![]() He knows he is poor with few opportunities, but he's working hard to make the best of whatever chances he has by studying hard. ![]() He knows his mother is an orphan and thus the two of them must make their hardscrabble way together with no extended family to help. Youssef knows certain things about himself: He knows his father, whom he doesn't remember, was a respected fourth-grade teacher who died while hanging lights for a religious feast, falling three floors and breaking his neck. Laila Lalami's new novel, "Secret Son," brings readers into the down-and-out sections of Casablanca, Morocco, to follow the travails of Youssef El Mekki, a young man trying to rise above the abject poverty into which he was born. ![]() For those of us who have yet to read Laila Lalami's latest novel, Secret Son, The Los Angeles Times just published this review.Ī poor young man in Morocco makes the shocking discovery that his father isn't dead as he has always thought. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But as the washing machine is filling up for his second load, the power goes out. ![]() Even Eddie’s older brother, the Bronster (“Bronster is what happens when you mix equal parts brother + mo nster”), and their stepdad of six months, Calvin aka WBD (“Wanna-Be Dad”), can’t convince Eddie’s mom to free him from the drudgery and allow him to attend the celebration he’s looked forward to all year.Ĭlad in his sole piece of clean clothing-pink swim trunks printed with glow-in-the-dark pineapples-Eddie watches his family pile into the car and leave for the beach, then heads down to the basement to start making his way through 40 days’ worth of dirty laundry. His mom grounds him after discovering that he hasn’t done his laundry in weeks, forcing him to stay home from their small Ohio town’s biggest party of the year. What signs would portend the apocalypse for a tween boy? Twelve-year-old Eddie Holloway and his friends Xavier, Sonia, Trey and Sage think something might be amiss when the electricity in their neighborhood goes out and then their families don’t return from the annual Beach Bash party on Lake Erie.Įddie’s day begins in mundane fashion. ![]() ![]() ![]() James was an eminent scholar who spent his entire adult life in the academic surroundings of Eton and Cambridge. 'I was conscious of a most horrible smell of mould, and of a cold kind of face pressed against my own.'Ĭonsidered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English, M. Up-to-date bibliography and chronology. ![]() ![]() An Appendix reprints the prefaces and introductions to James's individual story collections together with three short articles by James about the ghost story, which present the fullest first-hand account of his approach to the genre.The most accurate and comprehensive annotations to James's stories elucidate his antiquarian, classical, and literary references as well as providing interesting publishing history details.Includes a lively introduction that explores James's conservative, donnish background and the character traits that contributed to the extraordinary power of his closely focused tales, whose terrifying narratives are discussed.James's 1931 Collected Ghost Stories, plus three uncollected tales. The only one-volume edition to include all the published stories included in M. ![]() ![]() ![]() She consults Stan, a good friend and journalist who works for an "alternative" newspaper and uncovers historical facts. ![]() After her grandmother's death, Rebecca Berlin, the youngest of her three granddaughters (referred to as Becca in the novel) begins to believe that there is some meaning behind the bedtime story that her grandmother told to them hundreds of times. In the present day, Gemma's Jewish family is living somewhere outside a city in Massachusetts. ![]() The times when "Gemma" tells the story are flashbacks and alternate between the present-day story. She tells this to the children almost all the time and it is the only bedtime story she ever tells. The story is based around the German fairy tale of Briar Rose ( Sleeping Beauty) which is told by "Gemma", an elderly woman, to her three granddaughters. The ending is part of the "home" section, returning after the castle. The book is divided into two parts, the "home", and the "castle". It was also nominated for the Nebula Award. The novel won the annual Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature in 1993. Incorporating elements of Sleeping Beauty, it was published as part of the Fairy Tale Series of novels compiled by Terri Windling. Briar Rose is a young adult novel written by American author Jane Yolen, published in 1992. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One that was never supposed to be found.Īlison was sure she would never trust the military again. But the team discovers much more from their dolphins than they ever expected when a secret object is revealed on the ocean floor. ![]() With the help of a powerful computer system, Alison Shaw and her team are preparing to translate the first two-way conversation with the planet’s second smartest species. Strange facts begin to emerge that lead naval investigator, John Clay, to a small group of marine biologists who are quietly on the verge of making history. AND A CRISIS THAT CANNOT BE STOPPED.ĭeep in the Caribbean Sea, a nuclear submarine is forced to suddenly abort its mission under mysterious circumstances. A SECRET THAT WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE FOUND. ONE OF THE GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS IN HUMAN HISTORY. This is book #1 in the series, now numbering four. This novel was published on Maand has more than 8,000 reviews on Amazon labeled technothriller-sci-fi, action and adventure, conspiracies. This week I am highlighting Michael C Grumley, another terrific, prolific author who wrote Breakthrough, which I reviewed on Goodreads. Just provide the link back to her please). And, if you’d like to join the fun, you’re welcome to use Renee’s pic from her website. Hopefully, you’ll find either a story or author that interests you and you’ll check them out. Renee began the # ThrowbackThursday meme on her blog, “ It’s Book Talk“ to share some of her old favorites as well as sharing books published over a year ago. ![]() The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art by Linda Dalrymple Henderson5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Henderson demonstrates the importance of this new conception of space for figures ranging from Buckminster Fuller, Robert Smithson, and the Park Place Gallery