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How does Carol Jones’s character as well as her relationship with Jennifer play a role in the young girl’s crime? Why do you think many criminals, including young Jennifer had the tendency of responding to difficult situations with violence? To what degree do you think Jennifer’s childhood experiences and emotional status spare her from her guilt? How does your answer alter when you consider this from the perspective of Jennifer and Michelle’s family? Why? How would you come to terms with yourself if you were in Jennifer’s shoes?Īlice is terrified of the people around her finding out about her past. It is a tense, emotional thriller about guilt, running away and wondering if you can ever truly know yourself. This story explores themes of justice, guilt and forgiveness as we are introduced to Jennifer Jones, a girl who was convicted of murder at a young age, who is also now struggling to fit into society with her new identity, and who also has feelings despite her mistakes. The long-awaited sequel to the critically acclaimed LOOKING FOR JJKate Rickman seems just like any other nineteen-year-old girl. FINDING JENNIFER JONES is the powerful sequel to the highly acclaimed, Carnegie Medal nominated LOOKING FOR JJ. Looking for JJ is a thought-provoking young adult novel written by British author Anne Cassidy. Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college-they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play "A couple who broke up months ago pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry. If you're feeling all the angst just from that, then get ready because the official description from Berkley will have you even more excited: But will they also say goodbye to each other too? As they share a room, avoid all of their feelings for each other, and keep a big secret from their closest friends, things get especially heated when they remember they'll have say goodbye to the Maine paradise shortly. The story follows a former couple who have to spend an entire week together on vacation. While most of us won't ever be in that wild position, Emily Henry is allowing us to see it all unfold in her latest book, Happy Place, which comes out on April 25, 2023. If you have any of her other books on your TBR right now, you're going to want to catch up on them ASAP as she gets ready to release her next novel that'll make you want to book a summer vacation with your BFFs and maybe even your ex-fiancé (yes, really). For the last couple of years, Emily Henry has been the queen of romance novels, and that is not changing any time soon. At one point, Adeline even thinks to herself "I'm making the exact same mistake I made before, only this time I know how much Rock will hate it so it's even worse". Which undermines the whole concept of love, as far as I'm concerned. Worse, it's people not trusting the one they are in love with. The thing is, the entire conflict of this story is people not talking to each other. I gave up at about 85% when it just got to be too much. I'm not sure why I wanted it to be Stella Riley specifically, but my hopes died horrible deaths as the stupid multiplied as the story progressed. I really, really wanted to like this book because having a new author I like is like striking gold. I have no idea why you'd want to read this book, though, so there's that. So you don't need to read the books in order. Characters from the first show up, but they aren't integral to the plot in any way that requires you to know them beyond what's introduced here. Boy-next-door type Jimmy Smith (Jason Webb) might seem an equal candidate for Millie’s heart if he weren’t poor as a church mouse-and as irritating as all get out-but Millie is nothing if not determined, and besides, if a girl is going to fall in love, she might as well fall for a rich man, right? Movie buffs will recall Millie Dilmount’s 1967 screen debut with Julie Andrews in the title role, while musical theater aficionados will tell you that Millie made her Broadway debut thirty-five years later, with new songs by Jeanine Tesori and Dick Scanlan and a lead performance that won Sutton Foster the Tony and scored Richard Morris and Scanlan a Best Book Tony as well.Īllyson Spiegelman now steps into superstars Andrews’ and Foster’s shoes as a small-town girl freshly arrived in 1920s New York with dreams of big city success not unlike 42nd Street’s Peggy Sawyer, though in Millie’s case, it’s not show biz she means to conquer but the heart of her rich and handsome new boss Trevor Graydon (Kelby Thwaits). For a Broadway hit that won six Tony awards (including Best Musical of 2002), Thoroughly Modern Millie has made relatively few Southland appearances in the intervening twelve years, just one of many reasons to celebrate the Thoroughly Modern (circa 1922) Miss’s arrival at Glendale Centre Theatre under the thoroughly marvelous co-direction of Danny Michaels and Orlando Alexander. Jason Archer uncovers criminal activity as he is compiling the records and integrating the information of his company, Triton Global, a corporate leader in the technology field. His investigations consume the bulk of this work by David Baldacci, and eventually climax in the revelation of a treacherous conspiracy involving murder, blackmail, and double crosses among the culprits. A fatal sabotage of an airplane, murdering 130 people and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, the apparent corporate espionage activities of a computer expert for a national technological corporation, and the murder of a gay investment analyst in New York, appear to be thoroughly unrelated crimes, except that tenacious and persistent FBI agent Lee Sawyer is determined to learn how the three events are connected. 'A literary iconoclast.' - New York Times ' A rare and mysterious writer, always surprising to me, with every book.' - Michael Ondaatje ' A novelist of dazzling ingenuity and depth.' - Times Literary Supplement In Klara and the Sun, his first novel since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly-changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love? She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change for ever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. Though avoiding fate would prove impossible when the only way to save my life was to surrender it by marrying the monster who’d destroyed it. Yet when he looked at me, touched me, dared to love me, the beliefs I’d worn as armor began to melt. Regardless of how I loathed him, the deceitful and dangerous male was my last hope. My savior and my doom returned, and this time, he wasn’t leaving without me. Such a betrayal called for severe consequences, and the price of releasing the biggest threat our kingdom had faced in hundreds of years was not one I would survive.īut upon discovering my uncle’s foiled plans for their prince, the Unseelie demanded vengeance, and an agreement was made. The creature I’d formed a tentative friendship with in my family’s dungeon was not the gentle, intriguing prince I’d thought him to be.Īnd I’d helped him escape my uncle’s clutches. I’d known exactly who he was-the Unseelie prince. Ella Fields delivers a treacherously tender love story set in an all-new fantasy world. Pulcheria notes that Raskolnikov will soon have a chance to meet Luzhin in Petersburg. Marfa Svidrigailov, exonerated publically by the same woman, and then proposed to by a government official named Luzhin. Raskolnikov receives a letter from his mother Pulcheria, who reports that his sister Dunya, once a governess working for the Svidrigailov family, has been courted by Mr. Raskolnikov meets a drunk named Marmeladov, who tells of his troubles and his daughter Sonya, a prostitute. Upon leaving, he repeats to himself his intentions: he will murder the old crone and rob her. He goes to the apartment of an old pawnbroker, who lives with her sister Lizaveta, and pawns his father’s watch. He wanders about the city, barely eats, and hatches a vague plan he wishes to “test” one afternoon. Petersburg, where Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished former student, has come psychologically unhinged. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption and an exploration of the power of fathers over sons-their love, their sacrifices, their lies.Ī sweeping story of family, love, and friendship told against the devastating backdrop of the history of Afghanistan over the last thirty years, The Kite Runner is an unusual and powerful novel that has become a beloved, one-of-a-kind classic. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. The New York Times bestseller and international classic loved by millions of readers. Buy the Book: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, IndieBound, iBooks, Also available in the UK |