#Melissa Kantor

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(New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (January 14th, 2025)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Releases:

The Queen's Spade by Sarah Raughley

Biology Lessons by Melissa Kantor

Everything is Poison by Joy McCullough

First Love Language by Stefany Valentine

Leo Martino Steals Back His Heart by Eric Geron

All the Love Under the Vast Sky by Various

Bingsu for Two by Sujin Witherspoon

Brewed with Love by Shelly Page

Build a Girlfriend by Elba Luz

Prophecy by M.L. Fergus

Truth, Lies, & the Questions in Between by L.M. Elliott

Liar's Kingdom by Christine Calella

Honeysuckle & Bone by Trisha Tobias

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Happy reading!

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Biology Lessons

By Melissa Kantor.

[bootleglesbian]

available bootlegs

this is everything i currently have available (updated 06/18/24). if you have anything to trade i generally prefer that but i am open to gifting any of the titles that are not starred! as a rule, if no cast is listed or only some members are listed, that means that i do not know the cast but i am happy to send a screenshot if you would like (and if anyone is interested in helping me identify unknown casts or dates of any files, let me know!).

green = video, pink = audio, starred = trade or donations only

*Anastasia (Hartford Theatre pre-Broadway run - Christy Altomare, Derek Klena)

*Anastasia (Broadway - Christy Altomare, Derek Klena)

Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Broadway, 06/24/18 - Melissa Benoist)

Beetlejuice (Broadway, 10/31/19 aka Halloween)

Book of Mormon (Broadway - Ben Platt)

Come From Away (Broadway - Jenn Collela)

Falsettos (Proshot)

Falsettos (Broadway - ORC, not proshot)

Falsettos (Tour - Max von Essen, Nick Adams, Eden Espinosa, Nick Blaemire, Audrey Cardwell, Bryonha Marie Parham)

*Falsettos (Tour - Max von Essen, Nicka Adams, Eden Espinosa, Nick Blaemire, Audrey Cardwell, Bryonha Marie Parham)

Freaky Friday (La Jolla)

*Ghost (Broadway - Caissie Levy)

Hamilton (Broadway - Lexi Lawson)

Hamilton (First National Tour - Michael Luwoye, Solea Pffeifer, Joshua Henry, Emmy Raver Lampman, Isaiah Johnson, Jordan Donica, Mathenee Treco, Ruben J. Carbajal, Amber Iman, Rory O'Malley)

*Hamilton (Chicago Act 1 only - Karen Olivo, Ariana Afsar, Samantha Marie Ware, Miguel Cervantes, Joshua Henry)

*Hamilton (Broadway - OBC, not proshot)

*The Last Five Years (Off-Broadway - Betsy Wolfe, Adam Kantor)

*Lempicka (Broadway, 03/38/24 - Eden Espinosa, Amber Iman, Andrew Samonsky, George Abud, Natalie Joy Johnson, Zoe Glick, Nathaniel Stampley, Beth Leavel)

*Mean Girls (Broadway, 02/22/20 - Renee Rapp, Erika Henningson, Barrett Wilbert Weed, Grey Henson, Kate Rockwell, Krystina Alabado, Kyle Selig)

*Mean Girls (National Tour)

*Mystery of Edwin Drood (Broadway - Stephanie J. Block, Betsy Wolfe, Jessie Mueller)

*The Prom (Alliance Theatre pre-Broadway - Caitlin Kinnunen, Anna Grace Barlow)

*She Loves Me (Broadway - ORC proshot)

Waitress (ART pre-Broadway run - Jessie Mueller, Jeanna de Waal, Keala Settle, Drew Gehling, Joe Tippett, Dakin Matthews, Christopher Fitzgerald, Eric Anderson)

*Waitress (Broadway - Jessie Mueller, Keala Settle, Molly Jobe, Drew Gehling)

*Waitress (Broadway - Sara Barielles, Chris Diamantopoulos, Charity Angel Dawson, Molly Jobe, Will Swenson, Christopher Fitzgerald)

*Waitress (Broadway, 06/19/17 - Betsy Wolfe, Drew Gehling)

Waitress (Broadway, 12/14/17 - Stephanie Torns, Jason Mraz)

Waitress (Broadway - Shoshana Bean, Jeremy Jordan)

*Waitress (Broadway - Shoshana Bean, Jeremy Jordan)

Waitress (Broadway, 02/03/19 - Sara Bareilles, Gavin Creel)

