Christine's bookshelf: all en-US Thu, 20 Mar 2025 22:29:20 -0700 60 Christine's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King]]> 204639598 The New York Times bestselling author returns with a biography examining the dramatic life and unparalleled leadership of England's greatest medieval king.

In 1413, when Henry V ascended to the English throne, his kingdom was hopelessly torn apart by political faction and partisanship. Public finances and law and order were in a state of crisis. Pirates tormented the coast; plots, conspiracies, and heresy threatened society. The lingering effects of the worst pandemic in human history continued to menace daily life. And then, in less than ten years, Henry turns it all around.

By common consensus in his day, and for hundreds of years afterward, Henry was the greatest medieval king that ever lived. Through skillful leadership, unwavering vision, and seemingly by sheer force of personality, he managed to catapult his realm into the greatest triumphs it has ever he united the political community behind the crown, renewed the justice system, revived England’s maritime dominance. And then there are his military achievements in France, most notably the resounding, against-the-odds victory at Agincourt. He was tough, lucky, intelligent, farsighted, and cultured. But he was also, at times, cold, callous, violent, by instinct a traditionalist and even a reactionary. A historical titan, his legacy over the years has become a complicated one.

As an exceptional leader, Henry V transcends the Middle Ages which produced him, and his life story has much to teach us today. Drawing on the latest scholarship and writing with his characteristic wit and style, Dan Jones examines the king’s legendary life—and he puts Henry’s claim to greatness very vigorously to the test.]]> 430 Dan Jones 0593652746 Christine 0 currently-reading 4.55 2024 Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King
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]]> <![CDATA[Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)]]> 11021899 242 Mindy Kaling Christine 0 to-read, to-read-non-fiction 3.91 2011 Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
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average rating: 3.91
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]]> <![CDATA[Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators]]> 53011908 In this instant New York Times bestselling account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost.

In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered about: one of Hollywood’s most powerful producers was a predator, protected by fear, wealth, and a conspiracy of silence. As Farrow drew closer to the truth, shadowy operatives, from high-priced lawyers to elite war-hardened spies, mounted a secret campaign of intimidation, threatening his career, following his every move, and weaponizing an account of abuse in his own family.

All the while, Farrow and his producer faced a degree of resistance they could not explain � until now. And a trail of clues revealed corruption and cover-ups from Hollywood to Washington and beyond.

This is the untold story of the exotic tactics of surveillance and intimidation deployed by wealthy and connected men to threaten journalists, evade accountability, and silence victims of abuse. And it’s the story of the women who risked everything to expose the truth and spark a global movement.

Both a spy thriller and a meticulous work of investigative journalism, Catch and Kill breaks devastating new stories about the rampant abuse of power and sheds far-reaching light on investigations that shook our culture.]]> 448 Ronan Farrow 0316486639 Christine 0 4.45 2019 Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
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]]> Bloom 39073387
Writer Kevin Panetta and artist Savanna Ganucheau concoct a delicious recipe of intricately illustrated baking scenes and blushing young love, in which the choices we make can have terrible consequences, but the people who love us can help us grow.]]> 368 Kevin Panetta 1626726418 Christine 0 3.91 2019 Bloom
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]]> <![CDATA[Start by Believing: Larry Nassar's Crimes, the Institutions that Enabled Him, and the Brave Women Who Stopped a Monster]]> 44286537 The definitive, devastating account of the largest sex abuse scandal in American sports history-with new details and insights into the institutional failures, as well as the bravery that brought it to light.

Start by Believing reveals the win-at-all-costs culture in elite athletics and higher education that enabled a quarter century of heinous crimes. For decades, osteopathic physician Larry Nassar built a sterling reputation as the go-to doctor for America's Olympians while treating countless others at his office on Michigan State University's campus. It was largely within the high-pressure world of competitive gymnastics that Nassar exploited young girls, who were otherwise motivated by fear and intimidation, sexually assaulting hundreds of them under the guise of medical treatment.

>In Start by Believing, John Barr and Dan Murphy confront Nassar's acts, which represent the largest sex abuse scandal to impact the sporting world. Through never-before-released interviews and documents they deconstruct the epic institutional failures and individuals who enabled him. When warnings were raised, self-serving leaders chose to protect their organizations' reputations over the well-being of young people.

Following the paths traveled by courageous women--featuring a once-shy Christian attorney and a brash, outspoken Olympic medalist--Barr and Murphy detail the stories of those who fought back against the dysfunction within their sport to claim a far-from-inevitable victory. The gymnasts' uncommon perseverance, along with the help of dedicated advocates, brought criminals to justice and helped fuel the #MeToo revolution.]]> 352 John Barr 0316532150 Christine 0 4.32 2020 Start by Believing: Larry Nassar's Crimes, the Institutions that Enabled Him, and the Brave Women Who Stopped a Monster
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]]> <![CDATA[Sorcery of Thorns (Sorcery of Thorns, #1)]]> 42201395
Then an act of sabotage releases the library’s most dangerous grimoire. Elisabeth’s desperate intervention implicates her in the crime, and she is torn from her home to face justice in the capital. With no one to turn to but her sworn enemy, the sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn, and his mysterious demonic servant, she finds herself entangled in a centuries-old conspiracy. Not only could the Great Libraries go up in flames, but the world along with them.

As her alliance with Nathaniel grows stronger, Elisabeth starts to question everything she’s been taught—about sorcerers, about the libraries she loves, even about herself. For Elisabeth has a power she has never guessed, and a future she could never have imagined.]]> 456 Margaret Rogerson 1481497618 Christine 0 4.03 2019 Sorcery of Thorns (Sorcery of Thorns, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement]]> 44767249
Nothing could have prepared Kantor and Twohey for what followed the publication of their initial Weinstein story on October 5, 2017. Within days, a veritable Pandora’s box of sexual harassment and abuse was opened. Women all over the world came forward with their own traumatic stories. Over the next twelve months, hundreds of men from every walk of life and industry were outed following allegations of wrongdoing. But did too much change—or not enough? Those questions hung in the air months later as Brett Kavanaugh was nominated to the Supreme Court, and Christine Blasey Ford came forward to testify that he had assaulted her decades earlier. Kantor and Twohey, who had unique access to Ford and her team, bring to light the odyssey that led her to come forward, the overwhelming forces that came to bear on her, and what happened after she shared her allegation with the world.

In the tradition of great investigative journalism, She Said tells a thrilling story about the power of truth, with shocking new information from hidden sources. Kantor and Twohey describe not only the consequences of their reporting for the #MeToo movement, but the inspiring and affecting journeys of the women who spoke up—for the sake of other women, for future generations, and for themselves.]]> 310 Jodi Kantor 0525560343 Christine 0 4.35 2019 She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
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]]> <![CDATA[We Unleash the Merciless Storm (We Set the Dark on Fire, #2)]]> 40522133 In this nail-biting sequel to Tehlor Kay Mejia’s critically acclaimed fantasy novel We Set the Dark on Fire, La Voz operative Carmen is forced to choose between the girl she loves and the success of the rebellion she’s devoted her life to. Perfect for fans of The Handmaid’s Tale and Anna-Marie McLemore.

Being a part of the resistance group La Voz is an act of devotion and desperation. On the other side of Medio’s border wall, the oppressed class fights for freedom and liberty, sacrificing what little they have to become defenders of the cause.

Carmen Santos is one of La Voz’s best soldiers. She spent years undercover, but now, with her identity exposed and the island on the brink of a civil war, Carmen returns to the only real home she’s ever known: La Voz’s headquarters.

There she must reckon with her beloved leader, who is under the influence of an aggressive new recruit, and with the devastating news that her true love might be the target of an assassination plot. Will Carmen break with her community and save the girl who stole her heart—or fully embrace the ruthless rebel she was always meant to be?]]> 400 Tehlor Kay Mejia 0062691341 Christine 0 3.80 2020 We Unleash the Merciless Storm (We Set the Dark on Fire, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Toll (Arc of a Scythe, #3)]]> 43822024
In this pulse-pounding conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman’s Arc of a Scythe trilogy, constitutions are tested and old friends are brought back from the dead.]]> 625 Neal Shusterman 1481497065 Christine 0 4.16 2019 The Toll (Arc of a Scythe, #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)]]> 45992717 If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?�

England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith’s son from Putney emerges from the spring’s bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen before Jane dies giving birth to the male heir he most craves.

Cromwell is a man with only his wits to rely on; he has no great family to back him, no private army. Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing Henry’s regime to the breaking point, Cromwell’s robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future. But can a nation, or a person, shed the past like a skin? Do the dead continually unbury themselves? What will you do, the Spanish ambassador asks Cromwell, when the king turns on you, as sooner or later he turns on everyone close to him?

With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man’s vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion, and courage.]]> 757 Hilary Mantel 0805096604 Christine 0 to-read, to-read-fiction 4.36 2020 The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
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]]> The Witches: Salem, 1692 28449076 Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff, author of the #1 bestseller Cleopatra, provides an electrifying, fresh view of the Salem witch trials.

The panic began early in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's niece began to writhe and roar. It spread quickly, confounding the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Neighbors accused neighbors, husbands accused wives, parents and children one another. It ended less than a year later, but not before nineteen men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death.

Speaking loudly and emphatically, adolescent girls stood at the center of the crisis. Along with suffrage and Prohibition, the Salem witch trials represent one of the few moments when women played the central role in American history. Drawing masterfully on the archives, Stacy Schiff introduces us to the strains on a Puritan adolescent's life and to the authorities whose delicate agendas were at risk. She illuminates the demands of a rigorous faith, the vulnerability of settlements adrift from the mother country, perched-at a politically tumultuous time-on the edge of what a visitor termed a "remote, rocky, barren, bushy, wild-woody wilderness."

With devastating clarity, the textures and tensions of colonial life emerge; hidden patterns subtly, startlingly detach themselves from the darkness. Schiff brings early American anxieties to the fore to align them brilliantly with our own. In an era of religious provocations, crowdsourcing, and invisible enemies, this enthralling story makes more sense than ever.

The Witches is Schiff 's riveting account of a seminal episode, a primal American mystery unveiled-in crackling detail and lyrical prose-by one of our most acclaimed historians.]]> 512 Stacy Schiff Christine 0 to-read-non-fiction, to-read 3.22 2015 The Witches: Salem, 1692
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]]> This Is How It Always Is 28820997 This is how a family keeps a secret…and how that secret ends up keeping them.

This is how a family lives happily ever after…until happily ever after becomes complicated.

This is how children change…and then change the world.

