![]() ![]() ![]() She believes that her grandfather, who was living in Baltimore more than eighty years ago, had a fabulous collection of Burton material, including a handwritten journal allegedly detailing Burton's undercover trip deep into the troubled American South in 1860. The Boston auction house was a distinguished and trustworthy firm, but provenance is sometimes murky and Josephine says the book is rightfully hers. The book is a true classic, telling of Burton's journey (disguised as a Muslim) to the forbidden holy cities of Mecca and Medina. The quest begins when an old woman, Josephine Gallant, learns that Janeway has recently bought at auction a signed first edition by the legendary nineteenth-century explorer Richard Francis Burton. Now John Dunning fans, old and new, will rejoice in The Bookman's Promise, a richly nuanced new Janeway novel that juxtaposes past and present as Denver ex-cop and bookman Cliff Janeway searches for a book and a killer. First, it was Booked to Die, then The Bookman's Wake. ![]() Cliff Janeway is back The Bookman's Promise marks the eagerly awaited return of Denver bookman-author John Dunning and the award-winning crime novel series that helped to turn the nation on to first-edition book collecting. ![]()
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![]() At first Lilia and her father concocted the stories carefully together and practiced them on the way into town. ![]() In every town her name was different there were often, especially in the beginning, several names and stories in the course of any given month. Her father gave her so many names over the course of the next several years, that the list spans pages.Ī list of names, eventually expanding to ten or twelve pages: Lilia, Gabriel, Anna, Michelle. Lilia soon learned to read a map, how to hide from people, how to lie to curious passersby about who she was and why she wasn't at school. For a long time, Lilia and her father were on the road. Lilia has been traveling for years, ever since her father abducted her from her home, when she was seven. ![]() Last Night in Montreal is a story that masterfully interweaves several complex elements. ![]() ![]() ![]() "I'm Maya Angelou - whatever that means to whomever it means - because my mother loved me, and my grandmother loved me, and my brother loved me," she says. When Angelou was young, Baxter sent Angelou and her brother away to be raised by their grandmother years later, she called them back to live with her again, the start of a sometimes fractious but eventually loving relationship.Īngelou says her familial relationships, particularly with her mother, have been crucial in defining her life. ![]() Her latest book, Mom & Me & Mom, explores her relationship with her mother, Vivian Baxter. Maya Angelou has lived a life so expansive and extraordinary that, even after seven autobiographies, she still has more stories to tell. Although it took years, Angelou and her mother eventually developed a close and loving relationship. Maya Angelou and her mother, Vivian Baxter. ![]() ![]() The series writer, creator, showrunner and executive producer is Craig Silverstein ( TURN: Washington’s Spies, Nikita, Terra Nova ), and animation is by Titmouse ( Motorcity, Big Mouth, Mike Judge’s Beavis and Butt-Head ). David is the first of a new kind of being – an “Uploaded Intelligence” or “UI” – but he will not be the last, as a global conspiracy unfolds that threatens to trigger a new kind of world war. Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. A sci-fi drama based on a collection of short stories by award-winning author Ken Liu, this thrilling speculative is centered on a bullied teen (Katie Chang) who receives mysterious help from someone online: a stranger soon revealed to be her recently deceased father, David (Daniel Dae Kim), whose consciousness has been uploaded to the Cloud following an experimental destructive brain scan. Speaking Bones is written by Ken Liu and published by Gallery/Saga Press. ![]() Here’s the full announcement from AMC:ĪMC Networks’ first traditionally animated series, Pantheon, premieres Thursday, September 1 with weekly episodes on AMC+. ![]() ![]() The “Singularity” stories in The Hidden Girl and Other Stories became the basis for a brand new TV show from AMC, created by Craig Silberstein. ![]() ![]() And the synopsis made me even more excited to read it. (Cover and synopsis from Goodreads)įrom the moment I saw that fantastic cover, I knew that I would enjoy Dualed. When the story ends, discussions will begin about this future society where every adult is a murderer and every child knows there is another out there who just might be better. ![]() though both have the power to destroy her.Įlsie Chapman’s suspenseful YA debut weaves unexpected romance into a novel full of fast-paced action and thought-provoking philosophy. ![]() If she is to have any chance of winning, she must stop running not only from her Alt, but also from love. Stricken with grief and guilt, she’s no longer certain that she’s the best version of herself, the version worthy of a future. But then a tragic misstep shakes West’s confidence. ![]() ![]() Survival means advanced schooling, a good job, marriage-life.