![]() Thammavongsa is a master at homing in on moments like this - moments of exposure, dislocation, and messy feeling that push us right up against the limits of language. In the title story of Souvankham Thammavongsa's debut collection, a young girl brings a book home from school and asks her father to help her pronounce a tricky word, a simple exchange with unforgettable consequences. Henry Award winner Souvankham Thammavongsa honors characters struggling to find their bearings far from home, even as they do the necessary "grunt work of the world." ![]() Named one of the best books of the month by The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Salon, The Millions, Bustle, and Vogue, this revelatory debut story collection from O. “As the daughter of refugees, I’m able to finally see myself in stories.” (Angela So, Electric Literature) ![]() Shortlisted for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize ![]()
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![]() ![]() To cover up this impossibility, the king forces her to play the role of a lost Silver princess and betroths her to one of his own sons… Before the king, princes, and all the nobles, she discovers she has an ability of her own. Mare is a Red, scraping by as a thief in a poor, rural village, until a twist of fate throws her in front of the Silver court. Red Queen – Mare Barrow’s world is divided by blood-those with common, Red blood serve the Silver-blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities. ![]() → Buy from: Amazon, BookDepository, Wordery Born poor and destined to serves the elite, Mare will fight for what is right. ![]() In her case, she can create and control electricity. She’s a newblood: she is born with red blood but possesses superhuman abilities. Our heroine, Mare Molly Barrow, is neither he silverblood or a redblood. Centuries passed, and they didn’t use their powers to heal the world and do good, but to become kings controlling red blood people - the ones without powers. One of the most important has been the emergence of Silvers, people with silverblood and superpowers that ranged from pyrokinesis to mind reading to super strength. Next to the popular The Selection by Kiera Cass and Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi, you will also find The Red Queen series by Victoria Aveyard.Ī series of catastrophic disasters almost wiped out humanity, which underwent massive changes in order to survive. During the last ten years, the dystopian sci-fi/fantasy genre has really grown, especially in the young adult fiction category. ![]() ![]() The non-profit art foundation plans to put the skeleton, nicknamed Trinity, on show at the Boerentoren tower in Antwerp. The Koller auction house in Zurich identified the new owner as The Phoebus Foundation, which is backed by the engineering and logistics conglomerate Katoen Natie-Indaver. The anticipated sales price had been 5 million to 8 million francs. ![]() The skeleton, made up of nearly 300 bones dug up from three sites in the United States, fetched 4.8 million francs ($5.3 million) at the Koller auction house in Zurich on Tuesday. BERLIN (AP) - A Swiss auction house that sold a composite Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton for over $5 million this week said Friday that the new owner, a Belgian art foundation, will exhibit the fearsome dinosaur at a new cultural center in Antwerp. ![]() ![]() ![]() The font itself conveyed the angst and aggressiveness I had hoped to convey within the story. When I opened the cover file for Firstborn, I was blown away! I remember sitting in amazement that Mike Heath from Magnus Creative had caught the atmosphere, the character, the place with his art. ![]() "What a delight to not have a speck of criticism. But as I waited for the unveiling of the Firstborn cover, I prepared to give zero input. Upon seeing the cover for Loose Threads, I asked for embroidery needles to be replaced by knitting needles, in keeping with the story. Even more unusual is the request for a correction after the image is designed. In On Pointe I was able to ask for a specific type of toe shoe to be portrayed ( read that epic Cover Story!). On rare cases we are able to interject a thought before the creation. "I’m so honored to be included in Melissa’s Cover Stories! I have to say, we authors usually sit at home holding our breath, waiting for our cover reveal from the publishing house. Visit Global Gendercide Advocacy Alliance Project or All Girls Allowed to learn more and act." ![]() And she has this to say about it: " Firstborn originally sprang from an article I read on gendercide. Over 37 million girls are missing today due to China’s One Child Policy. Her latest novel, Firstborn, already has a star from Kirkus. ![]() Well, let's just say I look up to her mucho. Her spirit, her love of reading and her writing. Lorie Ann Grover, a co-founder of, is an idol of mine. ![]() ![]() In Geisha, a Life, Mineko Iwasaki tells her story, from her warm early childhood, to her intense yet privileged upbringing in the Iwasaki okiya (household), to her years as a renowned geisha, and finally, to her decision at the age of twenty-nine to retire and marry, a move that would mirror the demise of geisha culture. Through great pride and determination, she would be hailed as one of the most prized geishas in Japan's history, and one of the last great practitioners of this now fading art form. ![]() She would enchant kings and princes, captains of industry, and titans of the entertainment world, some of whom would become her dearest friends. ![]() She would learn the formal customs and language of the geisha, and study the ancient arts of Japanese dance and music. For the next twenty-five years, she would live a life filled with extraordinary professional demands and rich rewards. We have been constrained by unwritten rules not to do so, by the robes of tradition and by the sanctity of our exclusive calling.But I feel it is time to speak out."