Alora

Alora has been queen for hundreds of years. Ruling over one of the most remote parts of the world, she spends her summers riding upon a wild stallion, her winters as a winged wolf, never changing, forever at an eternal sixteen. Then he arrives. Against her better judgment, Alora finds herself falling for a young boy with a kind heart. Unable to tame her desire, Alora is forced to face the fact that humans and immortals can never be together. If she chooses to love August, she will lose her eternal life, and she will die. Yet there's a monster lurking in the shadows, a hunter determined to make Alora his prize. She must make the most challenging decision of my life. True love, or immortality? Topics: supernatural, teen fantasy, teen fiction, magic, epic fantasy, teenage books for girls, YA paranormal books, YA paranormal fantasy, fantasy and magic, YA fantasy books, teen and young adult books, young adult fantasy, teen books, young adult paranormal, wolves, werewolves, shifters

Dive into a mystical world full of powers, idols, war, and trials. Alora's Rule will keep you on the edge of your seat as you uncover death threats as well as love.

Alora was always able to figure out the difficult mysteries that seemed to come along in her life, but this was way beyond anything she could have imagined. Alora Bravemist, a sixteen year old high school student, along with her friends Katie, Jen and her dog Smokey set out to solve several mysterious and ominous poems that eventually lead them to a friendly alien who is the Guardian of Time. The three girls then venture back to the past to save both their own lives and the world as we know it. The three heroes manage to bravely struggle through many unexpected and wondrous adventures, along the way learning important lessons in life. Alora and the Golden Stone is great reading for the young at heart and the adventurous of soul.

Alora Bravemist had never conceived of traveling through time. Alora had never ridden on the back of a giant wolf or uncovered a buried alien space ship or discovered one of the ten wonders of the universe. Alora only knew the sad loss of her mother in an automobile accident. Helping her father raise her little brother became her lot in life. But then in less than three heartbeats everything changed. That very moment she came upon a strange hand written note. It was a poem, a very special poem, a riddle of sorts. A riddle contrived by the fantastic "Guardian of Time". From here on life would never, ever be the same again. She would see wonders and adventures beyond her imagination. .. but only if Alora could live long enough to help it all unfold in time.

An “extraordinary” (Laurie Halse Anderson) young poet traces the lives of her foremothers in West Tennessee, from those enslaved centuries ago to her grandmother, her mother, and finally herself, in this stunning debut celebrating Black girlhood and womanhood throughout American history. “A masterpiece that beautifully captures the heartbreak that accompanies coming of age for Black girls becoming Black women.”—Evette Dionne, author of Lifting as We Climb, longlisted for the National Book Award Walking Gentry Home tells the story of Alora Young’s ancestors, from the unnamed women forgotten by the historical record but brought to life through Young’s imagination; to Amy, the first of Young’s foremothers to arrive in Tennessee, buried in an unmarked grave, unlike the white man who enslaved her and fathered her child; through Young’s great-grandmother Gentry, unhappily married at fourteen; to her own mother, the teenage beauty queen rejected by her white neighbors; down to Young in the present day as she leaves childhood behind and becomes a young woman. The lives of these girls and women come together to form a unique American epic in verse, one that speaks of generational curses, coming of age, homes and small towns, fleeting loves and lasting consequences, and the brutal and ever-present legacy of slavery in our nation’s psyche. Each poem is a story in verse, and together they form a heart-wrenching and inspiring family saga of girls and women connected through blood and history. Informed by archival research, the last will and testament of an enslaver, formal interviews, family lore, and even a DNA test, Walking Gentry Home gives voice to those too often muted in America: Black girls and women.

Unlike her friends, fifteen-year-old Alora has visions. Only while in the shower. And only of one stranger: a handsome boy with long brown hair, intense green eyes, and the oddest clothes. A boy who vanishes whenever she opens her eyes. And then one day, he doesn't... Alora's safe world is soon turned upside-down as she's thrust into another realm where her soulmate waits, magic abounds, and unfathomable evil seeks to claim her.

Alora Dennison is an orphaned child from a shamed bloodline, surviving in her family's old pack.On the dawn of her transition pushing her into adulthood, in an unexpected turn of fate, she imprints on the mate she will be bonded to for eternity. Only he isn't the man of her dreams. He is the only one in the entire state she would never have wanted to bond to. Colton Santo is the arrogant, dominant son of the Alpha from a rival pack, which is set to unite the packs and reign in one kingdom. In years gone by, his disdain for her and any from her bloodline has been prominent. Her treatment byhis pack has pushed her to live in near isolation, fearful for her existence. And now, on the dawn of her awakening, before all those assembled, they see her imprint on their future leader. Fate has decreed it, but everyone around her is about to try and stop it. Fate isn't about to make it easy on her either, as a long-forgotten war erupts in their lands, bringing an age-old enemy with a thirst for blood back into the forefront of Lycanthrope life.Will she survive long enough to ever find out why she has borne a black mark on her lineage her entire life? And why Colton's father is so eager to see her dead. Will Colton step up and honor the bond, or will he be the one to deliver the final blow?

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • "A stunning exposé of why Black people in our society 'live sicker and die quicker'—an eye-opening game changer."—Oprah Daily From an award-winning writer at the New York Times Magazine and a contributor to the 1619 Project comes a landmark book that tells the full story of racial health disparities in America, revealing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health of our nation. In 2018, Linda Villarosa's New York Times Magazine article on maternal and infant mortality among black mothers and babies in America caused an awakening. Hundreds of studies had previously established a link between racial discrimination and the health of Black Americans, with little progress toward solutions. But Villarosa's article exposing that a Black woman with a college education is as likely to die or nearly die in childbirth as a white woman with an eighth grade education made racial disparities in health care impossible to ignore. Now, in Under the Skin, Linda Villarosa lays bare the forces in the American health-care system and in American society that cause Black people to “live sicker and die quicker” compared to their white counterparts. Today's medical texts and instruments still carry fallacious slavery-era assumptions that Black bodies are fundamentally different from white bodies. Study after study of medical settings show worse treatment and outcomes for Black patients. Black people live in dirtier, more polluted communities due to environmental racism and neglect from all levels of government. And, most powerfully, Villarosa describes the new understanding that coping with the daily scourge of racism ages Black people prematurely. Anchored by unforgettable human stories and offering incontrovertible proof, Under the Skin is dramatic, tragic, and necessary reading.