![]() ![]() David Levithan plumbs the depths of teenage emotion to create an amazing array of voices that readers won’t forget These are just a few of the captivating characters readers will get to know in this intensely heartfelt new novel about those ever-changing moments of love and heartbreak that go hand-in-hand with high school. And yet,Įnter The Realm of Possibility and meet a boy whose girlfriend is in love with Holden Caulfield a girl who loves the boy who wears all black a boy with the perfect body and a girl who writes love songs for a girl she can’t have. ![]() Most of the limitsĪre of our own world’s devising. The phones in our pockets to the choir girlĪs hard as it is for us to see sometimes, we all exist It is always expanding, it is never what you think ![]() Here’s what I know about the realm of possibility. ![]()
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![]() I found that refreshing, since many other celeb authors often tend to bad-mouth people they’ve worked with or met in the past, all for the sake of marketing a publication. Lowe handles to tell the tale of his climb to superstardom without mudslinging his fellow stars in the sector. Maybe it’s since he was so significant concerning acting from an early age, everyone believed he was gay (he does mention that his schoolmates called him “faggy” for wanting to act). Stories I Only Tell My Friends Audio Book Free. However, I locate it unsubstantiated that a young boy as fine-looking as Rob had trouble getting girls to pay attention to him. It interested learn about his childhood years. So I concerned guide with really little knowledge of him or his life. I never ever squashed on him as many other women have (and also undoubtedly still do). I’ve most likely seen two or 3 of his motion pictures, and none of his TV shows. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pappe's vivid and timely account demonstrates conclusively that 'transfer' - a euphemism for ethnic cleansing - was from the start an integral part of a carefully planned strategy, and lies at the root of today's ongoing conflict in the Middle East. Based on meticulous research, including recently declassified Israeli archival material, Dr. ![]() ![]() His groundbreaking and controversial work sheds new light on the origins and development of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, asking questions that the world has so far failed to ask to reveal the real story behind the events of 1948. Prominent Israeli historian Ilan Pappe argues passionately for the international recognition of this tragedy. Though the truth about the mass expulsion has been systematically distorted and suppressed, had it taken place in the twenty-first century it could only have been called 'ethnic cleansing'. Around a million people were expelled from their homes at gunpoint, civilians were massacred, and hundreds of Palestinian villages deliberately destroyed. Alongside the creation of the State of Israel, the end of the war led to one of the largest forced migrations in modern history. The 1948 Palestine-Israel War is known to Israelis as 'The War of Independence', but for Palestinians it will be the Nakba, the 'catastrophe'. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Affectionless control was the most common parenting style for fathers and mothers. Higher socio-economic status, father’s education level, and higher care scores were independently associated with better academic performance in adolescent students. Factors associated with and differences between “care” and “overprotection” scores of fathers and mothers were analyzed. ![]() Regression analysis was conducted to assess the influence of socio-demographic factors and parenting styles on academic performance. Parenting styles were assessed through the administration of the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI). Academic performance was assessed based on self-reported grades in the latest internal examinations. A total of 456 students from 4 public and 4 private schools were interviewed. Our study aims to investigate the determinants of academic performance with emphasis on the role of parental styles in adolescent students in Peshawar, Pakistan. Many factors, including socioeconomic status, student temperament and motivation, peer, and parental support influence academic performance. 2Department of Medicine, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, PakistanĪcademic performance is among the several components of academic success.1Institute of Public Health & Social Sciences, Khyber Medical University, Peshawar, Pakistan.Sarwat Masud 1*, Syed Hamza Mufarrih 2, Nada Qaisar Qureshi 2, Fahad Khan 1, Saad Khan 1 and Muhammad Naseem Khan 1* ![]() ![]() ![]() The Sunday Times A new book by Julia Donaldson is always a cause for celebration, and this latest offering is set to be another classic: a heartwarming celebration of books, libraries, reading and friendship, it's got all the trademark poetry Donaldson is renowned for, vibrantly brought to life by Ogilvie's illustrations. To look at, read aloud and listen to, this book is a delight. ![]() Written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by the multi-talented illustrator and print-maker Sara Ogilvie, The Detective Dog is a fast-paced celebration of books, reading, libraries and the relationship between a little boy and his rather special dog. Books about dinosaurs, books about space and even books about dogs – Nell loves them all! But one day Peter and Nell arrive at school to find all the books have disappeared! Who could have taken them, and why? Luckily, Detective Dog Nell, with help from the whole class, is ready to sniff out the thief! A rollicking rhyming picture book from bestselling author Julia Donaldson about a dog who uses her amazing sense of smell to solve mysteries. When she’s not cracking cases, Nell goes to school with Peter and listens to the children read. ![]() ![]() Her ever-sniffing nose is always