Khalid, the Caliph (boy king) is plagued with a curse where he must murder 100 brides to break it. Shahrzad decides to marry Khalid to avenge her best friend Shiva's murder under his hands. Unlike the other brides, Khalid is attracted to Shahrzad, and is especially intrigued by her storytelling abilities. As a result, he shocks his kingdom by not strangling her with silk on their wedding night or anytime afterward. Shahrzad attempts to use this to her advantage-uncover Khalid's weaknesses in order to kill him. However, as Shahzad spends more time with her husband, she experiences conflicting emotions. Could she seriously be falling in love with a monster? Khalid is also tormented with crushing secrets. Will he reveal them to his new bride or keep them hidden?
In the meantime, Tariq, an important emir, also plots his revenge for the loss of his cousin Shiva and Shahrzad, the woman he loves. He enlists the help of Jahandar, Shahrzad's father, his friends, and nomads to overthrow the boy king. The emotional twists and turns of this royal love triangle keep readers on the edge of their seats. Khalid and Shahrzad change and evolve through their feelings for one another. The dramatic conclusion sets up surprising start to the sequel Rose and the dagger. Image from www.goodreads.com/book/photo/18798983-the-wrath-the-dawn
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Under her father's orders, Quinn McKee serves the community as a closer. A closer impersonates the person who died to allow the family closure from the loss. Even though Quinn is burnt out from a previous assignment, she is coerced into being a closer for Carolina Barnes's family. As "Carolina", Quinn not only faces the challenge of helping "her parents find closure, she must confront her "hostile sister Angie" and "grieving boyfriend Isaac". When Quinn experiences true love from her parents and Isaac as "Carolina", she begins losing her own identity. Quinn's complications increase with abrupt interferences and withdrawals from her case handler Marie, partner Isaac, and off & on again boyfriend Deacon. Will Quinn be able to fulfill her contractual duties and remain intact? As this assignment concludes, Quinn uncovers truths that will change the nature of her entire existence.
Kristin Hannah weaves the tale of two estranged sisters-Vianne and Isabelle. Vianne and Isabelle struggle for survival and hope during the German occupation of France during WWII. Like their father Monsieur Rossingol from the first World War, the events over a 6 year period irrevocably change the sisters despite their divergent personalities and circumstances. They will learn to understand each other in ways unimaginable at the beginning of the war.
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Chelsea Clinton draws on her experiences as a former First daughter and co-head of the Clinton Global Initiative to offer personal insights on issues facing the world today. Readers will gain deeper awarenesses on issues ranging from poverty, illiteracy, women's rights, global warming, and animal extinction, etc through Chelsea's narratives. At the end of each chapter, Chelsea includes ways each person can make a positive difference. Every small act counts.
As the 2016 Presidential election draws to a close, voters will get a better sense of what Sec. Hillary Clinton would do as Commander & Chief through what the positions, values, and service passed onto to her daughter. Image from www.goodreads.com/book/photo/25631596-it-s-your-world Many people often ask the same question. How can I make a profound difference? We often think those in high positions of power affect change. Philip Hoose disposes this viewpoint through his biographical account of Knud Pederson. The Danish government's capitulation to the Nazi occupation angered 14 year old Catholic student Knud. In hopes of creating national resistance to the new regime, Knud, along with his brother Jens, and a group of others boys formed RAF (British Royal Air Force). Knud and Jens later created the Churchill Club when their family moved out of the area. Inspired by the neighboring countries like Norway who fought against Germany, RAF and the Churchill Club sought to sabotage the Nazi controlled Danish government through any means possible-from spraying canning road signs, damaging Nazi controlled businesses,stealing weapons from soldiers at local hangouts, etc. Eventually, the Danish cooperation with the Nazis was challenged with the arrest and imprisonment of the club members. Despite their harsh punishment, RAF and Churchill Club inspire a national revolt.
As a Mexican American girl in a 1937 East Texas oil rig town, Naomi endures and overcomes discrimination from all segments of the community. Naomi also deals with the loss of her mother as she cares for her two younger siblings Beto and Cari under the watch of her Caucasian stepfather Henry who molested her as a child. Henry also pursues ridding his children and stepdaughter of their Hispanic heritage. Further tensions ensue when Naomi falls in love with African American teenager Wash. While Wash's father wants him to pursue a college education at Tuskagee Institute, Wash decides to follow his heart.
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Image from https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/69/The_20_books_in_the_Bluford_Series.jpg Laia lived peacefully as a Scholar in the Tribesman community before the Empire raided her home and seized her brother Darin for treason. At the elite Empire military academy, Elias seriously contemplates escaping from the torturous responsibility awaiting him as a possible future emperor.