This is Claude. He’s five years old, the youngest of five brothers, and loves peanut butter sandwiches. He also loves wearing a dress, and dreams of being a princess.

When he grows up, Claude says, he wants to be a girl.

Rosie and Penn want Claude to be whoever Claude wants to be. They’re just not sure they’re ready to share that with the world. Soon the entire family is keeping Claude’s secret. Until one day it explodes.

Laurie Frankel's This Is How It Always Is is a novel about revelations, transformations, fairy tales, and family. And it’s about the ways this is how it always is: Change is always hard and miraculous and hard again, parenting is always a leap into the unknown with crossed fingers and full hearts, children grow but not always according to plan. And families with secrets don’t get to keep them forever.]]> 327 Laurie Frankel 1250088550 Christine 0 to-read 4.24 2017 This Is How It Always Is
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]]> Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body 26074156 New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself.

“I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.�

In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as “wildly undisciplined,� Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger, she explores her past—including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life—and brings readers along on her journey to understand and ultimately save herself.

With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and power that have made her one of the most admired writers of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to learn to take care of yourself: how to feed your hungers for delicious and satisfying food, a smaller and safer body, and a body that can love and be loved—in a time when the bigger you are, the smaller your world becomes.]]> 306 Roxane Gay 0062362593 Christine 0 to-read-non-fiction 4.17 2017 Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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]]> Taproot 35833506 127 Keezy Young 1941302467 Christine 0 3.86 2017 Taproot
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]]> <![CDATA[An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)]]> 27774758 Alternative Cover Edition #1

Laia is a slave. Elias is a soldier. Neither is free.

Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. Those who do not vow their blood and bodies to the Emperor risk the execution of their loved ones and the destruction of all they hold dear.

It is in this brutal world, inspired by ancient Rome, that Laia lives with her grandparents and older brother. The family ekes out an existence in the Empire’s impoverished backstreets. They do not challenge the Empire. They’ve seen what happens to those who do.

But when Laia’s brother is arrested for treason, Laia is forced to make a decision. In exchange for help from rebels who promise to rescue her brother, she will risk her life to spy for them from within the Empire’s greatest military academy.

There, Laia meets Elias, the school’s finest soldier—and secretly, its most unwilling. Elias wants only to be free of the tyranny he’s being trained to enforce. He and Laia will soon realize that their destinies are intertwined—and that their choices will change the fate of the Empire itself.

From the Hardcover edition.]]> 446 Sabaa Tahir Christine 0 4.23 2015 An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)
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]]> All the Crooked Saints 30025336 From bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater, a gripping tale of darkness, miracles, and family. Saints. Miracles. Family. Romance. Death. Redemption.

Here is a thing everyone wants: A miracle.

Here is a thing everyone fears: What it takes to get one.

Any visitor to Bicho Raro, Colorado is likely to find a landscape of dark saints, forbidden love, scientific dreams, miracle-mad owls, estranged affections, one or two orphans, and a sky full of watchful desert stars.

At the heart of this place you will find the Soria family, who all have the ability to perform unusual miracles. And at the heart of this family are three cousins longing to change its future: Beatriz, the girl without feelings, who wants only to be free to examine her thoughts; Daniel, the Saint of Bicho Raro, who performs miracles for everyone but himself; and Joaquin, who spends his nights running a renegade radio station under the name Diablo Diablo.

They are all looking for a miracle. But the miracles of Bicho Raro are never quite what you expect.]]> 313 Maggie Stiefvater 0545930804 Christine 0 3.82 2017 All the Crooked Saints
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]]> Love, Hate & Other Filters 31207017
American-born seventeen-year-old Maya Aziz is torn between worlds. There’s the proper one her parents expect for their good Indian daughter: attending a college close to their suburban Chicago home, and being paired off with an older Muslim boy her mom deems “suitable.� And then there is the world of her dreams: going to film school and living in New York City—and maybe (just maybe) pursuing a boy she’s known from afar since grade school, a boy who’s finally falling into her orbit at school.

There’s also the real world, beyond Maya’s control. In the aftermath of a horrific crime perpetrated hundreds of miles away, her life is turned upside down. The community she’s known since birth becomes unrecognizable; neighbors and classmates alike are consumed with fear, bigotry, and hatred. Ultimately, Maya must find the strength within to determine where she truly belongs.]]> 281 Samira Ahmed 1616958472 Christine 0 3.75 2018 Love, Hate & Other Filters
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]]> <![CDATA[Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)]]> 10194157 Alternative Cover Edition #1

Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee.

Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life—a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Wrenched from everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling.

Yet nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. With darkness looming and an entire kingdom depending on her untamed power, Alina will have to confront the secrets of the Grisha . . . and the secrets of her heart.]]> 358 Leigh Bardugo 1250048117 Christine 0 3.93 2012 Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)
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]]> The Wicked Deep 35297394 Hocus Pocus and Practical Magic meets the Salem Witch trials in this haunting story about three sisters on a quest for revenge—and how love may be the only thing powerful enough to stop them.

Welcome to the cursed town of Sparrow�

Where, two centuries ago, three sisters were sentenced to death for witchery. Stones were tied to their ankles and they were drowned in the deep waters surrounding the town.

Now, for a brief time each summer, the sisters return, stealing the bodies of three weak-hearted girls so that they may seek their revenge, luring boys into the harbor and pulling them under.

Like many locals, seventeen-year-old Penny Talbot has accepted the fate of the town. But this year, on the eve of the sisters� return, a boy named Bo Carter arrives; unaware of the danger he has just stumbled into.

Mistrust and lies spread quickly through the salty, rain-soaked streets. The townspeople turn against one another. Penny and Bo suspect each other of hiding secrets. And death comes swiftly to those who cannot resist the call of the sisters.

But only Penny sees what others cannot. And she will be forced to save Bo, or save herself.]]> 310 Shea Ernshaw 1481497340 Christine 0 3.85 2018 The Wicked Deep
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]]> American Street 30256109 The rock in the water does not know the pain of the rock in the sun.

On the corner of American Street and Joy Road, Fabiola Toussaint thought she would finally find une belle vie—a good life.

But after they leave Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Fabiola’s mother is detained by U.S. immigration, leaving Fabiola to navigate her loud American cousins, Chantal, Donna, and Princess; the grittiness of Detroit’s west side; a new school; and a surprising romance, all on her own.

Just as she finds her footing in this strange new world, a dangerous proposition presents itself, and Fabiola soon realizes that freedom comes at a cost. Trapped at the crossroads of an impossible choice, will she pay the price for the American dream?]]> 336 Ibi Zoboi 0062473042 Christine 0 4.00 2017 American Street
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]]> <![CDATA[Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe, #2)]]> 33555224
Citra, now a junior scythe under Scythe Curie, sees the corruption and wants to help change it from the inside out, but is thwarted at every turn, and threatened by the “new order� scythes. Realizing she cannot do this alone—or even with the help of Scythe Curie and Faraday, she does the unthinkable, and risks being “deadish� so she can communicate with the Thunderhead—the only being on earth wise enough to solve the dire problems of a perfect world. But will it help solve those problems, or simply watch as perfection goes into decline?]]> 504 Neal Shusterman 1442472456 Christine 0 4.38 2018 Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe, #2)
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]]> Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1) 28954189 Thou shalt kill.

A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery. Humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now scythes are the only ones who can end life—and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the population under control.

Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe—a role that neither wants. These teens must master the “art� of taking life, knowing that the consequence of failure could mean losing their own.

An alternate cover edition of ISBN: 9781442472426]]> 435 Neal Shusterman Christine 0 4.32 2016 Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)
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]]> From Twinkle, with Love 36373464 New York Times bestselling author of When Dimple Met Rishi.

Aspiring filmmaker and wallflower Twinkle Mehra has stories she wants to tell and universes she wants to explore, if only the world would listen. So when fellow film geek Sahil Roy approaches her to direct a movie for the upcoming Summer Festival, Twinkle is all over it. The chance to publicly showcase her voice as a director? Dream come true. The fact that it gets her closer to her longtime crush, Neil Roy-a.k.a. Sahil's twin brother? Dream come true x 2.

When mystery man N begins emailing her, Twinkle is sure it's Neil, finally ready to begin their happily-ever-after. The only slightly inconvenient problem is that, in the course of movie-making, she's fallen madly in love with the irresistibly adorkable Sahil.

Twinkle soon realizes that resistance is futile: The romance she's got is not the one she's scripted. But will it be enough?

Told through the letters Twinkle writes to her favorite female filmmakers, From Twinkle, with Love navigates big truths about friendship, family, and the unexpected places love can find you.]]> 336 Sandhya Menon 1481495402 Christine 0 3.59 2018 From Twinkle, with Love
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average rating: 3.59
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]]> <![CDATA[Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor, #1)]]> 34219873
Morrigan Crow is cursed. Having been born on Eventide, the unluckiest day for any child to be born, she's blamed for all local misfortunes, from hailstorms to heart attacks--and, worst of all, the curse means that Morrigan is doomed to die at midnight on her eleventh birthday.

But as Morrigan awaits her fate, a strange and remarkable man named Jupiter North appears. Chased by black-smoke hounds and shadowy hunters on horseback, he whisks her away into the safety of a secret, magical city called Nevermoor.

It's then that Morrigan discovers Jupiter has chosen her to contend for a place in the city's most prestigious organization: the Wundrous Society. In order to join, she must compete in four difficult and dangerous trials against hundreds of other children, each boasting an extraordinary talent that sets them apart - an extraordinary talent that Morrigan insists she does not have. To stay in the safety of Nevermoor for good, Morrigan will need to find a way to pass the tests - or she'll have to leave the city to confront her deadly fate.]]> 465 Jessica Townsend 0316439959 Christine 0 4.32 2017 Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor, #1)
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average rating: 4.32
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]]> <![CDATA[And I Darken (The Conqueror's Saga, #1)]]> 27190613
Ever since she and her brother were abandoned by their father to be raised in the Ottoman sultan’s courts, Lada has known that ruthlessness is the key to survival. For the lineage that makes her and her brother special also makes them targets.

Lada hones her skills as a warrior as she nurtures plans to wreak revenge on the empire that holds her captive. Then she and Radu meet the sultan’s son, Mehmed, and everything changes. Now Mehmed unwittingly stands between Lada and Radu as they transform from siblings to rivals, and the ties of love and loyalty that bind them together are stretched to breaking point.

The first of an epic new trilogy starring the ultimate anti-princess who does not have a gentle heart. Lada knows how to wield a sword, and she'll stop at nothing to keep herself and her brother alive.]]> 475 Kiersten White 0553522310 Christine 0 3.81 2016 And I Darken (The Conqueror's Saga, #1)
author: Kiersten White
name: Christine
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Wildwood (Wildwood Chronicles, #1)]]> 10431447 For fans of the Chronicles of Narnia comes the first book in the Wildwood Chronicles, the New York Times bestselling fantasy adventure series by Colin Meloy, lead singer of the Decemberists, and Carson Ellis, acclaimed illustrator of The Mysterious Benedict Society.

Wildwood captivates readers with the wonder and thrill of a secret world within the landscape of a modern city. It feels at once firmly steeped in the classics of children's literature and completely fresh. The story is told from multiple points of view, and the book features more than eighty illustrations, including six full-color plates, making this an absolutely gorgeous object.

In Wildwood, Prue and her friend Curtis uncover a secret world in the midst of violent upheaval—a world full of warring creatures, peaceable mystics, and powerful figures with the darkest intentions. And what begins as a rescue mission becomes something much greater as the two friends find themselves entwined in a struggle for the very freedom of this wilderness. A wilderness the locals call Wildwood.

The bestselling trilogy from Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis consists of Wildwood, Under Wildwood, and Wildwood Imperium.]]> 541 Colin Meloy 006202468X Christine 0 3.70 2011 Wildwood (Wildwood Chronicles, #1)
author: Colin Meloy
name: Christine
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2011
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Ravenspur: Rise of the Tudors (The Wars of the Roses, #4)]]> 28820403 469 Conn Iggulden Christine 0 4.15 2016 Ravenspur: Rise of the Tudors (The Wars of the Roses, #4)
author: Conn Iggulden
name: Christine
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> Bloodline 25552343 Stormbird and Trinity this novel will continue through the brutal Civil War that we now know as the Wars of the Roses.


Bloodline sees the Lancastrian and Yorkist factions clash at the battle of Towton - the single most bloody conflict every fought on British soil. The victorious Edward of York seals his claim to the English throne.


The fourth and final installment in the series will publish in 2016.


Praise for the Wars of the Roses


'Pacey and juicy, and packed with action' Sunday Times


'Energetic, competent stuff; Iggulden knows his material and his audience' Independent


'A novel that seamlessly combines narrative, historical credence and great knowledge of the period' Daily Express


'A page-turning thriller' Mail on Sunday


Conn Iggulden is one of the most successful authors of historical fiction writing today. Following the Sunday Times bestseller Stormbird and Trinity, Bloodline is the third book in his superb new series set during the Wars of the Roses, a remarkable period of British history. He has written two previous historical series.

]]> 475 Conn Iggulden 0718196449 Christine 0 4.27 2015 Bloodline
author: Conn Iggulden
name: Christine
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> Esperanza Rising 89763 304 Pam Muñoz Ryan 043912042X Christine 0 4.03 2000 Esperanza Rising
author: Pam Muñoz Ryan
name: Christine
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2000
rating: 0
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]]> Educated 35133922
Her father forbade hospitals, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education and no one to intervene when one of Tara's older brothers became violent.

Then, lacking any formal education, Tara began to educate herself. She taught herself enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University, where she studied history, learning for the first time about important world events like the Holocaust and the civil rights movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home.

Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty and of the grief that comes with severing the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes and the will to change it.]]> 352 Tara Westover 0399590501 Christine 0 to-read 4.46 2018 Educated
author: Tara Westover
name: Christine
average rating: 4.46
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> Anya's Ghost 9615347 Anya could really use a friend. But her new BFF isn't kidding about the "Forever" part.

Of all the things Anya expected to find at the bottom of an old well, a new friend was not one of them. Especially not a new friend who’s been dead for a century.

Falling down a well is bad enough, but Anya's normal life might actually be worse. She's embarrassed by her family, self-conscious about her body, and she's pretty much given up on fitting in at school. A new friend—even a ghost—is just what she needs.

Or so she thinks. Spooky, sardonic, and secretly sincere, Anya's Ghost is a wonderfully entertaining debut from author/artist Vera Brosgol.]]> 224 Vera Brosgol 1596437138 Christine 0 3.91 2011 Anya's Ghost
author: Vera Brosgol
name: Christine
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2011
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Witch Boy (The Witch Boy, #1)]]> 31193426 In thirteen-year-old Aster's family, all the girls are raised to be witches, while boys grow up to be shapeshifters. Anyone who dares cross those lines is exiled. Unfortunately for Aster, he still hasn't shifted . . . and he's still fascinated by witchery, no matter how forbidden it might be. When a mysterious danger threatens the other boys, Aster knows he can help -- as a witch. It will take the encouragement of a new friend, the non-magical and non-conforming Charlie, to convince Aster to try practicing his skills. And it will require even more courage to save his family . . . and be truly himself.]]> 224 Molly Knox Ostertag Christine 0 4.21 2017 The Witch Boy (The Witch Boy, #1)
author: Molly Knox Ostertag
name: Christine
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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date added: 2018/05/16
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]]> <![CDATA[Between the World and Me (One World Essentials)]]> 34020369 “This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.�

In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,� a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden?

Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.]]> 166 Ta-Nehisi Coates 0812983815 Christine 0 to-read 4.42 2015 Between the World and Me (One World Essentials)
author: Ta-Nehisi Coates
name: Christine
average rating: 4.42
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon]]> 3398625 The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon.

After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve "the greatest exploration mystery of the 20th century": What happened to the British explorer Percy Fawcett & his quest for the Lost City of Z?

In 1925, Fawcett ventured into the Amazon to find an ancient civilization, hoping to make one of the most important discoveries in history. For centuries Europeans believed the world's largest jungle concealed the glittering kingdom of El Dorado. Thousands had died looking for it, leaving many scientists convinced that the Amazon was truly inimical to humans. But Fawcett, whose daring expeditions inspired Conan Doyle's The Lost World, had spent years building his scientific case. Captivating the imagination of millions round the globe, Fawcett embarked with his 21-year-old son, determined to prove that this ancient civilisation--which he dubbed Z--existed. Then his expedition vanished. Fawcett's fate, & the tantalizing clues he left behind about Z, became an obsession for hundreds who followed him into the uncharted wilderness.

For decades scientists & adventurers have searched for evidence of Fawcett's party & the lost City of Z. Countless have perished, been captured by tribes or gone mad. As Grann delved ever deeper into the mystery surrounding Fawcett's quest, & the greater mystery of what lies within the Amazon, he found himself, like the generations who preceded him, being irresistibly drawn into the jungle's green hell. His quest for the truth & discoveries about Fawcett's fate & Z form the heart of this complexly enthralling narrative.]]> 339 David Grann 0385513534 Christine 0 to-read, to-read-non-fiction 3.87 2009 The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
author: David Grann
name: Christine
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2009
rating: 0
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]]> On Beauty 3679 On Beauty is the story of an interracial family living in the university town of Wellington, Massachusetts, whose misadventures in the culture wars-on both sides of the Atlantic-serve to skewer everything from family life to political correctness to the combustive collision between the personal and the political. Full of dead-on wit and relentlessly funny, this tour de force confirms Zadie Smith's reputation as a major literary talent.]]> 445 Zadie Smith 0143037749 Christine 0 3.79 2005 On Beauty
author: Zadie Smith
name: Christine
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2005
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Anne of Green Gables: A Graphic Novel]]> 34227894 Schoolyard rivalries. Baking disasters. Puffed sleeves. Explore the violet vales and glorious green of Avonlea in this spirited adaptation.

The magic of L.M. Montgomery’s treasured classic is reimagined in a whimsically illustrated graphic-novel adaptationperfect for newcomers and kindred spirits alike. When Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert decide to adopt an orphan who can help manage their family farm, they have no idea what delightful trouble awaits them. With flame-redhair and an unstoppable imagination, eleven-year-old Anne Shirley takes Green Gables by storm. Anne’s misadventures bring a little romance to the lives of everyone she meets: her bosom friend, Diana Barry; the town gossip, Mrs. Lynde; and that infuriating tease, Gilbert Blythe. From triumphs and thrills to the depths of despair, Anne turns each everyday moment into something extraordinary.]]> 231 Mariah Marsden 144947960X Christine 2 4.30 2017 Anne of Green Gables: A Graphic Novel
author: Mariah Marsden
name: Christine
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2017
rating: 2
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This graphic novel was not for me, but it could work for someone coming to Anne of Green Gables fresh. I read the books, listened to the audio books and watched the movies again and again, so I can basically hear the text in my head. When this graphic novel uses different words or phrases, it just made me mad. I didn't like the way that some of the faces were drawn including Anne's, but the illustrations of scenery are really beautiful. It didn't work for me, but I do applaud the effort.
]]> <![CDATA[Trinity (Wars of the Roses, #2)]]> 22468475
1454: King Henry VI has remained all but exiled in Windsor Castle, struck down by his illness for over a year, his eyes vacant, his mind a blank.

His fiercely loyal wife and Queen, Margaret of Anjou, safeguards her husband's interests, hoping that her son Edward will one day know the love of his father.

Richard Duke of York, Protector of the Realm, extends his influence throughout the kingdom with each month that Henry slumbers. The Earls of Salisbury and Warwick make up a formidable trinity with Richard, and together they seek to break the support of those who would raise their colours in the name of Henry and his Queen.

But when the King unexpectedly recovers his senses and returns to London to reclaim his throne, the balance of power is once again thrown into turmoil.

The clash of the Houses of Lancaster and York will surely mean a war to tear England apart . . .]]> 462 Conn Iggulden 0718159853 Christine 4 4.12 2014 Trinity (Wars of the Roses, #2)
author: Conn Iggulden
name: Christine
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2014
rating: 4
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Things really heat up in this second installment and we get to peak nobles battling it out for the crown which is exactly what I want. I also enjoyed that this book featured a woman, Margaret of Anjou, as a main character. After reading a lot of Philippa Gregory's books with their focus on female characters, this series does feel dude heavy. I read Dan Jones' non-fiction War of the Roses after this, and it was a good compliment.
]]> <![CDATA[The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors]]> 20821029
With vivid descriptions of the battle of Towton, where 28,000 men died in a single morning, to Bosworth, where the last Plantagenet king was hacked down, this is the real story behind Shakespeare's famous history plays.]]> 392 Dan Jones 0670026670 Christine 0 4.26 2014 The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
author: Dan Jones
name: Christine
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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]]> Everything, Everything 18692431
But then one day, a moving truck arrives. New next door neighbors. I look out the window, and I see him. He’s tall, lean and wearing all black—black t-shirt, black jeans, black sneakers and a black knit cap that covers his hair completely. He catches me looking and stares at me. I stare right back. His name is Olly. I want to learn everything about him, and I do. I learn that he is funny and fierce. I learn that his eyes are Atlantic Ocean-blue and that his vice is stealing silverware. I learn that when I talk to him, my whole world opens up, and I feel myself starting to change—starting to want things. To want out of my bubble. To want everything, everything the world has to offer.

