![]() ![]() ![]() "he message that passion, dedication, and patience have beautiful results is inspirational for any reader." ![]() "The sweet and spooky watercolor and pen-and-ink pictures are filled with motion and portray Vampirina's 'road to ballerinadom' with humor and insight." "Pace's funny, matter-of-fact advice ("always get a good day's sleep") works in harmony with Pham's expressive watercolor pen-and-ink artwork, which depicts the adorable minivampire leaping and pli ing enthusiastically across the pages." "Readers will applaud this elegantly designed, well-told story. *"Pham ( All the Things I Love About You) and Pace are entirely in sync in this sweetly goth 'how to' for vampirettes under the spell of something more powerful than anything the dark forces can muster: ballet." ![]() Readers will shout "Brava!" for this third gracefully ghoulish picture book by duo Anne Marie Pace and LeUyen Pham. Keeping her ballet lessons in mind, Vampirina demi-plié's on a surfboard, leaps for a volleyball, and finishes each competition with style, even if she doesn't always come out on top. With her signature poise, Vampirina and her clan gear up for a festive time at the beach. When the summer moon is full, a beach trip is an epic way to spend the night. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Skye wonders if she and Jordy can recapture the spark she knows they had, but Maya has other plans: exposing Jordy and getting revenge. When Maya and Skye are invited to star on the reality dating show Second-Chance Romance, they're whisked away to a beautiful mansion-along with four more of Jordy's exes-to compete for his affections while the whole world watches. Now his face is all over the media and Skye is still wondering why he stopped calling. Skye Kaplan was always cautious with her heart until Jordy said all the right things and earned her trust. If the world only knew the real Jordy, the manipulative liar who broke Maya's heart. ![]() ![]() It's been two years since Maya's ex-boyfriend cheated on her, and she still can't escape him: his sister married the crown prince of a minor European country and he captured hearts as her charming younger brother. "Wickedly funny searingly sexy."-Kelly Quindlen, author of She Drives Me Crazy ![]() When their now famous ex-boyfriend asks them to participate in a teen reality show, two eighteen year old girls-one bent on revenge, the other open to rekindling romance-get tangled up in an unexpected twist when they fall for each other instead in Never Ever Getting Back Together by nationally and internationally-bestselling and Indie Next Pick author Sophie Gonzales. ![]() ![]() Not knowing what dangers are lurking ahead, Tick and his friends take on a journey that could be life-threatening. What if every time you made a choice that had significant consequences, a new, alternate reality was created- the life that would’ve been had you made the other choice? What if those new realities were in danger? For Atticus “Tick” Higginbottom, an ordinary 13-year-old boy, nothing is as it seems when it falls on his shoulders to save all the realities from danger. This box set features all four books in the series, including Journal of Curious Letters, Hunt of Dark Infinity, Blade of Shattered Hope and Void Mist and Thunder. James Dashner, the author of the bestselling Maze Runner series, is back this time with a new mind-bending series for your child to discover in The 13th Reality series. ![]() ![]() ![]() I really liked that the story was told from Helena’s point of view, going from when she was really young all the way up to an adult and a parent herself. ![]() There’s always a risk when that happens that the book will let you down, so with slight trepidation, and without knowing anything about the story, I started to read.Īnd boy, what a read it was! I thought that the Marsh King’s Daughter was an incredibly written book, the amount of research that the author must have put into the story is mindblowing. I’d heard quite a lot about The Marsh King’s Daughter before reading it, all of it good. It’s also being made into a movie which is really very exciting! My Review: ![]() I’m editing this review to say that the book has had a name change, it is now called Home in the UK. The Marsh King’s Daughter by Karen Dionne. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What was it like fleshing out this key chapter of the Star Wars saga?Ĭhuck Wendig: It’s both exhilarating and heartbreaking in equal measure - on the one hand, I’m geeked to be able to bring this epic high-stakes story to a conclusion, but it’s also heartbreaking in a way that the journey is over. : Empire’s End wraps up the Aftermath trilogy with a pivotal event in the galaxy far, far away: the showdown between the Empire and the young New Republic at Jakku. Chuck Wendig conversed with via e-mail to give us an intel report on Aftermath: Empire’s End. And in the final novel of the New York Times bestselling trilogy, Empire’s End, out today, everything points toward a showdown at a remote and desolate planet far from the bright center of the galaxy. ![]() ![]() In the Aftermath trilogy, author Chuck Wendig has told the story of what has happened after Return of the Jedi, with new and returning heroes and villains facing off, as the Empire struggles to survive while the Rebellion transitions to be the New Republic. The second part increases the stakes and changes the rules, and by the final installment, the audience is left wondering who will be left standing when the rules are completely thrown away. The first installment introduces the characters and the rules, and usually ends up with a win for the heroes. When it comes to storytelling, whether in film or in literature, a trilogy is hard to beat. The author of the Aftermath trilogy talks to about his epic story's final installment. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He touches on a curious 1909 episode when William Howard Taft was served barbecued possum with persimmon sauce during a quixotic quest to popularize a Taft-inspired Billy Possum political mascot after the Teddy bear was so successfully linked to Teddy Roosevelt.