![]() Which is why Scott has been secretly pining after Cole for months when some of the town’s nosier residents decide Cole has been single long enough. Most people are happy to admire his body and assume that’s all he wants from them, and deep down, Scott is too afraid to try asking for more. He spends a lot of time working out, and from the slow way he talks and the frat house atmosphere at the fire station where he works, it’s easy to assume he’s stupid. Well, there’s one other openly gay man in town-Henry ‘Cole’ Porter, a widower who runs the school library, but after one drunken night together, Cole has kept his distance. ![]() To help out his sister, Scott moved to the small town of Montgomery, where there isn’t much to do and no one for him to date. ![]()
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It's 1959, and the ``small, wispy and wiry'' Florence Green, a widow and middle-aged, wants to open a bookshop in the little, bleak, remote, sea-swept East Anglian town of Hardborough. ![]() On the heels of The Blue Flower (1997), here's a slighter, equally charming, half as deep little novel-about snobbery and meanness in the provinces-that the immensely gifted Fitzgerald published in England in 1978. ![]() ![]() ![]() We want to know what is happening in Regalia, how the new relationship between the humans and gnawers is going, and how Gregor and Luxa's relationship is. In this action-packed and masterful series, Suzanne Collins unfolds the fate of the Underland and its great warrior, Gregor the Overlander. ![]() We would be SO amazingly happy if you were to write a sixth book or a spinoff series using the same characters. 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After transitioning at his old school leads to a year of bullying, Spencer gets a fresh start at Oakley, the most liberal private school in Ohio.Īt Oakley, Spencer seems to have it more accepting classmates, a decent shot at a starting position on the boy's soccer team, great new friends, and maybe even something more than friendship with one of his teammates. I loved every minute I spent in this story' - Becky Albertalliįifteen-year-old Spencer Harris is a proud nerd, an awesome big brother and a Messi-in-training. 'A sharply observant and vividly drawn debut. Love, Simon meets Friday Night Lights in this feelgood LGBTQ+ romance about a trans teen torn between standing up for his rights and staying stealth. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As their paths intersect and lives hang in the balance, Connor, Risa, and Lev must work together to survive - and they may change the fate of America in the process. ![]() However, a loophole allows parents to retroactively get rid of a teenager through a process called "unwinding." Three teens defy the system and run away from their unwinding: Connor, a rebel whose parents have ordered his unwinding Risa, a ward of the state who is to be unwound due to cost-cutting and Lev, his parents' tenth child whose unwinding has been planned since birth as a religious tithing. After the Second Civil War, the Bill of Life states that human life may not be touched from the moment of conception until a child reaches the age of thirteen. Don't miss a moment of the complete New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology from Neal Shusterman, now available as a collectible paperback boxed set. ![]() ![]() ![]() Romance of one kind or another plays a role in every Hoover novel, and to judge by her TikTok fans, they speak to an audience with a well-developed awareness of the romance genre’s established-not to say shopworn-tropes. 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Trade, like the patterns of consumption that determined its development, was implicated in wider debates about politics, morality and the state of society, just as the expansion of trade in the modern world is presented both as the answer to global poverty and as an instrument of exploitation and cultural imperialism. It furnished the goods that ancient elites needed to maintain their dominance – and yet, those same elites generally regarded trade and traders as a threat to social order. Historians have long argued about the place of trade in classical antiquity: was it the life-blood of a complex, Mediterranean-wide economic system, or a thin veneer on the surface of an underdeveloped agrarian society? Trade underpinned the growth of Athenian and Roman power, helping to supply armies and cities. 978-9-9 - Trade in Classical Antiquity - by Neville Morley ![]() |