![]() So, Sam is what can be described as the tough and cynical detective who loves his job a lot, Nikki, on the other hand, is his partner who can’t stop throwing wise-cracks about every situation they find themselves in. If you want to read Hoag’s series in order, this is the first one by her and a great choice to start with. It all starts with Ashes to Ashes where you have the pleasure of meeting the two main characters, Sam and Nikki, and getting to know them each as individuals and as partners. ![]() ![]() The 6 total books that you will get to enjoy are Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, Prior Bad Acts, The 1st Victim, The Ninth Girl, and The Bitter Season. This Tami Hoag series contains 5 original books with one added later that serves as a great way of connecting a few things that made fans curious. Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska are the main characters in this fantastic thriller where you get to read about these two police detectives and the mysterious adventures they get to experience throughout the series. So, here are some of the top Tami Hoag books everyone should read. She has written lots of both standalone novels, as well as many series that present wonderful stories thanks to the exciting plots inside. ![]() Many of Hoag’s books you will find are packed with all of the features mentioned here. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The bibliography purposefully omits work by scholars who do not self-identify as music theorists or musicologists, but whose work is indispensable to the aims of our group. It focuses primarily on music theoretical work as well as directly relevant scholarship from musicology and ethnomusicology. While this list is not meant to be exhaustive, we hope it offers a starting point for engaged music theoretical research. ![]() Thus we include scholarship that has explicitly and significantly intervened in our field’s established practices at the time of publication, especially in terms of subject position, topic, methodology, and repertoire. We especially highlight scholarly work that confronts the centralized, historically Eurocentric and heteropatriarchal framing of North American music theory. Inspired by Naomi André’s vision of an “engaged musicology” ( 2018), the members of the Engaged Music Theory Working Group collectively assembled the following bibliography to encourage music scholars to engage directly with issues of cultural politics-race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, intersectionality, decolonization, and disability-in their research and teaching. ![]() ![]() ![]() Within a matter of months, Neil Strauss-once a self-described average frustrated chump (AFC)-had transformed himself into Style, the king of the PUAs. He entered a world of bizarre and compelling characters, night after night approaching countless new ‘targets’ until he had developed the ability to connect, almost immediately, with any woman who crossed his path. ![]() Neil Strauss spent two years travelling in what is known as the ‘seduction community’, a secret society of men committed to becoming PUAs. In The Game, New York Times and Rolling Stone journalist Neil Strauss reveals the bizarre world of the pick-up artist (PUA)-men who devote their lives to mastering the techniques of seducing women. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Claremont drew up a full backstory for the character, and then meted out the slow reveals over the course of a decade and a half: Wolverine’s first name was Logan his skeleton was laced with an indestructible metal he had a mutant healing power he’d fought in World War II his father was the savage assassin Sabretooth. Claremont didn’t technically create Wolverine - that credit goes to writer Len Wein and artist John Romita - but he did, with artists like Dave Cockrum and John Byrne, flesh out a stock tough guy into a contradiction-filled man of mystery. No, it’s Chris Claremont, who wrote the monthly Uncanny X-Men comic (along with many, many spinoffs) from 1975 to 1991. If there’s a prime architect responsible for the success of the X-Men franchise, it’s not Hugh Jackman, whose sixth go-round as the character opened last weekend. 1982’s Wolverine miniseries, by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Could it be that her mother's drowning wasn't an accident after all? And as the past unravels around her Lauren begins to wonder whether she might be next. ![]() When she arrives, she is propelled into a series of mysterious events that mimic the days leading up to her mother's death. Lauren knows that by returning to the town where her mother "accidentally" drowned seven years ago, she'll be reliving one of her most haunting memories. All Megan wants to do is get through the visit without any drama, but as the house starts to reveal its secrets and the past comes to light, Megan finds herself caught up in a twisted love triangle with potentially fatal consequences. She's been there in her dreams, or rather her nightmares, but still cannot place what exactly it is that gives her the creeps. When Megan arrives at her grandmother's house she immediately feels that there is something curiously familiar about the place. Perfect for fans of the Twilight series, these two stories are packed with paranormal romance and plenty of suspense. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What I like about this book is their dynamic as a couple because *spoilers! they did end up together* I love Carter because he is such a funny and witty guy, and the guy does nothing half ass. That is until he met Olivia Parker who literally turned his world upside down. The bricks surrounding me may be tumbling down one by one, but I’m not sold yet, which means for the first time in his life, Carter’s the one begging.įor my time, my trust, for a single chance.Ĭonsider Me is about Carter Becket who is an asshole, playboy NHL player and the one thing that he not bothered to do is have a girlfriend, or care to have a girlfriend. Sure, he may be pretty, but he’s also a walking, talking reminder for you to wrap it before you tap it.