![]() ![]() ![]() Nisi Shawl's speculative masterpiece manages to turn one of the worst human rights disasters on record into a marvelous and exciting exploration of the possibilities inherent in a turn of history. This land, named Everfair, is set aside as a safe haven, an imaginary Utopia for native populations of the Congo as well as escaped slaves returning from America and other places where African natives were being mistreated. Fabian Socialists from Great Britian join forces with African-American missionaries to purchase land from the Belgian Congo's "owner," King Leopold II. Everfair is a wonderful Neo-Victorian alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's disastrous colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier.Įverfair is a wonderful Neo-Victorian alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's disastrous colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Springer lives in East Berlin, Pennsylvania. Her most recent series include the Tales of Rowan Hood, featuring Robin Hood's daughter, and the Enola Holmes mysteries, starring the much younger sister of Sherlock Holmes. By: Nancy Springer Narrator: Nancy Springer Length: 8 hours 23 minutes Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc. Field award, various Children's Choice honors and numerous ALA Best Book listings. Springer's children's books have won her two Edgar Allan Poe awards, a Carolyn W. ALSO BY NANCY SPRINGER I AM MORDRED A Tale from Camelot I AM MORGAN LE FAY A Tale from Camelot ROWAN HOOD Outlaw Girl of Sherwood Forest. Her novels and stories for middle-grade and young adults range from contemporary realism, mystery/crime, and fantasy to her critically acclaimed novels based on the Arthurian mythos, I AM MORDRED: A TALE OF CAMELOT and I AM MORGAN LE FAY. ![]() ![]() Together these two characteristics create a captivating novel that reaches into the mind of the reader. It has an incredibly facinating plot, with impecable details. per.2 I am Morgan le Fay is a spellbinding tale of the enchanted place, Avalon, from long ago. In a career beginning shortly after she graduated from Gettysburg College in 1970, Springer wrote for ten years in the imaginary realms of mythological fantasy, then ventured on contemporary fantasy, magical realism, and women's fiction before turning her attention to children's literature. I am Morgan le Fay By: Nancy Springer Ms. Nancy Springer has published forty novels for adults, young adults and children. By Grade + Interest - K to 1st By Grade + Interest - 2nd to 3rd By Grade + Interest - 4th to 5th ![]() ![]() ![]() Many of his novels have themes and titles that invoke classical music, such as the three books making up The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: The Thieving Magpie (after Rossini's opera), Bird as Prophet (after a piano piece by Robert Schumann usually known in English as The Prophet Bird), and The Bird-Catcher (a character in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute). ![]() Shortly before finishing his studies, Murakami opened the coffeehouse 'Peter Cat' which was a jazz bar in the evening in Kokubunji, Tokyo with his wife. His first job was at a record store, which is where one of his main characters, Toru Watanabe in Norwegian Wood, works. Murakami studied drama at Waseda University in Tokyo, where he met his wife, Yoko. He grew up reading a range of works by American writers, such as Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and he is often distinguished from other Japanese writers by his Western influences. Since childhood, Murakami has been heavily influenced by Western culture, particularly Western music and literature. ![]() ![]() His work has been described as 'easily accessible, yet profoundly complex'. Murakami Haruki (Japanese: 村上 春樹) is a popular contemporary Japanese writer and translator. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Plus, honestly? If you don’t have any triggers, it probably is best to go into this book blind. I’m going to put the trigger and content warnings below this paragraph! But if you want to go into this book completely blind, like many of Colleen Hoover’s readers do, please do not read my review. And the subject matter of this book is something I’ve never read about before, and it’s a topic that we need to be normalizing and start discussing more. ![]() And even though I had problems with some of the content, I still think this book is super important. I swear, this book made me feel everything. I wanted to give it five stars, and I wanted to give it one star. I wanted to hug my iPad, and throw my iPad. It broke me, and it healed me, and it made me not feel so lonely. One can exist without the other.”