group in the 1960s to Tony Robbin and digital architect Marcos Novak. In a remarkable turn of events, it has returned as an important theme in contemporary culture in the wake of the emergence in the 1980s of both string theory in physics (with its ten- or eleven-dimensional universes) and computer graphics. ![]() Although largely eclipsed by relativity theory beginning in the 1920s, the spatial fourth dimension experienced a resurgence during the later 1950s and 1960s. In an extensive new Reintroduction, Henderson surveys the impact of interest in higher dimensions of space in art and culture from the 1950s to 2000. That iconoclastic idea encouraged radical innovation by a variety of early twentieth-century artists, ranging from French Cubists, Italian Futurists, and Marcel Duchamp, to Max Weber, Kazimir Malevich, and the artists of De Stijl and Surrealism. The possibility of a spatial fourth dimension suggested that our world might be merely a shadow or section of a higher dimensional existence. In this groundbreaking study, first published in 1983 and unavailable for over a decade, Linda Dalrymple Henderson demonstrates that two concepts of space beyond immediate perception - the curved spaces of non-Euclidean geometry and, most important, a higher, fourth dimension of space - were central to the development of modern art. ![]() ![]() ![]() His book A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787–1804 won the American Historical Association Prize in Atlantic History and the John Edwin Fagg Award. University of Michigan) is associate professor of history at Michigan State University. ![]() He is also the author of Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution, which was a Christian Science Monitor Noteworthy Book of 2004 and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2004, Les esclaves de la République: l'histoire oubliée de la première emancipation, 1787–1794, and Haiti: The Aftershocks of History. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 2: DEAR DIARY, with an afterword from GABBY RIVERA (America). Bingo Love Volume 1: Jackpot Edition (Paperback) Amazon Book Reviews Best Comics & Graphic Novels of 2018 NPRs Best Books of 2018 Newsweeks Best Comic. This Jackpot Edition contains over SIXTY PAGES of bonus material, including the talents of MARGUERITE BENNETT (Batwoman) and newcomer BEVERLY JOHNSON, SHAWN PRYOR (Cash and Carrie) and PAULINA GANUCHEAU (Zodiac Starforce), award-winning historical romance author ALYSSA COLE's comics writing debut with SHAE BEAGLE (MOONSTRUCK), GAIL SIMONE (CROSSWIND) and MARGAUX SALTEL (Superfreaks), and AMANDA DEIBERT (Wonder Woman '77) and CAT STAGGS (CROSSWIND), with illustrations from MEGAN HUTCHINSON (ROCKSTARS) and ARIELA KRISTANTINA (InSeXts). Realizing their love for each other is still alive, what these grandmothers do next takes absolute strength and courage. Decades later, now in their mid-'60s, Hazel and Mari reunite again at a church bingo hall. Forced apart by their families and society, Hazel and Mari both married young men and had families. ![]() ![]() When Hazel Johnson and Mari McCray met at church bingo in 1963, it was love at first sight. The Advocate's Best LGBTQ Graphic Novels of 2018Īutostraddle's 50 of the Best LGBT Books of 2018 2019, Texas Library Association's Maverick Graphic Novel Reading ListĪmazon Book Review's Best Comics & Graphic Novels of 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() His wife, Bettina, and business partner are having an affair. Cancer is an epidemic, and his clients are complicit. Set in an Australian city in the 1980s, Carey’s story is centred on successful adman Harry Joy, who is revived after a heart attack only to realise his life is a kind of hell. Toby Truslove and Anna Samson in Malthouse Theatre’s Original title: The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss 1936 Approved 1h 1m IMDb RATING 6. There are quite a few laughs and a moment of poignancy at the end, but overall this fast-talking satire about identity, morality and mortality struggles, on a sparse set that hinders more than helps the cast. Real and Imagined History of the Elephant Man.īliss, which will continue on to Sydney, is an uneven, sometimes laborious three-hour journey. Who better to tackle it than playwright and Belvoir artistic associate Tom Wright, and Malthouse Theatre’s artistic director Matthew Lutton, whose previous collaborations include last year’s outstanding I guess you could call it a dark comedy, touching on things like industrial poisons, big business, advertising, and family dynamics. Its excellent pedigree meant it was probably destined for theatrical adaptation. The story is hilarious and not a little crazy, but it is told with a deep regard for humanity. His last two novels, Bliss and Illywhacker, were finalists for the Booker Prize, and Oscar & Lucinda was an early contender. ![]() ![]() Bliss, won the Miles Franklin Award in 1981, became a feature film four years later, then an opera in 2010. ![]() ![]() Beautiful illustrations by Yoshitaka Amano complement the post-apocalyptic plot, filled with chilling twists. The Vampire Hunter D Omnibus collects the first three novels in author Hideyuki Kikuchis adventure horror series: Vampire Hunter D, Raiser of Gales, and Demon Deathchase. ![]() The vampire hunter known only as D has been hired by a wealthy dying man to find his daughter, who was kidnapped by the powerful vampire Lord Meierlink. The dying man is taking no chances, and has also enlisted the Marcus family, a renegade clan of four brothers and a sister who don't care who they kill as long as they get paid. Publisher's Summary The third volume of the popular Japanese series Vampire Hunter D comes to America in Vampire Hunter D: Demon Deathchase. In the nightmare world of 12090 A.D., finding Meierlink before he reaches the spaceport in the Clayborn States and gets off the planet will be hard enough, but D has more than just Meierlink to worry about. ![]() Though humans speak well of Meierlink, the price on his head is too high for D to ignore and he sets out to save her before she can be turned into an undead creature of the night. The vampire hunter known only as D has been hired by a wealthy, dying man to find his daughter, who was kidnapped by the powerful vampire Lord Meierlink. The third volume of the popular Japanese series Vampire Hunter D comes to America in Vampire Hunter D: Demon Deathchase. ![]() The novel that was the basis for the hit motion picture Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust is available in English for the first time! ![]() |