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What Are Steamy Historical Romance Novels? What do I define as “steamy”? The word might depend on the reader’s preferences. One person’s steamy might be another person’s tame. Your mileage may vary. For the sake of this list, I define steamy as books with sex scenes that are fully described on the page. There are no fade to blacks, no did-they-or-didn’t-they; they absolutely, without question, bang it out. Probably more than once, too....

Fairies ACOTAR is set in the world of the Fae and its vicious courts. This premise isn’t new, and the source material is rich enough to inspire plenty of fantasy novels about fairies. Young and New Adult Fantasy ACOTAR is generally categorized as New Adult Fantasy. However, here are both Young and New Adult Fantasy novels that range from retellings to high fantasy with plenty of romance, action, and intrigue to keep you turning the pages....

Having fun isn’t hard, when you’ve got this cool keychain/library card! Show how much you love your local library with this cute black and white keychain. If you’re more into wristlets, these come in both colorful bookshelves and library card versions. This cute keychain shows off exactly how happy reading make us all! This keychain is colorful, shows off your love of reading, and feels like Spring, plus, there’s an adorable tassel!...

Kindle Paperwhite A lot of spoonies are also immunocompromised. And with the current state of the world, it might be scary to bring books that you can’t sterilize into your home. This particular kindle is waterproof, so you can really get to scrubbin’ and murder those germs. Kindles as have tons of accessibility settings, which you can learn about here! And by using ebooks, you can minimize the amount of outside things entering your home....

Is how most of the poems begin in this little book of power. Why God is a Woman is a social satire that strikes deep at the patriarchy. The setting is an imagined island governed by women. On the island, all women look like Angelina Jolie and men are beautiful angels that suffer from vagina envy. Masculine traits like strength, greed, and anger are shortcomings. The male temperament is questioned: men lack patience and self-control, and are quick to anger, so they cannot be trusted with power....

While there are no novels that fully compare with Angeline Boulley’s debut, there are some notable young adult fiction books that share similarities. From Own Voices authors sharing the stories and traditions of their Native cultures, to themes of sacrifice, the search for justice, and high stakes mystery, I’ve compiled a list of young adult books like Firekeeper’s Daughter. (Please note: as with Firekeeper’s Daughter, many of these stories do include mentions of rape, suicide, and other intense content....

No matter who you’re shopping for—from animal lovers to die-hard NBA fans to busy moms who need a safe space to drop f-bombs—you’ll find just the right adult coloring book for everyone on your list. The Best Adult Coloring Books About Animals Adult Coloring Book: Stress Relieving Animal Designs, Relaxing Coloring Pages for Animal Lovers, Cat, Dogs, Horses, Elephants, Lions, FIshes, Turtles, and Many More! by Emma Byron Who it’s for: The person who could happily spend all day watching marathon animal and wildlife documentaries....

The Best Science Books of All Time The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee In The Gene, Indian American oncologist and physician Siddhartha Mukherjee distills the infinitely complex fabric of our identity into a narrative that is as comprehensible as it is gripping. Although the story unfolds panoptically, transporting readers through time as it explores the hypotheses of figures from Pythagoras to Rosalind Franklin, it also offers a poignant glimpse of the author’s family history....

In this post, I want to give you 20 fresh rhyming picture books that are the bees knees! Why Are Rhyming Picture Books So Important for Young Readers? Listening to books that rhyme is so important for early language and reading development. Rhyming books introduce young children to the ways in which words work. They also train little ears to listen for the similarities in words. Rhyming books help preschoolers make predictions about what rhyming word is coming next....

I found lists and guides, and friends and followers began sending me recommendations. By the end of 2020, a full 20% of my reading was books in translation. And I wasn’t at all finished: my to-read list of books in translation had grown exponentially. Which, truly, was fantastic: it means I’d carry this goal of reading books in translation long into the years to come. This list focuses in particular on queer books in translation: whether that mean novels that feature a queer protagonist, novels that focus on queerness, or both....

