Geek Girl 4 - All That Glitters by Holly Smale
“My name is Harriet Manners, and I am still a Geek.”
The fourth book in the award-winning GEEK GIRL series. Harriet Manners has high hopes for the new school year she’s a Sixth Former now, and things are going to be different. But with Nat busy falling in love at college and Toby preoccupied with a Top Secret project, Harriet soon discovers that’s not necessarily a good thing…
The fourth book in the hugely successful Geek Girl series!
• GEEK GIRL was THE No. 1 children’s UK debut of 2013
• GEEK GIRL – INNER of the teen category of the Waterstones Children’s Books Prize 2014
• Geek Girl sales have been going from strength to strength. Book 1 has now sold over 100, 000 copies while book 2 has almost sold 45, 000 as of May 2014
• The smart and sassy new voice in teen fiction – Geek Girl defined the new clean teen’ genre
• GEEK GIRL shortlisted for the RAD DAH FUNN PRIZE 2013
• Geek Girl has a fantastic and engaged following on Facebook – now with more than 13,000 likes!
“Wise, funny and true, with a proper nerd heroine you’re laughing with as much as at. Almost”. James Henry, writer of Smack the Pony and Green Wing
“A feel-good satisfying gem that will have teens smiling from cover to cover, and walking a little taller after reading” – Books for Keeps
“I would highly recommend Geek Girl to anyone who likes a good laugh and enjoys a one of-a-kind story”. Mia, Guardian Children’s Books website
The Author:
Holly Smale is the author of Geek Girl, Model Misfit and Picture Perfect. She was unexpectedly spotted by a top London modelling agency at the age of fifteen and spent the following two years falling over on catwalks, going bright red and breaking things she couldn’t afford to replace.
By the time Holly had graduated from Bristol University with a BA in English Literature and an MA in Shakespeare she had given up modelling and set herself on the path to becoming a writer.
Geek Girl was the no. 1 bestselling young adult fiction title in the UK in 2013.
It was shortlisted for several major awards including the Roald Dahl Funny Prize and the Branford Boase award, nominated for the Queen of Teen award and won the teen and young adult category of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize.
The Review
I didn't knew Geek Girl series, till I was reached out by Harper Collins.
I have to say that I don't know Holly Smare in person but for what I researched, Geek Girl could be (part) her life story.
It's a Young Adult series and if you like fun things and really learn somehing fun and educational (and you're an adult) go ahead and read it because it's funny and could represent part of our teenage years with all the dramas... and true facts!
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A Huge Thank You to Harper Collins
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The Witch of Napoli by Michael Schmicker
Italy 1899: Fiery-tempered, seductive, medium Alessandra Poverelli levitates a table at a Spiritualist séance in Naples.
A reporter photographs the miracle, and wealthy, skeptical, Jewish psychiatrist Camillo Lombardi arrives in Naples to investigate.
When she materializes the ghost of his dead mother, he risks his reputation and fortune to finance a tour of the Continent, challenging the scientific and academic elite of Europe to test Alessandra’s mysterious powers.
She will help him rewrite Science. His fee will help her escape her sadistic husband Pigotti and start a new life in Rome.
Newspapers across Europe trumpet her Cinderella story and baffling successes, and the public demands to know – does the “Queen of Spirits” really have supernatural powers?
Nigel Huxley is convinced she’s simply another vulgar, Italian trickster. The icy, aristocratic detective for England’s Society for the Investigation of Mediums launches a plot to trap and expose her.
Meanwhile, the Vatican is quietly digging up her childhood secrets, desperate to discredit her supernatural powers; her abusive husband Pigotti is coming to kill her; and the tarot cards predict catastrophe.
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| Eusapia Palladino |
Inspired by the true-life story of controversial Italian medium Eusapia Palladino (1854-1918), The Witch of Napoli masterfully resurrects the bitter,19th-century battle between Science and religion over the possibility of an afterlife, while earning praise from Kirkus Reviews as an "enchanting and graceful narrative that absorbs readers from the first page."
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| Michael Schmicker |
Michael Schmicker is an investigative journalist and co-author of The Gift: ESP: The Extraordinary Experiences of Ordinary People (St. Martin’s Press).
He lives in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Special thank you to Michael Schmicker for this wonderful book.
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