5/11/2023 0 Comments Book sunflower sisters![]() ![]() So when war ignites the nation, Georgey follows her passion for nursing during a time when doctors considered women on the battlefront a bother. ![]() Georgeanna “Georgey” Woolsey isn’t meant for the world of lavish parties and the demure attitudes of women of her stature. “An exquisite tapestry of women determined to defy the molds the world has for them.”-Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours Now, in Sunflower Sisters, Kelly tells the story of Ferriday’s ancestor Georgeanna Woolsey, a Union nurse during the Civil War whose calling leads her to cross paths with Jemma, a young enslaved girl who is sold off and conscripted into the army, and Anne-May Wilson, a Southern plantation mistress whose husband enlists. ![]()
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5/11/2023 0 Comments Snow on cedars by david guterson![]() For on San Pedro, memory grows as thickly as cedar trees and the fields of ripe strawberries-memories of a charmed love affair between a white boy and the Japanese girl who grew up to become Kabuo's wife memories of land desired, paid for, and lost. ![]() In the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than a man's guilt. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. ![]() San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. "Haunting.A whodunit complete with courtroom maneuvering and surprising turns of evidence and at the same time a mystery, something altogether richer and deeper."- Los Angeles Times Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award ▪ American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award ![]() ![]() ![]() Undoubtedly the most important of Conan Doyle's science fiction works is The Lost World, a novel which is often compared with Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth and Henry Rider Haggard's She: a history of adventure (a dream fantasy of a primitive people living amid the ruins of an ancient but more advanced society). The first is the great historical novels, of which Rodney Stone, Sir Nigel and The White Company are the best known examples, while the other is science fiction, a genre in which Doyle is ranked alongside other celebrated classic authors, including Jules Verne and H.G.Wells, as one of its leading founders. The Lost World: Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Lost World' Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Lost World"Īlthough Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) is best known for his highly celebrated Sherlock Holmes detective stories, (no fewer than 56 short stories and four long novels), he also made important and very influential contributions to two other major realms of literature. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments The three ninja pigs![]() ![]() ![]() Schwartz's clever rhyming text flows nicely, and illustrator Santat (who holds a black belt in shotokan ) really gets into things." - Booklist, "For young martial arts fans seeking a lighthearted book about their hobby, Schwartz's story should fit the bill. Have the contact info for the local dojo handy-readers will want to try out these martial-arts styles for themselves." - Kirkus Reviews "This standout version has so much motion, action, and laughs, kids will feel like they're hearing it for the first time. The idea of three gi-clad pigs fighting the big bad wolf is a winner." - Publishers Weekly "A standout among fractured fairy tales, masterfully combining rollicking limerick verse with a solid story. All in hilarious, impeccable rhyme." - The New York Times Book Review "For young martial arts fans seeking a lighthearted book about their hobby, Schwartz's story should fit the bill. "A fractured fairy tale to outcharm the original, "The Three Ninja Pigs" manages to one-up the well-worn story by setting it in Japan, sprinkling it with the language and discipline of martial arts. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Incognito by david eagleman![]() ![]() In the other: you think your brain and senses reveal the world as it is?” – The Guardian In one, he delineates, with remorseless logic and clarity, what any conceivable afterlife would actually entail. “David Eagleman offers startling lessons in neuroscience…. His method in both Sum and his new book, Incognito, is to ask us to cast off our lazy, commonplace assumptions. It’s a bold argument and perhaps just the beginning of the debate.” – Sunday Herald “What Eagleman seems to be calling for is a new Enlightenment, where our better understanding of the brain allows us to treat criminality differently. “Eagleman has a talent for testing the untestable, for taking seemingly sophomoric notions and using them to nail down the slippery stuff of consciousness.” – The New Yorker “Incognito is popular science at its best…. Eagleman, by imagining the future so vividly, puts into relief just how challenging neuroscience is, and will be.” – Boston Globe A book that will leave you looking at yourself–and the world–differently.”- Kirkus Reviews (Starred review) Eagleman has a wealth of such observations, backed up with case studies, bits of pop culture, literary references and historic examples. ![]() “The book is full of startling examples…. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I have promised to write down the entire history of these three poor children, but you haven't, so if you prefer stories that are more heartwarming, please feel free to make another selection. The pages of this book, I'm sorry to inform you, contain such unpleasantries as a giant pincher machine, a bad casserole, a man with a cloud of smoke where his head should be, a hypnotist, a terrible accident resulting in injury, and coupons. Book Title: Series of Unfortunate events 4: the Miserable Mill Author: Lemony Snicket Publisher: HarperCollins Genre: Juvenile Fiction Topic: Humorous. ![]() Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are sent to Paltryville to work in a lumber mill, and they find disaster and misfortune lurking behind every log. If this is the case, I advise you to put this book down instantaneously, because of all the books describing the unhappy lives of the Baudelaire orphans, The Miserable Mill might be the unhappiest yet. ![]() I hope, for your sake, that you have not chosen to read this book because you are in the mood for a pleasant experience. In this book, the Baudelaires are sent to work at Lucky Smells Lumbermill. The book was later adapted into the TV series produced by Netflix as the seventh and eighth episodes of season 1. A Series of Unfortunate Events is designed for readers and viewers who can enjoy the story on its surface, and make for even more fun for those who want to excavate all the many hidden. Print The Miserable Mill (A Series of Unfortunate Events #4) - Netflix Tie-in Edition The Miserable Mill is the fourth book in A Series of Unfortunate Events, written by Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler). ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments The accidental billionaires![]() ![]() He managed to get the barest taste of water before the cup folded inward beneath his fingers, rivulets missing his tie but drenching the sleeve of his dress shirt. The longer this ordeal dragged on, the more likely it was that sooner or later he’d show up to the next endless session wearing his Olympic rowing jacket. After so many days, months, hell, years, the tie was hardly necessary. He was trying his best to sip filtered water from a tissue-thin disposable cup, without spilling too much onto his tie. It was a little past three on a Friday afternoon, and Tyler Winklevoss stood by a floor-to-ceiling window overlooking a pincushion of similar office buildings piercing the midday fog. Bug-eyed watercoolers, chrome-edged conference tables, faux-leather adjustable chairs. Fluorescent strips bisecting tic-tac-toe tiled dropped ceilings. Eggshell-colored walls and industrial-beige carpets. The usual glass, steel, and concrete sliced and diced into overly air-conditioned, brightly lit cubes. The twenty-third floor of a nondescript office tower on the outskirts of San Francisco’s Financial District. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Alex lemaitre![]() Some years earlier, his wife, Irene, herself eight months pregnant, was kidnapped and murdered. ![]() Verhoeven carries another burden, one that very nearly destroyed him. His height is the result of fetal hypertrophy, caused by the fact that his mother, renowned artist Maud Verhoeven, smoked incessantly while pregnant with him. ![]() A brilliant investigator and natural outsider, Verhoeven is 4 feet 11 inches tall. “Alex” is the second volume (but the first to be published here) in a projected trilogy featuring Commandant Camille Verhoeven of the “brigade criminelle” of Paris. The latest example is France’s Pierre Lemaitre, who makes an auspicious English-language debut with “Alex,” co-winner, along with Fred Vargas’s “The Ghost Riders of Ordebec,” of the Crime Writers Association’s International Dagger Award. While fellow Scandinavians such as Jo Nesbo, Karin Fossum and Arnaldur Indridason have been particularly successful here, other, non-Nordic countries continue to send their exports our way. One of the more noteworthy results of the success of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy (“The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” etc.) has been the steady proliferation of European crime novels in English translations. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Harrow the ninth gideon![]() She's that one goth girl from high school gone full dark supernova with her sacramental face paint and unfathomable necromantic powers. Seriously awesome, because the coolest thing about it was that we got to see it all and experience it all through the aviator-shaded eyes of Gideon Nav, unwilling cavalier of the Ninth House, who kicked ass, took names, always had a dirty joke handy and so loved her icy, genius Ninth House necromancer, Harrowhark Nonagesimus, that (spoiler alert) she ultimately gave her life to turn Harrow into a Lyctor - a kind of superhero bodyguard and magical ghost assassin working at the right hand of the undying God-emperor of Muir's expansive, creaking world. She created a crumbly, dusty, deeply haunted and wonderfully goopy horror-universe with Gideon the Ninth, peopled it with creepy, sepulchral wizards, dipped it all in the reverential tones of quasi-Catholic religious fanaticism, wrote it like a science-fantasy parlor romance full of murder and then gave it to us, still warm and dripping, like a cat bringing home a particularly juicy mouse.Īnd it was awesome. Last year, Tamsyn Muir absolutely owned the lesbian-necromancers-in-space genre. ![]() You know how sometimes people say, It's like everything you loved about the first book, only MORE. ![]() You don't have to read the first book in this series to dive right into the second. You know how sometimes people say, Oh, it's okay. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Switched by amanda hocking![]() “Most of them were just standard letters saying like ‘Not for us’ and ‘Best of luck’, that sort of thing. I mostly submitted letters to agents because most publishers don’t take unsolicited material so there was probably eight years before I started self-publishing.”Ĭan you remember what the agents were saying, what advice they were giving you? Yep, you can pre-order the entire trilogy now.ĭid you actually try to get published previously or did you turn straight to e-publishing? The first book, Switched, in which a girl called Wendy discovers that she’s a changeling troll with a scary inheritance, has just been published, with the second book, Torn, due out on 1 March and the concluding tome, Ascend, on 26 April. ![]() They’ve already been written, so her publishers are wasting no time getting this quirky, pacy series onto the shelves. What this also means is that her book series out in paperback format, The Trylle trilogy, doesn’t require a massive gap between the publication of each instalment. ![]() ![]() Because Hocking wrote 17 books before she got her first publishing contract, published most of them online in the form of ebooks, and built up a massive fanbase in the process. A few years back, that phrase would have been nonsense, but now, thanks to the internet, it makes a crazy kind of sense. Young-adult supernatural romance author Amanda Hocking is one of the most experienced and successful first-time novelists around. ![]() |