Where Sleeping Girls Lie
Where Sleeping Girls Lie

Author: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Publisher: Feiwel & Friends

Published: 2024-03-19

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 1250800854

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In Where Sleeping Girls Lie — a YA contemporary mystery by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, the New York Times-bestselling author of Ace of Spades — a girl new to boarding school discovers dark secrets and coverups after her roommate disappears. An Instant New York Times and Indie Bestseller! A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2024 (So Far) A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK by Cosmopolitan, Entertainment Weekly, Goodreads, The Nerds Daily, She Reads, and so much more! It’s like I keep stumbling into a dark room, searching for the switch to make things bright again... Sade Hussein is starting her third year of high school, this time at the prestigious Alfred Nobel Academy boarding school, after being home-schooled. Misfortune has been a constant companion throughout her life, but even Sade doesn’t expect her new roommate, Elizabeth, to disappear after Sade’s first night. Or for people to think she had something to do with it. With rumors swirling around her, Sade catches the attention of the girls collectively known as the Unholy Trinity and they bring her into their fold. Between learning more about them—especially Persephone, who Sade is inexplicably drawn to—and playing catchup in class, Sade already has so much on her plate. But when it seems people don't care enough about what happened to Elizabeth, it's up to her and Elizabeth's best friend, Baz, to investigate. And then a student is found dead. As Sade and Baz keep trying to figure out what’s going on, Sade realizes there’s more to Alfred Nobel Academy and its students than she thought. Secrets lurk around every corner and beneath every surface...Secrets that rival even her own.

Film and the City
Film and the City

Author: George Melnyk

Publisher: Athabasca University Press

Published: 2014-05-01

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1927356598

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Most Canadians are city dwellers, a fact often unacknowledged by twentieth-century Canadian films, with their preference for themes of wilderness survival or rural life. Modernist Canadian films tend to support what film scholar Jim Leach calls “the nationalist-realist project,” a documentary style that emphasizes the exoticism and mythos of the land. Over the past several decades, however, the hegemony of Anglo-centrism has been challenged by francophone and First Nations perspectives and the character of cities altered by a continued influx of immigrants and the development of cities as economic and technological centers. No longer primarily defined through the lens of rural nostalgia, Canadian urban identity is instead polyphonic, diverse, constructed through multiple discourses and mediums, an exchange rather than a strict orientation. Taking on the urban as setting and subject, filmmakers are ideally poised to create and reflect multiple versions of a single city. Examining fourteen Canadian films produced from 1989 to 2007, including Denys Arcand’s Jésus de Montréal (1989), Jean-Claude Lauzon’s Léolo (1992), Mina Shum’s Double Happiness (1994), Clément Virgo’s Rude (1995), and Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg (2007), Film and the City is the first comprehensive study of Canadian film and “urbanity”—the totality of urban culture and life. Drawing on film and urban studies and building upon issues of identity formation in Canadian studies, Melnyk considers how filmmakers, films, and urban audiences experience, represent, and interpret urban spatiality, visuality, and orality. In this way, Film and the City argues that Canadian narrative film of the postmodern period has aided in articulating a new national identity.

Let Sleeping Rogues Lie
Let Sleeping Rogues Lie

Author: Sabrina Jeffries

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2008-02-19

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 141656506X

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The fourth book in the charming and sensual School for Heiresses series by New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries tells the story of an alluringly handsome rake who challenges everything a young teacher thinks she knows about passion and desire. When Madeline Prescott took a teaching position at Mrs. Harris’s School for Young Ladies, it was to help restore her father’s reputation. Instead, she’s in danger of ruining her own. The devilishly handsome Anthony Dalton, Viscount Norcourt, has agreed to provide “rake lessons” to Mrs. Harris’s pupils so that they can learn how to avoid unscrupulous gentlemen, and Madeline is to oversee his classes. She has always believed that attraction is a scientific matter, easily classified and controlled—until she’s swept into the passionate desire that fiercely burns between her and Anthony. Nothing could be more illogical than risking everything for a dalliance with a rake, even one who’s trying to behave himself. Yet nothing could be more tempting…

We Don'T Play With Guns Here
We Don'T Play With Guns Here

Author: Holland, Penny

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

Published: 2003-04-01

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 0335210899

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War, weapon and superhero play has been banned in many early childhood settings for over 30 years. This book explores the development and application of a zero tolerance approach through the eyes of children and practitioners.

