![]() The Shatter Me series is perfect for fans who crave action-packed young adult novels with tantalizing romance like Divergent by Veronica Roth, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, and Legend by Marie Lu. He promises to help Juliette master her powers and save their dying world. The one person she never thought she could trust. Now she must rely on Warner, the handsome commander of Sector 45. But that won't keep her from trying to take down The Reestablishment once and for all. ![]() ![]() With Omega Point destroyed, Juliette doesn't know if the rebels, her friends, or even Adam are alive. The heart-stopping third installment in the New York Times bestselling Shatter Me series, which Ransom Riggs, author of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and Hollow City, called "a thrilling, high-stakes saga of self-discovery and forbidden love." ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Constance stood trial for their murder and was acquitted, but the locals haven’t let the incident go and even chant a cruel rhyme whenever Merricat comes into town for shopping: “Merricat, said Connie, would you like a cup of tea? / Oh, no, said Merricat, you’ll poison me.” Julian obsessively mulls over the details of the poisoning, building a sort of personal archive of tragedy, while in everyday life a curtain of dementia separates him from reality. Her older sister Constance does everything for her and for wheelchair-bound Uncle Julian, the only family they have left after most of their relatives died of poisoning six years ago. Narrator Merricat (Mary Katherine Blackwood) tells us in the first paragraph that she is 18, but she sounds and acts more like a half-feral child of 10 who makes shelters in the woods for her and her cat Jonas I wasn’t sure if I should understand her to be intellectually disabled, or willfully childish, or some combination thereof. ![]() I was expecting this to be more of the same from Jackson, but instead it’s a brooding character study of two sisters isolated by their scandalous family history and the suspicion of the townspeople. challenge I read The Haunting of Hill House, which is a terrific haunted house/horror novel, a genre I almost never read. post that I didn’t get a chance to finish: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (1962)Ī few years ago for the R.I.P. ![]() Novellas in November is here! Our first weekly theme is short classics. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the wake of the current popularity of vampire fiction led by Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series, the Casts' books have enjoyed substantial and increasing critical and commercial success, and in March 2009, the fifth book in their series, Hunted, opened at number one on the best-seller lists of USA Today and The Wall Street Journal. In 2005, she and her daughter began co-writing the House of Night series. Her first book, Goddess by Mistake, originally published in 2001, won the Prism, Holt Medallion, and Laurel Wreath awards, and was a finalist for the National Readers' Choice Award her subsequent books have also won a variety of prizes. ![]() ![]() Cast is known for her Goddess Summoning and Partholon book series. Phyllis Christine Cast (born April 30, 1960) is an American romance/ fantasy author, known for the House of Night series she writes and her daughter Kristin Cast edits, as well as her own Goddess Summoning and Partholon book series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Steve Hamilton steps away from his Edgar Award-winning Alex McKnight series to introduce a unique new character, unlike anyone you've ever seen in the world of crime fiction. Until he finally sees his chance to escape, and with one desperate gamble risks everything to come back home to the only person he ever loved, and to unlock the secret that has kept him silent for so long. A talent that will make young Michael a hot commodity with the wrong people and, whether he likes it or not, push him ever close to a life of crime. Whether it's a locked door without a key, a padlock with no combination, or even an eight-hundred pound safe. ![]() Besides not uttering a single word in ten years, he discovers the one thing he can somehow do better than anyone else. ![]() Marked by tragedy, traumatized at the age of eight, Michael, now eighteen, is no ordinary young man. ""I was the Miracle Boy, once upon a time. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If it’s about a planet and their political upheaval, let’s go. I’m a huge fan of everything Becky Chambers writes. They hope to find the answers they seek, while making new friends, learning new concepts, and experiencing the entropic nature of the universe.īecky Chambers’s new series continues to ask: in a world where people have what they want, does having more even matter?įind it on Amazon | Find it on My thoughts After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robot sent on a quest to determine what humanity really needs) turn their attention to the villages and cities of the little moon they call home. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dreadnought's murderer - a cyborg named Utopia - still haunts the streets of New Port City, threatening destruction. ![]() Between her father's dangerous obsession with "curing" her girlhood, her best friend suddenly acting like he's entitled to date her, and her fellow superheroes arguing over her place in their ranks, Danny feels like she's in over her head. ![]() It should be the happiest time of her life, but Danny's first weeks finally living in a body that fits her are more difficult and complicated than she could have imagined. But before he expired, Dreadnought passed his mantle to her, and those secondhand superpowers transformed Danny's body into what she's always thought it should be. Until Dreadnought fell out of the sky and died right in front of her, Danny was trying to keep people from finding out she's transgender. Danny Tozer has a problem: She just inherited the powers of Dreadnought, the world's greatest superhero. ![]() ![]() There's the hint that she might have set a trap to get him – it's a hell of a coincidence that he should end up crashing just where she could find him – but that's not the story. As his biggest fan, she's driven almost entirely by a desire to see him write the books that she wants him to write. She lives in the middle of nowhere, and used to be a nurse, and she can, she tells him, nurse him back to health. ![]() Paul has a car crash – the irony – and is rescued from the wreck by Annie Wilkes, his "biggest fan". And then he writes an utterly different novel, Fast Cars, packed full of violence, and swearing, and catharsis. So, he does what any sane writer who wants to write other stories would do: he kills her off, in a book that, at the novel's start, is still unpublished. His main character, the wonderfully named Misery Chastain, is loved by his fans, but not so much by her author. ![]() Paul Shelton is a much-loved author of a specific kind of genre fiction: the bodice-ripper. ![]() Misery has no supernatural elements, focusing instead on a story that is actually desperately sad, and, to my mind, hugely personal to King. The books authored by that pseudonym, as I've harped on about before, were nastier in a way than King's traditional output their bad guys were more human, and the books less supernatural. It began life as what would have been the final Richard Bachman book before King killed him off. While I might have my hyperbole hat on, this book deserves it. ![]() ![]() Then there's always Torquere Press books. ![]() The Blackwater Lightship: A Novel by Colm Toibin Lives of the Circus Animals: A Novel by Christopher BramĪ Home at the End of the World: A Novel by Michael Cunningham ![]() Through It Came Bright Colors by Trebor Healey The Dreyfus Affair: A Love Story by Peter Lefcourt War Against the Animals: A Novel by Paul RussellĬurious Wine: A Novel by Katherine V. Tipping the Velvet: A Novel by Sarah Waters The Front Runner: A Novel by Patricia Nell Warren The Ice Sculptures: A Novel of Hollywood by Michael D. The Syndicate: Volumes 1 & 2 by Jules JonesĪpprenticed to Pleasure: An Erotic Sci-Fi Novel by Brandon FoxĪt Swim, Two Boys: A Novel by Jamie O'Neill Vampire Transgression by Michael SchiefelbeinĪn Agreement Among Gentlemen by Chris Owen SnyderĮarthly Joys: A Novel by Philippa Gregory Soul Mates: Bound by Blood by Jourdan Lane Hope this helps y'all find some good slash for when you can't get online for the slash fix. Just a list I've compiled over time as books are published and recced on my different mailing lists I frequent. I can find more some I've read some I haven't. There may be some crossover with what's already recced. ![]() ![]() Visible Learning, Tomorrow’s Schools, The Mindsets That Make a Difference in Education Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating John Hattie Interview (In Conversation, Spring 2013) " Know Thy Impact: Teaching, Learning, and Leading" Recognize their learning and teach others - not just one teacher in the classroom, peer learning, ![]() Monitor their progress and adjust their learning - students recognize when it's time to get feedback and know their place on a continuum teach students to monitor their progress Seek feedback and recognize errors as opportunities to learn - situational growth mindset, learning pit, feedback to match what the learner needs, feedback about the processes students are using, helping behviors Select tools to guide their learning - (Gradual Release of Responsibility, Collaborative Learning, Guided Instruction, Study Skills (cognitive, metacognitive, affective) Know where they're going and are confident to take on the challenge (teacher clarity, accept the challenge, build stamina and strength, rigor (balance between difficulty and complexity fluency and stamina strategic thinking and struggle) Know their current level of understanding (self-assessment, conferencing, pre-assessments, estimating task difficulty) New! John Hattie Ten Mindframes for Visible Learning (Corwin Webinar with John Hattie)Īssessment-Capable Visual Learners (Fisher and Frey - Corwin Webinar) ![]() ![]() Page Location: Effective Classroom Instruction -> Visible Learning - John Hattie ![]() ![]() ![]() Where to Watch Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase? Full movie is streaming online in HD Distribution rights for the film were acquired by Warner Bros. The movie made a box office gross of $0 million. The film has a running time of 89 minutes. Cinematography was done by Edd Lukas and editing by Richard Nord. The movie is based on Nancy Drew by Edward Stratemeyer The Hidden Staircase by Carolyn Keene. Nancy drew and the hidden staircase features Sophia Lillis, Sam Trammell, Linda Lavin, Zoe Renee, Mackenzie Graham, Andrea Anders and Linzy Clifton. A bit of an outsider struggling to fit into her new surroundings, Nancy and her pals set out to solve a mystery, make new friends, and establish their place in the community. The movie is directed by Katt Shea and produced by Jeff Kleeman, Ellen Degeneres and Chip Diggins under the banner of A Very Good Production in collaboration with Red 56. ![]() ![]() Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase is a 2019 English-language Crime Drama movie written by John Herrera and Nina Fiore. ![]() |