![]() ![]() Once again New York Times bestselling author Jasper Fforde has a field day gleefully blending satire, romance, and thriller with literary allusions galore in a fantastic adventure through the landscape of a frisky and fertile imagination. A trip up the mighty Metaphoric River beckons-a trip that will reveal a fiendish plot that threatens the very fabric of the BookWorld itself. The Council wants her to pretend to be the real Thursday and travel as a peacekeeping emissary to the warring factions. ![]() But with the real Thursday apparently retired to the Realworld, the Council of Genres turns to the written Thursday. ![]() All-out Genre war is rumbling, and the BookWorld desperately needs a heroine like Thursday Next. Jasper Fforde's exuberant return to the fantastical BookWorld opens during a time of great unrest. The newest tour de force from The New York Times bestselling author of Thursday Next and Shades of Grey. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Works, most notably novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951), of American writer Jerome David Salinger often concern troubled, sensitive adolescents. ![]() Written in Salinger’s typically irreverent style, these two stories offer a touching snapshot of the distraught mindset of early adulthood and are full of the insightful emotional observations and witty turns of phrase that have helped make Salinger’s reputation what it is today. When Franny’s emotional and spiritual doubts reach new heights, her older brother Zooey, a misanthropic former child genius, offers her consolation and brotherly advice. The second story in this book, ‘Zooey’, plunges us into the world of her ethereal, sophisticated family. They appear to be the perfect couple, but as they struggle to communicate with each other about the things they really care about, slowly their true feelings come to the surface. Salinger’s fictional Glass family.įranny Glass is a pretty, effervescent college student on a date with her intellectually confident boyfriend, Lane. ![]() And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you’re conforming just as much only in a different way.’įirst published in The New Yorker as two sequential stories, ‘Franny’ and ‘Zooey’ offer a dual portrait of the two youngest members of J. But just so tiny and meaningless and-sad-making. ![]() ‘Everything everybody does is so-I don’t know-not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. ![]() ![]() ![]() With a foreword by Stevenson, The Sun Does Shine is an extraordinary testament to the power of hope sustained through the darkest times. With the help of civil rights attorney and bestselling author of Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson, Hinton won his release in 2015. For the next twenty-seven years he was a beacon-transforming not only his own spirit, but those of his fellow inmates, fifty-four of whom were executed mere feet from his cell. But as Hinton realized and accepted his fate, he resolved not only to survive, but find a way to live on Death Row. He spent his first three years on Death Row at Holman State Prison in agonizing silence-full of despair and anger toward all those who had sent an innocent man to his death. Stunned, confused, and only twenty-nine years old, Hinton knew that it was a case of mistaken identity and believed that the truth would prove his innocence and ultimately set him free.īut with no money and a different system of justice for a poor black man in the South, Hinton was sentenced to death by electrocution. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit. ![]() ![]() Are they in the wind-or in the grave?Įyes are on Detective Sean Walsh, whose personal connection to the case is stronger than leads to solve it. ![]() When Costello is found murdered in his own home, three suspects had motive. And all three women are missing.Īccountant Anthony Costello has a talent for manipulating both numbers and people, turning losses into profits, enemies into allies-and vice versa. All three had access to a murder victim's home. PublishDate T04:00:00+00:00 publishDateText otherFormatIdentifiers ![]() OverDrive Product Record sortTitle Three Women Disappear crossRefId 5772997 images ![]() ![]() She also has a magical cat named Faithful. Happily she grows out of it in the series. I get that it limits her options in her society but it got to be a little too much. I wasn’t a fan of Alanna’s constant harping on how much she hates being female. She considers how to deal with menstruation and physical maturity. Why does that always work? At least Pierce gives more thought to the practicalities of it. So one day they decide to switch places: Thom heads for the convent to learn magic Alanna, pretending to be a boy, is on her way to the castle of King Roald to begin her training as a page.”Īh, the old girl pretending to be a boy trope. Though a girl, Alanna has always craved the adventure and daring allowed only for boys her twin brother, Thom, yearns to learn the art of magic. I’ll be a knight.Īnd so young Alanna of Trebond begins the journey to knighthood. “From now on I’m Alan of Trebond, the younger twin. ![]() The Cooper series is also written for a much older audience and then Alanna is middle grade.Īlanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce ![]() Pierce is a much better writer when writing that series than when she wrote her first books. ![]() I started with the Beka Cooper series and now we jump forward 400 years to the first books that were written in the series. I have been working my way through Tamora Pierce’s Tortall books on audio in chronological order. ![]() ![]() Neil Miller's book “Banned in Boston: The Watch and Ward Society's Crusade Against Books, Burlesque and the Social Evil” ($26.95 cloth, $23.95 e-book Beacon Press) was officially published Tuesday. ![]() One of the results was that “Banned in Boston” became a phrase known worldwide. “It is when sin endeavors to extend its sway and is aggressive, when money has been invested in special forms of temptation, especially against the young, that our Society, supported by the better sense of earnestness of the community, has undertaken to make a vigorous fight against these sources of temptation.” Frederick B Allen, president of the Watch and Ward Society, thundered at a public meeting of the society in Boston in 1903. “We are especially antagonizing organized evil,” the Rev. ![]() ![]() “I love this book! Brings us the powerful Veronica Speedwell, who triumphs over adversity and danger with wit, charm, and uncanny determination. “Creating strong character pairings, placing the action in unexpectedly unusual but actual historical settings, and folding it all into a clever mystery are hallmarks of this author’s magical, signature style.This new series starts off with a bang.”- Library Journal (starred review) ![]() “The eccentricities of Victorian England receive a rousing look in the highly entertaining A Curious Beginning.Energetic storytelling.”- South Florida Sun-Sentinel “Wickedly clever and devilishly amusing.Veronica Speedwell is a joy-unflappable, unrepentant, and thoroughly delightful.”-Susan Elia MacNeal, New York Times bestselling author of the Maggie Hope series ![]() ![]() A Curious Beginning (A Veronica Speedwell Mystery #1) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Maud Hart Lovelace’s Betsy-Tacy books were based on her experiences growing up in Mankato, Minnesota. ![]() They visit every store (including Cook’s Book Store) and price “everything from diamonds to gumdrops, and bought, each one, a Christmas tree ornament … savoring Christmas together all up and down Front Street.” It’s a simple and comforting ritual. As young girls, her well-known heroines-Betsy, Tacy, and Tib-have ten cents to spend on Christmas shopping.Īs they grow up, in Betsy and Joe (1948), for instance, they have “real shopping” to do, but their trip downtown is as “heavily weighted with tradition as a Christmas pudding with plums.” Though the novels were published in the 1940s, they take place in the early years of the twentieth century, when the author herself was growing up. Perhaps better known as the Betsy-Tacy books, the themes celebrated in these nostalgic novels for young readers are universal: friendship, devotion, love of home, ambition, and comfort. ![]() Revisiting the Deep Valley novels by Maud Hart Lovelace (1892 – 1980) during the winter holiday season is a particular delight, though this American author’s stories can be enjoyed year-round. ![]() ![]() ![]() the mapping of Age of Sail tropes onto space travel is just the start. Much of the fun of these books comes from the construction of a far, far-future space-opera. It's great stuff pick it up, you'll want to know what happens next. This is a story to break hearts and make you turn pages. This is a novel that's elegantly plotted, full of surprises and, as first time round, rip-roaring fun. Pirates in space, full of peril and high-jinks. Reynolds is easily one of the modern masters of science fiction. If any of them are to survive, then he will have to take the exploration - and their lives - into his own hands. Shaking off his nightmares, Doctor Silas Coade joins his fellow exploders on the deck of the zeppelin Demeter and realises something has already gone dangerously wrong with their mission. But as they come in sight of their prize he and the crew see they are not the first to come so far: there is a wreck ahead, and whatever ruined it may threaten them as well. It's a well-funded expedition, well organised, which is lucky as they're sailing north of Bergen on the schooner Demeter, searching for a narrow inlet which will lead them to a vast uncharted lake - and their goal-ĭoctor Silas Coade wakes from disturbing dreams, on the steamship Demeter, in pursuit of an extraordinary find almost too incredible and too strange to believe, secreted within a lagoon in the icy inlets of Patagonia. A small group of intrepid explorers are in search of a remote and mysterious artefact. ![]() Eversion is a superb, original Gothic SF novel. ![]() ![]() She’s what school psychologists would now call a classic introvert, but the fascinating thing is that she was not an introvert at her previous school. ![]() Was very aware of her voice first and foremost, very certain that the reader would be hearing her thoughts and not ![]() Representation of institutions that value success at all human cost. However, Laurinda is a completely fictional school. I had to let him know that these things actually happened! 15 year old girls can be real pieces of work sometimes. When my editor was editing Laurinda, he felt that some parts were so far-fetched he asked me whether I could change theĮxamples. ![]() Taken from direct experience, or experiences of my teacher friends. So I’ve always been interested in how teenagers As a teenager, though, you are forced to fit yourself in amongst 200-1000 other people, who are all with you every day. As an adult you can choose your friends, and your time is finite, so of course, you try to only spend time with people Life where a large part of your identity is actually shaped by other people. Had immediately changed - but because people’s perceptions of me had. In each new high school I felt like I was a slightly different person - not because anything about me High schools, and I have always been fascinated by the way institutions shape individuals. ![]() Many questions about Laurinda at launches, public talks and over the radio, so I thought I would share these written answers with readers about the book: ![]() |