Maybe we can’t predict the future, but we can predict some things. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. It’s almost certainly going to be a disaster.]]> 312 Nicola Yoon 0553496646 Christine 0 2018-read, read-young-adult 3.96 2015 Everything, Everything
author: Nicola Yoon
name: Christine
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Ellen Tebbits (Ellen & Otis, #1)]]> 89548 192 Beverly Cleary Christine 0 2018-read, read-middle-reader 3.96 1951 Ellen Tebbits (Ellen & Otis, #1)
author: Beverly Cleary
name: Christine
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1951
rating: 0
read at: 2018/05/13
date added: 2018/05/13
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]]> Decelerate Blue 8290081
In this new world, speed and efficiency are everything, and the populace zooms along in a perpetually stimulated haze. Angela thinks she's the only person in her family―maybe the only person on the planet―who sees anything wrong with this picture. But the truth is she's not alone.

Angela finds herself recruited into a resistance movement where the key to rebellion is taking things slow. In their secret underground hideout, they create a life unplugged from the rapid-fire culture outside. Can they free the rest of the world before the powers that be shut down their utopian experiment?

From revolutionary and award-winning playwright Adam Rapp and veteran cartoonist and animator Mike Cavallaro comes Decelerate Blue , a dark, breath-taking new vision of an all-too-plausible future for America.]]> 208 Adam Rapp 1442000813 Christine 0 3.29 2017 Decelerate Blue
author: Adam Rapp
name: Christine
average rating: 3.29
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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]]> Nimona 19351043
Nemeses! Dragons! Science! Symbolism! All these and more await in this brilliantly subversive, sharply irreverent epic from N.D. Stevenson. Featuring an exclusive epilogue not seen in the web comic, along with bonus conceptual sketches and revised pages throughout, this gorgeous full-color graphic novel is perfect for the legions of fans of the web comic and is sure to win Noelle many new ones.

Nimona is an impulsive young shapeshifter with a knack for villainy. Lord Ballister Blackheart is a villain with a vendetta. As sidekick and supervillain, Nimona and Lord Blackheart are about to wreak some serious havoc. Their mission: prove to the kingdom that Sir Ambrosius Goldenloin and his buddies at the Institution of Law Enforcement and Heroics aren't the heroes everyone thinks they are.

But as small acts of mischief escalate into a vicious battle, Lord Blackheart realizes that Nimona's powers are as murky and mysterious as her past. And her unpredictable wild side might be more dangerous than he is willing to admit.]]> 272 N.D. Stevenson Christine 0 4.16 2015 Nimona
author: N.D. Stevenson
name: Christine
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Tea Dragon Society (Tea Dragon, #1)]]> 34895950 Princess Princess Ever After comes The Tea Dragon Society, a charming all-ages book that follows the story of Greta, a blacksmith apprentice, and the people she meets as she becomes entwined in the enchanting world of tea dragons.

After discovering a lost tea dragon in the marketplace, Greta learns about the dying art form of tea dragon care-taking from the kind tea shop owners, Hesekiel and Erik. As she befriends them and their shy ward, Minette, Greta sees how the craft enriches their lives—and eventually her own.]]> 71 Kay O'Neill 1620104415 Christine 0 4.35 2017 The Tea Dragon Society (Tea Dragon, #1)
author: Kay O'Neill
name: Christine
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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]]> Sisters (Smile, #2) 18225810 Three weeks. Two sisters. One car. A True Story

Raina can’t wait to be a big sister. But once Amara is born, things aren’t quite how she expected them to be. Amara is cute, but she’s also a cranky, grouchy baby, and mostly prefers to play by herself. Their relationship doesn’t improve much over the years, but when a baby brother enters the picture and later, when something doesn’t seem right between their parents, they realize they must figure out how to get along. They are sisters, after all.

Raina uses her signature humor and charm in both present-day narrative and perfectly placed flashbacks to tell the story of her relationship with her sister, which unfolds during the course of a road trip from their home in San Francisco to a family reunion in Colorado.]]> 199 Raina Telgemeier 0545540607 Christine 0 4.32 2014 Sisters (Smile, #2)
author: Raina Telgemeier
name: Christine
average rating: 4.32
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Lumberjanes: Up All Night (Lumberjanes, #1)]]> 25088104 27 N.D. Stevenson 1613986866 Christine 0 4.03 2014 Lumberjanes: Up All Night (Lumberjanes, #1)
author: N.D. Stevenson
name: Christine
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII]]> 29430787
On the morning of July 28, 1540, as King Henry’s VIII’s former confidante Thomas Cromwell was being led to his execution, a teenager named Catherine Howard began her reign as queen of a country simmering with rebellion and terrifying uncertainty. Sixteen months later, the king’s fifth wife would follow her cousin Anne Boleyn to the scaffold, having been convicted of adultery and high treason.

The broad outlines of Catherine’s career might be familiar, but her story up until now has been incomplete. Unlike previous accounts of her life, which portray her as a naïve victim of an ambitious family, this compelling and authoritative biography will shed new light on Catherine Howard’s rise and downfall by reexamining her motives and showing her in her context, a milieu that goes beyond her family and the influential men of the court to include the aristocrats and, most critically, the servants who surrounded her and who, in the end, conspired against her. By illuminating Catherine's entwined upstairs/downstairs worlds as well as societal tensions beyond the palace walls, the author offers a fascinating portrayal of court life in the sixteenth century and a fresh analysis of the forces beyond Catherine’s control that led to her execution—from diplomatic pressure and international politics to the long-festering resentments against the queen’s household at court.

Including a forgotten text of Catherine’s confession in her own words, color illustrations, family tree, map, and extensive notes, Young and Damned and Fair changes our understanding of one of history’s most famous women while telling the compelling and very human story of complex individuals attempting to survive in a dangerous age.]]> 464 Gareth Russell 1501108638 Christine 0 4.16 2017 Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII
author: Gareth Russell
name: Christine
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter]]> 29010395
But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. That was Olga’s role.

Then a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga dead and Julia left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her family. And no one seems to acknowledge that Julia is broken, too. Instead, her mother seems to channel her grief into pointing out every possible way Julia has failed.

But it’s not long before Julia discovers that Olga might not have been as perfect as everyone thought. With the help of her best friend Lorena, and her first kiss, first love, first everything boyfriend Connor, Julia is determined to find out. Was Olga really what she seemed? Or was there more to her sister’s story? And either way, how can Julia even attempt to live up to a seemingly impossible ideal?]]> 344 Erika L. Sánchez 1524700487 Christine 0 4.00 2017 I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
author: Erika L. Sánchez
name: Christine
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[When Dimple Met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi, #1)]]> 28458598 right now, they wouldn’t have paid for her to attend a summer program for aspiring web developers…right?

Rishi Patel is a hopeless romantic. So when his parents tell him that his future wife will be attending the same summer program—wherein he’ll have to woo her—he’s totally on board. Because as silly as it sounds to most people in his life, Rishi wants to be arranged, believes in the power of tradition, stability, and being a part of something much bigger than himself.

The Shahs and Patels didn’t mean to start turning the wheels on this “suggested arrangement� so early in their children’s lives, but when they noticed them both gravitating toward the same summer program, they figured, Why not?

Dimple and Rishi may think they have each other figured out. But when opposites clash, love works hard to prove itself in the most unexpected ways.]]> 380 Sandhya Menon 1481478680 Christine 0 3.68 2017 When Dimple Met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi, #1)
author: Sandhya Menon
name: Christine
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Last Tudor (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #14)]]> 33368917
Jane Grey was queen of England for nine days. Her father and his allies crowned her instead of the dead king’s half sister Mary Tudor, who quickly mustered an army, claimed her throne, and locked Jane in the Tower of London. When Jane refused to betray her Protestant faith, Mary sent her to the executioner’s block, where Jane transformed her father’s greedy power grab into tragic martyrdom.

“Learn you to die,� was the advice Jane wrote to her younger sister Katherine, who has no intention of dying. She intends to enjoy her beauty and her youth and fall in love. But she is heir to the insecure and infertile Queen Mary and then to her half sister, Queen Elizabeth, who will never allow Katherine to marry and produce a Tudor son. When Katherine’s pregnancy betrays her secret marriage, she faces imprisonment in the Tower, only yards from her sister’s scaffold.

“Farewell, my sister,� writes Katherine to the youngest Grey sister, Mary. A beautiful dwarf, disregarded by the court, Mary keeps family secrets, especially her own, while avoiding Elizabeth’s suspicious glare. After seeing her sisters defy their queens, Mary is acutely aware of her own danger but determined to command her own life. What will happen when the last Tudor defies her ruthless and unforgiving Queen Elizabeth?]]> 518 Philippa Gregory 147675876X Christine 0 3.78 2017 The Last Tudor (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #14)
author: Philippa Gregory
name: Christine
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Baby-sitters at Shadow Lake (The Baby-Sitters Club Super Special, #8)]]> 371064 256 Ann M. Martin 0590449621 Christine 0 2018-read, read-middle-reader 3.77 1992 Baby-sitters at Shadow Lake (The Baby-Sitters Club Super Special, #8)
author: Ann M. Martin
name: Christine
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1992
rating: 0
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]]> Year of Yes 29540318 Grey's Anatomy and Scandal and executive producer of How to Get Away with Murder and Catch, reveals how saying YES changed her life -- and how it can change yours too. With three hit shows on television and three children at home, Shonda Rhimes had lots of good reasons to say no when invitations arrived. Hollywood party? No. Speaking engagement? No. Media appearances? No. And to an introvert like Shonda, who describes herself as 'hugging the walls' at social events and experiencing panic attacks before press interviews, there was a particular benefit to saying no: nothing new to fear. Then came Thanksgiving 2013, when Shonda's sister Delorse muttered six little words at her: You never say yes to anything. Profound, impassioned and laugh-out-loud funny, in Year of Yes Shonda Rhimes reveals how saying YES changed -- and saved -- her life. And inspires readers everywhere to change their own lives with one little word: Yes.]]> 352 Shonda Rhimes 1471157326 Christine 0 to-read 4.04 2015 Year of Yes
author: Shonda Rhimes
name: Christine
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> Murder of a Medici Princess 2477243 Murphy is a superb storyteller, and her fast-paced narrative captures the intrigue, the scandal, the romantic affairs, and the violence that were commonplace in the Florentine court. She brings to life an extraordinary woman, fluent in five languages, a free-spirited patron of the arts, a daredevil, a practical joker, and a passionate lover. Isabella, in fact, conducted numerous affairs, including a ten-year relationship with the cousin of her violent and possessive husband. Her permissive lifestyle, however, came to an end upon the death of her father, who was succeeded by her disapproving older brother Francesco. Considering Isabella's ways to be licentious and a disgrace upon the family, he permitted her increasingly enraged husband to murder her in a remote Medici villa. To tell this dramatic story, Murphy draws on a vast trove of newly discovered and unpublished documents, ranging from Isabella's own letters, to the loose-tongued dispatches of ambassadors to Florence, to
contemporary descriptions of the opulent parties and balls, salons and hunts in which Isabella and her associates participated. Murphy resurrects the exciting atmosphere of Renaissance Florence, weaving Isabella's beloved city into her story, evoking the intellectual and artistic community that thrived during her time. Palaces and gardens in the city become places of creativity and intrigue, sites of seduction, and grounds for betrayal.
Here then is a narrative of compelling and epic proportions, magnificent and alluring, decadent and ultimately tragic.]]> 416 Caroline P. Murphy 0195314395 Christine 0 3.94 2008 Murder of a Medici Princess
author: Caroline P. Murphy
name: Christine
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2008
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Queen's Gambit (The Tudor Trilogy, #1)]]> 21325365
My name is Katherine Parr.
I'm 31 years old and already twice widowed.
I'm in love with a man I can't have, and am about to wed a man no-one would want - for my husband-to-be is none other than Henry VIII, who has already beheaded two wives, cast aside two more, and watched one die in childbirth.

