![]() ![]() ![]() Young Adult Fiction | Action & Adventure - General Young Adult Fiction | Fantasy - General ![]() ![]() This gripping high-tech tale will thrill every kid who has ever dreamed of sneaking into Walt Disney World after hours and wondered what happens at night, when the park is closed.Ĭlick for more in this series: Kingdom Keepers Led by the scheming witch, Maleficent, a mysterious group of characters called the Overtakers is plotting to destroy Disney's beloved realm, and maybe more. Is it real? Is he dreaming?įinn's confusion only increases when he encounters Wayne, an elderly Imagineer who tells him that the park is in grave danger. Soon Finn finds himself transported in his DHI form into the Magic Kingdom at night. The new technology turns out, however, to have unexpected effects that are both thrilling and scary. Contributor(s): Pearson, Ridley (Author), Littman, Gary (Read by)īinding Type: Compact Disc - See All Available Formats & EditionsĪnnotation: Using a cutting-edge technology called DHI - which stands for both Disney Host Interactive and Daylight Hologram Imaging - Finn Whitman, an Orlando teen, and four other kids are transformed into hologram projections that guide guests through the park. ![]()
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Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum Series in Order She doesn’t stop there, and here is a guide to all of her series, big and small, including the Knight & Moon Series, the Wicked Series, and the new one, The Gabriela Rose Series. ![]() In fact, Janet Evanovich is the author of the best-selling series featuring Stephanie Plum, a former lingerie buyer from New Jersey who becomes a bounty hunter (played by Katherine Heigl in the movie adaptation), but she also writes The Fox and O’Hare Series about an improbable duo of crime fighters. Janet Evanovich is an American writer who started her career in the short contemporary romance novel section under the pen name Steffie Hall, but she is now famous for writing mysteries-also contemporary. ![]() Affiliate disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, we may earn commissions from qualifying purchases from Amazon.Īll of Janet Evanovich’s Books in Order! Who is Janet Evanovich? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The books on this list illustrate the way structural shifts - from deindustrialization to various drug policy changes - are felt in everyday life. At its best, fiction brings together the personal and the political, the economic and the cultural. But fiction can also illuminate the underpinnings of the crisis. If you’re interested in the opioid crisis in particular or the larger ramifications of drug crises generally, there are many important nonfiction books on these issues. Some people can experiment with drugs without developing a habit others can’t. Others use drugs because of chronic pain. Many people start selling drugs because it’s the best job available. ![]() In particular, heroin cut with an illicit form of fentanyl (a synthetic opioid) has caused a substantial number of accidental overdoses.ĭrug crises are difficult because they involve any number of complex issues: health care limitations or failures, economic insecurity, personal identity, individual addiction, and so on. I n the last few years, the number of overdose deaths has escalated-there were 64,000 in 2016 alone-and much of this increase comes from drugs classed as “opioids.” This broad category describes a number of prescription medications that began to proliferate as doctors faced patients with hard-to-treat chronic pain, as well as street drugs such as heroin. Sign up for our newsletter to get submission announcements and stay on top of our best work. ![]() ![]() ![]() Top 42 Books About Ghosts & Haunted Houses BooksĤ2. The Best Books About Or Featuring Witches (Check back on 10/23/17).The Best Psychological Thriller Books Of All-Time.The Best Gothic Horror Books Of All-Time.The Best Books About Or Featuring An Alien Invasion.The remaining 175+ books, as well as the lists we used, are in alphabetical order on the bottom of the page.įor more Best Horror and Scary Book lists, see below! The books include images, descriptions, and links. ![]() The top 42 books, all appearing on 2 or more, “Best Ghost/Haunting” book lists, are ranked below by how many times they appear. This year we decided to look at individual genres that make up the horror genera. ![]() Last year, in the run-up to Halloween, we looked at the Scariest Books Of All-Time. “What are the best Haunted House & Ghost books?” We looked at 225 of the top books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question! ![]() ![]() ![]() Dressed in satin and lace, she becomes part of Dragonwyck, with its Gothic towers, flowering gardens, acres of tenant farms, and dark, terrible secrets. Her passion is kindled by the icy fire of Nicholas, the last of the Van Ryns, and the luxury of Dragonwyck, and a way of life of which she has only dreamed. Tired of churning butter, weeding the garden patch, and receiving the dull young farmers who seek her hand in marriage, Miranda is excited by an invitation from the upstate New York estate of her distant relative, the intriguing Nicholas Van Ryn. ![]() A classic gothic romance, the story features an 18-year-old Miranda Wells who falls under the spell of a mysterious old mansion and its equally fascinating master. First published in 1944, Dragonwyck was a national bestseller that was made into a major motion picture starring Gene Tierney and Vincent Price in 1946. ![]() ![]() ![]() The companion novels are: The Dead and the Gone, This World We Live In, and The Shade of the Moon. Life as We Know It is an extraordinary series debut. Worldwide tsunamis wipe out the coasts, earthquakes rock the continents, and volcanic ash blocks out the sun. Told in a years worth of journal entries, Life as We Knew It chronicles the human struggle to hold on to the most important resource of allhopein an increasingly desperate and unfamiliar world. Like one marble hitting another, when the moon slams closer to earth, the result is catastrophic. When a meteor knocks the moon closer to earth, Miranda, a high school sophomore, takes shelter with her family. I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald’s still would be open. Told in a year’s worth of journal entries, Life as We Knew It chronicles the human struggle to hold on to the most important resource of all-hope-in an increasingly desperate and unfamiliar world.