Laia and Elias worlds' collide when she joins the resistance in hopes of freeing Darin. As a slave for the Commandant, Elias' mother, Laia experiences cruelty beyond her worst nightmares. By staying instead of fleeing, Elias endures the indignities and violence of the Emperor Trials. During their encounters at the Commandant's residence, Elias and Laia feel an enormous attraction for each other which puts them and the people they care about in considerable danger. In her debut YA novel, Michelle Levy focuses on the devastating impact of suicide, alcoholism, and abuse through Tyler's story. Tyler masks the pain of his mother's suicide and alcoholic father's abuse to keep his future intact. Unfortunately, Tyler's closing off from friends and school begins jeopardizing this plan. Jordan, a former friend once dismissed, becomes an important force for Tyler to exercise his demons and start over.
Image from https://www.goodreads.com/book/photo/18520658-not-after-everything Through free verse, Crowder intimately chronicles Clara Lemlich's journey as a Russian Jewish girl to a feminist union leader from 1904-09. Clara is forced to work in sweatshop to provide for the family after they flee from Russia to New York after pogrom (Jewish massacre). Clara remains steadfast in her quest for a better life despite long grueling hours and unbearable working conditions. When Clara eventually becomes a union leader, she faces backlash in her quest of improving working conditions for women from her family, men, and society at large. Clara's early twentieth century "audacity" still touches on gender roles & worker's rights today.
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Jon Krakauer chronicles the accounts of sexual assaults of a few University of Montana female students from 2010-12. The readers will receive astounding answers to the following questions. What circumstances led to criminal allegations and what proceeded afterward? How did the university and law enforcement respond? How did the criminal justice system proceed? How did the community respond? How did the lives of the female students and the accused change? Krakauer examines how preconceptions about rape and the actors involved shaped public opinion. The community of Missoula isn't alone. Sexual assault of college aged women occurs way to often across the country
Image located at https://www.goodreads.com/book/photo/24911006-missoula Henriquez tells the story of two Latin American families-Riveras and Toros who live in a apartment complex in Rhode Island. Arturo and Alma Rivera left a comfortable life in Mexico for education and medical treatment for their daughter Maribel who suffered brain injury after a tragic accident on his construction site. The Toros fled Panama for political asylum in the United States nearly 20 years earlier. They have lived to watch their two boys Enrique and Mayor grow up in a country with opportunities for advancement. Periodically, Herinquez includes tales of the other neighbors lives' as "unknown Americans" from other Latin American countries.
The circumstances are ripe for a relationship between Mayor, who has failed to lived up to his father's expectations in comparison to his older brother, and Maribel, who is now looked at as less than what she was in Mexico. Image from https://www.goodreads.com/book/photo/18465852-the-book-of-unknown-americans Many teenagers have probably asked this question? How does one become popular? Maya Van Waganen chronicles her eighth grade experiment on improving her social status from Betty Cornell's Teenage popularity guide written 60 years earlier. Cornell's provides answers for timeless question. However, do they still work in the 21st century? Examine this Padlet for greater discovery. http://padlet.com/ageltch/78fis26l74i8
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While Zlata Flipovic chronicles the tragedy of the Bosnia War in Zlata's Diary, Sara Novic tells Ana's story, a young woman whose innocence was lost through the conflict. Ana copes with enormous losses, lives with a new identity, and struggles with the ramifications of ethnic cleansing 10 years later. Image located at https://www.goodreads.com/book/photo/23209971-girl-at-war
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Jennifer A. Nielsen, author of the False Prince series, narrates a gripping tale of a family separated by the Berlin Wall. After four years of separation, Gerta sees her her father Alodus & brother Dominick on the western side of Berlin for the first time. However, she can't communicate with them because they are considered traitors by the eastern government. Already branded because of their association Alodus, Gerta and her brother Fritz develop a plan for escape. Yet they understand the costs of this decision: absolute secrecy even from their mother and possible death.
Image https://www.goodreads.com/book/photo/22024488-a-night-divided Samantha wakes up from a comatose state with no recollection of her identity. She learns she was found on a rocky lake near town while her best friend Cassie remains missing. As Samantha learns more about herself, she dislikes the person she had become-snobby & cruel to many of her classmates. She also becomes attracted to her brother Scott's best friend Carson over her popular boyfriend Del. Yet, Samantha fails to recollect what happened on that fateful night and someone very close to her will go to desperate measures to hide the truth.
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