![]() This time, it’s my choice to live in the house my grandparents gave to me. ![]() She always manages to find something to complain about. After that, I’m running on fumes and have no desire to put in any more effort to keep the conversation moving along. My patience only lasts an entire sixty seconds talking to my mother. Pretty sure my gynecologist is an hour away, too, but I still make an effort to see her once a year. “You’ll be living an hour from us! That will be incredibly inconvenient for you to come visit us, won’t it?” She’s always had a chip on her shoulder, and for the life of me, I can’t figure out why. “And just because you don’t like it, doesn’t mean I can’t live in it,” I retort dryly. ![]() How did I manage to get ketchup up there? I thump my head against the headrest, rolling my eyes upward and trying to find patience weaved into the stained roof of my car. It’s old and would be doing everyone in that city a favor if it were torn down.” “Just because your grandparents gave you the house doesn’t mean you have to actually live in it. ![]() It blows my mind that this woman always called Nana dramatic yet can’t see her own flair for the dramatics. ![]() When I have nothing to say, she sighs loudly. I glare at it in response, refusing to argue with her. “Addie, you’re being ridiculous,” Mom says through the speaker on my phone. S ometimes I have very dark thoughts about my mother-thoughts no sane daughter should ever have. ![]()
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To be a place where Good Witches can't be trusted, Wicked Witches may just be the good guys, and winged monkeys can be executed for acts of rebellion. ![]() But I never expected Oz to look like this. ![]() I know the song about the rainbow and the happy little blue birds. But when your whole life gets swept up by a tornado-taking you with it-you have no choice but to go along, you know? And I have a mission: Remove the Tin Woodman's heart. ![]() I've been recruited by the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked. My name is Amy Gumm-and I'm the other girl from Kansas. Start at the beginning and discover your new series to binge! The New York Times bestselling first book in a dark series that reimagines the Oz saga, from debut author Danielle Paige. ![]() ![]() ![]() In addition to possible corruption in the Council of Elders, Valkyrie and Skulduggery have to deal with Billy-Ray Sanguine–simultaneously one of the most likable and most horrifying villains of the series thus far. 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Stephanie is officially apprenticed to Skulduggery Pleasant, learning more elemental magic, and helping Skulduggery fight crime under her taken name, Valkyrie Cain. Playing with Fire picks up about a year after the first novel. Everyone’s favorite skeleton detective/wizard (and snappy dresser) Skulduggery Pleasant and the precocious Stephanie Edgley are back in Playing with Fire (2008) the action packed follow up to Derek Landy’s debut novel Skulduggery Pleasant. ![]() ![]() ![]() The journey begins when our heroine, Victoria Line, comes upon her great-great-grandfather A. Now, from mathematician and accomplished science writer Ian Stewart, comes what Nature calls ''a superb sequel.'' Through larger-than-life characters and an inspired story line, Flatter land explores our present understanding of the shape and origins of the universe, the nature of space, time, and matter, as well as modern geometries and their applications. Abbott's remarkable Flatland, published in 1884, and one of the all-time classics of popular mathematics. All items are tracked and details are available on request. This book is available and will be shipped within two business days. Dust Jacket is not price clipped and in excellent condition. ![]() Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. ![]() ![]() Thrown into an unlikely alliance, chasing a ghost through parties, break-ins, puzzles, and secrets revealed on monogrammed stationery, Chloe starts to suspect there might be more to this small town than she thought. It’ll be worth it, if Chloe can drag Shara back before graduation to beat her fair and square. The three have nothing in common except Shara and the annoyingly cryptic notes she left behind, but together they must untangle Shara’s trail of clues and find her. 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But here we see that society can really help or kill people. Would it be helpful or harmful? That, I would leave to you, reader, to contemplate on. Memory alteration really is an interesting subject. Arguably, the Leteo Institute's memory-alteration procedure in More Happy Than Not is also a repercussion of how society can try to help itself it can also damage itself. IT IS NOT FAIR! I cry for all the hate in this world. Children around the world live in persecution for being who they are, or even die by other or their own hands. It is our responsibility to stop things like the evils that befallen Aaron's journey to ever happen in the real world. It pains me so much to see a boy, even a fictional boy, be broken because of society. ![]() A boy in his position should not be subject to so much prejudice & hate. Happy with himself, happy in life, but I believe Aaron's struggles in his journey is ultimately society's fault. ![]() Give me a memory I can use… It matters how this ends 'cause what if I never love again?" I knew from the start that this book isn't just a light read on certain social issues, but my goodness. It's very difficult to keep this book at heart I can't help but remember Adele's song, "All I Ask." "If this is my last night with you, hold me like I'm more than just a friend. ![]() ![]() ![]() His first major publications, the Essai sur les révolutions (1796) and the Génie du christianisme (1802), show his political commitment then in favor of the counter-revolution and in defense of the Ancien Régime society. The numerous political and diplomatic responsibilities that marked his career as well as his taste for travel, in America and then in the Mediterranean basin, structured a life marked by exile and nostalgia for stability. Several times ambassador to various sovereigns, he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1822 to 1824 under the Restoration and was, under the reign of Charles X, among the ultraroyalists. Coming from the Breton nobility, the most famous member of his family from Saint-Malo, Chateaubriand was politically part of the royalist movement. ![]() |