![]() ![]() In November 2011, Hoover began writing her debut novel, Slammed, with no intention of getting published. ![]() She worked various social work and teaching jobs, prior to starting her career as an author. Hoover graduated from Texas A&M-Commerce with a degree in social work. She married Heath Hoover in 2000, and they have three sons. She grew up in Saltillo, Texas, and she graduated from Saltillo High School in 1998. Hoover was born on December 11, 1979, in Sulphur Springs, Texas, to Vannoy Fite and Eddie Fennell. She was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2023. Hoover has sold approximately 20 million books, as of October 2022. Many of her works were self-published, before being picked up by a publishing house. She is best known for her 2016 romance novel, It Ends with Us. Colleen Hoover (born Margaret Colleen Fennell December 11, 1979) is an American author who primarily writes novels in the romance and young adult fiction genres. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Between her father's dangerous obsession with "curing" her girlhood, her best friend suddenly acting like he's entitled to date her, and her fellow superheroes arguing over her place in their ranks, Danny feels like she's in over her head. It should be the happiest time of her life, but Danny's first weeks finally living in a body that fits her are more difficult and complicated than she could have imagined. ![]() But before he expired, Dreadnought passed his mantle to her, and those secondhand superpowers transformed Danny's body into what she's always thought it should be. Until Dreadnought fell out of the sky and died right in front of her, Danny was trying to keep people from finding out she's transgender. ![]() A trans teen is transformed into a superhero in this action-packed series-starter perfect for fans of The Heroine Complex and Not Your Sidekick.ĭanny Tozer has a problem: she just inherited the powers of Dreadnought, the world's greatest superhero. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Gessen charts their paths against the machinations of the regime that would crush them all, and against the war it waged on understanding itself, which ensured the unobstructed reemergence of the old Soviet order in the form of today's terrifying and seemingly unstoppable mafia state. ![]() Each of them came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children and grandchildren of the very architects of the new Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their own - as entrepreneurs, activists, thinkers, and writers, sexual and social beings. ![]() In The Future Is History, Gessen follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. The essential journalist and best-selling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy.Īward-winning journalist Masha Gessen's understanding of the events and forces that have wracked Russia in recent times is unparalleled. Named a Best Book of 2017 by The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Seattle Times, Christian Science Monitor, Newsweek, Paste, and Pop Sugar Winner of the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award Winner of the 2017 National Book Award in Nonfictionįinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awards ![]() ![]() Monopolies mean that other competitors didn’t have what it takes to compete.The sign of a truly innovative product is the monopoly that evolves as a result. ![]() Example: Steve Jobs demonstrated vertical thinking when he envisioned the iPod, which was truly unique for its time and the impetus for a whole line of post-PC digital devices.Instead, think vertically by imagining your own future and what products you need to get there. Horizontal thinking leads to creating products that already exist.Innovation requires looking at the present unconventionally and creating your own future.Zero to One explains how the true secret behind successful startups lies in the pursuit of truly unique visions with tenacity and determination. There are infinite untapped business opportunities out there, but a lack of innovation has kept many entrepreneurs from unlocking the potential that awaits. ![]() Ready to learn the most important takeaways from Zero To One in less than two minutes? Keep reading! Why This Book Matters: ![]() Note: This post contains affiliate links which means if you click on a link and purchase an item, we will receive an affiliate commission at no extra cost to you. ![]() ![]() Olivia Santos is excited for her last year at secondary school. ![]() Will you be the next recruit for The Paper & Hearts Society book club For fans of Holly Smale and Super Awkward. Sometimes, when you're in too deep, it's up to your friends to look out for you. What’s Read with Pride about Here’s the official synopsis: The much anticipated second book in The Paper & Hearts Society series by Booktuber Lucy Powrie. With two book clubs to run, exams to prepare for, and a girlfriend, just how long will it be before Olivia burns out? After all, creating a book club and trying to get the #ReadWithPride hashtag to get noticed is going to take a lot of energy. Luckily, she's the mastermind behind The Paper & Hearts Society book club, and she knows exactly what to do: start a new club, find ways of evading the system, and change the policy for good! Olivia is distraught - she's demisexual and knows how important it is for all readers to see themselves represented. But when a parent complains about LGBTQ+ content in one of the books, the library implements a new policy for withdrawing books. ![]() The perfect book for fans of Alice Oseman, Holly Smale and