Īnd he recapitulates the lament of former Georgia Gov. Yet despite writing with authority, he’s anything but pedantic. ![]() He’s descended from Georgia pit masters and even was guest curator for the Atlanta History Center’s 2018-19 exhibition “Barbecue Nation” on the history and culture of barbecue. ![]() And in modern times, there’s the backyard barbecue where suburbanites grill burgers and hot dogs over charcoal.Īuchmutey, who wrote and reported for years at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, has an encyclopedic knowledge of the subject. There’s barbecue as a means of cooking meat over open flames or coals, as natives of the Caribbean did on a raised framework they called a “barbacoa” - hence, the word “barbecue.” There’s barbecue as a meat dish itself - likely pork in the Southeast or beef in the western U.S. For instance, there’s barbecue as event, like the giant cookout attended by President George Washington when the foundation for the U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() I loved how they didn't like each other at first but it turned into a sweet friendship with respect and then love. I thought they had really good chemistry. It was set up like the game show Survivor with two teammates falling in love. Wicked Games by Jessica Clare is such a cute read. This book features enemies, lovers, enemies who become lovers, and lots and lots of tropical heat. And Abby learns that with just a little bit of kindling, the flames of hate can quickly turn to flames of passion. Stuck with no one's company but their own, they learn they might just make a good team after all. Abby and Dean are teamed up & alone on the beach. That's fine with her she'll just ignore the jerk.īut the rules of Endurance Island are working against them. He also hates Abby just as much as she hates him. ![]() ![]() Sure, he's clever, strong, good at challenges, and has a body that makes her mouth water. No one's more competitive than sexy, delicious and arrogant Dean Woodall. Once in the game, though, it's clear that Abby's in over her head. But when her boss offers her a spot on the show and the opportunity of a lifetime, she packs her bags and heads to the tropics to be a contestant. Abby Lewis never pictured herself on the survival game show, Endurance Island. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here’s what you will find in this article:ĭifference Between UX Strategists and UX DesignersĬommon Roles and Responsibilities of a UX Strategist We’ll also walk you through the roles, responsibilities, required skills, and the best way to get ready for this role. ![]() Read on to learn the difference between UX designers and strategists. © Interaction Design Foundation, CC BY-SA 4.0 This visual metaphor conveys the importance of strategic thinking and connecting different elements in the UX design process. ![]() It bridges the gap between user experience design and strategic plans to achieve business goals. So, if you’re wondering how to prepare for your debut in the fascinating and burgeoning field of UX strategy, then don’t worry! We have got you covered. And that’s how you create compelling digital products! Now that you have an idea, combine strategy with UX design. Jaime Levy, author of UX Strategy - How to Devise Innovative Digital Products That People Want It requires you to look at what’s happened in the past and what’s going on in the present to make better guesses about the future.” However, the question is, do you understand how strategizing works? ![]() If your answer is YES and conducting in-depth research makes you feel more content-you're ready for a career as a UX strategist! Have you gained substantial experience in User experience (UX) design to the point where you're considering a career change? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() MEL’s Versions of Billy Budd gives the reader unprecedented access to the Billy Budd manuscript. These layered manuscript versions along with the variant scholarly transcriptions make Billy Budd Melville’s most complex fluid text. ![]() But the manuscript is far from polished, and its many leaves and leaf fragments reveal a complex revision history in which the narrative evolved through at least three versions and eight stages of composition. At the time of his death in 1891, Melville had “completed” his novella to the extent that its plot and characters had been developed into a coherent whole. It exists as a manuscript that different generations of scholars have transcribed into significantly different print versions. It continues to be a seminal text in fields of literary study worldwide, including law, war, gender, sexuality, and the editing of manuscripts.īut unlike Moby-Dick, which emerged in 1851 in two radically different first editions, Billy Budd was never published in Melville’s lifetime. It has been the center of critical controversies regarding political resistance and Christian acceptance, authority and duty, masculinity and beauty, fathers and sons, romance and irony, and Melville biography. As with Moby-Dick, the novella has devoted readerships in academe, the arts, and the popular culture. Billy Budd, Melville’s last fiction, is his second most familiar work. ![]() ![]() He returned to Iceland but kept travelling a lot throughout his life. There he became attracted to socialism and got in trouble in the US for being public about that. He was influenced by expressionism in Europe and other modern currents and for a while he lived in the USA, trying to make it in Hollywood as a screenwriter. In one of his travels as a young man, he got baptised as a Catholic and adopted the middle name Kiljan and the surname Laxness. He was very well travelled, which was not common for Icelanders in those times. His first novel, Child of Nature (Barn náttúrunnar), was published in 1919 when Halldór was only 17 years old. ![]() ![]() Halldór Kiljan Laxness was an Icelandic writer, poet and a playwright and is the only Icelander ever to get the Nobel prize.īorn in Reykjavík in 1902 as Halldór Guðjónsson, Laxness started writing stories from a very early age. ![]() |