![]() ![]() ![]() Through it all her best friends, Minnie, Portia, and Mercedes, are there with her, and when the school fashion show comes around, Angel discovers that her size might not be such a bad thing after all.Įveryone knows an Angel, and readers will laugh out loud at her take on life.Īngel's own recipes are included so that other "foodies" can cook along with her. My Cup Runneth Over by Cherry Whytock, May 31, 2005, Simon Pulse edition, Mass Market Paperback in English. In order to get Adam's attention, she tries making major Life Changes, including a cabbage-only diet that has.well, explosive results. In addition to food, Angel also loves Jamie Oliver (the Naked Chef) and Adam (who doesn't know she's alive). But she thinks she's just too big - her mother is a skinny ex-model, her best friends are all smaller than she is, and she feels like a huge, wobbly whale in comparison. Angelica Cookson Potts, better known as Angel, loves food, both cooking it and eating it, and plans to be a famous chef someday. ![]()
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I could feel him all along my length, just an inch above me, as though if I took a deep enough breath, I would touch him. My body arched up to meet him-he was hovering so close to me. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Morris hides everything away-the money and the manuscripts no one but Gold ever saw-before being locked up for another horrific crime. ![]() Morris kills his idol and empties his safe of cash, but the real haul is a collection of notebooks containing John Rothstein’s unpublished work.including at least one more Jimmy Gold novel. Morris is livid, not just because his favorite writer has stopped publishing, but because Jimmy Gold ended up as a sellout. “Wake up, genius.” So announces deranged fan Morris Bellamy to iconic author John Rothstein, who once created the famous character Jimmy Gold and hasn’t released anything since. “Stephen King’s superb stay-up-all-night thriller is a sly tale of literary obsession that recalls the themes of his classic 1987 novel Misery” ( The Washington Post)-the #1 New York Times bestseller about the power of storytelling, starring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King introduced in Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers, End of Watch)-now an AT&T Audience Original Series! The second book in Stephen King’s Bill Hodges trilogy ( Mr. ![]() ![]() “Knowing something is wrong and doing it anyway happens very often in life, and I doubt I will ever know why,” young Lemony concludes. His jokes work on many levels, but he’s not afraid to be thoughtful, too. The series covers his research on the lives of Beatrice Baudelaires three orphaned children and documents their tragic experiences over the course of a year. ![]() ![]() Lemony Snicket is a mysterious novelist who is best known as the narrator and author of A Series of Unfortunate Events series. The humor is what we have come to expect: equal parts wit and absurdity. For the real-life author, see Daniel Handler. White’s “Charlotte’s Web” I’ll ever encounter. Lemony takes a break in the library to “read about someone who was a true friend and a good writer who lived on a bloodthirsty farm where nearly everyone was in danger of some sort.” That’s probably the best summary of E.B. In this title, allusions to children’s literary classics are scattered throughout. The husband-and-wife police team bumbles Lemony’s chaperone is useless and as for his parents, “They’re helpless.” “The children of this world and the adults of this world are in entirely separate boats and only drift near each other when we need a ride from someone or when someone needs us to wash our hands,” Lemony concludes.Īs in “A Series of Unfortunate Events,” Snicket challenges even as he entertains. The adults are inept and/or their honesty dubious. Lemony and the other young characters (save for the bully) are the heroes here. ![]() ![]() ![]() The first part follows their childhood, and their interactions with characters such as Boo Radley, Walter Cunningham, Miss Caroline and Mrs Dubose, while the second part follows the Tom Robinson trial itself, testing the children on the moral lessons of their childhood and disillusioning them to the overwhelming racism of their community. The novel is narrated in two parts by his younger child, Scout, and along with her brother Jem and their friend Dill, she traces their upbringing as inspired by Atticus’ moral teachings of tolerance, courage and justice. ![]() Many lawyers today would cite this 60-year-old story as an inspiration-Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird is, at its core, the tale of one attorney’s quest against racial injustice in his Deep South home, and of his children coming of age in the shadow of their father. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was said that he could make the bones of folklore and anthropology live. By ten, he was into the pursuit that made him one of the world’s leading scholars of mythology, and one of the most exciting teachers of our time. Who made them, he wondered, what did they mean? He began to read everything he could about Indians, their myths and legends. Reflecting, it found nothing but itself, and its first word was, ‘This am I.'”īILL MOYERS: When Joseph Campbell was a little boy, his father took him to the Museum of Natural History in New York, and he was transfixed by the totem poles and masks. JOSEPH CAMPBELL: This is from the Hindu Upanishad: “In the beginning there was only the great self, reflected in the form of a person. And the darkness gathered thick in places, crowding together and then separating, crowding and separating.”