![]() ![]() Christy Ottaviano BooksĪn O Magazine 42 LGBTQ Books That Will Change the Literary Landscape This Spring SelectionĪ Cosmo LGBTQ+ Books in 2021 to Add to Your Reading List SelectionĪ PopSugar Best March 2021 YA Book Selection Inspired by The Picture of Dorian Gray, this sexy psychological thriller explores the intersections of love, art, danger, and power. ![]() Falling so hard, they never imagine what comes next. The days are long and hot-full of adventure-and soon they are falling in love. ![]() Delicate, lonely, magnetic Mick: the perfect subject, and Veronica's dream girl. They're artists first, best friends second. Nico is insatiable, subversive, and obsessed with chaotic performance art. Veronica is bored, caustically charismatic, and uninspired in her photography. About the Book When seventeen-year-old Veronica's photograph of her introverted girlfriend goes viral, they are sent into a spiral of fame and lethal danger as they navigate the turbulent waters of their relationship, secrets, acclaim, and the underground San Diego art scene.Īn electric romance set against a rebel art scene sparks lethal danger for two girls in She's Too Pretty to Burn, an expertly plotted YA thriller by Wendy Heard. ![]()
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![]() On the one hand, he really experienced a lot things, he saw so many different places and met numerous interesting people. ![]() In few moments the reader finds himself in the darkness, in front of the story-teller Marlow.īeing a seaman makes Marlow reliable and unreliable at the same time. ![]() This unknown narrator reveals the enigmatic atmosphere of that night, which makes the reader the hostage of the predominating mood of mystery. Using the first person singular Conrad makes us a part of the group of listeners. But the first anonymous narrator makes us feel as if we were on a board as well. Marlow can be called the main narrator for he tells the story, the story of his adventures in Congo, “one of the dark places of the earth” (Conrad 7). ![]() The novel opens up with the description of the people on a boat, among which we find the second narrator Marlow. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The New York Times, Newsweek and other media outlets exposed Paperclip as early as December 1946. The journalist Annie Jacobsen’s “Operation Paperclip” is not the first unveiling of the program. Thus it was O.K., American government officials reasoned, to ignore these scientists’ roles in developing biological and chemical weapons, in designing the V-2 rockets that shattered London and Antwerp and in the countless deaths of concentration camp inmates who fell victim to medical experiments at Dachau and Ravensbrück. More than 1,600 Germans were secretly recruited to develop armaments “at a feverish and paranoid pace that came to define the Cold War.”Īlthough some of these men had been Nazi Party members, SS officers and war criminals, they were valued as vital to American national security. In 1945, Operation Overcast (renamed Operation Paperclip for the paper clips attached to the dossiers of the most “troublesome cases”) began. ![]() In a classified memorandum titled “Exploitation of German Scientists in Science and Technology in the United States,” the Joint Chiefs of Staff described these men as “chosen, rare minds whose continuing intellectual productivity we wish to use.” Such intellectual spoils were not to fall into Soviet hands. ![]() Among the trophies of the Second World War captured by Allied intelligence agents were Nazi scientists and their research on biological and chemical weapons. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Jules Verne’s delightful tale of two globetrotting gentlemen first appeared in 1873, it won the hearts - and imaginations - of readers across Europe. Pursued all the way by the bumbling Detective Fix, who believes the two travelers are bank robbers on the run, Fogg and Passepartout must use every means of transportation known to 19th-century man - including a hot-air balloon, a locomotive, and an elephant - to win the bet. ![]() With his devoted servant Passepartout at his side, Fogg sets off on an adventurous journey filled with amazing encounters and wild mishaps. When an eccentric Englishman named Phileas Fogg makes a daring wager that he can circle the globe in just 80 days, it’s the beginning of a breathlessly-paced world tour. Filled with fantasy, comedy and grand suspense, Around the World in 80 Days is classic entertainment that is sure to enchant listeners of all ages. ![]() ![]() Once she has adjusted to Jdahya’s company (and his largely passive tutelage), she must learn to communicate with the less-patient, intermediate-gender Kahguyaht (one of Jdahya’s two spouses), then with the family’s adolescent child, Nikanj. (It’s difficult, when reading the book, not to envisage the Oankali as looking like the Ood from Doctor Who.) Starved of human contact, and still grieving for a husband and son who were killed before the war which all-but-obliterated humanity, Lilith must conquer a deep-seated revulsion for Jdahya, the Oankali adult male who has been tasked with helping her acclimate to her circumstances. Her captors / guardians / mentors are the Oankali, a three-gendered race of grotesquely tentacled humanoids. Lilith is one of the few human survivors of a nuclear war which has devastated the Earth. She wrote several well-regarded series of novels Dawn (published in 1987) is the first novel in what is variously called her ‘Xenogenesis’ or ‘Lilith’s Brood’ trilogy.