From Goodreads Choice Awards nominee comes a new domestic thriller with witchy vibes, perfect for readers of The Push by Ashley Audrain and The Lighthouse Witches by C.J. Cooke. After losing her young son in a tragic accident, Eve must overcome her own pain and loss and find the strength to deal with what she fears most — a teenage daughter she can no longer control and a past that could come back to haunt her in the most monstrous of ways....

So if you, like me, are just waiting for that rush when you see all the great new books coming out in the new year, I have really great news for you. Because we are in for a real treat, especially when it comes to graphic novels. I don’t remember the last time I had this many comics and graphic novels I was looking forward to in the coming year....

This year’s thrilling longlist includes books from 11 languages and 12 countries across four continents, with the notable inclusion of Hindi for the first time in the prize’s history. Independent presses continue to dominate the list. Tilted Axis, the publishing house founded by Booker International Prize-winning translator Deborah Smith, is on the list for the first time with three titles, including Tomb of Sand by Indian writer Geetanjali Shree, translated from Hindi by Daisy Rockwell; Happy Stories, Mostly by Norman Erikson Pasaribu, translated from Indonesian by Tiffany Tsao; and Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park, translated from Korean by Anton Hur....

Another advantage of page-a-day calendars and other daily calendars is that they’re they’re a good stocking stuffer size. (Depending on your particular stocking and calendar dimensions, of course.) Getting a desk calendar that matches the giftee’s interests means that they get to enjoy that gift all year round. There are so many options for calendars now that it’s easy to get one that exactly matches your (or the person you’re gifting’s) interests....

If you are interested in graphic novels aimed at older kids, visit here and here for our lists aimed at middle grade readers. Choosing graphic novels for kids is easy – just go for something bright, clever and original and it should be a safe bet. 1. Sidekicks by Dan Santat Captain Awesome has the rugged good looks of an aging 1930s matinee idol, but he doesn’t have the stamina for crime fighting anymore....

These are all 2019 young adult or middle grade releases and feature a person of Asian descent on the cover. All of the authors are authors of color and are women! The Weight of Our Sky By Hanna Alkaf This book takes place in 1969 during the race riots between the Chinese and the Malays. Melati believes that there is a djinn inside of her and she is plagued by images of her mother’s death....

I mean, every time a precious cis het white fanboy starts to whine about “SJ ruining comics for everyone”, there is nothing I love better than laughing back at them: “Social Justice has always been in comics!” My first love for comic books will always be X-Men, possibly the most well-known and least subtle in its messaging. From there, I have tasted the bittersweet flavour of social justice roll across Magneto and the Holocaust, Spider-Man and anti-intellectualism in our schools, Sam Wilson and all those bastards saying he wasn’t worthy of Cap’s Shield, and then, of course, Captain Marvel herself....

1. How Big Are Your Worries, Little Bear? by Jayneen Sanders In this gorgeously illustrated picture book, the worrier Little Bear is afraid of lots of different things. With the help of Mama Bear, he learns to work through his fears, and realise that his worries aren’t as big as he initially thought. 2. Sam Wu Is Not Afraid Of Ghosts by Katie and Kevin Tsang Sam Wu has a long list of fears – ghosts, sharks, the dark, and much more....

26 Common Literary Devices In Poetry Accent In poetry, accent refers to the syllables or words that are stressed or emphasized. Words with more than one syllable have some syllables that are louder than others. Accent can shape the rhythm and meter of a poem. Readers and actors can also choose to accent important words. Allegory An allegory is a story or poem with a hidden meaning: often a moral, religious, or political one....

A new YA standalone novel about dark faeries for fans of Laini Taylor and Sarah J. Maas. Prince and his faerie courtiers are staggeringly beautiful, unrelentingly cruel, and exhausted by the tedium of the centuries—until they meet foster-siblings Josh and Ksenia. Drawn in by their vivid emotions, undying love for each other, and passion for life, Prince will stop at nothing to possess them. First seduced and then entrapped by the faeries, Josh and Ksenia learn that the faeries’ otherworldly gifts come at a terrible price—and they must risk everything to reclaim their freedom....