![]() ![]() Football is overshadowed by soccer and rugby, and his teammates play for free, simply because they love the game. ![]() Rick eventually finds that Italian football is much different from the NFL. ![]() Rick travels across the ocean to play in this amatuer league, where he is forced to adapt to an unfamiliar culture. After his humiliating performance, the only team that will take him is the Parma Panthers, located in a quaint city in northern Italy. The story’s protagonist is Rick Dockery, a third-string quarterback who manages to blow a seventeen point lead in the AFC champion, and becomes the largest laughing stock in football. This novel is a fabulous choice for anyone interested in football who is looking for a suspenseful, well-written novel that you won’t want to put down. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the book Playing for Pizza by John Grisham. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() She asks lots of questions, likes to talk to people, and wants to be in the movies. Main Character: I love Jude and her persistent and brave spirit. Free Verse makes the story feel more personal and accessible for all reading levels. If you’ve followed my blog and reviews for a while, you know that I adore an occasional heartfelt Middle Grade read….especially one in free verse! I definitely fall hard for refugee stories. Middle Grade and Free Verse: It’s been a while since I’ve reviewed a middle grade book on the blog. Ultimately, she summons all her bravery and tries out for the school musical. and her new label as “Middle Eastern.” Jude makes the best of some difficult situations and is suprised to make a new friend. Even though Jude has learned some English, she is unprepared for life in an American family, starting school in the U.S. My Summary:īecause of instability in Syria, Jude and her mother leave her father and older brother to live with relatives in America (Cincinnati). ![]() *This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Genre/Categories/Setting: Middle Grade+, Contemporary Fiction, Syria (and U.S.), Refugee, Coming of Age, Novel in Free Verse, Diverse Reads ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s so much going on in this book, so much drama, so many twists and turns. ![]() The romance between Ghost and Nat is only part of the story though. Belle Aurora makes the characters come to life and you can’t help but fall in love with Ghost and Nat and to cheer them on, hoping that they’ll find a way to get in touch with their feelings and to be happy together. I’m so glad! It’s one of the best books I’ve read this year. 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Title: Love they Neighbour (Friend-Zoned #2)ĭescription: Asher ‘Ghost’ Collins and Natalie Kovac shared a passionate night together. ![]() ![]() The armored attacker vanishes, leaving the old man to die in Dana's arms, and she realizes that he bears the same Mark she does. He babbles an incoherent warning that "the Shadows are coming," right before he is killed by an armored monstrosity out of another century. But the life she's carefully built around this secret ability begins to crumble when she's assaulted by a ragged old man. A Mark that allows her to go back and see any crime as it's being committed. ![]() A Mark that allows her to walk into alternate pasts and futures. But even her partner doesn't know the real reason why.Īll her life Dana has borne a Mark of unknown origin that she's kept secret. This dark portal fantasy introduces Detective Dana Rohan, an officer who solves crimes using the Mark that allows her to travel to alternate pasts and futures.ĭetective Dana Rohan has an excellent arrest and conviction rate. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And so they're off to Mars, where the multi-legged city of Oubliette wanders the landscape, terraforming as it goes. The thief has little choice, it's either accept or stay and be shot through the head over and over. Soon enough, though, along comes spacer Mieli in her alluring sentient spaceship to rescue le Flambeur-providing that he's willing to work for her. The Archons' notion of rehabilitation is to compel the prisoners, incarcerated in infinitely repeating transparent cells, to play murderous mind games with infinite copies of themselves. ![]() Notorious thief Jean le Flambeur serves an indeterminate sentence in the surreal Dilemma Prison governed by artificial intelligences, or Archons, at the behest of Earth's ruling "upload collective" called the Sobornost. A sort of paranoid-conspiracy, hard sci-fi whodunit: the Scotland resident, Finnish author's jaw-dropping debut. ![]() ![]() ![]() The team, including former database reporter Spencer Norris, won for their “Innocence Sold” series and podcast about sex trafficking in Florida. ![]() ![]() South Florida Sun Sentinel Senior Editor David Schutz, Investigative Reporter David Fleshler and Investigations Editor Brittany Wallman are shown after winning first place in the 2023 Esserman-Knight Journalism Awards