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![]() ![]() in cart add to cart add to wishlist GET THE AUDIO. Her brothers grow up feasting on stories of valor and adventure, and Devon-like all other book eater women-is raised on a carefully curated diet of fairy tales and cautionary stories. But time is running out – for her family want her back, and with every soul her son consumes he loses a little more of himself… This is a story of escape, a savage mother’s devotion and a queer love that will electrify readers looking for something beguiling, thrilling, strange and new. Devon is part of The Family, an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. Living among humans and finding prey for her son, Devon seeks a cure for his hunger. Children are rare and their numbers have dwindled, so when Devon Fairweather’s second child is born a dreaded Mind Eater – a perversion of her own kind, who consumes not stories but the minds and souls of humans – she flees before he can be turned into a weapon for the family… or worse. The last of their lines, they exist on the fringes of society and subsist on a diet of stories and legends. Hidden across England and Scotland live six old Book Eater families. ![]() ![]() A gorgeous fantasy horror – a book about stories and fairytales with family and love at its dark heart… Perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman (Stardust, Coraline), Susanna Clarke (Piranesi) and Let the Right One In. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the original “Star Trek,” Kirk, Spock, Bones and Scotty were very dangerous men to stand next to if you were wearing the ensign’s red shirt. Scalzi’s, called it “a deeply sneaky book - in the best way.”Ī comic riff on the lives of the expendable and luckless, “Redshirts” plays off a phenomenon that science-fiction fans have long recognized. Cory Doctorow, an author of science fiction and a friend of Mr. Which is to say that this is a John Scalzi novel, and a reader must expect the unexpected, including a surprising emotional punch as the story unfolds, reconfigures and steps outside itself. ![]() ![]() That kind of thing.Īnyone who grew up on “Star Trek” or its descendants can figure out what’s going on in “Redshirts.” That is, until things get even funkier. New crew members come to realize that on the frequent “away missions,” some lowly ensign always seems to die a horrible and oddly hackneyed death. Something is terribly funky about the starship Intrepid. ![]() ![]() ![]() She had a lifetime appointment as Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University of North Carolina. Angelou's collection of short stories and poems, some light and some more serious, weaves a delicate tale of her. She wrote three collections of essays many volumes of poetry, including His Day is Done, a tribute to Nelson Mandela and two cookbooks. This creative take on an autobiography consists of short essays and poems depicting the life adventures of Maya Angelou. Letter To My Daughter, by Maya Angelou, does all of this, and more. ![]() This was followed by six volumes of autobiography, the seventh and final volume, Mom & Me & Mom, published in 2013. She first thrilled the world with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969). Told in her own inimitable style, this book transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight. She wrote and performed a poem, 'On the Pulse of Morning', for President Clinton on his inauguration she was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama and was honoured by more than seventy universities throughout the world. Born 4 April 1928, she lived and chronicled an extraordinary life: rising from poverty, violence and racism, she became a renowned author, poet, playwright, civil rights' activist - working with Malcolm X and Martin Luther King - and memoirist. Dr Maya Angelou was one of the world's most important writers and activists. ![]() ![]() The rain had not stopped, but it was finally slackening. Most sections of Derry had lost their power then, and it was not back on yet.Ī small boy in a yellow slicker and red galoshes ran cheerfully along beside the newspaper boat. There had been steady rain for a week now, and two days ago the winds had come as well. ![]() The three vertical lenses on all sides of the traffic light were dark this afternoon in the fall of 1957, and the houses were all dark, too. The boat bobbed, listed, righted itself again, dived bravely through treacherous whirlpools, and continued on its way down Witcham Street toward the traffic light which marked the intersection of Witcham and Jackson. ![]() ![]() The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years-if it ever did end-began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain. ![]() ![]() ![]() Their youngest, David, is already intent on escaping his family's orbit, for reasons none of them understand. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in common. ![]() Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband, Robin. They hardly ever leave home, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. “A quietly subversive novel, tackling fundamental assumptions about womanhood, motherhood and female aging.” - The New York Times Book Review From the beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Spool of Blue Thread-a funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey deep into one Baltimore family’s foibles, from a boyfriend with a red Chevy in the 1950s up to a longed-for reunion with a grandchild. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story navigates between Ganin’s reality in the pension and his past in Russia, with Mary, his first real love. Nabokov uses beautiful metaphors and employs a rather filmic writing style. The other, eccentric guests are Russian émigrés, just like Ganin. Together they muse about their native country and talk about their personal problems. The novel has got a slow pace (the story is already half way through when he starts telling us about Mary) and is very detailed. Mary (1926) is the début of Vladimir Nabokov, whom we all know from his famous novel Lolita. This is quite a short story (only 136 pages) and narrates about Ganin, a Russian émigré living in a small and dirty pension in Berlin. ![]() ![]() Truth be told, with Terry and Eric Fan’s The Night Gardener I have actually (and pretty rarely for me at that) both enjoyed the accompanying illustrations considerably more than the presented narrative and in fact have also found the Fan brothers printed words not really even remotely on par with their glowing and delightfully evocative illustrations. I’ll be on the lookout for more from the Fan Brothers. Hope and dreams and imagination live in this book.Ī beautiful tale to read again and again. We have to remember to look for the magic. Balloons, animals, smiles and more! Life can be hard and monotonous at times. Extraordinary pages alive with color and detail! You will see something new each and every time you look. We wake up! Signs of joy start to appear in color on the pages. ![]() ![]() Come see! Take a walk down the lane!Īs the big, muted brown and grey pages begin to fill in with color, readers begin to really see every line and detail. The magic of the gardener’s work brings the people together to dream and guess and experience. Magic is out there for all to see, feel, find, and change us!Ī secret night gardener slowly transforms Grimloch Lane into a circus of wonder one tree and shrub at a time. ![]() Long after the “ooohs” and “aaahh”s fade away-the hope and energy of a creation or magical moment remain. The Night Gardener is about the impression and long lasting effects magic and art can make on a soul and a community. ![]() ![]() ![]() That book, which follows the sexual and emotional lives of women, became the kind of cultural phenomenon that will forever follow Lisa Taddeo. It’s impossible to talk about Animal without talking about 2019’s Three Women. Jennifer Haigh, The New York Times Book Review She has a gift for aphorism, the observation that astonishes.” ![]() Joan’s voice is so sharp and magnetic that the reader will follow her anywhere. “ propulsive, fiercely confident debut novel. “Like if Joan Didion got into hard drugs and carried a switchblade everywhere.” The result is as intimate as it is explosive.” “With skill and insight, Taddeo examines how the savagery of men fuels female rage. This book is a raging, funny and fierce thriller with a protagonist whose life force, against extraordinary odds-always in the gaze and sometimes the grasp of predatory, abusive men-is a thing of wonder.” “ Animal will confirm Taddeo’s status as a pre-eminent channeller of women’s interior lives. “A provocative exploration of what happens when women are pushed beyond the brink, and what comes after the reckoning.” ![]() ![]() ![]() Tenar comforts her and convinces her to learn Hardic.Īlder is finally ready to meet the king and they try to figure out the meaning of his dreams. Soon finding out that the princess believes that if she says her name to him, he will steal her soul like a Sorcerer would. She also wanted to talk with the princess, who even did not reveal her name to the king. ![]() Meanwhile, Tenar begins to wonder if she'll ever be with her husband with Tehanu clinging onto her for support. ![]() He has called Tehanu and Tenar, and asked for Ged, but Ged stayed on Gont. Ged then sent Alder to Havnor to have them figure out what might be happening with the Living and the Dead and why certain things are happening.Īlder arrives during a very troubling time for the new King Lebannen of Havnor, Ruler of the Archipalego, as he is dealing with dragons in the west taking back the land they owned once before, and the Kargs in the east, when a marriage proposal set forth by High King Thol for his daughter, Seserakh, to marry Lebannen as his people demand to have heirs to the kingdom, knowing that if he refused her, she would be killed. Ged tries to comfort him and in the end, gave Alder a cat pet. Alder, a troubled sorcerer who dreams of the Wall in the Dry Land and his love reaching out for him, seeks out Ged on Gont and tells him of his troubling dreams. The Other Wind is the sixth book and fifth novel in the Earthsea series. ![]() |