Zoella. ![]() Join Olivia and The Paper & Hearts Society gang in this joyful comfort read and celebration of books from Booktuber Lucy Powrie. ![]() The second Paper & Hearts Society adventure. ![]() ![]() ![]() This enemies to lovers story is beautifully told in an original way. Ethan has recently returned from the military, helping his ailing mother and is the one that Abby has always loved to hate. Now she is home, as the two come to terms with this, and is able to hang out with her sister, Beth and her sister’s best friend, Ethan. ![]() ![]() Until one night when the mark appears on her and not on him. I highly recommend this bookĭo you think your soulmate it out there? Abby is happy with her boyfriend, and since neither has received their soulmate mark is thrilled to know she can be with her love. Great acting, as well, with the character voices. She did a fantastic job of bring all of the characters to life and helping us to understand how each were feeling and helped us to get to know them. I listened to the audiobook version of this story and this was my first with the narrator, Eb Barger, as well. The ending came rather quick and I sure wasn't ready for the book to be over.but that is because I was REALLY enjoying the story. ![]() With that, I would have liked to have known more about Ethan's thoughts regarding everything. I enjoyed the story from start to end, although I feel that the author probably could have delved into more details with the soulmark, the relationship with Abby and her boyfriend, and her relationship with Ethan. This story gives a fun twist to life in today's world by bring in the possibility of receiving a soulmate mark.or not. My first book by Alyssa Cole and I am pretty sure it won't be the last. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was the spider-thin prickle crawling across her shoulder blades. And Evangeline had never been frightened.īut it wasn’t actually the dark or the night that she feared. Before losing her parents, she had constellation-watched with her father and listened to her mother tell stories by candlelight. Dark was for stars and dreams and the magic that took place in between days. Evangeline had never been afraid of the dark before. She fidgeted nervously, and the lantern flickered. Her lantern’s ocher glow chased the nearby shadows away, but the bulk of Wolf Hall’s royal library stacks were nebulous with night. ![]() With one drop of her willing blood, she could undo any lock.įirst, she needed to be sure she wasn’t being watched or followed or stalked by that deceitful, apple-eating scoundrel whose name she wouldn’t even think.Įvangeline checked behind her shoulder. She was also rather good at opening doors. She had pulled and tugged and twisted the iron knob, but the door would not budge. There is a wolf’s head wearing a crown emblazoned on the door’s wooden center, and people have sworn the wolf smirks at their failed attempts, or bares its sharp teeth if a person even comes close to opening this unopenable door.Įvangeline Fox had once tried. But no one has so much as left a scratch on this stubborn door. People have tried to set it on fire, break it with axes, and pick its lock with magic keys. There is a door deep inside the royal library of Wolf Hall that no one has opened for centuries. ![]() ![]() The Wayside, where the Alcott family lived from 1845 to 1848. As activist Harriet Hanson Robinson, wrote, “it was thought to be a rash and dreadful act for a woman to appear at the polls, or near the ballot box, in company with the MEN.” ![]() And even the small concession of letting women vote for school committee was too much for some. The struggle for full access to the polls would continue until 1920. Those votes for school committee would have to satisfy women for decades. Ashfield and Monroe let women serve on local school boards starting in 1868. In a couple of small towns, women could already vote for school committee. When Louisa May Alcott voted, though, she wasn’t the first woman in the commonwealth to cast a ballot. It would take another 40 years for the 19th Amendment to pass recognizing women’s right to vote - or at least white women’s right to vote. The year before, the Massachusetts Legislature had bowed to pressure from suffragists and agreed to let the commonwealth’s women have that limited franchise. The only thing they could vote for, though, was school committee. ![]() On March 29, 1880, Louisa May Alcott voted with 19 other women for the first time at the Concord Town Meeting. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She currently lives in Sandton, South Africa. Her work encompasses creating awareness around rape culture, mental illness and human trafficking. Her books are aimed at educating and empowering people to make better life choices, especially with the fast growing rate of femicide, rape and many other social ills. Jackie’s main objective is to create awareness and find long-term solutions to eradicate social ills. Her stories are raw, well researched and extremely thought-provoking. ![]() Jackie’s work revolves around the narrative of women and children in Africa. Her second novel BARE: The Cradle of The Hockey Club was released in June 2019. Her second book titled I tweet what I like was inspired by the late struggle icon Steve Biko, I write what I like. Her debut novel BARE: The Blesser’s Game, was published in 2017 and was awarded the African Icon Literary Award in Lagos, Nigeria in 2018. Jackie Phamotse is a writer, businesswoman, social activist and philanthropist. Welcome you are at my door step so come on in! I guess you found me well let me entertain you. ![]() |