![]() ![]() ![]() Uncounted millennia ago the uncreated Creator reached forth a hand and touched a series of disparate universes. History has an odd way of repeating itself. By the end of November the ESX Arizona was ready for her first trial runs and I was her pilot. Capable of a sustained point-one G of acceleration, our prototype was expected to make the Mars run in less than a week. "The Project" was our name for a VASIMR Ion Drive interplanetary space craft that used thorium LFTR reactors for both shielding and power. My first posting after the promotion was to the Lunar One Air Base where I worked with my father, Dr. I finished my PhD in high energy physics and was promoted to lieutenant commander in the United States Air Force. The year actually started off rather nice. Had I known how often I'd be expected to die over the next several millennia, I might have made a stronger effort to stay dead. 2067 was the year I died for the first time. ![]()
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![]() ![]() James Richard Collins’s father said “Will he not still be a prince to our people and to the whites too? I have given him a powerful name” when he was asked why he gave his son three British names (Gyasi 90). In the basic form, names describe an individual among many people. For this African woman, she could have chosen not to accept this, but since it was a white man, she had to do this. To him, it meant he had to sacrifice to maintain the legacy while living without it would make him free to follow his heart. He wanted to be a man without a name” by James is proof of the family importance attached to the title (Gyasi 104). The statement “His father had seven other sons who could carry on the Otcher-Collins legacy. The British replaced the maiden name of the woman with the surname of the husband she marries to associate her with the new family. ![]() An example is Millicent the half cast born to an African mother and a white man, “Millicent’s mother had been given a new name by her white husband” (Gyasi 9). Usually when we discuss racial repression, discrimination, priority may be the issue we are discussing, but the name can also reflect the issue of racial suppression. Racial oppression is very important and obvious in this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Something else isn’t right, and Nick will need all his friends and loved ones together to ![]() And it’s not even the rumors that Nick’s ex-boyfriend and villain-in-the-making Owen Burke has escaped. It’s not just Simon Burke running for mayor and campaigning to “cure” Extraordinaries. Where she’s always been.īut something’s off. And Nick’s mother, the superhero known as TK, is right there at Nick’s side. Nick’s dad has partnered with former chief of police Rodney Caplan to start a new private investigation agency. Seth, Jazz, and Gibby are busy setting up headquarters for Lighthouse, their hero team. With graduation on the horizon and his future unknowable, Nick focuses on enjoying the present. Yeah, it’s hot out, but he finally gets to team up and train with his steamy superhero boyfriend to bring justice, protection, and disaster energy to the people of Nova City. And Nicholas Bell-fanboy, hero, ADHD-haver-is being super dramatic again.īut honestly, Nick’s life is pretty much perfect. Dark, twisted, probably evil shadows have drenched the doorsteps of her good people’s homes. School’s out for the summer and a raging, malevolent heat has blanketed Nova City. The explosive finale to the Extraordinaries trilogy by New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune! ![]() ![]() They come face to face with a death cult. Finding it is their best hope for having a future and a life worth living.īut the Ruin is far more dangerous than any of them can imagine. ![]() ![]() If that jet exists then humanity itself must have survived…somewhere. ![]() Benny, Nix, Lilah, and Chong journey through a fierce wilderness that was once America, searching for the jet they saw in the skies months ago. Reeling from the devastation of Dust & Decay, Benny Imura and his friends plunge deep into the zombie-infested wastelands of the great Rot & Ruin. And not everyone in Benny’s small band of travelers will survive…. In the great Rot & Ruin, everything wants to kill you. Worst of all…could the evil Charlie Pink-eye still be alive? Lilah the Lost Girl and Benny’s best friend Lou Chong are going with them.īut before they even leave there is a shocking zombie attack in town, and as soon as they step into the Rot & Ruin they are pursued by the living dead, wild animals, insane murderers, and the horrors of Gameland-where teenagers are forced to fight for their lives in the zombie pits. Now, after months of rigorous training with Benny’s zombie-hunter brother Tom, Benny and Nix are ready to leave their home forever and search for a better future. It’s also been six months since Benny Imura and Nix Riley saw something in the air that changed their lives. ![]() Six months have passed since the terrifying battle with Charlie Pink-eye and the Motor City Hammer in the zombie-infested mountains of the Rot & Ruin. ![]() ![]() ![]() I devoured this compelling, surprising, and moving book." Ten years after it hit shelves, the book is still held in high regard as the quintessential look at the topic. Janisse weaves her own life into an intensely personal exploration of the genre, challenging the reader to reconsider the films in all of their complexity. ![]() House of Psychotic Women is described by its official synopsis as an "autobiographical exploration of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films." Molly Ringwald said that the book was for the "horror aficionado as well as the horror curious. ![]() It is also a tie-n with the impending release of her new expanded edition of the acclaimed book. ![]() The box set is also tied to the upcoming 10th anniversary of Janisse's 2012 book, House of Psychotic Women, which took a deep dive look at some of the genre's most famous women through the personal lens of Janisse. Severin Films has announced a brand-new box set collection of films called the "House of Psychotic Women: Rarities Collection." This five-film collection is set to release on August 30 and will be curated and