Īs August turns dark and wintery in northeastern Pennsylvania, Miranda, her two brothers, and their mother retreat to the unexpected safe haven of their sunroom, where they subsist on stockpiled food and limited water in the warmth of a wood-burning stove. When a meteor knocks the moon closer to earth, Miranda, a high school sophomore, takes shelter with her family. Life as We Knew It Characters Miranda Evans Miranda Evans The sixteen-year-old narrator of the novel, which is told in the format of her diary entries. ![]() ![]() New York Times bestseller! A heart-stopping post-apocalyptic thriller that's "absorbing from first to last page."* ![]() ![]() It came at a time in which comics were changing focusing to smaller, more personal tales and tackling not just characters, but environments, as well. A few things must be pointed out: First, this series is a classic. ![]() This volume is incredibly large and almost impossible to review as a standard trade or story, especially with the variety of different narratives and characters that are included. The tales in this collection have been reprinted multiple times since their original run. These stories are more personal and thus more relatable to the reader. The heroes are merely background characters and occurrences. ![]() This collection focuses more on the citizens of Astro City. 2 is published by Image Comics and collects reprinted material from volume 2, issues 13-22. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "I really wanted to bring really question? What did he do to become an adversary of God?" she asked. Like many people, she wants to know how a loving, caring God can allow so much suffering. The book delves deeply into Rice's own questions about faith and God and spirituality and is as close to a treatise on her own philosophy as any of the Vampire Chronicles, she said. In "Memnoch," Lestat - a 200-year-old hedonist with a matter-of-fact viciousness - meets Satan and God, both of whom try to convince him that their worldview is right. So Rice, who started the chronicles in 1976 with "Interview With the Vampire" and now has produced five books in the series, decided to send her wandering hero out with a huge, cosmically enormous, spiritually engulfing bang. "This time, Lestat told me this was the last one. ![]() "For 15 years this character's been leaning over my shoulder saying, Put me in the book, put me in the book,' " Rice said in an interview from her New York apartment. When novelist Anne Rice sat down to write "Memnoch the Devil," the latest chapter in her Vampire Chronicles, she knew it would be the last one. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, they learn that their father has been convicted and forced into hard labor. The family takes care of the dog, and he becomes stronger each day. He can only use three of his legs, and half of his face has been mangled from being shot. The next day, Sounder returns, but he is in very poor shape. His father suggests that Sounder is most likely still alive and tells his son this must be his last visit. When mother makes a cake for father at Christmas, the boy brings it to the jail and visits his father. His dreams of learning to read and going to school are set aside, as he is now the man of the house. The boy continues searching for Sounder, but he must also take care of his younger siblings. With their father in jail, the family must survive on the money that mother makes shelling walnuts. The boy goes after Sounder, but only finds a trail of blood and part of Sounder’s ear. When the sheriff arrives to take him away, Sounder chases them, gets shot, and runs away. When hunting no longer brings in enough food, the sharecropper steals ham and is caught. ![]() ![]() What are some of the challenges that the boy and his family face?Ī Black sharecropper and his dog, Sounder, go hunting each night so that the family can be fed.How does the boy feel about his parents?.Why do none of the characters except for Sounder have a name?. ![]() ![]() Bridget: Impulsively sets off for Alabama, wanting to both confront her demons about her family and avoid them all at once. Ann Brashares is the New York Times bestselling author of the phenomenally bestselling series of young adult novels, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. OL5713778W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 92.37 Pages 396 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1415669589 The Second Summer of the Sisterhood Book descriptions With a bit of last summers sand in the pockets, the Traveling Pants and the Sisterhood that wears them embark on their 16th summer. ![]() ![]() Urn:lcp:secondsummerofsi00bras:lcpdf:f4b228ec-a355-4f8d-bff3-acc2dc27d831 Extramarc University of Alberta Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier secondsummerofsi00bras Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t41r7bw7m Isbn 0385908520ĩ780385729345 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition Tibby: Not about to spend another summer working at Wallmans, she takes a film course only to find its what happens off-camera that teaches her the most Young Adult 610 Sequel to: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Sequel: Girls in pants: the third summer of the Sisterhood Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning UG 4.3 Accelerated Reader 4. 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