Ĭelebrated as the most successful geisha of her generation, Mineko Iwasaki was only five years old when she left her parents' home for the world of the geisha. "No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story. ![]() ![]() Reminiscent of Donna Tartt in scope and quality. ![]() ![]() “ A twisty and engrossing story of betrayal and redemption. She ratchets up the tension masterfully, and her writing is lively. 1 day ago &0183 &32 The book both my father and I have failed to finish was a work by Shuichi Kato (1919-2008), one of Japan’s foremost intellectual giants. Eerie, suspenseful, and completely consuming.” -MEGAN MIRANDA, New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls Readers of Liane Moriarty, Paula Hawkins, and Ruth Ware will love.' Library Journal (starred review) Jewell’s novel explores the space between going missing and being lost.how the plots intersect and finally collide is one of the great thrills of reading Jewell’s book. “ A haunting, atmospheric, stay-up-way-too-late read. I was desperate to uncover all the twisting mysteries inside The Family Upstairs, layer by tangled layer. FINN, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window The Family Upstairs glitters like a blade and cuts even deeper.” ![]() Medical emergency or Lisa Jewell novel? Few writers of psychological suspense devise such swift, slippery plots fewer people fill their stories with characters so human and complex. “ Rich, dark, and intricately twisted, this enthralling whodunnit mixes family saga with domestic noir to brilliantly chilling effect.” -RUTH WARE, New York Times bestselling author is an author to watch.” - Entertainment Weekly ![]() ![]() ![]() Publication date 2004 Topics Religion - World Religions, History, History: World, Zoroastrianism, History / Middle East, Middle East - General, Zoroaster, Zarathoustra, Zoroastrisme, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc. Passing via Nietzsche?s interpretation of Zarathustra for a post-religious age, the Cathars of 13th-century France, the Bulgars of 9th-century Balkans, and the prophet Mani?s revision of Zarathustra?s message in the later Persian empire, Paul Kriwaczek then explores the religion of Mithras ? before going back past Alexander the Great?s destruction of the Persian Empire, and the era of the great Persian kings Cyrus and Darius in the 6th century BC, to the beginning of the first pre-Christian millennium. In search of Zarathustra : across Iran and Central Asia to find the worlds first prophet. Over several decades, Paul Kriwaczek, an award-winning television producer, has cast his eye across Europe and Central Asia, from Hadrian?s Wall to the Oxus river, from the Pyrenees to the Hindu Kush. ![]() Long before the first Hebrew temple, the birth of Christ or the mission of Muhammad, Zarathustra had taught of a single universal god, of the battle between Used and Evil, of the Devil, Heaven and Hell, and of an eventual end to the world. IN SEARCH OF ZARATHUSTRA is a quest to trace the influence of the prophet the Greeks called Zoroaster and considered the greatest religious legislator of the ancient world. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the film gives us a very different picture, an affirmation of the religious experience of wonder. Sagan has a reputation as a hardened, somewhat combative atheist. ![]() The film, like the 1985 novel by Cornell University astronomer Carl Sagan which it adapted, recognized the essentially religious implications of the question of whether we are alone in the universe.Īmid the political resurgence of the Christian Right in the United States, which has culminated in the rise of so-called “ alternative facts” and a Donald Trump presidency in which 81 per cent of white evangelicals voted for him, the anniversary of Contact provides us with the opportunity to revisit the politics of science and religion that Sagan took up. It’s the 20th anniversary of Robert Zemeckis’s 1997 science fiction film Contact, and we’re in the middle of remembering its story of aliens purposefully communicating with our planet. ![]() ![]() ![]() Matt takes the notebooks back to his cabin and reads the account of the strange creatures. ![]() ![]() That night, Kate seeks Matt out and shares her grandfather’s notebooks with him. She is on the airship to look for the creatures her grandfather described before his death. Kate is the granddaughter of the balloon pilot and a talented airship engineer. The next day, a wealthy passenger named Kate de Vries boards the ship. The man tells Matt about mysterious ghostly creatures that he saw in the sky, then he passes away. Matt helps to rescue the injured pilot from the balloon. One night while on watch, Matt spots a drifting hot air balloon that does not respond when the captain of the Aurora tries to raise it on the radio. Matt Cruse is a cabin boy on the airship Aurora. Printz Award honor, and a Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon award. The book has won several awards, including a Governor General's Award for children's literature, a Michael L. It is set in an alternate universe where airships and hot air balloons have replaced airplanes as the primary mode of travel. Airborn is a 2004 science fiction young adult novel by Kenneth Oppel. ![]() ![]() Join me in my Nicholas Sparks Read-A-Thon by using the hashtag NSReadAThon and linking your A Walk To Remember Book Review down below and if you have reviewed this before, feel free to link it too. Congrats to me!)Ī Walk To Remember is the book that transcended generations and is still loved and still highly recommended by a lot of readers. (I've heard of it and I've known it for like forever through the film, yet I had the opportunity to read it only now, so I'm an in-betweener! uhm, maybe I was kind'a living on the skirt of the rock, I've known and heard it for so long but 'tis only now that I've come to read it. The book that if you haven't read or heard yet, people will guess that you lived your whole life under a rock. This is the book that people will always warn you about. ![]() |