![]() Last Shot is Feinstein’s first entry into fiction for young people, and it’s an impressive one. “You’ll feel as if you have a courtside seat at the SuperDome. ![]() “Score! That’s exactly what author John Feinstein does with this mystery.” -Dallas Morning News He writes as if he’s having a fine time at the keyboard, and the result will entertain not only young readers, but the oldsters looking over their shoulders as well.” -Boston Globe Remarkably, Feinstein pokes holes in the illusions without diminishing the excitement of the games themselves as seen through the eyes of two eighth-grade reporters. The blackmailing plot that unfolds over the course of Final Four weekend threatens a student-athlete who isn’t a student, implicates an ethics professor with no ethics, and otherwise introduces to young readers the sleaze beneath the glitter of college basketball’s biggest show. Exceptionally knowledgeable about the college basketball world, Feinstein has a fine time lampooning broadcaster Dick Vitale and the bureaucrats who populate the NCAA itself. ![]() ![]() “ Last Shot is a brisk novel set in the madness of the NCAA’s Final Four. ![]()
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The Code of the Woosters is the third full-length novel to feature Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. ![]() It was previously serialised in The Saturday Evening Post (US) from 16 July to 3 September 1938, illustrated by Wallace Morgan, and in the London Daily Mail from 14 September to 6 October 1938. Wodehouse, first published on 7 October 1938, in the United Kingdom by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States by Doubleday, Doran, New York. The Code of the Woosters is a novel by P. ![]() ![]() This book contains MFM and MMF themes intended for readers 18 and over. Hellish Fae is book one of a sexy reverse harem series featuring creatures of heaven, hell, and all the dark fae realms in between. The Prince will die by my hand for what he’s done.Īll I have to do is make sure the creature at the back of my mind doesn’t kill me first. The Queen of Hell might possess my body but the deadly vengeance in my blood is my own. 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I’ve built my empire from the ground up, preparing to take revenge on the monsters that slaughtered my sister.īut I owe my soul to one of those very literal demons, and it’s coming to collect. ![]() The criminal underworld I fled to couldn’t break me. ![]() ![]() ![]() The primary characters (particularly the U.S. In the ’90s thread, the descendants of those WWII heroes are at work on an underground data haven to protect encrypted data and, ultimately, to prevent the horrors of the Holocaust from ever being repeated.īut that’s only partially what this expansive story is about.Īt its core, it’s a high-stakes adventure and a tale of family, both biological and found. In the WWII storyline, a determined group of cryptographers is desperate to break Germany’s enigma code without letting the Germans find out. ![]() Marine and continues to blast preconceptions and clichés for the next 900+ pages. The story opens with a haiku-writing U.S. ![]() This Dickensian novel by Neal Stephenson, the godfather of cyberpunk, weaves two timelines - one in WWII, the other in 1990s Silicon Valley - to tell a tale of adventure, intrigue, the Enigma code, technology, and the search for lost gold. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tweens, especially those with a fairy tale fetish, will devour Ainsley's story." - Children's Literature "An action-packed week with a bit of real-life fairy tale and a taste of happily ever after thrown in for good measure. Maybe her first experiment started this mess, but her second plan is sure to fix it! Will her two wrongs make a right? ![]() Sure, LB has never seen a superhero movie or drawn a comic, and LB has definitely never done roller derby before - but if Kat likes those things, why not try? As she steps out of her comfort zone and into Kat’s, LB discovers a world of new adventures. She needs a new hypothesis, and fast, to revamp her relationship with Kat before Courtenay can ruin everything again. ![]() like Courtenay? Just when she thought things were getting back to normal, LB’s friendships are more confusing than ever! Then the bully from their old school, Courtenay, shows up - pretending to be nice! Worst of all, Kat seems to. ![]() Even though her best friend, Kat, says she’s forgiven her for that whole using-science-to-make-herself-popular thing, things are still pretty weird between them. From middle-grade darling Anna Staniszewski comes the story of a girl who might just have friendship down to a science. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Edwood always has that second cup of coffee in the morning!” “Edwood,” he hissed, turning the hated name into one long syllable that might have become a howl if he wasn’t hissing. “Edwood!” Jakob snarled, feeling a sudden, inexplicable and curiously deep-seated urge to take the entire pile of potatoes, peel them, cook them, mash them and turn them into a giant sculpture of Devil’s Tower, Wyoming. “I don’t,” she replied, waving a little less delicately. Bela waved a delicate hand delicately before her face. “Your heat,” she whispered throatily, and then she emitted a small, delicate cough that made him tremble in places he had never known could tremble, at least outside of tremors in the earth and a mouthful of a particularly rank kind of Jimson weed that werewolves would eat when they needed to get more into their werewolfish spaces, or purge to maintain their slim, muscled shapes. With a gasp, he dragged his thoughts away from his desires – that similarity to the hated name! He growled and hunched and drew closer to Bela again. “Your heat,” she said, and he swore she was panting now, like an overeager werewolf cub after too much rough and tumble – no, he thought, don’t think tumble, don’t think, but I am thinking it! he thought dramatically, a tumble amongst the King Edwards with– ![]() “Handle you?” Bela’s eyes seemed then to mist over, and he stared at her, puzzled. ![]() ![]() ![]() Speaking to Guitar World in 1986, Page – who up to that point had only released the soundtrack to the film Death Wish II under his own name – revealed his uneasiness about returning to the stage for the ARMS shows. ![]() Devastated by Bonham's death later that year, Page, by his own account, barely played guitar (opens in new tab) in the two years that followed. The ARMS shows, though, were a crucial step back into the limelight for Page after the most difficult period of his life.Īside from a brief onstage cameo at a March 1981 Beck show (opens in new tab) at London's Hammersmith Odeon, he hadn't performed live since Led Zeppelin's final show with John Bonham in July 1980. Though Page was a loose player even in his prime, it's hard not to hear his playing's sharper edges in the video, and others from the same tour. ![]() Page – who's a little hard to hear at times, thanks to the sub-par mix – takes the wildest turn of the three, putting his whole body into some crazy bends, while taking up slide duties in the song's second half. The video is a pleasing display of each guitarist's signature style, with Clapton – who, appropriately, takes the first solo – expressing the song's close-to-home emotional anguish through a series of biting bends and phrases, and Beck putting on a fleet-fingered and freewheelin' plectrum-free showcase. ![]() |