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bookshelves: currently-reading, supernatural
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bookshelves: supernatural
Welcome to a New York City you've never before experienced. Behind the glamour, you will find a world you thought only existed in fantasies and other tales.
Vampires, werewolves, and fairies are only a few of the Downworlders who inhabit the city. Shadowhunters are nephilim, children born of angel and human. The Shadowhunters protect the mundanes (regular humans) of city by killing demons and keeping the Downworlders under control.
Clary Fray is spending the evening at Club Pandemonium with her bff, Simon, when she witnesses three tattooed teens attack and kill another. When she goes to investigate, the body of the murdered teen disappears into thin air. It is then that Clary discovers the tattooed ones are Shadowhunters and she, a mundane, should not be able to see them.
What Clary discovers next will lead her to question everything she's ever known about her life and her world. ]]>
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bookshelves: book-clubs, currently-reading
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What has your family done to prepare for the threat of nuclear war? Probably nothing. Your grandparents may remember the hype of fallout shelters in the 1940s and 1950s.
Eli and his family are ready. So ready in fact that they are currently living in a high tech underground compound, replicated to look and feel like their Seattle mansion. Unfortunately Eli's twin brother and his grandma are not with them. They were separated from the rest of the family and didn't make it to the shelter in time.
Why are they living in a nuclear fallout shelter, you ask? Eli's father is a billionaire and has spent years and billions of dollars planning for his family's safety. So when he received word of a nuclear attack, they were safely sealed away from the radiation and fallout for 15 years. But not everything appears to have gone according to plann. Six year in, food supplies are dwindling. Dad is acting strange and Eli is beginning to question what he is willing to do in order to secure his family's survival.
Would you be able to survive in The Compound? ]]>
Summer is here again and Greg has big plans which include a lot of sleeping and playing videogames. However, Mom and Dad don’t seem to understand and think he should spend more time outside. Thankfully Rowley’s dad is a member of the country club, where the boys can hang out by the pool and drink fruit smoothies by the dozen. That is until Mr. Jefferson receives the $83 bill and demands Greg and Rowley pay it back (WHAT!).
Greg hatches a plan to start a lawn business (VIP Lawn Care). It would be taking off if Mr. Jefferson hadn’t banned them from printing their flyers on his computer and if the yellow pages didn’t charge thousands of dollars for advertising. Gramma won’t be a reference for Greg but surely she won’t care if they use her lawnmower, since Greg doesn’t have any equipment. (How do you start those things?) And why don’t people understand that Greg just doesn’t do poo?
To make matters worse, Mom cancels the family vacation since money is tight. Birthday gifts are never what you want and the community pool is full of scary images. Welcome to the Dog Days of summer, Wimpy Kid style.
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It’s a New Year and Greg isn’t making any resolutions. Why fix yourself when you are just about perfect!?! But he has resolved to help others in their quest for self-improvement. In other less than perfect news, the bus stop has been rezoned so now Greg and Rowley must walk to school. A snack thief is on the loose in the Heffley house and without that extra sugary boost in his lunch (plus the extra exercise from walking to school), Greg keeps falling asleep in class. The new TV lineup as well as an after school nap routine (what teenager isn’t tired after working that hard all day?) leaves no time for homework. Greg has his eye on Holly Hills, but hasn’t figured out a way to get her attention… He’s pretty sure his diminishing wardrobe isn’t helping. (Thanks to Uncle Charlie’s gift of a laundry hoop, Greg is now responsible for washing his own clothing—how many times can you wear something without being referred to the nurse for a lecture on hygiene?) The Last Straw of this less than perfect start to the year would have to be impressing Dad into not making him attend to Spag Union (AKA Military Academy). How far will Greg be willing to go (soccer, Boy Scouts) in order to save a perfect summer vacation? ]]>