Īll Your Perfects is a book that made me feel every emotion in the world. “The problem is, love and happiness are not concordant. Goodreads | Amazon US| Barnes & Noble | Book DepositoryĪRC provided by Atria Books in exchange for an honest review. ![]() ![]() ![]() I felt dog-rescue would make a good background to a suspense novel because the people who devote themselves to this work are committing time, money, and their hearts to a mission of mercy. What does this say about humankind? Nothing good. This means that tens of thousands of dogs in a single breed are abused and abandoned every year in this country. A group that rescues abandoned and abused golden retrievers might save 300 or 400 dogs a year–or even more–in one metropolitan area. Many such groups exist in the real world, as opposed to the fictional worlds inside my peculiar mind. ![]() Nevertheless, here goes:įor almost a decade, I entertained an idea for a novel in which the lead character would be a woman who founded and led a dog-rescue organization. I suggest that your time would be better spent eating some good Mexican food and contemplating the historical importance of the jalapeno. I find them difficult, but I am assured that you, gentle readers, enjoy them. The stern web master requires of me a why-I-wrote piece each time that a new book is about to arrive in stores. Why I Wrote THE DARKEST EVENING OF THE YEAR THE DARKEST EVENING OF THE YEAR From the Author ![]() ![]() Until one night, Fei is awoken by a searing noise. ![]() Fei's and all the people she loves are plunged into crisis, with nothing to look forward to but darkness and starvation. When villagers begin to lose their sight, deliveries from the zipline shrink. ![]() Rocky terrain and frequent avalanches make it impossible to leave the village, so Fei and her people are at the mercy of a zipline that carries food up the treacherous cliffs from Beiguo, a mysterious faraway kingdom. ![]() ![]() From Richelle Mead, the #1 internationally bestselling author of Vampire Academy and Bloodlines, comes a breathtaking new fantasy steeped in Chinese folklore.įrom the #1 internationally #1 bestselling author of Vampire Academy and Bloodlines series comes a breathtaking new fantasy steeped in Chinese folklore.įor as long as Fei can remember, no one in her village has been able to hear. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Frederick Douglass is probably best known for his compelling autobiographies in which he described his experiences as a slave and his escape to freedom.īlight's book also illuminates less-well-known parts of Douglass's long and remarkable life - his break with leading abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, his complicated personal life, his support for and bitter feud with leaders of the women's suffrage movement and his years as a Republican Party functionary when he took patronage jobs in the government.ĭouglass was a passionate writer and powerful orator, and Blight says the most photographed person in the 19th century. The Pulitzer Prize for History was awarded this week to historian David Blight for his book about 19th century abolitionist Frederick Douglass. I'm Dave Davies in for Terry Gross, who's off this week. ![]() ![]() ![]() What is the best piece of advice you ever received from another author? What was the greatest thing you learned at school? I can't choose just one! I can't! I'm sorry but there are too many books I love in every genre! I discovered the escape that books provided me, and I've been an avid reader ever since.īeyond your own work (of course), what is your all-time favorite book and why? And what is your favorite book outside of your genre? When I first learned to read, I hated it! Then, when I was nine years old my family moved to a new city where I was ostracized by my classmates. What’s one thing that readers would be surprised to find out about you? When we read a story that touches our hearts, it helps us to remember that these other humans around us are also thinking and feeling creatures, deserving of our kindness and respect. Our imagination is what makes us human! Our ability to create, connect, and care for these fictional beings is what sets us apart from other animals. ![]() ![]() Why is storytelling so important for all of us? ![]() ![]() ![]() The book is divided into two sections, the first of which is more or less a continuation of Naked. ![]() Many of the pieces have previously appeared in Esquire or The New Yorker, and some of them surfaced last year in Sedaris’ touring one-man performance. ![]() Me Talk Pretty One Dayis something of a hybrid. In his follow-up, Naked, Sedaris narrowed his focus onto his own family, at once sending up the memoir craze of the late 90’s and crafting one of the most vivid, scathing and poignant examples of the genre. One of the latter, "The SantaLand Diaries," made the author’s reputation seemingly overnight after he read it on NPR’s Morning Edition, and has since been turned into a theatrical production (not involving Sedaris). Sedaris’ first collection, Barrel Fever, was a mix of short stories and autobiographical pieces. His stranger-in-a-strange-land approach succeeds without undue mean-spiritedness, because time and time again he proves more than willing to turn his spiky wit inward on himself. In his best writing, David Sedaris suggests a visiting anthropologist from a distant galaxy or some future civilization, observing and chronicling contemporary life with a mixture of curiosity, disgust, and outright befuddlement. ![]() ![]() When his father Montrose goes missing, twenty-two year-old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George – publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide – and his childhood friend Letitia. ![]() Abrams, Misha Green and Jordan Peele (Director of Get Out)Ī chimerical blend of magic, power, hope, and freedom that stretches across time, touching diverse members of two black families, Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff is a devastating kaleidoscopic portrait of racism – the terrifying specter that continues to haunt us today.Ĭhicago, 1954. The New York Times bestselling book behind the HBO Series from J.J. ![]() |