![]() ![]() IF YOU’VE BOUGHT this book, then you’re either dating a zombie or thinking about dating a zombie. Because all of a sudden she’s convinced a conspiracy is afoot at the drug company and it seems to go all the way to the top! Worst of all, the human male appears to have impaired her ability to think clearly. Now Hattie, the consummate professional, is acting like a single girl at the end of the twentieth century: self-conscious, klutzy and unable to form a coherent sentence without babbling. ![]() Granted access to the inner sanctum of zombaceuticals, she meets an actual, living, breathing M-A-N. Her practical how-to impresses the CEO of the largest drug company in the world, and before she knows it, Hattie, a reporter for a downmarket tabloid that specializes in conspiracy theories, is sitting down with the woman who single-handedly invented the zombie-behavioral-modification market. So she writes “The Girls’ Guide to Dating Zombies” to help her fellow single women navigate the zombie-relationship waters. Hattie Cross knows what you’re thinking: Zombie sex? Epercent of human males into zombies, it’s statistically impossible to meet–let alone date–the remaining 0.00001 percent. I usually figure out what the plot is about halfway through and then have to go back to the beginning and write it in. ![]()
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I’d least like to trade places with Daphne from Third Chances - losing someone close to you is hard. Even though there’s a lot of ups and downs in The Hunted series, her story is happy.Īnd who doesn’t want to relive their college years? Especially if it involves dating a handsome professor. So I would most like to trade places with Penny from The Hunted series. But there are a lot of pieces of my past that I’d rather relive than others. IVY: Every character I write is a piece of me. ![]() SADYE: Which of your characters would you most and least like to trade places with? True story.īut for the stories I write? The most unusual thing I do is that I don’t plot anything out at all. ![]() IVY: Something unusual? Geez, everything I do is weird. SADYE: Tell us something about your writing process that’s unusual or that you haven’t revealed before. When she's not writing, you can find her binge-watching too many TV shows, taking long walks, playing outside, and generally refusing to act like an adult. ![]() Today we’re interviewing Ivy Smoak, the Amazon bestselling author of The Hunted series and several other romance series. ![]() ![]() ![]() The framework is forged out of current research in mathematics combined with John Hattie’s synthesis of more than 15 years of education research involving 300 million students.Ĭhapter by chapter, and equipped with video clips, planning tools, rubrics, and templates, you get the inside track on which instructional strategies to use at each phase of the learning cycle: ![]() ![]() This results in “visible” learning because the effect is tangible. That’s a high bar, but with the amazing K-12 framework here, you choose the right approach at the right time, depending upon where learners are within three phases of learning: surface, deep, and transfer. Rich tasks, collaborative work, number talks, problem-based learning, direct instruction…with so many possible approaches, how do we know which ones work the best? In Visible Learning for Math, six acclaimed educators assert it’s not about which one-it’s about when-and show you how to design high-impact instruction so all students demonstrate more than a year’s worth of mathematics learning for a year spent in school. ![]() ![]() ![]() Power, as Orwell warned, has everything to do with controlling the historical narrative, as people and institutions secure and maintain control (and money) by telling us how to think about, or deny, the foundations of the present-history.Ĭonsider then pre history, a subject that, while not at the forefront of our minds on a daily basis, has everything to do with how we perceive ourselves in the present. That strategy, hardly unique to Kremlin hardliners, remains common to fields of human endeavor where power politics are involved. ![]() ![]() Think of the effect of such tactics, dictating how people must think about the past so that they haven’t a clue about events that shaped the present-the program-ming of a generation. School children never learned of their existence, as the new bosses took over, molded minds, and exerted control. The more egregious examples of such power plays were evident in the old USSR, where rival leaders conveniently accused of ideological impurities were exiled or liquidated, then airbrushed from history. Who controls the present controls the past.” In his political novel 1984, George Orwell wrote, “Who controls the past controls the future. ![]() ![]() ![]() An audiobook adaptation narrated by Bernadette Dunne was released simultaneously through Penguin Audio. The House Across the Lake was first published in the United States on Jthrough Dutton in hardback and ebook formats. What she doesn’t realize is that there’s more to the story than meets the eye-and that shocking secrets can lurk beneath the most placid of surfaces. When Katherine suddenly vanishes, Casey immediately suspects Tom of foul play. But the more they get to know each other-and the longer Casey watches-it becomes clear that Katherine and Tom’s marriage isn’t as perfect as it appears. One day on the lake, Casey saves Katherine from drowning, and the two strike up a budding friendship. They make for good viewing-a tech innovator, Tom is powerful and a former model, Katherine is gorgeous. Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of bourbon, she passes the time watching Tom and Katherine Royce, the glamorous couple living in the house across the lake. ![]() Per the official book synopsis, the story is about: Ĭasey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to the peace and quiet of her family’s lake house in Vermont. The House Across the Lake is a 2022 thriller novel by American author Todd Ritter, writing under the penname Riley Sager. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her scandalous nature makes her a favorite subject of London’s most practiced gossips… and precisely the kind of woman the Duke of Leighton wants far far away from him. She refuses to play by society’s rules: she speaks her mind, cares nothing for the approval of the ton, and can throw a punch with remarkable accuracy. There is no telling where a scandal might lead…īold, impulsive, and a magnet for trouble, Juliana Fiori is no simpering English miss. Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake (2010) ![]() Sarah Maclean Love by Numbers series has three enthralling books written between the years 20. We start off our Sarah Maclean books in order article with her first series. Romance abounds as this year’s season begins! Love By Numbers Series In an adventure brimming with espionage, murder, and other clandestine affairs, who could possibly have time to worry about finding a husband? When the Earl of Blackmoor is mysteriously killed, Alex decides to help his son, the brooding and devilishly handsome Gavin, uncover the truth.īut will Alex’s heart be stolen in the process? ![]() Yet her mother still dreams of marrying Alex off to someone safe, respectable, and wealthy.īut between ball gown fittings, dances, and dinner parties, Alex, along with her two best friends, Ella and Vivi, manages to get herself into what may be her biggest scrape yet. Not the best makings for an aristocratic lady in Regency London. Seventeen-year-old Lady Alexandra is strong-willed and sharp-tongued in a house full of older brothers and their friends, she had to learn to hold her own. ![]() ![]() ![]() Its many agencies, including the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Civilian Conservation Corps, provided jobs for artists, writers, librarians, construction workers, firefighters, and foresters, among others. The New Deal combined a series of financial reforms and regulations designed to address monetary policy with a public works program designed create jobs. In the United States, the economy began to slowly improve starting in 1933, thanks in part to the New Deal program, which was created under President Franklin D. ![]() It caused a sharp drop in employment rates, wealth, and stability for many people. The Depression was a severe, worldwide economic crisis that began in 1929. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is set in the eastern Kentucky mountains during the final years of the Great Depression. ![]() ![]() Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world's future. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai's, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. She's a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister's illness. No one knows that Earth's fate hinges on one girl.Ĭinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. "Prince Charming among the cyborgs." - The Wall Street Journal ![]() a cross between Cinderella, Terminator, and Star Wars." - Entertainment Weekly "An interesting mash up of fairy tales and science fiction. The first book in the #1 New York Times- and USA Today-Bestselling Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer! See where the futuristic YA fairytale saga all began, with the tale of a teenage cyborg who must fight for Earth's survival against villains from outer space. ![]() ![]() Suddenly, the boundaries of their safe haven have blurred-and when a stranger wanders into their woods, Finch’s growing obsession with her could put them all in danger. But this year, Jake doesn't show up, setting off an irreversible chain of events that reveals just how precarious their situation really is. The only people who know they exist are Scotland, an overly friendly hermit with murky intentions, and Cooper's old friend, Jake, who visits each winter to bring them food and supplies. But she’s starting to push back against the sheltered life Cooper has created for her-and he’s still haunted by the painful truth of what it took to get them there. Finch has been raised on the books filling the cabin’s shelves and the beautiful but brutal code of life in the wilderness. And that's exactly the way Cooper wants it, because he's got a lot to hide. ![]() ![]() No electricity, no family, no connection to the outside world.įor eight years, Cooper and his young daughter, Finch, have lived in isolation in a remote cabin in the northern Appalachian woods. ![]() A father and daughter living in the remote Appalachian mountains must reckon with the ghosts of their past in These Silent Woods, a mesmerizing novel of suspense. ![]() |