![]() ![]() ![]() Bullied and humiliated, Edie is set to exit this life when Kian, a preternaturally attractive stranger, appears with an offer that is more appealing than jumping off a bridge. In this murky morassof devil's bargains, she isn't sure who - or what - she can trust. Edie is alone in a world teeming with secrets and fiends lurking in the shadows. It's a head rush, seeing her tormentors get what they deserve, but things that seem too good to be true usually are, and soon, the pranks and payback turns from delicious to deadly. A whisper here, a look there, and suddenly. In one short summer, her entire life changes and she sweeps through Blackbriar, prepped to take the beautiful people down from the inside. ![]() She's not supposed to think about Kian once the deal is done, but devastating pain burns behind his unearthly beauty, and he's impossible to forget. But thanks to a Faustian compact with the enigmatic Kian, she has the power to make the bullies pay. ![]() Their cruelty drove her to the brink of despair, and four months ago, she couldn't imagine being strong enough to face her senior year. In Ann Aguirre's Mortal Danger, Edie Kramer has a score to settle with the beautiful people at Blackbriar Academy. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Note: this book guide is not affiliated with or endorsed by the publisher or author, and we always encourage you to purchase and read the full book. Read a brief 1-Page Summary or watch video summaries curated by our expert team. OL8317384W Pages 42 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1844281698 Read the world’s 1 book summary of The Dot by Peter H Reynolds here. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:25:48 Boxid IA106301 Boxid_2 CH131316 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Cambridge, MA Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Eleven wipes out many of the agents before finally destroying the Demogorgon itself, but she seemingly disappears in the process. They only partially succeed, as it tracks down the kids - and the agents hunting Eleven - at their school. Meanwhile, Will’s brother Jonathan, Mike’s sister Nancy and her jerk boyfriend Steve attempt to hunt down and kill the Demogorgon, which also killed Nancy’s friend Barb. When he’s alone later, though, he casually coughs up some nasty slug (season 2 spoiler: It’s a baby Demogorgon). Joyce, aided by town Sheriff Hopper, breaks into a secret government lab nearby to enter the Upside Down and at last rescues Will. This surreal dimension is the Demogorgon's home, and Eleven is able to partially access it with her powers. Eventually Will’s mother Joyce realizes she can somehow communicate with her missing son through flashing Christmas lights, and Eleven reveals he’s been taken to a alternate dimension called the Upside Down. ![]() ![]() She then spies the housemaid Emily out in the snow, walking toward the river, about to make her own secret known to the world. On Christmas Eve 1913, Octavia catches a glimpse of her husband in an intimate moment with his beautiful and scandalous distant cousin. ![]() Meanwhile, below stairs, a housemaid named Emily holds a secret that could undo the Cavendish name. 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When residents report cats as massive as African leopards in their yards and driveways, it becomes clear that mountain lions (cougars, pumas, panthers) are repopulating the land, rebounding after decades of persecution and bounty hunting." "To inhabitants of the environmentally aware city of Boulder, the lions' return is cause for celebration - initially. ![]() ![]() ![]() She knows their secrets, and they know her.īut as the clock ticks down to when Avery will become the richest teenager on the planet, trouble arrives in the form of a visitor who needs her help-and whose presence in Hawthorne House could change everything. ![]() And the only thing getting Avery through it all is the Hawthorne brothers. The paparazzi are dogging her every step. To inherit billions, all Avery has to do is survive a few more weeks in Hawthorne House. The thrilling conclusion to the global bestselling, BookTok sensation, Inheritance Games trilogy, where Knives Out meets One of Us is Lying.Īvery's fortune, life, and loves are on the line in the game that everyone will be talking about. ![]() ![]() ![]() His was more the imprisonment of a gentleman kept for ransom, likely enjoying some freedom but not beyond the city walls. And we probably shouldn’t picture a barren cell rounded out by beatings and bad food here. What’s important is that he is a prisoner. One writer gives up on being exact and has him, quote, “taken prisoner at some obscure and otherwise unrecorded engagement of armed merchantmen in 1296.” Maybe they get him at the Battle of Laiazzo, but that seems too early, or maybe it’s Curzola, but that seems too late. ![]() The details are a little murky here, but somehow, somewhere, he’s taken prisoner by the Genoese. And maybe we shouldn’t call it home because he’d been away about 24 of those years, longer than he’d ever lived in Venice.Īnyways, he comes back, and pretty quickly he’s in trouble again. Marco Polo comes home in 1295, a man of 41 or 42 years. I’m going to start this story at the end. ![]() ![]() ![]() Brunner the Bounty Hunter (Warhammer Fantasy) (2010 Paperback) £15.The story arc follows the First & Only from warzone to warzone of the Chaos-infested Sabbats World system fighting enemies in many guises and shapes.Īlso see our Warhammer & LOTR RoleplayBooks. It includes the four novels, Honour Guard, The Guns of Tanith, Straight Silver and Sabbat Martyr. This omnibus edition follows the second cycle of the Gaunt’s Ghost stories in a collection called, “The Saint”. Synopsis of The Saint (Gaunt’s Ghosts Omnibus): ![]() ![]() 1023 clean, slightly off white inside pages of English text. ![]() Intact clean, glossy condition covers and spine with small tear to bottom edge front cover, plus slight creasing and rubbing to edges and corners, plus slight signs of handling. Published by BL Publishing, Games Workshop Ltd, Nottingham, UK. Very good condition used 2007 Reprint Omnibus edition Paperback Straight Silver sees the Tanith First and Only thrust into brutal trench warfare during one of the war’s most critical battles, while Dead Sky, Black Sun has exiled Ultramarines Captain Uriel Ventris making a last-ditch gamble within the Eye of Terror to reclaim his lost honour. (Black Library Publication) Condition and Description: The Saint (Gaunt’s Ghosts Omnibus) (Gaunt’s Ghosts #4-7) Warhammer 40K ![]() ![]() ![]() Thus begins the internal tussle between Ray the striver and Ray the crook. Now Ray has a new clientele, one made up of shady cops, vicious local gangsters, two-bit pornographers, and other assorted Harlem lowlifes. ![]() The heist doesn't go as planned they rarely do. Then Freddie falls in with a crew who plan to rob the Hotel Theresa-the "Waldorf of Harlem"-and volunteers Ray's services as the fence. He knows a discreet jeweler downtown who doesn't ask questions, either. ![]() Cracks that are getting bigger all the time.Ĭash is tight, especially with all those installment-plan sofas, so if his cousin Freddie occasionally drops off the odd ring or necklace, Ray doesn't ask where it comes from. ![]() He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home.įew people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his façade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. "Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked." To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. about race, power and the history of Harlem all disguised as a thrill-ride crime novel" ( San Francisco Chronicle). From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, this gloriously entertaining novel is “fast-paced, keen-eyed and very funny. ![]() |