《皇冠登录welcome》凯特·皮尔索尔著 is set in Caball Hollow in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia, 传说和爱情在那里茁壮成长. Pearsall tells the story of the James family and the lives of its women whose legacy is superstition. 一个被怀疑是女巫的家庭, the James women use minerals and locally grown plants to create infusions, 药酒, 和安慰;. With these homemade remedies and whispered words, they treat people’s ailments. 然而, this story extends beyond a family and natural remedies to become about our deepest desires, 对可能性的信念, and the sacrifices we are willing to make in the name of阅读更多→

Written in a fashion similar to that of a fractured fairy tale, Pride and Premeditation is a tongue-in-cheek retelling of 简 Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Although Tirzah Price employs many of the same characters and even opens with a play on Austen’s original line, “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a brilliant idea, 由一个聪明的年轻女人构思并执行, 必须由一个人来要求”(1), 她有其他的自由. While Price makes an effort to stay true to the etiquette and customs of the early nineteenth century, Lizzie Bennet’s ambitions to become a barrister—or even a solicitor—would have been out of阅读更多→

因为我最近刚看了一集《welcome皇冠地址》. Phil in which an individual was being treated for the condition which forms the underlying conflict in 艾琳·科里根的补救方法, 我很早就猜到了那种神秘的疾病. 因为科里根的主角, Cara Jean Wakely couldn’t exactly articulate her current ailment and stated that she and her mother Shaylene moved around a lot, 这些细节给我通风报信. 然而, the reader doesn’t learn the secret until much later when Cara’s friend Xavier Barnes (aka Science Kid) plants the idea in her brain. Xavier, who lectures and sometimes drones and laughs at his own jokes, loves gathering data阅读更多→

《welcome皇冠地址》的情节. 哈里斯’s debut novel When You Look Like Us revolves around the life of sixteen-year-old Jay Murphy, 他的妹妹妮可(尼克), 和他的祖母玛丽·墨菲(咪咪). 咪咪的手是“荣誉徽章”, 努力工作的证明”(56), and Jay looks forward to the day when she can rest them. He vows that “MiMi is going to retire in Florida, or wherever else she wants to” (17) once he builds her nest egg as repayment for her sacrifices. The family lives in Newport News, Virginia, in a housing project called the Ducts. Despite what other people might think, Jay is living阅读更多→

Ember Williams leads an active life at Heller High. 她想得到4分.平均绩点0分,田径运动员,辩论队队长. On the surface, she looks like a high-achieving teenager with a bright future. 但海勒高中也有秘密. Secrets that Ember wants to uncover and force into the light. 红场是个谣言, smoke vanishing into nothing under the fluorescent lighting of Heller High’s hallways. It’s rumored to be a secret society made up of female students, led by a mysterious ‘Queen of Hearts.“他们说红场能实现愿望. Desperate students can stuff a note in an unclaimed阅读更多→

A magnet for 神秘 and adventure and interested in creepy things, Devlin Quick loves sleuthing.  All her detective practice is training for the day she can devote herself to finding her dad’s killer.  Sleuthing runs in the family since Devlin’s dad covered international politics as an investigative reporter for the Wall Street Journal and her mom, 布莱恩, is New York’s Police Commissioner with a reputation for being “fierce and fair and fearless” (94).  Although twelve-year-old Devlin is willing to leave the fierce quality to others, 她遇到错误时就采取行动. Set in both Manhattan, New York, and in Big Timber, Montana, The Devlin阅读更多→

Somewhat like the choose-your-own-adventure books with alternate endings, 简无限 by Kristin Cashore occasionally leaves the reader with the feeling of being lost in a maze, confused by the various plot twists and turns or coming upon a similar detail and experiencing déjà vu.  虽然卡索的书是线性的, 深阅读, 当书中的主角, 简, 接近一个重要的选择, the reader follows her down that path to see how the decision plays out. 小说从一艘船上开始, 和简一起去屠里文斯, a house on an island and a place of opportunity.  她答应过已故的木兰姨妈阅读更多→

If you’re the sort of person who secretly reads the end of a novel first, then Emily Lockhart’s new book 真正的欺诈 was written with you in mind because it begins with Chapter 18 and works its way to Chapter 1. Lockhart writes about two young women: 伊莫金 Sokoloff and Jule West Williams, two orphans and school friends who defy social conventions but have histories that bind them.  伊莫金, a纽约市, 私立学校的金发, 是一个思想开明的人, 自信, and desirable friend and hostess who draws people in with her power, 钱, 热情, 和独立.  She refuses to strive for greatness or to work toward other people’s definitions阅读更多→

While Lady Julia Lindsay Mackenzie Wallace Beaufort-Stuart (aka Julie) is home from a Swiss boarding school and exploring her grandad’s Murray Estate in Strathfearn, 苏格兰, she wanders upon a pearl thief and receives a blow to the head.  As she tries to recall the events of that fateful day on the Fearn River and to untangle a 神秘 of thievery, 攻击, 和谋杀, she learns that memory is a strange and unreliable thing.  To solve the 神秘, Julie must string together the clues, like pearls torn from a necklace. Besides being a 神秘, 偷珍珠的人 by Elizabeth Wein fits my definition of Cultural Identity阅读更多→