produced by Kier-La Janisse, and Collider is excited to present an exclusive first look at the set. ICYMI: Kier-La Janisse s HouseOfPsychoticWomen, will have an extensive limited edition wide release in October celebrating the 10th anniversary. ![]() ![]() NOVELS So Many Ways to Begin (2006) If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things (2002: winner of a 2003 Somerset Maugham Award and the 2003 Betty Trask Prize for Best First Novel shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, Eurasia region, and the Best Newcomer in the 2004 British Book Awards longlisted for the 2002 Booker Prize for Fiction) NOVELS Death and Nightingales (1992) STORIES Heaven Lies About Us (2005) Tales from the Poorhouse (1999) Christ in the Fields: A Fermanagh Trilogy (1992) Heritage and Other Stories (1978) Victims: A Tale from Fermanagh (1976) PLAYS Pull Down a Horseman (1979) Gale Day (1979) King of the Castle (1978) CHILDREN’S Cyril: The Quest of an Orphaned Squirrel (with illustrations by Al O’Donnell) (1986) McCABE Eugene Novelist, short-story writer, playwright. ![]() If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things (2002) / Jon McGregor ![]() ![]() Heaven Lies About Us (2005) / Eugene McCabe ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bennet inherited a bundle from a third cousin. The most significant change is that the Bennet’s are wealthy – nouveau riche – since Mrs. There are plot changes, but half the fun is remembering the differences, and seeing her logic in updates. Rushton has been faithful to the original storyline, cleverly transferring the machinations of Regency courtship into the traumas of 21st-century teenage search for romance. The Bennet family always wanted to be well connected. Her teenage Lizzie Bennet and sisters are still hunting for beaus, but with all of the advantages of modern technology: mobile phones, laptop computers and blackberries. In her fourth book in the Jane Austen in the 21st-century series for young adult readers, (and some older adults who are forever young at heart), author Rosie Rushton tackles Jane Austen’s most famous novel, Pride and Prejudice, retelling the story with a contemporary twist. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dinara, who is of Oliona’s generation and equally sympathetic and even cheerful, works under much less glamorous conditions. To her the distinction is nontrivial: She has no pimp. And her shelf life is not long she is competing with thousands of 18-year-olds who can do gymnastics in stilettos. Then again, neither the apartment nor anything in it belongs to her. She giggles and wears sparkly dresses and has memorized a few stanzas of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin to impress a Forbes who likes literature. ![]() Now she lives in a brand-new apartment and receives a car, $4000 a month, vacations in the Middle East, and a small dog-“the basic Moscow mistress rate.” For the moment things are good: She frequents the most expensive sushi bars and the most selective nightclubs. In Moscow, she worked as a stripper at a casino before she succeeded in meeting a “Forbes”-a billionaire in search of a mistress. ![]() When she was 20, Oliona ran away from the Donbas, an east Ukrainian mining region presently the site of a war between Russian-backed separatist forces and the Ukrainian state. Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia opens with Oliona, a 22-year-old “gold-digger” with a perfect body. Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia ![]() ![]() ![]() Although Jody prefers to experience daring and dangerous adventures through her characters rather than in real life, she’s learned that a calm existence is simply not meant to be (at least in this phase of her life!).When she’s not penning another of her page-turning stories, she loves to spend her time reading, especially when it also involves consuming coffee and chocolate. Jody Hedlund is the author of over thirty historicals for both adults and teens and is the winner of numerous awards including the Christy, Carol, and Christian Book Award.Jody lives in central Michigan with her husband, five busy children, and five spoiled cats. But as they venture into the perilous Hardanger Forest and battle to survive, will Gunnar realize her love is worth fighting for? Tell us Why and Win a Free Book Welcome to Jody Hedlunds BookGorilla Author Page Were working hard to bring you the best deals ever on Jody Hedlunds Kindle. ![]() ![]() His quest takes him home, and he soon learns his brother, the earl, may know more about the chalice than he lets on.Īs Gunnar reunites with Mikaela, the maiden he’s always loved, he tries to keep his feelings for her a secret, desperate to protect her from his brother. Nursemaid to the Earl of Likness’s two young daughters, Mikaela despises the earl for his cruelty to his subjects, and she longs for the day when she can make a difference in the lives of her suffering friends and family.Īs one of the Knights of Brethren, Gunnar is on a mission to find the sacred chalice for the queen, convinced it’s the cure for her deadly bleeding disease. A poor maidservant struggling to survive, a brave knight who secretly loves her, and a chalice that has the power to unite them. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Two parallel worlds collide and Becca is left in a catatonic state after her spirit is snatched from modern-day Toronto back to the ancient world of Mytica. Thinking it's nothing more than run-of-the-mill inventory, Becca opens it and removes the book inside, unwittingly triggering an ancient magic and intertwining their fates with the powers that flow from the mysterious leather-bound book. It's a relatively uneventful after-school job, until an package arrives addressed to her mother, Julia. The lives of Toronto teens Crystal and Becca Hatcher revolve around helping their mother out at the family's used bookstore, The Speckled Muse. New York Times bestselling author Morgan Rhodes takes readers into exhilarating new high-fantasy territory with A BOOK OF SPIRITS AND THIEVES, an epic contemporary saga perfect for fans of Sarah J. “A modern day Outlander filled with adventure and danger…a breathless tale that only Morgan Rhodes could tell.”-Hypable ![]() |