Tessa and Hardin have defied all the odds, but will their fairy tale ending be turned on its head? After Ever Happy Life will never be the same. He'll call her beautiful, then insist he isn't the one for her and disappear again and again. Something about his dark mood grabs her, and when they kiss it ignites within her a passion she's never known before. And she does - until she finds herself alone with him in his room. For all his attitude, Tessa should hate Hardin. With his tousled brown hair, cocky British accent, tattoos, and lip ring, Hardin is undeniably hot! But he's also rude - to the point of cruelty, even. But she's barely moved into her freshman dorm when she runs into Hardin. She's got direction, ambition, and a mother who's intent on keeping her that way. Tessa is a good girl with a sweet, reliable boyfriend back home. There was the time before Tessa met Hardin, and then there's everything AFTER.Life will never be the same.
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When she dresses up she looks eighteen, and she's spent the last three years in foster care plotting her escape to Hollywood. Annabel doesn't know it but the director has some tricks up his sleeve.Annabel's mishaps will have readers laughing out loud in this follow-up to Annabel the Actress starring in Gorilla My Dreams. However, when the day of shooting arrives, everything goes wrong and Annabel's five seconds of stardom turn into a disaster. With her friend Maggie by her side, Annabel schmoozes her way onto the set and lands a role as an extra! She stays up all night watching scary movies and screaming at the top of her lungs to practice for her part. When aspiring actress Annabel sees the movie company vans roll into her neighborhood, she is determined that this will be her big break. But maybe very close to being almost discovered." You got discovered?" "Well," Annabel said, "maybe not exactly discovered. 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For like no other disciple of the dark side, Darth Plagueis learns to command the ultimate power. When the time is right, he destroys his Master-and vows never to suffer the same fate. As an apprentice, he embraces the ruthless ways of the Sith. Possessing power is all he desires losing it is the only thing he fears. Luceno takes Darth Plagueis down the dark path and never looks back.”- Newsdayĭarth Plagueis: one of the most brilliant Sith Lords who ever lived. This essential Star Wars Legends novel chronicles the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise, and the origins of the saga’s most enduring evil-the malevolent Sith master Palpatine. This book isn’t published in the US, but it fell on my radar because it’s shortlisted for this year’s Women’s Prize. Powerfully told from an all-female perspective, A Thousand Ships gives voices to the women, girls and goddesses who, for so long, have been silent. These are the stories of the women embroiled in that legendary war and its terrible aftermath, as well as the feud and the fatal decisions that started it all… The devastating consequences of the fall of Troy stretch from Mount Olympus to Mount Ida, from the citadel of Troy to the distant Greek islands, and across oceans and sky in between. Over the next few hours, the only life she has ever known will turn to ash. Ten seemingly endless years of brutal conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over, and the Greeks are victorious. In the middle of the night, Creusa wakes to find her beloved Troy engulfed in flames. This was never the story of one woman, or two. In A Thousand Ships, broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War from an all-female perspective. The ending felt a little rushed, but that's the worst I've got to say about it. 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