Ruby in the Sky is a story of the walls we hide behind, and the magic that can happen when we're brave enough to break free. As ugly rumors begin to swirl around the people Ruby loves, she must make a choice: break her silence, or risk losing everything that's come to mean so much to her. Before long Ahmad and Abigail have become Ruby's friends-and she realizes there is more to their stories than everyone knows. Or when she meets "the Bird Lady," a recluse named Abigail who lives in a ramshackle shed near Ruby's house. But keeping to herself isn't easy when Ahmad Saleem, a Syrian refugee, decides he's her new best friend. She and her mother won't be staying long in Vermont anyway, and then things can go back to the way they were before everything went wrong. Ruby just wants to stay as silent and invisible as a new moon in the frozen sky. And she definitely does not want to make any friends. She does not want them to know her mother has been arrested. She lives in Ellington, Connecticut, with her family. ' She is also a volunteer with IRIS-Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services (irisct. Twelve-year-old Ruby Moon Hayes does not want her new classmates to ask about her father. Jeanne Zulick Ferruolo is the author of Ruby in the Sky, which earned two starred reviews and which Booklist called 'quietly magical. In Jeanne Zulick Ferruolo's heartfelt middle-grade debut about family, friendship, and finding your own identity, Ruby Moon Hayes learns there's more to a person's story than what other people tell. Ruby in the Sky By: Jeanne Zulick Ferruolo Narrated by: Merissa Czyz Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins 5.0 (6 ratings) Try for 0.
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5/23/2023 0 Comments Glass Houses by Laura J. MixonBurning the Ice continues the story begun in Proxies, but takes place long after the colony ship has left Earth. She wrote her next book, Proxies, set in the same universe as Glass Houses, but with a bigger scope. Her second novel, Glass Houses, was originally serialized in Analog Magazine in 1991 it was published by Tor Books the following year. Her first book, Astropilots, was published as part of a young adult series by Scholastic/Omni books in 1987. In the 1980s, she took a break from that work to serve in the Peace Corps in East Africa. Mixon was born in December 1957 and went on to become a Chemical and Environmental Engineer. She won the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer for her reporting about the online activities of writer Benjanun Sriduangkaew. She has also experimented with interactive storytelling, in collaboration with game designer Chris Crawford. Her work has been the focus of academic studies on the intersection of technology, feminism, and gender. Mixon writes about the impact of technology and environmental changes on personal identity and social structures. Under that name, she is one of the writers for the group blog Eat Our Brains. In 2011, she began publishing under the pen name Morgan J. Mixon (born December 8, 1957) is an American science fiction writer and a chemical and environmental engineer. 5/23/2023 0 Comments Aristotle on citizenshipStudents and scholars of Aristotle's practical thought do face significant obstacles to an understanding of his ethics as integrated with politics and vice versa. We ought to suspect from all this that the two books are mutually illuminating and that without further attention to the Politics our philosophically informed understanding of Aristotle's practical thinking may be significantly incomplete. The NE addresses the student of politics and the politician throughout, and virtue and happiness loom large in the Politics. This is surprising, considering that Aristotle opens the Nicomachean Ethics by defining knowledge of the human good as politikê (political knowledge) and given that he closes the work by exhorting us to bring virtue and happiness to life in cities, after studying politics and constitutions. While Aristotle's ethical treatises have inspired massive profusions of fine philosophical work, philosophers have shown comparatively little interest in the Politics. As such it is rare and invaluable even among the classics of political philosophy. Aristotle's Politics holds up the highest ideals of human flourishing and excellence, while fearlessly diving into the nitty-gritty of everyday political circumstances, where neither flourishing nor excellence may seem possible. Intriguingly illustrated by the author's adopted son Mikey Jiraros, this is a book to be savored. And finally there are encounters with archetypes that seem to have messages to deliver, or instructions from a higher place. Then there are dreams that seem to contain entire plots of novels unwritten, perhaps a treasure trove to be mined for future works. From bright blue coelocanths encircling the globe to mediaeval spaceships to Paleolithic Venuses that unzip their skin to reveal hidden cameras to vomit that splits into emeralds, Somtow's dream diary is like an anthology of symbolist prose poems, reminiscent of the fevered mind of Rimbaud. A glimpse into the inner world of one of today's Renaissance men, The Maestro's Noctuary contains images both inspiring and disturbing. Somtow delivers nine years' worth of his dreams, meticulously recorded in a dream journal. By popular request, World Fantasy Award winning novelist and opera composer S.P. Un attacco omofobo gli è costato l’uso delle gambe, confinandolo su una sedia a rotelle. Kaden Thorn, un chirurgo dentale con una vita tranquilla, non crede che troverà l’amore che tanto desidera. To learn more about Tempeste and their writing, visit. Tempe’s preferred pronouns are they/them/their/theirs/themselves. Tempe is also a proud PAN member of Romance Writers of America®, WisRWA, and Rainbow Romance Writers. They lives in Wisconsin with their children, reading, writing, and enjoying life. They counts her friends, family, and Muse as their greatest blessings in life. Though new to writing M/M, they has done many things in their life, yet writing has always drawn them back-no matter what else life has thrown their way. Tempe is a hopeless romantic who loves strong relationships and happily-ever-afters. Tempeste O’Riley is an out and proud pansexual genderfluid whose best friend growing up had the courage to do what they couldn’t-defy the hate and come out. Because Love Sees No Gender! Homoerotic romance with tenderness and passion. 5/22/2023 0 Comments The 39 Steps by John Buchan100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians. COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.