īut then I start letting my guard down, and he starts showing me pieces of himself I had no intention of seeing. ![]() I have the solution to all my sexual frustrations in a drawer at home, and it’s far less complicated than Carter Beckett. His only problem? I have no intention of falling for his shi-um, charm. He’s had everything served to him on a silver platter, including endless strings of women, and apparently, I’m up next. He’s arrogant, self-centered, and the man doesn’t seem to know what a filter is, let alone how to use one. Consider Me is the First book in Playing for Keeps series.Ĭarter Beckett is the NHL’s resident batboy, top player both on the ice & in the bedroom, and quite possibly the sexiest man to ever grace my field of vision. ![]() ![]() ![]() This topic has been mentioned specifically in relation to the treatment of Charlie Barker. Although the topic was handled with a deft hand, it certainly left me thinking about what happens one member of a community committing a terrible act– such as pretending to the mayor’s wife so that you can help your father rule the world– can cause the rest of the community to be unfairly punished and treated with suspicion. The novel definitely alludes to some major socio-political topics, such as the treatment of minorities. I would love a book series just about these creatures and how they live in and work in New Fiddleham. Yes, New Fiddleham has its vampires and elves but it also has red caps and banshees. ![]() What I have found most memorable about this series is the inclusion of creatures which you don’t always read about in YA fiction. One of the things I loved about this book was the introduction of more mythical and magical creatures. If you were like me and got to the end of Ghostly Echoes and were screaming that you wanted more, than this is the book for you. ![]() It is really hard to talk about the book, however, as it feels like at every turn there is another plot twist which I, at least, never saw coming. The Dire King is the perfect ending to the Jackaby series. In THE DIRE KING, Jackaby and Abigail must fight to protect not only our world, but the world beyond the veil! !SPOILERS! if you haven’t read Jackaby, Beastly Bones, or Ghostly Echoes! ![]() ![]() ![]() The backdrop of terminal illness and loss adds even more poignancy to the story, and there are some beautifully-written, moving interactions between Rosalind and her brother that made me both laugh and cry. ![]() Rosalind is a character who has so much on her plate and I defy anyone not to warm to her immediately. It explores the issues of bullying, bereavement and friendship and also, importantly, highlights the potential unintended consequences of using the anonymity afforded by the internet to speak out. This is a powerful and, at times, emotional read about finding your voice. The blog quickly takes off, with other bullied children garnering strength from her posts and starting to fight back, but soon its success takes an unintended turn for the worst… With no friends, a terminally ill younger brother and parents under significant stress whom she doesn’t want to burden further, she starts a blog as an alternative way of speaking out against the bullying behaviour. ![]() On moving to a secondary school where she doesn’t know anyone, she becomes an instant target for the school bullies. Rosalind, the lead character of Being Miss Nobody, has selective mutism. I hope you’re all enjoying the Summer holidays! I’ve not had much time for reading recently, but I came across this on my reading list which I’d completely forgotten about, and thus I decided that I really needed to turn my attention to it… ![]() ![]() ![]() This wasn't the first book I read but damn. He knows how to write a mother-fucking story. And now, reader, he's about to become yours. Gary Soneji is every parent's worst nightmare. ![]() Soneji has outsmarted the FBI, the Secret Service, and the police. Because Gary Soneji, who wants to commit the "crime of the century," is playing at the top of his game. What is she running from? What is her secret?Īlex Cross and Jezzie Flanagan are about to have a forbidden love affair-at the worst possible time for both of them. She rides her black BMW motorcycle at speeds of no less than 100 mph. Blond, mysterious, seductive, she's got an outer shell that's as tough as it is beautiful. Jezzie Flanagan is the first woman ever to hold the highly sensitive job as supervisor of the Secret Service in Washington. But he also has two adorable kids of his own, and they are his own special vulnerabilities. He's a tough guy from a tough part of town who wears Harris Tweed jackets and likes to relax by banging out Gershwin tunes on his baby grand piano. and looks like Muhammad Ali in his prime. Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. ![]() ![]() Russ, whose squirming attempts at adultery encourage the reader’s contempt, approaches his relief work with a countervailing maturity. ![]() Not so long ago, while living in New York City, he and Marion were “the It couple, into whose married-student apartment other young seminarians crowded three or four nights a week to smoke their cigarettes, listen to jazz, and inspire one another with visions of modern Christianity’s renaissance in social action.” But the younger minister who usurped him as the leader of Crossroads takes a more “psychological and streetwise” approach, focusing the youth group on heartfelt confessions and discussions of intragroup relationships, an intimation of the Me Decade to come.Īs with the best of Franzen’s fiction, the characters in Crossroads are held up to the light like complexly cut gems and turned to reveal facet after facet. (Readers who prefer his breakout 2001 novel, The Corrections, will surely welcome this.) For Russ, who organizes volunteer work in the inner city and at a Navajo reservation, the ’70s bring a humiliating shift in identity. Unlike Franzen’s previous two novels, 2010’s Freedom and 2015’s Purity, Crossroads is light on curmudgeonly social commentary. ![]() The social change convulsing America in 1971 only lightly shapes the crises that beset the Hildebrandts. ![]() ![]() Send me updates about Slate special offers. ![]() |