![]() ![]() ![]() But she reluctantly extends her stay when she learns that, before her death, her estranged aunt had promised an up-and-coming producer he could record a tribute album to her late uncle at the property's studio. ![]() Twenty years later, Jackie unexpectedly inherits The Sandcastle and returns to the iconic estate for a short visit to ready it for sale. until the summer abruptly ended in tragedy, and Willa silently slipped away into the night. As musicians, artists, and free spirits gathered at The Sandcastle for the season in pursuit of inspiration and communal living, Jackie and her cousin Willa fell into a fast friendship, testing their limits along the rocky beach and in the wild woods. THE DAZZLING SPIRIT OF 1970S CALIFORNIA.įor Jackie Pierce, everything changed the summer of 1979, when she spent three months of infinite freedom at her bohemian uncle's sprawling estate on the California coast. "With lyrical writing and a page-turning plot, this sun-dappled book has it all: heart, smarts, and an irresistible musical beat." -Karen Dukess, author of The Last Book Party "A delicious daydream of a book." -Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author of 28 Summers ![]()
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![]() Often progress only becomes detectable when it inspires a desperate backlash”. As Tess observes, “change is never linear and obvious. But rewriting the timeline isn’t as simple as it may seem. In 2022, Tess is a geologist who is one of a team of time-traveling scholars, and she hops to key moments in history to change the timeline and create a better future. The event sets the young women on a path of escalating violence and vengeance as they realize how many other young women in the world need protecting as well. In 1992, after a confrontation at a riot grrrl concert, 17-year-old Beth finds herself in a car with her friend's abusive boyfriend dead in the back seat, and agrees to help her friends hide the body. The feminist time-travel adventure follows Tess, a professional time traveler, geoscientist, and secretly a member of the Daughters of Harriet (Tubman), who are working to make the future better for women. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Future of Another Timeline is a 2019 science-fiction novel by Annalee Newitz. ![]() ![]() ![]() During one of his leaves, in 1966, Meyer married his college sweetheart Annetje Lawrence.įollowing the end of his military commitment in 1968, Meyer and his wife lived in New York City for a year where he took graduate art courses at Columbia University. ![]() in English literature from the University of Florida in Gainesville and soon after, enlisted in the U.S. In a biographical essay he noted that he attended 12 schools before graduating high school in Fort Myers, Fla. Meyer was born in Johnstown, Pa., in 1942 and spent much of his childhood moving around with his family due to his father’s position as an officer in the U.S. (Louis) Meyer, creator of the swashbuckling Bloody Jack adventure series starring intrepid Mary “Jacky” Faber, died on July 29 in Ellsworth, Maine, of complications from Hodgkin’s lymphoma. ![]() ![]() But then she meets Ocean - one of the popular boys in school - who is drawn to her and keeps hoping for more. She keeps to herself and channels her frustrations into something she's passionate about: breakdancing. But starting with a clean slate in every town doesn't wipe away the danger that follows her as a teen wearing a hijab in 2002, a year after the 9/11 attacks. Shirin and her family have moved around many times over the course of their lives. ![]() It's a cerebral, impassioned, and zeitgeisty bildungsroman that follows two young people ahead of their time but trapped by a society that strips them of any real power. Given what's going on most days in the headlines, Tahereh Mafi's new novel A Very Large Expanse of Sea - longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature - feels resonant in its somber portrayal of Shirin, a 16-year-old Muslim girl making her way in post 9/11 America. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title A Very Large Expanse of Sea Author Tahereh Mafi ![]() ![]() Since time immemorial, humans have worshipped the gods they call Fhrey, truly a race apart: invincible in battle, masters of magic, and seemingly immortal. ![]() ![]() THE LEGENDS OF THE FIRST EMPIRE: The foundations of Elan are laid by an unlikely band of misfits. If you had told me that I'd be a New York Times Bestselling author, have 85+ novels translated into 13 languages, and sold more than 2 million copies, I never would have believed you!īut now that we have that out of the way, let me tell you a bit about my books, which can be broken down into two main series. I returned to writing in 2004, and published my first novel with a small press in 2008. Serious writing started in my twenties, but after more than a decade trying to publish (and getting nowhere), I quit altogether. I first opened the door to my imagination with typewriter keys while playing hide and seek and finding a black behemoth when I just ten years old. I'm a New York Times, USA Today, and Washington Post bestselling author with 9 Goodreads Choice Award Nominations. Thanks for visiting my page! Here are other sites where you can contact me. In other news, Farilane, hit #1 on Amazon's Bestselling Epic Fantasy list! The ebook and audiobook are already released, and the hardcover will release on May 16th. Will pass it by Gamma readers for one last quality check then it's off to the printers! ![]() ![]() Just finished the recording of the audiobook, and the layout. Esrahaddon, the last book in the Rise and Fall trilogy, is almost done. