“We may not get to choose how we die, but we can choose how we live. The universe may forget us, but it doesn't matter. Because we are the ants, and we'll keep marching on.” Summary: Henry Denton has spent years being periodically abducted by aliens. Then the aliens give him an ultimatum: The world will end in 144 days, and all Henry has to do to stop it is push a big red button. Only he isn't sure he wants to. After all, life hasn't been great for Henry. His mom is a struggling waitress held together by a thin layer of cigarette smoke. His brother is a jobless dropout who just knocked someone up. His grandmother is slowly losing herself to Alzheimer's. And Henry is still dealing with the grief of his boyfriend's suicide last year. Wiping the slate clean sounds like a pretty good choice to him. But Henry is a scientist first, and facing the question thoroughly and logically, he begins to look for pros and cons: in the bully who is his ...
“We are not broken things, neither of us. We are cracked pottery mended with laquer and flakes of gold, whole as we are, complete unto each other. Complete and worthy and so very loved.” Summary: Henry Montague is exactly what a gentleman ought not to be. He’s a booze hound and a rake, a seductive charmer with an allergy to keeping his breeches on. His heartless hard-ass of a father has had enough. He sends Monty, along with his sister Felicity and bestie Percy, on a Grand Tour of Europe. Where Monty sees it as one last hurrah, his father is determined to force some education and gravity on him whether he wants it or not. The boys will, under the guidance of a strict supervisor, learn all about the Continent’s art and culture. After depositing Felicity at a girls’ school where she will acquire all the necessary accomplishments to secure a high-ranking husband, Percy will head off to Holland to law school and Monty will return to England to become the dour man his father ...
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