Becca Fitzpatrick
Becca Fitzpatrick (born February 3, 1979) is an American author, best known for having written the ''New York Times'' bestseller '' Hush, Hush'', a young adult novel published in 2009 by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. She wrote three sequels to ''Hush, Hush'' (''Crescendo'', ''Silence'', and '' Finale''), along with two separate novels (''Black Ice'' and ''Dangerous Lies''). Fitzpatrick also contributed to the short story collection ''Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love''. Writing career On her 24th birthday in February 2003, Fitzpatrick was enrolled in an online writing class as a gift from her husband, which reignited her love for writing. However, success did not come instantaneously for Fitzpatrick. In fact, it took her four years and several rejection letters to publish her first book '' Hush, Hush'' in 2009. Reviews for ''Hush, Hush'' were overwhelmingly positive, especially from fans of Stephenie Meyer’s novel Twilight, due to the novel’s forbidd ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is a Nontrinitarianism, nontrinitarian Christianity, Christian church that considers itself to be the Restorationism, restoration of the One true church#Latter Day Saint movement, original church founded by Jesus in Christianity, Jesus Christ. The church is headquartered in the United States in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City, Utah, and has established congregations and built Temple (LDS Church), temples worldwide. According to the church, it has over 16.8 million the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints membership statistics, members and 54,539 Missionary (LDS Church), full-time volunteer missionaries. The church is the Christianity in the United States, fourth-largest Christian denomination in the United States, with over 6.7 million US members . It is the List of denominations in the Latter Day Saint movement, largest denomination in the Latter Day Saint m ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rachel Vincent
Rachel Vincent is a Trinidadian cricketer who plays for the Trinidad and Tobago women's national cricket team in the Women's Super50 Cup and the Twenty20 Blaze tournaments. In April 2021, Vincent was named in Cricket West Indies Cricket West Indies (CWI) is the governing body for cricket in the West Indies (a sporting confederation of over a dozen mainly English-speaking Caribbean countries and dependencies that once formed the British West Indies). It was originally ...' high-performance training camp in Antigua. In June 2021, Vincent was named in the West Indies A Team for their series against Pakistan. References External links * Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Trinidad and Tobago women cricketers Place of birth missing (living people) Guyana Amazon Warriors (WCPL) cricketers {{Trinidad-cricket-bio-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Maggie Stiefvater
Margaret Stiefvater ( ; Hummel) is an American writer of young adult fiction, known mainly for her series of fantasy novels ''The Wolves of Mercy Falls'' and ''The Raven Cycle''. She currently lives in Virginia. Life and career Early life As a child, Stiefvater was a voracious reader who enjoyed writing. By age 16, she was submitting manuscripts to publishers. After being home-schooled from sixth grade on, Stiefvater attended Mary Washington College, graduating with a B.A. in history. By the time she had entered college, she had already written over 30 novels, including four thrillers about the Irish Republican Army, a historical blockade runner novel, and a high-fantasy novel about "impassioned enchanters fighting among civil unrest." At 16, she legally changed her first name to Margaret. Her maiden name was Hummel. After graduating, she worked as a portrait artist, specializing in equestrian art. In 2010, she gave a TEDx Talk for NASA entitled "How Bad Teens Become Famous ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Forest Of Hands And Teeth
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Michelle Rowen
''Falling Kingdoms'' is a fantasy Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving Magic (supernatural), magical elements, typically set in a fictional universe and sometimes inspired by mythology and folklore. Its roots are in oral traditions, which then became fantasy ... book series for young adults by Morgan Rhodes. It follows the lives of four teenagers: Cleo of Auranos, Jonas of Paelsia, and Magnus and Lucia of Limeros. The series begins after a shocking murder plunges Limeros and Paelsia into a war against Auranos. ''Falling Kingdoms'', the first novel of the series, was published in 2012, followed by ''Rebel Spring'' (2014), ''Gathering Darkness'' (2014), ''Frozen Tides'' (2015), ''Crystal Storm'' (2016), and finally ''Immortal Reign'' (2018), which concludes the series. In 2015, a spin-off series was launched with ''A Book of Spirits and Thieves'', followed by ''The Darkest Magic'' (2016). In August 2018, Rhodes announced that the third book in the series ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sarah Rees Brennan
Sarah Rees Brennan (born 21 September 1983) is an Irish writer best known for young adult fantasy fiction. Her first novel, '' The Demon's Lexicon'', was released June 2009 by Simon & Schuster. Rees Brennan's books are bestsellers in the UK. Life and career Rees Brennan was born in Ireland. She lived in New York after college. She obtained a Creative Writing MA from Kingston University in London and worked as a librarian in Surrey, England, before moving to Dublin where she currently lives. Rees Brennan has been writing since the age of five. ack of first novel, Interview with Sarah Rees Brennan, author of The Demon's Lexicon She has a blog on Livejournal which has over 4000 subscribers. She wrote her first novel, '' The Demon's Lexicon'', while studying for her Creative Writing MA. The publishing house Simon & Schuster obtained a three-book contract deal with her which involved an undisclosed six-figure sum. Since then she has written and collaborated on many bestselling and ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Diana Peterfreund