What will become of me once I'm wearing his ring and become Queen of England?

They say that the sharpest blades are sheathed in the softest pouches.
Only time will tell what I am really made of...

For fans of Hilary Mantel, Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir, Elizabeth Fremantle's first novel, Queen's Gambit, is a riveting account of the Tudor queen who married four men and outlived three of them - including Henry VIII.

Rich in atmosphere and period detail, and told through the eyes of Katherine and her young maid Dot, it tells the story of two very different women during a terrifying and turbulent time. If you loved Wolf Hall, The Other Boleyn Girl or the BBC drama series The Tudors, then Elizabeth Fremantle's Queen's Gambit is the book for you.]]> 476 Elizabeth Fremantle 1405909382 Christine 0 3.77 2012 Queen's Gambit (The Tudor Trilogy, #1)
author: Elizabeth Fremantle
name: Christine
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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]]> Nanny Returns (Nanny, #2) 6487537 in love with Nan, the smart, spirited,
and sympathetic heroine of the
#1 New York Times bestseller
The Nanny Diaries.
Now she's back. After living abroad for twelve years, she and her husband, Ryan, aka H.H., have returned to New York to make a life for themselves. In the midst of getting her new business off the ground and fixing up their fixer-upper, Ryan announces his sudden desire to start a family. His timing simply couldn't be worse. To compound the mounting construction and marital chaos, her former charge, Grayer X, now sixteen years old, makes a drunken, late-night visit, wanting to know why she abandoned him all those years ago. But how can she explain to Grayer what she still hasn't come to terms with herself? In an attempt to assuage her guilt, yet against every instinct, Nan tries to help Grayer and his younger brother, Stilton, through their parents' brutal divorce, drawing her back into the ever-bizarre life of Mrs. X and her Upper East Side enclave of power and privilege. After putting miles and years between herself and this world, Nan finds she's once again on the front line of the battle with the couture-clad elite for their children's wellbeing. With its whip-smart dialogue and keen observations of modern life, Nanny Returns gives a firsthand tour of what happens when a community that chose money over love finds itself with neither. The Nanny Diaries was made into a major motion picture.]]> 305 Emma McLaughlin 1416585672 Christine 0 to-read, to-read-fiction 2.92 2009 Nanny Returns (Nanny, #2)
author: Emma McLaughlin
name: Christine
average rating: 2.92
book published: 2009
rating: 0
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date added: 2018/04/09
shelves: to-read, to-read-fiction
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Summer Before (The Baby-Sitters Club, #0.5)]]> 6817038 215 Ann M. Martin 0545160936 Christine 0 3.81 2010 The Summer Before (The Baby-Sitters Club, #0.5)
author: Ann M. Martin
name: Christine
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2010
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2018/04/09
shelves: to-read, 2018-read, read-middle-reader
review:

]]> Elf Quest: The Final Quest 25544098 32 Wendy Pini Christine 0 4.43 2015 Elf Quest: The Final Quest
author: Wendy Pini
name: Christine
average rating: 4.43
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2018/04/02
shelves: to-read, to-read-graphic-novel
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Trickster's Choice (Daughter of the Lioness, #1)]]> 34197014 448 Tamora Pierce Christine 0 to-read, to-read-young-adult 4.23 2003 Trickster's Choice (Daughter of the Lioness, #1)
author: Tamora Pierce
name: Christine
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2003
rating: 0
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date added: 2018/04/02
shelves: to-read, to-read-young-adult
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage]]> 31522007 The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory, about the frailty and elasticity of our most essential bonds, and about the accretion, over time, of both sorrow and love.

Hourglass is an inquiry into how marriage is transformed by time--abraded, strengthened, shaped in miraculous and sometimes terrifying ways by accident and experience. With courage and relentless honesty, Dani Shapiro opens the door to her house, her marriage, and her heart, and invites us to witness her own marital reckoning--a reckoning in which she confronts both the life she dreamed of and the life she made, and struggles to reconcile the girl she was with the woman she has become.

What are the forces that shape our most elemental bonds? How do we make lifelong commitments in the face of identities that are continuously shifting, and commit ourselves for all time when the self is so often in flux? What happens to love in the face of the unexpected, in the face of disappointment and compromise--how do we wrest beauty from imperfection, find grace in the ordinary, desire what we have rather than what we lack?

Drawing on literature, poetry, philosophy, and theology, Shapiro writes gloriously of the joys and challenges of matrimonial life, in a luminous narrative that unfurls with urgent immediacy and sharp intelligence. Artful, intensely emotional work from one of our finest writers.]]> 160 Dani Shapiro 0451494482 Christine 0 to-read 3.84 2017 Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage
author: Dani Shapiro
name: Christine
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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date added: 2018/03/25
shelves: to-read
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]]> <![CDATA[The Little Communist Who Never Smiled]]> 30818647

Montreal 1976. A fourteen-year-old girl steps out onto the middle of the floor at the Montreal Forum and into history. 20 seconds on the uneven bars is it all it takes for Nadia Comaneci, the slight, unsmiling child from Communist Romania, to etch herself into the collective memory. The electronic scoreboard, as astonished as the spectators at what has just happened, shows 1.00. The judges have awarded an unprecedented perfect ten, the first in Olympic gymnastics.


In The Little Communist Who Never Smiled, Lola Lafon tells the story of Comaneci's journey from growing up in rural Romania to her eventual defection to the United States in 1989. Adored by young girls in the west and appropriated as a political emblem by the Ceausescu regime, Comaneci's life was scrutinised wherever she went. Lafon's novel is a powerful re-imagining of a childhood in the spotlight of history, politics and destiny.

]]> 272 Lola Lafon 1782831908 Christine 0 to-read, to-read-fiction 3.55 2014 The Little Communist Who Never Smiled
author: Lola Lafon
name: Christine
average rating: 3.55
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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date added: 2018/03/22
shelves: to-read, to-read-fiction
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]]> <![CDATA[The Lost Tudor Princess: The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas]]> 25488988
Beautiful and tempestuous, she created scandal not just once but twice by falling in love with unsuitable men. Fortunately the marriage arranged for her turned into a love match.]]> 537 Alison Weir 0345521390 Christine 0 3.68 2016 The Lost Tudor Princess: The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas
author: Alison Weir
name: Christine
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2018/03/21
shelves: to-read, to-read-tudorsorhistory
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]]> <![CDATA[Stormbird (Wars of the Roses, #1)]]> 17830079
In 1437, after years of regency, the pious and gentle Henry VI, the Lamb, comes of age and accedes to the English throne. His poor health and frailty of mind render him a weakling king -Henry depends on his closest men, Spymaster Derry Brewer and William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, to run his kingdom.

Yet there are those, such as the Plantagenet Richard, Duke of York, who believe England must be led by a strong king if she is to survive. With England's territories in France under threat, and rumours of revolt at home, fears grow that Henry and his advisers will see the country slide into ruin. With a secret deal struck for Henry to marry a young French noblewoman, Margaret of Anjou, those fears become all too real.

As storm clouds gather over England, King Henry and his supporters find themselves besieged abroad and at home. Who, or what can save the kingdom before it is too late?]]> 482 Conn Iggulden 0718159837 Christine 3 3.90 2013 Stormbird (Wars of the Roses, #1)
author: Conn Iggulden
name: Christine
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2013
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 2018/03/21
shelves: read-tudororhistory, read-fiction
review:
I'm very into War of the Roses these days, so I was primed for this book which I think of being like a Phillipa Gregory novel but just with more men. I liked it and will read more of the series. The con for me with this book was the focus on some "regular" people characters along with the royal/elite players. It does help to give context to events, but what I want from these books is more about the big dogs not the little people. Sorry little people!
]]> <![CDATA[La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust, #1)]]> 34128219
Malcolm's father runs an inn called the Trout, on the banks of the river Thames, and all of Oxford passes through its doors. Malcolm and his dæmon, Asta, routinely overhear news and gossip, and the occasional scandal, but during a winter of unceasing rain, Malcolm catches wind of something new: intrigue.

He finds a secret message inquiring about a dangerous substance called Dust--and the spy it was intended for finds him.

When she asks Malcolm to keep his eyes open, Malcolm sees suspicious characters everywhere; Lord Asriel, clearly on the run; enforcement agents from the Magisterium; an Egyptian named Coram with warnings just for Malcolm; and a beautiful woman with an evil monkey for a dæmon. All are asking about the same thing: a girl--just a baby--named Lyra.

Lyra is the kind of person who draws people in like magnets. And Malcolm will brave any danger, and make shocking sacrifices, to bring her safely through the storm.]]> 449 Philip Pullman 0375815309 Christine 4 4.11 2017 La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust, #1)
author: Philip Pullman
name: Christine
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2017
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2018/03/21
shelves: pb-ya-staff-picks-2017, 2018-read, read-young-adult, read-fiction
review:
At first, I thought there might be too much review/rehashing of concepts from the trilogy, like "Dust", but I was quickly swept into the story just as the characters are swept along on a torrent of flood water. I enjoyed the developing relationships between the main characters and was glad to get a chance to spend more time in this intricately contructed world.
]]> Turtles All the Way Down 35504431
Aza Holmes never intended to pursue the disappearance of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there’s a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Pickett’s son Davis.

Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.]]> 290 John Green 0525555366 Christine 0 3.88 2017 Turtles All the Way Down
author: John Green
name: Christine
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2017
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2018/03/20
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review:

]]> The Graveyard Book 2213661
There are dangers and adventures for Bod in the graveyard: the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer; a gravestone entrance to a desert that leads to the city of ghouls; friendship with a witch, and so much more.

But it is in the land of the living that real danger lurks, for it is there that the man Jack lives and he has already killed Bod's family.

A deliciously dark masterwork by bestselling author Neil Gaiman, with illustrations by award-winning Dave McKean.]]> 312 Neil Gaiman 0060530928 Christine 4 4.15 2008 The Graveyard Book
author: Neil Gaiman
name: Christine
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2018/03/20
shelves: 2018-read, read-middle-reader, read-fiction
review:
This had an old fashioned feeling for me in its structure with distinct vignettes leading up to the books' conclusion. The story of Nobody "Bod" Owens, a boy being raised in a graveyard by ghosts, is really a classic tale of growing up and figuring where you fit in and what you have to leave behind and bring with you to move forward. I was taken in by the characters who populated the graveyard and how they each had something to contribute to Bod's journey.
]]> <![CDATA[Kristy's Great Idea: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels #1)]]> 38424 Baby-Sitters Club book, Raina Telgemeier captures all the drama of the original in warm, spunky illustrations. Witness Kristy's eureka moment, when she gets the idea for a "baby-sitters club" and enlists her best friends, shy Mary Anne and artistic Claudia, in an exciting new venture. But the baby-sitting business isn't the only thing absorbing their attention: Kristy is having a hard time accepting her stepdad-to-be, and the newest member of the gang, Stacey, seems to be hiding a secret.]]> 192 Raina Telgemeier Christine 4 4.14 2006 Kristy's Great Idea: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels #1)
author: Raina Telgemeier
name: Christine
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2006
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2018/03/20
shelves: 2018-read, read-graphic-novel, read-middle-reader
review:
I'm already a fan of Raina Telgemeier's work, and I was obsessed with the Baby-Sitters Club books. So not a huge surprise that I loved this! It was true to the original with illustrations that brought the characters to life. This BSC fan approves.
]]> Spinning 33163388 Spinning, captures what it's like to come of age, come out, and come to terms with leaving behind everything you used to know.

It was the same every morning. Wake up, grab the ice skates, and head to the rink while the world was still dark.

Weekends were spent in glitter and tights at competitions. Perform. Smile. And do it again.

She was good. She won. And she hated it.

For ten years, figure skating was Tillie Walden's life. She woke before dawn for morning lessons, went straight to group practice after school, and spent weekends competing at ice rinks across the state. It was a central piece of her identity, her safe haven from the stress of school, bullies, and family. But over time, as she switched schools, got into art, and fell in love with her first girlfriend, she began to question how the close-minded world of figure skating fit in with the rest of her life, and whether all the work was worth it given the reality: that she, and her friends on the figure skating team, were nowhere close to Olympic hopefuls. It all led to one question: What was the point? The more Tillie thought about it, the more Tillie realized she'd outgrown her passion--and she finally needed to find her own voice.]]> 400 Tillie Walden 1626727724 Christine 4 3.90 2017 Spinning
author: Tillie Walden
name: Christine
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2017
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2018/03/20
shelves: 2018-read, read-graphic-novel, read-young-adult
review:
Spinning takes you through the author's years as a competitive figure skater. It illustrates the struggle of letting go of something that has been your whole identity but may no longer serve you. I loved the way Walden played with the size of the boxes (squares?) to convey feeling.
]]> We Are Okay 28243032 You go through life thinking there’s so much you need�

Until you leave with only your phone, your wallet, and a picture of your mother.

Marin hasn’t spoken to anyone from her old life since the day she left everything behind. No one knows the truth about those final weeks. Not even her best friend, Mabel. But even thousands of miles away from the California coast, at college in New York, Marin still feels the pull of the life and tragedy she’s tried to outrun. Now, months later, alone in an emptied dorm for winter break, Marin waits. Mabel is coming to visit, and Marin will be forced to face everything that’s been left unsaid and finally confront the loneliness that has made a home in her heart.]]> 236 Nina LaCour 0525425896 Christine 5 3.94 2017 We Are Okay
author: Nina LaCour
name: Christine
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2017
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 2018/03/20
shelves: to-read, to-read-young-adult, pb-ya-staff-picks-2017, 2018-read, read-young-adult
review:
I very rarely cry while reading, but this book totally got me. The main character Marin is dealing with a tangle of grief and betrayal as she tries to establish a new life for herself away from anyone with a connection to her past. It's a lovely portrait of changing relationships, sticking with people through the tough shit, and choosing your family.
]]> <![CDATA[A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel]]> 13513205
Never before illustrated, A Wrinkle in Time is now available in a spellbinding graphic novel adaptation. Hope Larson takes the classic story to a new level with her vividly imagined interpretations of Mrs Whatsit, Mrs Who, Mrs Which, the Happy Medium, Aunt Beast, and the many other characters that readers have loved for the past fifty years. Winner of the 1963 Newbery Medal, A Wrinkle in Time is the first book in Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet.]]> 392 Hope Larson 0374386153 Christine 0 3.88 2012 A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel
author: Hope Larson
name: Christine
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2012
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2018/02/23
shelves: to-read, to-read-graphic-novel, to-read-middle-reader
review:

]]> Smile (Smile, #1) 6393631 214 Raina Telgemeier 0545132053 Christine 4 4.22 2009 Smile (Smile, #1)
author: Raina Telgemeier
name: Christine
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2009
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2018/02/14
shelves: 2018-read, read-middle-reader, read-graphic-novel
review:
I love the graphic novel format for stories about adolescence because not only do you get the feelings of exquisite embarrassment and desperation through words but also through visuals. With this book, Telgemeier tells the story of her own teen years by following her journey through middle school/high school and through a series of harrowing dental procedures. A great book for anyone who is experiencing or has experienced the struggle to fit in and the struggle to get over the need to fit in.
]]> Today Will Be Different 28449270
Eleanor knows she's a mess. But today, she will tackle the little things. She will shower and get dressed. She will have her poetry and yoga lessons after dropping off her son, Timby. She won't swear. She will initiate sex with her husband, Joe. But before she can put her modest plan into action, life happens.

Today, it turns out, is the day Timby has decided to fake sick to weasel his way into his mother's company. It's also the day Joe has chosen to tell his office -- but not Eleanor -- that he's on vacation. Just when it seems like things can't go more awry, an encounter with a former colleague produces a graphic memoir whose dramatic tale threatens to reveal a buried family secret.

Today Will Be Different is a hilarious, heart-filled story about reinvention, sisterhood, and how sometimes it takes facing up to our former selves to truly begin living.]]> 259 Maria Semple 0316467065 Christine 2 2018-read, read-fiction 3.14 2016 Today Will Be Different
author: Maria Semple
name: Christine
average rating: 3.14
book published: 2016
rating: 2
read at:
date added: 2018/02/14
shelves: 2018-read, read-fiction
review:
Maria Semple does write a great unhinged trying unsuccessfully to keep it together protagonist, and I enjoy the flawed, unruly energy of these female characters. This story didn't come together for me unfortunately although it was a quick, engaging read. The conclusion felt rushed and unsatisfying. I really loved Where'd You Go, Bernadette, but this didn't reach those heights.
]]> <![CDATA[Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance]]> 31847558
But there is more to Simone than the nineteen medals—fourteen of them gold—and the Olympic successes. Through years of hard work and determination, she has relied on her faith and family to stay focused and positive, while having fun competing at the highest level and doing what she loves. Here, in her own words, Simone takes you through the events, challenges, and trials that carried her from an early childhood in foster care to a coveted spot on the 2016 Olympic team.

Along the way, Simone shares the details of her inspiring personal story—one filled with the kinds of daily acts of courage that led her, and can lead you, to even the most unlikely of dreams.]]> 256 Simone Biles 0310759668 Christine 3 2018-read 4.11 2016 Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance
author: Simone Biles
name: Christine
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2016
rating: 3
read at: 2018/02/07
date added: 2018/02/07
shelves: 2018-read
review:
I read this because I just watched her Lifetime biopic and wanted to see how many liberties Lifetime was taking with her story (they took some for sure, obviously). My preferred type of gymnastics bio is one in which the person has some darker and therefore more compelling to read about experiences in the sport, like Chalked Up or Dominique Moceanu's book. Fortunately for Simone's life, this isn't a terribly compelling read because she mostly had nice, supportive people around her. There are some cute stories, and she's a likable narrator certainly and I love her, but probably only a book for hardcore Simone fans.
]]> Hild (The Hild Sequence, #1) 17332243
Hild is the king’s youngest niece. She has the powerful curiosity of a bright child, a will of adamant, and a way of seeing the world—of studying nature, of matching cause with effect, of observing human nature and predicting what will happen next—that can seem uncanny, even supernatural, to those around her. She establishes herself as the king’s seer. And she is indispensable—until she should ever lead the king astray. The stakes are life and death: for Hild, her family, her loved ones, and the increasing numbers who seek the protection of the strange girl who can read the world and see the future.

Hild is a young woman at the heart of the violence, subtlety, and mysticism of the early medieval age—all of it brilliantly and accurately evoked by Nicola Griffith’s luminous prose. Recalling such feats of historical fiction as Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Sigrid Undset’s Kristin Lavransdatter, Hild brings a beautiful, brutal world—and one of its most fascinating, pivotal figures, the girl who would become St. Hilda of Whitby—to vivid, absorbing life.]]> 546 Nicola Griffith 0374280878 Christine 4 to-read-fiction, 2018-read 3.80 2013 Hild (The Hild Sequence, #1)
author: Nicola Griffith
name: Christine
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2013
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2018/02/07
shelves: to-read-fiction, 2018-read
review:
I could never quite keep straight all the different people with similar names or what groups spoke what languages. There is a point where Hild says dramatically something like, "This means the end for such and such people," and it is obviously supposed to be a big moment, and I thought, "Who?" I think this was my own fault and not the authors and despite my confusion, I really liked this book. I was drawn into Hild's journey and the intricate description the authors employs throughout. It was also interesting to learn more about how Christianity was adopted in England and took precedence over existing religions.
]]> <![CDATA[Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII]]> 228541
This book helps to restore full humanity to these six fascinating women by applying the insights of feminist scholarship. Here they appear not as stereotypes, not simply as victims, but as lively, intelligent noblewomen doing their best to survive in a treacherous court.