5/22/2023 0 Comments Distorted nyla k** Distorted is the first book in the Alabaster Penitentiary series. And I promise, it’ll be fun to go in blind. *DO NOT READ OR POST SPOILERS! I am begging you to think of your fellow readers, in your reviews, your posts… everywhere. Reality warps in the dungeon, and I’m left wondering which prison is worse… the one holding my body, or my mind. We move around one another like a sun and a moon, revolving in an axis of confused lust and torment until the truth is distorted, and the thing I once feared becomes that which I crave my vile addiction, somehow so exquisite. He has a name, but it might as well be Officer. You see, the guards run the show, and I seem to have caught the attention of the most twisted one. Unfortunately for me and my fellow prisoners, those in charge are more dangerous than we are. I don’t belong here, surrounded by psychopaths and killers with no remorse… At least, I don’t think I do. They lock us up and throw away the key, because we deserve it.īut not me. The freaks, the creeps, your favorite Netflix documentaries come to life. Where they send you when the world thinks you’re dead. 5/22/2023 0 Comments Swann's way bookA third-person novella within Swann's Way, "Un Amour de Swann" is sometimes published as a volume by itself. Swann's Way is divided into four parts: "Combray I", "Combray II", "Un Amour de Swann", and "Noms de pays: le nom". When published it was advertised as the first of a three-volume novel. Proust eventually arranged with the publisher Grasset to pay the cost of publication himself. The first part (Swann's Way) was rejected by a number of publishers. Proust continued to work on it until his final illness in the autumn of 1922 forced him to break off. In Search of Lost Time follows the narrator's recollections of childhood and experiences into adulthood during the late 19th century to early 20th century aristocratic France, while reflecting on the loss of time and lack of meaning to the world. Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust, known as Marcel Proust, was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel In Search of Lost Time earlier rendered as Remembrance of Things Past. 5/22/2023 0 Comments Buns by alice claytonBut as the paparazzi catches up with them, Grace, dubbed the “unidentified redhead,” is stuck in a bind. As Grace tries to restrain herself from jumping a man who is nearly a decade her junior, Jack makes it clear that he has zero problems with her age. And Hollywood’s newest Brit super-hunk Jack Hamilton certainly agrees. In The Unidentified Redhead, ten years after discovering that looks and talent are a dime a dozen in Los Angeles, Grace Sheridan is back and ready to show the film industry that there’s more to her than just a head of gorgeous red curls. New York Times bestselling author Alice Clayton is a magical mix of humor and heat in The Redhead Series-a playful series following a sizzling romance between aspiring actress Grace Sheridan and Hollywood’s hottest new leading man, Jack Hamilton. 5/22/2023 0 Comments Some Boys by Patty BlountLana definitely has only one goal: grow her online makeup channel to keep her momager off her back, even if the posts attract ugly internet trolls. Okay, make that two goals … she may also want a first kiss from her cinema-rescuing partner and major crush, Jake. Ricki has one goal: save the Starlight Drive-in movie theater from going dark forever. And that even a day that has been lived over and over can be filled with unexpected connections and plenty of happy endings. What she discovers along the way is that people who seem completely different can often share the very same hopes, dreams, and hang-ups. After a move to Punxsutawney, PA, for her senior year, she gets caught in an endless loop of her first day at her new school, reliving those 24 hours again and again.Ĭonvinced the curse will be broken when she meets her true love, Andie embarks on a mission: infiltrating the various cliques to find the one boy who can break the spell. She’s addicted to romance movies-okay, all movies-but has yet to experience her first kiss. A Groundhog Day meets Pretty in Pink mashup from author Laurie Boyle Crompton, Pretty in Punxsutawney tells the tale of a girl willing to look beneath the surface to see people for who they really are.Īndie is the type of girl who always comes up with the perfect thing to say…after it’s too late to say it. |
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