on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, in Miami. Knight Foundation, “recognizes some of South Florida’s most impactful investigative stories and has become an honored tradition in the local journalism scene,” the Knight Foundation’s website says. The awards, sponsored by the Esserman Family Fund for Investigative Journalism in partnership with the John S. ![]() The team’s project also highlighted how victims are often treated as criminals. Investigations Editor Brittany Wallman, Senior Editor David Schutz and reporters David Fleshler and Spencer Norris’ four-part series uncovered how state failures contribute to child sex trafficking, how hotels have gotten away with thousands of violations of an anti-trafficking law, and how the state’s foster care system gives sex traffickers access to vulnerable children. The South Florida Sun Sentinel’s investigations team won the top prize in the fourth annual Esserman-Knight Journalism Awards for its Innocence Sold series. ![]() ![]() The best example appears on pages 120 and 121 in the paperback edition, in which the protagonist finds a zombie baby stuck in a high chair (I’m not going to quote it here, just get this book and read those two pages. APOCALYPSE Z, though, is one I’m going to keep in my box to re-read on occasion the eloquent writing and sharp descriptions resulted in some of the most stunning, chill-inducing moments I’ve ever experienced in a zombie novel. Either everyone dies at the end or there’s hope for a new beginning. Lone or few survivors fight zombies and each other, revealing humanity’s ugliness. Infected become zombies who can spread through biting. It’s hard to find a zombie novel that leaves an indelible impression, because let’s face it, the storylines are often indistinguishable: World Plague. ![]() ![]() Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End by Manel Loureiro ![]() ![]() All of them have something they want to escape – or to hold on to. without her husband Niamh, the city professional with a life-changing decision to make and Phyllie, the grandmother whose family is slipping away from her.Įsme's guests provide the colour that helps her keep her grip on the world. There's Cora, the wife visiting indefinitely. But in her declining years, her sight is failing, and when she has a fall on the eve of the summer season, she is forced to take a back seat for the first time in her life.įrom her chair in the entry hall, not much passes Esme by. ![]() ![]() But if they're lucky, they might just leave with the second chance they didn't know they needed.Įsme has run the guest house for as long as anyone in Ballycove can remember. People come to the guest house for fresh air and views across the Atlantic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Agatha’s encounter on the train and subsequent friendship with two other women, Nancy and Katherine, the mysterious baggage they are all trying to escape, and the suspenseful turn, resulting from their sordid pasts, their story takes is spell binding. It was enjoyable to see Agatha in such a very personal light and experience, through her, one of the lowest points in her life and follow her road to happiness. ![]() I don’t usually like sounding like the over-the-top reviewers who just gush with superlatives for an author or a story, but… The Woman on the Orient Express by Lindsay Jayne Ashford is wonderful!Īshfod chose to write a fictional account of an actual time in the life of the widely known and read author Agatha Christie. ![]() “The World and his wife” need to read this! ![]() ![]() Back in Wisconsin once again, they longed for the openness of the Arctic, so they planned a third trip, this time down the Hulahula River. They faced frostbite, hunger, and more hardships but shared the beauty of the Alaskan dusk and the aurora borealis. Discontent quickly settled, and before long, they were planning another trip to Alaska, this time in early winter to help the cousin on his traplines. All too soon, they were headed back to their hometown in rural Wisconsin. Both of them overcame weariness, muscle aches, and their own stubborn personalities and learned to enjoy the work and to feel the wonder of their natural surroundings. With humor and honesty, Campbell brings readers along for the adventure, which is full of swarms of hungry mosquitoes, the fear of grizzly bears, and the push-pull relationship between a teenage girl and her father. ![]() ![]() Originally, the father-daughter duo planned to canoe one of Alaska’s majestic rivers, but when the author’s cousin and his wife, “some of the last hunter-trapper-gatherers living in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge,” asked for help building a log cabin in the wild, they decided to shift gears. When Campbell’s ( The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea, 2007, etc.) daughter Aidan turned 15, it was time to fulfill a promise that he’d made before she was in kindergarten: someday, they would go to Alaska together. ![]() A father and daughter’s adventures in Alaska. ![]() |