hard at work solving mysteries and finding all Peter’s lost toys. Peter’s dog Nell has an amazing sense of smell. She was known far and wide as Detective Dog Nell. There once was a dog with a keen sense of smell. When a crime needs solving, there’s only one dog for the job! Join Nell the Detective and help solve the mystery of the missing books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Playground by Aron Beauregard (Independently Published) Gonzalez Lifetime Achievement Award, and the recommendation process for the coming year. Wrath James White and Brian Keene are pleased to announce the final ballot for the 2023 Splatterpunk Awards, honoring superior achievement in the literary subgenres of Splatterpunk and Extreme Horror fiction published in 2022, as well as the sixth recipient of the J.F. ![]() But here’s the list:Ĭongratulations to this year’s Splatterpunk Award nominees! Stay messy, my friends! The finalists for the Splatterpunk Awards have been announced! I am not among them, thanks to their weird bias against authors who didn’t publish any splatterpunk fiction in 2022. Socially Awkward Moments with an Aspiring Lunatic.Lost Homicidal Maniac (Answers to “Shirley”).Graverobbers Wanted (No Experience Necessary). ![]() ![]() ![]() He is young, ambitious, and determined to build a beautiful house that will be a monument to his genius.Ĭolquitt likes the lot next to them being empty. An architect would need imagination to design a house to set on it properly and not be considered an eyesore. It has never been developed because it is a strange shape. The empty lot next to the Kennedy’s has always been there. ![]() They are all as reasonably happy as anyone can expect to be. ![]() The women are attractive, and the men are still handsome, even though their sparkling 20s have become a distant memory. They are all friends who barbeque, have drinks, and rely on each other for support in times of trouble. I do not think we will be alive long enough.”Ĭolquitt and Walter Kennedy live in an upscale neighborhood among people of similar socioeconomic status. If it should come to that, I do not think we will be punished. In another time they would have plowed the charred ground and sowed it with salt. We will do this at night, before it is occupied. ”If we find that all our efforts have failed and someone buys the house, we shall set fire to it and burn it down. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As her life spins out of control and her sexual escapades carry her toward a dangerous choice, Zoe is racing against time to uncover the source of her “fatal attraction”-as chilling secrets tumble forth from the recesses of a woman’s mind, and perilous temptations lead toward a climax that can threaten her sanity, her marriage…and her life. From the sensitive artist with whom she spends stolen hours on rumpled sheets to the rough and violent man who draws her toward destruction, Zoe is a woman desperately searching for fulfillment-and something darker, deeper, and perhaps deadly. But Zoe feels helpless in the grip of an overpowering addiction…to sex.įinding a compassionate woman therapist to help her, Zoe finally summons the courage to tell her torrid story, a tale of guilt and desire as shocking as it is compelling. Once described as “the hottest paperback in the country” by the New York Times and now a major motion picture distributed by Lionsgate, this wildly popular novel by the Queen of Erotica follows one woman’s life as it spirals out of control when her three extramarital affairs lead her down a dark and twisted path.įor successful African-American businesswoman Zoe Reynard, finding the pleasure she wants, the way she wants it, is not worth the risk of losing everything she has: marriage to the man she has loved since childhood, a thriving company, and three wonderful children. Thankfully, Addicted proves far more forgiving of its tortured heroine, Zoe Reynard (Sharon Leal), a woman whose picture-perfect home life with her hunky high-school sweetheart husband, Jason. ![]() James’s Fifty Shades of Grey, there was Zane’s Addicted. ![]() ![]() The main character in the novella is a Watcher whose mission is to watch the skies with some sophisticated equipment and to inform the Defenders in the event of an alien invasion. The members of some guilds appear to have undergone genetic engineering, for instance, the Fliers' ability to fly and the Watchers' ability to watch distant stars. In a decadent and caste-based future, humanity is divided into guilds, each having a specific job to do. According to Silverberg's introductions, the changes required to turn the three shorter works into a novel were relatively minor. These three works were later collected into a single fixup in three sections, also titled Nightwings. "Nightwings" is the first in a trilogy of novellas, the next two being "Perris Way" (1968) and "To Jorslem" (1969). ![]() It won the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1969 and was also nominated for the Nebula Award in 1968. " Nightwings" is a science fiction novella by American writer Robert Silverberg. ![]() ![]() ![]() I have no doubt my enjoyment was heightened because I have also listened to The Adventure Zone podcast but I think even without that there is a lot of humour and a great story to get involved with. This arc of the Adventure Zone story has some great characters and some of the best interactions. ![]() I squealed and smiled and was in a delightful mess of joyous emotions as I read this story. You know, the usual things you find on a train. This installment has a little of everything: a genius child detective, an axe-wielding professional wrestler, a surly wizard, cursed magical artifacts, and a pair of meat monsters. In the second Adventure Zone graphic novel (adapted from the McElroy family’s wildly popular D&D podcast), we rejoin hero-adjacent sort-of-comrades-in-arms Taako, Magnus, and Merle on a wild careen through a D&D railroad murder mystery. ![]() |