Waitress (Tour, 08/26/18)

Wicked (Broadway, 02/01/15 - Caroline Bowman, Kara Lindsey)

Wicked (Broadway, 02/10/13 - Donna Vivino, Ali Mauzey, Kyle Dean Massey, Randy Danson, Adam Grupper, Catherine Charlebois, F. Michael Haynie, Tom Flynn)

Wicked (unknown - Eden Espinosa, Megan Hilty)

*Wicked (Broadway - Stephanie J. Block, Annaleigh Ashford)

*Wicked (Broadway - Lindsay Mendez, Katie Rose Clark)

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Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 to the Cutest and Most Nicest Woman To Ever Play  A Timeless Beloved Fairy 🧚‍♀️ Tale Character on Television from A TV 📺 Hit Show on ABC. 

She is an American actress. She is known for her starring role as Margene Heffman in the HBO drama series Big Love (2006–2011) and Snow White❄🤍 / Mary Margaret Blanchard in the ABC fantasy series Once Upon a Time (2011–2018).

Born On May 22nd, 1978

She was born in Memphis, Tennessee. Her mother, Linda Kantor Goodwin, is a former teacher who also worked for FedEx. Her father, Tim Goodwin, formerly owned and operated a recording studio. Goodwin changed the spelling of her name from "Jennifer" to "Ginnifer" to distinguish her name, and to assist in pronunciation of her name in her regional dialect. Her younger sister, Melissa Goodwin, is a stop-motion animator on shows such as Robot Chicken.

Goodwin's mother is Jewish. Goodwin was raised attending First Unitarian Church and Temple Israel.

She has appeared in various films, including the drama Mona Lisa Smile (2003), the musical biopic Walk the Line (2005), the romantic comedy He's Just Not That Into You (2009), the family comedy Ramona and Beezus (2010), the romantic comedy Something Borrowed (2011), and the biopic Killing Kennedy (2013). She also voiced the lead role of Fawn in the Disney animated fantasy film Tinker Bell and the Legend of the Neverbeast (2014) and Judy Hopps in the Disney animated comedy film Zootopia (2016).

Please Wish This Outstanding & Cutest White Actress In Acting Today on TV 📺

You Know Her & You Gotta Love Her Spirit

The 1

& The Only

MS. JENNIFER MICHELLE   "GINNIFER" GOODWIN ❄🤍

HAPPY 45TH BIRTHDAY 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 TO YOU, MS. GOODWIN ❄ 🤍 #GinniferGoodwin #SnowWhite #MaryMargaret #OnceUponATime

[mybookishlife2]

Bibliosaurus Book Photo Challenge

February 6th - Most Owned Publisher

*These are not all the books I own from Harper Teen

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#BelieveWomen

[quotationsworld]

I wanted to kill someone and I wanted to die and I wanted to run as far and as fast as I could because she was never coming back. She had fallen off the face of the earth and she was never coming back.

—Maybe One Day by Melissa Kantor

[thetudorslovers]

"Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn was a very sad artist. Only in the beginning had he an easy life, then it went hard,and he did not paint laughing people in his maturity."(Maxim Kantor, a Russian painter,writer, and essayist, in his book 'Thistle. Philosophy of Oil Painting' )

Hendrickje was a black-eyed small young lady,graceful and a little bit plump,attracting the attention of Rembrandt. She was two times younger the artist,famous all over Holland as the 'Apelles of Amsterdam', whom Hendrickje was going to serve.

According to art historian Melissa Ricketts:

"Hendrickje was a modest common servant who became a lover of Rembrandt. She was a model for Rembrandt’s drawings and some paintings, for instance, for his 'Woman in Bed'. His artworks demonstrated sexuality of the model and the artist was evidently fascinated by her,depicting the details of her young flesh. Rembrandt had never hidden his relations with Geertje from Hendrickje,and she had never been boring and quarrelsome."

She also posed as a model for one of his most valuable paintings,Bathsheba.

She had been ignoring the rumors behind her back for a long time. The neighbors called her a prostitute and a fallen woman because of her relations with the artist. By 1654, the couple had faced a serious problem. Hendrickje became pregnant at the beginning of the year, and in June her pregnancy became noticeable; Hendrickje and Rembrandt were summoned to the Church council. The charge of the Church council was "that she had committed the acts of a whore with Rembrandt the painter". She admitted this and was banned from receiving communion. The verdict of the Church was that the woman had to be convicted of sin and quit her illegal relations with Rembrandt. 

