![]() ![]() When the ship returning them to Earth is attacked by a battle cruiser from rival House Rockhurst, Ada realizes that if her jilted fiancé captures her, she’ll become a political prisoner and a liability to her House. Known as the Devil of Fornax Zero, Loch is rumored to have killed his entire chain of command during the Fornax Rebellion, and the Consortium wants his head. To ensure she cannot escape again, the fiery princess is thrown into a prison cell with Marcus Loch. The spirited princess flees before the betrothal ceremony and disappears among the stars.Īda eluded her father’s forces for two years, but now her luck has run out. When her father arranges for her to wed a noble from House Rockhurst, a man she neither wants nor loves, Ada seizes control of her own destiny. ![]() As the fifth of six children, Ada von Hasenberg has no authority her only value to her High House is as a pawn in a political marriage. In the far distant future, the universe is officially ruled by the Royal Consortium, but the High Councillors, the heads of the three High Houses, wield the true power. A space princess on the run and a notorious outlaw soldier become unlikely allies in this imaginative, sexy space opera adventure-the first in an exciting science fiction trilogy. ![]()
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![]() The author picks a larger-than-life hero: the legendary 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. After striking gold with his gimmicky mash-up between Jane Austen and grindhouse horror, Grahame-Smith takes a stab at creating an original plot with this new historical aberration. ![]() The latest literary experiment from the author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009). Holst aligns his pace with the mood of the text, slowing down at vital moments, e.g., when good vampire Henry Sturges informs a young Lincoln that he was born to "free men from the tyranny of vampires." This audiobook will serve as a nice contrast to the big-screen adaptation of the book, which, inevitably, substitutes explicit gore for the listener's imagination. This decision-and his fine performance-accomplishes more than over-the-top histrionics would in delving the listener into this remarkable alternate history, in which the blood-sucking undead play a part in the Civil War (on the side of the South, supernaturally) and the fatal events in Ford's Theater. And in this audio edition, narrator Scott Holst does just that, reading with measured delivery and a calm demeanor. ![]() ![]() Given the zany conceit of Grahame-Smith's latest novel-that a young Abraham Lincoln vowed to become a vampire slayer upon learning that his mother died after being tainted with vampire blood, and then made good on that promise-performing the story as if it were completely unremarkable is essential to the listener's suspension of disbelief. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This March, the organization is celebrating diverse books that explore “family, community, courage, and fashion.” In recent years, though, the NEA attempted to shift the focus away from Dr. Tuesday marks the annual Read Across America Day, an event started by the National Education Association in 1998 to promote reading-and purposefully aligned with Geisel’s birthday, March 2. Seuss in general, have been a centerpiece in American elementary classrooms for decades. Another, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, also portrays stereotypes of Asians, including an illustration of a man with a bowl of rice, a conical hat, and slanted eyes captioned, “a Chinese man who eats with sticks.” One of the books being pulled from publishing, If I Ran the Zoo, includes stereotyped caricatures of African people and references “helpers who all wear their eyes at a slant” in describing Asian people. Seuss in the classroom, including claims that images in The Cat in the Hat draw from minstrel shows, in 2017. Education Week wrote about the controversy surrounding reading Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “In my 33 years in the market, things do seem probably more positive now than they’ve seemed at any time in that whole period,” said Jeffrey Atherton, an investment manager at Man GLG, a subsidiary of hedge fund giant Man Group. ![]() The indexes have outpaced the United States’ S&P 500 and Europe’s Stoxx 600 benchmark indexes, which have both risen 8% in that time. (N225), which tracks Japan’s blue-chip companies, has leapt nearly 17%. So far this year, the benchmark Topix has jumped almost 14%, and the Nikkei 225 The country’s major stock indexes are trading at highs not seen since 1990, when its infamous asset bubble of the late 1980s was just deflating. Japan’s stock market has waited more than three decades for its moment in the sun. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She aimed for no less than the first serious science fiction novel of character. But because Brackett's ambition was huge, she chose for her setting a post-nuclear Ruined Earth. This is the theme of the Bildungsroman: loss of innocence, change, and the journey from safety into the unknown in pursuit of knowledge. Brackett sets up her major theme in the first sentence: knowledge is sin, and fourteen-year-old Len Colter is about to take the step that will lead to his loss of Eden. The opening of The Long Tomorrow reads like a King James Bible for the American myth: sure, rhythmic, and implacable. Twenty pages later, I couldn't understand why it wasn't universally acknowledged as a Great American SF Novel. Five pages in, I wondered why I'd never heard of it. I read The Long Tomorrow for the first time in 2005. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The author follows the trajectory of their lives from 1914 through WWI and then the Russian Revolution and its aftermath with page-tuning brio. Just as the author focused on three strong women surviving a war in her previous novel, she does the same here: in addition to Eliza, there is her aristocrat friend Sofya Streshnayva (cousin to the tsar) and a Russian peasant girl, Varinka. Here the story focuses on her mother, Eliza, who set an example for her daughter by being a champion for Russian nobility brutalized during WWI. How Caroline Ferriday, the real-life character featured in Kelly’s Lilac Girls, was inspired to become an advocate for Polish refugees who survived WWII comes to light in this lively, well-researched prequel in which she appears as a child. ![]() ![]() I know I say this all the time but Alex delivers, as always!!! If only the only way to placate the fae wasn't offering the girl who now hated Iris safe harbour in their realm. But when an attempt to trick Agnes into staying longer accidentally results in her becoming incapable of returning to Faerie, Iris almost causes a war between the two realms. When Iris's secret comes out and they realizes that their connecting to Agnes might be their ticket to finally being noticed in the human realm, they summon her at a party. Until Agnes suddenly decided she was bored with them a few years ago and stopped visiting. The faery they accidentally summoned at six then kept meeting with in secret. No, Iris's secret, like all the best things, is a magical girl. It's not that they're a lesbian (that cat's been out of the bag since they were seven), it's not even that they're a witch (it's become so mainstream now that their school even has clubs. Genre poll OFFICIALLY CLOSED! "Urban Fantasy" won. Writing Update (): y'all if I finish this last 10kish words in 6 hours I'll have officially wrote the whole thing in 48 hours. Writing Update (): GUESS WHO WROTE THE WHOLE THING IN 48 HOURS! NEW RECORDDD ![]() ![]() ![]() Writing Update (): I feel the need to make it expressly clear that this has a lot of angst? It's also super cheesy but the description definitely gets that part across i'm on my first read thru and forgot that it's also very angsty mwahahha ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Couney, for all his entrepreneurial gusto, is a surprisingly appealing character, someone who genuinely cared for the well-being of his tiny patients. How this turn-of-the-twentieth-century émigré became the savior to families with premature infants-known then as “weaklings”-as he ignored the scorn of the medical establishment and fought the rising popularity of eugenics is one of the most astounding stories of modern medicine. Couney used incubators and careful nursing to keep previously doomed infants alive, while displaying these babies alongside sword swallowers, bearded ladies, and burlesque shows at Coney Island, Atlantic City, and venues across the nation. ![]() Martin Couney's story is a kaleidoscopic ride through the intersection of ebullient entrepreneurship, enlightened pediatric care, and the wild culture of world's fairs at the beginning of the American Century.Īs Dawn Raffel recounts, Dr. ![]() What kind of doctor puts his patients on display? This is the spellbinding tale of a mysterious Coney Island doctor who revolutionized neonatal care more than one hundred years ago and saved some seven thousand babies. “A mosaic mystery told in vignettes, cliffhangers, curious asides, and some surreal plot twists as Raffel investigates the secrets of the man who changed infant care in America.”-NPR, 2018's Great Reads ![]() ![]() Ones that could expose her to unimaginable pleasure and unfathomable pain. ![]() He still tempts her with every breath, offering up all she's ever wanted. Working with Casteel instead of against him presents its own risks. But he's the only way for her to get what she wants-to find her brother Ian and see for herself if he has become a soulless Ascended. He needs her alive, healthy, and whole to achieve his goals. He may have taken her, but he will never have her.Ĭasteel Da'Neer is known by many names and many faces. He wants her to fight him, and that's one order she's more than happy to obey. But what she does know is that nothing is as dangerous to her as him. ![]() ![]() Thrust among those who see her as a symbol of a monstrous kingdom, she barely knows who she is without the veil of the Maiden. Armentrout comes a new novel in her Blood and Ash series.Įverything Poppy has ever believed in is a lie, including the man she was falling in love with. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. ![]() |