įifteen-year-old West Grayer has trained as a fighter, preparing for the day when her assignment arrives and she will have one month to hunt down and kill her Alt. Everyone has a genetic Alternate-a twin raised by another family-and citizens must prove their worth by eliminating their Alts before their twentieth birthday. The city of Kersh is a safe haven, but the price of safety is high. ![]() ![]() ![]() With everything around them falling apart, Margot and Haruko find solace in their growing, secret friendship. And Margot is doing everything she can to keep her family whole as her mother’s health deteriorates and her rational, patriotic father becomes a man who distrusts America and fraternizes with Nazis. Haruko finds herself consumed by fear for her soldier brother and distrust of her father, who she knows is keeping something from her. ![]() The teens discover that they are polar opposites in so many ways, except for one that seems to override all the others: the camp is changing them, day by day, and piece by piece. Haruko and Margot meet at the high school in Crystal City, a “family internment camp” for those accused of colluding with the enemy. The war seemed far away from Margot in Iowa and Haruko in Colorado–until they were uprooted to dusty Texas, all because of the places their parents once called home: Germany and Japan. It’s 1944, and World War II is raging across Europe and the Pacific. ![]() Int Lvl: YA Rdg Lvl: YA.Ī novel of conviction, friendship, and betrayal. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 336 p. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I read The Riddle-Master of Hed as part of the Riddle-Master: The Complete Trilogy omnibus, which is its most common form these days and which the publication information is for. To see this and many other great reviews by Russ Allbery, please visit This is the first book of a closely-connected trilogy if you plan to read it, you may want to have the next book on hand. This review of Patricia McKillip's The Riddle-Master of Hed is by Russ Allbery and has been reproduced thanks to his kind permission. And with him always was the greatest of unsolved riddles - the nature of the three stars on his forehead that seemed to drive him toward his ultimate destiny. Ahead lay strange encounters and terrifying adventures. Beside him went Deth, the High One's Harper. So Morgon was forced to flee to hostile kingdoms, seeking the High One who ruled from mysterious Erlenstar Mountain. ![]() Shape changers began replacing friends until no man could be trusted. But now ancient, evil forces were threatening him. Morgon, prince of the simple farmers of Hed, proved himself a master of such riddles when he staked his life to win a crown from the dead Lord of Aum. Long ago, the wizards had vanished from the world, and all knowledge was left hidden in riddles. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And the collision of the Avengers and the Illuminati is imminent! But as teammate faces teammate- the Time Gem takes the Avengers on a peril-filled journey into days to come - ultimately sending Captain America fifty thousand years into the future to witness a true Avengers world! Meanwhile- as the Incursion crisis worsens- the Illuminati struggle with the weight of the burden they have shouldered. brings a corrupt version of the Avengers into the Marvel Universe. ![]() Jonathan Hickman's epic Avengers run builds to the end of all things! A runaway planet is on a collision course with Earth. (W) Hickman, Jonathan (A) Opena, Jerome (C) Weaver, Dustin AVENGERS BY JONATHAN HICKMAN OMNIBUS HC VOL 02 ROSS DM VAR ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Malinda Lo has a great piece on the struggles of F/F versus M/M as a reader and a writer, with the most recent statistics about representation of queer women specifically in YA fiction. ![]() Queer women are still in a bit of a deficit compared to men, and it’s only recently that nonbinary and gender-nonconforming people are front and center in the young adult world. In recent years, there has been a lot of movement for queer YA narratives in publishing. Before young adult was even a viable publishing category, the history of queer literature was under attack from people determined to erase the existence of queer narratives. Hinton would have a problem with that interpretation. Although I can read the tenderness of the boys in The Outsiders through a queer lens, S.E. Though there are many novels with characters historically interpreted as queer, panic and pearl-clutching about introducing children to gay thoughts has meant we’ve had a slow start to building a queer YA classics canon. Classic queer young adult novels are something of a more recent phenomenon. ![]() ![]() ![]() Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the book, Rose the Hat is part of a polyamorous romance with both Crow Daddy and Snakebite Andi.Actor Allusion: Ewan McGregor plays someone with powerful telepathic abilities who acts as a mentor to someone far younger with similar and also very powerful abilities and continues in that role even after dying. ![]()
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