īILL MOYERS: “And the spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters, and God said, ‘Let there be light.'” ![]() JOSEPH CAMPBELL: This is the song of the world, from a legend of the Pima Indians: “In the beginning there was only darkness everywhere, darkness and water. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep.” BILL MOYERS: Genesis 1: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. ![]() ![]() ![]() Summary: Complete your Divergent library with the Four stories Fans. ![]() ![]() The fourth story, "The Traitor," runs parallel with the events of Divergent, giving readers a glimpse into the decisions of loyalty-and love-that Tobias makes in the weeks after he meets Tris Prior. ISBN: 9780062285638 (electronic bk) General Note: Title from eBook information screen. The first three pieces in this volume-"The Transfer," "The Initiate," and "The Son"-follow Tobias's transfer from Abnegation to Dauntless, his Dauntless initiation, and the first clues that a foul plan is brewing in the leadership of two factions. When read together, these long narrative pieces illuminate the defining moments in Tobias's life. When Amar refers to Tobias as a 'Stiff,' an Abnegation reference, asking Tobias what his name is, Tobias tells Amar he can call him Stiff, for all he cares, not wanting to be known as the son. /rebates/2fp2fFour2fVeronica-Roth2f9781467687201&.com252fp252fFour252fVeronica-Roth252f978146768720126afsrc3d126SID3d&idbooksamillion&nameBOOKSAMILLION. Readers will find more of this charismatic character's backstory told from his own perspective in Four: A Divergent Collection. Amar is introduced after Tobias has gone through his Choosing Day ceremony, and transferred to Dauntless from Abnegation. His voice is an integral part of Allegiant. Readers first encountered Tobias as "Four" in Divergent. Complete your Divergent library with Four! Fans of the Divergent series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth will be thrilled by Four: A Divergent Collection, a companion volume that includes four pre-Divergent stories plus three additional scenes from Divergent, all told from Tobias's point of view. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, he realizes he does not have enough coins for her and makes a deal with an alchemist who promises to exchange iron for gold if he steals something from his master. Pate, a student of the Citadel, dreams of marrying the girl he so cherishes. ‘Spoiler-Free’ Summary of A Feast for Crows Martin explores elusive elements hinted at the beginning of the series. A new enemy rises in the Iron Islands, and the political tension heightens. ![]() With King’s Landing in Cersei’s hands, the political balance of Westeros begins to crumble. ![]() The story goes further and explores the continent of Essos through the eyes of some primary characters this adds more depth to the relationship between both continents.Īfter the death of Tywin, Robb, Catelyn, Joffrey, and Balon Greyjoy, the political atmosphere of Westeros changes completely. It brings to light secondary characters and shows how their decisions affect the delicate political balance between various regions of Westeros. ![]() ![]() He offers her freedom in exchange for one more job she is critically needed for –to break Daniel Beach, a teacher with a talent for cooking in Washington, D.C. Things seem to change when Alex’s old handler, Lowell Carston, approaches her. The department has been after her for three years during which time she has survived three assassination attempts following the death of her mentor, Dr. At the beginning of the novel, Juliana –who changes names frequently - is on the run. Fortis used chemical agents to torture those she interrogated for the purpose of extracting critical information. She earned the name for the work she did for a government department, an agency so secretive that it does not have a name and does not officially exist. ![]() ![]() When the novel begins, readers are introduced to Dr. ![]() The Chemist is a suspense novel by Stephenie Meyer in which heroine Alex attempts to survive her former government department while attempting to get to the bottom of a biological weapons plot. The following version of the book was used to create this study guide: Meyer, Stephenie. ![]() ![]() ![]() Furthermore, the study revealed that gender, department type, and all smartphone use habits were significantly correlated with nomophobia. The results of the research brought to light relationships between extraversion, neuroticism, and openness to experience traits and nomophobia level. The differences between university students’ nomophobia levels in terms of demographic variables and smartphone use habits were assessed by one way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and independent samples t-test. In the main analyses of the study, the correlations between the study variables were examined with Pearson correlation analysis. ![]() The data was obtained via demographic form prepared by researcher, The Big Five Inventory (John et al., 1991 Schmitt et al., 2007), and Nomophobia Questionnaire (Yildirim & Correia, 2015 Yildirim et al. The sample of the study comprised 414 undergraduate students (254 female and 160 male) studying in Yeditepe University. The research was compiled through correlational design. ![]() ![]() In the scope of the study, the relationship between nomophobia and smartphone use habits were also investigated. The present research was carried out with the purpose of scrutinizing the relationship between five-factor personality traits and nomophobia. ![]() |