Diana Peterfreund is an American author. Biography Peterfreund grew up near Tampa, Florida and graduated from Yale University in 2001 with a double major in literature and geology. She drew upon her time as a daughter of Eli to color her ''Secret Society Girl'' novels. Before becoming a novelist, she was a costume designer, book cover model and food critic. An avid traveler, Peterfreund lives with her husband and daughters near Washington, D.C. Work Secret Society Girl series Source: Peterfreund's first book, ''Secret Society Girl: An Ivy League Novel'', details the second semester of Amy "Bugaboo" Haskell's junior year at Eli University, a thinly veiled Yale University clone, after she is tapped for Rose & Grave, a secret society that opens its ranks to women for the first time. Peterfreund used her time at Yale as the basis for Amy's Eli experience. ''The New York Observer'' described the book as "witty and endearing", and Booklist described the book as "frivolous but f ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Justine Musk
Jennifer Justine Musk (''née'' Wilson; born September 2, 1972) is a Canadian author. Early life Justine Wilson was born in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada and she spent most of her early life there. She attended Queen's University in Kingston and obtained a degree in English literature. She then moved to Japan where she taught English as a second language (ESL) before finally settling in California. Career Wilson is the author of the contemporary fantasy novel '' BloodAngel'', published in 2005 by the Roc Books imprint of Penguin Books. Her second book, ''Uninvited'', was released in 2007 and is an unrelated work intended for young-adult readers. A sequel to ''BloodAngel'', ''Lord of Bones'', was released in 2008. Musk was one of the first people to use a site like Pinterest to plan out a novel. In a 2007 interview, she identified Margaret Atwood, Joyce Carol Oates, Paul Theroux, George R.R. Martin, Guy Gavriel Kay, and Neil Gaiman as authors to whom she could relate her wr ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Karen Mahoney
Karen may refer to: * Karen (name), a given name and surname * Karen (slang), a term and meme for a demanding woman displaying certain behaviors People * Karen people, an ethnic group in Myanmar and Thailand ** Karen languages or Karenic languages * House of Karen, a historical feudal family of Tabaristan, Iran * Karen (singer), Danish R&B singer Places * Karen, Kenya, a suburb of Nairobi * Karen City or Hualien City, Taiwan * Karen Hills or Karen Hills, Myanmar * Karen State, a state in Myanmar Film and television * ''Karen'' (1964 TV series), an American sitcom * ''Karen'' (1975 TV series), an American sitcom * ''Karen'' (film), a 2021 American crime thriller Other uses * Karen (orangutan), the first to have open heart surgery * AS-10 Karen or Kh-25, a Soviet air-to-ground missile * Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network * Tropical Storm Karen (other) See also * Karren (name) * Karyn (given name) * Keren, Eritrea a city * Caren ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Caitlin Kittredge
Caitlin Kittredge (born September 1984) is an American author and comic-book writer of dark fantasy and urban fantasy noir. She is known for her ''Nocturne City'' series of adult novels, and for ''The Iron Codex'', a series of young adult books. She has also written the comic books ''Coffin Hill'' for Vertigo Comics and ''Witchblade'' and ''Throwaways'' for Image Comics. Personal life Caitlin Kittredge graduated from college with a degree in English. She has cited Raymond Chandler, Neil Gaiman, and H.P. Lovecraft as inspirations. Kittredge is a fan of film noir, classic pulp novels, and comic books. She describes herself as "a skeptical believer in the Something Else. There's too much strange in this world for me to totally discount the possibility of Something Else being out there. But at the same time, I'm the first person to try and debunk any supernatural stuff that people claim is going on around them. I, personally, had one completely terrifying encounter with somethi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Provo, Utah
Provo ( ) is the fourth-largest city in Utah, United States. It is south of Salt Lake City along the Wasatch Front. Provo is the largest city and county seat of Utah County and is home to Brigham Young University (BYU). Provo lies between the cities of Orem to the north and Springville to the south. With a population at the 2020 census of 115,162. Provo is the principal city in the Provo-Orem metropolitan area, which had a population of 526,810 at the 2010 census. It is Utah's second-largest metropolitan area after Salt Lake City. Provo is the home to Brigham Young University, a private higher education institution operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Provo also has the LDS Church's largest Missionary Training Center (MTC). The city is a focus area for technology development in Utah, with several billion-dollar startups. The city's Peaks Ice Arena was a venue for the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in 2002. Sundance Resort is northeas ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |