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Iceberg by jennifer a nielsen5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Nielsen weaves an extraordinary tapestry of survival and disaster in this magnificent thriller. ![]() The danger only intensifies when calamity strikes, and readers will be caught up in the terror and suspense alongside Hazel as she fights to save her friends and herself.īestselling author Jennifer A. With the help of a porter named Charlie and a sweet first-class passenger named Sylvia, Hazel explores the opulent ship in secret, but a haunting mystery quickly finds her. When Hazel discovers that mother didn't send her with enough money for a ticket, she decides she must stow away onboard the storied ship. Following the untimely death of her father, Hazel's mother is sending her to the US to work in a factory, so that she might send money back home to help her family make ends meet.īut Hazel harbors a secret dream: She wants to be a journalist, and she just knows that if she can write and sell a story about the Titanic's maiden voyage, she could earn enough money to support her family and not have to go to a sweatshop. Hazel Rothbury is traveling all alone from her home in England aboard the celebrated ship Titanic. Iceberg - by Jennifer A Nielsen (Hardcover) 15. A thrilling tale from New York Times bestselling author Jennifer A. As disaster looms on the horizon, a young stowaway onboard the Titanic will need all her courage and wits to stay alive. ![]()
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Passion becomes her shirlee busbee5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() They don't do anything particulary exciting. ![]() It's more just a sudden, unrealistic, barely explained "ta da" of "love." And the couple is boring.their conversations seem very juvenile, both in the way they express themselves and in their feelings. By this I mean the author doesn't allow any situation in the book for the characters to grow to "love" each other. So why is the book a "snooze fest?" The emotion development of the characters is nil. The family is saved.there's a little more after this but it's not very exciting. ![]() Juliana ends up enlisting Asher's (hero and love interest to Juliana) help to steal the letters. He plans to use the letters as blackmail. How? The little sister wrote a few passionate letters to Ormsby (villan), who took advantage of the young teenage beauty so he could trump all the suitors after her first Season by marrying her. Juliana (heroine and widow of 28) is in dire straits because her sister (age 17) got the family into trouble. I won't get into a serious explanation of the plot - it's pretty basic, especially considering the length of the novel. ![]()
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Blood and salt by kim liggett5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() I pulled it out of the way, sloshing rice milk and granola onto the table. The drop quivered before joining the little puddle headed for my twin’s cereal bowl. Blood traced a line from the familiar cut across the palm of her hand to one of her delicate fingertips. ![]() Ropes dug into her ankles as she swayed from the chandelier. THE DEAD GIRL hung upside down over our kitchen table. * BingeBooks earns revenue from qualifying purchases as an Amazon Associate as well as from other retail partners. ![]() She must discover the truth about Quivara before it's too late. ![]() And Ash feels herself drawn to Dane, a mysterious, forbidden boy with secrets of his own.Īs the community prepares for a ceremony five hundred years in the making, Ash fights to save her mother, her lover, and herself. Charming traditions give way to a string of deaths. Her mother is nowhere to be found, but Ash is plagued by memories of her ancestor, Katia, which harken back to the town's history of unrequited love, murder, alchemy, and immortality. But something sinister and ancient waits among the rustling cornstalks of this village lost to time. You will be all in-blood and salt."ĭetermined to find her mother when she disappears, Ash follows her to Quivara, Kansas, the spiritual commune she escaped long ago. The last words Ash hears her mother say are, " When you fall in love, you will carve out your heart and throw it into the deepest ocean. ![]()
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Iron Ambition by Mike Tyson5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() In Tyson's bestselling memoir Undisputed Truth, he recounted the role D'Amato played in his formative years, adopting him at age sixteen after his mother died and shaping him both physically and mentally after Tyson had spent years living in fear and poverty. D'Amato died a year before Tyson became the youngest heavyweight champion in history. When Cus D'Amato first saw thirteen-year-old Mike Tyson spar in the ring, he proclaimed, 'That's the heavyweight champion of the world.' D'Amato, who had previously managed the careers of world champions Floyd Patterson and Jose Torres, would go on to train the young Tyson and raise him as a son. ![]() ![]() "From the former heavyweight champion and New York Times-bestselling memoirist comes an intimate look at the life and leadership lessons of Cus D'Amato, the legendary boxing trainer and Mike Tyson's surrogate father. ![]() |