perfect for fans of Sally Thorne, Jasmine Guillory and Helen Hoang! Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan and a list. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() She was given a prophecy, along with King Adetusa, that their child, Odewale, would one day grow up to usurp the thrown, killing them both. She is the mother of six children: two under King Adetusa (Odewale and Aderepo), and four under King Odewale (Adewale, Adebisi, Oyeyemi, Adeyinka). Along with the Ogun Priest, it is revealed to him that the old king was his father, and that Ojuola was his mother. Odewale is confronted by Gbonka, a messenger, who tells of the event that lead to King Adetusa's end. ![]() He is found and picked up by a farmer hunter Ogundele and raised by him along with his wife Mobe. Instead, he is wrapped in a white cloth (symbolizing death) and left in a bush far from Kutuje. To prevent this from occurring, King Adetusa orders for Odewale to be killed. Similar in nature to the Greek play, Oedipus Tyrannus his royal parents receive a prophecy from Baba Fakunle that Odewale would grow up to them both. The manner in which he kills his father is revealed in a flashback when his childhood friend, Alaka, comes to Kutuje to ask him why he was not in the village of Ede as he said he would be when he departed at age thirteen. Odewale: The current king of Kutuje, who had risen to power by unknowingly murdering the old king, King Adetusa, whom, also not to his knowledge, was also his father. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() Hopeful of finding a proper noble to dub him, Quixano finally is licensed in his venture by an innkeeper who believes him to be a lord of a manor. Outfitting himself with some old rusty armor, Quixano enlists his spavined hack horse to go forth in search of knightly adventures. to turn his passion knight errant and travel through the world with horse and armor in search of adventures" with the purpose of "redressing all manner of wrongs."Īt length, he is galvanized into action by his passion for the chivalric code. "From little sleep and too much reading his brain dried up and he lost his wits. As his appetite for the lore of chivalry increases, Quixano begins selling off acres of his farmlands, using the funds to buy more books, and increasingly throwing himself into his studies. ![]() ![]() From his readings and studies, he becomes by degrees interested, then obsessed, with the codes, deeds, and tales of chivalry - of knights errant on some courtly and idealized mission. Well read and thoughtful, Quixano's most prized possessions are his books. He is driven neither by ambition for wealth and position nor bitterness at his genteel poverty. Practical in most things, compassionate to his social peers, the local clergy, and the servant classes, Quixano is respectful toward the ruling classes, whom he unquestioningly accepts as his superiors. Alonso Quixano, a less-than-affluent man of fifty, "lean bodied" and "thin faced, lives modestly in the Spanish country village of La Mancha with his niece, Antonia, and a cranky housemaid. ![]() ![]() As the trio at the center of the book does battle with a cabal of drug dealers and crooked cops, they come to learn that their future is inextricably linked with their parents’ history. Spanning from 1960s Southern California to the recent past, The Kings of Cool is a breathtakingly original saga of family in all its forms-fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, friends and lovers. Now, in this high-octane prequel to Savages, Winslow reaches back in time to tell the story of how Ben, Chon, and O became the people they are. Among the most celebrated literary thrillers, Savages was a Top 10 Book of the Year selection by Janet Maslin in The New York Times and Stephen King in Entertainment Weekly. In Savages, Don Winslow introduced Ben and Chon, twenty-something best friends who risk everything to save the girl they both love, O. ![]() ![]() From the New York Times bestselling author of The Cartel, The Force, and The Border ![]() ![]() As their uncle has forbidden her to contact him, and Miles himself is perfect in his attention to lessons and seems eager to please her, the governess decides that he couldn’t possibly have done anything requiring his expulsion and continues to indulge the children over the course of the summer. With this in mind, she makes her way to the Bly estate in Essex, but finds that both Flora and Miles are exceptionally charming and joyful children, despite the fact that Miles has been excluded from his school under undisclosed circumstances. The gentleman, who is their uncle, however, includes a strange addition to her appointment – that she under no circumstances should ever contact him about anything to do with the children. ![]() She takes the job of becoming the governess of two small children at a gentlemen’s country house, whose previous governess had recently died. One member of the party, rather than making a story up, decides to send for a manuscript he has possession of which is the testimony of a governess, recounting events that had happened to her many years previously. The Turn of the Screw is a short ghost story published in 1989, which begins with a gathering of people at a country house at Christmas telling each other ghost stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the book, this event is narrated by Jane much later. In this first visit, the real Mabelle encounters Alistair at the dentist and Jane Olivera witnesses this. ![]() ![]() The first is again a preamble and enacts events before chapter 1 in the book.
![]() ![]() ![]() Vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-markīird’s quest powers Our Missing Hearts forward through the first and strongest of its three sections, as he makes his way through secret library networks, hunting down missing books laced with clues. Most urgently, children are taken away from any parent who’s been reported as holding un-American ideas, placed with foster families in faraway cities, and given new names so they never find their way back to their old homes. Books are banned from schools and libraries, then pulped and turned into toilet paper. In Ng’s world, Asian Americans are harassed and attacked in the streets. The resulting society, as all successful dystopias do, bears an unsettling resemblance to our own, retro vocabulary be damned. In the process of recovering from a vaguely detailed economic meltdown that’s become known simply as “the Crisis,” America has turned on China, and on every “Person of Asian Origin” who might either come from China or be mistaken as having done so. ![]() It’s the kind of world where people spend a lot of time worrying over un-American values and threats to the American way of life, where kids are taught to inform on their neighbors, and everyone still rides their bike to school.īut the America of Our Missing Hearts isn’t fretting over secret Russian communists. ![]() Our Missing Hearts, the new novel from Little Fires Everywhere author Celeste Ng, takes place in a retro sort of dystopia, a Cold War kid’s nightmare. ![]() ![]()
![]() He didn’t make a sound because he was dead on impact. Slowly, his body slumped sideways until he collapsed in the snow. Then I moved out of the tree line, aimed right for the neck of one, and fired. I purposely waited until they came to a standstill because I couldn’t hit a moving target. I was not letting these bastards take it from me. They must have seen the trail continue up ahead because they ran right past us.īecause I actually had something to lose. The guards were still in hot pursuit, all on horses, two dogs in the lead. I hid behind a tree on one side of the trail. I kept practicing with the bow and arrow-like my life depended on it. She put the knife in her pocket and did as I asked, making a trail farther up ahead. “What about the dogs? I’m not going to kill a dog.” “What the hell am I supposed to do with this?” We’ll shoot them in the back.” I pulled the knife from my pocket and handed it to her. ![]() Go a hundred feet before you turn around and walk back along the same trail.” I pulled the string back and tried again. So maybe four? And no idea how many dogs they have…” ![]() “I don’t know.” She turned to look behind her. “How many are there?” I picked up the arrow and tried again. It moved less than a few inches before falling to the ground. “Kill them.” I put the bow on the string, pulled back my arm, and released the arrow. “But it’s not over yet.” I pulled my bow off my back and grabbed an arrow from the quiver. She nodded again, but this time, she sniffled. “I’d rather die on my own terms than be a prisoner to someone else.” ![]() |