Blending Out

Blending Out

Priyanka Bagrodia

Priyanka Bagrodia

What does it mean to be accepted? Meet Ryley Agarwal, an Indian-American high school sophomore who is quite clearly on the outside and wants nothing more than to belong. Then fast forward ten years and meet a Ryley Agarwal who is in her first year of law school, seemingly accepted by her peers. Traveling between these two periods of her life, readers bear witness to Ryley giving up parts of herself to fit into a world where exclusion, assimilation, and elite institutions intersect.This semi-autobiographical tale paints an authentic picture of what it looks like to be an outsider and exactly what the cost of admission entails. Blending Out speaks to anyone who has struggled to come to terms with their racial, sexual, or intellectual identity. And for those who continue to struggle, it is Bagrodia's hope that Ryley's journey effectively shows the reader how one person came to love all aspects of their identity.
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Craved

Craved

Rebecca Rivard

Rebecca Rivard

THE VAMPIRE SYNDICATE ROMANCES He's the forbidden craving I have to taste... A hot new vampire mafia romance series from USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Rivard! They call us the Dark Angels: Gabriel, Zaquiel and Rafael. We're brothers. Princes. Billionaires. The richer-than-sin heirs to one of the world's most powerful vampires. But we're not vampires, we're dhampirs. Half-human, half-vampire, with panty-melting good looks. The media love us. Vampires hate us. And Slayers, Inc. will do anything to take us down. CRAVED (Book 2) Rafe I'm in Montreal to discover what vampire Zoe Tremblay, a.k.a. the Ice Princess, knows about my brother's kidnapping. Not to finish what I started with Zoe two years ago. Not to find out why she deceived me and allowed her mother's enforcers to beat me bloody. And definitely not to reignite...
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A Matter of Vengeance

A Matter of Vengeance

Kevin Sivils

Kevin Sivils

Life had taught Heat many valuable lessons. Things like have a code to live by. The simpler the better. Simple rules a man could live by. Rules like whoever killed a man's partner had to pay for that sin. Rules like never take the rap for something you didn't do. And most important of all, never let somebody else do your dirty work for you. Introducing P.I. James Benoit "Heat" Heatley in A Matter of Vengeance, a tale of Southern Noir. What readers have to say about A Matter of Vengeance: All I can say is WOW! A Matter on Vengeance, my second read from author K.C. Sivils, an author I'd wanted to read for some time but never got around to (so many books, so little time). Outstandingly well-written and captivating with well-developed main characters." – Roger Fauble James Benoit Heatley. The perfect...
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The School of Mirrors

The School of Mirrors

Eva Stachniak

Eva Stachniak

A scintillating, gorgeously written historical novel about a mother and a daughter in eighteenth-century France, beginning with decadence and palace intrigue at Versailles and ending in an explosive new era of revolution.During the reign of Louis XV, impoverished but lovely teenage girls from all over France are sent to a discreet villa in the town of Versailles. Overseen by the King's favorite mistress, Madame de Pompadour, they will be trained as potential courtesans for the King. When the time is right, each girl is smuggled into the palace of Versailles, with its legendary Hall of Mirrors. There they meet a mysterious but splendidly dressed man who they're told is merely a Polish count, a cousin of the Queen. Living an indulgent life of silk gowns, delicious meals, and soft beds, the students at this "school of mirrors" rarely ask questions, and when Louis tires of them, they are married off to minor aristocrats or allowed to retire to one of the...
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