![]() ![]() Filled with fascinating historical information and enchanting cat lore, Time Cat showcases the author's wonderful talent for capturing the imagination as he immerses you in other cultures. And wherever they go, Gareth leaves his inimitable pawprint on history. Whether the destination is Renaissance Italy or revolutionary America, their appearance never fails to cause a stir. On their travels they meet interesting and famous people, such as St. With the wink of an eye, Jason and Gareth are transported to alluring settings in world history. Soon cat and boy find themselves in ancient Egypt on the first of nine fantastic adventures. ![]() When Jason hears this, he begs to go along. ![]() This is the secret Jason's cat, Gareth, tells him. Log in Create account × SummaryĬats don't really have nine lives, but they can visit nine different lives, anywhere, anytime. In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account. ![]()
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Samir never thought he’d have to play the part of the villain. He knows Samir can’t be trusted, but Warrehn can’t seem to stay away from him. ![]() When he returns to reclaim his throne, all he wants is to punish the usurpers: the woman who killed his family, and her son, Samir, who has grown up to be as beautiful and as poisonous as his mother. ![]() ![]() He wasn't supposed to want the enemy… His family brutally murdered and his throne stolen, Prince Warrehn has planned his revenge for twenty years. ![]() ![]() During college, she worked on the school newspaper and had summer internships at newspapers in Urbana, Ohio Charlotte, North Carolina and Indianapolis, Indiana. She was an assistant cook at a 4-H camp, but almost every other job has been related to writing. While in college, Haddix worked a series of jobs. She graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio with degrees in English/journalism, English/Creative writing, and History. Konigsburg books, Harriet the Spy, Anne of Green Gables, Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, Anne Frank, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, and The Little Princess. Some of her favorite books growing up included E.L. Her family was predominantly farmers and she grew up in a family of voracious readers. Haddix grew up on a farm about halfway between two small towns: Washington Court House, Ohio, and Sabina, Ohio. She also wrote the tenth volume in the multiple-author series The 39 Clues. ![]() Margaret Peterson Haddix (born April 9, 1964) is an American writer known best for the two children's series, Shadow Children (1998–2006) and The Missing (2008–2015). ![]() ![]() Author John Green has made it his own - or rather, Colin's own.Ĭolin Singleton used to be a prodigy. The literal journey works well for the metaphorical one, of course, and is a familiar storytelling device. Most importantly, it is about a young man who takes a road trip to find himself. However, this book was as good as I expected - in a different way than I expected.Īn Abundance of Katherines is about many things: Heartbreak. The higher the hopes, the harder to reach. Because of that, I had high hopes for An Abundance of Katherines. If you know me personally, you know how much I enjoyed the writing style employed by Green in his debut novel, Looking for Alaska. The book was officially released on September 21st. This was a title I had been looking forward to ever since it was first announced, and I had no idea that it would make its way to me so early. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thank you, book gods and goddesses, for granting me early access to An Abundance of Katherines by John Green. Three months before it was published, I got a surprise in my mailbox. ![]() ![]() ![]() Over the course of the dinner, and amidst an opulence that is surely ill-begotten, terrorist attacks occur across the city.Ĭompeting in Peri's mind however are the memories invoked by her almost-lost polaroid, of the time years earlier when she was sent abroad for the first time, to attend Oxford University. ![]() ![]() Three Daughters of Eve is set over an evening in contemporary Istanbul, as Peri arrives at the party and navigates the tensions that simmer in this crossroads country between East and West, religious and secular, rich and poor. A relic from a past - and a love - Peri had tried desperately to forget. Peri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag.Īs she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground - an old polaroid of three young women and their university professor. The stunning, timely new novel from the acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of The Architect's Apprentice and The Bastard of Istanbul. ![]() ![]() ![]() With the help of Caballo Blanco, a mysterious loner who lives among the tribe, the author was able not only to uncover the secrets of the Tarahumara but also to find his own inner ultra-athlete, as he trained for the challenge of a lifetime: a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of Americans, including a star ultramarathoner, a beautiful young surfer, and a barefoot wonder. ![]() Their superhuman talent is matched by uncanny health and serenity, leaving the Tarahumara immune to the diseases and strife that plague modern existence. For centuries they have practiced techniques that allow them to run hundreds of miles without rest and chase down anything from a deer to an Olympic marathoner while enjoying every mile of it. ![]() Isolated by the most savage terrain in North America, the reclusive Tarahumara Indians of Mexico’s deadly Copper Canyons are custodians of a lost art. Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world’s greatest distance runners and learn their secrets, and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s the same vision of the White House that Michael Wolff wrote way back in January in “Fire and Fury.” It’s the same picture that Omarosa Manigault-Newman constructed in her memoir of her year in the White House. And makes for great headlines.īut what’s truly worrisome for President Trump and his administration is that the portrait Woodward paints of a chaotic, dysfunctional, ill-prepared White House is all strangely familiar. ![]() It included anecdotes like: President Donald Trump’s aides purposely keeping information from him in order to protect the country a failed mock-interview in preparation for a potential sit-down with special counsel Robert Mueller over Russia and Trump lashing out at aides, most notably Jeff Sessions, referring to his attorney general as “mentally retarded.”Īll of this is salacious. Bob Woodward’s new book – “Fear: Trump in the White House” – exploded onto the political scene on Tuesday morning. ![]() |