ĭawn starts with the reawakening of Lilith Iyapo aboard an alien spacecraft in orbit beyond Earth’s Moon. Her fiction has won Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards, and she was the first SF writer to be awarded a MacArthur Foundation ‘Genius’ Grant for her writing. Butler was an African-American SF writer who died in 2006, aged 58. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the haunting world of Shirley Jackson, nothing is as it seems and nowhere is safe, from the city streets to the crumbling country pile, and from the small-town apartment to the dark, dark woods. This collection of classic and newly reprinted stories provides readers with more of her unsettling, dark tales, including the "The Possibility of Evil" and "The Summer People." In these deliciously dark stories, the daily commute turns into a nightmarish game of hide and seek, the loving wife hides homicidal thoughts and the concerned citizen might just be an infamous serial killer. ![]() ![]() Item #56808 ISBN: 9780143132004 "After the publication of her short story "The Lottery" in the New Yorker in 1948 received an unprecedented amount of attention, Shirley Jackson was quickly established as a master horror storyteller. ![]() ![]() ![]() Even if it means going after Jake and his family. ![]() ![]() So when his new friends decide it's time to fight back, Declan is right there with them. And the more time Declan spends with Finn, the more he sees what they're saying as true. How white kids like them are being denied opportunities because others are manipulating the system. As the two spend more time together, Finn also introduces Declan to others who understand what it's like when the world is working against you, no matter how much you try. Finn is the first person who might be just as angry as Declan. ![]() It's there he realizes he's been playing with Finn, a kid from his class. So Declan ends up playing a lot of Imperialist Empires online and making new friends. On top of that, it seems like his best friend, Jake Lehrer, is flirting with Declan's crush and always ditching him to hang out with the team or his friends from synagogue. And instead of spending the summer with his friends, Declan is forced to get a job to help his family out. Despite painful surgery and brutal physical therapy, he might never pitch again. After winning state as a freshman starting pitcher, he accidentally messes up his throwing arm. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Valancourt Books just reissued In a Lonely Place (1983), a classic collection of horror stories. We get everything from Karl’s precocious early days in the classroom as the youngest of four children in Wagner household, to his days as a medical student, breaking into writing, hanging out with the likes of Manly Wade Wellman, founding Carcosa Press, and tearing up the scene as a charismatic figure at fantasy and horror conventions. Joshi, and Ramsey Campbell, among others. The film covers the details of Wagner’s life, from his birth in 1945 to his untimely death in 1994, as told through a series of wide-ranging interviews with Wagner’s siblings, his ex-wife, childhood friends including John Mayer, and several horror and fantasy luminaries including the likes of Peter Straub, Dennis Etchison, Stephen Jones, David Drake, S.T. ![]() I for welcome our immortal hero-villain overlord, and in the meantime encourage anyone who has not read the Kane stories to seek out the collection Night Winds.Ģ020 saw the release of The Last Wolf, a wonderful documentary about Wagner’s life. As of this writing there are rumors-and more than rumor-of a Karl Edward Wagner revival, including his sword-and-sorcery/dark fantasy stories of Kane. ![]() ![]() ![]() Magyk is the original story of lost and rediscovered identities, rich with humor and heart. The first book in this enthralling series by Angie Sage leads readers on a fantastic journey filled with quirky characters and Magykal charms, potions, and spells. Who is this mysterious baby girl, and what really happened to the Heaps' beloved son Septimus? That same night, the baby's father, Silas Heap, comes across an abandoned child in the snow-a newborn girl with violet eyes. Septimus Heap, the seventh son of the seventh son, disappears the night he is born, pronounced dead by the midwife. ![]() ![]() “Fluent, charismatic storytelling.” -ALA Booklist Magyk (an archaic spelling of 'Magic') is a fantasy novel written by English author Angie Sage.It is the first book in the seven-book Septimus Heap series. “Fun, mystery, and rollicking characters.” - VOYA (starred review) “A deliciously spellbinding series opener.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) The first book in the internationally bestselling Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage, featuring the funny and fantastic adventures of a wizard apprentice and his quest to become an ExtraOrdinary Wizard. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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