Divorced, Beheaded, Survived takes a revisionist look at 16th-century English politics (domestic and otherwise), reinterpreting the historical record in perceptive new ways. For example, it shows Ann Boleyn not as a seductress, but as a sophisticate who for years politely suffered what we would now label royal sexual harassment.

It presents evidence that the princess Anne of Cleves, whom Henry declared ugly and banished from his bed, was in fact a pretty woman who agreed to the king's whim as her best hope for happiness.]]> 231 Karen Lindsey 0201408236 Christine 0 4.07 1995 Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII
author: Karen Lindsey
name: Christine
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1995
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2018/02/06
shelves: to-read, to-read-tudorsorhistory, to-read-non-fiction
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Tudor Cousins: Rivals for the Throne]]> 2290438 272 Dulcie M. Ashdown 0750925477 Christine 0 3.87 2000 Tudor Cousins: Rivals for the Throne
author: Dulcie M. Ashdown
name: Christine
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2000
rating: 0
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date added: 2018/02/06
shelves: to-read, to-read-tudorsorhistory, to-read-non-fiction
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Fierce: How Competing for Myself Changed Everything]]> 35523654 Discover Aly Raisman's inspiring story of dedication, perseverance, and learning to think positive even in the toughest times on her path to gold medal success in two Olympic Games--and beyond. Aly Raisman first stepped onto a gymnastics mat as a toddler in a "mommy & me" gymnastics class. No one could have predicted then that sixteen years later, she'd be standing on an Olympic podium, having achieved her dreams. Aly's road to success was full of hard work, perseverance, and victories, but not without its hardships. Aly faced many obstacles, from naysayers who said she'd never make it in gymnastics to classmates who shamed her for her athletic body to a devastating betrayal of trust. Through it all, Aly surrounded herself with supportive family, friends, and teammates and found the inner strength to remain positive and believe in herself. Now, in her own words, Aly shows what it takes to be a champion on and off the floor, and takes readers on a behind-the-scenes journey before, during, and after her remarkable achievements in two Olympic Games--through her highest highs, lowest lows, and all the moments in between. Honest and heartfelt, frank and funny, Aly's story is enhanced with never-before-published photos, excerpts from the personal journals she's kept since childhood that chronicle memorable moments with her teammates, and hard-won advice for readers striving to rise above challenges, learn to love themselves, and make their own dreams come true.]]> 323 Aly Raisman Christine 0 to-read, to-read-non-fiction 4.24 2017 Fierce: How Competing for Myself Changed Everything
author: Aly Raisman
name: Christine
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2017
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2018/02/06
shelves: to-read, to-read-non-fiction
review:

]]> Lighter than My Shadow 17456953
But in any life a set of circumstance can collide, and normal behavior might soon shade into something sinister, something deadly.

Lighter Than My Shadow is a hand-drawn story of struggle and recovery, a trip into the black heart of a taboo illness, an exposure of those who are so weak as to prey on the vulnerable, and an inspiration to anybody who believes in the human power to endure towards happiness.]]> 509 Katie Green 0224090984 Christine 5 read-graphic-novel 4.39 2013 Lighter than My Shadow
author: Katie Green
name: Christine
average rating: 4.39
book published: 2013
rating: 5
read at: 2017/12/16
date added: 2018/02/06
shelves: read-graphic-novel
review:
These illustrations are so beautiful and evocative. A graphic novel feels like a great medium for this kind of story, and this one is fantastic.
]]> Fish Girl 30971730 Who is Fish Girl?
What is Fish Girl?

She lives in a tank in a boardwalk aquarium. She is the main attraction, though visitors never get more than a glimpse of her.

She has a tail. She can't walk. She can't speak.

But she can make friends with Livia, an ordinary girl, and yearn for a life that includes yoga and pizza. She can grow stronger and braver. With determination, a touch of magic, and the help of a loyal octopus, she can do anything.]]> 186 Donna Jo Napoli 0544815122 Christine 5 3.73 2017 Fish Girl
author: Donna Jo Napoli
name: Christine
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2017
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 2018/02/06
shelves: 2018-read, read-graphic-novel, read-middle-reader
review:
This is a very quick read but so lovely. The illustrations are amazing, and the main characters struggle to understand herself and her world are poignant.
]]> Ghosts 25903764 256 Raina Telgemeier 0545540674 Christine 5 4.22 2016 Ghosts
author: Raina Telgemeier
name: Christine
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2016
rating: 5
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date added: 2018/02/05
shelves: 2018-read, read-middle-reader, read-graphic-novel
review:
The colors! The sister relationship! A great story about fears, traditions, finding your own unique strengths and recognizing the strengths of others.
]]> Prep 9844 Prep, is an insightful, achingly funny coming-of-age story as well as a brilliant dissection of class, race, and gender in a hothouse of adolescent angst and ambition.

Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant fourteen-year-old when her father drops her off in front of her dorm at the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts. She leaves her animated, affectionate family in South Bend, Indiana, at least in part because of the boarding school’s glossy brochure, in which boys in sweaters chat in front of old brick buildings, girls in kilts hold lacrosse sticks on pristinely mown athletic fields, and everyone sings hymns in chapel.

As Lee soon learns, Ault is a cloistered world of jaded, attractive teenagers who spend summers on Nantucket and speak in their own clever shorthand. Both intimidated and fascinated by her classmates, Lee becomes a shrewd observer of–and, ultimately, a participant in–their rituals and mores. As a scholarship student, she constantly feels like an outsider and is both drawn to and repelled by other loners. By the time she’s a senior, Lee has created a hard-won place for herself at Ault. But when her behavior takes a self-destructive and highly public turn, her carefully crafted identity within the community is shattered.

Ultimately, Lee’s experiences–complicated relationships with teachers; intense friendships with other girls; an all-consuming preoccupation with a classmate who is less than a boyfriend and more than a crush; conflicts with her parents, from whom Lee feels increasingly distant, coalesce into a singular portrait of the painful and thrilling adolescence universal to us all.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 420 Curtis Sittenfeld 081297235X Christine 3 read-young-adult 3.44 2005 Prep
author: Curtis Sittenfeld
name: Christine
average rating: 3.44
book published: 2005
rating: 3
read at: 2018/02/05
date added: 2018/02/05
shelves: read-young-adult
review:
I struggled with how I felt about this one. I devoured it and loved the elite boarding school setting, but the main character could be off putting. However, she was off putting to me because of the intensity of her insecurity and trying to push down and sand off parts of herself to fit in which felt authentic and real. So I think it was good?
]]> <![CDATA[The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)]]> 32075671 An alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780062498533 can be found here.

Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.

Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr.

But what Starr does—or does not—say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life.

Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, this is a powerful and gripping YA novel about one girl's struggle for justice.]]> 454 Angie Thomas 0062498533 Christine 5 4.46 2017 The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)
author: Angie Thomas
name: Christine
average rating: 4.46
book published: 2017
rating: 5
read at: 2017/12/15
date added: 2018/02/05
shelves: to-read-young-adult, read-young-adult, pb-ya-staff-picks-2017
review:
This is on all the Best YA of 2017 for a reason - it's incredible! Read this one now!
]]> March: Book One (March, #1) 17346698
Book One spans John Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville Student Movement, and their battle to tear down segregation through nonviolent lunch counter sit-ins, building to a stunning climax on the steps of City Hall.

Many years ago, John Lewis and other student activists drew inspiration from the 1950s comic book Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story. Now, his own comics bring those days to life for a new audience, testifying to a movement whose echoes will be heard for generations.

(Back flap)]]> 128 John Lewis 1603093001 Christine 5 4.34 2013 March: Book One (March, #1)
author: John Lewis
name: Christine
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2013
rating: 5
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date added: 2018/02/05
shelves: currently-reading, read-graphic-novel
review:

]]> <![CDATA[How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life]]> 30231766 How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in English history to the era closest to her heart, the dramatic period from the crowning of Henry VII to the death of Elizabeth I. A celebrated master of British social and domestic history, Ruth Goodman draws on her own adventures living in re-created Tudor conditions to serve as our intrepid guide to sixteenth-century living. Proceeding from daybreak to bedtime, this “immersive, engrossing� (Slate ) work pays tribute to the lives of those who labored through the era. From using soot from candle wax as toothpaste to malting grain for homemade ale, from the gruesome sport of bear-baiting to cuckolding and cross-dressing―the madcap habits and revealing intimacies of life in the time of Shakespeare are vividly rendered for the insatiably curious. 8 pages of color illustrations]]> 368 Ruth Goodman 1631492535 Christine 0 4.08 2015 How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
author: Ruth Goodman
name: Christine
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2018/01/30
shelves: to-read, to-read-tudorsorhistory, to-read-non-fiction
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]]> Drama 13436373
Callie loves theater. And while she would totally try out for her middle school's production of Moon Over Mississippi, she can't really sing. Instead she's the set designer for the drama department stage crew, and this year she's determined to create a set worthy of Broadway on a middle-school budget. But how can she, when she doesn't know much about carpentry, ticket sales are down, and the crew members are having trouble working together? Not to mention the onstage AND offstage drama that occurs once the actors are chosen. And when two cute brothers enter the picture, things get even crazier!]]> 238 Raina Telgemeier 0545326990 Christine 0 4.18 2012 Drama
author: Raina Telgemeier
name: Christine
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2012
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2018/01/29
shelves: to-read, to-read-middle-reader, to-read-graphic-novel
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Littler Women: A Modern Retelling]]> 34185775 Little Women.

Thirteen-year-old Meg March and her sisters Jo (twelve), Beth (ten), and Amy (nine) are a close-knit group who share in one another’s hopes and dreams, as well as struggles and frustrations. Over the course of one year they get to know their neighbors the Lawrences, attend school dances and sleepovers, have first crushes, and grow closer as sisters despite their differences.