Hendrickje Stoffels died in 1663 at the age of 38; she devoted 15 years of her life to Rembrandt. The painter buried her and outlived this lover of him as well. Just mind it when you are looking at his late self-portraits with the face of a hard bitten and experienced old man who loved and suffered a lot.

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

“Time does not care how precious it is, how hard you are working not to squander it. Time passes.” - Melissa Kantor, Maybe One Day

[follypottersbookblog]

If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where’s My Prince?

By Melissa Kantor

3⭐️

New girl who likes art and basketball gets chosen (to be the girlfriend of) the star basketball player. She fights a lot with her step mother. Turns out star basketball player is a jerk. Actually falls for the cute, talented boy in her art class. Ends up tolerating her step mom. YA (sophomore in high school). I’m too old for this, ended up siding more with her stepmother. Will not keep.

[firstbooknyc]

[redytoread-blog]

Confessions of a Not It girl.

By Melissa Kantor

“Jan Miller is a senior in high school who’s convinced she is destined to lead the world’s least fabulous life.” I think I only wanted to read this book because the summary mentions Shakespeare???

What I liked: The way her imagination phrases things like a theatre, so every ‘imagine spot’ is written like a mini-play. 

What I didn’t like: You know those books where all the problems could be solved through proper communication? Yeah, this is one of those. If she (Jan) had told her love interest (Josh) that she had only lied about not being allowed to date to another guy, because she wanted to let him down softly, she could have been with her ‘one-true love’ much earlier on. Also, the name. “Jan” is actually pronounced “Yahn”, a fact which I constantly had to remind myself of. I know that this was the author showing how odd her parents were, but it was a little...distracting. Also, there’s a B-Plot of her underage friend trying to have sex with a twenty-something which is ????.

Overall rating: 7/10. Recommend to a 13-15 year old.

[bookcub]

This Again #6

Bridge to Terebithia by Katherine Patterson 

All Fall Down by Ally Carter 

All In by Jennifer Lynn Barnes 

All You Desire by Kristen Miller 

Some Boys by Patty Blount 

The Boys Next Door by Jennifier Echols 

I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You by Ally Carter 

If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where is My Prince? by Melissa Kantor

Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Patterson 

Before Midnight by Cameron Dokey 

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SUMMER READS (well some of it)

[mybookishlife2]

Bibliosaurus Book Photo Challenge

February 10th - Tears

Maybe One Day by Melissa Kantor

[mslaurasil]

Hugs really means a lot.

Masih tentang setahun kepergian mama,

Waktu itu aku menerima banyak sekali pelukan.

Terimakasih, Pipit, Hiskia, Cici, Rebeca

Sehari sebelum mama menghembuskan nafas terakhirnya. Disaat aku mendapat kabar dan mengharuskan aku pulang dari tempat kerja, terimakasih sudah menenangkan bahkan mengantarku ke rumah sakit. Kemudian menyusulku ke ruang tunggu ICU sesaat sepulang kalian kerja.

Terimakasih, Memet, Nana, Nora, Pujeh, Melinda, Yuyun

Yang dengan hebatnya begitu mendengar kabar kepergian mama, mereka datang pagi sekali ditengah derasnya hujan memelukku dirumah saat aku menjemput pakaian terakhir yang akan dikenakan mama. Mengantarku kembali ke rumah sakit, menemaniku di kamar jenazah, bahkan mengiringi mama kerumah duka.

Terimakasih, Vinca, Melissa

Yang turut menunggu dan menemaniku dikamar jenazah, mengantarku pulang untuk berganti pakaian.

Terimakasih, Golda, Ichi

Walau sudah tengah malam, terimakasih sudah tetap datang ke rumah sakit, disaat aku menunggu diruang tunggu ICU.

Terimakasih Gol, udah selalu ada disisiku. Bahkan tanpa takut dan sungkan menemaniku tidur disebelah tubuh kakunya mamaku hanya untuk menenangkanku.

Terimakasih, Azira, Cristianto, teman-teman kantor serta semua teman baik lainnya yang tak bisa disebutkan satu persatu yang turut menyemangati, menemani, bahkan mengantarkan mamaku ketempat peristirahatan terakhirnya.

Terimakasih, Keluargaku.

Pelukan kalian sangat bermakna.

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