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Readers will be plenty worried about Laz’s future….cheer for Laz’s next longshot chance. "Acclaimed sportswriter Deuker deftly weaves baseball action into a solid coming-of-age tale, as Laz navigates the class divide when the well-off Thurmans take him in when he switches schools." - School Library Journal An entertaining visit to the ballpark." - Kirkus Reviews Golden Arm Audible Audiobook Unabridged Carl Deuker (Author), Nick Walther (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher) 4.6 out of 5 stars 74 ratings Editors pick Best Young Adult Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 14.49 40 Used from 3.01 29 New from 9. "Deuker weaves an interesting plot dealing with socio-economic inequality and drug use into a cast of varied characters. Even readers who don’t like baseball will be riveted to this human-interest, underdog story." - Booklist (starred review) ★ "With short, fast-paced chapters, Deuker’s realistic novel pits poverty, friendship, teamwork, self-reliance, and supportive adults against wealth, privilege, overambition, and overbearing helicopter parents. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “From the beginning, the format of this book shows its uniqueness with the codex form used by Mixteco. “With its explicit political messages, this book is unique in the picture book canon.” "…a gorgeous, timely, and necessary offering about the daily plight of undocumented workers in the United States.” ![]() Undocumented is the story of immigrant workers who have come to the United States without papers. citizens often display toward undocumented immigrants." UNDOCUMENTED: A WORKERS FIGHT, TONATIUH, DUNCAN, S/.80,00. “ Undocumented. is an all-too-real discussion about fair pay and the hostility U.S. “By focusing on the narrative of one immigrant worker, Tonatiuh breaks the mammoth issues of immigration and workers rights into an easy-to-swallow bite, allowing the reader to easily engage with an often intimidating topic. “Remarkable…The artwork is deliberately evocative of Mesoamerican logography, with figures and perspectives that feel at once bizarre and totally familiar.” A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the autobiography mentor text book Undocumented: A Workers Fight by Duncan Tonatiuh. STARRED REVIEW: “Multiple Pura Belpré Medal and Honor- awarded Tonatiuh (Diego Rivera, 2011) channels his interest in the Mixtec codex format to create a superb modern odyssey, stupendously illustrated in his signature contemporary adaptation of Pre-Columbian art forms, presented on accordion pages in a handsome slip-box.” ![]() ![]() Wearing his adventurer-iconic fedora, journaling in his field notebook, and wielding his elastic stretchy hand, Graysen is ready for action. His nemesis, Raven Ransom-a fifth-grade girl nicknamed “The Red Raven”-plans to stop him and claim the prizes for herself, just like she did with the game-winning home run kickball everyone thought was lost on the roof of the school. Graysen is determined to find the treasure and share it with his fellow students. Fifth-grader Graysen Foxx, aka The Gray Fox-finder of secrets, solver of mysteries, and explorer of the unknown-is hot on the trail of the legendary treasure of long-since-retired Principal Redbeard, which includes a decades’ worth of confiscated gadgets, rare comic books, first-edition Pokemon trading cards, an original Rubik’s Cube, and a retro football handheld video game. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Below the classrooms are winding, abandoned, underground passages filled with lost treasures. Ordinary Elementary is anything but ordinary. ![]() ![]() String Follow, Simon Jacobs (Feb 1): A darkly comic suburban Gothic about a malevolent force that targets a group of Ohio misfits, harnessing their angst for its sinister designs.Ramses the Damned: The Reign of Osiris, Anne Rice & Christopher Rice (Feb 1): The gilded adventures of Ramses the Damned, iconic creation of the legendary bestselling author, continue in this breathtakingly suspenseful tale of a titanic supernatural power unleashed on the eve of war.(Missed last year’s list? Right this way!) Barnes’ space horror epic, Echo, Thomas Olde Heuvelt’s tale of a mountaineering trip gone very wrong, and Gretchen Felker-Martin’s blistering post-apocalypse novel tracking the fight for survival of a group of trans women and men after a gender-based plague brings the world to its knees.Īlso, a note: we’re regularly updating release dates and newly announced books both here and on our 2022 horror releases master post. Nightfire has three–count ’em, three–new books out in February: Dead Silence, S.A. ![]() ![]() What a feast of new fiction we have this month! New books in February from Sara Gran, Richard Chizmar & Stephen King, Marlon James, Delilah Dawson, the late Anne Rice, and more–and of course, the Nightfire publishing machine is back at it this month! ![]() ![]() The novel closes with the King Stag’s death and Morgaine’s long-anticipated return to Avalon. Enraged at this betrayal, Morgaine calls upon the Lady’s magic, which results in the mysterious "disappearance" of the holy chalice, prompting the companions of the Round Table to embark on a 12-month quest to find it.Įvents spiral out of control when Lancelet returns, resumes his adulterous relationship with Gwenhwyfar, and is finally exposed. When she finally returns to Camelot, it is to retrieve Avalon’s Holy Regalia, now being used in a Christian mass. Grieving and still without Excalibur, Morgaine makes a hasty retreat to Avalon. ![]() When he refuses, Morgaine arranges a confrontation between her lover, Accolon, and Arthur in the kingdom of Fairy, resulting in Accolon’s death. Returning to Camelot during the Feast of Pentecost, Morgaine accuses Arthur of compromising the crown, and demands that he return Excalibur to her. It was produced by American cable channel TNT and directed by Uli Edel. Filmed on location in Prague, THE MISTS OF AVALON follows the women of. The Mists of Avalon is a 2001 miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Marion Zimmer Bradley. ![]() Book Four finds Morgaine moving closer to the fate that will set her intractably against Arthur-her lover, brother, and now, enemy. In this unique re-working of the Arthurian epic, THE MISTS OF AVALON tells the familiar tale but with an important twist: The story is told through the eyes of the women who wielded power behind King Arthur's throne. ![]() |