Before
Before

Author: J. Kilburn

Publisher: James K. Mossman

Published: 2022-02-20

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 1005477086

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Think you know the kids next door? Think again! BEFORE both celebrates and indicts the sweet and sordid in small-town, everyday life. This Crime Fiction and Coming-of-Age mashup by J. Kilburn will leave you howling... while the questions and answers posed by this novel will have you re-examining the sunny streets and wildflower-filled lanes of your own neighborhood. In the novel BEFORE, writer J. Kilburn brings readers a light-hearted and whimsical coming of age story that follows the adventures and misadventures of Just Regular Kids as they grow up in a pastoral and peaceful New England college town. Buckle your seatbelts - all may not be as it seems. Events in a far-away criminal underworld lurk in the background as these teenagers take their first steps into adulthood. Adventurous readers will discover that two Sweet Sixteens have a lot more in common with hardened criminals than you - or they - might realize.... Surprises are in store for everyone! Midwest Book Review calls BEFORE by J. Kilburn “A deftly crafted blending of Crime Fiction and Coming-of-Age…. recommended….” InD’tale Magazine says: “Mr. Kilburn is a master at writing character development!” Independent Book Review says: “The tension is thick…. And the characters are exceptionally well written.” Readers’ Favorite calls Kilburn’s characters "...mischievous, everyday kids who turn out to be anything but…. Kilburn breathes life into them with some hilariously awkward scenes....” BEFORE, a Novel by J. Kilburn takes your average teenagers, gives them family and community, and then plausibly and seamlessly drops them into international intrigue in a small college town. These teenagers go about their sweet and sordid adventures blissfully unaware of their role in larger and more complicated regional events. BEFORE, a Novel is a Coming-of-Age story, but it’s also a story about international Organized Crime and the role that small-town folks, your neighbors, your loved ones, and even the Honors Student next door might play in that dark and dangerous world. WHAT REVIEWERS ARE SAYING ABOUT BEFORE by J. Kilburn: "…especially and unreservedly recommended for community library General Fiction collections." - Julie Summers in Reviewer's Bookwatch by MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW, May 2022 “…the dialogue is... probably among the top one percent in its sarcasm and authenticity." - Jamie Michele for READERS FAVORITE, January 2022 - 5 stars! "Kilburn weaves this teenage story with threads of secrets.... With a slow but tantalizing pace, this coming-of-age story is going to be tough to put down for fans of character-driven fiction." - Manik Chaturmutha for INDEPENDENT BOOK REVIEW, April 2022 “…each and every one of the characters he creates in this story are well thought out….” - Jennifer Shepherd for IND'TALE MAGAZINE, April 2022 - 3 stars!

Swan Lake 2
Swan Lake 2

Author: David Yarwood

Publisher: David Yarwood

Published: 2022-10-20

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13:

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Everyone knows the story of Swan Lake, right? Evil curse. Handsome prince. Start to finish in twenty-four hours. Everyone lives happily ever after? Not for the Black Swan’s descendants, cursed unfairly. The ballet storytellers skip this part from their fairy-tale, but Swan Lake 2, the sequel, reveals all! These swans have one chance a month to locate a cure before they die on their twelfth birthday. It’s hardly surprising that eleven-year-old twins Penny and Cobain Atratus surrender the best roles in their ballet school’s summer performance of Swan Lake. They hate Odette, the Swan Princess, and expect to be dead before curtains up, unless their new friends can help. Rosie Maudly has her own problems. Half-and-half, she’s blessed with her mum’s dancing genes and cursed with her dad’s stage fright. The genes are double-edged too, edging her WEBS scholarship but threatening her dreams. Moon has different dilemmas, hardly anyone will understand, and telling you now will spoil the story, but … I trust you with a secret. Rio Grande would rather be at another school. Don’t get me wrong. He loves ballet and is the best in his year, and has already performed in a West End Christmas production of Coppélia. The trouble is he loves sport even more and keeping him at WEBS full-time is going to be, well, a full-time task. Last and dare you say least? Kirsty Qickers. Where to start with her? How about the first page which is included in the free sample? Can you imagine someone like Kirsty ever helping anyone, let alone the twins? Instagram / TikTok / Twitter: @SwanLake_2 Hashtag: #SwanLake2

Mountain Mistletoe
Mountain Mistletoe

Author: Kathy Kalmar

Publisher: eXtasy Books

Published: 2019-12-20

Total Pages: 61

ISBN-13: 1487425724

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Mistletoe kisses, promises, and every wile Sunny Weathers had finally inspired Jesse Days to put a ring on her finger. Now that he's committed, he promises nothing will delay this long-awaited wedding day. So when a winter storm creates holiday havoc in their small town, will the Snowmageddon blow their chance at happiness or create a Christmas miracle? Meanwhile, Storme Weathers has literally hooked her hubby-to-be Craig Knight, and he’s chomping at the bit to wed his commitment-phobic fiancée. But when a series of mishaps befall their Christmas wedding theme, Storme begins to fear their wedding is doomed. Craig’s hot kisses keep the flames burning, but are they enough to warm her cold feet and hold her heart for good?