This sweet, contemporary take on part one of the beloved novel Little Women is the perfect introduction for young readers to the March family. With a craft project or recipe at the end of every chapter, Littler Women is sure to become a cherished favorite.]]> 224 Laura Schaefer 1481487612 Christine 0 3.71 2017 Littler Women: A Modern Retelling
author: Laura Schaefer
name: Christine
average rating: 3.71
book published: 2017
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2018/01/24
shelves: to-read, to-read-middle-reader
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History]]> 35231671 Little Leaders educates and inspires as it relates true stories of breaking boundaries and achieving beyond expectations. Illuminating text paired with irresistible illustrations bring to life both iconic and lesser-known female figures of Black history such as abolitionist Sojourner Truth, pilot Bessie Coleman, chemist Alice Ball, politician Shirley Chisholm, mathematician Katherine Johnson, poet Maya Angelou, and filmmaker Julie Dash. Among these biographies, readers will find heroes, role models, and everyday women who did extraordinary things - bold women whose actions and beliefs contributed to making the world better for generations of girls and women to come. Whether they were putting pen to paper, soaring through the air or speaking up for the rights of others, the women profiled in these pages were all taking a stand against a world that didn't always accept them. The leaders in this book may be little, but they all did something big and amazing, inspiring generations to come.]]> Vashti Harrison 1478999500 Christine 0 4.56 2017 Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
author: Vashti Harrison
name: Christine
average rating: 4.56
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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date added: 2018/01/24
shelves: to-read, feminist-kids-boooks, to-read-picture-book
review:

]]> The Lady Elizabeth 1933181 483 Alison Weir 0345495357 Christine 0 3.99 2008 The Lady Elizabeth
author: Alison Weir
name: Christine
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2008
rating: 0
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date added: 2018/01/24
shelves: to-read, to-read-fiction, to-read-tudorsorhistory
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]]> First of the Tudors 28963797 Bestowing Earldoms on them both, Henry also gives them the wardship of the young heiress Margaret Beaufort. Although she is still a child, Jasper becomes devoted to her and is devastated when Henry arranges her betrothal to Edmund.
He seeks solace in his estates and in the arms of Jane Hywel, a young Welsh woman who offers him something more meaningful than a dynastic marriage. But passion turns to jeopardy for them both as the Wars of the Roses wreak havoc on the realm. Loyal brother to a fragile king and his domineering queen, Marguerite of Anjou, Jasper must draw on all his guile and courage to preserve their throne � and the Tudor destiny…]]> 528 Joanna Hickson 0008139709 Christine 0 3.80 2016 First of the Tudors
author: Joanna Hickson
name: Christine
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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date added: 2018/01/16
shelves: to-read, to-read-tudorsorhistory, to-read-fiction
review:

]]> Paper Girls, Volume 1 28204534
In the early hours after Halloween of 1988, four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls uncover the most important story of all time. Suburban drama and otherworldly mysteries collide in this smash-hit series about nostalgia, first jobs, and the last days of childhood.

Collects PAPER GIRLS #1-5.]]> 144 Brian K. Vaughan 1632156741 Christine 0 3.89 2016 Paper Girls, Volume 1
author: Brian K. Vaughan
name: Christine
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2018/01/16
shelves: to-read, to-read-graphic-novel
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Lion in the Living Room: How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World]]> 29430840
Content:
Catacombs
Cat's cradle
What's the catch?
The cats that ate the canaries
The cat lobby
CAT scan
Pandora's litter box
Lions and toygers and lykoi
Nine likes.]]> 243 Abigail Tucker 1476738238 Christine 0 to-read, to-read-non-fiction 3.60 2016 The Lion in the Living Room: How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World
author: Abigail Tucker
name: Christine
average rating: 3.60
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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date added: 2018/01/16
shelves: to-read, to-read-non-fiction
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Goodnight Mr. Darcy: A BabyLit® Parody Picture Book]]> 21457013 32 Kate Coombs 1423636708 Christine 0 to-read, to-read-picture-book 3.95 2014 Goodnight Mr. Darcy: A BabyLit® Parody Picture Book
author: Kate Coombs
name: Christine
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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date added: 2018/01/16
shelves: to-read, to-read-picture-book
review:

]]> Stardust 16793 Alternate cover edition can be found here

Young Tristran Thorn will do anything to win the cold heart of beautiful Victoria—even fetch her the star they watch fall from the night sky. But to do so, he must enter the unexplored lands on the other side of the ancient wall that gives their tiny village its name. Beyond that old stone wall, Tristran learns, lies Faerie—where nothing not even a fallen star, is what he imagined.]]> 248 Neil Gaiman 0061142026 Christine 0 to-read, to-read-fiction 4.11 1999 Stardust
author: Neil Gaiman
name: Christine
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1999
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2018/01/10
shelves: to-read, to-read-fiction
review:

]]> Swimming Lessons 30304221
Twelve years later, Gil thinks he sees Ingrid from a bookshop window, but he’s getting older and this unlikely sighting is chalked up to senility. Flora, who has never believed her mother drowned, returns home to care for her father and to try to finally discover what happened to Ingrid. But what Flora doesn’t realize is that the answers to her questions are hidden in the books that surround her. Scandalous and whip-smart, Swimming Lessons holds the Coleman family up to the light, exposing the mysterious truths of a passionate and troubled marriage.]]> 350 Claire Fuller 1941040519 Christine 0 to-read, to-read-fiction 3.55 2017 Swimming Lessons
author: Claire Fuller
name: Christine
average rating: 3.55
book published: 2017
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2017/12/30
shelves: to-read, to-read-fiction
review:

]]> The Tudors 906556 287 Richard Rex 0752433334 Christine 0 3.81 2002 The Tudors
author: Richard Rex
name: Christine
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2002
rating: 0
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date added: 2017/12/29
shelves: to-read, to-read-tudorsorhistory
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]]> <![CDATA[SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome]]> 28789711 SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome "with passion and without technical jargon" and demonstrates how "a slightly shabby Iron Age village" rose to become the "undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean" (Wall Street Journal). Hailed by critics as animating "the grand sweep and the intimate details that bring the distant past vividly to life" (Economist) in a way that makes "your hair stand on end" (Christian Science Monitor) and spanning nearly a thousand years of history, this "highly informative, highly readable" (Dallas Morning News) work examines not just how we think of ancient Rome but challenges the comfortable historical perspectives that have existed for centuries. With its nuanced attention to class, democratic struggles, and the lives of entire groups of people omitted from the historical narrative for centuries, SPQR will to shape our view of Roman history for decades to come.]]> 606 Mary Beard 1631492225 Christine 0 4.04 2015 SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
author: Mary Beard
name: Christine
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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date added: 2017/12/29
shelves: to-read, to-read-non-fiction, to-read-tudorsorhistory
review:

]]> <![CDATA[I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark]]> 28210996
Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has spent a lifetime disagreeing with inequality, arguing against unfair treatment, and standing up for what’s right for people everywhere. This biographical picture book about the Notorious RBG, tells the justice’s story through the lens of her many famous dissents, or disagreements.]]> 40 Debbie Levy 1481465597 Christine 0 4.32 2016 I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark
author: Debbie Levy
name: Christine
average rating: 4.32
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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date added: 2017/12/29
shelves: to-read, feminist-kids-boooks, to-read-picture-book
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match / Marisol McDonald no combina (English and Spanish Edition)]]> 12629258
Marisol McDonald has flaming red hair and nut-brown skin. Polka dots and stripes are her favorite combination. She prefers peanut butter and jelly burritos in her lunch box. And don't even think of asking her to choose one or the other activity at recess--she'll just be a soccer playing pirate princess, thank you very much. To Marisol McDonald, these seemingly mismatched things make perfect sense together.

Unfortunately, they don't always make sense to everyone else. Other people wrinkle their nose in confusion at Marisol--can't she just be one or the other? Try as she might, in a world where everyone tries to put this biracial, Peruvian-Scottish-American girl into a box, Marisol McDonald doesn't match. And that's just fine with her.

A mestiza Peruvian American of European, Jewish, and Amerindian heritage, renowned author Monica Brown wrote this lively story to bring her own experience of being mismatched to life. Her buoyant prose is perfectly matched by Sara Palacios' engaging acrylic illustrations.]]> 32 Monica Brown 0892392355 Christine 0 4.32 2011 Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match / Marisol McDonald no combina (English and Spanish Edition)
author: Monica Brown
name: Christine
average rating: 4.32
book published: 2011
rating: 0
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date added: 2017/12/29
shelves: to-read, to-read-picture-book, feminist-kids-boooks
review:

]]> My Name is Not Isabella 3486558 32 Jennifer Fosberry 0980200075 Christine 0 4.27 2008 My Name is Not Isabella
author: Jennifer Fosberry
name: Christine
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2008
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2017/12/29
shelves: to-read, pb-ya-staff-picks-2017, to-read-picture-book
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Ada Twist, Scientist: A Picture Book (The Questioneers)]]> 28507895 32 Andrea Beaty 1419721372 Christine 0 4.49 2016 Ada Twist, Scientist: A Picture Book (The Questioneers)
author: Andrea Beaty
name: Christine
average rating: 4.49
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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date added: 2017/12/29
shelves: to-read, feminist-kids-boooks, to-read-picture-book
review:

]]> <![CDATA[This Little Trailblazer: A Girl Power Primer]]> 35297371
Paving the way
to a future that’s bright.
Helping the world
with their skills, smarts, and might.

Little trailblazers cause great big changes.

In this follow up to This Little President and This Little Explorer , now even the youngest readers can learn all about great and empowering female trailblazers in history! Highlighting ten memorable women leaders who paved the way, parents and little ones alike will love this girl power primer full of fun, age-appropriate facts and bold illustrations.]]> 26 Joan Holub 1534401067 Christine 0 4.38 This Little Trailblazer: A Girl Power Primer
author: Joan Holub
name: Christine
average rating: 4.38
book published:
rating: 0
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date added: 2017/12/29
shelves: to-read-picture-book, to-read, feminist-kids-boooks
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Awkward (Berrybrook Middle School #1)]]> 23657454
Cardinal rule #2 for surviving school: Seek out groups with similar interests and join them.

On her first day at her new school, Penelope--Peppi--Torres reminds herself of these basics. But when she trips into a quiet boy in the hall, Jaime Thompson, she's already broken the first rule, and the mean kids start calling her the "nerder girlfriend." How does she handle this crisis? By shoving poor Jaime and running away!

Falling back on rule two and surrounding herself with new friends in the art club, Peppi still can't help feeling ashamed about the way she treated Jaime. Things are already awkward enough between the two, but to make matters worse, he's a member of her own club's archrivals--the science club! And when the two clubs go to war, Peppi realizes that sometimes you have to break the rules to survive middle school!]]> 224 Svetlana Chmakova 0316381306 Christine 0 4.16 2015 Awkward (Berrybrook Middle School #1)
author: Svetlana Chmakova
name: Christine
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2017/12/29
shelves: to-read, to-read-middle-reader, to-read-graphic-novel
review:

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