thedimpledteacher

MAE 🍎 middle school teacher 🌻 YA romance + fantasy girly

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We Hunt the Flame (Sands of Arawiya, #1)

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The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)

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Saddle Up for a Ride with Only One Horse

by andreareadsalot

16 books

The two love interests are forced to get cozy sharing one saddle for part of their journey to their dismay and our absolute delight.

This list is for all spice levels. As a note this may not necessarily be a big part of the book as this is a microtrope. Recs welcome!

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Bringing Down the Duke (A League of Extraordinary Women, #1)

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Addie Woolridge

Two teens must keep their working—and romantic—relationship a secret from their grandmas, who are longtime social media rivals, in this hilariously sweet rom com from the author of The Homecoming War. Jamie Webb prefers to be behind the camera, not in front of it. She uses her filmmaking skills to help build her grandmother’s social media presence. That’s why they’re taking a trip to Las Vegas for an influencers’ convention. Jamie is actually looking forward to working with BamBam, relaxing with her friends, and getting away from her parents’ critical eye. But as soon as she realizes that BamBam’s archnemesis, another influencer grannie, is attending the con with her cute grandson, Ethan, her excitement fizzles. Well, until the organizers announce a cash prize and award for the best con video. Jamie could really use that win to set her portfolio apart for film school. Thus, she agrees to a secret partnership with Ethan, a fellow content creator. Their grandmothers will never know that they’re exploring Sin City together, or that their feelings for one another are growing stronger than Jamie’s guilt. After all, what happens there, stays there. Right?

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Looking for Recs

Hiiii!! I was wondering if anyone has any recs for romcoms where the main couple is interracial but does not include a white person? Is there possibly a list already made that I just can't find? Thank you in advance!!!

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The Sun and the Starmaker

Rachel Griffin

There once was a village so far north that most considered it the top of the world... and in that village, the Sun fell in love with her Starmaker. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Nature of Witches comes a whimsical and sweeping romantic fantasy. Nestled deep in the snowy mountains of the Lost Range, the small village of Reverie endures on a miracle. Beyond the reach of the Sun, Reverie is dependent upon the magic of the mysterious Starmaker: every morning, he trudges across a vast glacier and pulls in sunlight over the peaks, providing the village with the light it needs to survive. Aurora Finch grew up on tales of the Starmaker’s magic, never imagining she’d one day meet him. But on the morning of her wedding, a fateful encounter in the frostbitten woods changes everything. The Starmaker senses a powerful magic within her and demands she come study under his guidance. With her newfound abilities tied to the survival of the village, Aurora is swept away to his ice-covered castle at the mountain’s peak. The Starmaker is as cold and distant as the dark woods, leaving Aurora to explore his enchanted castle with only an immortal rabbit for company. Yet the more she discovers about the sorcerer, the stronger their ruinous attraction grows, pulling her closer to the secrets he refuses to share. A deadly frost approaches, and Aurora must uncover what the Starmaker is hiding before she is left in an endless winter that even the Sun cannot touch.

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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

Clint Smith

Poet and contributor to The Atlantic Clint Smith’s revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a slave owning nation Beginning in his own hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader through an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks-those that are honest about the past and those that are not-that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation's collective history, and ourselves. It is the story of the Monticello Plantation in Virginia, the estate where Thomas Jefferson wrote letters espousing the urgent need for liberty while enslaving over 400 people on the premises. It is the story of the Whitney Plantation, one of the only former plantations devoted to preserving the experience of the enslaved people whose lives and work sustained it. It is the story of Angola Prison in Louisiana, a former plantation named for the country from which most of its enslaved people arrived and which has since become one of the most gruesome maximum-security prisons in the world. And it is the story of Blandford Cemetery, the final resting place of tens of thousands of Confederate soldiers. In a deeply researched and transporting exploration of the legacy of slavery and its imprint on centuries of American history, How the Word Is Passed illustrates how some of our country's most essential stories are hidden in plain view-whether in places we might drive by on our way to work, holidays such as Juneteenth, or entire neighborhoods—like downtown Manhattan—on which the brutal history of the trade in enslaved men, women and children has been deeply imprinted. Informed by scholarship and brought alive by the story of people living today, Clint Smith’s debut work of nonfiction is a landmark work of reflection and insight that offers a new understanding of the hopeful role that memory and history can play in understanding our country.

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Dance of Thieves (Dance of Thieves, #1)

Mary E. Pearson

When the patriarch of the Ballenger empire dies, his son, Jase, becomes its new leader. Even nearby kingdoms bow to the strength of this outlaw family, who have always governed by their own rules. But a new era looms on the horizon, set in motion by a young queen, which makes her the target of the dynasty's resentment and anger. At the same time, Kazi, a legendary former street thief, is sent by the queen to investigate transgressions against the new settlements. When Kazi arrives in the forbidding land of the Ballengers, she learns that there is more to Jase than she thought. As unexpected events spiral out of their control, bringing them intimately together, they continue to play a cat and mouse game of false moves and motives in order to fulfill their own secret missions. Mary E. Pearson's Dance of Thieves is a new YA novel in the New York Times bestselling Remnant Chronicles universe, in which a reformed thief and the young leader of an outlaw dynasty lock wits in a battle that may cost them their lives—and their hearts.

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Addie Woolridge

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Secular/Non-Religious Books About Grief

Hi all,

I'm currently dealing with some anticipatory grief with the imminent loss of my last living grandparent. Does anyone have any suggestions for hopeful books centered around grief? I would prefer them to be from a non-religious perspective. Can be fiction or non-fiction. I read Promise Me Sunshine recently and really enjoyed it. Thanks!!

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Dance of Thieves (Dance of Thieves, #1)

Mary E. Pearson

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The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)

Shannon Chakraborty

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Addie Woolridge

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Sally Rooney

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined. For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude—a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.

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The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)

Shannon Chakraborty

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Addie Woolridge

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Secret Reading

Anyone else reading something that they can't or won't log for any reason?

I'm reading a beta project (deadline approaching) and it's not out yet for me to log my reading. Which is a bit sad buy hey, at least I'm still reading! And I'm nearly done ^^

So, what are you reading in secret? Take this as your chance to boast!

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ritika

Thoughts from 9% (page 38)

“There was no point to a feeling that fleeted. To a love she would be destined to lose.”

ZAFIRA MY BABY

I’m genuinely excited for the romance like if I’m getting such poetic lines at the start of the book I can’t even begin to imagine how heartwrenching the romance is gonna be jejsjdjdjnd

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Addie Woolridge

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An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)

pearl_reads

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Last Names in AEITA

Not sure if I'm the only one fixated on this detail, but I noticed that Martials have last names. Elias Veturius, Marcus (I forgot his last name but think it was Farrar or something like that), etc, while Scholars didn't. Laia is just Laia of Serra, Darin is Darin of Serra, and so on. They don't have actual last names.

I wonder if this has always been that way, like a tradition to Scholars to not have last names, or if this was when the Empire took over. Martials are obviously superior to Scholars, so I wonder if that's why they get to have unique, recognizable last names. It implies status, or at least, that's how I see it.

Was this ever mentioned in the books? Btw I've only read the first two books, currently reading the third.

What do you guys think??

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